Why did the dinosaurs die out?
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The dinosaurs died out because of multiple asteroid impacts.
True or False? "In Operation Cast Lead, Israel deliberately targeted Palestinian civilians."
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True.
What caused the smoke trail off the coast of California on November 8, 2010?
Is the media biased agianst the Catholic Church?
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No, the media is not biased against the Catholic Church.
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Yes, the media is biased against the Catholic Church.
Does money make people happier?
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Yes.
Is the movie "The Sitter" funny?
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Yes
True or False? "You can't fire a federal worker."
Is Obamacare socialized medicine?
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No
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Yes
Will Michael Bloomberg run for president in 2012?
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Yes
Was Abraham Lincoln clinically depressed?
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No
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Yes
Did Jesus Christ believe in the Biblical story of Noah and the flood?
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Yes
What is the pay gap between men and women in the United States?
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80% to 83%
How many states allow gay marriage?
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10
True or False? "Federal employees are overpaid compared with private-sector workers."
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False
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True
True or False? "Palin and the tea party are destroying the Republican Party."
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False
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True
True or False? Drilling should be allowed in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve (ANWR)
What percentage of people in the United States have naturally red hair?
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4%
True or False? "Discrimination is a major cause of the pay gap between men and women."
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False
Does affirmative action in college admission favor whites over Asians?
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No
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Yes
Should the Department of Education be eliminated?
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No
True or False? "The United States spends too much on its military."
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False
What percentage of Americans believe in God or a higher power?
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92 - 93%
Who should win the 2000 Presidential election: Al Gore or George W. Bush?
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Al Gore
What country is the world's biggest polluter?
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China is the world's biggest polluter.
What percentage of American-born Asians marry whites in the United States?
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about 40%
Is Scientology a cult?
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No, Scientology is not a cult.
Has Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad said that Israel should be "wiped off the map"?
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No, not exactly.
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Yes
Who should win the 1996 Presidential election: Bill Clinton or Bob Dole?
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Bill Clinton
Has evolution ever been observed?
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Yes, evolution has been observed.
How many people have been killed in Syria's recent uprising against Bashar al-Assad?
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o. more than 50,000
Do newspaper boards tend to endorse Democrats or Republicans?
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Democrats
What rank was 2012 on the list of hottest years on record globally?
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8th hottest year on record
Does wind energy reduce carbon dioxide emissions?
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No, wind energy does not reduce CO2 emissions.
Who should win the 2012 election: Mitt Romney or Barack Obama?
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Barack Obama
How many soldiers died in the American Civil War?
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620,000
What was the magnitude of the earthquake off the coast of Japan on 3/11/2011?
What percentage of the world population has naturally red hair?
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1%
Should same-sex marriage (gay marriage) be legal?
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Yes
What percentage of Americans are atheists?
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2%
What is the fifth largest earthquake in the world since 1900?
Is Islam a violent religion?
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No, Islam is not violent.
True or False? "Democratic health care legislation will reduce the federal budget deficit."
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True
When was the last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees?
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6 million years ago
Are lefties better than right handed people?
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Yes.
Who should win in the 2008 Presidential election: Barack Obama or John McCain?
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Barack Obama
Would leaving the Euro be good or bad for Greece?
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Good for Greece.
How many people are imprisoned in the United States?
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2.3 million
Will going green reduce our dependence on unsavory foreign regimes?
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No, going green will not reduce our dependence on unsavory regimes.
Do suicide attacks in Syria make international action more or less likely?
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Less likely
Will Rudy Giuliani run for President in 2012?
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No
True or False? "The judicial status of unlawful enemy combatants is an area where the law is silent or ambiguous."
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True
Is Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan a lesbian?
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No, Elena Kagan is heterosexual.
Was the American Civil War primarily about states' rights?
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No
How many Soviet citizens (soldiers and civilians) died in the Second World War?
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26 million
Is John McCain a natural born citizen of the United States?
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Yes
In equestrian statues, does the number of hooves in the air reveal how the person died?
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No, the number of hooves in the air is unrelated to how the person died.
Should the Islamic Center and mosque near New York's ground zero be built?
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No
Was the American Civil War primarily about slavery?
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Yes.
Was the American Civil War primarily about taxes and tariffs?
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No
Did Betsy Ross sew the first American flag?
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No
Will Sarah Palin run for president in 2012?
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It is unclear.
Are Mormons Christians?
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Yes
True or False? "Lady Gaga's 'Born This Way' is a ripoff of Madonna's 'Express Yourself.'"
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True
Should the West intervene militarily in Libya's civil war?
How much does it cost to imprison a convict for a year?
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$40,000 per year
Does the Bible condemn homosexuality?
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Yes, the Bible condemns homosexuality.
True or False? "Antarctica's ice sheet is shrinking."
