#9209, aired 2024-11-21 | NORSE MYTH $400: This Norse god kept an eye on his wife Frigg, who herself presided over marriage Odin |
#9209, aired 2024-11-21 | NORSE MYTH $800: Not just a hamlet in New York, it's the site of slain warriors where the same unfortunate boar is eaten & resurrected daily Valhalla |
#9209, aired 2024-11-21 | NORSE MYTH $1200: Thought invincible, Balder got the kiss of death after getting hit with a sprig of this shrub, the one thing that could do the job a mistletoe |
#9209, aired 2024-11-21 | NORSE MYTH $2000: As "Watchman of the Gods", he could see 100 leagues; another skill was the ability to hear grass grow, for some reason Heimdall |
#9209, aired 2024-11-21 | NORSE MYTH $5,600 (Daily Double): The 9 realms include Alfheim, home of the light elves, Nidavellir, home of the dwarves & this, home to us puny ol' mortals Midgard |
#9152, aired 2024-07-23 | IT'S ALL GREEK MYTH TO ME $400: Oceanus & Thea are among these gods who are the children of primordial earth & heaven Titan |
#9152, aired 2024-07-23 | IT'S ALL GREEK MYTH TO ME $800: Using his chops on the lyre to charm this canine guard of Hades, Orpheus was able to enter & attempt to rescue Eurydice Cerberus |
#9152, aired 2024-07-23 | IT'S ALL GREEK MYTH TO ME $1600: With a little help from Apollo during the Trojan War, this prince shot an arrow into Achilles' heel, killing him Paris |
#9152, aired 2024-07-23 | IT'S ALL GREEK MYTH TO ME $2000: A skilled yet boastful artisan, she was transformed into a spider after challenging Athena to a weaving contest Arachne |
#9152, aired 2024-07-23 | IT'S ALL GREEK MYTH TO ME $3,000 (Daily Double): This name applied to a sea monster with 12 feet & 6 heads, each head containing 3 rows of sharklike teeth, or just a rock Scylla |
#9135, aired 2024-06-28 | GREEK MYTH: WOMEN & GODDESSES $400: This goddess of wisdom is said to have been born directly from Zeus' forehead, fully grown & wearing body armor Athena |
#9135, aired 2024-06-28 | GREEK MYTH: WOMEN & GODDESSES $800: Main centers of worship of this goddess of fertility were Paphos & Amathus on Cyprus & the island of Cythera Aphrodite |
#9135, aired 2024-06-28 | GREEK MYTH: WOMEN & GODDESSES $1200: Atalanta lost a foot race to her future husband when he dropped 3 of this golden fruit on the track to distract her golden apples |
#9135, aired 2024-06-28 | GREEK MYTH: WOMEN & GODDESSES $1600: Besides killing game, this goddess of the hunt also protected it; thus she was also called the mistress of animals Artemis |
#9135, aired 2024-06-28 | GREEK MYTH: WOMEN & GODDESSES $2000: When her stepson Hippolytus spurned her affections, this daughter of King Minos hanged herself Phaedra |
#38, aired 2024-05-22 | IT'S ALL GREEK MYTH TO ME $200: A man with seriously load-bearing legs, he turned to stone via Gorgon head & became part of a mountain range Atlas |
#38, aired 2024-05-22 | IT'S ALL GREEK MYTH TO ME $400: A 2018 medical paper was titled "Prometheus and" this body organ "Regeneration: the Dissection of a Myth" liver |
#38, aired 2024-05-22 | IT'S ALL GREEK MYTH TO ME $600: This 50-oared ship had a rather unique non-factory feature: wood donated by Athena that could tell the future the Argo |
#38, aired 2024-05-22 | IT'S ALL GREEK MYTH TO ME $800: Guarded by a dragon (it didn't end well for the dragon), these were the fruits of a herculean labor the golden apples (of the Hesperides) |
#38, aired 2024-05-22 | IT'S ALL GREEK MYTH TO ME $1000: In the "Odyssey", this god is sent by Zeus to I.M. Odysseus: I'm voting you off Calypso's island Hermes |
#9072, aired 2024-04-02 | MOVIES & MYTH $400: In a 2017 film Chris Hemsworth says it's the hall "where the brave shall live forever" Valhalla |
#9072, aired 2024-04-02 | MOVIES & MYTH $800: In a 1969 film Maria Callas starred as this tragic woman that the Greek hero Jason discards Medea |
#9072, aired 2024-04-02 | MOVIES & MYTH $1200: In "Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets", this serpent of myth harms many with its gaze a basilisk |
#9072, aired 2024-04-02 | MOVIES & MYTH $1600: In "The Mummy Returns", this Egyptian god of the dead/cute li'l puppy takes the soul of Dwayne Johnson Anubis |
#9072, aired 2024-04-02 | MOVIES & MYTH $2000: In this Guillermo del Toro tale set in the 1940s, a faun believes a girl named Ofelia is a mythical princess Pan's Labyrinth |
#9026, aired 2024-01-29 | MYTH AROUND & FIND OUT $400: In an Iroquois tale a girl runs off with a handsome Chad only to find out he is one of these ssslithery creatures a snake |
#9026, aired 2024-01-29 | MYTH AROUND & FIND OUT $800: This bull-headed creature of Crete came to be after Pasiphaƫ fell in love with a bovine the Minotaur |
#9026, aired 2024-01-29 | MYTH AROUND & FIND OUT $1200: One myth says this king of Corinth got an eternity of rock pushing after angering Zeus by snitching on some of Z's philandering Sisyphus |
#9026, aired 2024-01-29 | MYTH AROUND & FIND OUT $1600: The blind Norse god Hodur messed around & killed this beloved god with a projectile of missile-toe Baldur |
