True or false Trivia Quiz questions (2024 update)
Here you will find a selection of true or false (Pub) Quiz questions. To test your own knowledge. Or for that (Pub) Quiz you’re going to make. Use them however you want :-).
This page was last updated on: January 10, 2024
True or false questions
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Question: 2024 is leap year, true or false?
Answer: True
Question: As of Jan. 1, 2023, you must also wear a helmet on a moped, true or false?
Answer: True
Question: The Dutch sixteenth century is also called the Golden Age, true or false?
Answer: Not true (that’s the 17th century)
Question: Michael van Gerwen won the legendary World Cup final in January 2023 from Michael Smith, true or false?
Answer: Not true (he lost)
Question: The top scorer of the 2022 World Cup was Lionel Messi, true or false?
Answer: Not true (that was Kylian Mbappé)
Question: Whales are mammals, not fish. True or false?
Answer: True
Question: The Gobi Desert is in South Africa, true or false?
Answer: Not true (it’s in Asia)
Question: The 135-meter-high Ferris wheel in London is called London Sky, true or false?
Answer: Not True (it’s London Eye)
Question: The Mona Lisa hangs in The Louvre in Paris, true or false?
Answer: True
Question: A Big Mac from McDonald's in the Netherlands contains more Kcal than a Whopper from Burger King, true or false?
Answer: Not true(Whopper: 636.3, Big Mac: 525 Kcal)
Question: There are more than 100 elements on the periodic table, true or false?
Answer: True
Question: Goldfish have a memory of several seconds, true or false?
Answer: Not true, research shows up to 3 months (source: Quest)
Question: William Henry of Orange also ruled England as King William III, true or false?
Answer: True
Question: A year on Mars lasts about 50 Earth days, true or false?
Answer: Not true (about 687 earth days)
Question: The 3-letter international code for Barcelona Airport is BAR, true or false?
Answer: Not true (it is BCN)
Question: The longest river in the world is the Nile, true or false?
Answer: True
Question: A group of wild boars is called a "passel", true or false?
Answer: True
Question: Classifying the speed of the wind, called wind force, we do on the Beaufort scale, true or false?
Answer: True
Question: Oktoberfest traditionally begins in September, true or false?
Answer: True
Question: On April 1, 2001, the Netherlands became the first country in the world to open marriage to people of the same sex, true or false?
Answer: True
Question: The Great Wall of China is visible from the moon, true or false?
Answer: Not True
Question: The inventor of Bluetooth is a Dutchman, true or false?
Answer: True (Jaap Haartsen)
Question: Marianne Thieme is co-founder of the Partij van de Dieren, true or false?
Answer: Not true (it is Partij voor de Dieren)
Question: The chemical element for gold is ag, true or false?
Answer: Not true (it is Au)
Question: Liquid mercury is brown at room temperature, true or false?
Answer: Not true (it has a silvery, shiny color)
Question: A watermelon is actually a vegetable, true or false?
Answer: True (The melon is related to the cucumber and therefore actually a vegetable)
Question: The currency of Liechtenstein is the Liechtenstein Frank, true or false?
Answer: Not true (it is the Swiss Franc)
Question: An octopus has yellow blood, true or false?
Answer: Not true (it is blue)
Question: A dystopia is the opposite of a utopia, true or false?
Answer: True
Question: The wingbeat of a hummingbird can be as fast as 80 times per second, true or false?
Answer: True
Question: Sharks are mammals, true or false?
Answer: Not true, they are fish
Question: The Dutch national anthem (Wilhelmus) consists of a total of 15 stanzas, true or false?
Answer: True
Question: Cees Nooteboom received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983, true or false?
Answer: Not true, that was William Golding
Question: The Sagrada Familia in Barcelona is after a design by Pablo Picasso, true or false?
Answer: Not true (it is after a design by Antoni Gaudí)
Question: Mark Rutte is, so far, the longest-serving prime minister of the Netherlands, true or false?
Answer: True
Question: The 2024 Olympics will be held in London, true or false?
Answer: Not true (they are held in Paris)
Question: In Japan, more adult diapers are sold per year than babies, true or false?
Answer: True
Question: The rupee is the currency of Sri Lanka, true or false?
Answer: True
Question: A larger proportion of the higher educated in the Netherlands drink alcohol than of the lower educated, true or false?
Answer: True (source: Trimbos)
Question: Michelle Obama was born Michelle LaVaughn Robinson, true or false?
Answer: True
Question: Bokito was a silverback gorilla that stayed in De Apenheul, true or false?
Answer: Not true (he stayed at Blijdorp Zoo)
Question: The Milkmaid is a painting by Rembrandt van Rijn, true or false?
Answer: Not true (it is by Johannes Vermeer)
Question: Andorra is not a member of the European Union, true or false?
Answer: True
Question: The abbreviation of the broadcaster BNN is Bart's News Network, true or false?
Answer: True
Question: Jealousy is one of the seven deadly sins distinguished by Pope Gregory the Great, true or false?
