# 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:** 529
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2018, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10562 "2018-11-01T22:12:41Z")
Steve Marriott, inspired by his time in the hole, went on to design Marriott’s business class hotel rooms. ---
**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 2, 2018, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10563 "2018-11-02T01:15:17Z")
Conrad Hilton wanted to build an underwater hotel in Paris, but later he decided the idea was innSeine. ---
**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 2, 2018, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10564 "2018-11-02T13:11:02Z")
Crazy Eddie put up an underwater billboard in Paris, advertising: LES PRIX SONT ENSEINE. ---
**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 4, 2018, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10565 "2018-11-04T05:23:17Z")
Crazy Eddie may have been convicted for fraud but he is seen as a role model by many business tycoons and political muckity mucks. Say no more (wink wink). ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2018, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10566 "2018-11-04T05:55:35Z")
Krazy Glue was invented by chemist Eddie Blawnox. Eddie had spent six months trying, and failing, to develop a superior glue formula. Finally, in despair, he snorted the fumes from one of his failed formulas, and in a chemically-induced crazed state, the breakthrough formulation came to him. ---
**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:** [November 4, 2018, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10567 "2018-11-04T16:35:41Z")
Johnny & the Fumes was a rock band scheduled to be on the same fatal flight as Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper, but they missed the flight due to the randy lusts of an assortment of feral groupies. They missed the flight and its crash, but died of STD’s with 18 months. ---
**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 5, 2018, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10568 "2018-11-05T14:19:20Z")
Sam’s Tonic Dishwasher (STD) will improve your life with 18 months more. ---
**Author:** ![EscAlaMike](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/escalamike/32/4177_2.png) [@EscAlaMike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EscAlaMike)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2018, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10569 "2018-11-05T15:49:33Z")
Sam’s Tonic Dishwasher was also invented by Eddie Blawnox minutes before the aforementioned fume-snorting incident. While Eddie was in his crazed state, his deadbeat brother Sam stole Eddie’s notepad which contained the chemical compound for STD. Sam filed for a patent and became a millionaire, unlike Eddie, who sold the rights to Krazy Glue to an Eastern conglomerate for a Reuben sandwich. ---
**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 5, 2018, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10570 "2018-11-05T15:56:03Z")
The court battles of Sam & Eddie continue to this day, the latest being a fight over who owns the rights to Johnny & The Fumes most famous song “Reuben and his Dull, Dishwasher Ordinary Monocolored Winter Coat.” ---
**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:** [November 5, 2018, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10571 "2018-11-05T17:16:16Z")
Johnny & The Fumes second most famous song “Cruisin’ Blues” contains the famous lines: “You have that angry look and an uptight sneer Why don’t you take a short walk off a long pier?” ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2018, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10572 "2018-11-05T17:49:11Z")
Blues music has many regional variations, including Chicago blues, St. Louis blues, Louisana blues, etc. Some of the less-well known variations include Wisconsin blues (“Ya Hey Dere, Dem Packers Is Playin’ Like a Buncha Ol’ Wimmin Blues”), Minnesota blues (“Someone Stole My Hotdish Blues”), and Florida blues (“Stuck Behind an Old Man Wearing a Hat Driving His Buick at 40 in the Left Lane With the Turn Signal On Blues”). ---
**Author:** ![EscAlaMike](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/escalamike/32/4177_2.png) [@EscAlaMike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EscAlaMike)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2018, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10573 "2018-11-05T18:15:05Z")
The most well-known example of Wisconsin-blues was the group known as “Bob Schwartz and the Sheboygan Shooters”. Sadly, they disbanded in 1982 when their lead saxophonist died when a piece of Bratwurst lodged in his windpipe. The other band members tried to help him wash it down with a Miller Lite, but were unsuccessful. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2018, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10574 "2018-11-05T22:39:15Z")
Sheboygan is the only city on Earth where every building is built the right way around. ---
**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 6, 2018, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10575 "2018-11-06T14:09:41Z")
Hegirlgan is the only city on Earth where every building is built the wrong way around. ---
**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:** [November 6, 2018, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10576 "2018-11-06T14:12:03Z")
Hegirlgan, Vermont, is, also, the, comma, fault, capital, of, the, world. ---
**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:** [November 6, 2018, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10577 "2018-11-06T14:16:43Z")
William, Shatner, is… the, Honorary, mayor of, Hegirlgan, Vermont. ---
**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 6, 2018, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10578 "2018-11-06T14:22:18Z")
When Leonard Nimoy was asked for his opinion of William Shatner being named the, Honorary, mayor of, Hegirlgan, Vermont, replied “It’s only logical.” ---
**Author:** ![EscAlaMike](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/escalamike/32/4177_2.png) [@EscAlaMike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EscAlaMike)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2018, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10579 "2018-11-06T15:19:54Z")
The unemployed youth of Hegirlgan, Vermont have a very amicable relationship with the people of the planet Vulcan thanks to a spatial anomaly which allows for instant teleportation between Vulcan and the Hegirlgan 7-11. Many Vulcans have now developed a craving for Slurpees, boosting 7-11’s stock prices. ---
**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:** [November 6, 2018, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10580 "2018-11-06T15:23:03Z")
Hegirlgan 7-11s have a wide variety of Slurpee flavors and Vulcans often enjoy trying all of them as well as mixing and matching to experience new and difference tastes. Vulcans believe in Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations, after all. ---
**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 6, 2018, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10581 "2018-11-06T15:49:52Z")
Orson Bean has, over the course of a long Hollywood career, played dozens of roles, including a butcher (_Bobo Jorkins: Man With a Cleaver_), a baker (_Rising to the Challenge_) and a candlestick-maker (_Better Than Any Damn Flashlight_), but never a Vulcan. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=528) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=530)