Fact or fiction?

by Bernadette Smith staff writer

Okay, fellow college students, let's see how much you know about a few well-known historical figures. Put your brain to the test. Do you know which are fact and which are fiction?

• George Washington had wooden teeth.

• Queen Isabella sold the crown jewels to pay for Columbus' voyage.

• A new star is added to the flag only on the 4th of July.

• George and Martha Washington had two children.

• Columbus set out to prove the earth was round.

• There are four other flags in the world that have the same color pattern as the American Flag.

• Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born 100 years after Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln.

• George Washington was an educated man who graduated from college.

• Columbus' voyage from Spain to the New World was perilous--fraught with bad weather and lack of food causing many sailors' deaths on the way.

• Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress exactly 100 years before John F. Kennedy.