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Q. What big triangle-shaped structures stand in Egypt's desert?
Options: Pyramids · The Colosseum · The Eiffel Tower · The Great Wall
Answer: Pyramids
The pyramids are tombs of ancient Egypt's kings (pharaohs).
Q. What very, very long wall is in China?
Options: The Colosseum · The pyramids · The Great Wall · The Taj Mahal
Answer: The Great Wall
The Great Wall stretches thousands of km — the longest wall in the world.
Q. What giant round arena did ancient Romans watch games in?
Options: The Colosseum · The Arc de Triomphe · The Parthenon · The Leaning Tower of Pisa
Answer: The Colosseum
The Colosseum is the round arena in Rome, Italy.
Q. In which country did the Olympics first begin?
Options: Greece · Italy · Egypt · France
Answer: Greece
The ancient Olympics were held at Olympia in Greece.
Q. What was the name of the old trade route linking East and West?
Options: The Tea Horse Road · The Roman Road · The Sea Route · The Silk Road
Answer: The Silk Road
Silk traveled along it, so it was called the Silk Road.
Q. What did the world's four great early civilizations all begin near?
Options: High mountaintops · The middle of a desert · Under the sea · Beside great rivers
Answer: Beside great rivers
Civilizations began beside great rivers like the Nile and the Yellow River.
Q. In which country were the first Olympics held?
Options: The United States · Greece · Egypt · Italy
Answer: Greece
They began at Olympia in ancient Greece.
Q. What was ancient Rome's round arena?
Options: The Parthenon · The Great Wall · The Colosseum · The pyramids
Answer: The Colosseum
The Colosseum was a giant arena that held 50,000 people.
Q. What famous temple sits on a hill in Athens, Greece?
Options: The Colosseum · Angkor Wat · The Parthenon · The Taj Mahal
Answer: The Parthenon
The Parthenon is a temple to the goddess Athena.
Q. In Greek myth, who is the king of the gods?
Options: Poseidon · Zeus · Heracles · Apollo
Answer: Zeus
Zeus is the king of the gods, who wields the lightning bolt.
Q. In Roman numerals, what is 'X'?
Options: 10 · 100 · 5 · 50
Answer: 10
I=1, V=5, X=10, L=50, C=100.
Q. Which is NOT one of the four great early civilizations?
Options: Mesopotamian civilization · Yellow River civilization · Egyptian civilization · Antarctic civilization
Answer: Antarctic civilization
Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Indus, and the Yellow River! There's no civilization in Antarctica.
Q. Which river did Egyptian civilization begin on?
Options: The Amazon · The Yellow River · The Thames · The Nile
Answer: The Nile
They say 'Egypt is the gift of the Nile'.
Q. Which river did Chinese civilization begin on?
Options: The Yellow River · The Indus · The Seine · The Nile
Answer: The Yellow River
The Yellow River, named for its muddy yellow water.
Q. Which river did Indian civilization begin on?
Options: The Indus · The Mississippi · The Nile · The Yellow River
Answer: The Indus
India's name comes from the Indus River!
Q. Which civilization grew between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
Options: Mesopotamian civilization · Egyptian civilization · Mayan civilization · Yellow River civilization
Answer: Mesopotamian civilization
Mesopotamia — 'the land between rivers'!
Q. Why did civilizations begin beside great rivers?
Options: The fish were pretty · To go swimming · Water and rich soil made farming good · There were lots of boats
Answer: Water and rich soil made farming good
Farming went well, so people gathered.
Q. Which round invention was key to making carts and pottery?
Options: A ring · The wheel · A ball · A coin
Answer: The wheel
The wheel is one of humanity's greatest inventions!
Q. What did ancient Egyptians call their king?
Options: Pharaoh · Kaiser · Emperor · Sultan
Answer: Pharaoh
The pharaoh, son of the sun!
Q. What were the pyramids built for?
Options: Schools · Swimming pools · Markets · Tombs for kings
Answer: Tombs for kings
They're the giant tombs of the pharaohs.
Q. What is the giant Egyptian statue with a human face and a lion's body?
Options: The Statue of Liberty · Moai · The Statue of David · The Sphinx
Answer: The Sphinx
The Sphinx, guarding the pyramids!
Q. What did ancient Egyptians make to preserve a body from decaying?
Options: A mummy · A painting · A doll · A statue
Answer: A mummy
They believed people would live again, so they made mummies.
Q. What was ancient Egypt's picture-like writing?
Options: Hieroglyphs · The alphabet · Cuneiform · Hangul
Answer: Hieroglyphs
Hieroglyphs shaped like birds, eyes, and waves!
Q. What plant material did Egyptians use instead of paper?
Options: Bamboo · Palm leaves · Papyrus · Silk
Answer: Papyrus
Papyrus — the origin of the word 'paper'!
Q. Which boy pharaoh is famous for his golden mask?
Options: Tutankhamun · Khufu · Cleopatra · Ramesses II
Answer: Tutankhamun
Tutankhamun's golden mask was discovered.
Q. Which pharaoh left behind the biggest pyramid?
Options: Nero · Khufu · Cleopatra · Tutankhamun
Answer: Khufu
The Great Pyramid of Giza is Khufu's!
