Below is the full Quizmo quiz devoted to the theme "The Trojan War": each question, its four options, the correct answer highlighted and, where available, its source. A chance to brush up on your general knowledge and then test what you know.
▶ Play today's quizWhat hollow object did the Greeks leave behind to smuggle soldiers inside the enemy walls?
Source: The giant wooden horse is history's most famous decoy, and 'Trojan horse' still names anything hiding a nasty surprise inside.
Which Greek hero was said to be invulnerable everywhere except for one heel?
Source: Achilles' single weak spot gave us the phrase 'Achilles' heel' for anyone's one fatal flaw.
Whose kidnapping is traditionally blamed for triggering the whole ten-year conflict?
Source: Helen was branded 'the face that launched a thousand ships' because her flight to Troy supposedly sailed an entire Greek armada into war.
Which Hollywood star played the warrior Achilles in the 2004 epic film Troy?
Source: Brad Pitt took the role of Achilles, while co-star Orlando Bloom played the runaway prince Paris.
How many years did the Greek army reportedly besiege the city before it fell?
Source: A full decade of siege means a soldier could have left home as a young man and not seen his family for ten years.
Which Trojan prince ran off with the Greek queen, sparking the entire war?
Source: Paris started a ten-year war by eloping with another king's wife — proving one bad romantic decision can change history.
Roughly how many ships did legend say the Greek fleet sailed to attack the city?
Source: The 'thousand ships' image was so iconic that beauty was later measured in 'millihelens' — the amount needed to launch a single ship.
Who served as overall commander of the Greek forces gathered against the city?
Source: Agamemnon led the coalition, but his arrogance toward his best fighter nearly cost the Greeks the entire war.
The Iliad, the famous epic poem about this war, is credited to which ancient poet?
Source: The Iliad, our oldest surviving account of the Trojan War, has been attributed to the Greek poet Homer since antiquity.
A golden apple that started a quarrel among three goddesses was inscribed with which phrase?
Source: 'To the fairest' was the ancient world's most dangerous compliment — that single apple set the whole war in motion.
In which present-day country do archaeologists place the ruins identified as Troy?
Source: The legendary city sat in modern Turkey, not Greece — guarding the narrow straits between Europe and Asia.
Which famously cunning Greek is usually credited with devising the wooden-horse trick?
Source: Odysseus dreamed up the hollow-horse scheme, then spent ten more years lost at sea trying to get home from it.
Which goddess won Paris's favor by promising him the most beautiful woman alive?
Source: Aphrodite out-bribed the goddesses of power and wisdom — Paris chose love, and a decade of bloodshed followed.
Whose death in battle finally drove a grieving Achilles back into the fight?
Source: Achilles had sulked in his tent for ages, but the loss of his beloved friend Patroclus is what pulled him back to war.
Which Trojan princess was cursed to speak true prophecies that no one would ever believe?
Source: Cassandra predicted the city's doom and was ignored — her name now labels anyone whose accurate warnings get dismissed.
Which aged king ruled the doomed city throughout the long siege?
Source: King Priam reportedly fathered fifty sons, yet he ended up begging his greatest enemy for the body of just one.
In Roman legend, which Trojan refugee's bloodline was said to give rise to Rome?
Source: Romans claimed the survivor Aeneas as their ancestor — turning their old enemies' fall into Rome's origin story.
As a baby, Achilles was dipped into which underworld river to make him invulnerable?
Source: His mother held him by the heel while dunking him in the River Styx — leaving the one dry spot that doomed him.
Which 19th-century businessman famously excavated the mound believed to be ancient Troy?
Source: Schliemann proved the 'myth' had real walls — though his rough digging accidentally destroyed parts of the very city he sought.
Achilles' legendary rage begins when Agamemnon seizes which captive woman from him?
Source: The whole Iliad opens with a feud over Briseis — Western literature's first epic basically starts with a bitter custody dispute.