The Life of Alexander the Great - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
He founded twenty different cities named this	Alexandria	88%
Alexander was king of this Greek kingdom	Macedon	88%
He never tried to conquer this Greek city-state	Sparta	83%
He conquered this empire	Achaemenid Empire (Persia)	82%
Famous philosopher who tutored Alexander	Aristotle	81%
His friend Ptolemy founded a dynasty that ruled this country	Egypt	72%
His army refused to march further after reaching this modern-day country	India	70%
He compared himself to this hero of the Iliad	Achilles	64%
But Alexander claimed that his father was actually …	Zeus (Amun)	63%
He died in this ancient capital near modern-day Baghdad	Babylon	62%
Greek military formation he used	Phalanx	62%
Alexander's father	Philip II	60%
Term for the spread of Greek culture in areas conquered by Alexander	{Hellen}ization	58%
Instead of trying to untie this knot, he cut it with a sword	{Gordian} Knot	54%
Alexander's horse (also the namesake of a city)	Bucephalus	28%
His dying words (when asked to whom his empire should go)	To the {strongest}	20%
His closest friend, and possible lover	Hephaestion	14%

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