Egyptian Mythology
What is the name of the Sun God, also known as the "God of the Pharaohs". Who is often represented by the head of a falcon, and crowned with a sun disk?
Ra
Thor the god of thunder, weather, and crops wields what weapon?
(Mjolnir) Hammer
What only mortal member of the gorgons was beheaded by Perseus?
Medusa
What great Greek warrior is killed by an arrow in the heel?
Achilles
What first woman in Greek Mythology releases all of the evils into the world by opening a jar? Leaving only hope remaining inside.
Pandora
Egyptians believe that the soul is made of how many parts?
Three (the ba which remains with the body, the ka which goes to the underworld, and the akh which could take many forms in the physical world.)
What is the name of the giant-kin God of fire and trickery in Norse Mythology?
Loki
Theseus with the help of Ariadne slayed what half man half bull monster in a Labyrinth?
The Minotaur
What woman deemed the most beautiful mortal woman in the world by Aphrodite is granted to Paris? She is viewed as the cause of the Trojan War.
Helen
In Chinese Mythology what animal accompanies the moon goddess Chang'e?
Thoth the supreme scribe and God of wisdom is depicted with the head of what bird?
Ibis
What God is known as the "All Father" and the leader of the Aesir, the original group of Norse gods?
Odin
The Chimera a hybrid monster is described as having the physical traits of what three animals? (You only have to say two)
Lioness, Goat, and Snake.
Who's ten year trip home to Ithaca and his wife Penelope is the subject of the Odyssey?
Odysseus
In Aztec Mythology the founding of Tenochtitlan the capital city is told through the prophecy of what bird perched on a cactus?
Egyptian believed that when determining the fate of the dead Anubis would weigh the deceased heart against what item?
The feather of truth
There are how many Norns or goddesses of destiny?
Three (think the Greek Fates)
What musician bargained with Hades to retrieve his wife Eurydice from the underworld?
Orpheus
What King of Mycenae commanded the Greek Troops alongside his brother Menelaus?
Agamemnon
In Indigenous Mythology what animal is known as a trickster who created humans and stole fire?
Coyote
Set after growing jealous of his brothers power cut Osiris's body into what number of pieces that he then hid around Egypt.
Fourteen
Loki tricked the blind Hoder into killing his brother Balder using a spear of what plant? A symbol of love and death.
Mistletoe
What is the answer to the Sphinx's riddle “What creature has one voice and yet becomes four-footed and two-footed and three-footed?”
Man
Funeral games take place in the honor of what son of Priam and Hecuba?
Hector
In Andean mythology Pachamama is referred to as the mother of what? Similar to Gaia, Isis, and Demeter
Earth/Fertility