Tag: pre-history

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.

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

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.