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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Pandora's Box

In Greek mythology, what does Epimetheus’s name literally mean in contrast with Prometheus?

Answer

Afterthought

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Pandora's Box

In Greek mythology, what did Pandora find remaining inside her opened container?

Answer

Hope

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• Pandora's Box

In Greek mythology, who gives Pandora a deceptive nature or speech according to Hesiod’s account?

Answer

Hermes

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Pandora's Box

In Hesiod’s Theogony, which god is said to fashion Pandora?

Answer

Hephaestus

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Pandora's Box

In Greek mythology, what type of container did Pandora open, rather than a box?

Answer

Jar

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Pandora's Box

In the 1951 film Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, which actress plays Pandora Reynolds?

Answer

Ava Gardner

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Pandora's Box

Who plays Lulu in G. W. Pabst’s 1929 German film Pandora’s Box?

Answer

Louise Brooks

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Pandora's Box

In Greek mythology, whom did Pandora marry before opening the container of evils?

Answer

Epimetheus

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Pandora's Box

Which ancient Greek poet wrote the fullest surviving account of Pandora’s story in Works and Days?

Answer

Hesiod

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Pandora's Box

In the Greek myth of Pandora, who opened the container that released troubles into the world?

Answer

Pandora

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Dragon's Den

In BBC's Dragons' Den, who was the show's first female Dragon?

Answer

Rachel Elnaugh

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Dragon's Den

Who presented BBC's Dragons' Den from the programme's launch in 2005 until 2012?

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Evan Davis

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