| A | B |
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| Mount Olympus | place where the Greek gods lived |
| Rip Van Winkle | Man who fell asleep for 20 years |
| phoenix | What is the name of a mythical bird that rises from its ashes |
| hot air balloon | How did Phileas Fogg travel "Around the World in Eighty Days" |
| Ali Baba | He had 40 thieves in the "Arabian Nights" |
| Bar Mitzvah | The religious ceremony where a Jewish boy comes of age at age 13 |
| Buddha | name that the Indian prince Gautama is now known by |
| Pope | Title of the man that leads the Roman Catholic Church |
| Prometheus | Titan that gave man fire. He was punished by Zeus and freed by Hercules |
| Robin Hood | Englishman that stole from the rich and gave to the poor |
| Rumpelstiltskin | Dwarf that spun gold from straw. The heroine was supposed to give him her first child. |
| round table | Where King Arthur's knights sat |
| trojan horse | The Greek's secret weapon in their war with Troy |
| Jews | Who are the chosen people in the Old Testament? |
| Hinduism | Brahmins are the highest caste in what religion? |
| Untouchables | What is the lowest caste in Hinduism? |
| Confucianism | System of ethics and government administration in imperial China |
| Anne Frank | Young Jewish girl who wrote about hiding from the Nazis |
| alchemy | What was the fake science of medieval times that wanted to turn metal into gold |
| Homer | The author of the epic poems the "Iliad and the Odyssey" |
| Islam | What is the religion founded by Mohammed? |
| jihad | What is the name for holy war in Islam? |
| star of david | Symbol the Nazis marked Jews with |
| Martin Luther | Started Protestantism |
| monotheism | What is the term for religions that believe in one God? |
| Adam and Eve | Who lived in the Garden of Eden? |
| Hercules | Greek hero who was the strongest man on earth |
| Hare and the Tortoise | the moral of this fable is slow and steady wins the race |
| shadow | If the groundhog sees this there will be six more weeks of winter |
| excalibur | King Arthur's powerful sword |
| Alexander the Great | Greek king who cut the Gordian Knot |
| Saint Patrick | Patron saint of Ireland for driving out the snakes |
| rabbi | The leader of worship in a synagogue |
| Sunni | What is the largest branch of Islam? |
| Merlin | the powerful magician that helped King Arthur |
| Ramadan | Islam's holy month |
| Norse | Odin and Thor are part of __ mythology |
| torah | What Hebrews call the first 5 books of the Bible |
| Ireland | What country are you in if you kiss the Blarney Stone |
| centaurs | mythical creatures that were half man and half horse |
| cinderalla | fairy tale character who had a wicked stepmother, and glass slippers |
| holy grail | Legendary cup that Christ used at the last supper |
| Mars | the Roman god of War |
| Mickey Mouse | Walt Disney's most famous cartoon |
| unicorn | mythical animal like a horse, but it has a single long horn |
| cherry | What kind of tree did George Washington tell the truth about in a legendary tale |
| Mark Antony | Roman that wooed Cleopatra after Caesar's murder |
| Shakespeare | Who was the Bard of Avon? |
| Mark Twain | Who wrote about Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer |
| Charles Dickens | Who wrote about Ebenezer Scrooge and Oliver Twist? |
| Sherlock Holmes | Who was Sir Arthur conan Doyle's famous dectective? |
| Count Dracula | The vampire from Rumania? |
| Joseph Smith | American who founded the Mormons |
