Q 01/05

Which symbol, floating above an unfinished pyramid on the US one-dollar bill, is often called an Illuminati mark?

A) Eye of Horus

B) Eye of Providence

C) Third Eye of Shiva

D) Seal of Solomon

Answer · why

B) Eye of Providence

The Eye of Providence was a Christian emblem long before any secret society claimed it: Renaissance artists set it in a triangle to show the Holy Trin...

Q 02/05

Two popular books of the 1790s accused the supposedly surviving Illuminati of secretly masterminding which upheaval?

A) The French Revolution

B) The American Revolution

C) The Irish Rebellion

D) The Haitian Revolution

Answer · why

A) The French Revolution

The French Revolution was blamed on the order by a priest and a scientist writing in the 1790s, though the real Illuminati had been crushed in Bavaria...

Q 03/05

The Bavarian Illuminati's founder, a professor of canon law, took which ancient name as his secret alias in the order?

A) Ben-Hur

B) Julius Caesar

C) Spartacus

D) Hercules

Answer · why

C) Spartacus

Spartacus was his choice, after the gladiator who led a slave revolt against Rome. Every member took a classical codename, and his first student recru...

Q 04/05

Before settling on Illuminati in 1778, the society's founder seriously considered naming his order after which insect?

A) Bee

B) Ant

C) Wasp

D) Moth

Answer · why

A) Bee

Bee Order was on the shortlist until April 1778, when the two-year-old society finally became the Order of Illuminati.

Q 05/05

Which star of The Office played Reed Richards on the Illuminati council in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness?

A) Steve Carell

B) Paul Lieberstein

C) B. J. Novak

D) John Krasinski

Answer · why

D) John Krasinski

John Krasinski got the part after years of fans suggesting him for Mister Fantastic, and his Illuminati last only minutes before the Scarlet Witch kil...

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