Greece is the Word
Pandora, in mythology, was the first ____________.
What is woman?
Who was the leader of the Titans?
Who was Cronus?
Who was the god of war and violence?
Who was Ares?
What trio of female goddesses all share one eye and one tooth?
Who are the Gray Sisters?
What does the name Orion mean?
What is urine?
What was Galatea before being transformed into a person?
What is a sculpture?
The Aegean Sea is named after Theseus' father, King ______________.
What is the highest mountain in Greece?
What is Mount Olympus?
How did the athletes in the ancient Olympics compete?
What is naked?
One of Zeus' romances was with a Phoenician princess named ______________.
Who was Europa?
Pan, the goat-legged son of Hermes, and god of the wild, enjoyed screaming to frighten passerby - which is where we get our word "___________."
What is panic?
Gaea sent a giant _____________ to sting Orion to death when he threatened to kill every animal on earth.
What is a scorpion?
Between Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite - who was judged the most beautiful?
Who was Aphrodite?
Theseus used what, to help him navigate the Minotaur's maze?
What is a ball of thread?
Greeks invented: democracy, the alphabet, logic, comedy & drama, geometry, and __________ power.
What is wind?
Pandora closed the jar before what could escape?
What is hope?
Instead of blood, a golden substance called ________________ ran through the gods veins.
What is ichor?
What profession claimed Hephaestus as its patron god?
Who are blacksmiths?
Orpheus was able to help his team by playing a beautiful song that drowned out that of the deadly ___________.
Who are the Sirens?
Athena turned this master weaver into a spider.
Who was Arachne?
Every nine years, how many people were sacrificed to the Minotaur?
What is 14?
The Greeks believed that Apollo's oracle at _____________ was the center of the world.
What was Delphi?
What was the weapon forged by the Cyclopes for Hades?
What is a helment?
The Big Dipper is part of what constellation?
What is the Great Bear?
Peleus and the sea nymph Thetis had a son named _____________.
Who was Achilles?
Jason's assembled team of heroes were called the _____________.
Who were the Argonauts?
Odysseus used this name to help him defeat Polyphemus.
Who was Nobody?
What metal slew the Chimera?
What is lead?
How many rivers were there in Hades?
What are 5?
Who stole fire from Olympus for humans?
Who was Prometheus?
The earth grows cold and plants die three months out of every year because _____________ is mourning the loss of Persephone to Hades.
Who was Demeter?
What insect did Tithonus turn into?
What is a grasshopper?
Who was Orpheus' wife?
Who was Eurydice?
Chelone, late to Zeus' wedding, was turned into a _____________.
What is a tortoise?
Who slew the Gorgon Medusa?
Who is Perseus?
Which planet in our solar system is NOT named after a Greek (or Roman) god?
What is Earth?
Gaea, the earth, was first born out of the darkness of _______________.
What is Chaos?
What is Poseidon's Roman name?
What is Neptune?
Who was Narcissus?
What is one year?
What is the term for extreme arrogance?
What is hubris?
Theseus' marriage to Antiope led to a war between Athens and the _______________.
The Greeks were ______________ meaning they believed in many gods.
Zeus was raised by Amaltheia on Mount Ida. What type of animal was Amaltheia?
What is a goat?
What type of tree is a symbol of Zeus?
What is an oak?
What are pigs?
What is the name of the three-headed watchdog from Tartarus?
What is Cerberus?
The Greek poet Hesiod wrote that the gods had created humankind in how many different ages?
What is 5?
Charybdis was a demonic ___________ monster with a giant mouth.
What is a whirlpool?
Who was the Greek moon goddess?
Who was Selene?
Agamemnon sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia to the goddess Artemis so that the __________ would change.
What is wind?
What was Hera's favorite animal?
What is a peacock?
The mortal fisherman, Galucus, became the protector of ___________ & ____________ menaced by storms.
What are sailors & fishermen?
What object did Achilles use to kill Cycnus?
What was a rock?
Poseidon's sons Otus and Ephialtes were killed by what kind of weapon?
What is a spear?
What was the answer to the Sphinx's riddle?
What was "man?"
Who was Alectryon?
How many children did Cronus and Rhea have?
What is 6 (including Zeus)?
Who was Apollo's twin sister?
Who was Artemis?
Who is the goddess of night?
Who is Nyx?
Apollo's musical instrument was a gem-covered ivory _____________.
What is a lyre?
This mortal man understood the speech of animals.
Who was Melampus?
Who was considered the biggest and deadliest monster every born?
Who was Typhon?
If you did not live a good life, you would end up in _______________.
Where was Tarturus?
What does the name Pandora mean?
What is "all gifts?"
What animal is Apollo's special sacrifice?
What is a wolf?
What is a water nymph called?
What is a Naiad?
Who was King Diomedes?
Ken Jennings' crowed Palamedes as the smartest person in Greek mythology because he outsmarted what other super smart hero?
Who was Odysseus?
When you combine a horse and a rooster, you get what?
What is a hippoalectryon?