The Post Quiz: Conspiracy Theories - Answers
Created | Updated May 5, 2013
Time to put on the tinfoil thinking caps.
Famous Conspiracy Theories: Answers
You came, you saw, you decided. How conspiracy-minded are you?
We've only scratched the surface here. You can read up on conspiracies to your heart's content in the Edited Guide.
Matching the theory to the figure at the centre of the controversy.
Person | Theory |
1. JFK | i. Killed by the Communists. Or the Mob. Or the CIA. Watch the film. |
2. Glenn Miller | g. His plane crashed in bad weather. Or maybe he died in a bordello. |
3. Adam Weishaupt | h. Founded the Illuminati. He really did. It was a talking shop. |
4. John D Rockefeller | a. Feuded with Diego Rivera. Although John D gets blamed for everything by the conspiracy nuts, he really did some annoying things, such as stop Rivera's Marxist mural from being completed. Rivera retaliated in style. | .
5. Elders of Zion | j. Accused of secretly running the world in a Jewish conspiracy. This is a particularly nasty, and totally untrue, conspiracy theory. |
6. Abraham Lincoln | c. Killed on orders from Jefferson Davis. Or maybe it was his own Cabinet? Or... Read about The Death of Abraham Lincoln. |
7. Christopher Marlowe | b. Wrote Shakespeare's plays. Read The Christopher Marlowe Conspiracies for more info. |
8. Charlemagne | d. Was a made-up character. At least, according to the Phantom Time Hypothesis. |
9. John Titor | f. Travelled in time. At least, that's what he claimed on the internet. |
10. Nikola Tesla | e. Invented a death ray. He did invent a lot of things. |
If you knew them all, you should probably be worried. Interpol is watching you. That dead fly you found in your snail-mail box was a sign. . .