Statistics for History True or False #3

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Question	Answer	% Correct
The Titanic sank on its first voyage across the Atlantic	True	92%
Most of French territory was, at one time, part of the Roman Empire	True	86%
Until the 19th century, Italian opera companies employed "castrati" - men who had been castrated as children so that they would have high voices	True	85%
There is evidence that humans hunted woolly mammoths	True	82%
Marie Curie discovered penicillin	False	81%
George Washington was deaf	False	81%
The Mongols conquered Japan	False	80%
There was a time in the Middle Ages when the Popes lived in France, not Rome	True	80%
Only four people were killed at the Tiananmen Square massacre	False	77%
"The Three Musketeers" is an example of the swashbuckler genre of literature	True	74%
Guy Fawkes was a Protestant activist	False	69%
King Arthur is buried at Westminster Abbey	False	69%
India has never been involved in a war since becoming independent in 1947	False	62%
We don't know whether Homer really existed	True	60%
The year 1 B.C. is followed by 0 A.D.	False	53%
The legend of Hercules was well-known in ancient Rome	True	44%