Q 01/05

In Norse mythology, what kind of birds are Huginn and Muninn, who perch on Odin's shoulders?

A) Eagles

B) Ravens

C) Falcons

D) Owls

Answer · why

B) 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 ret...

Q 02/05

What creature did Theseus slay in the labyrinth of Crete?

A) Hydra

B) Sphinx

C) Chimera

D) Minotaur

Answer · why

D) 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 03/05

According to Greek myth, what was released when Pandora opened her box (actually a jar)?

A) All the world's evils

B) The gift of fire

C) The four winds

D) Magical creatures

Answer · why

A) 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...

Q 04/05

Which Greek musician lost Eurydice a second time by looking back on the way out of the underworld?

A) Arion

B) Orpheus

C) Linus

D) Amphion

Answer · why

B) 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 05/05

Which Trojan prince took Helen from Sparta to Troy, sparking the Trojan War?

A) Hector

B) Priam

C) Aeneas

D) Paris

Answer · why

D) Paris

Paris, also called Alexandros, later killed the Greek hero Achilles with an arrow that the god Apollo guided to its mark.