Q. Who was ancient Egypt's famous last queen?
Options: Cleopatra · Victoria · Nefertiti · Elizabeth
Answer: Cleopatra
Cleopatra! She was Egypt's last queen, but her roots were Greek — she spoke many languages and stood up to Rome.
Q. Why did Egyptians make a calendar?
Options: To throw birthday parties · To know when the Nile would flood · To read the stars · To count days off
Answer: To know when the Nile would flood
They made a 365-day calendar to predict the floods!
Q. Which ancient law code is famous for 'an eye for an eye'?
Options: The Eight Articles · The Great Code · Roman law · The Code of Hammurabi
Answer: The Code of Hammurabi
It's the code of King Hammurabi of Babylonia.
Q. What writing did Mesopotamians press into clay tablets?
Options: Hieroglyphs · Cuneiform · Chinese characters · The alphabet
Answer: Cuneiform
Cuneiform, shaped like little wedges!
Q. Which Mediterranean trading people created the ancestor of the alphabet?
Options: The Phoenicians · The Romans · The Mongols · The Vikings
Answer: The Phoenicians
Phoenician letters are the root of the alphabet!
Q. Which country today is near where Mesopotamia was?
Options: Brazil · France · Japan · Iraq
Answer: Iraq
It's the land of modern-day Iraq.
Q. What system let citizens in ancient Greece decide state matters themselves?
Options: Only rule by nobles · Rule by a king · Democracy · A king by lottery
Answer: Democracy
Democracy sprouted in Athens.
Q. What were ancient Greece's two great city-states?
Options: Rome and Pompeii · Cairo and Giza · Athens and Sparta · Beijing and Xi'an
Answer: Athens and Sparta
Wise Athens and brave Sparta!
Q. Which Greek city-state was famous for tough military training from childhood?
Options: Athens · Olympia · Sparta · Delphi
Answer: Sparta
Sparta — the source of the word 'spartan'!
Q. Where in Greece were the ancient Olympics held?
Options: Athens · Marathon · Sparta · Olympia
Answer: Olympia
They were held at Olympia to honor Zeus.
Q. What did Greek cities do during the ancient Olympics?
Options: Closed their gates · Stopped their wars · Raised taxes · Started wars
Answer: Stopped their wars
The Olympic truce! A tradition of peace.
Q. Which Greek philosopher is famous for 'Know thyself'?
Options: Plato · Pythagoras · Aristotle · Socrates
Answer: Socrates
Socrates, the master of questions!
Q. Which philosopher, Socrates' student, spoke of 'ideas' (forms)?
Options: Thales · Aristotle · Zeno · Plato
Answer: Plato
Plato — and his own student was Aristotle!
Q. Which philosopher was Alexander the Great's teacher?
Options: Aristotle · Hippocrates · Plato · Socrates
Answer: Aristotle
Aristotle, the father of all fields of study!
Q. Which Greek mathematician is famous for a right-triangle theorem?
Options: Thales · Euclid · Pythagoras · Archimedes
Answer: Pythagoras
Pythagoras! Square the two short sides of a right triangle, add them, and you get the square of the longest side.
Q. Which scientist shouted 'Eureka!' in the bath?
Options: Pythagoras · Socrates · Hippocrates · Archimedes
Answer: Archimedes
Archimedes, who figured out buoyancy!
Q. Which ancient Greek doctor is called the 'father of medicine'?
Options: Galen · Avicenna · Schweitzer · Hippocrates
Answer: Hippocrates
Doctors still take the 'Hippocratic Oath'!
Q. Which running event came out of the war between Greece and Persia?
Options: The marathon · The relay · The long jump · Hurdles
Answer: The marathon
From the story of a soldier carrying news of victory from the plain of Marathon!
Q. In Greek myth, who is the god of the sea?
Options: Poseidon · Hades · Apollo · Zeus
Answer: Poseidon
Poseidon of the trident!
Q. In Greek myth, who is the goddess of wisdom?
Options: Hera · Athena · Artemis · Aphrodite
Answer: Athena
Athena, guardian of Athens!
Q. In Greek myth, what being is half human and half horse?
Options: A centaur · Pegasus · The Sphinx · The Minotaur
Answer: A centaur
The centaur, with the body of a horse!
Q. What trick did the Greeks use in the Trojan War?
Options: Digging tunnels · Disguises · Freezing the sea · Hiding inside a horse
Answer: Hiding inside a horse
The Trojan Horse!
Q. Which ancient Greek poet composed the 'Iliad' and the 'Odyssey'?
Options: Herodotus · Aesop · Socrates · Homer
Answer: Homer
Homer, the blind poet.
Q. Which ancient Greek left behind fables like 'The Tortoise and the Hare'?
Options: Homer · Plato · Aesop · Pythagoras
Answer: Aesop
Aesop! Said to have been enslaved, he packed life's wisdom into short animal tales — still read 2,500 years later.
Q. Which Greek is called the 'father of history'?
Options: Homer · Socrates · Thucydides · Herodotus
Answer: Herodotus
Herodotus, who recorded the Persian Wars!
