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Truth or Falsehood?

  1. When Queen Victoria died, British subjects almost virtually donned black and black satin ribbons were hung from street lampposts. True or False?
  2. True False

  3. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife caused World War I. True or False?

  4. True False

  5. The Great Depression was only solved by the advent of World War II. True or False?
    True
    False

  6. Adolf Hitler hoped to establish a thousand-year empire. True or False?
    True False

  7. The first all-purpose, all-electronic digital computer was built for the U.S. army. True or False?
    True False
  8. The first man in space was an American. True or False?

  9. True False

  10. When Mao Zedong died in 1976, his widow, Jiang Qing, mastermind of the Cultural Revolution, proceeded to rule China in his place. True or False?

  11. True False

  12. When the Chernobyl meltdown occurred in Ukraine, USSR, a disaster zone was immediately declared and thousands of people were evacuated from the vicinity. True or False?

  13. True
    False

  14. Queen Elizabeth II, the richest woman in the world, does not pay personal taxes. True or False?
    True False
  1. The twentieth century ends relatively uneventfully, with no sign of the Y2K Bug marring global millennium festivities. True or False?
    True False

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