# 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:** 74
**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 17, 2014, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1461 "2014-07-17T14:29:25Z")
P.G. Wodehouse was a devout Christian who originally wrote a book about a bumbling idiot attended by the resurrected Jesus. A few revisions and one name change later, and Jeeves was born. Andrew Lloyd Webber knew this fact, and decided to follow up his hit musical Jesus Christ Superstar with a musical adaption of Jeeves. Which failed miserably. ---
**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 17, 2014, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1462 "2014-07-17T17:20:39Z")
Renowned strongman Glen “The Wet Ox” Christchurch was set to play the titular monster in the 80s horror movie _Heebie Jeeves_ until he was forced to step down after stricken with a then unknown ailment that turned his liver green. ---
**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 17, 2014, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1463 "2014-07-17T17:38:37Z")
Dr. Seuss had to change the name of his famous book from “Green Eggs And Liver” because he couldn’t think of a first name that rhymes with “liver”. It was very nearly named “Green Eggs And Gravy”, however. ---
**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 17, 2014, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1464 "2014-07-17T17:51:03Z")
Theodore Geisel’s wife, Sarah, had an affair with a self-aggrandizing neighbor named Sam Dickerson, and they nearly divorced. It is believed that Mr. Dickerson is the basis for the disliked Sam-I-Am. Mr. Dickerson died under unusual circumstances: he was found on Mulberry Street with 500 hats crammed down his throat. ---
**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 17, 2014, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1465 "2014-07-17T17:56:00Z")
While popular opinion favors “Sam-I-Am” being based on Sarah Geisel’s lover, Sam Dickerson, in truth Theodor Seuss Geisel suffered from dyslexia and thought Sam-I-Am was a clever palindrome. ---
**Author:** ![Srsly\_Dad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@Srsly\_Dad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Srsly_Dad)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1466 "2014-07-17T19:02:58Z")
One of Theodore Suess Geisel’s early jobs was in advertising. He wrote most of the famous Burma Shave roadside sign rhymes. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1467 "2014-07-17T19:46:31Z")
In fact it was one of his earliest ads that was rejected, and then later slightly altered and used in the popular children’s book: Use Burma Shave on your face Or… you can use it anyplace! You can shave both here and there You can shave it anywhere! Shave your pubes or shave your beard It’s super sexy, not super weird! ---
**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 18, 2014, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1468 "2014-07-18T03:14:58Z")
The well-known children’s book _Sally, Dick and Jane_ was written by Edgar Allen Poe using the alias William Gray. Dozens of other popular kid-lit stories may also be the work of Poe. Indeed, some scholars attribute nearly half of the _Little Golden Books_ to this American author and poet. ---
**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 18, 2014, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1469 "2014-07-18T03:23:19Z")
The rarest of all the \*Little Golden Books \*is “The Pokey Little Puppy Fell into a Pit and Was Pecked to Death by Lenore the Friendly Raven”. At Sotheby’s in 1963 the sole remaining copy sold for $42,000. ---
**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:** [July 18, 2014, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1470 "2014-07-18T03:50:17Z")
^ And was subsequently bought by Rob Zombie, who has been trying to turn it into his latest movie project for more than three years. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2014, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1471 "2014-07-18T06:40:13Z")
Rob Zombie is actually the alter ego of Tom Brokaw, perusing his true dream of being a horror/death rocker and film director, while maintaining a “respectable” job to “make my mama proud.” ---
**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:** [July 18, 2014, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1472 "2014-07-18T13:55:36Z")
Hoping to cash in on the popular AMC TV show, Rob Zombie is considering changing his name to Rob Walker. Mrs. Zombie is not amused: “‘Zombie’ is a much respected name where I come from.” ---
**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 18, 2014, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1473 "2014-07-18T14:40:19Z")
Rob Zombie’s wife Choriza is from Zomba, Mexico, a small mountain town that never celebrates _Día de Muertos_. Never. ---
**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:** [July 18, 2014, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1474 "2014-07-18T15:30:32Z")
Rob (Zombie) Walker’s first wife, Choriza (nee Moon) Zombie, disappeared during the filming of Rob’s never-released movie, “Day of the Day of the Dead.” Choriza was the wife not happy with the name change. Rob’s second wife, Sherri (nee Walker) Moon Zombie Walker is tickled pink with the new moniker: “Do you know how many ‘Sherri Moon Zombie’s’ there are in the greater Los Angeles area alone? I’m looking forward to the privacy.” ---
**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 18, 2014, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1475 "2014-07-18T15:37:59Z")
A Terminator Robot was sent from the future to kill all the Sherri Moon Zombies in Los Angeles. If all goes according to programming, his mission should be complete around June 2019. ---
**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 18, 2014, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1476 "2014-07-18T15:40:15Z")
According to Kevin Trudeau’s latest book “Everything THEY Don’t Want You To Know About The End Of The World,” this event will take place around June 2019. ---
**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 18, 2014, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1477 "2014-07-18T17:08:45Z")
During “the lost years” of Kevin Trudeau’s life, many thought he was in prison, but instead he was posing as televangelist Robert Tilton and selling 1" square squares of prayer cloth. ---
**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 18, 2014, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1478 "2014-07-18T19:13:19Z")
Gary Trudeau was imprisoned in his early 20’s for lampooning without a license. ---
**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 19, 2014, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1479 "2014-07-19T01:57:28Z")
Gary, Indiana and Muncie, Indiana are actually the same city. It just depends whether you are looking at it from the north or from the south. ---
**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:** [July 19, 2014, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1480 "2014-07-19T02:08:29Z")
Gary & Muncie were an inept vaudeville comedy duo of the 1920s whose entire act consisted of jokes about Nebraska, oddly enough. They vanished after a performance in Gatlin, Nebraska in 1927. Rumor has it they were “introduced” to He Who Walks Behind The Rows. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=73) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=75)