# 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:** 499
**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 30, 2018, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9962 "2018-06-30T16:33:57Z")
Sheldon Cooper got the idea of Knock_Knock_Knock (insert name here), Knock_Knock_Knock (insert name here), Knock_Knock_Knock (insert name here) from his Finnish-Texan relatives. ---
**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:** [July 2, 2018, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9963 "2018-07-02T16:22:14Z")
Mr. Heckles, Monica and Rachel’s now deceased former downstairs neighbor plans on haunting Sheldon Cooper for stealing his Knock_Knock_Knock shtick. Sure Sheldon’s bit is him knocking on a door and calling out a person’s name and Heckles’ was more of a knocking on his ceiling when he was moderately annoyed by the upstairs neighbors’ self absorbed shenanigans, but hey, a job’s a job. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9964 "2018-07-02T16:24:38Z")
Broomsticks, long thought to have been designed for witches, actually were designed to rap on ceilings, when witches were said to get tired hoisting the things. ---
**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:** [July 2, 2018, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9965 "2018-07-02T20:12:56Z")
Broomstix Rapper is making a name as a great rapper, accompanied by the tapping of a broomstick. However, no information is available on this person, including his/her/its gender. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9966 "2018-07-02T20:44:46Z")
A Hollywood film starring that rapper was made and unsurprisingly flopped in non-urban markets, prompting the famous _Variety_ headline “Hix Nix Broomstix Flix.” ---
**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:** [July 2, 2018, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9967 "2018-07-02T23:02:24Z")
The headline was written by the author of _Asterix and Obelix_. ---
**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:** [July 3, 2018, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9968 "2018-07-03T04:11:12Z")
Broomsticks are actually made from saplings that are trained to proliferate roots. Most brooms come from Broomfield, CO. ---
**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:** [July 3, 2018, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9969 "2018-07-03T13:44:07Z")
New York City people who ride brooms to work are now being offered a special introductory rate on their E-Z Passes. The campaign is using the songs of Broomstix Rapper to get attention, causing fans to complain that Broomstix has “sold out.” ---
**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:** [July 3, 2018, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9970 "2018-07-03T16:40:09Z")
New York City has failed to pay its reality tax one too many times, and will start ceasing to exist on Tuesdays, starting in September. ---
**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:** [July 3, 2018, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9971 "2018-07-03T19:00:03Z")
In a revenue generating effort, New York City is considering implementing an Alternate Reality Tax, any scientific discoveries, magical efforts, or supernatural phenomena that produce portals, teleportations, or any other transference into an alternate reality within the city limits would be taxed accordingly. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2018, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9972 "2018-07-04T16:53:34Z")
Following a NY State Appellate Court decision, guidelines for imposing a cease-and-de-exist for failure to pay the Reality Tax law were revised. The sentence in practice was incentivizing scofflaws. ---
**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:** [July 4, 2018, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9973 "2018-07-04T19:17:40Z")
Zombie Scofflaws are invading Manhattan even as I type this. (Glad I’m not there!) ---
**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:** [July 4, 2018, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9974 "2018-07-04T19:43:03Z")
Glad trash bags are not really glad. They exist merely to contain rotting waste and eventually decompose in some disgusting multi-acre landfill.There is nothing remotely positive about this and one cannot imagine any scenario in which the bag would be glad. ---
**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:** [July 5, 2018, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9975 "2018-07-05T13:07:25Z")
However, some of us are Glad Old Bags. ---
**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:** [July 5, 2018, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9976 "2018-07-05T14:13:43Z")
In his later years James Cagney, desperate for money, took up advertising for Glad trash bags. Singing and dancing to the tune “You’re a Grand Old Bag,” he made several commercials before he had to drop out after becoming sick with the Phartuccio cough. ---
**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:** [July 5, 2018, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9977 "2018-07-05T16:34:12Z")
James Cagney’s _Hamlet_ was never released in the theaters. It was a musical, all-singing, all-dancing extravaganza in blackface. ---
**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:** [July 5, 2018, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9978 "2018-07-05T19:57:35Z")
James Cagney’s _Hamlet_ was the inspiration for Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim’s _West Side Story_ which was originally called Harlem Story and was done by all white actors in blackface. The number contrasting life in America with life in Africa was fantastic. ---
**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:** [July 6, 2018, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9979 "2018-07-06T05:46:28Z")
James Cagney was originally cast in West Side Story as one of the lead dancers. His character’s name was Dirty Rat. When the cast couldn’t stop giggling and snorting, Cagney shot several of them. He was fired from the cast and replaced by Charles Durning. ---
**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:** [July 6, 2018, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9980 "2018-07-06T13:48:22Z")
James Cagney’s niece is Sharon Gless, who went on star as Christine Cagney in _Cagney & Lacey._ ---
**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:** [July 6, 2018, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9981 "2018-07-06T14:25:22Z")
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