STAT310: Powerpoint

1. Greenland is covered with grass and Iceland covered with ice.

a. True
b. !False
2. The historical city Timbuktu is located in which West African country?
a. !Mali
b. Burkina Faso
c. Niger
d. Senegal
3. What is the right way to spell the capital of Hungary?
a. Bhudapest
b. Budapast
c. !Budapest
d. Boodapest
4. Antarctica is the largest desert in the world.
a. !True
b. False
5. What is the official language of Bhutan?
a. !Dzongkha
b. Ladakhi
c. Karen
d. Groma
6. What is the capital of Slovakia?
a. Ljubljana
b. Sofia
c. !Bratislava
d. Sarajevo
7. What is the secondlargest city in Lithuania?
a. Klaipda
b. !Kaunas
c. Vilnius
d. Panevys
8. What is the land connecting North America and South America?
a. Urals
b. !Isthmus of Panama
c. Australasia
d. Isthmus of Suez
9. What is the largest country in the world?
a. United States
b. China
c. !Russia
d. Canada
10. The formerly EastPrussian city of Kouml;nigsberg is known as which Russian City
today?
a. Kursk
b. !Kaliningrad
c. Krasnodar
d. Kazan

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1. This Greek mythological figure is the godgoddess of battle strategy among other things.
a. Artemis
b. Apollo
c. Ares
d. !Athena
2. According to Norse mythology, Loki is a mother.
a. False
b. !True
3. The Japanese god Izanagi successfully returned his wife Izanami from the Underworld.
a. True
b. !False
4. Rannamaari was a sea demon that haunted the people of the Maldives and had to be
appeased monthly with the sacrifice of a virgin girl.
a. !True
b. False
5. In Greek Mythology, who killed Achilles?
a. !Paris
b. Pericles
c. Helen
d. Hector
6. A minotaur is half human half what?
a. Horse
b. Cow
c. Eagle
d. !Bull
7. The Roman god quot;Jupiterquot; was first known as quot;Zeusquot; to the Greeks.
a. False
b. !True
8. Which of the following is not one of the Greek Fates?
a. Lachesis
b. Clotho
c. Atropos
d. !Narcissus
9. In African mythology, Anansi is a trickster and storyteller who takes the shape of which
animal?
a. Crocodile
b. Wild dog
c. !Spider
d. Monkey
10. A wyvern is the same as a dragon.
a. !False
b. True
1. According to Algonquian folklore, how does one transform into a Wendigo?
a. Performing a ritual involving murder.
b. Drinking the blood of many slain animals.
c. !Participating in cannibalism.
d. Excessive mutilation of animal corpses.
2. Who was the only god from Greece who did not get a name change in Rome?

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a. Zeus
b. Athena
c. !Apollo
d. Demeter
3. In Norse mythology, Thor once dressed as a woman.
a. !True
b. False
4. According to Norse mythology, Loki is a mother.
a. False
b. !True
5. Which Greek amp; Roman god was known as the god of music, truth and prophecy,
healing, the sun and light, plague, poetry, and more?
a. Athena
b. Artemis
c. Aphrodite
d. !Apollo
6. Which figure from Greek mythology traveled to the underworld to return his wife
Eurydice to the land of the living?
a. Hercules
b. Daedalus
c. !Orpheus
d. Perseus
7. In most traditions, who was the wife of Zeus?
a. Hestia
b. !Hera
c. Aphrodite
d. Athena
8. Which of these mythological creatures is said to be halfman and halfhorse?
a. Gorgon
b. Minotaur
c. !Centaur
d. Pegasus
9. Janus was the Roman god of doorways and passageways.
a. !True
b. False
10. What animal did Queen Pasipahe sleep with before she gave birth to the Minotaur in
Greek Mythology?
a. Pig
b. !Bull
c. Ox
d. Horse

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