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189 free Mythology trivia questions with answers — history quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
100 free mythology trivia questions with answers. From the thunderbolts of Zeus to the wisdom of Odin, mythology has captivated humanity for millennia. This quiz spans the great mythological traditions of the world — Greek Olympians, Norse warriors, Egyptian gods of the afterlife, Hindu epics, and beyond. Whether you know your Minotaurs from your Chimeras or your Ragnarok from your Ramayana, these 189 questions will put your mythological knowledge to the ultimate test.
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Q 01In Norse mythology, what kind of birds are Huginn and Muninn, who perch on Odin's shoulders?
Ravens
Huginn and Muninn are ravens: Odin sends them over the whole world each morning to bring back the news, yet in one poem he frets that they may not return.
Q 02What creature did Theseus slay in the labyrinth of Crete?
Minotaur
The Minotaur was half man, half bull; Theseus escaped its maze by following the ball of thread that King Minos's daughter Ariadne gave him.
Q 03According to Greek myth, what was released when Pandora opened her box (actually a jar)?
All the world's evils
All the world's evils, such as toil and sickness, escaped the jar; she shut the lid too late, and only Hope, as the word is usually translated, stayed inside.
Q 04Which Greek musician lost Eurydice a second time by looking back on the way out of the underworld?
Orpheus
Orpheus was later torn apart by frenzied Maenads, yet his severed head floated all the way to the island of Lesbos, still lamenting.
Q 05Which Trojan prince took Helen from Sparta to Troy, sparking the Trojan War?
Paris
Paris, also called Alexandros, later killed the Greek hero Achilles with an arrow that the god Apollo guided to its mark.
Q 06In Japanese myth, what did a god use to get the serpent Yamata no Orochi drunk?
Sake
Sake: he had a vessel placed for each of the eight heads, and once the serpent was drunk, he cut it apart with his sword.
Q 07Which ancient Egyptian god was represented as a crocodile or a man with a crocodile's head?
Sobek
Sobek's sacred crocodiles were tamed, fitted with gold earrings and anklets, hand-fed by priests and visitors, and embalmed when they died.
Q 08Which legendary twins were left to die by the river Tiber and then suckled by a she-wolf?
Romulus and Remus
Romulus and Remus later quarrelled over which hill to build their city on, and in most versions Romulus killed his brother and founded Rome.
Q 09Which Norse god could eat the goats that pulled his chariot and bring them back to life the next day?
Thor
Thor revived the goats with his hammer, but one came back lame because a farm boy had cracked its bone for the marrow, and Thor took the boy as his servant.
Q 10Which Trojan prince, Troy's greatest warrior, was killed in single combat by Achilles?
Hector
Hector had killed Achilles's friend Patroclus, so Achilles dragged his corpse behind a chariot until King Priam slipped into the Greek camp to beg for his son's body.
Q 11Which Hindu god, "The Preserver", has ten primary avatars including Rama and Krishna?
Vishnu
Vishnu's tenth avatar, Kalki, has yet to come: he is expected to appear at the end of the present dark age and usher in a new golden age.
Q 12What is the name of the Norse end-of-the-world event where gods and giants fight a final battle?
Ragnarok
Ragnarok is the Norse doom of the gods, in which Odin and Freyr fall; the world sinks beneath the sea, then rises again green and is repopulated by two human survivors.
Q 13Which Greek hero's long journey home after the Trojan War is told in Homer's epic?
Odysseus
Odysseus came home disguised as a beggar, strung the great bow that none of his wife's suitors could, and then turned it on them.
Q 21Which trickster of Chinese legend caused such havoc in Heaven that the Buddha trapped him under a mountain?
Sun Wukong
Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, was only let out of his stone prison to protect a monk on a pilgrimage to fetch Buddhist scriptures.
Q 22Which Greek Titan was condemned to hold up the sky on his shoulders for eternity?
Atlas
Atlas is often shown carrying a globe, but the early poets describe him bearing the heavens themselves; the Atlas Mountains in North Africa carry his name.
Q 23In Norse mythology, what did Odin sacrifice to gain wisdom from the Well of Mimir?
His eye
His eye was the price, so Odin is pictured one-eyed; to win the runes, he also hung on a windy tree as a sacrifice of himself to himself.
Q 14Which Egyptian god was murdered by his brother, then restored to life to rule the underworld?
Osiris
Osiris was tricked at a banquet into lying in a chest built to his exact measurements; his brother slammed it shut and threw it into the Nile.
Q 15Which mythical bird, Herodotus heard, carried its dead parent to Egypt encased in myrrh?
Phoenix
Phoenix: Herodotus had seen the bird only in pictures, and while he passed the tale on, he wrote that he could not believe it.
Q 16In Greek mythology, which snake-haired Gorgon petrified anyone who looked upon her?
Medusa
Medusa, the only mortal Gorgon, was beheaded by a hero who watched her reflection in a polished shield; her severed head kept its petrifying power and was set on Athena's aegis.
Q 17Which two-faced Roman god of beginnings and doorways gave his name to a month of the year?
Janus
Janus, shown with two faces looking forward and back, gave his name to January; the doors of his shrine in the Forum stood open in wartime and were shut only in peace.
Q 18In Norse mythology, what name is given to the warriors who died in battle and dwell in Valhalla?
Einherjar
The Einherjar, chosen by the Valkyries, fight each day in Valhalla and feast each night on the boar Sæhrímnir, which is cooked and comes back to life the next day.
Q 19In Japanese mythology, who is the sun goddess and ancestor of the Imperial line?
Amaterasu
Amaterasu, the sun goddess enshrined at Ise, hid in a cave after her brother's rampage, darkening the world until the gods lured her out with a mirror and a dance.
Q 20Which Hindu epic tells of a prince's quest to rescue Sita from the demon king Ravana?
Ramayana
The Ramayana, credited to the sage Valmiki, turns on a palace plot that cheats Rama of his throne and sends him into forest exile for fourteen years.
Q 24Which mythological creature has the head of an eagle and the body of a lion?
Griffin
Griffins were said to guard gold in the far north, and Herodotus heard that a one-eyed people, the Arimaspians, stole it from them.
Q 25In the ancient Egyptian judgment of the dead, which organ was weighed against a feather?
The heart
A heart lighter than the feather meant passage into the afterlife; a heavier one was eaten by a monster.
Q 26Which river bounds the Greek underworld and was the one the gods swore their most solemn oaths by?
Styx
The Styx, Homer's 'dread river of oath', bound even the gods: Hesiod says a god who swore falsely by its water lay breathless for a full year.
Q 27Which Norse god once cut off all of the goddess Sif's golden hair?
Loki
Loki escaped the fury of Sif's husband only by having new hair made for her from real gold.
Q 28Which lame Greek god took revenge on his mother Hera by building her a throne that trapped her?
Hephaestus
Hephaestus freed Hera only after the gods coaxed him back to Olympus, in one telling by getting him drunk.
Q 29The Hindu epic Mahabharata centres on which war of succession between two groups of princely cousins?
Kurukshetra War
Kurukshetra War: on its eve Arjuna balked at killing his own kin, until Krishna's counsel, the Bhagavad Gita, persuaded him to fight.
Q 30What does the name of the Irish Otherworld Tír na nÓg literally mean?
Land of the Young
Tír na nÓg means 'Land of the Young': Oisín thought he had spent three years there, but it had been three hundred, and when he touched Irish soil he became an old man.