Statistics for Greek Mythical Creatures

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Giant bearing a single eye; built Zeus’s thunderbolt in the Theogony	Cyclops	100%
Half-man, half-bull hybrid killed by Theseus	Minotaur	96%
Half-horse, half-human hybrid	Centaur	92%
Three-headed dog guarding the gates to the Underworld	Cerberus	92%
Half-snake, half-woman hybrid; can turn people to stone with a single glare	Gorgon	92%
Half-eagle, half-lion hybrid	Griffin	92%
Large serpentine water monster with multiple, regrowing heads	Lernaean Hydra	92%
Winged, flying horse rode by Bellerophon	Pegasus	92%
Golden-red bird that bursts into flames at its death and rebirths from its ashes	Phoenix	88%
Half-woman, half-bird; lured sailors to their death with its voice	Siren	81%
Monstrous hybrid of a lion, a goat, and a snake; killed by Bellerophon	Chimera/Chimaera	73%
Hideous bird-woman hybrid; personification of storm winds	Harpy	65%
Female personification of nature	Nymph	65%
Woman-lion hybrid with the wings of an eagle; kills those who cannot answer her riddle	Sphinx	65%
Male nature spirit with ears and tail of a horse and an exaggerated erection	Satyr	58%
Half-snake, half woman; wife of the above; mother of many monsters	Echidna	38%
Horrible monster living across from its above counterpart	Scylla	38%
Nymph of trees, especially oak trees	Dryad	31%
Horse-fish hybrid created by Poseidon	Hippocampus	27%
Vicious lion-like monster whose skin was impenetrable; killed by Heracles as his first labour	Nemean Lion	27%
Monstrous serpentine giant; enemy of Zeus	Typhon	27%
Enormous sea monster that destroyed ships in the Strait of Messina; nearly capsized Odysseus’s ship	Charybdis	23%
Wise sisters who shared one tooth and one eye	Grey Sisters/Graeae	19%
Large monstrous boar captured by Heracles as his fourth labour	Erymanthian Boar	15%
Female demon who takes children from their mothers and devours them	Lamia	15%
Man-eating birds with sharp, metallic feathers they could launch; killed by Heracles as his fifth task	Stymphalian Birds	15%
Fearsome giant with three heads and three bodies known for his cattle	Geryon	12%
Serpent-like dragon that guarded the golden apples in the Garden of the Hesperides	Ladon	12%
Nymph presiding over fresh water	Naiad	12%
Two-headed dog guarding Geryon’s cattle; killed by Heracles during his tenth labour to steal Geryon’s cattle	Orthrus/Orthus	12%
Giant made of bronze created to protect Crete from invaders	Talos	12%
Creature resembling a Cape buffalo whose stare of breath can kill people	Catoblepas	8%
Large sea monster that was killed by Perseus to save Andromeda	Cetus	8%
Shapeshifting female demon with a single copper leg who seduces young men and devours them	Empusa/Empousa	8%
Three monstrous giants with fifty heads and one hundred arms who helped Zeus to overthrow the Titans	Hecatoncheires	8%
Serpentine creature with two heads, one at its tail	Amphisbaena	4%
Giant with one hundred eyes all over his body; killed by Hermes	Argus Panoptes	4%
Aquatic creature similar to the centaur with its hind legs being the tail of a fish	Ichthyocentaur	4%
Race of humanoids similar to the centaurs, save for that they only had two horse legs instead of four; possible ancestors of the centaurs	Ipotane	4%
Man-eating giants borne from Laestrygon, Poseidon’s son; encountered Odysseus and killed most of his men	Laestrygonians	4%