QUIZ

Tomato was used as a medicine in the past.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Answer explanation

In the 1830s, tomato ketchup was sold as a medicine, claiming to cure ailments like diarrhea, indigestion, and jaundice. The idea was proposed by Dr John Cook Bennett, who later sold the recipe in form of 'tomato pills'.

Christopher Colombus discovered America

• TRUE

• FALSE

Answer explanation

Colombus explored Central and South America, but never went to America.

1. The shortest war lasted only about 38 minutes.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Answer explanation

The war was between United Kingdom and Zanzibar Sultanate.

Dentists didn't use painkillers in the past.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Answer explanation

Every time you went to the dentist, you felt everything,

because they didn't have painkillers.

Albert Einstein failed maths, he was very bad at maths at young ages.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Answer explanation

Einstein was very successful at maths at young ages.

Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin by accident.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Answer explanation

Scientist Alexander Fleming forgot to tidy his lab up before he went on holiday. When he came back, he saw that the mould (penicillin) was anti-bacterial.

The last letter added to the alphabet was actually “J.”

• TRUE

• FALSE

Answer explanation

IT was not -Z-, It was -J-.

Sir Isaac Newton "discovered" gravity when an apple fell on his head.

• TRUE

• FALSE

People believed that the earth was flat.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Gladiators in Ancient Rome were all men.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Answer explanation

There were female gladiators in Ancient Rome!