| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | ANCIENT GREECE $400: The Pythian Games were held every third year of the Olympiad at this Oracle city to honor Apollo Delphi |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | ANCIENT GREECE $800: The Parthenon features this style of column, the oldest & simplest of the Greek orders Doric |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | ANCIENT GREECE $1200: In 421 B.C. a general named Nicias negotiated an end to this war; 6 years later, Athens & Sparta were back at it the Peloponnesian War |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | ANCIENT GREECE $1600: The palace of this Cretan city had basement rooms that served as kind of the strategic wheat reserve Knossos |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | ANCIENT GREECE $2000: This Greek "Father of Tragedy" fought in the Battle of Marathon, which he included in an epitaph he wrote for himself Aeschylus |
| #8213, aired 2020-04-29 | THERE SHE IS, MYTH GREECE $400: Born on the foam of the sea, this "mighty" goddess had a magic girdle that made the wearer amazingly desirable, as girdles do Aphrodite |
| #8213, aired 2020-04-29 | THERE SHE IS, MYTH GREECE $800: This Olympian goddess of wisdom was big in agriculture, too, teaching man how to yoke oxen Athena |
| #8213, aired 2020-04-29 | THERE SHE IS, MYTH GREECE $1200: Her marriage to the king of Sparta went kinda sideways after her abduction but some stories have the 2 reconciling later Helen of Troy |
| #8213, aired 2020-04-29 | THERE SHE IS, MYTH GREECE $2,000 (Daily Double): An early snowbird, this daughter of Zeus had to spend a few months a year in Hades after an unfortunate food choice Persephone |
| #8213, aired 2020-04-29 | THERE SHE IS, MYTH GREECE $2000: She's seen here helping guide her blind father Oedipus into exile Antigone |
| #7858, aired 2018-11-07 | PLEASE WELCOME MYTH GREECE $400: Enjoying mountain living, 12 major Greek gods called this place home; at nearly 9,600' up there, the gods did have a nice view Olympus |
| #7858, aired 2018-11-07 | PLEASE WELCOME MYTH GREECE $800: Heracles got in on an expedition with the Argonauts, led by this man Jason |
| #7858, aired 2018-11-07 | PLEASE WELCOME MYTH GREECE $1200: In addition to being god of the sea, he's also the god of earthquakes Poseidon |
| #7858, aired 2018-11-07 | PLEASE WELCOME MYTH GREECE $1600: Thought to be the center of the Earth, this town at Mt. Parnassus' foot was known for its oracle--ya see that coming? Delphi |
| #7858, aired 2018-11-07 | PLEASE WELCOME MYTH GREECE $2000: Homer dubbed this war god "the blood-stained bane of mortals", & ol' Homie wasn't far wrong Ares |
| #6989, aired 2015-01-22 | ANCIENT GREECE $400: In 399 B.C. this philosopher was convicted by a jury vote of 280-221 of corrupting the youth Socrates |
| #6989, aired 2015-01-22 | ANCIENT GREECE $800: Infantrymen carried a 3'-diameter one of these made of wood or stiff leather faced with bronze shield |
| #6989, aired 2015-01-22 | ANCIENT GREECE $1,000 (Daily Double): In the 350s B.C. Demosthenes started warning Greeks about aggression by this Macedonian dad Philip |
| #6989, aired 2015-01-22 | ANCIENT GREECE $1600: The thirty tyrants was a Sparta-imposed oligarchy that ruled Athens for a year after this war ended in 404 B.C. Peloponnesian War |
| #6989, aired 2015-01-22 | ANCIENT GREECE $2000: The group will shun you if you don't know this punishment, banishment without losing property ostracism |
| #6217, aired 2011-10-04 | ANCIENT GREECE $400: When he sacked Thebes in 335 B.C., he ordered that the house in which Pindar the poet once lived be saved Alexander |
| #6217, aired 2011-10-04 | ANCIENT GREECE $800: The Helots were the unfree peasants of this militaristic city-state Sparta |
| #6217, aired 2011-10-04 | ANCIENT GREECE $1200: The Odeon of Pericles, one of the first of these to have a permanent roof, had terrible acoustics a theater |
