Which is true about the first known depiction of 'sand wetting'?

It illustrates the transportation of a statue

The term 'whodunit' was originally...

Used to describe a mediocre detective story

Which mysteries could be solved with the help of dactyloscopy?

An unidentified corpse on an Adelaide beach

What would Eupator Dionysius most likely say to the Sommerton Man?

If only you had taken poison more often

Discovery of the Voynich Manuscript

Which incident was most likely a hoax?

Unidentified man at Haneda Airport

Calling the Immortal Jellyfish 'immortal' would be inaccurate because...

The process is more similar to reverse ontogeny

Which events/deaths occurred at the start of the Cold War (1945-1946)?

Sodder Childeren : Sommerton Man

Which is NOT a reason why Edward de Vere could have written Shakespeare's works?

There were public memorials of Edward holding a pen

Which of the following were in Pennsylvania?

Toynbee tiles, Dale Kestetter's disappearance

People experiencing a geomagnetic reversal would also experience...

Increased probability of cancer

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1
Someone accusing the US Government for 'stonewalling' would most likely bring up...
DB Cooper
Kryptos
Amelia Earhart
Area 51
2
The Phaistios Disks and Linear B were both discovered in...
Sicily
Crete
Kephalonia
Grece
3
Which is true about the first known depiction of 'sand wetting'?
It includes the required ratio of sand to water
It illustrates the transportation of a statue
It was discovered in the palace of Djehutihotep
It is 5000 years old
4
Where is the treasure of the San Jose now?
Off the coast of Colombia
Museo Nacional del Prado, Spain
Museo Santa Clara, Colombia
UNESCO laboratorio de conservación
5
What did the Peruvian government do to protect the Nazca Geoglyphs?
Build a viewing platform
Set up an online fundraiser
Use guilt deterrence
Construct a highway
6
Where did Neanderthals and Humans first interbreed?
The Middle East
Northern Europe
North America
Northern Africa
7
Which dissapearence cannot be solved by DNA testing?
Mayan Civilisation
Land of Punt
Roanoke Colony
Lost Tribes of Israel
8
A scholar of Jewish Religious Law would most likely have consulted...
Gary Nolan
The Somerton Man
Monsieur Chouchani
Colleen Fitzpatrick
9
The term 'whodunit' was originally...
Coined to classify 'Murder on The Orient Express'
An accidental misspelling in Variety Magazine
A vulgarity used by book review magazines
Used to describe a mediocre detective story
10
What would Allen Crouch most likely say in response to the Sky Object?
Another Tunguska
Nibiru should have come in 2003!
Cut a hole in the tent and run
That's no meteor... It's meat
11
Which artifacts were discovered in the same country as the Phaitios Disk?
Shroud of Turin
Antikythera Mechanism
Starchild Skull
Trilothon at Baalbeck
12
Which of the following was discovered near a church?
A deformed skeleton
A Rubaiyat
$200,000 worth of $20 notes
An 11 page suicide note
13
Leon Festinger's Cognitive Dissonance experiment involved...
Using a peg-board
A scholarship prize
50 male students
Confirming a true statement
14
An unidentified defendant in Europe would be classified as...
Numerius Negidius
nomen nescio
Ashok Kumar
Mary Moe
15
The habitat of which creature is a designated UNESCO World Heritage site?
Boabab Trees
Monarch Butterfly
Immortal Jellyfish
Honey Bees
16
The first live giant squid was caught in...
The Atlantic Ocean
The Indian Ocean
The Pacific Ocean
The Antarctic Ocean
17
Which structure was NOT theorised to be an astrological tool?
Stonehenge
Las Bolas
Nazca Geoglyphs
Great Pyramid
18
Which are symptoms of White-nose Syndrome?
Decrease in body temperature
Longer periods of winter hibernation
Increased levels of activity
Rhodococcus rhodocrous bacterial growth
19
Which mysteries could be solved with the help of dactyloscopy?
