# Spot the fictional trivia - No Googling! **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [January 28, 2015, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spot-the-fictional-trivia-no-googling/711137 "2015-01-28T19:57:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2015, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spot-the-fictional-trivia-no-googling/711137/41 "2015-02-04T20:02:45Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#): > > Gonna say #2 also; Amazon’s always been an online book retailer, AFAIK. > > That #3 factoid’s pretty damn cool, btw. Even more interestingly, the Bluetooth symbol is a combination of the runes for his initials- a sort of backward-K, and an angular B. And I’m going to say that #4 is the fictional one. ---
**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:** [February 6, 2015, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spot-the-fictional-trivia-no-googling/711137/42 "2015-02-06T00:04:39Z")
Again, it is hard to fool Dopers because of their highly functional bullshit detectors. #4 is the fake. Actually, Kool-Aid was originally called “Fruit Smack”. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2015, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spot-the-fictional-trivia-no-googling/711137/43 "2015-02-10T17:02:08Z")
New Topic: Heisman Trophy Winners 1. Billy Cannon of LSU went to prison for counterfeiting. Since he was a successful orthodontist before his arrest, he served as a dentist in prison, and after his parole, took a full-time job as a dentist at the Lousiana State Penitentiary. 2. Matthew and Gunnar Nelson, who made up the popularh “hair band” Nelson, were the grandsons of Ozzie and Harriet Nelson… but also of Tom Harmon, Heisman winner at the University of Michigan. 3. Nile Kinnick of Iowa became a heroic WW2 naval aviator, and was a runner-up candidate for the Project Mercury astronaut program- he was rejected, ironically, for an old football injury. 4. Glenn “Mr Outside” Davis, stellar Army running back, was quite a ladies man. He dated Elizabeth Taylor and later married B-movie actress Terry Moore, star of _ **Mighty Joe Young** _. In his later years, he married the widow of fellow Heisman winner Alan Ameche. ---
**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2015, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spot-the-fictional-trivia-no-googling/711137/44 "2015-02-10T20:13:18Z")
I’m going to guess #3. If an old football injury had indeed prevented him from joining the Mercury project, I would have expected that he would not have been allowed to even become (or remain) a Navy aviator with such an injury. ---
**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:** [February 13, 2015, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spot-the-fictional-trivia-no-googling/711137/45 "2015-02-13T15:57:25Z")
No idea, so I’ll go with #3 as well. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2015, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spot-the-fictional-trivia-no-googling/711137/46 "2015-02-13T16:06:45Z")
Crud, how am I ever going to get better at making up fake answers??? Yeah yeah, #3 is fake. Nile Kinnick WAS a Navy pilot in WW2, but he crashed and died during a training exercise in 1943, long before there was a Project Mercury. ---
**Author:** ![Cartoonacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/848f3c/32.png) [@Cartoonacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartoonacy)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2015, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spot-the-fictional-trivia-no-googling/711137/47 "2015-02-20T20:05:01Z")
This looks like fun. As befits my screen name, here are four comics-related facts, only three of which are true: 1. Mort Walker, creator of the comic strip _Beetle Bailey_, is the son of Jimmy Walker, mayor of New York City from 1926-32. 2. Cartoonist Martin Nodell created both the Green Lantern and the Pillsbury Doughboy. 3. Actor Martin Landau of _Mission: Impossible_ and _Space:1999_ was a comic strip artist before becoming an actor. 4. Kryptonite was introduced by the writers of the _Superman_ radio series to keep Superman out of action while the actor playing him went on vacation. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2015, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spot-the-fictional-trivia-no-googling/711137/48 "2015-02-20T21:15:50Z")
> [@Cartoonacy](#): > > This looks like fun. As befits my screen name, here are four comics-related facts, only three of which are true: > > 1. Mort Walker, creator of the comic strip _Beetle Bailey_, is the son of Jimmy Walker, mayor of New York City from 1926-32. > > 2. Cartoonist Martin Nodell created both the Green Lantern and the Pillsbury Doughboy. > > 3. Actor Martin Landau of _Mission: Impossible_ and _Space:1999_ was a comic strip artist before becoming an actor. > > 4. Kryptonite was introduced by the writers of the _Superman_ radio series to keep Superman out of action while the actor playing him went on vacation. I’ll vote for #1 as the fake one, because I’m pretty sure Jimmy Walker went into self-imposed exile in Europe after being forced to resign for corruption. ---
**Author:** ![Cartoonacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/848f3c/32.png) [@Cartoonacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartoonacy)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2015, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spot-the-fictional-trivia-no-googling/711137/49 "2015-02-20T21:29:57Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > I’ll vote for #1 as the fake one, because I’m pretty sure Jimmy Walker went into self-imposed exile in Europe after being forced to resign for corruption. Correct – although Mort Walker was born in 1923, before Jimmy Walker was elected. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spot-the-fictional-trivia-no-googling/711137.md?page=2)