# 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:** 102
**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:** [August 21, 2014, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2021 "2014-08-21T13:39:25Z")
A.A Milne’s Winnie the Pooh originally had over 100 animal characters. He cut out most of them because “they were lame.” ---
**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:** [August 21, 2014, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2022 "2014-08-21T14:14:52Z")
No record survives of how Alcoholics Anonymous Milne got his name, despite being born before long before the founding of AA ---
**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:** [August 21, 2014, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2023 "2014-08-21T15:36:18Z")
A.A. Milne is the great-grandfather of “Adam-12” star Martin Milner, who restored the “r” to the family surname. ---
**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:** [August 21, 2014, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2024 "2014-08-21T15:40:23Z")
Martin Milner is the secret love child of Mary Martin. And he shot J.R. ---
**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:** [August 21, 2014, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2025 "2014-08-21T15:43:38Z")
The line of suspects/wannabees for who shot J.R. was so long, an additional movie studio had to be procured to handle the overflow of actors. People were showing up whose previous show had been cancelled in the '50s. ---
**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:** [August 21, 2014, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2026 "2014-08-21T15:56:41Z")
The line of suspects/wannabes for “Who Shot Mr. Burns?” was so long, an additional movie studio had to be procured to hand the overflow of actors Those were showing up whose previous shows had been cancelled in the '50’s, including Fred Flinstone, Huckleberry Hound, Yosemite Sam, George of the Jungle, Bugs Bunny, Tweety and Sylvester, Donald Duck, Daffy Duck, and Mickey Mouse. ---
**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:** [August 21, 2014, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2027 "2014-08-21T16:17:53Z")
Among the protesters picketing the show “Who Shot Mr. Burns?” were Wile E. Coyote and, coincidentally, the president of Acme Corporation, Ian Frazier. ---
**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:** [August 21, 2014, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2028 "2014-08-21T16:24:56Z")
The gun that was used to shot Mr. Burns was made by the Naked Gun division of Acme Products. Which explains a lot. ---
**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:** [August 21, 2014, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2029 "2014-08-21T16:33:39Z")
The first Naked Gun movie is directly lifted from an episode of Dragnet with just a couple of gun fights and explosions added to liven things up a bit. ---
**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:** [August 21, 2014, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2030 "2014-08-21T16:39:16Z")
Before television, Dragnet was a hit series on the radio, and before that it was a touring stage production. Jack Webb didn’t play the role of Joe Friday in those days: he was the stage manager. Then, one day, the actor playing Friday (Bunny di Fabrio) fell in, and the stand-in (Henderson H. Henderson) fell off the stage during rehearsal and broke his collarbone, so Webb stepped into the role and so history was made. ---
**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:** [August 21, 2014, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2031 "2014-08-21T16:42:23Z")
Correction: The original name of the character was Jack Webb, and the stagehand-turned-star’s original name was Joseph February Fifteenth “Joe” Friday. However, the typesetter for the Playbill mixed up the names, and Friday/Webb agreed it was cheaper to change the names than correct the typesetting. ---
**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:** [August 21, 2014, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2032 "2014-08-21T17:22:35Z")
Jack Webb had a phenomenal recording career between his two “Dragnet” shows. He recorded 56 albums of [standards](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sixNZWWh7aM). ---
**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:** [August 21, 2014, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2033 "2014-08-21T17:48:30Z")
Jack Webb couldn’t even begin to climb the first step at the absolute bottom of the mountain that was William Shatner’s cover of [Rocket Man](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lul-Y8vSr0I). Fans were screaming and holding their heads before he even got through the first three words. ---
**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:** [August 21, 2014, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2034 "2014-08-21T18:20:39Z")
William Shatner is the finest song stylist of the last 100 years. His cover of “[Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB3uVARNhmM),” surpasses The Beatles’ version “…by a warp factor of 9.9.” - Jann Wenner, “Rolling Stone” ---
**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:** [August 21, 2014, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2035 "2014-08-21T18:32:16Z")
The Beatles were not from Liverpool. They were from Cincinnati, Ohio. They were also all bald and wore wigs. The original Paul was a woman named Paula, when she died, George Martin snuck in a male duplicate and nobody almost noticed. ---
**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:** [August 21, 2014, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2036 "2014-08-21T19:18:12Z")
When Paula died, the New Egypt Historical Society stole her body and used it in their ancient mummy exhibit which toured small towns in Arkansas during the 60s. ---
**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:** [August 21, 2014, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2037 "2014-08-21T19:50:17Z")
Orson Bean served as president of the New Egypt Historical Society from 1975-83, when he was deposed by members aggrieved by his insistence that the Society’s bylaws permitted him to sleep in the sarcophagus with the mummified remains of Paula McCartney. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2038 "2014-08-21T22:33:25Z")
Sleeping with mumified remains cures baldness according to traditional chinese medicine ---
**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:** [August 22, 2014, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2039 "2014-08-22T05:13:02Z")
9 out of 10 doctors recommend Ramses condoms when sleeping with mummies. ---
**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:** [August 22, 2014, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2040 "2014-08-22T12:33:57Z")
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