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The Trojan War was instigated when what brainwashed Queen of Sparta was forced to run away with a warrior prince of Troy?
Edena
Helen
Penelope
Rachel
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What Trojan prince ran off with Helen of Troy after he convinced the gods to brainwash her?
London
Berlin
Paris
Rome
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What Greek goddess of discord set events in motion that would lead to the Trojan War when she offered the gift of a golden apple to a wedding banquet?
Athena
Phobos
Hypnos
Eris
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The goddesses decided to let Paris judge who among them was the fairest, and, therefore, the rightful owner of the golden apple. Paris chose which goddess on the condition that she make Helen of Troy fall in love with him?
Artemis
Hera
Athena
Aphrodite
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What servant of Aphrodite made Helen of Troy fall in love with Paris by piercing her heart with an arrow?
Ovid
Cupid
Homer
Septentrion
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What King of Sparta was Helen of Troy's husband, and so began the Trojan War to reclaim his stolen bride?
Telebrembor
Menelaus
Salamis
Maras
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Much of what we know about the legend of the Trojan War comes from what Greek poet who wrote The Iliad and The Odyssey?
Virgil
Socrates
Sophocles
Homer
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When Menelaus, the king of Sparta, called on additional Greeks to join his cause, he was immediately joined by what brother who ruled Mycenae?
Agamemnon
Costas
Rohedron
Paracelsus
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What legendary Greek hero of the Trojan War was said to have been invulnerable because his mother dipped him into the River Styx as a youth?
Achilles
Heracles
Pernassus
Bellerophon
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Part of the reason for Achilles' effectiveness on the battlefield was that he bore armor forged by what Greek god?
Zeus
Hephaestus
Demeter
Ares
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True or False: Most of the Greek lords participated in the Trojan War because they'd sworn oaths to defend Helen of Troy's betrothal after they all proposed marriage to her.
True
False
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What hero of The Odyssey acted as one of the primary Greek heroes of the Trojan War, often urging his comrades to be reasonable when tempers ran high?
Diocletian
Dalmatian
Odysseus
Junipus
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What large series of poems completed our knowledge of the Trojan War even though their original copies were never discovered?
The Roland Cycle
The Nibelung Saga
The Epic Cycle
The Volgate Cycle
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When the Greeks sailed to Troy, they brought with them what prophet who ended up predicting much of what would happen during their voyage and subsequent battle?
Calchas
Monterras
Silas
Boreas
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Part of the Greek fleet sailing to Troy actually ended up in the wrong place, instead invading Mysia. What King of Mysia then battled the Greeks before needing Achilles to heal a spear wound inflicted in his side?
King Telephus
King Wendell
King Bors
King Aeschyus
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The voyage to Troy was allegedly fraught with trouble because Agamemnon had previously killed what type of sacred animal, thus incurring Artemis's wrath?
A wolf
A deer
A bear
A lion
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In a tragicomic episode, the prophet Calchas predicted that the first Greek to set foot on Trojan soil would be the first to die in the war. What Greek leader was then tricked into jumping down from his ship, thus ensuring he would be the war's first casualty?
Protesilaus
Ajax
Achilles
Typhon
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What Greek commander was known for ruffling the feathers of his comrades until they planted evidence on his person so they could stone him to death?
Rydra
Cisco
Tenebrus
Palamedes
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Even more infighting happened within the Greek ranks because Agamemnon stole what beloved slave from Achilles, causing the two to feud?
Maureen
Sylvia
Briseis
Brigitte
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What final King of Troy made temporary peace with Achilles so they could bury their allies even after Achilles murdered the Prince of Troy?
Regus
Damian
Priam
Oscar
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Achilles desecrated the body of Hector because Hector murdered what lifelong friend of Achilles?
Padrig
Patrice
Patroclus
Pater
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What ruler of Ethiopia sent his armies to defend Troy until he was killed in battle by Achilles?
Mark Antony
Sosa
Memnon
Hannibal
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Achilles was eventually killed by having an arrow shot into what body part that was his lone weak spot?
His nose
His wrist
His shoulder
His heel
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What Queen of the Amazons reinforced Priam with her armies out of a debt but lost her life as a result?
Beatrice
Agorda
Rafflesia
Penthesilea
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What son of Achilles took his father's place in the Trojan War and brought terrible vengeance down upon the city of Troy?
Neoptolemus
Astarian
Eldarion
Brutus
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What exiled friend of Heracles avenged Achilles by murdering Paris with the legendary weapon the Bow of Heracles?
Jason
Pluto
Memphis
Philoctetes
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After he wasn't awarded Achilles' armor, what other Greek hero went berserk, killing livestock that he mistakenly thought were his friends, only for him to take his own life in grief?
Gaius
Theseus
Titian
Ajax
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The Greeks eventually stormed Troy by hiding in a giant wooden statue of what animal?
An eagle
A horse
A cow
A rat
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Which of the Trojan War's famous Greek heroes came up with the idea of the Trojan Horse?
Odysseus
Ajax
Achilles
Diocletian
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Legends say that what mythological ancestor of Rome was actually a Trojan warrior who, when Troy fell, led many of the city's people into Italy to settle there?
Aeneas
Remus
Caiaphas
Soros
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