True or False Questions about Famous People
320 true or false questions with answers, all ages. Quick statements to judge true or false — great for fast rounds. Reveal the answers below, pick one at random, or present them full-screen.
- 1.
Barbara Bush, First Lady from 1989 to 1993, gave birth to six children.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 2.
Until age 13, Mata Hari attended only expensive schools.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 3.
Sir Francis Drake was an English pirate, sailor, and hero of many battles at sea.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 4.
Susan Smith was convicted of killing her 2 sons by drowning them in her car in 1994.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 5.
Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 6.
Martha Custis Washington took an active part in politics during her husbands administration.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: False - 7.
After Theodore Roosevelt's first wife died, he married a childhood sweetheart.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 8.
Franklin D. Roosevelt was a New York state senator, before he became president of the United States.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 9.
Isaac Newton described universal gravitation.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 10.
Benedict of Aniane was a monk that spent most of his life in rags.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 11.
Jacqueline Kennedy graduated from George Washington University with a bachelor of arts degree in French literature.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 12.
Marie Antoinette gave birth to four children.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 13.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt is one of the presidents depicted on Mount Rushmore in South Dakota.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: False - 14.
The Man in the Iron Mask, who died in 1703, was a prisoner during the reign of King Louis XIV of France.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 15.
One U.S. First Lady wrote an autobiography entitled Adventures of a Nobody.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 16.
As a young man, Vlad the Impaler was taken hostage by the Turks and sent to Istanbul.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 17.
Gunman Charles Bolles was a stagecoach robber in California and Oregon.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 18.
Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady from 1933 to 1945, once served hot dogs to the King and Queen of England.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 19.
Theodore Roosevelt was known as the Cyclone Assemblyman, The Hero of San Juan Hill and Roosevelt I.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 20.
Billy the Kid was one of the founding members of a vigilante group known as The Regulators.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 21.
At the time William II of England was crowned king, Normandy was a part of England.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: False - 22.
George Washington was elected by Congress and not by the Electoral College of the United States.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: False - 23.
Malcolm X was a college graduate.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: False - 24.
Ted Kennedy was approached by the Green Bay Packers to play professional football.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 25.
Frederick II of Prussia refused to bathe and stopped changing his clothes.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 26.
Parents in Romania used to threaten their children by telling them that Dracula would come if they were not good.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 27.
In the 21st century, pirates still roam the seas and account for billions of dollars in loss each year.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 28.
President Theodore Roosevelt walked Eleanor down the aisle on her wedding day.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 29.
George Washington was the first President to be inaugurated in two different cities.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 30.
Theodore Roosevelt's first wife, Alice, and his mother, Martha, died on the same day.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 31.
Spanish soldier Gil Perez claimed that he suddenly appeared in Mexico City on October 26, 1593 while he was on sentry duty in Manila.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 32.
In 1508 Amerigo Vespucci was a chief of navigation of voyages to the Indies.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 33.
George Washington was born outside of Boston in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1732.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: False - 34.
After serving 5 US Presidents, Senator Elizabeth Dole won election to the Senate from North Carolina in 2002.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: False - 35.
One of the most bloodthirsty mobsters, Toto Riina, is member of the American Mafia.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: False - 36.
Knute is perhaps the most famous name in college football but it was not Coach Rocknes real first name.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: False - 37.
Old West gunman William Brocius was also known as Wild Bill.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: False - 38.
Prince, Tom Jones and Liam Neeson were all born on June 7th but in different years.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 39.
Benedict Arnold once said: A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: False - 40.
Queen Victoria died of typhoid fever.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: False - 41.
At the age of 16, Aristotle Onassis spoke four languages.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 42.
The term Old World was used to refer to Europe, Asia and Africa.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 43.
Eva Perón was the first wife of Juan Perón (1895–1974) who served as President of Argentina.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: False - 44.
Henry McCarty is said to be the real name of the notorious Old West outlaw Billy the Kid.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 45.
Princess Diana of Wales was actually born on one of the royal estates.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 46.
What an irreparable loss! are the last words of Auguste Comte.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 47.
In 1943 Malcolm X joined the Army.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: False - 48.
Eva Peron died before reaching the age of 35.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 49.
Amerigo Vespucci was born on March 9, 1454.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 50.
Amerigo Vespucci died on February 22, 1512 on the newly discovered continent of South America.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: False
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