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What animal is the closest relative of humans? (view dispute report)

Before the Civil War, what percentage of southern whites owned slaves? (view dispute report)

Was President Jimmy Carter intelligent? (view dispute report)

Is Sarah Palin principled? (view dispute report)

How tall was Osama Bin Laden? (view dispute report)

Does Barack Obama's wedding ring have the Arabic inscription "No god but Allah"? (view dispute report)

Is Michele Bachmann electable in a general presidential election? (view dispute report)

Was Abraham Lincoln a Christian? (view dispute report)

Is global warming occurring? (view dispute report)

True or False? "Barack Obama's social security number is a number reserved for Connecticut residents." (view dispute report)

Did Frank Davis take naked pictures of Stanley Ann Dunham (Barack Obama's mother) in December 1960? (view dispute report)

True or False? "The Bible creation story in Genesis is factually correct." (view dispute report)

Is "grok" a word? (view dispute report)

True or False? "Obama's grandmother, Sarah Obama, said Obama was born in Kenya." (view dispute report)

Should Intelligent Design be taught in science classes? (view dispute report)

Was the butterfly originally called a flutterby? (view dispute report)

Did modern humans arise in Africa, or in many different places all over the Old World? (view dispute report)

What is Abraham Lincoln's finest speech? (view dispute report)

Is waterboarding torture? (view dispute report)

Is global warming caused by humans? (view dispute report)

Does earning $250,000 a year make a family rich? (view dispute report)

True or False? "Slavery was already on its way out when the Civil War started." (view dispute report)

Should Catholic priests be permitted to marry? (view dispute report)

What was the first country to recognize the United States? (view dispute report)

Was Thomas Jefferson a deist? (view dispute report)

True or False? "Barack Obama's mother posed for nude photos." (view dispute report)

Are Mormons Christians? (view dispute report)

Will Sarah Palin run for president in 2012? (view dispute report)

How many Native Americans are there in the United States? (view dispute report)

Does Iran have nuclear weapons? (view dispute report)

Is Barack Obama bisexual? (view dispute report)

Is Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan a lesbian? (view dispute report)

Will Michele Bachmann win the Republican nomination in 2012? (view dispute report)

Does the Old Testament of the Bible encourage slavery? (view dispute report)

True or False? "Pilgrims ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving dinner." (view dispute report)

Was Obama's bailout of the auto industry a success or a failure? (view dispute report)

True or False? "Slavery was a dying economic institution until Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin." (view dispute report)

Should euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide be legal? (view dispute report)

True or False? "Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy." (view dispute report)

Is the Flu Vaccine safe for pregnant women? (view dispute report)

True or False? "The nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan runs the risk of a Chernobyl-like release of radiation." (view dispute report)

True or False? "Obama traveled to Pakistan in 1981 using an Indonesian passport." (view dispute report)

Does a duck's quack echo? (view dispute report)

Should homosexual couples be allowed to adopt children? (view dispute report)

What is the most trustworthy, unbiased, TV news channel? (view dispute report)

Does any English word rhyme with 'orange'? (view dispute report)

Was Jesus born on Christmas? (view dispute report)

How many babies are born each year in the United States to illegal immigrants? (view dispute report)

Were any U.S. forces on the ground in a combat role in the 2011 action in Libya? (view dispute report)

Who should win the 2012 election: Mitt Romney or Barack Obama? (view dispute report)

True or False? "Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten." (view dispute report)

Does any English word rhyme with 'silver'? (view dispute report)

Who talks more on average: men or women? (view dispute report)

Is Barack Obama a socialist? (view dispute report)

True or False? "The Bush tax cuts favored the rich." (view dispute report)

Has evolution ever been observed? (view dispute report)

Is it true that if the entire population of China walked past you single file, the line would never end? (view dispute report)

True or False? "The North Korean regime will collapse in the near future." (view dispute report)

What caused the smoke trail off the coast of California on November 8, 2010? (view dispute report)

Did Leonardo Da Vinci invent the scissors? (view dispute report)

True or False? "Coral reefs are bleaching because of global warming." (view dispute report)

