Greco-Roman Myths
Germanic/Norse Myths
Modern Influence
Adaptations
Mythological Worlds and Concepts
100

This Greek hero was such a talented musician, he convinced Hades to let him take his wife back from the dead.

Who is Orpheus?

100

This Norse god of thunder and lightning had to put on a wedding dress and pretend to marry the king of the trolls in order to win back his hammer, Mjolnir.

Who is Thor?

100

These days of the week are named after the Germanic/Nordic gods Tyr, Woden, Thor, and Frigg.

What are Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday?

100

This 2019 Tony Award-winning musical was based on the myth of Orpheus.

What is Hadestown?

100

A type of myth that explains how something came to be -- for example, the Flood narrative explaining the origin of rainbows.

What is an etiological myth?

200

This beautiful young man was cursed with falling in love with his own reflection.

Who is Narcissus?

200

Also known as the All-Father, this Norse god sacrificed one of his own eyes in order to drink from Mimir's well to gain wisdom.

Who is Odin?

200

Writer/Philosopher Albert Camus called this mythological figure the ideal example of the "Absurd Hero" because of his willingness to keep going with his pointless task of pushing a boulder up a hill.

Who is Sisyphus?

200

Orphee, a 1950 French adaptation of the myth of Orpheus, was written and directed by this auteur filmmaker, who was also a poet and artist.

Who is Jean Cocteau?

200

A mythology's explanation of the universe.

What is cosmogony?

300

This mythological figure was a Titan who was punished for stealing fire from the gods to give it to man. 

Who is Prometheus?

300

This trickster god was both a mother and father, having turned himself into a female horse and getting pregnant with the eight-legged steed Sleipnir. 

Who is Loki?

300

This mental disorder is named after a Greek mythical figure who fell in love with himself.

What is narcissism?

300

In this Medieval Celtic version of the Orpheus myth, the Orpheus character succeeds in bringing back his wife.

What is "Sir Orfeo"?

300

All the gods of a particular religion.

What is a pantheon?

400

According to Greek mythology, she was the first woman, created as a punishment against men, famed for releasing all of the evils into the world by opening a forbidden box. 

Who is Pandora?

400

The name given to the pantheon of Norse gods.

What is the Aesir?

400

Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud developed this theory, named after mythical Greek king, which proposes that young boys have a desire to kill their fathers in order to win their mothers' affections.

What is the Oedipus Complex?

400

This song from the musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch was a retelling of an ancient Greek myth about how humans went from four-legged, four-armed, and two-headed beings of three sexes to our current halved state.

What is "The Origin of Love"?

400

Where all of the Greek gods were said to live.

What is Mt. Olympus?

500

This man, the greatest inventor of all time, was the father of Icarus, the boy who flew too close to the sun.

Who is Daedalus?

500

The first being in Norse cosmogony, from whose body the earth (Midgard) was created.

Who is Ymir?

500

The debate over whether or not people have free will has been going on for thousands of years, but according to the ancient Greeks, people's lives were determined by these three women.

Who are the Fates?

500

In this Marvel Cinematic Universe film, Odin loses an eye in battle, unlike in the original myth.

What is Thor?

500

In Norse myths, the worlds are all connected by this tree, also known as the World Tree.

What is Yggdrasil?