History/Literature
Government
Medicine
Math
Theater
100

We developed ours from the ancient Greek one beginning with the first 2: alpha and beta

What is the Alphabet?

100

Every citizen who is present may vote directly on a law.

What is a direct democracy?

100

Watching sports was not only fun- it also taught Greek medical students this....

What is 'how the human body moves'?

100

It means 'to measure land' in Greek.

What is GEOMETRY?

100

To honor the gods, especially this one, meant prisoners were released just so they could watch a play.

Who is Zeus?

200

These long poems tell stories about heroic deeds.

What are epics?


200

Our English version comes from the Greek words for 'people' and 'power'.

What is Democracy?

200

This was a 'no, no' because it offended the gods.

What is cutting the body open?

200

The first woman in Greece to be recognized for her work in mathematics even though she wasn't born a Greek.

Who was Hypatia?

200

The 3 types of plays the Greeks invented.

What are tragedies, Comedies, and Satires?

300

The Greeks gave us the way to write, including the rules for this.....

What is grammar?

300

This famous statesman, speaker, and general is considered 'the first citizen of Athens'.

Who is Pericles?

300

This doctor presented the scientific way of thinking that disease has natural causes.

Who is Hippocrates?

300

I started a school to develop math theories- like using numbers to understand nature!

Who was Pythagoras?

300

Lifts for flying, rotating scenery, and changing into different masks were invented by Greeks for dramatic effect.

What are special effects?

400

Many of our own works of literature were modeled after this famous early Greek writer who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey (and no, he isn't from The Simpsons)

Homer

400

In this system, there were no lawyers or judges, and the audience voted on a person's innocence or guilt.

What is the Greek Court System?

400

The Hippocratic Oath was founded on these 3 ideas of early Greek medicine.

What is 'observe, preserve life, and keep patient information private'?

400

I love plane geometry(lines, points, angles and surfaces) so much I wrote a book about it!

Who is Euclid?

400

Viewing places built as semi-circles to allow everyone to see and hear the play.

What are theaters?

500

This famous historian, the founder of historical writing, wrote about the Peloponnesian war, making sure to present the facts, and only the facts.

Who is Thucydides?

500

The Democratic Assembly was held every 10 days and did these 3 main things.

What is pass laws, elect officials, and make decisions about war and foreign affairs?

500

Greek medical professionals later discovered this about the heart and brain.

What is 'the heart pumps blood throughout the body and the brain is the center of the nervous system'?

500

You can't eat pi without thinking about me.

Who was Archimedes?

500

I like making fun of everyday man so I wrote LOTS of satires!

Who was Aristophanes?

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