An unidentified corpse on an Adelaide beach
An unidentified body in a British bog
An unidentified skeleton in an abandoned village
An unidentified object over the skies of California
20
NOT a UNESCO Heritage site?
Pyramids of Giza
Puma Punku
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Stonehenge
21
What would Eupator Dionysius most likely say to the Sommerton Man?
If only you had taken poison more often
Your Rubaiyat was from in my Library
Tamam Shud've known what was in that pasty
US Spy killed by Greek Fire?
22
The character in 'Invisible Man' would have what kind of Johari Window?
A growing arena
A volatile unknown region
A large facade
An absent blind spot
23
The Lachamp event is best described as...
Complete geomagnetic reversal
Pseudochron
Normal polarity
Geomagnetic excursion
24
NOT in England?
Stonehenge
Discovery of the Voynich Manuscript
Solway Spaceman
Hollinwell Showgrounds
25
The dots and dashes on the Phaistios Disk LEAST likely represents...
Prefixes or suffixes
Nothing. They were a mistake
Direction of reading
Breaks in the stanzas
26
Dark matter most likely...
Emits gamma rays
Attracts matter
Bends light
Absorbs radiation
27
Someone with a fading Ulnar Loop is most likely...
Have intact papillary ridges
An adolescent
Sweats more at the fingers
Suffering Hand-foot syndrome
28
The concept of an evolutionary missing link assumes that...
Evolution is not linear
Evolution is a scientific fact
Evolution is linear
Lineages can proceed both backwards and forwards
29
Which incident was most likely a hoax?
Unidentified man at Haneda Airport
Unidentified skeleton in Chilean abandoned town
Unidentified man on an Adelaide beach
Unidentified object over the skies of California
30
Atlantis is best described as...
An allegory
Appropriated
Canonised
Peaceful
31
Discovered in Rome?
Interstitium
Ronhonc Codex
Voynich Manuscript
Shroud of Turin
32
Calling the Immortal Jellyfish 'immortal' would be inaccurate because...
The process is more similar to reverse ontogeny
They are still vulnerable to disease and predation
They cannot revert to planula stage
Transdifferentiation maintains genetic purity
33
The area covered by the Bermuda Triangle also includes
Amelia Earhart's flight path
The wreck of the San Jose
Territory of the Mayan Civilization
none of the above
34
Who was responsible for sending the first two species of tardigrade into space?
NASA
The ESA
FOTON-M4
The CNSA
35
The bog bodies are most likely found in...
Scottish permafrost
Bogs rich in oxygen
Alkaline bogs
Russian wetlands
36
A collector wanting to buy this item would find it in...
The black market
Portugal
Northern Chile
Spain
37
'An AI analyses the outcomes of chess matches to make the optimal starting move'
Abductive
Deductive
Inductive
Backwards Inductive
38
Which events/deaths occurred at the start of the Cold War (1945-1946)?
Lori Erica Ruff : Hollinwell Showground
Sodder Childeren : Sommerton Man
Monsieur Chouchani : Solway Spaceman
Sky Object : Havana Syndrome
39
Which is NOT a reason why Edward de Vere could have written Shakespeare's works?
There were public memorials of Edward holding a pen
He was forced to use a pseudonym because he was a noble
There was a publication of Shakespeare plays after his death
There are parallels between his life and Shakespeare's works
40
Where did the One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge 2016 take place?
It didn't
At Bletchley Park
On the internet
Turing Center for Aritificial Intelegence
41
The Sky Object was least likely....
A bolide
NROL-71 spy satellite
42
Scientific name for Monarch Butterfly:
Architeuthis dux
Danaus plexippus
Equus quagga
Apis mellifera
43
The Mayan Civilisation most likely had settlements in...
Bolivia
Peru
Belize
New Mexico
44
The word 'Zuni' is a Spanish Adaptation of...
'The Flesh'
'The Ancient Ones'
'Monk'
*unknown*
45
Who used the 'known knowns' to describe the actions of the government of Iraq?
