Question: Greece is one of the members who founded what organization?
Answer: United Nations

Question: Which political philosophy does Greece follow?
Answer: democratic

Question: When did Greece join the Eurozone?
Answer: 2001

Question: Greece has the biggest economic power where?
Answer: Balkans

Question: What is one of the names the Greeks call their country?
Answer: Hellas

Question: What is the official name of Greece?
Answer: Hellenic Republic

Question: From what word is Greece derived?
Answer: Graecia

Question: What does the work Graecia mean?
Answer: the land of the Greeks

Question: Who called Greece Graecia?
Answer: Romans

Question: Humans in the Balkans have been dated to what year?
Answer: 270,000 BC

Question: Evidence of the earliest humans were found in what subterranean formation?
Answer: Petralona cave

Question: The Franchthi cave has evidence of what 3 ancient eras?
Answer: Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic

Question: Greece has evidence of Stone Age people during what time period?
Answer: 7th millennium BC

Question: What activity led to Greece having some of the earliest Stone Age settlements?
Answer: farming

Question: Ancient Greece is considered to be where what was born?
Answer: Western civilization

Question: What was the last civilization to rule Greece?
Answer: Mycenaean

Question: The Mycenaean civilization deteriorated in what time period? 
Answer: 1200 BC

Question: Around 1200 BC, what was the fall of the regional civilizations called?
Answer: Bronze Age collapse

Question: What is the time period called from which no writing can be found.
Answer: Greek Dark Ages

Question: When did the Olympic Game begin?
Answer: 776 BC

Question: The literary work "The Odyssey:, was written by whom?
Answer: Homer

Question: What year is considered the be the last of the Dark Ages?
Answer: 776 BC

Question: Magna Graecia is Latin for what term?
Answer: Greater Greece

Question: In what year is Democracy considered to have begun?
Answer: 508 BC

Question: In 500 BC, Greece was ruled over by who?
Answer: Persian Empire

Question: What battle did Persia lose in 490 BC?
Answer: Battle of Marathon

Question: The Spartans made their last stand at what battle location?
Answer: Thermopylae

Question: The battles between the Greeks and Persians are known as what?
Answer: Greco-Persian Wars

Question: After the Persians left Europe, the time period that followed was called what?
Answer: Golden Age of Athens

Question: The war from 431-404 BC is known as what? 
Answer: Peloponnesian War

Question: What often caused strife between Greek states?
Answer: Lack of political unity

Question: Who won the Peloponnesian war?
Answer: Sparta

Question: Who eventually brought the Greeks together?
Answer: Macedon

Question: Who was the first leader of a unified Greece?
Answer: Phillip II

Question: Who controlled Macedon after Alexander died?
Answer: the Antigonid dynasty

Question: The Roman Empire became more controlling of Greece starting in what year?
Answer: 200 BC

Question: Macedon lost what war in 168 BC?
Answer: Battle of Pydna

Question: In what year did Greece become a part of Rome?
Answer: 146 BC

Question: The end of Antigonid rule began in what year?
Answer: 168 BC

Question: What Roman Emperor became the ruler of all of Greece?
Answer: Augustus

Question: What saying by Horace became famous?
Answer: "Greece, although captured, took its wild conqueror captive"

Question: What famous Roman figure visited Greece in 66 AD?
Answer: Nero

Question: What famous Grecian author inspired later authors and their works?
Answer: Homer

Question: What hero of Rome studied Greek philosophy and science?
Answer: Scipio Africanus

Question: In what language was the first book of the Bible conceived?
Answer: Greek

Question: What religion did early Greece practice?
Answer: paganism

Question: The Olympics were last held in ancient Greece in what year? 
Answer: 393

Question: Paganism was forbidden by what Roman Emperor?
Answer: Theodosius I

Question: Which Emperor closed the school in Athens?
Answer: Justinian

Question: When did the Slavs invade Greece?
Answer: 7th century

Question: What invading marauders caused havoc in the Balkans during the 4th century.
Answer: Barbarian

Question: After the Slav's invaded, the government only controlled what areas?
Answer: islands and coastal areas

Question: The Byzantine began taking back territories during the last of what century?
Answer: 8th

Question: The Byzantine had control over most of Greece in what century?
Answer: 9th

Question: Slavs that were caught were moved to what area?
Answer: Asia Minor

Question: A stable Greece allowed it to have what?
Answer: strong economic growth

Question: Greece was split into sections of different rulers in what year?
Answer: 1204

Question: Constantinople once again became a capital  in what year?
Answer: 1261

Question: The Grecian islands in the 14th century were under the control of who?
Answer: Genoese and Venetian

Question: In 1261 Constantinople was the capital for which empire?
Answer: Byzantine

Question: A lot of Greece was lost by whom in the 14th century?
Answer: Byzantine Empire

Question: At the start of 15th century, the biggest Byzantine city was what?
Answer: Thessaloniki

Question: Constantinople was overcome by who in 1453?
Answer: the Ottomans

Question: The Ottomans controlled mainland Greece in what year?
Answer: 1460

Question: Who had a large impact on the Renaissance? 
Answer: Byzantine Greek scholars

Question: The Ottomans took which islands from the Venetians?
Answer: Cyprus and Crete

Question: In what year were the Ionian Islands captured by the French?
Answer: 1797

Question: Who gained control of the Ionian Islands in 1809?
Answer: United Kingdom

Question: The Ottomans controlled what islands b y the end of the 15th century?
Answer: Aegean islands

Question: The Venetians had control of which two islands in the 15th century?
Answer: Cyprus and Crete

Question: Due to discrimination, some Christians converted to what religion?
Answer: Islam

Question: What is the name of one of the churches that ruled over the Christian population?
Answer: Greek Orthodox Church

Question: Which empire thought that Christians were inferior?
Answer: Ottoman Empire

Question: The Battle of of Lepanto took place in what year?
Answer: 1571

Question: The Morean War took place during which years?
Answer: 1684–1699

Question: The Orlov Revolt took place in what year?
Answer: 1770

Question: The Orlov Revolt was for which nation's supposed benefit?
Answer: Russian

Question: During battles of the 1600 and 1700's, the Greeks usually fought against who?
Answer: Ottoman Empire

Question: Greece's Dark Ages is thought of as what time periods?
Answer: 16th and 17th centuries

Question: Greek merchants ruled the trade industry in which century?
Answer: 18th

Question: Who published Greek documents that espoused Greek independence?
Answer: Rigas Feraios

Question: Rigas Feraios was killed by Ottoman assassins in what year? 
Answer: 1798

Question: In which year did the Society of Friends begin?
Answer: 1814

Question: The Society of Friends goal was what?
Answer: liberating Greece

Question: The Society of Friends was also known by what name?
Answer: Filiki Eteria

Question: The first of several revolutions began when?
Answer: 6 March 1821

Question: War was started with the Ottomans when?
Answer: 17 March 1821

Question: In what year did the Greeks take Tripolitsa?
Answer: 1821

Question: Who was the leader of the Greek revolt in 1821?
Answer: Theodoros Kolokotronis

Question: The Greek and Ottoman Navy fought in which waters?
Answer: Aegean Sea

Question: Turks and Egyptians attacked Greek island in what years?
Answer: 1822 and 1824

Question: How many successive civil wars occurred between Greek clans?
Answer: two

Question: Who did Egypt send to Greece with an Army?
Answer: Ibrahim Pasha