Q 01/05

Who coined the shared-false-memory term after recalling a South African leader dying in prison?

A) Fiona Broome

B) Elizabeth Loftus

C) Rhonda Byrne

D) Erin Brockovich

Answer · why

A) Fiona Broome

Fiona Broome learned at a 2009 fan convention that others shared her memory, then set up a website where hundreds of strangers described the same deat...

Q 02/05

Which office did Nelson Mandela hold after his 1990 release?

A) Prime Minister

B) President

C) Archbishop

D) Chief Justice

Answer · why

B) President

President from 1994 to 1999, he died in 2013 aged 95. In a 2022 YouGov poll only 13% of Americans 'remembered' the prison death that gave the effect i...

Q 03/05

The woman who named the Mandela effect described herself as what kind of researcher?

A) Genealogical

B) Forensic

C) Paranormal

D) Neurological

Answer · why

C) Paranormal

Paranormal was her own label, and she has rejected the explanation psychologists give, writing that these shared recollections 'aren't simple errors i...

Q 04/05

What did the woman who named the Mandela effect speculate the shared false memory might be evidence of?

A) Mass hypnosis

B) Government censorship

C) Alien interference

D) Parallel realities

Answer · why

D) Parallel realities

Parallel realities that people somehow slide between was her favoured idea. Psychologists point instead to memories rebuilt from fragments each time, ...

Q 05/05

Which anti-apartheid activist who died in police custody in 1977 may be conflated with Mandela in the false memory?

A) Steve Biko

B) Desmond Tutu

C) Walter Sisulu

D) Oliver Tambo

Answer · why

A) Steve Biko

Steve Biko died of brain injuries after police beat him in detention. His friend Donald Woods told the story in a book that became the 1987 film Cry F...