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Sphinx
Sphinx noun - One of a number of large stone statues with the body of a lion and the head of a man that were built by the ancient Egyptians.
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As part of a trial to be eligible to marry a dragon, a Sphinx gives this question, and it is lampshaded by Luka how almost everyone knows the answer to this question and that it's anticlimactic.
Source: Riddle of the Sphinx -
Peer Gynt encounters the Egyptian Sphinx at Gizeh, and asks him the question "who are you".
Source: Riddle of the Sphinx -
Two characters are asked the riddle in question by a sphinx-like creature.
Source: Riddle of the Sphinx
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