Greek Gods

Question 1

Uranus

Answer 1

The First One, Cronos’ father, killed by his son, prophesied that his son (Cronos) would also be killed by one of his children

Question 2

Cronos

Answer 2

Father of the Gods, gave his name time, married Rhea, swallowed his children (Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon

Question 3

Rhea

Answer 3

Goddess of the Earth, saved Zeus from Cronos, helped Zeus prepare the drink that forced Cronos to vomit up his children

Question 4

Zeus

Answer 4

Father-god, God of the sky

Question 5

Hera

Answer 5

Mother-goddess, tricked by Zeus into marriage

Question 6

Poseidon

Answer 6

God of the sea (seas and rivers)

Question 7

Hades

Answer 7

God of the Underworld/Dead

Question 8

Demeter

Answer 8

Goddess of all useful fruits, grasses, and grains

Question 9

Persephone

Answer 9

Demeter’s daughter, unhappily married to Hades

Question 10

Hephaestus

Answer 10

God of goldsmiths, jewelers, blacksmiths, masons, and carpenters, son of Zeus and Hera, broke his leg when Zeus threw him over the walls of Olympus, wore a golden leg-iron

Question 11

Athene

Answer 11

Goddess of wisdom, Battle Goddess, believed to have been born from Zeus’ head (headache)

Question 12

Aphrodite

Answer 12

Goddess of love, married unhappily to Hephaestus

Question 13

Ares

Answer 13

Tall, handsome, cruel, loved fighting for its own sake, flirted with Aphrodite, had no manners, no learning, and the worst taste

Question 14

Apollo

Answer 14

God of music, poetry, medicine, archery, and young unmarried men. Son of Zeus and Leto

Question 15

Artemis

Answer 15

Goddess of hunting and unmarried girls (If any mortal man happened to see her without clothes, she used to change him into a stag and hunt him to death)

Question 16

Daphne

Answer 16

Chased by Apollo, changed into a laurel tree

Question 17

Hermes

Answer 17

God of merchants, bankers, thieves, fortune-tellers, and heralds, born in Arcadia, son of Zeus and Maia, invented the alphabet

Question 18

Hestia

Answer 18

Goddess of the home

Question 19

Dionysus

Answer 19

Son of Zeus and Semele (mortal woman), Hestia offered him her seat on the council (Thirteen Olympians would have been an unlucky number), just to keep the peace

Question 20

Heracules

Answer 20

Olympian porter

Question 21

Eris

Answer 21

Goddess of quarrels

Question 22

Iris

Answer 22

Hera’s messenger who used to run along the rainbow

Question 23

Nemesis

Answer 23

Kept a list for the Olympians of proud mortals due to be punished

Question 24

Hebe

Answer 24

Goddess of youth who married Heracules

Question 25

Ganymede

Answer 25

Zeus’ handsome, young cup bearer

Question 26

Three Fates

Answer 26

(Clotho, Lachesis, Atropos) Oldest goddesses in existence, too old for anybody to remember where they came from. The fates decided how long each mortal life should live: spinning a linen thread, to measure exactly how many inches and feet for months and years, and then snipping it off with a pair of shears. They also know, but seldom revealed, what would be the fate of each Olympian God

Question 27

Cyclopes

Answer 27

Zeus’ ugly cousins, freed by him to help defeat the Titans

Question 28

Hundred-Handed Ones

Answer 28

Zeus’ ugly cousins, freed by him to help him defeat the Titans

Question 29

Titans

Answer 29

Cronos’ half brothers, huge, twisted, dark creatures taller than trees, whom he kept pent up in the mountains until there was fighting to be done

Question 30

Pan

Answer 30

Young goat-god. He said that it was his shout that made the Titans flee. That is where we get the word “Panic”

Question 31

Olympians

Answer 31

The twelve most important gods and goddesses of ancient Greece. All members of the same family

Question 32

Mount Olympus

Answer 32

The highest mountain in Greece