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Jeopardy 07
Greek, Hellenistic, and Roman Culture
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History
10th Grade
04/11/2007

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Ruler of the gods, Greek or Roman
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Zeus or Jupiter
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Wife of the gods' ruler, Greek or Roman
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Hera or Juna
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Greek goddess of wisdom and protector of Athens
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Athena
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Greek sporting festival held every four years to honor Zeus
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Olympic Games
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Greek "Father of Scientific Medicine"
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Hippocrates
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Doctors' pledge developed by a Greek physician
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Hippocratic Oath
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Mathematician who developed fundamental rules of geometry
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Euclid
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Mathematician and philosopher who developed an enduring theorem about right triangles
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Pythagoras
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Doctor who compiled a widely used medical encyclopedia
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Galen
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Alexandrian authority on astronomy
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Ptolemy
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Ptolemy's theory of the universe, accepted until the 1600s
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geocentric theory
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Scientist who developed the first two steps of the scientific method
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Thales of Miletus
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Scientist who mastered the use of the lever and compound pulley
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Archimedes
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Geographer who accurately calculated the earth's size
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Eratosthenes
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Astronomers who concluded that the earth revolved around the sun
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Aristarchus
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Scientist who believed that all matter is made up of atoms
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Democritus
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What Greek scientists lacked
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accurate instruments
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Aristotle's method of grouping similar plants and animals
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classification
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Belief in a number of gods, a feature of Greek and Roman religion
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polytheism
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Rome's great amphitheater; site of gladiator fights
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Colosseum
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Central hill of Athens; site of exceptional temples
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Acropolis
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Artifacts on which the best-preserved Greek paintings were found
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vases
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Athens' renowned temple dedicated to Athena
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Parthenon
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Greatest Greek fine art
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sculpture
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Familiar Greek statue of an athlete by Myron
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Discobolus
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Domed building in Rome built in honor of gods
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Pantheon
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Baths built for thousands of bathers
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Baths of Caracalla
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Roman oval arena; site of chariot races
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Circus Maximus
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Roman city, destroyed by a volcano, that has yielded many preserved art treasures
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Pompeii
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Roman architectural elements not used by the Greeks
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the arch and the vaulted dome
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First of Greece's greatest sculptors
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Myron
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Artist who specialized in large, formal sculpture of decline
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Phidias
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Famed sculptor of graceful human forms
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Praxiteles
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Style of architecture based on Greek and Roman buildings; style of the U.S. Capitol
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neoclassical
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Roman sculpture form in which images project from a flat background
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has-relief
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Colorful Minoan and Roman wall paintings
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frescoes
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Minoan and Roman artworks created with small pieces of glass, stone, and/or tile
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mosaics
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Where Greek plays were performed
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amphitheaters
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Form of literature and entertainment invented by the Greeks
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drama
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Drama about people's suffering
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tragedy
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Plays that focus on humor
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comedy
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Epic poet credited with composing the Iliad and the Odyssey
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Homer
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Semilegendary slave and fable writer
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Aesop
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Female lyric poet from the island of Lesbos
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Sappho
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Earliest and greatest writer of Greek stage comedies
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Aristophanes
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The language of ancient Romans
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Latin
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Roman epic poem about Aeneas, modeled after the Iliad
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Aeniad
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Roman epic poet, author of the Aeneid
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Virgil
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Roman poet who wrote odes, satires, and epistles
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Horace
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Author of love lyrics and legends in verse
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Ovid
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Roman development in writing
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Latin
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Father of Greek tragedy
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Aeschylus
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Writer of tragedies including Oedipus Rex
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Sophocies
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Most realistic of the three great writers of tragedy
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Euripedes
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Family of languages that developed from Latin
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Romance languages
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Greek study of the meaning of life and the nature of the world
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philosophy
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Questioning philosopher condemned to death by poison
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Socrates
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Student of Socrates, founder of a renowned school
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Plato
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Student of Plato, brilliant philosopher, scientist, and logician
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Aristotle
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Plato's book about ideal state or government
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The Republic
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Step-by-step questioning to arrive at a final conclusion, the truth
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Socratic Method
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Roman historian who wrote an account about early Germans
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Tacitus
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Renowned Roman lawyer, politician, and orator
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Cicero
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Roman emperor, military leader, and author of the Stoic Meditations
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Marcus Aurelius
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The "Father of History," the first great Western historian
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Herodotus
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Famous historian of the Peloponnesian War
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Thucydides
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Greek ideal of aesthetics and thought
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Golden Mean
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Plato's school
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Academy
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Aristotle's school
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Lyceum
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Roman who wrote a multivolume history of Rome
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Livy
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Author of the Commentaries on the Gallic war, later emperor
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Julius Caesar
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Greek author of Parallel Lives
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Plutarch
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Roman schools of advanced studies
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rhetoric schools
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Philosophy that focused on living a vice-free life
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Stoicism
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Philosophy that focused on virtuous conduct and the absence of pain
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Epicureanism
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