Truth or Consequence—Answers

Here, in bold, are the answers to my earlier post.

1. False—It changed name to Truth or Consequence (not Tacos or Chocolate) in 1950 after the radio show of the same name ran a competition for a town or city to do so; the prize being that the show would be broadcast from the winner—the first settlement to change their town’s name. 
2. False—Nothing to do with First Lady’s. It was chosen because it sounded like the French for help me, m’aider and was picked in 1920 by the head of radio in air traffic control at Croydon Aerodrome (then the world’s busiest) as most of their flights were from France.
3. False—No, not Martin Luther King. It was about the assassination of JFK.
4. False—Not the Inca Empire. Hernán Cortés conquered the Aztec Empire in what is now central Mexico in 1521 not the Inca’s in what is now Peru.
   

   

5. True—Lucy was named after the Beatles song, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.
6. False—Pete Conrad, Apollo 12 was the third person to walk on the Moon. Michael Collins was the command module pilot of Apollo 11 and did not land on the Moon but remained in orbit while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the lunar surface.
   

   

7. False—Not Skyfall. Fleming’s house and estate were both named GoldenEye and are now a hotel complex.
8. True—It is a neighbourhood on the West Side of Midtown Manhattan.
9. False—Not Coprophagia which is dung-eating. Lalochezia is the release of stress etc by swearing.
10. False—It wasn’t Please Mister Postman. The third number one, I Want to Hold Your Hand, was released in November 1963 with the B-side This Boy.