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Greek mythology multiple choice

Answer these questions about Greek mythology.
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1. Who slew the Minotaur?
Heracles ✓
Minos ✓
Theseus ✓
Perseus ✓
2. Whose mother bathed them in the River Styx as an infant, while holding them by the heel?
Odysseus ✓
Achilles ✓
Ajax ✓
Diomedes ✓
3. Who was doomed to be chained to a rock for eternity and have an eagle eat their liver every day?
Sisyphus ✓
Prometheus ✓
Orpheus ✓
Atlas ✓
4. Which Titan was the goddess of memory and mother of the Muses?
Hera ✓
Tethys ✓
Themis ✓
Mnemosyne ✓
5. Which goddess was obliged to spend part of every year in the underworld because Hades tricked her into eating pomegranate seeds?
Persephone ✓
Aphrodite ✓
Calliope ✓
Demeter ✓
6. Why was Arachne transformed into a spider?
She pridefully challenged Athena to a weaving contest ✓
She refused Apollo's amorous advances ✓
Hera got mad because Zeus seduced her ✓
She stole the loom of one of the three Fates ✓
7. Who refused to marry anyone, unless they could beat her in a foot race?
Penelope ✓
Nausicaa ✓
Eurydice ✓
Atalanta ✓
8. Who flew too close to the sun on wings made of feathers and wax?
Icarus ✓
Pericles ✓
Daedalus ✓
Aegeus ✓
9. Who was the twin half-brother of Castor?
Laërtes ✓
Iolaus ✓
Pollux ✓
Nestor ✓
10. Which of these is not true of the sorceress Medea?
She gained her powers by killing her aunt Circe ✓
Her grandfather was the sun god Helios ✓
She killed two of her own children after Jason spurned her ✓
She used her magic to help Jason obtain the Golden Fleece ✓
11. Who was Polyphemus?
A cyclops that was blinded by Odysseus ✓
Father of the Titan Cronus ✓
The king of the centaurs ✓
A general for the Greeks in the Trojan War ✓
12. Which of these was NOT a child of Zeus?
Perseus ✓
Asclepius ✓
Helen of Troy ✓
Heracles ✓
13. Who was born by emerging fully grown from Zeus's head?
Athena ✓
Ares ✓
Hephaestus ✓
Hermes ✓
14. Which goddess is a virgin who swore never to marry?
Athena ✓
Artemis ✓
Aphrodite ✓
Demeter ✓
15. How did Odysseus avoid being drowned by the Sirens?
He prayed to Athena to block his ears ✓
He had his men tie him to the ship's mast and plug their ears with beeswax ✓
He had his crew drown them out by playing louder music ✓
He and his men swam underwater so they could not hear them ✓
jf15
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Level 63
Nov 11, 2021
Prometheus was only doomed to stay there until a son of Zeus came to rescue him.
HeyItsMeJJ
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Level 60
Nov 27, 2021
Athena was also a virgin goddess.
ItzIngenious
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Level 60
Jan 8, 2023
Only in Roman mythology would that clue apply, I think.
InterAlia
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Level 75
Jan 22, 2023
Apparently no one knows the answer to Q12. The results with almost 2000 takes are worse than random chance (23%).
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