Circle the lie in each set. If you think all three statements are true, circle D.
1.
○ A. Octopuses have three hearts
○ B. A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance
○ C. Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump
○ D. They're all true!
2.
○ A. Dolphins rest one half of their brain at a time
○ B. Owls cannot move their eyes inside their sockets
○ C. Cats have only four muscles in each ear
○ D. They're all true!
3.
○ A. Cows can form close bonds with other cows
○ B. A shrimp's heart is in its head
○ C. Penguins can fly short distances when threatened
○ D. They're all true!
4.
○ A. Butterflies taste with their feet
○ B. Koalas have fingerprints very similar to humans'
○ C. Goldfish have a 3-second memory
○ D. They're all true!
5.
○ A. A group of owls is called a parliament
○ B. Sea otters have the thickest fur of any animal
○ C. Dogs can only see in black and white
○ D. They're all true!
6.
○ A. Honey found in ancient Egyptian tombs was still edible
○ B. Starfish have no brain
○ C. Sharks are the oldest kind of animal alive today
○ D. They're all true!
7.
○ A. A blue whale's heart is about the size of a small car
○ B. Some turtles can take in oxygen through their bottoms
○ C. Bats are blind
○ D. They're all true!
8.
○ A. Giraffes have the same number of neck bones as humans
○ B. Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins
○ C. Hummingbirds cannot fly backwards
○ D. They're all true!
9.
○ A. Crocodiles cannot stick their tongues out
○ B. Wombat poop is cube-shaped
○ C. Chameleons change colour to match their background
○ D. They're all true!
10.
○ A. A group of crows is called a murder
○ B. Mosquitoes cause more human deaths than any other animal
○ C. Ostriches bury their heads in the sand when scared
○ D. They're all true!
11.
○ A. Some frogs can freeze solid and survive
○ B. Flamingos are born pink
○ C. Rats make laughing sounds when tickled
○ D. They're all true!
12.
○ A. Elephants are the only animals that mourn their dead
○ B. A mantis shrimp's punch is one of the fastest strikes in the animal world
○ C. Sea otters hold hands while they sleep
○ D. They're all true!
13.
○ A. Axolotls can regrow parts of their brain
○ B. Parrotfish help make white sand beaches
○ C. All polar bears are left-handed
○ D. They're all true!
14.
○ A. A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant
○ B. Wolves howl at the full moon
○ C. Pigeons can learn to put groups of objects in order by number
○ D. They're all true!
15.
○ A. Cats spend about two-thirds of their lives asleep
○ B. A rhino's horn is made of keratin, like your hair and nails
○ C. Spiders have six legs
○ D. They're all true!
16.
○ A. Crows can recognise individual human faces
○ B. Kangaroos can easily hop backwards
○ C. One pufferfish has enough poison to kill about 30 people
○ D. They're all true!
17.
○ A. Dolphins use signature whistles like names
○ B. A snail can have thousands of tiny teeth
○ C. Koalas are a kind of bear
○ D. They're all true!
18.
○ A. A cockroach can live for about a week without its head
○ B. Electric eels are not true eels
○ C. Camels store water in their humps
○ D. They're all true!
19.
○ A. Ants never sleep
○ B. Hippos can't swim
○ C. Horses cannot vomit
○ D. They're all true!
20.
○ A. Jellyfish are about 95% water
○ B. Male seahorses give birth
○ C. Baby elephants sometimes suck their trunks for comfort
○ D. They're all true!
21.
○ A. Lightning is hotter than the surface of the Sun
○ B. Sound travels faster in water than in air
○ C. Humans use only 10% of their brains
○ D. They're all true!
22.
○ A. Diamond and graphite are both made of carbon
○ B. Water expands when it freezes
○ C. The Great Wall of China is easy to see from space
○ D. They're all true!
23.
○ A. Bananas are very slightly radioactive
○ B. Glass is a liquid that flows very slowly
○ C. Venus spins in the opposite direction to most planets
○ D. They're all true!
24.
○ A. There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on Earth's beaches
○ B. Seawater is blue only because it reflects the sky
○ C. A teaspoon of neutron star would weigh billions of tons
○ D. They're all true!
25.
○ A. Your stomach replaces its lining every few days
○ B. Mars is red because of rusty iron in its soil
○ C. Blood is blue inside your veins
○ D. They're all true!
26.
