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

Level 83

Apr 13, 2025

9/10

Great City!

Level 73

Apr 13, 2025

I guess the quiz I made on Athens paid off, 9/10.

Nice quiz!

Level 83

Apr 13, 2025

Hey, 10/10 for once. Having a bunch of philosophy and history questions definitely helps me out. Good quiz! 👍

Level 72

Apr 13, 2025

MasterRocket already made this quiz here...

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

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.

Level 72

Apr 13, 2025

Interesting

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

Level 86

Apr 13, 2025

It’s Paris, with London a fairly close second.

Level 87

Apr 14, 2025

10/10

Level 80

Jul 4, 2025

I only got 5, that quiz was Greek to me...

Level 65

Jul 5, 2025

I thought Athens is the furthest East of all European capitals. Which European capital is further?

Level 75

Jul 7, 2025

Moscow, Bucharest, Chisinau, Kyiv, Minsk, Vilnius, Riga, Tallinn, Helsinki.

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.

Level 56

Nov 7, 2025

Today, I've learned that I knew nothing about Athens. 3/10.