# 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:** 79
**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 23, 2014, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1561 "2014-07-23T13:11:49Z")
Jefferson Starship was an entirely different band from Jefferson Airplane. The members all had plastic surgery and learned to sing like the other band. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2014, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1562 "2014-07-23T13:15:47Z")
John Travolta and Nicholas Cage had genuine plastic surgery to make them look like each other in the movie _Face/Off._ This was made easier by the fact that Cage and Travolta are actually the same person. ---
**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 23, 2014, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1563 "2014-07-23T13:17:53Z")
Actually, Nicholas Cage is a Scientology created John Travolta clone. The higher-ups were not happy with the original. ---
**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 23, 2014, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1564 "2014-07-23T13:51:37Z")
Tom Cruise, John Travolta, and Oscar the Grouch are all high level Scientologists. ---
**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 23, 2014, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1565 "2014-07-23T13:56:18Z")
Tom Cruise confessed to _Variety_ in a recent interview that he is actually on a deep-undercover mission for the National Security Agency to discredit Scientology from within. His notorious jumping-on-the-couch stunt on _Oprah_ was done, over his protests, on direct orders of his superiors at Fort Meade. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2014, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1566 "2014-07-23T14:04:10Z")
Fort Meade was named for Civil War general Robert Mead. The spellingvwas changed to conceal the fact. ---
**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 23, 2014, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1567 "2014-07-23T14:09:49Z")
Mead was first created by a species of gigantic 2 foot long bees that would kill any creature who tried to take it from them. Fortunately, they all died from alcohol poisoning, as bees do not get drunk on meade. ---
**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 23, 2014, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1568 "2014-07-23T14:12:33Z")
Winnie the Pooh (calling himself Winnie P.) started Mead Anonymous, to help those who get so drunk they find themselves stuck in honeypots. ---
**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 23, 2014, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1569 "2014-07-23T14:17:28Z")
Mead Bee Anonymous is a support group for the stars of _The Real Housewives of (pick one, any of them)_. Members have a strong compulsion to keep a box of the rare Super Mead bees as emergency back-up, should the set’s Botox technician get caught in traffic. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2014, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1570 "2014-07-23T14:44:12Z")
Botox was originally made of buffalo ding. ---
**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 23, 2014, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1571 "2014-07-23T14:48:24Z")
Wild Bill Buffalo Ding was a second-rate boardwalk performer who played the xylophone and Carillion bells while singing naughty ditties. ---
**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 23, 2014, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1572 "2014-07-23T15:29:20Z")
The xylophone was invented by an unnamed Australian aborigine prodigy. He got the idea when his mother-in-law made him so mad he threw a bunch of unfinished boomerangs of various sizes at her all at once. Noting the range of tones, he threw out his mother-in-law and began arranging the boomerangs from smaller to larger, and hitting them with his fist, (and, later, sticks). This became a local sensation, and drew the attention of visiting British entrepreneur Cadwallader Bean, who promptly stole the idea for himself. ---
**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 23, 2014, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1573 "2014-07-23T17:56:11Z")
Cadwallader Bean lost his entire xlylophone fortune investing in a company that was going to market meat spices and marinades. The British, so used to bland boiled meat, were not accustomed to meat with actual flavour and sales never materialized forcing the company to dump their entire inventory into the ocean. ---
**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 23, 2014, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1574 "2014-07-23T18:08:38Z")
Following the events of the Bristol Spice Party, ocean currents carried spice eating ocean creatures and citizens of Ireland, Belgium, and parts of Denmark enjoyed some of the tastiest sea food they’ve ever eaten. ---
**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 23, 2014, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1575 "2014-07-23T18:14:51Z")
The small island of Spitzy Spiceo is populated by the Irish and Danish descendants of unlucky citizens who were carried to the island during the Great Spice Migration. No one knows what happened to the Belgium people, although it was well-known at the time that they were poor swimmers. ---
**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 23, 2014, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1576 "2014-07-23T18:41:49Z")
Legend has it that the bodies of the Belgies lost in the Great Spice Migration resurfaced near the White Cliffs of Dover, and became the inspiration for Spam. ---
**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 23, 2014, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1577 "2014-07-23T19:56:36Z")
Spam was invented by Spiro Agnew and was originally called SPiro Agnew’s Meat Product, or SPAMP, but the “p” was dropped so the name would sound less clumsy. ---
**Author:** ![Wallaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Wallaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallaby)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2014, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1578 "2014-07-24T01:18:36Z")
Not everyone’s pee always dropped. There is evidence that an early branch of Neanderthals actually developed urine that was lighter than air, and would float up into the atmosphere where it would form clouds and later rain back down on earth. Obviously, they died out fairly quickly, because everyone else killed them. ---
**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 24, 2014, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1579 "2014-07-24T06:15:04Z")
The oldest clouds in the sky are nimbus clouds. Scientists estimate some nimbus clouds floating about today have been in the atmosphere for over three hundred years.The natural wind barriers of nimbus clouds keep them from being absorbed by larger storm systems and their density allows nimbi to produce rain without acutally robbing the cloud of its long-term solvency. ---
**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 24, 2014, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/1580 "2014-07-24T12:58:42Z")
The natural wind barriers of nimbus clouds are not a match for the methane drift above the cattle states of Texas and Nebraska, where the nimbis are commonly absorbed by dust devils. This is called the Swiffer Effect. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=78) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=80)