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The List of Silly Quest Objects for RPGing

1.    Ancient Astronauts, Fossilized
2.    Ancient Spacecraft, Wrecked
3.    Ankh of Ra (Egyptian)
4.    Aqua Vitae (Alchemy)
5.    Aristotle's Comedia ("Name of the Rose")
6.    Ark of the Covenant (Biblical)
7.    Arthur's Tomb (Arthurian)
8.    Avalon, Isle of (Arthurian/celtic)
9.    Baba Yaga's Hut (Russian)
10.   Black Cauldron (Lloyd Alexander - celtic)
11.   Black Stone of Mecca (Islam)
12.   Book of Golems (Qabbalic Tradition)
13.   Burning Bush (Biblical)
14.   Cain, Son of Adam (Biblical)
15.   Camelot (Arthur Cycle)
16.   Cave of Ali Baba (1001 Arabian Nights)
17.   Center of the Earth (Jules Verne, Burroughs "Pellucidar")
18.   Charon's Ferryboat (Greek)
19.   Cross of Coronado (Spanish American)
20.   Crown of Charlemagne (Carolingian)
21.   Dante's Heaven
22.   Dante's Inferno
23.   Dante's Mt. Purgatory
24.   Egyptian Book of the Dead
25.   El Dorado (Spanish American)
26.   Elephants' Graveyard
27.   Evidence Of Creation (Biblical and others)
28.   Excalibur (Arthur's Sword, and Scabbard also)
29.   First Hand Account of Jesus' Unknown Years (Christian Apocryphal)
30.   Flying Dutchman
31.   Forge of Hephaestus/Vulcan (Greek/Roman)
32.   Fountain of Eternal Youth (Spanish American)
33.   Four Corners Of The World
34.   Gabriel's Sword of Fire (Biblical)
35.   Garden of Eden (Biblical)
36.   Garfang (Siegfried's Sword from Niebelungenlied)
37.   Giants, Ancient (Fossilized or otherwise)
38.   Golden Apples of the Sun (Greek/Atalanta etc.)
39.   Golden Fleece (Greek)
40.   Gram (Roland's Sword - Carolingian)
41.   Hauser, Caspar (who was he anyway?)
42.   Head of Balar (Celtic)
43.   Head of Medusa (Greek)
44.   Holy Cross (Christian)
45.   Holy Grail (Christian - New Testament - Arthur Cycle)
46.   Holy Sepulchre (Jesus Christ's grave - Christian)
47.   Home Of The Four Winds
48.   Hyperion's Sun Chariot (Greek)
49.   Labyrinth of the Minotaur (Greek)
50.   Library at Alexandria (Greco Roman)
51.   Library at Celaeno (Lovecraft)
52.   Lost Tribe of Israel (Biblical - Apocryphal)
53.   Lyonnesse (Arthur cycle)
54.   Mines of King Solomon (H.R.Haggard - Apocryphal - Qabbalic)
55.   Missing Link
56.   Mummified ____ of Osiris (Egyptian)
57.   Necronomicon - Original Scrolls and Tablets (Lovecraft)
58.   Noah's Ark (Biblical)
59.   Odin's Eye (Norse)
60.   Odin's Spear (Norse)
61.   Original Golden Plates of the Book of Mormon (Mormon)
62.   Pelt of the Nemedian Lion (Greek - Heracles' garment)
63.   Philosopher's Stone (Alchemy)
64.   Phoenix Egg
65.   Pleasure Dome of Kublai Khan
66.   Prison of Merlin (Arthur Cycle)
67.   R'lyeh (Lovecraft)
68.   Round Table (Arthur Cycle)
69.   Sacred Grove of the Druids (pseudo celtic)
70.   Sacred River Alph
71.   Scepter of Ra (Egyptian)
72.   Seal of Solomon (Biblical base. Rennes-le-Chateau?)
73.   Secret Vatican Library (besides the one in Vatican City)
74.   Sodomm and Gomorrah (Biblical)
75.   Source of the Nile
76.   St Germain, Count (find him, Dead or Alive)
77.   Staff of Aesclypius (Greek)
78.   Surviving Prehistoric Human
79.   Thor's Hammer (Norse)
80.   Thunderbolts of Zeus (Greek)
81.   Tibetan Book of the Dead
82.   Tower of Babel (Biblical)
83.   Treasure of Rennes-le-Chateau (Rosicrucian, Treasure of an unpopular
      secret order, including many items from Solomon's treasure. hidden
      under their razed fortress)
84.   Tree of Enlightenment (Buddha Siddhartha)
85.   Tree of Knowledge (Biblical - and others)
86.   Tree of Life (Biblical - and others)
87.   Wandering Jew (find him, Dead or Alive. Is he Cain?)
88.   Waxen Wings of Daedalus (Greek)
89.   Well of Knowledge (Norse)
90.   World's Edge, The Point of No Return (Don't lose your balance!)
91.   Xanadu
92.   Yggdrasil, the World Tree (Norse)

Richard Woodard adds the following... (in no particular order):

Cornerstone of the Earth
Bigfoot (US contemporary)
Moses' Staff (Biblical base)
Shangrela (SP?)
The Thunderbird (?American?Central American? Indian)
Oracle
The Mother of Pearls
River Styx... et al
Lost City of the Incas (Spanish 16th century)
Jack the Ripper's weapon (19th century London)