True Or False pharmacology

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TRUE

'All My Children's' Susan Lucci was nominated for daytime Emmy awards 18 times before she finally won one in 1999.

TRUE

'All Quiet On The Western Front' was the first war movie with sound.

FALSE

'Call Me Ishmael' is the first line of the book 'Tom Sawyer'.

FALSE

'Jennifer' was the name of the theme tune to the television programme 'Top Gear'.

TRUE

'Jumping Frenchmen of Maine' was a disorder which affected 19th century lumberjacks.

FALSE

'Lullaby Of Broadway' was a song from the movie 'State Fair'.

TRUE

'Maw sit sit' is the name of a green semi-precious gemstone.

TRUE

'Phonation' is the vibration of the vocal chords in the larynx that makes the sound of our voice.

FALSE

'Puppy Love' was a hit song for Bobby Vee.

TRUE

'Star Trek' has been shown in scores of countries since its debut. True or False - Russia created their own communist version of the 'Star Trek' TV show.

TRUE

'The Buck Stops Here' was the saying on the sign on President Truman's desk.

TRUE

'The Texas' chased 'The General' in the Great Locomotive Chase in the Civil War.

TRUE

'The William Tell Overture' was the theme song for 'The Lone Ranger'.

TRUE

'The _____ Two' (1967). 'The _____ Seven' (1960). 'The _____ Showman' (1964). The missing word to all of these movies is 'Magnificent'.

TRUE

A chameleon can move both of its eyes in two directions at once.

FALSE

A standard guitar has 5 strings.

TRUE

A tine is the prong of a fork?

TRUE

A topless woman can be spotted in Disney's "The Rescuers".

FALSE

A pen with a finely-crafted white star was created for Hitler, by a Jewish person, so that he would always carry the Star of David.

TRUE

A pentadecagon is a 2-D shape with 15 sides.

TRUE

A rat can last longer without water than a camel.

TRUE

Herbert Hoover was a member of Stanford's first graduating class?

TRUE

Highways and Byways: Interstate 64 provides a direct connection between Frankfort, Kentucky and Richmond, Virginia.

TRUE

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.

TRUE

I am sure we have all tried to tell a joke and ruined it by leaving something out the opening relation of the joke. Is the following old classic joke complete to have its punch line added to it? " A young child was away from school and on his return the teacher asked him to explain his absence. The child apologized and said he was away because "My dad got burnt yesterday". The teacher replied "Oh, I am sorry, was it serious?". Am I correct to say that if I add the punch line to this joke it will be complete?(true or false)

FALSE

I hear a lot of interesting animal 'facts'. One is that dogs can only see in black and white. Is that true or false?

TRUE

I love the US Presidents. Is it True or False that at least four pairs of them have been related?

TRUE

I shall return. The famous quote by General Douglas MacArthur who was commander of American forces in the Philippines during World War Two. Did you know that General Douglas MacArthur was preceded as commander of American forces in the Philippines by his own father, General Arthur MacArthur?

FALSE

I've heard many times that the Great Wall of China is the only man-made object that can be seen from space. Now I guess you have to define what space is, but according to astronauts who observed the earth from shuttles, is this claim true or false?

TRUE

Ian Fleming wrote 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'.

FALSE

Icebergs are composed of frozen sea water.

FALSE

Iceland became independent of Norway in 1944.

FALSE

Identical twins have the same fingerprints.

TRUE

If Ben Franklin would have had his way, the National Bird of America would not be a bald eagle, but rather a turkey.

FALSE

If I am looking at a parliament of animals, I am looking at a group of peacocks?

TRUE

If a cockroach's head has been cut off, it can still live for around a week.

TRUE

If a month starts on a Sunday it will contain Friday the 13th.

TRUE

If the 4.6 billion years of Earth's existence were only a single day, the 40,000 years of human existence would cover the last 3/4 second.

TRUE

If you are allergic to live animals, don't worry. You can adopt a mummy animal from Egypt's Cairo Museum.

TRUE

If you chased a bear a mile to the south, a mile to the west and a mile north back to where you started out, the only place this could happen is at the north pole.

FALSE

If you could dig a hole in the United States through the center of the Earth, you would end up in China.

TRUE

If you could fold a piece of paper in half 42 times it would be tall enough to reach the moon.

FALSE

If you drop a penny from the Empire State Building, it will kill anyone it hits on landing.

TRUE

If you find a defective state quarter, you could get a large prize from the U.S. mint.

FALSE

If you mix Jack Daniels and Jim Beam together you are making a gin and tonic.

TRUE

If you multiply 111,111,111 by itself, the answer is 12,345,678,987,654,321.

FALSE

If you sneeze when suddenly exposed to intensely bright light, you have photosynthesis.

FALSE

If you swallow chewing gum, it doesn't pass through the digestive system for seven years.

TRUE

In "The World Is Not Enough", Renard has been spotted in Cambodia.

TRUE

In 'Gulliver's Travels', Jonathan Swift described the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of rotation.

FALSE

In 'Romeo and Juliet', Tybalt kills Benvolio.

TRUE

In 1543, Andreas Vesalius, a professor of anatomy and surgery, was considered to be the first person to study the human body in detail.

FALSE

In 1775, Davey Crockett blazed the Wilderness Trail travelled by pioneers across the Appalachians of North Carolina through the Kentucky mountains.

FALSE

In 1870 The Cincinnati Red Stockings won 140 games in a row.

FALSE

In 1936, Ray Brennan was the last person to be publicly executed in the United States.

FALSE

In 1975 another judge was proved to have been caught speeding down Middle Temple Lane (in London EC4) in an ambulance.

TRUE

In December 2001 a Crown Court judge had to abandon a four day rape trial. This was because he was told that he dozed off twice during the defence barrister's closing speech.

TRUE

Actor Maurice LaMarche was the voice of Chief Quimby on the TV cartoon "Inspector Gadget".

TRUE

Actors who contributed their voices to the animated movie of 'Madagascar' (2005) include Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer and Sacha Baron Cohen.

FALSE

Actress Cindy Williams wrote an article against military pay raises.

TRUE

Airports: Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport is named for two former mayors of Atlanta.

FALSE

Airports: McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas is named in honor of a US Air Force fighter pilot killed in action during the Korean War.

FALSE

Al Capone was arrested by the FBI for illegal alcohol sales?

FALSE

Alan See is the real name of Alan Young, who played Wilbur Post on the "Mr Ed" tv series?

TRUE

Alaska is obviously the furthest North of the United States. But it is also the furthest East and the furthest West.

FALSE

Albuquerque, New Mexico, founded in 1607, is the oldest continuously occupied US state capital

TRUE

Alexander the Great suffered from symptoms that today would most likely be considered epilepsy.

TRUE

Alfred was Bruce Wayne's butler on the T.V. series 'Batman'.

TRUE

Ali Landry is better known as the Doritos Girl.

FALSE

Ali McGraw, Marlee Matlin, Liv Ulman, Bette Midler: None of the above won an Academy Award for Best Actress in a movie made in the 20th century.

FALSE

All Zebras are white with black stripes.

TRUE

All of the following schools have under 4,000 undergraduate students (Haverford, Cooper Union, Williams, Vassar, and Brandeis).

TRUE

All of the following words are spelt correctly: adamant, bobsleigh, cliffhanger, jackpot, joystick and mayhem.

FALSE

All species of spiders don't get caught in their own webs because their legs have a special 'non-stick' fluid on them.

TRUE

All the answers 1 to 9 all true?

FALSE

All the bones in the human body connect to one another.

FALSE

All turkeys gobble.

TRUE

Almonds are part of the peach family.

FALSE

Alphonse is the first name of actor Al Pacino.

TRUE

An elephant can smell water up to 3 miles away.

FALSE

Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII, was beheaded on charges of witchcraft.

TRUE

Another U.S. president question. Is it true that George H.W. Bush threw up during a state dinner in Tokyo into the lap of Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa?

TRUE

Anthony Quinn said, "Many a husband kisses with his eyes wide open. He wants to make sure his wife is not around to catch him".

FALSE

Apollo 12 was the first manned landing in Mare Tranquillitatis.

FALSE

Archie Bunker's favorite hang out was Jerry's bar.

TRUE

Australia's capital in 1901 was situated in Melbourne.

FALSE

Because he was already financially secure, Mike Nesmith was the first member of 'The Monkees' to quit the band.

TRUE

Before They Were Stars: Before starring on the UPN sitcom "Girlfriends", Jill Marie Jones was a cheerleader for the Dallas Cowboys.

TRUE

Before becoming Governor of Texas, George W. Bush was co-owner of a professional baseball team.

TRUE

Before his conquest of England in 1066, William the Conqueror was once known as William the Bastard.

FALSE

Before his death in 1890, Lakota chief Sitting Bull admitted that three soldiers of Custer's Last Stand had survived and been taken prisoner by the Lakota and killed weeks later.

TRUE

Before it was completed, one of the faces on Mount Rushmore was completely blasted away and relocated.

FALSE

Before the book 'Peter Pan', the name Wendy had never been used.

FALSE

Bellhaven, McEwans, Farne Island, Deuchars: All of the above are Scottish beers.

TRUE

Bob Hope said, "I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom".

TRUE

Bob Hope was attributed with this remark in 1965, "They are doing things on the screen now that I wouldn't do in bed, if I could."

TRUE

Bob Keeshan (Captain Kangaroo) also played Clarabelle on "The Howdy Doody Show".

TRUE

Both the phrases of 'Only a Brit' and 'Brainy Lot' are anagrams of Britain's former prime minister, Tony Blair.

FALSE

Brother and sister duo Karen and Richard Carpenter often used the pseudonyms of Carol Singer and Joe King to sign the register at a hotel.

FALSE

Bruce Lee was so slow while going through his moves that they had to speed up one of his movies to make it look real.

FALSE

Bulls will only charge at the color red.

FALSE

Business and Industry: TriStar Pictures was originally a joint motion-picture company created by Columbia Pictures, HBO and NBC.

TRUE

Canada is the second largest country in terms of size/area.

FALSE

Candytuft is a kind of sugared sweet?

TRUE

Captain Kirk slept on Deck 5 in the T.V. series 'Star Trek'.

FALSE

Carbon monoxide in the atmosphere is allegedly the cause of global warming and the so-called "greenhouse effect". Is this statement true or false?

FALSE

Death Becomes Them: Hall of Fame stock car driver Benny Parsons died of injuries sustained in an automobile accident on January 16, 2007.

FALSE

Deaths In The News, 2006: Singer Gerald Levert, who died on November 10, was cut down by a heart attack, at the age of 40.

TRUE

Elizabeth June Thornborg was an actress in the movie "Annie Get Your Gun".

FALSE

Elton John has used the pseudonyms of PS Burton, Kenneth Miles and H Lewis Allways.

TRUE

Elvis Presley had a karate black-belt.

TRUE

Emily Dickinson wrote more than 1,000 poems, but less than 10 were published during her lifetime.

TRUE

FBI means Federal Bureau of Investigation?

FALSE

George Jefferson was the President of the Confederate States during the Civil War.

TRUE

George W. Bush declared June 10 to be 'Jesus Day'.

FALSE

George Washington is noted for having almost perfect teeth.

TRUE

Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.

FALSE

Guatemala is located in South Africa.

