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GREEK CULTURE AND HISTORY: Georgia Junior Classical League 2015
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1. What unexpected disaster greatly weakened Athens in 430BC during the Peloponnesian War?
A. plague
B. earthquake
C. flood
D. locusts
2. What reference did the Greeks use for their measurements of length?
A. horses
B. stalks of wheat
C. human body
D. stones
3. What product was a primary export of Greece?
A. timber
B. wine
C. hides
D. cattle
4. Which script was used during the Minoan period?
A. Linear B
B. Linear A
C. Phoenician
D. Hieroglyphs
5. In what year did Athens surrender to Sparta, ending the Peloponnesian War?
A. 331BC
B. 143BC
C. 404BC
D. 535BC
6. Which city housed one of the largest and most significant libraries of the ancient world?
A. Alexandria
B. Sparta
C. Athens
D. Thessaly
7. Why was Alcibiades recalled to Athens to stand trial during the Sicilian Expedition?
A. theft
B. defecting to Sparta
C. profaning the Eleusinian mysteries
D. murder
8. For which god did theaters hold festivals?
A. Apollo
B. Athena
C. Zeus
D. Dionysos
9. Which of these terms is NOT used to describe a Greek monetary value?
A. obol
B. piastra
C. talent
D. drachma
10. Which son of Pisistratus inherited the tyranny upon his father’s death?
A. Belus
B. Hipparchus
C. Hippias
D. Eumelus
11. From which two metals is the alloy electrum made?
A. gold and silver
B. gold and copper
C. silver and copper D. silver and tin
12. What term is used to describe the type of hymn originally sung to Apollo?
A. encomium
B. dithyramb
C. nome
D. paean
13. Which Greek city structured its entire system of education around military training?
A. Athens
B. Thessaly
C. Corinth
D. Sparta
14. In which year did Pericles move the Delian League treasury from Delos to Athens?
A. 331BC
B. 454BC
C. 565BC
D. 248BC
15. Which of these was NOT an important Persian figure in the Persian Wars?
A. Xerxes
B. Darius
C. Cyrus
D. Candaules
16. Who proposed the first correct model of the solar system in Hellenistic Greece?
A. Aristarchus
B. Archimedes
C. Euclid
D. Ptolemy
17. Which comedy by Aristophanes prominently features Socrates?
A. Birds
B. Clouds
C. Acharnians
D. Lysistrata
18. What is the name given to a track used for racing horses?
A. gymnasium
B. hippodrome
C. stadium
D. palaestra
19. Which naval battle did NOT take place during the Peloponnesian War?
A. Naupactus
B. Cyzicus
C. Aegospotami
D. Salamis
20. Which philosophical school’s doctrines emphasize the pursuit of pleasure as the goal of humans?
A. Scepticism
B. Stoicism
C. Epicureanism
D. Cynicism
21. What was the name of the harbor near Athens?
A. Piraeus
B. Ostia
C. Aegina
D. Pylos
22. Which Greek city claimed to be the navel of the world?
A. Athens
B. Cumae
C. Delphi
D. Corinth
23. How many kings governed Sparta?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. none
24. Which piece of military equipment was NOT regularly carried by a hoplite?
A. sword
B. shield
C. bow
D. spear
25. What is the name of the only council at Sparta?
A. gerousia
B. boule
C. apella
D. ekklesia
26. What is the term used to describe how clay was refined?
A. distillation
B. fractionation
C. extracting
D. levigating
27. The revolt of which region of Greek city-states sparked the Persian War?
A. Boeotia
B. Achaea
C. Euboea
D.. Ionia
28. Which poet was known for praising victors in contests?
A. Pindar
B. Sappho
C. Alcaeus
D. Callimachus
29. What was the most common stone in the Greek world?
A. basalt
B. pumice
C. limestone
D. carbonite
30. What is the term used to describe the study of inscriptions
A. epigraphy
B. paleography
C. papyrology
D. graphology
31. What type of comedy is also referred to as “Old Comedy”?
A. Euripidean
B. Timoclean
C. Antiphanic
D. Aristophanic
32. Which medium did the Greeks NOT use for writing?
A. paper
B. papyrus
C. wood tablets
D. clay tablets
33. What type of archon was Solon?
A. archon basileus B. polemarkhos
C. archon eponymos D. not an archon
34. By what means did Athenians vote on whether or not an ostracism should take place?
A. show of hands
B. pot sherds
C. pebbles
D. lot
35. Which historian preferred examining cultural traditions over taking sides in warfare?
A. Thucydides
B. Xenophon
C. Polybius
D. Herodotus
36. At which battle did Leonidas and his 300 Spartans hold off Xerxes’ army?
A. Marathon
B. Plataea
C. Thermopylae
D. Artemisium
37. What were amphorae most commonly made out of?
A. clay
B. iron
C. lead
D. bronze
38. Which philosopher wrote dialogues between Socrates and interlocutors?
A. Aristotle
B. Plato
C. Socrates
D. Epicurus
39. Which Athenian reformer proposed a daily stipend to men who served on juries?
A. Solon
B. Cleisthenes
C. Draco
D. Pericles
40. What is the term used to refer to Greek city-states?
A. polis
B. basileus
C. arete
D. nomos
41. Which city prompted Athens to launch the disastrous Sicilian Expedition?
A. Syracuse
B. Sparta
C. Egesta
D. Mytilene
42. Which animals would not have commonly been found on a farm?
A. oxen
B. sheep
C. mules
D. horses
43. Who is the author of the only surviving satyr play?
A. Euripides
B. Aristophanes
C. Aeschylus
D. Sophocles
44. Which historian documented the Peloponnesian War?
A. Xenophon
B. Thucydides
C. Herodotus
D. Polybius
45. Which pupil of Aristotle lectured to Athenian crowds in Hellenistic Greece?
A. Theophrastus
B. Epicurus
C. Pythagoras
D. Diogenes
46. Who conquered the Persian Empire in 331BC?
A. Cleon
B. Alexander the Great
C. Alcibiades
D. Pericles
47. Which tyrant of Syracuse did Plato attempt to advise on how to rule as a true philosopher?
A. Thrasybulus
B. Hieronymus
C. Dionysius II
D. Pyrrhus
48. Which playwright dealt with issues of patriarchy and family in his Antigone?
A. Aeschylus
B. Sophocles
C. Euripides
D. Aristophanes
49. Which is NOT an architectural order?
A. Doric
B. Ionic
C. Corinthian
D. Attic
50. In which year were the first Olympic games held?
A. 856BC
B. 648BC
C. 776BC
D. 446BC
Greek Culture and History 2015Answer Key
1. A
2. C
3. B
4. B
5. C
6. A
7. C
8. D
9. B
10. C
11. A
12. D
13. D
14. B
15. D
16. A
17. B
18. B
19. D
20. C
21. A
22. C
23. B
24. C
25. A
26. D
27. D
28. A
29. C
30. A
31. D
32. A
33. C
34. B
35. D
36. C
37. A
38. B
39. D
40. A
41. C
42. D
43. A
44. B
45. A
46. B
47. C
48. B
49. D
50. C