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

She was running a website about unexplained phenomena when she noticed hundreds of strangers shared her mistaken memory.

Q 02/05

In what year did Nelson Mandela actually die?

A) 2008

B) 2013

C) 1985

D) 1991

Answer · why

B) 2013

He outlived the false memory of his prison death by decades, serving as president and living to 95.

Q 03/05

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

A) Genealogical

B) Forensic

C) Paranormal

D) Neurological

Answer · why

C) Paranormal

Her original explanation for the shared memory was not psychology at all, but the possibility of alternate timelines.

Q 04/05

What did the term's originator speculate the shared false memory might be evidence of?

A) Mass hypnosis

B) Government censorship

C) A computer simulation

D) Parallel realities

Answer · why

D) Parallel realities

Psychologists instead point to ordinary reconstructive memory plus social reinforcement of the same wrong detail.

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

Biko was beaten to death by state security officers after his arrest, and over 20,000 people attended his funeral.