Mythology

Question 1

The Oracle of Delphi was the mouthpiece of which god/goddess?

Answer 1

Apollo

Question 2

With Athena’s help, __________ tamed Pegasus?

Answer 2

Bellerophon

Question 3

How many years did it take Odysseus to return to Ithaca from Troy?

Answer 3

10 Years

Question 4

Which idiot tried to fly to Mt. Olympus?

Answer 4

Bellerophon

Question 5

Who killed the Caledonian Boar

Answer 5

Meleager

Question 6

Who was the first criminal killed by Theseus on his way to Athens?

Answer 6

Periphetes, the golden club bearer (would beat people with his golden club)

Question 7

Which cousin of Heracles assigned him his labors?

Answer 7

Eurystheus

Question 8

Where was Oedipus buried?

Answer 8

Colonus

Question 9

Who was the second greatest fighter among the Greeks in the Trojan War?

Answer 9

Ajax the Greater

Question 10

How many years did Calypso keep Odysseus on Ogygia?

Answer 10

7 years

Question 11

Jason divorced Medea in order to marry which princess of Corinth?

Answer 11

Glauce

Question 12

What was the name of the river of fire in the Underworld?

Answer 12

Phlegethon

Question 13

Tantalus served his son, Pelops, to the gods and was punished with what punishment in the underworld?

Answer 13

eternal hunger and thirst

Question 14

Electra, the sister of Orestes, married what man?

Answer 14

Pylades

Question 15

How many ships sailed with Odysseus from Troy?

Answer 15

12 Ships

Question 16

What was another name for the Furies?

Answer 16

Eumenides

Question 17

Furies were born from the blood of which titian?

Answer 17

Ouranos

Question 18

The son of Theseus and Phaedra who fought at Troy and later married Phyllis was?

Answer 18

Acamas

Question 19

Erato the muse of?

Answer 19

love poetry

Question 20

How did Meleager die?

Answer 20

The stick that represented his life was burned.

Question 21

Who killed Meleager?

Answer 21

His Mother

Question 22

Which form did Zeus take to rape Callisto?

Answer 22

His daughter, Artemis

Question 23

Who married the founder of Thebes, Cadmus, and was later cursed to turn into a snake with him?

Answer 23

Harmonia (daughter of Aphrodite and Ares who gave up her immortality for him) (she also had a cursed necklace as a marriage gift from a jealous Hephaestus)

Question 24

If Mount Olympus was the gods’ mountain, what was the Titans’ mountain?

Answer 24

Mount Othrys

Question 25

Where did Daedalus land after his flight?

Answer 25

Sicily

Question 26

Who killed Agamemnon?

Answer 26

His wife, Clytemnestra

Question 27

What daughter of Tantalus turned to stone after she badmouthed Leto, which resulted in Apollo and Artemis killing her 14 children?

Answer 27

Niobe

Question 28

Who did the hero, Theseus, meet on his journey to Athens who beat people with a golden club?

Answer 28

Sinus

Question 29

What innkeeper, defeated by Theseus, made you fit your bed?

Answer 29

Procrustes

Question 30

What king wrestler, defeated by Theseus, would wrestle any visitors to death?

Answer 30

Cercyon

Question 31

Who made you wash his feet then hurled you off a cliff to a giant, man-eating tortoise? (Hint: He was killed by Theseus)

Answer 31

Sciron

Question 32

What did Theseus dispatch after he defeated Sinis?

Answer 32

Crommyonian sow (or boar)

Question 33

What two labors of Heracles didn’t count

Answer 33

The slaying of the Lernaean Hydra (helped by nephew and charioteer Iolaus) and the cleansing of the Augeas (Heracles accepted payment for this labor)

Question 34

Where did Perseus and his mother (Danae) wash up?

Answer 34

Seriphos

Question 35

What form has Zeus not taken to seduce someone; horse, ant, fish, swan, golden shower, another woman’s husband, a bull, a cuckoo, serpentine dragon, a satyr, or his daughter

Answer 35

Fish

Question 36

How many people has Zeus… had children with?

Answer 36

At least 18, including Hera