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Hoaxes - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 20 times
- The average score is 5 of 20
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Probably the most famous type of hoax, signs of alien activity in fields | Crop circles | 71%
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| In fairness Robert Wilson never claimed that this photo of a toy submarine was really the... | Loch Ness Monster | 71%
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| The radio broadcast for this H.G. Wells story saying that aliens were invading wasn't the hoax, the hoax was that it caused mass panic | The War of the Worlds | 65%
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| On 1st of April, 1957, the BBC announced the discovery of this marvellous new tree | Spaghetti Tree | 53%
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| P.T. Barnum passed off a monkey with a fish tail as the "Feejee _______" | Mermaid | 47%
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| Ray Santilli found old 1947 footage of this taking place at Roswell | Alien Autopsy | 29%
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| Jay Anson's controversial book about a paranormal house | The Amityville Horror | 24%
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| After a row with a religious extremist, a tobacconist created this famous hoax, buried it, and then dug it up again | Cardiff Giant | 18%
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| In the Pacific Northwest, this type of sea creature lives quite comfortably in trees | Octopus | 18%
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| In 1983, this potentially lethal substance was found in the water pipes of Durand, Michigan | Dihydrogen monoxide | 12%
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| Did this US state get its name from a hoax? | Idaho | 12%
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| This word is aboriginal for 'I don't understand' | Kangaroo | 12%
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| The skull of a newly discovered species of human "Eoanthropus dawsoni", which turned out to be a human skull with an orangutan's jaw | Piltdown Man | 12%
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| This barely literate woman was head of science and research for Romania, and received hundreds of honorary diplomas and titles from universities around the world | Elena Ceausescu | 6%
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| Dick Smith managed to pull one of these into Sydney harbor | Iceberg | 6%
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| This 18th century chess playing 'machine' was actually a human in disguise | The Turk | 6%
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| A short-lived hoax that a hot-air balloon full of people made it across the Atlantic was concieved by this famous author | Edgar Allan Poe | 0%
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| Charles Redheffer was just one of several who invented one of these | Perpetual motion machine | 0%
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| A physics professor tests a scientific journal's publishing 'rigor', by sending a paper filled with nonsense | Sokal Affair | 0%
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| This computer virus would spread via email and install Linux on your computer, that is if it existed | Tuxissa | 0%
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