True or False Questions about Famous People — page 2
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.
- 51.
Senator and Vice President Hubert Humphrey died in 1978 after a heroic battle with cancer.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 52.
The teddy bear toy is named after former president Theodore Roosevelt.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 53.
Robert McNamara died in the same city he was born in.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: False - 54.
Robert McNamara was the 11th US Secretary of Defense.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: False - 55.
In 1536, Henry VIIIs two daughters, Mary and Elizabeth, were declared illegitimate.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 56.
Len Dawson, who played quarterback for the KC Chiefs, wore number 16.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 57.
Sarah Palin was born in Texas.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: False - 58.
Neither Anne Sullivan nor Helen Keller ever married. They lived together from the time Anne came to Helen as a child, until she died.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: False - 59.
Della Reese and Lena Horne were born on the same day.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: False - 60.
After retirement as President, George Washington was called to duty one more time as Commander in Chief of the army.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 61.
Black Bart was the most successful pirate in the Golden Age of Piracy.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 62.
Marie Antoinette spent a lot money on gambling.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 63.
The first Northern European mission exploring North America was led by Italian explorer Giovanni Caboto (John Cabot).
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 64.
Marie Antoinette and her husband, the Dauphin of France, consummated their marriage on the wedding night.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: False - 65.
Pirates who operated out of the West Indies were known as Buccaneers.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 66.
Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Elizabeth of York were all married to Henry VIII.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: False - 67.
The Rookie Jock-Name of the Year award should go to Minnesota Twins pitcher Boof Bonser, especially because its his real name, too.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 68.
John D. Rockefeller and Laura Celestia Cettie Spelman had four daughters and one son together.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 69.
Condoleezza Rice is the first woman to serve as U.S. Secretary of State.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: False - 70.
Outlaw William Brooks was known also by the nickname Buffalo Bill.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 71.
The Bermuda Triangle is located in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 72.
Deion Sanders started his football career in San Fransisco.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: False - 73.
Billy the Kid killed 21 men in his lifetime.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: False - 74.
D. B. Cooper is the name used to refer to a notorious bank robber.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: False - 75.
Fidel Castro once swam across the Rio Grande to sneak into the USA .
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 76.
Al Capone led a crime syndicate during the Prohibition Era.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 77.
Bail and bond are synonymous.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: False - 78.
When Joan was about 20 she said she had begun to receive visions of Saint Michael the Archangel, St. Catherine, and St. Margaret telling her to drive the English out of France.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: False - 79.
The reason why there is no Nobel Prize in Mathematics is that a mathematician had an affair with Alfred Nobel's wife.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: False - 80.
Abraham Lincoln carried bills, his mail, and personal notes in his hat.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 81.
Princess Diana's sister dated Prince Charles, before Diana and Charles became engaged.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 82.
When George Washington retired to Mount Vernon at age 65 he became reclusive seeing very few people other than Martha.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: False - 83.
George Washington was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 84.
Billy the Kid was left handed.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: False - 85.
A Filipino scientist was reportedly the one who discovered the erythromycin in 1949.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 86.
Two of the hotbeds for pirate activity were the islands of Tortuga and Port Royal.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 87.
Profiles in Courage is the book written by John F. Kennedy that won him the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1957.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 88.
The famed piracy in the Caribbean started around the first half of 1500s.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: False - 89.
The pirate term cackle fruit referred to bananas.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: False - 90.
Like most Virginia planters, George Washington was a one-crop (tobacco) farmer.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: False - 91.
Jerry Rice wore number 82 when he played for the San Francisco 49ers.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: False - 92.
Kim Jong il wrote a book on film making.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 93.
On February 24, 1982, ice hockey player Wayne Gretzky broke the record for most goals in a season, by scoring 76 goals.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: False - 94.
Karl Rove was married in 1977 and divorced in 1980.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 95.
Gerald Ford had four children.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 96.
Tsar Nicolas of Russia referred to Grigori Rasputin as our friend and a holy man.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 97.
First Lady Margaret Taylor reportedly prayed nightly for her husbands defeat in elections.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 98.
Martha Jefferson, wife of President Thomas Jefferson, gave birth to two children.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: False - 99.
At 53, Muggsy Bogues was the smallest player in NBA history but he was big enough to outgrow his real given name, Moses.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: False - 100.
Eleanor Roosevelt wrote a bi-monthly newspaper column called New in Washington.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: False
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