Statistics for Athens City Trivia

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Flat-topped and high ground area the above is located on	Acropolis	100%
System of government established by Athens around 500 BC	Democracy	100%
Well-known temple in Athens that is dedicated to goddess Athena	Parthenon	100%
Main rival city-state of Athens during classical antiquity	Sparta	100%
Event that Athens hosted for the first time in 1896	Summer Olympics	100%
Athenian philosopher was Alexander the Great's tutor	Aristotle	89%
General who was the "first citizen" of Athens during its Golden Age	Pericles	89%
Founder of the Academy of Athens	Plato	89%
Empire that conquered and burned the city in 479 BCE	Achaemenid Empire	78%
U.S. state that has its flagship public university in a city named Athens	Georgia	78%
Name of the war that Athens fought against the above between 431BC-404 BC	Peloponnesian War	78%
Closest world capital to Athens	Skopje	78%
Philosopher who drank hemlock when convicted of corrupting the youth of Athens	Socrates	78%
Greek god that competed against Athena for the then-unnamed city of Athens to be named after themselves	Poseidon	67%
Italian painter who painted "The School of Athens"	Raphael	67%
Athens is the seat of this Greek administrative region	Attica	56%
They competed by each giving one gift to the city. What did Athena give?	Olive Tree	44%
Name of the central square of Athens	{Syntagma} Square	33%
Mythical king and founder-hero of Athens	Theseus	33%
Gulf that Athens metropolitan area borders to its south	{Saronic} Gulf	22%