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1. MOCC QUIZ (Mythology Occult Criminology and Conspiracy Theories Created By Ridhima Medha Shrivastava (inputs from Ishitha Reddy)

2. PRELIMSSS No Rulez ( coz u’re Rebels)

3. 1 • What day was July 27, 2014? Check your calendar, and you'll notice that was a Sunday. But when ________ was asked, she had predicted that the 27th was the appointed time for the Opening of the “Gates of Hades”.

5. This poster was created for the movie Savage County. Vincent Castiglia ,who created it has a unique style which was also applied to the poster “I sought the most direct and personal connection with my work, one that could not lie or be reproduced. Although the paintings are often thematic, they are also quite visceral, and I believe it is because of this that the response has been so strong. The creative process is very honest and cathartic for me, and is an intermingling of feelings and experiences, aspirations and visions, all spontaneously congealing on the canvas”. -Vincent Castiglia

6. 3 In Norse mythology,_________ is the doom of the gods and the humans. It will be the final battle between the Aesir and Jotuns. The mighty Midgard serpent will be emerging from the turbulent sea and engulf the Vigrid plains, while it splashes its tail and sprays poison in all directions, causing huge waves crashing towards the land. The Fenrir wolf will break free of his chains and kill Odin. The sun and the moon will be swallowed by the wolfs Sköll and Hati. Thor and the Midgard Serpent will kill each other. Loki will turn on the Aesir, and fight Heimdall, and they will kill each other. Finally Surt will set all the nine worlds, in a flaming inferno and they will sink into the boiling sea. Afterward, the world will resurface anew and fertile, the surviving and returning gods will meet, and the world will be repopulated by two human survivors.

7. 4 "The rumour was that they decided to sacrifice the few to save the many. Nobody has ever confirmed or denied that, and that says a lot.“ -Jean Taylor It has been claimed in a number of books that the wartime prime minister knew that the city was to be targeted by the German Luftwaffe, but chose to do nothing because it would have alerted Adolf Hitler to the fact the Allies had recently cracked the Nazis' top-secret Enigma codes. Which City

8. 5.Connect

9. 6.CONNECT

10. 7. Where would you find this step by step method to curse someone.

11.  Collect objects to use as mediums. The word has many definitions, but in this case, “medium” refers to the substance through which you’ll transmit your bad energy (i.e. your curse). Any of the following items will serve as strong mediums:Rusty nails, thumb tacks, or other sharp items can be added to the jar to generally hurt your target.  Red pepper flakes or whole red pepper pods will cause your target to become angry.  Vinegar may be used to sour the life of an individual, or to sour the relationship between two people.  Rose thorns may be used to cause your target harm through deception (as a beautiful rose looks deceptively soft until it pricks your finger) or to sour love.  Poisonous plants may be added to the jar to cause harm to your target. Just be sure to wear protective gear (e.g. gloves, goggles, face mask) whenever you’re handling anything poisonous.  Urine (your own) may be added to the jar to help you gain domination over your target. Avoid using urine and blood that are not your own, as these are biohazards and could cause you to become ill.  Graveyard soil can be used to drive someone away or drive two people apart. Soil from a

12. 8. When Y died in 1861, X was devastated. Grieving in the only way that made sense to her, she searched for a medium who could help her make contact with her dead husband. She finally found one who seemed genuine: Robert James Lees, a 13-year- old medium who claimed to channel the spirit of her husband. She sent her attendants to investigate the young medium. After impressing them with impossible- to-know details of her husband’s personal life, Lees was invited to see her. He went to visit her nine times. Each time, X was left completely at his whim, prompting her to ask him to become resident medium of her household. The boy refused, promising that she could continue communicating through Y’s former gun boy, John Brown. For more than 30 years, Brown remained X’s medium, having a complete hold over her.For years, rumours have persisted that X’s infatuation with Brown was a romantic one. Some even suggested she had secretly married him, with newspapers calling her Mrs Brown. Identify X.

