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Conspiracy Theories – Mostly U.S.

Can you identify these things that THEY don't want us to know?
One of these conspiracy theories is actually true - but I won't say which one!
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Franklin D. Roosevelt had advance knowledge of the attack on this naval base
Pearl Harbor
Queen Elizabeth ordered the death of this person in 1997
Princess Diana
The destruction of these towers was caused by controlled demolitions, not airplanes
World Trade Center
An alien spacecraft crashed near this city in New Mexico in 1947
Roswell
This U.S. military "area" exists to investigate extraterrestrials
Area 51
This singer didn't actually die in 1977
Elvis Presley
This singer did die in 1966 and was replaced with a lookalike
Paul McCartney
The death of this person was ordered by the Mafia, or the Soviets, or there was
a second shooter on the grassy knoll
John F. Kennedy
The CIA tried to assassinate this world leader with an exploding cigar
Fidel Castro
This former world leader is actually the son of the above, not his supposed father Pierre
Justin Trudeau
The prison hanging of this sex trafficker in 2019 was murder, not suicide
Jeffrey Epstein
This billionaire is responsible for an effort to put microchips into Covid vaccines
Bill Gates
This 1969 event was faked - filmed in a "Hollywood basement"
Moon landing
In the 1980s, the CIA introduced this drug into African-American neighborhoods
Crack
This family of Jewish bankers is behind a vast conspiracy to create a New World Order
Rothschild
This scientific theory, promoted by people such as Al Gore, is a hoax
Climate change
This person did not commit suicide in 1945, but instead escaped to South America
Adolf Hitler
Jesus was married to this Biblical character (and their descendants are alive today)
Mary Magdalene
This musician was murdered by Courtney Love
Kurt Cobain
Putting this substance into drinking water doesn't prevent cavities –
it's a communist plot to make the population more docile
Fluoride
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104 Recent Comments
charchar711
+1
Level 67
Sep 24, 2019
I love how it says "mostly US." So true.
Quizmaster
+14
Level ∞
Sep 26, 2019
I just put it in there so people won't whine about it being too "U.S. Centric".
JWatson24
+7
Level 71
Oct 23, 2019
Honestly speaking, I feel like conspiracy theories are a very American thing, probably stemming from a lack of transparency and a general distrust of institutions. But then again, I'm American so it might just be that I haven't been exposed to international conspiracy theories.
kalbahamut
+12
Level 81
Oct 24, 2019
JWatson, it's the latter thing. I've spent a lot of time overseas and some of the places I've been they believe in this stuff significantly more than Americans tend to. But some of those places have even more distrust of their institutions and media (and with good reason). But trust me it's worse in other places and the history of conspiracy theories go back to before the USA even existed.
JWatson24
+3
Level 71
Nov 5, 2019
Ah, good to know. Are there any countries in particular that really stand out in terms of conspiracies?
kalbahamut
+6
Level 81
Nov 8, 2019
In Saudi Arabia they will believe pretty much anything.
JWatson24
+4
Level 71
Jan 15, 2021
Fair. But I will add that, even though I don't know much about conspiracy theories outside of the US, conspiracies are becoming alarmingly common among the American population. Much of it is politically motivated (and many are complete bogus propagated by you-know-who), but that doesn't make it any less alarming.
kalbahamut
+8
Level 81
Sep 21, 2021
It does not help that we had 4 years of a conspiracy theory believing/repeating/inventing president.
QuizzerBros
+3
Level 68
Mar 8, 2022
@kal you should have just started a conspiracy in KSA just for fun!
kalbahamut
+2
Level 81
Mar 28, 2022
I did try to start a new sect of Islam. But I only ever had a handful of disciples.
Cathal341
+14
Level 51
Oct 1, 2019
The Castro one is true. The CIA tried like 100 different ways to kill him as well as the exploding cigar they had other weird ideas such as a poisoned milkshake, wet suit laced with bacteria and spores that would've given him a skin condition and an exploding sea shell, oh and LSD.

