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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 current 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
Moos1005
+26
Level 83
Sep 22, 2019
Ok, so which of these is true and most importantly, tell me why!
CartoJuggernaut
+113
Level 71
Sep 22, 2019
Epstein one is definitely true
PLSiHaveRayGun
+6
Level 22
Mar 23, 2021
I also believe he was murdered
QuizKlug
+3
Level 31
Mar 25, 2022
It would make sense, sex offenders aren't even liked in prison.
grantdon
+11
Level 74
Mar 25, 2022
definitely the most believable, given the "dirt" he had on prominent people
unimp0rtant
+2
Level 47
Sep 12, 2023
100th like on this reply. Just wanted the meaningless recognition I deserve!
partdavid
+1
Level 70
Sep 12, 2023
Though, "was murdered" isn't much of a conspiracy theory. It's just a plausible and unknowable interpretation of events. Who did it and how would be conspiracy theories.
Quizmaster
+46
Level ∞
Sep 22, 2019
I'll never say.
tervuren
+5
Level 54
Mar 25, 2022
Maybe the JFK one, seems likely
divantilya
+13
Level 37
Sep 23, 2019
While I don't believe that the Rothchilds are single-handedly "conspiring to create a new world order", I wouldn't be a bit surprised to find that they are members of the Bilderberg Group, which meets annually to thrash out the world's problems. The idea of the European Union was first promulgated by this Group way back in the 1950's.
TravelingMama
+28
Level 73
Sep 23, 2019
One of our brilliant politicians in Washington has stated he believes the Rothschilds are controlling the weather.
TheWombat
+14
Level 74
Feb 22, 2022
The idea of the European Union was promulgated before the 1950s, and it had nothing to do with the Bilderberg Group. Some of the institutions which became the EU were formed in the late 40s.
Szatan
+2
Level 60
Jun 21, 2022
Moustache guy also wanted something EU alike.
stusum
+3
Level 63
Sep 12, 2023
As did many prominent politicians such as Churchill and CDG.
IsleAuHaulte
+21
Level 88
Sep 24, 2019
Quizmaster is pulling a typical Illuminati divide and conquer tactic to deny 95% of these in people's minds.
Quizmaster
+76
Level ∞
Sep 24, 2019
I still remember when I got my Illuminati membership back in 2011. Happiest day of my life. But then I found out that the Illuminati are being secretly controlled by a cabal of Double Illuminati...
pctjunkie
+24
Level 88
Feb 21, 2022
Which are controlled by the Triple Illuminati. Which are controlled by Disney.
unimp0rtant
+2
Level 47
Sep 12, 2023
But obviously, Disney is just a mass hallucination among the brainwashed people of the world caused by the chemtrails from passenger planes.
IsleAuHaulte
+6
Level 88
Feb 21, 2022
Illuminati sounds like a fun board game.
toowise
+12
Level 76
Feb 22, 2022
It isn't, it like Jumanji with more insects.
kalbahamut
+1
Level 83
Jan 23, 2023
I've got the Illuminati collectible card game. It's fun; just a little overcomplicated sometimes with all the attack modifiers.
Vindibudd
+31
Level 46
Sep 24, 2019
The CIA did try to knock off Castro with a cigar. True story.
howard38
+17
Level 61
Oct 23, 2019
No proof of it. Personally I doubt it. I wouldn't be surprised if someone in the CIA mentioned it, either seriously or as a joke but I'd be very surprised if it was actually attempted.
buck1017
+7
Level 77
Oct 16, 2020
i actually thought this was true as well.
Djilas
+7
Level 82
Feb 21, 2022
They didn't actually try, at best it was a proposal that want implemented, or just brainstorming.
TheWombat
+13
Level 74
Feb 22, 2022
I saw a documentary years ago in which ex-CIA agents talked about their nefarious activities. The exploding cigar was one of them, as was a cigar laced with LSD that they hoped Castro would smoke before going on TV, and a cigar laced with a depilatory to make his famous beard fall out. Fun stuff. Then there was the exploding seashell and the bloke dressed as Jesus they were going to land on a beach to lead the faithful away from the commies. One of Castro's security team estimated that there had been over 600 attempts made on his life. Smacks of incompetence, if you ask me.
AnAngryYordle
+4
Level 67
Mar 24, 2022
Not quite true. It was estimated that there was over 600 attempts on either his life or his character. The 600 attempts include stuff like the LSD or depilatory attempts
jmellor13
+8
Level 67
Mar 24, 2022
Yeah, this one feels categorically different from the others, in that it was probably at least seriously considered. Most of the others are works of pure fiction and lunacy.
unimp0rtant
+2
Level 47
Sep 12, 2023
I'm skeptical of the exploding cigar theory because why an exploding cigar? why not put something easier to implement in the cigar? why would the near-all-powerful-and-secretive organization such as the CIA use something so cartoonish like an exploding cigar rather than any of the other successful methods of assassination that the CIA uses?
RobNobody
+4
Level 75
Sep 12, 2023
Because it would've been hilarious.
unimp0rtant
+1
Level 47
Sep 14, 2023
LOLLLLL
howard38
+2
Level 61
Oct 23, 2019
All are true!
comradecora
+29
Level 70
Oct 23, 2019
the exploding cigars and crack in black neighborhoods are basically fact. epstein one I believe in.
EytanMelech
+8
Level 67
Mar 2, 2020
Both Epstein and the cigar are true.
canadry
+28
Level 75
Jul 7, 2020
True: Castro cigar, crack/CIA, Epstein murder.

