History of Greece Quiz

Can you guess these facts from Greek history?
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"Great" Macedonian conqueror
Alexander
Philosopher who tutored the above
Aristotle
War fought between Athens and Sparta, 431–404 BC
Peloponnesian War
Plant that supposedly killed Socrates
Hemlock
What Greece hosted in 1896 and 2004
Summer Olympics
Home island of Sappho
Lesbos
Founder of the Academy
Plato
King of the ancient Greek gods
Zeus
Spartan leader at Thermopylae
Leonidas
Shipping magnate who married Jackie Kennedy
Aristotle Onassis
What Archimedes supposedly said, when he made a discovery
Eureka!
Subject that Euclid is the "father" of
Geometry
Empire that Greece became independent from, in 1830
Ottoman Empire
Greece's currency before 2002
Drachma
Epic poems attributed to Homer
The Iliad
Odyssey
Greek "Father of History"
Herodotus
Possibly matriarchal civilization of ancient Crete
Minoans
Where you would find the Oracle
Delphi
Country with which Greece was in a naming dispute until 2019
North Macedonia
Titan credited with creating humanity
Prometheus
Romantic poet who died while fighting for Greek independence
Lord Byron
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Level 95
May 12, 2021
Good quiz.
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Level 56
Nov 5, 2023
This is a very nice quiz, I learned a lot and led me to the Yale Open Courses with videos on Ancient Greece which I listened to on a full day while gardening. Feature it!