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

2. 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 False

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

4. 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 False

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

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

7. 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 False

8. 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. True False

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

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

11. 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 False

12. 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 False

13. 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. True False

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

15. "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. True False

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

17. "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? True False

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

19. 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 False

20. 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 False