They actually came close with the milkshake but the waiter who had been brought on board to put the poisoned pill in his drink messed up. They had put it in a freezer for safety but when they went to retrieve it, it had frozen over and gotten stuck so when the waiter tried to yank it free the capsule shattered

Elan
+11
Level 66
Oct 23, 2019
I refuse to believe that Jeffrey Epstein's "suicide" is just a conspiracy theory.
YantheMan
+5
Level 66
Oct 23, 2019
At the moment, unfortunately, that's all it is since we don't have any proof. I'm with you that it does seem awfully fishy though.
sihollett
+3
Level 88
Oct 23, 2019
Who are these total nutjobs who think that it was the Queen ordered Diana's death? Everyone knows that it was Prince Phillip! ;)

(seriously - British and never heard the Queen implicated before. It is always, every single time, Phil the Greek who gets assumed to be the one who ordered the hit)

ruftytufty
+6
Level 79
Feb 21, 2022
But he later reneged on his deal with the lizard people and they got him in the end. Suddenly and unexpectedly snatched away just before his 100th birthday.
richiesyxx
+4
Level 73
Mar 24, 2022
The Greek had to be more tortoise than lizard. Only a year before, aged 98, he goes out in his Range Rover, promptly smashes it into some poor woman’s hatchback and rolls the thing on its roof. Anybody here that has a 98yo relative? Now, just imagine them driving your car and flipping it arse-over-tit after a collision with another vehicle. How dead do you imagine they would be? Absolute mince. The man had to have some sort of shell. Maybe he isn’t dead, they’ve just put him in a shoebox somewhere while he hibernates.
kelly94942
+5
Level 44
Oct 23, 2019
Can you please take Roswall for Roswell and Mary Magdaline for Mary Magdalene? (some of us are apparently horrible spellers....)
RuthlessCosmo
+6
Level 75
Mar 24, 2022
Explain to me why we should adjust the answers to allow for your mistaken recollection of the name of the site or the woman rather than expecting you to get it right. I feel differently about names written in a different alphabet (Mendeleev or Mendeleyev) or writing system (Mao Zedong or Tse Tung, depending), but "Roswell" and "Magdalene" don't fit either category.
barmanitan
+6
Level 82
Aug 31, 2023
tbf, the Bible was indeed written in a different writing system
JWatson24
+2
Level 71
Oct 23, 2019
C'mon, the REAL conspiracy theory here is the Area 51 one. How else do you explain the millions of people who signed up to "see them aliens"? Or the video of the guy Naruto running near Area 51???
stylus
+2
Level 78
Oct 23, 2019
to be perfectly honest i'm a little disappointed in the lack of Area 51 comments
JWatson24
+2
Level 71
Oct 23, 2019
That's exactly why I posted an Area 51 comment
pmeplant
+2
Level 50
Oct 23, 2019
Yoko Ono - John Lennon (1980)

Radical Republicans - Abraham Lincoln (1865)

Joseph Stalin - Vladimir Lenin (1924)

Ferbin
+1
Level 77
Mar 18, 2024
Yoko, really? What, she paid Chapman to kill him?
lazydaisee
+4
Level 44
Oct 24, 2019
Overwhelming evidence that people are more stupid in groups.
Jowens
+8
Level 47
Oct 24, 2019
Why not accept "cocaine" for crack?
jmellor13
+4
Level 67
Oct 24, 2019
They're similar but not the same. Crack is diluted with chemicals to make it cheaper and smokable. Cocaine has been around a long time, but I think crack first showed up around the 70's and 80's, and the theory is that the CIA pretty immediately start distributing it into black neighborhoods. Because crack is so much cheaper, it's much more common in low-income communities than cocaine, which is more commonly associated with wealthy people who just can't think of anything to do.
GlassMonkeyCode
+2
Level 69
May 8, 2024
Crack is derived from cocaine. There is a chemical reaction that makes it different.
WindsOfGauldron
+16
Level 61
Oct 24, 2019
I've included an exhaustive list of people below who think that Epstein killed himself:

