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50 free Goddesses trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Almost every culture that told stories about gods also told them about goddesses: mothers of the earth and sky, queens of the dead, patrons of love, war, wisdom, harvests and luck. Many of them never really left. Their names are on planets and space missions, weekdays, brands, statues and words we use without thinking. This quiz asks you to name the goddess from her story, her symbols or the mark she left on the modern world. It ranges across Greek, Roman, Norse, Egyptian, Hindu, Mesopotamian, Celtic, Chinese, Japanese, Yoruba, Hawaiian, Inuit and Andean traditions, so the familiar Olympians share the page with figures you may be meeting for the first time. It is written for mythology fans, students, quiz hosts and anyone who has ever wondered where a famous name came from. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you can play it straight through or print it for a class or a quiz night.
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Q 01NASA's program to return astronauts to the Moon is named after which Greek goddess, the twin sister of Apollo?
Artemis
Artemis was chosen because the program follows Apollo, the 1960s Moon landings named after her twin brother. NASA announced the name in 2019.
Q 02Which planet, the hottest in the Solar System, is the only one named after a goddess rather than a god?
Venus
Venus takes its name from the Roman goddess of love and beauty, and all but three of the features mapped on its surface have female names too.
Q 03Which Greek goddess, a loving mother in Disney's Hercules, sends snakes to kill the baby hero in the usual myth?
Hera
Hera was his stepmother and sworn enemy: Hercules was Zeus's son by the mortal Alcmene, and the infant is said to have strangled both snakes with his bare hands.
Q 04Roman poets such as Virgil addressed a goddess by the title Trivia because she was the guardian of which places?
Crossroads
Crossroads, especially where three roads met: Trivia comes from the Latin trivium, 'triple way'. The same root gave English the word 'trivial'.
Q 05Which winged Greek goddess of victory is the subject of a headless marble statue atop the Louvre's main staircase?
Nike
Nike had already lost her head and arms when a French diplomat dug the statue up on the island of Samothrace in 1863. The sportswear brand borrowed her name.
Q 06Which Hawaiian volcano goddess is blamed for a curse that makes tourists mail stolen lava rocks back to the islands?
Pele
Pele is said to live in a crater of Kīlauea, but the rock curse is probably a 20th-century invention. One story credits a park ranger fed up with souvenir hunters.
Q 07Which cat-headed Egyptian goddess had a temple city where pilgrims left mummified cats as offerings to her?
Bastet
Bastet began as a fierce lioness goddess and softened into a house cat over the centuries. Families who could afford it had their own dead cats embalmed.
Q 08Which Norse goddess of love rides a chariot pulled by two cats and claims half of the warriors slain in battle?
Freyja
Freyja takes her share of the fallen to her field Fólkvangr, while the other half go to Odin's Valhalla. She also owns a cloak of falcon feathers.
Q 09Which Greek goddess must spend part of every year in the underworld after eating pomegranate seeds offered by Hades?
Persephone
Persephone's yearly absence was the Greeks' explanation for the seasons: her mother Demeter lets the earth go barren while she is away, and it blooms on her return.
Q 10Justitia, the Roman goddess seen on courthouses as Lady Justice, holds a sword in one hand and what in the other?
A set of scales
A set of scales lets her weigh the evidence on each side, a symbol of justice that goes back to ancient Egypt. Her blindfold only became common in the 16th century.
Q 11Which Greek goddess of wisdom was born fully armed from the forehead of her father Zeus?
Athena
Athena had an odd start even by Greek standards: in Hesiod's telling, Zeus had swallowed her pregnant mother Metis, so the child was born from him instead.
Q 12Which Greek goddess of love was born from sea foam, according to Hesiod, with Cyprus claiming to be her birthplace?
Aphrodite
Aphrodite sounded to Hesiod like aphros, the Greek word for foam, so he read her name as 'risen from the foam'. Most modern scholars call that a folk etymology.
Q 13Which Egyptian goddess brought her murdered husband Osiris back to life and bore his heir, the falcon god Horus?
Isis
Isis began as a goddess of ancient Egypt, yet her worship later spread throughout the Greco-Roman world, with devotees found all across the Roman Empire.
Q 21Which Greek goddess of retribution punished the vain Narcissus by making him fall in love with his own reflection?
