Famous Ancient Greek People - Statistics

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Clue	Answer	% Correct
Blind poet who supposedly wrote "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey"	Homer	96%
"Great" conqueror of Persia	Alexander the Great	92%
She was the last active pharaoh of Egypt	Cleopatra	90%
The theory that a² + b² = c² is named for him	Pythagoras	87%
Philosopher who drank hemlock when convicted of corrupting the youth of Athens	Socrates	86%
Founder of the Academy of Athens	Plato	84%
Philosopher who has been called the father of logic, biology, rhetoric, and more	Aristotle	76%
Inventor who cried "Eureka!" while sitting in the bathtub	Archimedes	61%
He coined an oath for doctors which is still in use today	Hippocrates	60%
His many fables include "The Tortoise and the Hare"	Aesop	59%
King who led 300 Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae	Leonidas	55%
Known as the father of geometry	Euclid	54%
Father of the above, king of Macedon	Philip II	46%
Poet born on Lesbos from whom the term "lesbian" takes its modern connotation	Sappho	40%
Known as the father of history (also the father of lies)	Herodotus	39%
Playwright who wrote "Antigone" and "Oedipus Rex"	Sophocles	25%
General who was the "first citizen" of Athens during its Golden Age	Pericles	24%
Most influential astronomer in history until Copernicus came along	Ptolemy	15%
Philosopher who commanded the "the ten thousand" Greek mercenaries	Xenophon	10%
Mother of the conqueror, who claimed the actual father was Zeus	Olympias	9%

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