1. A penny dropped from the top of the Empire State Building will embed itself in the pavement. (false)

2. You can send a coconut through the mail without wrapping it. (true)

3. Welding while wearing contact lenses will cause the lenses to stick to your eyeballs. (false)

4. Koalas are always stoned (drunk) from ingesting the alcohol in eucalyptus leaves. (false)

5. Albert Einstein did poorly in school. (false)

6. A woman adopted a stray dog in Tijuana, Mexico, and later discovered it was a sewer rat. (false)

7. Some Oregon highway workers blew up a whale and showered the town with whale blubber. (true)

8. Some people like to eat the placenta of their newborn children. (true)

9. A mime had a heart attack during his act. The audience thought it was part of the act and did nothing. He died. (false)

These are the correct answers to the quiz sheet. Once they have done the quiz sheet - perhaps in pairs, then read these answers out to them and see who has the most right. Then make the point that we need to be sure of what we believe and base it on evidence.