Q. Which Macedonian king conquered Greece and pushed on to India?
Options: Napoleon · Hammurabi · Alexander the Great · Caesar
Answer: Alexander the Great
He built a great empire linking East and West.
Q. Which Roman general said 'The die is cast'?
Options: Nero · Augustus · Caesar · Hannibal
Answer: Caesar
Caesar, crossing the Rubicon!
Q. Who was Rome's first emperor?
Options: Caesar · Nero · Augustus · Constantine
Answer: Augustus
Octavian became Emperor Augustus.
Q. Which general drove elephants over the Alps to attack Rome?
Options: Caesar · Alexander · Spartacus · Hannibal
Answer: Hannibal
Hannibal, the great general of Carthage!
Q. 'All roads lead to ___.' What goes in the blank?
Options: Cairo · Beijing · Rome · Athens
Answer: Rome
That's how amazing Rome's road network was!
Q. What did Rome build to bring water into its cities?
Options: Dams · Only wells · Water wheels · Aqueducts
Answer: Aqueducts
An aqueduct — a bridge with water flowing across it!
Q. Which Roman city was buried overnight by a volcanic eruption?
Options: Carthage · Rome · Pompeii · Athens
Answer: Pompeii
It was buried when Mount Vesuvius erupted.
Q. What do we call the people who fought in Rome's Colosseum?
Options: Knights · Gladiators · Hwarang · Samurai
Answer: Gladiators
Gladiators! Most were enslaved people or captives, and a wildly popular one could win back their freedom.
Q. In Roman myth, which god matches the Greek Zeus?
Options: Venus · Neptune · Jupiter · Mars
Answer: Jupiter
The planet Jupiter got its name from him!
Q. Which twins, raised on wolf's milk, are said to have founded Rome?
Options: The Three Little Pigs · Castor and Pollux · Romulus and Remus · Hansel and Gretel
Answer: Romulus and Remus
The elder, Romulus, gave Rome its name.
Q. Which Roman gave his name to the month of July?
Options: Cicero · Nero · Augustus · Julius Caesar
Answer: Julius Caesar
July comes from Julius Caesar!
Q. Which Roman emperor gave his name to the month of August?
Options: Nero · Trajan · Augustus · Caesar
Answer: Augustus
Augustus! July comes from Julius Caesar and August from Augustus.
Q. Which emperor first united China?
Options: Genghis Khan · Emperor Wu of Han · Qin Shi Huang · Confucius
Answer: Qin Shi Huang
The First Emperor of Qin united it first!
Q. What are the clay soldiers guarding Qin Shi Huang's tomb?
Options: Terracotta dolls · The Terracotta Army · A stone army · The Great Wall
Answer: The Terracotta Army
Thousands of terracotta warriors were found!
Q. Why did Qin Shi Huang build the Great Wall?
Options: To make a tourist spot · To block nomad invasions from the north · To exercise · Just to mark the border
Answer: To block nomad invasions from the north
It was to hold back the Xiongnu people.
Q. Which Chinese sage taught about 'benevolence' (ren)?
Options: Socrates · Laozi · Confucius · Buddha
Answer: Confucius
Confucius, teacher of Confucianism!
Q. Which book holds Confucius's teachings?
Options: The Bible · The Quran · The Analects · Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Answer: The Analects
The Analects, put together by his students.
Q. Which person of China's Han dynasty improved papermaking and spread it widely?
Options: Zhang Heng · Qin Shi Huang · Cai Lun · Confucius
Answer: Cai Lun
Cai Lun! He improved a way to make cheap, sturdy paper from bark and rags, opening the road for knowledge to spread.
Q. What is China's writing?
Options: Hangul · The alphabet · Kana · Chinese characters
Answer: Chinese characters
Chinese characters, with thousands of years of history!
Q. Which Chinese historical novel tells of Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei?
Options: Romance of the Three Kingdoms · Journey to the West · Dream of the Red Chamber · Water Margin
Answer: Romance of the Three Kingdoms
The Three Kingdoms, with its oath in the peach garden!
Q. What was China's main product sold to the West on the Silk Road?
Options: Potatoes · Coffee · Silk · Cars
Answer: Silk
The silk that gave the Silk Road its name!
Q. Which Indian sage first founded Buddhism?
Options: Confucius · Buddha (Siddhartha) · Jesus · Muhammad
Answer: Buddha (Siddhartha)
The Buddha, who reached enlightenment.
Q. What position was the Buddha born into?
Options: Enslaved · A farmer · A prince · A merchant
Answer: A prince
He was a prince, but he left the palace to seek truth.
Q. Which ancient Indian king spread Buddhism far and wide?
Options: Ashoka · Darius · Khufu · Hammurabi
Answer: Ashoka
King Ashoka, who regretted war and spread Buddhism!
Q. Which country invented the number '0' and advanced mathematics?
Options: Egypt · India · Rome · England
Answer: India
The zero is India's great gift to the world!
Q. Which country today was ancient Persia?
Options: France · Iran · Türkiye · Mongolia
Answer: Iran
Persia is modern-day Iran.
Q. What are the giant face statues of Easter Island called?
Options: Terracotta warriors · The Sphinx · Moai · Totems
Answer: Moai
The mysterious moai statues!
