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Letter	Hint	Answer	% Correct
D	System of government established by Athens around 500 BC	Democracy	94%
Z	The king of the gods of Mount Olympus	Zeus	92%
A	Known as the "Father of Western Philosophy"	Aristotle	90%
C	Island which was the center of Minoan civilization	Crete	90%
Q	Persephone was the ____ of the underworld	Queen	89%
S	Philosopher known for his phrase: "All I know is that I know nothing"	Socrates	85%
F	Prometheus stole this from the gods and gave it to humanity	Fire	82%
N	The drink of the Greek gods	Nectar	81%
O	Epic poem about a Greek hero and his journey home after the Trojan War	Odyssey	79%
M	Alexander the Great was the king of ____________	Macedon	78%
P	Former temple on the Athenian Acropolis dedicated to the goddess Athena	Parthenon	77%
W	Dionysus was the god of fertility, ritual madness, and ____	Wine	77%
J	Mythological hero who led the Argonauts in their quest for the Golden Fleece	Jason	76%
Y	The ancient Greeks ate a dairy product called Oxygala, which was similar to ...	Yogurt	76%
H	Her face launched a thousand ships	Helen	74%
B	Aphrodite was the goddess of love, pleasure, and ________	Beauty	73%
K	Tenth letter of the Greek alphabet	Kappa	68%
L	King who led three hundred Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae (480 BC)	Leonidas	66%
R	Dodecanese island where the author Apollonius was born	Rhodes	65%
V	Concept personified by the goddess Nike	Victory	64%
E	His "Elements" served as the main textbook for teaching geometry for more than two thousand years	Euclid	57%
G	Location on which the city of Byzantium was founded: The _____ Horn	Golden	56%
U	The primal Greek god personifying the sky and one of the Greek primordial deities	Uranus	51%
T	City state whose "sacred band" of 300 warriors was shattered by Alexander the Great	Thebes	34%
I	Greek region on the western shore of what is today Turkey	Ionia	33%
X	Philosopher who was also a military commander of the Greek mercenaries known as "The Ten Thousand"	Xenophon	19%