1) Nobody

jmellor13
+8
Level 67
Oct 24, 2019
It's kind of nice that we could find at least one issue in 2019 on which pretty much every wavelength on the political spectrum can agree that something is BS. Doesn't say much for the job done by the people orchestrating that alleged murder.
kalbahamut
+3
Level 81
Jul 26, 2020
It's entirely plausible that Epstein killed himself, and certainly more likely that he committed suicide than that the Clintons had anything to do with it. However, it's probably equally as likely that Donald Trump had him taken out. If Epstein was murdered then Trump is by far the most likely culprit, if not Barr working on Trump's behalf.
TheodoreE45
+3
Level 93
Sep 12, 2023
I would say it's equally likely either had him taken out. Trying to pin anyone down as "the most likely culprit" is just nonsense really.
Elan
+3
Level 66
Sep 12, 2023
It's not plausible that he killed himself.

Have you ever tried to hang yourself with paper bedsheets off the top of a 4-ft tall bunk bed? I haven't, but I'm pretty sure it's not easy.

Ilovequizzes1993
+2
Level 46
Oct 24, 2019
Please allow Mary for Mary Magdalene because many other answers allow just a first name on this quiz!
MasterKenobi
+6
Level 62
Oct 24, 2019
The only problem with that, as mentioned above, is that Mary by itself is the name of Jesus' mother. Mary Magdalene was a different person.
duckwantbread
+2
Level 65
Mar 24, 2022
I suppose conspiracies are stupid enough to claim Jesus practiced incest but I think it's harsh to assume someone that types "Mary" meant his mother. Certainly it's clearer who you mean by Mary than some of the other first name answers on this quiz.
Koopa
+2
Level 82
Mar 24, 2022
Nah, they took care of that in the Old Testament with Adam and Even...and then again after Noah and his family became the only world survivors of the flood.
timshorts
+2
Level 58
Sep 12, 2023
Well Elizabeth is a different person to Elizabeth II, but II just gets called "Elizabeth", so I wasted a fair bit of time coming up with proper Elizabethan answers...........
gzx5
+2
Level 73
Oct 24, 2019
Doesn't the 9/11 theory go that it was BOTH planes and demolition explosives?
kalbahamut
+6
Level 81
Oct 24, 2019
There are many different mutually contradictory but often simultaneously believed 9/11 conspiracy theories. In general, though, they attribute the destruction of the WTC to demolition charges planted inside the buildings. Some of these crazy people believe that planes were flown into the buildings (they differ on whether these were the actual commercial aircraft lost that day or not), some believe that these were just holograms, some believe that it was military planes firing missiles at the towers before crashing in to them (I swear I'm not making this up), but in any case I believe the planes/holograms/drones/missiles these idiots believe in were allegedly just a distraction and not the real reason the towers fell.
Alexquiz17
+1
Level 92
Nov 26, 2024
How many planes hit WTC 7?

And it collapsed exactly, I’ll repeat EXACTLY like the ones we are told collapsed due to impact of aeroplanes. If you’re ok with that, then fair enough

