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Mirror, Mirror On the Wall Trivia Quiz


"Who's the Fairest of Them All"? A mirror's memoir of the beautiful women it reflected through the ages, mythical, imaginary or real.

A multiple-choice quiz by tiye. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Author
tiye
Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
368,431
Updated
Aug 04 24
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
8 / 10
Plays
1426
Awards
Top 35% Quiz
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Question 1 of 10
1. I am almost 30,000 years old. By today's standards, one would hardly consider me beautiful. I have a steatopygic figure and large, hanging breasts. I don't even have a face! However, at one time, I was given the name of a goddess.

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who's This Fairest of Them All?
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Question 2 of 10
2. I am a daughter of Zeus and Leda, a sister of Clytemnestra, Castor and Polydeuces, a queen of Sparta. A ten year war was fought because of my affair with a barbarian prince and a mighty city was burnt to the ground.

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who's This Fairest of Them All?
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Question 3 of 10
3. I am the Great Royal Wife of Akhenaten and my name means "the beautiful has arrived". My bust is one of the most famous pieces of Egyptian art.

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who's This Fairest of Them All?
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Question 4 of 10
4. I am one of the Four Beauties of Ancient China, a peasant girl, a concubine and a trained spy. I am so beautiful that "when I lean over my balcony to look at the pond, the fish become so dazzled by my reflection that they forget to swim and sink to the bottom of the pond."

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who's This Fairest of Them All?
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Question 5 of 10
5. I am the goddess of love, emerging from the foam of the sea on a seashell. I live in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who's This Fairest of Them All?
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Question 6 of 10
6. My Ottoman name is Hurrem Sultana but I am the daughter of an Ukrainian Christian priest and rose from slave girl to the wife of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent.

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who's This Fairest of Them All?

(Hint: My name sounds a little like the name of another royal wife, of Alexander the Great.)
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Question 7 of 10
7. My reclining figure can be seen on my family's tomb in the First Cemetery of Athens. I died very young, at only 18. My first name means "wisdom" in my native Greek.

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who's This Fairest of Them All?
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Question 8 of 10
8. I was a movie star before I stole the heart of a prince and become Princess Consort of a very small and very rich Mediterranean country. A Hermes bag is named after me.

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who's This Fairest of Them All?
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Question 9 of 10
9. I am the second wife of the last Shah of Iran, Reza Mohammad Pahlavi. He divorced me when I was only 26 years old because I couldn't bear him an heir. I was heart-broken and became known as the "Princess with the Sad Eyes."

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who's This Fairest of Them All?
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Question 10 of 10
10. I am Somali and one of the very first super models. I am also a successful businesswoman, an actress and a spokesperson for social causes. I married a "Thin White Duke".

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who's This Fairest of Them All?
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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. I am almost 30,000 years old. By today's standards, one would hardly consider me beautiful. I have a steatopygic figure and large, hanging breasts. I don't even have a face! However, at one time, I was given the name of a goddess. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who's This Fairest of Them All?

Answer: Venus of Willendorf

The Venus of Willendorf, nowadays called just The Woman of Willendorf, is a 10,5 cm (4,25 inch) limestone statuette of a female figure, discovered in Willendorf, Austria.
It is the best known example of the "venus" statuettes of obese paleolithic women. Its purpose is not clear but the prevailing explanation is that it is a fertility figurine used in a ritual. The basis for this theory is the well defined pubic area, the fact that it lacks a face and that it shows an obese woman, which in a hunter-gatherer society would probably have no reason to exist.
2. I am a daughter of Zeus and Leda, a sister of Clytemnestra, Castor and Polydeuces, a queen of Sparta. A ten year war was fought because of my affair with a barbarian prince and a mighty city was burnt to the ground. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who's This Fairest of Them All?

Answer: Helen of Troy

There isn't much left unsaid about "the face that launched a thousand ships". Even today, "La Belle Helene" is used to describe a beautiful woman.
Rather prosaically, though, this femme fatale returned to Sparta and King Menelaus, after all the drama she caused.
3. I am the Great Royal Wife of Akhenaten and my name means "the beautiful has arrived". My bust is one of the most famous pieces of Egyptian art. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who's This Fairest of Them All?

Answer: Nefertiti

Nefertiti's 3,300 year old painted limestone bust by sculptor Tutmose, was discovered in 1912 by German archaeologist Ludwig Borchardt and it is housed in the Egyptian collection of the Neus Museum in Berlin. Her beauty is breathtaking, even though she lacks the iris of her left eye.

This fact has caused intriguing hypotheses of her suffering from an eye disease or being one-eyed. Most probably, the quartz iris was destroyed at some point in time.
4. I am one of the Four Beauties of Ancient China, a peasant girl, a concubine and a trained spy. I am so beautiful that "when I lean over my balcony to look at the pond, the fish become so dazzled by my reflection that they forget to swim and sink to the bottom of the pond." Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who's This Fairest of Them All?