○ A. One spin of Venus takes longer than one trip around the Sun
○ B. Oxygen is the most common element in Earth's crust
○ C. Light travels at exactly 300,000 km per second
○ D. They're all true!
27.
○ A. Astronauts float because they are falling around Earth all the time
○ B. There is no gravity in space
○ C. The Moon moves a few centimetres further from Earth every year
○ D. They're all true!
28.
○ A. Atoms are mostly empty space
○ B. Einstein failed maths at school
○ C. Pluto has less surface area than Russia
○ D. They're all true!
29.
○ A. Your body holds enough iron to make a small nail
○ B. Sunlight takes about 8 minutes to reach Earth
○ C. Fingernails keep growing after death
○ D. They're all true!
30.
○ A. The largest known volcano in the solar system is on Mars
○ B. Sound cannot travel through empty space
○ C. Diamonds are made from squashed coal
○ D. They're all true!
31.
○ A. Particles of light have no mass
○ B. The human brain is about three-quarters water
○ C. Gravity pulls with the same force on every object, whatever its mass
○ D. They're all true!
32.
○ A. Octopuses have blue blood
○ B. Water boils at a lower temperature on a high mountain
○ C. Mount Everest is the tallest mountain measured from base to peak
○ D. They're all true!
33.
○ A. The smell after rain partly comes from bacteria in the soil
○ B. The Moon makes its own light
○ C. A fluffy cloud can weigh more than a million pounds
○ D. They're all true!
34.
○ A. Babies are born with more bones than adults have
○ B. The Earth is about 4.5 billion years old
○ C. Antibiotics cure viral infections like colds
○ D. They're all true!
35.
○ A. Light can behave like a wave and like a particle
○ B. White sunlight is a mix of all the colours of the rainbow
○ C. We lose most of our body heat through our heads
○ D. They're all true!
36.
○ A. Stomach acid is strong enough to dissolve some metals
○ B. Jupiter has the shortest day of any planet in our solar system
○ C. Hair, nails and rhino horn are made of the same protein
○ D. They're all true!
37.
○ A. Saturn is less dense than water
○ B. Sound cannot travel through the vacuum of space
○ C. It sometimes snows in the Sahara Desert
○ D. They're all true!
38.
○ A. An octopus has a cluster of nerve cells in each arm
○ B. Helium can flow with no friction at all when very cold
○ C. You can hear the Sun roaring on Earth
○ D. They're all true!
39.
○ A. DNA is shaped like a twisted ladder
○ B. Mercury is the hottest planet in our solar system
○ C. Chalk is made from the shells of tiny sea creatures
○ D. They're all true!
40.
○ A. Your red blood cells have no nucleus
○ B. At absolute zero, atoms stop moving completely
○ C. Your body makes millions of new red blood cells every second
○ D. They're all true!
41.
○ A. Australia is wider than the Moon
○ B. Africa is the largest continent
○ C. Australia is both a country and a continent
○ D. They're all true!
42.
○ A. Russia has 11 time zones
○ B. The shore of the Dead Sea is the lowest land on Earth
○ C. Mount Everest is still growing by a few millimetres a year
○ D. They're all true!
43.
○ A. Canada has more lakes than any other country
○ B. The Sahara is the largest desert in the world
○ C. Istanbul is in two continents
○ D. They're all true!
44.
○ A. More people live in California than in all of Canada
○ B. The Pacific Ocean covers more area than all the land on Earth
○ C. Vatican City is the smallest country in the world
○ D. They're all true!
45.
○ A. Africa has 54 countries
○ B. The Nile flows from south to north
○ C. Brazil is smaller than the 48 connected US states
○ D. They're all true!
46.
○ A. Finland has about three million saunas
○ B. The US–Canada border is the longest border between two countries
○ C. Japan is made up of thousands of islands
○ D. They're all true!
47.
○ A. Alaska is the westernmost, northernmost and easternmost US state
○ B. Greenland is a continent
○ C. Lake Baikal holds about a fifth of the world's unfrozen fresh surface water
○ D. They're all true!
48.
○ A. More than half the world's people live in Asia
○ B. The Mariana Trench is deeper than Mount Everest is tall
○ C. Africa is the driest continent
○ D. They're all true!
49.
○ A. Bangladesh has more people than Russia
○ B. Lesotho is completely surrounded by South Africa
○ C. Madagascar is the largest island in the world
○ D. They're all true!
50.
