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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Noah's Ark

What was Noah’s name before the Flood story’s Ark construction begins?

Answer

Noah

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Noah's Ark

How long did the floodwaters prevail on the earth in Genesis’s Noah story?

Answer

150 days

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Noah's Ark

For how many days does Genesis say rain fell during the Flood in Noah’s Ark story?

Answer

40 days and 40 nights

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• Noah's Ark

According to Genesis, how many doors did Noah’s Ark have?

Answer

One

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• World

Which ancient writing system was deciphered after the discovery of the Rosetta Stone?

Answer

Egyptian hieroglyphs

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• World

Which ancient wonder was located at Olympia and built to honor Zeus?

Answer

Statue of Zeus

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Pandora's Box

In Hesiod’s Pandora myth, what Greek vessel is often translated as her “box”?

Answer

Pithos

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Pandora's Box

What is the usual English meaning of the idiom “open Pandora’s box”?

Answer

Release unforeseen troubles

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Pandora's Box

Which ancient Greek poet described Pandora as a punishment for humanity in Works and Days?

Answer

Hesiod

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Pandora's Box

Which Greek god gave Pandora the ability to communicate in Hesiod’s creation story?

Answer

Hermes

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Pandora's Box

In Greek mythology, who sent Pandora to Epimetheus as part of Zeus’s punishment?

Answer

Zeus

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Pandora's Box

In Hesiod’s Pandora myth, which human accepted her despite a warning from Prometheus?

Answer

Epimetheus

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