When did modern humans arrive in Europe?
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30,000 years ago
How much is customary for a man to spend on an engagement ring?
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Men should decide on their own how much to spend.
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One month's salary.
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Two months' salary.
Is Pluto a planet?
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No.
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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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False
How high is Mount Everest?
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8844 meters
Is George W. Bush stupid?
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No
Does the fossil record contain intermediate (transitional) forms?
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No.
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Yes.
How much US government debt does China hold?
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$910 billion
Will Sarah Palin run for president in 2012?
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Yes
Was the killing of Osama bin Laden legal?
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No
How many nuclear warheads does the United States have?
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10,000
Was the Iraq war legal under international law?
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Yes.
What is the greatest novel ever written?
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Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
What rank was 2012 on the list of hottest years on record globally?
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9th hottest year on record
Who talks more on average: men or women?
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Men and women talk roughly the same amount.
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Women talk more.
How many nuclear warheads does Israel have?
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200
How many members does Alcoholics Anonymous have?
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About 2 million.
How many nuclear weapons are there in the world?
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24,000
How long ago did Neanderthals die out?
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30,000 years ago.
How many barrels per day were leaking in BP's 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill?
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40,000 barrels per day
How big is the average human penis?
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About 5 inches long.
What did Elvis Presley die of?
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Elvis died of a drug overdose.
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Elvis died of a heart attack.
Is Antarctic sea ice expanding or shrinking?
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Shrinking
How many spiders does the average person eat during his lifetime?
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No spiders
In general, do men or women handle pain better?
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Women
Who killed Notorious B.I.G.?
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Dawoud Muhammad (Nation of Islam member)
True or False? "Legally, there is no authority under international law for the United States to intervene in Libya unless authorized by the Security Council."
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False
Will Apophis Asteroid collide with Earth on April 13, 2036?
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Yes
True or False? "Every form of discrimination is a bad thing."
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False
How much blood does the average person have?
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8 pints
Do baby girls prefer the color pink more than baby boys do?
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No
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Yes
How many North Koreans died in the famine of the mid-1990s?
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0.6 million
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1.0 million
What is the population of North Korea?
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24 million
How many people are in the North Korean army?
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0.7 million
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1.2 million
Does Ecstasy cause brain damage?
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No
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Yes
Was Wikileaks right to release the State Department Cables?
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No
How many nuclear warheads does Russia have?
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13,000
Did Osama Bin Laden have a life-threatening kidney disease?
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No
Should Turkey be in the EU?
Were dinosaurs warm-blooded (like modern birds and mammals) or cold-blooded (like modern reptiles)?
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Warm-blooded.
What country is the world's biggest polluter?
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China is the world's biggest polluter.
Was Ray Bradbury's book "Fahrenheit 451" about censorship, or about television?
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Censorship
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Television
Is Scientology a cult?
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No, Scientology is not a cult.
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Yes, Scientology is a cult.
True or False? "The discovery of Arsenic-loving bacteria would strongly suggest that life got started on our planet at least twice."
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False
True or False? "The French are rude."
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False
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True
What percentage of our DNA do humans and chimpanzees share?
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98%
How did King Tut die?
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Malaria.
True or False? "Osama Bin Laden's burial at sea was a proper Muslim burial."
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False
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True
Is Amanda Knox innocent or guilty?
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Innocent
Was Sarah Palin's account of Paul Revere's ride correct or incorrect?
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Correct
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Incorrect
Who should be responsible for the preservation of Italy's archeological sites, such as Pompeii?
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An International body.
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Private companies.
Please don't privatise Pompeii | Science | The Guardian
Business newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore has called for the site to be privatised.
Was Osama bin Laden alive or dead on 4/1/2011?
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Alive.
Does diet soda increase risk for stroke and heart attack?
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Yes
Do Eskimos have a very large number of words for "snow"?
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No, Eskimos have about the same number of words for snow as any other language.
How many people have been killed in Syria's recent uprising against Bashar al-Assad?
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f. 1,500-2,000
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i. 5,000-8,000
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k. 12,000-16,000
Do Israeli settlements in the West Bank justify terrorism?
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Yes
Why did the dinosaurs die out?
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The dinosaurs died out because of a single meteorite or asteroid impact.
Should homosexual couples be allowed to adopt children?
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Yes
What was the magnitude of the earthquake off the coast of Japan on 3/11/2011?
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8.9
True or False? "All the swans in England are the property of the Queen."
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True
Who will be the next pope, after Benedict XVI?
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Angelo Scola
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Francis Arinze
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Marc Ouellet
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Peter Turkson
Does eating at night cause more weight gain than eating during the day?
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No, eating at night is the same as eating during the day.
Who are better at multitasking: men or women?
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Women.
How many Palestinian non-combatants were killed in Operation Cast Lead?
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More than 700
What is the best cure for a hangover?
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There is no known cure or prevention for hangovers.
Does washing mushrooms affect their flavor?
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No
True or False? "In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured."
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False
Do suicides increase over the Christmas/New Years holidays?
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No, there are no more suicides during the holidays.
How many boys are born in China for every 100 girls?
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About 120
True or False? "Mushrooms absorb water if you wash them."
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False
Is it immoral to use cocaine?
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No
Did the Iroquois Confederation have a written constitution that predated the Constitution of the United States?
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Yes
Where is Osama bin Laden?
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Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
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Pakistan
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Washington, DC.
Who is the greatest Olympic athlete ever?
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Michael Phelps (USA)
Is there such an animal as a 'bigfoot' or 'sasquatch'?
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Yes
Should the West intervene militarily in Libya's civil war?
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Yes
Is terrorism always wrong?
-
No
Is St. John's Wort effective at fighting depression?
