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Although his siblings live on Mount Olympus, Hades rules the underworld, and is not usually considered an Olympian god.
5 Hades quizzes and 52 Hades trivia questions.
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  In the Realm of Hades   popular trivia quiz  
Collection Quiz
 12 Qns
Twelve of the items in this collection are associated with Hades, the Greek god of the Underworld, and ten are associated with other gods in the Greek Pantheon. Choose those that belong in the realm of Hades.
Average, 12 Qns, tiye, Dec 16 23
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Dec 16 23
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  Hades and Persephone   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This is a quiz about Hades and Persephone. Enjoy!
Easier, 10 Qns, POTCfan1234, Nov 19 16
Easier
POTCfan1234
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  Perpetual Darkness   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Tartarus, the land of the sinners and perpetual darkness. See what you know about this darkest part of the Greek underworld. All answers according to Bullfinch's mythology unless otherwise stated.
Average, 10 Qns, eyhung, Jul 29 13
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  Hades    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
How much do you know about the underworld, known by the same name as the God that rules over it? Find out with this easy quiz.
Tough, 10 Qns, Gaia Moore, Jul 31 07
Tough
Gaia Moore
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  Hades: The God and his Domain    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
I noticed that nobody had yet bothered to write a quiz about Hades, one of the three most important Olympian gods. Now the problem is solved!
Very Difficult, 10 Qns, Corkex, Dec 10 13
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Corkex
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trivia question Quick Question
Why did Hades take Persephone to the Underworld with him?

From Quiz "Hades and Persephone"





Hades Trivia Questions
1. Tartarus is the land reserved for the greatest sinners. Which river, composed of fire, surrounds it to prevent these souls within from escaping?

From Quiz Perpetual Darkness

Answer: Phlegethon

Phlegethon is the river of fire; Lethe the river of forgetfulness; Acheron the river of woe; and Styx the river of hate (and the boundary between the earth and the underworld).

2. What is Hades the god of?

From Quiz Hades and Persephone

Answer: The Underworld

Hades is the god of the Underworld. Poseidon is the god of the ocean. Zeus is the god of everything. The ferryman Charon ferries the dead souls across the river. That is why the Greeks put money in the coffin of the dead loved ones, so they would be able to pay Charon to get to the other side.

3. In what book of the "Odyssey" does Odysseus describe his visit to the underworld to the Phaeacians?

From Quiz Hades: The God and his Domain

Answer: 11

Homer's "Odyssey" is the earliest account of the underworld in which Odysseus approaches the entrance. Here he performs the ritual of Nekuia, where he pours out blood into a pit to summon the souls of the dead to drink.

4. Everyone has heard of the river Styx but what does this river represent?

From Quiz Hades

Answer: hate

This is the river that separates the world of the living and the world of the dead. It is said to wind around Hades nine times.

5. One of the most famous inhabitants of Tartarus, what former king of Corinth was sentenced to roll a boulder up a hill, but was cursed to always have the boulder slip away from his grasp before it reached the top?

From Quiz Perpetual Darkness

Answer: Sisyphus

A "Sisyphean" task is a hopeless, repetitive one. The boulder task was assigned to Sisyphus as punishment because he had constantly tricked the gods with his cleverness while he was alive. According to Ovid, Sisyphus had no rest from his punishment except when Orpheus came to the underworld seeking his wife Eurydice. When Orpheus sings a song to persuade Hades and Persephone to let her go, Sisyphus, entranced by the beauty of the song, stops and sits on his rock.

6. Who is Persephone's mother?

From Quiz Hades and Persephone

Answer: Demeter

Demeter is Persephone's mother. Hera is Zeus' wife, Helen is the most beautiful woman, and Athena is the goddess of wisdom in war. Demeter is also Hades' sister.

7. Who is often considered the lesser of the judges of the underworld?

From Quiz Hades: The God and his Domain

Answer: Aeacus

Minos and Rhadamanthus were the other two judges. Minos is the legendary king of Crete and Rhadamanthus was his brother. Milanion challenged Atalanta to a footrace and won by throwing golden apples on the ground. In other versions of the myth Hippomenes is accredited with this feat.

