Here are the answers to the questions in my earlier post.
Simply choose today, are the statements below either true or false?
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One
True or false: ferries operating between Gothenburg, Sweden, and Frederikshavn in Denmark cross the Kattegat.
Answer: True
The Swedish company Stena Line operates between Gothenburg/Frederikshavn in Denmark. The Kattegat is a 140-mile (225 km) long strait which is linked to the North Sea by the Skagerrak and to the Baltic Sea by the Øresund.
Two
True or false: Humphrey Bogart’s character name in The African Queen (1951) was Charlie Allnut.
Answer: True
The African Queen was a John Huston film based on C.S. Forester’s 1935 novel of the same name. Bogart starred as Charlie Allnut alongside Katharine Hepburn as Rose Sayer.
Three
True or false: Harald Hardrada was the king of England who died at the Battle of Hastings on 14 October 1066.
Answer: False
Hardrada was an epithet of Harald Sigurdsson, king of Norway, who did die in England that year, but on 25 September 1066 when he was defeated by the forces of Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Stamford Bridge. Godwinson, aka Harold II, king of England, died at the Battle of Hastings on 14 October 1066 to be succeeded by William I (William the Conqueror).
Four
True or false: the film The Exorcist was based on the novel of the same name written by Stephen King.
Answer: False
The Exorcist (1973) is a horror film about a young girl’s demonic possession and the priests’ exorcism attempt. It was based on a screenplay by William Peter Blatty, which itself was based on his 1971 novel of the same name.
Five
True or false: pangolins are only native to Africa.
Answer: False
Pangolins are armoured placental mammals found in tropical Asia and Africa. They are nocturnal, feed mainly on termites, and defend themselves by rolling into a ball. Pangolins are the only mammals covered in scales and are threatened by poaching not only for meat but for their scales, which are used in traditional medicine. They are also believed to be a potential intermediate host for the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.
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