#9026, aired 2024-01-29 | MYTH AROUND & FIND OUT $2000: In Egyptian myth Seth went all Edgar Allan Poe on this bro of his & put him in a coffin while he was still alive Osiris |
#8985, aired 2023-12-01 | EROS MYTH $400: In the epic "Argonautica", Eros' arrow makes Medea fall in love with this man Jason |
#8985, aired 2023-12-01 | EROS MYTH $800: In Greek myth Eros was often the son of this love & beauty goddess by any of several godly fathers Aphrodite |
#8985, aired 2023-12-01 | EROS MYTH $1200: The Romans called Eros Cupid or this, which they also put after "Omnia Vincit" Amor |
#8985, aired 2023-12-01 | EROS MYTH $1600: Hesiod listed Eros as one of the primordial deities along with Gaia & this amorphous, messy one Chaos |
#8985, aired 2023-12-01 | EROS MYTH $7,000 (Daily Double): This word for the mind shares a name with a girl loved by Eros psyche |
#8909, aired 2023-07-06 | MYTH MISERY $200: She was a beautiful mortal, but after making Athena angry, which you should definitely never do, this Gorgon got a reptile hairdo Medusa |
#8909, aired 2023-07-06 | MYTH MISERY $400: As you can see from what happened to Ixion, hitting on this woman, Zeus's wife, was not a great idea Hera |
#8909, aired 2023-07-06 | MYTH MISERY $600: Let's just say Zeus was disappointed this god gave fire to humans, nailing him to a big rock & having his liver eaten repeatedly Prometheus |
#8909, aired 2023-07-06 | MYTH MISERY $800: Song titles applying to the plight of this Corinth king: "Like A Rolling Stone" & "Running Up That Hill" (& back down again, forever) Sisyphus |
#8909, aired 2023-07-06 | MYTH MISERY $1000: Actaeon got a naked look at Apollo's twin sis, this goddess; she then turned Acty into a stag & said release the hounds! Artemis |
#8810, aired 2023-02-17 | MYTH CONGENIALITY $400: A Greek hero got a cool new ride, using Athena's golden bridle to tame this equine Pegasus |
#8810, aired 2023-02-17 | MYTH CONGENIALITY $800: "I" spy this goddess who "re-pieced" her hacked-up husband Osiris... now that's supporting your boo Isis |
#8810, aired 2023-02-17 | MYTH CONGENIALITY $1600: Frigga got an oath from fire, water, iron, you name it, to not hurt her son, this Norse god of light, but things got hairy anyway Balder |
#8810, aired 2023-02-17 | MYTH CONGENIALITY $2000: Fish were thrown into a fire on August 23 during a festival honoring this Roman god of fire Vulcan |
#8810, aired 2023-02-17 | MYTH CONGENIALITY $6,000 (Daily Double): Accidentally grazed by one of Cupid's arrows, Venus fell in love with this handsome youth Adonis |
#9, aired 2023-01-05 | INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYTH STORY $100: Caishen, the Chinese god of this supposed "root of all evil", was in one story killed by an arrow shot into a straw effigy of him money |
#9, aired 2023-01-05 | INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYTH STORY $300: Australian writer K. Langloh Parker wrote of the brothers who became swans & then got feathers of this color from crows black |
#9, aired 2023-01-05 | INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYTH STORY $400: Zeus's lack of wisdom had him swallow his wife Metis when she was pregnant with this daughter born unusually, as seen here Athena |
#9, aired 2023-01-05 | INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYTH STORY $500: "He who has lost his mind & seeks to find it" is one rendition of the name of this hero whose story is darker in legends than in Longfellow Hiawatha |
#9, aired 2023-01-05 | INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYTH STORY $600 (Daily Double): After being part of a rebellion with his fellow Titans, he seemed to have the whole world on his shoulders Atlas |
#8756, aired 2022-12-05 | MYTH $400: His wish that everything he touched turned to gold turned into a royal fiasco Midas |
#8756, aired 2022-12-05 | MYTH $1200: 19th century Norwegian artist Peter Nicolai Arbo tried to forge a national identity with works like "The Wild Hunt" of this top god Odin |
#8756, aired 2022-12-05 | MYTH $1600: In Egyptian mythology, Seth, the evil god of disorder, killed this brother, the god of the underworld Osiris |
#8756, aired 2022-12-05 | MYTH $2000: A chief Aztec deity, this feathered serpent helped create the human race by mingling his blood with the bones of the ancient dead Quetzalcoatl |
#8756, aired 2022-12-05 | MYTH $7,000 (Daily Double): 7 boys & 7 girls who did not volunteer as tributes were sacrificed to this monster annually until Theseus killed it the Minotaur |
#8730, aired 2022-10-28 | MYTH-POURRI $400: The sun god & creator god of Egypt, he's said to have created man from his tears & was also big on instant retribution Ra |
#8730, aired 2022-10-28 | MYTH-POURRI $800: In ancient Rome, she was not only the literal mother of Virtue but the personification of truth (especially in vino) Veritas |
#8730, aired 2022-10-28 | MYTH-POURRI $1600: The man, the Greek myth, the legend, he used Medusa's head to rescue his mom & get King Polydectes seriously stoned Perseus |
