True or False?

True or False?

Can you distinguish fact from fiction? Truth from myth? And how good is your general knowledge? This fun quiz will present you with short statements – and you have to decide whether they are true or false. Are you up for it? Then let’s play!

Fact Lab
Interesting Fact
The first ever science documentary got stuck straight into the most important topic – cheese. Made in 1903, Cheese Mites showed audiences what a piece of stilton looked like beneath a microscope. The scientist reveals a veritable smorgasbord of mites, in his words “crawling and creeping about in all directions, looking like great uncanny crabs, bristling with long spiny hairs and legs”. The year was 1903, and early cinema goers were shocked and thrilled by the images, stilton manufacturers were appalled, and sales of cheap microscopes soared.
Interesting Fact
The inventor of Life Savers, Clarence Crane, got the idea of making them round rather than square (which was the most common shape of candy at the time) after she visited a pharmacy and watched how pills were cut into small round shapes.
Interesting Fact
Polaris, commonly North Star, Northern Star or Pole Star is the brightest star in the constellation Ursa Minor. It is very close to the north celestial pole, making it the current northern pole star.