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The Joke’s on you for the Next Ten Questions.

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  • Question of

    A specimen of which animal was wrongly assumed a ruse by European scientists on first examination?

    • Duck Billed Platypus
    • Black Swan
    • Okapi
  • Question of

    The Holy Shroud now housed in Turin, was first condemned as a scam in 1389 by a bishop in the country where the ‘relic’ first came to light; what country?

    • England
    • France
    • Hungary
  • Question of

    The windup merchants behind Piltdown Man, (widely believed for half a century to be the missing link), had fused an unusual human skull to the teeth of which ape?

    • Chimpanzee
    • Gorilla
    • Orangutan
  • Question of

    To date, how many UK crop-circle creators have been prosecuted for damage to farm property?

    • None
    • One
    • Seventeen
  • Question of

    In 1957, the normally high-brow BBC programme Panorama, broadcast a widely-believed ruse on the plight of agricultural workers picking what crop?

    • Crisps
    • Sausages
    • Spaghetti
  • Question of

    The Surgeon’s Photograph fabricates which mythical creature?

    • Loch Ness Monster
    • Northwest Tree-Dwelling Octopus
    • Yeti
  • Question of

    Which man of logic believed in fairies?

    • Albert Einstein
    • Arthur Conan Doyle
    • Leonard Nimoy
  • Question of

    Name the famous writer who was involved in the ‘Abyssinia Hoax’ of 1910? (In which pranksters in Blackface pretending to be an Abyssinian delegation, were given a guided tour of the Royal Navy’s flagship dreadnought).

    • George Bernard Shaw
    • John Buchan
    • Virginia Wolf
  • Question of

    Satirical UK comedy Brass Eye duped two Tory MPs into campaigning against a (non-existent) hard drug called what?

    • Apple
    • Bread
    • Cake
  • Question of

    Spoon-bending illusionist, Uri Geller, was hired by Exeter City FC before an important 1997 playoff match. Geller placed ‘energy-infused’ crystals behind the goals ‘resulting’ in what?

    • An Exeter victory by penalties
    • An Exeter defeat by penalties.
    • A 5-1 Exeter loss.

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