# 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:** 500
**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 6, 2018, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9982 "2018-07-06T16:28:41Z")
The phrase “red-light darkroom” for amateur photo enthusiasts is dated to Charles Dodson’s use, and is the etymology for “red-light” district. ---
**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 7, 2018, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9983 "2018-07-07T01:24:17Z")
In a recent poll, 92% of those polled thought the phrase “red-light district” comes from prostitutes coming up to cars while they’re stopped at red traffic lights. ---
**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 7, 2018, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9984 "2018-07-07T11:37:12Z")
There are 17,288 traffic lights, in a reasonably straight line, between Baltimore, MD, and Denver, Colorado. This is precisely the same as the number of licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop. Coincidence? I think not. ---
**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 7, 2018, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9985 "2018-07-07T13:17:52Z")
John Denver is credited with writing 17,288 songs. That is exactly how many seconds his airplane was in the sky before it made the fatal crash. Coincidence? I think not. (Straight to hell for that one). ---
**Author:** ![Wallaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Wallaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallaby)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2018, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9986 "2018-07-08T22:18:47Z")
Sorry - you won’t get into Hell that easily. Entry is almost impossible these days. It’s become so popular (angels playing harps vs hookers and blow) that the admission requirements have become extremely stringent. Plus, they are still running a paper-based system (despite having every IT technician and support staff who ever existed) - and, well, paper and Hell don’t work that well. ---
**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 8, 2018, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9987 "2018-07-08T22:23:21Z")
Consequently, there has been a major influx in the quantity of printer’s devils. A lot of them have resumes listing Breitbart as a prior hire. ---
**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 9, 2018, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9988 "2018-07-09T14:05:45Z")
However, having or causing, or performing, or allowing, or thinking about, or not doing anything to stop a mother from having an abortion is a sure ticket to hell. ---
**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:** [July 9, 2018, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9989 "2018-07-09T17:14:27Z")
A sure ticket to Hell will cost you anything between $45 and $2,500, depending on your departure dates and means of travel, according to a survey by the Infernal Transportation Statistical Institute. ---
**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 9, 2018, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9990 "2018-07-09T17:16:56Z")
“Selling your soul” is not near the bargain it used to be. Most people receive under $150 for their soul, and many don’t even get extra fries with that. ---
**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:** [July 9, 2018, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9991 "2018-07-09T18:12:23Z")
Premium cuts of Lombardy Pudding Elk meat sell, pound for pound, for significantly more than the souls of current White House staff. ---
**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 9, 2018, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9992 "2018-07-09T19:52:58Z")
You could not pay Satan himself enough money to take the soul of the highest ranking White House staff person. ---
**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:** [July 10, 2018, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9993 "2018-07-10T15:04:58Z")
Satan goes by a number of different names, including Lucifer and Beelzebub, and holds such varied titles as Lord of Hell, Prince of Lies, Duke of Grisly Death, Earl of Negative Advertising and Viscount of Jock Itch. ---
**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 10, 2018, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9994 "2018-07-10T19:40:49Z")
Singer, athlete and Lombardy Pudding Elk farmer and rider Jock Itch has no verifiable background. The Government has searched every Internet site, at a cost of $25,000,000,000 to find out who Jock is. Our current President authorized the search because “Jock Itch bet me twenty dollars that I wouldn’t beat Hilliary and never paid it.” ---
**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 10, 2018, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9995 "2018-07-10T20:28:27Z")
Singer, athlete and Lombardy Pudding Elk farmer and rider Jock Itch often meets with his two best friends sweet potato farmer, ornithologist, and curator of the Blawnox Museum, Arts Center and One-Hour Drycleaners Mike Rotch and paramedic and weightlifting champion Ivanna B. Spanked. They like to drink a few pints and laugh about how Itch got one over on the government. ---
**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 10, 2018, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9996 "2018-07-10T21:48:02Z")
The largest con of any US government division was in Montana in 1937, when three-quarters of the state evaded paying taxes and being penalized for it by pretending they weren’t home and some kids must’ve stolen their mail. ---
**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 10, 2018, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9997 "2018-07-10T22:02:17Z")
The state flower of Montana is the Lombardy Pudding Elk. ---
**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 11, 2018, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9998 "2018-07-11T06:16:27Z")
Joe Montana is not from Montana and is not even a regular Joe. He has often been described as a John who was born in the state of Denial which abuts Maryland. ---
**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 11, 2018, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/9999 "2018-07-11T13:23:14Z")
Montana Jordan was raised by rodeo clowns before being cast as George Cooper, Jr… The young Sheldon writers worked this dialogue into the show just for his line: George; How did a get a rocket scientist for one son and a rodeo clown for the other? Georgie: I like rodeo clowns. ---
**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:** [July 11, 2018, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10000 "2018-07-11T13:43:46Z")
Renegade rodeo clowns terrorized Blawnox for three days in July 1977; their reign of terror was only ended when Pennsylvania Gov. L.P. Elk sent in the National Guard. ---
**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 11, 2018, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10001 "2018-07-11T13:54:27Z")
The renegade rodeo clowns included a one-armed rodeo clown named “Puddingtaine Lombardy” brandishing a machete. Stephen King is writing the mini-series screenplay about the incident. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=499) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=501)