Multiple choice

Directions: Select the most appropriate eponym or toponym as per the description/ definition given in the question.

An unwitting source of many problems or great suffering

  1. Achilles’ tendon

  2. Pandora’s Box

  3. Caesar Cipher

  4. Gordian knot
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Pandora’s Box - after Pandora – a woman in Greek mythology who was sent a box by Zeus and despite the latter’s warning, opened the box and released all the evils into the world.

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