Ancient Greece

The birthplace of democracy
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1. In Greek architecture there were three main types of columns that were used for the past 2500 years. Which one is not one of them?
Doric
Corinthian
Aegean
Ionic
2. Which Greek historian chronicled the Persian Wars and is often called the Father of History?
Sophocles
Herodotus
Thucydides
Aristophanes
3. What was the name of Odysseus' wife whom he married at the end of the Homer's Odyssey?
Argos
Scylla
Calypso
Penelope
4. Who did Paris pick as the most beautiful goddess and as a reward she cast a spell on Helen to make her fall in love with Paris?
Artemis
Aphrodite
Demeter
Athena
5. Who came up with the idea for the Trojan horse that helped the Greeks defeat the Trojans in the Trojan War?
Achilles
Hercules
Menelaus
Odysseus
6. Who is the greatest of all the Trojan warriors and King Priam's son?
Aeneas
Paris
Hector
Achilles
7. Who took Helen from King Menelaus?
Paris
Hector
Agamemnon
Odysseus
8. Who did Spartans fight in the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC?
Phoenicians
Egyptians
Romans
Persians
9. Who did the people of Troy fight in the Trojan War?
Greeks
Egyptians
Romans
Spartans
10. How many Spartans fought in the Battle of Thermopylae?
700
500
300
1000
11. Which king led a small army of Spartans in the Battle of Thermopylae?
Cleomenes
Ephialtes
Xerxes
Leonidas
12. Peloponnesian War was fought between which two leading city-states in Ancient Greece?
Sparta and Troy
Troy and Persia
Persia and Athens
Athens and Sparta
13. Which Greek military victory was reported to the Athenians by a messenger who ran about 42 km and then died from exhaustion?
Battle of Marathon
Battle of Plataea
Battle of Thermopylae
Battle of Salamis
14. Which Greek philosopher was the teacher of Alexander the Great?
Socrates
Aristotle
Plato
Euclid
15. Which Greek philosopher founded the Academy, the first institution of higher learning in the western world?
Plato
Aristotle
Socrates
Pythagoras
16. Who won the Peloponnesian wars?
Athens
Rome
Sparta
Persia
17. What famous philosopher was put to death by the Greeks for corrupting the youth of Athens with his teachings?
Euclid
Aristotle
Plato
Socrates
18. What do we call the last period of Ancient Greece, before they were conquered by the Romans?
Hellenistic Period
Archaic Period
Golden Period
Classical Period
19. Which famous historian cataloged the events in Peloponnesian War?
Socrates
Thucydides
Plato
Nero
20. Who wrote an oath to uphold ethical medical standards, and a version of it still observed by medical professionals today?
Socrates
Sophocles
Pericle
Hippocrates
21. Which famous ancient Greek mathematician developed the theorem that a2 + b2 = c2?
Pythagoras
Archimedes
Hipparchus
Aristotle
22. Which two city-states were the principal enemies in the Peloponnesian War?
Corinth and Thebes
Athens and Sparta
Sparta and Corinth
Thebes and Athens
23. Which poet is considered one of Greek poetry's fathers, and is famous for writing the Iliad and the Odyssey?
Pericles
Sappho
Homer
Socrates
24. What Greek city-state was named for the goddess of wisdom, defense and war?
Delphi
Athens
Corinth
Sparta
25. On what island did ancient Greek civilization originate?
Mykonos
Thassos
Rhodes
Crete
26. Which city Greeks used the Trojan horse to enter?
Sparta
Mycenae
Troy
Delphi
27. Who killed the Trojan Prince Hector?
Agamemnon
Paris
Achilles
Odysseus
28. Who was husband of Helen and brother of Agamemnon?
Paris
Odysseus
Hercules
Menelaus
29. Who was Paris' father?
Priam
Menelaus
Agamemnon
Zeus
30. How long lasted the war between the Greeks and the Trojans?
4 years
10 years
40 days
3 months
31. When were the first Ancient Olympic games held?
476 BC
1892
776 BC
521 BC
32. When did the city of Troy fell to invading Greek armies?
120 AD
300 BC
1184 BC
1618 BC
33. How did Alexander the Great die?
killed in the battle
illness
poisoned
committed suicide
34. On what island the Minoan civilization existed during 3000-1450 BC?
Rhodes
Sicily
Crete
Corsica
35. Who is credited with making the first map of the known world?
Pythagoras
Euclid
Archimedes
Anaximander
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