Q. What mysterious ancient stone monument is in England?
Options: Stonehenge · The pyramids · The Colosseum · The Great Wall
Answer: Stonehenge
Who built it, and why? Stonehenge!
Q. Which ancient civilization built pyramid temples in Central America?
Options: Mayan civilization · Egyptian civilization · Yellow River civilization · Greek civilization
Answer: Mayan civilization
The Mayan civilization in the jungle!
Q. Which ancient American civilization advanced calendars and astronomy?
Options: Indus civilization · Roman civilization · Mesopotamian civilization · Mayan civilization
Answer: Mayan civilization
The Mayan calendar was incredibly precise!
Q. Why did ancient people treasure salt?
Options: It was light · It was pretty · It let them keep food a long time · It was sweet
Answer: It let them keep food a long time
Salt was so precious it gave us the word 'salary'!
Q. What do ancient civilizations have in common?
Options: They used electricity · They flew airplanes · They used smartphones · They created writing and cities
Answer: They created writing and cities
The birth of writing, cities, and states!
Q. What is 'civilization' closest to?
Options: A desert · A glacier · An advanced society and culture people built · A jungle
Answer: An advanced society and culture people built
A society woven from cities, writing, and technology.
Q. Which began first — ancient Egypt or Persia?
Options: We can't know · At the same time · Egypt · Persia
Answer: Egypt
Egypt! When the pyramids went up, Persia wasn't even a country yet — Egyptian civilization was far earlier.
Q. Which age ended when humans began writing things down?
Options: The historical age · The modern age · Prehistory · The medieval age
Answer: Prehistory
With writing, the 'historical age' began!
Q. About how long is the Olympic marathon?
Options: 42.195 km · 4.2 km · 10 km · 100 km
Answer: 42.195 km
It comes from the distance of that run carrying news of the Battle of Marathon!
Q. Which goddess was ancient Greece's Parthenon dedicated to?
Options: Venus · Hera · Isis · Athena
Answer: Athena
Athena, guardian goddess of Athens!
Q. About how long is the Great Wall famously said to be?
Options: 10 kilometers · 100 meters · Thousands of kilometers · 1 kilometer
Answer: Thousands of kilometers
End to end it's thousands of km — the biggest structure in the world!
Q. What bathing facility did ancient Romans enjoy?
Options: Only pools · Only hot springs · Public baths · Saunas
Answer: Public baths
Huge ones, like the Baths of Caracalla!
Q. What traveled the Silk Road?
Options: Trucks · Trains · Airplanes · Camel caravans
Answer: Camel caravans
Lines of camels, the ships of the desert!
Q. What famous buildings stood in ancient Alexandria on the Mediterranean?
Options: A great library and a lighthouse · The Colosseum · The Eiffel Tower · The Great Wall
Answer: A great library and a lighthouse
The Library of Alexandria and the Pharos Lighthouse!
Q. Which Egyptian structure is one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world?
Options: The Eiffel Tower · The Colosseum · The Taj Mahal · The Pyramids of Giza
Answer: The Pyramids of Giza
The only ancient wonder still standing!
Q. Where were ancient Greek plays performed?
Options: An open-air amphitheater · A gym · A movie theater · Inside a palace
Answer: An open-air amphitheater
A half-circle open-air theater built into a hillside!
Q. What do we call China's earliest characters, carved on turtle shells?
Options: Hieroglyphs · Oracle bone script · Cuneiform · Hangul
Answer: Oracle bone script
Oracle bone script, carved while telling fortunes!
Q. What guardian statue with a lion's body and wings stood at Mesopotamian palaces?
Options: The Sphinx · A haetae · A gargoyle · A lamassu
Answer: A lamassu
The lamassu — a winged bull or lion with a human face!
Q. What was ancient India's social class system?
Options: The bone-rank system · The caste system · The yangban system · Feudalism
Answer: The caste system
The caste system, with four classes including the Brahmins.
Q. About how many spectators fit in the Colosseum, the ancient world's biggest arena?
Options: 5 million · 50 · 500 · 50,000
Answer: 50,000
About 50,000! That rivals stadiums today.
Q. What did people do at the temple of Delphi in Greece?
Options: Held a market · Asked the gods' will (the oracle) · Held athletic contests · Went to school
Answer: Asked the gods' will (the oracle)
They went to hear the oracle of Apollo.
Q. What mysterious garden is said to have stood in Babylon?
Options: The Secret Garden · The Hanging Gardens · The Gardens of Versailles · The Garden of Eden
Answer: The Hanging Gardens
One of the Seven Wonders — the Hanging Gardens of Babylon!
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: The Pyramids of Giza · Abu Simbel · Cleopatra · Tutankhamun's golden mask
Answer: The Pyramids of Giza
The giant tombs of Egypt's kings (pharaohs). They're the only ancient wonder still standing.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: An obelisk · A sarcophagus · The Sphinx · The Step Pyramid
Answer: The Step Pyramid
The oldest pyramid, built in steps.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: Cleopatra · The Sphinx · Abu Simbel · Papyrus
Answer: The Sphinx
A giant statue with a lion's body and a human face.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: Tutankhamun's golden mask · Karnak Temple · The Book of the Dead · The bust of Nefertiti
Answer: Tutankhamun's golden mask
The golden mask that covered the mummy of the boy king Tutankhamun.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: Hieroglyphs · The Rosetta Stone · The Book of the Dead · The Sphinx
Answer: The Rosetta Stone
Carved with three scripts, it was the key to decoding hieroglyphs.
