NJCL Myth Test Questions

Question 1

From what island did Daedalus and Icarus escape on wings of wax and feathers?

Answer 1

Crete

Question 2

Which Titan was called “Sol” by the Romans?

Answer 2

Helios

Question 3

What son of Metaneira did Demeter place nightly in a fire in order to immortalize him?

Answer 3

Demophoon

Question 4

What form did Zeus take when he persued Leda, the mother of Helen?

Answer 4

swan

Question 5

Name the blind seer of Thebes who made prophesies about Narcissus and for Odysseus.

Answer 5

Teiresias

Question 6

Who was the god of sun, music, medicine, and prophecy?

Answer 6

Apollo

Question 7

The sea goddess, Doris, was the mother of which group with 50 daughters?

Answer 7

Nereids

Question 8

Name the mother of Telemachus and the wife of Odysseus.

Answer 8

Penelope

Question 9

Which swampy river was sometimes considered the boundary of the Underworld, instead of Styx?

Answer 9

Acheron

Question 10

What instrument did Marsyas play?

Answer 10

flute

Question 11

This kings daughter, Medea helped Jason to steal his prized Golden Fleece.

Answer 11

Aeetes

Question 12

What did the Furies punish?

Answer 12

murder of family

Question 13

Which son of Zeus and Europe ruled over Elysium in the Underworld?

Answer 13

Rhadamanthys

Question 14

What people, created by Zeus form ants, did Achilles lead into battle?

Answer 14

Myrmidons

Question 15

Which Greek warrior at Troy withdrew from fighting when Agammemnon demanded his concubine, Briseis?

Answer 15

Achilles

Question 16

What son of Nauplius and Clymene was clever enough to see through Odysseus’ ruse of insanity?

Answer 16

Palamedes

Question 17

What city was purchased by a queen asking only for what land she could encompass in a bull’s hide?

Answer 17

Carthage

Question 18

Who was punished with insatiable hunger by Demeter after he cut down an oak belonging to a dryad?

Answer 18

Erysichthon

Question 19

Whose stables did Heracles manage to clean in a day by diverting two rivers?

Answer 19

Augeias’

Question 20

What female monsters were known as “the hounds of Zeus” and may have been personifications of storm wind?

Answer 20

Harpies

Question 21

While the crow is usually Apollo’s bird, which goddess originally had it as hers until she rejected it for the owl?

Answer 21

Athena

Question 22

Which of the following was NOT a monster captured or killed by Heracles during his Labors? A.Ladon B. Erymanthian boar C. Mares of Diomedes D. Python

Answer 22

Python

Question 23

What daughter of the river Peneius and Creusa was turned into a laurel tree while fleeing Apollo?

Answer 23

Daphne

Question 24

What was the principal city of the Amazons (though the movie Wonder Woman depicts it as an island)?

Answer 24

Themiscyra

Question 25

What northern Aegean island was Hephaestus' chief cult center since he landed there after falling from Olympus?

Answer 25

Lemnos

Question 26

Whose men so infuriated Helios by eating his cattle that he threatened to shine in Hades unless they be punished?

Answer 26

Odysseus

Question 27

Which of the following Trojans was also called Scamandrius?

Answer 27

Astyanax

Question 28

Which of the Seven Against Thebes, the son of Atalanta and Ares, was exposed to protect his mother's virginity?

Answer 28

Parthenopaeus

Question 29

What Greek god of sleep was called "Somnus" by the Romans?

Answer 29

Hypnos

Question 30

Name the gentle west wind.

Answer 30

Zephyr

Question 31

What constellation of a sea monster or whale may represent the beast sent by Poseidon and killed by Perseus?

Answer 31

Cetus

Question 32

What god was also called Orcus, Dis, and Zeus Katachthonios?

Answer 32

Hades

Question 33

Who purified Jason and Medea of murder?

Answer 33

Circe

Question 34

According to one version of Helen's parentage, who was her mother who tried escaping Zeus in the goose-form?

Answer 34

Nemesis

Question 35

Name the son of Labdacus, king of Thebes, whose lost son killed him fulfilling the Delphic oracle's prophecy.

Answer 35

Laius

Question 36

Who, dressed as a maenad, climbed a pine tree to spy on the revelers, and was torn apart by his own mother?

