Past Certamen deck

Question 1

Who was the mother of Ariadne?

Answer 1

Pasiphae

Question 2

Who was Pasiphae’s husband?

Answer 2

Minos

Question 3

Who was Ariadne’s sister?

Answer 3

Phaedra

Question 4

Who transformed into a laurel tree?

Answer 4

Daphne

Question 5

What old couple were turned into an oak and linden?

Answer 5

Baucis and Philemon

Question 6

What type of trees were the Heliades, the sisters of Phaethon, turned into?

Answer 6

Weeping willows

Question 7

What was the river of woe called?

Answer 7

Acheron

Question 8

What was the river of fire?

Answer 8

Phlegethon

Question 9

What was the river of forgetfulness called?

Answer 9

Lethe

Question 10

Who dressed like a girl and held out in the court of Lycomedes to escape the Trojan War?

Answer 10

Achilles

Question 11

Who was dressed like a woman by his Aunt Ino to protect him from Hera?

Answer 11

Dionyssus

Question 12

Which couple repopulated the world after a flood?

Answer 12

Deucalion and Pyrrha

Question 13

Which couple spoke through a crack in the walls in their house?

Answer 13

Pyramus and Thisbe

Question 14

What nymph held Odysseus for 7 years?

Answer 14

Calypso

Question 15

What was the name of Calypso’s island?

Answer 15

Ogygia

Question 16

What was the name of Circe’s island?

Answer 16

Aiaia

Question 17

Which Greek king was told to beware a man with one shoe?

Answer 17

Pelias

Question 18

What man was to be bewared only wearing one sandal?

Answer 18

Jason

Question 19

What goddess caused Jason to lose his shoe?

Answer 19

Hera

Question 20

What bandit had a man-eating turtle?

Answer 20

Sciron

Question 21

Who had man-eating mares?

Answer 21

Diomedes

Question 22

What man ate his own son, served up by his wife and sister-in-law

Answer 22

Tereus

Question 23

What Trojan was named from the Greek word which means “to ransom”?

Answer 23

Priam

Question 24

Who was the sister of Priam’s that ransomed him?

Answer 24

Hesione

Question 25

Which child of Priam and his wife Hecuba was prophesized to burn down the city of Troy?

Answer 25

Paris

Question 26

What was the name of the fisherman of Seriphus who found and sheltered Danae and baby Perseus?

Answer 26

Dictys

Question 27

Dictys was the brother of what cruel king of. Seriphus?

Answer 27

Polydectes

Question 28

Dictys and Polydectes were both sons of what type of freshwater nymph?

Answer 28

naiad

Question 29

What king was the foster father of infant Heracles?

Answer 29

Amphitryon

Question 30

Before the birth of Heracles, Amphitryon had to rid the region of Teumessus of a vixen. To do this, he used his friend Cephalus’ dog. What was the name of this dog?

Answer 30

Laelaps

Question 31

Who had sent the vixen to ravish the countryside of Teumessus?

Answer 31

Hera or Dionysus

Question 32

Who was responsible for the freak seer Teiresias’ blinding?

Answer 32

Hera

Question 33

Teiresias once joined in the rites of Dionysus, after vainly warning which son of Cadmus not to oppose him?

Answer 33

Pentheus

Question 34

During the Argive invasion of Thebes, whom did Tiresias tell to sacrifice his son Menoeceus in order to save Thebes?

Answer 34

Creon

Question 35

Which two mythological brothers were killed by Heracles because they had convinced Jason to sail on while he searched for Hvlas?

Answer 35

Zetes and Calais

Question 36

Zetes and Calais were the sons of which wind god?

Answer 36

Boreas

Question 37

On the journey of the Argonauts, Zetes and Calais pursued and would have killed the Harpies it not for the intervention of what messenger deity?

Answer 37

Iris

Question 38

Which two Greek goddesses had to go to Zeus to mediate their dispute over the lovely youth Adonis?

Answer 38

Aphrodite and Persephone

Question 39

According to one version. it was not Zeus who mediated the disoute. but one of the Muses. Aphrodite, enraged that she had not been given Adonis on a full-time basis, caused the death of that Muse's son, Orpheus. Which Muse?

Answer 39

Calliope

Question 40

Which of the wind gods, often represented with snake tails instead of feet, claimed his residence in Thrace?

Answer 40

Boreas

Question 41

What Athenian princess was courted by Boreas along the Ilissus river?

Answer 41

Oreithyia

Question 42

What titan was Chiron’s father?

Answer 42

Cronos

Question 43

What sons of Ares and Aphrodite often follow Ares in battle?

Answer 43

Phobos and Deimos

Question 44

What sons of Ares and Aphrodite followed Ares in battle?

Answer 44

Phobos and Demos

Question 45

What sons of Ares and Aphrodite followed Ares in battle?

Answer 45

Phobos and Demos

Question 46

What daughter of Ares and Aphrodite became the first queen of Thebes?

Answer 46

Harmonia