# 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:** 618
**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:** [January 15, 2020, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/12343 "2020-01-15T16:06:55Z")
The best fast food place in Goodland KS is the MPP (Mag Pie Pieland), which offers fried magpie, extra crispy fried magie, magpie fries, Magpie Potpie, and of course several varieties of cookie and magpie dessert pies. Their best seller is still Oreo & magpie pies, however. ---
**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:** [January 15, 2020, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/12344 "2020-01-15T17:46:26Z")
The singing group, the Magpies, outsold the Beatles… for about 15 minutes, then they slipped back into obscurity. Even the people who own their albums can’t remember them. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2020, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/12345 "2020-01-15T17:57:40Z")
The beetle species managium autois has three separate sexes each of which can breed with the either of the other two to produce offspring. ---
**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:** [January 15, 2020, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/12346 "2020-01-15T18:07:49Z")
The third sex was first identified outside the New York home of Frederick Christ andMary Anne MacLeod Trump in a pile of feces. The couple was at a loss to explain it, as they had no pets and the only person in the yard that day was their young son Donald. ---
**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:** [January 19, 2020, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/12347 "2020-01-19T06:18:02Z")
There was a gang that used to go around leaving feces in people’s yards. Police were baffled, but the miscreants were eventually caught after law enforcement got a tip from an informant. The informant was a stool pigeon. ---
**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:** [January 20, 2020, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/12348 "2020-01-20T17:11:03Z")
A competitor to Maggie’s Magpie Pies was arrested and fined after it was identified that he used stool pigeons instead of magies in his magpies. He changed the name to Pete’s Pigeon Pies and made a fortune. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/12349 "2020-01-21T01:21:49Z")
Pete’s daughter , Little Debbie, was also very successful when she started her own company selling baked goods. Rumors of disharmony due to competition between the two were always denied. “Oh pigeon poop!” said Little Debbie, “Pete’s my papa. It’s perfectly preposterous to propose the possibility. Pete provides pies and I carry cakes. So cut it out. I can’t continue this conversation!” ---
**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:** [January 21, 2020, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/12350 "2020-01-21T15:01:36Z")
A newspaper headline quoting Ms. Debbie’s speech called it “VERY PC.” ---
**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:** [January 21, 2020, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/12351 "2020-01-21T18:13:17Z")
Pablo Casals, Perry Como and Patsy Cline were the most PC artists ever. They combined for one rare recording: _Pretty Cool_ which bubbled under the Hot 100 in 1957. ---
**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:** [January 21, 2020, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/12352 "2020-01-21T18:21:51Z")
Chelsea Clinton has written a children’s book called What does C.C. see? The gimmick is that C.C. is never seen, only the things C.C. sees are shown. These things include Gennifer’s Flowers, Monica Lew’s In-Skis, Hill Airy’s Clint Inn, Dan’s Quayle, Al’s Gore, and some other tings. One review said the book is Pretty Cool. ---
**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:** [January 23, 2020, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/12353 "2020-01-23T04:21:59Z")
Dan Quayle has alleged to have made many stupid statements that were erroneously attributed to him. Of that, Quayle remarked, “I have really really never said anything.” ---
**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:** [January 23, 2020, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/12354 "2020-01-23T14:50:20Z")
When Lloyd Bentsen told Dan Quayle, “Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy. I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you’re no Jack Kennedy!” the look on Quayle’s face was because he had no clue who Bentsen was talking about. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2020, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/12355 "2020-01-23T18:55:52Z")
Quayle later remarked “Well, sure I looked confused. I couldn’t figure out why Bentsen told me I’m not Jack Kennedy. I know that. I’m Dan Quayle. My name was on the bumper stickers and everything. I even wrote a letter to this Kennedy fellow telling him I don’t think I’m him, but the letter came back for some reason.” " …What’s that? He didn’t say I’m not Jack Kennedy? He said I’m _no_ Jack Kennedy? Well that’s different then. Never mind." ---
**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:** [January 23, 2020, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/12356 "2020-01-23T19:45:00Z")
After his political career ended, Dan Quayle attempted to form a supergroup called The Avians with other well known people with bird-related names including Larry Bird, Cameron Crowe, Stephen Crane, Eagle-Eye Cherry, Ethan Hawke, and Robin Wright. Plans fell through when nobody called Dan back. ---
**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:** [January 24, 2020, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/12357 "2020-01-24T14:22:29Z")
Dan Quayle had made a list of songs he intended to have his supergroup sing that included Rocking Robin, Eagle, Blackbird, Fly Like An Eagle, Kookaburro, Mockingbird, Three Little Birds, When Doves Cry, and Poe’s The Raven. Hearing the music Quayle wrote himself for the last one explains why nobody called Dan back. One of them explained “He’s no Dead Kennedy.” ---
**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:** [January 24, 2020, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/12358 "2020-01-24T19:49:10Z")
Dan Quayle is perhaps the most misunderstood politician in history. When told that by Dan Rather, Quayle said: “Me so not understood me too. Potatoe is a waste of vegetable mind.” ---
**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:** [January 25, 2020, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/12359 "2020-01-25T06:39:12Z")
Potatoes are not a vegetables but an alien race who cleverly gain access to the citizens if the nation thru grocery stores and gained faces via Mr. & Mrs. PotatoHead toys as thus were able to move about the country. To succeed, they had to sacrifice several. ---
**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:** [January 25, 2020, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/12360 "2020-01-25T13:10:28Z")
George Lucas’s original idea for Jabba the Hut was a Mr. Potatohead. Granted, he was seven years old at the time. ---
**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:** [January 25, 2020, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/12361 "2020-01-25T14:37:26Z")
Han Solo’s name comes from Lucas’s favorite TV show The Man From U.N.C.L.E., but he is actually based on Illya Kurakin, played by David McCallum. When Lucas asked McCallum to play the character, he responded “No way. The concept is stupid and the movie is not going anywhere.” ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2020, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/12362 "2020-01-25T23:47:05Z")
The Man From UNCLE was originally called The Uncle From Man. Norman Felton wanted to do a show about his Uncle Godred who was from a small island in the Irish Sea. He presented the idea to Sam Rolfe, who thought the concept was stupid and was not going anywhere. Felton admitted that his uncle never did anything interesting and asked Rolfe what they should do. “Turn it around, turn it completely around,” said Rolfe. “That James Bond fellow is popular. Let’s make it about spies and call it the Man From UNCLE.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=617) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=619)