Fan Greco-Roman Mythology

Question 1

Who is the Greek goddess of the moon and hunting?

Answer 1

Artemis

Question 2

Which nymph was cursed to only be able to say what was last said to her?

Answer 2

Echo

Question 3

Who had her 14 children killed by Apollo and Artemis and turned to stone as a result of her grief?

Answer 3

Niobe

Question 4

What husband of Penelope spent 10 years trying to return to Ithaca?

Answer 4

Odysseus (or Ulysses)

Question 5

Which daughter of Zeus and Themis, known as “The Spinner”, controls when mortal beings live or die?

Answer 5

Clotho

Question 6

Which fate, often depicted wearing white, had the Roman equivalent Decima and measured the thread of life?

Answer 6

Lachesis (or “The Alloter”)

Question 7

Which fate controlled how living beings would die by cutting the thread of life?

Answer 7

Atropos (or “The Inflexible” or Morta)

Question 8

Which group of heroes accompanied Jason on his quest to retrieve the Golden Fleece?

Answer 8

Argonauts

Question 9

One member of this duo defeated King Amycus in a boxing match while on the quest for the Golden Fleece. They are the basis for Gemini.

Answer 9

Castor and Pollux

Question 10

Which musician helped out the Argonauts by playing over the enchanting music of the villainous Sirens?

Answer 10

Orpheus

Question 11

Name Heracles’ servant and lover who was abducted by the nymphs.

Answer 11

Peleus

Question 12

Name five of the nine muses.

Answer 12

Clio, Euterpe, Thalia, Melpomeni, Terpsichore, Erato, Polymnia, Ourania and Calliope

Question 13

Which group of warriors led by Penthesilea fought during the Trojan War and comprised solely of women?

Answer 13

Amazons

Question 14

Which daughter of Menoeceus was the mother of Ismene, Antigone, and Oepidus?

Answer 14

Jocasta (or Iocaste or Epicaste)

Question 15

Which participant in the Calydonian Boar Hunt lost to Hippomenes in a foot race because she was distracted by Aphrodite’s golden apples?

Answer 15

Atalanta

Question 16

Which protagonist of a play by Euripides helped Jason retrieve the Golden Fleece and later married him?

Answer 16

Medea

Question 17

What is the Roman equivalent of the Greek god Hermes?

Answer 17

Mercury

Question 18

What is the Greek equivalent of the Roman god Bacchus?

Answer 18

Dionysus

Question 19

What is the Roman equivalent of the Greek goddess Athena?

Answer 19

Minerva

Question 20

What is the Roman equivalent of the Greek goddess Demeter?

Answer 20

Ceres

Question 21

What is the Greek equivalent of the Roman god Pluto?

Answer 21

Hades

Question 22

What is the Roman equivalent of the Greek god Ares?

Answer 22

Mars

Question 23

What is the Roman equivalent of the Greek titan Cronus?

Answer 23

Saturn

Question 24

What is the Roman equivalent of the Greek god Hephaestus?

Answer 24

Vulcan

Question 25

Who was forced to constantly push a rock up a hill?

Answer 25

Sisyphus

Question 26

Which son of Anchises was a Trojan War hero and the namesake of a Virgil epic?

Answer 26

Aeneas

Question 27

Which fruit, said to have sprung from Adonis’s blood, is often associated with Persephone?

Answer 27

Pomegranate

Question 28

Which river from the underworld would cause those who drank from it to forget everything?

Answer 28

Lethe

Question 29

Whose symbol, a snake curled around a rod, still represents medicine today?

Answer 29

Asclepius (or Hepius)

Question 30

What name was given to the one-eyed creatures who originated from Arges, Steropes, and Brontes?

Answer 30

Cyclopes (or Cyclops)

Question 31

Which poet was a major source of what we now know of Greek mythology through works like "Theogony?"

Answer 31

Hesiod

Question 32

Which daughter of Aphrodite was the goddess of chance? Greek or Roman versions are acceptable.

Answer 32

Tyche (or Fortuna)

Question 33

What figure has been portrayed by Paul DuBois and Caravaggio, and by Salvador Dali in a painting titled for this character’s metamorphosis?

Answer 33

Narcissus

Question 34

What sculpture displayed at the Louvre depicts a goddess without arms?

Answer 34

Venus de Milo

Question 35

Which French artist painted Patroclus, The Anger of Achilles, and Mars Being Disarmed by Venus?

Answer 35

Jacques-Louis David

Question 36

Which ancient sculptor created the lost sculptures of Athena at the Athenian Parthenon and the Statue of Zeus at Olympia?

Answer 36

Phidias

Question 37

I am the son of Zeus and grandson of Acrisius. I killed my grandfather with a discus and slew the monster Cetus. As a child, I was imprisoned in a box with my mother Danae. I married Andromeda and I killed Medusa. Who am I?

Answer 37

Perseus

Question 38

Which titan gave fire to the humans?

Answer 38

Prometheus

Question 39

Hesiod told the story of what woman created by Hephaestus to punish humans for accepting fire?

Answer 39

Pandora

Question 40

Which hero becomes a god after being set on fire on a funeral pyre?

Answer 40

Heracles (or Hercules)

Question 41

Who wrote the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series of novels?

Answer 41

Rick Riordan

Question 42

Which scientist is said to be the modern Prometheus in a work by Mary Shelley?

