# 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:** 258
**Author:** ![Esox\_Lucius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@Esox\_Lucius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esox_Lucius)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2015, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5141 "2015-10-15T02:46:49Z")
Josephine Baker was discovered to be a hermaphrodite at Les Folies Bergere when her costume designer, Le Compte de West Blawnox, Pa., counted one banana too many on the banana skirt he made for her. [I’m both pleased and troubled to have thought like a Cheshire cat.] ---
**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:** [October 15, 2015, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5142 "2015-10-15T13:38:14Z")
Banana skirts were all the rage in 1950’s West Blawnox, PA. However, fruit hats (a la Carmen Miranda) were banned after Daffy Duck du Maurier was peaked to death by BIRDS while wearing one. This inspired her identical twin sister Daphne to write her 1952 story “The Birds”. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2015, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5143 "2015-10-15T14:22:25Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Shakespeare in the Park began as a way for several actors to explain to cops what they were doing in the bushes in Central Park at night wearing tights and drag wigs. That is hysterically funny, and deserves to be made into a real movie. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2015, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5144 "2015-10-15T14:51:03Z")
_Shakespeare in the Park_ is Fox’s newest mid-season replacement series, to start sometime in early January, depending on which of its series fails in the ratings. It will star RuPaul and Mel Gibson (CEO of Banana Skirts, LLC). ---
**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:** [October 15, 2015, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5145 "2015-10-15T17:33:25Z")
During the shooting of the pilot for _Shakespeare in the Park_, Mel Gibson was heard shouting “It’s called a KILT, dammit,” and throwing his cell phone at RuPaul, smacking off her wig. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2015, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5146 "2015-10-15T21:11:15Z")
Surprisingly enough, Mel Gibson is a noted Talmudic scholar and has founded three rabbinical schools in Australia. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2015, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5147 "2015-10-15T21:26:21Z")
You know you’re getting close to a rabbinical school in Australia when you notice the kangaroos wearing yarmulkes. ---
**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:** [October 16, 2015, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5148 "2015-10-16T04:31:13Z")
A recent survey by It’s the Australia Polling Co., Mate, So Pick Up the Fecking Phone indicated that Australian kangaroos self-identify as Jewish (64%), Buddhist (32%), Protestant Christian (27%), Wiccan (25%), Jedi (17%), Roman Catholic (9%), atheist (8%), Deist (3%) and Hindu (1%). A company spokesman who asked to remain anonymous said, “Obviously, kangaroos have some problems with percentages.” ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2015, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5149 "2015-10-16T05:11:05Z")
A Jewish kangaroo mother gives birth to her offspring, a Jooey, who crawls into her pouch and remains attached to her long after he has chosen a mate. ---
**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:** [October 16, 2015, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5150 "2015-10-16T05:35:22Z")
The Trans-World Kangaroo Boxing Championship is held every December at the Sydney Opera House. More money is bet each year on this one single event than on all donkey basketball games worldwide _combined_! ---
**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:** [October 16, 2015, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5151 "2015-10-16T16:54:20Z")
Last year’s Trans-World Kangaroo Boxing Championship was won by no other than Joey Frazier. ---
**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:** [October 16, 2015, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5152 "2015-10-16T17:14:52Z")
The Trans-World Kangaroo Boxing Championship was originally called just the World Kangaroo Boxing Championship, but they were sued by the West Kensington Boys Club for trademark infringement and forced to stop using the WKBC acronym. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2015, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5153 "2015-10-16T17:55:35Z")
The Miss Trans World Pageant and The Trans World Kangaroo Boxing Championship were both held in Madison Square Garden in 2015 causing much confusion that led to two rouged kangaroos and a battered Caitlyn Jenner. ---
**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:** [October 16, 2015, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5154 "2015-10-16T19:30:06Z")
Madison Square Garden includes one main auditorium and four smaller halls, as well as a swimming pool, bowling alley, snooker lounge, rifle range, massage parlor, trampoline room and brothel. ---
**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:** [October 16, 2015, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5155 "2015-10-16T19:39:46Z")
The trampoline room at Madison Square Garden used to be part of the brothel and was used for their Bounce 'N Boink Special on Tuesday nights. ---
**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:** [October 16, 2015, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5156 "2015-10-16T19:43:09Z")
The trampoline room at Madison Square Garden is decorated by crayon-and-strawberry-jam murals of lascivious scenes set in historic Pompeii (before the volcano went kablooey, naturally), and done by Orson Bean, Spiro Agnew and Claude Monet. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2015, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5157 "2015-10-17T00:13:06Z")
Kablooey Kardashian is rarely mentioned and never photographed, preferring to stay out of the limelight ever since being surgically removed from Khloe in a 19 hour operation performed by Ben Carson and hosted by Johnny Carson in Carson City, Nevada. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2015, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5158 "2015-10-17T01:18:57Z")
Ben Carson, the current candidate for the Republican Primary of the 2016 Presidential Election, is not known to be related to James Dolan of New York, as checked until five generations back. ---
**Author:** ![Esox\_Lucius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@Esox\_Lucius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esox_Lucius)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2015, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5159 "2015-10-17T03:59:08Z")
[Descendency.com](http://Descendency.com) is the world leader in researching family histories five generations into the future. ---
**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:** [October 17, 2015, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5160 "2015-10-17T17:21:39Z")
[Descendency.com](http://Descendency.com) is co-owned by the real Marty McFly and Dr. Emmett “Doc” Brown, both of whole are devout Orthodox Jewish men who own kangaroos. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=257) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=259)