| #6217, aired 2011-10-04 | ANCIENT GREECE $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows us a map of the Mediterranean region.) Legend says Zeus released two eagles, one from the east, & one the west; they met at the site of this ancient city, then considered the center of the world Delphi |
| #6217, aired 2011-10-04 | ANCIENT GREECE $2000: Despite the Peace of Nicias in 421 B.C., this war picked up again & continued for another 11 years the Peloponnesian War |
| #5585, aired 2008-12-12 | GREECE IS THE WORD $200: When Greece gained indep. in 1829, this city had only a few thousand people; 4 years later, it became the capital Athens |
| #5585, aired 2008-12-12 | GREECE IS THE WORD $400: Tradition says in 490 B.C. Pheidippides began his long run at this coastal plain; go, P-Dippy! Go! Marathon |
| #5585, aired 2008-12-12 | GREECE IS THE WORD $600: This ancient capital of Laconia, fabled for its military, was at one time the most powerful ancient Greek city-state Sparta |
| #5585, aired 2008-12-12 | GREECE IS THE WORD $800: This Greek island, once home to a 105-foot statue of Helios, lies 12 miles off the coast of Turkey Rhodes |
| #5585, aired 2008-12-12 | GREECE IS THE WORD $1000: Mainland Greece ends at the southern tip of this dozen-country peninsula the Balkan Peninsula |
| #5140, aired 2007-01-05 | GREECE $400: Greece's easternmost border is with this country with which it has had numerous disputes Turkey |
| #5140, aired 2007-01-05 | GREECE $800: Make no mythtake, this 9,750-foot mountain on the border of Thessaly & Macedonia is Greece's highest Mount Olympus |
| #5140, aired 2007-01-05 | GREECE $1200: Greece is bounded on the west by the Ionian Sea, on the south by the Mediterranean Sea & on the east by this sea the Aegean Sea |
| #5140, aired 2007-01-05 | GREECE $1,400 (Daily Double): The site of a famous 480 B.C. battle against Persia, this mountain pass' name means "hot gates" in Greek Thermopylae |
| #5140, aired 2007-01-05 | GREECE $1600: Home to the ancient ruined Minoan palace of Knossos, it's Greece's largest island Crete |
| #5043, aired 2006-07-12 | ANCIENT GREECE $400: Thucydides, though from this city, tried to be fair to Sparta in narrating the Peloponnesian War Athens |
| #5043, aired 2006-07-12 | ANCIENT GREECE $800: Theophrastus followed this man's teachings in physics & metaphysics & followed him as the Lyceum's head Aristotle |
| #5043, aired 2006-07-12 | ANCIENT GREECE $1200: The most economically important tree, a branch from it symbolized the birth of a boy an olive |
| #5043, aired 2006-07-12 | ANCIENT GREECE $2,000 (Daily Double): The modern men's discus weighs 4.4 pounds; the ones found at this site in Greece's Elis Valley weighed up to 9 pounds Olympia |
| #5043, aired 2006-07-12 | ANCIENT GREECE $2000: The name of this wise lawgiver of around 600 B.C. has come to mean any legislator Solon |
| #4763, aired 2005-04-27 | LITERARY GREECE $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the seashore in Greece.) A favorite description of the sea for Homer, as in book two of "The Odyssey", is to call it "dark as" this liquid wine |
| #4763, aired 2005-04-27 | LITERARY GREECE $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Athens, Greece.) In 1810, here in Athens, this British author wrote, "Maid of Athens, ere we part, / Give, oh, give me back my heart!" Byron |
| #4763, aired 2005-04-27 | LITERARY GREECE $1200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Santorini, Greece.) He wrote in 1941's "The Colossus of Maroussi" that, "In Greece, light penetrates to the soul, opens the doors and windows of the heart" Henry Miller |
| #4763, aired 2005-04-27 | LITERARY GREECE $1600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from a shore in Greece.) He wrote about the beauty of the Greek landscape in "The Magus", set on an island like the one where he had lived John Fowles |