Susie222
+4
Level 59
Oct 24, 2019
I am so glad that Al Gore and others have decided to "promote" the theory that the climate changes since it has been doing so for the past 4-and-a-half billion years.
RobNobody
+6
Level 79
Sep 12, 2023
Sure, and cars speed up and slows to a stop all the time for years, but that one time it goes from 70 to 0 mph in a half second by hitting a brick wall still totals it.
MasterKenobi
+6
Level 62
Oct 24, 2019
I've never heard of anyone arguing that "climate change" is a hoax, since part of the definition of climate is that it changes. The alleged hoax is man-made global warming, which has been switched to "climate change" to distract from the fact that global temperatures didn't increase dramatically, as predicted by global warming "experts" like Al Gore who said NYC would be fully underwater by 2016.
Djilas
+11
Level 84
Feb 21, 2022
It was changed because some areas of Earth might become cooler even though the planet is warming up, plus there are numerous other effects on the climate patterns.
kalbahamut
+5
Level 81
Dec 11, 2019
Oh no! :( Did the "Stupid Beliefs of the Internet" quiz get taken down? That quiz may have had the most entertaining comments section on the site.
Quizmaster
+3
Level ∞
Dec 11, 2019
Yes. There was too much overlap with this one and too much whining for me to handle. Sorry.
cledun2
+6
Level 92
Feb 21, 2022
At least some of these are basically confirmed (CIA crack dealing, Castro assassination attempts)
sumguy
+3
Level 86
Feb 21, 2022
I live in Canada, and I've never heard the one about Castro being Trudeau's father. I don't see any resemblance.
Shade9099
+2
Level 68
Feb 21, 2022
It's a rather common conspiracy, especially in America
JWC1202
+4
Level 75
Feb 21, 2022
Don't see any resemblance to Pierre, you mean, right? Because he is the spitting image of Fidel, especially young Fidel. :-D
SpencerGT
+13
Level 68
Feb 22, 2022
Trudeau is related to Castro if you look at the color of his nips.
SouthwestChief
+5
Level 72
Feb 22, 2022
I’ve always heard that it was George Soros putting the microchips in our vaccines… maybe accept that as an alternate answer.
IsleAuHaulte
+2
Level 90
Feb 22, 2022
I like to read these in Alex Trebek's voice.
MrToad
+1
Level 65
Feb 23, 2022
The Jesus lived and married theory is properly a heresy rather than a conspiracy theory - the conspiracy theory is that the subsequent bloodline was important in European history and secret organisations existed to protect it/ the belief.
Ferbin
+3
Level 77
Mar 18, 2024
A thing can be both a heresy and a conspiracy theory. Also, heresy is only a concept viewed from the perspective of a believer.
Unobtainium
+1
Level 46
May 21, 2024
"Conspiracy theory" is a pretty broad term applied to many things. As another user pointed out, a belief can be both.
mf3
+5
Level 88
Feb 23, 2022
Only those of us at or above level 80 are told which of these are actually true.
bestanford
+6
Level 72
Mar 24, 2022
Quizmaster should mix it up with some false ones next time!
TheOrca
+2
Level 50
Mar 24, 2022
Lol
GeoHistoryTank
+3
Level 46
Mar 24, 2022
The Castro one was true right
kalbahamut
+3
Level 81
Mar 24, 2022
The Castro and Epstein ones are the two most plausible of the lot, but there is no good evidence for either theory. Rumor in one case and conjecture in the other.
ctrlaltdisease
+5
Level 57
Mar 24, 2022
The CIA absolutely spread crack throughout black communities.
TheForsakenFurby
+1
Level 75
Feb 6, 2024
Maybe this is pedantic of me, but "spread" and "introduced" are not the same thing
nomad14
+1
Level 68
Mar 24, 2022
I always keep an open mind for this stuff. Sometimes governments confess the very things they used to deny and the previous 'nutjobs' are proven right. Look at the state of the topic of UFOs, Pentagon itself is talking about them and by looking at the various documents they revealed to the public one can easily tell they deliberately tried to deny and debunk the people who tried to tell their experiences/thoughts. It is clear that official declarations do not automatically mean true, so they are not 100% trustable. That is not to say that we should believe claims without evidence of course, hence the keeping an open mind thing.
JackintheBox
+1
Level 81
Mar 24, 2022
Could simply 'Mary' be accepted?
hotel6
+4
Level 36
Mar 24, 2022
Birds obviously aren't real there Government drones that spy on us and there "Migration" is them going to replace the batteries
Murphster45
+1
Level 95
Mar 24, 2022
I thought it said "bakers" and not "bankers", and was confused as to how a group of people who make bagels control the world
TheodoreE45
+1
Level 93
Sep 12, 2023
Just watch 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' and the bagel thing will make sense.
nsoper
+2
Level 66
Mar 24, 2022
"One of these conspiracy theories is actually true - but I won't say which one!"