FALSE

Guinness is considered an aphrodisiac in Ireland, and is marketed under the slogan "a baby in every bottle."

TRUE

Henry Ford's profit on his Model T Ford was only about $2.00.

FALSE

Is it true that there is a breed of bird in the Himalayan mountains that gives birth for the purpose of having the chicks available as a food supply in case of an especially harsh winter?

TRUE

Is it true that when one Patrick Morrissey was executed in 1872, the executioner was a future President of the United States?

TRUE

Isaac Newton was an Anglican deacon.

FALSE

Is it true that before his death in 1937, aviator Pete Beck survived 3 separate plane crashes as well as a 2500 ft. fall when his parachute failed to open?

FALSE

Is it true that dentures were invented for horses in 1987?

FALSE

Is it true that during his administration, former president George Bush presided over some of the most brilliant technical advances of all time, but he was amazed at his first encounter with a common supermarket price scanner?

TRUE

Is it true that except for some early, very crude attempts, Walt Disney never did any animation?

FALSE

Is it true that in 1969 Jack Rothenhoefer sawed off his own leg with a power saw to avoid being drafted into the Vietnam war?

FALSE

Is it true that in Cincinnati Ohio in 1924, upon losing a large poker jackpot, Alan Hilliard got so angry that he shot and killed the other 4 players as well as 3 spectators and burned down the building in which they were playing?

TRUE

Is it true that in one of Sydney's poorer working class suburbs of the 1960s, a statue was erected to honour the prostitutes of that area?

TRUE

Is it true that it is estimated that the number of possible positions in a game of chess far exceeds the number of seconds that have elapsed since the creation of our solar system?

FALSE

Is it true that the editorial staff of New York's "The World" newspaper described the new Statue of Liberty in 1886 as a beacon of piercing light illuminating the entire country?

TRUE

Is it true that the first person to survive plunging over Niagara Falls in a barrel was a 63 year old woman?

FALSE

Is it true that the salmonberry was so named because its taste has a slight similarity to that worthy fish?

TRUE

Is it true that the term "printer's devil" meant any young apprentice in the printing trade?

FALSE

It is impossible to get a McDonald's Happy Meal in New Delhi, India.

FALSE

It is tradition that all countries tip their flags to honor the host nation during the opening ceremonies of the Olympics.

TRUE

It isn't not untrue that the truth value of the statement "It isn't not untrue that it isn't not false that 2 plus 2 isn't not unequal to 5" doesn't not avoid failing to be false.

FALSE

It takes more than an hour to completely soft-boil an ostrich egg.

FALSE

It took Leonardo da Vinci ten days to paint Mona Lisa's lips.

TRUE

It was Al Capp, the creator of "Li'l Abner" of the funny papers, who said, "Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered."

TRUE

It was American-born Harry Gordon Selfridge who popularised the phrase 'The customer is always right'.

TRUE

It was Ken Dodd (UK comedian) who came up with the quotation: "Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother."

FALSE

It was Mark Twain who once said, "Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same."

FALSE

It was comedian Billy Connolly who originated the quotation: "Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia".

FALSE

It was comedian, Billy Connolly, who said to a Scottish driving instructor, "How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?"

TRUE

It was former British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Denis Healey, who said, "The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall".

FALSE

Jackie Robinson played for the Boston Braves.

FALSE

Jacque Nasser was once replaced as head of General Motors.

TRUE

James Arness (Matt Dillon) served in the U.S. Army in World War Two?

TRUE

James Earl Jones, who has one of the most recognizable and 'beautiful' voices, stuttered severely as a child and seldom spoke in public for fear of being ridiculed.

TRUE

James T. Kirk, Kathryn Janeway, Jean-Luc Picard, Jonathan Archer: All of the above were ships' captains on "Star Trek".

TRUE

Japan has a larger land area than Florida.

FALSE

Jason Block won $1,000,000 on the American version of 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire'.

FALSE

Late-Night TV: The long-running ABC News program "Nightline" started off as a nightly wrap-up show about the American energy crisis during the 1970s.

FALSE

Later in life, Benjamin Franklin kept a tamed bear as a pet. Everyone called the bear Gentle Ben.

FALSE

Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart made six movies together. True or False?

FALSE

Man in Space: Moonwalker John Young was the only Apollo astronaut to command at least one space shuttle mission.

TRUE

Many have heard of the legend of Johnny Appleseed, but did you know that he was a real person by the name of John Chapman?

TRUE

Many insects have odd mating habits. True or false - one variety of mite doesn't look for a mate - she creates her own.

TRUE

March 14 is "Save a Spider Day."

FALSE

Marco Polo discovered pasta in China and brought it back to Italy.

TRUE

Mark Twain invented and patented the bra strap clasp.

FALSE

Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" was the first published novel ever written on a typewriter.

FALSE

Mark Twain's real name was Samuel Clementine.

FALSE

Marshall Matt Dillon's office was located on Main street in Dodge City.

FALSE

Martianology is the observation and study of the planet Mars.

FALSE

Mary Shelley's married name was actually Wollstonecraft?

FALSE

Mat, pot, squop and squidger are terms used in wrestling.

TRUE

Mitsubishi makes television sets.

FALSE

Momentum is velocity multiplied by force.

TRUE

More men stutter than women.

FALSE

More than 1.5 million people die each year from malaria.

FALSE

Moroccan leather comes from Morocco.

FALSE

NATO is an acronym for 'North American Treaty Organization'.

FALSE

NATO: The North Atlantic Treaty, under which NATO was formed, was signed at Brussels, Belgium, on April 4, 1949.

TRUE

NFL Europe League: A field goal attempted from 50 yards or beyond is worth four points.

FALSE

Name Game: The "J.D." in "J.D. Power", the man whose name is associated with customer satisfaction awards, stands for Joseph Donovan.

TRUE

Pasta originated in Asia and was brought to Italy from China by Marco Polo.

FALSE

Paul Newman dropped out of high school.

FALSE

Paul Reiser directed the final episode of the 'Mad About You' television series.

TRUE

Paula Radcliffe won the 2003 Flora London Marathon in a world record time of 2 hours,15 minutes and 25 seconds. At the 10 kilometre point in the race her time was 32 minutes and 1 second. Is her time for this first 10 kilometres (6.2 miles) correctly stated by me?

TRUE

Pearls melt in vinegar.

FALSE

Pennsylvania was the first state to be admitted to the original 13.

FALSE

Penny stocks sometimes trade over $5.

TRUE

People who are born deaf have their own culture and share a special language. When referring to being deaf, they use the spelling of deaf with a capital D, as in Deaf, not deaf.

TRUE

People: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's birth name was Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr.

TRUE

Peru State College is located in Nebraska.

FALSE

Peter Finch was the first actor to be nominated for an Oscar posthumously?

FALSE

Peugeot, Renault, Seat, Citroen: All of the above are French car manufacturers.

TRUE

Phil 'The Power' Taylor was the first darts player to make more than £1,000,000 in prize money at darts.

TRUE

Scientists and Inventors: Garrett A. Morgan, one of the pioneers of the modern traffic signal, has been credited with inventing the first human-hair straightener.

FALSE

Singer Rod Stewart was born on 10 January, 1945, in Edinburgh, Scotland.

TRUE

Singer/songwriter Paul Anka wrote the song 'She's a Lady', which was a hit for Tom Jones, and the lyrics for 'My Way', which was closely associated with Frank Sinatra.

TRUE

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle named his most famous creation, Sherlock Holmes, for American Oliver Wendell Holmes and Alfred Sherlock, a prominent violinist of the day.

TRUE

Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, who founded the city of Singapore, also has the largest flower in the world named after him.

TRUE

Sir Walter Raleigh House features in the comedy 'Rock and Chips' with Nicholas Lyndhurst.

FALSE

Sissy Spacek played the character of Carrie Brown in the horror movie 'Carrie' (1976).

FALSE

Smoking can make your nipples fall off.

FALSE

Snow White was Walt Disney's favorite animated heroine?

TRUE

Socrates taught Plato.

TRUE

Sport: The Dutch National football team has never won the World Championship before 2006.

TRUE

Sports: The Pittsburgh Steelers' original name was the Pittsburgh Pirates.

TRUE

Squirrels perform an important function in our ecological system of the world's forest regeneration.

FALSE

Stalactites come up from the ground.

FALSE

State Flags: The California state flag was originally intended to have a pear on it.

TRUE

Status Quo have appeared more times on 'Top of the Pops' than any other group.

FALSE

Steve Burns, host of "Blue's Clues", died of a heroin overdose.

FALSE

Stonehenge, the ancient stone monument on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England was built by Druids.

TRUE

Strawberries have more Vitamin C than oranges.

TRUE

Students who enter the United States Air Force Academy make a commitment to the Air Force of at least 9 years.

FALSE

Studies have shown that the main reason people lie is for their own amusement.

FALSE

Stutterers, on an average, are more intelligent, have a larger vocabulary, and learn foreign languages quicker than the general population.

TRUE

Stuttering and stammering are, essentially, the same thing.

TRUE

Sulphuric acid is another name for vitriol?

FALSE

Swallowed chewing gum takes seven years to digest.

FALSE

Switzerland and Luxembourg are the only two countries in Europe which use the Swiss franc as their unit of currency.

TRUE

Sylvester Stallone has been nominated for both an Academy Award for 'Best Actor' and a Razzie Award for 'Worst Actor' for playing the same role.

TRUE

Tapping your fingernails makes your nails grow faster.

FALSE

Teddy Roosevelt led the Rough Riders on the charge up San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War.

TRUE

Television: Billy Crystal's earliest prominent role on television was as a gay character. (A soapy part)

FALSE

Tellus was the first U.S. communications satellite.

TRUE

The 1967 Superbowl was actually part of the 1966 season.

TRUE

The 1970s television programme, 'Catweazle', included the phrases, 'electrickery', the 'telling bone' and the 'sun in a bottle'.

TRUE

The 1988 Winter Olympics were held in Calgary, Canada.

FALSE

The 2nd amendment of the U.S. constitution gives Americans the "right to assemble".

FALSE

The Cabinet: The Department of Transportation was created by an act of Congress during the Carter Administration.

FALSE

The Canary Islands were formerly known as the 'Unfortunate Islands'.

FALSE

The Cape of Good Hope is the southern most tip of South Africa?

TRUE

The Chinese phrase for "Quiz" is 'mi yu'.

FALSE

The chemical symbol for Potassium is "P"

TRUE

The city Alexandria was named after Alexander the Great?

FALSE

The city of Washington D.C. was designed in a Virginia bar-room. Wherever a mug was placed on the map, a "circle" was designed into the crossing avenues.

FALSE

The clock in the Clock Tower (London Tower) is named Big Ben?

TRUE

The collective noun for a group of barracuda is "battery".

FALSE

The contrabassoon is a percussion instrument.

TRUE

The country Cameroon borders the Republic of the Congo?

FALSE

The country of Israel was created on 12th March, 1948. Is this statement true or false?

TRUE

The first black player of Major League Baseball after the segregation of the leagues was Jackie Robinson.

TRUE

The first elevator was erected in 1743 in the Palace of Versailles.

FALSE

The first toothpaste that was put into the collapsible tube was called Dr. Colgate's Tooth Cleaner.