#8730, aired 2022-10-28 | MYTH-POURRI $2000: Balder will be back from the dead after this event, "doom of the gods" in Old Norse Ragnarok |
#8730, aired 2022-10-28 | MYTH-POURRI $7,000 (Daily Double): Allecto, or "unceasing in anger", was one of the 3 vengeance goddesses really living up to this collective name the Furies |
#8461, aired 2021-08-09 | MYTH RUN-ONS $400: Roman fire god, now a big orange melon Vulcantaloupe |
#8461, aired 2021-08-09 | MYTH RUN-ONS $800: The guy who did all the labors now has lots of wounds Herculesions |
#8461, aired 2021-08-09 | MYTH RUN-ONS $1200: Multi-headed hell-hound, now bent on stealin' cattle Cerberustler |
#8461, aired 2021-08-09 | MYTH RUN-ONS $1600: Greek goddess of the hunt who will get you a kiss if you stand underneath her in December Artemistletoe |
#8461, aired 2021-08-09 | MYTH RUN-ONS $2000: Labyrinth maker with a sparkling shine Daedaluster |
#8318, aired 2021-01-20 | MEN OF MYTH $400: This supreme musician was the son of a muse, & I'm no lyre Orpheus |
#8318, aired 2021-01-20 | MEN OF MYTH $800: The villainous Procrustes stretched or dismembered victims to make them fit onto his iron this a bed |
#8318, aired 2021-01-20 | MEN OF MYTH $1200: While married to Menelaus, Helen was abducted by this man, & much trouble ensued Paris |
#8318, aired 2021-01-20 | MEN OF MYTH $1600: After killing his mom for betraying his dad, Orestes is pursued by these vengeful goddesses aka the Erinyes the Furies |
#8318, aired 2021-01-20 | MEN OF MYTH $2000: In the "Iliad" this mighty warrior drags the body of Hector behind his chariot Achilles |
#8219, aired 2020-05-21 | STORY OF MYTH $200: In the labor of the man-eating horses of King Diomedes, this hero fed Diomedes to the horses Hercules |
#8219, aired 2020-05-21 | STORY OF MYTH $400: Jealous Daedalus tossed his apprentice off the Acropolis, leading to banishment from this city Athens |
#8219, aired 2020-05-21 | STORY OF MYTH $600: This god of love fell in love with the mortal Psyche, of whom his mom Venus was jealous Cupid |
#8219, aired 2020-05-21 | STORY OF MYTH $800: King Pelias used the Golden Fleece as an excuse to get this upstart nephew of his out of the city Jason |
#8219, aired 2020-05-21 | STORY OF MYTH $1000: An errant lioness interrupts the budding romance of Babylonian youths Thisbe & this guy Pyramus |
#8213, aired 2020-04-29 | THERE SHE IS, MYTH GREECE $400: Born on the foam of the sea, this "mighty" goddess had a magic girdle that made the wearer amazingly desirable, as girdles do Aphrodite |
#8213, aired 2020-04-29 | THERE SHE IS, MYTH GREECE $800: This Olympian goddess of wisdom was big in agriculture, too, teaching man how to yoke oxen Athena |
#8213, aired 2020-04-29 | THERE SHE IS, MYTH GREECE $1200: Her marriage to the king of Sparta went kinda sideways after her abduction but some stories have the 2 reconciling later Helen of Troy |
#8213, aired 2020-04-29 | THERE SHE IS, MYTH GREECE $2,000 (Daily Double): An early snowbird, this daughter of Zeus had to spend a few months a year in Hades after an unfortunate food choice Persephone |
#8213, aired 2020-04-29 | THERE SHE IS, MYTH GREECE $2000: She's seen here helping guide her blind father Oedipus into exile Antigone |
#8139, aired 2020-01-16 | MYTH IN MODERN LITERATURE $400: Geryon, a character in one of this hero's labors, falls in love with him in Anne Carson's "The Autobiography of Red" Hercules |
#8139, aired 2020-01-16 | MYTH IN MODERN LITERATURE $800: W.H. Auden wrote a famous poem about a painting of him, described as "a boy falling out of the sky" Icarus |
#8139, aired 2020-01-16 | MYTH IN MODERN LITERATURE $1200: In a Shelley work this fire bringer is not happy to be nailed to a "wall of eagle-baffling mountain" Prometheus |
#8139, aired 2020-01-16 | MYTH IN MODERN LITERATURE $1600: The title character of Margaret Atwood's "The Penelopiad" tells the story of running this kingdom while waiting for Odysseus to get back Ithaca |
#8139, aired 2020-01-16 | MYTH IN MODERN LITERATURE $2000: Dionysus is a big factor in "The Secret History", this author's first novel (Donna) Tartt |
#7954, aired 2019-03-21 | MYTH-POURRI $400: Pan Gu, in myth the 1st Chinese man, cracks a giant one of these from inside & holds up the sky to protect the earth an egg |
#7954, aired 2019-03-21 | MYTH-POURRI $800: Zeus assumed Amphitryon's form to seduce Alcmene, resulting in the birth of this heroic demigod Hercules |
#7954, aired 2019-03-21 | MYTH-POURRI $1200: In Norse myth Jormungandr is a Midgard serpent who will kill this beloved god at Ragnarok Thor |
#7954, aired 2019-03-21 | MYTH-POURRI $1600: After her marriage to Jason goes south, this sorceress weds King Aegeus Medea |
#7954, aired 2019-03-21 | MYTH-POURRI $2000: Actaeon pays a "deer" price for spying on this twin sister of Apollo while she's bathing Artemis |
#7858, aired 2018-11-07 | PLEASE WELCOME MYTH GREECE $400: Enjoying mountain living, 12 major Greek gods called this place home; at nearly 9,600' up there, the gods did have a nice view Olympus |
