Many of us will remember flicking through a copy of Usborne’s classic picture book ‘The World Of The Unknown: Monsters’ and being wowed by the fantastical creatures it introduced us to. But how much can you still recall about these beasts? We’ve put together 20 tricky question base on the book that was originally published in 1977.
1. The book’s opening line tells us that the ‘term’ monster comes from the Latin word ‘monstrum’, but what does it mean?
2. Which ‘smoke-like’ monster was blamed for causing sandstorms in the Middle East?
3. What was the sea monster called that Chinese sailors tried to scare away with the smell of burning feathers?
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4. According to Greek mythology, how did Odysseus and his men escape from the cyclops’ cave?
5. What was the name of the beautiful women with bird’s wings that are said to lure sailors in Greek mythology?
6. What did the Greeks call the monster that was a man with the head of a ferocious bull?
7. What was the name of the female monster said to be so hideous that anyone who looked at her would turn to stone?
8. What was the name of the first monster that Beowulf killed?
9. According to the book, what was ‘the fiercest beast to walk the Earth?’
