Underworld

Question 1

Elysium

Answer 1

Place of happiness for the most honorable people

Question 2

Tartarus

Answer 2

Place where the worst of the dead were sent for punishment

Question 3

Asphodel

Answer 3

Place where those who were neither particularly good or evil were condemned to wander aimlessly

Question 4

Acheron

Answer 4

River the dead must cross before arriving in the underworld

Question 5

Styx

Answer 5

River that forms the boundary between Earth and the Underworld

Question 6

Cocytus

Answer 6

Those who died and were not properly buried were stuck walking about the banks of this river for most of their afterlife

Question 7

Phlegethon

Answer 7

River of Fire

Question 8

Lethe

Answer 8

River where the drinker would lose all memory of his/her life

Question 9

Charon

Answer 9

Ferried the Dead across the Acheron

Question 10

Cerberus

Answer 10

Three headed dog that guarded the underworld

Question 11

Rhadamanthus and Minos

Answer 11

Judges of the Dead

Question 12

Ulysses

Answer 12

Only hero who ever visited Tartarus and returned to the realm of the living

Question 13

Hydra

Answer 13

Many headed serpent

Question 14

Chimaera

Answer 14

Fire breathing creature

Question 15

Briareus

Answer 15

100 armed giant

Question 16

Furies

Answer 16

Female spirits of punishment who branded scorpion-whips

Question 17

Tantalus

Answer 17

Son of Jupiter and Niobe
Betrayed one of the secrets of the gods
Punished by having food and water before his eyes but always just out of reach (alternatively, by standing below a mountain that could crush him at any moment)

Question 18

Ixion

Answer 18

Powerful king known for his inhuman cruelties
Aspired to be the wife of Juno
Punished by being tied to a wheel

Question 19

Sisyphus

Answer 19

King who often indulged in trickery and deceit
Once tried to cheat Death himself
Punished by pushing a stone uphill only for it to roll down again

Question 20

Danaus

Answer 20

King with fifty daughters called the Danaides
His brother, Aegyptus, had fifty sons and suggested his sons marry his brother’s daughters
Danaus did not wanted them to marry and gave his daughters knives to kill their husbands, which all but one did (the 50th)
They were punished by continually pouring water into sieves

Question 21

Obol

Answer 21

Small coin used as payment to enter the underworld

Question 22

Stygian darkness

Answer 22

Profound night

Question 23

Elysian

Answer 23

Term applied to joys and beauty of Elysium

Question 24

Plutonian

Answer 24

Refers to Pluto and his realm, or subterranean and dark

Question 25

Tantalize

Answer 25

Delude someone with the thought he/she/they are about to gain fulfillment of his/her/their wishes