This is the Yes or BS blog, where you can play the game for yourself. Either pick a random story from the pictures below, or choose your specialist subject from the categories listed here. Just read the story through and decide whether, YES, you think it’s true, or no, you think it’s total B.S—then click you answer in the box at the bottom of each post to see if you’re correct.
What would be your first reaction to someone firing artillery at you in a warzone? A. Run away B. Try and find some way to fight back C. Assume it was a friendly hello, and go and send someone out talk to the person who shot at you Well, if you answered C to that question then it seems you’d be perfectly suited for the job of Marine Corps Captain of the Spanish Army in colonial Guam. Because that’s exactly what the holder that title, a Mr Pedro Duarte, did when the island of
To some, an easy way around town. To others, a potential weapon of war. (Pixabay) Classic Pub Quiz Trivia 101: Austrian-born silent movie starlet Hedy Lamarr invented an early method of encrypting radio signals, which she intended to use to remotely control player-pianos. (No, really.) But as it happens, she wasn’t the only star of the silent movie era to add a US patent number to their list of achievements. Rocky “Three-Wheeler” Isaacs worked as a bicycle-maker and children’
