Mysterious Identities Trivia Quiz

Answer: Walter Raleigh

Bacon, a man of great erudition and unquestioned brilliance, is the most popular candidate. Many people, however, support {Marlowe;} he was a talented writer who died under curious circumstances just before Shakespeare's star began to rise. DeVere, a nobleman, is also a candidate.

Answer: 'Treasure of the Sierra Madre'

Traven was based somewhere or other in Mexico. He collaborated through a 'proxy' with John Huston and company on the film. Or ... was there ever really a 'proxy'?

Answer: Charles Arthur Floyd

Clarence is the romantic suspect since he's a member of royalty. The case for him, however, is not that strong. He may have been crazy, but ... Kosminsky and Druitt were considered prime suspects by the police who investigated at the time of the crime. Floyd was better known as 'Pretty Boy Floyd'.

Answer: Pacific Northwest

He made his escape by parachuting out of a plane into a wooded area in the Pacific Northwest. He was never found.

Answer: Elizabeth Short

Short was the unfortunate victim of the brutal crime. The other women were victims of Jack the Ripper.

Answer: Anna Sage

Anna Sage was the famous (or infamous) person who helped nail Dillinger at the Biograph movie theatre. Costner was 'Eve' of 'Three Faces of Eve' fame. Mallon was 'Typhoid Mary'. Pappenheim was the real name of the woman described by Freud as 'Anna O.'

Answer: True

Woodward and Bernstein said they would disclose his identity after his death; Woodward and Bernstein insist that he is a real person. Some 31 years later, Deep Throat identified himself in May 2005 as William Felt, of the FBI. Woodward and Bernstein confirmed his identity.

Answer: Strong physical resemblance to someone

The story goes that he bore a strong resemblance to someone of importance - and that could have proven embarrassing to someone in power? (Illegitimacy?). (Voltaire heard interesting stories when he, too, was imprisoned in the Bastille).

Answer: John Wilkes Booth

Bates wrote a book in the latter part of the 19th century that suggested that Booth had not been the man who had been shot and killed at Garrett's farm shortly after the assassination of Lincoln. He was a P.T. Barnum type - and he didn't have much evidence to support his claim.

Answer: Lee Harvey Oswald

Not long before the assassination, someone using Oswald's name made a mysterious trip to Mexico City. There's reason to believe that it wasn't really Oswald. If not the real one, who ... and why? A set-up?