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Quiz about Greek Mythical Masquerade Mixer 9 for 10
Quiz about Greek Mythical Masquerade Mixer 9 for 10

Greek Mythical Masquerade Mixer 9 for 10 Quiz


You are at an ancient Greek masquerade ball, and you have to identify the mythical entities who are speaking to you. When you take the first letter of each answer it will spell the name of the party's host! Good luck!

A multiple-choice quiz by BigTriviaDawg. Estimated time: 3 mins.
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Time
3 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
412,472
Updated
Aug 27 23
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Easy
Avg Score
9 / 10
Plays
429
Awards
Top 35% Quiz
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Question 1 of 10
1. The first mythical Greek tells you, "I gave Daddy a massive headache!" Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. The second mythical Greek whispers to you, "I don't always fight, but when I do I often aim for the heel!" Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. The third mythical Greek brought food and tells you, "If you are hungry, there are pomegranate seeds in the fridge!" How nice! Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. The fourth mythical Greek tells you in a haughty voice, "I'm in charge of fertility around here! My son is the king of the gods after all." Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. The fifth mythical Greek complains to anyone who will listen, "I swear I didn't know she was my mom!" Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. The sixth mythical Greek sways as he walks up to you and loudly states, "I don't get drunk, I get more awesome! Pass the wine!" Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. Between mouthfuls of grass, the seventh mythical Greek explains, "So I get romantic with a fella, and I get turned into a cow!" Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. The eighth mythical Greek apparently is talking about someone he met on holiday when he says, "That dude with the horns on his head has amazingly rank cow breath!" Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. The ninth mythical Greek says dreamily, "All my Dad wants to do is make war, and all I want to do is make love." Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. Take the first letter from the answers to questions 1-9 to give the answer to find out who the host of the party is!

Answer: (9 letter name)

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. The first mythical Greek tells you, "I gave Daddy a massive headache!"

Answer: Athena

Legend has it that Zeus impregnated Metis and then decided to eat her. If that doesn't sound weird enough, soon after, Zeus is complaining of a headache, and low and behold Athena pops out of his head as a full adult! Yeah, that makes sense, right? The other popular myth is that she has no mother at all and just popped out of Zeus' head. Athena is the goddess of wisdom and war. I didn't realize those two topics went together...but they do for the ancient Greeks!
2. The second mythical Greek whispers to you, "I don't always fight, but when I do I often aim for the heel!"

Answer: Paris

If you break out the old Homer, you learn that Paris caused a bit of drama by bringing Helen home to meet his parents. They were in love (at least he was, anyway), and by ancient standards that is all that matters. As the story goes, the Greeks were having none of that and came to attack Troy.

The mightiest of the Greeks was Achilles who was almost immortal...after a lovely bath in the river Styx...except for his heel. Back to the siege on Troy...the legend goes that Apollo knew about Achilles' weakness and guided Paris's arrow to hit that one spot.

Unfortunately, the Iliad does not tell us how the heel wound actually killed Achilles, but myth does not have to make sense, does it?
3. The third mythical Greek brought food and tells you, "If you are hungry, there are pomegranate seeds in the fridge!" How nice!

Answer: Hades

Demeter would shudder at this one! So, Hades kidnaps Persephone and brought her to the underworld. Persephone did not read the service warranty and did not realize that eating a pomegranate seed would cause her to have to come back to the underworld every year! In fact, she ate four pomegranate seeds and thus had to spend four months out of every year with Hades! Yuck! Legend has it that we have winter because Demeter is too sad to keep things growing while her daughter is gone. Have you ever seen how big a pomegranate seed is?
4. The fourth mythical Greek tells you in a haughty voice, "I'm in charge of fertility around here! My son is the king of the gods after all."

Answer: Rhea

Rhea is the daughter of Gaia and the mother of Zeus. Apparently, her husband (and brother...) Cronus was given the prophecy that one of his children would overthrow him. Rather than stop having children, he chose to eat each child as soon as they were born! Rhea's maternal instincts kick in, and she hides her sixth child, Zeus, giving Cronus a rock to eat instead since it is so hard to tell the difference between a rock and a baby! Zeus does go on to overthrow his father and save his five other siblings who were apparently still alive in Dad's belly. Rhea's role as a goddess is reduced at this point, but she does continue to be the goddess of fertility and childbirth.
5. The fifth mythical Greek complains to anyone who will listen, "I swear I didn't know she was my mom!"

