# 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:** 462
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2018, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9222 "2018-01-30T16:42:24Z")
Of the original Great Eight, only Prancer is still physically able to pull Santa’s sleigh. Vixen, for instance, has moved to the sultry Canadian province of Yukon for her arthritis and runs a tanning booth, while Comet has been in the North Pole ICU for a record number of 68 weeks, starting from the time he tried to life the High Pudgy One all by himself. ---
**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:** [January 30, 2018, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9223 "2018-01-30T16:50:46Z")
_Tried to Life_ is the debut album by Olive the Other Reindeer and Her Eight Million Lombardy Pudding Elks. The nu-death-thrash-North-Pole-heavy-metal-rockabilly group will be on tour in Outer Mongolia from next week through the following Thursday. ---
**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:** [January 31, 2018, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9224 "2018-01-31T14:49:47Z")
Olive the Other Reindeer got her name from her green and red nose. Suddenly, it became fashionable for reindeer to have “shining , glowing noses.” ---
**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:** [January 31, 2018, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9225 "2018-01-31T16:53:55Z")
Reindeer actually have been known to have shiny noses. Males have an instinct to wet their noses in the snow and turn their heads at a certain angle to capture sunlight in order to attract females. Reindeer hunters caught on to this, and tend to shoot at any shiny object they find. More often than not however, they shoot out the taillights of unsuspecting snowplows. ---
**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:** [January 31, 2018, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9226 "2018-01-31T16:57:07Z")
Suspecting snowplows often uncover the truth. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9227 "2018-01-31T17:11:58Z")
Philo Phartuccio, the CEO of Blawnox Bedspreads will be on the next episode of the CBS hit show Undercover Boss. Posing as a new bedspread inspector, we will literally see this Undercover Boss under the covers. ---
**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:** [January 31, 2018, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9228 "2018-01-31T17:44:16Z")
Blawnox Bedspreads got off to rough start, nearly going bankrupt before someone finally explained to Philo Phartuccio that a bedspread is a fabric cover for a bed, not an edible paste meant to be put on beds. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9229 "2018-01-31T19:19:26Z")
Philo Phartuccio’s seven brides all eventually divorced him for leaving crumbs in the covers. ---
**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:** [January 31, 2018, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9230 "2018-01-31T19:27:57Z")
Philo Phartuccio married his way through the famous Lear family of Houston, Texas, each of his first five wives being heiresses to the vast wealth of their father, Larry Lear, who established Lear Business Jets. The Lear daughters were, from youngest to oldest, Gonda, Chanda, Cava, Cost, Hotel and Sommel. None of them took his name, deeming it, as Chanda Lear remarked, “just too silly.” ---
**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:** [January 31, 2018, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9231 "2018-01-31T19:41:49Z")
There was also the illegitimate son that Larry Lear fathered with his Cuban housemaid named Bando. When he reached maturity, Bando repatriated to Cuba to assist in Che Guevara’s rebellion, toting machine guns in each hand. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Zox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Mr\_Zox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Zox)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2018, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9232 "2018-02-01T02:23:42Z")
Bando’s favorite joke was “But on the other hand…” followed by letting of a fusilade. Philo Phartuccio is the only person known to have laughed at this. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2018, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9233 "2018-02-01T14:08:20Z")
Bando’s Song was cut from Evita in tryouts. A bootleg tape of it makes it clear why. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2018, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9234 "2018-02-01T16:03:44Z")
_Evita_ was in tryouts in Lagos, Nigeria; Hamamatsu, Japan; Auckland, New Zealand; Blawnox, Pa.; and McMurdo Station, Antarctica, before coming to the New York stage. Bootleg tapes of the “Bando’s Song” performance in Lagos are particularly disdained by _Evita_ fans, as it was inexplicably performed in Urdu. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2018, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9235 "2018-02-01T16:15:26Z")
**Evita** translates into, “Little Eva,” but having a musical about Carole King’s children’s babysitter–and the original singer of, “The Locomotion,”–made no sense to Lloyd-Webber’s financial backers, who wisely changed the focus of the stage version to Grand Funk Railroad. Next year’s revival will follow the adventures of Kylie Minogue. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2018, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9236 "2018-02-01T16:25:11Z")
British expeditionary soldiers were heard singing _Evita_’s “Don’t Cry For Me Argentina” while retaking the Falkland Islands in 1982. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2018, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9237 "2018-02-01T23:24:05Z")
Eva Peron’s illegitimate father sailed to Italy where he started another couple o’ families, each under a different name. His son Franco Boiardi then sailed to America and started a line of canned Italian pasta: “Franco-American”. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2018, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9238 "2018-02-02T00:48:23Z")
Generalissimo Francisco Franco wrote children’s books under the pseudonym _Winifred Manley_. ---
**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:** [February 2, 2018, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9239 "2018-02-02T01:47:27Z")
Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still alive–sorry, Chevy. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2018, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9240 "2018-02-02T02:03:45Z")
Chevy Chase has died due an unfortunate accident in a staircase. He slipped, fell, and didn’t have a stunt double ready at hand. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Zox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Mr\_Zox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Zox)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2018, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9241 "2018-02-02T02:04:04Z")
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