| #4763, aired 2005-04-27 | LITERARY GREECE $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Greece: "I'm at the Temple of Demeter on Naxos.") In the "Works and Days", this ancient poet wrote of the importance of praying to Demeter if you want crops to flourish Hesiod |
| #4689, aired 2005-01-13 | A TOUR OF GREECE $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Athens, Greece.) In 480 BC, Athens & the monuments on the Acropolis were destroyed by these invaders under the command of Xerxes I the Persians |
| #4689, aired 2005-01-13 | A TOUR OF GREECE $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Athens, Greece.) Socrates was often to be found chatting people up in this area, the social & administrative heart of Athens the Agora |
| #4689, aired 2005-01-13 | A TOUR OF GREECE $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Tinos, Greece.) This country's 1940 sinking of a Greek cruiser in Tinos harbor helped spur Greek resistance to its invasion Italy |
| #4689, aired 2005-01-13 | A TOUR OF GREECE $1600: (Cheryl of the clue crew reports from Aegina, Greece.) The island of Aegina is rich in this tree that produces a cooking oil as well as this beloved nut pistachio |
| #4689, aired 2005-01-13 | A TOUR OF GREECE $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Greece.) I'm on this island, where the Cretan princess Ariadne was stranded after Theseus abandoned her (seems not so bad) (Island of) Naxos |
| #4652, aired 2004-11-23 | GREECE $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew speaks from Santorini in Greece.) Volcanic cliffs on Santorini are the remnants of an eruption that may be the source of the legend of this island Atlantis |
| #4652, aired 2004-11-23 | GREECE $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reads from Delos in Greece.) Delos was sacred as the birthplace of this music-loving sun god whose temple this is Apollo |
| #4652, aired 2004-11-23 | GREECE $1200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Athens, Greece.) In Greek cities, orient yourself using this, whose name comes from words meaning "highest" & "city" the Acropolis |
| #4652, aired 2004-11-23 | GREECE $1600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew stands in the Theater of Dionysus in Athens, Greece.) In 401 B.C. here at the Theater of Dionysus, this man won a posthumous first prize for his play "Oedipus at Colonus" Sophocles |
| #4652, aired 2004-11-23 | GREECE $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew stands in front of the Parthenon in Athens, Greece.) Built in the 400s B.C., the temple of Athena, known as the Parthenon, is the greatest example of this ancient architectural style doric |
| #4082, aired 2002-05-07 | GREECE $400: Around 1930 Angelos Sikelianos tried to revive the famous festival of this town, "Navel of the World"--didn't work Delphi |
| #4082, aired 2002-05-07 | GREECE $800: Baron de Coubertin's heart is buried in this city, home to the ancient version of the modern games he founded Olympia |
| #4082, aired 2002-05-07 | GREECE $1200: After docking at this island, Apollo's birthplace, head up the sacred way to the sanctuary of Apollo Delos |
| #4082, aired 2002-05-07 | GREECE $1600: If you love the nightlife & want to boogie, head to Pierros, a bar on this party island of the Cyclades Mykonos |
| #4082, aired 2002-05-07 | GREECE $2000: The Long Walls Pericles built connected Athens with this port city, 4 miles away Piraeus |
| #4034, aired 2002-02-28 | MODERN GREECE $400: In 1996 Greece & Turkey nearly went to war over an uninhabited 10-acre pile of rocks in this sea Aegean |
| #4034, aired 2002-02-28 | MODERN GREECE $800: The holiday "No Day" commemorates Greek leader Metaxas' rejection of a 1940 ultimatum from this Italian Mussolini |
| #4034, aired 2002-02-28 | MODERN GREECE $1,000 (Daily Double): This political philosophy is the S in PASOK, the party that swept to power in 1981 Socialism |
| #4034, aired 2002-02-28 | MODERN GREECE $1600: The murder of leftist politician Grigoris Lambrakis inspired this 1969 Costa-Gavras film Z |
