Below is a series of historical statements... your job, if you choose, is to tell which is fictional, and which is fact...

No prize, just for interests sake! But, it still ain't going to be easy!

#1: King George the Third brought down harsh taxation on the American colonists leading to a revolt and the eventual independence of The United States of America.

#2: The pivotal battle of New Orleans in 1815 (where Andrew Jackson made his name) was a decisive blow to the British and allowed America to win The War of 1812.

#3: Throwing mud was an official Olympic event in the 20th century once.

#4: Pablum is a Canadian invention and translated means "Horse Food".

#5: When Columbus made his fateful journey to the New World, a lot of people funding him thought he was crackers and would fall of the edge of the flat planet.

#6: When the English Pilgrims landed in the New World, one of the first native Americans ("Indians") they met had lived in England for many years before they arrived.

#7: Henry The Eighth wrote the ballad "Greensleeves".

#8: A UFO crashed in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947.

#9: People were MUCH shorter two and three hundred years ago as shown by doorways and bed (sizes).

#10: As they had already put in place strong anti-slavery laws, England and (therefore) Canada were strong and constant supporters of the North (the Union) Army in the American Civil War (1861–1865).

ANSWERS POSTED TOMORROW... (No cheating!) Good lucks, and don't worry if you blow some of the answers. There are at least a couple, which are trick questions! See if you can spot them!