Witches, Spells, and Sorcery
In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, these three mysterious figures chant “Double, double toil and trouble.”
Who are the Weird Sisters?
This 1994 film starring Salman Khan and Madhuri Dixit became famous for the line “Dosti ka ek usool hai madam — no sorry, no thank you.”
What is Hum Aapke Hain Koun?
This 2002 film directed by Danny Boyle follows survivors in London after a mysterious rage virus devastates humanity.
What is 28 Days Later?
This river, essential to Egypt’s civilization and agriculture, was worshipped as a god named Hapi.
What is the Nile?
This South Pacific island is famous for objects known as Moai, whose origins and transportation methods remain debated.
What is Easter Island?
In the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, this red-haired witch grows from shy student to powerful sorceress.
Who is Willow Rosenberg?
The movie Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara follows three friends on a road trip through this European country.
What is Spain?
Nicole Kidman plays a mother convinced her house is haunted in this 2001 gothic thriller set on the English coast.
What is The Others?
The Great Sphinx of Giza, carved from a single limestone ridge, is believed to bear the face of this pharaoh.
Who is Khafre?
Rumors say this U.S. government site in Nevada holds crashed alien spacecraft and tests secret experimental aircraft.
What is Area 51?
The witch Baba Yaga from Slavic folklore is said to live in a house that stands on these.
What are chicken legs?
This director, known for stylish blockbusters like Om Shanti Om and Chennai Express, is also Shah Rukh Khan’s close collaborator.
Who is Farah Khan?
This British found-footage horror movie follows students investigating the Blair Witch legend’s British counterpart in a haunted forest.
What is The Borderlands (also acceptable: The Last Broadcast)?
Often depicted with a throne-shaped crown on her head, this goddess resurrected her husband Osiris and protected her son Horus.
Who is Isis?
In 1977, a strange signal from outer space was detected by the Big Ear radio telescope; astronomers nicknamed it this.
What is the “Wow! signal”?
This real-life occultist, called “The Wickedest Man in the World,” influenced modern witchcraft and ceremonial magic.
Who is Aleister Crowley?
This actor portrayed Milkha Singh, India’s famous sprinter, in the 2013 biopic Bhaag Milkha Bhaag.
Who is Farhan Akhtar?
This 2013 supernatural horror film set in 1970s England features paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren.
What is The Conjuring 2?
This symbol, resembling a stylized eye, represented protection, healing, and royal power in ancient Egypt.
What is the Eye of Horus (or Wadjet)?
This 1960s U.S. program allegedly tested mind-control experiments on unwitting subjects using drugs like LSD.
What is MK-Ultra?
This 1487 treatise’s Latin title means The Hammer of Witches and was used by inquisitors during the witch hunts.
What is the Malleus Maleficarum?
Lagaan was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2002 but lost to this European movie.
What is No Man’s Land?
This 1973 British horror film about a policeman investigating a pagan community inspired the 2006 remake starring Nicolas Cage.
What is The Wicker Man?
This bust of an Egyptian queen — discovered in 1912 and now housed in Berlin — is one of the most famous artifacts from ancient Egypt.
Who is Nefertiti?
In 1947, pilots reported seeing an unusual cluster of fast-moving lights near these mountains in the U.S., sparking early UFO craze and conspiracy stories.
What are the Cascade Mountains?