13. 9 According to Andrew Basiago and William Stillings, the sinister, shocking truth about X lies not in East Africa but in outer space. As a young man in the early 1980s, X was part of a secret CIA project to explore Mars! He was teleported there, along with the future head of DARPA. Basiago claims that X was known as Barry Soetero back then, and he was part of their Mars mission training group. . His mission was a perilous one according to Basiago and Stillings. The CIA wished to establish a defense regime protecting the Earth from threats from space as well as a legal claim to Territorial sovereignty, making X something of a Martian conquistador. This conspiracy theory was later denied by X. Identify X

14. A popular theory in the Muslim world is that the __________ could have been caused by an Indian nuclear experiment in which Israeli and American nuclear experts participated. Several newspapers in Egypt and the Middle East alleged that India, in its heated nuclear race with Pakistan, has acquired sophisticated nuclear technology from the US and Israel, both of which "showed readiness to co-operate with India in experiments to exterminate humankind," beginning with the heavily populated Muslim regions of southeast Asia, where the bulk of casualties took place. FITB. 10

15. Drug kingpin Joaquin “X” Guzman has been renamed Chicago’s “Public Enemy No. 1” following his escape from a maximum-security prison in Mexico. The Chicago Crime Commission said that the title, which was originally given to Guzman in 2013, was suspended when he was captured in 2014, but now has been reinstated following his elaborate escape. Officials with the crime-fighting group called him “one of the most dangerous criminals in the world.” Guzman had escaped from a maximum-security prison in Mexico through a mile-long tunnel under the shower floor of his cell, marking his second prison escape. Give the nickname X. 11.

16. The Flat Earth Society was one of the first organizations to take up the cause and accuse X (an organisation) of faking Y, arguing that they were staged by Hollywood with Walt Disney sponsorship, based on a script by Arthur C. Clarke and directed by Stanley Kubrick. Conspiracy theorists say that the films of the missions were made using sets similar to this training mock. Id. 12

17. 14 _______is a slogan extensively used in Iran, North India and Pakistan to ward-off the evil eye. It is a Persian language derivation which literally means "far be the evil eye”. Hint: Farooq Shaikh

18. What is the doctor prescribing to the patient? 15

19. 16 Exhaustive list of what? Vyasa Hanuman Vibhishan Parshuram Kripacharya Ashwathama Bali

20. 17 The presiding deity of the temple at Koovagam, a tiny village about 30 kilometres outside Villupuram, is Aravan. In the Mahabharata it was prophesised that the Pandavas would win the battle of Kurukshetra only if they sacrificed a ‘perfect’ male from among themselves. Aravan,offered himself up for sacrifice. But he had a request: that he be allowed to spend one night as a married man. No king was willing to give his daughter in marriage only to have her widowed the next day, so finally, Lord Krishna assumed female form and married Aravan, and after a night , Aravan was beheaded. How was Aravan related to the pandavas?

21. 18 It was a ripe new economic niche--full of fraudsters and full of opportunity for clever business men. And Charles Kennard of Baltimore, Maryland managed to strike while the iron was hot---pushing a mass produced version which were an immediate hit for his fledgling novelty toy company. The X was marketed deliberately as mysterious family fun. Urban legend tots its title up to a combination of the French and German words both having the same meaning. The X is even responsible for several books penned by authors claiming to receive literary advice from beyond the veil. Pulitzer Prize winning poet James Merrill attributes his National Book Critics Circle Award Winning poem "The Changing Light at Sandover" to work with the X. Over its 120+ year history, the X has remained a consistent seller for whatever manufacturer owns the game rights. Its sales peak at times of national crisis as people want to stay in touch with their lost ones. And whenever pop culture puts out another horror movie, its sales pop up again. Give X.

22. 19 According to ancient and medieval science, aether , also called quintessence, is the material that fills the region of the universe above the terrestrial sphere. The word aether (aithēr) in Homeric Greek means "pure, fresh air" or "clear sky". In Greek mythology, it was thought to be the pure essence that the gods breathed, filling the space where they lived, analogous to the air breathed by mortals. In the marvel universe,The Dark elves, and their nefarious leader Malekith (who seems to be entirely a Marvel creation and not from Mythology) , yearn after their all powerful weapon of the Aether. The Aether is an apparently malevolent force, capable of inferring so much power as to wipe out all “light” within the universe, and to end the universe itself. What was the name used by some prominent Greek philosophers for aether? This name is also shared by a 1997 English language French science fiction film.

23. PRELIMSSS

24. 1 • What day was July 27, 2014? Check your calendar, and you'll notice that was a Sunday. But when ________ was asked, she had predicted that the 27th was the appointed time for the Opening of the “Gates of Hades”.

