[Scooby]

Time for another random trivia contest with a byte prize, 500 for regular users and 2.5k for Mystery Inc members. The theme is mythology. Post your answers in the thread. You only get one shot. First person to get them all right or the person with the most correct answers after 6 hours wins. Here we go:

1. Aside from silver, stakes, and holy objects, name a traditional Vampire weakness.

2. How did Hercules manage to kill the Nemean Lion?

3. Who does Polyphemus tell his comrades is attacking him?

4. Who is Athena's mother?

5. In Norse mythology, what is the cause of thunder?

6. In Norse mythology, to whom are cats sacred?

7. What did Athena do to get Athens named after her, and who was likely pissed off about it?

8. How was the Hydra vanquished?

9. What is the name of the ancient Roman wolf festival?

10. Who really started the Trojan War? Hint: It's not one of the main 12.

Good luck, everybody. Try to use Google as little as possible.

[LoremIpsum]

1. Garlic.

2. Strangling?

3. No idea..

4. Metis!

5. Thor?!

6. Egyptians?

7. Pass..

8. Eventually decapitated (after killing the other heads) and something with poison arrows?

9. Lupercalia - easy!

10. The guy that kidnapped Helen. If I'm right?

[ETH]

I'm not good at mythology
But here is my try
1.sunlight
4.Metis
5. Thor's hammer (Mjölnir)
6.Freyja

Good Luck for winner !

[Scooby]

So I totally forgot about sunlight and garlic when coming up with that first one lol. I was looking for something more obscure but that's on me for forgetting the obvious ones. Good attempts so far but nowhere near 100%.

[LoremIpsum]

So I totally forgot about sunlight and garlic when coming up with that first one lol. I was looking for something more obscure but that's on me for forgetting the obvious ones. Good attempts so far but nowhere near 100%.

I forgot about sunlight when I said garlic haha. Thanks for the compliment, I won't retry it again haha.

[shitmaster]

1. Aside from silver, stakes, and holy objects, name a traditional Vampire weakness.
Fire

2. How did Hercules manage to kill the Nemean Lion?
Strangling it with his bare hands

3. Who does Polyphemus tell his comrades us attacking him?
Poseidon

4. Who is Athena's mother?
Metis

5. In Norse mythology, what is the cause of thunder?
Mjölnir

6. In Norse mythology, to whom are cats sacred?
Freya

7. What did Athena do to get Athens named after her, and who was likely pissed off about it?
She planted an olive tree and the citizens liked her and honored her with naming the place Athens.

8. How was the Hydra vanquished?
Hercules and Iolaus cuts of one head and burns the wound to prevent more from growing.

9. What is the name of the ancient Roman wolf festival?
Lupercalia

10. Who really started the Trojan War? Hint: It's not one of the main 12.
Prince Paris and Queen Helen

[DublA]

M answers:
1. Garlic

2. Strangling

3. Poseidon

4. Metis

5. Mjolnir

6. Freya

7. Planted an olive tree

8. Hercules and Iolaus cut off one head and burns the wound to prevent more from growing.

9. Lupercalia

10. Prince Paris & Queen Helen

[Scooby]

There's only 1 hour left, and no one has gotten 100% yet. Not going to say which questions haven't been answered correctly yet, though.

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1. Aside from silver, stakes, and holy objects, name a traditional Vampire weakness.
Fire

2. How did Hercules manage to kill the Nemean Lion?
Strangling it with his bare hands

3. Who does Polyphemus tell his comrades us attacking him?
Poseidon

4. Who is Athena's mother?
Metis

5. In Norse mythology, what is the cause of thunder?
Mjölnir

6. In Norse mythology, to whom are cats sacred?
Freya

7. What did Athena do to get Athens named after her, and who was likely pissed off about it?
She planted an olive tree and the citizens liked her and honored her with naming the place Athens.

8. How was the Hydra vanquished?
Hercules and Iolaus cuts of one head and burns the wound to prevent more from growing.

9. What is the name of the ancient Roman wolf festival?
Lupercalia

10. Who really started the Trojan War? Hint: It's not one of the main 12.
Prince Paris and Queen Helen

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M answers:
1.  Garlic

2. Strangling

3. Poseidon

4. Metis

5. Mjolnir

6. Freya

7. Planted an olive tree

8. Hercules and Iolaus cut off one head and burns the wound to prevent more from growing.

9. Lupercalia

10. Prince Paris & Queen Helen

We have a 2 way tie. Each got 7.5 out of 10. So it's time for Sudden Death. First to answer correctly wins.

Question: When traveling to the underworld in Greek Mythology, what must one make sure never to do lest one be stuck there forever?

[shitmaster]

There's only 1 hour left, and no one has gotten 100% yet. Not going to say which questions haven't been answered correctly yet, though.

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We have a 2 way tie. Each got 7.5 out of 10. So it's time for Sudden Death. First to answer correctly wins.

Question: When traveling to the underworld in Greek Mythology, what must one make sure never to do lest one be stuck there forever?

Not try to marry the queen of the underworld like Pirithous did.

[Scooby]

Not try to marry the queen of the underworld like Pirithous did.

I will give DublA a half hour to give their answer before ruling. And just for dramatic kicks, I'm increasing the prize to 1k even though neither of you are Mystery Inc members. In a half hour I will award the prize, give the answers, and close the thread.

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And I'm splitting the pot between you as the Sudden Death answer I was looking for was eating food from the underworld. You provided a specific example of someone being trapped but I asked what anyone must avoid. Most people wouldn't try to take Persephone lol. Anyway, here are the other answers.

1. Aside from silver, garlic, and holy objects, name a traditional Vampire weakness.

Garlic, sunlight, fire, OCD, flowing water.

2. How did Hercules manage to kill the Nemean Lion?

Strangling with bare hands

3. Who does Polyphemus tell his comrades is attacking him?

Nobody

4. Who is Athena's mother?

Metis but Zeus birthed her.

5. In Norse mythology, what is the cause of thunder?

It is the sound of Thor's hammer, Mjölnir, as he fucks up some giants with it.

6. In Norse mythology, to whom are cats sacred?

Freya

7. What did Athena do to get Athens named after her, and who was likely pissed off about it?

Gave the olive tree. And Poseidon was pissed off as he was the other God in the competition.

8. How was the Hydra vanquished?

Heads were cut off and the necks burned to prevent more heads.

9. What is the name of the ancient Roman wolf festival?

Lupercalia

10. Who really started the Trojan War? Hint: It's not one of the main 12.

Nemesis. She was pissed that she wasn't invited to a wedding so she crashed it and threw a golden apple inscribed "To The Most Beautiful" down the aisle and well, all hell broke loose from there.

[DublA]

Great contest! Thanks for prize