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True
Is Sarah Palin electable, were she to run for President?
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No
True or False? "The United States has more natural gas than Saudi Arabia does oil."
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False
True or False? "Slavery was already on its way out when the Civil War started."
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False
Are diamonds rare?
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No, diamonds are not rare.
Does the Bible condone slavery?
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Yes.
Is global warming caused by humans?
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Yes, humans are primarily responsible for global warming.
Is waterboarding torture?
True or False? "Full body scanners violate the Fourth Amendment."
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True
True or False? "The universe was created through the big bang."
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True
Will Sarah Palin win the Republican nomination in 2012?
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No
Did Sarah Palin say, "If I were president, I'd deport Ms. Aguilera back to wherever it is she's from..." because Christina Aguilera flubbed the National Anthem at Super Bowl XLV?
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No
Celebritology 2.0 - Sarah Palin totally did NOT say Christina Aguilera should be deported
In the comments -- which were crafted by an Onion-like satirical Web site -- Palin, in a radio interview with Sean Hannity, supposedly called Aguilera a "demanding beauty queen who's clearly in over her head" and suggested she be deported because "spicy Latin princesses" shouldn't be allowed to sing at the Super Bowl.
"Unemployment is at nine percent, yet we have to suffer through a performance by a foreigner with a poor grasp of the English language," continues the satire.
So this just fills us with confidence about Us's claim that ScarJo and Sean Penn are a couple.
Does Islam endorse killing infidels?
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Yes.
Could Rand Paul win in a general presidential election?
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No
How many people are members of the NRA?
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4.0 million
Does the Bible condone polygamy?
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Yes
Was Abraham Lincoln homosexual?
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No
Did the Mormon Church stop practicing polygamy in 1890?
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Yes
Is global warming occurring?
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Yes.
Are the differences between men and women partially inborn, or are they due solely to social conditioning?
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Born different.
Did the auto plant in Janesville, Wisconsin close during the Bush Administration or the Obama Administration?
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Bush Administration
How much of the National Debt was paid off during the time that Newt Gingrich was Speaker of the House?
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none of it.
True or False? "The Affordable Care Act was a government takeover of the healthcare system."
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False
Was Obama's stimulus full of fraud and political cronyism?
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No
True or False? "Israel is America’s only ally in the Middle East."
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False
Is Israel the only U.S. ally in the Middle East? An answer in map form
Turkey, Manchin’s most surprising omission, is actually a NATO ally.
– countries in the Arab Middle East that are officially labeled as “Major non-Nato Allies.”
Those five countries are Jordan, Egypt, Kuwait, Bahrain and Morocco.
In all, that’s nine U.S. allies in the Middle East outside of Israel, eight if you exclude Egypt.
Was Obama's stimulus the biggest one-time expenditure in American history?
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No
Does preventive care save money in the long run?
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No
Did Paul Ryan blame President Obama for the closure of an auto plant in Wisconsin?
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Yes
True or False? "Abraham Lincoln's wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, was insane."
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True
True or False? "As Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich balanced the budget for four straight years."
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False
True or False? "Balancing the federal budget requires raising taxes."
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True
True or False? "Marriage makes you richer."
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True
Does eating turkey make you sleepy?
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No
Are diamonds a good investment?
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No, diamonds are a poor investment.
What was the warmest year in history?
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2010
Has President Obama said that Israel needs to return to its 1967 borders?
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No
Was the 1997 House of Representatives panel that voted to condemn Newt Gingrich for ethics violations a partisan committee?
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No
Are electricity coops and credit unions GSEs, like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac?
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No
True or False? "Senator Marco Rubio's parents fled Fidel Castro's Communist Cuba."
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False
Who would win in a 2012 general election: Barack Obama or Sarah Palin?
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Barack Obama
Is the Catholic Church a cult?
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No
Is AIDS a divine punishment against homosexuality?
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No
Did Americans really visit the Moon, or did NASA fake the moon landings?
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Americans really went to the moon.
True or false: "The members of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints are Mormons."
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True
Does the Bible encourage slavery?
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Yes
True or False? "Higher imprisonment rates leads to lower crime."
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Partially true: Higher incarceration rates decrease crime only up to a point.
True or False? "Abraham Lincoln went to war to end slavery."
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False
When did the I-35 bridge in Minnesota collapse?
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2007
Does the Bible condemn abortion?
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It is unclear
When did the tradition of giving diamond engagement rings start?
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A DeBeers advertising campaign in the 1930s.
Is Barack Obama a natural born citizen of the United States?
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Yes, Obama is a natural born citizen of the United States
Was 2012 the hottest year on record in the United States?
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Yes
True or False? "The CIA has no ability to interrogate terrorists."
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False
What percentage of Americans are opposed the use of full body scans?
