101 Figures from Greek Mythology - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
King of the gods	Zeus	99%
God of the sea	Poseidon	96%
God of the underworld	Hades	95%
Sister and wife of the above	Hera	91%
Main hero of the Greeks during the Trojan War	Achilles	85%
Goddess of love and beauty	Aphrodite	85%
God of war	Ares	85%
Goddess of wisdom	Athena	85%
Muscular demi-god who performed twelve labors	Heracles	85%
Messenger god with winged sandals	Hermes	82%
One of the above who was beheaded	Medusa	82%
Three-headed dog that guards the underworld	Cerberus	79%
Half-man, half-bull who lived in the labyrinth	Minotaur	78%
God whose oracle was found at Delphi	Apollo	77%
Half-human, half-horse creature	Centaur	77%
Giant one-eyed creature	Cyclops	77%
Goddess who was kidnapped by the above	Persephone	77%
River that forms the border of the underworld	Styx	77%
Goddess of the hunt and the moon	Artemis	76%
Winged horse	Pegasus	76%
Woman kidnapped by the above	Helen	72%
King with the "golden touch"	Midas	72%
Son of the above who flew too close to the sun	Icarus	71%
She opened a box containing all the world's problems	Pandora	70%
Mountain where the gods reside	Olympus	69%
Commonly depicted holding the world on his shoulders	Atlas	68%
God of wine	Dionysus	68%
Creatures who lured sailors to their deaths with their irresistible calls	Sirens	68%
God of love and sex	Eros	66%
Race of warrior women	Amazons	65%
Former chief deity who devoured his children	Cronus	65%
Primordial goddess of the Earth	Gaia	65%
God of the forge and volcanoes	Hephaestus	64%
Hero who searched for the Golden Fleece	Jason	64%
Hero who slayed the above	Perseus	64%
Clever king of Ithaca who built the Trojan Horse	Odysseus	62%
Trojan prince who shot the above in the heel	Paris	62%
Term for the earlier generation of deities which included the above	Titan	62%
Goddess of the harvest and fertility	Demeter	60%
Goddess of discord	Eris	60%
Multi-headed monster. When one head is cut off, two grow in its place.	Hydra	60%
King cursed to kill his father and marry his mother	Oedipus	58%
He made men, and gave them fire	Prometheus	58%
Hunter whose belt is seen in the stars today	Orion	57%
He fell in love with his own reflection	Narcissus	55%
Ship sailed by the above	Argo	53%
Nine inspirational goddesses of science, literature, and the arts	Muses	53%
Winged goddess of victory	Nike	53%
Type of creature with hair made of snakes whose gaze turned men to stone	Gorgon	52%
Main Trojan hero	Hector	52%
Hybrid creature who eats those who cannot answer its riddle	Sphinx	51%
Personification of the sun who drives a chariot through the sky	Helios	49%
Term for a minor female nature deity	Nymph	49%
Wife of the above; namesake of a galaxy	Andromeda	47%
Hero who slayed the above	Theseus	47%
He built the labyrinth for the above, was imprisoned within it, but escaped with wings made of wax	Daedalus	45%
Body of a lion, head and wings of an eagle	Griffin	45%
Virgin goddess of the hearth	Hestia	45%
King of Mycenae. Main Greek leader during the Trojan War.	Agamemnon	44%
A deep abyss where the above are now imprisoned	Tartarus	44%
Personification of the moon	Selene	42%
Primodial god of the sky	Uranus	42%
Lion / goat / snake hybrid. Today a word that refers to any hybrid creature.	Chimera	41%
Island enchantress who turned men into swine	Circe	41%
Ugly half-woman / half-bird creature	Harpy	41%
Legendary king of Crete	Minos	41%
Personification of the night	Nyx	40%
Wife of the above	Penelope	36%
The void which existed prior to the creation of heaven and earth	Chaos	35%
Sailors might find themselves betwixt these two sea monsters	Scylla	33%
Place for heros in the afterlife	{Elysian} Fields	32%
Personification of death	Thanatos	32%
Wisest of the above, skilled in medicine	Chiron	31%
Personification of sleep	Hypnos	31%
Wife of the above	Rhea	31%
Creature with a horse's tail and a perpetual erection	Satyr	31%
Son of the above who blows a conch like a trumpet	Triton	31%
She kept the clever king on an island and offered to make him immortal	Calypso	29%
King of Troy	Priam	29%
He could charm even the stones with his music	Orpheus	28%
Gifted with prophecy, she was cursed never to be believed	Cassandra	26%
Sailors might find themselves betwixt these two sea monsters	Charybdis	26%
Personification of fear	Phobos	26%
Trojan hero who was the father of the Roman people	Aeneus	25%
Phoenician princess kidnapped by Zeus in the form of a bull	Europa	25%
Three angry sisters who punish oathbreakers	Furies	25%
Twins who together make up the constellation Gemini	Castor	24%
Sorceress who helped and married the Golden Fleece seeker	Medea	24%
Twins who together make up the constellation Gemini	Pollux	24%
Very handsome mortal lover of the above	Adonis	21%
God of medicine who carries a serpent-entwined rod	Asclepius	21%
Goddess of the soul; consort of the above	Psyche	21%
Personification of the dawn	Eos	20%
Snake killed by the above	Python	20%
Hero who rode the above	Bellerophon	19%
Goddess who punishes people with too much hubris	Nemesis	17%
Mother of the above	Jocasta	15%
Plant that caused people to sleep in peaceful apathy	Lotus	13%
Personification of the river which encircles the Earth	Oceanus	12%
King of Pylos who owned a large cup which only he could lift	Nestor	9%
Livestock and fertility deity who also has a perpetual erection	Priapus	8%

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