Download Greece Bingo Questions and Answers

Greece Bingo Questions:
1. Which city-state valued intellect, education and art:
Answer: Athens
2. What type of government would have been found in Sparta:
Answer: Oligarchy
3. Which leader was known for ruling Athens for over 30 years, and celebrated the
values of this city in his famous Funeral Oration.
Answer: Pericles
4. The rebellion of this group eventually led to Sparta transforming into a
completely militaristic society.
Answer: Helots
5. Which battle during the Persian Wars ended with a man running 26 miles to
Athens to tell the people that the Greeks had won?
Answer: Battle of Marathon
6. This alliance brought tremendous wealth into Athens and paid for their golden
age?
Answer: Delian League
7. Which city-state won the Peloponnesian War?
Answer: Sparta
8. His main goals included conquering the Persian Empire and spreading Greek
culture throughout the world.
Answer: Alexander the Great
9. In a Greek tragedy, the hero is always destroyed by this characteristic?
Answer: Hubris
10. He developed a method of teaching based on asking questions, which is still used
by teachers today.
Answer: Socrates
11. In Plato’s work The Republic, he argued that this group should rule society:
Answer: Philosopher-kings
12. This kind of column was thin, elegant, and can be found in the White House.
Answer: Ionic
13. It was because of this geographic feature that Greece was divided into citystates.
Answer: Mountains
14. This is the form of government that existed in Athens:
Answer: Direct Democracy
15. During this battle, Athens was burnt to the ground but the Athenian navy won an
enormous victory over the Persians
Answer: Battle of Salamis
16. He is famous for developing the scientific method and tutoring Alexander the
Great.
Answer: Aristotle
17. He was the first individual to unite both Macedonia and Greece under one
government.
Answer: Philip II
18. In the Hellenistic Era, where was the great library that contained much of the
knowledge in the world during this period.
Answer: Alexandria
19. True or False, during the Hellenistic Era, it was Aristotle that created the
foundations of modern day geometry.
Answer: False
20. This is the city-state where the Parthenon would have been located:
Answer: Athens
21. He is considered the father of western medicine, and established an oath that all
doctors must still take.
Answer: Hippocrates
22. At this battle, 300 Spartans sacrificed their lives battling the Persians
Answer: Battle of Thermopylae
23. When he conquered the city of Thebes, he killed 6,000 people and sold 30,000
more into slavery to strike fear into the hearts of his enemies.
Answer: Alexander the Great
24. This kind of column was larger and contained very little decoration on the
capitol.
Answer: Doric
25. He was killed by the people of Athens by being forced to drink hemlock.
Answer: Socrates
26. Athens experimented with this form of government, but ultimately determined
they were not happy with a system where only a small number of people would
rule:
Answer: Oligarchy
27. In this city-state, sick babies were left on mountains to die.
Answer: Sparta
28. This term describes the spread of Greek culture and ideas through the kingdoms
created out of Alexander the Great’s empire.
Answer: Hellenistic
29. True or False, women in Sparta had more rights and freedom than women in
Athens
Answer: True
30. Place a penny on any of the battles on the board that were won by Athens.
Answer: Marathon and Salamis
31. The character of Oedipus demonstrated this when he thought he could change
the fate the gods had in store for him
Answer: Hubris
32. He created the first university in world history.
Answer: Plato
33. This form of government would not work in the United States because our
population is too large.
Answer: Direct Democracy
34. He believed that a constitutional democracy was the best form of government.
Answer: Aristotle
35. He was assassinated at his own daughter’s wedding.
Answer: Philip II