Answer 36

Pentheus

Question 37

For which deity are the following epithets?: Agyies, Smintheius, Loxias, and Lyceius?

Answer 37

Apollo

Question 38

In what city of Eperius, famous for oracles interpreted from rustling of oaks, were Zeus and Dione worshiped?

Answer 38

Dodona

Question 39

Who lit a signal fire in Lycreia after escaping the fate of his forty-nine brothers to let his wife know he was safe?

Answer 39

Lynceus

Question 40

What deity in his various stories was transformed into a kid, once rode two asses, and turned sailors into dolphins?

Answer 40

Dionysus

Question 41

Where did Aeneas find the golden bough that allowed him to enter the underworld?

Answer 41

Cumae

Question 42

What child, granted to Hyrieus for his hospitality to three gods, grew up to be as good a hunter as Artemis?

Answer 42

Orion

Question 43

What son of Apollo and Coronis was rescued from his mother's funeral pyre and given to Cheiron to raise

Answer 43

Asclepius

Question 44

Which daughter of Cecrops did NOT spy on Erichthonius like her sisters?

Answer 44

Pandrosus

Question 45

Who warned that Paris' trip to Sparta would be a disaster and quarreled with Deiphobus about marrying Helen?

Answer 45

Helenus

Question 46

What elderly, satyr-like companion of Dionysus was captured and entertained by Midas?

Answer 46

Seilenus

Question 47

Who was warned by the seer Telemus that he would be blinded by a man named Odysseus?

Answer 47

Polyphemus

Question 48

What king of Sicily was killed by Heracles in a boxing match?

Answer 48

Eryx

Question 49

Which river of Troy would have flooded and drowned Achilles had Hephaestus not dried it up with a flame?

Answer 49

Scamander

Question 50

What deity gave Euphemus a clod of earth about which the runner had a dream?

Answer 50

Triton

Question 51

What daughters of Nyx and sisters of Moros were fanged and taloned death spirits?

Answer 51

Keres

Question 52

Who was the wife of Orion who sent to the underworld for boasting she was more beautiful than Hera?

Answer 52

Side

Question 53

What son of Lycaon was spared Zeus' wrath when the god destroyed all Lycaon's children

Answer 53

Nyctimus

Question 54

Who was banished for killing the eight sons of Melas, though they plotted against their uncle Oeneus, his father?

Answer 54

Tydeus

Question 55

What son of Poseidon and Alope was exposed twice and fed by mares both times?

Answer 55

Hippothoon

Question 56

Which of the following river gods did NOT judge the contest between Hera and Poseidon over Argos? A.Inachus B.Eridanus C.Asterion D.Cephisus

Answer 56

Eridanus

Question 57

What type of tree did Leto cling to on Delos when she gave birth to Artemis and Apollo?

Answer 57

palm

Question 58

Whom did Venus curse because this woman's loveliness caused people to stop worshiping the goddess?

Answer 58

Psyche

Question 59

What Cretan is said to have married Oenarus, the priest of Dionysus, or to have married the god himself?

Answer 59

Ariadne

Question 60

Into what were Ceyx and Alcyone turned on account of their grief?

Answer 60

kingfishers

Question 61

Dionysus taught which man the culture of the vine for welcoming the god?

Answer 61

Icarius

Question 62

Who gave his daughter, Sterope, a lock of Medusa's hair in order to defend the walls of Tegea?

Answer 62

Cepheus

Question 63

Which king of Megara killed his son Callipolis for interrupting a sacrifice to Apollo?

Answer 63

Alcathous

Question 64

What Cretan usurper drove Idomeneus from his island upon the king's return from Troy?

Answer 64

Leucus

Question 65

What town on the road to Chalcis was the home of a fox that ravaged Thebes?

Answer 65

Teumessus

Question 66

What daughter of Ligdus was dressed as a boy by her mother Telethusa since her father threatened to kill her?

Answer 66

Thelpusa

Question 67

What island was the home of different cattle pastured by Helios and Geryon?

Answer 67

Thrinacia

Question 68

From what warlike and greedy neighbors did Griffins guard their stores of gold?

