2013 Mythology/History Parent Challenge

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  1. 3. Destined to bare a child greater than its father, to whom did Peleus give birth?
  2. 5. Which goddess did Paris Choose? (Roman name)
  3. 6. What NAME did the senate award to Octavian in 27 BCE?
  4. 8. Who killed Achilles?
  5. 9. The battle at which Mark Antony and Cleopatra faced defeat
  6. 11. What girl claimed that she could beat Athena in a weaving contest, but was turned into a spider when she failed? (Hint: from her name we get the scientific term for spider)
  7. 13. A mountain sacred to Apollo and home of the Muses
  8. 15. The second of the 3 main periods of Roman government: (in no particular order) Rule by Emperor, Monarchy, Republic
  9. 16. Who was the king of Troy during the Trojan war?
  10. 17. On what day in 44 BCE did Caesar die?
  11. 19. Who sailed around for ten years, spent seven years with Calypso, but never forgot about his wife?
  12. 20. What maiden helped Theseus out of the Labyrinth by giving him magic thread?
  13. 21. The pair of twins raised by a wolf, one of whom went on to found Rome
  14. 24. The other main conspirator of Caesar's assassination, slightly lesser well known
  15. 27. One of the two main conspirators in Caesar's murder
  16. 28. Whose face was said to have launched a thousand ships?
  17. 29. What king of Mycenae's (brother of Menelaus) troops fought in the Trojan war?
  18. 30. abbreviation meaning "from the founding of the city", the Roman used it to count years
  19. 31. The first wife of Aneas
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  1. 1. The original name of the coliseum
  2. 2. What hero killed the Minotaur
  3. 4. Who built the Labyrinth?
  4. 7. Oldest son of Priam and Hecuba and the greatest Trojan warrior
  5. 8. The ideal wife who kept her suitors at bay for the duration of her husband's absence
  6. 10. The temporary fiancé of Apollo who was given the gift of Prophesy, but was then cursed with no one believing her
  7. 12. The river Caesar crossed with his troops when he famously proclaimed "alea iacta est" (the die have been cast), officially declaring war on Rome
  8. 14. The Rape of the ______ women; the way the the Roman's obtained their first women
  9. 18. What maiden did Jason woo into killing her own brother in the quest for the golden fleece?
  10. 21. The third of the 3 main periods of Roman government: (in no particular order) Rule by Emperor, Monarchy, Republic
  11. 22. Who fell in love with his/her own reflection?
  12. 23. The son of Aneas that went on to found Alba Longa
  13. 25. What youth failed the heed his/her father's warnings and flew too close to the sun and fell to his/her watery demise
  14. 26. The first of the 3 main periods of Roman government: (in no particular order) Rule by Emperor, Monarchy, Republic
  15. 32. "The senate of the people Rome"; The abbreviation that served as the motto of the Roman Senate