#7858, aired 2018-11-07 | PLEASE WELCOME MYTH GREECE $800: Heracles got in on an expedition with the Argonauts, led by this man Jason |
#7858, aired 2018-11-07 | PLEASE WELCOME MYTH GREECE $1200: In addition to being god of the sea, he's also the god of earthquakes Poseidon |
#7858, aired 2018-11-07 | PLEASE WELCOME MYTH GREECE $1600: Thought to be the center of the Earth, this town at Mt. Parnassus' foot was known for its oracle--ya see that coming? Delphi |
#7858, aired 2018-11-07 | PLEASE WELCOME MYTH GREECE $2000: Homer dubbed this war god "the blood-stained bane of mortals", & ol' Homie wasn't far wrong Ares |
#7744, aired 2018-04-19 | MYTH-POURRI $200: This top Norse god traded an eye to drink from Mimir's well & gain wisdom Odin |
#7744, aired 2018-04-19 | MYTH-POURRI $400: To scientists it's Canis latrans; in Native American myth it's a common trickster figure a coyote |
#7744, aired 2018-04-19 | MYTH-POURRI $600: This corporation founded in 1892 wants you to know it's an urban myth that its product can dissolve a tooth overnight Coca-Cola |
#7744, aired 2018-04-19 | MYTH-POURRI $800: Named for a mythical bird, Garuda is appropriately the Indonesian national this enterprise an airline |
#7744, aired 2018-04-19 | MYTH-POURRI $1000: Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom & war, was called this by the Romans Minerva |
#7685, aired 2018-01-26 | CHARACTERS IN MYTH $400: The Argonauts are comrades who accompany Jason in his search for this treasure the Golden Fleece |
#7685, aired 2018-01-26 | CHARACTERS IN MYTH $800: After overthrowing the rulers of the universe, Zeus forces this one into a new job as punishment Atlas |
#7685, aired 2018-01-26 | CHARACTERS IN MYTH $1,000 (Daily Double): Cupid's lover, she loses Cupid for a time after disobeying his request to not seek his identity Psyche |
#7685, aired 2018-01-26 | CHARACTERS IN MYTH $1600: She warned her fellow Trojans not to accept the gift of a big horse, but nobody listened Cassandra |
#7685, aired 2018-01-26 | CHARACTERS IN MYTH $2000: These 2 Greek buddies were so faithful to each other one volunteered to die in the other's place Damon & Pythias |
#7520, aired 2017-04-28 | LITTLE MYTH SUNSHINE $400: Him, him, sis boom bah, him being this Egyptian sun god who also took some time to, you know, create everything Ra |
#7520, aired 2017-04-28 | LITTLE MYTH SUNSHINE $800: To this people war & sun god Huitzilopochtli was the brother of Quetzalcoatl the Aztec |
#7520, aired 2017-04-28 | LITTLE MYTH SUNSHINE $1200: The name of this Norse sun goddess & sister of Mani, the moon, is also Spanish for "sun" Sol |
#7520, aired 2017-04-28 | LITTLE MYTH SUNSHINE $1600: Gnowee lights & climbs the sky in search of her son, lost in the dark, as a goddess of this Australian people the Aborigines |
#7520, aired 2017-04-28 | LITTLE MYTH SUNSHINE $2000: Ekhi is a personification of the sun of this people of the Spanish Pyrenees the Basques |
#7406, aired 2016-11-21 | MATH MEN, MYTH MEN $200: In one version his daughter is among the items he turns to gold with his touch Midas |
#7406, aired 2016-11-21 | MATH MEN, MYTH MEN $400: My theorem? That you know this whiz who gave his name to the equation a2 + b2 = c2 Pythagoras |
#7406, aired 2016-11-21 | MATH MEN, MYTH MEN $600: We're 100/100ths sure that Simon Stevin introduced the concept of "decimal" these to Europe in 1585 fractions |
#7406, aired 2016-11-21 | MATH MEN, MYTH MEN $800: The ancient Greek Hipparchus pioneered this branch of math, from ancient Greek for "triangle" & "measure" trigonometry |
#7406, aired 2016-11-21 | MATH MEN, MYTH MEN $1000: In mythology Prometheus isn't chained to that rock forever; this hero rescues him Hercules |
#7182, aired 2015-12-01 | WOMEN OF MYTH $400: Courtesy of Perseus, her snaky severed head was placed on the shield of Athena Medusa |
#7182, aired 2015-12-01 | WOMEN OF MYTH $800: This daughter of Zeus & Leda was considered to be the most beautiful woman in the world Helen of Troy |
#7182, aired 2015-12-01 | WOMEN OF MYTH $1200: After she died of a snakebite, her husband Orpheus tried to rescue her from Hades Eurydice |
#7182, aired 2015-12-01 | WOMEN OF MYTH $1600: According to Ovid, this jealous goddess turned the nymph Callisto into a bear for being Jupiter's lover Juno |
#7182, aired 2015-12-01 | WOMEN OF MYTH $2000: After she spurned Apollo, he made sure no one would believe her prophecies Cassandra |
#6996, aired 2015-02-02 | I MYTH YOU $400: This Norse trickster god directed the blind Hodur's mistletoe toss that got Balder dashed Loki |
#6996, aired 2015-02-02 | I MYTH YOU $800: Don't confuse this Egyptian mother goddess, sister & consort of Osiris, with a Mideast terrorist group of the same name Isis |
#6996, aired 2015-02-02 | I MYTH YOU $1200: Let's drink to the Greeks, who dedicated the Great Theater in Athens to this god, Bacchus' alter ego Dionysus |
#6996, aired 2015-02-02 | I MYTH YOU $1600: For 14th century Aztecs, this god was the patron of priests & inventor of the calendar Quetzalcoatl |
