Phoenix 46- Monty's Shirt

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 11:39 am

yay, va moi.

okay the narcissus is a flower named after the handsome greek guy who was handsome, killed himself and his corpse turned into the flower.

this was a ripping good yarn so the mythmakers made another almost identical story with another handsome youth who turned into a flower. which flower?

Flying Spaghetti Monster · Tue Jun 19, 2007 11:47 am

is it the Crocus?

(I think the story was something like Crocus had an unrequited love for Smilax?)

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 11:59 am

i don't think so. my reference is ovid's metamorphoses and neither crocus nor chrocus are mentioned. so sorry.

Weyland · Post by **Weyland** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 12:05 pm

For some reason the word Hyacinth is coming to mind.

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 12:17 pm

Weyland wins, hyacinthus was apollo's boyfriend. apollo was showing off hurling his discus and poor old hyacinthus copped it on the noggin.

alors Weyland

Weyland · Post by **Weyland** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 12:30 pm

Gut instinct wins the day.

Sticking with myths, in Greek Mythology, who was Zeus' father, and what happened to most of Zeus's siblings?

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 12:41 pm

kronos (aka time, jupiter), he ate all his children as it had been prophesised that his son would overthrow him. he then burped (iirc) and they all came out and zeus killed him except you can't kill him because he's time and that is immortal. so that is a grey area.

Weyland · Post by **Weyland** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 1:41 pm

According to Wikipedia, it's actually Saturn he's synonymous with (the planet was named as such as it was the farthest visible object from the Earth at the time). Jupiter is the equivilant of Zeus.

But correct in all the respects I was asking for, so over to you...

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 2:06 pm

whoops.

sticking with the theme, this might be really easy or surprisingly difficult:

according to the greeks, who was the first (human) woman?

Cardinal Sin · Post by **Cardinal Sin** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 2:27 pm

Jesus. Anytime any of you might like asking a question which isn't about the over-active imaginations of people who died more than 2 millennia ago, give me a shout.

Feck knows the answer. Helen of Troy is a woman. Let's have her.

Northern Monkey · Post by **Northern Monkey** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 2:30 pm

Pandora?

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 2:33 pm

yeah Hornby wins. it is a very interesting story, but His Eminence is fed up with all this greek stuff, philistine.

Weyland · Post by **Weyland** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 2:49 pm

Back to questions about football then.

Northern Monkey · Post by **Northern Monkey** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 2:58 pm

erm hang on a minute Weylando I have only ever asked one footie question AFAIK.

I am however struggling so will go with the following:

Which English town is famous for holding an annual Horse Fair in June each year which is the annual Mecca for gypsies and travellers?

Interestingly it is mentioned in Lenny Macleans biography where he goes up for a bare knuckle fight with "the pikey" champion to determine the UK champion.

Weyland · Post by **Weyland** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 3:10 pm

Sorry Hornby, that wasn't a dig at you, just at the usual preponderance of football questions in this quiz that I generally have no idea about.

Bit of an obvious guess, but Scarborough?