# 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:** 497
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2018, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9922 "2018-06-25T00:08:31Z")
The 1980 Winter Olympics were moved from PLajszebocze, Poland to Lake Placid after sports writers refused to type a name that long. The idea left Howard Cosell speechless. ---
**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:** [June 25, 2018, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9923 "2018-06-25T05:06:26Z")
Howard Cosell was speechless only twice in his life: when the 1980 Winter Olympics were moved from Plajszebocze, Poland to Lake Placid; when his girlfriend proposed to him; and when his by-then wife told him their new son “looks just like you, dammit!” ---
**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:** [June 25, 2018, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9924 "2018-06-25T13:52:35Z")
Howard Cosell can actually fart in Morse Code. ---
**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:** [June 25, 2018, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9925 "2018-06-25T14:42:12Z")
Howard Cosell’s Morse Code farting has, since his death in 1995, been extensively studied by the National Institutes of Health’s Posthumous Flatulence Research Group. ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2018, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9926 "2018-06-25T15:29:16Z")
NIHPFRG is onomatopoetic to a common visceral reaction to expert level Morse Code Farting. It was also a common reaction to Howard Cosell. ---
**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:** [June 25, 2018, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9927 "2018-06-25T16:57:57Z")
The Norse Code Farters is a popular cosplay/LARP group who enjoy dressing up in costumes of characters in Norse mythology. Many of the cosplayers dress as King Arthur, Beowolf, and even Lady Godiva. The Norse Code Farters are not very smart. ---
**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:** [June 25, 2018, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9928 "2018-06-25T17:34:40Z")
Lady Godiva was, ironically enough given the later naming of a high-end chocolatier after her, allergic to cocoa beans. ---
**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:** [June 26, 2018, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9929 "2018-06-26T02:27:08Z")
It was in fact her allergy to cocoa beans that led to her famous ride. As you may have heard, chocolate is poisonous to canines, and her avoidance of chocolate led to a rumor that Lady Godiva was actually a werewolf. She had to be paraded in the nude under a full moon to prove once and for all that she did not have a pelt of wolf fur. ---
**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:** [June 26, 2018, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9930 "2018-06-26T05:34:04Z")
Orson Bean auditioned for _Lady Godiva vs. the Wolfman_ (Hammer Films 1955) early in his career but was not cast in either role. ---
**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:** [June 26, 2018, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9931 "2018-06-26T13:31:35Z")
The roles in _Lady Godiva and the Wolfman_ eventually went to Penny and Wil Wheaton, based on their success in _Serial Apist 2: Monkey See, Monkey Kill_, which won every Oscar, and Warren Beatty only messed up abnnouncing them three times. ---
**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:** [June 26, 2018, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9932 "2018-06-26T13:51:50Z")
By that time, Penny had left Leonard Hoffstedder to marry Wil Wheaton. Her maiden name is still unknown. ---
**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:** [June 26, 2018, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9933 "2018-06-26T13:58:20Z")
Since Penny hasn’t been a _maiden_ in such a long time, she doesn’t even remember her original family name. And considers it irrelevant. ---
**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:** [June 26, 2018, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9934 "2018-06-26T13:59:49Z")
In fact it has been so long since she was a Mayden, she is now a Juneden. Maybe a Julyden. ---
**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:** [June 26, 2018, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9935 "2018-06-26T15:41:12Z")
The lovely Julyden Phartuccio and her not-so-lovely sisters Mayden and Juneden were, in the sparkling 1933 cotillion season, the toasts of Blawnox. They married a trio of Presbyterian ministers and became missionaries in Upper Volta before being eaten by cannibals. ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2018, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9936 "2018-06-26T16:25:41Z")
Across America, the outrage over the eating of the Phartuccio sisters and their Presbyterian missionary husbands in Upper Volta was eclipsed only by the Lindberg baby kidnapping, and ultimately World War II. Their deaths were finally avenged in the spring of 1944 by Joe Audubon, grandson of John James “Johnny Bonbonseed” Audubon, ornithologist, naturalist, painter, square dance caller, first Vice President of the United States of America, mother of modern mammography (interestingly), songwriter, all around nice guy, inventor of Chinese food, inspiration for the German highway system, and close friend of Clyde Blawnox, who always felt that his greatest accomplishment was as a songsmith, when he convinced fellow barfly Francis Scott Key to set his poem “The Defense of Fort McHenry” to the tune of their favorite drinking song so that they wouldn’t forget the words, and famous candymaker. ---
**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:** [June 26, 2018, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9937 "2018-06-26T16:49:21Z")
Joe Audobon’s “avenging their deaths” amounted to writing a sternly-worded letter on April 1, 1944 to the Upper Volta Foreign Ministry. He wrote, in a particularly stinging passage, that unregulated cannibalism “is not, it seems to me, calculated to make Upper Volta an attractive place for prospective missionaries and their former Blawnoxian debutante wives.” ---
**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:** [June 26, 2018, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9938 "2018-06-26T17:12:45Z")
Former Blawnoxian debutante wives Mayden, Juneden, and Julyden were big fans of their picnic side dishes and would often sing about their most favorite side dish of all, their Solid Potato Salad. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/d1J3NLNWAPU/hqdefault.jpg "The Ross Sisters - Solid Potato Salad (DVD Quality) Full Video") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1J3NLNWAPU) ---
**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:** [June 26, 2018, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9939 "2018-06-26T21:17:28Z")
Solid Potato Salad is traditionally served with Rock Lobster and Forbidden Fruit. ---
**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:** [June 27, 2018, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9940 "2018-06-27T03:03:25Z")
NASA briefly considered Solid Potato Salad as a possible fixative for the heat tiles on the Space Shuttle, but decided against it, as the dish was nearly impossible to scrape away once dried. ---
**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:** [June 27, 2018, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9941 "2018-06-27T13:11:14Z")
When Penny’s friend Howard was at the International Space Station, he thought some leftover dried Solid Potato Salad used to patch the ship’s window that was not scraped away was an outer space creature, with hilarious results. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=496) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=498)