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2 unusual facts about bingo


Bingo-Saijō Station

While it was formerly an express train stop, there are currently no express trains operating east of Miyoshi Station.

Bingo, Burkina Faso

Bingo, Boulkiemdé, Burkina Faso – the capital of Bingo Department


Ann Collins

Collins was commissioned to paint more than seventy-five of the leading racehorses of her time, including Citation, commissioned by Nat Herzfeld former President of Tropical Park Race Course, Chrysler II and By Jimminy for Walter P. Chrysler, Dom Bingo for Bing Crosby, Tom Fool for Jock Whitney, and Discovery and Bed o'Roses for Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, Jr.

Bernie Fabiosa

Since retirement Fabiosa has coached the Bingo Pilipino Bingonaryos in the Philippine Basketball League and been involved in the American movie industry.

Bingo DeMoss

Elwood "Bingo" DeMoss (September 5, 1889 – January 26, 1965) was a baseball player and manager in the Negro Leagues from 1905 to 1943.

Bingo Department

Bingo was a location in the American television series The Amazing Race 12 (2007).

Boulkiemdé Province

Boulkiemdé (specifically the department of Bingo) was a location in the American television series The Amazing Race 12 (2007).

Castle Leisure

The Merthyr Tydfil club can be seen in the 2000 film House!, where it doubles as the newly opened (by Keith Chegwin) and fictional Mega Bingo building.

Ciaran Joyce

Other credits include All about us: The Beacons for Channel 4, Digital Vision's Oscar, and Prolific Films' Summer Scars playing 'Bingo'.

Code B

This track is a recording of Lee Hazlewood speaking about his collaboration with Bela B. on Das erste Lied des Tages from the album Bingo.

Comrade Bingo

Richard "Bingo" Little falls in love with the daughter of a left-wing, probably, communist or socialist leader called Charlotte Corday Rowbotham.

Denton Holme

The main street, Denton Street has many small shops along it and other businesses including a bingo hall and a branch of the Cumberland Building Society.

Federico Sandoval II

Sandoval engaged in opposition against illegal gambling, which not only includes clandestine local operations of jueteng, but also government authorized national ventures like jai-alai and On-Line Bingo.

Geibi Line

The Geibi Railway line between Bingo Tōkaichi Station (the current Miyoshi Station) and Bingo Shōbara Station is nationalized and renamed the Shōbara Line.

Gentry Crowell

In 1989, the Secretary of State's office was a target of investigation for Operation Rocky Top, due to staff involvement in a public corruption scandal involving fund-raising irregularities and fraudulent charity bingo operations.

Harvey Lembeck

The Von Zipper character, leader of the Rat Pack motorcycle gang, was a parody of Marlon Brando's role in The Wild One (Von Zipper reveals in Beach Blanket Bingo that one of his idols was "Marlo Brandon".) Among other things, Von Zipper pronounced his judgments on others by saying "Him, I like", or "Him, I do not like".

Mineola, Iowa

The Palisades featured a variety of famous performers, including the Lloyd Hunter Orchestra of North Omaha, Nebraska, and Lawrence Welk, along with movies, bingo, and school programs with a saloon and lunchroom in front.

Monty's Pass

Monty's Pass was the winner of the 2003 Grand National at Aintree, Liverpool, when ridden by Barry Geraghty, trained by Jimmy Mangan and running in the colours of the Dee Racing Syndicate, a group of owners based in Donaghadee, Northern Ireland, and led by Blackpool born bingo hall owner Mike Futter.

National game

National Bingo Game: (UK): A bingo game using preselcted numbers played in bingo halls in the UK, run by the National Bingo Game Association.

Never Is Forever

On the CD-version there are three hidden tracks in the end of the final track: Bingo singing Staten och kapitalet, a 70's radical left-wing progressive rock tune by Blå Tåget made into a national hit song in Sweden in 1980 by punk rock band Ebba Grön, Evel Knievel performing a poem named Why? and John Culliton Mahoney performing his song The Ballad of Evel Knievel.

:*12:04-16:58 – Bengt “Bingo” Calmeyer sings Staten och Kapitalet, a cover of Blå Tåget (made famous by Ebba Grön).

Parchester Village, Richmond, California

This is of note due to the fact that the Point Molate project has consistently failed at being approved while the Casino San Pablo has never been able to approve games of chance not based on bingo.

Parlay

Parlay Entertainment, Canadian-based developer of online bingo software

Paul Bäumer

For the late member of electronic music group Bingo Players, see Bingo Players

Play DJ

Greg Scott - Current Playmonday and Big Box Bingo presenter and former presenter of Quizmania, price-drop tv, and iBuy

Ralph Lawler

The "Bingo" term derives from one-time Clipper player and Cleveland Cavalier great Bobby "Bingo" Smith, known during his playing career for his outstanding shooting and scoring.

Ray Mutimer

Working for Marvel UK from 1992 to 1994, on Rupert and friends and Rupert Learn and Play – weekly children’s picture strip magazines, Ray illustrated four page picture stories and activity pages called Bingo’s Workshop.

Steve Miller Band discography

The band's studio releases became more infrequent at this point, with the biggest gap in albums being between 1993's Wide River and 2010's Bingo!.

The Bingo Club

Starring Paula Wilcox and John McArdle, The Bingo Tales relates the story of three women facing romantic hardship and growing old.

The Malibu Beach Vampires

The opening theme, "Beach Blanket Bingo", first appeared in the 1965 movie, Beach Blanket Bingo.

The Rez Sisters

The Rez Sisters features an ensemble cast of seven women dreaming of winning, and working toward raising enough money to attend, "The Biggest Bingo in the World," and one male actor/dancer in the role of Nanabush (originally played by the playwright's brother René Highway).

Trump Card

The show was filmed at the Trump Castle (now known as "Golden Nugget Atlantic City") casino hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and based on the British game show Bob's Full House, which consisted of contestants trying to answer questions to fill up a 15-square bingo board.


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