Hot Shot

A few true or false posers for you today.

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa.
Image Wikimedia Commons

One

Gun-toting … … triggers police alert at hotel

True or false: The above 2003 headline from The Herald in Glasgow, Scotland, referenced opera singer Kiri Te Kanawa’s arrival in the city with several shotguns.


Two

True or false: On 18 June 1983, US astronaut Sally Ride became the first woman to travel in space.


Three

True or false: According to the United States Geological Survey, about 90% of the world’s earthquakes, including most of its largest, occur within the Pacific Ring of Fire.


Four

Those kids were fast as lightning
In fact, it was a little bit frightening

True or false: The above lyric from a 1974 song was a number one hit in multiple nations.


Five

True or false: Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1878.

Good luck! I’ll post the answers later.

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