Apollo

Question 1

What son of Zeus and Leto…

Answer 1

Apollo

Question 2

Who was the mother of Apollo?

Answer 2

Leto

Question 3

Where was Apollo born?

Answer 3

Delos

Question 4

Who nourished Apollo as an infant?

Answer 4

Themis

Question 5

What did Apollo kill at delphi?

Answer 5

Python

Question 6

What cretan king purified Apollo for the murder of Python?

Answer 6

Carmanor

Question 7

Who did the oracle at Delphi originally belong to?

Answer 7

Gaea

Question 8

Who had the oracle before Apollo?

Answer 8

Themis

Question 9

What spring did Apollo dry up?

Answer 9

Telephusa

Question 10

Who did Apollo make the first pythia?

Answer 10

Phenomoe

Question 11

With Artemis, what giant did they kill for trying to violate leto?

Answer 11

Tityus

Question 12

Who boasted to be better than Leto?

Answer 12

Niobe

Question 13

Who shot Niobe’s sons?

Answer 13

Apollo

Question 14

Who shot down Otus and Ephialtes for violently courting Hera and Artemis?

Answer 14

Apollo

Question 15

Who is Apollo sometimes said to have learned the art of prophecy from?

Answer 15

Pan

Question 16

Who made the lyre?

Answer 16

Hermes

Question 17

What was the lyre made from?

Answer 17

a tortoiseshell

Question 18

What did Apollo give Hermes in return for the lyre?

Answer 18

caduceus

Question 19

Who invented the lute?

Answer 19

Apollo

Question 20

Who flayed his opponent alive?

Answer 20

Apollo

Question 21

Who challenged Apollo to a musical contest, flute against lyre?

Answer 21

Marsyas

Question 22

Who won, Pan or Apollo?

Answer 22

Apollo

Question 23

By the muse Thalia, who were sometimes said to be Apollo’s sons?

Answer 23

the corybantes

Question 24

Coronis + Apollo?

Answer 24

Asclepius

Question 25

Coronis was unfaithful to Apollo with what man?

Answer 25

Ischys

Question 26

In honor of Coronis, what transformation occurred?

Answer 26

Apollo turned to black the originally white crow that had tattled on her

Question 27

Who tattled on Coronis?

Answer 27

a white crow

Question 28

When he raised a man from the dead...

Answer 28

Asclepius

Question 29

Why did Apollo kill the Cyclopes?

Answer 29

because Zeus hit Asclepius with a thunderbolt for raising a man fro the dead

Question 30

What did Apollo have to do because he killed the cyclopes?

Answer 30

serve admetus for a year

Question 31

Who built the walls of troy?

Answer 31

Apollo and Poseidon

Question 32

what revenge did Apollo get on Laomedon?

Answer 32

gave the city a plague

Question 33

Who assisted Alcathoiis in building the walls of Megara?

Answer 33

Apollo

Question 34

Who ordered Amphion to construct the outer walls of Thebes?

Answer 34

Apollo

Question 35

Which gods courted Hestia?

Answer 35

Apollo and Poseidon

Question 36

bribing her with prophetic powers...

Answer 36

Apollo / Cassandra

Question 37

Why did Apollo punish Cassandra?

Answer 37

she still refused his advances

Question 38

Who gave Cassandra prophetic powers?

Answer 38

Apollo

Question 39

What did Apollo grant the Cumaean Sibyl?

Answer 39

as many years as grains of sand

Question 40

Why did Apollo not let the sibyl stay young?

Answer 40

she refused his advances

Question 41

What wish did Sinope ask of Apollo?

Answer 41

she remain a virgin

Question 42

Who tricked Apollo into letting her stay a virgin?

Answer 42

Sinope

Question 43

What beautiful youth of Amyclae...

Answer 43

Hyacinth

Question 44

In Ceus, what boy did Apollo fall in love with?

Answer 44

Cyparissus

Question 45

What happened to Cyparissus?

Answer 45

He accidentally killed his pet stag and because of his grief Apollo made him a cypress tree

Question 46

(Erichtheus's daughter) Creusa + Apollo?

Answer 46

Ion

Question 47

Apollo + Aethusa?

Answer 47

Eleuther

Question 48

Apollo + Cyrene?

Answer 48

Aristaeus

Question 49

Apollo + Chione?

Answer 49

Philammon

Question 50

Who changed Daedalion into a hawk?

Answer 50

Apollo

Question 51

What side of the Trojan war was Apollo on?

Answer 51

trojans

Question 52

Apollo + Procleia?

Answer 52

Tenes

Question 53

Why did Apollo afflict the greeks with a plague?

Answer 53

Agamemnon’s refusal to accept ransom from Chryses

Question 54

Who came to Orestes’ aid, successfully defending him against the accusing Erinyes on the Areopagus?

Answer 54

Apollo