Folkstories
according to norwigian folklore, when you see a white horse with a fiddle playing boy near the lake you shouldn't head near for its a creature in disguise.
Which Creature is it?
Nøkken
In a Time before CGI Star Wars was able to make a lightsaber. HOW?
A spinning pole coverd in retroreflective material. The light bounces back into the camera giving the glowing blade effect
During the Development of Norways own language two men traveled around the land writing down folklore.
What were their names?
Asbjørnsen og Moe
In the Odyssey Penelope sets up a challange to string Odysseuses old bow and shoot through 12 axes and would marry anyone who could do it.
None of the 108 Suitors could even string the bow, why is that?
It was a Recurve Warbow something none of the suitors were used too.
J.R.R Tolkien used alot of names from one mythologi for the names of the dwarfs. What mythologi?
Norse Mythologi
Askeladden once got stuck in a cave with a troll. To not be eaten, Askeladden challanged the troll to a porridge eating contest.
How did Askeladden win?
He Tricked the troll to cut its own stomach open.
Inn the James Bond movie "no time to die", what famous childrens character makes a quick cameo?
Fantorangen
When was Rome burned down?
July 18-19 64AD
During the trojan war, the greeks crafted and hid in a giant wooden horse. why did the trojans take it in?
They were told it was an offering to Athena.
What is the famous Robin Hood shot?
Spliting and arrow with another arrow.
What is the name of the sword in the stone acording to the original mythos?
The sword in the stone
In all adoptations of Stephen Kings horror novel IT they cut the final scene of the kids storyline. What was the scene they cut?
Sewer child orgy.
what was troys name while fighting against the greeks? (Time accurate name)
Ilios
Achilles os know to be a fears warrior and getting shot in the heel. But what was his main weapon?
Spear.
The lion king is often thoguht to be a retelling of one of Shakespeares most famous stories.
Which story?
Hamlet
In norse mythology the æsir "norse gods", Hired a giant to build a wall within 3 seasons, as payment the giant wanted the sun, the moon and the goddess Freyja's hand in marrige.
The gods sent Loki to make sure he didnt meet the deadline. What did Loki do to slow the giant down?
Got impregnated by the giants horse and gave birth to odins noble steed Sleipnir.
The movie Shrek was actually a punishments to the animators who slacked off while working on another movie.
What was the other movie?
The prince of Egypt
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay wrote 85 essays "the federalist papers".
How many did Hamilton Write?
51
After a trade with an Iranian shepperd boy in 1942, they got quite a suprise for what the boy offerd.
A baby syrian brown bear. that was adopted by the army and became and offisial soilder
When Jesus was crusified two others died with him. what were they're crimes?
they were commonly discribed as robbers and bandits
The Beautiful Helen of Tory is a descendant of zeus.
How was she born?
During Christofer Nolans "The Odyssey" there are several horror scenes all but one had used Cgi, which scene didn't?
The scene when circe transformed Odysseuses men into pigs.
Several of the norse myths were lost to time because the vikings just didn't write down their stories. This made it easy for the storries to be changed to fit a diffirent narrative.
One religion rose to popularity and forced many cultures to change their myths. What religion?
Christianity
Which Sword is effective against full body armor?
None
In Lotr what is the URUK HAI made of?
Mud