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The Trojan War

What do you know about the war that is one of the most important events in Greek mythology and has been narrated through many works of Greek literature?
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Last updated: September 12, 2021
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1. Which author is typically credited for assembling stories from the Trojan War?
Sophocles ✓
Ovid ✓
Aesop ✓
Homer ✓
2. Who is the author of the Aeneid, which contains what many consider to be the best known account of the sacking of Troy?
Sappho ✓
Socrates ✓
Pliny the Elder ✓
Virgil ✓
3. When did the Trojan War supposedly start?
235 BC ✓
1260 BC ✓
820 BC ✓
453 AD ✓
4. Whose wedding begins the whole set of events of the Trojan war?
Peleus and Thetis ✓
Achilles and Briseis ✓
Zeus and Hera ✓
Theseus and Ariadne ✓
5. Who was the king of Troy during the Trojan War?
Agamemnon ✓
Alcaeus ✓
Odysseus ✓
Priam ✓
6. Who was the principal wife of the king of Troy during the Trojan War?
Cassandra ✓
Clytemnestra ✓
Andromeda ✓
Hecuba ✓
7. Who was said to be a huge reason of the start of the Trojan War?
Achilles ✓
Zeus ✓
Paris ✓
Helen ✓
8. What is the name of the king of Sparta, whose wife fled Sparta with the son of the king of Troy?
Odysseus ✓
Agamemnon ✓
Priam ✓
Menelaus ✓
9. Who was the leader of the Greek forces in the Trojan war?
Achilles ✓
Agamemnon ✓
Perseus ✓
Odysseus ✓
10. Troy withstood a Greek siege for how many years?
10 ✓
19 ✓
12 ✓
8 ✓
11. Who was Troy’s finest warrior, who was killed by Achilles?
Ajax ✓
Hercules ✓
Paris ✓
Hector ✓
12. Which god guided Paris’s arrow to strike Achilles’ only vulnerable point, his heel, and eventually kill him?
Athena ✓
Ares ✓
Aphrodite ✓
Apollo ✓
13. In which modern country is the ancient city of Troy located?
Turkey ✓
Israel ✓
Lebanon ✓
Greece ✓
14. What happened to the women after the Greeks attacked?
They became sirens ✓
They were killed ✓
They were forced to marry the Greeks ✓
They became slaves ✓
15. There were three goddesses who wished to be named the most beautiful. Which was not among them?
Athena ✓
Hera ✓
Aurora ✓
Aphrodite ✓
16. Who came up with the idea for the Trojan horse that helped the Greeks defeat the Trojans in the Trojan War?
Hercules ✓
Odysseus ✓
Menelaus ✓
Achilles ✓
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