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Urban Legends

We've all grown up "knowing" certain things -- and, in recent years, receiving a lot of stories via e-mail that are widely accepted as true. But how many of these are actually real? See if you can figure out if each urban legend below is true or false.

Points available: 10

1:

The Marlboro Man died of lung cancer.

2:

The Nursery Rhyme "Ring Around the Rosie" is a reference to the Black Plague.

3:

Coca-Cola created our modern image of Santa Claus.

4:

The "Happy Birthday" song cannot be sung in restaurants because it is copyrighted.

5:

Nostradamus predicted the events of September 11.

6:

The Titanic carried a cursed mummy in its hold.

7:

If you go swimming less than one hour after eating, you'll get a cramp and might drown.

8:

Water boiled in a microwave could explode.

9:

German and British soldiers sang "Silent Night" during a Christmas truce during World War I.

10:

Eating poppy seeds could cause you to fail a drug test.

 

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