Q 01/05

Which mythical creature is the national animal of Scotland?

A) Griffin

B) Unicorn

C) Kelpie

D) Dragon

Answer · why

B) Unicorn

The unicorn is Scotland's national animal. Unicorns supported the royal arms of the King of Scots before the 1603 Union of the Crowns, and a unicorn i...

Q 02/05

A phoenix is a legendary bird that is reborn from what?

A) The sea foam of Cyprus

B) Its own golden egg

C) A bolt of lightning

D) The ashes of its predecessor

Answer · why

D) The ashes of its predecessor

The phoenix is reborn from the ashes of its predecessor: in the classical legend the aged bird burns on a pyre of spices and a new phoenix rises from ...

Q 03/05

Odin's horse Sleipnir is unusual for having how many legs?

A) Four

B) Six

C) Ten

D) Eight

Answer · why

D) Eight

Sleipnir has eight legs. Loki, shape-shifted into a mare to lure the stallion Svaðilfari away from building Asgard's wall, later bore the eight-legged...

Q 04/05

The Minotaur of Greek myth lived at the centre of the Labyrinth on which island?

A) Rhodes

B) Sicily

C) Crete

D) Cyprus

Answer · why

C) Crete

The Labyrinth stood at Knossos on Crete, built by Daedalus for King Minos; Theseus escaped it with the ball of thread Ariadne gave him.

Q 05/05

Cerberus, the multi-headed dog of Greek myth, guards the gates of what place?

A) The underworld

B) Mount Olympus

C) The Garden of the Hesperides

D) Troy

Answer · why

A) The underworld

Cerberus guards the gates of the underworld, Hades' realm, letting the dead in but never out; fetching him was the last of Heracles' twelve labours.