Mysteries Quizzes with Answers
Questions about mysterious places, the unexplained and things connected to mystery!
Quiz
- What is the name of the mysterious and highly classified Air Force facility located within the Nevada desert?
- What has the Loch Ness monster been affectionately called since the 1940s?
- What was the name of the Essex country manor which was the setting of Agatha Christie's first published novel?
- What did Winston Churchill define as "a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma"?
- Jack the Ripper was an unidentified Victorian serial killer active in and around which district of London?
- What name is given to the region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean where a number of ships and aircraft are said to have disappeared under mysterious circumstances?
- What nickname was given to the so-called phantom wild cat sometimes sighted in Cornwall?
- Richard John Bingham went missing on 8 November 1974, by what name is he better known?
- Which city in New Mexico is renowned as the site of an alleged 1947 UFO crash?
- What were known in Victorian times as "Little bags of mystery"?
- Name the novel by Italian author Umberto Eco which is a historical murder mystery set in an Italian monastery in the year 1327?
- What is the name of the Mystery Cat, also called the Hidden Paw, in T. S. Eliot's 1939 poetry book Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats?
- "Sweet Little Mystery" is the second single from which group's debut album on 13 July 1987?
- Which American merchant ship was discovered adrift and deserted of its crew off the Azores Islands on December 4, 1872?
- Overtoun Bridge near Dumbarton in Scotland is infamous for the number of what either falling or jumping from the bridge?
- Originally published in 1870, name the final novel of Charles Dickens?
- Whose Mysterious World British TV series, first broadcast in 1980, looked at unexplained phenomena from around the world?
- In 1937, who disappeared without a trace during an attempt to circumnavigate the globe?
- A 1678 news pamphlet entitled Strange News Out of Hartfordshire is claimed by some to be the first depiction of what?
- What appeared to have been photographed with two young cousins Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths in Cottingley, near Bradford in 1917?
- Aristotle believed that his teacher Plato had invented which island to teach philosophy?
- Flight MH370 went missing in 2014 and is amongst the biggest unsolved mysteries of the modern world. This passenger flight was operated by which country's airlines?
- In 1594, Sir Walter Raleigh heard of a legend about which "City of Gold" in South America and sailed to find it?
- In North American folklore, what alternative name is used for the mysterious ape-like creature known as Bigfoot?
- Radiocarbon testing by three laboratories in 1988 dated which cloth to the Middle Ages?
Answers:
- Area 51
- Nessie
- Styles or Styles Court (the novel was The Mysterious Affair at Styles)
- Russia
- Whitechapel
- The Bermuda Triangle
- Beast of Bodmin Moor (or the Beast of Bodmin)
- Lord Lucan
- Roswell
- Sausages
- The Name of the Rose
- Macavity
- Wet Wet Wet
- Mary Celeste
- Dogs
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood
- Arthur C. Clarke's
- Amelia Earhart
- Crop circles
- Fairies (The Cottingley Fairies)
- Atlantis
- Malaysia
- El Dorado
- Sasquatch
- Turin Shroud