Mythology

Question 1

Whom does Odysseus NOT see in the Underworld?

Answer 1

Hector

Question 2

Zetes and Calais were the sons of

Answer 2

Boreas

Question 3

Who was the father of Achilles?

Answer 3

Peleus

Question 4

Daughter of Zeus was the goddess of Truth?

Answer 4

Aletheia

Question 5

Who was the daughter of Zeus and Leda?

Answer 5

Helen

Question 6

King tried to trick Zeus into eating human flesh, turned into a wolf?

Answer 6

Lycaon

Question 7

Gave an unwanted opinion in a musical contest, given donkey ears

Answer 7

Midas

Question 8

What couple died at the same time?

Answer 8

Baucis and Philemon

Question 9

What animal did Zeus turn into when wooing Europa?

Answer 9

Cow

Question 10

What maiden believed herself to be married to a monster?

Answer 10

Psyche

Question 11

Whose blood turned mulberry fruit from white to red?

Answer 11

Thisbe

Question 12

Once loved by Apollo, was given the gift of prophecy

Answer 12

Cassandra

Question 13

The Hellespont was named for the sister of

Answer 13

Phrixus

Question 14

What did Aeneas get in order to enter underworld with the Sybil?

Answer 14

Golden branch

Question 15

Niobe turned into a rock angering —-

Answer 15

Leto

Question 16

Tortured with eternal hunger and thirst?

Answer 16

Tantalus

Question 17

What Titan is the father of the Hesperides and the Pleiades?

Answer 17

Atlas

Question 18

Who was the bridegroom of Pandora

Answer 18

Epimetheus

Question 19

Where was the home of the princess Andromeda

Answer 19

Ethiopeia

Question 20

Which Greek vied for but lost the armor of Achilles?

Answer 20

Ajax

Question 21

Which river in the underworld was the river of hate?

Answer 21

Styx

Question 22

Name the Furies

Answer 22

Alecto, Megaera, Tisiphone

Question 23

What was the job of the Fate Atropos?

Answer 23

cutter

Question 24

What were the Symplegades?

Answer 24

clashing rocks

Question 25

Alcides was the

Answer 25

original name of Heracles

Question 26

Whom did the goddess of the dawn love?

Answer 26

Tithonus

Question 27

Who was the young son of Hector and Andromache

Answer 27

Astyanax

Question 28

What did Sinis do to travelers?

Answer 28

tied them to two pine trees

Question 29

Which god carried a thyrsus?

Answer 29

Dionysus

Question 30

Which Greek god was known as Dis by the Romans?

Answer 30

Pluto

Question 31

By what name was Palaemon first known?

Answer 31

Melicertes

Question 32

Who was the only daughter of Perseus and Andromeda?

Answer 32

Gorgophone

Question 33

Walls of Thebes were built by what king using his special musics

Answer 33

Amphion

Question 34

What was the name of Neoptolomus’ mother, daughter of Lycomedes?

Answer 34

Deidameia

Question 35

What name did Demeter use at Eleusis?

Answer 35

Doso

Question 36

Only person saved by Hesione after Troy was sacked

Answer 36

Podarces

Question 37

The Moliones were twins who killed ---

Answer 37

Iphicles

Question 38

What's in common between Mopsus, Manto and Melampus

Answer 38

Seers

Question 39

What's in common between Achilles, Oenomaus, and Laomedon

Answer 39

owned divine horses

Question 40

Mother of Odysseus

Answer 40

Anticlea

Question 41

Mother of Achilles

Answer 41

Thetis

Question 42

Gave donkey ears to Midas

Answer 42

Apollo

Question 43

Grace of Beauty

Answer 43

Aglaia

Question 44

River of pain

Answer 44

Acheron

Question 45

Other name of Podarces

Answer 45

Priam

Question 46

The stretcher theif

Answer 46

Procrustes

Question 47

Muse of dance

Answer 47

Terpsichore

Question 48

Brother of Medea

Answer 48

Absyrtus

Question 49

Last wife of Heracles

Answer 49

Hebe

Question 50

Aurora's love

Answer 50

Tithonus

Question 51

Heracles means --- of Hera

Answer 51

Glory

Question 52

Fate cut the thread of life

Answer 52

Atropos

Question 53

First Greek to die

Answer 53

Protesilaus

Question 54

The son-in-law of Priam who guided the Greeks to Troy:

Answer 54

Telephus

Question 55

. Where did Neoptolomus die?

Answer 55

Delphi

Question 56

Freed Zeus when Poseidon, Hera and Athena tried to overthrow him?

Answer 56

Briareus

Question 57

Which seer vanished into the earth after it was split open by Zeus

Answer 57

Amphiaraus

Question 58

Whats in common between Marpessa, Sinope, and Cumean Sibyl

Answer 58

Rejected advances of Apollo

Question 59

The herald who delivered the poisoned tunic to Heracles:

Answer 59

Lichas

Question 60

Into what did Dionysus turn the daughters of Minyas?

Answer 60

Bats

Question 61

Which Roman deity presided over the sowing of crops?

Answer 61

Janus

Question 62

Who raised Callisto’s son Arcas?

Answer 62

Maia

Question 63

One of his epithets was Smintheus:

Answer 63

Apollo

Question 64

The Trojan spy who betrayed Rhesus to Odysseus and Diomedes.

Answer 64

Dolon

Question 65

The constellation Cygnus

Answer 65

Leda

Question 66

What was the name of Almene’s attendant

Answer 66

Galanthis

Question 67

Daughter of Minos was banished to Libya after an affair with Apollo?

Answer 67

Acacallis

Question 68

Why did Odysseus return to Aeaea?

Answer 68

to bury Elpenor

Question 69

What's in common between Asclepius, Nicomachus, Podaleirius

Answer 69

Related to Machaon

Question 70

Byblis fell in love with

Answer 70

Caunus

Question 71

defining characteristic of the Arimaspians

Answer 71

One Eye

Question 72

given immortality after marrying Circe?

Answer 72

Telemachus

Question 73

Forced to cary leaky buckets

Answer 73

Danaids

Question 74

Erato muse of

Answer 74

Love poetry

Question 75

River of wailing

Answer 75

Cocyctus

Question 76

mother of monsters

Answer 76

Echidna

Question 77

Aided paris in killing Achilles

Answer 77

Apollo

Question 78

What did meleager kill

Answer 78

the calydonian boar

Question 79

Where did Theseus abandon Ariadne

Answer 79

Naxos

Question 80

Who found Ariadne

Answer 80

Dionysus

Question 81

Parents of Agamemnon

Answer 81

Atreus and Aerope

Question 82

Turned into a Lion

Answer 82

Atalanta