Greek Alphabet Quiz

Had to memorize the Greek alphabet while pledging my sorority, so this was an easy one for me.

all i knew was from percy jackson haha!

I learned a song.

i did too.

easy. 3 siblings & 2 parents all in frats & sororities

Not that hard if you've taken a lot of physics and math. Not sorority/fraternity required.

easy as alpha beta gamma!!!!!!!!!! LOL

whooo done it! 56 secs to go

2:26 :)

2:37 left

2:15 :D

2:49 easy cheese

2:51

241 D

2:26 remaining. It helps that during rush (when hazing was still permitted) we had to recite the Greek alphabet while holding a burning match.

2:45

Taking chemistry, watching Futurama and being in a sorority made this one easy.

Five years removed from the match test as a pledge and I still got it.

4 semesters of Greek, and I forgot how to spell Rho

Four seasons of the TV show Greek taught me what I knew, which was a little more than half.

I spelt Pi wrong i put pie and was wondering why i wasnt getting it on the list

Surely you had to put the letters 'P' and 'I' in to spell "Pie" so it would have been accepted before you'd have even finished spelling "Pie"...

lol

Quite pleased with my 15/24 as I am English and didn't study sciences or maths!

I always forget Tau! Remembered it with 20 seconds left.

There are meanings behind the letters of fraternities and sororities.

pledging.

14/24 - we don't have fraternities/sororities here, so I've only heard of the odd letter that's used in maths (or from watching an American movie featuring a sorority)

Thank you Phi Mu Alpha! Zeta Sigma '05!

Oh hey, a Sinfonian!

With the letters I'd have got them all.

100% with 2:16 left. YES.

Where's digamma? or sampi? :-p

makes me think back to those awfaul moments of my teacher stamping it into my head.. did get them all correct tho :)

24/24 just from highscool classes andi been out of school for three years

Heavens! Why on earth do children keep revealing their age online? Didn't your parents teach you better? You seem like intelligent children being that you can recite a foreign alphabet yet you don't know not to reveal personal information online...

@helen +1!

While I agree that everyone, especially kids, should be cautious about posting personal info online, I really doubt there's much danger with putting a user name and an age in the comments section of a quiz site. Cyber criminals are clever, but not clairvoyant!

Thanks to Chemistry and Physics, I got 15.

Yay! I agree!

I don't know why I memorized this in school some 30 years ago. Still remember them all. Got it with 1:57 left because of my typing speed.

Agreed. I mean, what the hell is Upsilon? I ended up using a dictionary to look up the English spelling.

No.

both are correct. both should be allowed

Agreed. Omikron is the only way I have ever seen it written down, and I'm American. It's actually more correct than omicron because "mikron" is the English transliteration of the Greek for little ("mega" is big, therefore, "little o" and "big O"). The only letter that makes a C sound in Greek is Kappa, which is always transliterated as a K.

But we don't say "Mikrosope," we say "microscope." English-users transcribe "Μικρον" as "micron," so "όμικρον" should be "omicron."

I have heard it both Jota and Iota, like in Oedipus his mother is sometimes Jocasta and sometimes Iocaste, both should accepted

That's because the "I" in Iota makes the "ee" sound in Greek. So Iota sounds like Yota.

I don't know, cod you?

I know the Greek alphabet my heart, but my spelling was way off

i am greek so it was easy for me.. apart from the fact that i had to type them in english characters \

I've studied Greek for decades and I still can't master the drawing of the letters......glad it's not Hebrew.

I'm greek and I still didn't get 3 right. I tried every way of writing μ,ν,υ, and never imagined they're written mu, nu and upsilon. I even went for m'ih.

I never understood why in English they totally change the pronunciation of the actual Greek letters (in Greek)!? B is pronounced Veeta (Vita) not Beta M & N are not Miu (it is not like the sound of a cow!) & Niu (not like new!!). M is pronounced like Me (me/he/she). N is the same, it is pronounced Ne (like the beginning of the word NEither) P(Π) is not a pie and it is not pronounced like that either! It is Pee, like you want to do #1. If anyone goes to Greece and tries to spell Greek letters the way they are teaching them in English, I guarantee you no one will understand a word! This is the proper way to spell and pronounce the A-B: Alfa Veeta Gamma Delta (actually Thelta since the Word D is the combination of N+T in Greek hense not part of Δ which really sounds like the beginning of the word The) Epsilon Zeeta Theeta Iota Kappa Lamba Me Ne Xe Omikron Pee Ro Sigma Taf Ypsilon Fee Chee Psee Omega !!!

