Fact or Fiction Quiz
Just answer if the following questions are a fact or fiction?
Quiz I
- FACT or FICTION? The Canary Islands are named after dogs, not birds?
- The Spanish Flu first started in Spain?
- A man has one less rib than a woman?
- The longest place name on the planet is in Wales?
- The national animal of Scotland is the unicorn?
- There are more stars in space than grains of sand on every beach in the world?
- Vikings wore horns on their helmets?
- Birds do not urinate?
- Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to hide from enemies?
- Singer George Michael claimed that, after waking from a 3-week long coma in 2012, he temporarily had a West Country accent?
- Camels store water in their humps?
- Carrots help you see better in the dark?
- Brazil is home to the biggest Japanese population outside of Japan?
- Goldfish have a three-second memory?
- In 1752, Britons went to bed on September 2 and woke up on September 14?
- Mercury is the warmest planet in the Solar System?
- Shaving makes hair grow back faster?
- Houseflies have an average lifespan of 20 to 30 days?
- Vincent Van Gogh only sold one painting in his lifetime?
- Sharks can smell a drop of blood from several miles away?
- Bats are blind?
- Alcohol destroys brain cells?
Answers:
- FACT - The Canary Islands are named after dogs, not birds?
- FICTION - The Spanish Flu first started in Spain?
- FICTION - A man has one less rib than a woman?
- FICTION (It's in New Zealand)
- FACT - The national animal of Scotland is the unicorn?
- FACT - There are more stars in space than grains of sand on every beach in the world?
- FICTION - Vikings wore horns on their helmets?
- FACT - Birds do not urinate?
- FICTION - Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to hide from enemies?
- FACT - Singer George Michael claimed that, after waking from a 3-week long coma in 2012, he temporarily had a West Country accent?
- FICTION (they store fat in their hump for energy)
- FICTION - Carrots help you see better in the dark?
- FACT - Brazil is home to the biggest Japanese population outside of Japan?
- FICTION - Goldfish have a three-second memory?
- FACT (11 days were lost when the Julian Calendar changed to the Gregorian Calendar)
- FICTION (Venus is the warmest)
- FICTION - Shaving makes hair grow back faster?
- FACT - Houseflies have an average lifespan of 20 to 30 days?
- FACT - Vincent Van Gogh only sold one painting in his lifetime?
- FICTION - Sharks can smell a drop of blood from miles away?
- FICTION (Bats are not blind)
- FICTION - (Alcohol does not destroy brain cells)