Well, certainly if you didn't know how to walk over hot coals, you are going to burn your feet. But CAN you walk over hot coals and not get burned? Yes, but only if you know how. (Wait for the coals to cool off a bit, do it on a dew-ey night so your feet have a layer of water for insulation, walk fast, don't stop, believe you can do it, etc. etc.)

So if knowledge is power, it would be better for you to know the real deal so you can realize your dreams and not get burned.

So here we go!

1. Who invented the automobile?

Henry Ford Wilhelm Diesel Karl Benz Jacques Cugnot The Wright Brothers

2. Who invented television?

David Sarnoff Filo T. Farnsworth Thomas Edison Jubilation T. Cornpone Desi Arnez

3. In what year was the U.S. Presidential election determined by an electoral commission after the state of Florida couldn't get their vote straight without the intervention of the Supreme Court?:

2000 1820 1918 1876 1948

4. In what century did the Catholic Church finally agree that the Earth orbits around the Sun and not the other way around?:

16th 17th 18th 19th none of the above

5. What is the world's oldest known city?

Jericho Jerusalem Damascus Kish or Susa Ur

6. In what year were medical prescriptions introduced in the U.S.?

1789 1840 1939 1918 1870

7. By what standard was the diameter of the solid fuel boosters of the Space Shuttle determined?

The width of the average horse in Ancient Rome By determining the drag coefficient of WWII ballistic missiles By the width of the doors in the Vehicle Assembly building at Kennedy Space Center The Chinese fireworks standard None of the above

8. Who invented the term Volkswagen?

Sigmund Freud Johann von Diesel Adolf Hitler Walter Heisenberg Ludwig Von Beethoven

9. What Europeans first attempted Communism in North America?

The Mayflower Pilgrims The John Birch Society The Mormons The Dutch East India Company at Jamestown Colony The Beatniks of the 1950's

10. What does "Eskimo" mean, and who coined the name?

"Arctic dwellers" by the Russians "The men" by the Pacific Northwest Chinooks "Raw fish eaters" by the Algonquin Indians "Kiss with noses" by the Yukonians None of the above

11. Who were the first "Terrorists"?

Hijackers who forced American planes to Cuba in the 1960's Arabs who were "crazed with hashish" and carried out political assassinations during the Ottoman Empire French Socialists who in 1848 who set up a revolutionary government at the Hotel de Ville A subset of the British Army who caused the Boston Massacre in 1775 Vengeful Sicilians who in 1282 massacred French colonialists

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