⚡ Celtic Myth Trivia Questions & Answers
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30 Celtic Myth trivia questions
Q1. Which solitary Irish fairy is a shoemaker said to guard a hidden pot of gold?
Answer: Leprechaun
💡 Leprechauns weren't linked to green clothing and rainbows until the 20th century.
Q2. Which wailing female spirit's cry is said to foretell a death in the family?
Answer: Banshee
💡 Her Irish name, bean sidhe, literally means 'woman of the fairy mound.'
Q3. Which Connacht queen started a war over a bull named Finnbhennach?
Answer: Medb
💡 Medb went to war only after realizing her husband owned one bull more valuable than any in her own herd.
Q4. Which seal-folk of Irish and Scottish lore become human by shedding their skin?
Answer: Selkies
💡 A selkie who loses her sealskin forever is doomed to stay human for good.
Q5. Which ancient Celtic festival, when the veil to the spirit world thins, became Halloween?
Answer: Samhain
💡 Carving scary faces into turnips for Samhain later became America's jack-o'-lanterns.
Q6. Which Irish giant supposedly built the Giant's Causeway to reach a Scottish rival?
Answer: Fionn mac Cumhaill
💡 His wife disguised him as a giant baby, scaring off the terrified rival giant.
Q7. In European folklore, what is a fairy child secretly swapped for a human baby called?
Answer: A changeling
💡 Folklore claimed making the substitute laugh could force the fairies to return the real child.
Q8. Which tragic Ulster heroine fled to Scotland with her lover Naoise?
Answer: Deirdre
💡 A druid prophesied at Deirdre's birth that kings would go to war over her beauty — and the prophecy came horribly true.
Q9. Which Irish sea god owns a cloak of invisibility called the Féth Fíada?
Answer: Manannán mac Lir
💡 Manannán's boat, the Wave Sweeper, needed no oars or sails and could cross the sea entirely on its own.
Q10. What is the name for a magical taboo whose breaking dooms an Irish mythic hero?
Answer: A geis
💡 Cú Chulainn's downfall begins when he is tricked into breaking his personal geasa.
Q11. Cu Chulainn's birth name was what, before he earned his famous 'hound' title?
Answer: Setanta
💡 Legend held that his true father was the god Lugh, making him semi-divine.
Q12. A jealous stepmother turned Lir's four children into swans for how many years?
Answer: 900 years
💡 The spell was only broken once they heard a Christian bell ring across Ireland.
Q13. Which Irish goddess of poetry, healing, and smithcraft became a Christian saint?
Answer: Brigid
💡 Her pagan feast day of Imbolc became St. Brigid's Day, celebrated on February 1.
Q14. Name the collection of medieval Welsh tales featuring Rhiannon, Arawn, and Pwyll.
Answer: The Mabinogion
💡 Its stories survive mainly in two medieval manuscripts, the White and Red Books.
Q15. Which cycle of Irish myth centers on Cú Chulainn and Ulster's Red Branch?
Answer: The Ulster Cycle
💡 Its centerpiece story, the Táin Bó Cúailnge, is often nicknamed 'the Irish Iliad' for its epic scale.
Q16. Which elite warrior order served Ulster's King Conchobar from a namesake hall?
Answer: The Red Branch Knights
💡 The order's Irish name, Curaidh na Craobhruaidhe, comes directly from the name of Conchobar's royal hall.
Q17. Aengus tricked the Dagda out of Newgrange using a loophole in what phrase?
Answer: "A day and a night"
💡 Aengus argued that 'a day and a night' covers every day and every night there is — so the Dagda lost his home for good.
Q18. Which shapeshifting Irish spirit leaves farmers a share of the harvest each year?
Answer: The Púca
💡 Farmers traditionally left a portion of crops in the field, called the Púca's share, to keep the trickster spirit happy.
Q19. Betrayed and turned into an owl, which Welsh woman was made purely of flowers?
Answer: Blodeuwedd
💡 Two magicians conjured Blodeuwedd from broom, meadowsweet, and oak flowers to sidestep a curse against her husband marrying a human.
Q20. Warned never to touch Irish soil, which Fianna warrior aged 300 years in an instant?
Answer: Oisín
💡 Oisín thought only three years had passed in Tír na nÓg, when in truth three full centuries had gone by back in Ireland.
Q21. Name the roaring stone at Tara said to cry out for Ireland's rightful king.
Answer: Lia Fáil
💡 Legend claims it roared for Brian Boru's coronation in 1002 — the last time it is said to have ever cried out.
Q22. Which Irish war goddess flies over battles disguised as a crow called the badb?
Answer: The Morrigan
💡 She was sometimes seen washing the bloodied clothes of warriors fated to die.
Q23. Defeated by the Milesians, which race of gods retreated to live inside the sidhe?
Answer: The Tuatha De Danann
💡 A clever poet split the deal so they got the land underground, humans the land above.
Q24. Name Cu Chulainn's fearsome barbed spear, taught to him alone by Scathach.
Answer: Gae Bulg
💡 Once inside a body, it opened thirty barbs and could only be cut out.
Q25. Which Tuatha Dé Danann king lost the throne after losing an arm in battle?
Answer: Nuada
💡 Because their king had to be physically whole, Nuada was replaced until a smith and a wright built him a working silver arm.
Q26. Which weapon did Lugh use to destroy the deadly eye of the giant Balor?
Answer: A sling-stone
💡 It took four warriors just to lift the lid over Balor's poisonous eye — Lugh still drove his stone clean through it.
Q27. Mortally wounded in Ireland, which Welsh giant-king had his head buried facing France?
Answer: Bran the Blessed
💡 Legend held that Bran's buried, talking head would ward off invasion for as long as it stayed beneath London's White Hill.
Q28. Mistreated in Ireland, which Welsh princess sent a message home via a starling?
Answer: Branwen
💡 Branwen trained the starling to speak and fly across the Irish Sea to alert her brother Bran of her suffering.
Q29. Which infant bard was found in a leather bag and given a name meaning 'radiant brow'?
Answer: Taliesin
💡 Before he was Taliesin, he was Gwion Bach — reborn after being swallowed whole by the sorceress Ceridwen.
Q30. Name Cú Chulainn's leaping technique used to cross Scáthach's Bridge of Leaps.
Answer: The salmon leap
💡 Cú Chulainn only landed the leap once a battle-rage called the warp-spasm overtook him, after three failed attempts.
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