Element of truth: While Oswald absolutely did kill JFK, it was likely with at least some level of institutional complicity. The queen didn't have Diana killed, but there's no doubt she was pleased about it. :)

AnAngryYordle
+10
Level 67
Mar 24, 2022
the crack/CIA is a half-truth, as it was an indirect consequence of CIA actions, not the intended result. Epstein murder is unclear as well.
JWatson24
+12
Level 71
Jan 15, 2021
I remember my APUSH teacher in high school, who was a very rational person and disavowed virtually all conspiracy theories, said that the Pearl Harbor one is the only theory that's somewhat believable (although he didn't believe it himself), especially because several important ships, including all of the aircraft carriers of the Pacific Fleet, weren't at the harbor that day. Still, that's flimsy evidence at best and I think that theory has been pretty thoroughly debunked, so I doubt that's what Quizmaster meant.

I personally thought the the exploding cigar was a real plot, but in another "Interesting Facts" comment section, Quizmaster outright said it's not true or backed by evidence.

I don't know much about the Kurt Cobain one, but it seems unlikely. Most of the others sound like complete bogus.

My conclusion? Quizmaster is just messing with us.

partdavid
+3
Level 70
Sep 12, 2023
In fact we know that there were intercepted ambassadorial communications, indicating an attack, which were communicated to the white house. It's not a secret, I think Kahn relates in the opening pages of The Codebreakers.

But that's not "knowledge". There were lots of intercepts with varying degrees of reliability or suspected disinformation in the prelude to war. Like Rice and Bush ignoring the famous "Bin Ladin determined to attack the United States" memo doesn't indicate a "conspiracy", just a failure to prioritize and interpret. The information was there, but that doesn't mean there was a conspiracy to ignore it--just a mistake (or incompetence).

Before the 9/11 attacks, a conservative think tank (PNAC) published a paper about how useful a "new Pearl Harbor" would be to establishing a conservative order in the U.S. 10 out of 25 of them would serve in GWB's administration. A conspiracy isn't really necessary when you have mundane, grasping jingoism.