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No, St. John's Wort does not have a significant impact on depression.
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Yes, St. John's Wort is effective at fighting depression.
Which are smarter, cats or dogs?
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Dogs are smarter.
Was Lindy Chamberlain guilty or innocent in the death of her daughter in 1980?
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Innocent
Is homosexuality genetic (at least in part)?
-
Yes
What percentage of scientists believe in god?
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About 40% of scientists believe in god.
Are Israel's settlements in the West Bank legal or illegal?
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Illegal
How many people died in Haiti's January 12, 2010 earthquake?
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70,000 - 100,000
True or False? "Most people can tell the difference, when blindfolded, between red and white wine."
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False.
Are Himalayan glaciers going to disappear by 2035?
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No
How many people died in China's Cultural Revolution?
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1 million.
Is waterboarding torture?
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It depends on the context.
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Yes
Are boys or girls better on average at spatial reasoning?
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Boys are better at spatial reasoning.
Did Osama Bin Laden run drugs to fund his operations?
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No
True or False? "The universe was created through the big bang."
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True
Each day, how many American children go hungry?
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1 million
What is the average life expectancy in North Korea?
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69 years
True or False? "Television and radio stations are legitimate military targets."
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True
True or False? "The lost continent of Atlantis really existed."
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False
Is global warming occurring?
-
Yes.
Is there any truth to astrological predictions?
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No, there is no truth to astrology.
True or False? "Scientists Have an Atheist Agenda."
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True
True or False? "Pakicetus was a primitive whale."
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True
True or False? "Marriage makes you richer."
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True
Are diamonds a good investment?
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No, diamonds are a poor investment.
Is abortion morally wrong?
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No
Can animals be homosexual?
-
Yes
Did cetaceans (whales and dolphins) evolve from land mammals?
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Yes
Did Americans really visit the Moon, or did NASA fake the moon landings?
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Americans really went to the moon.
How many Jews died in the Holocaust?
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5 to 6 million Jews died in the Holocaust.
Do children get hyper when you give them sugar?
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No, sugar has no effect on the behavior of children.
Did humans evolve from other animals?
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Yes
What was the best movie of 2010?
-
Inception
How old is the Earth?
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4.5 billion years old.
Are we winning the War on Drugs?
-
No
Do women gossip more than men?
-
Yes
Is George W. Bush a born-again Christian?
-
Yes
True or False? "Sarah Palin has smoked marijuana (cannabis)."
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True
Are poinsettias poisonous?
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No, poinsettias are not poisonous.
Is Qatar providing weapons to Syrian rebels?
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Yes
Did Osama Bin Laden receive significant funding from the CIA when he was fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan?
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No
The 10 key myths about Osama bin Laden | World news | guardian.co.uk
He did not receive any direct funding or training from the US during the 1980s.
The Afghan mujahideen, via Pakistan's ISI intelligence agency, received large amounts of both.
Some bled to the Arabs fighting the Soviets but nothing significant.
Is a very large proportion of body heat lost through the head?
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No, you lose the same amount of heat through your head as anywhere else.
What is the oldest religion in the world?
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Hinduism
Is astrology a pseudoscience?
-
Yes
How many nuclear warheads does France have?
-
300
Does the Bible say that homosexuals should be killed?
-
Yes
True or False? "Senator Richard Blumenthal served in Vietnam."
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False.
True or False? "Public schooling is a socialist institution."
-
True
Who is the most beautiful man in the world?
-
Hugh Jackman - delete
What causes tides?
-
The gravitational pull of the moon causes tides.
Was the movie "Watchmen" faithful to the original comic book?
-
Yes
True or False? "The HPV vaccine can cause mental retardation."
-
False
What is the oldest democracy in the world?
-
Iceland
True or False? "The chance of Apophis passing through the keyhole, a 600-metre patch of space, is 1 in 5,500 based on current information."
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True
True or False? "There is an innate gender bias in the types of toys boys and girls prefer."
-
True
True or False? "Similarly, it is anticipated that girls will be more emotional and talkative, and so their verbal skills are emphasised by teachers and parents."
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True
True or False? "There is almost nothing we do with our brains that is hard-wired."
-
True
True or False? "Bin Laden was forced to leave any cash he had when he in effect fled Saudi Arabia in 1991 for Pakistan and then Sudan."
-
True
True or False? "Osama Bin Laden partied a lot when he was young."
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False.
True or False? "Intelligent design has systematically failed to stand up to any scrutiny."
-
True
Was Newt Gingrich a successful Speaker of the House?
-
No
What is the oldest parliament in the world?
-
Isle of Man
What is the oldest parliament still in use?
-
Iceland
True or False? "Stonehenge itself was a massive undertaking, requiring the labour of thousands to move stones from as far away as west Wales, shaping them and erecting them."
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True
True or False? "when children do suffer abuse, they do not repress their memories of it."
-
True
Could the gravity of distant planets affect events on earth in the way that astrology suggests?
-
No
True or False? "Attempts to explain astrological effects in terms of electromagnetic influences don't work either."
-
True
True or False? "Their reality is indisputable, as is the reality of the astronomical cycles relating to celestial bodies – which astrologers rely on to cast their horoscopes – but there is no evidence that astrology can use the latter to describe someone'
-
True
True or False? "Whatever Curiosity has found, it is not evidence for life on Mars."
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True
True or False? "Females have higher levels of guilt than males."
-
True
True or False? "Abortion is an essential part of modern living."
-
True
True or False? "To complicate matters further, in 1999 an American expedition to Everest using GPS technology for the first time got a rockhead elevation of 8,850m, and an ice elevation 1m higher."
-
True
True or False? "Women take more sick leave than men and yes, at least some of it is due to the biological difference between the sexes, the reproductive differences."
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True