Hercules

Question 1

Who was Hercules’ mother?

Answer 1

Alcmene

Question 2

How did Zeus fool Alcmene to have Hercules?

Answer 2

disguised as her husband Amphitryon

Question 3

How was the Milky Way formed?

Answer 3

When Heracles suckled Hera, he suckled so strongly that her milk sprayed across the heavens

Question 4

What was Heracles known as during his childhood?

Answer 4

Alcides

Question 5

What does Heracles mean?

Answer 5

Hera’s pride

Question 6

Who was Heracles’ mortal twin?

Answer 6

Iphicles

Question 7

How old was Heracles when he strangled the snake?

Answer 7

8 months

Question 8

What deity makes Heracles go insane and kill his first wife and children?

Answer 8

Hera

Question 9

What wife does Heracles kill?

Answer 9

Megara

Question 10

What oracle tells Heracles to serve his cousin to forgive his sins?

Answer 10

Delphic oracle

Question 11

What cousin of Heracles assigns him his labors?

Answer 11

Eurystheus

Question 12

What wife of Heracles is raped by a centaur?

Answer 12

Deianeira

Question 13

What centaur rapes Deianeira?

Answer 13

Nessus

Question 14

What river was Deianeira raped in?

Answer 14

Evenus river

Question 15

What land was Deianeira the princess of?

Answer 15

Calydon

Question 16

Who were Deianeira’s parents?

Answer 16

Althaea and Oeneus

Question 17

What princess did Heracles fall in love with that ultimately led to his poisoning?

Answer 17

Iole

Question 18

Who did Hercules ask to build his funeral pyre?

Answer 18

Philoctetes

Question 19

Who did Hercules marry after he was deified?

Answer 19

Hebe

Question 20

What was Hebe the goddess of?

Answer 20

youth

Question 21

What was Hercules’ first labor?

Answer 21

Kill Nemean Lion

Question 22

What was Heracles’ second labor?

Answer 22

Lernean Hydra

Question 23

What was Hercules’ third labor?

Answer 23

Fetch Cerynthian Hind

Question 24

What was Hercules’ fourth labor?

Answer 24

Fetch Erymanthian Boar

Question 25

What was Hercules’ fifth labor?

Answer 25

Clean Augeian Stables

Question 26

What two rivers did Hercules divert to clean the Augeian stables?

Answer 26

Alpheius and Peneius

Question 27

After killing the Nemean Lion, Eurystheus got scared and hid in a bronze jar. What man assigned his future labors?

Answer 27

Copreus

Question 28

When killing the Lernean Hydra, who assisted Hercules?

Answer 28

His cousin/nephew Iolaus

Question 29

What river does Hercules catch the Cerynthian Hide at?

Answer 29

Ladon

Question 30

What was Hercules’ 6th labor?

Answer 30

Chase away Stymphalian birds

Question 31

What was Hercules’ 7th labor?

Answer 31

Fetch Cretan bull

Question 32

When killing the Stymphalian birds, what were Hercules’ arrows covered with?

Answer 32

Poisonous blood of the Lernean Hydra

Question 33

What goddess gave Hercules the idea to skin the Nemean lion with its own claw?

Answer 33

Athena

Question 34

What centaur, after raping Deianeira, was killed by means of Hercules’ poisoned arrows?

Answer 34

Nessus

Question 35

What four areas did Hercules chase the Cerynian Hide through?

Answer 35

Greece, Thrace, Istria, and land of Hyperboreans

Question 36

What kind centaur did Hercules visit on his way to fetch the Erymanthian boar?

Answer 36

Pholus

Question 37

Who made the rattle that Hercules used to scare the Stymphalian birds?

Answer 37

Hephaestus

Question 38

What was Hercules’ 8th labor?

Answer 38

Fetch Mares of Diomedes

Question 39

What man, who accompanied Hercules on his 8th labor, was eaten by the mares of Diomedes?

Answer 39

Abderus

Question 40

What labor of Hercules was he sent on by Eurystheus to get a gift for his daughter?

Answer 40

Fetch Girdle of Hippolyta

Question 41

Who did Theseus and Hippolyta have together?

Answer 41

Hippolytus

Question 42

What daughter of Eurystheus did he want to give the girdle?

Answer 42

Admete

Question 43

What was Hercules’ 10th labor?

Answer 43

Fetch Cattle of Geryon

Question 44

Whose golden cup did Hercules use to fetch the Cattle of Geryon?

Answer 44

Helios’

Question 45

What was Hercules’ 11th labor?

Answer 45

Retrieve Golden Apples of Hespirides

Question 46

Who does Hercules assist in return for information about the Golden Apples of Hespirides?

Answer 46

Atlas

Question 47

What was Hercules’ 12th labor?

Answer 47

Fetch Cerberus from the Underworld

Question 48

What did Hercules use to scare the birds away?

Answer 48

krotala

Question 49

Who gave Hercules the krotala?

Answer 49

Athens

Question 50

Who was the father of Iole?

Answer 50

Eurytus

Question 51

Who tricked Eleitheiya into allowing the birth of Hercules?

Answer 51

Galanthis