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Understanding Forgery: Facts and Insights

Test your knowledge on forgery, its history, and its implications through this engaging quiz.

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1 ________ (died 1699 at Tyburn), forger, coiner, coin clipper and counterfeiter,

2 The ________, a primary text of medieval Kabbalah, was written by a 16th century Spanish Rabbi but attributed to Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, an ancient sage of the Second Temple period.

3 Before the invention of ________, people commonly hired painters and engravers to 're-create' an event or a scene.

4 But consumer goods are also counterfeits when they are not manufactured or produced by designated manufacture or producer given on the ________ or flagged by the trademark symbol.

5 ________'s Vermeers

6 Jacques van Meegeren's fakes of ________'s work

7 Forgery is the process of making, adapting, or imitating objects, statistics, or documents (see ________), with the intent to deceive.

8 Forgery is one of the techniques of fraud, including ________.

9 Dossiers Secrets, the document forgeries planted in the Bibliothèque nationale de France that were developed into ________ etc.

10 ________ including coin, currency, drugs, watches and postage stamps

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Golden Charter of Bern — the bull that made Berne, Switzerland, an Imperial Free City in 1218 — is now considered to have been forged decades later by the Bernese themselves to confirm the rights they had seized.
  • the Codex Calixtinus, a 12th-century illuminated manuscript, is prefaced by a forged letter purporting the manuscript to be the work of Pope Callixtus II.
  • the ancient Chinese text Huangdi Yinfujing, attributed to the mythical emperor Huangdi in the 3rd century BCE, may have been a forgery from the Tang Dynasty (618–907 CE).
  • in Islam, Tahrif is the charge that Jewish and Christian holy books have been subject to change, alteration or forgery.
  • archaeologist Luigi Pernier, who found the Phaistos Disc, has been accused of having forged it.
  • English Anglican clergyman Dr William Dodd was nicknamed the "macaroni parson" as a result of his extravagant lifestyle, and in 1777 became the last person to be hanged at Tyburn for forgery.
  • Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, resigned after confessing to torture and forgery.
  • Nicolas-Charles Bochsa, who helped found the Royal Academy of Music in 1822, was only in London because he had fled France five years earlier to avoid prosecution for multiple counts of forgery and fraud.
  • Czechoslovak General Heliodor Píka was accused of espionage and high treason on the basis of an "appalling" and "unimaginably inefficient bit of forgery".
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