#6996, aired 2015-02-02 | I MYTH YOU $2000: A sleepless dragon helped these nymphs guard the golden apples Gaia gave Hera the Hesperides |
#6988, aired 2015-01-21 | SWIFT MYTH $200: Multi-headed hellhound Cerberus |
#6988, aired 2015-01-21 | SWIFT MYTH $400: Hindu household goddess, or reality goddess Padma Lakshmi |
#6988, aired 2015-01-21 | SWIFT MYTH $600: Centeotl was god of this grain corn |
#6988, aired 2015-01-21 | SWIFT MYTH $800: Jackal-headed son of Osiris Anubis |
#6832, aired 2014-05-06 | IT'S GREEK MYTH TO ME $200: The gods call it home Olympus |
#6832, aired 2014-05-06 | IT'S GREEK MYTH TO ME $400: Hercules slew a lion that came from here Nemea |
#6832, aired 2014-05-06 | IT'S GREEK MYTH TO ME $600: A son of Aeolus, or a primetime NFL great Deion |
#6832, aired 2014-05-06 | IT'S GREEK MYTH TO ME $800: This goddess is always in the hunt Artemis |
#6832, aired 2014-05-06 | IT'S GREEK MYTH TO ME $1000: This god is a brother of Zeus Poseidon |
#6770, aired 2014-02-07 | MYTH DIAGNOSIS $200: Constantly holding up the sky has torn this titan's rotator cuff; sorry, big guy, you need surgery Atlas |
#6770, aired 2014-02-07 | MYTH DIAGNOSIS $400: In love with his reflection, this son of Liriope has the personality disorder named for him Narcissus |
#6770, aired 2014-02-07 | MYTH DIAGNOSIS $600: This ferryman of the dead has forearm compartment syndrome, a result of his "death grip" on the oar Charon |
#6770, aired 2014-02-07 | MYTH DIAGNOSIS $800: This king of Corinth says it's his punishment to keep rolling the same boulder up a hill, but it sounds more like OCD Sisyphus |
#6770, aired 2014-02-07 | MYTH DIAGNOSIS $1000: Electra has unresolved Daddy issues about him; is it guilt because he sacrificed her sister Iphigenia? Agamemnon |
#6564, aired 2013-03-14 | FEMALES IN GREEK MYTH $400: She's the little lady who made the big war--the Trojan War--caused by her abduction Helen of Troy |
#6564, aired 2013-03-14 | FEMALES IN GREEK MYTH $800: In some accounts, a naiad named Harmonia was the mother of these warrior women the Amazons |
#6564, aired 2013-03-14 | FEMALES IN GREEK MYTH $1200: The sea goddess Amphitrite was the mother of Triton & the wife of this god Poseidon |
#6564, aired 2013-03-14 | FEMALES IN GREEK MYTH $1600: After Leander drowned while swimming the Hellespont to be with her, she killed herself Hero |
#6564, aired 2013-03-14 | FEMALES IN GREEK MYTH $2,400 (Daily Double): This daughter (& sister) of Oedipus was with him when he died at Colonus Antigone |
#6441, aired 2012-09-24 | IT'S A MYTH $400: The sea monster Charybdis was the daughter of Gaea & this Greek sea god Poseidon |
#6441, aired 2012-09-24 | IT'S A MYTH $800: After being turned to stone by Perseus, this titan became the mountains of the same name in Africa Atlas |
#6441, aired 2012-09-24 | IT'S A MYTH $1200: This resident of the labyrinth is seen here in a Greek artwork from the 500s B.C the Minotaur |
#6441, aired 2012-09-24 | IT'S A MYTH $1600: This guy famous for his judgment killed Achilles with a poisoned arrow; karma: he was then killed by a poisoned arrow Paris |
#6441, aired 2012-09-24 | IT'S A MYTH $4,200 (Daily Double): One of the epithets that followed her name was Epistrophia, "she who turns men to love" Aphrodite |
#6435, aired 2012-08-03 | THAT'S A MYTH $400: These one-eyed giants forged Zeus' thunderbolts the Cyclopses |
#6435, aired 2012-08-03 | THAT'S A MYTH $800: Daedalus built this maze that confined the Minotaur, but was later imprisoned in it himself the Labyrinth |
#6435, aired 2012-08-03 | THAT'S A MYTH $1200: Only this one of the 3 Gorgons was mortal; Perseus killed her Medusa |
#6435, aired 2012-08-03 | THAT'S A MYTH $1600: Poets gave this name to Amor, the winged boy god of love Cupid |
#6435, aired 2012-08-03 | THAT'S A MYTH $2000: She's Apollo's older twin sister Artemis |
#6094, aired 2011-02-24 | IT'S ALL A MYTH $400: Atlas got a brief respite from holding up the heavens when he helped out this hero with one of his labors Hercules |
#6094, aired 2011-02-24 | IT'S ALL A MYTH $800: Pan, the god of woods & fields, flocks & shepherds, was part man, part this animal goat |
#6094, aired 2011-02-24 | IT'S ALL A MYTH $1200: In Egyptian myth this 2-letter sun god is the ancestor of the pharaohs Ra |
#6094, aired 2011-02-24 | IT'S ALL A MYTH $2000: In Norse myth mortals lived in Midgard & gods like Odin & Frigg lived in this realm Asgard |
#6094, aired 2011-02-24 | IT'S ALL A MYTH $7,400 (Daily Double): It's the answer to the Sphinx' riddle: "What walks on 4 legs in the morning, 2 legs at noon & 3 in the evening?" man |
#5521, aired 2008-09-15 | MYTH-ELLANY $400: The Metropolitan Museum of Art sells earrings inspired by the shields of these mythological warrior women the Amazons |
#5521, aired 2008-09-15 | MYTH-ELLANY $800: The Pythian Games were so-named for this serpent slain by Apollo the python |
#5521, aired 2008-09-15 | MYTH-ELLANY $1200: He disguised himself as a female named Pyrrha, which means "red-haired girl", not "tendon boy" Achilles |
