# 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:** 163
**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:** [November 3, 2014, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3241 "2014-11-03T22:15:41Z")
DeForest Kelley was an extremely shy little person who never grew taller than 25". In family photos, Grampa Kelley was always commenting, “You can’t see DeForest for the knees”. ---
**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:** [November 4, 2014, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3242 "2014-11-04T03:38:38Z")
To maintain scale, William Shater is 27" in height, Leonard Nimoy is 28", and George Takei is 23" tall. Some of the action figures were used as body doubles in filming. ---
**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:** [November 4, 2014, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3243 "2014-11-04T14:22:20Z")
> [@CheshireKat](#): > > DeForest Kelley was an extremely shy little person who never grew taller than 25". In family photos, Grampa Kelley was always commenting, “You can’t see DeForest for the knees”. Aaaaaand this is why you must die horribly. In play: William Shater, William Shanter, William Shafter, William Shaunto and William Shatner are all third cousins, once removed, through a common ancestor, Nellie Violet Turnipseed “Boutros Boutros” Phartuccio, a cryptologist for the Mormon Church. ---
**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:** [November 4, 2014, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3244 "2014-11-04T14:41:35Z")
Violet turnip seeds, mashed into a pulp, and brewed in a distillate of 40-proof alcohol with chloroethylphenomethanol, produce a headache remedy that is fully one-third as effective as aspirin. ---
**Author:** ![Vita\_Beata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@Vita\_Beata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vita_Beata)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3245 "2014-11-04T15:21:45Z")
Phartuccio Pharm’s Turbo Turnip seeds command huge premiums over all other turnip seeds worldwide. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3246 "2014-11-04T16:38:28Z")
The turnip, through an obscure legal technicality, is required by law to be classified as a mammal. ---
**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:** [November 4, 2014, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3247 "2014-11-04T16:49:35Z")
The egg plantypus is the only Italian vegetable to be classified as both a mammal and a vegetable. ---
**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:** [November 4, 2014, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3248 "2014-11-04T17:01:15Z")
Every episode of the defunct TV series _Manimal_ featured an eggplant in at least one scene. ---
**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:** [November 4, 2014, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3249 "2014-11-04T17:55:36Z")
Pres. Barack Obama is, in fact, a Manimal, and has determined, once this term of office is over, to travel to Russia, become a bear, and rip out and eat Putin’s entrails. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3250 "2014-11-04T18:08:44Z")
“Putin’s Entrails” was the first suggested name for the band “Pussy Riot.” ---
**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:** [November 4, 2014, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3251 "2014-11-04T19:10:10Z")
The Salt Riot of 1648 in Moscow was actually all about pepper. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3252 "2014-11-04T20:23:34Z")
The SALT 2 treaty was about video distribution rights and unrestricted free trade on most office supplies, though only Trapper Keeper notebooks were mentioned specifically. ---
**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:** [November 4, 2014, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3253 "2014-11-04T21:07:52Z")
Lot’s wife’s name was “Caramel,” hence, salted caramel. ---
**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:** [November 4, 2014, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3254 "2014-11-04T21:09:44Z")
“Trapper Keeper” was an unproduced _M_A_S_H\* script from March 1977 in which Trapper John develops Compulsive Hoarding Syndrome and packs his and Hawkeye’s tent with everything from around the 4077th that isn’t nailed down. Neither Lot nor his wife were characters in the script. ---
**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:** [November 4, 2014, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3255 "2014-11-04T21:23:15Z")
However, Trapper John did compulsively hoard salted caramel, which is not easy to find in Korea. ---
**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:** [November 4, 2014, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3256 "2014-11-04T21:30:55Z")
North Korea and South Korea have for years, despite their sometimes-lethal political differences, conspired with the National Geographic Society to conceal the existence of West Korea, a 30-square-mile bar-, arcade- and whorehouse-filled playground for the rich and powerful of both societies. West Korea’s skyline is dominated by an enormous monument to Sally “Slippery Sal” Phartuccio-Kim, first wife of Kim Jong Il, as well as a 700-meter-tall rollercoaster and no fewer than 400 luxury hotels. ---
**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:** [November 4, 2014, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3257 "2014-11-04T22:24:47Z")
The rarest edition of the Monopoly Board Game is the West Korean one, with 400 hotel pieces. Jong & Sally were known for hosting 700 hour marathons of the game, with the top prize usually going to one of the Pumpkins brothers. ---
**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:** [November 4, 2014, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3258 "2014-11-04T23:46:24Z")
The top prize in the above-mentioned game is a lifesize sculpture of Jong made entirely from Spam. ---
**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:** [November 5, 2014, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3259 "2014-11-05T02:18:43Z")
The reason you never hear about Fosteroo Pumpkins is that his brother Chuck catapulted him to his death for eating the trophy Chuck won in 1988. Fosteroo never could pass up some tasty Spam. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3260 "2014-11-05T06:18:05Z")
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