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Am I Pulling Your Leg?

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Introduction:
"Have you ever been to a trivia night and thought that some of the answers were just so incongruous and incredible, they just might be true? Well, take my quiz and tell me... Am I pulling your leg, or could this be true?"


1. 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.
    True
    False


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


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


4. 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
    False


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


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


7. 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.
    True
    False


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


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


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


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