Pub Quiz Questions – Mythology

A handy list of pub quiz questions based around the theme: mythology. Answers are below.

Questions:

  1. Which river formed the boundary between Earth and the Underworld in Greek mythology?
  2. The gods/goddesses of LOVE, the SEA and the UNDERWORLD go by which names in Greek mythology?
  3. In the Bible, what are the names of Adam and Eve’s first two sons?
  4. How many cows and cats would you have found on Noah’s ark?
  5. In Islam, who dictated the Qu’ran to Muhammed, and in what century?
  6. Shortly after Muhammed’s death, what two sects of Islam emerged?
  7. In Jewish mythology, what is a golem made of?
  8. Where would you be most in danger of being food for a Leviathan?
  9. In Tagalog mythology, what animal caused the sky and sea to fight, causing the creation of land?
  10. In Tagalog mythology, when the land breeze and the sea breeze got married, what was their child made of?
  11. Who is the founding father of Scientology?

Answers:

  1. River Styx
  2. Aphrodite, Poseidon and Hades
  3. Cain and Abel
  4. 7, 14 or 49 cows; 2 cats
  5. Archangel Gabriel/Jibril; 7th century
  6. Sunni and Shiite
  7. Stone, rock, clay or mud
  8. In the ocean
  9. A kite
  10. Bamboo
  11. L. Ron Hubbard

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