Q. What did ancient Egyptians use like paper?
Options: Papyrus · An obelisk · A sarcophagus · The Step Pyramid
Answer: Papyrus
Ancient paper made from a reed-like plant.
Q. What do we call this picture writing of ancient Egypt?
Options: Hieroglyphs · The Step Pyramid · The Rosetta Stone · Cleopatra
Answer: Hieroglyphs
Birds, eyes, and waves — pictures that carried meaning.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: Cleopatra · The Step Pyramid · A sarcophagus · A mummy
Answer: A mummy
Ancient Egyptians made mummies so the body wouldn't decay.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: Papyrus · The Rosetta Stone · The bust of Nefertiti · A sarcophagus
Answer: The bust of Nefertiti
A beautiful statue of an ancient Egyptian queen.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: Abu Simbel · Statue of Ramesses II · The Pyramids of Giza · A mummy
Answer: Abu Simbel
A temple Ramesses II carved out of a rocky mountain.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: Karnak Temple · Tutankhamun's golden mask · The Step Pyramid · A sarcophagus
Answer: Karnak Temple
Egypt's largest temple, a forest of giant columns.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: The Book of the Dead · The Sphinx · The Step Pyramid · A sarcophagus
Answer: The Book of the Dead
A guidebook for the dead, painted on papyrus.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: Statue of Ramesses II · The Book of the Dead · The Rosetta Stone · The Sphinx
Answer: Statue of Ramesses II
A statue of the king considered Egypt's greatest pharaoh.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: An obelisk · Cleopatra · The Step Pyramid · Hieroglyphs
Answer: An obelisk
A pointed stone pillar raised to honor the sun god.
Q. What is this painted box that held a mummy?
Options: The Pyramids of Giza · Tutankhamun's golden mask · An obelisk · A sarcophagus
Answer: A sarcophagus
A splendidly decorated coffin for a mummy.
Q. Who is this bust of — Egypt's last queen?
Options: Statue of Ramesses II · Cleopatra · The Rosetta Stone · Papyrus
Answer: Cleopatra
Cleopatra VII was the last pharaoh of Egypt.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: Cuneiform · A ziggurat · The Epic of Gilgamesh · The wheel
Answer: A ziggurat
A stepped temple of Mesopotamia.
Q. What is this stone pillar, famous for 'an eye for an eye'?
Options: The wheel · The Standard of Ur · The Ishtar Gate · The Code of Hammurabi
Answer: The Code of Hammurabi
One of the oldest law codes in the world.
Q. What do we call this writing pressed into clay tablets?
Options: A lamassu · Cuneiform · The wheel · The Code of Hammurabi
Answer: Cuneiform
Writing pressed into clay tablets with a reed pen.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: The Standard of Ur · The Epic of Gilgamesh · The Ishtar Gate · A lamassu
Answer: The Ishtar Gate
Babylon's splendid blue gate.
Q. What is one of the world's oldest stories, carved on clay tablets?
Options: The wheel · The Epic of Gilgamesh · The Standard of Ur · The Code of Hammurabi
Answer: The Epic of Gilgamesh
The adventure of the hero Gilgamesh.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: The wheel · Cuneiform · A ziggurat · The Standard of Ur
Answer: The Standard of Ur
A mosaic box showing the life of the Sumerians.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: Cuneiform · A lamassu · The Ishtar Gate · The wheel
Answer: A lamassu
A guardian statue of a winged bull with a human face.
Q. What is this invention from about 5,000 years ago?
Options: The Epic of Gilgamesh · The wheel · The Ishtar Gate · Cuneiform
Answer: The wheel
The wheel made traveling and hauling far easier.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: A Minoan fresco · The Parthenon · The Winged Victory of Samothrace · Greek pottery
Answer: The Parthenon
Greece's great temple, dedicated to the goddess Athena.
Q. What are these marble carvings that decorated the Parthenon?
Options: The Parthenon marbles · Olympia · The Winged Victory of Samothrace · The Temple of Hephaestus
Answer: The Parthenon marbles
Horses and people are carved into them so vividly.
Q. What do we call this temple district on the high hill of Athens?
Options: The Temple of Hephaestus · The Discobolus · The Parthenon marbles · The Acropolis
Answer: The Acropolis
The sacred hill at the top of the city.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: The Lion Gate of Mycenae · The Discobolus · An Athenian coin · Socrates
Answer: The Discobolus
A statue capturing an athlete of the ancient Olympics.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: The Venus de Milo · The Lion Gate of Mycenae · The Discobolus · A Greek bronze helmet
Answer: The Venus de Milo
A statue of a goddess, beautiful even without arms.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: The Venus de Milo · The Winged Victory of Samothrace · Greek pottery · An Athenian coin
Answer: The Winged Victory of Samothrace
A winged statue of the goddess of victory. A sports brand took its name from her!
