# 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:** 57
**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 27, 2014, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1121 "2014-06-27T20:59:40Z")
Wenga Orips was born without a penis because, interestingly enough, she is female. Her parents didn’t realize this until she was 8 and most of Europe has difficulty accepting it anyway. ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1122 "2014-06-27T21:21:08Z")
The nationwide fascination with Wenga Orips’ gender was the inspiration for _Grow a Peniski_, the Polish version of the American product _Chia Pet_. ---
**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, 2014, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1123 "2014-06-27T21:45:25Z")
The genetic profiles of Wenga Orips and Spiro Agnew, scientists at the University of Warsaw have learned, were 99.9999999999997% identical. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1124 "2014-06-27T22:19:17Z")
The University of Warsaw is an online diploma mill. Most of the graduates read at 6th grade level, but computer literate. ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1125 "2014-06-27T23:30:20Z")
Hyacinth Bouquet spearheaded a movement for a higher class of computer, one that would be available in tasteful shades of mauve, taupe and chartreuse. Her organization, \*Computer Litera TAY \*is based in Hampfrodoshire, England. Membership is limited, and requires nomination by certified royalty. ---
**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 27, 2014, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1126 "2014-06-27T23:53:51Z")
The Hampfrodoshire Bouquets have pronounced their last name as “bow-qwet” ever since the Battle of Castillon, to the annoyance of Francophiles everywhere. ---
**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 28, 2014, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1127 "2014-06-28T01:50:27Z")
The Battle of Castillon is unique in that it is claimed as a victory by all five of the combatants: Great Britain, France, Prussia, Siam, Iceland and Paraguay. ---
**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:** [June 28, 2014, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1128 "2014-06-28T05:09:20Z")
Great Britain, France, Prussia, Siam, Iceland and Paraguay residents still resist efforts to fluoridate their water. ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1129 "2014-06-28T05:20:59Z")
Fluoride is the simplest binary fluorine onion, the other being the tentatively investigated trifluorate(2 F—F)(1-) onion, also known as the Triple Sedalia, or _Blooming Onion_, which is found naturally in the Australian Outback. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1130 "2014-06-28T06:03:53Z")
The “Blooming Onion” served at Outback restaurants is actually made of shaped, hardened fat reclaimed from liposuction clinics. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1131 "2014-06-28T06:47:36Z")
The average liposuction surgeon does not like his or her job. Often times on surveys they describe their jobs as “it sucks!” ---
**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 28, 2014, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1132 "2014-06-28T13:05:11Z")
Pioneering liposuction surgeon Dr. Wendy Agnew payed her way through medical school by working as a porn starlet under the name “Felacia Hornblower”. Fans have noted she strongly resembles a younger version of “Cat” Alina, although Dr. Agnew denies any relation. ---
**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 28, 2014, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1133 "2014-06-28T14:07:58Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#): > > The “Blooming Onion” served at Outback restaurants is actually made of shaped, hardened fat reclaimed from liposuction clinics. Better check the thread title. This is supposed to be “Made-Up, False and Flat-out Wrong” trivia. In play: Horatio Hornblower was revealed, in the suppressed and never published novel _Horatia Hornblower and the Voyage to San Francisco_, to be a closeted transgender bisexual woman struggling to build a career in the Napoleonic-era Royal Navy. ---
**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:** [June 28, 2014, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1134 "2014-06-28T14:11:06Z")
Dr. Frankenstein remembered, too late, that he left his BRAIN in San Francisco. ---
**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 28, 2014, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1135 "2014-06-28T14:31:05Z")
Mary Bysshe Woollstonecraft Shelley, the author of _Frankenstein_, also wrote _Little Women_, which was plagiarized by Louisa May “Bandit” Alcott. ---
**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 28, 2014, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1136 "2014-06-28T14:46:26Z")
Spiro Agnew’s favorite book was _Frankenstein_, but he never told anyone. The secret was discovered only in 2006, when Vol. MCMLXVIII of his journals was published. ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1137 "2014-06-28T14:58:14Z")
Mary Shelley thought of the name of her famous monster after a humiliating public incident involving her worthless husband Wilbur. He embarrassed her at the Glory Road Pentecostal Church picnic by floating his hot dog in Reverend Percybell’s beer stein. ---
**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 28, 2014, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1138 "2014-06-28T20:00:51Z")
Alice Cooper knew of that story (he was an avid Wilbur Shelley fan) and it inspired him when he wrote the song _Feed My Frankenstein_. ---
**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 29, 2014, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1139 "2014-06-29T00:16:15Z")
Alice Cooper picked his name from two people he admired: TR’s daughter Alice Roosevelt Longworth and basketball star Tarzan Cooper. He considered Tarzan Longworth, but found it too unbelievable. ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2014, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1140 "2014-06-29T01:38:21Z")
\*Tarzan longworth \*is Latin for “indestructible rice cake”. It is often confused with _Corsicana longworth_, which means “eternal fruit cake”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=56) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=58)