Paundraka Vasudeva was the king of the eastern kingdom Pundra who tried to imitate Krishna. Pandora was the first woman in Greek mythology created by all the gods. Kamdhenu is regarded as the mother of all cows in Hindu mythology. The Bifrost is a burning rainbow bridge between Midgard and Asgard in Norse mythology. Manu and Shraddha are identified as the first king and wife to rule earth in various Hindu traditions.

1. Mythology Quiz
2-3-2013
Ankan and Prakhar

2. Prelims
Answers

3. Q1.
X was the king of the eastern kingdom Pundra.
He tried to imitate Lord Krishna and attached
2 extra imitation arms, painted himself
blue, and carried the conch, lotus, chakra. He
had enmity with Krishna. He was an ally of the
king of Magadha, Jarasandha. Id X.

4. Paundraka Vasudeva

5. Q2.
In Greek mythology X was the first woman.
All gods helped create her by giving her
unique gifts. X’s other name is Anesidora
which means “one who sends up gifts”.
According to the myth, X opened a box
releasing all evils of mankind. Id X.

6. Pandora

7. Q3.
In Hindu mythology, X is regarded as the
mother of all cows. She is not worshipped
independently as such, and temples are not
dedicated to her alone; rather she is honoured
by veneration of cows in general.

8. Kamdhenu

9. Q4.
In Norse mythology, a _______ is one of a
host of female figures who decides who falls
and dies in battle. They select half of those
who die in battle and bring them to the
afterlife hall of the slain, Valhalla. They
sometimes also appear as lovers of heroes
and other mortals.

10. Valkyrie

11. Q5.
In Roman mythology, X is the god of
beginnings. He is also the god of
doors, gates, endings and time. He is usually
shown with two faces since he looks to the
past and the future.

12. Janus

13. Q6.
In various Hindu traditions, X is regarded as
the first king to rule this earth and also as the
very first man. He was initially known as
“Satyavrata”. Y was the wife of X. Id X and Y.

14. X- Manu, Y- Shraddha (Niharika)

15. Q7.
In Norse mythology, _______ is a burning
rainbow bridge between Midgard and Asgard.
According to Prose Edda, the bridge ends at
Himinbjörg. Some scholars believe that the
bridge may have originally represented the
Milky Way.

16. Bifrost

17. Q8.
X was a soldier of the Roman Empire who refused to
take part in the persecution of Christians. In a legend
X is the protagonist in which he slays a man-eating
dragon who guarded city’s water supply . The city’s
inhabitants were so grateful that they converted
from Paganism to X’s Christianity.

18. St. George

19. Q9.
The Xs are a nation of all-female warriors in
greek mythology and Classical antiquity.
Herodotus placed them in a region bordering
Scythia in Sarmatia (modern territory of
Ukraine). Other historiographers place them in
Asia Minor or Libya.

20. Amazons

21. Q10.
X were Norse warriors who are reported in the
Old Norse literature to have fought in a nearly
uncontrollable, trance-like fury, a
characteristic which later gave rise to the
English word Y.
Give me X and Y??

22. Berserker and Berserk

23. Q11.
Sometimes X, a horse Headed god
whose name is derived from Sanskrit
words for Horse and Neck , is
included in the list of avatars of
Vishnu.ID X.

24. Hayagriva

25. Q12.
A X in Japanese folklore is analogous to the western
concept of soul reaper. The term X is used to
describe the creatures that are responsible for
making sure that a person dies when their time
comes, and then, taking their souls to the
Underworld. However, contrary to the concept of
Grim Reaper, there are multiple X working together.

26. Shinigami

27. Q13.
X was the personification of the Sun in Greek
mythology. X was imagined as a handsome
god crowned with the shining aureole of the
Sun, who drove the chariot of the sun across
the sky each day to earth circling Oceanus
and through the world-ocean returned to the
East at night. X is sometimes identified with
Apollo. Y was the statue of X erected in the
city of Rhodes by Chares of Lindos between
292 and 280 BC. Give me X and Y.

28. X- Helios, Y-Colossus of Rhodes

29. Q14.
The X, although technically the shield of
Zeus, was carried by Athena. She let Y borrow
it so he could slay Medusa, since looking at
her directly would have turned him into stone.
After he had returned to Seriphos and turned
Polydectes into stone, Y placed the head of
Medusa on the X and returned it to Athena. X
and Y ?

30. X – Aegis Y - Perseus

31. Q15.
According to a fable, X married 27 daughters of Daksha,
but truly loved only one of them. His other wives
complained about this negligent behavior to Daksha,
who cursed him that he would become ugly forever. As
a penance, X prayed to Lord Shiva to remove the curse.
However, Lord Shiva said that he could not remove the
curse completely, but said that whenever X lost his
beauty completely, he would again gradually gain his
beauty and the cycle would go on.
Who is X, and what resulted thus?

32. Chandra

33. 16.
The 12 Norse(Scandinavian) gods were
together called X and , their home was called
Y. There was also a second group of gods
called Z.ID X, Y and Z.

34. X-Aesop
Y-Asgard
Z-Vanir

35. Q17.
The animal X had a primary significance in the
funerals in ancient Egypt. People at that time
believed that X were only male in gender and
reproduced by depositing semen in ________.
This supposed self creation was similar to that
of Khepri, the god of the rising sun. That’s why
X were linked to Khepri. Give us X.

36. X- Scarab Beetle