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• Pandora's Box

What is the title of Frank Wedekind’s 1895 play that precedes Pandora’s Box?

Answer

Earth Spirit

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Pandora's Box

In which year was the silent film Pandora’s Box, starring Louise Brooks, released?

Answer

1929

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Pandora's Box

Which goddess taught Pandora to weave in Hesiod’s account?

Answer

Athena

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• Pandora's Box

In the Greek story of Pandora’s jar, who commanded that Pandora be created?

Answer

Zeus

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• Pandora's Box

In Pandora’s Greek myth, which god fashioned her physical form from clay?

Answer

Hephaestus

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• Pandora's Box

In the myth of Pandora’s box, what remained inside after the evils escaped?

Answer

Hope

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• Pandora's Box

Which ancient Greek work by Hesiod includes the Pandora story alongside the myth of Prometheus’s fire theft?

Answer

Works and Days

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• Pandora's Box

In Hesiod’s Greek mythology, Pandora is described as the first what?

Answer

Woman

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• Pandora's Box

Which ancient Greek poet gives the fullest surviving account of Pandora’s jar?

Answer

Hesiod

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• Pandora's Box

What type of ancient Greek storage vessel was turned into a “box” in the Pandora myth?

Answer

Pithos

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• Noah's Ark

Which son of Noah is traditionally associated with the ancestor of the Hebrews?

Answer

Shem

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• Noah's Ark

What did the dove bring Noah after its second release from the Ark?

Answer

A freshly plucked olive leaf

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