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1. What was the name of the Dwarven king in Scandinavian mythology?
2. The Chimera was a ghastly beast with a lion's head, a goat's body and a snake's tail. Who killed it?
3. The Kauri Indians of Peru are tormented by a cat spirit. He steals crops using lightning and hail and is also the patron of sorcerers. What is his name?
4. The Tucana Indians of the upper Amazon believe they were created by two spirits from a fish the spirits had caught. One was called Epi the other...?
5. Orestes avenged his father's death by killing his mother Clytemnestra and her lover at his sister's urging. Who was his sister?
6. Who is the Chinese god of the winds?
7. What is the name of the tree of life in Iranian myth?
8. The Hindu monkey god in the Ramayana was who?
9. This Babylonian goddess lent her name to an expensive Hollywood flop.
10. This Finnish Hero features in the epic Kalevala. He unknowingly makes love to his sister who then kills herself. He returns home to find it in ruins and then also kills himself.
11. Which Roman spirits protected crossroads?
12. Amongst the Paressi Indians of Brazil stories tell of the first being, a stone woman. By what name was she known?
13. On the day of Ragnarok the evil god Loki will set sail against the other gods in which ship?
14. A god of the Yoruba people of Nigeria cleared away the forests which covered all the world at the beginning of time. Who was he?
15. Which Hawaiian goddess was ruler of volcanoes?
16. On the great Norse tree Yggdrasill there lived a squirrel. It ran up and down the trunk taking messages back and forth from the eagle that lived in the branches and the serpent that gnawed on the roots. What was the cute little fellow's name?
17. The Bella Coola Indians of North America believed which spirit was the sun?
18. Which bronze giant guarded the island of Crete?
19. Who was the greatest of Finnish gods?
20. In the Dreamtime of the Australian Aboriginal strange creatures lived in the world. When these creatures died they became rock paintings. Who were these odd creatures?
21. Achilles owned two immortal steeds. One was Balios. The other was?
22. Who was the first living creature in Norse myth?
23. Which of Jason's Argonauts was killed by Heracles?
24. Oops forgot how many letters in the alphabet. Well here's two Q's then. In Aztec myth the world was to go through five ages. One of these ages was known as Quiyanhtonatiuh (no really). It was the age of what?
25. Who created man in Polynesian myth?
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