Fantastic Beasts That You Can't Find Quiz

Answer: Cerberus

Cerberus ate only live meat. That allowed him to admit dead spirits to enter (but not leave) the underworld, and to prevent live beings from entering. As his twelfth labor, Hercules was assigned to capture Cerberus. He did so, and brought the dog to the surface. However, Cerberus soon escaped and returned to his guard duty.

Answer: True

The Kraken has been described as a huge whale or giant crab, but most often as a mammoth squid 40-50 feet in length. It appears in such works as "The Kraken," a poem by Tennyson, Melville's "Moby Dick" (Chapter 59), and the 1981 (remake 2010) film "Clash Of The Titans."

Answer: Roc

The Roc (whose name comes from the Persian "rokh") appears in two Sanskrit epics: "The Mahabharata" (I.1353); and "The Ramayana" (III.39). It also appears in "The Thousand and One Night Tales." It provided transport for Sinbad the Sailor.

Answer: Phoenix

The Phoenix was a huge bird, associated with the sun. Early Christianity claimed the Phoenix as a symbol for such things as Christ and the Resurrection. The creature was the inspiration for the name of Phoenix, Arizona, and it plays a major role in JK Rowling's "Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix," the fifth book in the series.

Answer: Sleipner

Sleipner appears both in the traditional "Poetic Edda" (c. 13th century) and in the 13th century "Prose Edda" written by Snorri Sturluson. In both, he is described as the best of all horses. Sleipner also appears in the "Volsung Saga" and the "Gesta Danorum."

Answer: True

The Pine Barrens are said to be the home of the Jersey Devil, most often described as a kangaroo with a goat's head, bat-like wings, clawed hands, cloven hooves, and a forked tail. The sightings reached a peak in 1909 with hundreds of encounters publicized. Most of those claims have been shown to be deliberate hoaxes. And no one has claimed the rumored 1909 reward of $10,000 by the Philadelphia Zoo for the beast's dung.

Answer: Bunyip

The Bunyip inhabits creeks, streams, rivers, swamps, billabongs, and waterholes. It has been described in several different ways: a giant water dog; a huge starfish; a flesh-eating seal; and a monster with dark fur and the head of a crocodile, with flippers and tusks or horns.

Answer: Belgium

Kludde appears most often in the shape of a huge black dog, sometimes with wings, that walks on its hind legs. It has the ability to appear in almost any form (cat, horse, frog, tree, shrub, etc.) depending on what it wants to do. It could, for example, become a horse that takes a rider on a terrifying trip only to dump him in a pool of water.

It can run at speeds that make escape possible and delights in killing human victims.

Answer: Fenrir (Fenrisuler)

Both the "Poetic Edda" and the "Prose Edda" include the Fenrir legend. Because of the prophesy that Fenrir will kill Odin, the Aesir attempt to neutralize the wolf using a fetter (Gleipnir) made by dwarfs. While being tied down, Fenrir manages to bite off the right hand of the god Tyr. During a storm, Fenrir gets free and later kills Odin.

He is then killed by Odin's son, Vidar. [Jormungandr is Fenrir's brother.]

Answer: Hippogriff

First described in Virgil's "Ecologues," the Hippogriff is depicted in Ariosto's "Orlando Furioso" as a beast who can fly round the world and to the moon. In 1904, pranksters at Lake George in New York created a fake Hippogriff to scare tourists. "Dungeons and Dragons" includes a version of the beast.

A Florida amusement park, The Wizarding World Of Harry Potter, has a roller coaster named "Flight Of The Hippogriff."