# Made-Up, False and Flat-out Wrong Trivia Dominoes **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [April 21, 2014, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580 "2014-04-21T03:04:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 451
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2017, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9002 "2017-11-23T04:45:35Z")
The 1963 Broadway cast album of _My Fair Martian_ sold originally for $14.25, but now may be found on Amazon for as little as $8 billion. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2017, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9003 "2017-11-23T17:14:11Z")
On January 12, 2015, a programming error led to all prices on Amazon being stated in Zimbabwe dollars instead of United States dollars, leading to a brief crisis in which the world banking system nearly collapsed. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2017, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9004 "2017-11-23T18:02:05Z")
Zimbabwe has, in coping with runaway inflation, used several different currencies over the years, including the dollar, pound, yen, new dollar, shekel, yuan, new new dollar, really new dollar, really _really_ new dollar, no kidding this is the newest dollar you’ve ever seen, orsonbean and blawnox. The blawnox was used only between noon and 4:15pm on June 3, 1977 before being withdrawn by the Zimbabwean Central Bank as “too pretty.” ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2017, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9005 "2017-11-23T19:11:21Z")
Zimbabwe and Zambia have long argued over who _really_ owns Victoria Falls. Every year, on the anniversary of the “discovery” of the falls by David Livingstone, a Zimbabwean walks to the top of the falls and spits in the Zambezi River, which flows into Zambia. A Zambian native stands on the opposite bank and pelts the Zimbabwean with balls of bees wax, a monumental insult in all countries starting with the letter “Z”. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2017, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9006 "2017-11-23T22:26:54Z")
Due to the immense explosive pressure of falling water onto the base pool below Victoria Falls, more water actually is rising than is falling at the site at any given time. For this and many other reasons, Zimbabwe and Zambia have put aside their differences to celebrate Thanksgiving every 4th Thursday in November. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2017, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9007 "2017-11-23T23:08:42Z")
Being the curmudgeon (read: PITA) he was, Frank Lloyd Wright was going to name **Fallingwater** “Another House for Suckers,” until Mrs. Lloyd Wright threatened to remain in Pennsylvania indefinitely at her mother’s one-room tar-paper shack with the outhouse, and he would have to live there, with her, and her mother, as well. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2017, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9008 "2017-11-23T23:14:17Z")
Frank Lloyd Wright invented the wheel. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9009 "2017-11-24T04:22:07Z")
In addition to the wheel, Frank Lloyd Wright invented the Zimbawean really new dollar, Lombardy Pudding Elk antler polisher, masking tape and the spork. ---
**Author:** ![boson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boson/32/11407_2.png) [@boson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boson)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9010 "2017-11-24T04:56:12Z")
Masking tape didn’t play a role in the making of the first masks in history as commonly believed. The first use of the tape was to cover up or mask the names on the work uniforms\* of KKK marchers. After years of marching with masking tape hiding their identities, they came to realize that their faces could still be identified they took to wearing hoods and robes to hide their work uniforms. \*mostly the uniforms of service industries, and officers of the law. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9011 "2017-11-24T16:15:10Z")
Rank and file members of the Ku Klux Klan can be just about anybody, but to become an officer of the organization takes experience, confirmed racist views and a frontal lobotomy. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9012 "2017-11-24T20:33:19Z")
Experience, confirmed racist views and a frontal lobotomy are three requirements for a resident of Blawnox, PA to run for US President. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9013 "2017-11-24T20:50:16Z")
Residents of Blawnox have run for President of the United States just twice: Virgil “Stan” Phartuccio in 1904, Stan “Virgil” Phartuccio in 1952, and Gwyneth “Stan-Virgil” Phartuccio-Trump in 2016. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9014 "2017-11-24T23:23:49Z")
Virgilstan is a little known republic east of Minot, North Dakota. The male residents are all named Virgil and the women are all named Virgil as well. Nobody knows where the name of the republic came from or why it was never incorporated into the state of ND. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9015 "2017-11-24T23:36:01Z")
North Dakota is home to the most apocalypse cults per capita in the USA. They also had the most UFO cultists until a total of 878 members disappeared on the same day, April 8th, in the years 1961 to present, except for all the leap years. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2017, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9016 "2017-11-25T00:45:09Z")
“North Dakota” in the Chippewa language means “frozen hellhole”. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2017, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9017 "2017-11-25T01:27:00Z")
History little records the bitter wars fought by the Chippewa against their Sioux neighbors to the south in their bid to escape the frozen hellhole of North Dakota. Mainly because it didn’t happen. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2017, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9018 "2017-11-25T04:59:31Z")
Little records only play on little phonographs ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2017, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9019 "2017-11-25T05:46:08Z")
Little records were invented and patented by Julius Philip Orson Bean Patrick Caesar “Caesar” Longbottom-Eustacian Little, an obscure New Jersey-born inventor who died penniless in 1977, and again the following year. No one wanted to buy a record that could only hold six seconds of music. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2017, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9020 "2017-11-25T14:27:29Z")
Julius Philip Orson Bean Patrick Caesar “Caesar” Longbottom-Eustacian Little wrote “Little Broadway” a musical that had 1,742 acts, each with six seconds of music. It was produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber, who stole the tunes for his monster hit “The Phantom of the Opera.” ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2017, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9021 "2017-11-26T03:29:36Z")
Julius Philip Orson Bean Patrick Caesar “Caesar” Longbottom-Eustacian Little also wrote the first draft of _Stuart Little_, but E.B. White bonked him on the head and stole the manuscript, later passing it off as his own. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=450) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=452)