8075 Pandora's Box Trivia Questions with Answers

8075 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?

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In the idiom “open Pandora’s box,” what does the expression mean?

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Unleash many unforeseen problems

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Who wrote the 1894 German play Pandora’s Box (Die Büchse der Pandora)?

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Frank Wedekind

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Which 2011 Nintendo Wii role-playing game uses the title Pandora’s Tower?

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Pandora’s Tower

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In Greek mythology, which Roman god is the equivalent of the Greek craftsman god Hephaestus linked to Pandora’s creation?

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Vulcan

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In Greek mythology, what does Pandora release when she opens the vessel given to her?

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Evils

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In Hesiod’s Pandora narrative, which Titan warns his brother Epimetheus not to accept gifts from Zeus?

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Prometheus

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In Pandora’s Box mythology, which Titan is Pandora’s husband according to Hesiod’s Works and Days?

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Epimetheus

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In Hesiod’s Works and Days, who orders the gods to create Pandora as punishment for humanity?

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Zeus

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What Greek term for hope remains after the other spirits escape from Pandora’s vessel?

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Elpis

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In Greek mythology, which goddess teaches Pandora household crafts as one of her divine gifts?

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Athena

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Which Latin author’s 16th-century translation helped turn Pandora’s jar into a “box” in European usage?

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Erasmus

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What is the ancient Greek vessel called a pithos that later became known as Pandora’s box?

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Jar

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In Greek mythology, which poet first recorded Pandora’s jar story in his poem Works and Days?

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Hesiod

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What single thing remained inside Pandora’s container after the troubles escaped?

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Hope

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In Greek mythology, which god fashioned Pandora, the woman linked to Pandora’s box?

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Hephaestus

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Which video-game console originally released Pandora’s Tower in Japan in 2011?

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Wii

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In the Pandora myth, what was Epimetheus to Prometheus?

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Brother

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Which German dramatist wrote the plays Earth Spirit and Pandora’s Box, adapted for the 1929 film?

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Frank Wedekind

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Who wrote the ancient Greek poem Works and Days, the earliest surviving literary source for Pandora’s story?

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Hesiod

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In Hesiod’s poem Works and Days, what is the name of the woman whose jar releases evils into the world?

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Pandora

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In Pandora’s creation myth, which Greek god ordered the other gods to make her?

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Zeus

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What Greek vessel, often translated as a box, did Pandora open in the original myth?

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Pithos

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In Doctor Who Series 5, which 2010 episode features the Pandorica and ends with its opening?

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The Pandorica Opens

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In Greek mythology, what adjective meaning “all-gifted” describes Pandora’s name?

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All-gifted

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Which asteroid, numbered 55, was named Pandora after the Greek mythological woman?

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55 Pandora

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What was the name of Pandora’s husband in Hesiod’s account of the jar myth?

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Epimetheus

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What is the approximate orbital period of Saturn’s moon Pandora, the shepherd of the planet’s F ring?

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15.1 hours

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Which Saturn moon shepherds the inner edge of the F ring alongside Pandora?

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Prometheus

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What is the scientific designation of the Saturn moon named Pandora, discovered in Voyager 1 images?

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S/1980 S 26

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Which Greek work by Hesiod describes Pandora’s jar as part of a punishment for humanity?

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Works and Days

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Which Greek poet wrote the earliest surviving full account of Pandora’s creation and jar in Works and Days?

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Hesiod

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What Greek word names the large storage jar that later retellings call Pandora’s box?

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Pithos

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In Greek mythology, what was the name of the first woman created by the gods and associated with the opened jar?

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Pandora

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In the 2009 film Avatar, what is the name of the moon where humans encounter Pandora’s world?

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Pandora

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In the myth of Pandora’s Box, which god is traditionally said to have given Pandora her beauty?

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Aphrodite

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Which Greek poem by Hesiod mentions Pandora but does not narrate the jar opening in detail?

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Theogony

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According to Greek myth, why did Zeus send Pandora to humanity?

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To punish humans for Prometheus’s fire theft

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Who opened the container that released evils in the Greek myth of Pandora?

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Pandora

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In the 1929 film Pandora’s Box, what was the original language of the dialogue intertitles?

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German

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In Hesiod’s Works and Days, what did Pandora do immediately after opening the storage jar?

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She closed it

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In Frank Wedekind’s Lulu plays, what is the title of the first play?

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Earth Spirit

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Which Greek god is said to have taught Pandora deceitful speech in Hesiod’s Works and Days?

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Hermes

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In Pandora’s myth, what was left inside the jar after its other contents escaped?

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Hope

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In Greek mythology, which poet gives the fullest surviving account of Pandora’s creation?

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Hesiod

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What is the ancient Greek word for the large storage jar later miscalled Pandora’s box?

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Pithos

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In ancient Greek mythology, what is the name of the goddess of wisdom who helped equip Pandora?

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Athena

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Which 20th-century composer wrote the opera Lulu, associated with the Pandora’s Box story?

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Alban Berg

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In Greek mythology, who ordered Pandora’s creation as punishment after Prometheus took fire?

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Zeus

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In Pandora’s myth, which god fashioned her body from earth?

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Hephaestus

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In Greek mythology, which man received Pandora despite being warned by his brother?

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Epimetheus

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