Loaded Questions 10/20/22 - Mythology
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Happy Thursday everyone! Enjoy this mythological set of questions. Lot of beliefs out there. Also, tomorrow is my 30th birthday, so I’m very much looking forward to seeing what my next decade of quizzing looks like. Hopefully it isn’t all flash cards, but it’ll definitely be more question writing! Subscribe if you or someone you know need more questions in your life. Have a great weekend!
1. In Greek myth, what woman gains immortality after she marries Cupid? After she accidentally burned her husband with a lamp, Venus assigns her a series of impossible tasks.
2. Raised by a yama-uba on Mount Ashigara, what "golden boy" folk hero in Japanese folklore is a child of super strength who wields an axe? He would eventually serve faithfully the Minamoto Clan.
3. What material did Dido use to found the city of Carthage? She laid this material on the ground, and was sure to include the hill of Bysra.
4. What dwarf did Thor quiz until sunrise where he then turned to stone after it was promised that his daughter would be the dwarf's?
5. A series of mosaics are found on what Greek island near the center of the Cyclades, which is the birthplace of Apollo and Artemis?
6. The son of Inyan the Rock, what Lakota trickster god takes the form of a spider?
7. "Smoking mirror" is the translation of what brother and enemy of the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl? He eventually destroys the world in the form of a jaguar.
8. What pagan goddess of wisdom, poetry, and the hearth had many of her attributes transferred to a person who became the female patron saint of Ireland, from Kildare?
9. Bellerophon was able to kill the Chimera after using an arrow dipped in what substance?
10. A kind of house servant, what sprites from German mythology are usually invisible, but can turn to the size of a child?
11. What herb does Hermes give to Odysseus to protect him from Circe's magic in the Odyssey?
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1. In Greek myth, what woman gains immortality after she marries Cupid? After she accidentally burned her husband with a lamp, Venus assigns her a series of impossible tasks.
Psyche
2. Raised by a yama-uba on Mount Ashigara, what "golden boy" folk hero in Japanese folklore is a child of super strength who wields an axe? He would eventually serve faithfully the Minamoto Clan.
Kintaro
3. What material did Dido use to found the city of Carthage? She laid this material on the ground, and was sure to include the hill of Bysra.
Oxhide
4. What dwarf did Thor quiz until sunrise where he then turned to stone after it was promised that his daughter would be the dwarf's?
Alvis
5. A series of mosaics are found on what Greek island near the center of the Cyclades, which is the birthplace of Apollo and Artemis?
Delos
6. The son of Inyan the Rock, what Lakota trickster god takes the form of a spider?
Iktomi
7. "Smoking mirror" is the translation of what brother and enemy of the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl? He eventually destroys the world in the form of a jaguar.
Tezcatlipoca
8. What pagan goddess of wisdom, poetry, and the hearth had many of her attributes transferred to a person who became the female patron saint of Ireland, from Kildare?
Brigid
9. Bellerophon was able to kill the Chimera after using an arrow dipped in what substance?
Hot lead
10. A kind of house servant, what sprites from German mythology are usually invisible, but can turn to the size of a child?
Kobold
11. What herb does Hermes give to Odysseus to protect him from Circe's magic in the Odyssey?
Moly