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Quiz about A Cult Gone Wrong
Quiz about A Cult Gone Wrong

A Cult Gone Wrong Trivia Quiz


The People's Temple seemed an ordinary cult. But in November of 1978, the name People's Temple became associated with death. Learn about one of the worst mass murder/suicides in history and their leader in this quiz.

A multiple-choice quiz by BG07. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
BG07
Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
268,363
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
7 / 10
Plays
2834
Awards
Top 35% Quiz
Last 3 plays: Guest 203 (9/10), lynn1973 (8/10), Guest 5 (4/10).
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Question 1 of 10
1. Who was the leader of the cult The People's Temple, also responsible for the murders? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. When did Jim Jones begin moving his cult from California to Guyana? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. Jones was kind and treated his followers well.


Question 4 of 10
4. What was the name of the San Francisco congressman who went to Jonestown to investigate human rights abuses? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. What was the name of the small town where Leo Ryan and several others were killed? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. How were almost all of the 900 or so residents of Jonestown murdered? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. All of the residents of Jonestown were killed and none escaped.


Question 8 of 10
8. How did the leader of the cult, Jim Jones, die? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. What became of Jonestown itself after the murder/suicide? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. What was the name of Jim Jones's wife? (First name only)

Answer: (One Word, 9 Letters)

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Who was the leader of the cult The People's Temple, also responsible for the murders?

Answer: Jim Jones

Jim Jones was born in 1931 and became a preacher in the 1950's, when he founded his cult, originally called the Wings of Deliverance. He was known for his fair treatment of blacks and gained a reputation for this. In 1965, he moved his cult from Indianapolis, Indiana to Mendocino County, California because he believed this was one of the world's few places that would survive nuclear holocaust.
2. When did Jim Jones begin moving his cult from California to Guyana?

Answer: 1974

In 1974, amid scandals of tax evasion, Jones began moving his cult from California to Guyana, where he had his followers build the settlement of Jonestown. He had considered moving to other locations in California or Brazil but settled on Guyana instead.
(most members of the cult moved there in 1977)
3. Jones was kind and treated his followers well.

Answer: False

In 100 degrees Fahrenheit, 6 days a week, his followers built Jonestown. His adherents only got to eat rice and beans while he got to eat eggs, meat, salads, and soft drinks from a private fridge. Misbehaving children were sometimes put into a well, often upside down, overnight or put in a 6x4x3 foot wooden box.
4. What was the name of the San Francisco congressman who went to Jonestown to investigate human rights abuses?

Answer: Leo Ryan

On November 14, 1978, Leo Ryan went there with government officials and the news media. After a few days, several members of the cult defected with Ryan's crew, and the plane that Ryan had brought was not big enough for everyone. He let the defectors get on the first plane and he and the rest waited for the next plane. During this time, Ryan was attacked by a Temple member with a knife.

When the next plane arrived, a defector who was secretly a loyalist shot at the group, killing Congressman Ryan, an NBC cameraman, and several other people.
5. What was the name of the small town where Leo Ryan and several others were killed?

Answer: Port Kaituma

Port Kaituma was a small town about 10 kilometers from Jonestown. All but 4 of Ryan's delegation were forced to stay in a cafe in Port Kaituma because Jones would not allow them to come to his town.
6. How were almost all of the 900 or so residents of Jonestown murdered?

Answer: Flavor Aid laced with cyanide

Later on during the day of the Kaituma Airport shootings, Jones and his assistants mixed Valium and cyanide into a vat of purple Flavor Aid. Children were given the drinks first. It was believed this would make the parents less resistant to their own deaths, having seen their children die.
7. All of the residents of Jonestown were killed and none escaped.

Answer: False

On the night of the murders, four residents survived. 76-year-old Hyacinth Thrash hid under her bed when nurses came in with the poisoned Kool aid, 36-year-old Odell Rhodes who was a teacher, pretended to get a stethescope from a building and then hid under it, 25-year-old Stanley Clayton tricked security guards and ran into the jungle, and 79-year-old Grover Davis lay down in a ditch and pretended to be dead.
8. How did the leader of the cult, Jim Jones, die?

Answer: Gunshot

Jim Jones and Annie Moore were the only two people to die at Jonestown of gunshot wounds. Annie Moore left a suicide note, but it was later proven to be false and that Jones probably shot her and then shot himself.
9. What became of Jonestown itself after the murder/suicide?

Answer: Abandoned

The town was abandoned and was largely destroyed by a fire in the mid 1980's. The Guyanese people did not take back the land because of the infamous murders associated with it.
10. What was the name of Jim Jones's wife? (First name only)

Answer: Marceline

Jim Jones and Marceline Jones had two sons, one who was their own and one adopted. Their real son, Stephan Jones, was not in Jonestown at the time of the murder/suicides because he was playing with the People's Temple Basketball team against the Guyanese National Basketball team.

Their other, adopted son, Jim Jones Jr. was an African-American and Jim Jones was the first white man to adopt an African-American in the state of Indiana.
Source: Author BG07

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