Creatures+of+Water


 * Category for April 11th: Creatures of Water.**

Deals with, well, water creatures (if the title didn't give it away yet): like Nessie of Loch Ness, etc. etc. etc. - Melissa

> //(Kelpie)// > //(Nessie – Loch Ness, Champ – Lake Champlain, Ogopogo – Lake Okanagan, Issie – Lake Ikeda)// > //(The Tempest)// > //(Iron Objects)// > //(Hippocampus)// > //(1. Throw in a cucumber with your name carved in it/2. Trick the Kappa into bowing)// > //(The Kraken)// > //(Percy Jackson)// > //(0. Octopi don’t HAVE LEGS!)//
 * 1) Name the Scottish water demon commonly in the shape of a horse.
 * 1) Name one famous lake monster and which lake it’s in.
 * 1) Which Shakespearian work was inspired by his hearing about numerous shipwrecks and tales of monsters?
 * 1) According to Chinese belief, dragons were the cause of natural disasters. To calm rough waters, people would throw objects containing what mineral to wound the dragon beneath the surface?
 * 1) Originating from Greece, this creature is half horse and half fish. What is it called?
 * 1) Name one way to avoid being harmed by the Japanese water demon, the Kappa.
 * 1) Lord Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote a famous poem about this sea creature. Which is it?
 * 1) Rick Riordan has published two stories so far about a half-mortal half-god boy whose father was Poseidon. What was the boy’s name?
 * 1) How many legs does an octopus have?