Statistics for History True or False #1

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Question	Answer	% Correct
Gunpowder was invented in China	True	89%
Humans were partly responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs	False	87%
California and Texas were once part of Mexico	True	81%
Columbus was the first European to sail to the Americas	False	77%
Socrates died in battle	False	76%
An aristocrat living in St. Petersburg, Russia in the 1800s would be expected to speak fluent French	True	73%
Tomatoes originally came from the New World	True	70%
Egypt, Jordan, and Syria have all invaded Israel	True	69%
Ireland was colonized by the ancient Romans	False	67%
Photographs exist of a (very old) George Washington	False	65%
China fought in WWII	True	63%
The Nazis invaded Greece during WWII	True	60%
The saxophone was invented by Adolphe Sax	True	59%
The Great Pyramid of Giza is the only one of the ancient Wonders of the World that still stands	True	59%
Documents written in Classical Greek didn't use spaces between words	True	57%
Bach was influenced by Beethoven	False	56%
Most scholars now believe that Shakespeare did not write most of the plays that bear his name	False	47%
The Incan Empire lasted for over 2,000 years	False	41%