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Test Your ULQ Urban Legends Quotient<\/font><\/b><\/center><\/p>\n

It’s a little unsettling how many of the “Urban Legends” listed on the Snopes New Addition page<\/a> are actually true. So here’s a little quiz I just whipped up. For each of the “Urban Legends” listed below, choose either true or false. All links open in a new browser window.<\/p>\n

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Claim<\/td>\nTrue<\/td>\nFalse<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1. Starbucks recalled this<\/a> promotional ad because some customers complained it was too reminiscent of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2. During a recent MTV appearance, singer Shakira said she’d “rather have pigs listening to her music than Israelis”. <\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3. In an effort to protect viewers from so-called “inappropriate material,” the ABC television network bleeped out the name “Jesus” from its daytime program “The View”. <\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4. You can look up anyone’s driver’s license or police records for free on the Internet. <\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5. Home Depot is refusing to do business with the US Government.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6. This image<\/a> will be on a new 9\/11 commemorative stamp to be issued by the U.S. Postal Service. <\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7. Coca-cola as announced that it will be donating four days’ worth of income to Israel. <\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8. This<\/a> is an actual, unaltered photo of a bear shot in Alaska. <\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9. Abercrombie & Fitch had a line of shirts with Asian caricatures and slogans such as Wok & Bowl<\/a> and Wong Brother’s Laundry: Two Wongs Can Make It White<\/a>. <\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10. An upcoming film from director Steven Spielberg will document the current uprising in the West Bank from a pro-Palestinian point of view. <\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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Test Your ULQ Urban Legends Quotient It’s a little unsettling how many of the “Urban Legends” listed on the Snopes New Addition page are actually true. So here’s a little quiz I just whipped up. For each of the “Urban Legends” listed below, choose either true or false. All links open in a new browser […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}