#5521, aired 2008-09-15 | MYTH-ELLANY $1600: Maria Shriver created an award for women named for this Roman goddess of wisdom, seen on California's state seal Minerva |
#5521, aired 2008-09-15 | MYTH-ELLANY $2000: Homer called this woman Epicaste; Oedipus could call her his mrs., or just plain "Mom" Jocasta |
#5354, aired 2007-12-13 | IT'S GREEK MYTH TO ME! $400: Selene was the Greek goddess of this heavely body--& quite a heavenly body herself the moon |
#5354, aired 2007-12-13 | IT'S GREEK MYTH TO ME! $800: Let's reflect on this handsome youth who was immune to love--till he was bedazzled by his own reflection Narcissus |
#5354, aired 2007-12-13 | IT'S GREEK MYTH TO ME! $1200: The peacock was sacred to this queen of the gods, who added the eyes to its tail Hera |
#5354, aired 2007-12-13 | IT'S GREEK MYTH TO ME! $2000: Hyp hyp hooray for this god of sleep whos name is Greek for--you guessed it--"sleep" Hypnos |
#5354, aired 2007-12-13 | IT'S GREEK MYTH TO ME! $5,000 (Daily Double): Some say the name of this faithful wife means "with a web over her face"; others say it means "striped duck" Penelope |
#5012, aired 2006-05-30 | MYTH ADVENTURES $400: To defeat the Lernean hydra, this hero cut off 8 of its heads & buried the ninth under a big rock Hercules |
#5012, aired 2006-05-30 | MYTH ADVENTURES $800: Ometotl (who created himself) was the first god to exist in this culture's mythology the Aztecs |
#5012, aired 2006-05-30 | MYTH ADVENTURES $1200: Thought to live in the Kilauea volcano, this goddess is the daughter of Hina in one legend Pele |
#5012, aired 2006-05-30 | MYTH ADVENTURES $1600: Rhea stopped Cronus from swallowing him, her sixth consecutive child, by replacing him with a rock Zeus |
#5012, aired 2006-05-30 | MYTH ADVENTURES $2000: Egyptians made sure tombs contained one of these tomes so the "soul" could get by Osiris & his 42 demons The Book of the Dead |
#4870, aired 2005-11-11 | MYTH-ELLANY $200: Now "ear" this: Centeotl was the Aztec god of this grain corn |
#4870, aired 2005-11-11 | MYTH-ELLANY $400: Tefnut, a goddess of this civilization, was called "the spitter"; she sent rain Egypt |
#4870, aired 2005-11-11 | MYTH-ELLANY $600: Thor had a "flash"y home called Bilskirnir, a Norse word for this phenomenon lightning |
#4870, aired 2005-11-11 | MYTH-ELLANY $800: Trying to get to Hades? Try this, the river of hate the Styx |
#4870, aired 2005-11-11 | MYTH-ELLANY $1000: This fiery goddess makes her home in the firepit of Kilauea Pele |
#4518, aired 2004-04-07 | MYTH, ALL "O", GEE! $400: You had to mount this mountain to visit Zeus at home Olympus |
#4518, aired 2004-04-07 | MYTH, ALL "O", GEE! $800: Ulysses is an alternative name for this Greek hero Odysseus |
#4518, aired 2004-04-07 | MYTH, ALL "O", GEE! $1200: A musician & a poet, he married Eurydice Orpheus |
#4518, aired 2004-04-07 | MYTH, ALL "O", GEE! $1600: This king of the fairies appears in works by Wieland & Shakespeare Oberon |
#4518, aired 2004-04-07 | MYTH, ALL "O", GEE! $1,800 (Daily Double): His cult centers included Abydos in upper Egypt & Busiris in lower Egypt Osiris |
#4451, aired 2004-01-05 | MR. & MYTH $400: Hephaestus became lame after his mother Hera or his father Zeus, we're not sure which, dropped him off this mountain Mount Olympus |
#4451, aired 2004-01-05 | MR. & MYTH $800: When Zeus flooded the world, Deucalion built one of these; hmmmm, that story sounds familiar an ark |
#4451, aired 2004-01-05 | MR. & MYTH $1200: He was called the second-bravest Trojan (Hector was first); Virgil wrote the book on him Aeneas |
#4451, aired 2004-01-05 | MR. & MYTH $1,500 (Daily Double): Iolaos cauterized the places where this hero cut the heads off the Hydra & stopped them from growing back Hercules |
#4451, aired 2004-01-05 | MR. & MYTH $2000: While king of this city, Eteocles was killed by one of the seven against it Thebes |
#4413, aired 2003-11-12 | IT'S ALL A MYTH $400: In Japanese myth, Inari, not Uncle Ben, is the god of this rice |
#4413, aired 2003-11-12 | IT'S ALL A MYTH $800: In Egyptian myth the first men & women were fashioned out of this, on a potter's wheel clay |
#4413, aired 2003-11-12 | IT'S ALL A MYTH $1200: (Jimmy gives the clue from Rockefeller Center in New York.) Paul Manship's sculpture depicts this figure from Greek mythology, stealing fire from the gods as a gift for mankind Prometheus |
#4413, aired 2003-11-12 | IT'S ALL A MYTH $2,000 (Daily Double): The riddle of the Sphinx was so "complex" that only he could solve it Oedipus |
#4413, aired 2003-11-12 | IT'S ALL A MYTH $2000: This most famous of the snake-haired gorgons wound up with her head cut off & placed on the shield of Athena Medusa |
#4225, aired 2003-01-03 | EROS MYTH $400: In the epic "Argonautica", Eros' arrow makes Medea fall in love with this man Jason |
#4225, aired 2003-01-03 | EROS MYTH $800: In Greek myth Eros was the son of this love & beauty goddess by any of several godly fathers Aphrodite |
#4225, aired 2003-01-03 | EROS MYTH $1200: The Romans called Eros Cupid or this, which they also put after "Omnia Vincit" Amor |
