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Friends’ nights at your place. Pizza, movie, everyone’s happy. But… you decide that this day could have an even more perfect ending. How about spicing up the atmosphere with a unique true or false trivia that will reveal your creative side and show everyone that you are not only fun but smart too? Get your teams paired up and give as many correct answers as you can. You can write your answers down and judge them at the end. The winner takes it all – the quiz-master crown is waiting for its king (or queen)!
Don’t worry – you can also crush the quiz on your own. It’s the perfect way to chase boredom away, and you can always share it so your friends can see how good you are. Challenge them to beat your score (if they can!).
The rules are easy – go through all 60 questions/statements and answer ‘true’ or ‘false’. To see how many you got right, simply skip to the end section and check the answers. Good luck! (not that you need it, eh?).
60 True or False Quiz Questions with Answers
Ready, steady… go!
1. Queen Elizabeth the 1st was the daughter of King Henry the 8th of England
A: True
2. Vitamin C is also known by the chemical name of Ascorbic Acid
A: True
3. The Nobel prize-winning novel ‘The Old Man and the Sea’ was written by the American author John Steinbeck
A: False. ‘The Old Man and the Sea’ is a masterpiece belonging to the American novelist Ernest Hemingway
4. Rapper Nicki Minaj is over 180 cm (5 ft, 10.9 in) in height
A: False. Nicki Minaj is ‘only’ 157 cm (5 ft, 1.8 in) tall. Hard to tell with all those high heels, right?
5. In theory, it takes over 5,000 helium balloons to lift an average-sized human from the ground
A: True
6. The Pan American Highway in the U.S.A. is the world’s longest highway
A: True
7. Transylvania is a historical region located in central Romania
A: True
8. Disabled Valery Spiridonov was the first person in the world to have his head transplanted onto another body
A: False. Although Valery volunteered for this at first, he changed his mind after his girlfriend became pregnant
9. The maximum length for a video posted on TikTok is 60 seconds
A: True
10. Glass is manufactured mainly from processed sand
A: True
11. Actress Marilyn Monroe had 3 children resulting from her 3 marriages
A: False. Although Marilyn was married 3 times, she didn’t have any children (that we know of, right?)
12. Popping your finger or toe knuckles is bad for your joints
A: False. There is no scientific proof that popping your knuckles is bad for you
13. The Trojan horse was used by the Greeks to mask their way into the city of Troy and win the war
A: True
14. There are 6 naturally occurring noble gases in the periodic table of chemical elements
A: True
15. The liver is the largest organ in the human body
A: False. The human body’s largest organ is the skin. It weighs 3.6 kg (8 lbs.)
16. Singer and actress Miley Cyrus is an only child
A: False. Miley has no less than 5 siblings (4 brothers and one sister)
17. There are over 30,000 varieties of apples existing in the world
A: True
18. Harry Potter’s first flying broomstick is called Firebolt
A: False. Harry’s first broomstick was the Nimbus 2000
— 19th of 60 True or False Questions
19. The U.S.A.’s southernmost state is Texas
A: False. The U.S.A.’s southernmost state is Florida
20. The world’s earliest surviving motion-picture film dates back to 1888
A: True
21. Confucius is a world-renowned Latin philosopher
A: False. Despite the sound of his name, Confucius was Chinese
22. Footballer Cristiano Ronaldo is the most-followed person on Instagram and Facebook (in 2021)
A: True
23. Insulin was discovered by physiologist and professor of medicine Nicolae Paulescu
A: True
24. Real Madrid football club’s biggest rival is Atlético Madrid
A: False. Barcelona football club is Real Madrid’s biggest rival, since 1929, when La Liga was founded
25. After you drink alcohol, it takes your brain 6 minutes to start reacting to it
A: True
26. Thomas Jefferson was the second president of the U.S.A.
A: False. Thomas Jefferson was the third president of the USA. The second one was John Adams
27.There is no way of telling boiled eggs from raw eggs until you break them open
A: False. You don’t have to break the egg to see if it’s boiled or raw. Simply try and spin it on the table – if it spins, it’s definitely boiled.
