The Secret of the Sphinx Challenge

[Teacher Bot]

To solve my challenge and win its prize,
You'll need all your brains and your cunning,
A serving of wit, and a keen pair of eyes,
Or else you'll be out of the running!


Welcome to The Secret of the Sphinx Challenge! Here, you and your powers of deduction must stand alone. The answer to my riddle lies not in the realm of Harry Potter or any fandom. However, your dedication and resourcefulness will help you discover my secret.

Remember, the answer to each part will provide you with a clue to the answer to the final riddle. It is in your best interest to accumulate all the clues that you can should you wish to win the prize.

Enigmatically,
The Sphinx

[Teacher Bot]

The first clue is a word that's Greek at its root;
"To ask is to know" is its meaning.
A philosophy which has borne much great fruit
And which is all yours for the gleaming.

Learn from it or repeat it, either may be;
Those who are wise know that saying is true.
And should you look backward and write what you see,
That action may also count as your clue.

Beginning with H, with Y at its end,
What's between, on your own you must find.
A "man's tale" it is, and my rhyme is now penned.
How to solve it, I leave to your mind.

[Teacher Bot]

Part One Answer - HISTORY

Well done!

[Teacher Bot]

This time you must seek out a familiar land,
With its roots in the Trojan War.
Where Aeneas' great-grandson was said to command
And subdue giants once he came to its shore.

Where peers of spirit and time have been known to debate
And decide how their land should be run,
Through that work, for the most part, to the third estate
Has been transferred, its reforms remain yet undone.

Though it has fought and been fought for much of its life,
Conquered it never has been
In twice ten half hundreds of years; though spared that strife,
It has seen its share of upheavals within.

Add this clue to your last, and you will have then learned
Where my final answer lies.
But now I am gone until I have returned,
So we must be quick, and say our goodbyes.

[Teacher Bot]

Part Two Answer - Greece

Congrats to those who submitted the correct answer.

Part Three will be up later today. Answers due on Friday.