Statistics for True or False: Astonishing facts about the moon

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Question	Answer	% Correct
Dozens of new craters are forming every year on the moon.	True	79%
Three days after a full moon, its brightness has decreased by more than half.	True	72%
US astronaut Sam Shepard played golf on the moon and hit the ball several hundred meters in 1971.	True	68%
The moon used to be 15 times closer to Earth than today.	True	64%
Astronauts have placed mirrors on the moon in order to make it shine brighter.	False	62%
Oxygen could be extracted from lunar dust.	True	62%
The USA and the Soviet Union considered detonating a nuclear bomb on the moon in the 1950s.	True	62%
According to the Outer Space Treaty, which entered into force in 1967, any nation landing on the moon can claim sovereignty of an area of 100'000 square km.	False	49%
Moon dust smells like gunpowder.	True	45%
The moon has grown by about 50 m in diameter in the past few hundred million years.	False	43%
The United States were the last country to make a successful landing on the moon.	False	43%
The Americas' surface is bigger than the moon's.	True	42%
Only 50 percent of the moon's surface can be seen from Earth.	False	28%
The coldest natural temperature in our solar system has been recorded on the moon.	True	28%
The United States were the first country to land on the moon.	False	26%