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The “Fact or fiction” quiz — Pub quiz. It has 25 questions in five categories: Animal myths, Historical myths, Body and health, Famous hoaxes, Food and everyday. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.

  • 25 questions · 5 categories

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Buzzo quiz: Fact or fiction

A peek at the questions

The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.

Animal myths

  1. 100Picture for the question

    The myth claims a matador enrages a bull with a red cape. What actually provokes the animal?

  2. 200

    Contrary to popular belief, camels do not store water in their humps. What do they store there?

  3. 300

    Which film studio staged…

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  4. 400

    The myth says mother…

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  5. 500

    People say ostriches bury…

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Historical myths

  1. 100

    Which fruit, according to legend, fell on Newton's head and gave him the idea of gravity?

  2. 200

    In the 19th century, costume designers for Wagner's operas invented horned helmets. Which warriors were falsely given them?

  3. 300

    Which queen of France…

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  4. 400

    Which bowed instrument is…

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  5. 500

    Which spiked torture cabinet…

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Body and health

  1. 100Picture for the question

    A widespread myth claims that different zones of this organ are uniquely dedicated to tasting sweet, sour, or bitter.

  2. 200

    According to a persistent neuromyth popularised by fiction, humans only use what percentage of their brain?

  3. 300

    A common myth claims…

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  4. 400

    A myth says that…

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  5. 500

    A myth says hair…

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Famous hoaxes

  1. 100

    Which Scottish lake is famous for a legendary monster said to live in it?

  2. 200

    In 1938, a radio adaptation of which H. G. Wells novel created the enduring myth of nationwide mass panic in America?

  3. 300

    Showman P. T. Barnum…

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  4. 400

    Which 1912 anthropological hoax…

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  5. 500

    Which creator of Sherlock…

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Food and everyday

  1. 100Picture for the question

    The myth that carrots give pilots night vision was invented by the British in World War II to conceal which technology?

  2. 200

    Popular myth claims this non-stick polymer was invented by NASA for the space program. What is its famous trade name?

  3. 300

    According to a popular…

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  4. 400

    A 1968 letter sparked…

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  5. 500

    Cooks say that searing…

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  3. Choose questions on the board, buzz in first and collect points.

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