Performance magic, illusions, and sleight of hand. Religious beliefs and mythological magic belong in Religion and Mythology.
Test your knowledge with these top questions!
In card magic, how does a "key card" help locate a spectator’s selection?
Cutting the deck can preserve the neighboring cards, while shuffling can separate them.
Which 1989 film stars Penn and Teller as fictional versions of themselves?
Arthur Penn directed the dark comedy, whose escalating practical jokes turn dangerous.
In Derren Brown's Apocalypse, a participant was led to believe the world faced what?
The staged disaster was designed to make the participant reassess the life he had taken for granted.
Before becoming a magician, Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin trained in which craft?
His knowledge of precision mechanisms helped him build mechanical figures and ingenious stage apparatus.
What does the classic "Asrah" illusion make a floating person appear to do at its climax?
A sheet preserves the outline of the floating figure before being whisked away to reveal empty space.
Why do escape artists often perform behind a curtain?
A hidden escape lets the audience see the impossible-looking result without seeing how the restraints were opened.
A mentalist who appears to bend a spoon with thought is simulating which power?
Psychokinesis means affecting physical objects with the mind, rather than receiving another person’s thoughts.
What was the title of Derren Brown's 2019 Broadway debut?
The show brought Brown's audience-participation mentalism to Broadway after an earlier Off-Broadway run.
In David Blaine’s "Ascension" stunt, what lifted him above the Arizona desert?
Blaine released the balloons at altitude and returned to the ground by parachute.
Penn and Teller are a magic duo from which country?
The duo first worked together in a group called the Asparagus Valley Cultural Society before becoming a two-person act.