Maths, marathons and mythology – take true or false quiz to test your knowledge of Greece

THIS is the existent oregon mendacious quiz you tin instrumentality to enactment your Greek cognition to the test, aft a survey revealed however small radical cognize astir the country.

Greece's power "runs deeper" that conscionable the islands and the weather, but a survey has revealed that galore radical are unaware of its affluent history.

The caller canvass asked what percent of radical knew what taste touchstones originated from the Mediterranean island.

It comes aft researchers showed that 37 per cent of radical didn't realise the Olympics originated from Greece.

A further 61 per cent didn't cognize astir Greek amphitheatres and implicit fractional (51 per cent) were clueless astir philosophy's Greek roots.

While 73 per cent had nary thought the alphabet originated from the Mediterranean country, which is the ground for galore Western penning systems today.

The findings commissioned by The Real Greek didn't conscionable uncover worrying statistics, determination were immoderate promising numbers.

The survey besides recovered that encouragingly, 79 per cent person heard of Aristotle, 75 per cent are acquainted with Socrates – but 29 per cent admit they person ne'er heard of Plato.

A spokesperson for The Real Greek said: "A batch of utile and important things person travel from Greece.

"But it’s wide from our survey that not everyone knows what these are.

"From ideology and philosophy, to beloved myths and aboriginal aesculapian practices, Greece has talented the satellite countless ideas and innovations we often instrumentality for granted.”

Further discoveries from the survey beryllium them right.

When reasoning astir the country, 15 per cent subordinate it with Greek Gods, portion 20 per cent archetypal deliberation of its islands - and 12 per cent ever notation to architecture.

Despite that 70 per cent hold past Greek civilization is influential successful the modern world.

Interestingly, conscionable implicit fractional (55 per cent) deliberation that Greek  history has influenced modern Western civilization much than immoderate different civilisation.

Medicine (40 per cent), maths (38 per cent), and ideology (37 per cent) were voted the apical 3 Greek innovations that are astir applicable today.

It emerged 43 per cent learned astir Ancient Greek successful school, with a further 43 per cent being the astir funny successful the Trojan War.

Exactly a 4th are funny astir the Golden Fleece and 22 per cent find the communicative of Pandora fascinating.

Of those who person yet to sojourn the country, 69 per cent would beryllium funny successful doing so, with Rhodes (38 per cent), Crete (38 per cent), and Santorini (33 per cent) the astir desirable destinations.

And of the 48 per cent who person travelled to Greece, 89 per cent are apt to urge it to others.

More than a sixth (17 per cent) devour Greek cuisine connected a monthly basis, with feta food (35 per cent), moussaka (28 per cent), and souvlaki (14 per cent) being among the astir enjoyable foods.

A 4th of those polled via OnePoll.com accidental it’s their favourite cuisine.

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The spokesperson added: “Many radical conscionable subordinate gorgeous islands and weather erstwhile they are asked to deliberation astir Greece.

“But actually, Greek power runs deeper than that - shaping art, science, literature, and adjacent the instauration of our modern governments.

“Exploring these unexpected origins reveals however past Greece continues to enrich our regular lives successful much ways than we realise."