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Test your Hoax IQ with the Hoax Quiz

Click on the links below to read about some of the greatest hoaxes in sports, science, art, and the Internet.

From Misha Defonseca to JT Leroy... [more]

P.T. Barnum's 10-foot giant, the chess automaton, balloon boy, and a carbon-dated Shroud of Turin... [more]

Microsoft pays you, Kurt Vonnegut's faux commencement address, and crumbly cookies from Neiman Marcus... [more]

The curious case of Sidd Finch, the Boston Marathon's surprise winner, and Stella the Fella.... [more]

Museum-quality forgeries of Matisse, Modigliani, and Marc Chagall... [more]

Hawking Howard Hughes, Nazi nonsense, and the "Miseducation of Little Tree"... [more]

The "Felicity" writer who didn't look her age, Orson Welles' infamous "War of the Worlds," and the 50s quiz show catastrophe... [more]

Paul McCartney is not dead, Kurt Cobain is, and Milli Vanilli, well... [more]

Yo Quiero Liberty, yaW ruoY tI evaH, and Driving the Joke Home... [more]

Did you know?: The first newspaper published daily in the U.S. was the Pennsylvania Packet and General Advertiser in Philadelphia in Sept. 1784.

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