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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
Aegean
Corinthian
Ionic
2. Which Greek historian chronicled the Persian Wars and is often called the Father of History?
Herodotus
Sophocles
Thucydides
Aristophanes
3. What was the name of Odysseus' wife whom he married at the end of the Homer's Odyssey?
Penelope
Argos
Scylla
Calypso
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?
Athena
Demeter
Artemis
Aphrodite
5. Who came up with the idea for the Trojan horse that helped the Greeks defeat the Trojans in the Trojan War?
Hercules
Odysseus
Achilles
Menelaus
6. Who is the greatest of all the Trojan warriors and King Priam's son?
Hector
Paris
Achilles
Aeneas
7. Who took Helen from King Menelaus?
Paris
Hector
Odysseus
Agamemnon
8. Who did Spartans fight in the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC?
Egyptians
Romans
Persians
Phoenicians
9. Who did the people of Troy fight in the Trojan War?
Greeks
Romans
Spartans
Egyptians
10. How many Spartans fought in the Battle of Thermopylae?
1000
700
300
500
11. Which king led a small army of Spartans in the Battle of Thermopylae?
Xerxes
Cleomenes
Leonidas
Ephialtes
12. Peloponnesian War was fought between which two leading city-states in Ancient Greece?
Troy and Persia
Sparta and Troy
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 Salamis
Battle of Plataea
Battle of Thermopylae
Battle of Marathon
14. Which Greek philosopher was the teacher of Alexander the Great?
Aristotle
Euclid
Plato
Socrates
15. Which Greek philosopher founded the Academy, the first institution of higher learning in the western world?
Pythagoras
Socrates
Plato
Aristotle
16. Who won the Peloponnesian wars?
Rome
Sparta
Persia
Athens
17. What famous philosopher was put to death by the Greeks for corrupting the youth of Athens with his teachings?
Plato
Aristotle
Socrates
Euclid
18. What do we call the last period of Ancient Greece, before they were conquered by the Romans?
Classical Period
Archaic Period
Hellenistic Period
Golden Period
19. Which famous historian cataloged the events in Peloponnesian War?
Nero
Socrates
Plato
Thucydides
20. Who wrote an oath to uphold ethical medical standards, and a version of it still observed by medical professionals today?
Socrates
Pericle
Sophocles
Hippocrates
21. Which famous ancient Greek mathematician developed the theorem that a2 + b2 = c2?
Aristotle
Archimedes
Hipparchus
Pythagoras
22. Which two city-states were the principal enemies in the Peloponnesian War?
Athens and Sparta
Thebes and Athens
Sparta and Corinth
Corinth and Thebes
23. Which poet is considered one of Greek poetry's fathers, and is famous for writing the Iliad and the Odyssey?
Homer
Socrates
Sappho
Pericles
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?
Crete
Rhodes
Thassos
Mykonos
26. Which city Greeks used the Trojan horse to enter?
Mycenae
Delphi
Troy
Sparta
27. Who killed the Trojan Prince Hector?
Agamemnon
Odysseus
Paris
Achilles
28. Who was husband of Helen and brother of Agamemnon?
Odysseus
Paris
Menelaus
Hercules
29. Who was Paris' father?
Menelaus
Agamemnon
Priam
Zeus
30. How long lasted the war between the Greeks and the Trojans?
4 years
3 months
40 days
10 years
31. When were the first Ancient Olympic games held?
476 BC
1892
521 BC
776 BC
32. When did the city of Troy fell to invading Greek armies?
120 AD
300 BC
1618 BC
1184 BC
33. How did Alexander the Great die?
killed in the battle
committed suicide
poisoned
illness
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?
Anaximander
Euclid
Pythagoras
Archimedes
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