10 questions with answers about Culture & arts, from the free QuizBoards pack – the full theme holds 80. Each category holds five questions of rising difficulty and point value.
100. The Greek god of the sea, depicted with a trident
Answer: Poseidon
200. The Norse god of thunder who rides a goat-drawn chariot and swings the hammer Mjölnir
Answer: Thor
300. The Greek hero who beheaded Medusa and rescued Andromeda
Answer: Perseus
400. The wolf that Norse prophecy says will devour Odin at Ragnarök
Answer: Fenrir
500. The squirrel that runs up and down Yggdrasil carrying insults between the eagle at the top and the dragon at the root
Answer: Ratatoskr
100. The language with the most native speakers in the world
Answer: Mandarin
200. The language written from right to left that is the original tongue of the Quran
Answer: Arabic
300. East Africa's trade language, built on Bantu but full of loanwords from the traders across the Indian Ocean
Answer: Swahili
400. The one of Japanese's two syllabaries used mainly for foreign loanwords, names and onomatopoeia
Answer: Katakana
500. The Celtic language whose last native speaker was the fisherman Ned Maddrell, who died in 1974 on an island in the Irish Sea
Answer: Manx