Hit or Myth?

by Charlie Rice (from Reader's Digest^®: Tests and Teasers, © 1980, pg. 96):
"You're not supposed to know the answers to the following eight questions -- just size up the situation and make a guess. After you're through, we'll tell you what your score suggests about your presonality."

What did Nero do when Rome burned?
He fiddled.
He fled to his summer palace outside the city.
He opened a Fire Relief Fund afterward and demanded contributions.
Lemmings are small rodents that inhabit Sweden and Norway. What is the truth about them?
Each year, lemmings march to the sea and commit deliberate mass suicide by drowning.
Some years, migrating on a straight-line course, lemmings march to sea, swim on out and drown.
Lemmings are strictly city rodents and never march anywhere.
George Washington is supposed to have cut down a cherry tree and said to his father "I cannot tell a lie -- I did it." What do you think?
Basically true.
Possibly true.
Not credible.
What is your judgement about the tale that Lady Godiva rode naked through the streets of Coventry to protest her cruel husband's tax on the populace?
Probably true.
Highly unlikely.
Absolute nonsense.
In the Titanic disaster, what was the orchestra playing when the ship went down?
"Nearer, My God, to Thee"
"Autumn"
Dance music.
How many of each animal did Noah take aboard the Ark?
One pair of each animal.
Seven pairs of some animals, one pair of others.
Very few animals at all, since the Ark was a small craft by present-day standards.
Which statement do you believe?
Abe Lincoln was the only President born in a log cabin.
Three Presidents were born in log cabins.
More than half a dozen Presidents were born in log cabins.
William Tell, Arthur of Camelot, and "Casey at Bat" are all well-known. How many really existed?
All three.
Only Arthur.
None of them.

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Hit or Myth?

by Charlie Rice (from Reader's Digest®: Tests and Teasers, © 1980, pg. 96): "You're not supposed to know the answers to the following eight questions -- just size up the situation and make a guess. After you're through, we'll tell you what your score suggests about your presonality."

by Charlie Rice (from Reader's Digest^®: Tests and Teasers, © 1980, pg. 96):
"You're not supposed to know the answers to the following eight questions -- just size up the situation and make a guess. After you're through, we'll tell you what your score suggests about your presonality."