| #4034, aired 2002-02-28 | MODERN GREECE $2000: Last name of 1960s PM George; his son, 1980s PM Andreas; & his son, 1990s foreign minister George Papandreou |
| #3963, aired 2001-11-21 | GREECE $100: Popular Greek beverages include beer & retsina, a type of this potent potable flavored by pine resin wine |
| #3963, aired 2001-11-21 | GREECE $200: About 1% of the population of Greece is ethnically from this neighboring European country Turkey |
| #3963, aired 2001-11-21 | GREECE $300: A limestone hill in the southwest of Athens, it houses the temple of Athena Nike the Acropolis |
| #3963, aired 2001-11-21 | GREECE $400: Greece's national emblem features a white cross surrounded by a wreath of this laurel |
| #3963, aired 2001-11-21 | GREECE $500: The excavated ancient palace of Knossos can be seen when visiting this large Greek island Crete |
| #3670, aired 2000-07-14 | ANCIENT GREECE $100: Aristotle's prescription for women in this condition was to avoid too much salt & wine pregnant |
| #3670, aired 2000-07-14 | ANCIENT GREECE $200: It was the standard wear for the men & boys exercising in the gymnasium nudity |
| #3670, aired 2000-07-14 | ANCIENT GREECE $300: Originally 6 obols equaled one of these coins a drachma |
| #3670, aired 2000-07-14 | ANCIENT GREECE $400: In ancient Greece this oil was used as a food, fuel, lubricant & in place of soap olive oil |
| #3670, aired 2000-07-14 | ANCIENT GREECE $500: In 548 B.C. the Temple of Apollo burned down in this oracular city, sponsor of the Pythian Games Delphi |
| #3634, aired 2000-05-25 | GREECE IS THE WORD $200: A 1974 referendum eliminated this post, giving the country a parliamentary government king (did away with the monarchy) |
| #3634, aired 2000-05-25 | GREECE IS THE WORD $1000: It was on this now Greek isle that the famous statue of Nike, now in the Louvre, was found in 1863 Samothrace |
| #3474, aired 1999-10-14 | ANCIENT GREECE $200: Among the Greek city-states, it was the only one that had a standing army Sparta |
| #3474, aired 1999-10-14 | ANCIENT GREECE $400: In 490 B.C. Pheidippides ran the 25 miles from this battle site to Athens with news of victory over the Persians Marathon |
| #3474, aired 1999-10-14 | ANCIENT GREECE $600: This seat of the most celebrated oracle of ancient Greece was considered the center of the universe Delphi |
| #3474, aired 1999-10-14 | ANCIENT GREECE $800: In 594 B.C. this Athenian statesman drew up a code of law Solon |
| #3474, aired 1999-10-14 | ANCIENT GREECE $1000: The name of this ancient mountain pass on Greece's east coast means "hot gates" Thermopylae |
| #3258, aired 1998-11-04 | ANCIENT GREECE $100: The Greeks were using rods as money until they appropriated the idea of these from the Lydians coins |
| #3258, aired 1998-11-04 | ANCIENT GREECE $200: Xanthippe's husband, he had his own "method" of asking questions Socrates |
| #3258, aired 1998-11-04 | ANCIENT GREECE $300: Hesiod said this group of nine goddesses met him on Mt. Helicon & breathed the gift of song into him the muses |
| #3258, aired 1998-11-04 | ANCIENT GREECE $400: These federations included Achaean, Delian & Amphictyonic--no National or American leagues |
| #3258, aired 1998-11-04 | ANCIENT GREECE $500: A Hoplite was a soldier named for his hoplon, one of these that was round, heavy & made of wood & bronze a shield |
| #3074, aired 1998-01-01 | ANCIENT GREECE $200: The cynics revered this hero whose 12 labors were an example of a moral victory & self-liberation Hercules |
| #3074, aired 1998-01-01 | ANCIENT GREECE $400: Spartan leader Lysander defeated this rival Greek city & established the government of the thirty tyrants over it Athens |
| #3074, aired 1998-01-01 | ANCIENT GREECE $800: In the 1870s the first monument archaeologists dug out at this site was the Temple of Zeus Olympia |
