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'True or False' Quiz Questions I
- Ridley Scott directed the famous 1973 Hovis advertisement, called "Bike Round"?
- The highest peak in the Rocky Mountains range is Mount St. Helens?
- The Golden Gooseberry Awards is a mock award in recognition of the year's worst film and acting performances?
- Olivia Newton-John represented the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974, the year ABBA won with "Waterloo"?
- In the play Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw, Barbara Undershaft is a major in the Salvation Army?
- In 1860, the Pony Express reduced the time for messages to travel between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the USA to less than 5 days?
- Orville Wright, the first man to fly, was still alive when Charles Yeager piloted the first aircraft to exceed the speed of sound?
- After he married Yoko Ono in 1969, John Lennon added "Ono" as one of his middle names?
- The former cruise ship Queen Elizabeth 2, often called the QE2, is now operating as a university in Hong Kong Harbour?
- O. J. Simpson's first name is Otis?
- The "four-minute mile barrier" has now been broken by over half a million of the world's male runners?
- David Bowie declined a knighthood from the Queen?
- The character Rodney Trotter in Only Fools and Horses had just one 'O' level, which was in art?
- The British decimal twenty pence coin was introduced into circulation before the British pound coin?
- The initials 'KP', as in the famous British producer of nut-based snacks, stands for Kenya Peanuts?
Answers:
- True
- False (the highest peak is Mount Elbert)
- False (that's The Golden Raspberry Awards)
- True
- True
- False (it took 10 days)
- True (Orville Wright (1871-1948) and Yeager broke the speed of sound in 1947)
- True (he became John Winston Ono Lennon)
- False (it's now a floating hotel in Dubai)
- False (it's Orenthal)
- False (it been broken by close to 1,500 male athletes)
- True (in 2003, and he also declined a CBE)
- False (he had two - maths and art)
- True (20p coin - 9 June 1982, pound coin - 21 April 1983)
- False (it stands for Kenyon Produce, and the company was founded in 1853 as Kenyon & Son)
'True or False' Quiz Questions II
- The logo of SPAR stores is the fir tree because the word 'spar' in dutch means 'fir'?
- The source of the River Thames is in the Mendips?
- Donald Trump's father was named Fred?
- The Jasmine Revolution, in 2011, was a popular uprising in Ukraine?
- Martin Luther King and Anne Frank were born in the same year?
- Australian actress Nicole Kidman was actually born in the USA?
- Coulrophobia is the fear of clouds?
- Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a sculpture carved into a sandstone mountain?
- Tom Cruise has never won an Oscar?
- A red circle on a green background describes the flag of Sri Lanka?
- Most sharks have a lifepsan of 50 to 60 years?
- A sympitar is a Middle Eastern sabre with a curved blade?
- Japan has approximately double the population of the United Kingdom?
- Lincoln Cathedral was the tallest building in the world for 238 years between 1311 and 1549?
- Stonehenge was in private ownership until given to the nation in 1915?
Answers:
- True
- False (it's in the Cotswolds)
- True
- False (it was in Tunisia)
- True (in 1929)
- True (in Hawaii)
- False (it's clowns)
- False (it's granite)
- True
- False (that's the flag of Bangladesh)
- False (20 to 30 years)
- False (it's a cross between a guitar and Indian sitar - a scimitar is the sword)
- True
- True
- True
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