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How much do you know about Ancient Greece?
How much do you know about Ancient Greece?
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What period was marked by democracy and great philosophers such as Plato and Socrates?
Classical
Philosophic
Hellenistic
Archaic
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What was the primary focus of much of the culture of the city of Sparta?
war and fighting
literature and philosophy
fishing and farming
painting and sculpture
3
The Parthenon is a temple in honour of which patron goddess?
Hestia
Athena
Artemis
Olympia
4
Name the period that followed the Dark Ages and came before the Classical period
Spartanic
Archaic
Geometric
Hellenistic
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Classical Greek ________was perhaps the most utilitarian of the era’s art forms.
scupture
architecture
jewellery
pottery
6
What area of modern society has its foundation in the Ancient Greek culture?
government
sport
art
literature
7
Women could not participate in the ancient Olympics?
False
True
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In Greek mythology, what did Icarus do wrong?
He banished his daughters to Lesbos
He married his sister Aphrodite
He flew too close to the sun
He turned night into day, heaven into hell
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What civilisation that came soon after the Greeks was greatly influenced by the Greek culture?
Romans
Persians
Egyptians
Assyrians
10
What event did NOT exist in the ancient Greek Olympics?
tug-of-war
boxing
pentathlon
Mule-cart race
11
What is Greece also called?
The Republic of Themistocles
Aristarchus
The Hellenic Republic
Athanassios
12
Ancient Greece is credited with many inventions, many of these adapted over time. Choose correct two
alarm clock and odometer
democracy and philosophy
concept of mythology
the paper and water mill
13
In 530 B.C., what Greek mathematician noticed that the morning star and the evening star were the same star?
Archimedes
Pythagoras
Euclid
Democritus
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In Greek mythology, which goddess was abducted into the underworld?
Hera
Persephone
Artemis
Demeter
15
How many of the main gods live on Mt Olympos?
14
10
12
8
16
What was the primary focus of much of the culture of the city of Athens?
power and conquest
art and education
painting and sculpture
athletics and competition
17
How old was Alexander the Great when he became king?
25
20
15
30
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The pottery vessel LEKYTHOI were used for what?
anointing soldiers
pouring wine into cups
pouring milk into baths
perfumed oil for funerals