SirPhilippines
+7
Level 62
Feb 12, 2022
None of them are true! He’s tricking us.

please don’t kill me

unimp0rtant
+1
Level 47
Sep 12, 2023
hahaha
TheKindCowboy
+4
Level 52
Mar 10, 2022
The exploding cigar one is what I have heard to have been true, as well as exploding sea shells.
kalbahamut
+6
Level 83
Mar 24, 2022
There is no good evidence that any of these are true (and many have been thoroughly debunked or are ridiculous on their face) and those asserting with confidence that they are true are demonstrating their own inability to separate fact from fiction. Including some of the usual suspects.
perman17
+2
Level 69
Sep 12, 2023
There is a good possibility that many of them are true. Only the people involved know for sure.
AnAngryYordle
+14
Level 67
Mar 24, 2022
- The Castro exploding cigar one is true

- the Epstein one might be true, but we don't know for sure

- the Crack one is a half-truth, as the CIA didn't introduce Crack into these neighborhoods themselves, but they financed the groups who ended up doing it

kalbahamut
+2
Level 83
Jun 17, 2022
evidence?
GlobalCitizen
+1
Level 64
Sep 13, 2023
Best answer here, couldn't agree more to everything
Newarkjersey200
+1
Level 49
Mar 24, 2022
Castro.
LunarosMusic
+2
Level 56
Sep 12, 2023
Ain't nothing but a heartache.
mf3
+24
Level 86
Sep 22, 2019
Some people have evidently conspired to misspell "fluoride".
Quizmaster
+8
Level ∞
Sep 22, 2019
Fixed :)
JoanSR
+42
Level 73
Sep 22, 2019
Don't trust Quizzmaster. He's a puppet of the Feds. And "Andorra" is not a country, is a secret base to develop new submarines.
tom88
+59
Level 71
Sep 23, 2019
The mountains are obviously the best place to test submarines.
Kahikatea
+50
Level 76
Sep 23, 2019
why do you think there are mountains in Andorra? have you actually been there, or you just trusting the 'maps'?
IsleAuHaulte
+38
Level 88
Sep 24, 2019
There are no mountains on a flat Earth. They are all digital holograms they use to hide secret bases.
WolfCam
+38
Level 65
Sep 24, 2019
Ha, you believe in the Earth?
samiamco
+14
Level 69
Oct 6, 2019
I have been to Andorra and saw mountains, but I am totally untrustworthy.
MiecraftMan
+2
Level 59
Feb 21, 2022
Of course Earth is real, where would they make all the projections of the outer universe?
RobNobody
+2
Level 75
Sep 12, 2023
It's the last place anyone would suspect! It's brilliant!
jmellor13
+16
Level 67
Oct 23, 2019
There is a pretty wild conspiracy that Finland doesn't exist. Even by the standards of the internet, it's really dumb. I think it started as a joke, but because the internet is the internet, it picked up steam and found some true believers.
Quizmaster
+27
Level ∞
Oct 23, 2019
There's also the Bielefeld conspiracy where people made up a completely fake city in Germany and even made a super-realistic Wikipedia page for it.
DonTheLamplighter
+17
Level 84
Jan 20, 2020
I've been to Finland. And it wasn't there.
kalbahamut
+6
Level 83
Aug 30, 2020
Helsinki might as well have not been there. Pretty boring place.
Djilas
+5
Level 82
Feb 21, 2022
Also Australia is an elaborate hoax
MiecraftMan
+5
Level 59
Feb 21, 2022
Really? That war they lost with the emus was very real…
richiesyxx
+4
Level 71
Mar 24, 2022
I’m driving from my native UK with my Czech partner next month, to visit his family and hometown. We’ll cross to France, then pass through Belgium and Germany to get there. Because of this site I’m forced (forced I tell you!) to get him to take a detour, to find out for myself if Bielefeld exists, or does not. Should I discover that it IS there (or indeed isn’t), what proof would I need to obtain to settle the matter once and for all?
AlmostAGenius
+5
Level 78
Sep 12, 2023
…And we haven’t heard from him since. Let’s face it folks. He’s gone.
MarieDS
+1
Level 59
Sep 12, 2023
Please, if you can provide proof that Bielefeld doesn't exist. Thank you.
unimp0rtant
+2
Level 47
Sep 12, 2023
There was that one SCP where the country of Mongolia ceased to exist for three days.