FALSE

The first true bristled toothbrush originated in Ireland at around 1600 AD.

TRUE

The first warship sunk by a submarine was during the American Civil War, when the Confederate sub 'Hunley' sunk the USS 'Housatonic'.

TRUE

The following books are in the Old Testament of the Bible: Genesis, Exodus, Numbers and Leviticus.

TRUE

The founder of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London was Sir Henry Cole, who achieved fame with Christmas cards.

TRUE

The infinity sign is called a 'lemniscate'.

FALSE

The interstate highway system in the US requires that one mile in every five be straight. These sections can be used as airstrips in time of war or other emergencies.

TRUE

The language with the most native speakers in the world is Chinese.

TRUE

The macaroni penguin of Antarctica gets its name from the old American Revolutionary war song 'Yankee Doodle'.

FALSE

The machine used to measure blood pressure is called a Strigmomanometer.

TRUE

The main character in 'Great Expectations' is Pip.

TRUE

The manual for Internal Revenue Service employees includes provisions for collecting taxes after a nuclear war.

TRUE

The phrase 'the blind leading the blind' comes from the Bible.

FALSE

The planet Pluto was discovered in 1928.

TRUE

The poet, Shel Silverstein, also wrote the song 'A Boy Named Sue,' recorded by Johnny Cash. True or False?

FALSE

The prefix 'giga' means a million?

FALSE

The primary center for testing rocket propulsion systems and all space shuttle engines for proven flight merit is located in Huntsville, Alabama.

FALSE

The primary colors of pigment (sometimes called the subtractive primary colors) are red, yellow, and blue.

FALSE

The voice of Donald Duck is provided by Jim Johnson.

FALSE

There are only three words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, and stupendous.

FALSE

There are quite a few rumours about Walt Disney. Is it true or false that his body is frozen in a cryonic chamber, awaiting the future technology to awaken him?

FALSE

There are six Sutter brothers of the NHL. Rich and Brian are the twins.

TRUE

There are three golf balls on the moon.

TRUE

There are two facts in this final question, and both have the same answer. 1. Most people cannot lick their elbow or stick their elbow in their ear. 2. Most of you who read this question will try to lick your elbow or stick it in your ear!

TRUE

There are two main types of balls in the sport of Lawn Bowls: the "bowl" and the "jack".

TRUE

There exist three directions such that, by moving in those three directions, it is possible to go anywhere on a two-dimensional surface.

FALSE

There is NOT a Dr. Pepper bottling plant in Plano, Texas.

FALSE

There is a specially designed, cup-like device attached to NASCAR drivers during a race for the purpose to relieve themselves when nature's urge hits.

TRUE

There is a town named Mars in Pennsylvania.

TRUE

There is actually a painting called "Red Square", consisting of a plain red square.

TRUE

There is an 'upside down house' in Magaluf, Majorca, called the House of Katmandu.

TRUE

There is an island called Bikini Atoll where the U.S. tested nuclear bombs.

FALSE

There is only one coin denomination in Vietnamese dongs.

TRUE

There is such a country known as Benin.

TRUE

There were lots of stories circulating in late 2012 and early 2013 about horse meat being substituted for beef (and sometimes pork) in parts of Europe. Did this turn out to be a true or false story?

TRUE

Trick shooter Annie Oakley became famous as part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. True or false - If the US engaged Spain in the Spanish-American War, she offered to lead an all-girl company of sharpshooters.

FALSE

Trieste Boy was Roy Roger's horse.

FALSE

Trigonometry: The tangent of an angle in a right triangle is defined as the ratio of the length of the opposite side to the length of the hypotenuse.

TRUE

U.S. Geography: North Carolina shares borders with four states--Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.

TRUE

Walt Disney had a job on a railroad.

FALSE

Walt Disney was cryogenically frozen after death.

FALSE

Walt Disney's middle name was Enoch.

TRUE

What Were They Thinking?: Angry residents of Quito, Ecuador burned down a radio station after it presented its own version of "The War of the Worlds" in 1949.

FALSE

When ABBA won the Eurovision Song Contest with the song 'Waterloo' in 1974, the United Kingdom jury gave Sweden the maximum score of 12 points for this winning song.

FALSE

When the Jolly Green Giant first appeared on commercials he was actually the Jolly Yellow Giant.

FALSE

Wilbur Wright died in 1908 of injuries he suffered when the protoype airplane, that he and his brother Orville had developed for the United States Army, crashed near Ft. Meyers, Virginia.

FALSE

Will Rogers was part Choctaw Indian.

TRUE

William Claude Dukenfield originated the quotation: "I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food".

FALSE

William Demarest played Fred Mertz on 'I Love Lucy'.

FALSE

William Shakespeare wrote in "Hamlet" (Act 5, Scene 1), "Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him well."

TRUE

Windshield wipers were invented by a woman.

FALSE

Windsor Castle is known as 'The Key to England'.

FALSE

Animals: An alligator's genus name is Notopteris.

TRUE

A diode is an electrical component.

FALSE

1970s Music: Roberta Flack teamed up The Spinners to sing their chart-topping hit song "Then Came You" in 1974.

FALSE

3.14 are the first 3 digits of Pi. The next 3 digits are 018.

FALSE

90% of human DNA is identical to that of a banana.

TRUE

A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time.

TRUE

A 'muselet' is the wire cage which holds a champagne cork in place.

FALSE

A 1997 episode of "Pokemon" triggered epileptic seizures in over 600 children.

TRUE

A Bactrian camel has two humps on its back.

FALSE

A Dutch bishop sparked a row with the government after he admitted the Catholic Church accepted alms from drug traffickers and that they were "purified" when they reached its coffers.

FALSE

A cast member at Walt Disney World, dressed as one of the 'Three Little Pigs', molested a woman.

TRUE

A cat cannot move its jaw sideways.

FALSE

A cat has more than double the amount of vertebrae in their spine than a human.

TRUE

A con man once sold the Eiffel Tower.

FALSE

A couple of Wild West gunfighters lived long enough to see Hollywood start up. Wyatt Earp taught early Western star William Hart how to quick-draw. True or false - he also taught John Wayne.

FALSE

A cross between a horse and a zebra is called a 'hobra'.

FALSE

A cygnet is a baby dolphin.

TRUE

A dentist named Peabody was the first to add soap to toothpaste in 1824.

TRUE

A full-grown grizzly bear can run as fast as a horse.

TRUE

A light bulb at a fire station in Livermore, California, has been burning since 1901.

TRUE

A lunar eclipse takes place when the earth is directly between the sun and the moon. The moon turns to a dark reddish color to the naked eye.

TRUE

A luthier is a violin maker?

FALSE

A man's heart beats faster than a woman's (on average).

FALSE

A mangelwurzel was a type of penny-farthing bicycle used in the 19th century.

TRUE

A megawatt powers about 200 homes or more for a day.

FALSE

A professional horse jockey coined the official term for New York as 'The Big Apple'.

TRUE

A single lightbulb has been burning since 1901.

TRUE

A viper can be a car or a snake.

FALSE

A young hedgehog is called a kitten.

FALSE

A zebra is really white with black stripes.

TRUE

ABBA are a successful Swedish group who released many Top 40 records in the British hit singles chart. Three of their song titles contained a word which was repeated at least three times.

FALSE

APR means annual percentage ratio.

FALSE

About 25% of the world's population is left-handed.

FALSE

Abraham Lincoln was the first U.S. President to be born in a log cabin.

TRUE

Abraham Lincoln's mother died from drinking the milk of a cow that grazed on poisonous snakeroot.

TRUE

Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford: All of the above were US Presidents.

FALSE

According to the Ian Fleming novels, James Bond's favorite adult drink was a vodka martini, shaken not stirred.

TRUE

Acid rain is usually caused by sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides being emitted into the atmosphere by the actions of humans. Is this statement true or false?

TRUE

Actor Jack Lemmon was born in a hospital elevator in Boston, USA.

FALSE

Adam's ale is a kind of beer?

FALSE

Addis manufactured the finest English brushes, where the handles were carved out wood and the heads of the natural bristles were placed in the bored holes made in the bone and kept in place by rope.

TRUE

Adults can't breathe and swallow at the same time.

FALSE

Adults have more bones than babies do.

TRUE

Advance fee frauds such as the Nigerian scam hit our in-boxes with regular frequency, and are now commonly recognised for what they are. However, scammers have made millions of dollars out of these by fooling people into parting with their money and/or bank details. True or false?

TRUE

Advertising executive Maurice Drake was the man who came up with the slogan 'Beanz Meanz Heinz'.

FALSE

After being prematurely buried, Robert Edward Lee's mother gave birth only three hours after being excavated from her would-be grave.

FALSE

After five nominations he received in the Best Director category, Alfred Hitchcock finally won an Academy Award for directing 'Psycho'?

FALSE

After his famed horse Traveller was killed at the battle of Chickamauga, Confederate general Robert E. Lee had the remains shipped to a burial site near the Confederate Statehouse in Richmond, where the grave remains to this day.

TRUE

Although flightless, Kiwi birds have wings.

FALSE

American Cars: Despite its popularity, the Ford Taurus was never made available as a police vehicle.

TRUE

American Cars: The Pontiac Astre was the twin of the Chevrolet Vega.

TRUE

American scientists have found that a mug of cocoa may help to protect against "deep vein thrombosis", or as it is sometimes called "economy-class syndrome".

TRUE

An eighteen-wheeler has eighteen wheels (not including the steering wheel!).

TRUE

Animal: A snapper turtle can bite harder than a African Lion. (watch your fingers when feeding)

TRUE

An octopus has three hearts.

FALSE

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Burt Reynolds, Richard Gere: None of the above was considered for the role of John McClane in the movie "Die Hard" (1988).

TRUE

Artist Beryl Cook was a former seaside landlady, who taught herself to paint amusing, saucy paintings of voluptuous women, which can now be bought for up to £40,000 each.

TRUE

As a child, Charles Bronson wore his older sister's hand-me-downs for school because his family was so poor.

FALSE

As of the year 2000, Pat Riley led active NBA head coaches in total playoff victories.

FALSE

As of the year 2000, the U.S. stock market, for a period of the past 70 years, averaged an annual return of 5 percent.

TRUE

As the years passed, toothpicks matured into the chewstick which was about the size of a modern pencil. One end was chewed and became softened and brush-like while the opposite end was pointed and used as a pick to clean food and debris from between the teeth.

TRUE

Astronaut Jim Lovell uttered the words "Please be informed that there is a Santa Claus" whilst on board Apollo 8.

TRUE

Author Ambrose Bierce, who wrote the Devil's Dictionary (1906), had a father who named all his thirteen children, beginning with the letter A.

FALSE

Bananas do not get sunburns.

TRUE

Barbara Windsor had played the character parts of 'Hope Springs', 'Goldie Locks' and 'Daphne Honeybutt' in various 'Carry On' movies.

FALSE

Benny was always seen chasing scantily clad women around a public park, in the closing sequence of 'The Benny Hill Show'.

FALSE

Bill Gates is the CEO of Dell Computers.

TRUE

Billy Joe McAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie bridge.

FALSE

Billy the Kid was born William Bonney.

FALSE

Billy the Kid's real name was William H. Bologna.

TRUE

Birth and Stage Names: Actress Yvonne De Carlo, star of the TV show "The Munsters", was born Margaret Yvonne Middleton on September 1, 1922.