Answer: Xi Shi

During Xi Shi's time (6th century BC) China was a war-torn land, split among seven major powers. One of the kings found and trained Xi Shi and sent her as a gift and a spy to one of his rivals. Xi Shi lived in the Palace of Beautiful Women and influenced King Fuchai of Wu on decisions and state affairs.
Eventually, the king weakened and committed suicide and no one saw Xi Shi again, or so the legend says. The other three Beauties were Wang Zhaojun, Diaochan and Yang Guifei.
5. I am the goddess of love, emerging from the foam of the sea on a seashell. I live in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who's This Fairest of Them All?

Answer: Venus from Botticelli's "Birth of Venus"

The use of expensive alabaster powder mixed in Botticelli's colours is what gives Venus' skin its transparent paleness. The contrapposto figure is rumored to be modeled after Botticelli's alleged love interest, Simonetta Vespucci, a great beauty of Florence who died at age 22. Any affair between them is historically unsupported.

However, an it is an interesting and romantic fact that Botticelli asked to be buried at her feet and his wish was respected when he died, 34 years after Simonetta Vespucci's death.
6. My Ottoman name is Hurrem Sultana but I am the daughter of an Ukrainian Christian priest and rose from slave girl to the wife of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who's This Fairest of Them All? (Hint: My name sounds a little like the name of another royal wife, of Alexander the Great.)

Answer: Roxelana

Paintings depict Roxelana (1500-1558) as a fair-skinned raven-haired beauty who was captured and sold as a slave in Suleiman the Magnificent's harem where she quickly became his favorite consort and eventually his wife and mother to his heirs. She was a woman of great influence in the Saray who saw one of her son's become Sultan Selim II. She is buried next to Suleiman the Magnificent in the Suleymaniye Mosque in Istanbul. (She is not to be confused with the wife of Alexander the Great, Roxanne).
7. My reclining figure can be seen on my family's tomb in the First Cemetery of Athens. I died very young, at only 18. My first name means "wisdom" in my native Greek. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who's This Fairest of Them All?

Answer: Sophia Afentaki

Sophia Afentaki, the daughter of a very prominent family, died of tuberculosis in 1878. Her family commissioned Giannoulis Halepas, a famous sculptor at the time, to sculpt her reclining sleeping figure out of the whitest marble. The sculpture is considered the most beautiful funerary sculpture in the cemetery and it is often adorned with fresh flowers by anonymous people.
8. I was a movie star before I stole the heart of a prince and become Princess Consort of a very small and very rich Mediterranean country. A Hermes bag is named after me. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who's This Fairest of Them All?

Answer: Grace Kelly

This exquisite beauty was already famous when she married Prince Rainier of Monaco and fitted very easily into true royalty. While pregnant with her first child, Princess Grace often clutched a hand-made leather bag by Hermes to hide her pregnancy from photographers. The paparazzi photos with the bag became legendary and so the bag was named the Kelly bag.
9. I am the second wife of the last Shah of Iran, Reza Mohammad Pahlavi. He divorced me when I was only 26 years old because I couldn't bear him an heir. I was heart-broken and became known as the "Princess with the Sad Eyes." Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who's This Fairest of Them All?

Answer: Soraya Esfandiari-Bakhtiari

Soraya (1932-2001) was the daughter of a Bakhtiari nobleman and a German wife. She married the Shah of Iran at age 18 years old and divorced him 7 years later because of her apparent inability to produce an heir.
Soraya considered her divorce a "sacrifice of her own happiness" for her country and its people. She lived in Paris after the divorce and tried to have a movie career. She was granted the title Princess of Iran.
The story of her divorce inspired French song writer Francoise Mallet-Jorris to write a pop song that became a hit "Je veux pleurer comme Soraya" ("I want to cry like Soraya").
The Shah of Iran had four children with Empress Farah Diba-Pahlavi but he was ousted from Iran with the Islamic Revolution in 1979.
10. I am Somali and one of the very first super models. I am also a successful businesswoman, an actress and a spokesperson for social causes. I married a "Thin White Duke". Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who's This Fairest of Them All?

Answer: Iman

Iman Mohamed Abdulmajid is the daughter of a Somali diplomat and she pursued a career in modelling in the 70s and 80s. Her striking posture, long slender neck and chiseled facial features have led to comparisons with Cleopatra, Nefertiti and the Queen of Sheba.

She was a muse for Yves St Laurent, Gianni Versace and Calvin Klein, among other designers. Iman was the wife of musician David Bowie.
Source: Author tiye

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