Lies My Textbook Told Me

1

What organ was once believed to be completely useless before scientists discovered its role in immune function?

1

The appendix

2

The thymus

3

The rectum

4

The tonsils

2

What celestial body was long taught to be a planet until it was officially reclassified in 2006?

1

Pluto

2

Sedna

3

Haumea

4

Neptune

3

What continent was once taught to be the only one without native dinosaur fossils, a claim later disproven?

1

Antarctica

2

Asia

3

Iceland

4

South America

4

Old maps and textbooks depicted California as what geographical feature until the 18th century?

1

An island

2

A mountain range

3

A peninsula

4

A jungle landscape

5

Early 20th-century textbooks claimed ulcers were caused by stress and spicy food. What organism is now known to cause most ulcers?

1

Escherichia coli

2

Salmonella enterica

3

Staphylococcus aureus

4

Helicobacter pylori bacteria

6

What was once believed to be the cause of malaria before the discovery of mosquito transmission?

1

Poisonous frogs

2

Tainted food

3

Decomposing animals

4

Bad air

7

What extinct bird was once thought to have gone extinct because it was "stupid" and unwilling to move out of harm’s way?

1

The Carolina parakeet

2

The wandering albatross

3

The moa

4

The dodo

8

What writing system was once considered impossible to decipher until the Rosetta Stone provided a key?

1

Ancient Greek alphabet

2

Indus Valley symbols

3

Mayan glyphs

4

Egyptian hieroglyphics

9

Schoolbooks once claimed that camels store water in their humps. What do they actually store?

1

Honey

2

Fat

3

Sand

4

Grapes

10

Before 2012, what elementary particle had never been confirmed, leading textbooks to describe it as only theoretical?

1

The photon

2

The Higgs boson

3

The muon

4

The quark

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