FALSE

Bowling was first played in Italy.

TRUE

Brain Twister: It is possible to put a rectangular piece of paper measuring exactly 0.1 yard by 5.5 cm through a perfect round hole with a radius of 1 inch considering the hole is through a wooden board which is 0.2 indian moot thick. (Twist not only your brain)

TRUE

Brasilia was declared the capital of Brazil in 1960.

FALSE

British artist Damien Hirst has produced a piece of artwork called 'For the Love of God' with just under a thousand rubies entirely covering a human skull.

FALSE

British boyband JLS came second to Alexandra Burke in the 'X-Factor' talent show in 2008. Their name JLS is an abbreviation for 'Just Like Singing'.

TRUE

British comedian, Les Dawson, is associated with the following quotation: I saw six men kicking and punching the mother-in-law. My neighbour said "Are you going to help?" I said, "No, six should be enough."

TRUE

British comic, Peter Kay, said, "You've turned into your dad the day you put aside a thin piece of wood specifically to stir paint with".

TRUE

British illustrator, Lydia Leith, produced a Royal Wedding sick bag with the words 'Throne Up' printed on it. This was to be used by a member of the public, who found the Royal Wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton, too much to bear.

FALSE

Brooklyn College considered moving to Los Angeles with the Dodgers.

TRUE

C.C. Deville plays lead and rhythm guitar for the band Poison.

TRUE

CD purchasers can go to a website and claim money in a price-fixing lawsuit.

FALSE

Celebrity Relatives: Game-show host Jack Narz is the uncle of game-show host Tom Kennedy.

FALSE

Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has an autobiography called 'Memoirs of a Fruitcake'.

FALSE

Celery has so many calories that eating it isn't even a workout.

TRUE

Celine Dion is one of fourteen children.

FALSE

Certain towns in Missouri require that all stop signs be illuminated at night.

TRUE

Charles Lindbergh and the Spirit of St. Louis returned to the United States on board a U.S. Navy ship?

FALSE

Charles Lindbergh was the first person to fly across the Atlantic Ocean.

TRUE

Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest.

TRUE

Chester, on 'Gunsmoke' had the last name of Proudfoot. (radio version)

FALSE

Chocolate syrup was used to simulate blood in the old 1931 vampire classic 'Dracula' by Universal starring Bela Lugosi.

FALSE

Christiansborg Palace is the official home of the Dutch parliament in The Hague.

FALSE

Chrysotile, amosite and crocidolite are all varieties of semi-precious stones.

FALSE

Classic Television: In the last original episode of the series "That Girl", Ann Marie (played by Marlo Thomas) and Donald Hollister (Ted Bessell) finally get married.

TRUE

Clint Eastwood, Tom Cruise, Burt Reynolds, Harrison Ford: None of the above has ever played James Bond, 007.

TRUE

Coca-Cola used to contain cocaine.

FALSE

College Basketball: The 1983 NCAA Men's Final Four was the last to feature a third-place, or consolation, game.

TRUE

Colleges and Universities: The University of California, Irvine was named for the Irvine Company, a private real-estate development company.

FALSE

Colorado is the biggest Rocky Mountain state.

FALSE

Computers: The word processing program WordPerfect was initially developed for the city of Kansas City, Missouri.

FALSE

Constructed of processed spruce timbers, Howard Hughes' "Spruce Goose" flew only once for 1.6km.

TRUE

Cows have four-chambered stomachs.

FALSE

Cream is heavier than milk?

FALSE

Credited with inventing the assembly line, Henry Ford actually got the idea from a suggestion by the child of a neighbor.

TRUE

Cuthbert Cringeworthy, Wilfrid, Danny and Plug were some of the Bash Street Kids, who appeared in the Beano comic.

FALSE

Czar Nicholas II was executed in 1917?

FALSE

D'Artagnan was one of the original 'Three Musketeers'.

FALSE

Da Vinci cut off his ear and gave it to his girlfriend.

FALSE

Dallas is the capital of Texas.

FALSE

Damn it. Don't you dare ask God to help me. These were the last words spoken by Bette Davis on October 6, 1989.

TRUE

Dances With Wolves was released closer in time to the first moon landing than to the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI.

FALSE

Dartmouth's yearbook is called 'The Hangover'.

FALSE

Delaware (representing States A-D): Delaware is comprised of six counties - Bibb, Caldwell, Harrison, Kent, New Castle and Sussex.

FALSE

Dennis the Menace's favorite beverage is water.

TRUE

Despite her duties as interpreter and guide for the Lewis and Clark expedition, the young Indian woman Sacagawea also had to carry and care for her new born infant during the journey.

TRUE

Diamond is the hardest naturally-occurring substance on earth.

TRUE

Disasters (representing Specialized History): The 1971 Sylmar Earthquake in Southern California caused 65 deaths.

TRUE

Dogs don't see in shades of grey, but can detect some colors.

FALSE

Donovan was an English singer in the 1960s, with hits that included 'Mellow Yellow'.

TRUE

Doris Day said, "The really frightening thing about middle age, is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it".

TRUE

Doris Von Kappelhof had the hit song 'Whatever Will Be Will Be'.

TRUE

Dracula was based on a real person.

TRUE

Dudley Moore played the character of Arthur Bach in the movie 'Arthur' (1981).

TRUE

Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

TRUE

During World War II, the Oscars were made of plaster.

TRUE

During the 1970s, Cliff Richard was denied entry into Singapore, as he refused to cut his long hair.

TRUE

During the American Civil War, one of Confederate Gen. Kirby's Smith's officers received a coded message so complex, he had to ride around Union lines to ask the sender what in the heck he was saying.

TRUE

Dusty Springfield died on the day she was to receive her OBE (Order of the British Empire) award, presented by Queen Elizabeth II, at Buckingham Palace, London, England.

TRUE

E-bay says it is ok for members to cancel their auctions before they receive any bids and sell the product to a buyer making a nonbidding offer (thus cancelling the auction).

TRUE

Earth is closest to the sun in January.

TRUE

Easter Island was so named because it was discovered on Easter Sunday in 1722.

FALSE

Eating a Poinsettia will kill you (or your pet).

FALSE

Eating oranges is more efficient in waking you in the morning than caffeine.

TRUE

Eating too many carrots can cause a person to turn orange.

TRUE

Ebay was founded by Pierre Omidyar.

FALSE

Edmund Barton, Jim Bolger, Chris Watson, George Reid: None of the above has ever served as Prime Minister of New Zealand.

TRUE

English scientists have found the soya, sage and ginseng may hold the key to boosting memory.

TRUE

Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a fifty thousand-word novel, "Gadsby", without any word containing the letter "e".

TRUE

Every entrant to the London marathon (about 33,000 runners) is given a time starting when they cross the starting line and finishing when they cross the finishing line. This time is given to each runner irrespective of the time that the start is signalled.

TRUE

Every year, when Big Bird has a birthday on Sesame Street, he always goes back to almost 6 years old.

TRUE

Famous Dates: Robin Ventura's infamous "Grand Slam Single" in the National League Championship Series occurred on October 17, 1999 - ten years to the day after the Loma Prieta earthquake stopped the World Series.

FALSE

Fictional Characters: Lord Miles Vorkosigan, the hero of Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga series of books, had a rare genetic defect that made his bones brittle and stunted his growth.

FALSE

Finally, is it true that scientists have not yet proved (as at July 2003) that intelligent life exists anywhere in our solar system?

FALSE

Finally, let's get to the quiz topic. Carrots do cry because they have the vegetable equivalent of human tear ducts and a small amount of water residue (a carrot tear) appears when they are taken from the ground. True or false?

TRUE

Fingernails grow faster than toenails.

FALSE

Fisher was the man's last name who appeared on the first U.S. postage stamp.

FALSE

Florence Nightingale was known as the 'angel of mercy' for her ministrations to Union soldiers in the American Civil War, and for her tremendous efforts in founding the American Red Cross.

TRUE

For Children: A snail can meow like a cat. (Think under water)

FALSE

Former English footballer Gary Lineker has the middle name of Churchill because he shared a birthday with Sir Winston Churchill.

FALSE

Former Liverpool footballer and soccer pundit Alan Hansen acquired a large scar on his forehead during a Scottish football match.

TRUE

Former boxing commentator, Harry Carpenter, is credited with saying, during the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race, "Ah! Isn't that nice, the wife of the Cambridge President is kissing the cox of the Oxford crew".

TRUE

Former governor Jesse Ventura appeared in the 1997 movie, "Batman and Robin".

FALSE

Fort Knox is found in Washington D.C.

FALSE

Found among Robert Louis Stevenson's effects after his death, was the original manuscript of 'Treasure Island' (rejected by his publisher) in which Stevenson reveals that Jim Hawkins's real father was Long John Silver.

TRUE

Frank Cahill was the first man that Billy the Kid Killed?

FALSE

Frankenstein was a monster made by a mad scientist.

TRUE

Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons had four members.

TRUE

Fred Flintstone's shout of 'Yabba dabba do' originated from the Brylcreem slogan of 'A little dab'll do ya'.

FALSE

Fred was the man's last name that coined the phrase, 'Rock and Roll'.

FALSE

Freeport was Mr. Wilson's pet dog on 'Dennis the Menace'.

FALSE

Fritzie was the name of William S. Hart's horse.

FALSE

George Formby was a male vocalist and ukulele player, who was born in Formby, Lancashire, England.

FALSE

Gabriel and Michael were the only two angels, mentioned by name, in the King James Bible?

FALSE

Game Show Hosts: Before becoming the King of Late Night TV, Johnny Carson served a stint as host of the classic game show "Beat the Clock".

TRUE

Game Shows: Tennis star Jimmy Connors auditioned to replace Pat Sajak as the host of the daytime version of "Wheel of Fortune" in 1989.

TRUE

Gangster Al Capone didn't die in prison as is often believed, but rather at his home in Florida.

FALSE

Garra rufa fish are extremely vicious and can strip flesh from the bone in a matter of minutes.

FALSE

Garry Kasparov was the top chess player in the world at the end of the year 2000.

TRUE

Gaul was the ancient name of France?

FALSE

Gemini 6 was launched before Gemini 7.

FALSE

Gene Cernan, Virgil Grissom, William Anders, Michael Collins: None of these astronauts has walked on the moon.

FALSE

General Simon B. Buckner was a pallbearer for President Abraham Lincoln, President Ulysses S. Grant and General Robert E. Lee?

TRUE

Genius inventor and physicist Nicola Tesla, the man that developed AC current, claimed that he communicated with Martians.

TRUE

Geoffrey Hughes played the part of Onslow in the comedy of 'Keeping Up Appearances'. He also provided the voice of Paul McCartney in the Beatles cartoon movie 'Yellow Submarine' (1968).

FALSE

Geography: Algeria shares a border with Chad.

FALSE

Geography: The town Tarifa is the most southern town of Spain.

FALSE

George Burns said, "I'm getting to an age when I can only enjoy Alphabetti Spaghetti if I'm wearing my reading glasses".

TRUE

George Burns, the actor, lived to be 100 years old.

TRUE

George Davies was associated with the brand of 'George' clothing at ASDA stores.

FALSE

George Eliot is the man who wrote the books Silas Marner and Middlemarch.

