Probably a bonobo or something (Source).
Another fortnight rolls around and with it another quiz, so here's my round! Don't click on the image source links if you don't want the answers, which I'll post in the comments section as ever... "The Unexplained" we used to call this stuff when I was a nipper, but it really wasn't...
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1. In 1917, nine-year-old Frances Griffiths and sixteen-year-old Elsie Wright produced these images of the "Cottingley Fairies" by...
a) Doctoring the negatives?
b) Photographing cardboard cutouts held in place by hat pins?
c) Nobody knows?
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a) Shit Creek?
b) Bluff Creek?
c) Hoke's Creek?
3. According to former BBC Breakfast Time sports presenter David Icke, who gave away that they were actually a shape-shifting reptile in a Sky TV make-up room in 1989 when their eyeballs turned completely black?
a) Former Prime Minister Ted Heath?
b) Future Prime Minister Tony Blair?
c) Stephen Fry?
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4. What's this then?
a) An X-ray of a "ghost"?
b) An X-ray of a "genie"?
c) An X-ray of a "mermaid"?
5. According to Algonquian folklore the northern forests of Nova Scotia are haunted by cannibals called Wendigo whose insatiable hunger has caused them to chew off their own...
a) Hands?
b) Lips?
c) Bum?
6. Which of these images is not based upon Whitley Strieber's descriptions of the aliens that abducted him in his book Communion?
a)
b)
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7. What famous monster links:
a) The 1964 film The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao
b) The 1970 film The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
c) The 1961 film What a Whopper!
That's not actually multiple choice, I realise.
8. Also not multiple choice: Which of the above film's depictions of this monster is the odd one out, and ideally why?
9. Back to multiple choice. This...
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a) Slenderman?
b) Scary Mike?
c) Jeff the Killer?
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10. In 1871's The Coming Race, Edward Bulwer-Lytton describes the An-ya, a hyper-advanced subterranean offshoot of humanity whose women are bigger than its men. But which household product derived its name from the force that powers their wands?
a) Bovril?
b) Oxo?
c) Cillit Bang?
AND HERE ARE THE ANSWERS... 1:- b) Hat pins. They confessed in 1983, although maintained they actually had seen fairies, and that their fifth of five photographs was genuine. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottingley_Fairies) 2:- b) Bluff Creek. 3:- Ted Heath. a) 4:- c) Actually a merman, on display in the Horniman Museum. 5:- b) Lips. 6:- a) That's a model from the Leonard-Maltin-awarded-two-and-a-half-star film "Laserblast" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYNh_9kMnf0) 7:- The Loch Ness Monster. 8:- a) It was the only film to have a genuine Monster, although initially a goldfish, rather than a decoy. 9:- c) Jeff. 10:- a) The name of the force is Vril. Hitler may have looked for it.
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