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Quiz: Are These Hurricane Sandy Photos Real Or Fake?

There's been a bunch of photos floating around the internet that are of older storms, not actually of Sandy. Can you tell which is real and which is fake?

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Katie Notopoulos
Katie Notopoulos
BuzzFeed News Reporter

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  1. 1. Soldiers guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the rain

    Correct! 
    Wrong! 

    Fake!

    This photo has been shared on Facebook over 60,000 times in the last day, but it's actually from September. The army posted this current pic of a soldiers guarding the tomb today to their Facebook account.

  2. 2. Flooding in Red Hook, Brooklyn

    Correct! 
    Wrong! 

    Real!

    This was from this morning.

  3. 3. Omninous clouds over Manhattan

    Correct! 
    Wrong! 

    Fake

    This photo is about a year old, but it's been shared over 2,000 times over Twitter today.

  4. 4. Shark swimming in street

    Correct! 
    Wrong! 

    Obviously

    That was an easy one. C'mon.

  5. 5. New York City skyline

    Correct! 
    Wrong! 

    Real!

    Taken by Ivanka Trump.

  6. 6. Flooded Atlantic City

    Correct! 
    Wrong! 

    It's real!

    Yup.

  7. 7. The East River flooding in Manhattan

    Correct! 
    Wrong! 

    Fake!

    This is a real photo that went viral during last year's Hurricane Irene, but it was a fake.

  8. 8. A guy swimming in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn

    Correct! 
    Wrong! 

    Real

    This guy deserves to be forced to have Chris Christie yell at him for being stupid for a few hours.

  9. 9. Standing in the middle of a deserted FDR Drive

    Correct! 
    Wrong! 

    Real!

    Perfect commute today, eh?

  10. 10. Flooded McDonald's

    Correct! 
    Wrong! 

    Fake!

    This is a photo from a German art installation.

  11. 11. Graffiti in Philadelphia

    Correct! 
    Wrong! 

    Real!

    That's probably going to look a little less cool in about a week.

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