Amazon Daily Quiz(February 9, 2021): What is the name of this structure, said to be built by Pharoah Khafre and built out of only one block of limestone?
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The options are:
-Griffin
-Petra
-Sphinx
-Centuar
Answer: Sphinx
A sphinx is a mythological creature with the head of a human, a falcon, a cat or a sheep and the body of a lion with the wings of an eagle.
In Greece, the sphinx has the head of a woman, the haunches of a lion and the wings of a bird.
Sphinx, is a mythological creature having a lion%u2019s body and a human head and holds an important image in Egyptian and Greek art and legend.
The word sphinx, derived by Greek from the verb sphingein that means to bind but the etymology is not related to the legend and is dubious.
Hesiod was the earliest Greek author to mention the creature and called it Phix.
The winged sphinx of Boeotian Thebes, the most famous in legend, was known to have terrorized the people by demanding the answer to a riddle taught her by the Muses%u2014What is it that has a voice and yet transforms into four-footed and two-footed and three-footed?%u2014and gulping a man each time the riddle was answered incorrectly.
However, some time later, Oedipus gave the proper answer: man, who crawls on all fours in infancy, walks on two feet when grown, and leans on a staff in old age.
