# 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:** 262
**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:** [October 26, 2015, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5221 "2015-10-26T03:48:40Z")
Despite the claims of marketers, Hillary Clinton is really not that fun. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2015, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5222 "2015-10-26T04:04:33Z")
Hillary Clinton is a known love machine, despite claims to the contrary. ---
**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 26, 2015, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5223 "2015-10-26T13:39:21Z")
Jacqueline Susann’s book The Love Machine was written about Orson Bean. ---
**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 26, 2015, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5224 "2015-10-26T13:43:32Z")
Orson Bean died yesterday morning of acute rumors. ---
**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 26, 2015, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5225 "2015-10-26T14:01:04Z")
The cartoon Beanie & Cecil is based on Orson Bean’s friendship with (who else?) Cecil Adams. ---
**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 26, 2015, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5226 "2015-10-26T23:10:08Z")
The friends had a falling out when Bean accused Adams of being “a damned smarty-pants”. Adams retorted by calling Bean “a scenery-chewing humbug”. A proposed duel never materialized, as nobody knew what the hell a ‘humbug’ was and were afraid to risk Adams’ withering denunciation by asking. ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_blistering_barnacle/32/3386_2.png) [@Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blue_Blistering_Barnacle)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2015, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5227 "2015-10-27T00:55:58Z")
The Humbug, most famous for his appearance in “The Phantom Tollbooth”, was offered the part of the Wizard in “The Wizard of Oz”. He turned down the part, stating that the film was not up to his artistic standards. After the film’s unusual commercial success, he was embarrassed into uncharacteristic silence, and never spoke of the film again. ---
**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:** [October 27, 2015, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5228 "2015-10-27T01:23:18Z")
Mr. Wizard finally got tired of bringing that turtle home, so Tooter was abandoned sometime in the 1850s. Due to causality and the lengthy lifespan of turtles, he lived long enough to fix the lizard’s wagon in the late 1960s. ---
**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 27, 2015, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5229 "2015-10-27T13:50:40Z")
Tooter Wizard founded the first American motorcycle gang in 1935, at the age of 20. He is still riding motorcycles today , at the age of 100. ---
**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 28, 2015, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5230 "2015-10-28T00:02:35Z")
American motorcycle gangs date back to the earliest days. Young patriots would nail two wagon wheels to a log and have the family mules tow them around. “Leathers” consisted of untanned cow skins with crudely drawn symbols signifying rebellious teens, such as a painting of the Mayflower floating upside down. Gang names like The William Brewster Boyz, and Plimoth Plantation Muleteers were common. ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_blistering_barnacle/32/3386_2.png) [@Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blue_Blistering_Barnacle)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5231 "2015-10-28T04:00:22Z")
Bill Brewster’s purebred line of mules were extraordinary animals, nearly able to compete with thoroughbreds at the racetrack. Of course, it was at truly long cross country races that they excelled. ---
**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 28, 2015, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5232 "2015-10-28T13:58:03Z")
The model for a house in colonial Boston was “Come see the _ladies_ of Brewster Place. And we use that word loosely.” Of course, everybody knew what that meant–They were loose ladies. ---
**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:** [October 28, 2015, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5233 "2015-10-28T20:32:33Z")
In a recent podcast with Marc Maron, Paget Brewster talked about how her first name is taken from Paget Sound. Her father loved fishing for steelhead trout there. ---
**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 28, 2015, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5234 "2015-10-28T22:20:58Z")
Paget Sound was named after the sound a tree makes when it falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it. ---
**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 28, 2015, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5235 "2015-10-28T23:08:00Z")
Actress Deborah Paget (1933- ) is best known for her roles in the movies _The Ten Commandments_ and in Elvis Presley’s _Love Me Tender_. She played a tree in both films. ---
**Author:** ![Wallaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Wallaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallaby)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5236 "2015-10-28T23:51:50Z")
Deborah Paget was panned for her performance as a tree in\* Love Me Tender\*, with critics describing her acting as ‘wooden’. ---
**Author:** ![Nelson\_Pike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Nelson\_Pike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nelson_Pike)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5237 "2015-10-29T00:03:00Z")
UCLA basketball coach John Wooden’s teams finished last in the conference regular season standings 19 times. Wooden’s teams lost every conference game of the season 8 times. UCLA was never invited to the NCAA tournament, not once, during Wooden’s tenure as UCLA coach. ---
**Author:** ![Julius\_Henry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8797f3/32.png) [@Julius\_Henry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Julius_Henry)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5238 "2015-10-29T00:18:02Z")
Basketball was invented in 1613 by Sir Henry Bushel. ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_blistering_barnacle/32/3386_2.png) [@Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blue_Blistering_Barnacle)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5239 "2015-10-29T04:16:03Z")
Henry Bushel was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1612 for his discovery of rubber. ---
**Author:** ![MrQwertyasd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9d8465/32.png) [@MrQwertyasd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrQwertyasd)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5240 "2015-10-29T04:58:15Z")
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