And obviously SCPs are all true

QatariFerrari
+17
Level 90
Sep 22, 2019
Ahhh... Nothing like good, old-fashioned antisemitism to go with my conspiracy theories.
Quizmaster
+38
Level ∞
Sep 23, 2019
Sadly, a high percentage of conspiracy theories are antisemitic. Should we simply pretend they don't exist?
alarbus82
+4
Level 43
Sep 12, 2023
TBF I don't think they're knocking you for reporting that. It's just a lousy fact to acknowledge.
Kayeejo
+11
Level 83
Sep 23, 2019
Ridiculous. We all know Hitler changed his name to Hilter and is hiding in Minehead.
roleybob
+20
Level 75
Sep 23, 2019
Hilter is hiding in your head?
kalbahamut
+21
Level 83
Sep 23, 2019
with a secret identity like "Hilter" he better have a pretty good hiding place.
unimp0rtant
+2
Level 47
Sep 12, 2023
He could hide out in South Africa. Read "Born A Crime" by Trevor Noah, he explains why Hitler is a fairly common and inoffensive last name in South Africa
Tramp
+3
Level 75
Feb 27, 2022
If kampf is German for head, you might be onto something
richiesyxx
+4
Level 71
Mar 24, 2022
“Kampf” means struggle. My head would be “mein kopf”
HighFidelity
+1
Level 56
Jun 13, 2023
Highly underrated sketch- and much more nuanced than Cleese's famous Fawlty Towers goose-stepping.
jennywren21
+1
Level 61
Sep 12, 2023
My brain read this as he is hiding in Minecraft. Which is sort of plausible...
MarcellDAvis
+1
Level 73
Sep 12, 2023
And he bit my baby! In the head!
TWM03
+5
Level 68
Sep 23, 2019
This quiz has quite a large overlap with Stupid Beliefs of the Internet. I assumed that for some reason that quiz would have been deleted (there are some featured quizzes that get deleted) but it is still there apparently.
kalbahamut
+4
Level 83
Sep 23, 2019
Would be sad to see the hilarious comment section of that one be lost.
YantheMan
+1
Level 65
Oct 23, 2019
Ah yes, "hilarious". That's ... quite the comments section. This one doesn't seem to be nearly so bad.
Hammond7249
+5
Level 50
Sep 23, 2019
Mostly US-why am I not surprised by that proviso?
Sifhraven
+15
Level 65
Sep 23, 2019
'Because it is in the title?
Quizmaster
+40
Level ∞
Sep 24, 2019
Belgian conspiracy theories are just as stupid, but they are also boring so we decided not to include them.
Arp2600
+2
Level 85
Sep 25, 2019
Maybe but we've had cool, still unexplained UFOs in 1989.
samiamco
+1
Level 69
Oct 6, 2019
Yeah, but didn’t Belgium have that crazy conspiracy theory that turned out to be totally true?
YantheMan
+4
Level 65
Oct 23, 2019
Quizmaster's got it in for Belgium.
Quizmaster
+17
Level ∞
Oct 23, 2019
"Did you know that the government invented the waffle to keep us stupid and complacent".
MiecraftMan
+3
Level 59
Feb 21, 2022
No, the government invented the waffle because the waffle needed to be invented, after all, how else would the government track our activity?
MrToad
+1
Level 65
Feb 23, 2022
Belgian conspiracy theories are great and most of them are true. The 'Tueurs de Brabant' aka The Gang of Nijvel were a situationist terrorist organisation in the 1980s who may have been a security services front. Andre Cools was assassinated in 1991 as an organised crime hit. Then there are all the Marc Dutroux theories, which are a bit hazier.
unimp0rtant
+1
Level 47
Sep 12, 2023