Answer 42

Victor Frankenstein

Question 43

Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold by C.S. Lewis tells the tale of which two lovers, who were originally written about by Apuleius in The Golden Ass?

Answer 43

Cupid and Psyche

Question 44

In Greek mythology, which two beings responsible for the Earth and sky created the first sets of Titans?

Answer 44

Gaia and Ouranos

Question 45

Some stories say Aphrodite came out of the sea after which body part of Cronus’ was thrown into it?

Answer 45

genitals

Question 46

Which god was born out of Zeus’s head after he swallowed his wife and this god’s mother Metis?

Answer 46

Athena

Question 47

What term describes the emptiness that preceded the creation of Gaia and the primordial gods?

Answer 47

Chaos

Question 48

What Sony video game franchise features the character Kratos and many other character from Greek and Norse mythology?

Answer 48

God of War

Question 49

Which musical about the underworld won 7 Tony Awards in 2019 including one for Best Musical?

Answer 49

Hadestown

Question 50

Who had a face that launched a thousand ships?

Answer 50

Helen of Troy

Question 51

Who was the architect of the Trojan Horse?

Answer 51

Epeius of Phocis

Question 52

Who started the Trojan War by trying to win the love of Helen despite her marriage to King Menelaus?

Answer 52

Paris

Question 53

Which Greek hero battled Hector, but committed suicide after losing the armour of Achilles?

Answer 53

Ajax the Great (or Aias)

Question 54

Who flew too close to the sun?

Answer 54

Icarus

Question 55

Icarus was the son of what man who designed the labyrinth for King Minos?

Answer 55

Daedalus

Question 56

What part-man, part-bull creature was trapped in the labyrinth?

Answer 56

Minotaur

Question 57

Who slew the Minotaur?

Answer 57

Theseus

Question 58

Theseus was the founding hero of what ancient Greek city?

Answer 58

Athens

Question 59

Which general led Athens and the Delian League before dying of the Plague in 429 BCE?

Answer 59

Pericles

Question 60

With what animal’s help, did Bellerophon slay Chimera?

Answer 60

Pegasus

Question 61

Who was the founder and first King of Thebes?

Answer 61

Cadmus

Question 62

What was the food and drink of the Greek gods?

Answer 62

Ambrosia

Question 63

What protagonist of a play by Euripides and Sophocles names a complex for a woman’s believed competition with her mother over her father’s attention?

Answer 63

Electra

Question 64

Which hard-to-kill monster was finally slain by cutting off its many heads and burning the wounds?

Answer 64

Hydra

Question 65

Which two animals form a griffin?

Answer 65

Eagle and Lion

Question 66

Which monster guarded the Strait of Messina along with Charybdis?

Answer 66

Scylla

Question 67

Born with the last name Spencer, name this first wife of Prince Charles.

Answer 67

Diana

Question 68

Roman Mars created what weekly podcast that discusses design and architecture?

Answer 68

99% Invisible

Question 69

The main character in Juno was played by what Canadian actress?

Answer 69

Ellen Page

Question 70

What seven-time Grand Slam champion has 5 Olympic medals across 3 different disciplines of tennis?

Answer 70

Venus Williams

Question 71

Which titan was the mother of Asteria and Leto and the grandmother of Apollo and Artemis?

Answer 71

Phoebe

Question 72

Which titan, who married Theia, was the father of the sun, moon, and dawn?

Answer 72

Hyperion

Question 73

Which daughter of Hyperion was the goddess of the moon?

Answer 73

Selene

Question 74

I am the fourth largest moon in our solar system. I was discovered by Galileo Galilei and the most dense moon in our solar system. I am the innermost of the Galilean moons of Jupiter. I am named after the princess of Argos and one of Zeus’s mortal lovers. Who am I?

Answer 74

Io

Question 75

What island was ruled by King Minos and guarded by Talos?

Answer 75

Crete

Question 76

What statue of Helios was destroyed in an earthquake in 226 BCE?

Answer 76

Colossus of Rhodes

Question 77

Which deity (Greek or Roman acceptable) is associated with pigs and fire?

Answer 77

Hestia or Vesta

Question 78

What was the name of Zeus’s shield that prominently featured a gorgon that would roar during battle?

Answer 78

Aegis

Question 79

Which son of King Atreus and brother of Menelaus was the King of Mycenae?

Answer 79

Agamemnon

Question 80

Which mortal tried to steal ambrosia from the gods and was punished by standing near a fruit tree in a body of water, neither of which he could eat or drink from?

Answer 80

Tantalus

Question 81

What region of Greece was named after the wife of Lacedaemon?

Answer 81

Sparta

Question 82

In the song “Burn” by Philippa Soo, who is referred to as an icarus?

Answer 82

Alexander Hamilton

Question 83

What anatomical term comes from the killing of a nearly indestructible Trojan War hero?

Answer 83

Achilles' Heel

Question 84

The Temple of Minerva is located in what country once led by Manuel Estrada Cabrera?

Answer 84

Guatemala

Question 85

Whose bird was the peacock and animal was the cow? She was also the goddess of marriage.

Answer 85

Hera or Juno

Question 86

What month is named for a god who sees both into the future and into the past?

Answer 86

Janus

Question 87

What substance does another turn to if touched by King Midas?

Answer 87

Gold

Question 88

How many gods are considered Olympians?

Answer 88

12