Gods and Goddesses
The Egyptian goddess Bastet is closely associated with this domesticated animal.
What is a cat?
This term refers to a person who is the child of a god/goddess and a human.
What is a demigod?
There have been 10,000 reported sightings of this hairy creature in the continental United States, with the majority occurring in the Pacific Northwest.
Who is Bigfoot?
Often thought of in tandem with his hunky Australian actor, this Norse god wields a hammer called Mjolnir in his own set of Marvel movies.
Who is Thor?
The term "werewolf" comes from two places: the word "wolf," and the old English "wer-," which translates to this word.
What is "man?"
This athletic wear brand gets its name from the Greek goddess of victory.
What is Nike?
This Greek son flew too close to the sun when attempting to escape the labyrinth with his father.
Who is Icarus?
"It's alive!" is a common trope in monster media, hailing from the creation of which bolt-headed creation?
Who is Frankenstein's monster? (NOT Frankenstein)!
"Who puts the glad in gladiator?" This Greco-Roman legend was adapted into a Disney movie musical in 1997.
Who is Hercules/Heracles?
The Loch Ness Monster, nicknamed "Nessie," hails from Scotland, where "loch" actually means this geographic feature.
What is a lake?
The Greek god Poseidon is the ruler of the seas, but this planetary-based Roman name of his is more commonly used in cartoons like Spongebob.
What is Neptune?
This 2019 Tony Award-winning musical written by Anais Mitchell is a folksy retelling of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.
What is Hadestown?
This term is used to refer to a woman with snakes for hair— Medusa being the most famous of the bunch.
What is a gorgon?
The 2024 remake of Nosferatu starred this "nepo baby" actress/model as Ellen Hutter, the object of the titular demon's desires.
Who is Lily-Rose Depp?
A mythological woman who boasted that she was a better weaver than Athena gave her name to this genus of spiders and scorpions.
What is an arachnid?
Shangdi is the supreme god of law, order, justice, and creation in Chinese mythology. He is also known by the moniker of "the Emperor of" this particular gemstone.
What is jade?
These mythological twin brothers, whose first names can later be found in the Harry Potter series, supposedly founded the city of Rome.
Who are Romulus and Remus?
This Irish-born creature was thought up to explain birth defects in children, as they were considered "inhuman."
What is a changeling?
This kind of mythology includes Krampus, the villain of the 2015 movie of the same name.
What is German/Eastern Alpine?
The daffodil is also referred to by this less-common Greek name, shared by the mythological man who was too obsessed with himself to care about others.
Who is Narcissus?
The Egyptian god Ra has two forms, where his head takes the shape of these two creatures.
What are the ram and scarab beetle?
This Mesopotamian tale of heroism is considered to be the oldest known piece of literature in the world.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
This real-life ruler of Romania in the mid 15th century is often credited as the inspiration for the vampiric characters of both Dracula and Nosferatu.
Who is Vlad the Impaler?
This 1964 movie musical is loosely based off of the Greek Myth of Pygmalion, who shaped his ideal woman out of stone and then came to fall in love with that statue.
What is My Fair Lady?
This type of mythology gives us the English names for Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.
What is Norse? (Think about it! Thursday = Thor's day)