FALSE

George Ferris, inventor of the Ferris Wheel, acquired all his engineering skills through independent reading, and in fact never even graduated high school.

TRUE

Gilligan, of "Gilligan's Island", had a first name that was never mentioned on air. His first name was Willy.

FALSE

Golden retrievers are the world's most popular breed of dog (in numbers purchased).

TRUE

Goodluck Jonathan became the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in 2010.

FALSE

Government: The U.S. Constitution requires that a member of the House of Representative must be at least 20 years old.

TRUE

Graham crackers were invented to suppress sexual desires.

FALSE

Grand Wizzard Theodore is the highest position that can be attained in Freemasonry.

FALSE

Had Titanic not sunk on April 15, 1912, it was on a pace to break the speed record for Atlantic crossings.

TRUE

Halfway through a standard game of scrabble, you play the 'TWELVE'. If no letter of that word covers a double or triple letter/word square, then a score of twelve points are awarded.

TRUE

Halley's comet is named after the English astronomer Edmond Halley, who was the first person to identify the comet as a recurring phenomenon. Is this statement true or false?

TRUE

Hans Christian Andersen is the author of "The Ugly Duckling".

FALSE

Harry Chapin, Phil Ochs, Jerry Jeff Walker, Billy Joel: All of the musicians mentioned above were born in New York (city or state).

TRUE

Harvard University has a Harvard Tiddlywinks Society.

TRUE

Harvard University was founded before calculus was discovered.

TRUE

Harvard is the oldest college in the United States.

FALSE

Hatfield Jacques was the real name of the comedy actress Hattie Jacques, who played the part of matron in four "Carry On" movies.

TRUE

Jules Leotard invented a close-fitting garment worn by dancers.

FALSE

Jules Verne's dog was named Fat Boy.

TRUE

Historic Structures: Opened in 1994, Kansai International Airport sits on a man-made island in Osaka Bay.

FALSE

History: Peter Stuyvesant, the founder of New York which was in that time known as New Amsterdam, sold Manhattan for beads.

FALSE

History: The commander of the 101st Airborne at the Battle of the Bulge was Omar Bradley.

FALSE

Holidays and Observances: Residents of Boston celebrate Evacuation Day, the occasion on which British troops left the city during the American Revolution, on September 11.

FALSE

Hollywood has never released a movie that had it's sequel released the same year.

TRUE

In 1799, is it true that Frenchwoman Jeanne Genevieve Labrosse became the first woman to use a parachute?

FALSE

Man O'War was a great race horse but not much of a sire.

TRUE

In 1837, a law was passed by the United States Congress that every seagoing ship must carry a life preserver for every passenger.

TRUE

In 1844, the first toothbrush was manufactured in the U.S. by hand and patented as a 3-row brush of serrated bristles with larger tufts by Dr. Meyer L. Rhein.

FALSE

In 1886, John Pemberton, working in the back room of his Atlanta, Georgia chemist shop, came up with the recipe for the soft drink known as Dr. Pepper.

FALSE

In 1892 Dr. Meyer L. Rhein was the first to put toothpaste in a collapsible tube.

FALSE

In 1912, Carl Laemmle founded the Columbia Motion Picture Company.

FALSE

In 2000, The Mets and Cubs opened the Major League baseball season in Japan. This marked the first time that the baseball season has opened in a country other then the United States or Canada.

FALSE

In 2006, a team of three British men claim to have come up with an answer to one of the most frequently asked head-scratchers: "Which came first - the chicken or the egg?" They claimed that the chicken came first.

TRUE

In Britain, you can only shoot a Welsh person with a bow and arrow inside the city walls and after midnight.

TRUE

In Greek mythology, Thalia was the Greek muse of comedy.

FALSE

In Mario Kart 64, you flick the control stick twice to make the 'E's yellow.

TRUE

In Mexico, bullfights are traditionally held on Sundays.

TRUE

In Organic Chemistry, saturated compounds are those that contain only single bonds.

TRUE

In TV commercials, the jingle of Tums antacid gets its tune from the TV series "Dragnet".

FALSE

In golf, the International team won the year 2000 President's Cup.

FALSE

In logic, the converse and inverse of a statement represent different statements, and are not necessarily logically equivalent.

FALSE

In mathematics, there is only one infinity; performing algebraic operations on it does not make it a different quantity.

TRUE

In tennis, The Australian Open is one of the four tournaments making up the Grand Slam.

FALSE

In the "Digimon" TV show, Megaseadramon is beat by MetalGreymon.

FALSE

Is it true that American chess grandmaster George Koltanowski once played a simultaneous chess exhibition against 575 players at once, while blindfolded?

FALSE

In the Bible, Noah's 3 sons are Ham, Shem and Jehoshaphat?

FALSE

In the English language, it is never grammatically correct to start a sentence with "because".

FALSE

In the US version of the game 'Monopoly', the color of Vermont Avenue is dark blue.

TRUE

In the book of "The Wizard of Oz", Dorothy wears silver shoes.

TRUE

In the current television series "24", terrorists have committed (or attempted to commit) the following atrocities: Shoot down Air Force One, assassinate a presidential candidate, detonate a nuclear bomb, release a lethal virus, release a nerve gas in a shopping center and kidnap the Secretary of Defense.

FALSE

In the filming of 'The Wizard of Oz', watercolor paints were used to make the 'horse of a different color' different colors.

FALSE

In the movie 'The Big Chill', the character Michael worked for 'US' magazine.

TRUE

In the movie 'Titanic', there is a scene in which Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) sketches Rose (Kate Winslet). It is quite widely known now that it is director James Cameron's hands that are seen drawing the sketch, not Leonardo DiCaprio's. But, after filming was completed, James Cameron had to mirror image these sketching shots.

FALSE

Is it true that because of their strong stomachs and stronger jaws, goats will eat tin cans?

TRUE

In the speech therapy method known as the Valsalva Control, stutterers should learn to tighten their rectal muscle.

TRUE

In the television situation comedy of 'Rising Damp', the estranged wife of Rupert Rigsby, was called Veronica.

TRUE

Judy Jetson went to Orbit High School.

TRUE

In written English, on average one out of every eight letters is an 'e'.

TRUE

Independence, Missouri was the start of the Oregon Trail during America's westward expansion?

TRUE

Is it true that Roy Rogers used to take his horse, Trigger, up several flights of stairs at various hospitals to visit sick children?

TRUE

Is it true that actress Sarah Jessica Parker is descended from a so-called witch?

TRUE

Inventors: Heavyweight boxing legend Jack Johnson holds a patent on a wrench.

FALSE

Irish comedian Frank Carson is the wag who came up with the quotation: "Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding, he sings."

TRUE

Irish comedian, Dave Allen, once said, "If it's sent by ship, then it's a cargo. If it's sent by road, then it's a shipment".

FALSE

Jimmy Carter's campaign jet was named The Big Peanut.

FALSE

Joan Collins is credited with saying, "Whoever said money can't buy you happiness, simply didn't know where to go shopping".

TRUE

John B. Stetson, the designer of the famous Stetson cowboy hats, learned and practiced his trade in rural Enterprise, Mississippi.

FALSE

John Blair was the first person to sign the Constitution of the United States.

TRUE

John Boynton Priestly described tea as the slow revenge of the Orient.

FALSE

John F. Kennedy was the youngest President of the United States.

TRUE

John Paul Jones was a Russian Rear Admiral?

FALSE

John Rebus, Peter Pascoe, Sandra Pullman, Jack Frost: All of the above were fictional police detectives based in English cities or counties.

FALSE

John Ritter was the father of Tex Ritter.

TRUE

John Travolta's mother was in 'Saturday Night Fever'?

FALSE

John Williams provided the memorable music for the Hitchcock classic, 'Psycho' (1960).

FALSE

John Wright invented Lincoln Logs in 1917 and named them to honor Abraham Lincoln who was born in a log cabin.

FALSE

John the Baptist stuttered.

TRUE

Juan Ponce de Leon discovered Florida in 1513.

FALSE

Ken Livingstone (elected as the first ever Mayor of London in May 2000) once had a book published called "If Voting Meant Anything, They'd Abolish It".

FALSE

Kenya was the African country that Winston Churchill reputedly described as being 'The Pearl of Africa'.

FALSE

Key West is the westernmost Florida key.

FALSE

King Akhenaten of Egypt was considered even more beautiful than his wife, Queen Nefertiti.

TRUE

King Henry VIII was very famous for his six wives, but also for his lazy, luxurious life. Is it true or false that late in his life he had to be moved around using mechanical objects due to his infirmity?

FALSE

King Kong was found on Marsh Island.

FALSE

Krypton's atomic number is 26?

TRUE

Laos' capital city is Vientiane.

FALSE

Large kangaroos can cover over 60 feet in one jump.

FALSE

Las Vegas is called 'the Big Easy'.

FALSE

Pancho's horse was Lobo. Remember, he was The Cisco Kid's partner.

FALSE

Leif Ericson was the first person to cross the Atlantic?

FALSE

Lemmings commit mass suicide when they migrate by plunging off cliffs and drowning in the ocean.

TRUE

Leningrad (St. Petersburg) suffered a siege of well over two years in WWII.

TRUE

Lennie and George were the main characters in Steinbeck's 'Of Mice and Men'.

TRUE

Leo is the name of the MGM lion.

TRUE

Leon Trotsky helped forge communism. True or false - he also acted in a Hollywood movie.

FALSE

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the children's game 'hopscotch'.

TRUE

Liam Neeson turned down the role of "James Bond" because he did not want to star in an action film.

TRUE

Like humans, whales breathe air.

TRUE

Lindsay Wagner played 'The Bionic Woman' in the T.V. series.

FALSE

Literature: In the Stephen King novel "IT", the Clown Pennywise turns out to be human. (Spoiler in the answer)

FALSE

Literature: The book "A Tale of Two Cities" was about the American Revolution.

FALSE

London, Paris, Geneva, Madrid: All of the above are European capital cities.

TRUE

Los Angeles, Las Vegas, New York City, Houston: None of the above cities is the capital of a US State.

TRUE

Louis Braille, who created of the Braille system of writing for the blind, was himself blind.

FALSE

Lucky Lindy is what they called him, and Charles Lindbergh came by his nickname honorably. At a well attended golf tournament shortly after his transatlantic flight in 1927, he hit a hole in one.

FALSE

Lucy Lawless, aka 'Xena, the Warrior Princess', was born in Wales.

FALSE

Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated on 12th March 1948. Is this statement true or false?

TRUE

McDonald's marketed a product called the "McLobster".

TRUE

Medals and Decorations: The very first Distinguished Flying Cross was awarded to aviator Charles Lindbergh, for his non-stop flight across the Atlantic in 1927.

FALSE

Medications: Vytorin, the popular cholesterol medication, is a combination of the prescription drugs Lipitor and Zocor.

TRUE

Mick Jagger was once a student at the London School of Economics.

FALSE

Mick Jagger, lead singer of the Rolling Stones, was very pleased to have a dinosaur (masiakasaurusjaggeri,'vicious lizard of Jagger'), named after him in 2001, by University of Utah paleontologist Scott Sampson.

TRUE

Military Aircraft: The KC-10 Extender is based on the same airframe as the DC-10 passenger jet.

