True or False History

How much do you know about history

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Last updated: November 22, 2019

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1. Italian cities Bologna and Modena once fought a war over a wooden bucket

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2. John F. Kennedy fought against Japan during WW2

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3. Madagascar was the first communist country

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4. Quentin Tarantino's film Inglorious Bastards is based on a true story

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5. To this day no one knows where Genghis Khan's body is resting

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6. Liberia was originally colonized by the Portuguese in the 1700s but gave up on the colony due to heavy resistance by the natives

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7. North Carolina was the first state to separate from the US before the Civil War

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8. Christopher Columbus never set foot on America proper, only Puerto Rico

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9. The pilgrims landed in Massachusetts

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10. France used to have a completely white flag

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11. There was a two day period were all drugs were legal in Ireland due to a constitutional violation

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12. Franklin D. Roosevelt served the US as president for a total of five terms before he died due to polio disease

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13. Franz Ferdinand's original assassination attempt failed, only for him to accidentally be found less than an hour later by one of the assassins at a cafe and shot then.

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14. The Spanish flue actually originated in Eastern Portugal

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15. In old Ireland if someone killed your family member you could legally enslave them

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Level 70

Nov 21, 2019

You might want to rephrase question about Kennedy, he never fought in Japan but he did fight against Japan in the Pacific. As well as the island Columbus landed on wasn't Puerto Rico, it was Hispaniola if I remember correctly, could be wrong on that.

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Nov 22, 2019

Kennedy fought in the South Pacific, not in Japan. Columbus set foot in the Bahamas and on Hispaniola, not Puerto Rico.

Level 71

Jan 26, 2021

Bologna and Modena didn't fight the war over the bucket. It's called the War of the Bucket because Modena stole the bucket. It wasn't caused because of it. Someone didn't watch Oversimplified...