LAT: Worksheet

1. What is the only country in the world with a flag that doesn039;t have four right angles?
a. Angola
b. !Nepal
c. Panama
d. Egypt
2. Which country does Austria not border?
a. Slovakia
b. !France
c. Slovenia
d. Switzerland
3. Which European city has the highest mileage of canals in the world?
a. Amsterdam
b. Venice
c. !Birmingham
d. Berlin
4. Which country is completely landlocked by South Africa?
a. !Lesotho
b. Botswana
c. Swaziland
d. Zimbabwe
5. What is the capital of the US state Nevada?
a. Reno
b. !Carson City
c. Henderson
d. Las Vegas
6. Which country has the abbreviation quot;CHquot;?
a. China
b. Canada
c. No Country
d. !Switzerland
7. Which of these country039;s capitals starts with the letter B?
a. !Lebanon
b. Qatar
c. Kuwait
d. Jordan
8. What is the capital of Greenland?
a. Narsaq
b. Sisimiut
c. Maniitsoq
d. !Nuuk
9. Which of these is NOT a real tectonic plate?
a. North American Plate
b. !Atlantic Plate
c. Nazca Plate
d. Eurasian Plate
10. Bir Tawil, an uninhabited track of land claimed by no country, is located along the
border of which two countries?

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a. Iraq and Saudi Arabia
b. !Egypt and Sudan
c. Chad and Libya
d. Israel and Jordan
1. What was the punishment for Sysiphus039;s craftiness?
a. !Cursed to roll a boulder up a hill for eternity.
b. To fell a tree that regenerated after every axe swing.
c. Standing in a lake filled with water he could not drink.
d. Tied to a boulder for eternity, being pecked by birds.
2. This Greek mythological figure is the godgoddess of battle strategy among other things.
a. Artemis
b. !Athena
c. Apollo
d. Ares
3. According to Greek Mythology, Zeus can control lightning.
a. !True
b. False
4. The Japanese god Izanagi successfully returned his wife Izanami from the Underworld.
a. True
b. !False
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. !Apollo
b. Aphrodite
c. Athena
d. Artemis
6. In Greek Mythology, who killed Achilles?
a. Hector
b. Helen
c. !Paris
d. Pericles
7. According to the Egyptian Myth of Osiris, who murdered Osiris?
a. Ra
b. !Set
c. Anhur
d. Horus
8. A wyvern is the same as a dragon.
a. !False
b. True
9. According to Japanese folklore, what is the favorite food of the Kappa.
a. Nasu
b. Kabocha
c. !Cucumbers
d. Soba
10. What is the name of the first human being in Norse mythology?
a. Asmund
b. Ake
c. Asger

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d. !Ask
1. Who in Greek mythology, who led the Argonauts in search of the Golden Fleece?
a. Daedalus
b. Odysseus
c. Castor
d. !Jason
2. In Norse mythology, what is the name of the serpent which eats the roots of the ash tree
Yggdrasil?
a. Bragi
b. Ymir
c. Odin
d. !Nidhogg
3. Nidhogg is a mythical creature from what mythology?
a. !Norse
b. Egyptian
c. Greek
d. Hindu
4. In Greek mythology, Hera is the goddess of harvest.
a. True
b. !False
5. According to Greek Mythology, Atlas was an Olympian God.
a. !False
b. True
6. According to the Egyptian Myth of Osiris, who murdered Osiris?
a. Horus
b. Ra
c. !Set
d. Anhur
7. Which of these mythological creatures is said to be halfman and halfhorse?
a. !Centaur
b. Gorgon
c. Minotaur
d. Pegasus
8. Which of the following is not one of the Greek Fates?
a. Lachesis
b. !Narcissus
c. Clotho
d. Atropos
9. A wyvern is the same as a dragon.
a. !False
b. True
10. The Norse god Odin has two pet crows named quot;Huginnquot; and
quot;Muninnquot;. What do their names mean?
a. War amp; Learning
b. Sleeping amp; Waking
c. Power amp; Peace
d. !Thought amp; Memory

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