Danish conspiracy theories are even funnier. "Our bike lanes are actually gateways into the Underworld!"
Malbaby
+8
Level 71
Sep 23, 2019
Kennedy's assassination has never been clearly explained, everyone knows it was not a 'lone gunman' killing, but the government and their authorities are too involved to investigate properly.
kalbahamut
+18
Level 83
Sep 23, 2019
What's your evidence for that?
Quizmaster
+24
Level ∞
Sep 24, 2019
Maybe he was there.
YantheMan
+14
Level 65
Oct 23, 2019
Maybe Malbaby WAS the second gunman!
unimp0rtant
+2
Level 47
Sep 12, 2023
Malbaby killed Oswald and Princess Diana as well as Elvis Presley (it's all going off the rails now)
IsleAuHaulte
+12
Level 88
Sep 24, 2019
Mallaby did 9/11.
GalGonso
+2
Level 65
Mar 24, 2022
He sure did a good job
Arp2600
+3
Level 85
Sep 25, 2019
It's not clearly explained indeed, but most of the alternative explanations are fake and stupid, and that's the point of the quiz, I think. So much has been said... I would say there was probably another shooter, the way JFK's cranium and brain exploded does not match the normal bullets of Oswald's sniper rifle. Apart from that, I don't know. The theory of the tired CIA bodyguard is interesting but nothing can be taken for granted.
kalbahamut
+5
Level 83
Sep 26, 2019
numerous different people have replicated the event with a single shooter, resulting in the same or very similar results, with live rounds and lifesize recreations, miniatures, and computer models. Remember the whole JFK (ridiculous conspiracy theory film by Oliver Stone) denouement was the protagonist in court repeating over and over and over "back and to the left".... as if that was slam dunk proof that the fatal shot must have come from the front and to the right? Well... try it. It doesn't work that way. If a bullet goes clear through something like a human head, with a hard outer layer but full of goo inside, not that much energy is going to be transferred to the head via the initial impact. The huge exit wound on the other side belching forth ejecta? That's going to send it flying back in the same general direction that the bullet came from, dependent on whether the bullet's collision with brains diverted its path or not. Physics proves the conspiracy theories wrong.
Arp2600
+2
Level 85
Sep 26, 2019
Of course the exit wound is nastier than the entry, but I was not talking of the trajectory but the size of the wound. A well-aimed sniper bullet can of course kill somebody, but make his head explode like that, well I don't know... Anyway, that doesn't really matter, the only important fact is that JFK was indeed killed that day.
IsleAuHaulte
+12
Level 88
Sep 24, 2019
I got 19/20. The only one I missed is the one that's true.
Quizmaster
+11
Level ∞
Apr 17, 2021
Nice. You and me know which one it is. The others will find out soon enough after the "reckoning".
Archer1212
+8
Level 62
Sep 24, 2019
okay, first of all, it's an absolutely 100 percent proven fact that the CIA, at the direction of the executive branch, introduced crack cocaine to black communities. Freeway Ricky Ross did 14 years in prison after the feds set him up, before Gary Webb exposed the operation and its connection to Iran Contra in a series of damning articles. Webb later died of two gunshots to the head, which was stunningly labeled a "suicide."

