From whose blood did the race of giants spring up?

• A. Gaia
• B. Cronus
• C. Rhea
• D. Uranus

Answer: (D)

This question hinges on the mythic origin of the Giants in Greek myth. In the traditional telling, when Cronus castrates Uranus, blood spills onto Gaia (the Earth), and from that mixing of Uranus’s blood with the earth the Giants are born. That lineage ties the Giants directly to Uranus, not to Gaia as a source, nor to Cronus or Rhea as the blood’s origin. Gaia is the place where the blood lands and the world where life emerges, while Uranus is the actual source of the blood that gives rise to the Giants. So the correct idea is that the giants spring from Uranus’s blood.