28. Dan Brown’s novel ‘Inferno’ was inspired by Dante Alighieri’s poem ‘Inferno’
A: True
29. Singer Billie Eilish’s full name is Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O’Connell
A: True
30. Manchester United football club has never won the UEFA Champions League trophy
A: False. ‘Man’ United won the UCL 3 times, in 1968, 1999, and 2008
31. Magician Richard Jones is the 10th winner of the TV show Britain’s got Talent
A: True
32. Mount Fuji is the highest mountain in Japan
A: True
33. Steak contains more protein than a regular-sized broccoli
A: False. It’s actually the other way around (we couldn’t believe it either!)
34. TV series Game of Thrones – Tyrion Lannister’s favourite quote is ‘I drink, and I know things’
A: True
35. Pirates believed that having a ‘calico’ (three-coloured) cat on board of the ship brings bad luck
A: False. On the contrary, a pirate’s ship would never sail without a ‘calico’ cat on board, as they are supposed to bring good luck
36. Put together, a human’s body blood vessels can circle the Earth
A: True
— 37th of 60 True or False Questions
37. The world’s longest word has no less than 189,819 letters and comes from the English language
A: True
38. Athlete Usain Bolt is faster than a cheetah
A: False. Not quite. Bolt is fast, but the cheetah is twice as fast
39. Indira Gandhi was the first female Prime Minister of India
A: True
40. The lighter was invented before the matches
A: True
41. The oldest educational establishment in the world is the University of Al Quaraouiyine in Morocco
A: True
42. ‘Braveheart’ and ‘The English patient’ have competed for the ‘Academy Award Best Picture’ award in the same year
A: False. ‘Braveheart’ has won the award in 1996, and ‘The English patient’ in 1997
43. The first football in the world was manufactured from a pig’s bladder
A: True
44. The X-Factor TV show first aired in the U.S.A. in 2004
A: False. X-Factor is a British TV show that first aired in 2004
45. Just like humans, dogs can be left-pawed or right-pawed
A: True
46. Rio de Janeiro is the capital city of Brazil
A: False. The capital of Brazil is the city of Brasília. Rio de Janeiro is Brazil’s second most populated city
47. Although they love to drink it, cats are lactose intolerant to cow’s milk
A: True
48. Grapefruit can cause poisoning if consumed with some prescribed drugs
A: True
49. Except for humans, crows and ravens are the most intelligent creatures in the world
A: True
50. The world’s best-selling music album of all times belongs to The Beatles
A: False. The best-selling music album of all times is Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’
51. The spiral shapes of sunflowers follow the Fibonacci sequence (where each number is the sum of the last 2) to maximize sunlight intake
A: True
52. Evita Perón was the first female president of Argentina
A: False. Evita Perón was the wife of the Argentinian president Juan Perón, and First Lady of Argentina
53. A human being can live up to 3 weeks without drinking water
A: False. Specialists say that we can’t survive for more than 3 days without getting hydrated
54. Writer Agatha Christie’s real name is Mary Westmacott
A: True
— 55th of 60 True or False Questions
55. Singer Lady Gaga has (up to this date) played in no less than 5 movies
A: True
56. A person’s fingernails and hair continue to grow after they die
A: False. The impression of growth is only given by the fact that a person’s skin around nails and hair retracts after death
57. ‘The Birds’ (1963 horror movie) was directed by American film director Steven Spielberg
A: False. ‘The Birds’ was directed by the English film director Alfred Hitchcock
58. It is illegal to feed pigeons in the Italian city of Venice
A: True
59. The Quetzalcóatl Pyramid in Mexico is bigger than the Great Egyptian Pyramid of Giza
A: True
60. Human teeth are just as strong as the teeth of a mature shark
A: True
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