Q 01/05

Hoax theories claim NASA staged the Moon landings, but which human spaceflight program really achieved them?

A) Apollo

B) Gemini

C) Mercury

D) Space Shuttle

Answer · why

A) Apollo

Apollo veteran Buzz Aldrin, then 72, punched a hoax believer who ambushed him at a Beverly Hills hotel in 2002 and called him a liar; prosecutors decl...

Q 02/05

During Britain's 2020 lockdown, arsonists burned phone masts over fears of which technology, falsely blamed for spreading COVID-19?

A) 3G

B) 4G

C) 5G

D) 6G

Answer · why

C) 5G

5G fears saw phone masts set alight across Britain in April 2020 after viral posts tied the signals to the virus; networks counted 20 suspected arson ...

Q 03/05

Which ancient idea of Earth's shape has made a social-media comeback since the 2010s?

A) Geocentric model

B) Hollow Earth

C) Static Earth

D) Flat Earth

Answer · why

D) Flat Earth

Flat Earth believers test the idea themselves in the 2018 documentary Behind the Curve: their own experiments keep returning the results a globe would...

Q 04/05

Which secretive US Air Force base in Nevada anchors UFO folklore?

A) Tonopah Test Range

B) Nellis Air Force Base

C) Dugway Proving Ground

D) Area 51

Answer · why

D) Area 51

Area 51 was built in the 1950s to test the U-2 spy plane, whose flights at unheard-of heights set off a wave of UFO reports; the CIA did not publicly ...

Q 05/05

Which 18th-century Bavarian secret society is often falsely linked to a global-domination plot?

A) Illuminati

B) Knights Templar

C) Rosicrucians

D) Freemasons

Answer · why

A) Illuminati

The Illuminati were founded on 1 May 1776 by law professor Adam Weishaupt and banned by Bavaria's government within a decade; the legend of their secr...