It's important here to distinguish between rumours and conspiracy theories. The modern usage of the phrase "conspiracy theory" basically means 'something which I and other intelligent people can see is crazy but other people believe to be true'. Hence something will be dismissed as "that's conspiracy theory".

A conspiracy theory may be true or untrue, it is no more likely to be true or untrue just because there was a conspiracy.

Finally I think this common understanding is quite dangerous. If someone actually were wanting to commit a conspiracy then it becomes almost impossible to allege it without looking like a lunatic - perfect for any real conspirator.

kalbahamut
+3
Level 81
Mar 24, 2022
If a conspiracy theory has any evidence supporting its truth, then it's just a conspiracy.
Archer1212
+2
Level 64
Mar 24, 2022
at least half of these are true. Epstein, 9/11, Castro, JFK, Rothschilds, Area 51, CIA crack (Iran Contra), etc.
kalbahamut
+5
Level 81
Mar 24, 2022
Is the CIA where you get the stuff you've been smoking?
pastorjamesriddle
+3
Level 66
Mar 24, 2022
Its funny how many of these 'theories' are facts and mounds of evidence support them while other wild theories are thrown in. In other words, Elvis probably died in 77 but the global warming official stance is a conspiracy in and of itself. The moon landing and 911 official stories are certainly bunk.

This way, theories with little evidence are bulked in with theories which are likely true and supported by much evidence. This is an association lumping to discredit likely theories.

It's like saying 'Christians, conservatives and terrorists,' like they all three go together.

Neodymium
+1
Level 62
Nov 7, 2024
pastorjamesriddle doesnt believe in the moon landings
BBryant
+10
Level 70
Mar 24, 2022
Imagine believing what powerful people and organisations tell you

anyways back to my bunker

driehoek25
+2
Level 68
Mar 24, 2022
The person who got shot in Dallas was shot for trying to investigate in to a countries nuclear powerplant, for if this powerplant could be used for building nuclear weapons and if so try to stop it. This country did not get happy about it and thus shot him over it.
rely9
+1
Level 69
Mar 24, 2022
Looking forward to part 2
nojik
+2
Level 67
Mar 25, 2022
i believe half of them
Jacktheguy
+1
Level 91
Sep 12, 2023
I believe you believe half of them :)
undeadwarrior
+2
Level 65
Mar 26, 2022
Can you accept "fluoridisation" please? I tried to describe an act, not just a chemical alone.
undeadwarrior
+6
Level 65
Mar 26, 2022
Can the more formal "cocaine" be accepted as a type in for crack? Cheers!
NateDog1770
+6
Level 37
Mar 30, 2022
maybe accept cocaine for crack?
ShievaAndGolly
+2
Level 58
Dec 9, 2022
All of these seem absurd, besides the Courtney Love one, the Jeffrey Epstein one, and maybe the Pearl Harbor one.
Azerk
+1
Level 65
Sep 12, 2023
I'm pretty sure the Pearl Harbor one is partially true
TheodoreE45
+2
Level 93
Sep 12, 2023
Emphasis on partially.
WeaselSweat12321
+2
Level 73
Feb 18, 2023
The CIA introducing crack into African-American communities in the United States is absolutely true, as evidenced by admissions by politicians who worked with many racist politicians.
MightyAtreides
+3
Level 65
Jun 28, 2023
"Magdalen" is the most common spelling among American Catholics and should be accepted as an alternate spelling for Magdalene. For example,

https://www.catholic.com/encyclopedia/Mary-Magdalen

https://www.smmschool.org/

https://stmarym.org/

jennywren21
+3
Level 63
Sep 12, 2023
The worst 9/11 conspiracy theory I ever heard was by a roommate many years got that there was no one in the Towers when they collapsed.

