Quizmas

True or False

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TRUE FALSE

Directions
Raise money by having a fun ‘True or False’
round for a spot prize.
Cut-out around the card and hand one to each
participant (you can charge them to enter. Suggested
donation of £1). Everyone stands up and the quiz
master reads out True or false questions attached.
Participants hold up the ‘True’ or ‘False’ card
depending on what they think the answer is.
Players who answer incorrectly must sit down,
this is continued until there is a single prize winner.
Quizmas
True or False
True or False questions to be used as a fundraiser
1 T
 rue or False:
For the first hour of its life, a baby giraffe uses
its head and long neck as a “fifth leg” to stop it
falling over as it learns to control its gangly limbs.
Answer: False
2 T
 rue or False:
In the Solomon Islands, ‘Only Fools and Horses’
was so popular when it was first shown on TV
there in 1991, that over 35% of all boys born in
1992 were called Rodney, Derek, Del or Delboy.
Answer: False
3 T
 rue or False:
Martin Bashir, famous (amongst other things)
for his interviews of Princess Diana and Michael
Jackson, released a reggae album in 2010 called
‘Bass Lion’.
Answer: True
True or False:
4 
In 2009, Stephen Hawking threw a party at
Cambridge University which nobody went to.
This is because he didn’t announce the details
until after the date as the party was for
time travellers.
Answer: True
5 True or False:
In his 2009 autobiography, tennis legend Andre
Agassi revealed that he did not eat any fruit
or vegetables for over 9 months in 1986.
Answer: False
6 True or False:
The girlfriend of the founder of match.com
left him for a man she met on match.com.
Answer: True
7 T
 rue or False:
The Polish Beer Lovers Party won 16 seats in
the Polish Parliament in 1991 elections, but soon
split into two factions, known as “Large Beer”
and “Small Beer”.
Answer: True
8 True or False:
The first draft of the Companies Act 2006, in an
attempt to stay on top of modern technology,
contained a clause requiring all Companies in the
UK to have a fax number to be used for official
communications from Companies House.
Answer: False
9 T
 rue or False:
The national anthem of Liechtenstein is to the
tune of the ‘Fawlty Towers’ theme. The anthem
came first and was chosen as the theme tune
to the show by John Cleese, who had recently
heard it during a football match.
Answer: False
10 T
 rue or False:
It was a criminal offence in England and Wales
to “be an incorrigible rogue” until the crime
was removed from the statute book in 2013.
Answer: True
11 T
 rue or False:
In 1989, David Hasselhoff released
the single ‘Pingu Dance’ in Switzerland, a rap
song based on the Pingu TV show and featuring
a number of samples of Pinguish.
Answer: True
12 T
 rue or False:
Dave Peacock, of Chas and Dave, was originally
offered the part of Bill Sykes in the film version
of ‘Oliver!’, but turned it down to compete in the
1968 Olympics at Discus, where he just missed
bronze to Czechoslovakia’s Ludvik Danek.
Answer: False