○ A. Indonesia is made up of more than 17,000 islands
○ B. The Atacama is the driest non-polar desert on Earth
○ C. The Amazon River flows into the Pacific Ocean
○ D. They're all true!
51.
○ A. Bolivia has two capital cities
○ B. France is the largest country in Europe
○ C. The Great Barrier Reef can be seen from space
○ D. They're all true!
52.
○ A. More people live in the Tokyo area than in all of Australia
○ B. The Caspian Sea is really a lake
○ C. All of South America lies west of Florida
○ D. They're all true!
53.
○ A. Chile is longer than the distance from London to Cairo
○ B. Point Nemo in the Pacific is farther from land than the space station is from Earth
○ C. The Amazon rainforest spreads across nine countries and territories
○ D. They're all true!
54.
○ A. The Danube River flows through or along 10 countries
○ B. Vatican City has its own railway station
○ C. Switzerland has four national languages
○ D. They're all true!
55.
○ A. The Sahara has grown by about 10% over the last century
○ B. Iceland has no mosquitoes
○ C. Mount Kilimanjaro is in Kenya
○ D. They're all true!
56.
○ A. Russia and the USA are about 4 km apart at their closest point
○ B. Singapore is both a city and a country
○ C. The Danube is the longest river in Europe
○ D. They're all true!
57.
○ A. Ethiopia's calendar is 7 to 8 years behind the one most countries use
○ B. China borders 14 countries
○ C. The Pacific Ocean is slowly shrinking
○ D. They're all true!
58.
○ A. New Zealand was the first self-governing country to let women vote
○ B. Saudi Arabia has a road that runs straight for about 240 km
○ C. Montreal is further north than Paris
○ D. They're all true!
59.
○ A. Zambia and Botswana share a border only about 150 metres long
○ B. Monaco is smaller than New York's Central Park
○ C. The deepest lake in the world is in Siberia
○ D. They're all true!
60.
○ A. Canada has the longest coastline of any country
○ B. Mainland Australia has no active volcanoes
○ C. The equator passes through Mexico
○ D. They're all true!
61.
○ A. Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid
○ B. Napoleon was unusually short for his time
○ C. The Great Fire of London in 1666 had only six recorded deaths
○ D. They're all true!
62.
○ A. Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire
○ B. Vikings wore horned helmets
○ C. The shortest war in history lasted less than an hour
○ D. They're all true!
63.
○ A. Ancient Romans used urine to clean clothes
○ B. The Colosseum could hold tens of thousands of spectators
○ C. The pyramids of Giza were built by slaves
○ D. They're all true!
64.
○ A. Abraham Lincoln once held a licence to sell alcohol
○ B. The Eiffel Tower was meant to be temporary
○ C. Christopher Columbus proved that the Earth is round
○ D. They're all true!
65.
○ A. Woolly mammoths were still alive when the Great Pyramid was built
○ B. Marie Antoinette said 'Let them eat cake'
○ C. The Leaning Tower of Pisa took almost 200 years to build
○ D. They're all true!
66.
○ A. Harvard University was founded before calculus was invented
○ B. Gutenberg built his printing press in Germany
○ C. Julius Caesar was the first Roman emperor
○ D. They're all true!
67.
○ A. Ancient Egyptians wrote on paper made from the papyrus plant
○ B. Samurai and American cowboys existed at the same time
○ C. The first computers were invented in the 1970s
○ D. They're all true!
68.
○ A. Coca-Cola once contained cocaine
○ B. Thomas Edison invented the first light bulb
○ C. Nintendo was founded in 1889
○ D. They're all true!
69.
○ A. Albert Einstein was offered the job of President of Israel
○ B. George Washington had wooden teeth
○ C. The Great Wall of China was built over many centuries
○ D. They're all true!
70.
○ A. Shakespeare's plays were performed at the Globe Theatre
○ B. The Titanic was the first ship to send an SOS
○ C. Ketchup was sold as a medicine in the 1830s
○ D. They're all true!
71.
○ A. France last used the guillotine in 1977
○ B. Athletes at the ancient Greek Olympics competed naked
○ C. The Dark Ages got their name because volcanic ash blocked the Sun
○ D. They're all true!
72.
○ A. Queen Elizabeth II trained as a mechanic in World War II
○ B. The first email was sent in 1971
○ C. The Hundred Years' War lasted exactly 100 years
○ D. They're all true!
73.
○ A. The man who designed the Pringles can was buried in one
○ B. Ancient Egyptians played a board game called senet
○ C. The first Moon landing was broadcast only on radio
○ D. They're all true!