Q. Who is this philosopher, famous for 'Know thyself'?
Options: The Discobolus · Socrates · Greek pottery · An ancient theater
Answer: Socrates
The Greek philosopher who found wisdom by asking questions.
Q. Who is this philosopher, Socrates' student, who wrote 'The Republic'?
Options: A Minoan fresco · Homer · Plato · The Temple of Hephaestus
Answer: Plato
The philosopher who dreamed of an ideal state.
Q. Who is this philosopher, teacher of Alexander the Great?
Options: Aristotle · The Acropolis · The Lion Gate of Mycenae · Socrates
Answer: Aristotle
He's called the 'father of all fields of study'.
Q. Who is the subject of this mosaic — the king who conquered from Greece to India?
Options: The Antikythera mechanism · Alexander the Great · The Venus de Milo · The golden mask of Agamemnon
Answer: Alexander the Great
Alexander built a great empire linking East and West.
Q. What is this Greek sacred site where people heard the oracle (the gods' will)?
Options: The Temple of Hephaestus · Delphi · The bronze Zeus (or Poseidon) · Plato
Answer: Delphi
It has the temple of Apollo, called the 'navel of the world'.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: The Antikythera mechanism · The Parthenon marbles · The Lion Gate of Mycenae · A Greek bronze helmet
Answer: The Lion Gate of Mycenae
The gate of Mycenae, carved with two lions.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: A Minoan fresco · A Greek bronze helmet · Greek pottery · The Acropolis
Answer: Greek pottery
Pottery painted with myths and daily life.
Q. Who is this poet who composed the 'Iliad' and the 'Odyssey'?
Options: The Lion Gate of Mycenae · Plato · Aristotle · Homer
Answer: Homer
The blind poet who sang of the Trojan War.
Q. What is this Greek site where the ancient Olympics were held?
Options: The Winged Victory of Samothrace · Alexander the Great · The golden mask of Agamemnon · Olympia
Answer: Olympia
Games honoring Zeus were held here every four years.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: The bronze Zeus (or Poseidon) · The Venus de Milo · The Lion Gate of Mycenae · Aristotle
Answer: The bronze Zeus (or Poseidon)
A bronze statue of a Greek god, raised up from the sea.
Q. What is this, worn by ancient Greek warriors?
Options: An Athenian coin · A Greek bronze helmet · Plato · The Parthenon
Answer: A Greek bronze helmet
A Corinthian helmet that even protects the nose.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: The agora · The golden mask of Agamemnon · The Temple of Hephaestus · Olympia
Answer: The golden mask of Agamemnon
A golden mask found in the tomb of a king of Mycenae.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: Alexander the Great · An Athenian coin · A Minoan fresco · Homer
Answer: A Minoan fresco
A fresco of ships from the Minoan civilization of Crete.
Q. Which city made this ancient coin engraved with an owl?
Options: Olympia · Greek pottery · An Athenian coin · Homer
Answer: An Athenian coin
It's engraved with the owl of Athena, goddess of wisdom.
Q. What is this half-circle structure built into a hillside?
Options: The golden mask of Agamemnon · Aristotle · Greek pottery · An ancient theater
Answer: An ancient theater
An open-air theater for watching plays — the sound carries beautifully.
Q. What is this ancient machine, called the 'world's first computer'?
Options: The agora · The Antikythera mechanism · Socrates · The bronze Zeus (or Poseidon)
Answer: The Antikythera mechanism
A precise gear machine that calculated the movement of the stars.
Q. What is this square where ancient Greeks gathered and debated?
Options: Alexander the Great · The agora · Homer · Socrates
Answer: The agora
The agora was a market and the stage of democracy.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: Delphi · The Temple of Hephaestus · Greek pottery · A Greek bronze helmet
Answer: The Temple of Hephaestus
The best-preserved Greek temple in Athens.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: The Colosseum · The Pantheon · The Pont du Gard aqueduct · The Roman Forum
Answer: The Colosseum
Rome's round arena, where gladiator contests were held.
Q. This is inside the Colosseum. What are these tiered seats that held 50,000 people?
Options: The spectator stands · The emperor's bedroom · An underground prison · A temple
Answer: The spectator stands
The Colosseum was an arena ringed with tiered seating, where about 50,000 people watched gladiator contests.
Q. What is this ruined square, the heart of ancient Rome?
Options: A Pompeii fresco · A Roman denarius coin · The Roman Forum · The Aqueduct of Segovia
Answer: The Roman Forum
It was the center of politics and religion.
Q. What is this round-domed Roman temple, dedicated to all the gods?
Options: The Pantheon · A ballista (catapult) · Circus Maximus · Julius Caesar
Answer: The Pantheon
Its 2,000-year-old concrete dome still stands.
Q. This is a statue of the man who became Rome's first emperor. Who is it?
Options: Statue of Augustus · The Arch of Titus · The Pont du Gard aqueduct · The Roman Forum
Answer: Statue of Augustus
Augustus was the first emperor of the Roman Empire.
