Mythology

Question 1

This god owns the ravens hugin and munin and spear gungnir that never misses its target

Answer 1

Odin

Question 2

This god wins a wisdom contest by asking what he whispered to his son at his son’s funeral

Answer 2

Odin

Question 3

The names of his goats mean tooth gnasher and tooth grinder

Answer 3

Thor

Question 4

This god disguises himself as a woman (freya) to get his favoured weapon back from Thrymir.

Answer 4

Thor

Question 5

This god tricked Hodr into throwing a spear of mistletoe that killed Baldr

Answer 5

Loki

Question 6

This god was punished with dripping venom while tied up with the entrails of his son Narfi

Answer 6

Loki

Question 7

This figure kills a bandit who would kill people by tying them to 2 bent pine trees (SInis)

Answer 7

Theseus

Question 8

This figure was born after his father (Aegeus) was told by the oracle of Delphi to “not loosen the bulging mouth of the wineskin”

Answer 8

Theseus

Question 9

The eldest son of the earth god Geb and the sky goddess Nut

Answer 9

Osiris

Question 10

This god has 9 mothers and has teeth made of gold and can hear grass growing

Answer 10

Heimdall

Question 11

This god recovered Brisingamen while in the form of a seal, and fought Loki also in seal form.

Answer 11

Heimdall

Question 12

This god is depicted wearing an otef crown with a crook and flail in his hands

Answer 12

Osiris

Question 13

A ram at Mendes was worshipped as an incarnation of this diety

Answer 13

Osiris

Question 14

This god was tricked by his rival Tezcatlipoca into his immolation

Answer 14

Quetzalcoatl

Question 15

This god was said to have sailed east on a raft of serpents to eventually return to his people

Answer 15

Quetzalcoatl

Question 16

This figure was conceived after swallowing an emerald

Answer 16

Quetzalcoatl

Question 17

This god’s mother died after Hera tricked her into seeing Zeus in full glory

Answer 17

Dionysus

Question 18

This god was sewn up into Zeus’ thigh

Answer 18

Dionysus

Question 19

This god was ripped apart and eaten by Titans representing the harvesting of grapes

Answer 19

Dionysus

Question 20

This god is the mother of Horus and the wife and sister of Osiris

Answer 20

Isis

Question 21

This deity commanded the poison of seven scorpions to leave the body of a young boy whose mother denied this deity shelter.

Answer 21

Isis

Question 22

This deity became fond of the son of Queen Astarte and put him in a fire to burn his mortality away. That son was Prince Dictys.

Answer 22

Isis

Question 23

This hero was killed by an arrow to his heel which was his only vulnerable point

Answer 23

Achilles

Question 24

This warrior slew Thersites after he mocked this figure for mourning over the body of an amazon

Answer 24

Achilles

Question 25

This god put all of Argus' eyes to sleep and then killed him in order to save Io

Answer 25

Hermes

Question 26

This deity's parents were Maia and Zeus

Answer 26

Hermes

Question 27

This god turned Battus into stone after he revealed one of this deity's secrets

Answer 27

Hermes

Question 28

This god won a boat race using a wooden boat compared to his adversary's stone boat

Answer 28

Horus

Question 29

This deity's sons protect the canopic jars and the cardinal directions

Answer 29

Horus

Question 30

This god granted Mestra with the ability to change her shape at will and escape the men whom her father had married her off

Answer 30

Poseidon

Question 31

King Laomedon tricked Apollo and this god into building the walls of Troy.

Answer 31

Poseidon

Question 32

This god rode a golden-maned horse named Gulltoppr.

Answer 32

Heimdall

Question 33

This deity offered Paris rule over all of Europe and Asia

Answer 33

Hera

Question 34

This figure turned Tiresias into a woman when he struck a pair of mating snakes with a stick

Answer 34

Hera

Question 35

This figure was forced to serve Eurystheus to perform a group of tasks

Answer 35

Heracles

Question 36

This figure killed Linus his music teacher by throwing a lyre at him and was sent to tend cattle on the mountain.

Answer 36

Heracles

Question 37

This figure was forced to serve queen Omphale as a slave after killing Iphitus for a year while dressed as a woman

Answer 37

Heracles

Question 38

This god owned the stymphalian birds

Answer 38

Ares

Question 39

This god had his son cycnus killed by Heracles

Answer 39

Ares

Question 40

This god killed Halirrhothius for the attempt of rape of this god's daughter Alcippe

Answer 40

Ares

Question 41

This figure slays the bull of heaven sent to kill after he rejects the marriage proposal of Ishtar

Answer 41

Gilgamesh

Question 42

This figure slays Humbaba with the help of Enkidou

Answer 42

Gilgamesh

Question 43

This person smashes the stone things that would allow him to safely cross the waters of death

Answer 43

Gilgamesh

Question 44

This figure ties stones to his feet and descends to retrieve a plant giving eternal youth, but it gets stolen by a snake

Answer 44

Gilgamesh

Question 45

This figure died because Deianira was fooled by Nessus to give him a blood soaked tunic with the Hydra's poison

Answer 45

Heracles

Question 46

Left a companion called Hylas to drown and was left by the argonauts

Answer 46

Heracles

Question 47

Killed Pholus, Chiron and other centaurs in a fight over wine

Answer 47

Heracles

Question 48

Strangled 2 snakes sent by Hera as a child

Answer 48

Heracles

Question 49

During one of the 12 labors a boy asked Heracles to kill this creature or else he would sacrifice himself to Zeus

Answer 49

The Nemean lion

Question 50

During one of the 12 labors Heracles was helped by Iolaus his nephew and Hera tried to send a huge crab to stop him kill this creature

Answer 50

Lernaean Hydra

Question 51

After completing this labor Heracles tricked Eurystheus into letting it go

Answer 51

The Ceryneian hind

Question 52

On Heracles' journey there he killed centaurs including Chiron and Pholus over wine

Answer 52

The Erymanthian boar

Question 53

Heracles used a river to accomplish this task

Answer 53

cleaning the stables of Augeas

Question 54

Heracles used a krotala made by Hephaestus to scare away these creatures belonging to Ares

Answer 54

The stymphalian birds

Question 55

Heracles captured this creature meant to be a sacrifice to Poseidon and released it in marathon

Answer 55

The Cretan bull

Question 56

these creatures devoured Abderus and these creatures were fed by Heracles their master

Answer 56

The mares of Diomedes

Question 57

Heracles killed the Amazons for it

Answer 57

the girdle of Hippolyta

Question 58

During Heracles journey to this labor he shot an arrow at the sun/Helios in the Libyan desert

Answer 58

Stealing the cattle of Geryon

Question 59

During Heracles journey to this labor he shot an arrow at the sun/Helios in the Libyan desert

Answer 59

The apples from the garden of Hesperides

Question 60

Met Theseus and Pirithous while doing this labor imprisoned to a chair because they tried to steal Persephone

Answer 60

capturing Cerberus

Question 61

This figure fails to stay awake for 7 days

Answer 61

Gilgamesh

Question 62

This figure encounters scorpion men at Mount Mashu

Answer 62

Gilgamesh

Question 63

This figure dreams about an axe and meteorite, signifying the arrival of his companion.

Answer 63

Gilgamesh

Question 64

This figure helped a seer named Phineas from the harpies (his punishment from helios)

Answer 64

Jason