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Greek Culture Bingo
Greek Culture Bingo
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History
9th Grade
11/12/2010

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(1) What is the period in Greek history called in which their civilization reached its cultural peak?
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Golden Age of Greece
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(2) What Greek city-state led the Greeks during the Golden Age?
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Athens
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(3) What was the artistic style developed during the Golden Age of Greece called?
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classical
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(4) What was the temple in Athens built to honor the goddess Athena?
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Parthenon
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(5) What Greek deity was the Parthenon built to honor?
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Athena
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(6) Where in Athens was the Parthenon built?
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acropolis
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(7) What was the purpose of such temples as the Parthenon?
Definition
place for the deity to live
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(8) What was the district in Athens called where the potters worked?
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Kerameikos
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(9) What modern-English word is derived from Kerameikos?
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ceramics
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(10) What were the small, two-handled vases with a wide mouth in which it was easy to mix wine and water called?
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krater
Term
(11) What were the small vases with a narrow neck so that oil could be poured slowly and and in small quantities called?
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lekythos
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(12) What were the large vases for storing bulky supplies such as oil called?
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amphora
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(13) Amphora pottery was usually decorated with what type of scenes?
Definition
scenes from mythology and legend
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(14) What were the wide, shallow two-handled drinking cups called?
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kylix
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(15) Kylix pottery was usually decorated with what types of scenes?
Definition
scenes from everyday life
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(16) Most Greek pottery during the Classical Age of Greece was decorated in what colors?
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red and black
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(17) The great Greek sculptor who portrayed what people should look like rather than actual persons was whom?
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Myron
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(18) What was one of Myron's most famous statues?
Definition
Discus Thrower
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(19) Who was the sculptor in charge of the Parthenon who created a huge gold and ivory statue of Athena?
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Phidias
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(20) Who was the winged goddess of victory?
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Nike
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(21) Who was the Greek sculptor who created realistic, life-sized statues of ordinary people?
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Praxiteles
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(22) The Greeks originally started to write plays to honor what deity
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Dionysus
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(23) Dionysus was the god of what?
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wine and fertility
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(24) What is a play in which the lead character struggles against fate only to be doomed to an unhappy ending called?
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tragedy
Term
(25) Who was the first great writer of Greek tragedies who wrote over 90 plays?
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Aeschyles
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(26) What trilogy of plays was written by Aeschylus?
Definition
Orestia
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(27) What is a set of three plays with a related theme called?
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trilogy
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(28) Who was the Athenian general during the Peloponnesian Wars who also wrote tragedies?
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Sophocles
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(29) What was the most famous play written by Sophocles?
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Oedipus Rex
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(30) Who was the last of the great writers of tragedy?
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Euripides
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(31) What Greek tragedy was written by Euripides?
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The Trojan Women
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(32) What type of play has a humorous theme and a happy ending?
Definition
comedy
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(33) Who was the great Greek writer of comedies?
Definition
Aristophanes
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(34) What Greek comedy was written by Aristophanes?
Definition
The Clouds
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(35) What term is used to describe an outdoor theater?
Definition
amphitheater
Term
(36) What term is used to refer to an actor or actress?
Definition
thespian
Term
(37) The Olympic Games were originally held in what Greek city-state?
Definition
Olympia
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(38) The Olympic Games were originally held as a religious festival to honor what Greek deity?
Definition
Zeus
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(39) What were first held in 776 B.C.?
Definition
Olympic Games
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(40) The only athletes allowed to participate in the Olympic Games were whom?
Definition
men
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