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How much do you know?  Mr Dorsey, the best teacher in this universe, challenges you – what do you know?  Mr Dorsey has taught the lesson below and claims everything is true – but we believe only 50% of Mr Dorsey’s ‘facts’ are actually truths and the other 50% is false.  Can you spot what is true and what is false?  Can Mr Dorsey be trusted?  Is 100% of what he teaches correct?  Maybe not in this universe – is he instead really out of this world?

How people say ‘Merry Christmas’ around the world.

Latin – Natale hilare et Annum Faustum
Vietnamese – Chung Mung Giang Sinh
Eskimo (Inupik) – Guumjuphli jad
Hawaiian – Lei Leu Kremaleleleelee
Maltese – Specinder Caltender
Maori – Meri Kirihimete
Thai – fad Thom Valmuka
Slovak – A malalivy Nami ar
Romanian – Sorbatori vesele
Iroquois – Oj enyunyat sungwiyadesan honungradan nagwutut

How much do you know?  Mr Dorsey, the best teacher in this universe, challenges you – what do you know?  Mr Dorsey has taught the lesson below and claims everything is true – but we believe only 50% of Mr Dorsey’s ‘facts’ are actually truths and the other 50% is false.  Can you spot what is true and what is false?  Can Mr Dorsey be trusted?  Is 100% of what he teaches correct?  Maybe not in this universe – is he instead really out of this world?

The average person watches 20,000 television commercials in a year.
The Alaskan’s watch the most television in the world
The Simpson’s is the longest running animated series on tv.
Franklin Roosevelt was the 1st President of the USA to be televised.
The same actor played both Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street
In 1971 cigarette advertising was banned from tv.
TV’s in Singapore are the smallest in the world – only 5 inches
There are more television sets in the USA than there are people in Japan
The average person presses their remote control buttons for the tv 50,000 times a year
Scandinavian law forbids television advertising of foods to children.

Mr. Dorsey on Halloween – What is true and what is false?? Click the question mark next to the question to find out!

The first 1,000lb pumpkin was grown in 1996
The word vampire was first used in the English language in 1732.
Some say that the 15th Century Wallachian prince, Vlad the Impaler was actually Count Dracula.
19 men and women were killed in the 1962 Salem Witch Trials.
The period between 1520-1630 in France saw more than 30,000 Werewolf trials.
The first pumpkin to be carved in to a Jack O’Lantern was in 1755 in Scotland.
The first actor to play Count Dracula was Little Tommy Ormonde in 1926.
Trick or treating started in Paris in the year 1755.
Witches on broomsticks were spotted as recently as 1924 in Maine, USA.
Halloween evolved from an ancient Mexican celebration called Helå Helå.

How much do you know?  Mr Dorsey, the best teacher in this universe, challenges you – what do you know?  Mr Dorsey has taught the lesson below and claims everything is true – but we believe only 50% of Mr Dorsey’s ‘facts’ are actually truths and the other 50% is false.  Can you spot what is true and what is false?  Can Mr Dorsey be trusted?  Is 100% of what he teaches correct?  Maybe not in this universe – is he instead really out of this world?

Guy Fawkes’ real name was Guido
The first bonfire night celebrations happened in 1764
Guy Fawkes was the leader of the group of treasonous conspirators
The main person who would have been blown up was King James 1
There were 10 conspirators in the plot to blow up the King
The Kings’ palace was the building to have been blown up
Guy Fawkes was burnt for treason
Guy Fawkes was found in the cellar of the House of Lords
The conspirators wanted to get rid of the King because he was not lenient to their Catholic religion
Bonfire night was known as Pope Day as late as the 18th Century in New England