8. What is the name of the old ferryman who supposedly ferries the dead down the river Styx?

From Quiz Hades

Answer: Cheron & Charon

Is is a misconception that Charon journeys down the river Styx. He actually travels down the river Acheron where Cerberus stands guard.

9. This man dared to sacrifice and serve his son at a feast for the gods. Who was cursed with eternal hunger and thirst, and no way to satisfy those desires?

From Quiz Perpetual Darkness

Answer: Tantalus

He was forced to stand beneath a tree of luscious fruit, whose branches would continually move away from him when he tried to eat the fruit. He was also placed in a pool of water, but the water would recede when he knelt to drink. From his punishment, modern English gets the word "tantalize".

10. What is Persephone's mother the goddess of?

From Quiz Hades and Persephone

Answer: making things grow

Demeter is the goddess of making things grow - agriculture, grain, earth and fertility. She was thanked by the people when they had a good harvest and was blamed when they had a bad harvest.

11. How many heads does Cerberus have?

From Quiz Hades

Answer: 3

Cerberus is a three headed dog who guards the entrance to Hades allowing souls to enter but none to leave. The dog also had the tail of a serpent. Cerberus was the result of the union of Echidna (the mother of all monsters) and Typhon.

12. What sinner was tied to a great flaming wheel which would spin forever?

From Quiz Perpetual Darkness

Answer: Ixion

Ixion was sentenced to this punishment for being the first man to murder his kin (his father-in-law) and for attempting to rape Hera, the Queen of the Gods. According to Pindar, the centaurs (half-men, half-horse) are descended from his coupling with a fake Hera (created by Zeus).

13. Where did Hades find Persephone?

From Quiz Hades and Persephone

Answer: gathering flowers in a field

Hades came up from the Underworld one day and found her walking in a field. He thought she was beautiful so he took her back into the underworld with him so she could be his wife.

14. What epithet was commonly added in front of "Zeus" to refer to the god of the underworld?

From Quiz Hades: The God and his Domain

Answer: Chthonian

Not only is Hades called Chthonian, but this name is also attached to his realm and its inhabitants. This name refers to anything of the earth, as apposed to anything Olympian or of the upper air.

15. What is the name of the river of forgetfulness?

From Quiz Hades

Answer: Lethe

This was one of the five rivers of Hades. The dead had to drink from it to forget about their lives on earth.

16. Not all the inhabitants of Tartarus were men. What was the collective name of the 49 sisters who, as punishment for killing their husbands on their wedding night, were sentenced to fill a bathtub with leaky jars for eternity?

From Quiz Perpetual Darkness

Answer: The Danaides

According to Edith Hamilton's "Mythology", the fifty sons of Aegyptus were to marry the fifty daughters of King Danaus (hence, the Danaides), against Danaus' will. Danaus ordered his daughters to kill their husbands on their wedding night -- but one of them, Hypermnestra, did not do so after her husband allowed her to remain chaste. The other 49 followed through. In death, they were ordered to fill a bathtub with jars of water to wash away their sins. Unfortunately the jars always leaked too much, dooming them to attempt to fill the tub for eternity.

17. Which god or goddess was responsible for forcing Hades to let Persephone go?

From Quiz Hades and Persephone

Answer: Zeus

Zeus noticed that the food had stopped growing and asked Demeter what was wrong. When she told him he went to the Underworld to get Persephone back so Demeter would start to grow things again.

18. Which character from mythology was punished in the underworld by vultures that tore his liver out?

From Quiz Hades: The God and his Domain

Answer: Tityus

Ixion was punished by being attached to a flaming wheel. Tantalus was punished by standing in a pool of water he couldn't drink from under apple trees he couldn't eat from. As for Prometheus, an eagle instead of a vulture ate out his liver every day upon a mountain instead of in the underworld. Tricky tricky...