TRUE

Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Arkansas: All of the above are American states along the Mississippi River.

TRUE

Minnie Higginbottom was the real name of Kathy Staff, who played Nora Batty in the world's longest running sitcom, 'Last of the Summer Wine'.

TRUE

Most lipsticks contain fish scales.

TRUE

Motel, brunch, smog and chortle can all be described as portmanteau words.

TRUE

Mount Aconcagua is the tallest mountain in the Americas?

TRUE

Movie Settings: In the movie "Miss Congeniality", the Miss United States Pageant, in which FBI Agent Gracie Hart (played by Sandra Bullock) poses as Miss New Jersey, was held in San Antonio.

FALSE

Movie: The beautiful Olivia Newton John played the part of Sandy Olsson in "Grease II".

TRUE

Movies: "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" won the Best Picture Oscar for 2003 movies.

FALSE

Mozart was seven when he wrote "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star".

FALSE

Musician Sting's real name is Reginald Dwight.

TRUE

Napoleon Bonaparte was terrified of cats.

FALSE

Narwhals use their tusks to communicate with one another.

TRUE

National Landmarks: The Gateway Arch in St. Louis is as wide as it is tall--630 feet (192 meters).

FALSE

Sci/Tech: The Richter scale is used to measure the magnitude of volcanic eruptions.

TRUE

Natural propane gas has no odor.

TRUE

Neanderthal's brains were bigger than ours (Homo Sapiens).

TRUE

Neil Hamilton and Stafford Repp appeared in the 1960s television programme 'Batman'.

TRUE

Nevada has a highway specifically designed for UFO landings.

TRUE

New Amsterdam was the original name of New York?

TRUE

New York: Mount Marcy, the highest point in New York state, was named after former governor William L. Marcy.

FALSE

Niagara Falls is the highest waterfall in the world.

TRUE

Nixon secretary Rose Mary Woods admitted under oath to erasing the famous Watergate tape that included an eighteen and a half minute gap, but she said she only erased four or five minutes of it.

FALSE

No United States President has ever been elected unanimously.

FALSE

No animal eats bees.

TRUE

No cast member on 'M*A*S*H*' served in the Korean War.

FALSE

No country on mainland Africa uses all of the five vowels in its name.

TRUE

No human has set foot on the lunar surface since Dec. 14, 1972.

FALSE

No word in the English language (British) has five consecutive letters that are vowels.

TRUE

No words in the English language rhyme with month, orange, or purple.

TRUE

No-one in the musical group 'Hootie and the Blowfish' is actually named Hootie or Blowfish.

TRUE

Norma was the name of Mrs Bates in the movie 'Psycho' (1960).

FALSE

North Dakota, Vermont and Arizona are U.S. states that do not have capital punishment(death penalty).

TRUE

Now comes the fun part! For each of the answers above, write down, in order, the first letter of each of the correct answers or answer phrases. Then write down the last letter of each answer or answer phrase, in order. The 18 letters will spell out a simple true/false question. What is the answer to it?

FALSE

Nurse, doctor and matron are all varieties of shark.

FALSE

Of Gwyneth Paltrow and Billy Joel only one is Jewish.

TRUE

Of the following deadly agents: 1 - Botulism Toxin (among the most poisonous substances known), 2 - Plague (bacterium found in rodents and fleas worldwide), 3 - Smallpox (spreads in any climate or season), 4 - Tularemia (needs as few as 10 organisms to cause disease), the Plague has the highest fatality rate.

TRUE

Shanghai was once the largest city in the Communist world.

TRUE

On 'The Love Connection', host Chuck Woolery often promised that the show would be back from commercial break 'in 2 and 2'.

FALSE

On Inauguration Day, when the President of the United States takes the oath of office, the Bible is opened to the Book of Acts?

FALSE

On July 20, 1969, American astronaut Alan Shepherd made the first footsteps ever on the surface of the moon.

FALSE

On average, the 'eye muscles' move 300,000 times a day.

FALSE

On the first moon mission in 1969, Michael Collins (the command module pilot), had a short epileptic seizure during his time alone in the command module.

TRUE

One of our finest attorneys, Clarence Darrow (1857-1938) spent one year in law school.

TRUE

One of the most famous items associated with Scotland is the kilt. But, True or False - the kilt was invented by an Englishman.

TRUE

One of the most famous paintings in the world must be Leonardo da Vinci's 'Mona Lisa'. But 'Mona Lisa' actually has no eyebrows or eyelashes.

TRUE

One of the wondrous things that Marco Polo saw on his travels was a lump of coal.

TRUE

Paladin carried a Colt .45.

TRUE

One would think the water in the Panama Canal would be salt but it's not. It's fresh.

FALSE

Onions were never used for treating colds.

TRUE

Only the Australian koala plus great apes and humans have unique fingerprints.

FALSE

Other than humans, the only primate that can have blue eyes is the black lemur.

FALSE

Our nose, eyes and ears never stop growing until the day we die.

FALSE

Over 1,000 Americans died at the Alamo.

TRUE

Over 90 percent of the student body at Alabama State University are African American.

FALSE

Over the years, the owners of Superman sued several imitators out of existence. True or false - the first character so destroyed was a black super-hero.

TRUE

Phylicia Rashad (Mrs. Huxtable on 'The Cosby Show') was once married to a member of the Village People.

FALSE

Physics: The coefficient of friction, the ratio of the force of friction between two bodies, is denoted by the lower-case Greek letter rho.

TRUE

Pocahontas was pictured on the back of the 1875 $20 bill (American National Bank Note). True or False?

FALSE

Popeye the sailor man used the nautical sayings of 'Blistering barnacles' and 'Coddling catfish'.

TRUE

Positron emission tomography (PET) is a way of measuring the emission of positrons (positive electrons) from various parts of the brain.

TRUE

Powers, Jamesons, Bushmills, Crested Ten: None of the above is a Scotch whisky.

TRUE

Presenter (Forsyth), actor (Willis), and musician (Springsteen), are all associated with the name of Bruce.

TRUE

President F. D. Roosevelt declared December 7, 1941 'a date which will live in infamy'.

FALSE

Presidents Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon were all impeached.

TRUE

Princess Diana publicly hated Countess Raine Spencer, her stepmother, so she nicknamed her 'Acid Raine'.

FALSE

Prior to 1920, the University of Alabama football team was named the "Red Boars"

FALSE

Pro Basketball: The Dallas Mavericks are one of the four NBA teams that previously played in the ABA.

FALSE

Pro Hockey: The Calgary Flames actually began life as the Phoenix Flames in 1972.

FALSE

Proxima Centauri is the closest star to Earth.

TRUE

Quebec City, Victoria, Regina, Edmonton: None of these Canadian capitals is the largest city in its respective province.

FALSE

Quick Draw McGraw's side kick was Baba Hooley.

FALSE

Ramsgate was the name of the snake in 'The Sooty Show'.

TRUE

Real Names of the Stars: Actor Billy Dee Williams's real name is William December Williams, Jr.

FALSE

Recent discoveries have shown evidence that people had been to the top of Mt. Everest possibly as early as the 1820s.

TRUE

Religion: The Old Testament of the Protestant Christian Bible includes 39 books.

FALSE

Rembrandt's 1642 painting, "The Night Watch", is the most looked-at painting in the Louvre.

TRUE

Rita Sullivan, Audrey Roberts, Jack Duckworth, Norris Cole: None of the above was an original character when the British TV soap opera "Coronation Street" first aired in 1960.

FALSE

Robert E. Lee commanded the Army of the Potomac during the Civil War.

TRUE

Robert Helpmann, the evil child catcher in the 1968 movie, 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang', once said, "The trouble with nude dancing is that not everything stops when the music stops".

FALSE

Robert Jenner discovered the rabies vaccine.

FALSE

Roj Blake, Kerr Avon, Vila Restal, Arnold Rimmer: All of the above were space travelers in "Blakes 7".

TRUE

Rolf Harris performed the very first concert at the Sydney Opera House, when it first opened in 1973.

TRUE

Ron Grainer was an Australian-born composer who composed the television theme tune to 'Doctor Who', 'Steptoe and Son', and 'Tales of the Unexpected'.

TRUE

Ron Hickman invented the legendary 'Black and Decker' Workmate in the 1960s.

FALSE

Ronald Reagan was the first choice to play the role of Rick Blaine in "Casablanca".

TRUE

Ronnie Hazlehurst composed the theme tunes to 'Last of the Summer Wine', 'The Two Ronnies', and Bruce Forsyth's 'The Generation Game'.

FALSE

Sci/Tech: A human has more DNA material than a green pea.

TRUE

Rubies and sapphires are exactly alike except in color.

TRUE

Russia is larger in area than the minor planet, Pluto.

FALSE

S.O.S. stands for "Save our Ship".

FALSE

Sacagawea is on the US silver dollar.

TRUE

Saccharine is derived from coal?

TRUE

Saratoga, Trenton, Yorktown, King's Mountain: None of the above was a victorious battle for the British in the American Revolutionary War (aka War of Independence).

FALSE

Saturn is the third largest planet after Jupiter and Neptune.

FALSE

Schadenfreude was a musical composition written in 1888 by the Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.

FALSE

Selachophobia is the fear of light flashes.

FALSE

Self-hypnosis is a cure for stuttering.

TRUE

Seoul was chosen as the site of the 1988 summer Olympics.

FALSE

Shalme is an ancient Hebrew word meaning "to greet or salute".

TRUE

Sherlock Holmes actually never said 'Elementary, my dear Watson'.

TRUE

Silly mid on is a fielding position in cricket.

TRUE

Some mammals actually lay eggs instead of giving birth in the usual manner of most mammals.

TRUE

Some men can breastfeed.

FALSE

Space Exploration: Telstar I, launched on July 10, 1962, was the first communications satellite ever put into orbit.

TRUE

Terrytown was where Mighty Mouse lived.

FALSE

The "i" in Apple products such as iMac, iPad and iPhone stands for 'integrated'.

FALSE

The '57' on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of tomato the company once used.

FALSE

The 'C and A' shopping chain (Netherlands) was founded by two brothers named Charles and Albert Hall.

TRUE

The 'Roosevelt' was the name of the ship that Robert Edwin Peary used when he became the first man to reach the North Pole on 6th April 1909.

TRUE

The 'Texas Theatre' was the Dallas movie house where Lee Harvey Oswald was captured after the shooting of J.F.K.

FALSE

The 'game of kings' is horse racing?

FALSE

The 1906 earthquake in San Francisco was 8.4 in magnitude.

TRUE

The American rock group Blondie was formerly known as Angel and the Snakes.

FALSE

The Austrian town of Salzburg literally means 'Mountain Dance'.

TRUE

The Bahamas once had an undersea post office.

TRUE

The Battle of Barnet in the English Wars of the Roses was fought on Easter Day 1471. Is that statement true or false?

FALSE

The Beatles' song 'Come Together' was written in 1968?

FALSE

The Bible: In the New Testament, the book of Romans immediately follows the Four Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John).

TRUE

The British comedy duo of 'Steptoe and Son' had Ladysmith and Kitchener as part of their character names.

FALSE

The British government owns Queen Elizabeth II's residence, Buckingham Palace.

FALSE

The Bronx is the largest in area, of the five boroughs, of New York City.

