True or False: History

What this quiz asks

• Viking warriors wore horned helmets into battle.
• The Great Fire of London in 1666 started in a bakery on Pudding Lane.
• Did educated Europeans in Columbus's time generally believe the Earth was flat?
• Napoleon Bonaparte was unusually short for a man of his era.
• Was the Ottoman Empire still in existence when World War I began?
• Marie Antoinette told starving French peasants to eat cake.
• Teaching was taking place at Oxford University before the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan was founded.
• Did the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Tiananmen Square protests happen in the same year?
• The Great Wall of China can be seen with the naked eye from the Moon.
• Albert Einstein failed mathematics at school.
• Did every gladiator contest in ancient Rome end with the loser being killed?
• The Hundred Years' War between England and France lasted longer than a hundred years.
• Ancient Greek and Roman marble statues were originally painted in bright colours.
• Walt Disney's body was frozen after his death.
• Did Cleopatra belong to a Greek-speaking dynasty founded by one of Alexander the Great's generals?
• A Roman vomitorium was a room where banquet guests went to be sick.
• The Rosetta Stone carries the same decree in three different scripts.
• Was the Eiffel Tower originally meant to stand for only 20 years?
• Christopher Columbus was the first European to reach the Americas.
• The Titanic sank during its very first voyage carrying passengers.