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Greek Mythology

If it's not just all Greek to you, test your knowledge with these mythology questions. Stand before the gods and prove that this ancient trivia isn't your Achilles heel.

In Greek mythology Medusa’s hair was made of what?

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Snakes

What Greek announced in 420 B.C. that women suffer hysteria due to a “wandering uterus”?

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Hippocrates

Which creature in Greek mythology was half-man and half-bull?

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Minotaur

Who fell in love with a statue he had carved?

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Pygmalion.

In Greek mythology, who was cursed to stand in a pool of water with low branches, and whenever he reached for the fruit, the branches raised his intended meal from his grasp. Whenever he bent down to get a drink, the water receded before he got any?

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Tantalus It is from this story that the word ‘tantalizing’ comes.

Who was the mythical Greek hunter after whom a constellation is named?

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Orion.

What did Daedalus construct for King Minos so that he could keep the Minotaur there?

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Labyrinth.

What was left in Pandora’s box after she released misery and evil?

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Hope

According to legend, who fired the arrow that hit Achilles in the heel, his only vulnerable spot?

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Paris.

Orpheus went into the underworld to rescue who?

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Eurydice

Who was the beautiful youth loved by the Greek goddess Aphrodite?

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Adonis.

In Greek mythology, Phaeton, who makes a vain attempt to drive his father’s chariot and is killed by a thunderbolt from Zeus is the son of whom?

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Helios, the sun god Phaeton seeks assurance that his mother, Clymene, is telling the truth that his father is the sun god Helios. When Phaeton obtains his father’s promise to drive the sun chariot as proof, he fails to control it and the Earth is in danger of burning up when Phaeton is killed by a thunderbolt from Zeus to prevent further disaster.

Who was the ancient Greek God was both God of the Underworld and God of the Dead?

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Hades (later referred to as Plouton)

In Greek mythology, who was the goddess of the rainbow?

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Iris

How many frames per second are projected in most animated films?

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24

IN FABLE WHO PULLED THE THORN FROM THE LIONS PAW – NOT EATEN?

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ANDROCLES

WHO IS THE GREEK GOD OF THE SEA?

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POSEIDON

What I is the name of the son of Daedalus?

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Icarus

Who spurned Echo’s love and was punished by being made to fall in love with his won reflection?

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Narcissus

What was the name for the ‘Islands of the Blessed’ where heroes were sent by the Greek gods to enjoy a life after death?

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Elysium

What was the food of the gods, said to give eternal life to those who ate it?

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Ambrosia

WHAT ‘P’ SLEW MEDUSA AND GAVE THE HEAD TO ATHENA?

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PERSEUS

WHAT ‘N’ WAS THE GREEK GODDESS OF RETRIBUTION?

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NEMESIS

What did Jason and the Argonauts steal from the land of Colchis?

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Golden Fleece

What was the Greek hero Achilles’ only vulnerable part?

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His heel

Whom did Orpheus try to rescue from the realm of the dead?

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Eurydice

In Greek mythology, which Naiad who lived on the island of Ogygia kept Odysseus imprisoned for 7 years?

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Calypso Athena asked Zeus to spare Odysseus of his torment on the island, as he wanted to go to his homeland. Zeus sent Hermes, the messenger of the Gods, to tell Calypso to release Odysseus. As Zeus was the Lord of the Gods, she was unable to refuse him, although she wished to. The island of Gozo, part of the Maltese archipelago, has a long tradition that links it with the mythical figure of Calypso

WHAT ‘B’ IS THE GREEK GOD OF WINE?

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BACCHUS

HERCULES HAD TO CLEAN THE STABLES IN ONE NIGHT – WHOSE?

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AEGEAN STABLES

What did Jason and the Argonauts go in search of when travelling to the land of Colchis?

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The Golden Fleece

Around the altar of which god were the earliest Greek dramas performed?

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Dionysus

What is the name of the winged horse in Greek mythology?

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Pegasus

What legendary fire-breathing female monster had a lion’s head, a goat’s body and a dragon’s tail?

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The Chimera

WHO WAS THE GREEK GOD OF LOVE?

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EROS

WHO WAS IS SEARCH OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE?

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JASON AND THE ARGONOUGHTS

Parnassus was the sacred mountain home of the muses and which Greek god?

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Apollo

In Greek mythology, who was the queen of the underworld and wife of Hades?

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Persephone

In Greek mythology, Eos sought the gift of immortality from Zeus for her lover Tithonus but committed what mistake?

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She forgot to ask about eternal youth

In Greek mythology who flew too close to the sun and fell to his death when his wax wings melted?

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Icarus

WHO WAS THE ANDROGYNE OFFSPRING OF HERMES AND APHRODITE?

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HERMAPHRODITUS

NEPTUNE WAS THE ROMAN GOD OF THE OCEANS, WHAT NAME DID THE GREEKS USE?

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POSEIDON

What did Pandora release when she opened her box or jar?

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Pandora released all of man’s miseries and evils but closed the lid with hope still inside

Autolycus – accomplished invisible thief Greek myth whose son?

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Hermes

Demeter was the Greek god of what (Ceres Roman)?

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Harvest

Who is the Greek and Roman god of revenge?

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Nemesis

HOW WERE THE GODDESSES AGLAIA, EUPHROSYNE, AND THALIA COLLECTIVELY KNOWN?

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GRACES

WHO IN GREEK MYTHOLOGY WAS KING OF THE GODS?

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ZEUS

In mythology, who was the first (and last) person to solve the Riddle of the Sphinx?

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Oedipus

Boreas is the Greek God of what?

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North Wind

In Greek mythology, who was transformed by Zeus into a heifer?

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Io
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