Greek and Roman Influence on the Modern World

The length of a marathon is

• 42.2km

• 21km

• 90km

• 100km

The following languages derive from Latin (choose all the correct answers)

• Afrikaans

• French

• Italian

• German

• Romanian

To "fiddle while Rome burns" means

• to play the violin passionately

• to form a democracy to avoid chaos

• to have a large party

• to do things that are unimportant when there are urgent problems to be solved

Which is not the name of a planet in our solar system?

• Venus

• Uranus

• Helium

• Mercury

The man who is said to have run the first marathon is

• Hercules

• Pheidippides

• Socrates

• Oedipus Rex

What does it mean to be educated?

• Have a broad general knowledge

• Be able to put new knowledge in context

• To be able to ask critical questions

• to be able to form connections between different kinds of knowledge

• All of the above

The football club that uses a reference to myth

• AC Milan

• FC Barcelona

• Liverpool

• Roma

"CE" stands for

• Common Era

• Christ's Era

"Democracy" derives from

• Greek

• Latin

• English

Why are scientific names written in Latin?

• They sound more important

• People spoke Latin when they started to name them

• People who speak different languages can use the same name for plants and animals

• Science is difficult and so is Latin