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Ancient Greek quiz

Ancient Greece Quiz!

How much do you know about the Ancient Greeks? Test your history trivia by taking this thoroughly modern quiz!

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Beano Quiz Team • Updated August 21st 2024

May the trivia be forever in your favour...

1/10 Valley of the Temples

When do historians believe Ancient Greek civilisations were first formed?

2/10 A pile of US currency

What did Ancient Greeks use to buy slaves?

3/10 A tin of beans

The phrase 'spill the beans' dates back to Ancient Greece, where they were used as a way of counting votes. True or false?

4/10 Planets

Which Ancient Greek mathematician and astronomer came up with the idea that planets orbited the sun?

5/10 An athlete on the starting blocks

What was banned for a month before the Olympic Games?

6/10 Fruit sellers

What piece of fruit were Ancient Greeks said to throw at someone they loved?

7/10 A doctor shrugging

Which internal organ did Ancient Greeks believe to be the centre of human emotion?

8/10 A man with Greek flags painted on his cheeks

Ancient Greek was the official language of Greece until which year?

9/10

Argos was the Greek God of convenient shopping. True or false?

10/10

The original Olympic Games were held in hour of which Greek god?

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Wow! You're a true historian... or someone from Ancient Greece!