Which Native American tribe included insect people in their creation mythology and told naughty children that the spider women would take them to spider rock and eat them if they did not behave?
Navajo
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What was the nemesis of the gnat in Aesop's fable?
Spider
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Which ancient culture worshiped a beetle that they believed was a symbol of rebirth. They also believed that the beetle rolled the sun across the sky each day renewing each day.
Egyptian
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Which Greek goddess, because of jealousy, cursed Arachne to weave forever?
Athena
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Which Native American tribe celebrates the butterfly dance in the summer by having men sing and youth dance in couples representing butterflies pollinating the crops?
Hopi
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Which culture developed a fast moving dance based on a remedy for a spider bite?
Italian
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Who wrote the original wise sayings that eventually became Aesop's fable about the ant and the grasshopper? "Consider the ant ..."
Soloman
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Which insect order is predominant in insects referenced in rock and roll music?
Hymenoptera
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Why was Little Miss Muffet likely afraid of spiders?
Her dad used spiders for medical cures and let them live in the home
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Which Biblical plague first damaged crops before the grasshoppers came and ate what was left?
Hail
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What triggers a grasshopper plague?
Overpopulation where legs are rubbed
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Who would sew butterfly symbols to place on their infants to bring sweet dreams?
Blackfeet
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Which type of music, made famous by composers such as Lizet and Chopin, can be heard in popular songs such as in Cinderella and in video games such as Assassin's Creed?
Tarantella
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Which celestial event was represented by the ancient Egyptians as a scarab beetle?
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