| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| author of the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey" | Homer | 89%
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| the first king of Greece, originally from Bavaria | Otto | 89%
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| student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great | Aristotle | 87%
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| Civilization existing in Crete from 3000 to 1450 BC | Minoan | 84%
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| Greece was at war with this country right after the end of WWI | Turkey | 84%
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| the empire ruling Greece after the fall of Constantinople (1453) | Ottoman Empire | 82%
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| Greeks' opponents at the battle of Salamis | Achaemenid Empire | 76%
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| great war between Sparta and Athens | Peloponnesian War | 74%
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| "The Father of History" | Herodotus | 71%
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| "The Father of Geometry" | Euclid | 68%
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| "The Father of Medicine" | Hippocrates | 61%
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| Capital of the above | Knossos | 39%
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| the country ruling Greece for most of the Middle Ages | Byzantine Empire | 34%
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| First civilization in mainland Greece (1600–1100 BC) | Mycenaean | 29%
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| another arachaic poet, author of the "Works and Days" | Hesiod | 21%
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| name for the people who invaded Greece (and then Egypt) abou 1000 BC | Sea People | 18%
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| school of philosophy founded in Athens by the above | Lyceum | 16%
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| Latin Peloponnesian state existing from 1205 to 1432 | Principality of Achaea | 13%
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| first capital after independence (1828–1829) | Aegina | 0%
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| colloquial name for the period of the dictatorship (1967–1974) | Regime of the Colonels | 0%
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