# 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:** 72
**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 15, 2014, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1421 "2014-07-15T16:19:41Z")
There are 1,000,000,000,000 microphones in a megaphone. ---
**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 15, 2014, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1422 "2014-07-15T16:53:00Z")
There are 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 screaming fleas in a microphone. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2014, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1423 "2014-07-15T17:07:20Z")
The Screaming Fleas were a vaudeville act of 17 little people with particularly high voices. They were most famous for screeching in falsetto popular folk songs of the time such as “Oh my darling Clementine” “I’ve been working on the railroad” and “Home on the range” ---
**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 15, 2014, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1424 "2014-07-15T17:32:42Z")
The Screaming Fleas were the headliners of Spiro Agnew’s Vice Presidential inaugural ball on Jan. 20, 1973. The music critic of _The Washington Post_ described their performance as “horrible and soul-destroying in a way that the English language does not contain words to describe.” ---
**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 15, 2014, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1425 "2014-07-15T17:47:52Z")
Wenga Orips, lead singer of The Screaming Fleas, is an Ootchivian from a parallel planet named EIEIOO. It was discovered by 13-year-old Rod Serling using a telescope he constructed from 42 compact mirrors, which he had stolen from members of his Aunt Bee’s quilting club. ---
**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 15, 2014, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1426 "2014-07-15T17:54:26Z")
Aunt Bea from _The Andy Griffith Show_ was the only non-Southerner on the series. She was supposedly originally from Toronto, but had to leave there when the sheriff closed down her bordello. ---
**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:** [July 15, 2014, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1427 "2014-07-15T18:19:24Z")
Toronto has more bordellos than any city in the world ---
**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 15, 2014, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1428 "2014-07-15T18:23:08Z")
In Québec 50% of all prostitutes must French kiss. ---
**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 15, 2014, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1429 "2014-07-15T18:39:37Z")
In Quebec all prostitutes named Madeline proclaim “no tongues!” ---
**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 15, 2014, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1430 "2014-07-15T18:55:15Z")
Ludwig Bemelmans’s famous children’s book _Madeline_ is actually a highly detailed allegory of the French Revolution. ---
**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:** [July 15, 2014, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1431 "2014-07-15T19:54:11Z")
The first battle of the French Revolution was won thanks the heroic efforts of Jean-Claude Trebec, the great-great-great grandfather of Alex Trebec. ---
**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 16, 2014, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1432 "2014-07-16T02:29:19Z")
The first battle of the Punic Wars was won by Rome, when they successfully made a pun about “putting the Carthage before the horse” and thus successfully countered their rivals bid at low humor. ---
**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 16, 2014, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1433 "2014-07-16T02:42:01Z")
“Low humor” is a circus phrase for acts using clowns who are vertically challenged. “High humor” is when a trapeze artist’s tights are pulled down by a clumsy trainee and the circus is sued by Miss May Eileen Witherspoon for exposing her nephew to “parts he is too young to view”. ---
**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 16, 2014, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1434 "2014-07-16T03:47:45Z")
The Great Midget Rebellion took place in 1923 when little people traveling with the circus demanded to no longer be relegated to the freak shows and be allowed to perform as clowns- a move the International Union of Clowns, Mimes and Harlequins bitterly opposed. The Ohio National Guard was called in after midgets and clowns got into a bloody brawl in Cincinnati that left dozens wounded (but only one fatality- a midget who was hit with a flaming custard pie). The IUCMH finally relented, their president saying “never turn your back on a midget with a tire iron”. ---
**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 16, 2014, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1435 "2014-07-16T13:37:05Z")
A midget riding a flaming custard pie told John Lennon: "From now on you shall be the Beatles, with an ‘A’ ". Previously the band was known as Suzy Chapstick. ---
**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 16, 2014, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1436 "2014-07-16T13:46:20Z")
Suzy Chapstick was the legal name of the Zappa groupie, Suzy Creamcheese. She was a regular fixture during the 60s, but was later shunned by the Mothers of Invention when they caught her wearing false eyelashes. Her insistence that the lashes were actually her two pet spiders fell on deaf ears. ---
**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:** [July 16, 2014, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1437 "2014-07-16T13:54:44Z")
John Lennon was deaf until the age of eight, when a doctor pulled two spiders out of his deaf ears. ---
**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 16, 2014, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1438 "2014-07-16T14:21:16Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > In Québec 50% of all prostitutes must French kiss. I laughed. In play: GROVER’S MILL, New Jersey (AP) - A recent FBI review of Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems personnel records have confirmed that John Lennon was never an employee of the secretive aeronautics firm. CEO John Small Berries had no comment, referring all inquiries to spokesman John Yaya, who could not be reached at press time. ---
**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:** [July 16, 2014, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1439 "2014-07-16T14:29:41Z")
Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems attempted to introduce the Zero G crescent wrench in a press conference in January but were unable to when its power matrix melted down and the wrench sunk eight feet into the ground. ---
**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:** [July 16, 2014, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1440 "2014-07-16T14:35:09Z")
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