Donald Rumsfeld
Slavoj Žižek
Kirk Borne
Errol Morris
46
A treasure hunter would have best luck exploring...
Lake Baikal
Groom Lake
Fuxian Lake
Lake Guatavita
47
Which of the following were in Pennsylvania?
Suicide of Lori Erica Ruff
Toynbee tiles
Dale Kestetter's disappearance
Death of Edgar Alan Poe
48
Which events could not have been natural?
Havana Syndrome
Dyatlov Pass
Sky Object
Hollinwell Showground
49
What was most surprising about the WOW! signal?
Deviation from the neutral hydrogen frequency
The quantity of even numbers
The source of the signal
An unexpected amplitude
50
People experiencing a geomagnetic reversal would also experience...
Increase in greenhouse gases
Increased probability of cancer
Volatile weather
Unpredictable earthquakes
51
Which is the rarest blood type?
O-
None of the above
B-
AB-
52
Which creators promised that their secret would be carried on after their death?
Demetrius of Phalerum
Sir Walter Raleigh
Jim Sanborn
Maurice Ward
53
When did the Somerton Man incident occur?
During the Cold War
Christmas Eve
None of the above
During the Sydney Olympics
54
Which is most likely to contain petroleum?
Greek Fire
Bog bodies
Starlite
Mithridate
55
How many generations of Monarch Butterflies are required to make one complete migration?
10
5
8
14
56
How many Millennium Prize Problems remain unsolved?
8
5
6
7
57
Starlite is flame resistant because...
Releases extinguishing fumes when ignited
Does not contain oxygen
Swells with heat
Conducts and distributes heat
58
If you're standing on desert varnish, where would you most likely be?
On the Hummingbird geoglyph
On the exterior of the Great Pyramid
Standing on an Ulfbehrt
Standing on the gate of Puma Punku
59
The land of Punt is LEAST likely Egypt's...
Trade partner
Holy land
Wartime ally
Ancestral homeland
60
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon are likely located in...
Mycenean peninsula
Syracuse
Minoan archipelago
Assyrian Empire
61
The leading question in epistomogy is...
What is knowledge?
How is knowledge acquired?
How does growth effect knowlege?
What role does knowledge play?
62
Where would a tourist admiring the Terracotta Army most likely be?
The inner tomb
Vault 3
Vault 1
Vault 2
63
Where would the Loebner Prize 2019 most likely take place?
Turing Center for Aritificial Intelegence
It didn't
At Bletchley Park
On the internet
64
Which creature is part of the same phylum as tardigrades?
The Mothman
The Colossal Squid
The Immortal Jellyfish
The Monarch Butterfly
65
Left handed people are more likely to...
Have reversed brain hemispheres
Be women
be bad at sports
Have verbal processing controlled by the left hemisphere
66
Why is DNA testing unable to pinpoint the exact outcome of the Lost Tribes of Israel?
Data gathered is unreliable due to a large genetic pool
The Pashtuns reject any connection to Israel
It can determine the location of origin, but not ethnicity
The Pashtuns are too genetically different
67
What was the main obstacle that medieval blacksmiths faced when making Ulfbehrts?
Engraving +VLFBEHRT+
Material shortage
It was a time consuming process
High heat was required
68
Where would a collector most likely buy the Atacama Skeleton today?
Chile
The Black Market
Spain
Yale
69
Where is the Rohonc Codex today?
Belarus
Germany
Austria
Hungary
70
Which structures were NOT constructed using organised labour?
Terracotta army
The Great Pyramid
Nazca geoglyphs
Las Bolas
71
Occurred on Christmas Eve?
Death of Edgar Alan Poe
Sodder Children kidnapping
Dyatlov Pass incident
Suicide of Lori Erica Ruff
72
Which incidents involved the theft of 200,000 dollars worth of goods?
Sinking of a Spanish treasure ship
Dale Kesteter's dissapearence
The vanishing of 'Woman in Ochre'
The NORJAK hijacking
73
Dreaming is usually accompanied by...
Deep sleep
Paradoxical sleep
Increased Theta waves in the brain
Increased Delta waves in the brain
74
