Your Name:
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 acquired the entire island of Manhattan from a
Native American tribe for a few goods worth around $700 in today's
currency.
True False
4)
When the English 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)
Mud throwing was an official event at the 1904 Olympics.
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 worshiped Ninkasi, a goddess of beer.
True False
9)
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, two of America's founding fathers,
both died on July 4, 1826, fifty years to the day after the signing
of the Declaration of Independence.
True False
10)
Marco Polo introduced ice cream to Europe after watching it being
made in China.
True False