as for the rest, i don't know a single person from any corner of the entire political spectrum who buys the official Epstein narrative. myself included.

9/11 was absolutely, 100 percent, dead nuts an inside job. if you don't think so, you either haven't been paying attention or you're being willfully ignorant.

the Rothschilds have absolutely dominated a large portion of global events literally since the 17th century. there's extensive reporting on this, with mountains of irrefutable evidence.

kalbahamut
+28
Level 83
Sep 24, 2019
I am highly skeptical of the crack cocaine thing, but admit I don't know that much about it. However, since you believe in the 9/11 conspiracy theories, which are patently absurd, and I actually do know about, I feel comfortable dismissing everything you say.
WolfCam
+2
Level 65
Sep 24, 2019
What’s your evidence about 9/11?
Arp2600
+9
Level 85
Sep 25, 2019
The towers fell down because of the planes. Some say a building can not collapse so vertically without being controlled, but it's dumb. Because of inertia and gravity, when a floor breaks, it falls on the next, which breaks, etc, it goes on like dominoes, with increasing intensity until it becomes chaotic. That's what happened with the WTC : clean at first, chaotic near the ground. Ask the people who were fleeing in the streets if it was a clean collapse... there was debris everywhere in Manhattan and many near buildings have been damaged.

As for the attack itself, it is as real as it could have been prevented... maybe Bush was stupid and/or Cheney machiavellian, but several agencies, including the CIA and the French secret service, knew something big was being prepared. The risk was just minimized and the terrorists could do their thing... a big waste first of all.

pinkysbrain
+5
Level 81
Oct 22, 2020
9/11 was NOT an inside job it was a terrorist attack 100% but maybe it could have been prevented .
kalbahamut
+7
Level 83
Nov 6, 2020
definitely could have been prevented. There were multiple warnings.
TheKindCowboy
+7
Level 52
Mar 10, 2022
9/11 was not an inside job. You know how risky that would be for any government to pull off, especially the American government? There were too many people, too many foreigners, too much money, power and influence at stake for anyone to willingly take out their own buildings.
RuthlessCosmo
+3
Level 70
Mar 24, 2022
I agree with you that the destruction of the WTC was not an inside job. But I have to disagree that this sort of gambit was too risky for any government to pull off. I offer as Exhibit A the evidence that Putin engineered the destruction of several apartment buildings in Russia (and the attempted destruction of another) in order to provide the pretext for the Second Chechen War, which made Putin (previously a largely unknown functionary) immensely popular. https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/foiled-attack-or-failed-exercise-look-ryazan-1999. He has tried the same trick, with less success, in Ukraine, leaving him with the Syrian method, i.e., destroy your enemies with constant shelling and bombing.
richiesyxx
+3
Level 71
Mar 24, 2022
However, just like the moon landing, to keep it a secret would have meant keeping far too many people quiet. An operation as huge as engineering a fake hijacking of a plane, followed by flying them into skyscrapers in one the busiest cities on earth, could not have been carried out by a handful of people meeting in a darkened room somewhere. I’ve seen estimates that suggest that, if the moon landings had been faked, upwards of 40,000 people would be directly or indirectly involved in the operation, and all would need to be kept quiet. Even if the numbers were the same with regards 9/11, you’d have the same problem but with far more jeopardy. Keeping quiet would be far more objectionable to people in this case because nobody died in the moon landings. No one (same) could possibly take a chance that so many would keep quiet with a death toll that high, they would have to assume a collective lack of conscience that would be mind boggling.
Mikipedia
+2
Level 72
Sep 13, 2023
The fake moon landing story is true.

The problem is that the film was shot by Stanley Kubrick who was such a perfectionist that he wanted to shoot it on the moon

;-)

