82 Hercules Trivia Questions & Answers

Answer: Cyclops

Without the interference of Hercules, Hades released the Titans from their prison underground. He sent the Titans to destroy Mount Olympus. Hades sent four of the Titans to destroy Zeus and Mount Olympus while he sent the cyclops to kill Hercules. Meg was injured while saving Hercules and this action gave Hercules his strength back that Hades had taken from him.

Answer: The Fates

Hades meets with The Fates regarding this, and they tell him what he must do in order to achieve this. However, The Fates reveal that if Hercules were to fight, he would fail.

Answer: Zeus

Hercules' real father is Zeus, the Greek god, and his mother is Hera, but Hercules doesn't find this out until his foster parents tell him. But he doesn't quite believe it until he goes to Zeus' statue and it comes alive!

Answer: theme park

This is said by Meg, when Pain and Panic appear as a bunny and a gopher, after Hercules rescues Meg from the River Guardian. This happens as Hercules and Phil are on their way to Thebes for a "road test." After Meg says this, Pain and Panic get offended and say, "Who are you calling a rodent, sister? I'm a bunny!"

Answer: Titans

These Titans include one that can freeze things with his breath, a tornado Titan, and a Titan that can melt things. Zeus put all the Titans underground with his thunderbolts, where they remained until Hades released them.

Answer: Tate Donovan

Tate Donovan plays the voice of adult Hercules in the movie. A couple of the other choices were main characters from other animated movies. Matthew Broderick voiced Simba in the movie, "The Lion King". Phil Harris voiced O'Mally in "The Aristocats" and Tony Goldwyn voiced Tarzan in "Tarzan".

Answer: Hermes

Hermes is the messenger to the gods. In Roman mythology his name is Mercury. Hermes is looking round the room at Hercules' christening (or Greek form of a christening) and, observing all the presents for the baby god, he makes this comment.

Answer: Mount Olympus

The gods were celebrating Hercules' birth on the top of Mount Olympus. When the Muses sang 'Gospel Truth' in the beginning of the movie, they sang that the Mighty Zeus was living on Mount Olympus, as well as the other gods.

Answer: Narrator

At the very beginning of the movie, a narrator starts to tell the story. The Muses interrupt him saying he's making the story sound like a Greek tragedy. The Muses picked up from there, and started to sing a song about how the Earth was before Hercules was born.

Answer: Meg

Hercules met Meg when he saved her from a river guardian. He didn't know that Meg was working for Hades and Hades was using her to destroy Hercules. Meg sold her soul to Hades to save her boyfriend who then dumped her. Hercules got Meg's soul back for her and told Zeus he would rather stay with Meg than live on Mount Olympus.

Answer: Pain and Panic

Hades sends his minions Pain and Panic to steal Hercules, who is just a baby at the time. After succeeding, they force him to drink a potion that will turn him mortal. They are interrupted before he could finish the potion, so Hercules still retains his mighty strength.

Answer: Pain and Panic

Hades, Lord of the Underworld's, two funny body-changing sidekicks are Pain and Panic. They give Hercules the potion that changes him to half-mortal, half-god (a demi-god) which sets off the film.

Answer: Narcissus

This is said by Hermes, after he delivers flowers to Hera at Hercules' baby shower. He is referring to the fun all of the gods are having on Mt. Olympus. After Hermes says this, Hercules begins to play with Zeus's lightning-bolts, which he sticks in his mouth and then throws across the room, breaking a pillar which restores itself.

Answer: Amphitryon

He and his wife found Hercules when he was just a baby, after he was drained of all his godliness (except for his strength).

Answer: Philoctetes

Before Hercules became a hero, he lived in a village with his adopted parents. Then problems happened. In the market, Hercules pushed the pillars down so that the market palace was ruined. Hercules himself was disappointed on the fact that he couldn't fit in well. Then his parents showed him the medallion they found with him. They told him that it was a god's symbol. Hercules decided to go to the Temple of Zeus. Zeus' statue said that Hercules could be a hero if he went to the island where Phil lived - he did mention Phil's full name.

Answer: Pain and Panic

Hercules was kidnapped by Hades' two evil minions, Pain and Panic, and they take him to Earth.

Answer: Danny Devito

Hercules wanted to return to his god status, but he needed to be trained as a hero so Zeus sent him to Phil. When Hercules first met Phil, they were both watching women bathe. Phil had retired due to the loss of the heroes he had trained. Hercules persuaded Phil to train him and make him a hero.

Answer: Farmers

Both Amphitryon and Alcmene are farmers. At one point, we see Hercules running into town dragging a large pile of hay.

Answer: The Muses

The five women who sing most of the songs call themselves The Muses. In Greek mythology, there are nine.

Answer: friends, Meg, friends

This is said by Megara when introducing herself to Hercules, after he saves her from the River Guardian. This happens on Hercules and Phil's way to Thebes. Meg says this to introduce herself. Then she asks Hercules if "a name came with all those rippling pectorals."

Answer: Penelope

When Penelope can't pull the wagon anymore, Hercules does it for her.

Answer: Danny DeVito

The other choices listed were some of the people that helped in the creation of the TV series, "Taxi". Danny DeVito also played in films such as, "Matilda" and "Drowning Mona".

Answer: OK

Phil is just about to say, presumably, something along the lines of "no way" in reply to Hercules' request for Phil to become his personal trainer, but Zeus intercepts, and blasts Phil with a lightning bolt. Phil then starts measuring Hercules' muscles, and setting tasks for him to do, all the while singing his "So You Wanna be a Hero" song.

Answer: Pain & Panic

He cried out their names when he came back to the Underworld.