Cedo, what the op says, is right. The names of letters in the quiz are totally wrong. He has spelled them correct, (if you can really spell letters in a foreign language) contrary to those that exist in the quiz. Your teachers could be wrong you know. Ancient greek, indeed included some other letters, and pronounced WORDS differently. NOT letters. The letters of the modern greek alphabet, that date back to those that existed at those times, retain their name. In any case, M is and WAS pronounced close to "Me" like in the sentence "he told me I was wrong". It was never pronounced close to Mu/miu or whatever. PS. I live in Greece, modern greek is my native language, and ancient greek is taught in our schools for many grades, and by many teachers. No one, simply no one could accept pronouncing M as Mu whatever the situation could be. Even wikipedia supports this... P.S. Let's face it, this quiz needs to be modified a bit.

Reading this comment string, it seems the quiz instructions should be modified to ask how Greek letters have been traditionally rendered in English. While (apparently) incorrect, the spellings (and their associated pronunciations) in the quiz mimic essentially all English-language math and science textbooks where Greek letters are used.

Tell your kids not to correct the math teacher when he/she pronounces π as pie. It angers them.

i so totally agree, and whether it's "old" or "new" greek, the pronunciation does not change. The alphabet from old to new greek did not change, the words changed

Only missed tau.

I got bored once so I decided to memorize it

24/24 took me a while to remember but got there in the end lol

Have no idea why, but a long, long time ago, someone dared me to memorize the Greek alphabet. I did so. For some bizarre reason, I cannot forget the thing!

Me, too.

I remember as a student in elementary school that my older brother, in university was studying greek philosophers, and one of his books had the Greek alphabet at the back of the text. I took it upon myself to memorize it. It's amazing how it came back to me. I got them all but some spellings slowed me down. P.S. I am now 66 years old, so that was a while back.

αβγδεζηθικλμνξοπρστυφχψω this is the greek alphabet im from greece

The golden ratio is not a Greek letter

Yeah. It should be iankee. That should at least be an accepted variation.

TKE

Yeah, i'm greek too. Had to use my imagination for some of the spelling but got them all.

I'm currently taking chemistry, physics, algebra two, and probability & statistics. Everything we use in those classes I got. (Except pi... I forgot pi.)

Knew them all, but couldn't spell Xi. Oh well. 23/24

I have no idea what frats or sororoties are, but I studied Greek and got them all. Some have been anglicised, though, which made it a bit trickier.

Yeah, now the hazing ritual just involves drinking yourself to death!

did it with 2:17 left that means i did it in 33 secs

I am greek and I misspelled three letters.

great quiz

As a former math major that also took ancient Greek (reading the Illiad) I'm very embarassed to only get 21. Totally forgot xi and chi were different letters. Theta and Psi are obvious now that I see the answer. Argh!

Hey, I had to cheat and barely completed in time and I am greek. Probably it has to do with the fact that it uses the barbaric prnounciations. cheeeeers!

Physics calculus and fraternities made this very easy

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Sigh, a former math major and I still managed to miss zeta, rho, iota, and psi.

Alpha Beta Charlie?

great quiz

am 9 and got them with 2:35 left starting with 3

If you are/were ever in a Fraternity...this should be a cakewalk, as with most, it's drilled in your head for eternity wether you want to remember it or not :)

10 out of 10 would play again. Best use of three days I must tell you.

got them all thanks to 'xwing vs, tie fighter', unequivocally the greatest experience of my life

glad we don't have to write the greek characters. I did well in Greek, but was always graded down slightly for my penmanship. And don't even ask me about Hebrew or Aramaic.

The hint "Ancient Greek, not modern" is misleading. The alphabets of ancient and modern Greek are identical. Plus, the names of the letters are identical. The only problem is that what you're looking for is not hte letter names, rather than the translations the american educational system has chosen to use on the letter names. Please clarify it.

The thing is that some of the names make you pronounce the letter rong. For example in Greece 'Mu' is pronounced as 'Mi' and 'Nu' as 'Ni' also 'Tau' is misnderstood for 'Taf'

13/24. I had 10 of them I could remember, but then I used a cheat. Thank you COMMENTS!!!!! Quizmaster, having the comments button while taking the quiz is a cheat to every quiz. Just wanted to let you know.

Thank you comments for giving me three more! 13/24 with the help.