25. Siri

27. This poster was created for the movie Savage County. Vincent Castiglia ,who created it has a unique style which was also applied to the poster “I sought the most direct and personal connection with my work, one that could not lie or be reproduced. Although the paintings are often thematic, they are also quite visceral, and I believe it is because of this that the response has been so strong. The creative process is very honest and cathartic for me, and is an intermingling of feelings and experiences, aspirations and visions, all spontaneously congealing on the canvas”. -Vincent Castiglia What is this direct, personal connect?

28. • His Blood

29. 3 In Norse mythology,_________ is the doom of the gods and the humans. It will be the final battle between the Aesir and Jotuns. The mighty Midgard serpent will be emerging from the turbulent sea and engulf the Vigrid plains, while it splashes its tail and sprays poison in all directions, causing huge waves crashing towards the land. The Fenrir wolf will break free of his chains and kill Odin. The sun and the moon will be swallowed by the wolfs Sköll and Hati. Thor and the Midgard Serpent will kill each other. Loki will turn on the Aesir, and fight Heimdall, and they will kill each other. Finally Surt will set all the nine worlds, in a flaming inferno and they will sink into the boiling sea. Afterward, the world will resurface anew and fertile, the surviving and returning gods will meet, and the world will be repopulated by two human survivors.

31. 4 "The rumour was that they decided to sacrifice the few to save the many. Nobody has ever confirmed or denied that, and that says a lot.“ -Jean Taylor It has been claimed in a number of books that the wartime prime minister knew that the city was to be targeted by the German Luftwaffe, but chose to do nothing because it would have alerted Adolf Hitler to the fact the Allies had recently cracked the Nazis' top-secret Enigma codes. Which City

32. Coventry

33. 5.Connect

34. 666 Ronald Reagan changed 666 St. Cloud Road to 668 St. Cloud Road, because he was about to live on that street In 2015,Joe Barton changed bill 666 to 702-it had “negative connotations” U.S route 666 was changed to U.S Route 419

35. 6.CONNECT

36. 27 club

37. 7. Where would you find this step by step method to curse someone.

38. Collect objects to use as mediums. The word has many definitions, but in this case, “medium” refers to the substance through which you’ll transmit your bad energy (i.e. your curse). Any of the following items will serve as strong mediums:Rusty nails, thumb tacks, or other sharp items can be added to the jar to generally hurt your target. Red pepper flakes or whole red pepper pods will cause your target to become angry. Vinegar may be used to sour the life of an individual, or to sour the relationship between two people. Rose thorns may be used to cause your target harm through deception (as a beautiful rose looks deceptively soft until it pricks your finger) or to sour love. Poisonous plants may be added to the jar to cause harm to your target. Just be sure to wear protective gear (e.g. gloves, goggles, face mask) whenever you’re handling anything poisonous. Urine (your own) may be added to the jar to help you gain domination over your target. Avoid using urine and blood that are not your own, as these are biohazards and could cause you to become ill. Graveyard soil can be used to drive someone away or drive two people apart. Soil from a fresh grave is the most potent, but taking it may be considered defilement by authorities. If you do decide to remove soil from a fresh grave, ask permission from the departed’s

40. 8. When Y died in 1861, X was devastated. Grieving in the only way that made sense to her, she searched for a medium who could help her make contact with her dead husband. She finally found one who seemed genuine: Robert James Lees, a 13-year- old medium who claimed to channel the spirit of her husband. She sent her attendants to investigate the young medium. After impressing them with impossible- to-know details of her husband’s personal life, Lees was invited to see her. He went to visit her nine times. Each time, X was left completely at his whim, prompting her to ask him to become resident medium of her household. The boy refused, promising that she could continue communicating through Y’s former gun boy, John Brown. For more than 30 years, Brown remained X’s medium, having a complete hold over her.For years, rumours have persisted that X’s infatuation with Brown was a romantic one. Some even suggested she had secretly married him, with newspapers calling her Mrs Brown. Identify X.

