Show:
I Need a Hero
It's Tricky
Oed, Ed, and Oeddy
I Am Beowulf!
Whatever
100
This is Theseus' call to adventure.
What is lifting a stone and finding a sword and sandals.
100
The monkey deceives the tortoise by telling him this.
What is he left his liver hanging on a tree?
100
Jocasta's method of death.
What is hanging?
100
The Anglo-Saxon's eternal battlefield.
What is Vallhala?
100
When the audience knows something the characters don't know.
What is dramatic irony?
200
She created the first Chinese people.
Who is Nu Kua?
200
The coffin that Seth makes fits Osiris perfectly because of this.
What is Seth measured Osiris's shadow.
200
The meaning of Oedipus' name.
What is Swollen Foot?
200
All Greek actors.
What is male?
300
In addition to godly/mortal parents and a remarkable birth, a hero must have this additional quality.
What is superior knowledge or powers?
300
Rhea keeps Zeus from Cronus's big mouth by doing this.
What is bundling a stone in a blanket to fool Cronus.
300
The components of the Sphinx.
What are woman, lion, bird?
300
Beowulf's king in Geatland.
Who is Hygelac?
300
These are the three tribes that first settled in England.
What are the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes?
400
Adam and Eve are ejected from the Garden of Eden for this reason.
What is they now know the difference between good and evil?
400
Seth is jealous of Osiris for this reason.
What is Osiris makes everything green and lush.
400
The Father of Drama.
Who is Thespis?
400
The price given to a family by the killer for having murdered one of its members.
What is wergild?
400
In the feudal system, wealth is based on this.
What is land?
500
Gilgamesh searches for immortality because of this.
What is he is distraught over Enkidu's death?
500
When Thor wrestles the old woman, he is actually wrestling this.
What is old age?
500
Teiresia's ailment.
What is blindness?
500
The name of the sword that kills Grendel's mother.
What is it didn't have a name?
500
The man who wrote Oedipus.
Who is Sophocles?