Answer: True
Question: The earth rotates around its axis faster than it moves around the sun, true or false?
Answer: True
Question: The grave of Michiel de Ruyter is in the Old Church in Amsterdam, true or false?
Answer: Not True (it is in the New Church)
Question: The adult human body consists of about 55-60% water, true or false?
Answer: True
Question: The 2008 Summer Olympics were held in Beijing, true or false?
Answer: True
Question: The pilgrimage to Mecca is one of the Five Pillars of Islam, true or false?
Answer: True
Question: Venus is the third planet of the solar system as seen from the sun, true or false?
Answer: Not true (it is the 2nd planet from the sun)
Question: The color of a black box on an airplane is usually orange, true or false?
Answer: True
Question: A tomato is actually a fruit, true or false?
Answer: True
Question: The color of a Giraffe's tongue is blue/purple, true or false?
Answer: True
Question: The capital of Kenya is Gaborone, true or false?
Answer: Not true (it is Nairobi)
Question: 1 terabyte (TB) is equal to 1,000 megabytes (MB), true or false?
Answer: Not true (1 terabyte equals 1,000 gigabytes and 1,000,000 megabytes)
Question: Apollo 12 was the mission of the Apollo program that put the first humans on the Moon, true or false?
Answer: Not true (it’s Apollo 11)
Question: In field hockey, a player who receives a green card must cool off the field for 2 playing minutes, true or false?
Answer: True
Question: The highest mountain peak in the Netherlands is Vaalserberg, true or false?
Answer: True
Question: CODA was awarded the Oscar for best film in 2022, true or false?
Answer: True
Question: Thomas Jefferson was the first president of the United States, true or false?
Answer: Not true (that was George Washington)
Question: The head of state of Qatar you call the the Sheikh, true or false?
Answer: Not True (you call him the emir)
Question: Harry Mulisch is the author of the novel The Dark Room of Damokles, true or false?
Answer: Not True (that’s Willem Frederik Hermans)
Question: The 2026 World Cup will be held in Canada, Mexico and the United States, true or false?
Answer: True
Question: Napoleon Bonarparte became King of Holland in 1806, true or false?
Answer: Not true (that was his brother Louis Napoleon)
Question: The proverb climbing the curtains means someone is in the party mood, true or false?
Answer: Not true (it means getting angry)
Question: 0 is a prime number, true or false?
Answer: Not true
Question: The Maas is the water-rich arm of the Rhine in the Netherlands, true or false?
Answer: Not true (that’s the Waal)
Question: A platypus lays eggs, true or false?
Answer: True
Question: Johnny Cash's nickname was The Man in Black, true or false?
Answer: True
Question: El Clásico or El Clàssic is the name for the match between soccer clubs FC Barcelona and Atletico Madrid, true or false?
Answer: Not true (it’s FC Barcelona and Real Madrid)
Question: Spaghetti alla puttanesca literally means "spaghetti in whore way", true or false?
Answer: True
Question: The movie The Hobbit was directed and produced by Steven Spielberg, true or false?
Answer: Not true (it’s Peter Jackson)
Question: The author Harry Mulisch was born in Belgium, true or false?
Answer: Not true (he was born in Haarlem)
Question: Michiel de Ruyter is known, among other things, for the capture of the Spanish Silver Fleet in 1628?
Answer: Not true (that’s Piet Hein)
Question: A slow tempo is indicated in classical music by Allegro, true or false?
Answer: Not True (the correct answer is Adagio)
Question: A wienerschnitzel is supposed to be a breaded pork schnitzel, true or false?
Answer: Not true (it should be a breaded veal schnitzel)
Question: The first electric guitar was invented in the 1950s, true or false?
Answer: Not true (that was in the 1930s)
Question: In Greek mythology, Ares is the god of the underworld or Phantom Kingdom and ruler of the dead, true or false?
Answer: Not True (that’s Hades)
Question: Remulus and Romus are the founders of Rome in Roman mythology, true or false?
Answer: Not True (These are Romulus and Remus)
Question: A strawberry is actually a nut, true or false?
Answer: Not true
Question: The northernmost point of the South American continent is in Venezuela, true or false?
Answer: Not True (it is in Colombia)
Question: North Holland is the Dutch province with the most inhabitants, true or false?
Answer: Not True (That’s South Holland)
Question: HEMA is an abbreviation for Hollandsche Eenheidsprijzen Maatschappij Alkmaar, true or false?
Answer: Not True (it is Hollandsche Eenheidsprijzen Maatschappij Amsterdam)
Question: Danny Vera was #1 in the 2022 NPO Radio 2 Top 2000 with Roller Coaster, true or false?
Answer: Not True (which is Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen)
Bonus true or false quiz questions 
Question: The 60-year wedding anniversary is also called the Golden Wedding, true or false?
Answer: Not true (this is called the diamond wedding)
Question: Golf is an Olympic sport, true or false?
Answer: True