41. Queen Victoria.

42. 9 According to Andrew Basiago and William Stillings, the sinister, shocking truth about X lies not in East Africa but in outer space. As a young man in the early 1980s, X was part of a secret CIA project to explore Mars! He was teleported there, along with the future head of DARPA. Basiago claims that X was known as Barry Soetero back then, and he was part of their Mars mission training group. . His mission was a perilous one according to Basiago and Stillings. The CIA wished to establish a defense regime protecting the Earth from threats from space as well as a legal claim to Territorial sovereignty, making X something of a Martian conquistador. This conspiracy theory was later denied by X. Identify X

43. Barack Obama

44. A popular theory in the Muslim world is that the __________ could have been caused by an Indian nuclear experiment in which Israeli and American nuclear experts participated. Several newspapers in Egypt and the Middle East alleged that India, in its heated nuclear race with Pakistan, has acquired sophisticated nuclear technology from the US and Israel, both of which "showed readiness to co-operate with India in experiments to exterminate humankind," beginning with the heavily populated Muslim regions of southeast Asia, where the bulk of casualties took place. FITB. 10

45. • The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami (also affected Indonesia)

46. Drug kingpin Joaquin “X” Guzman has been renamed Chicago’s “Public Enemy No. 1” following his escape from a maximum-security prison in Mexico. The Chicago Crime Commission said that the title, which was originally given to Guzman in 2013, was suspended when he was captured in 2014, but now has been reinstated following his elaborate escape. Officials with the crime-fighting group called him “one of the most dangerous criminals in the world.” Guzman had escaped from a maximum-security prison in Mexico through a mile-long tunnel under the shower floor of his cell, marking his second prison escape. Give the nickname X. 11.

47. El Chapo

48. The Flat Earth Society was one of the first organizations to take up the cause and accuse X (an organisation) of faking Y, arguing that they were staged by Hollywood with Walt Disney sponsorship, based on a script by Arthur C. Clarke and directed by Stanley Kubrick. Conspiracy theorists say that the films of the missions were made using sets similar to this training mock. Id. 12

49. Ans. X- NASA Y- Apollo Moon Landing

50. 14 _______is a slogan extensively used in Iran, North India and Pakistan to ward-off the evil eye. It is a Persian language derivation which literally means "far be the evil eye”. Hint: Farooq Shaikh

51. Ans. Chashm-e-Baddoor

52. What is the doctor prescribing to the patient? 15

53. Placebo- use of fake pills

54. 16 Exhaustive list of what? Vyasa Hanuman Vibhishan Parshuram Kripacharya Ashwathama Bali

55. Chiranjeevi (boon of long life)

56. 17 The presiding deity of the temple at Koovagam, a tiny village about 30 kilometres outside Villupuram, is Aravan. In the Mahabharata it was prophesised that the Pandavas would win the battle of Kurukshetra only if they sacrificed a ‘perfect’ male from among themselves. Aravan,offered himself up for sacrifice. But he had a request: that he be allowed to spend one night as a married man. No king was willing to give his daughter in marriage only to have her widowed the next day, so finally, Lord Krishna assumed female form and married Aravan, and after a night , Aravan was beheaded. How was Aravan related to the pandavas?

57. Aravan is the son of Arjuna and the naga princess, Ulupi.

58. 18 It was a ripe new economic niche--full of fraudsters and full of opportunity for clever business men. And Charles Kennard of Baltimore, Maryland managed to strike while the iron was hot---pushing a mass produced version which were an immediate hit for his fledgling novelty toy company. The X was marketed deliberately as mysterious family fun. Urban legend tots its title up to a combination of the French and German words both having the same meaning. The X is even responsible for several books penned by authors claiming to receive literary advice from beyond the veil. Pulitzer Prize winning poet James Merrill attributes his National Book Critics Circle Award Winning poem "The Changing Light at Sandover" to work with the X. Over its 120+ year history, the X has remained a consistent seller for whatever manufacturer owns the game rights. Its sales peak at times of national crisis as people want to stay in touch with their lost ones. And whenever pop culture puts out another horror movie, its sales pop up again. Give X.

59. The Ouija Board.

60. 19 According to ancient and medieval science, aether , also called quintessence, is the material that fills the region of the universe above the terrestrial sphere. The word aether (aithēr) in Homeric Greek means "pure, fresh air" or "clear sky". In Greek mythology, it was thought to be the pure essence that the gods breathed, filling the space where they lived, analogous to the air breathed by mortals. In the marvel universe,The Dark elves, and their nefarious leader Malekith (who seems to be entirely a Marvel creation and not from Mythology) , yearn after their all powerful weapon of the Aether. The Aether is an apparently malevolent force, capable of inferring so much power as to wipe out all “light” within the universe, and to end the universe itself. What was the name used by some prominent Greek philosophers for aether? This name is also shared by a 1997 English language French science fiction film.

61. The fifth element.

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