Q 01/05

What two creatures combine to make a centaur?

A) Man and goat

B) Man and bull

C) Man and horse

D) Man and fish

Answer · why

C) Man and horse

They were said to live in the mountains of northern Greece.

Q 02/05

Which Greek region was the centaurs' traditional home?

A) Thessaly

B) Attica

C) Boeotia

D) Arcadia

Answer · why

A) Thessaly

They roamed Magnesia and Mount Pelion, plus the Foloi oak forest in Elis.

Q 03/05

Who were the usual mythical parents of the centaurs?

A) Apollo and Stilbe

B) Poseidon and Demeter

C) Zeus and Hera

D) Ixion and Nephele

Answer · why

D) Ixion and Nephele

Nephele was a cloud shaped like Hera, made to expose Ixion's lust.

Q 04/05

What was Nephele?

A) A cloud in the likeness of Hera

B) A Magnesian mare of Pelion

C) A daughter of the Titan Cronus

D) A river nymph of Thessaly

Answer · why

A) A cloud in the likeness of Hera

Zeus used her to trick Ixion into revealing his desire for Hera.

Q 05/05

What was Ixion's eternal punishment for lusting after Hera?

A) Eternal thirst in a receding pool

B) Bound to a spinning fiery wheel

C) Chained to a rock for an eagle

D) Rolling a boulder uphill forever

Answer · why

B) Bound to a spinning fiery wheel

Zeus ordered Hermes to bind him to the winged wheel in Tartarus.