Having grown up in NJ, I knew a handful of people who made it out safely, and one who didn't. I really wanted to pop him in the face for spreading such a stupid conspiracy theory, but thankfully remembered he was my friend and used that leverage to debunk it.

He now no longer believes that.

JFM01
+2
Level 55
Sep 12, 2023
I'm very happy to believe the one about Trudeau.
FreeStater
+6
Level 77
Sep 12, 2023
It's definitely true that airplanes destroyed the Twin Towers. The more interesting theories, in my opinion, are about who did it. George Bush? The Vatican? Israel?
reverendmeat
+2
Level 83
Sep 12, 2023
The destruction of building 7 is pretty fishy too
Alexquiz17
+1
Level 92
Nov 26, 2024
It’s beyond fishy mate. Reported by the BBC as collapsed before it actually did fall, in an identical manner to the other two buildings, which had superheated jet fuel penetrate the core building supports. Apparently. And 7 tumbles like a replay. Nothing to see here. I don’t suppose there was a spare plane that might have failed to hit its intended target anywhere? Can’t leave all that thermite lying around eh…
bacoachi
+1
Level 73
Feb 20, 2025
The BBC just made a mistake in reporting—shocking, I know.

WTC 7 received catastrophic damage from the collapse of WTC 1; that, coupled with the fires it started, made the building so obviously unsafe that firefighters deemed it a lost cause and pulled out efforts to put the fires out (hence the infamous Larry Silverstein "pull it" quote which I never understood as conspiracy fodder as why would he admit to demolishing them in a TV interview).

Note how almost all the footage of WTC 7 you see from that day showed its undamaged north face; meanwhile, the other side had a long hole cut from nearly top to bottom, with smoke pouring out. The Deutsche Bank Building suffered a similar but much smaller hole from the collapse of WTC 2.

raneman11
+2
Level 68
Sep 12, 2023
Whats funny is no one wants to talk about how FDR did in fact know a Japanese attack was likely and needed it to get into the war. However he, and all his staff, assumed the attack would be on the Philippines. It was the location, and not the attack itself which caught him off guard.
Shokki
+3
Level 69
Sep 13, 2023
The Japanese did attack the Philippines though. They semi-simultaneously attacked various places (Singapore, Hong Kong, Philippines etc.) alongside pearl harbour
TeaWithToast
+1
Level 70
Sep 16, 2023
I totally thought the guy's name was Ebstein, not Epstein (the Ebstein-Barr virus must have gotten to my brain). It'd be nice if this was an accepted answer
Ferbin
+1
Level 77
Mar 18, 2024
The virus is also called Epstein.
Jato
+1
Level 71
Apr 1, 2024
New conspiracy theory: The collapse of the Key Bridge in Baltimore was caused by terrorists.
GuerillaGorilla
+3
Level 60
Apr 7, 2024
I hate how people spread lies about 9/11. You can obviously see that it wasn't a planned detonation and they are almost disrespecting all the 3000 people who died that day.
Alexquiz17
+1
Level 92
Nov 26, 2024
How exactly can you “obviously see” that these weren’t demolitions?

Get yourself on YouTube and watch some demolition videos.

Doesn’t mean that’s certainly what happened btw, but it’s hardly disrespectful to victims to believe their killers may have escaped justice.

WTC 7

NotaRealPerson
+2
Level 60
Jul 15, 2024
The caveat is wrong, two of these are true. Aliens did crash in Roswell and the evidence of this crash is being held in Area 51
TheMitskiCrave
+1
Level 58
Nov 12, 2024
i feel like "Fluorine" shouldn't be accepted
semisnotcolon
+1
Level 43
Mar 24, 2025
Trudeau recently resigned from being Canadian PM.
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