Greece lies at the southern end of the Balkan Peninsula and counts thousands of islands.
This quiz asks 20 questions about Greek food, symbols, places, history and famous Greeks.
One run asks 20 questions from a bank of 40, so two runs do not ask the same set.
How to play
- Each round shows one question and four answers. Tap the answer you think is right.
- You have three lives. Each wrong answer costs one life.
- After each answer, the game shows a short explanation of the right answer.
- The quiz saves your best score and best time.
What counts in this quiz
- The bank holds 40 questions about Greece: food, drink, symbols, geography, history, people, music, science, business, sport, language, money.
- Every question has exactly one right answer among the four options.
What's not included, and why
- Facts that change with the news are not in the bank. The quiz asks no questions about sitting politicians or the rankings of today.
- Questions that need a map, such as naming every region of Greece, live in the map quizzes.
Good to know
- About 80 percent of Greece is mountains or hills.
- The Parthenon in Athens was completed in 438 BC.
- Greece has more than 6,000 islands and islets. People live on about 200 of them.
- No place in Greece is more than about 140 kilometers from the sea.