Greece Country Quiz

i'm greek and i had 100%

I typed in Olympic Games and Olympia until I thought of Summer Olympic Games and even Summer Olympia. Too stupid for 'Summer Olympics'. (though the term is probably incorrect for 1896, as there were no 'Winter Olympics' back then).

Seriously on 13% Bio???? Glad to see high school BIOlogy paid off.

gaia is the god of earth personified not the word for earth itself.

Never let it be said that A Level Classics is a waste of time.

The Greek word for Greece is actually Ελλάδα (Elláda). Ἑλλάς (Hellás) is also used but Elláda is used more.

I could see the word, having collected coins from Greece, but had no idea how to type Greek letters. :-P

So only 25% of us were forced to read the Odyssey.

Or wanted to... I think I better read this thing and find out what all the fuss is about!

Great book, that one is.

Zeus is not the sky god, it's Ouranos (=Uranus in latin).

Isn't Alexander the Great Macedonian Conquerer? I'm confused.

Why is that confusing?

I thought Eros too.

god of sexual attraction - not quite the same; aphrodite's son in greek mythology

Could you accept zoe as a possible translation of life?

Nice quiz, could have added something about the ethniki, but still good.

That's the goddess of the Earth, not what they actually called the earth

It actually is what they called the earth. The mythology didn't really have a specific name for a deity, but rather deities where the personification of a thing. This leads to the "names" of deities being the most literal description of the thing, because the "name" IS the thing it represents.

That was hella easy.

"Solis, Vita, Terra, Homo...damn, wrong language!"

Sigh...I did the same thing first time for every one of those.

You should accept more spelling versions for 'Ares' and 'Aphrodite'.

In what other way would you spell either? Especially "Ares"? Afrodite maybe, but anything else stumps me.

My only thought would be someone spelling it "Aries", like the zodiac sign.

You could spell it as Aris.

Eros is the Greek god of love. Please fix that. Aphrodite is the goddess of beauty

First of all, Greece became independent in 1821, also, you should add to the Olympics question "as well as every 4 years between 776BCE, and 394CE"

Please specify you mean "goddess" or accept Eros for god of love.

Eros fits the category but he's not the god of love.

Hello fellow Greeks!

Hello! (not Greek, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night...and I didn't want to leave ya hangin' there)

I once dated a Greek girl. Does that count?

Can you add Macedon for Macedonia

many other pointed out at Geo as not being the correct answer for earth. I too think so, and i want to add my explanation. The ancient greek word for earth has a two letters nominative "GI" (gamma-eta) which is then declined following the first greek declination. The theme vowel of the first declination are "A" (alpha) and "E/I" (eta) but NEVER "O" (omicron or omega). So GEO was definitely NOT the word ancient greeks used to refer to earth. We can see it used as a prefix, at most. GAIA or GEA are the (transliterated) name of earth's personification so would not be the correct answer as well but are closer to the original word than "geo". Personally, since translation and transliteration in this case are so confusing, i would substitute this question with another one like "the greek word for big" (answer: "mega"/"megas"; also "macro" could be accepted)

I would just accept different forms of Gaia because it literally means Earth, that's how names for many deities worked in ancient greece, whereas Geo is more of a prefix and derived from Gaia.