Ancient Greece Jeopardy

One Culture, Many City States

Round 1Category 1

GovernmentCategory 2 City States

Category 3 Geography

Category 4 Islands and

Seas

Category 5 Greek

Architecture

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Round 2

Category 1 – 10 points This is known as the “rule of one.” Monarchy

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Category 1 – 20 points This is known as the “rule of the people.” Democracy

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Category 1 – 30 points This is known as the “rule of the rich.” Aristocracy

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Category 1 – 40 points This is a person that has certain rights and

responsibilities to his/her country/city. Citizen

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Category 1– 50 points This city was the first in recorded history to

use democracy. Athens

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Category 2 – 10 points This city-state really emphasized athletics,

its army, and education. Sparta

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Category 2 – 20 points This is the clearing around a city’s acropolis

that served as a market/meeting place. Agora

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Category 2 – 30 points This is a large hill that city residents used

as shelter. Acropolis

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Category 2 – 40 points City, or group of people away from Greece

that still have ties to Greece. Colony

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Category 2 – 50 points This is the Greek word for city-state. Polis

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Category 3 – 10 points A mountain in northern Greece fabled as

the home of the gods. Mount Olympus

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Category 3 – 20 points This is the landform that is an area of land

almost completely surrounded by water. Peninsula

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Category 3 – 30 points This landform is a sheltered place along a

coast. Harbor

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Category 3 – 40 points The large hand-like peninsula located

southwest of Attica. Peloponnesus

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Category 3 – 50 points . This is a wedge-shaped peninsula

surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea. Attica

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Category 4 – 10 points This sea is located to the South of Greece. Mediterranean Sea

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Category 4 – 20 points This sea is located to East the of Greece. Aegean Sea

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Category 4 – 30 points This sea is located to the West of Greece. Ionian Sea

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Category 4– 40 points This island serves as an ideal resting-place

between Greece and western Asia located just of the coast of what is today Turkey.

Rhodes

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Category 4– 50 points This is the biggest of Greece’s islands Crete

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Category 5 – 10 points Name this column: Ionic

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Category 5 – 20 points A picture or design created by positioning

different colored tiles or rocks in cement is called what?

Mosaic

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Category 5– 30 points Name this column: Doric

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Category 5 – 40 points Name this Column: Corinthian

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Category 5– 50 points This column looks a lot like the Ionic

column, but a curvy, four-sided Ionic column:

Aeolic Column

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Round 2Category 6 Philosophy

Category 7 Famous Places

Category 8

Greek Achievements

Category 9

Famous People

Category 10

Miscellaneous

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Final Jeopardy

Category 6– 20 points This is a person that is a skillful public

speaker. Orator

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Category 6– 40 points This famous philosopher was Alexander’s

teacher. Aristotle

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Category 6– 60 points This teacher lead discussions and debates

on the right way to live in the early 400’s B.C. and executed for questioning the laws and religion of Athens.

Socrates

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Category 6– 80 points This man was a student of Socrates. He

put Socrates’ teachings into writing. Plato

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Category 6– 100 points Name the famous Athenian orator that

presented a series of speeches urging the people of Athens to unite and fight against the Macedonians around 340 B.C.

Demosthenes

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Category 7– 20 points This land was famous for it extremely

skilled sailors. Phoenicia

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Category 7 – 40 points A Greek colony on the western edge of the

Nile delta that became very important to Greek trade and the spreading of Greek culture.

Alexandria

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Category 7– 60 points Kingdom to the North of Greece that took

advantage of the Greek City states after the Peloponnesian Wars.

Macedonia

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Category 7– 80 points Name one other city state in ancient

Greece other than Sparta and Athens. Thebes, Corinth, Megara, Argos, and Many

More

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Category 7– 100 points This is the city that was first settled in

ancient Greece. Mycenae

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Category 8– 20 points This is a lawmaking body of government. Assembly

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Category 8– 40 points A group of citizens chosen to hear evidence

and make decisions in a courtroom. Jury

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Category 8– 60 points This is the search for wisdom and the right

way to live. Philosophy

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Category 8– 80 points This building, built to honor Athena, is the

largest building on the Acropolis in Athens. Parthenon

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Category 8– 100 points Name one of the famous Greek

playwrights, or people that write plays. Sophicles or Euripides

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Category 9– 20 points This man was the king of a civilization

making its home in Crete around 2,000 B.C. The civilization was called Minoa.

Minos

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Category 9– 40 points Athenian leader that fought for equal rights

for all people. Pericles

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Category 9– 60 points Brilliant military leader that spread the

Greek empire all the way into what is today India.

Alexander

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Category 9 – 80 points This famous Greek poet wrote the Iliad and

Odyssey. Homer

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Category 9 – 100 points This Macedonian king that conquered

Greece. This man was also Alexander’s father.

Philip II

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Category 10 – 20 points This was a series of long battles fought

between Athens and the Spartans. Peloponnesian Wars

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Category 10 – 40 points A new culture that blended Greek, African,

and Indian ideals that was created do to the increased trading between cultures.

Hellenism

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Category 10 – 60 points This was a Greek War ship. Trireme

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Category 10 – 80 points These are small army units. Phalanxes

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Category 10 – 100 points Hellenism was created because of the

____________ of the different cultures, which results in “Cultural Diffusion,” or each culture taking the best of each others and throwing away old ideas.

Interaction

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