Week 3

Question 1

Heracles

Answer 1

Greek Name

Question 2

Heracle original name

Answer 2

Alcides

Question 3

Heracle parents

Answer 3

Alcmene and Zeus

Question 4

Who did Zeus disguise himself as

Answer 4

Amphytrion (Alcides husband)

Question 5

Heracle’s twin

Answer 5

Iphicles

Question 6

What happens when Heracle’s is born and why

Answer 6

Hera sent two snakes to kill him because he was the product of Zeus’ affairs

Question 7

What happenes to Heracle later

Answer 7

Hera makes him go insane and kill his family

Question 8

Heracle wife

Answer 8

Megara

Question 9

What does Heracle do after killing his family

Answer 9

Goes to the Delphic Oracle

Question 10

What does the Delphic Oracle tell him to do

Answer 10

Serve his cousin Eurystheus

Question 11

First task

Answer 11

Kill Nemean Lion

Question 12

Second Task

Answer 12

Lernean Hydra

Question 13

Third task

Answer 13

Fetch Cerynthian Hind

Question 13

Fourth task

Answer 13

Fetch Erymanthian Boar

Question 14

Fifth task

Answer 14

Clean Augeian Stables

Question 15

Sixth task

Answer 15

Chase away Stymphalian Birds

Question 16

Ninth task

Answer 16

Fetch Girdle of Hippolyta

Question 16

Seventh Task

Answer 16

Fetch Cretan Bull

Question 16

Eighth Task

Answer 16

Fetch Mares of Diomedes

Question 17

Eleventh task

Answer 17

Retrieve Golden Apples of Hespirides

Question 17

Tenth task

Answer 17

Fetch Cattle of Geryon

Question 18

Twelfth task

Answer 18

Fetch Cerberus from the Underword

Question 19

What happens when Heracle returns with the hide of the Nemean Lion

Answer 19

Eurystheus hides in a bronze jar, Copreus assigns future labors

Question 19

Who helped kill the Lernean Hydra

Answer 19

Heracle cousin Iolaus

Question 20

What rivers did he use to clean the Stables

Answer 20

Alpheius and Peneius Rivers

Question 21

What happens during the eighth labor

Answer 21

Abderus is eaten

Question 22

Why was Heracle sent to get the Girdle of Hippolyta

Answer 22

Eurystheus wanted to give it to his daughter

Question 23

Eurystheus daughter

Answer 23

Admete

Question 24

Who helps Heracle during his tenth labor

Answer 24

Helius let him use a gold cup as a ship

Question 25

Who did Heracle help during the eleventh task

Answer 25

He holds the Earth for Atlas

Question 26

Perseus parents

Answer 26

Danae and Zeus

Question 27

What happened to Danae

Answer 27

Her dad put her in a bronze tower because an oracle said her children would kill him but then later she was set out to sea in a box with Perseus

Question 28

Danae Dad

Answer 28

Acrisius

Question 29

What island did they land at

Answer 29

Seriphos

Question 30

Who found them

Answer 30

Dictys

Question 31

Dictys brother

Answer 31

King Polydectes

Question 32

What did perseus say to the king when he grows up

Answer 32

That he will bring him the head of Medusa

Question 33

Who helped Perseus

Answer 33

Hermes Athena Graiae and the Nymphs of the North

Question 34

What did Perseus receive from them

Answer 34

Curved sword, invisibility helmet, winged sandals, and a bag that can be any size

Question 35

What happens when he kills Medusa

Answer 35

Pegasus and Chrysaor pop out of her neck

Question 36

Where does he pass by on the way back

Answer 36

Ethiopia

Question 37

King and Queen of Ethiopia

Answer 37

King Cepheus and Queen Cassiopeia

Question 38

Cassiopeia daughter

Answer 38

Andromeda

Question 39

Thetis

Answer 39

A Nereid, the 50 sea nymphs

Question 40

Ceto

Answer 40

Sea-monster

Question 41

Phineus

Answer 41

Andromeda’s fiance

Question 42

What happens in Ethiopia

Answer 42

Cassiopeia said that Andromeda was prettier than Thetis, so Thetis sent Ceto and used Andromeda as a sacrifice to him but Perseus kills Ceto and marries Andromeda. Phineus is upset so he gets turned to stone

Question 43

What happened after Perseus and Andromeda settled down

Answer 43

They go to Larissa for an athletic event, in his Perseus throws a discus for a contest but hits an old man, Acrisius, in the crowd by mistake which kills him

Question 44

Who was given a pair of bronze castanets to assist in chasing the birds away from Lake Stymphalus?

Answer 44

Heracles

Question 45

For which of his labors did Heracles change the course of the Alpheius & Peneius rivers?

Answer 45

Cleaning the Augeian Stables

Question 46

What daughter of Creon did Heracles inadvertently kill in a fit of madness enduced by Hera?

Answer 46

Megara

Question 46

Who took refuge in a bronze jar because he was terrified by the sight of the Nemean Lion?

Answer 46

Eurystheus

Question 47

For which of his labors did Heracles demand the payment of one tenth of a herd of cattle?

Answer 47

Cleaning the Augeian Stables

Question 48

Who helped Heracles defeat the Hydra?

Answer 48

Iolaus

Question 49

What Bistonian king did Heracles feed to his own flesh eating horses?

Answer 49

Diomedes

Question 50

Heracles first ventured beyond the Peloponnese in order to retrieve what creature as his seventh labor for Eurystheus?

Answer 50

Cretan Bull

Question 51

For which of his labors did Heracles receive help from his nephew Iolaus?

Answer 51

Killing the Hydra

Question 51

Who terrified by the sight of the Nemean Lion hid in a bronze jar?

Answer 51

Eurystheus

Question 52

Who was the maiden rescued from a sea monster by Perseus?

Answer 52

Andromeda

Question 52

What fisherman gave shelter to Danae and her son Perseus?

Answer 52

Dictys

Question 52

Who fled to Larisa only to be killed there with a discus by his grandson Perseus?

Answer 52

Acrisius

Question 53

What mythological king of Mycenae, an ancestor of Heracles, was born in a bronze chamber?

Answer 53

Perseus

Question 53

From whom did Perseus learn the whereabouts of the nymphs who kept the weapons that were necessary for his quest to find and slay Medusa?

Answer 53

Graeae

Question 54

What king of Seriphos gave Perseus the task of bringing back the head of the Gorgon Medusa?

Answer 54

Polydectys

Question 55

For which of his labors did Heracles sail beyond the river Oceanus in a huge golden cup?

Answer 55

retreiving cattle of Geryon

Question 56

After pursuing it for a year all over Arcadia, what creature did Heracles finally ensnare in a bed of nets near the Ladon River?

Answer 56

Cerynithian Hind

Question 56

Who had told Deianeira that a cloak soaked in his blood would ensure Heracles’ faithfulness?

Answer 56

Nessus

Question 57

Whose girdle was thought to bestow some magical properties on its possessor and was involved in one of the labors of Hercules?

Answer 57

Hippolyta