Monday, November 29, 2010

Question 424: Goddy's Gift; (HP)

In one of the myths surrounding Alexander the Great, Alexander's army was attacked by ____X_____ as they marched east, with a great number of soldiers killed. Rather than retreating, Alexander, admiring the creatures' strength and nobility, trapped four of them with meat lures fixed to his chariot. The ____X____ took the lures and were caught, then took flight, drawing the chariot high into the air, where Alexander saw the whole of Greece and Europe stretched out beneath him in the sun. Eventually they flew so high that the sun started to burn the ____X______s' wings, and they landed again. Since the establishment of this mythology, _____X_____have often been depicted as chariot- or carriage-pulling beasts for especially noble or powerful individuals.

However, in 1997, this word ( the creature's name) has entered the normal parlance (refer to the name of the post)
Question:
1) Id this creature.
2) Explain its connection to the picture

18 comments:

Nanda said...

Icarus, just a guess.

Priyank Mehta said...

Too easy man :P
The animal is griffin
Picture 2 is the dude from Family Guy(Griffin family)

Crime Master Gogo said...

This is a gryphon....
The connect is obviously to peter griffin

AttitudeMonger said...

Rings a bell. The legend of Dadelus and Icarus closely matches it.

Nagaratna said...

1. Griffin
2. Peter Griffin. His surname is Griffin.

Er, title has something to do with Harry Potter and Hippogriffs?

SyntaXerroR said...

The creature is a Gryphon
and thats peter griffin.anglicised gryphon is also called a griffin.

yash said...

Is it Gryffindor?
The family guy in the second pic is Peter Griffin.

Unknown said...

Griffin.. thats peter griffin from family guy

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R said...

Griffin, and Griffin family from the Family Guy tv series

கெளதம் எனும் நாடோடி said...

Griffin!!!

Aravind V said...

1) The Griffin
2) Peter Griffin from 'Family Guy'

கெளதம் எனும் நாடோடி said...

Griffin

Siddarth Pai said...

Answer:

Griffin,

peter griffin was far too easy'


i should make these harder

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