| The Gullibility Test |
| History and Culture |
| 1) Sir Thomas Crapper invented the toilet. True False 2) The Eskimo language has over 100 words for snow. True False 3) Early Dutch traders bought Manhattan from a Native American tribe for $24. True False 4) When the Pilgrims landed in the New World they were surprised to discover that one of the first Native Americans they met had lived in England for many years. True False 5) The idea to build Stanford University was suggested to Leland Stanford during a seance while he was contacting the ghost of his son, Leland Stanford Jr. True False 6) There is a lake in Massachusetts called Lake Chargoggaggoggmanchaugagoggchaubunagungamaug. The name is a Native American word that means "You fish on your side, I'll fish on my side, nobody fish in the middle." True False 7) When Columbus sailed to America in 1492, most Europeans believed that the earth was flat. True False 8) The Ancient Sumerians worshipped a deity named Ninkasi. She was the Goddess of Beer. True False 9) At least ten people are known to have survived two atomic bomb blasts, having been in both Hiroshima and Nagasaki when the bombs were dropped on those cities during World War II. True False 10) Lewis and Clark claimed to have seen and pursued a living dinosaur on their 1806 expedition to the American West. True False 11) Cockroaches can survive for up to a month with their heads cut off. True False 12) Sharks do not get cancer. True False 13) Long-tailed, South American monkeys sometimes cross rivers by clinging to each other in order to form a living monkey chain that stretches between the trees on either side of the river. True False |
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