How long ago did Neanderthals die out? (view dispute report)

Did Barack Obama write both "The Audacity of Hope" and "Dreams of My Father"? (view dispute report)

True or False? "There’s no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins." (view dispute report)

Have scientists ever found a fossil with part fins and part feet? (view dispute report)

Is Scientology a cult? (view dispute report)

How long is a goldfish's memory? (view dispute report)

What was the largest dinosaur? (view dispute report)

Who is Prince Harry's father? (view dispute report)

True or False? "'Dreamt' is the only English word that ends in the letters 'mt'." (view dispute report)

Did Martin Luther King Jr. plagiarize his "I Have a Dream" speech? (view dispute report)

Will Muammar Gadhafi remain in power in Libya? (view dispute report)

Was Jefferson's first draft of the Declaration of Independence written on hemp paper? (view dispute report)

What is the mass of the Milky Way? (view dispute report)

True or False? "Global warming dried up Lake Chad in Africa." (view dispute report)

Is the Great Wall of China visible from space? (view dispute report)

Did Thomas Jefferson write "When governments fear the people, there is liberty"? (view dispute report)

Will Apophis Asteroid collide with Earth on April 13, 2036? (view dispute report)

What is the fuel efficiency of the Queen Elizabeth II cruise ship? (view dispute report)

In the 2012 election, was the media biased towards Obama or Romney? (view dispute report)

What caused the October 12, 2010 blast in Iran's Imam Ali underground missile facility? (view dispute report)

Is a human embryo a human being? (view dispute report)

True or False? "Black men have a one-in-three chance of being imprisoned at some point in their lives." (view dispute report)

True or False? "Mormons believe in many gods." (view dispute report)

Does the Earth orbit the Sun (heliocentricity), or does the Sun orbit the Earth (geocentricity)? (view dispute report)

Is the conflict in Syria a civil war? (view dispute report)

Is the international language "Esperanto" or "Esperanza"? (view dispute report)

Did Israel trade Jonathan Pollard's stolen American intelligence information to the Soviet Union? (view dispute report)

Was the Declaration of Independence written on hemp paper? (view dispute report)

How many people attended Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally? (view dispute report)

Was Sarah Palin invited to the 2011 Rolling Thunder rally in Washington DC? (view dispute report)

What is the origin of the military hand salute? (view dispute report)

True or False? "President Obama's stimulus package has cost $278,000 per job created." (view dispute report)

Was Mary Magdalene a prostitute? (view dispute report)

True or False? "The world was warmer in medieval times than now." (view dispute report)

True or False? "Barack Obama’s Selective Service card is a forgery." (view dispute report)

Was Ray Bradbury's book "Fahrenheit 451" about censorship, or about television? (view dispute report)

Is the Bible inerrant -- completely free of error and contradition? (view dispute report)

True or False? "Hurricane Caterina was caused by global warming." (view dispute report)

True or False? "Life that uses Arsenic instead of Phosphorus has been discovered." (view dispute report)

True or False? "The radiation leak at the Fukushima, Japan nuclear power plant was completely safe." (view dispute report)

Is there such a thing as a soul that is separate from the body? (view dispute report)

Did Egyptian authorities perform "virginity checks" on women arrested at a demonstration in Spring 2011? (view dispute report)

Was Jesus Christ a real, historical person? (view dispute report)

Was there ever a state named Franklin in the United States? (view dispute report)

Does a minimum wage increase unemployment? (view dispute report)

Does Israel spy on the United States? (view dispute report)

Is there life on the planet Gliese 581g? (view dispute report)

True or False? "The French are rude." (view dispute report)

Is the Tea Party in some way responsible for the shooting of Congresswoman Giffords? (view dispute report)

What is the dollar value of a human life? (view dispute report)

Is it acceptable to split an infinitive? (view dispute report)

How long does the average American spend waiting at red lights over the course of his/her life? (view dispute report)

How many Christians are there in China? (view dispute report)

Did God create the Universe? (view dispute report)

Does God exist? (view dispute report)

Did Pharaoh Ramesses III die from a throat wound? (view dispute report)