| #3074, aired 1998-01-01 | ANCIENT GREECE $1000: Archimedes was from this Sicilian city, in his time the greatest Greek city in the west Syracuse |
| #3074, aired 1998-01-01 | ANCIENT GREECE $2,000 (Daily Double): Protagoras is famous for the quote this "is the measure of all things" man |
| #2906, aired 1997-03-31 | ANCIENT GREECE $100: Heraclitus believed that this, not earth, air, or water, was the primordial source of matter Fire |
| #2906, aired 1997-03-31 | ANCIENT GREECE $200: In 399 B.C. this philosopher was convicted by a jury of 500 men on a vote of 280 to 220 Socrates |
| #2906, aired 1997-03-31 | ANCIENT GREECE $300: At about 1,000 square miles, twice as big as L.A., it was the largest city-state of ancient Greece Athens |
| #2906, aired 1997-03-31 | ANCIENT GREECE $400: The stadium for the Pythian Games was located on Mt. Parnassus, near this oracle site Delphi |
| #2906, aired 1997-03-31 | ANCIENT GREECE $500: Aritstophanes' first 10 plays were produced during this war Peloponnesian War |
| #2880, aired 1997-02-21 | ANCIENT GREECE $200: In 146 B.C. what's now Greece was conquered by this western Mediterranean power Rome |
| #2880, aired 1997-02-21 | ANCIENT GREECE $400: Around 430 this large temple on the Acropolis was converted into a Christian church Parthenon |
| #2880, aired 1997-02-21 | ANCIENT GREECE $600: This city-state's men were required to eat in the soldiers' barracks until age 60 Sparta |
| #2880, aired 1997-02-21 | ANCIENT GREECE $800: This civilization flourished on Crete beginning around 1900 B.C. Minoan |
| #2880, aired 1997-02-21 | ANCIENT GREECE $1000: This plain northeast of Athens was the site of the Athenians' victory over the Persian army in 490 B.C. Marathon |
| #2563, aired 1995-10-25 | ANCIENT GREECE $200: In 373 B.C. an earthquake destroyed the temple of Apollo at this site famous for its Oracle Delphi |
| #2563, aired 1995-10-25 | ANCIENT GREECE $400: This warlike city-state conquered Messenia in the 8th century B.C. Sparta |
| #2563, aired 1995-10-25 | ANCIENT GREECE $600: In the comedies of Aristophanes, this dramatic group had 24 members the chorus |
| #2563, aired 1995-10-25 | ANCIENT GREECE $800: The largest land battle of this war took place during the 6-year Peace of Nicias the Peloponnesian War |
| #2563, aired 1995-10-25 | ANCIENT GREECE $1000: This greatest Greek orator was already 30 when he made his first major speech before the Assembly Demosthenes |
| #2257, aired 1994-05-31 | HISTORIC GREECE $100: In 399 B.C., Meletus prosecuted this famous philosopher & the trial lasted 1 day Socrates |
| #2257, aired 1994-05-31 | HISTORIC GREECE $200: The sacrifice of an animal was required before consulting this at the Temple of Delphi the Oracle |
| #2257, aired 1994-05-31 | HISTORIC GREECE $300: Military state that conquered Laconia & Messenia Sparta |
| #2257, aired 1994-05-31 | HISTORIC GREECE $400: A young nobleman named Pausanias assassinated this father of Alexander the Great Philip of Macedon |
| #2257, aired 1994-05-31 | HISTORIC GREECE $500: Sometimes called Salonika today, 2,000 years ago it had this longer name Thessalonika |
| #1893, aired 1992-11-25 | GREECE $100: Nearly 1/3 of Greeks live in this city or its metropolitan area Athens |
| #1893, aired 1992-11-25 | GREECE $200: Greeks eat more of this meat than any other lamb |
| #1893, aired 1992-11-25 | GREECE $300: In Greek this peak is called Oros Olimbos Mount Olympus |
| #1893, aired 1992-11-25 | GREECE $400: Retsina is a Greek type of this potent potable flavored with pine resin wine |
| #1893, aired 1992-11-25 | GREECE $500: This peninsula is connected to the mainland of Greece by the Isthmus of Corinth the Peloponnesian Peninsula |
| #1672, aired 1991-12-03 | ANCIENT GREECE $100: The Greeks first used black & white pebbles to make these floor designs; tile came later mosaics |
| #1672, aired 1991-12-03 | ANCIENT GREECE $200: The Odeon of Pericles was the first roofed one of these designed for its acoustics a theater |
