The Mythical Beasts quiz

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?

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.

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?

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?

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?

With which trio of monstrous sisters did Perseus contend, returning with the head of one of them in a bag?

According to Sir John Mandeville, the talons of the Griffin were so large that men made what from them?

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?

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?

What was the origin of the spring of fresh, clear water called the Hippocrene Fountain?

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?

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?

Pan was a Satyr, a being part goat and part human. His mother was a nymph called Penelope; who was his father?

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?

Against the hypnotic allure of whose song did Odysseus stop his ears with wax?

Which hero correctly answered the riddle of the Sphinx and then slew it?

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?

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.