Don't Stop Believing Trivia Quiz

Answer: Charles Manson

Manson directed three murderous sessions over two days in the summer of 1969. Some say the murders were performed as revenge for the victims not assisting Manson in his music career, instead explaining them under the guise of "teaching the blacks how to start the apocalyptic unrest". Manson died in 2017 while serving life in prison, having had parole denied over ten times.

He to this day remains a symbol of insanity and violence.

Answer: Marshall Applewhite

The other three listed were the first three National Football League Draft picks of 2010.

Marshall Applewhite became the sole leader of Heaven's Gate when the nurse that was with him during the original visions died in 1985. The videos that surfaced after the mass suicide featured Applewhite speaking wide-eyed to the video viewer, and it only led to the speculation of the craziness of this cult. The cult even required the male members to be castrated to prevent sexual urges.

Answer: Jim Jones

The tribe of people was beginning to feel pressure from the government amid allegations of abuse and fraud from former members which caused them to flee the United States and create Jonestown, Guyana. California congressman Leo Ryan visited the Guyana compound to further investigate the abuse claims. On his way departing the Guyana airport the plane was halted, and all passengers were killed. Jim Jones realized that his time as leader would end likely in prison, and he ordered the mass suicide. The 918 who lost their lives was the largest documented number of human civilian lives lost at once that wasn't caused by natural disaster.

This record stood until September 11, 2001.

Answer: Raëlism

Raël, as Charles Vorilhon is now known, claims that in 2002 an organization associated with Raëlism managed to complete a cloning procedure that led to the birth of a baby named Eve. One of their poorly made decisions is choosing a swastika as their symbol of peace, which has led to the organization being shut out of Lebanon and Israel.

Some figures list the cult having as many as 65,000 members.

Answer: Sun Myung Moon

Mooneyism, as the American media often refers to it, received much of its exposure during coverage of the church's mass wedding ceremonies, where sometimes more than 10,000 couples would be blessed by Moon himself. The weddings would most often need to be reiterated by a legal entity as the marriages weren't technically binding by the original ceremony. The religion is reported to have members numbering above one million people.

The other three choices were members of the South Korean government.

Answer: Uganda

Disenchanted by the unrest left by Idi Amin in Uganda, and the path that the Catholic Church was taking, three individuals created The Movement For The Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God. This Ugandan cult would create its own self-imposed apocalypse where groups associated with the Restoration were mass-murdered in various methods by the group's leaders. Authorities tabulated the death toll resulting from the carnage was above 700 people, rivaling Jonestown's People's Temple massacre.

Answer: Order of the Solar Temple

Tony Dutoit, a defector of the organization and someone threatening to expose the group's shady practices, had a son whom DiMambro convinced his followers was the Antichrist. DiMambro's henchmen hunted Tony's family down all the way to Quebec, Canada and killed them all, including the three-month-old son.

Much like Jim Jones, DiMambro knew his time was up, and this led to the ordered suicides throughout Switzerland. It is believed a small center of believers of the Order continue to exist in Quebec and other locations throughout the world.

Answer: L. Ron Hubbard

Known defectors of the belief of Scientology have stated that coercive methods kept members in line, and that the best method to higher status in the organization depended almost entirely on what you were willing to take from your wallet. All four choices are science fiction writers at one time; only LRH was the one to create his own world outside of the page and bring it to reality.

Answer: David Koresh

Originally born Vernon Howell, David Koresh had claims of polygamy and child abuse laid upon him from former member of the Branch Davidians. Once claims of illegal weapons possession surfaced, the FBI intervened, and after a 51-day standoff, the assault on the compound began. Fires broke out all across the compound killing 21 children among the total 79 dead.

Answer: Aum Shinrikyo

Shoko Asahara was involved in kidnapping, fraud, and medical malpractice in addition to the Tokyo terrorist attacks, which along with the twelve murders, injured as many as five thousand people. He was sentenced to death in 1995. After the attack, the number of followers of Shoko's religion shrunk to less than five percent of its highest numbers in the 1990's.

All four choices listed are cults based in Japan, Aum Shinrikyo is the one associated with the heinous acts listed, believed to be the first use of chemical weapons in a terrorist attack on civilians.