Mythology & Folklore Quizzes
6 free quizzes to play — pick one below.
Name the god, hero, monster, place or object of Greek and Roman myth from a description.
Name the god, giant, creature, realm or object of Norse myth from a description.
Name the deity, avatar, hero, sage, text or concept of Hindu myth from a description.
Name the character, object, place, text or festival of Arthurian legend or Celtic myth from a description.
Name the god, hero, demon, creature, text or city of Sumerian, Babylonian and Assyrian myth from a description.
Name the deity, creature, place, object or concept of ancient Egyptian religion from a description.
About Mythology & Folklore Quizzes
Every culture has told stories to explain where the world came from, why it holds both wonder and suffering, what the gods or spirits want, and what waits after death. This SuperCategory is a tour of those stories, one mythology or tradition at a time. Each quiz describes a god, a hero, a monster, a place or a tale and asks you to name it, then fills in who they were, how the story goes, which culture told it, and how it still echoes in language, art and everyday life. The aim is the good stuff, accurately told: the famous myths in their standard forms, the family trees straightened out, the Roman and Greek names paired up, and the common misconceptions, such as Pandora's 'box', gently corrected. Planned quizzes cover Greek and Roman myth, the Norse gods, ancient Egypt, a cross-cultural bestiary of legendary creatures, Hindu mythology, Celtic and Arthurian legend, the world's creation and flood myths side by side, and the folklore and fairy tales that grew from all of them.
Every question is written to stand on its own, so no prior reading is needed, and the answer is always a single name chosen from four. Where the traditions disagree, and they often do, the most widely told version is used and the main variants are noted. Names are given in the forms most familiar to English readers, with the alternatives spelled out. The tone is storytelling rather than scripture: these were living tales that changed with every teller, and they still supply a huge share of the names, images and turns of phrase in art, science and ordinary speech, from a herculean effort to a titanic ship to a narcissist.