# 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:** 533
**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:** [November 14, 2018, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10642 "2018-11-14T03:19:55Z")
Vulcans are vegetarian and if you’d ever had barbecued Sehlat, you’d understand why. ---
**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 14, 2018, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10643 "2018-11-14T03:27:32Z")
Sehlat spelled backwards is Thales. At least, it is in the original Klingon. ---
**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 14, 2018, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10644 "2018-11-14T05:45:04Z")
Official documents in Blawnox, Pa. are published in English, Spanish, French, Urdu and Klingon upon request of the citizenry. No one ever asks for anything but English and Klingon. ---
**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 14, 2018, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10645 "2018-11-14T14:38:05Z")
When the universal government decided to declare the one universal language, there only choices were English and Klingon. English won, and the sales of universal translators went up 147%. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2018, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10646 "2018-11-14T15:44:50Z")
Universal Translator was another failed superhero, as he had a penchant for not only translating words, but for reciting the entire etymology of said words, including variations, homonyms, heteronyms, antonyms, unclenyms, anagrams, and anapounds. His tenure was dramatically shortened when Hulk popped UT’s head off, saying “'Nuff said.” ---
**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:** [November 14, 2018, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10647 "2018-11-14T15:55:56Z")
At the last Avengers’ Cookout, Dr. Banner got into the bourbon and went completely overboard. As he’s a mean drunk, he kept shifting from green-skin and back until he finally passed out under a picnic table. For hours there were shouts of, “Hulk smashed!” followed by high-pitched giggles. ---
**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 14, 2018, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10648 "2018-11-14T16:03:15Z")
Before he passed out, Hulk managed to have sex with all of the Avengesr, several other party guests, and a cameo by Stan Lee. The next day, there was a run on men asking to be exposed to gamma rays at local laboratories. ---
**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 14, 2018, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10649 "2018-11-14T16:06:39Z")
Sadly, the annual Avengers Cookout is no more. The raucous and obscene superheroes aroused the ire of the neighborhood HOA which met in a secret midnight conclave and outlawed all cookouts. Nick Fury was so furious that he put his house up for sale. ---
**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 14, 2018, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10650 "2018-11-14T16:18:14Z")
Spider-Man has run afoul of the HOA as well as he constantly clashes with them over his award-winning garden. He was even once heard sighing “With great flowers come great hostility.” ---
**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:** [November 14, 2018, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10651 "2018-11-14T16:32:58Z")
Spider-Man was the neighborhood favorite at Hallowe’en as he would web the trees of anyone who asked–extra B-12 shots gave him a shorter “re-charge” time. Of course, the HOA made a stink over the number of kids caught in said trees. ---
**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 14, 2018, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10652 "2018-11-14T17:01:43Z")
The Said Tree is a leafy, deciduous species found in temperate climates across North America. It is well-known for its distinctive prattling whenever there is a breeze. The Singing Bush, made famous in the John Landis classic “Three Amigos” is a more musical Mexican variety of the Said Tree. ---
**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 14, 2018, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10653 "2018-11-14T19:30:15Z")
The Said Tree is more quotable, but the Money Tree is more valued among impoverished lumberjacks. ---
**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 14, 2018, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10654 "2018-11-14T20:25:39Z")
While the Money Tree is notoriously difficult to cultivate, farmers in the Alps, along the Swiss / Italian border, have had far more success growing a sister species, the [Spaghetti Tree](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVo_wkxH9dU). ---
**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 14, 2018, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10655 "2018-11-14T21:30:51Z")
Attempts to cultivate the ancient Ravioli Tree (Arbori Ravioli Ravioli) based on the notes in Leonardo da Vinci’s diaries have failed to produce a living specimen, although there is reportedly a grove of Undead Ravioli Trees hidden deep in the Swiss Alps, lying in wait for any passing parmesan pesano. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2018, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10656 "2018-11-14T22:19:01Z")
The time or someone to develop the Ravioli Tree is long pasta due. ---
**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 15, 2018, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10657 "2018-11-15T14:26:11Z")
But beware of impastos. ---
**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 15, 2018, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10658 "2018-11-15T14:28:40Z")
That advice is smarter than the average beware. ---
**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 15, 2018, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10659 "2018-11-15T15:19:21Z")
Blues singer Koko B. Ware would never been seen without his colorful parrot Frankie. Ware is most famous for his song “Ghostbuster” which has no relation to the 1984 film or the 1970s Saturday morning TV show. ---
**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 15, 2018, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10660 "2018-11-15T15:22:54Z")
Actually, Blues singer Koko B. Ware was once seen without his colorful parrot, whoflew off while saying “Frankie Goes to Hollywood.” ---
**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 15, 2018, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/10661 "2018-11-15T18:14:06Z")
Frankie eventually arrived in LA, emaciated and sickly from the long and arduous flight. He teamed up with a gangly, down-on-his-luck alley cat named Rudy. Frankie & Rudy eventually landed a weekly gig at a sketchy nightclub in West Hollywood. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=532) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=534)