Answer 68

Arimaspians

Question 69

According to Pausanius, who ruled Argos when Danaus claimed his birthright like a wolf attacking the lead bull?

Answer 69

Gelanor

Question 70

According to Hyginus, who gave Procris an infallible spear, the hunting dog, Laelaps, and marital advice?

Answer 70

Artemis

Question 71

What Arcadian emigrant and king of Pallanteum plays a critical role in Book in Book VIII of the Aeneid?

Answer 71

Evander

Question 72

What king of Athens was the father of Procne, Philomela, Erectheus, and Butes?

Answer 72

Pandion

Question 73

What epithet was given to the Cretan goddess Britomartis?

Answer 73

Dictynna

Question 74

What Phrygian divinities were worshiped on the island of Samothrace, Lemnos, and Imbros?

Answer 74

Cabeiri

Question 75

What city, a center of worship of Eros and the Muses, was saved by the self-sacrifice of Menestratus?

Answer 75

Thespiae

Question 76

What son of Polybus was the most favored of Penelope's suitors?

Answer 76

Eurymachus

Question 77

According to the Aeneid, what city did Diomedes found in Italy?

Answer 77

Argyripa

Question 78

Metabus, the father of the Volscian warrior Camilla, was driven out of what Italian town?

Answer 78

Privernum

Question 79

Which of the Seven Against Thebes was carried into battle by the swift-footed Arion?

Answer 79

Adrastus

Question 80

According to Ovid's Metamorphoses, who was transformed into a lizard for mocking Ceres?

Answer 80

Ascalabus

Question 81

What son of Aeolus and Enarete was the founder and first king of Iolcus?

Answer 81

Cretheus

Question 82

What son of Panopeus was the ingenious artisan who built the Trojan Horse?

Answer 82

Epeius

Question 83

According to the Odyssey, who gave Odysseus the famous bow that hung in his house?

Answer 83

Iphitus

Question 84

Who, the son of Poeciles, was left on Calliste to colonize the land for the Phoenicians?

Answer 84

Theras

Question 85

What daughter of Boreas and Oreithyia, ashamed at her liaison with Poseidon, threw their son into the sea?

Answer 85

Chione

Question 86

What son of Apollo was birthed with help from the Fates but was left in a thicket to be fed honey by snakes?

Answer 86

Iamus

Question 87

Which of the Giants did Dionysus kill with his Thyrsus?

Answer 87

Eurytus

Question 88

What attendant of Alcmene tricked Eileithyia into allowing Heracles' birth, and was turned into a weasel?

Answer 88

Galanthis

Question 89

Because she laughed at her infatuation with Adonis, which of the Muses did Aphrodite punish with love for Pierus, to whom she then bore Hyacinthus?

Answer 89

Melpomene

Question 90

What charioteer drove the immortal horses Xanthos and Balios into battle when Hector killed Patroclus?

Answer 90

Automedon

Question 91

Which of the following was NOT an entrance to the Underworld? A.Trapezus B.Alcyonian Lake C.Lake Avernus D. Taenarum

Answer 91

Trapezus

Question 92

Which of the brigands who fought against Theseus was called Damastes?

Answer 92

Procrustes

Question 93

Which of the following is the location on Sicily at which the Rape of Persephone occurred?

Answer 93

Henna

Question 94

Which epithet of Zeus means "He of the Storeroom"?

Answer 94

Ktesios

Question 95

What Arcadian hero was honored in the town of Alipherus for chasing away flies?

Answer 95

Myagro

Question 96

What king of Elis met the Heraclids at Naupactus and served as their good through the Peloponnesus?

Answer 96

Echetus

Question 97

Who is credited with carving the oldest image of Cybele, but incurred the wrath of Artemis, who drove him mad, causing him to think himself immune from flames so that he threw himself on a fire and subsequently died?

Answer 97

Broteas

Question 98

What man, a son of Zeus and a Sithnid nymph, swam toward the cries of cranes to escape the Great Flood?

Answer 98

Megarus

Question 99

According to the Arcadians, who lead a small group of giants against the gods despite protecting Rhea when she birthed Zeus?

Answer 99

Hopladamus

Question 100

What daughter of Orion was the mother of Hylas?

Answer 100

Menodice