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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
Corinthian
Aegean
Ionic
2. Which Greek historian chronicled the Persian Wars and is often called the Father of History?
Herodotus
Thucydides
Sophocles
Aristophanes
3. What was the name of Odysseus' wife whom he married at the end of the Homer's Odyssey?
Argos
Calypso
Penelope
Scylla
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?
Aphrodite
Athena
Artemis
Demeter
5. Who came up with the idea for the Trojan horse that helped the Greeks defeat the Trojans in the Trojan War?
Odysseus
Menelaus
Hercules
Achilles
6. Who is the greatest of all the Trojan warriors and King Priam's son?
Achilles
Hector
Paris
Aeneas
7. Who took Helen from King Menelaus?
Paris
Odysseus
Hector
Agamemnon
8. Who did Spartans fight in the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC?
Romans
Phoenicians
Egyptians
Persians
9. Who did the people of Troy fight in the Trojan War?
Greeks
Romans
Egyptians
Spartans
10. How many Spartans fought in the Battle of Thermopylae?
1000
500
700
300
11. Which king led a small army of Spartans in the Battle of Thermopylae?
Cleomenes
Ephialtes
Xerxes
Leonidas
12. Peloponnesian War was fought between which two leading city-states in Ancient Greece?
Athens and Sparta
Troy and Persia
Persia and Athens
Sparta and Troy
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?
Socrates
Euclid
Plato
Aristotle
15. Which Greek philosopher founded the Academy, the first institution of higher learning in the western world?
Aristotle
Socrates
Plato
Pythagoras
16. Who won the Peloponnesian wars?
Persia
Rome
Athens
Sparta
17. What famous philosopher was put to death by the Greeks for corrupting the youth of Athens with his teachings?
Socrates
Euclid
Plato
Aristotle
18. What do we call the last period of Ancient Greece, before they were conquered by the Romans?
Hellenistic Period
Archaic Period
Classical Period
Golden Period
19. Which famous historian cataloged the events in Peloponnesian War?
Plato
Nero
Thucydides
Socrates
20. Who wrote an oath to uphold ethical medical standards, and a version of it still observed by medical professionals today?
Hippocrates
Pericle
Sophocles
Socrates
21. Which famous ancient Greek mathematician developed the theorem that a2 + b2 = c2?
Pythagoras
Aristotle
Hipparchus
Archimedes
22. Which two city-states were the principal enemies in the Peloponnesian War?
Sparta and Corinth
Athens and Sparta
Thebes and Athens
Corinth and Thebes
23. Which poet is considered one of Greek poetry's fathers, and is famous for writing the Iliad and the Odyssey?
Socrates
Sappho
Homer
Pericles
24. What Greek city-state was named for the goddess of wisdom, defense and war?
Sparta
Corinth
Athens
Delphi
25. On what island did ancient Greek civilization originate?
Mykonos
Crete
Thassos
Rhodes
26. Which city Greeks used the Trojan horse to enter?
Troy
Mycenae
Sparta
Delphi
27. Who killed the Trojan Prince Hector?
Agamemnon
Odysseus
Achilles
Paris
28. Who was husband of Helen and brother of Agamemnon?
Hercules
Paris
Odysseus
Menelaus
29. Who was Paris' father?
Agamemnon
Priam
Zeus
Menelaus
30. How long lasted the war between the Greeks and the Trojans?
40 days
3 months
4 years
10 years
31. When were the first Ancient Olympic games held?
521 BC
1892
476 BC
776 BC
32. When did the city of Troy fell to invading Greek armies?
1184 BC
1618 BC
120 AD
300 BC
33. How did Alexander the Great die?
killed in the battle
committed suicide
illness
poisoned
34. On what island the Minoan civilization existed during 3000-1450 BC?
Sicily
Crete
Corsica
Rhodes
35. Who is credited with making the first map of the known world?
Archimedes
Euclid
Pythagoras
Anaximander
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