Mythology Heros

Question 1

What was Heracles’ birth name?

Answer 1

Alcides

Question 2

Who was Heracles’ twin?

Answer 2

Iphicles

Question 3

What was the name of the wife that Heracles killed?

Answer 3

Megaera

Question 4

What was the third labor of Heracles?

Answer 4

He had to capture the golden hind of Artemis

Question 5

What was the fifth labor of Heracles?

Answer 5

clean the augean stables

Question 6

What was the sixth labor of Heracles?

Answer 6

slay the sympalian boar

Question 7

What was the eighth labor of Heracles?

Answer 7

steal the mares of Diomedes

Question 8

What was the ninth labor of Heracles?

Answer 8

obtail the Girdle of the amazon queen

Question 9

What was the tenth labor of Heracles?

Answer 9

obtain the cattle of Geryon

Question 10

Who was Heracles’ second wife?

Answer 10

Deianira

Question 11

Where was Jason’s father, Aeson, the king?

Answer 11

Iolcus

Question 12

How did Pelias, Jason’s brother, become king of Iolcus?

Answer 12

He took it over with his army

Question 13

Who was Jason Carrying across a river when he lost a shoe?

Answer 13

Hera

Question 14

Where did Jason and the argonauts have to sail to get the golden fleece?

Answer 14

Colchis

Question 15

What were the sympleglades that the argonauts had to sail threw?

Answer 15

Clashing Rocks

Question 16

What was the first task Aeetes had Jason do?

Answer 16

Sow the ground with a fire breathing bull

Question 17

What grew from the dragon teeth that Jason planted?

Answer 17

soliders

Question 18

Who was Aeetes’ daughter?

Answer 18

Medea

Question 19

Who was the princess of Corinth that Jason wished to marry?

Answer 19

Glauce

Question 20

Who was the relative that Medea killed?

Answer 20

Absyrtus, her brother

Question 21

What did Aegeus leave Theseus under a boulder?

Answer 21

A sword and pair of sandals

Question 22

Which way did Theseus take to get to Athens?

Answer 22

He traveled by land

Question 23

Who did Theseus encounter that beat people with a golden club?

Answer 23

Periphites

Question 24

Who did Theseus encounter that tied people to trees and ripped them apart?

Answer 24

Sinis

Question 25

Who did Theseus encounter that made people wash his feel and then pushed them off a cliff?

Answer 25

Sciron

Question 26

Who did Theseus encounter that stretched people to fit beds?

Answer 26

Procrustes

Question 27

What son of Minos was killed by the Marathonian Bull?

Answer 27

Androgeos

Question 28

Who told Theseus to use string in the Labyrinth?

Answer 28

Ariadne, daughter of Minos

Question 29

What island did Theseus leave Ariadne?

Answer 29

Naxos

Question 30

Why did Aegeus kill himself?

Answer 30

Theseus forgot to take down his black sails.

Question 31

Who did Acrisius put in in a bronze tower?

Answer 31

Danae

Question 32

How did Zeus visit Danae?

Answer 32

In a shower of Gold

Question 33

To whom did Perseus promise to bring the head of Medusa?

Answer 33

Polydectes

Question 34

What did Perseus bring with him to slay Medusa?

Answer 34

A curved sword, invisible helment, winged sandals, and a magic bag

Question 35

Who helped Perseus find Medusa?

Answer 35

Hermes, Athena, the Graiae and the Stygian Nymphs

Question 36

What two creatures sprung from Medusa's neck?

Answer 36

Pegasus and Chrysaor

Question 37

Why was Andromeda being sacrificed to Ceto?

Answer 37

Cassiopeia said Andromeda was prettier than Thetis

Question 38

How did Perseus kill Acrisius, his grandfather?

Answer 38

He slipped and hit him with a discus

Question 39

To whom did Perseus give Medusa's head?

Answer 39

Athena

Question 40

Who did Perseus turn to stone?

Answer 40

Phineus and Polydectes