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It’s time to put on your sleuthing hat and see if you can deduce fact from fiction. Channel your inner Sherlock Holmes and find out if sorting through Internet hoaxes is in fact, elementary.Once you answer all the questions, you will get your results from this quiz. Submit your answers by selecting Show More
It’s time to put on your sleuthing hat and see if you can deduce fact from fiction. Channel your inner Sherlock Holmes and find out if sorting through Internet hoaxes is in fact, elementary.Once you answer all the questions, you will get your results from this quiz. Submit your answers by selecting an option below each question. All answer options will load for you once you reach them. For best results, answer the questions in a row. Once you know your results, don’t forget to check the rest of the fun quizzes we’ve prepared for you. Good luck!
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Facebook
You can totally recharge your phone by microwaving it, right?
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True
False
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2
Beacon Rock Golf Course
There's no way these golfers are really playing this close to a fire...right?
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This one’s real
It’s totally fake
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Shutterstock
Polybius was the game developed by the CIA for behavior modification that gave children in Portland amnesia. But was it real or a hoax?
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Real
Hoax
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Norbert Rosing
Animal pictures abound on the Internet, but some of them are definitely fake. Could this polar bear really be playing with a sled dog?
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No, it’s fake.
Yes, it’s definitely real.
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Twitter
In 2016, Twitter user Randy admitted to ripping up absentee ballots for Trump. Or did he?
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This is totally illegal. There’s no way he did it.
Yup, it was a really big deal.
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Is a dishwasher a good place to put your valuables during a hurricane, as per the recently circulating Internet advice?
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Definitely not.
Absolutely!
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Instagram
These two headlines are photoshopped, right?
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They’re totally real and were distributed to different political markets.
This is photoshopped.
This is real, but they were just printed at different times during the day.
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Let's get meta for a moment. In 2016, Snopes agreed to work with a social media site to help evaluate the accuracy of questionable posts. Which social media site?
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Twitter
Facebook
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Pinterest
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LinkedIn
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Which of these Internet famous photos is real?
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CNN
This photo of Darren Wilson after the incident with Michael Brown
jetcareers.com
This chemtrails on/off switch
ViralNova
This photo of a man hiding under a woman's bed
National Geographic
This photo of a plane passing in front of a solar eclipse
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Shutterstock
In June of 2017, Breitbart reported that a German woman was fined over 1000 euros for sharing an anti-migrant meme. True or false?
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Which one of these Obama stories is real?
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In August of 2017, he ordered Harvard University to reverse its suspension of his daughter Malia.
In 2016, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said: “One of my proudest moments was when I told Obama, ‘You will not fill this Supreme Court vacancy.'”
When Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, he was the only president to ignore a natural disaster and go golfing instead.
Obama was in Texas during Hurricane Harvey, serving meals.
He signed an executive order banning the Pledge of Allegiance in schools.
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12
New York Times
This graphic makes a shocking claim...but is it true?
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