181 Myth Flashcards
In Greek myth, whose wings melted?
Icarus, the wax melted when he flew too close to the sun
How many gospels are there in the new testament?
Four
How many deadly sins are there?
Seven
How long did Phileas Fogg’s journey take?
80 days -in the book by Jules Verne
Which Poems are collected in leaves of grass?
Walt Whitman
Which pond plants did Claude Monet like to paint?
Water lilies
Which battle is described in War and Peace?
Borodino
Which war was photographed by Matthew Brady?
The American Civil war
In a Greek theater, what did actors do in the skene?
It was the dressing room.
Who was the Greek god of the sea?
Poseidon
Whose pre-1970s currency had “tanners” and “bobs”
Britain, a tanner was 6 pennies and a bob was 1 shilling
What year did George Orwell write pessimistically about?
1984 in his novel of the same name
