| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| The formation the Spartans employed in battle | phalanx | 78%
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| Name of the subjugated slave population that served the Spartans | helots | 71%
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| Name of the 5 officials elected yearly | ephors | 56%
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| The legendary lawbringer credited as the patriarch of classical Sparta | lycurgus | 47%
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| Type of warrior a Spartan fought at | hoplite | 40%
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| Greek symbol commonly associated with Sparta | lambda | 31%
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| First royal house | agiad | 24%
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| Spartan armies most infamous defeat | battle of leuctra | 24%
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| Second royal house | eurypontid | 22%
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| Athenian general and historian who admired Sparta and sided with them against Athens | Xenophon | 22%
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| Spartan navarch that gained the decicive victory for Sparta in the Peloponesian war | lysander | 20%
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| Leader of the allied Greek army at the Battle of Plataea | pausanias | 20%
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| Exiled Spartan king who aided the Persians during the Greco-Persian wars | demaratus | 18%
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| Famouse phrase said by Leonidas before the battle of Thermopylae | molon labe | 13%
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| Spartan king that led an army into the eastern part of the Persian empire | agesilaus | 11%
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| Great Spartan general that was active during the early parts of the Peloponesian | brasidas | 11%
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| The first woman to win the Olympics | cynisca | 9%
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