19. How many rivers of the underworld are there?

From Quiz Hades

Answer: 5

There are five rivers. Styx, Lethe, Acheron, Cocytus and Phlegethon. Thay each represent different things.

20. Which inhabitant of Tartarus and brother of Sisyphus was killed by a bolt of lightning for attempting to pretend that he was Zeus?

From Quiz Perpetual Darkness

Answer: Salmoneus

Salmoneus built a bridge of brass and rode a chariot over it to simulate thunder, throwing torches in the air to simulate lightning. All of this was in an attempt to persuade his subjects that he was the god Zeus. Zeus did not take kindly to mortals who attempted to emulate him, and killed Salmoneus with a real lightning bolt.

21. Zeus asked Persephone if she had done something. What was it?

From Quiz Hades and Persephone

Answer: eaten the food of the dead

Zeus asked her if she had eaten the food of the dead. Once you have eaten the food of the dead, you can not leave the Underworld. So if Persephone had eaten the food, she would have had to stay there forever.

22. Upon the banks of what river in the underworld do the Elysian fields lie?

From Quiz Hades: The God and his Domain

Answer: Lethe

As souls began to depart from the Elysian fields to be reborn on Earth, they drank from the Lethe (the river of forgetfulness) to forget their past life. The Cocytus was the river of wailing, the Styx was the river of hate, or of unbreakable promises, and the Acheron was the river of woe.

23. Which river was known as river of lamentation?

From Quiz Hades

Answer: Cocytus

This river flows into Acheron. The unburied were forced to wander around its banks for years as they weren't allowed to continue any further than this without a burial.

24. What giant was sentenced to having his liver continually eaten by birds, for the crime of attempting to rape Leto, the mother of Apollo and Artemis?

From Quiz Perpetual Darkness

Answer: Tityos

Tityos was cursed to have his liver regenerate every day for continued punishment. This punishment is extremely similar to the one suffered by Prometheus, the Titan who gave the secret of fire to mankind.

25. What did Hades give to Persephone to trick her before she left?

From Quiz Hades and Persephone

Answer: pomegranate

Right before Zeus was going to take Persephone away Hades said, "It's a long journey back, why don't you have a snack before you go?" He then offered her a pomegranate, knowing that once you eat the food of the dead, you have to stay in the underworld.

26. What is Phlegethon the river of?

From Quiz Hades

Answer: fire

Phlegethon is one of the lesser known of the myriad rivers in Hades.

27. Who was the father of Zeus, who, with his Titan brothers, became the first inhabitants of Tartarus after they lost the Titanomachy against Zeus and his siblings?

From Quiz Perpetual Darkness

Answer: Cronus

According to Hesiod's "Theogony", Cronus was the king of the gods, but learned that one of his children was prophesied to overthrow him. So he swallowed each child as it was born. Finally his wife, Rhea, tricked him into swallowing a stone instead of the young baby Zeus, allowing Zeus to escape. Cronus was then tricked into eating an emetic which caused him to vomit up Zeus's siblings. Zeus and his siblings then beat their father and uncles in a war to claim the lordship of the heavens.

28. Why did Hades take Persephone to the Underworld with him?

From Quiz Hades and Persephone

Answer: He wanted her to be his wife

Hades thought Persephone was really beautiful and took her to the Underworld to be his wife. He was lonely down there with only dead souls for company, so you really can't blame him.

29. How long does Persephone have to stay with Hades?

From Quiz Hades and Persephone

Answer: about 4 months every year

Persephone has to stay with Hades four months every year; she just ate four seeds so she didn't have to stay with him forever. This will affect Demeter's mood on how she grows things. In some versions of the myth, the time is stated as six months. In others, it is given as three.

30. Which God guides the souls of the dead down into the underworld?

From Quiz Hades

Answer: Hermes

Hermes is the messenger God. He is the offspring of Zeus and Maia and is known for wearing winged sandals. Among his other achievements Hermes was credited for inventing the lyre using the shell of a tortoise, he gave this instrument to Apollo (who, in some versions of the story, was given the credit for its creation).

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