minnakronberg
+5
Level 65
Sep 24, 2019
I honestly don't feel great about this 20/20.
charchar711
+1
Level 67
Sep 24, 2019
I love how it says "mostly US." So true.
Quizmaster
+9
Level ∞
Sep 26, 2019
I just put it in there so people won't whine about it being too "U.S. Centric".
JWatson24
+5
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
+9
Level 83
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
+2
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 83
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
+6
Level 83
Sep 21, 2021
It does not help that we had 4 years of a conspiracy theory believing/repeating/inventing president.
QuizzerBros
+2
Level 66
Mar 8, 2022
@kal you should have just started a conspiracy in KSA just for fun!
kalbahamut
+2
Level 83
Mar 28, 2022
I did try to start a new sect of Islam. But I only ever had a handful of disciples.
Cathal341
+11
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
+9
Level 65
Oct 23, 2019
I refuse to believe that Jeffrey Epstein's "suicide" is just a conspiracy theory.
YantheMan
+5
Level 65
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 85
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
+4
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 71
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
+4
Level 45
Oct 23, 2019
Can you please take Roswall for Roswell and Mary Magdaline for Mary Magdalene? (some of us are apparently horrible spellers....)
RuthlessCosmo
+4
Level 70
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
+3
Level 73
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 74
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 52
Oct 23, 2019
Yoko Ono - John Lennon (1980)

Radical Republicans - Abraham Lincoln (1865)

Joseph Stalin - Vladimir Lenin (1924)

lazydaisee
+4
Level 44
Oct 24, 2019
Overwhelming evidence that people are more stupid in groups.
Jowens
+4
Level 48
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.
WindsOfGauldron
+15
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 83
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 65
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 44
Oct 24, 2019
Please allow Mary for Mary Magdalene because many other answers allow just a first name on this quiz!
MasterKenobi
+5
Level 59
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 61
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 75
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 51
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 70
Oct 24, 2019
Doesn't the 9/11 theory go that it was BOTH planes and demolition explosives?
kalbahamut
+3
Level 83
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.
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
+2
Level 75
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 59
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
+9
Level 82
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
+4
Level 83
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
+2
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 87
Feb 21, 2022
At least some of these are basically confirmed (CIA crack dealing, Castro assassination attempts)
sumguy
+3
Level 83
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 67
Feb 21, 2022
It's a rather common conspiracy, especially in America
JWC1202
+4
Level 73
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 60
Feb 22, 2022
Trudeau is related to Castro if you look at the color of his nips.
SouthwestChief
+4
Level 71
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 88
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.
mf3
+5
Level 86
Feb 23, 2022
Only those of us at or above level 80 are told which of these are actually true.
woshiwaiguoren
+4
Level 68
Mar 24, 2022
Quizmaster should mix it up with some false ones next time!
TheOrca
+2
Level 49
Mar 24, 2022
Lol
GeoHistoryTank
+3
Level 47
Mar 24, 2022
The Castro one was true right
kalbahamut
+2
Level 83
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 58
Mar 24, 2022
The CIA absolutely spread crack throughout black communities.
nomad14
+1
Level 69
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 78
Mar 24, 2022
Could simply 'Mary' be accepted?
hotel6
+2
Level 37
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 82
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
+1
Level 62
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
+2
Level 83
Mar 24, 2022
If a conspiracy theory has any evidence supporting its truth, then it's just a conspiracy.
Archer1212
+2
Level 62
Mar 24, 2022
at least half of these are true. Epstein, 9/11, Castro, JFK, Rothschilds, Area 51, CIA crack (Iran Contra), etc.
kalbahamut
+1
Level 83
Mar 24, 2022
Is the CIA where you get the stuff you've been smoking?
pastorjamesriddle
+3
Level 67
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.

Phil
+5
Level 56
Mar 24, 2022
Where's Russian collusion to put Trump in the White House?
kalbahamut
+4
Level 83
Mar 24, 2022
an established fact that wouldn't belong here, obviously.
driehoek25
+3
Level 66
Mar 24, 2022
Don't you know it yet, this site is mostly run by left wingers, they believe in this and will never call it nonsense.
jmellor13
+6
Level 67
Mar 24, 2022
The US Senate, including Trump-loyalist Republicans, has acknowledged that Russia undoubtedly interfered in the election on Trump's behalf. That is established fact. The question is merely whether Trump and his people participated or merely benefited from it. Trump's slavish devotion to Putin might just be a symptom of his admiration for tyrants, but it might also be evidence of his indebtedness. I don't think it is established that there was collusion, but Russia certainly interfered to help Trump, and Trump certainly loves Russia, so it's not implausible.
unimp0rtant
+1
Level 47
Sep 12, 2023
sing it, jmellor!

