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A 50 - 50 Chance. Life's a Lot Like That!

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Fun Trivia : Quizzes : True or False : A 50 - 50 Chance. Life's a Lot Like That!

Introduction:
"There is lots to learn here. I tried to make it as interesting as possible. Enjoy and have fun. Information gleaned from the New York Library Desk Reference. 2002."


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


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


3. 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
    False


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


5. Apollo 12 was the first manned landing in Mare Tranquillitatis.
    True
    False


6. 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.
    True
    False


7. 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
    False


8. All turkeys gobble.
    True
    False


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


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


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


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


13. 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
    False


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


15. Prior to 1920, the University of Alabama football team was named the "Red Boars"
    True
    False


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


17. Albuquerque, New Mexico, founded in 1607, is the oldest continuously occupied US state capital
    True
    False


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


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


20. 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.
    True
    False


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


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


23. Pennsylvania was the first state to be admitted to the original 13.
    True
    False


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


25. 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?
    Yes
    No


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