74.
○ A. The Romans had a goddess of door hinges
○ B. The earliest Roman calendar had only 10 months
○ C. Most of the Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4, 1776
○ D. They're all true!
75.
○ A. Tug of war was once an Olympic sport
○ B. A coin-operated machine that sold holy water was designed about 2,000 years ago
○ C. Shakespeare and Cervantes died on the very same day
○ D. They're all true!
76.
○ A. An astronaut hit golf balls on the Moon
○ B. Basketball was invented by a Canadian
○ C. A baseball has 108 double stitches
○ D. They're all true!
77.
○ A. The Olympics used to award medals for art
○ B. Early tennis was played by hitting the ball with the hand
○ C. Soccer balls have always been black and white
○ D. They're all true!
78.
○ A. The first Super Bowl did not sell out
○ B. Table tennis balls can travel faster than 100 mph
○ C. The 26.2-mile marathon distance was first used at the 1908 London Olympics
○ D. They're all true!
79.
○ A. The Boston Marathon is the world's oldest annual marathon
○ B. Michael Jordan was cut from his high school team
○ C. Volleyball was first called 'Mintonette'
○ D. They're all true!
80.
○ A. A Test cricket match can last up to five days
○ B. Players have eaten cereal out of the Stanley Cup
○ C. Bowling was once banned in parts of the United States
○ D. They're all true!
81.
○ A. Fencing has been in every modern Summer Olympics
○ B. A regulation soccer ball is a perfect sphere
○ C. The Tour de France started before the Giro d'Italia
○ D. They're all true!
82.
○ A. Olympic gold medals are mostly made of silver
○ B. The first basketball hoops were peach baskets
○ C. Rugby is named after a school in England
○ D. They're all true!
83.
○ A. A badminton shuttlecock can fly faster than 200 mph
○ B. The FIFA World Cup trophy is made of solid gold
○ C. Ice hockey pucks are frozen before games
○ D. They're all true!
84.
○ A. Tennis balls used to be white
○ B. The longest professional tennis match lasted more than 11 hours
○ C. Boxing was part of the ancient Greek Olympics
○ D. They're all true!
85.
○ A. Usain Bolt's 100 m world record is 9.58 seconds
○ B. Swimming was part of the first modern Olympics in 1896
○ C. The NBA three-point line is the same distance as the college line
○ D. They're all true!
86.
○ A. Wilt Chamberlain once scored 100 points in one NBA game
○ B. 'Together' was added to the Olympic motto in 2021
○ C. Baseball was invented by Abner Doubleday
○ D. They're all true!
87.
○ A. Skateboarding first appeared at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics
○ B. Every golf ball has exactly 336 dimples
○ C. Surfing has its roots in Polynesia and Hawaii
○ D. They're all true!
88.
○ A. The first women's Olympic marathon was in 1984
○ B. In theory, a Formula 1 car makes enough downforce to drive upside down
○ C. American football grew out of rugby
○ D. They're all true!
89.
○ A. Some sumo wrestlers have weighed more than 250 kg
○ B. The International Olympic Committee recognises chess as a sport
○ C. The first World Series was played in 1903
○ D. They're all true!
90.
○ A. A basketball rim is 10 feet off the floor
○ B. An NFL field goal has been kicked from more than 70 yards
○ C. Lacrosse was first played by Indigenous peoples of North America
○ D. They're all true!
91.
○ A. Synchronised swimming was renamed artistic swimming
○ B. The Olympic torch has been taken to space
○ C. Polo is one of the oldest known team sports
○ D. They're all true!
92.
○ A. A tennis court is 78 feet long
○ B. The first FIFA Women's World Cup was held in 1991
○ C. Every country except the USA calls the sport 'football'
○ D. They're all true!
93.
○ A. The Stanley Cup is the oldest professional sports trophy in North America
○ B. A bowling lane is 60 feet from the foul line to the head pin
○ C. Michael Phelps has won more Olympic golds than many countries
○ D. They're all true!
94.
○ A. Water polo was one of the first team sports at the modern Olympics
○ B. The four tennis Grand Slams are played on four different surfaces
○ C. The first basketball game was played with a soccer ball
○ D. They're all true!
95.
○ A. The decathlon has 10 events
○ B. A full-size soccer pitch must be exactly 100 metres long
○ C. Handball is one of the most popular team sports in Europe
○ D. They're all true!