1. Talos, the mythical giant bronze man, was the protector of which island?

a. Sardinia
b. Sicily
c. Cyprus
d. !Crete

2. According to Algonquian folklore, how does one transform into a Wendigo?

a. Excessive mutilation of animal
corpses.
b. Drinking the blood of many slain
animals.
c. Performing a ritual involving
murder.
d. !Participating in cannibalism.

3. In Norse mythology, Thor once dressed as a woman.

a. False
b. !True

4. Who was the Roman god of fire?

a. Jupiter
b. !Vulcan
c. Apollo
d. Mercury

5. Which figure from Greek mythology traveled to the underworld to return his wife
Eurydice to the land of the living?
a. !Orpheus
b. Hercules
c. Daedalus
d. Perseus

6. Nidhogg is a mythical creature from what mythology?

a. Greek
b. Hindu
c. Egyptian
d. !Norse

7. Who is the Egyptian god of reproduction and lettuce?

a. Meret
b. !Min
c. Menu
d. Mut

8. Who is the god of war in Polynesian mythology?

a. Hina
b. Mui
c. Kohara
d. !039;Oro

9. The Nike apparel and footwear brand takes it039;s name from the Greek goddess of
what?
a. !Victory
b. Strength
c. Honor
d. Courage

10. Which greek godgoddess tossed a golden apple with the words quot;for the
fairestquot; into the middle of the feast of the gods?
a. Ares
b. !Eris
c. Artemis
d. Hades

1. What is the area of a circle with a diameter of 20 inches if pi; 3.1415?

a. 1256.6 Inches
b. 380.1215 Inches
c. 3141.5 Inches
d. !314.15 Inches

2. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 12,345,678,987,654,321

a. False
b. !True

3. The binary number quot;101001101quot; is equivalent to the Decimal number

quot;334quot;
a. !False
b. True

4. If you could fold a piece of paper in half 50 times, its039; thickness will be
34th the distance from the Earth to the Sun.
a. False
b. !True

5. The metric prefix quot;attoquot; makes a measurement how much smaller than the
base unit?
a. One Quadrillionth
b. !One Quintillionth
c. One Septillionth
d. One Billionth

6. In Topology, the complement of an open set is a closed set.

a. !True
b. False

7. The sum of any two odd integers is odd.

a. True
b. !False
8. Which of these numbers is closest to the total number of possible states for an
army standard Enigma Machine?
a. !1.58 x 1020
b. 1.58 x 1024
c. 1.58 x 1022
d. 1.58 x 1018

9. How many books are in Euclid039;s Elements of Geometry?

a. 17
b. !13
c. 8
d. 10

10. The notion of a quot;set that contains all sets which do not contain
themselvesquot; is a paradoxical idea attributed to which English philospher?
a. !Bertrand Russel
b. Alfred North Whitehead
c. John Locke
d. Francis Bacon

11. Which mathematician refused the Fields Medal?

a. Edward Witten
b. Terence Tao
c. !Grigori Perelman
d. Andrew Wiles

12. In the complex plane, multiplying a given function by i rotates it

anticlockwise by how many degrees?
a. 270
b. 180
c. 0
d. !90

1. What was the punishment for Sysiphus039;s craftiness?

a. To fell a tree that regenerated
after every axe swing.
b. Standing in a lake filled with
water he could not drink.
c. Tied to a boulder for eternity,
being pecked by birds.
d. !Cursed to roll a boulder up a
hill for eternity.

2. This Greek mythological figure is the godgoddess of battle strategy among other
things.
a. Artemis
b. !Athena
c. Apollo
d. Ares
3. The Hippogriff, not to be confused with the Griffon, is a magical creature with
the front half of an eagle, and the back half of what?
a. A Tiger
b. !A Horse
c. A Dragon
d. A Lion

4. This Greek goddess039;s name was chosen for the dwarf planet responsible for
discord on Pluto039;s classification amongst astronomers.
a. !Eris
b. Charon
c. Dysnomia
d. Ceres

5. In Norse mythology, what is the name of the serpent which eats the roots of the
ash tree Yggdrasil?
a. !Nidhogg
b. Odin
c. Bragi
d. Ymir

6. 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

7. A minotaur is half human half what?

a. Eagle
b. Horse
c. Cow
d. !Bull

8. According to the Egyptian Myth of Osiris, who murdered Osiris?

a. Ra
b. Anhur
c. Horus
d. !Set

9. What mythology did the god quot;Apolloquot; come from?

a. Roman and Spanish
b. !Greek and Roman
c. Greek and Chinese
d. Greek, Roman and Norse

10. A wyvern is the same as a dragon.

a. !False
b. True