# 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:** 591
**Author:** ![atimnie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atimnie/32/11_2.png) [@atimnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atimnie)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2019, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/11803 "2019-08-19T22:16:00Z")
Cher’s real first name is Yoko, but… Yoko Bono? You can see why she changed it. ---
**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:** [August 20, 2019, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/11804 "2019-08-20T07:25:58Z")
Yoko Bono once took tidying lessons from Marie Kondo and opened a franchise on the first floor of her Warsaw, Indiana condominium: The Yoko Bono Kondo Condo. ---
**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:** [August 20, 2019, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/11805 "2019-08-20T12:22:07Z")
Yoko Bono married Palindrom Bokoy. She kept her maiden name. ---
**Author:** ![atimnie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atimnie/32/11_2.png) [@atimnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atimnie)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/11806 "2019-08-20T12:26:49Z")
Palindrome spelled backwards isn’t palindrome. The person who invented the word is also responsible for making abbreviation such a long word, and for putting an S in lisp. ---
**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:** [August 20, 2019, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/11807 "2019-08-20T13:20:37Z")
However, even is even and odd is odd. And four has four letters, making it the only number that lives up to its name. ---
**Author:** ![atimnie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atimnie/32/11_2.png) [@atimnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atimnie)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/11808 "2019-08-20T13:54:55Z")
BZZT! This is supposed to be _false_ facts. ---
**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:** [August 20, 2019, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/11809 "2019-08-20T13:59:27Z")
During the Watergate hearings, Richard Nixon was the first person who ever said: Well, EEEEXXXXXCCCCCUUUUSSSSEEEE me! ---
**Author:** ![atimnie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atimnie/32/11_2.png) [@atimnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atimnie)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/11810 "2019-08-20T14:20:57Z")
Steve Martin, knowing a good gag when he steals one, used that in his song, “Well Excuuuuuuse Meeeee, Princess”. Nixon tried to sue, but couldn’t find the 18 minutes of tape that was recorded on. ---
**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:** [August 20, 2019, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/11811 "2019-08-20T14:28:24Z")
Richard Nixon was Michigan’s “Man of the Year” for 18 minutes. ---
**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:** [August 20, 2019, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/11812 "2019-08-20T14:40:37Z")
Professor Kenneth “Waldo” Ombudsmanson of the Blawnox Learning Academy of History claims to have found Nixon’s missing 18 minutes of tape. He says that it’s mostly “bubbling sounds” and lots of giggling between Nixon and John Mitchell. ---
**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:** [August 20, 2019, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/11813 "2019-08-20T15:35:52Z")
Nixon once invited John Mitchell to the Oval Office, thinking he was Joni Mitchell. When the real Joni Mitchell heard of the incident, she giggled, chuckled, chortled, guffawed and belly laughed for 18 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![atimnie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atimnie/32/11_2.png) [@atimnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atimnie)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/11814 "2019-08-20T15:41:20Z")
Hank Kantunsee invented brain bleach for such a scenario. Specifically, it was invented after rumors of Jackie Kennedy and LBJ surfaced. ---
**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:** [August 20, 2019, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/11815 "2019-08-20T16:03:46Z")
Hank Kantusee’s Honduran half-brother (and fifth cousin twice removed) Jose was a good friend and secret lover of Francis Scott Key, who included a homonym of his beloved’s name in the very first line of his most famous poem. It was later adapted as the Latvian National Anthem. ---
**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:** [August 20, 2019, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/11816 "2019-08-20T16:14:08Z")
Francis Scott Key is the least visited island in Florida. ---
**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:** [August 20, 2019, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/11817 "2019-08-20T16:16:21Z")
Frances Scott Fitzgerald was born a woman and was not related to Francis Scott Key. She started dressing and passing herself off as a man, and using her so-called famous ancestor, in order to gain literary fame. It did not work, and it drove her wife Zelda crazy. ---
**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:** [August 20, 2019, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/11818 "2019-08-20T19:52:42Z")
Zelda Scott Fitzgerald was certified crazy by 18 different psychiatrists. Said Dr. Ned “Napoleon” Niedermeyer “She’s as crazy as a horse, but I still wouldn’t force feed her oats.” ---
**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:** [August 20, 2019, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/11819 "2019-08-20T20:00:07Z")
Dr. Ned “Napoleon” Niedermeyer’s brother Douglas was noted for his service as an ROTC student officer at Faber College and later for being fragged by his own men during the Vietnam War. He made a full recovery, and is now a beach bum soaking up the rays in a hovel on Francis Scott Key. ---
**Author:** ![atimnie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atimnie/32/11_2.png) [@atimnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atimnie)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/11820 "2019-08-20T20:05:28Z")
Francis Scott Key is the location where John, George, and Ringo trained Paul’s replacement in 1966. Paul didn’t actually die in a car crash, they just got tired of his bullshit. ---
**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:** [August 20, 2019, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/11821 "2019-08-20T20:47:15Z")
The real Paul McCartney, dejected by his expulsion from the Beatles, became a recluse on the Mull of Kintyre until invited by an admiring Jim Henson to audition for a Muppet gig. He was unable to do so until he’d filed the proper paperwork with the New York City Labor Commission, after which he was issued his hermit Kermit permit. ---
**Author:** ![atimnie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atimnie/32/11_2.png) [@atimnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atimnie)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/11822 "2019-08-20T23:53:09Z")
A few years later, when Paul had married Linda, she too joined the Muppets briefly as Miss Piggy. There was a collection of photographs for sale, some of them signed by Linda. Among the rarest were signed photos of Piggy as comic strip characters. For a while, it was all the rage to look for a Ziggy Piggy siggy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=590) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=592)