Q. Who is this Roman hero, famous for 'The die is cast'?
Options: Statue of Augustus · The Aqueduct of Segovia · Julius Caesar · The Arch of Titus
Answer: Julius Caesar
Caesar was Rome's great general and statesman.
Q. Which Roman city was buried in an instant by a volcanic eruption?
Options: The Colosseum · Pompeii · A ballista (catapult) · The Arch of Constantine
Answer: Pompeii
Mount Vesuvius erupted and buried the whole city.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: The Colosseum · A Pompeii fresco · The Pantheon · Inside the Colosseum
Answer: A Pompeii fresco
A fresco whose colors were preserved perfectly in volcanic ash.
Q. What is this bridge built to carry water?
Options: The Colosseum · The Pont du Gard aqueduct · Julius Caesar · Trajan's Column
Answer: The Pont du Gard aqueduct
Romans brought water from dozens of kilometers away.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: The Arch of Titus · Inside the Colosseum · A chariot race · The Aqueduct of Segovia
Answer: The Aqueduct of Segovia
A Roman aqueduct still standing in Spain.
Q. 'All roads lead to Rome' — what is this Roman road?
Options: The Appian Way · The Colosseum · The Pont du Gard aqueduct · Trajan's Column
Answer: The Appian Way
The stone-paved road the Romans built still remains today.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: The Appian Way · Trajan's Column · A Pompeii fresco · The Colosseum
Answer: Trajan's Column
A monument column with a war story carved in a spiral.
Q. Which legendary animal is said to have nursed the twins who founded Rome?
Options: A Roman denarius coin · The Roman Forum · The Capitoline Wolf · Trajan's Column
Answer: The Capitoline Wolf
Legend says a wolf raised Romulus and Remus.
Q. Which country's army are these soldiers with shields and armor?
Options: The Roman Forum · Roman legionaries · The Arch of Constantine · The Arch of Titus
Answer: Roman legionaries
The Roman legions were the mightiest army of the ancient world.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: A Roman denarius coin · A chariot race · A Pompeii fresco · Roman legionaries
Answer: A Roman denarius coin
Roman money, stamped with the emperor's face.
Q. What do we call this picture decoration made of little stone pieces?
Options: The Appian Way · The Capitoline Wolf · A Roman mosaic · A Roman bath
Answer: A Roman mosaic
They decorated floors by fitting together bits of stone and glass.
Q. Which sport did ancient Romans go wild for?
Options: The Appian Way · Statue of Augustus · Chariot racing · Inside the Colosseum
Answer: Chariot racing
They raced chariots pulled by four horses.
Q. What is this ruined giant stadium in Rome where chariot races were held?
Options: A chariot race · Circus Maximus · Inside the Colosseum · Roman legionaries
Answer: Circus Maximus
It was the biggest arena of all, holding 250,000 people.
Q. What do we call this gate built to celebrate a victory in war?
Options: A Roman mosaic · The Arch of Titus · Roman legionaries · The Appian Way
Answer: The Arch of Titus
A triumphal arch is a gate a victorious general passes through.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: The Arch of Constantine · Trajan's Column · The Pantheon · A Roman mosaic
Answer: The Arch of Constantine
A triumphal arch in Rome, standing beside the Colosseum.
Q. What is this facility the Romans loved?
Options: A Roman bath · The Aqueduct of Segovia · The Capitoline Wolf · The Arch of Titus
Answer: A Roman bath
The baths were where Romans socialized.
Q. What is this weapon used to attack castles?
Options: An amphora · A ballista (catapult) · Circus Maximus · The Pantheon
Answer: A ballista (catapult)
An ancient weapon that shot giant arrows or stones.
Q. Before clocks, what told the time using a shadow?
Options: The Pont du Gard aqueduct · A sundial · A Pompeii fresco · The Aqueduct of Segovia
Answer: A sundial
They read the hour from the sun's shadow.
Q. What is this jar used to carry wine and olive oil?
Options: A chariot race · Pompeii · An amphora · The Colosseum
Answer: An amphora
Loaded onto ships, it's a symbol of Mediterranean trade.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: The Terracotta Army · The Sword of Goujian · Oracle bone script · The Terracotta Army pits
Answer: The Terracotta Army
Soldiers made of clay, guarding the tomb of Qin Shi Huang.
Q. Which country made this place, lined with thousands of clay soldiers?
Options: The Terracotta Army pits · Oracle bone script · The Great Wall · The Sword of Goujian
Answer: The Terracotta Army pits
Qin Shi Huang wanted an army even in death.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: The Great Wall · The Terracotta Army · Oracle bone script · Laozi
Answer: The Great Wall
The world's longest wall, built to block invasions from the north.
Q. What is China's oldest writing, carved on turtle shells?
Options: A bronze ding cauldron · The Terracotta Army · The Sword of Goujian · Oracle bone script
Answer: Oracle bone script
Fortune-telling was carved into bone. The ancestor of Chinese characters!
Q. Who is this Chinese sage who taught about 'benevolence' (ren)?
Options: Laozi · A banliang coin · The Terracotta Army pits · Confucius
Answer: Confucius
Confucius's teachings became Confucianism and spread across East Asia.
