True or False Quiz 1

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1. Picasso said ?Art is a truth that lets us recognise a lie??

2. Male wasps have no sting?

3. Zoetrope was the Greek goddess of flowers?

4. Sinn Fein means ?Soldiers of Destiny??

5. A hellebore is a poisonous plant?

6. Utah is nicknamed ?The waterfall state??

7. A manometer measures the pressure of liquids?

8. Tex Avery unsuccessfully fought Joe Louis for the World Heavyweight Boxing championship?

9. Coedine suppresses a cough?

10. US presidents William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison were grandfather and grandson?

11. The capital of North Korea is Pyongyang

12. If writing a letter to an Archdeacon, the envelope would read ?The venerable the Archdeacon of?.?

13. The area of a circle is given by the formula PI x D

14. Mel Gibson was born in Australia

15. The Blue Boy was painted by Thomas Gainsborough

16. John Moores University can be found in Liverpool

17. The official language of the Bahamas is English

18. Princess Sophie of Greece is married to King Juan Carlos of Spain

19. John Stienbeck declined his award for the Nobel Prize in Literature

20. 70?s singer song writing duo Gallagher and Lyle who had a hit with ?I wanna stay with you? were in fact golfers Bernard Gallagher and Sandy Lyle

ANSWERS

1. False

2. True

3. False

4. False

5. True

6. False

7. True

8. False

9. True

10. True

11. True

12. True

13. False (PI x r2)

14. False (born in USA then moved to Australia)

15. True

16. True

17. True

18. True

19. False (Jean-Paul Satre)

20. False