Greco
Roman
History
Fish
Miscellany
200

Greece's capital.

What is Athens?

200
Rome is in what country?

What is Italy?

200

This man was president before Trump.

Who is Obama or Biden?

200

This fish is famous for forgetting things though the science is mixed.

What is the goldfish?

200

This metal is in milk and is necessary for bone growth.

What is calcium?

400

The Greeks invented these games held every 4 years--originally naked.

What are the Olympics?

400

The city of Rome borders this small country where the pope lives.

What is the Vatican City.

400

These people built the pyramids at Giza--though there are also many in Sudan.

Who are the Egyptians?

400

This is the largest fish on the Earth.

What is the whale shark?

400

This fruit is now considered indispensable to a good pizza but was not found in Italy until after Columbus' voyage to the America's from where it comes.

What is the tomato.

600

A place where people exercise from the Greek word for naked (the condition in which they exercised).

What is a gymn(asium)? 

600

This Roman camp on the Thames would one day become the capital of England.

What is London(ium)?

600

The United States helped defeat this country in WWII with the Soviet Union, France, and Great Britain.

What is Germany?

600

This sunfish isa popular sportsfish kown for its large mouth.

What is the (large muth) bass?

600

This auto company headquartered in Japan make the most cars in the world.

What is Toyota?

800

The Greeks famously defeated this enemy a Marathon.

What is Persia?

800

After overthrowing their king, the Romans created this form of government led by two consuls who shared power. Its name comes from Res Publica--a public affair and the US has this type of government.

What is a Republic?

Noted: The US is not at all a direct Democracy.

800

The United States defeated this country by itself in WWII where the first nuclear weapons were used in warfare.

What is Japan?

800

A popular vacation peninsula in Massachusetts is named for this fish. 

What is Cape Cod?

800

These sea going people famously raided northern Europe and were the first Europeans to record stepping foot and building a settlement in the Americas around the year 1000.

Who are the Vikings?

1000

300 brave men from this Greek city state died at Thermopylae defending their homeland form as many as a million enemy troops. 

What is Sparta?!

1000

In the 1st century BC, this famous general crossed the Rubicon to take up the dictatorship of Rome. He would later be stabbed to death in the Senate.

Who is Julius Caesar?

1000

The United States tried to prevent this country from becoming communist during a long war in the 60s and 70s. It failed.

What is Vietnam.

1000

This stinging, brainless, sea animal is NOT a fish.

What is the jellyfish?

1000

This is the dominant religion in north Africa, the middle East, and Indonesia.

What is Islam?

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