The Post Quiz: Fictional Psychics
Created | Updated Oct 16, 2016
How occult is your knowledge? Take the quiz, but beware: the spirits are watching!
The Post Quiz: Fictional Psychics
How many of these fictional psychics do you know? Have you met them personally?
Fill in the blanks with the names of famous fictional occultists, necromancers, mediums, and suchlike spooky persons.
- A contemporary of Hercule Poirot, the US fictional occultist ________________________ is a wealthy former intelligence agent who helps people with their supernatural problems. He's got a magic swordstick with a blade forged by Saint Dunstan.
- This more modern occult detective lives in Chicago and fights evil while maintaining his hardboiled persona. __________________ also has a familiar spirit named Bob who lives in a skull.
- Detective _______________________ (not his 'real' fictional name) has a holistic detective agency, and that's all readers of the h2g2 Post need to know.
- Between 1910 and 1912, English writer William Hope Hodgson invented _____________, the occult detective who lived in fashionable Chelsea.
- When the X-Men need psychic help, they can always call ___________________.
- When it comes to goat-staring, you can't beat the New Earth Army's ______________________.
- TV's _________________ isn't really a psychic detective. He just has an eidetic memory and incredibly bad taste in snack food.
- FBI man ________________________ may be psychic, and he may have seen a few UFOs, too. The truth is out there.
- Aleister Crowley (who might have been a bit of an occult detective himself) invented ___________________________, a psychic sleuth whose main mission was to solve Crowley's cash flow situation.
- The most famous occult detective of all is probably ______________________, who chased Dracula all over Europe. (You might say he staked his claim to fame. Or you might be too dignified.)
Okay, you want hints? Real psychics don't need no stinking hints. But here are the possibilities:
- Simon Iff
- Fox Mulder
- Lyn Cassady
- Harry Dresden
- Abraham van Helsing
- Judge Pursuivant
- Shawn Spencer
- Thomas Carnacki
- Charles Xavier
- Dirk Gently
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