Hall of Madness
Where there is night, there is day. Where there is life, there is death. Where there is sanity, there is madness.
But what is madness in a world where, ‘One man's trash is another man's treasure’?
Browse a rogue's gallery of the famous and the infamous from real life and from fiction. What's true? What's false? Make a choice and see for yourself...
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Question 1 |
Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done she gave her mother forty-one.
A | True |
B | False |
Question 2 |
Henry Cavendish was a scientific genius who made numerous contributions to our understanding of electricity. However, he is little known as he was painfully shy and agoraphobic and didn’t publish any of his works. It’s said that his house was equipped with a hidden staircase so he could move around unseen. He was so anti-social and fearful of others than he once went screaming into the woods when an admirer stopped by to say “hello.”
A | True |
B | False |
Question 3 |
Howard Hughes’s fingernails were over two inches long when he died and his toenails were so long they actually looked like corkscrews winding away from his feet.
A | True |
B | False |
Question 4 |
Not-so-affectionally known as “Charles the Mad,” Charles the VI ascended to the throne of France in 1380 at the mature age of 11 – clearly the perfect age to begin ruling over an entire nation. With the help of his uncle, he re-established the right of the royal authority to levy taxes, which is pretty much his single accomplishment as king if you don’t count attacking his own men, killing one of his knights, forgetting that he was king, and believing that he was made of glass.
A | True |
B | False |
Question 5 |
All hail the emporer of Rome! Bow down and worship or he might throw you into an arena to be consumed by wild beasts, flog you with a chain for looking at him funny, or have your spine filleted with a sawblade. Tremble before his power and divinity for Caligula is lord of creation (and don’t forget to show your respect for the horse he ordained as a priest). Lock up your wives… protect his own sisters… for Caligula knows no bounds. The madness goes on and on… or does it?
A | True |
B | False |
Question 6 |
Ah yes… pull up a chair and hear all about this delightful chap. A brilliant artist and musician, Richard Dadd dazzled with his impromptu sketches and skills as a violinist. He’d entertain crowds long into the night, plying them with his homemade mead and regaling them with stories of his time in Egypt. When they left, he arranged all the sketches he made and had “many an interesting conversation with them” into the early hours of the morning when he would smear them with his own blood and finally fall asleep.
A | True |
B | False |
Question 7 |
Dr. Henry Howard Holmes was a delightful chap who entertained single women and little kids around the time of the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago. He memorized them with his stories while mixing up sodas and medicines in his South Side pharmacy. Sure, he dabbled in poisoning animals – and enjoyed eating them afterwards – but who doesn’t have a flaw or two?
A | True |
B | False |
Question 8 |
Bowls made from human skulls… human lips hanging from the ceiling… furniture upholstered with human skin… and bits of assorted female body parts stitched together either equal a truly horrific haunted house or the life of Ed Gein, your friendly neighborhood psychopath and murderer.
A | True |
B | False |
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