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Exploring Athens: A Quiz on Geography and History

Test your knowledge about Athens with this engaging quiz covering geography, history, and cultural landmarks.

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1 Which of the following is Southeast of Athens?

2 Which of the following places is northeast of Athens?

3 Which of the following titles did Athens have?

4 In 1453 it was conquered by the ________ and entered a long period of decline.

5 What are people from Athens known as?

6 Which of the following is east of Athens?

7 What does the following picture show?  Technopolis, Gazi.   The Temple of Olympian Zeus.   Exhibition of antiquities in the luxurious Syntagma Station of the Athens Metro.   A close-up view of the Philopappos Monument.

8 Who played centre in the Athens?

9 Athens of the South – ________, United States

10 What does the following picture show?  The University Club building, founded in 1927.   Panormou Station of the Athens Metro.   In the National Gardens.   The Athens Prefecture (blue), within the periphery of Attica (grey).

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Plague of Athens devastated ancient Athens in 430 BC, perhaps leading ultimately to the city's defeat in the Peloponnesian War.
  • the Panhellenic Union of Fighting Youths, a Greek Resistance organization, set a bomb that destroyed the headquarters of the pro-Nazi ESPO organization in the very centre of occupied Athens.
  • the Zappas Olympics were a series of four athletic contests held in Athens between 1859 and 1889 and are considered as precursors to the modern Olympic Games.
  • the real name of Hagop Hagopian, the leader of the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia, was revealed only after his assassination in Athens in 1988.
  • the well-known Parthenon building in Athens replaced an Older Parthenon on the same site.
  • the role of Kanephoros was the most prominent public office a girl or woman could hold in ancient Athens.
  • the Athenian coup of 411 BC temporarily replaced the democratic government of Athens with a narrow oligarchy.
  • the International Olympic Committee has shortlisted five cities — Athens, Bangkok, Moscow, Singapore and Turin — out of nine bids to host the first Youth Olympic Games in 2010.
  • Epimachus of Athens, an ancient Athenian engineer, constructed the Helepolis, which remains the largest siege machine ever built, at over 60 feet in width and 125 feet in height.
  • American statesman John Milledge named Athens, Georgia, the city surrounding the University of Georgia, after Athens, Greece, the city of Plato's Academy.
  • after previously competing at the 2004 games in Athens, Brooklyn-bred Erinn Smart and her brother Keeth are again part of the U. S. Olympic fencing team at Beijing.
  • during World War II, the SS-run Haidari concentration camp near Athens was so infamous that it became known as the "Bastille of Greece".
  • the 1st century Greek historian Nicolaus of Damascus reported the embassy of holy men from India to the Levant, Athens and Rome during the time of Jesus.
  • Brigadier Ronnie Tod was awarded the freedom of Athens by Archbishop Damaskinos in 1944.
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