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Legendary Deeds

Name the people, real and fictional, who are credited with these legendary deeds.
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First submittedOctober 10, 2013
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Deed
Doer
Slew Goliath
David
Cut the Gordian Knot
Alexander the Great
Killed Grendel
Beowulf
Crossed the Rubicon
Julius Caesar
Bested a steam hammer in a
steel-driving contest
John Henry
Outwrestled a bear at age 3
Davy Crockett
Threw a silver dollar across
the Potomac River
George Washington
Slew the Hydra
Hercules
Shot 38 under par -
the first time he played golf
Kim Jong-Il
Rode naked through the
streets of Coventry
Lady Godiva
Slew the Minotaur
Theseus
Turned water into wine
Jesus
Pulled the sword from the stone
King Arthur
Counted to infinity - twice!
Chuck Norris
Slew an army with a donkey's jawbone
- all thanks to fabulous hair
Samson
This wrestler drank 119 beers
in six hours
Andre the Giant
Slew the dragon with his lance
St. George
Traveled across America, planting
apple trees wherever he went
Johnny Appleseed
Chopped down an entire forest
with one swing of his ax
Paul Bunyan
Slew Medusa
Perseus
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46 Comments
buck1017
+8
Level 78
Oct 10, 2013
I enjoyed this one. Very fun. Especially liked the Chuck Norris one...and the fact that I got it right :-)
BobSaget
+24
Level 76
Feb 5, 2014
Chuck Norris got this quiz right twice -- on his first try.
Phrath
+1
Level 43
Nov 21, 2019
Yea right
samwisegamgee
+7
Level 36
Feb 5, 2014
Love the Kim Jong Il clue as well
dcmitchell
+1
Level 46
Feb 5, 2014
I really thought Bunyan was spelled Bunyon and I was really confused when I didn't get it. Ah, well. Good quiz.
JohnQ
+1
Level 40
Feb 5, 2014
Yeah I tried Bunyon and Bunion
Quizmaster
+3
Level ∞
Feb 5, 2014
That made me laugh. Bunyon and Bunion will work now. :)
HenryDangerRules
+2
Level 8
Dec 19, 2017
arent those the things that stick out of your feet?
Baltimorean
+2
Level 66
Feb 6, 2014
It was the Rappahannock, not the Potomac. Get your apocryphhal details right!
Walacama
+15
Level 83
Dec 2, 2016
I tried this the other day, I guess a dollar just doesn't go as far as it used to.
GrandMo
+1
Level 69
Dec 2, 2016
I believe that's part of the "legend." It's possible, though reasonably unlikely, that he could throw a coin across the Rappahannock. But the Potomac is so much of a more "legendary" river in American history.
Kestrana
+1
Level 59
Dec 2, 2016
Up in Fauquier county it would be relatively easy to throw a coin across the Rappahannock.
HinesBrothers
+1
Level 78
Nov 21, 2019
Yeah, that's what I was just thinking. It ends very rapidly. Up in west Virginia it wouldn't be so hard to throw across the Potomac either.
Cooldrive
+1
Level 64
Nov 22, 2018
And it was a piece of slate, not a dollar.
TravelingMama
+4
Level 72
Nov 22, 2018
I have never heard this story in my life. Learned a new legend today!
wolfcat95
+3
Level 66
Feb 7, 2014
2 things: 1) Johnny Appleseed was indeed a real person named John Chapman, so Chapman should work http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Appleseed and 2) Please make George correct without the affixation of "St" I knew George slew the dragon, but when that didn't work, I just gave up on it.
Cooldrive
+3
Level 64
Nov 22, 2018
You would be correct. George was not canonized at the time of the dragon slaying.
PapaFurchetta
+1
Level 94
Mar 3, 2023
Johnny Appleseed/Chapman is actually a distant cousin of mine from the Chapmans in East Longmeadow, Massachusetts. He did not have any children so he has no direct descendants.
kevlarkev
+5
Level 65
Mar 4, 2014
Love the Chuck Norris one! His tears cure cancer. Too bad he never cries
loganite
+5
Level 93
Jun 27, 2014
Did you hear Chuck Norris died yesterday? .....Yeah, but he's ok today! ;)
Walacama
+5
Level 83
Dec 2, 2016
Chuck Norris can hear faster than the speed of sound.
DonTheLamplighter
+5
Level 87
May 16, 2017
Some people like to eat frog legs. Chuck Norris likes to eat lizard legs. Hence, snakes.
cranbeckh
+1
Level 69
Dec 2, 2016
Thank YOU, Chuck Norris
mizu
+1
Level 59
Nov 22, 2019
chuck norris has nothing on charles nelson riley.

