Statistics for Hoaxes

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This quiz has been taken 17 times
The average score is 5 of 20

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Probably the most famous type of hoax, signs of alien activity in fields	Crop circles	71%
In fairness Robert Wilson never claimed that this photo of a toy submarine was really the...	Loch Ness Monster	71%
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	57%
P.T. Barnum passed off a monkey with a fish tail as the "Feejee _______"	Mermaid	50%
On 1st of April, 1957, the BBC announced the discovery of this marvellous new tree	Spaghetti Tree	43%
Ray Santilli found old 1947 footage of this taking place at Roswell	Alien Autopsy	36%
Jay Anson's controversial book about a paranormal house	The Amityville Horror	29%
After a row with a religious extremist, a tobacconist created this famous hoax, buried it, and then dug it up again	Cardiff Giant	21%
In the Pacific Northwest, this type of sea creature lives quite comfortably in trees	Octopus	21%
In 1983, this potentially lethal substance was found in the water pipes of Durand, Michigan	Dihydrogen monoxide	14%
This word is aboriginal for 'I don't understand'	Kangaroo	14%
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	14%
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	7%
Dick Smith managed to pull one of these into Sydney harbor	Iceberg	7%
Did this US state get its name from a hoax?	Idaho	7%
This 18th century chess playing 'machine' was actually a human in disguise	The Turk	7%
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%
Charles Redheffer was just one of several who invented one of these	Perpetual motion machine	0%
A physics professor tests a scientific journal's publishing 'rigor', by sending a paper filled with nonsense	Sokal Affair	0%
This computer virus would spread via email and install Linux on your computer, that is if it existed	Tuxissa	0%