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These trivia questions on Greek mythology are multiple choice and run by topic: the Olympians, the Titans, heroes and their labors, monsters, the underworld and the Trojan cycle. Each answer gives a one-line reason and its source.

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The Olympians asks what Hermes wore on his feet and which bird belongs to Hera. Titans and the first gods has the stone that Cronus swallowed. Heroes and their labors follows Heracles from the Nemean lion to Cerberus. Monsters counts the Gorgons, The underworld pays Charon, and The Trojan cycle starts with a golden apple.

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Are these Greek mythology trivia questions for kids?

Yes, for children who know the stories: about a quarter of the 80 are easy, and the love affairs and cruelties of the old tales are left out. The hard ones, such as the Graeae and Sinon, suit teens and adults.

What are some easy Greek mythology trivia questions and answers?

What does Medusa have in place of hair? Which weapon does Poseidon carry? How long did the Greeks besiege Troy? The answers are living snakes, a trident and ten years.

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Each was read on October 8, 2026 in the English Wikipedia article linked under it, 67 articles in all. Where the old poets differ, the question names its teller: Hesiod, Homer, Apollodorus or Virgil.

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The Olympians 12

  • After the war with the Titans, how did Zeus, Poseidon and Hades share out the world? Answer: By drawing lots. Source: Wikipedia: Zeus
  • Ares was the Greek god of what? Answer: War. Source: Wikipedia: Ares
  • The Eleusinian Mysteries promised a happy afterlife to those who were initiated. Which goddess stood at their center? Answer: Demeter. Source: Wikipedia: Demeter
  • From which part of Zeus was Athena born? Answer: His forehead. Source: Wikipedia: Athena
  • Hephaestus was the blacksmith of the gods. Which tools are his symbols? Answer: A hammer, an anvil and tongs. Source: Wikipedia: Hephaestus
  • How did Athena win the city of Athens in her contest with Poseidon? Answer: By creating the first olive tree. Source: Wikipedia: Athena
  • In the poems of Homer, what is ambrosia? Answer: The food of the gods. Source: Wikipedia: Ambrosia
  • What did Hermes wear that let him move quickly between gods and mortals? Answer: Winged sandals. Source: Wikipedia: Hermes
  • What is ichor? Answer: The fluid that runs in place of blood in the gods. Source: Wikipedia: Ichor
  • What is wound around the caduceus, the staff of Hermes? Answer: Two serpents. Source: Wikipedia: Caduceus
  • Which of these birds is sacred to Hera? Answer: The peacock. Source: Wikipedia: Hera
  • Which weapon does Poseidon carry? Answer: A trident. Source: Wikipedia: Poseidon

Titans and the first gods 15

  • According to Hesiod, how many Titans were there? Answer: Twelve. Source: Wikipedia: Titans
  • Each of the three Hundred-Handers had a hundred arms. How many heads did each have? Answer: Fifty. Source: Wikipedia: Hecatoncheires
  • From which mountain did the Titans fight the Olympians? Answer: Mount Othrys. Source: Wikipedia: Titans
  • Gaia is the personification of what? Answer: The Earth. Source: Wikipedia: Gaia
  • How long did the Titanomachy, the war of the Titans and the Olympians, last? Answer: Ten years. Source: Wikipedia: Titanomachy
  • In early Greek accounts of the beginning of the world, what was the first thing to exist? Answer: Chaos. Source: Wikipedia: Chaos (cosmogony)
  • The name Epimetheus means afterthought. What may the name of his brother Prometheus mean? Answer: Forethought. Source: Wikipedia: Epimetheus
  • The Theogony of Hesiod tells how the gods came to be. What does its Greek title mean? Answer: The birth of the gods. Source: Wikipedia: Theogony
  • The Titan Oceanus was the god of what? Answer: The great river that circled the whole world. Source: Wikipedia: Oceanus
  • The Titans Hyperion and Theia were the parents of the Sun, the Moon and what else? Answer: The Dawn. Source: Wikipedia: Hyperion (Titan)
  • Uranus, the father of the Titans, is the personification of what? Answer: The sky. Source: Wikipedia: Uranus (mythology)
  • What did Rhea hand to Cronus in place of the baby Zeus? Answer: A stone wrapped in swaddling clothes. Source: Wikipedia: Rhea (mythology)
  • Who made the thunderbolt of Zeus? Answer: The Cyclopes. Source: Wikipedia: Cyclopes
  • Who were the Titans? Answer: The gods who came before the Olympians. Source: Wikipedia: Titans
  • With which Roman god was Cronus identified? Answer: Saturn. Source: Wikipedia: Cronus

