Riddling Sphinx: Difference between revisions

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* ''[[Percy Jackson & the Olympians]]'': When the half-bloods meet a sphinx in the Labyrinth in ''Battle of the Labyrinth'', it tries to administer a multiple-choice standardized test, with mundane trivia questions. Annabeth, who was expecting a riddle that would test her cleverness, is not amused.

* The Southern Oracle in ''[[The Neverending Story (novel)|The Neverending Story]]'' is protected by two sphinxes who petrify anyone who fails to answer their riddles.

 

* Phix in ''[[Wapsi Square]]'' sets the same riddle to both Monica and Shelly as a test to see if they're ready to fix the Calender Machine. They each give different answers and Phix rewards them both - without, however, saying that either answer is ''right''.

* The protagonist in ''[[Mixed Myth]]'' runs afoul of a sphinx early on in the story. The answer she gives sounds like it ''should'' be right, which causes the sphinx to realize that it's been so long since someone got it right that she's forgotten what the right answer is, so they'll have to head back to her home to check the answer (our heroine is wrong, but gets points for creativity, which lets her off the hook since she managed to endear herself to the sphinx on the journey).

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

 

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