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132 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.

    Both Rayford and his daughter Chloe are married in Tribulation Force.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: True
  2. 2.

    Writer and artist Edward Gorey never married.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: True
  3. 3.

    Harry Potter once kissed Luna Lovegood.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: False
  4. 4.

    William Shakespeare had two daughters and one son, named Susanna, Judith, and Hamlet.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: False
  5. 5.

    Vivian Leigh earned the same amount of money as Clark Gable for her work in Gone With the Wind.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: False
  6. 6.

    In the novel Left Behind, character Rayford Steele is a pilot for Pan-American Airways.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: False
  7. 7.

    Kurt Vonnegut created the character Billy Pilgrim in his novel Breakfast of Champions.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: False
  8. 8.

    The "Berenstein Bears" is the correct spelling of the educational children's book series' name.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: False
  9. 9.

    Dennis Nedry was paid by a rival company to sabotage Jurassic Park in the self-titled book.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: False
  10. 10.

    Draco Malfoy is killed by Harry Potter in the last book of the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: False
  11. 11.

    "Green Eggs and Ham" consists of only 50 different words.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: True
  12. 12.

    Harry Potter marries Hermione in the last book of the series.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: False
  13. 13.

    The Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences named the new ankylosaurus species Crichtonsaurus in honor of Michael Crichton, the author of Jurassic Park.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: True
  14. 14.

    Dracula is destroyed by contact with sunlight

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: False
  15. 15.

    The Hemingways have a history of suicides.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: True
  16. 16.

    In All Creatures Great and Small, Mr. Worley had six pigs.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: True
  17. 17.

    Robert B. Parker completed Raymond Chandlers unfinished final novel, Poodle Springs.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: True
  18. 18.

    Kathy Reichs has written some great mysteries, where the primary character is Forensic Archaeologist, Kay Scarpetta.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: False
  19. 19.

    Dean Koontz has undergone hair transplant surgery.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: True
  20. 20.

    Bloody Stupid Johnson, Discworlds famous dyslexic architect, is Terry Pratchetts version of Leonardo da Vinci.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: False
  21. 21.

    Edward Gorey won a Tony Award for Best Costume Design for the 1977 Broadway production Dracula.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: True
  22. 22.

    The novel Wizard and Glass picks up where Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands left off.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: True
  23. 23.

    Dean Koontz is a confirmed bachelor.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: False
  24. 24.

    The novel The Grapes of Wrath was made into an opera.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: True
  25. 25.

    In 1910 Jack London bought a ranch in Glen Ellen, California, and since then he began to write mostly to finance it.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: True
  26. 26.

    Mariel Hemingway never starred in a Superman movie.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: False
  27. 27.

    Edward Gorey, who gained fame for his illustrative and writing abilities, did not have any formal art education at all.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: False
  28. 28.

    Piers Anthony wrote a historical/fantasy novel about Native Americans called Tatham Mound.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: True
  29. 29.

    Mariel Hemingway is Margaux Hemingway's mother.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: False
  30. 30.

    The book 1984 was published in 1949.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: True
  31. 31.

    Clive Barker had his screenplay for the remake of the Japanese monster film Gojira rejected because it was too dark and disturbing.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: True
  32. 32.

    Ernest Hemingway served in the army.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: False
  33. 33.

    In the novel The Amber Spyglass, Father Gomez was sent by the Consistorial Court to guide Lyra to Dr. Malone.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: False
  34. 34.

    Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote The Chambered Nautilus and The Deacons Masterpiece in the same year.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: True
  35. 35.

    Dorothy Parker grew up in an extremely close family.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: False
  36. 36.

    In The Dark Tower, Stephen King urges the reader to stop reading at a certain point in the book and not go any further.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: True
  37. 37.

    Ernest Hemingway's mother dressed him in girls' clothing when he was little.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: True
  38. 38.

    Dorothy Parker had an affair with F. Scott Fitzgerald.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: True
  39. 39.

    Fictional characters Both Buck and Rayford go to work for Nicolae Carpathia in Tribulation Force.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: True
  40. 40.

    In the novel Nicolae, Nicolae Carpathia begins to establish his one world Government.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: True
  41. 41.

    Kristen Gregory from the book The Clique is rich and always wears designer clothes.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: False
  42. 42.

    There is only one scene in the movie Gone with the Wind that suggests Scarlett has a problem with alcohol consumption.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: False
  43. 43.

    Martin Rothschild was Dorothy Parkers uncle.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: True
  44. 44.

    In the novel Gone with the Wind, Dilcey had two children.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: True
  45. 45.

    Originally, the character Charlie from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was going to be black.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: True
  46. 46.

    Victorian poets Elizabeth Browning and Robert Browning were brother and sister.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: False
  47. 47.

    Jack Starbright, a recurring character in the Alex Rider books, enjoys cooking.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: False
  48. 48.

    Harry liked Cho in the book Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: False
  49. 49.

    Clark Gable won the Oscar for Best Actor for his role as Rhett Butler.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: False
  50. 50.

    After marriage, T. S. Eliot gave up writing his dissertation, and never received his PhD.

    • ATrue
    • BFalse
    Answer: False

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