See the answers to the quiz below!!!

I find myself just a bit unsettled this morning, and I’m not terribly sure why.  I could spend my post trying to figure out why and rambling on about the areas of my life where I’m less than satisfied.  But instead, I think I’ll just chalk it up to being a cold January in the middle of the long haul of the semester and focus on other things.  After all, I serve a God who always satisfies completely! 

And for a little something different…here is a true/false general knowledge quiz for you to test yourself with.  Answers to come later!

Quiz
1. T/F: Walt Disney was cryogenically frozen after death.
FALSE – He was cremated and buried in a cemetary in California.

2. T/F: Marco Polo discovered pasta in China and brought it back to Italy.
FALSE – The Etruscans, Romans, Egyptians and Greeks all had types of pasta before Polo’s travels

3. T/F: Some mammals actually lay eggs instead of giving birth in the usual manner of most mammals.
TRUE – these mammals are called monotremes and include 5 species of spiny anteaters from Australia & New Guinea

4. T/F: S.O.S. stands for “Save our Ship”.
FALSE – It doesn’t stand for anything.  Those letters were chosen because they’re easy to transmit.

5. T/F: Key West is the westernmost Florida key.
FALSE – There are more western Keys (Dry Tortugas and Marquesas Keys)

6. T/F: In the book of “The Wizard of Oz”, Dorothy wears silver shoes.
TRUE

7. T/F: Bulls will charge at the color red.
FALSE – Bulls are colorblind

8. T/F: Dracula was a real person.
TRUE – The character was named after a Romanian Tyrant who ruled in the 1400s (Vlad IV)

9. T/F: “Frankenstein” was a monster made by a mad scientist.
FALSE – The scientist was Victor Frankenstein, his creation was never named.

10. T/F: One would think the water in the Panama Canal would be salt but it’s not. It’s fresh.
TRUE – The water runs into the canal from lakes and streams.

11. T/F: John F. Kennedy was the youngest President of the United States.
FALSE – Teddy Roosevelt was 42.  JFK was 42 when elected, but 43 when officially inaugurated.

12. T/F: William Shakespeare wrote in “Hamlet” (Act 5, Scene 1), “Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him well.”
FALSE – The line reads “Alas! Poor Yorick!  I knew him, Horatio.”

13. T/F: Presidents Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon were all impeached.
FALSE – All were tried on impeachment charges, but none were convicted.  Nixon resigned before trial.

14. T/F: Icebergs are composed of frozen sea water.
FALSE – They fall off glaciers and are made of fresh water.

15. T/F: Witches were never burned at the stake in Salem, Mass.
TRUE – Some were hanged and one was stoned.  No one was burned.

16. T/F: Stonehenge,the ancient stone monument on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England was built by Druids.
FALSE – Built about 1500 bc, they were already there when the Druids arrived in 500 bc.

17: T/F: Abraham Lincoln was the first U.S. President to be born in a log cabin.
FALSE – Six presidents were born thusly: A. Johnson, Taylor, Fillmore, Buchanan, Lincoln, Garfield.  Extra info: The first Prez to be born in a hospital was Carter.

18. T/F: The fabric denim, used to make dungarees, was
developed in Dungri, a surburb of Bombay, India as well as in France
both in about the seventeenth century.
TRUE

19. T/F: The British government owns Queen Elizabeth II’s residence, Buckingham Palace.
FALSE – The Royal family owns the palace, along with other estates and the crown jewels.

20. T/F: The entrance into San Francisco Bay is named the Golden Gate because it was the gateway to the gold fields.
FALSE – It was named after the Golden Horn that makes up the harbor of Istanbul (it’s shaped similarly).