THE GULLIBILITY TEST:

Science and Nature

Pretend that you're an editor at a major newspaper. A reporter has just handed you a story that contains the following statements. Unfortunately, this reporter has a reputation for embellishing stories with wild claims that are completely untrue. Using common sense and whatever you happen to know about the subjects, you've got to decide which statements are true and which are false before the paper goes out to print. Saying 'I don't know' isn't an option.


1.  Cockroaches can survive for up to a month with their heads cut off.

True
False


2.  Sharks do not get cancer.

True
False


3.  Long-tailed, South American monkeys have an unusual way of crossing rivers. Clinging to each other, they form their bodies into a living bridge that stretches between the trees on either side of a river. Other members of the pack then climb across this 'monkey chain' to reach the other side.

True
False


4. Duck quacks do not echo.

True
False


5.  Turtles never die of old age.

True
False


6.  Lemmings commit suicide by hurling themselves, en masse, off cliffs.

True
False


7.  There is a small village in Ecuador, called Vilcabamba, whose inhabitants have an average lifespan of over 100 years.

True
False


8.  Lightning occasionally imprints photographic images of surrounding scenery onto the skin of those it has struck.

True
False


9.  Physicists recently announced that they were able to slow down light waves until the waves were almost frozen in place.

True
False


10.  Gravity has a stronger pull at the Earth's poles than it does at the equator. As a result, a person who weights 150lbs at the equator, would weigh almost a pound heavier if they stood at the North Pole.

True
False


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