04-Jan-2024 Theme: 'Hoaxes'

(1) What was the popular name given to the woman supposedly found living with kangaroos near Eucla in 1971?

Answer: Nullarbor Nymph.

(2) What was the name of the fake poet invented by James McAuley and Harold Stewart to hoax Max Harris’ ‘Angry Penguins’ journal in 1943/44?

Answer: Ern Malley.

(3) What are the Gosford Glyphs supposed to be?

Answer: Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics.

(4) What name was given to the supposed human ‘missing link’, a fake fossil of which was created in 1912 by combining the mandible and teeth of an orangutan with a modern human cranium.

Answer: Piltdown Man.

(5) In 2009 a US couple made world headlines when they falsely claimed they had accidentally launched a helium balloon into the atmosphere which contained what?

Answer: Their six year old son.

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