How many spaces should you use between sentences? (view dispute report)

Does NPR have a liberal bias? (view dispute report)

Is the foreclosure system in the United States governed solely by state law? (view dispute report)

How many were killed in the October 12, 2010 explosion at Iran's underground Imam Ali missile facility? (view dispute report)

Are babies born with kneecaps? (view dispute report)

True or False? "Sarah Palin thought that 'Africa' is a country." (view dispute report)

Does the Second Amendment protect the right to own any weapon at all (including fighter jets or nuclear weapons)? (view dispute report)

True or False? "The six days of creation in Genesis are literal, 24-hour days." (view dispute report)

Who is more intelligent, on average: men or women? (view dispute report)

Is Christianity fading in Europe? (view dispute report)

Is it legal to have a pet dog in Iceland? (view dispute report)

Is using contraception a sin? (view dispute report)

True or False? "In Lebanon any man may legally have sex with any animal just as long as it is a female." (view dispute report)

How long does a "jiffy" last? (view dispute report)

What was the magnitude of the earthquake off the coast of Japan on 3/11/2011? (view dispute report)

True or False? "Humans interbred with Neanderthals and the gene pools merged." (view dispute report)

Is Jesus the son of God? (view dispute report)

True or False? "In Lehigh, Nebraska it's against the law to sell donut holes." (view dispute report)

True or False? "God is a trinity: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost." (view dispute report)

Did Al Gore claim to have "invented the internet"? (view dispute report)

Is it possible to fold a piece of paper more than seven times? (view dispute report)

Should same-sex marriage (gay marriage) be legal? (view dispute report)

How many people are imprisoned in the United States? (view dispute report)

How old are the 'Peking Man' fossils? (view dispute report)

Was the American Civil War primarily about states' rights? (view dispute report)

Which came first, the chicken or the egg? (view dispute report)

How many illegal immigrants are in the United States? (view dispute report)

Is Jesus God? (view dispute report)

Did Al Gore have an affair with Laurie David? (view dispute report)

How old are the oldest rocks geologists have been able to find? (view dispute report)

Is the Tea Party racist? (view dispute report)

Can the fuel in a nuclear reactor can cause a nuclear explosion (like a nuclear bomb)? (view dispute report)

Was Charles Lindbergh the first person to fly across the Atlantic Ocean? (view dispute report)

Does the fossil record contain intermediate (transitional) forms? (view dispute report)

Is Sarah Palin stupid? (view dispute report)

Was the United States the first industrialized nation to outlaw slavery? (view dispute report)

Is safe, long-term disposal of nuclear waste possible? (view dispute report)

Did Beethoven pour water over his head while composing? (view dispute report)

True or False? "Darwin's theory of evolution says that mammals evolved from birds." (view dispute report)

Should abortion generally be legal or illegal? (view dispute report)

How high is Mount Everest? (view dispute report)

Does the Bible explicitly condemn slavery? (view dispute report)

Does the "Loch Ness Monster" exist? (view dispute report)

Where was President Chester A. Arthur born? (view dispute report)

Is Sarah Palin qualified to be President? (view dispute report)

True or False? "Barack Obama hates America." (view dispute report)

Is it true that women blink twice as much as men? (view dispute report)

Does the Bible condemn homosexuality? (view dispute report)

True or False? "Gay marriage should be a question for the states." (view dispute report)

Is Sarah Palin electable, were she to run for President? (view dispute report)

Is homosexuality genetic (at least in part)? (view dispute report)

Is Barack Obama evil? (view dispute report)

Does the Bible condone slavery? (view dispute report)

True or False? "The missile off the coast of California on November 8, 2010 was an American missile." (view dispute report)

Does drinking alcohol kill brain cells? (view dispute report)

Does extraterrestrial life (aliens) exist somewhere in the universe? (view dispute report)

Who is the most beautiful woman in the world? (view dispute report)

Should Puerto Rico be granted statehood? (view dispute report)

Do unbaptized babies go to heaven? (view dispute report)

Does Islam endorse killing infidels? (view dispute report)

