Mythological Mish-Mash Trivia Quiz

Answer: selkie

Known as "Seal Women", selkies could shed their seal-skins and emerge on land as humans. They took a big risk doing this, as they would have to leave their skins on the beach. If a human found the skins and hid them, the selkies would be forced to remain in their human forms until they found their lost skins.

Found in Greek mythology, Empousai were female vampires.

Mantine and Golurk are Pokémon characters.

Answer: thunderbird

The Native Americans believed that thunder and lightning was caused by the Thunderbird's beating wings.

The Devil Bird is found in Sri Lankan mythology while the Nachtkrapp and the Oozlum Bird are both found in European legends.

Answer: minotaur

The story of the creation of the Minotaur says that King Minos of Crete asked the Sea God, Poseidon to send him a white bull as a sign that the Gods approved his Kingship. He promised to sacrifice the bull to the Gods but upon receiving it, he admired the bull so much that he kept it and sacrificed a different bull in its place.

Naturally, Poseidon was NOT happy and swiftly took revenge, asking Aphrodite, Goddess of Love, to afflict Minos's wife, Pasiphae, with lust for the animal, so that she became obsessed with the idea of having sex with the bull.

She asked the master craftsman, Daedalus, to build her a wooden cow and she soon became pregnant with the bull's offspring, giving birth to the Minotaur nine months later.

Answer: all of them

Elves, fairies and their kind can be found in different mythologies around the world. They also like to be called "The Strangers" or "The Good Neighbours".

Answer: ophiotaurus

Ophiotaurus was described by Ovid as having the head and front legs of a bull and the tail of a snake.

Cabbits were half rabbit and half cat while Driders were half human and half spider.

The Manticore had a tiger's body, a human face and the tail of a scorpion.

Answer: garuda

Found in Hindu and Buddhist mythology, the Garuda is an enormous bird often said to be ridden by the god Vishnu.

Kecleon, Wormadam and Zoroark are not mythical monsters. They are, instead, characters from the Pokémon series.

Answer: centaur

Usually depicted as male, though there have been depictions of females, centaurs have the upper body of a human connected to the lower body of a horse.

Harpies and satyrs also come from Greek mythology. Satyrs are half human and half goat while harpies are half human and half bird.

The cecaelia is half human and half octopus, found in the Japanese manga "Hatsukoi Wazurai".

Answer: chimaera

The frightening chimaera had the head and front legs of a lion, the body and back legs of a goat and a cobra for its tail.

Answer: merpeople

Merpeople are commonly seen as having the upper body of a human and the tail of a fish.

Ichthyocentaurs have the upper body of a man, the front half of a horse and a fish tail.

Arbok and Masquerain are Pokémon characters.

Answer: griffin

A griffin had the body of a lion with the legs, head and wings of an eagle.

Found in Chinese mythology, the pixiu was half lion and half dragon.

In Armenian mythology, the simurgh was a giant peacock with the head of a dog and a lion's claws, while the yali in Hindu mythology had the body of a domestic cat, the head of a lion, a snake for its tail and the tusks of an elephant.