C.N.R made love to a manatee has his own line at the dmv and trained a rattlesnake to do his laundry.

He also eats coal and excretes diamonds every day. Ran a 4 minute mile blind folded with an engine block strapped to his back and won the tour de france with two flat tires and a missing chain.

Once he fell of the crysler building and barely scratched his toe. He figured out cold fusion and never told anyone and his toe nail clippings make a potent aphrodesiac.

Nytebreid
+1
Level 36
May 31, 2014
119 beers... six hours... wow. 'Course a standard beer can to him was the size of a thimble.
gtohara
+3
Level 56
Aug 2, 2014
Billllll Brasky!
Walacama
+2
Level 83
Dec 2, 2016
I thought for sure we'd see "invented the internet" on this quiz. You'll probably have to update the quiz in a few years to add "Built the Great American-Mexican Wall."
jmellor13
+2
Level 68
Nov 21, 2019
You jest, but if you look up a list of things Trump has actually claimed, it's probably absurd. Only a step below the Chuck Norris stuff.
kenpo17
+2
Level 65
Dec 2, 2016
I only got the St. George one because Iron Maiden references it in their song "Flash of the Blade." Thanks Maiden!
morgoth7
+2
Level 82
Dec 6, 2016
They could have helped with Alexander too. Who says Metal isn't educational?
olivier90
+6
Level 64
Dec 2, 2016
Someone else tried 'Vladimir Putin' at 'Outwrestled a bear at age 3'? :D
Moosefight
+2
Level 59
Dec 2, 2016
Guessed Tiger Woods, Bagger Vance, and St. Andrew before just giving up on the golf question. Can't believe I didn't think of Kim.
mal
+1
Level 64
Dec 2, 2016
Missed quite a few but can't quite believe that Chuck Norris was one of them- Oh the shame!!
HenryDangerRules
+1
Level 8
Dec 19, 2017
Try typing in "Where is Chuck Norris?" into google it may or may not creep you out and make you laugh
HenryDangerRules
+1
Level 8
Dec 19, 2017
click on the first link
ChrisInAfrica
+1
Level 24
Dec 2, 2016
Hey,

I don't mean to nitpick... but you are aware that the hair is not what actually gave Samson his strength, right?

Otherwise a really great quiz!! :)

blinky
+1
Level 57
Jan 29, 2018
How did I type Julius AND Caesar and still not get it right?
blinky
+1
Level 57
Jan 29, 2018
Says I earned five points yet my score didn't change at all.
Nath567
+6
Level 55
Jan 30, 2018
Chuck Norris can do ALL of these things. Please allow Chuck Norris as a valid answer for all questions.
cornflakesfu
+1
Level 89
Jul 7, 2018
Chuck Norris rode naked through the streets of Coventry?
RobNobody
+2
Level 80
Sep 2, 2018
Maybe he CAN, but DID he?
xarnac
+4
Level 71
Nov 21, 2019
I heard Chuck Norris rode naked through the streets of Coventry fully clothed.
Nilles
+1
Level 50
Nov 21, 2019
Didn't Khabib also wrestle a bear at a very young age?
Zupity
+1
Level 67
Nov 22, 2019
Pretty sure St Michael slayed a dragon too. Not sure whether he used a lance, sword or spear - might depend on the translation.
JohnnyYeet
+1
Level 66
Nov 10, 2020
I'll be honest, I thought the bear wrestling one was Putin lol
Enderboi
+1
Level 47
Dec 15, 2022
I saw "slew the Hydra" and though "I know this one, it's Captain America!"
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