Q 01/05

Apollo is the twin brother of which goddess?

A) Artemis

B) Athena

C) Demeter

D) Aphrodite

Answer · why

A) Artemis

Artemis, in one telling, was born first and then helped her mother deliver Apollo.

Q 02/05

Who was Apollo's mother?

A) Leto

B) Semele

C) Metis

D) Maia

Answer · why

A) Leto

Leto later turned the Lycian peasants who stirred up the mud of a pond to stop her drinking into frogs.

Q 03/05

On which island was Apollo born?

A) Delos

B) Crete

C) Lesbos

D) Rhodes

Answer · why

A) Delos

Delos was then a floating island, and in Callimachus's hymn the unborn Apollo speaks from the womb to ask to be born there.

Q 04/05

Apollo's oracle told which king that if he attacked Persia, he would destroy a great empire?

A) Midas

B) Leonidas

C) Croesus

D) Pyrrhus

Answer · why

C) Croesus

Croesus marched on the Persians and lost his own kingdom, as they captured his capital Sardis and took him prisoner.

Q 05/05

Apollo was the patron deity of which famous oracle?

A) Dodona

B) Delphi

C) Siwa

D) Olympia

Answer · why

B) Delphi

Delphi was hailed as the centre of the world, the spot where two eagles released by Zeus from opposite ends of the earth are said to have met.