#4225, aired 2003-01-03 | EROS MYTH $1600: Like Lady Liberty, Eros often carries one of these, but his aims to enslave you to desire torch |
#4225, aired 2003-01-03 | EROS MYTH $2000: Hesiod listed Eros as one of the primordial deities along with Gaia & this amorphous, messy one Chaos |
#4210, aired 2002-12-13 | MAIDS IN GREEK MYTH $400: The name of this woman who allowed all kinds of evil into the world means "gift of all the gods" Pandora |
#4210, aired 2002-12-13 | MAIDS IN GREEK MYTH $800: It's the collective name for Clotho, Lachesis & Atropos, who determined human life & destiny the Fates |
#4210, aired 2002-12-13 | MAIDS IN GREEK MYTH $1600: This goddess of the moon was Apollo's twin sister Artemis |
#4210, aired 2002-12-13 | MAIDS IN GREEK MYTH $2000: Queen of the Amazons, her marvelous girdle was taken by Hercules Hippolyta |
#4210, aired 2002-12-13 | MAIDS IN GREEK MYTH $2,500 (Daily Double): She served as the goddess of Greek cities & was also called Parthenos, or "The Maiden" Athena |
#4184, aired 2002-11-07 | MYTH AMERICA $400: This black American hero of myth said, "Gonna die with the hammer in my hand" John Henry |
#4184, aired 2002-11-07 | MYTH AMERICA $800: He's the mythical American soldier of WWII seen here Kilroy |
#4184, aired 2002-11-07 | MYTH AMERICA $1200: In Aztec myths, this creator god also gives man corn & the arts Quetzalcoatl |
#4184, aired 2002-11-07 | MYTH AMERICA $1600: This mythical hero of the American west was raised by coyotes & once lassoed & rode a tornado Pecos Bill |
#4184, aired 2002-11-07 | MYTH AMERICA $2000: These giant birds of Native American myth were frequently at war with water monsters thunderbirds |
#4153, aired 2002-09-25 | "O" MYTH! $400: In despair over murdering his father & marrying his mother, he blinds himself & goes into exile Oedipus |
#4153, aired 2002-09-25 | "O" MYTH! $800: In Norse myth, he's the one-eyed god of wisdom & war Odin |
#4153, aired 2002-09-25 | "O" MYTH! $1200: This Egyptian god was the brother & husband of Isis Osiris |
#4153, aired 2002-09-25 | "O" MYTH! $1600: One legend says that Eos, goddess of the dawn, fell in love with this hunter & carried him away Orion |
#4153, aired 2002-09-25 | "O" MYTH! $2000: Aeschylus wrote a trilogy dealing with the myth of this brother of Iphigenia Orestes |
#4147, aired 2002-09-17 | I MYTH YOU $400: This Roman god shares his name with the smallest planet in our solar system Pluto |
#4147, aired 2002-09-17 | I MYTH YOU $800: Of a dragon, a horse or a lion, the type of animal that the winged mythical creature Pegasus was horse |
#4147, aired 2002-09-17 | I MYTH YOU $1200: Also the name of a city in Arizona, this mythical bird dies in a fire & is reborn from the ashes the Phoenix |
#4147, aired 2002-09-17 | I MYTH YOU $1600: This Roman messenger god is also the name of a liquid metal Mercury |
#4147, aired 2002-09-17 | I MYTH YOU $2000: The first woman in Greek mythology, she opens a box & lets out all the world's evils Pandora |
#4092, aired 2002-05-21 | IT'S GREEK MYTH TO ME $400: He led the Titans into battle against the gods & had to shoulder the responsibility Atlas |
#4092, aired 2002-05-21 | IT'S GREEK MYTH TO ME $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue.) The blue morpho's name comes from "morpho", meaning "shapely", one of the epithets of this Greek goddess of love Aphrodite |
#4092, aired 2002-05-21 | IT'S GREEK MYTH TO ME $1200: Pan hung out a lot with this wine god, known to some as Bacchus Dionysus |
#4092, aired 2002-05-21 | IT'S GREEK MYTH TO ME $1600: Robert Graves says the Greek equivalents of the Vedic male trinity of Mitra, Varuna & Indra are Zeus, Hades & him Poseidon |
#4092, aired 2002-05-21 | IT'S GREEK MYTH TO ME $2000: Ares had a twin sister named Eris who helped cause the Trojan War with her golden "apple of" this discord |
#4069, aired 2002-04-18 | MYTH & MAGIC $400: Elf-shot is a term for a disease that supposedly results from being hit with one of these shot by elves arrow |
#4069, aired 2002-04-18 | MYTH & MAGIC $800: A word in the category title is often spelled this longer way to distinguish it from mere illusionism m-a-g-i-c-k |
#4069, aired 2002-04-18 | MYTH & MAGIC $1200: The Irish fairy Lugh used this weapon that utilizes stones to kill his own grandfather slingshot |
#4069, aired 2002-04-18 | MYTH & MAGIC $1600: In this Virgil work the hero's wife Creusa appears as a ghost & reveals his destiny The Aeneid |
#4069, aired 2002-04-18 | MYTH & MAGIC $2000: From the Latin for "vow", it refers to an object, such as a candle, expressing a vow or, especially, a wish votive |
#3636, aired 2000-05-29 | MYTH $100: For Remus looking at him must have been like looking in a mirror Romulus |
#3636, aired 2000-05-29 | MYTH $200: This group led by Jason sailed on a ship with 50 oars Argonauts |
#3636, aired 2000-05-29 | MYTH $300: Amalthea was the nurse who secretly brought up this kid so his father Cronus wouldn't eat him Zeus |
