Another Fine Myth
Mything Link
Legend Has It
Tails or Tales?
Heard From the Nursery
100
The kind of story told that explains how we all got here.
What is a creation myth?
100
King _________ Muffler
Who is Midas?
100
Nickname of Ohio's John Chapman.
Who is Johnny Appleseed?
100
Ox of blue -- and a big ax, too.
Who is Paul Bunyan?
100
"Ring Around The Rosy" represents the marks on the skin caused by this disease in the Middle Ages.
What is bubonic plague (The Black Death)?
200
Prometheus
Who was chained to a mountain and had his liver dined upon daily?
200
Speedy messenger ____________ thermometer
Who is Mercury?
200
King Arthur's "Sword in the Stone" or a casino in Las Vegas
What is Excalibur?
200
She rescued Davy Crockett.
Who is Sally Ann "Thunder Ann Whirlwind" Crockett?
200
Representations of torture devices in a popular English nursery rhyme.
What are silver bells and cockle-shells?
300
Zeus (or Jupiter)
Who was the King of Gods in mythology?
300
Playing __________ and Psyche
Who is Cupid?
300
He defeated the Cyclops.
Who is Odysseus?
300
It was said that he rode a mountain lion instead of a horse.
Who is Pecos Bill?
300
He was Mother Goose.
Who is Charles Perrault?
400
In the hot mythology of Greece, he was known as Hades, and in Roman mythology, his fiery moniker was Pluto.
Who was the God of the Underworld (Hell)?
400
Silence is ___________ fleece
What is golden?
400
Wooden equine gift to Aeneas' people.
What is the Trojan Horse?
400
Baseball poem subtitled "A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888".
What is "Casey at the Bat"?
400
A nursery rhyme whose last line reads "She whipped them all soundly and put them to bed."
What is "There Was An Old Woman"?
500
Forced to roll a stone up a hill, he almost made it to the top, only to have the stone roll back down again, forcing him to repeat the task.
Who is Sisyphus?
500
Thor's __________ toe
What is hammer?
500
Robin Hood's "monk-y" friend.
Who is Friar Tuck?
500
Montana tomboy who once rode for the Pony Express.
Who is Martha Jane "Calamity Jane" Canary?
500
The master and the dame got one, but the little boy had to go without.
What is a bag of wool?
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