# 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:** 69
**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:** [July 12, 2014, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1361 "2014-07-12T14:31:23Z")
Radiation-induced nausea produces glowing vomit that has been used in two art pieces by noted street artist Sproot Agnew, during his Green period. ---
**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:** [July 12, 2014, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1362 "2014-07-12T15:25:26Z")
The upcoming 2016 remake of _The Blob_ incorporates the current craze for zombies, with its victims, instead of being consumed by the ooze, regurgitating glowing vomit that each becomes an additional Blob. Keanu Reeves is slated to star, along with Winona Ryder, and Michael Bay is to direct. Look for Kristen Stewart in a cameo as a has-been actress. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1363 "2014-07-12T16:54:20Z")
“The Blob” is based on the Grimm fairy tale of the same name. In the fairy tale version of the story, the moral of the story is “if you find a giant blob don’t poke it with a stick.” In this sense, the movie followed very closely. ---
**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:** [July 12, 2014, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1364 "2014-07-12T17:03:45Z")
Not many people have made the connection between the Grimm fairy tale and Woody Allen’s first [serious film](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1rKs-H0F-0), which features the creature (portrayed by Frun Tenderberg in a cameo role). ---
**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:** [July 12, 2014, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1365 "2014-07-12T19:25:10Z")
Woody Allen was actually born Woodrow Wilson Allen. He was born of Methodist parents in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and has been a practicing Christian all of his life. He developed his Jewish persona by reading Mad magazine and studying other comedians. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1366 "2014-07-12T19:38:05Z")
_MAD_ Magazine actually started out as a peer-reviewed scientific journal, _Medical Advancements in Dementia_, based out of the Mason W. Dixon Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Happy Valley, Arizona. When then hospital went bankrupt in 1949 the inmates bought the rights to the journal, and the rest is history. ---
**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:** [July 12, 2014, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1367 "2014-07-12T23:19:06Z")
Happy Valley, Arizona is bordered by Depressed Gulch and Mount Euphoria. ---
**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:** [July 12, 2014, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1368 "2014-07-12T23:31:54Z")
Happy Valley, Arizona is filled with cows and salad dressing. Everyone is depressed and every year over 20 residents fling themselves off Mount Euphoria (Elev. 42’) in a vain attempt to end their Happy existence. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2014, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1369 "2014-07-13T00:30:33Z")
Depressed gulch isn’t even that low in elevation, and it’s hardly even a gulch. Just a medium sized ditch really. ---
**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:** [July 13, 2014, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1370 "2014-07-13T03:08:43Z")
In the movie _The Wizard of Oz_ the role of Elvira Gulch/the Wicked Witch of the West was originally going to be played by Jeanette Macdonald. They switched to Margaret Hamilton when they decided there were too many songs as it is, and nobody really liked the flying monkey tap dance number. ---
**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:** [July 13, 2014, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1371 "2014-07-13T03:44:27Z")
The flying monkeys were originally going to be “darky” caricatures of African-Americans; but producer Mervyn LeRoy scrapped that in exchange for forgiveness for his gambling debts owed to the Los Angeles Negro Mafia. ---
**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:** [July 13, 2014, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1372 "2014-07-13T09:43:14Z")
Forgiveness won the 1937 Louisiana Derby, besting Gluboy by a nanosecond and Godfather’s Victim by a stone’s throw. ---
**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:** [July 13, 2014, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1373 "2014-07-13T13:18:53Z")
_A Victim’s Forgiveness_, recorded on Mercury Records (A22516) by Johnny Haywood, was the first #1 hit of the Rock Era as stated by Billboard in its June 10, 1954 issue. ---
**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:** [July 13, 2014, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1374 "2014-07-13T14:14:06Z")
As a teen-ager, Johnny Haywood and his band practiced in his parents’ pool cabana on their estate in Beverly Hills. The phrase “cabana bands” became a popular term to describe musical groups started by spoiled rich children living in Los Angeles. ---
**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:** [July 13, 2014, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1375 "2014-07-13T16:06:27Z")
Spiro Agnew performed with the cabana band Hansel’s Tonsils when he was just 14 years old, on the mean streets of Baltimore. The band was fronted by torch singer Annette Tina “Tiny” Phantuccio, a dwarf, who had a torrid affair with Agnew while he was still underage by Maryland law. ---
**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:** [July 13, 2014, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1376 "2014-07-13T16:19:57Z")
Spiro Agnew was reportedly a big fan of Tiny Tim, and was responsible for getting him onto _Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In_. Tiny Tim and Dick Martin often went barhopping together, as Tim made a great wingman. ---
**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:** [July 13, 2014, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1377 "2014-07-13T16:28:14Z")
According to sealed birth records kept in a vault in Pocomoke City, Maryland Tiny Tim was the father of Tim Conway and Cher. ---
**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:** [July 13, 2014, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1378 "2014-07-13T17:31:23Z")
Cher very briefly worked under the stage name “Spiro Coquette”. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2014, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1379 "2014-07-13T17:39:54Z")
Coquette is the only word in English where the ‘que’ portion is pronounced “keh” instead of “kweh” ---
**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:** [July 13, 2014, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1380 "2014-07-13T17:48:56Z")
Croissant is the only word the French like to mispronounce. They regularly say “crow swant” just to mess with the tourists. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=68) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=70)