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Trojan War Trivia

From wooden horses to divine beauty contests, prove your knowledge of the ten-year war that makes your modern breakups look like child's play.

EXAMPLE QUESTIONS

Which impulsive god of brutal warfare abandoned the Greeks to side with the Trojans, primarily due to his romantic affair with Aphrodite?

Ares

In Christopher Marlowe’s play *Doctor Faustus*, Helen of Troy is famously described as having the 'face that launched' how many ships?

A thousand

Urging his fellow citizens to beware of Greeks bearing gifts, what weapon did the priest Laocoön fruitlessly hurl at the side of the Trojan Horse?

A spear

Before fighting in the Trojan War, Achilles was sent to Mount Pelion to be educated in medicine, music, and warfare by which wise centaur?

Chiron

In Homer’s Iliad, who is the devoted wife of the Trojan prince Hector and mother of their son Astyanax?

Andromache