Heroes and their labors 14

  • By which name did the Romans know Heracles? Answer: Hercules. Source: Wikipedia: Heracles
  • The Ceryneian Hind, which Heracles had to bring back alive, had antlers of what? Answer: Gold. Source: Wikipedia: Ceryneian Hind
  • For one labor Heracles had to fetch the belt of Hippolyta. Who was she? Answer: Queen of the Amazons. Source: Wikipedia: Labours of Hercules
  • Hera sent two giant snakes to the cradle of the baby Heracles. What happened? Answer: He caught one in each hand. Source: Wikipedia: Heracles
  • How did Heracles clean the Augean stables? Answer: He turned two rivers through them. Source: Wikipedia: Labours of Hercules
  • In the telling of Apollodorus, Heracles was asked for ten labors. Why did he do twelve? Answer: Eurystheus would not count two of them. Source: Wikipedia: Labours of Hercules
  • What did Ariadne give Theseus so that he could find his way out of the Labyrinth? Answer: A ball of thread. Source: Wikipedia: Theseus
  • What did Athena lend Perseus so that he could look at Medusa safely? Answer: Her polished shield. Source: Wikipedia: Perseus
  • What was the first labor of Heracles? Answer: Slaying the Nemean lion. Source: Wikipedia: Labours of Hercules
  • What was the last labor of Heracles? Answer: Bringing Cerberus up from the underworld. Source: Wikipedia: Cerberus
  • What was the name of the ship of Jason? Answer: The Argo. Source: Wikipedia: Argo
  • Which king set Heracles his labors? Answer: Eurystheus. Source: Wikipedia: Labours of Hercules
  • Whom did Perseus save from the sea monster Cetus? Answer: Andromeda. Source: Wikipedia: Perseus
  • Why could ordinary weapons not kill the Nemean lion? Answer: Its golden fur could not be pierced. Source: Wikipedia: Nemean lion

Monsters 12

  • A harpy is half human and half what? Answer: Bird. Source: Wikipedia: Harpy
  • Echidna, mother of many of the monsters of Greek myth, was half woman and half what? Answer: Snake. Source: Wikipedia: Echidna (mythology)
  • The giant Argus, watchman of Hera, was called Panoptes. What does Panoptes mean? Answer: All-seeing. Source: Wikipedia: Argus Panoptes
  • The Graeae were three sisters, gray-haired from birth. What did they share among them? Answer: One eye and one tooth. Source: Wikipedia: Graeae
  • How many Gorgons were there? Answer: Three. Source: Wikipedia: Gorgons
  • In later tellings, what happened each time a head of the Hydra was cut off? Answer: Two heads grew in its place. Source: Wikipedia: Lernaean Hydra
  • The Minotaur has the body of a man and the head of which animal? Answer: A bull. Source: Wikipedia: Minotaur
  • Orthrus, the brother of Cerberus, guarded the cattle of Geryon. How many heads did he have? Answer: Two. Source: Wikipedia: Orthrus
  • The Sphinx of Greek myth has the head of a woman and the wings of a bird. Which animal gives her the rest? Answer: A lion. Source: Wikipedia: Sphinx
  • The Stymphalian birds had beaks made of what? Answer: Bronze. Source: Wikipedia: Stymphalian birds
  • What does Medusa have in place of hair? Answer: Living snakes. Source: Wikipedia: Medusa
  • Who solved the riddle of the Sphinx? Answer: Oedipus. Source: Wikipedia: Sphinx

