Olympic Games - History and events

Olympic Games - History and events

9th - 12th Grade

10 Qs

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Olympic Games - History and events

Olympic Games - History and events

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9th - 12th Grade

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1.

MATCH QUESTION

45 sec • 4 pts

Match the following 'P's to do with the Olympics

Pindar

The founding hero who cheated and won the chariot race against Oinomaos

Pelops

The writer of a guidebook of famous Greek sites for Roman tourists

Pythian

A poet who wrote victory poems for those that won the Olympics

Pausanias

One of the other panhellenic games that took place in one of the years between the Olympics

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The date of the first ancient Olympics

1896 AD

776 BC

150 BC

1085 BC

3.

MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION

30 sec • 2 pts

Which of the following myths are connected with the origins of the ancient Olympic Games

Heracles cleaning out the stables of Augeas

Pelops winning a chariot race against king Oinomaos

Perseus killing the gorgon Medusa aided by Pegasus

Theseus killing the Minotaur

4.

FILL IN THE BLANK QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

The ancient Olympic games were __ because it was open to all Greeks

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

During the Games Greek cities were not allowed to...

attack each other

build temples to the gods

open the shops/market-places

travel by sea

6.

MATCH QUESTION

45 sec • 5 pts

Match the following events

two lengths of the stadium

hoplitodromos

the race in armour

pankration

(almost) no-rules wrestling/boxing

stadion

long-distance running

dolichos

the earliest and most important race

diaulos

7.

MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION

30 sec • 2 pts

What two things were officially forbidden in the pankration?

eye-gouging

finger-breaking

biting

clothes-lining

head-butting

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