Episode 593 The Olympian Gods - Hades

Who is Hades' father?

Zeus

Cronos

Uranus

Which of the following is not among Hades' siblings?

Zeus

Hestia

Demeter

Atlas

Poseidon

Hera

Who guarded the gates of the underworld not to let anyone leave?

Cerberus

Charon

Hades

How did Hades and Persephone become husband and wife?

He proposed to her on top of Mount Olympus.

He kidnapped Persephone and tricked her before she was about to leave.

Demeter, Hera and Hestia arranged this marriage.

Which of the following is correct about the way ancient Greeks thought of the afterlife?

The afterlife is a glorious place where you get to live happily every after.

The afterlife is a place of woe, darkness and fear.

Ancient Greeks did not really believe in the afterlife.

Which of these statement is true about the division of realms between the three major Olympian gods?

Zeus took the sky and the sea, Poseidon took the mountains and rivers and Hades took the underworld.

Zeus took the sea, Poseidon took the underworld and Hades took the sea.

Hades took the underworld, Poseidon took the sea and Zeus took the sky.

Why did Zeus insist to get Persephone back to her mother?

To avoid starvation

because he didn't know about the whole thing in the first place

because he's so kind-hearted and couldn't stand the tears of a mother in pain

One of these artists did not use Hades as a subject.

Bernini

Peter Paul Rubens

Leonardo Da Vinci

Why did the Greeks used to put two drachmae on the eyes of their dead?

That was never really explained and it is still a mystery

To feed Cerberus as it used to feed on gold

To pay the boatman of the styx, Charon to ferry the dead to the other side

How many heads does Cerberus have?

one

two

three

Episode 593 The Olympian Gods – Hades

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