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32%
Has Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad said that he would use a nuclear weapon against Israel?
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No
True or False? "Obamacare took over one-sixth of the American economy."
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False
True or False? "Demography is destiny."
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False
Did President Reagan say that ketchup was a vegetable?
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Yes
What is Oscar Wilde's best play?
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The Importance of Being Earnest
Who won the first debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney?
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Romney won
Before the Civil War, what percentage of southern whites owned slaves?
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5%
True or False? "Creationism, Creation Science, and Intelligent Design are scientific."
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False
Should Hosni Mubarak resign as president of Egypt?
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Yes
Did PolitiFact say that everything Michele Bachmann said in a December 2012 debate was true?
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No
Did the Founding Fathers define what "natural born citizen" means in the Constitution?
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No
True or False? "Sarah Palin was an effective governor."
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True
True or False? "A 2011 IAEA report recently came out that said, Iran is months away from a nuclear weapon."
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False
True or False? "Barack Obama was born in Hawaii."
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True
True or False? "Men and women are equal."
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True
Does the Bible say that homosexuals should be killed?
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Yes
True or False? "Senator Richard Blumenthal served in Vietnam."
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False.
True or False? "Public schooling is a socialist institution."
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True
Should male circumcision be legal or illegal?
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Legal
Was John McCain born in the Panama Canal Zone, or in Panama itself?
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Panama Canal Zone
True or False? "Sarah Palin cost John McCain the 2008 election."
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False
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It is unclear.
True or False? "The HPV vaccine can cause mental retardation."
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False
Does Gardasil protect against cervical cancer?
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Yes
Has David Beckham been selected to play soccer for Britain in the 2012 Olympics?
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No
True or False? "the main reason few women reach the top rung of the corporate ladder is that the extraordinary demands on executives' time are not compatible with raising a family."
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True
True or False? "More than 30 percent of adults are obese."
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True
True or False? "17.4 million American families - almost 15 percent of U.S. households - are now hungry on a regular basis."
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True
True or False? "We are dying not because we aren't eating, but because we're eating the wrong things."
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True
True or False? "The United States is on the verge of a fiscal crisis."
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False
True or False? "Social Security should be cut."
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True
True or False? "The federal government should tax consumption."
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True
True or False? "A new short-term stimulus would be fiscally irresponsible."
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True
True or False? "Bush committed America to nation-building in Iraq and Afghanistan."
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True
True or False? "Dick Cheney ran the Bush White House."
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True
True or False? "Bush left conservatism in ruins."
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True
True or False? "Immigration pushes wages down."
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True
True or False? "Mosques should be welcomed as premier sites of American assimilation, not feared as incubators of terrorist indoctrination."
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True
True or False? "North Korea is behaving perfectly rationally, then."
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True
True or False? "Saddam Hussein's government in Iraq collaborated with the al Qaeda terrorist network on attacks on the United States."
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False
True or False? "The aging of opera’s audience is due, at least in part, to the sometimes prohibitive cost of admission."
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True
True or False? "The laws of armed conflict apply to non-state actors as much as they do to national armies."
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True
True or False? "Forcing people to believe in a religion or to adopt its forms of belief is completely contrary to the essence and spirit of Islam."
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True
Did the Universe have a beginning?
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Yes
True or False? "At least three of CAIR’s leaders have been indicted for terrorist activities."
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True
True or False? "It appears that Obama has multiple identities in term of possessing numerous social security numbers."
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True
True or False? "Jesus forbids divorce."
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True
True or False? "Here God describes how to become a slave for life, and shows that it is completely acceptable to separate slaves from their families."
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True
True or False? "God also shows that he completely endorses the branding of slaves through mutilation."
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True
True or False? "God loves slavery."
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True
Is slavery morally acceptable?
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No
Who is more likely to get a divorce: Christians or non-Christians?
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They are the same.
True or False? "Nor was the divorce discussion in the hospital “a surprise” to Battley, as many accounts have contended. Battley, not Gingrich, had requested a divorce months earlier, according to Jackie Gingrich Cushman, the couple’s second daughter."
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True
True or False? "Further, Gingrich did not serve his wife with divorce papers on the day of his visit (unlike a subpoena, divorce papers aren’t typically “served”)."
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True
True or False? "Romney has struggled to connect with average Americans."
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True
True or False? "Even the big scary ones like schizophrenia can be resolved."
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True
True or False? "Study after study also shows that high differentiation in pay between the CEO and lower-level staffers hurts organizational performance."
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True
Is democracy a Western value, or a universal value?
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Universal value
Is intelligent design "scientific"?
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No
True or False? "The U.S. spends an average of more than $10,000 per pupil per year in public schools, for a total of more than $550 billion."
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True
True or False? "Clinton had no major diplomatic achievements during her time as Secretary of State."
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True