Trivia Questions

1. Columns carved in the shape of maidens are called __________.
2. What was the name of a drinking party for the rich?__________
3. Helen of Troy was kidnapped from what city?__________
4. How may muses were there?__________
5. __________ flew too close to the sun, melting the wax on his artificial wings.
6. __________ had Heracles hold up the earth while he went on an errand for him.
7. Sparta defeated __________ in the Second Peloponnesian War.
8. After Themistocles soundly defeated the Persians at Salamis his countrymen __________ him.
9. Where were the first Olympic games held?__________
10. How many events were there in the first Olympic Games?__________
11. The Olympics were dedicated to one god or goddess. Who was that?__________
12. Who wrote about the Persian Wars?__________
13. Who wrote about the Peloponnesian War?__________
14. The ancient Greeks were buried with a small silver coin to pay this fellow.__________
15. What Olympic race did a Spartan woman (Kyniska) win?__________
16. Whose drops of blood turned into the winged steed Pegasus?__________
17. Hoplite soldiers fought in a close formation called a __________.
18. How many Fates were there?__________
19. Who insulted the Olympic victor by pointing out that both the hare and the deer could run faster than he could and both were cowardly.__________
20. The Battle of Marathon was lost by __________.

Trivia Clues

1. Diogenes
2. Phalanx
3. Symposium
4. Medusa
5. Chariot
6. Caryatids
7. Charon
8. Thucydides
9. Herodotus
10. Zeus
11. Three
12. Nine
13. One
14. Ostracized
15. Athens
16. Persia
17. Atlas
18. Icarus
19. Sparta
20. Olympia

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