Q 01/05

In which Shakespeare tragedy does Hecate scold three witches for dealing with the hero behind her back?

A) Hamlet

B) Macbeth

C) King Lear

D) Othello

Answer · why

B) Macbeth

Macbeth brings Hecate on to rebuke the witches and plan how to lull the hero into false confidence. Many scholars believe her scenes were added after ...

Q 02/05

The 100th of which objects ever discovered was named Hekate, a pun on hekaton, the Greek for hundred?

A) Asteroids

B) Comets

C) Exoplanets

D) Moons

Answer · why

A) Asteroids

Asteroids had reached number 100 when J. C. Watson found this one in 1868. Its name honours the Greek goddess of witchcraft and marks its place in the...

Q 03/05

Hecate became the underworld companion of which goddess after helping in the search that followed her abduction?

A) Aphrodite

B) Hestia

C) Persephone

D) Amphitrite

Answer · why

C) Persephone

Persephone was carried off by Hades, and Hecate helped her mother Demeter search by torchlight. Afterwards Hecate escorted her on the yearly journey t...

Q 04/05

Which animal did Queen Hecuba of Troy become, in one telling, before Hecate took her in as a companion?

A) An owl

B) A polecat

C) A mare

D) A dog

Answer · why

D) A dog

A dog is what Hecuba became after the fall of Troy, and the poet Lycophron made her one of Hecate's familiars. The tale helped explain why the goddess...

Q 05/05

In Rick Riordan's Wrath of the Triple Goddess, which young hero must house-sit for Hecate before Halloween?

A) Percy Jackson

B) Magnus Chase

C) Carter Kane

D) Nico di Angelo

Answer · why

A) Percy Jackson

Percy Jackson minds her crumbling mansion in return for a godly letter of recommendation, then has to track down both of her pets, which escape after ...