Answer: Oedipus

The tale of Oedipus is another story with a prophecy predicting son will kill Dad - in this case, King Laius of Thebes. So baby Oedipus is sent with a shepherd to be left out on a mountainside to die of exposure. But we finally have someone in our story with some compassion, and he instead passes the baby on to another shepherd. Oedipus grows up with a neighboring King Polybus and Queen Merope, not knowing the true origin of his birth.

He ends up with the Delphic prophecy of him not only killing his father but also marrying his mother! Ew! Gross! So logically, Oedipus left his home kingdom and went to the faraway kingdom of...(wait for it)...Thebes. On his way, he gets in a fight and kills a random old man along the way (hint, it was King Laius) and finds the city needs a champion to answer the riddle of the Sphinx. Being clever, he solves the riddle with no problem, saves the city, and marries the newly widowed queen...er...his mom, Queen Jocasta!
6. The sixth mythical Greek sways as he walks up to you and loudly states, "I don't get drunk, I get more awesome! Pass the wine!"

Answer: Dionysus

There are few mysteries more complex and confusing than the actual birth of Dionysus. What can be said is he is the god of grapes and wine...so he is the one you want at your party! Most stories have Dionysus growing up in the care of river nymphs, so it is not too surprising that he is also the god of insanity and madness.

He just gets more awesome! The mystery cult surrounding Dionysus is focused on letting go of inhibitions and channeling the god's power into oneself. Definitely crazy!
7. Between mouthfuls of grass, the seventh mythical Greek explains, "So I get romantic with a fella, and I get turned into a cow!"

Answer: Io

Io was a chief priestess for the temple of Hera when she caught the eye of Zeus. In most myths, Io resisted Zeus's advances at first but eventually was overcome. Some say that Zeus turned Io into a cow to hide her from Hera, but of course, the goddess is too smart for that.

Other myths suggest that Hera was the one who turned Io into a cow out of anger and jealousy. Considering the fate of many of the mortals who end up displeasing the gods, maybe being a cow is not that bad after all.
8. The eighth mythical Greek apparently is talking about someone he met on holiday when he says, "That dude with the horns on his head has amazingly rank cow breath!"

Answer: Theseus

Theseus, of course, is the one who slays the minotaur! The legend goes that the son of King Minos was murdered in Athens, but the Athenian King, Aegeus, did not know who the murderer was. So to placate King Minos, the Athenians would send seven young men and seven women to Crete to be placed in the labyrinth to face the minotaur. King Aegeus' son, Theseus, volunteers to go and promises to defeat the minotaur to free the Athenians of the pledge. King Minos's daughter Ariadne falls in love with Theseus and helps him by giving him a ball of string to help trace his path through the maze.

In return, Theseus promised to bring Ariadne back with him to Athens. Theseus wins and takes the girl...and drops her off on an island along the way before heading back to Athens. Smooth! Regretfully, Theseus does not change the color of the flags on his ship from black, and the old King Aegeus thinks he is dead and kills himself.
9. The ninth mythical Greek says dreamily, "All my Dad wants to do is make war, and all I want to do is make love."

Answer: Eros

Eros is the son of the god of war, Ares, and the god of love Aphrodite (don't think too hard about why Ares is his dad instead of her husband, Hephaestus). He has wings, and it seems like Eros decided to take after his mother. Legend has it he would use his bow and arrow to pierce the hearts of mortals and gods alike to cause them to fall in love. One story says that Aphrodite was jealous of the mortal woman, Psyche, who was very beautiful. Aphrodite wanted her son to cause Psyche to fall in love with the ugliest man he could find...but Eros fell in love with Psyche instead!
10. Take the first letter from the answers to questions 1-9 to give the answer to find out who the host of the party is!

Answer: Aphrodite

If you answered all the questions correctly, you will realize that your special host is Aphrodite the goddess of love! One myth has her being born out of sea foam from a body part that the god Uranus was no longer using. Another suggests she was the daughter of Zeus and Dione the Titaness.

There are a few stories that explain why Aphrodite became the wife of Hephaestus. In one story, Zeus married Aphrodite off to Hephaestus quickly before the other gods could fight over her. In another story, Hephaestus made Hera a throne of gold and trapped her on it until she agreed to give Aphrodite to him as a wife.

When Aphrodite was unfaithful by being with Ares, one legend suggests Hephaestus went back to Zeus and demanded his dowry back!
Source: Author BigTriviaDawg

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