| #1672, aired 1991-12-03 | ANCIENT GREECE $300: The Greek "alpha" & "beta" came from their "aleph" & "beth" the Hebrew alphabet |
| #1672, aired 1991-12-03 | ANCIENT GREECE $400: In the "Apology" Plato had him defending himself on charges of corrupting the youth Socrates |
| #1672, aired 1991-12-03 | ANCIENT GREECE $900 (Daily Double): Hipparchus used this form of math to work out the distances between the Sun, Moon & Earth trigonometry |
| #1633, aired 1991-10-09 | GREECE $200: 97% of the population speaks Greek & about the same percentage belong to this church the Greek Orthodox Church |
| #1633, aired 1991-10-09 | GREECE $800: Many Minoan treasures are displayed in the Archaeological Museum in Heraklion on this island Crete |
| #1633, aired 1991-10-09 | GREECE $1000: In 1981, this former US citizen was elected premier Andreas Papandreou |
| #1624, aired 1991-09-26 | ANCIENT GREECE $200: In the 5th C. BC Athens headed the Delian & this militaristic city, the Peloponnesian League Sparta |
| #1624, aired 1991-09-26 | ANCIENT GREECE $400: When the Roman Empire split in two in 395 A.D., Greece remained in the half called this Byzantium |
| #1624, aired 1991-09-26 | ANCIENT GREECE $600: Mathematician & philosopher who discovered the intervals in an octave & probably played a mean triangle Pythagoras |
| #1624, aired 1991-09-26 | ANCIENT GREECE $800: The possession of Amazon Queen Hippolyta that is captured by Hercules her girdle |
| #1624, aired 1991-09-26 | ANCIENT GREECE $1000: In the 4th century BC it was thought if this creature of Asklepios licked your eyes it might cure blindness a snake |
| #1525, aired 1991-03-29 | ANCIENT GREECE $200: The Hellenistic period in Ancient Greek art began with his conquests Alexander the Great |
| #1525, aired 1991-03-29 | ANCIENT GREECE $400: The serfs of this warlike city-state were called Helots Sparta |
| #1525, aired 1991-03-29 | ANCIENT GREECE $600: This unit of currency was first worth 6 iron cooking spits the drachma |
| #1525, aired 1991-03-29 | ANCIENT GREECE $800: Greek literature is said to have begun with this poet Homer |
| #1525, aired 1991-03-29 | ANCIENT GREECE $1,200 (Daily Double): The Greeks defended this pass, whose name means "hot gates", against the Celts as well as the Persians Thermopylae |
| #1363, aired 1990-07-04 | ANCIENT GREECE $200: Both the Olympics & the Nemean Games were held in his honor Zeus |
| #1363, aired 1990-07-04 | ANCIENT GREECE $400: The Anchor Atlas of World History calls these 2 epics "the primer of Greek youth" The Iliad and The Odyssey |
| #1363, aired 1990-07-04 | ANCIENT GREECE $600: It's said he wandered around Athens during the day with a lamp looking for an honest man Diogenes |
| #1363, aired 1990-07-04 | ANCIENT GREECE $800: Found around 900 B.C., it became a military state some 300 years later Sparta |
| #1363, aired 1990-07-04 | ANCIENT GREECE $1000: The Greeks didn't call themselves Greeks but these Hellenes |
| #1269, aired 1990-02-22 | GREECE $200: This symbol on Greece's flag stands for the country's adherence to Christianity the cross |
| #1269, aired 1990-02-22 | GREECE $400: The Greeks eat more of this than any other meat lamb |
| #1269, aired 1990-02-22 | GREECE $600: Many Greek men carry these beads called "kombologia" worry beads |
| #1269, aired 1990-02-22 | GREECE $800: Political party to which Andreas Papandreou belongs the Socialist Party |
| #1269, aired 1990-02-22 | GREECE $1000: When the Corinth Canal was completed, this peninsula technically became an island the Peloponnesus |
| #1255, aired 1990-02-02 | ANCIENT GREECE $100: Carrying news of a Greek victory, Pheidippides ran from this plain to Athens, about 23 miles Marathon |
| #1255, aired 1990-02-02 | ANCIENT GREECE $200: When he conquered Thebes, he destroyed every house but the one the poet Pindar had lived in Alexander the Great |
| #1255, aired 1990-02-02 | ANCIENT GREECE $300: The Greeks considered this site of the oracles the "Omphalus" or navel of the world Delphi |