How many people were killed in the Japanese earthquake of 3/11/2011? (view dispute report)

Is there life after death? (view dispute report)

What is the wild ancestor of the domesticated dog? (view dispute report)

Was Archaeopteryx capable of powered flight, or just gliding? (view dispute report)

Are the differences between men and women partially inborn, or are they due solely to social conditioning? (view dispute report)

How much larger is the male brain than the female brain? (view dispute report)

Was Adolf Hitler a Christian? (view dispute report)

How fast does the sun travel through space? (view dispute report)

Should the United States allow prayer in schools? (view dispute report)

Did the United States government ever give blankets infected with smallpox to the Indians? (view dispute report)

Where did Barack Obama grow up? (view dispute report)

Are the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit of one substance? (view dispute report)

Does long-term marijuana use harm your memory? (view dispute report)

Should the United States adopt the British Monarchy as its own? (view dispute report)

Is President Barack Obama anti-American? (view dispute report)

Is Barack Obama the Antichrist? (view dispute report)

Did European settlers ever deliberately give blankets infected with smallpox to the Indians? (view dispute report)

Is there geological evidence for a worldwide flood, as described in the Bible's story of Noah? (view dispute report)

What percentage of the earth's oxygen comes from the Amazon rainforest? (view dispute report)

Is Barack Obama a Muslim? (view dispute report)

How far does a lion's roar travel? (view dispute report)

True or False? "Noah's ark, as described in the Bible, would have floated." (view dispute report)

Do vaccines cause autism? (view dispute report)

True or False? "It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open." (view dispute report)

Did humans evolve from other animals? (view dispute report)

True or False? "Heaven is a literal place that exists somewhere." (view dispute report)

Does the Bible condemn slavery? (view dispute report)

Is Barack Obama a natural born citizen of the United States? (view dispute report)

How old is the Earth? (view dispute report)

Does hell exist? (view dispute report)

True or False? "Texas is the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag at the same height as the U.S. flag." (view dispute report)

Are Native Americans (American Indians) descended from the Jews? (view dispute report)

At what time of day did Abraham Lincoln die? (view dispute report)

Is it proper to end a sentence with a preposition? (view dispute report)

True or False? "Creationism, Creation Science, and Intelligent Design are scientific." (view dispute report)

Does Mitt Romney's book "No Apology" say that Romney would impose Massachusetts's health plan on the whole country? (view dispute report)

Who were the first Old World navigators to land in the Americas? (view dispute report)

When did the Yellowstone volcano last erupt explosively? (view dispute report)

True or False? "The Theory of Evolution is a scientific fact." (view dispute report)

How many people are murdered each year in the United States? (view dispute report)

In what country was Barack Obama born? (view dispute report)

True or False? "No inscriptions using Old World forms of writing have been shown to have occurred in any part of the Americas before 1492 except for a few Norse rune stones which have been found in Greenland." (view dispute report)

Will it ever be possible to clone a wooly mammoth? (view dispute report)

True or False? "Barack Obama was born in Hawaii." (view dispute report)

True or False? "Public schooling is a socialist institution." (view dispute report)

Who is winning the Culture War in the United States? (view dispute report)

Has Michele Bachmann received money from a farm that receives federal subsidies? (view dispute report)

True or False? "Remember when Obama said America had 57 states?" (view dispute report)

True or False? "George Soros spent a brief period of time helping Nazis hand out deportation notices to Hungarian Jews." (view dispute report)

True or False? "Theaters in Glendale, California can show horror films only on Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday." (view dispute report)

True or False? "There will be a revolution marked by food riots, squatter rebellions, tax revolts and job marches, and holidays will be more about obtaining food than gifts." (view dispute report)

True or False? "Most scholars view the re-birth of Israel in 1948 as the first of the end times signs predicted in the Bible." (view dispute report)

True or False? "We should stop worrying about our career, our retirement fund, our lifestyle, and all those other worldly distractions and put all our resources to work for the benefit of our next life." (view dispute report)

True or False? "Obama's healthcare reform requires all Americans to have a radioactive GPS chip surgically implanted in their bodies." (view dispute report)

