Trivia Quiz #199 - Greek Trivia Quiz Questions

Greek Trivia - Questions and Answers

1. Which god, in Greek mythology, was the twin brother of Artemis?
    
2. In Greek mythology, what did Icarus do wrong?
    
3. What is the southernmost country on the Balkan Peninsula?
    
4. In 530 B.C., what Greek mathematician noticed that the morning
   star and the evening star were the same star?
    
5. What mystical word, whose Greek letters are equivalent to 365 in
   numbers, was used as a superstitious charm?
    
6. What is Greece also called?
    
7. Greek gods sent heroes to the Islands of the Blessed to enjoy a
   life after death, and what was the name for those islands?
    
8. In Greek mythology, which nymphs were the guardian spirits of the
   sea?
    
9. What Mediterranean country does the island of Rhodes belong to?
    
10. The guardian spirits of nature in Geek mythology were called
    what?
     
11. In the Athens 1996 Olympic 100-meter Freestyle for Sailors, what
    country competed alone?
     
12. What disease is named after the Geek for "without appetite"?
     
13. What chemical compound is derived from the Greek word for
    "primary"?
     
14. Hades is the Greek word for what?
     
15. Small seedless grapes called currants were named for their place
    of origin. Where was it?
     
16. The largest Greek population in the world outside of Greece is
    where?
     
17. The Greek Communist Party provided cash to what former Soviet
    newspaper to keep it alive during the 90s?
     
18. According to Greek legend, Alexander the Great cut what?
     
19. The Greeks named what ancient African country for the "sunburnt
    faces" of its natives?
     
20. What fruit did early Greek Olympians sometimes wear as medals?
     
21. Dimitrios Synodinos was also know by what name in the sporting
    world?
     
22. What is poliosis?
     
23. In Greek, what does the word climax mean?
     
24. The last letter of the Greek alphabet is what?
     
25. We get the word cosmetics form the Geek word kosmetikos, which
    means what?
     
26. The Astronomical term "Galaxy" comes from the Greek word for
    what?
     
27. The Colossus of Rhodes was one of the seven wonders of the
    ancient world. How was it destroyed?
     
28. In Athens, Greece, what temple is atop the Acropolis?
     

Answers to Trivia Quiz #199 - Greek Trivia

1. Apollo.
2. He flew too close to the sun.
3. Greece.
4. Pythagoras.
5. Abraxas.
6. The Hellenic Republic.
7. Elysium.
8. Nereid's.
9. Greece.
10. Nymphs.
11. Greece.
12. Anorexia.
13. Protein.
14. Hell.
15. Corinth, Greece.
16. Melbourne, Australia.
17. Pravda.
18. The Gordian Knot.
19. Ethiopia.
20. Figs.
21. Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder.
22. When your hair turns gray. It comes from the Greek word for Gray.
23. Ladder. In Greece it is spelled Klimax.
24. Omega.
25. Skilled in decorating.
26. Milk. In Greek, gala means "milk".
27. An earthquake in 224 B.C.
28. The Parthenon.