Fantasy in Art
Ghouls and Goblins
Myths and Legends
Otherworldly
Pop Fantasy
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The above painting by Jan Boeckhorst depicts the capture of this mythical creature.
What is Pegasus?
100
The representation of this instantly recognizable Halloween staple has its origins in burial shrouds, for which an ordinary bedsheet is now an easily accessible shorthand.
What is a ghost?
100
This mythical creature may have originated when ancient Norsemen saw Narwhals.
What is the unicorn?
100
The acronym "UFO" stands for this term.
What is Unidentified Flying Object?
100
In English legend, this wizard was an advisor to King Arthur.
Who was Merlin?
200
This painting by Andrea Vaccaro in c. 1635 depicts David dragging the head of this legendary giant.
Who is Goliath?
200
In the late 17th century, inhabitants of this Massachusetts town famously prosecuted over 200 people on charges of witchcraft. Thirty were found guilty and of those, most were brutally killed.
Where is Salem?
200
One theory taken perhaps a bit too far suggests that this mythical creature is actually a plesiosaurus that somehow survived for 66 million years in a Scottish lake.
What is the Loch Ness Monster?
200
Seeing forms resembling "canals" on its surface, many astronomers in the 1830s believed this planet to be inhabited.
What is Mars?
200
This Hogwarts professor of wizardry was a member of House Slytherin.
Who was Professor Snape?
300
The famous painting by Goya pictured above depicts this ancient god devouring one of his sons.
Hint: one of the planets in our Solar System is named after this god.
Who is Saturn?
300
The ancient people of what is now this geographic region originated many of the traditions that now comprise present-day Halloween festivities.
What is Scotland, or the British Isles?
When the Holy Roman Empire forcefully converted the ancient Celts to Christianity, as with many other assimilated cultures, they permitted the adoption of prior traditions.
300
These mythical creatures may have originated as the fantasies of lonely sailors, possibly suffering hallucinations from dehydration. (Image is an illustration of a sailor, not the answer.)
What are mermaids?
300
In the late 1940s, this location was the site of an alleged crash landing by an extraterrestrial spacecraft.
What is Area 51 or Roswell, New Mexico?
300
In the Star Trek Universe, this extraterrestrial species is the first to make contact with humans, ushering them into an age of intragalactic travel and politics.
Who are the Vulcans?
400
Anubis, the ancient Egyptian god of death, is depicted as a man with the head of this animal.
What is a jackal?
400
This mythological European monster abducts and punishes children who have misbehaved during the Christmas season.
What is the Krampus?
400
In Greek mythology, this creature dwelled in a labyrinth and was eventually killed by Theseus.
What is the Minotaur?
400
This religion, described by many as a cult or pyramid scheme, uses a fantasy novel by L. Ron Hubbard as its foundational text.
What is Scientology?
400
It is on this frozen planet that Luke Skywalker seeks warmth inside the carcass of a tauntaun.
Where is Hoth?
500
In 2014, Kara Walker created a version of this ancient Egyptian mythological creature completely out of sugar (pictured above).
What is the Sphinx?
500
This scary fictional character began as an internet meme in 2009 and inspired a horrendous stabbing five years later.
Who is Slenderman?
500
This relative of the giraffe was believed by Westerners to be fictitious until the beginning of the 20th century.
What is the okapi?
500
Originally a radio broadcast hoax, this action-packed story of alien invasion was eventually adapted into a 2005 film by Steven Spielberg.
What is War of the Worlds?
500
Filmmaker and artist David Lynch turned down an offer to direct The Empire Strikes Back so that he could make a screen adaptation of this Frank Herbert novel in 1984.
What is Dune?
The novel is being adapted again in 2021 by Denis Villeneuve, who directed Mad Max: Fury Road and Blade Runner 2049, both reboots of 1980s science fiction action films.