Get the Crowd Going at the Kids’ Club! A Collection of True-or-False Quizzes Everyone Can Enjoy

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Nowadays, chocolate is strongly associated with sweets, but high-cacao chocolate is said to be good for beauty and health. It’s even surprising to hear that it can help reduce the risk of heart disease. In fact, long ago, chocolate was used as a medicine for recovery from fatigue and as a tonic.

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There are mainly eight types of horse blood groups: A, C, D, K, P, Q, U, and T. Unlike humans, differences in blood type are said to be less of a problem when horses undergo transfusions. However, that doesn’t mean there are no adverse reactions at all, so there are special horses designated as “universal donors” for transfusions, which elicit minimal rejection responses.

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The panda is an adorable animal with a black-and-white two-tone pattern, often seen eating bamboo. Some illustrations depict pandas with black tails, but real pandas’ tails are usually white. Since their bodies are white, it’s easy to assume the tail might be black, isn’t it?

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The tiny bits on a strawberry aren’t seeds; they’re actually the strawberry’s true “fruits.” The red part we eat isn’t the fruit, but something close to the flower’s base—basically akin to a “stem”—called the receptacle, which has swollen. The real seeds are inside those tiny “fruits.”

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Whales are not fish; they are mammals, just like humans. Although they live in the ocean, they breathe air with lungs rather than gills and regularly surface to breathe. Moreover, instead of laying eggs, they nurture their young in the mother’s womb before giving birth. Another characteristic is that they feed their babies with milk. Even though they may look like fish, there are so many differences.

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Broccoli is said to have originated from a mutation of cabbage. It is believed to have started when a member of the cabbage family grown along the Mediterranean coast was bred to enlarge its flower buds. Although they look completely different, they actually share the same roots.

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It is said that dinosaurs once lived in Japan. Fossils have been discovered in places such as Fukui, Hokkaido, Hyogo, and Fukuoka Prefectures, and Fukuiraptor and Fukuisaurus from Fukui are especially famous. Just imagining dinosaurs walking across the land of Japan long ago is exciting.