There's not a history buff alive who knows all about history, mainly because it's such

a diverse field that it's necessary for different historians to specialize in different parts.

So I'll warrant that very few of them will be able to get all of today's quiz questions.

It's simple.

We're taking a bunch of famous people from history, think a guy's like Sinbad and King Arthur.

And you simply have to guess whether they were real or fictional.

We've got a pop quiz coming your way now on Skeptoid.

Hey everyone, Brian here, a quick favor.

We are conducting an audience survey.

We'd be really grateful if you could take just a few minutes and answer our survey.

This is the kind of thing that's sort of an engineering and marketing necessity to make

the whole free podcast ecosystem flourish.

So please check it out.

Also, surveys are fun.

You get to talk about yourself.

Please visit survey.prx.org slash Skeptoid to take the survey today.

That's survey.prx.org slash SKEPTOID.

Thanks.

You're listening to Skeptoid, I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

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Let's take a break today from serious investigation and take a walk on the lighter side.

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