Physical injuries suffered by victims of Havana Syndrome are most similar to...
Lori Erica Ruff's method of suicide
Hollinwell Showground bystanders
Lesions
Concussions
75
In which province is Fuxian Lake is located?
Xi'an
Shang'xi
Yunnan
Ansan
76
According to legend, the treasure of Nova Scotia can be found under
An oak tree
The Nouvelle-Écosse
A well
A rock
77
Dactyloscopy was first practiced by...
the FBI
the CIA
MI6
Scotland Yard
78
This weapon was first used against...
Greeks
Byzantine
Arabs
Romans
79
NOT a UNESCO Heritage (site)?
Library of Alexandria
Las bolas
Terracotta soldiers
Belize blue hole
80
A genuine laugh is more often...
Lower pitch
Voluntary
Longer
Nasal
81
Which dissapearence was said to be the most abrupt?
Dinosaurs
Lost Tribes of Israel
Timaeus and Critias
Atlantis
82
What would be the accurate criticism for this depiction of evolution?
There are too many steps
It should look like a tree
It should look like a ladder
The man should be at the bottom
83
Which share the same mineral composition as the Singapore Stone?
The Great Pyramid
Stonehenge
The Phaistios Disk
Las Bolas
84
Which of the following is NOT a cause of Colony Collapse Disorder?
Varroa mites
Rising temperatures
Increase in farmlands
The ban on Neonicotinoids
85
A yawn is usually accompanied by...
Pandiculation
Increased blood flow to the lungs
Increase in body temperature
relaxation of the Tensor Typani muscle
86
Which was a birth name?
Chouchani
Dan Cooper
Kimberly McLean
Taman Shud
87
The age of an Architeuthis dux can be determined by examining...
The statolith
The statocysts
The swim bladder
The ammonium chloride solution in its body
88
Where was the Interstitium first discovered
New York
Seoul
Tel Aviv
Shanghai
89
What is the LEAST likely explanation for the 'Sky Object' over California?
Space junk
Meteor
Bolide
The NROL-71 spy satellite
90
A person with blood type AB+ cannot receive from...
B-
None of the above
A-
O-
91
People gather at Stonehenge to celebrate the...
Winter Equinox
Winter Solstice
Summer Solstice
Summer Equinox
92
What was the function of the Trilithon at Baalbeck?
Foundation stones
Astronomical markers
Pillars
Gate
93
Scientific name for Immortal Jellyfish:
Turritopsis dohrnii
Adansonia grandidieri
Pseudogymnoascus/Geomyctes destructans
Milnesium tardegradium
94
The K-Pg extinction event was named after...
An asteroid
A Mexican crater
Two geological eras
A thin band of rock
95
Using water for transportation of construction materials...
Great Pyramid : Stonehenge
Library of Alexandria : Puma Punku
Great Pyramid : Fuxian Lake Pyramid
Las Bolas : Hanging Gardens of Babylon
96
Which occurrence is not related to asteroids/meteors?
Oumuamua
Tunguska
Sky Object
K-pg extinction
97
Stonehenges's Blue Stones originate from...
Wales
England
Ireland
Scotland
98
Which ancient structures were once painted?
The Great Pyramid
Las Bolas
Terracotta army
Puma Punku
99
Which creatures can both be found in Australia?
European Honeybee : Plains Zebra
Immortal Jellyfish : Giant Squid
Monarch Butterfly : Boabab
Immortal Jellyfish : Tardigrade
100
Which missing persons were NOT declared dead after their disappearnce?
Amelia Earhart
Dale Kerstetter
Monsieur Chouchani
DB Cooper
101
Which of the following took place in Ohio?
Detection of the WOW! Signal
Disappearance of the Sodder Children
The Circleville letters
Kryptos
102
Symphony no.10 : Unfinished Symphony : (_)
Terracotta Army
Puma Punku
Nazca Geoglyphs
Stonehenge
103
Where is the Singapore Stone found today?
The National Museum of Singapore
Fort Fullerton Memorial
The James Low Museum
The London Museum
104
Which locations were 'discovered' by the Dutch?
Land of Punt
New Zealand
El Dorado
The Fountain of Youth
105
A person without an interstitium would most likely have...
Cancer that spreads faster
More wrinkles over time
Slower immune responses
80 organs

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