True or False
Think fast with this trivia game designed to test your knowledge between fact and fiction.
15 questions · Published February 7, 2022
Trivia questions (5 of 15)
- Multiple Choice
1. At age seventeen, Malala Yousafzai is the youngest individual to be named Time Magazine's "Person of the Year."
Though she earned the Nobel Peace Prize at age seventeen, Malala Yousafzai was not named Time's "Person of the Year."
Time Magazine's youngest "Person of the Year" ever was ecological activist Greta Thunberg at age sixteen.
- Multiple Choice
2. The literary prize the Hugo Award is named for author Victor Hugo.
Awarded since 1953, the Hugo Award -- widely considered the premier award in science fiction -- is named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine "Amazing Stories."
- Multiple Choice
3. South African drivers have the right to install flamethrowers on their cars.
In response to violent crime that had reached epidemic proportions, inventor Charl Fourie developed the Blaster, also known as the "BMW Flamethrower," which could be mounted to the sides of vehicles.
His invention is still legal and earned Fourie the Ig Nobel Prize, a satirical take on the Nobel Prize, in 1999.
- Multiple Choice
4. A baby platypus is called a puggle.
The term "puggle" originated as the term for a baby echidna, but was borrowed and applied to its fellow egg-laying mammal, the platypus.
In recent years, "platypup" has emerged as a possible alternative.
- Multiple Choice
5. At age eighteen, Kacey Musgraves won season five of the singing competition show "Nashville Star."
At age eighteen, Kacey Musgraves did compete on the fifth season of USA Network's "Nashville Star," but finished seventh.
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