TYPE of work
Characters
Creatures
Titles by location
Titles by quotation
100

Paul Bunyan

Legend of tall tale

100

This American legend worked on the West Virginia railroad.

Who is John Henry?

100

This creature tempts Eve in the Garden of Eden.

What is the serpent?

100

the Blue Ridge Mountains

What are the Jack Tales?

100

"“You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; but of the tree of the knowledgeof good and evil you shall not eat."

What is Genesis 2, or the Judeo-Christian creation myth?

200

"That Man to Me Seems Equal to the Gods"

What is a poem?

200

This is the mother of Gilgamesh.

Who is Ninsun?

200

Complete the title: "Why _______'s Tail is Bare."

What is Opossum?

200

the Great Lakes (reportedly created by him)

What is "The Legend of Paul Bunyan"?

200

"If only I could find the one man whom the gods made immortal, I would ask him how to overcome death."

What is The Epic of Gilgamesh?

300

Antigone

What is drama or tragedy?

300

This king forbids Antigone to bury her brother.

Who is Creon?

300

Yeh Shen's stepmother kills this animal.

What is a fish? 

300

Australia

What is Rainbow Serpent?

300

"The grief alone is mine, all mine. I'll never pin the blame on anyone else that's human. I was the one. I killed you, poor child. I did it. It is all true."

What is Antigone? (Creon is speaking.)

400

The Plant of Life

What is a creation story?

400
This heroine of a Chinese folktale is a Cinderella figure.

Who is Yeh Shen?

400

Paul Bunyan's favorite travel companion

Who is Babe, the blue ox?

400

Germany (a Cinderella variant)

Ashputtel

400

"Soon after her arrival, the Sky Woman gave birth to twins."

What is the Haudenosaunee creation myth?

500

Gilgamesh

What is an epic?

500

In Norse mythology, he is the ruler of heaven and earth.

Who is Odin?

500

This spider features in a series of West African folktales.

Who is Anansi?

500

a cave outside Thebes

What is Antigone?

500

"Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate them one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats"

What is the book of Matthew or "The Judgment of the Nations"?