*applause*

kalbahamut
+2
Level 83
Mar 25, 2022
drie that opinion is not right-wing it's full-on lunatic. both aspects of it.

jmellor: it has been thoroughly documented and established that there was, indeed, collusion, by any reasonable definition for the word. Collusion is not a legal term in the US, though. Was there criminal conspiracy? Beyond any reasonable doubt, yes. Is there enough evidence to prove criminal conspiracy in a court of law and get a conviction? Expert legal opinions differ.

nojik
+1
Level 68
Mar 25, 2022
Bidet is the worst president in human history.
Azerk
+2
Level 62
Sep 12, 2023
The same things have been said about Trump, Clinton, etc., yet none of them were actually the worst. It's recency bias
unimp0rtant
+1
Level 47
Sep 12, 2023
Bidet? Like the toilet thing?
RobNobody
+1
Level 75
Sep 12, 2023
Yeah, they think they're being clever.
kalbahamut
+5
Level 83
Jun 17, 2022
We've yet to have a president with that name. If we could, however, somehow get a bidet to be president, I'm sure that it would do a better job than at least one real president in recent memory, and probably 3-5 throughout history.
BBryant
+7
Level 67
Mar 24, 2022
Imagine believing what powerful people and organisations tell you

anyways back to my bunker

kalbahamut
+2
Level 83
Mar 24, 2022
imagine being a paranoid delusional schizophrenic... oh wait
driehoek25
+2
Level 66
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 65
Mar 24, 2022
Looking forward to part 2
canadry
+3
Level 75
Mar 25, 2022
It's not entirely impossible that Castro fathered Justin Trudeau, either; the physical resemblance is uncanny, and Margaret Trudeau (a friend of Castro) did travel around in the Caribbean during April 1971.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Trudeau

Though if true, Justin's terrible neoliberal politics would have no doubt greatly displeased his much-cooler father. :P

kalbahamut
+1
Level 83
Mar 25, 2022
That makes perfect sense.
unimp0rtant
+1
Level 47
Sep 12, 2023
"Much-cooler"?
nojik
+2
Level 68
Mar 25, 2022
i believe half of them
Jacktheguy
+1
Level 88
Sep 12, 2023
I believe you believe half of them :)
undeadwarrior
+1
Level 63
Mar 26, 2022
Can you accept "fluoridisation" please? I tried to describe an act, not just a chemical alone.
unimp0rtant
+1
Level 47
Sep 12, 2023
unfortunately, you seem to have garnered 0 support for this suggestion
undeadwarrior
+4
Level 63
Mar 26, 2022
Can the more formal "cocaine" be accepted as a type in for crack? Cheers!
canadry
+1
Level 75
Mar 29, 2022
But then the question wouldn't make sense.

Cocaine was first extracted in 1860 and quickly became very common and popular.

The smokable derivative, crack, only became widespread in the 1980s. Along with it came sentencing that was 100X harsher than for the same amount of cocaine, effectively creating a segregated drug policy.

NateDog1770
+3
Level 25
Mar 30, 2022
maybe accept cocaine for crack?
ShievaAndGolly
+2
Level 55
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 62
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 72
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
+2
Level 66
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
+1
Level 61
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.

unimp0rtant
+1
Level 47
Sep 12, 2023
He better. Fool never saw the pictures of people jumping?
JFM01
+2
Level 51
Sep 12, 2023
I'm very happy to believe the one about Trudeau.
Qyz
+4
Level 62
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 76
Sep 12, 2023
The destruction of building 7 is pretty fishy too
unimp0rtant
+1
Level 47
Sep 12, 2023
I'm loving this comment section
raneman11
+2
Level 65
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
+1
Level 66
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
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