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Progress: 1 of 18 questions
The basilisk, or cockatrice, was called the king of serpents and was endowed with a crest or comb upon its head, in the form of a crown. What was the basilisk's unusual form of reproduction?
Generated from the putrefying flesh of a hen poisoned by a viper
The egg of a cock incubated by a toad or serpent
By mixing the blood of a dragon and an eagle and burying it in the skull of a lion
They burst from the ground where the blood of a hanged traitor had fallen
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Against which tribe of Greeks did the half-human, half-horse Centaurs wage a war, in which they were driven out of their rich homelands on the Thessallian plains.
Athenians
Mycenaeans
Lapithai
Spartans
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Cerberus, the three-headed dog which guarded the gates of Hades, was the subject of Hercules's 12th Labour. What was it that Hercules had to achieve?
To drag Cerberus up to the light without injuring it
To kill it with his bare hands
To flay it alive and wear its skin as a shirt
To tame it so that it would eat from his hands
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The dreadful Chimaera was a fire-breathing beast with the heads of a lion, a dragon (or snake) and a goat. Which hero was charged with the slaying of this monster?
Perseus
Bellerophon
Theseus
Hercules
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The Cyclopes were giants with one great eye in the middle of their foreheads. What was the name of the Cyclops who trapped Odysseus and his crew?
Prometheus
Argus
Atlas
Polyphemus
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With which trio of monstrous sisters did Perseus contend, returning with the head of one of them in a bag?
The Gorgons
The Furies
The Graeae
The Hesperides
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According to Sir John Mandeville, the talons of the Griffin were so large that men made what from them?
Cups
Scythes
Swords
Ploughs
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Of monsters all, most monstrous this, no greater wrath
God sends 'mongst men; it comes from depth of pitchy Hell:
And Virgin's face, but wombe-like gulf unsatiate hath,
Her hands are griping clawes, her colour pale and fell.
What terrible monster is here described by the poet Virgil?
The Sphinx
The Scylla
The Harpy
The Lamia
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When Theseus went into the labyrinth to face the bull-headed, lion-fanged Minotaur he carried with him a "clue" or "clew" to help find his way out of the maze. What was Theseus's clew?
A map drawn with firefly blood so that Theseus could read it in the dark
A ball of yarn, which Theseus played out behind him
A bag of laurel leaves which Theseus scattered at each turn
A heavy-bladed hatchet with which Theseus notched the wall at each corner he turned
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What was the origin of the spring of fresh, clear water called the Hippocrene Fountain?
The place where blood from Medusa's severed head had dripped
The place where Poseidon created horses
The place where Cheiron the centaur was slain by Hercules
The place where the winged horse Pegasus first touched hooves to earth
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After the young Phoenix has risen from the ashes of its parent bird, it grips its nest in its talons and flies where to deposit the nest as an offering?
The Sun
Heliopolis, Egypt
Hyperborea
Delphi, Greece
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In the Voyages of Sinbad from the Arabian Nights, what food-item had the giant bird, the Roc, been known to deliver whole to its young?
An Elephant
A Whale
A Dragon
A Genie
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Pan was a Satyr, a being part goat and part human. His mother was a nymph called Penelope; who was his father?
Jupiter
Apollo
Mercury
Mars
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His ship caught between the Scylla, a many-headed, cliff-dwelling beast that snatched men from the decks, and the Charybdis, a sea-floor dwelling monster that sucked down water in a great whirlpool, nearer which of the two dangers was Odysseus advised to steer?
The Scylla: better to lose a few men than his whole ship
The Charybdis: better to chance all or nothing
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Against the hypnotic allure of whose song did Odysseus stop his ears with wax?
The Eumenides
The Muses
The Sirens
The Pleiades
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Which hero correctly answered the riddle of the Sphinx and then slew it?
Odysseus
Achilles
Oedipus
Aeneas
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What object was gifted to Hercules by Minerva in order to complete his Fifth Labour, the slaying of the Stymphalian Birds, carnivorous fowl with beaks, claws and wings made of brass?
A bronze net to trap them
A polished shield to dazzle them
A flask of hydra venom to poison them
A horn rattle to startle them
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What beast is described here:
There was nothing more terrible than the voice or braying of it, for the voice is strain'd above measure. It fighteth both with the mouth and with the heeles, with the mouth biting like a Lyon and with the heeles kicking like a Horse.
A Unicorn
A Manticore
A Hippogriff
A Cateloblepas
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