Parapsychology
Trivia Quiz
- Which word for a a biologically unrelated look-alike is often portrayed in fiction as a paranormal phenomenon?
- What 's' is an attempt to communicate with spirits?
- Which straight alignments are thought to connect important and sacred sites throughout the world with electromagnetic energy?
- In 2022, which British politician offered a formal apology to people accused of witchcraft?
- What is the name of the deck of 25 cards used to conduct experiments for ESP?
- What flat board is also known as a spirit board or talking board?
- Psychokinesis or telekinesis is the supposed ability to do what by mental effort alone?
- Which modern pagan religion was introduced to the public in 1954 by retired British civil servant, Gerald Gardner?
- What supposedly appeared in a series of five photographs taken in 1917 by Frances Griffiths and Elsie Wright, two young cousins who lived in Cottingley, England?
- In which century did Nostradamus live?
- OBEs can be induced by sensory deprivation or near-death experiences, what does OBE stand for?
- Found in the magical traditions of many cultures, what common term is given to an effigy into which pins are inserted?
- In the occult tradition, what are referred to as 'arcana'?
- Who created Transcendental Meditation in India in the mid-1950s?
- What word or term first coined in 1882 by Frederic Myers, means the supposed communication of thoughts by means other than the known senses?
- Tasseography is fortune-telling using what?
- What sort of projection is a term used to describe an intentional out-of-body experience?
- Oneirology is the scientific study of what?
- What name is given to a person who claims to have the supernatural ability to perceive events in the future?
- Uri Geller was born in which modern day country?
- Extrasensory perception or ESP, is also called what sense?
- Which American village is the setting of the book by Jay Anson (published in 1977) about a house terrorized by paranormal phenomena? It has been adapted into a series of films, the first made in 1979.
- What word, derived from the name of a German physician, generally means exactly the same as "hypnosis"?
- What is the action of causing something to rise and hover in the air by supposed magical powers?
- What word from it's Latin meaning, basically means "knowledge of the hidden"?
- Which well-known Victorian author, who helped to popularize the mystery of the Mary Celeste, had a longstanding interest in paranormal phenomena?
- Which ancient branch of natural philosophy is known for its attempts to change base metals into gold?
- Who, with her husband Karl Beattie, presented the Most Haunted television series?
- What 's' is described in the dictionary as a person who predicts the future by magical, intuitive, or more rational means?
- How many cards are in a pack of tarot cards?
- What is sometimes called Chinese geomancy?
- What word derived from the German word for witch, means to cast a negative spell on someone?
- What name is given to the pseudo-scientific belief in a divine, mystical, or occult relationship between a number and events?
- Name the ancient Chinese divination text that is translated as the Book of Changes?
- What is someone you see or think you see but who is not really there as a physical being?
- Used widely by pagans, what symbol do you get by drawing a circle around a five-pointed pentagram?
Answers
- Doppelganger
- Seance
- Ley lines
- Nicola Sturgeon (it was an apology to people between the 16th and 18th centuries. No Scottish people have been accused of witchcraft recently!)
- Zener cards
- Ouija board
- Move objects
- Wicca
- Fairies (it was one of the greatest hoaxes of the 20th Century)
- 16th century (December 1503 – July 1566)
- Out-of-body experience
- Voodoo doll
- Tarot cards
- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
- Telepathy
- Tea leaves (or coffee grounds, or wine sediments)
- Astral projection
- Dreams
- Clairvoyant
- Israel
- Sixth sense
- Amityville
- Mesmerism (after Franz Anton Mesmer (1734 – 1815))
- Levitation
- Occult (from the Latin word occultus meaning "clandestine, hidden, secret")
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Alchemy
- Yvette Fielding
- Soothsayer
- 78 cards
- Feng shui (the term feng shui means, literally meands "wind-water")
- Hex (hexe is witch in German)
- Numerology
- I Ching
- Apparition
- Pentacle
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