Ancient History

Question 1

Astronomical site in Britain c. 1800 B.C.

Answer 1

Stonehenge

Question 2

Sparta and Athens war starting 431 B.C.

Answer 2

Peloponnesian War

Question 3

Religion founded by Lao Tzu 520 B.C.

Answer 3

Taoism

Question 4

Counting table built by Chinese 550 B.C.

Answer 4

Abacus

Question 5

Settlers of central Italy 550 B.C.

Answer 5

Etruscans

Question 6

Legal law giver to Athens 621 B.C.

Answer 6

Draco

Question 7

Games started in Greece 776 B.C.

Answer 7

Olympics

Question 8

Ancient stone building Indians of Central America c. 1000 B.C.

Answer 8

Olmecs

Question 9

Greek war in Asia Minor c. 1260 B.C.

Answer 9

Trojan War

Question 10

Civilization of Crete

Answer 10

Minoan

Question 11

Ancient mariners from Tyre

Answer 11

Phoenicians (founded Carthage)

Question 12

Human relative extinct for 30 thousand years

Answer 12

Neanderthal

Question 13

He created Hanging Gardens of Babylon

Answer 13

Nebuchadnezzar II

Question 14

Riddle Alexander solved

Answer 14

Gordian Knot

Question 15

Indo-European people of Turkey c. 1900 B.C.

Answer 15

Hitttites

Question 16

Construction project in Egypt c. 2600 B.C.

Answer 16

Great Pyramid of Cheops

Question 17

Ancient Mesopotamian City

Answer 17

Babylon (on Euphrates River)

Question 18

Ancient City of Asia Minor

Answer 18

Troy

Question 19

Ancient City of Crete

Answer 19

Knossos

Question 20

Capital of the Assyrian Empire

Answer 20

Nineveh

Question 21

Ancient Empire of the Tigris River Valley

Answer 21

Assyrian Empire

Question 22

Ancient Sicilian City

Answer 22

Syracuse

Question 23

Ancient North African City

Answer 23

Carthage

Question 24

Ancient Sumerian City

Answer 24

Ur

Question 25

Earliest known walled city c. 9 000 B.C.

Answer 25

Jericho

Question 26

Legal Code giver of Babylon c. 1780 B.C.

Answer 26

Hammurabi

Question 27

Ancient Egyptian obelisk

Answer 27

Celopatra’s Needle

Question 28

Original location of Elgin Marbles

Answer 28

Parthenon

Question 29

Artifact that was key to decipherment of Egyptian heiroglyphics

Answer 29

Rosetta Stone

Question 30

Man-made relic

Answer 30

Artifact

Question 31

Ancient Japanese warrior

Answer 31

Samurai (those who serve)

Question 32

Ancient land “between two rivers”

Answer 32

Mesopotamia

Question 33

Hittite or Sumerian wedge-shaped form of writing

Answer 33

Cuneiform

Question 34

Ancient people of Tigris-Euphrates region

Answer 34

Sumerian

Question 35

Anient capital of Laconia

Answer 35

Sparta

Question 36

Persian throne

Answer 36

Peacock throne

Question 37

Empire of Darius and Xerxes

Answer 37

Persian Empire

Question 38

Central Asia caravan route c 110 B.C.

Answer 38

Silk Road

Question 39

King of Macedonia 336 B.C.

Answer 39

Alexander the Great

Question 40

Ikhnaton’s wife

Answer 40

Nefertiti

Question 41

Alexander’s Father

Answer 41

Philip of Macedonia

Question 42

Ancient Egyptian capitals

Answer 42

Memphis; Thebes

Question 43

500 years of Egyptian rulers 26th to 21st century B.C.

Answer 43

Old Kingdom

Question 44

Ancient Egyptian book found in tombs

Answer 44

Book of the dead

Question 45

Egyptians who ruled from 323 to 30 B.C.

Answer 45

The Ptolemies

Question 46

Hannibal’s father

Answer 46

Hamilcar

Question 47

Carthaginian who invaded Italy 218 B.C.

Answer 47

Hannibal

Question 48

Ancient Egyptian “City of the Sun”

Answer 48

Heliopolis

Question 49

Greek center of the world

Answer 49

Oracle at Delphi

Question 50

Rome-Carthage wars starting 264 B.C.

Answer 50

Punic Wars

Question 51

Site of great library c. 290 B.C.

Answer 51

Alexandria

Question 52

Modern location of Ur and Palmyra

Answer 52

Syria

Question 53

Egyptian insect talisman

Answer 53

Scarab (beetle)