Q 01/05

Which American World War II general believed he had fought in past lives, perhaps as a Roman legionary?

A) Douglas MacArthur

B) George S. Patton

C) Omar Bradley

D) Dwight D. Eisenhower

Answer · why

B) George S. Patton

George S. Patton thought he might also have been a military leader killed in action in Napoleon's army. A staunch fatalist, he said he had fought in e...

Q 02/05

Which Indian independence leader set up a commission to investigate Shanti Devi, a Delhi girl who recalled a past life?

A) Jawaharlal Nehru

B) B. R. Ambedkar

C) Subhas Chandra Bose

D) Mahatma Gandhi

Answer · why

D) Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi's commission travelled with Shanti Devi to Mathura in 1935 and reported that she was a merchant's late wife reborn. A later researcher ...

Q 03/05

Which Greek mathematician and philosopher was mocked for claiming to hear a dead friend's voice in a beaten dog's cries?

A) Pythagoras

B) Archimedes

C) Euclid

D) Thales

Answer · why

A) Pythagoras

Pythagoras taught that every soul is immortal and enters a new body at death, so an animal might house a friend. The jibe comes from a satirical poem ...

Q 04/05

In which Nickelodeon animated series is the boy Aang one in a long line of reincarnated masters of four elements?

A) Star Wars: The Clone Wars

B) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

C) Avatar: The Last Airbender

D) The Dragon Prince

Answer · why

C) Avatar: The Last Airbender

Avatar: The Last Airbender has its hero reborn into the next nation in a set order: Fire, Air, Water, then Earth. If he were ever killed while in his ...

Q 05/05

The word reincarnation comes from a Latin term that literally means entering again into what?

A) Light

B) Flesh

C) Breath

D) Earth

Answer · why

B) Flesh

Flesh is the root: the Latin caro, carnis, which also gives English its word for meat-eating animals. Greek thinkers used a different word that spoke ...