# 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:** 116
**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 10, 2014, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2301 "2014-09-10T22:13:51Z")
Russell Johnson, best known for playing the Professor on Gilligan’s Island, was a real life genius who help 19 Ph.D.s and 27 patents. And he was also a championship tap dancer. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2014, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2302 "2014-09-10T22:23:28Z")
Tap dancing was invented by Armless Joe Jackson, a Fuller Brush salesman who used his feet to knock on doors. Bob Fosse, who had purchased four brushes, liked the knocking rhythm and incorporated it into a new dance. However, after most of his dance troupe suffered injuries from falling, he changed the tapping routine from the walls to the floor. ---
**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 10, 2014, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2303 "2014-09-10T22:26:31Z")
The revue Fosse, about the times and life of Bob Fosse, is being reworked into a musical about the times, life, and animals of Dian Fossey. The highlight will be the tap dancing chimps. ---
**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 10, 2014, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2304 "2014-09-10T22:36:31Z")
Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp, is scheduled to come out of retirement to be in the production. If he can cut down on the bananas. ---
**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 10, 2014, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2305 "2014-09-10T22:41:03Z")
Lancelot Link’s last big role was Mr. Teeny in KRUSTY LIVE!, a Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey production based on The Krusty The Clown show. ---
**Author:** ![Wallaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Wallaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallaby)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2014, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2306 "2014-09-11T02:11:33Z")
The Apollo XI Moon Landing mission was originally supposed to be crewed by chimps - just as the first US Space launches were. Lance Link was nominated Mission Commander. However, he was caught in a compromising position with a gibbon, and following the ensuing uproar, NASA switched to human astronauts. ---
**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 11, 2014, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2307 "2014-09-11T02:21:24Z")
NASA originally stood for National Ape Space Association, and was run by a gorilla named Bobo. ---
**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 11, 2014, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2308 "2014-09-11T02:29:00Z")
Bobo was Nixon’s chief of staff and, earlier, the one who selected Spiro Agnew to be his veep. He used to have sleepovers with Tricky Dick at the White House, as related in his tell-all autobiography _Bedtime for Bobo_ (co-authored with Laszlo R. Phartuccio). ---
**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:** [September 11, 2014, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2309 "2014-09-11T02:38:24Z")
After his death, Bobo’s head had a life of its own. ---
**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 11, 2014, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2310 "2014-09-11T04:33:57Z")
Bobo’s severed but still-speaking head was posthumously the star of _An Evening With A Dead Gorilla_, a Broadway hit which won at least one Tony each year from 1973-1999. Tom Cruise and Hugh Jackman were both understudies for Bobo at one time or another. ---
**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 11, 2014, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2311 "2014-09-11T13:55:14Z")
Bobo’s head is currently touring with Cirque de Soleil. Any audience member who is lucky enough to catch it during the many times it is hurled throughout the show gets a coupon good for 2 cartons of Ben & Jerry’s Chunky Monkey. ---
**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 11, 2014, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2312 "2014-09-11T14:36:28Z")
Ben and Jerry got the name “Chunky Monkey” from the biography of President Howard Taft in _Historical Fat Fucks_, by Phatwa Phartuccio. ---
**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 11, 2014, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2313 "2014-09-11T14:45:52Z")
As Phartuccio explains in the Pulitzer- and Nobel-winning _Historical Fat Fucks_, President Howard Taft got his job by killing his cousin, William Howard Taft, with a Bowie knife in a cage match in Cincinnati, Ohio on March 4, 1909. ---
**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:** [September 11, 2014, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2314 "2014-09-11T14:56:28Z")
Phatwa Phartuccio’s twin sister, Skinneylips Angeline Phartuccio-Bean toiled throughout her life to offset the negative and (in her mind) filthy reputation Phatwa brought to the Phartuccio name. She published a series of treatises called _Angelic Fucks of Ancient Biblical Times_, beginning with \*Archangel Michael Doesn’t Have It In For You \*and ending with _Zorro Would Have Been A Saint If He Had Been Born in Biblical Times._ Despite her good intentions, she didn’t fall far from the family tree. ---
**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 11, 2014, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2315 "2014-09-11T15:21:31Z")
OTOH, Phatwa and Skinneylips’s other sister, Constantina Phartuccio, joined the Order of St. Bertrille (and became Sister Sally), and served in WW2 as one of the Flying Nun signal corp. She gave the alarm that would have saved Cincinnati, Ohio, if it had actually been under attack. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2014, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2316 "2014-09-11T17:31:30Z")
Sister Sally was the original fishmonger who sold seashells to sea sick sailors and shell shocked soldiers. ---
**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 11, 2014, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2317 "2014-09-11T18:02:14Z")
Several shell shocked soldiers spent summers sailing and sunbathing in Stockholm. And Germans hate alliteration. ---
**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:** [September 11, 2014, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2318 "2014-09-11T18:25:09Z")
Sister Sally shucks seashells and sucks sailors and soldiers by the seashore in Stockholm, the sick slut. ---
**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 11, 2014, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2319 "2014-09-11T18:57:54Z")
Sister Sally was a Soviet Spy sneaking schedules from the SS. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2014, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2320 "2014-09-11T19:37:03Z")
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