Chapter 5
Board Games for the Bored
The Greeks, continued
Sports
Greek Guys
100

paintings made on plaster walls

frescoes

100

Park Place and B & O R.R.

Monopoly

100

Two most important city-states

Athens & Sparta

100

Jackpot favorite

basketball

100

3 famous Greek philosophers

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle

200

Greek word for a city-state

polis

200

Marriage, Babies, Jobs

Life

200

Spartan slaves

helots

200

The world's favorite

soccer (futbol)

200

Came up with a famous math formula about triangles

Pythagoras

300

Greek fort built upon a hill

acropolis

300

My bad!

Sorry!

300

Spartans were all about this

warfare

300

Ms. Yoman's favorite

baseball

300

Greek medical doctor

Hippocrates

400

ancient Greek marketplace

agora

400

Press the bubble to roll the dice

Trouble

400

Age Spartan boys left home to begin military training

7

400

America's favorite

football

400

Greek historian

Herodotus

500

author of the Illiad & Odyssey

Homer

500

Usually a child's first board game

Candyland

500

Athens was all about this concept

democracy

500

Run, jump, throw

Track & Field

500

Tried to conquer the world

Alexander the Great

600

Gift given to the Trojans as a trick

giant wooden horse

600

Solve a murder mystery

Clue

600

This man created Athens' first written law code

Draco

600

Spike, dig, serve

volleyball

600

Alexander's father

Philip

700

Top Greek god

Zeus

700

Much ado about nothing

Trivial Pursuit

700

Greatest Athenian general/leader?

Pericles

700

Pucks on ice

Hockey

700

Greek geometry guy

Euclid

800

Held every 4 years to honor Zeus

Olympic Games

800

Ron Weasley's favorite board game

Wizard Chess

800

Greeks fought several wars against these invaders

Persians

800

ring, ropes, referee and roughness

boxing

800

Developed a screw-like device to move water

Archimedes