| #1255, aired 1990-02-02 | ANCIENT GREECE $400: It's very likely that Sophocles & Socrates attended the dedication of this temple in 438 B.C. the Parthenon (the Temple of Athena) |
| #1255, aired 1990-02-02 | ANCIENT GREECE $500: According to Collier's Ency., in the 7th cent. this city-state won most of the recorded Olympic victories Sparta |
| #1189, aired 1989-11-02 | GREECE $200: Ancient Greeks believed this mountain, Greece's highest point, was the home of the gods Olympus |
| #1189, aired 1989-11-02 | GREECE $400: In 1981 Greece became the 10th full member of this group of nations the Common Market |
| #1189, aired 1989-11-02 | GREECE $600: This peninsula is named for Pelops, the mythological ruler of southern Greece Peloponnesia |
| #1189, aired 1989-11-02 | GREECE $800: The Greek national emblem consists of a white cross surrounded by a wreath of these leaves laurel leaves |
| #1189, aired 1989-11-02 | GREECE $1000: In 490 B.C. the Athenians defeated the Persians on this plain 25 miles northeast of Athens Marathon |
| #1058, aired 1989-03-22 | GLORY THAT WAS GREECE $100: Homer's tale of Ulysses' long journey home from the Trojan War The Odyssey |
| #1058, aired 1989-03-22 | GLORY THAT WAS GREECE $200: This French seaport was originally a settlement called Massilia founded by Ionian Greeks Marseille |
| #1058, aired 1989-03-22 | GLORY THAT WAS GREECE $300: The explorer Pytheas figured out the moon had something to do with these tides |
| #1058, aired 1989-03-22 | GLORY THAT WAS GREECE $500: The Greeks called the area in which the Philistines once lived this Palestine |
| #1058, aired 1989-03-22 | GLORY THAT WAS GREECE $800 (Daily Double): Democritus was right in saying all things are made up of these but said they couldn't be divided atoms |
| #422, aired 1986-04-22 | GREECE $100: Goddess of wisdom for whom Athens was named Athena |
| #422, aired 1986-04-22 | GREECE $200: The popular dish moussaka is layers of ground meat & this vegetable eggplant |
| #422, aired 1986-04-22 | GREECE $300: The mainland of Greece forms the southern part of this peninsula the Balkan Peninsula |
| #422, aired 1986-04-22 | GREECE $400: By tradition, the sons in a Greek family don’t marry until this happens first the daughters marry |
| #422, aired 1986-04-22 | GREECE $500: The prosperous 5th century B.C. in Greece is better known as this the Golden Age (or the Age of Pericles) |
| #267, aired 1985-09-17 | GREECE $200: Highest mountain in Greece, which the ancients believed was home of the gods Mt. Olympus |
| #267, aired 1985-09-17 | GREECE $400: Retsina wine is flavored with resin of this type of tree a pine tree |
| #267, aired 1985-09-17 | GREECE $500 (Daily Double): This theme is from a 1964 film starring a Mexican-born actor: instrumental music plays "Zorba The Greek" |
| #267, aired 1985-09-17 | GREECE $800: In 1830, Greece gained its independence from this country Turkey |
| #267, aired 1985-09-17 | GREECE $1000: Though a former American citizen & U.S. Navy vet, he's now prime minister of Greece Papandreou |
| #101, aired 1985-01-28 | GREECE $100: Central hill of ancient Athens, it survived many wars but is now endangered by smog the Acropolis |
| #101, aired 1985-01-28 | GREECE $200: "Never on Sunday" star who's now Minister of Culture Melina Mercouri |
| #101, aired 1985-01-28 | GREECE $300: Greece's official state religion Greek Orthodox |
| #58, aired 1984-11-28 | ANCIENT GREECE $200: The Greeks' word for world or Sagan's word for universe cosmos |
| #58, aired 1984-11-28 | ANCIENT GREECE $400: "Amazing" home of the Minotaur the Maze (or the Labyrinth) |
| #58, aired 1984-11-28 | ANCIENT GREECE $600: City-state ruled by Pericles Athens |
| #58, aired 1984-11-28 | ANCIENT GREECE $800: The name of poetry with a lyre accompaniment lyric poetry |
| #58, aired 1984-11-28 | ANCIENT GREECE $1000: Founder of "Lyceum", his students walked with him as he taught Aristotle |
