Statistics for Geography of Ancient Greece

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
City called the "Birthplace of Democracy"	Athens	99%
City which was the dominant land power in Greece until 371 BC	Sparta	92%
Highest mountain in Greece; home of the gods	Mount Olympus	91%
African city, founded in 331 BC, which was famous for its library	Alexandria	89%
Island on which Theseus slew the Minotaur	Crete	83%
City in Turkey that was destroyed by Greeks in "The Iliad"	Troy	83%
Most famous temple in the above, many of whose artifacts reside in the British Museum	The Parthenon	82%
Greek kingdom led by Philip and Alexander	Macedon	77%
Island whose harbor was guarded by a marvelous colossus	Rhodes	77%
Sea in which the two above islands can be found	Aegean	76%
Greek battle site about 25 miles from Athens, namesake of a type of footrace	Marathon	75%
Place where the oracle of Apollo could be found	Delphi	70%
Island home to the lyrical poet Sappho	Lesbos	67%
Term for a citadel built on an area of elevated ground with steep cliffs	Acropolis	60%
City-state which gave its name to a type of column and two books of the New Testament	Corinth	52%
"New city" in Italy founded by the Greeks in the 6th century BC	Neápolis (Naples)	52%
Greek colony on the Bosporus which was later renamed Constantinople	Byzantium	50%
Island home to the Greek colony of Syracuse	Sicily	47%
City whose "sacred band" of elite warriors consisted of 150 male couples	Thebes	31%
City which dominated Greece before 1200 BC, and whose collapse marked the start of the Greek Dark Ages	Mycenae	20%