Taken In By The Scam Artist Trivia Quiz

Answer: Co-Pilot for Pan Am

He started out by altering the birthdate on his driver's license, and then embellished his education record, but his dreams of getting better paying jobs fell short. He noticed that airline pilots were treated with respect and awe so he set his sights on impersonating one to aide his check kiting schemes.

Answer: $200,000

He boarded the Seattle-bound plane in Portland and, after receiving his ransom and parachutes, jumped from the plane while at an altitude of 10,000 feet. His fate and identity remain unknown to this day and seemed to be a thorn in J. Edgar Hoover's side when the FBI couldn't get their man.

Answer: The Fogg Art Museum

He sold it to the museum at Harvard University in 1955. It is assumed that the painting was gone over very thoroughly before being purchased. This confirms the level of quality he attained in his reproductions.

Answer: The Vatican

No one is sure why he became obsessed with involving the Catholic Church in his embezzlement schemes. Perhaps Frankel thought that such a distinguised backer would enable him to fleece anyone and everyone without a second glance on their part. He certainly must have relished the ego boost he would have gotten by duping such a lofty institution.

Answer: No body, no crime

Among her victims were Irene Silverman, Elmer Holmgren and David Kazdin. It became evident that, if you crossed Sante or stood in the way of what she wanted, you would end up dead.

Answer: 83 hours

Barbara Mackle's capsule had food, water, a lamp, a blanket, a sweater, a fan and two pipes that allowed fresh air in. Krist, who referred to himself as a genius, told his victim that he had built a battery to run the lamp and fan for 11 days. It only lasted three hours.

Answer: By drilling through the floor of a room above the store.

After drilling for three days with very little progress, Sobhraj and his crew resorted to luring the owner of the store into their hotel room with the promise of meeting a potential client. He then took the store keys from the owner at gunpoint and finished the heist.

Answer: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Several factors linked Doyle to the hoax such as his vast knowledge of fossils, that he lived very close to the excavation site, his acquaintance with an American phrenologist with an extensive collection of skulls and the numerous similarities in his book "The Lost World" to the actual site and its findings.

His love of pratical jokes led people to believe Doyle helped Charles Dawson perpetrate this hoax.

Answer: 62

Harboring a lifelong fascination with Hitler, he amassed a large collection of memorabilia. Kujau actually made a modest living selling his items to collectors. However, that turned out to not be enough and he began forging signatures of once prominent Nazis and creating bogus authentication documents to increase the prices.

Answer: Professor Moriarty from "Sherlock Holmes"

Worth only ever stole from those he felt were wealthy enough to afford being robbed. He never threatened or harmed anyone. He stole and lost riches many times over and always helped out a friend whenever he could, asking only for their loyalty in return. Somehow, having only ever worked a legitimate job for maybe a few months of his entire life, Adam Worth became one of the richest and most respected men in Europe.