1. 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. True False

2. 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 False

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

4. 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 False

5. 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 False

6. One of the wonderous things that Marco Polo saw on his travels was a lump of coal. True False

7. "Shalme" is an ancient Hebrew word, meaning "to greet or salute". True False

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

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

10. 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 False