Nemesis
Nemesis punished hubris, arrogance before the gods, and her name lives on in English as the word for an arch-rival. In some traditions she was the mother of Helen of Troy.
Q 22Which winged Greek goddess carried messages for the Olympians and was the personification of the rainbow?
Iris
Iris shares her name with the colored ring of the eye: both come from the Greek word for rainbow, a nod to the many colors the eye can take. In ancient art she carries a herald's staff and a pitcher of water.
Q 23Which Greek earth goddess, mother of the Titans, gave her name to James Lovelock's theory of a living planet?
Gaia
Q 14Which fierce Hindu goddess is usually shown with a lolling tongue and a necklace of skulls or severed heads?
Kali
Kali, in one famous telling, sticks out her tongue to catch the blood of the demon Raktabija, because every drop that reached the ground grew into a copy of him.
Q 15Which Hindu goddess of prosperity, usually shown on a lotus, do families welcome with lights at Diwali?
Lakshmi
Lakshmi is believed to visit her devotees on the festival's main night, and a happier visit means more blessings. Her four arms stand for the four goals of human life.
Q 16Which Shinto sun goddess, claimed as an ancestor by Japan's emperors, once darkened the world by hiding in a cave?
Amaterasu
Amaterasu was coaxed out by a noisy party: the goddess Uzume danced on an upturned tub until the other gods roared with laughter, and the curious sun came to look.
Q 17Which Roman goddess of the dawn lends her name to the shimmering lights seen in the night sky near the poles?
Aurora
Aurora was said to travel from east to west each morning announcing the Sun, and Galileo was writing of an 'aurora borealis', a northern dawn, by 1619.
Q 18NASA named its Jupiter orbiter after which Roman goddess, who could peer through the clouds her husband hid behind?
Juno
Juno was married to Jupiter, king of the Roman gods, who drew a veil of cloud around himself to hide his mischief. The probe was sent to look beneath the planet's clouds.
Q 19Which Greek goddess of strife, left off a wedding guest list, threw in a golden apple marked 'For the fairest'?
Eris
Eris set three goddesses quarrelling over the apple, the feud that led to the Trojan War. The dwarf planet that cost Pluto its planet status was named after her in 2006.
Q 20Which Norse goddess, a daughter of Loki with a half-blue body, rules an underworld realm that shares her name?
Hel
Hel drove a hard bargain when the beloved god Baldr died: she would release him only if everything in the world, alive or dead, wept for him. One giantess refused.
Gaia was suggested to Lovelock by his neighbour, the novelist William Golding, who was living in the same Wiltshire village at the time.
Q 24Which Greek goddess of witchcraft appears in Shakespeare's Macbeth to scold the three witches for acting without her?
Hecate
Hecate's scolding scene is believed to be a later addition that Shakespeare did not write himself. Later Greek art typically shows her with three bodies.
Q 25Which nine Greek goddesses, daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, did poets such as Homer call on for inspiration?
The Muses
The Muses each looked after an art or science, and a shrine to them was a mouseion in Greek, which is where the word 'museum' comes from.
Q 26Which Roman goddess of agriculture shares her name with the dwarf planet that orbits inside the asteroid belt?
Ceres
Ceres also reaches the breakfast table, because the word 'cereal' comes from her name. So does the metal cerium, discovered two years after the dwarf planet.
Q 27Which Roman goddess of the hearth had a sacred fire in the Forum tended by six priestesses sworn to chastity?
Vesta
Vesta's priestesses served for at least thirty years, and the stakes were high: letting the fire go out meant a whipping, and breaking the vow meant being buried alive.
Q 28Earl Spencer's eulogy for his sister, a princess, noted she shared her name with which Roman goddess of hunting?
Diana
Diana, her brother said, was 'the most hunted person of the modern age', which he called the greatest irony about a girl named after the ancient goddess of hunting.
Q 29Which Roman goddess of luck is addressed in the thunderous opening chorus of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana?
Fortuna
Fortuna is scolded in the 13th-century poem Orff set to music as the fate that rules gods and mortals alike. Romans drew her with a wheel, a ship's rudder and a horn of plenty.
Q 30Which Norse goddess, the wife of Odin and mother of Baldr, gives the English weekday Friday its name?
Frigg
Frigg made every object on earth vow never to hurt her son after he dreamed of his own death, all except the mistletoe. Old English called her day Frigedaeg.