True or false: On Remembrance Day, 11 November, a two-minute silence is held at 11.00 am.

ATrueRight answer
BFalse

Answer: True

True. The day remembers people killed while fighting for the UK and its allies; at first it honoured the First World War dead (the war ended on 11 November 1918). Wreaths are placed at the Cenotaph.

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