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
Alfred Mosher Butts, a New York architect, invented the popular board game Scrabble in 1931. He wanted to create a game which involved some luck and a lot of skill (and a large vocabulary)! Butts decided on the point-values of the letters by studying the front page of the New York Times.
Interesting Fact
This same European nation brought all sorts of things to Japan, including castella cake and Christianity! The ‘Nanban’ trade was a period in Japanese history when Europeans brought their wares to the isolated Japanese isles. Ever heard of Chicken Nanban? This delicious dish from Miyazaki also has its roots in the same European country.
Interesting Fact
It takes 540 peanuts to make a 12-ounce jar of peanut butter. By law, if something is labelled ‘peanut butter’, it should contain at least 90% peanuts. Americans love peanuts so much, that even astronaut Alan Shepard brought a peanut with him to the moon!