Internet Hoaxes Trivia: Can You Spot the Fake News?
1.
In a 2002 e-mail hoax, computer users were warned not to open which e-mail attachment?
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Life is beautiful
2.
What is the expanded form of the SULFNBK.EXE hoax virus alert of 2002?
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Setup Utility for Long File Name Backup
3.
As per an e-mail hoax who is supposed to donate dollars for mail forwards to a sick child?
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American Cancer Society
4.
A hoax e-mail requesting payment of an "outstanding account" demanded calling what number?
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809
5.
In the "Advance Fee or 419" e-mail hoax the sender claimed himself to be from what nation?
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Nigeria
6.
Hillary Clinton and Rick Lazio debated which non-existent issue during the 2000 election?
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5-cent tax on e-mail messages
7.
According to a hoax, what fruit from Costa Rica was infected with flesh eating bacteria?
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Banana
8.
As per a hoax e-mail, where was the tourist guy standing just before an airplane hit it?
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World Trade Center observation deck
9.
Which designer was branded as a racist in a 1990 e-mail hoax?
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Tommy Hilfiger
10.
Which billionaire was giving away his money according to a notorious internet hoax?
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Bill Gates
11.
As per a hoax, a mother-daughter was charged $250 for which store's recipe of cookies?
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Neiman-Marcus
12.
Which celebrity was claimed to be dead by several online gossip magazines in June 2007?
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Paris Hilton
13.
What was the meaning of the hoax computer virus AF/91 that appeared during the Gulf War?
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April Fool's Day 91
14.
An e-mail hoax circulated in 2002 advised users to delete what file from their computers?
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Jdbgmgr.exe
15.
When did the hoax e-mails containing "olympic torch" virus alert first appear?
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2006
16.
What was the never-existing virus about whom Internet users were warned during 1994?
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Good Times
17.
What was the fictional computer virus hoax made up by Humorix, a humor website on Linux?
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Tuxissa
18.
What was the hoax computer virus called that made its entry during the First Gulf War?
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AF/91
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