FALSE

The Easy-Bake Oven was the first toy to be advertised on television.

TRUE

The Egyptians were the first to discover the earliest form of cement.

FALSE

The English county of Oxfordshire was dubbed 'The Shire of Spires and Squires'.

TRUE

The English invented champagne.

TRUE

The Erie Canal was 363 miles long when finished.

TRUE

The Farmers' Almanac stopped predicting the weather in 1938 but decided to continue the tradition after sales fell off.

FALSE

The French and Indian War was fought between the French and the Indians.

TRUE

The Fugitive starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones, was based on a TV series of the same name.

FALSE

The Galloping Spook was Red Grange's nickname when he played football.

TRUE

The Grammys: Renowned session drummer Hal Blaine played on the Grammy-winning Record of the Year for six consecutive years, 1966 to 1971.

FALSE

The Granny Smith apple was named by American John Chapman (better known as "Johnny Appleseed") after his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Eliza Smith, who raised him.

TRUE

The Green Party held three of the 25 seats on the Greater London Authority following the elections in May 2000.

TRUE

The Hague is in Holland?

TRUE

The Roman Catholic Church is the largest Christian Church in the world and the Baptist Church is the largest Protestant church in the United States.

FALSE

The Hubble Ultra Deep Field is a photograph of over 10,000 galaxies extending to the end of the Universe. True or false - It will take almost 1,000 years for the telescope to photograph the entire sky with this much detail.

FALSE

The Hundred Years' War lasted 100 years.

TRUE

The Lone Ranger's horse was named Silver.

TRUE

The Lone Ranger's real name was John Reid before becoming The Lone Ranger.

TRUE

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy was filmed entirely in New Zealand.

FALSE

The Los Angeles Zoo has the largest collection of animals.

FALSE

The Main Library at Harvard University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

TRUE

The Marlboro Man died of lung cancer.

TRUE

The Muppet Show was banned from TV in Saudi Arabia because one of its stars was a pig.

TRUE

The Nintendo 64 game F-Zero-X contains Rainbow Road?

FALSE

The North Pole is the only place on Earth from which it is possible to walk 50 miles south, 50 miles east, and 50 miles north, and end up back where you started.

TRUE

The Postal Service reported big revenue and volume decline directly after the anthrax attacks of 2001.

TRUE

The Remarkables are an impressive mountain range of New Zealand.

FALSE

The Republican Party GOP initials originally stood for "get out and push".

FALSE

The Righteous Brothers' real names were Hatfield and McCoy.

TRUE

The Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team, better known as 'The Red Arrows', are based at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, England.

FALSE

The Sea of Tranquility is a small sea in West Africa.

TRUE

The Second World War produced several new weapons - some of which never saw the light of day. True or false - one of them was called the "Bates Eight Barrel Bottle Thrower".

FALSE

The Six Days War lasted just over six days.

TRUE

The Solar System: One day on the planet Venus is actually longer than one year.

FALSE

The Super Bowl: Miami Dolphins safety Jake Scott was the first defensive player to win the Super Bowl MVP Award.

TRUE

The Super Mex is the nickname of pro-golfer Lee Trevino.

TRUE

The TV Show 'All in the Family' is based on a British TV Show.

TRUE

The Texas Rangers, who play in Arlington, play in Ameriquest Field, which used to be called The Ballpark.

FALSE

The Tower of London is on the South bank of the River Thames.

TRUE

The USS Arizona BB-39 is the only commissioned U.S. Battleship still in use by the U.S. Navy?

FALSE

The Uncle Sam recruiting poster 'I Want You' first appeared in World War Two?

FALSE

The United Nations was originally headquartered in San Francisco.

FALSE

The United Nations: According to the United Nations Charter, a citizen of the United States cannot hold the post of Secretary-General.

FALSE

The United States bought Florida from England.

FALSE

The Wright Brothers' plane was called Kitty Hawk.

FALSE

The abbreviation for Los Angeles International airport is LAS.

FALSE

The abbreviation for Massachusetts is MS.

TRUE

The action figure G.I. Joe was briefly pulled from the market in 1978 due to negative sentiment about the Vietnam War.

TRUE

The address of the Clampett's mansion in Beverly Hills is 518 Crestview Drive.

FALSE

The alcoholic drink "Bloody Mary" has been with us for some time, and its name has been attributed to several different sources. One of these was to a Chicago barmaid named Maria who worked at an establishment known as "The Blood and Bones". Is this true?

TRUE

The anticoagulant found in the saliva of vampire bats is called draculin.

FALSE

The average human body contains enough sulphur to fire a toy cannon.

FALSE

The average number of people who will get cancer at some point in their lives is 15 in 100.

FALSE

The average person's right hand does 56% of the typing.

FALSE

The band Third Eye Blind had a drummer with the last name of Butts.

FALSE

The battle of Shiloh was fought on Kentucky soil.

TRUE

The berries on mistletoe are white?

TRUE

The biggest known volcano in the solar system is on Mars.

TRUE

The birthstone for September is the sapphire.

TRUE

The bones of a pigeon are so light that they weigh less than its feathers.

TRUE

The border between Canada and the United States is sometimes called the world's longest unmilitarized border but in 1838 General Lucius Verus Bierce led a small army and invaded Canada.

TRUE

The bulletproof vest was created by a woman.

FALSE

The can opener was invented two weeks after the can itself.

TRUE

The can-opener was not invented until more than 45 years after the invention of the tin can.

TRUE

The capital of Michigan is Lansing.

FALSE

The depletion of the ozone layer is heavily blamed on society's emission of CHC gases into the atmosphere? Is this statement correct?

FALSE

The distance from the foul line to the headpin in bowling is 70 feet.

TRUE

The doctor who tended to John Willkes Booth after he shot Abraham Lincoln's name was Mudd.

FALSE

The dog, Rin Tin Tin was actually a female dog.

FALSE

The dolphin does not require sleep as it is on the move constantly.

FALSE

The driver of the limousine carrying John F. Kennedy the day he was assassinated in 1963, Secret Service agent Bill Greer, later became an actor and even had a small part in the 1991 movie "JFK".

TRUE

The early history and evolution of the toothbrush has its origin in the "chewingsticks" used by the Babylonians as early as 3500 BC.

TRUE

The earth rotates in the same direction as it orbits the sun.

TRUE

The enormous aircraft built by Howard Hughes and known as the "Spruce Goose" was actually made of birch.

FALSE

The entrance into San Francisco Bay is named the Golden Gate because it was the gateway to the gold fields.

TRUE

The events of September 11, 2001 certainly spawned a large volume of information-sharing. One story doing the rounds was that Time Magazine considered naming Osama Bin Laden "Man of the Year". Did that turn out to be true or false?

FALSE

The exact middle of the year is June 28th.

FALSE

The exact translation of the origin of the word 'check-mate' is 'the king is captured'.

TRUE

The fabric denim, used to make dungarees, was developed in Dungri, a surburb of Bombay, India as well as in France both in about the seventeenth century.

FALSE

The first Best Actress Academy Award went to Lillian Gish.

TRUE

The first Queen of England to write and publish a book under her own name was Catherine Parr.

TRUE

The first Triceratops bones were discovered in 1889.

FALSE

The first US President to visit China while in office was John F Kennedy.

TRUE

The first actor to play the Lone Ranger on radio was George Seaton. True or false - he would later direct the movie 'Miracle on 34th Street'.

TRUE

The first minimum wage in the United States was 25 cents per hour.

FALSE

The first professional baseball team was the River City Bats.

TRUE

The first sequel to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards was 'The Godfather Part II'.

TRUE

The first set of Crayola crayons had eight colors?

FALSE

The first ship to use the 'SOS' signal was the Titanic.

TRUE

The first speed limit for automobiles on a public road in a built-up area was 30 mph (not including the 'red flag' law).

TRUE

The front of the Nobel Peace Prize medal shows the face of Alfred Nobel.

FALSE

The front page of The Wall Street Journal typically has 5 columns.

TRUE

The great Cleopatra, "Queen of the Nile" was not an Egyptian.

FALSE

The great Otto Preminger, once said of Walt Disney, "He has the greatest control of his cast in a film, if a character doesn't fit he just tears it up."

FALSE

The hammerfor is the fixed arm that casts the shadow on a sundial.

FALSE

The hexagonal key wrench was the brainwave of American entrepreneur Sir Allen Key.

FALSE

The highest measurement possible on the Richter scale (earthquake force) is 10.

FALSE

The human race has managed to exterminate only two species of insects.

TRUE

The human residents of one of the Canary Islands communicate by whistling.

FALSE

The largest man-made object is the Great Wall of China.

FALSE

The last dynasty in China was the Chou?

FALSE

The last recorded words of the Captain on the Titanic before it sank were "If we don't tell anyone, nobody will know, will they?". Is that true or false?

TRUE

The late British entertainer, Jeremy Beadle, had a rare genetic disorder called Poland's Syndrome.

FALSE

The leopard is the fastest mammal on earth.

TRUE

The letter 'e' is the most common letter in the English language.

FALSE

The loudest sound produced by any animal is 188 decibels trumpeted by the African Elephant.

TRUE

The moon is larger in surface area than the United States.

TRUE

The most common first name in the world is Mohammed (Muhammad).

TRUE

The most expensive item, per unit weight, in the supermarket is often used as a toy for children.

FALSE

The most landed on space on the Monopoly game board is Atlantic Avenue.

TRUE

The mother of Mike Nesmith (formerly of the rock group the "Monkees") invented Liquid Paper.

TRUE

The movie "American Beauty" won the Oscar for Best Picture.

TRUE

The movie "The Runaway Bride" and "Pretty Woman" both star at least three of the same actors/actresses.

FALSE

The name of the actor who played the character of Huggy Bear, in the television police drama of 'Starsky and Hutch', was called Antonio Farmgas.

TRUE

The novel "Gadsby" does not contain the letter "E."

FALSE

The oak tree is classified as a "softwood".

FALSE

The official ball for the WNBA (Women's National Basketball Association) is red, white, and blue.

TRUE

The oldest rock on Earth was found by geologists in the outback of Australia in January, 2001.

TRUE

The one-time top guy at H and R Block was under 45 years old at the time.

TRUE

The only even prime number is 2.

FALSE

The only man-made structures that can be seen from outer space are the Great Pyramids.

FALSE

The origin of the term "scot free" refers to the times when English inns charged customers according to their place of birth. If you were a Scot, you didn't pay.

FALSE

The original colour of Coca-Cola was green.

TRUE

The original manuscript of "The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" does not exist, because after reading the story to his wife, who hated it, Stevenson flew into a snit, tossed it into the fireplace and burnt it up.

TRUE

The original theme song for the TV series 'Frasier' was, appropriately, entitled 'Twisted'. It was a song about a person with some psychological issues.

TRUE

The pursuit of jumping off cliffs into the sea is termed 'tombstoning'.

TRUE

The quintessential English red public telephone box (kiosk) was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott.

TRUE

The real name of singer Billy Ocean is Leslie Sebastian Charles.

TRUE

The shock of an electric eel can knock a man down.

FALSE

The shortest building in the world is the Lego Building in downtown Houston, Texas.

FALSE

The shortest war in history lasted just over two hours.

FALSE

The singing group The Four Lovers became better known as The Four Tops.

