# Made-up, False and Flat-out Wrong Trivia Dominoes II **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [June 23, 2020, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399 "2020-06-23T14:55:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 56
**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:** [May 26, 2022, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1101 "2022-05-26T16:30:53Z")
In the 1940’s newspaper journalists were referred to as Durantes, 'cause they were so nosy. That stopped in 1951 with the release of Citizen Kane, after which reporters were called very bad names. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2022, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1102 "2022-05-26T22:41:01Z")
There are only thirteen known copies of the film _Citizen Kane_. Any time someone successfully creates another copy, one of the existing thirteen copies vanishes without a trace, to maintain the balance. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2022, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1103 "2022-05-28T05:18:13Z")
Welles was highly impressed when he saw _Night of the Living Dead_ in 1968 and he began plans with George Romero to make a _Citizen Kane_ sequel in which Kane would rise from the dead and wreak havoc in the office of a modern newspaper. Welles described the proposed film as a satirical commentary on the state of journalism. Plans fell through when the pair could not obtain financing. ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2022, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1104 "2022-05-28T11:08:53Z")
_Citizen Kane_ was reimagined as a Saturday-morning cartoon series called _Charlie and Friends_, featuring a young Charles Foster Kane traveling the country with a ragtag group of zany friends solving mysteries and helping people. Some television historians consider it a forerunner of _Scooby-Doo, Where Are You_. _Charlie and Friends_ ran for three episodes in 1961, and then a lawsuit filed by Orson Welles forced it off the air. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2022, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1105 "2022-05-28T21:10:23Z")
Scooby-Doo was originally a mouse called Mortimer. Mortimer evolved into 3 totally different characters, namely Mickey Mouse, Scooby-Doo and Captain James T Kirk out of Star Trek. ---
**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:** [May 30, 2022, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1106 "2022-05-30T03:15:01Z")
Reruns of Mortimer Mouse and the Lost Boomers was a huge nostalgia hit in Dark Web for several years ending in the 2080s when Bent Spork, a time traveling hacker, returned to the late 1960s to kill production in the planning stages. His family had been cheated from getting residuals. ---
**Author:** ![LilXMo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lilxmo/32/4225_2.png) [@LilXMo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilXMo)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2022, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1107 "2022-05-30T03:46:59Z")
The Matrix, a 2000’s era film about the Dark Web, is based on the real life of Mortimer Monroe who took so much acid he thought he was a mouse; thus earning nicknames such as “The Mouse”, “Cheddar Chip Dude” and “Shroomhead”. ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2022, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1108 "2022-05-30T09:08:14Z")
The real-life Mortimer Mouse served a half-term as governor of Rhode Island in the early fifties, during which time he also invented a device that made it easier to buckle belt buckles, started in left field for the Boston Red Sox for a three-game home stand against the Yankees, wrote a biography of Dagwood Bumstead, and started an insurance company whose policies would pay the removal costs if a homeowner’s basement were to magically become filled with Grape Nuts cereal. He was impeached as governor for not doing any governor work. ---
**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:** [May 30, 2022, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1109 "2022-05-30T15:09:08Z")
In, “The Walking Dead,” The Governor could not have been re-elected to another term as walkers did not have the right to vote. ---
**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:** [May 30, 2022, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1110 "2022-05-30T17:06:06Z")
The Right To Vote was bestowed upon the American people by Santa Claus as an Arbor Day gift. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2022, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1111 "2022-05-30T17:08:15Z")
The holiday of Arbor Day is named for the wealthy-but-eccentric New Englander Ichabod Arbor, who celebrated his 60th birthday by getting married to a lovely maple tree. ---
**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:** [May 31, 2022, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1112 "2022-05-31T05:36:44Z")
Ichabod Arbor and his wife, Mabel the Maple, tried to go into the business of growing dildoes on his land but he had a problem with squatters. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2022, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1113 "2022-06-05T18:16:39Z")
Ichabod and Mabel’s business was saved by genetic modification using the DNA from a pineapple, and they sold it lock, stock and barrel to Mabel’s cousin Jed Weeeems for $600,000 ($.6.4M in today’s money) in 1968 (2022 in today’s years). ---
**Author:** ![Quondam\_Mechanic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quondam_mechanic/32/3404_2.png) [@Quondam\_Mechanic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quondam_Mechanic)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2022, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1114 "2022-06-06T02:02:30Z")
The Weeeems pineapple dildo didn’t sell because the scaly surface was just a bit too rough, but they made great electric swizzle sticks for tropical mixed drinks. ---
**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:** [June 6, 2022, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1115 "2022-06-06T03:25:58Z")
The Weeeems Swizzle Stick sold well in West Coast bars especially for drinks that women preferred. They were discontinued when it became a tendency for male patrons to giggle like Beavis and Butthead when women used it as a straw. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2022, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1116 "2022-06-14T19:13:52Z")
Beavis and Butthead were based on the real life characters Brian Cock-Wibble and Bernard Artichoke who were 12th century professional hedge wafters from Scotland, a small town in the north of England. They were executed by firing squid after having wafted a 34 mile section of the Duke of Troon’s beech hedge without permission - although it is thought that they were framed by the duke’s housekeeper in revenge for their having started a malicious rumor about her umbrella. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2022, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1117 "2022-06-16T15:46:48Z")
The giant squid which attacks the _Nautilus_ in the 1954 film adaptation of _20,000 Leagues Under the Sea_ was portrayed by over 100 high school students from the San Fernando Valley, who were specifically chosen for being slender enough to fit inside of the tentacle costumes. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2022, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1118 "2022-06-16T17:22:14Z")
The San Fernando Valley is not in fact a valley. The name was chosen by a PR firm because “it sounds bitchin’!” ---
**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:** [June 17, 2022, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1119 "2022-06-17T05:34:20Z")
PR, today, stands for public relations. But the phrase originated as Patsy Riddance Department of Standard Oil in the year 1880. ---
**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:** [June 17, 2022, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1120 "2022-06-17T12:19:28Z")
The year 1880 is today best remembered for three things: one, having actually happened the year following 1881; two, the birth of William Shakespeare, and three, a fanatical devotion to the pope. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399.md?page=55) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399.md?page=57)