Q 01/05

Which famous ancient epic ends with the Trojan War still raging, before the wooden horse is built?

A) The Iliad

B) The Aeneid

C) The Odyssey

D) The Argonautica

Answer · why

A) The Iliad

The Iliad stops with Troy still standing and the war unfinished. The horse turns up only in passing in the Odyssey, and at full length in a Latin epic...

Q 02/05

Which Roman poet gives the fullest surviving account of the Trojan Horse?

A) Virgil

B) Ovid

C) Horace

D) Lucan

Answer · why

A) Virgil

Virgil gave the tale to the losing side. In Book 2 of his epic a Trojan refugee relives the night at a royal banquet, and that Latin version became th...

Q 03/05

Which Greek hero was the chief architect of the horse plan, and hid inside it himself?

A) Odysseus

B) Achilles

C) Agamemnon

D) Ajax

Answer · why

A) Odysseus

Odysseus had tried to dodge the war by pretending to be mad, yet it was his trick that finally ended it, and he climbed in to lead the ambush himself.

Q 04/05

Ancient accounts say the timber for the wooden horse was felled on which mountain overlooking Troy?

A) Mount Olympus

B) Mount Ida

C) Mount Parnassus

D) Mount Pelion

Answer · why

B) Mount Ida

Mount Ida. The carpenter, Epeius, was a champion boxer who admitted he was no great fighter, yet his woodwork did what the army's heroes could not.

Q 05/05

The wooden horse ended a siege of Troy that had dragged on for how long?

A) One year

B) Three years

C) Ten years

D) Thirty years

Answer · why

C) Ten years

Ten years of fighting had failed to breach the walls. The horse, on one ancient poet's telling, took just three days to build.