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100
Who were the two monsters that attacked boats as they traveled the Straits of Messina?
Scylla and Charybdis.
100
What are both the Greek and Latin names for the god of war?
Ares and Mars.
100
Who sailed from Athens in a ship with black sails?
Theseus.
100
Who won the Trojan war?
Greeks.
100
What type of computer virus is named after a mythological war machine?
Trojan horse.
200
Medusa and her two sisters (Stheno and Euryale) are known as what?
Gorgons.
200
What bird because a symbol for the goddess Hera?
Peacock.
200
Who did the Harpies torment by stealing his food?
Phineus.
200
Who was the mother of Hercules?
Alcmena.
200
A centaur is part man, part what?
Horse.
300
How did the Sphinx challenge travelers who wished to get past and enter the town of Thebes?
With a riddle.
300
Who did Dionysus replace among the council of 12 gods on Mt. Olympus?
Hestia/Vesta.
300
Who did Paris shoot with an arrow in his single vulnerable spot?
Achilles.
300
What labor of Hercules was not counted because he asked for payment for the work?
Stables of Augeas.
300
What is the Roman name for the goddess Hephestus?
Vulcan.
400
What island was the home of the Minotaur?
Crete.
400
Who was the favorite child of Zeus, who he gave birth to from his head?
Athena/Minerva.
400
What was the name of the one-eyed Cyclops that Odysseus and his crew blinded?
Polyphemus
400
What goddess caused the conflict at the wedding of Peleus and Thetis by tossing a golden apple labled "to the fairest"?
Eris/Discord
400
Who assisted Perseus by loaning him his winged sandles?
Hermes/Mercury.
500
Who is the less commonly known two-headed dog, brother of Cerberus.
Orthrus.
500
Who are the two brothers of Zeus?
Poseidon/Neptune & Hades/Pluto
500
Helen, known as "the face that launched a thousand ships", was originally married to whom?
Menalaus.
500
Who punished Medusa by turning her into a monster with her snake-hair and ugly appearance?
Athena.
500
Hercules (or Heracles) gets his name from the goddess Hera and what another Greek word which means what?
Glory. (Cleos)
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