#3636, aired 2000-05-29 | MYTH $400: Iris, the daughter of Thaumas & Electra, was the goddess of this colorful effect rainbow |
#3636, aired 2000-05-29 | MYTH $500: One version says she got the gift of prophecy after her ears were licked by a serpent in Apollo's temple Cassandra |
#3620, aired 2000-05-05 | MYTH INFORMATION $200: The Olympians came to rule after these earlier gods were banished to Tartarus the Titans |
#3620, aired 2000-05-05 | MYTH INFORMATION $400: When Zeus played follow the Leda, he did it in the form of this bird & seduced her a swan |
#3620, aired 2000-05-05 | MYTH INFORMATION $600: One of these, like those from the garden of the Hesperides, was awarded by Paris in his famous judgment a golden apple |
#3620, aired 2000-05-05 | MYTH INFORMATION $800: In Greek myth these lustful forest gods who were part goat attended Dionysus Satyrs |
#3620, aired 2000-05-05 | MYTH INFORMATION $1000: After learning that she married her own son Oedipus, this queen hanged herself Iocaste |
#3506, aired 1999-11-29 | MYTH & MAGIC $100: Unlike in the U.S., if one of these crosses your path in England, it means good luck a black cat |
#3506, aired 1999-11-29 | MYTH & MAGIC $200: Cloves of this are sometimes placed in a bridal bouquet for good luck garlic |
#3506, aired 1999-11-29 | MYTH & MAGIC $300: This card deck's Minor Arcana has 14 cards in each suit; a page is between the 10 & jack tarot |
#3506, aired 1999-11-29 | MYTH & MAGIC $400: Not feeling well? You may want to cleanse this field surrounding your body, from the Greek for "breath" or "breeze" an aura |
#3506, aired 1999-11-29 | MYTH & MAGIC $500: This plant yields a hair dye as well as as tint used in magical hand & foot tattoos henna |
#3465, aired 1999-10-01 | WORLD MYTH $200: This Greek goddess of wisdom sprang fully armed from the head of her father Zeus Athena |
#3465, aired 1999-10-01 | WORLD MYTH $400: Utu, the Sumerian god of this celestial body, judges the dead in the underworld at the end of the day the Sun |
#3465, aired 1999-10-01 | WORLD MYTH $600: False face societies cured illnesses among the tribes of this Native American group, the Six Nations Iroquois |
#3465, aired 1999-10-01 | WORLD MYTH $800: Heimdall guarded the Bifrost Rainbow Bridge which led to this realm, the home of Valhalla Asgard |
#3465, aired 1999-10-01 | WORLD MYTH $1000: The Tuatha de Danann, early inhabitants of this island, are said to live in the hills with faeries Ireland |
#3264, aired 1998-11-12 | MYTH ME? $100: In Roman myth, it was the symbol of the goddess Fortuna, not of Vanna the Wheel of Fortune |
#3264, aired 1998-11-12 | MYTH ME? $200: Go around this bush & notice its purple fruit: it got that color from the blood of Pyramus the mulberry |
#3264, aired 1998-11-12 | MYTH ME? $300: Hera punished this gossipy handmaiden by taking away her power to originate speech Echo |
#3264, aired 1998-11-12 | MYTH ME? $500: Serge Lifar's ballet "Icare" is based on the myth of this father & son flying team Daedalus & Icarus |
#3147, aired 1998-04-14 | IT'S GREEK MYTH TO ME $200: This ruler rarely, if ever, leaves his domain, the underworld Hades |
#3147, aired 1998-04-14 | IT'S GREEK MYTH TO ME $400: Perseus proved this Gorgon wasn't immortal Medusa |
#3147, aired 1998-04-14 | IT'S GREEK MYTH TO ME $600: As goddess of this, Eos had a palace in the East Dawn |
#3147, aired 1998-04-14 | IT'S GREEK MYTH TO ME $800: Add one more letter to Eos & you'll get this god of love Eros |
#3147, aired 1998-04-14 | IT'S GREEK MYTH TO ME $1000: King of Ephrya who was the first rock & roll star Sisyphus |
#2844, aired 1997-01-02 | DANCE, MYTH & LEGEND $200: Martha Graham's "Night Journey" tells the tragic tale of Jocasta & this "complex" man, her mate Oedipus |
#2844, aired 1997-01-02 | DANCE, MYTH & LEGEND $400: The ballet "Apollo" features Polyhymnia, Terpsichore & Calliope, 3 of these 9 sister-goddesses Muses |
#2844, aired 1997-01-02 | DANCE, MYTH & LEGEND $600: In a Michel Fokine ballet, this heroine, Daphnis' beloved, is kidnapped by pirates Chloe |
#2844, aired 1997-01-02 | DANCE, MYTH & LEGEND $800: A cigarette poster depicting this Egyptian goddess inspired Ruth St. Denis to specialize in Oriental dance Isis |
#2844, aired 1997-01-02 | DANCE, MYTH & LEGEND $1000: Maria Tallchief played this mythological wife in her husband George Balanchine's ballet "Orpheus" Eurydice |
#2638, aired 1996-02-07 | NORSE MYTH $200: This chief god assumed the name Bolverk when he stole back "the mead of poetry" Odin |
#2638, aired 1996-02-07 | NORSE MYTH $400: Sol, the daughter of Mundilfari, carries this heavenly body in her chariot the Sun |
#2638, aired 1996-02-07 | NORSE MYTH $600: Modi & Magni were the 2 sons of this god of thunder by Jarnsaxa, one of his wives Thor |
#2638, aired 1996-02-07 | NORSE MYTH $800: If one of these warrior maidens was seen by a human without her swan disguise, she had to do his bidding the Valkyries |
#2638, aired 1996-02-07 | NORSE MYTH $1000: This trickster god could change himself into a salmon or a fly Loki |