True or False? "The present push for world control is certainly satanic." (view dispute report)

True or False? "The final plan for the La Raza movement includes the ethnic cleansing of Americans of European, African, and Asian descent out of "Aztlan." " (view dispute report)

True or False? "The normal lifestyle of American young adults is to live together for a period of time in a type of informal trial marriage. " (view dispute report)

True or False? "The reason Bollywood films have such universal appeal is because they’re squeaky-clean." (view dispute report)

True or False? "Every time you think someone’s going to do it, they'll burst into song instead." (view dispute report)

True or False? "There are no sex scenes in Bollywood films, not even kissing." (view dispute report)

True or False? "Up to one-half of all the arrivals in the American colonies were Whites slaves and they were America's first slaves." (view dispute report)

True or False? "Jupiter's core is in fact made of non-metal, but due to the immense pressure inside Jupiter the core has become metal. This metal is hydrogen." (view dispute report)

True or False? "Khalid Al-Mansour, an advisor to Saudi prince Al-Walid bin Talah, told Manhattan Borough president, Percy Sutton, that he was raising money for Obama’s Harvard tuition." (view dispute report)

True or False? "At least three of CAIR’s leaders have been indicted for terrorist activities." (view dispute report)

True or False? "The real reason why Obama probably did not submit this form as a teenager is that he assumed his Kenyan or Indonesian citizenship exempted him from this requirement." (view dispute report)

True or False? "It appears that Obama has multiple identities in term of possessing numerous social security numbers." (view dispute report)

True or False? "Hamas and al-Qaida are violent Brotherhood offshoots." (view dispute report)

True or False? "Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses." (view dispute report)

True or False? "Celibate priests are more likely to be pedophiles than other groups of men." (view dispute report)

True or False? "Pedophilia affects only 0.3 percent of the population of Catholic clergy, and sexual abusers in general account for less than 2 percent of Catholic priests." (view dispute report)

True or False? "The earliest Church fathers, such as St. Augustine, St. Cyril, and St. Jerome, fully supported the celibate priesthood." (view dispute report)

True or False? "A bird is defined by the presence of feathers." (view dispute report)

True or False? "Saturated fats cause heart disease." (view dispute report)

True or False? "The New World Order is unraveling." (view dispute report)

True or False? "The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head! ." (view dispute report)

True or False? "If there is one drop of Negro blood in my children, as I have read to you, they receive the curse." (view dispute report)

True or False? "Alexander Hamilton and his son, Philip, both died on the same spot, and both during duels." (view dispute report)

True or False? "In Minor v. Happersett, the definition of a “natural-born citizen” given by the Court is dicta and therefore not binding precedent." (view dispute report)

Do affirmative action programs help promote racial harmony? (view dispute report)

True or False? "After testing the DNA of more than 12,000 Indians, though, most researchers have concluded that the continent's early inhabitants came from Asia across the Bering Strait." (view dispute report)

True or False? "By the time Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, every slave in Lee’s charge had been freed." (view dispute report)

True or False? "(An example being inequitable tariffs – the South paid 87% of the nation’s total tariffs in 1860 alone.)" (view dispute report)

Were blacks better off enslaved in the southern United States, or free in Africa? (view dispute report)

True or False? "Indeed, there is strong reason to believe that Peru was the ancient Ophir of the Bible!" (view dispute report)

When was the Gospel of Luke written? (view dispute report)

True or False? "The Early Church Fathers are almost unanimous in the assertion that the birth was painless and had no loss of Mary's virginal integrity during the birth. In other words, her Hymen didn't break." (view dispute report)

True or False? "we may be making our families and neighbors less safe by expanding the places where guns aren’t allowed." (view dispute report)

True or False? "Crimes are reduced based on the fact that criminals don’t know if their target is packing a weapon or not." (view dispute report)

Were the booby traps in James Holmes's apartment sophisticated? (view dispute report)

True or False? "Even so, he freed the slaves in only a part of the country: all the rest continued to clank their chains until he himself was an angel in Heaven." (view dispute report)