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Multiple Choice City Quiz – Athens

Can you answer these multiple choice questions about the city of Athens and its environs?
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1. Athens is known as the birthplace of ....
Christianity
Democracy
The Industrial Revolution
The Renaissance
2. Which of these pictures depicts the Parthenon?
3. What is the Acropolis of Athens?
A fortified, flat-topped hill
A grove of olive trees
An Orthodox cathedral
The central marketplace of the ancient city
4. Who was sentenced to death in 399 BC for corrupting the youth of Athens?
Aristophanes
Pericles
Socrates
Xenophon
5. Of all the capitals of Europe, Athens ...
Gets the most tourists
Has the least average rainfall
Has the most billionaires
Is furthest East
6. Who defeated Athens in the Peloponnesian War?
The Macedonians
The Persian Empire
The Roman Empire
Sparta
7. Who founded the Academy in 387 BC?
Aristotle
Diogenes
Euclid
Plato
8. Athens was the first city to ...
Ban slavery
Have a public library
Host the modern Olympics
Use paper currency
9. Which of these places is located about 40 km (25 miles) away from Athens?
Corfu
Heraklion
Marathon
Patras
10. In what region of Greece is Athens located?
Attica
Crete
Thessaly
Thrace
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14 Comments
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Level 83
Apr 13, 2025
9/10

Great City!

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Level 73
Apr 13, 2025
I guess the quiz I made on Athens paid off, 9/10.

Nice quiz!

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Level 83
Apr 13, 2025
Hey, 10/10 for once. Having a bunch of philosophy and history questions definitely helps me out. Good quiz! 👍
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Level 72
Apr 13, 2025
MasterRocket already made this quiz here...

I'm assuming he wanted you to make a different featured version.

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Level 73
Apr 13, 2025
No questions are the same.

QM has also said previously that he can feature whichever quiz he wishes, even if it's been done prior.

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Level 72
Apr 13, 2025
Interesting
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Level 89
Apr 13, 2025
Oooh 9/10, I slipped up and said Athens gets the most tourists, which in hindsight is obviously Paris or Rome, whoops XD
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Level 86
Apr 13, 2025
It’s Paris, with London a fairly close second.
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Level 87
Apr 14, 2025
10/10
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Level 80
Jul 4, 2025
I only got 5, that quiz was Greek to me...
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Level 65
Jul 5, 2025
I thought Athens is the furthest East of all European capitals. Which European capital is further?
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Level 75
Jul 7, 2025
Moscow, Bucharest, Chisinau, Kyiv, Minsk, Vilnius, Riga, Tallinn, Helsinki.
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Level 75
Jul 7, 2025
Athens is the second-warmest European capital behind Valletta, and the warmest in summer, with an outstanding 29.4°C August average, making it even hotter in summer than hot-ass Córdoba due to warm nighttime temperatures.
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Level 56
Nov 7, 2025
Today, I've learned that I knew nothing about Athens. 3/10.