TRUE

The skin that peels off after a bad sunburn is called blype.

TRUE

The small mammal used as a logo for Bacardi rum is a bat.

FALSE

The so-called 'perfect age' is 32, because Jesus Christ died at age 32.

FALSE

The teeth of the lobster are located in its pincers.

TRUE

The television situation comedy 'The Addams Family' featured pets and man-eaters called Aristotle, Cleopatra and Homer.

TRUE

The tin can was invented before the tin can opener.

FALSE

The toothpaste company 'Colgate' found it easier to advertise their product in Spanish speaking countries rather than English speaking countries.

FALSE

The traditional 'Punch and Judy' show included the characters of the crocodile, the baby, and Tony the dog.

FALSE

The twenty-dollar bill in the game of Monopoly is gold colored.

TRUE

The vocabulary of the average person is consists of 5000 to 6000 words.

TRUE

The web is a source of some very interesting and amusing quotations. One story is that early in his career, Elvis Presley was told: "Stick with driving a truck, because you'll never make it as a singer". Is this a true or false quotation?

FALSE

The white part of a fingernail is called the 'luna'.

TRUE

The word "Amore" in Italian means "Love" in English.

TRUE

The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

TRUE

The word "right" has 5 letters in it.

TRUE

The word 'blackmail' has its orgin from the armor worn in medieval times?

FALSE

The word 'friend' shows up much more often than the word 'hello' in the headings of Ebay auctions.

FALSE

The word 'girl' never appears in the Bible (any translation).

FALSE

The youngest ever Pope was only 10 years old.

FALSE

There are 249 ways to make change for a United States dollar.

TRUE

There are 25 sheets of paper in a quire?

TRUE

There are 36 black keys on a standard piano.

FALSE

There are about the same number of synapses (nerve connections) in your brain as there are stars in our galaxy.

FALSE

There are four leaves on a shamrock?

FALSE

There are many assertions doing the rounds in relation to food. One is that you shouldn't swallow chewing gum because it takes the human body about seven years to digest it. Is this a true or false statement?

FALSE

There are more four-lettered countries in Africa than there are in Asia.

FALSE

There are more germs on a toilet seat than a car steering wheel.

FALSE

There are more left-handed women than men.

TRUE

There are more than 100 quizzes on FunTrivia site.

FALSE

There are no civilians buried in the West Point Cemetery.

TRUE

There are no known English words that rhyme with orange and purple.

FALSE

There are no women depicted on the famous Bayeux Tapestry.

FALSE

There are only 25 countries world-wide in which people drive on the left-hand side of the road.

FALSE

There are only four American states that contain the letter 'Y' in their state name.

FALSE

They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance were the last words of JEB Stuart, on May 11, 1864 at Yellow Tavern, Virginia?

TRUE

This one is about floss just for fun: Levi Spear Parmly promoted his modern floss with a piece of silk thread in 1815.

TRUE

Tiger Electronics and Nerf are Hasbro brands.

TRUE

Tigers have striped skin as well as striped fur.

FALSE

Tignes, Meribel, Risoul, Verbier: All of the above were French ski resorts.

FALSE

To 'plead the 5th' is to refuse to allow law enforcement officials to search your car or household.

TRUE

To describe the comparison of the equivalent weight of one hummingbird, it would equal approximately the same as one packet of a sugar substitute, such as Splenda.

FALSE

To get a wart from a toad, you would have to touch the toad for five minutes or more.

FALSE

To produce a blue color in fireworks, you would heat compounds of barium.

TRUE

Today's graduation caps and gowns originated during the 13th century when scholars deemed it necessary to wear them to keep warm because of the cold weather.

FALSE

Tom Green dressed up as Hitler and barged into a bar mitzvah.

FALSE

Tomatoes are vegetables.

TRUE

Tonto's horse was called Scout.

FALSE

Toothpaste was first used in America around 500 BC.

TRUE

Tornadoes seldom move at speeds greater than 40 mph.

FALSE

Toronto is the capital of Canada.

FALSE

Toys and Games: The Big Wheel, a large plastic tricycle popular in the 1970s, was originally made by Kenner.

TRUE

True Roquefort cheese is made from ewe's milk.

TRUE

True or False: "Alexander the Great" was also known as "Alexander of Macedonia".

TRUE

True or False: A baby cannot blush.

FALSE

True or False: A teaspoon of ground coffee contains more caffeine than a teaspoon of tea leaves.

TRUE

True or False: Alchemy is a philosophical system founded on the principle of trying to transform base metals into more rare metals.

TRUE

True or False: British actor Stewart Granger's real name was James Stewart.

TRUE

True or False: Diagonals drawn from opposing corners of a rectangle will always bisect each other.

TRUE

True or False: Harper Lee won the Pulitzer Prize for the novel "To Kill A Mockingbird."

FALSE

True or False: In 1968, Graham Hill became the first British racing driver to win the World Championship.

FALSE

True or False: In the English version of the game "Monopoly", Old Kent Road is the highest selling property.

TRUE

True or False: Joshua Slocum was the first person to sail around the world single-handed.

TRUE

True or False: Michael Franti used to be the main singer in the band "The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy"

TRUE

True or False: On Ernest Shackleton's famous South Pole expedition (1914 - 1916), the ship they set out on was called the "Endurance".

FALSE

True or False: Only the Chinese Tiger is an endangered tiger species.

TRUE

True or False: Saint Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, was not born in Ireland.

FALSE

True or False: Spinach, Popeye's favourite food, contains roughly 10 times the iron content of any other vegetable.

TRUE

True or False: Sudd is a name given to a swampy area in Sudan.

FALSE

True or False: The "Lumbar Curve" is located in the leg on the human body.

FALSE

True or False: The 'Laughing Cavalier' was painted by Rembrandt.

FALSE

True or False: The Queen normally faces right on British postage stamps.

TRUE

True or False: The Trans-Siberian railway line is the longest in the world.

FALSE

True or False: The blue whale, the world's largest creature, has the biggest eye in the animal kingdom, roughly the size of a large dinner plate.

FALSE

True or False: The film "The Princess Bride" was released in 1984.

TRUE

True or False: The first living creatures to fly in a hot air balloon were a duck, a sheep and a rooster.

TRUE

True or False: The first major motor race run in the British Isles was the Gordon Bennett Trophy of 1903.

FALSE

True or False: The man who is considered responsible for inventing the mouse, Douglas Engelbart, never patented his idea.

FALSE

True or False: The martial art of tae kwon do originates from Japan.

FALSE

True or False: The painting "The Persistence of Memory" was a product of the artist Picasso.

FALSE

True or False: Traditionally, the amethyst gemstone is the birthstone for the month of August.

FALSE

True or False: William Shakespeare was the first Poet Laureate.

FALSE

True or false? A silverfish is actually a silver fish.

TRUE

True or false? Ben Stiller and Jerry Stiller are related.

FALSE

True or false? Hollywood is the fourth largest city in California by land area.

FALSE

True or false? M&M candies cannot be made black because there is no dye dark enough to color the candy.

FALSE

True or false? Pepsi never made a coffee-flavored soda because it could not compete with Coke's coffee soda.

FALSE

True or false? Spongebob Squarepants is a yellow sponge with black holes.

FALSE

True or false? The answer to this question is false.

TRUE

True or false? The longest gum wrapper chain created was about ten miles long (2010 record).

FALSE

True or false? The result of 11111 X 11111 will be 1111111111 because 1 X 1 is 1.

TRUE

True or false? The world's largest cashew tree is over 7,000 square feet.

TRUE

U.S. Commercials: CBS used the slogans "Reach for the Stars" and "We've Got the Touch" to promote its lineup of programming during the 1980s.

FALSE

Tuxedo Park, New York is named after the tuxedo dinner jacket.

TRUE

Two days before Anthony Porter was to be executed for a double murder, he was granted a stay when students re-enacting the case discovered the real killer.

TRUE

Until the end of the twentieth century there has been only one U.S. president born in Missouri.

TRUE

Unusual Deaths: Astronauts Charles Bassett and Elliott See died during a trip to St. Louis, on February 28, 1966, to visit their Gemini spacecraft.

FALSE

Up to this very day, the Tecumseh Curse has so-called 'caused' the death of every US Presidents who had been elected every 20 years. Includes Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy and James Garfield.

TRUE

Valerie Hobson played the part of Estella in 'Great Expectations' (1946). She was married to the Secretary of State for War, John Profumo, who had an infamous affair with call girl, Christine Keeler.

TRUE

Venezuela was one of the five founder members of OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries).

TRUE

Venus has the highest average surface temperature of the planets in our solar system.

TRUE

Video Arcade: In the arcade game "Ms Pac-Man", the ghosts are named Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Sue.

FALSE

Video Games: The Sega Dreamcast game "Bomber Hehhe!" was a clone of the 1980s vintage Activision classic "Kaboom!"

FALSE

Video Games: The game "Tecmo Super Bowl" was based on the Washington Redskins' winning 1995 NFL season.

TRUE

We all know that Alexander Hamilton was killed in a duel with Aaron Burr, but did you know that Hamilton's son was also killed in a previous duel?

TRUE

We've all heard the saying "laughter is the best medicine" (although as one comedian said "Unless you're diabetic and then insulin comes pretty high on the list!"), but in 1989, a man named Ole Bentzen was watching the film 'A Fish Called Wanda' and laughed so much, he died.

FALSE

When Pete Rose played for the Cincinnati Reds his number was 0.

FALSE

When a stutterer has trouble with a particular word, you can put him at ease if you tell him "Slow down...take your time...think of what you are trying to say."

TRUE

When the Chicago World's Fair opened on May 1 1893, one of the attractions was the world's largest Ferris wheel.

FALSE

While in space astronauts are slightly shorter than when they're on earth.

TRUE

Wisconsin (representing States U-W): Madison, the capital of Wisconsin, is located in and is seat of Dane County.

TRUE

Witches were never burned at the stake in Salem, Mass.

FALSE

With all the great songs that have come out of all the Disney movies, there has never been a Disney song that made it to number 1 on the charts.

TRUE

Without using a calculator, the square root of 12345678987654321 is 111111111

FALSE

Women athletes competed with male athletes in the Ancient Greek Olympic Games.

FALSE

Women's Basketball: The Charlotte Sting joined the WNBA in 2000, as an expansion team.

TRUE

World War II lasted from 1939 to 1945 in Europe.

FALSE

Written in Latin and translated into English, the first line of the 1215 Magna Carta began, "For the lord God omnipotent reigneth, hallelujah".

TRUE

You are more likely to be attacked by mosquitoes if you eat bananas.

TRUE

You are not considered a baby boomer if you were born in the 30s.

FALSE

You can only see a rainbow with your back to the sun.

TRUE

You mail some books (media/book rate) to the wrong address. The post office will return them to you postage due (you will have paid twice).

FALSE

You toss a fair coin 1 million times. It is probable that you will have at least one run of at least 25 heads in a row.

TRUE

Your ears and your nose lengthen throughout your life.

FALSE

Zero is both an even number and an odd number.

FALSE

Ziggy Marley was the lead singer of the reggae supergroup, 'The Whalers'.

TRUE

Zip stands for Zone Improvement Plan.

FALSE

Zsa Zsa Gabor is credited with saying, "Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed and a jackass who pays for everything".

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