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True or False Questions about History

232 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.

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  1. 1.

    Amy Carter, daughter of former president Jimmy Carter, was arrested in 1987 for protesting against campus CIA recruitment.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: True
  2. 2.

    Abraham Lincoln was the first U.S. President to be born outside the borders of the thirteen original states.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: True
  3. 3.

    If you grab the bladed end of a longsword in a specific way, you will not cut yourself.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: True
  4. 4.

    Napoleon Bonaparte had no children to succeed him.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: False
  5. 5.

    The Messinian salinity crisis occurred when the Mediterranean sea evaporated completely during the Pliocene epoch.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: False
  6. 6.

    The Japanese samurai warriors were mostly illiterate in the past.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: False
  7. 7.

    About 2.7 billion years ago Stromatolites were widespread in the Precambrian seas and still exist in hypersaline areas such as Shark Bay, Australia.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: True
  8. 8.

    Richard Widmark played Jim Bowie in the 1960 movie The Alamo.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: True
  9. 9.

    The American Flag was raised on Mount Surabachi on Iwo Jima in 1944.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: False
  10. 10.

    American cartoonist and creator of the comic strip Peanuts, Charles Schulz died in 2000.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: True
  11. 11.

    Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin and Bill Anders were the three astronauts on Apollo 11.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: False
  12. 12.

    Anomalocaris was a predatory arthropod of the Cambrian period which could reach a length of 100 cm or more.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: False
  13. 13.

    Incestuous royal marriages were common in Ancient Egypt.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: True
  14. 14.

    Iran invaded Iraq in 1981.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: False
  15. 15.

    The two atomic bombs dropped on Japan by the United States in August 1945 were named 'Little Man' and 'Fat Boy'.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: False
  16. 16.

    Martin Luther King Jr. and Anne Frank were born the same year.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: True
  17. 17.

    In 1982 the US Patent Office issued a patent for a face mask that was designed to stop people from eating.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: True
  18. 18.

    U.S. military air defence jets scrambled into action as soon as news arrived that the first hijacked Boeing 727 had hit one of the twin World Trade Center towers on 9/11.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: True
  19. 19.

    Ottoman Empire was created in 1299.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: True
  20. 20.

    The mission of Luna 24 was to collect soil samples from the Moon.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: True
  21. 21.

    The Battle of Trafalgar took place on October 23rd, 1805

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: False
  22. 22.

    Former Enron executive Kenneth Lay died of a heart attack at the age of 66 on July 5, 2006.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: False
  23. 23.

    Dinosaurs once existed on every continent except Antarctica.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: False
  24. 24.

    The commander of the Unions 24th Massachusetts Colored Infantry was Colonel Robert Gould Shaw.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: False
  25. 25.

    The Song Dynasty (960-1279) ruled over all of the territories of China.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: False
  26. 26.

    Loss of life was limited during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake as it occurred shortly after 5:00 pm, so many people were not in their homes.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: False
  27. 27.

    A musical version of Carrie, the Stephen King story, was a huge flop on Broadway.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: True
  28. 28.

    Ancient Greece was the birthplace of the chariot.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: False
  29. 29.

    Napoleon Bonapartes body still lies in Saint Helena, where he was buried.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: False
  30. 30.

    During the Cambrian little or nothing lived on land.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: True
  31. 31.

    Iran invaded Iraq on 22 September, 1980.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: False
  32. 32.

    Kublai Khan is the grandchild of Genghis Khan?

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: True
  33. 33.

    Alexander Kerensky was the first Prime Minister of the Russian Provisional Government in 1917.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: False
  34. 34.

    The Battle of Trenton lasted over three hours.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: False
  35. 35.

    Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht took part in the German Revolution of 1919.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: True
  36. 36.

    During WWII, upon leaving the Philippines, American general Douglass Mcarthur said I will never return.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: False
  37. 37.

    The Fourth Crusade lasted from 1095-1099 AD.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: False
  38. 38.

    The Zodiak killer is a suspect in the murders of Lindsay Cutshall and Jason S. Allen who were murdered in their sleeping bags on Fish Head Beach in Jenner, California in August 2004?

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: True
  39. 39.

    Michael Keatons debut was in the 80s.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: False
  40. 40.

    October 13th 1582 does not exist in Poland.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: True
  41. 41.

    On September 1, 1979, Pioneer 11 became the first spacecraft to visit Mercury.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: False
  42. 42.

    General Stonewall Jackson was a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: False
  43. 43.

    Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation shortly after the Battle of Gettysburg.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: False
  44. 44.

    In the age of the Vikings, Viking ships were the most technologically advanced.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: True
  45. 45.

    Alexander the Great commanded the Macedonian army and defeated Athens, Thebes and their allies at the Battle of Chaeronea (338 BC).

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: False
  46. 46.

    The United States Department of Homeland Security was formed in response to the September 11th attacks.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: True
  47. 47.

    Ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, pliosaurs, moasaurs, are pterosaurs are dinosaurs.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: False
  48. 48.

    Augustus was the cousin of Julius Caesar.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: False
  49. 49.

    When the Anzacs evacuated the Gallipoli Peninsula in December 1915, 25 men were killed as they climbed into the boats that were waiting to take them to the ships offshore.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: False
  50. 50.

    Sri Lanka was not considered part of the British Raj.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: True

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