#8964, aired 2023-11-02 | MYTHING IN ACTION $1000: In Norse mythology's great final battle, Fenrir, a giant one of these animals, is destined to swallow Odin a wolf |
#8522, aired 2021-11-30 | ROMAN MYTHOLOGY $800: Strange for a sea god, but Neptune is credited in Roman mythology with creating these land animals used for transport horses |
#6879, aired 2014-07-10 | ANIMALS ALL AROUND $800: This water mammal has long been thought friendly--in mythology Arion rode to safety on its back a dolphin |
#6806, aired 2014-03-31 | ANIMALS IN MYTHOLOGY $400: The Minotaur's mother was Pasiphae, the Queen of Crete, & his father was this animal with whom she fell in love a bull |
#6806, aired 2014-03-31 | ANIMALS IN MYTHOLOGY $800: About once every 500 years, it builds a funeral pyre & allows itself to be consumed by the flames the phoenix |
#6806, aired 2014-03-31 | ANIMALS IN MYTHOLOGY $1,200 (Daily Double): This creature killed by Hercules during his second labor was the offspring of the 100-headed Typhon the hydra |
#6806, aired 2014-03-31 | ANIMALS IN MYTHOLOGY $1200: In Norse mythology, Ratatoskr is this type of rodent that scurries up & down Yggdrasil, the World Tree a squirrel |
#6806, aired 2014-03-31 | ANIMALS IN MYTHOLOGY $2000: Represented as this canine, Anubis was gatekeeper of the underworld; statues of him often guarded tombs a jackal |
#6503, aired 2012-12-19 | MYTHING IN ACTION $800: In Norse mythology's great final battle, Fenrir, a giant one of these animals, is destined to swallow Odin a wolf |
#3521, aired 1999-12-20 | ANIMALS IN MYTHOLOGY $100: Ratatosk, a messenger of Norse myth, was one of these animals & ran up & down Yggdrasil, a giant tree Squirrel |
#3521, aired 1999-12-20 | ANIMALS IN MYTHOLOGY $200: If Romulus did a "Got Milk?" ad, he'd talk about this animal who suckled him & Remus Wolf |
#3521, aired 1999-12-20 | ANIMALS IN MYTHOLOGY $300: In Incan myth, it was this South American camel relative that warned man about the impending flood Llama |
#3521, aired 1999-12-20 | ANIMALS IN MYTHOLOGY $400: The Zuni believe that when the kachina Paiyatemu played the flute, these insects fluttered into existence Butterflies |
#3521, aired 1999-12-20 | ANIMALS IN MYTHOLOGY $500: Island on which Theseus slew the Minotaur Crete |
#2622, aired 1996-01-16 | MYTHOLOGY $400: In Norse myth Fenris, one of these lupine animals, has jaws so huge they stretch from heaven to Earth Wolf |
#2204, aired 1994-03-17 | WOMEN IN MYTHOLOGY $400: Pasiphae's passion for one of these animals led to the birth of the Minotaur a bull |
#2150, aired 1993-12-31 | ANIMALS IN MYTHOLOGY $200: Zeus became Leda's lover while disguised as one of these birds a swan |
#2150, aired 1993-12-31 | ANIMALS IN MYTHOLOGY $400: The nymph Callisto was turned into one of these animals, then placed in the sky as Ursa Major a bear |
#2150, aired 1993-12-31 | ANIMALS IN MYTHOLOGY $600: Odin gallops across the sky on one of these called Sleipnir, whose teeth are inscribed with runes a horse |
#2150, aired 1993-12-31 | ANIMALS IN MYTHOLOGY $800: Echidna, who was half woman & half serpent, had many beastly children, including this Nemean beast the Lion |
#2150, aired 1993-12-31 | ANIMALS IN MYTHOLOGY $1000: He's the 3-headed hound of Hades Cerberus |
#1573, aired 1991-06-05 | MYTHOLOGY $200: In Norse mythology Fenrir is a huge one these lupine animals a wolf |