Mythology 2016

Question 1

Which great dragon did Zeus fight during the Gigantomachy?

Answer 1

Typhoeus

Question 2

Which hero committed suicide after losing in the contest for Achilles’ armor?

Answer 2

Ajax

Question 3

Athena competed with (and ultimately defeated) __________ for the patronage of Athens.

Answer 3

Poseidon

Question 4

What was the name of Aeneas’ wife, whom he left behind at Troy?

Answer 4

Creusa

Question 5

Which goddess set the Trojan War in motion because she was not invited to Peleus’ wedding?

Answer 5

Eris

Question 6

Whom did Odysseus try and fail to embrace in the underworld?

Answer 6

Anticlea

Question 7

Saturn is the Roman equivalent of which Titan?

Answer 7

Cronus

Question 8

Which of the following in not included in Hesiod’s Ages of Man?

Answer 8

Age of Giants

Question 9

Which Greek king demanded that 14 Athenian children be sent annually to Crete?

Answer 9

Minos

Question 10

Aeneas and his men are tormented by which goddess in the Aeneid?

Answer 10

Juno

Question 11

In Ovid’s Metamorphoses, __________ and his wife Pyrrha survive the flood that ends the Bronze Age.

Answer 11

Deucalion

Question 12

__________ was unintentionally killed by his son, Telegonus, who did not recognize his father.

Answer 12

Odysseus

Question 13

Andromeda was saved from the sea-monster by which hero, whom she later married?

Answer 13

Perseus

Question 14

Odysseus was able to resist the __________, who lured sailors to their doom with their sweet voices.

Answer 14

Sirens

Question 15

The Titans were the children of which primordial goddess?

Answer 15

Gaia

Question 16

In the Iliad, Andromache is married to __________, and their son is Astyanax

Answer 16

Hector

Question 17

Mnemosyne was the mother of which group of goddesses?

Answer 17

the Muses

Question 18

Which of the following was Dionysus’ cousin and was killed by Agave, his own mother?

Answer 18

Pentheus

Question 19

Whom did Medea kill in order to take vengeance upon Jason?

Answer 19

Creusa, Creon, Her own children

Question 20

Aeneas and Turnus compete for the hand of which princess in the Aeneid?

Answer 20

Lavinia

Question 21

Who wielded Heracles’ bow at Troy and killed Paris?

Answer 21

Philoctetes

Question 22

Which dragon guarded the Apples of the Hesperides and was killed by Heracles?

Answer 22

Ladon

Question 23

Which heroes travelled to the underworld while still alive?

Answer 23

Odysseus and Aeneas

Question 24

To which goddess does Paris offer the Apple of Discord?

Answer 24

Aphrodite

Question 25

Who creates an intricate shield for Achilles in the Iliad?

Answer 25

Hephaestus

Question 26

Clytemnestra was the sister of __________.

Answer 26

Helen

Question 27

Who burst fully clothed in armor from Zeus’ head?

Answer 27

Athena