History According to Herodotus - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Every 500 years, Egypt is visited by this type of bird (other myths say it rises from its own ashes)	Phoenix	94%
300 men from ____ fought at the Battle of Thermopylae, helping to delay a Persian army numbering in the millions	Sparta	92%
The Persians built a canal connecting the Nile River to this sea	Red Sea	89%
Persians debate ideas twice, once while drunk and the other time _____	Sober	84%
Herodotus mentions this race of warrior women, who he calls "husband slayers"	Amazons	77%
It took 100,000 workers twenty years to build this monument	The Great Pyramid	77%
Every 19 years, the god Apollo visits the Hyperboreans, a prosperous people who live in the far _____	North	76%
This large Asian peninsula is the home of frankincense, myrrh, and flying snakes!	Arabia	72%
King Croesus tested all the oracles, but only the one located in ____ was correct	Delphi	71%
This celestial occurrence happened during a battle between the Medes and Lydians	Solar eclipse	69%
Herodotus describes this Egyptian creature, calling it a "river horse"	Hippopotamus	67%
The Scythians drink from the _____ of their vanquished enemies	Skulls	66%
Phoenician sailors circumnavigated _____	Africa	62%
These half eagle, half lion creatures guard hoards of gold	Griffins	62%
In India, fox-size ants dig up ____ dust, which is then collected by people	Gold	52%
This Asian city has a wall 325 feet high, 81 feet thick, and 55 miles around	Babylon	45%
Inside a tent, the Scythians burn the seeds of this plant whose vapor causes them to "shout with delight"	Hemp	42%

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