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The quiz questions come from it.
Fact or myth? 1 of 3
It’s a myth.
Genesis only says “fruit.” The apple came from a Latin pun: malum means apple, and malum also means evil.
In Herald: Adam and Eve · Genesis 3:6
Fact or myth? 2 of 3
It’s a fact.
She gave some “to her husband with her.” He was there the whole time, saying nothing.
In Herald: Adam and Eve · Genesis 3:6
Fact or myth? 3 of 3
It’s a myth.
No Gospel says that. The label came from a sermon by Pope Gregory the Great, in 591.
In Herald: The Empty Tomb · Luke 8:2
Fact or myth? 1 of 3
It’s a myth.
That line is Shakespeare’s, from 1599. Suetonius says Caesar only groaned, without a word.
In Herald: Caesar · Suetonius, Julius 82
Fact or myth? 2 of 3
It’s a fact.
They asked 20 talents of silver. He laughed and said he was worth 50. Then he came back and crucified them, as promised.
In Herald: Caesar · Suetonius, Julius 4; Plutarch, Caesar 2
Fact or myth? 3 of 3
It’s a myth.
Caesar was dictator for life, and was killed for it. The first emperor was his heir, Augustus, in 27 BC.
In Herald: The Rise and Fall of Rome · Res Gestae 34
Fact or myth? 1 of 3
It’s a myth.
In Hesiod it’s a jar, a pithos as tall as a person. The box is usually credited to Erasmus, in 1508.
In Herald: Prometheus · Hesiod, Works and Days 94
Fact or myth? 2 of 3
It’s a fact.
“This curse that looks so fair,” he calls it. And he begs to lose it.
In Herald: The Midas Touch · Ovid, Metamorphoses 11.133
Fact or myth? 3 of 3
It’s a myth.
In the Iliad, a spear grazes his elbow and draws blood. The heel only shows up some 800 years after Homer.
In Herald: The Trojan War · Iliad 21; Statius, Achilleid
Fact or myth? 1 of 3
It’s a myth.
Nobody portrayed him in his lifetime. The beard and hair appeared in 1890, in a drawing modeled on a Christ by Van Dyck.
In Herald: Tiradentes · Autos de Devassa; Revista Pesquisa FAPESP
Fact or myth? 2 of 3
It’s a fact.
They speak of a “bay beast”: a mule. He also had dysentery. The horse first appears in a text of 1854, and in the 1888 painting.
In Herald: Dom Pedro I · Father Belchior and Colonel Marcondes
Fact or myth? 3 of 3
It’s a myth.
It isn’t. Caminha wrote that “if one wishes to make use of it, everything will grow in it.” And about gold and silver: “nor have we seen any.”
In Herald: Cabral · Caminha’s letter, folio 13v
Fact or myth? 1 of 3
It’s a myth.
It was a pair of teleprinters sending typed messages. The red phone comes from films like Dr. Strangelove, from 1964.
In Herald: Thirteen Days
Fact or myth? 2 of 3
It’s a fact.
Vasili Arkhipov, aboard submarine B-59. In the crew’s accounts, he talked the captain into surfacing instead.
In Herald: Thirteen Days
Fact or myth? 3 of 3
It’s a myth.
HBO’s 2019 series wrote that line. What was real: the meters at hand topped out at 3.6 roentgen an hour.
In Herald: Chernobyl
Fact or myth? 1 of 3
It’s a myth.
Never. The Army refused him a security clearance in 1940. He learned about Hiroshima from the news.
In Herald: Hiroshima
Fact or myth? 2 of 3
It’s a fact.
Paul Tibbets had her name, Enola Gay Tibbets, painted on the nose the day before the mission.
In Herald: Hiroshima
Fact or myth? 3 of 3
It’s a myth.
American agents found in late 1944 that Germany’s program was far behind. Its last reactor never ran a chain reaction.
In Herald: Hiroshima
Fact or myth? 1 of 3
It’s a myth.
No lava reached Pompeii. Pumice and ash buried it, and clouds of hot gas killed the people who stayed.
In Herald: Pompeii
Fact or myth? 2 of 3
It’s a fact.
Before she sailed, a magazine called her “practically unsinkable.” The “practically” vanished after the sinking.
In Herald: Titanic · The Shipbuilder
Fact or myth? 3 of 3
It’s a myth.
A cartoon myth: radiation is invisible. In Goiânia, what glowed was the cesium powder, a faint blue, only in the dark.
In Herald: Cesium-137
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