The underworld 13

  • The Acheron, one of the five rivers of the underworld, was sometimes known as the river of what? Answer: Woe. Source: Wikipedia: Acheron
  • The Erinyes, also called the Eumenides, were goddesses of what? Answer: Vengeance. Source: Wikipedia: Erinyes
  • The gods swore their most solemn oaths by the water of which river? Answer: The Styx. Source: Wikipedia: Styx
  • Hades was also called Plouton. With which Greek god was that name often confused? Answer: Ploutos, the god of wealth. Source: Wikipedia: Pluto (god)
  • Hermes is called a psychopomp. What does a psychopomp do? Answer: Guides souls into the afterlife. Source: Wikipedia: Hermes
  • What could the Cap of Hades do for the one who wore it? Answer: Make the wearer invisible. Source: Wikipedia: Cap of invisibility
  • What did Orpheus have to do to lead Eurydice out of the underworld? Answer: Walk ahead and not look back. Source: Wikipedia: Orpheus
  • What did the dead forget when they drank from the river Lethe? Answer: Everything. Source: Wikipedia: Lethe
  • What has the name Hades generally been taken to mean since antiquity? Answer: The unseen one. Source: Wikipedia: Hades
  • What is Tartarus? Answer: A deep abyss used as a prison. Source: Wikipedia: Tartarus
  • Where in the underworld did most ordinary souls go? Answer: The Asphodel Meadows. Source: Wikipedia: Asphodel Meadows
  • Who was king of the underworld? Answer: Hades. Source: Wikipedia: Hades
  • Why was a coin placed in or on the mouth of the dead before burial? Answer: To pay Charon for the crossing. Source: Wikipedia: Charon's obol

The Trojan cycle 14

  • Cassandra, a priestess of Troy, always told the truth about the future. What was the catch? Answer: Nobody ever believed her. Source: Wikipedia: Cassandra
  • Hera, Athena and Aphrodite each claimed the golden apple. Whom did Paris choose? Answer: Aphrodite. Source: Wikipedia: Judgement of Paris
  • How long did the Greeks besiege Troy? Answer: Ten years. Source: Wikipedia: Trojan War
  • In a later myth, by which part of the body did Thetis hold the infant Achilles as she dipped him in the Styx? Answer: His heel. Source: Wikipedia: Achilles' heel
  • In the Aeneid, which Greek stays behind to persuade the Trojans that the horse is a harmless offering? Answer: Sinon. Source: Wikipedia: Trojan Horse
  • In the Aeneid, who warned the Trojans against the wooden horse and struck it with a spear? Answer: Laocoön. Source: Wikipedia: Laocoön
  • The Trojan War lasted ten years. How much of it does the Iliad show? Answer: Its final weeks. Source: Wikipedia: Iliad
  • What did Eris, the goddess of discord, throw into the wedding of Peleus and Thetis? Answer: A golden apple. Source: Wikipedia: Judgement of Paris
  • Which Greek warrior killed Hector outside the gates of Troy? Answer: Achilles. Source: Wikipedia: Hector
  • Who commanded the Achaeans in the Trojan War? Answer: Agamemnon. Source: Wikipedia: Agamemnon
  • Who gave the young Achilles his education? Answer: Chiron, a centaur. Source: Wikipedia: Achilles
  • Who was king of Troy during the war? Answer: Priam. Source: Wikipedia: Priam
  • Whose armor did Patroclus wear when he led the Myrmidons into battle? Answer: The armor of Achilles. Source: Wikipedia: Patroclus
  • Whose marriage to Paris of Troy was the most immediate cause of the war? Answer: Helen. Source: Wikipedia: Helen of Troy