Q. Who is this Chinese thinker who left behind the 'Tao Te Ching'?
Options: Confucius · Laozi · The Great Wall · A bronze ding cauldron
Answer: Laozi
He taught a life that follows nature.
Q. What is this giant vessel used for rituals in ancient China?
Options: The Terracotta Army · Bamboo slips · A bronze ding cauldron · The Great Wall
Answer: A bronze ding cauldron
The 'ding' was a symbol of a king's authority.
Q. What is this coin Qin Shi Huang standardized?
Options: A banliang coin · The Terracotta Army · A Han bronze chariot · The Terracotta Army pits
Answer: A banliang coin
Qin Shi Huang standardized money, writing, and measurements.
Q. What is this book, written on bamboo before paper existed?
Options: Bamboo slips · A bronze ding cauldron · Confucius · Oracle bone script
Answer: Bamboo slips
They bound bamboo strips together to make a book.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: The Sword of Goujian · The Terracotta Army · Oracle bone script · A Han bronze chariot
Answer: A Han bronze chariot
An exquisite bronze craft of the Han dynasty.
Q. What is this sword that hasn't rusted in 2,500 years?
Options: The Sword of Goujian · A banliang coin · A bronze ding cauldron · The Terracotta Army pits
Answer: The Sword of Goujian
It came out of a tomb with its blade still gleaming.
Q. What is this ancient planned city in the Indus valley?
Options: Mohenjo-daro · A Gandhara Buddha · The Ajanta Caves · An Indus seal
Answer: Mohenjo-daro
A city with sewers, 4,500 years ago.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: A Gandhara Buddha · The Great Stupa at Sanchi · An Indus seal · An Ashoka pillar
Answer: An Indus seal
An animal seal of the Indus civilization. Its writing still isn't decoded!
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: The Ajanta Caves · An Indus seal · An Ashoka pillar · The Great Stupa at Sanchi
Answer: The Great Stupa at Sanchi
An ancient Indian stupa holding relics of the Buddha.
Q. What is this stone pillar raised by the Indian king who spread Buddhism?
Options: The Ajanta Caves · Mohenjo-daro · An Indus seal · An Ashoka pillar
Answer: An Ashoka pillar
King Ashoka regretted war and spread Buddhism.
Q. Which Buddha style was influenced by Greek sculpture?
Options: An Ashoka pillar · A Gandhara Buddha · The Ajanta Caves · Mohenjo-daro
Answer: A Gandhara Buddha
After Alexander's campaign, Eastern and Western art met.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: An Indus seal · An Ashoka pillar · A Gandhara Buddha · The Ajanta Caves
Answer: The Ajanta Caves
India's Buddhist cave temples, carved into a rocky mountain.
Q. What are these ruins of the Persian Empire's splendid capital?
Options: An Olmec colossal head · An Aksum obelisk · Persepolis · The Nazca Lines
Answer: Persepolis
The name means 'city of the Persians'.
Q. What is this cylinder, called the first declaration of human rights?
Options: Phoenician script · An Aksum obelisk · The Nazca Lines · The Cyrus Cylinder
Answer: The Cyrus Cylinder
Cyrus the Great's policy of tolerance is carved into it.
Q. What is this red desert city carved out of rock?
Options: The Cyrus Cylinder · Persepolis · An Aksum obelisk · Petra
Answer: Petra
It's the ruin that was the backdrop of an Indiana Jones movie.
Q. Which writing became the ancestor of the alphabet?
Options: Phoenician script · Petra · The Cyrus Cylinder · An Olmec colossal head
Answer: Phoenician script
The script of the Phoenician traders became the alphabet.
Q. What is this giant stone face found in the jungles of Mexico?
Options: Phoenician script · The Cyrus Cylinder · An Aksum obelisk · An Olmec colossal head
Answer: An Olmec colossal head
A carving left by the oldest civilization in the Americas.
Q. What is this Mexican pyramid city called the 'city of the gods'?
Options: The Nazca Lines · The Cyrus Cylinder · Persepolis · Teotihuacan
Answer: Teotihuacan
The Pyramids of the Sun and Moon still stand there.
Q. What are these giant drawings in Peru, visible only from the sky?
Options: The Nazca Lines · Persepolis · An Olmec colossal head · An Aksum obelisk
Answer: The Nazca Lines
Who drew these birds and monkeys, and why? It's a mystery.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: The Nazca Lines · An Aksum obelisk · The Cyrus Cylinder · An Olmec colossal head
Answer: An Aksum obelisk
A giant stone pillar of the Kingdom of Aksum in Africa.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: A Roman bath · Statue of Ramesses II · Stonehenge · A ballista (catapult)
Answer: Stonehenge
England's mysterious megalithic monument.
Q. What is this cave painting, made 17,000 years ago?
Options: The Lascaux cave paintings · The Ishtar Gate · Teotihuacan · The Book of the Dead
Answer: The Lascaux cave paintings
Paintings of cattle and horses by Stone Age people.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: Cuneiform · Petra · The Venus of Willendorf · A bronze ding cauldron
Answer: The Venus of Willendorf
A small stone figure made 25,000 years ago.