Truth or Consequence

For some variety a selection of true or false questions unconnected to today.

Hot Springs, New Mexico.
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  1. True or false: the American city of Hot Springs, New Mexico is now known as ‘T or C’ after changing its name to Tacos or Chocolate in 1950.
  2. True or false: Mayday, the international distress signal, was chosen in honour of the then US First Lady.
  3. True or false: in 2020, Murder Most Foul was released as a single by Bob Dylan. The murder referred to in the title was the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1967.
  4. True or false: Hernán Cortés was a Spanish conquistador who conquered the Inca Empire in the Americas in 1521.
  5. True or false: Lucy the 3.2 million-year-old skeleton found in Ethiopia was named after a Beatles song.
  6. True or false: the Apollo astronaut Michael Collins was the third person to walk on the Moon.
  7. True or false: Ian Fleming, the author who created James Bond, had a home on Jamaica’s north coast named Skyfall.
  8. True or false: there is a neighbourhood of New York City called Hell’s Kitchen.
  9. True or false: relief of stress, pain and frustration by swearing is known as coprophagia.
  10. True or false: The Beatles third UK No. 1 hit I Want to Hold Your Hand was released with the B-side Please Mister Postman.

Good luck! The answers will be posted later today.

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