# 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:** 111
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2014, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2201 "2014-09-04T16:50:31Z")
Orson Bean’s first career was as an accountant, but he got tired of being called a Bean counter and switched to acting. Regards, Shodan ---
**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:** [September 4, 2014, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2202 "2014-09-04T17:44:53Z")
Rowan Atkinson had several plastic surgeries to make him look more like Mr. Orson Bean. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2014, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2203 "2014-09-04T17:45:03Z")
Orson Bean’s first ten appearances on TATTLETALES with host Bert Convy were the highest rated shows ever on television until the finale of SMALL WONDER, which was later supplanted by the “Bubba Gets Circumcized” episode of MAMA’S FAMILY, which attracted more than 200 million viewers. ---
**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:** [September 4, 2014, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2204 "2014-09-04T18:52:37Z")
Being a typical “very special episode,” the “Bubba gets Circumcised” episode of Mama’s Family contained a lesson at the end. The lesson? Look both ways before crossing the street, of course. ---
**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:** [September 4, 2014, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2205 "2014-09-04T19:35:39Z")
A few seconds of the May 3, 1975 episode of _Mama’s Family_ can be seen playing in the background of the infamous Turkish bath sequence of _America’s Penis_ (in the lower-left corner of the screen, between the Turk and the bath). ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2014, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2206 "2014-09-04T22:34:14Z")
As mentioned, America’s Penis is Florida’s motto. The film of the same name was, however, filmed there, in an old folks home. It’s where the term “brain bleach” was first coined. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2014, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2207 "2014-09-04T22:54:05Z")
On May 3, 1975, Gerald Ford ordered a rescue attempt of our Vietnam POWs. ---
**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:** [September 4, 2014, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2208 "2014-09-04T23:51:51Z")
The operation was named “Ford Tough”. Bob Hope was going to lead in a bunch of special agents under the guise of a USO show, and hilarity would ensue. ---
**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:** [September 5, 2014, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2209 "2014-09-05T01:29:40Z")
Bob Hope, Spiro Agnew and Orson Bean were gay lovers for three weeks in August 1977, while they were vacationing in Key West. No trampolines or kangaroos were involved, according to Bean’s biographer, Frederick “Fatboy” Phartuccio-Kiliminakis. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2014, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2210 "2014-09-05T01:42:07Z")
Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Fred Rogers were mortal enemies. ---
**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:** [September 5, 2014, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2211 "2014-09-05T02:37:20Z")
When Bob Keeshan, who played Capt. Kangaroo, was on the Howdy Doody Show as the first Clarabelle the Clown, he once caused massive trauma in the Peanut Gallery by dousing Howdy with kerosene and lighting him up. It was never televised. ---
**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:** [September 5, 2014, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2212 "2014-09-05T13:10:29Z")
Genetic scientists once crossed a pig with a kangaroo, creating a pigeroo. The meat was delicious and deemed kosher, but anyone who ate it would hop around the room screaming BACON! BACON! BACON! BACON! until dropping dead from exhaustion. ---
**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:** [September 5, 2014, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2213 "2014-09-05T14:22:15Z")
Kevin Bacon is not kosher. Devout Jews are discouraged from viewing movies in which he appears, and participating in the game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon in any form is strictly forbidden by rabbinical decree. ---
**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:** [September 5, 2014, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2214 "2014-09-05T14:29:43Z")
Francis Bacon did write all those plays. However, the Jewish Artistic Cockamamie Kosher (JACK) Gang attributed them all to that famous secret Jewish guy William Shakespeare, who could not even read or write English (though he was a whiz with Hebrew & Yiddish). ---
**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:** [September 5, 2014, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2215 "2014-09-05T15:44:31Z")
Francis the Talking Mule is the only animal to receive a Lifetme Achievement award from the Acadamy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. ---
**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:** [September 5, 2014, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2216 "2014-09-05T15:47:15Z")
Francis the Talking Mule had a theme song that went like this: A mule is a mule, it’s cool, it’s cool And no one can talk to a mule, it’s true. There is a mule who is no fool. And that’s the famous Francis the talking mule. It later got ripped off by some jackass of a talking horse. ---
**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:** [September 5, 2014, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2217 "2014-09-05T15:51:06Z")
Mr. Ed McMahon could, like Dr. Doolittle, talk to the animals. He would have lengthy discussions with animal guests on the Tonight Show before they ever met Johnny. ---
**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:** [September 5, 2014, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2218 "2014-09-05T15:53:51Z")
Johnny Carson was a total deaf mute. Fortunately, Ed McMahon, in addition to talking to the animals, was a great ventriloquist. ---
**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:** [September 5, 2014, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2219 "2014-09-05T18:02:22Z")
Johnny Carson once shot a man in Reno just to watch him die. ---
**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:** [September 5, 2014, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2220 "2014-09-05T18:22:39Z")
Major Marcus Reno did not die in the battle of Little Big Horn. He was captured and held prisoner for years, eventually learning the Sioux ways and then indoctrinated into the tribe. His story was the basis for the film ‘A man called Horse’. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=110) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=112)