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JFH Scholar Bowl-8
Mythology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| god of love | Eros/Cupid |
| god of underworld | Hades/Pluto |
| ruler of the gods | Zeus/Jupiter |
| god of light, medicine, poetry | Apollo |
| god of wine, fertility, wild behavior | Dionysus/Bacchus |
| goddess of hunting and birth | Artemis/Diana |
| protector of marriage, women; sister/wife of the ruler of the gods | Hera/Juno |
| goddess of crafts, war, wisdom | Athena/Minerva |
| goddess of lobe | Aphrodite/Venus |
| god of war | Ares/Mars |
| god of fire and metalworking, blacksmith for gods | Haphaestus/Vulcan |
| Ruler of Titans, father of Zeus | Cronus/Saturn |
| wife of Hades | Persephone/Proserpina |
| greatest Greek hero in Trojan War, vulnerable heel | Achilles |
| greatest Trojan hero in Trojan War | Hector |
| patriarch of Troy | Priam |
| leader/king of Greeks | Agamemnon |
| chief muse, muse of epic heroic poetry | Calliope |
| 3 snake-haired female torturers of the doomed | Furies |
| human body, bull head, found in labirynth on Crete | Minotaur |
| 3-headed dog, guards entrance to Underworld | Cerberus |
| Medusa was one of 3 of these | Gorgons |
| Greek hero, took 10 years to reach home after Trojan War, subject of the Odyssey | Odysseus/Ulysses |
| son of Odysseus | Telemachus |
| wife of Odysseus | Penelope |
| god Odysseus made angry, god of horses and the sea | Poseidon |
| came up with Trojan Horse idea | Odysseus |
| name of kingdom of Odysseus | Ithaca |
| sea nymph that held Odysseus captive for 7 years | Calypso |
| sea nymphs whose songs lured sailors to their deaths | sirens |
| archeologist said to have found Troy | Heinrich Schleimann |
| trickster punished by having to roll a stone up a hill only to have it roll down again | Sisyphus |
| slew the Minotaur | Perceus |
| stole fire from gods for man | Prometheus |
| woman who opened forbidden namesake box bringing evils to man | Pandora |
| only thing left in Pandora's box | hope |
| killed Medusa | Perseus |
| man top, goat legs/lower body | satyr/faun |
| led the Argonauts | Jason |
| Argonauts were looking for this | Golden Fleece |
| son of Daedalus, flew to close to son, wings of wax melted | Icarus |
| wife of Agamemnon, killed him because he sacrificed their daughter to ensure safe passage to Troy | Clytemnestra |
| youth who loved his own relflecttion, turned into a flower | Narcissus |
| 2 fabled founders of Rome | Romulus and Remus |
| king of Sparta, husband of Helen | Menelaus |
| king of Troy | Priam |
| wife of king of Troy | Hecuba |
| 2 sons of Priam | Hector, Paris |
| brooded when Achilles' armor was given to Odysseus | Ajax |
| son of Zeus who performed the 12 labors | Heracles(Greek)/ Hercules (Roman) |
| ruler of Norse gods | Odin |
| son of Odin, god of thunder | Thor |
| Trickster god of ecil | Loki |
| god of sunlight, personified goodness, killed by Loki using mistletoe | Balder |
| where Norse gods went after death | Valhalla |
| what earth is called in Norse mythology | Midgard |
| maiden/warrior attendants of Odin | Valkyries |
| Odin's wife | Frigga |
| Norse god who threw the mistletoe that killed Balder | Hoder (Balder's brother) |
| 2 ravens who brought news of Balder's death to Odin | Hugin, Munin |
| name of the rainbow bridge that led to the home of the Norse gods | Bifrost |
| guardian of the rainbow bridge to the home of the Norse gods | Heimdall |
| Egyptian god of the Nile, vegetation, and the dead | Osiris |
| wife of Osiris, goddess of maternity | Isis |
| son of Isis and Osiris; falcon-headed | Horus |
| evil brother of Osiris that suffocated Osiris | Set |
| Wife of Hector; mother of Asyanax | Andromache |
| Greek goddess who wore a magic girdle | Aphrodite |
| wife of Jason; killed their children because of his infidelity | Medea |
| 3 female gods associated with Judgment of Paris | Hera, Athena, Aphrodite |
| Fruit that started the Trojan War and the inscription on it | a golden apple/ "To the fairest" |
| Roman god with 2 faces- one looking in past, on looking towards the future- with first month of the year named after him | Janus |
| Odysseus lived with this nymph for 7 years on Ogygia | Calypso |
| released Prometheus | Hercules/ Heracles |
| despite being loved by all, fell in love with own reflection | Narcissus |
| Thor's hammer | Mjolnir |
| Hindu god of creation and destruction; 4 arms, 3 eyes | Shiva |
| educated Sir Lancelot | Lady of the Lake |
| Heracles' 12th labor | bring back Cerberus |
| Penelope had to work on making this each night | tapestry |
| Norse apocalypse that killed all gods but one | Ragnorak |
| 7 sisters of Greek mythology; also a constellation | Pleiades |
| Prometheus' gift to man | fire |
| sorceress who changed Odysseus' men into swine | Circe |
| Gemini twins; brother of Helen of Troy | Argos |
| tyrannical king of city of Uruk; 2/3 god- 1/3 mortal | Gilgamesh |
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