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1. We take a boat ferry from Brindisi in Italy to Greece, stopping along the way on the Greek island of Corfu. This atypical island is lush in vegetation, and is known for olive trees, kumquat liqueur, and its varied architecture. Corfu has been ruled by the Venetians, French, Russians and Turks, and the British. What European royal was born on this island?
2. Corfu is one of the islands in the Ionian sea, off the western coast of Greece. What is the name of another island in the Ionian sea, famous as the home of Ulysses in Homer's Odyssey?
3. We continue by boat to Patras, a port on the western coast of Greece and take a bus to Athens. We must pass an isthmus from the Peloponnesian peninsula on the way. What city-state controlled this isthmus?
4. Incidentally, about how many Greek city-states were there?
5. We travel to Athens and tour the Acropolis. We learn much about the works of art and the attempts to preserve them. We find that the statues of the Caryatids which adorn the Erechtheion are copies, since keeping the originals there would destroy them from corrosion of pollution. We are aware that the Parthenon's frieze had also been removed for protection. Where is most of it located?
6. We tour the rest of the Acropolis, including the theater and the agora, or marketplace, below. We have lunch and taste the Greek alcoholic beverage known for its anise or licorice flavor. What is the name of this drink?
7. We leave Athens and head to Delphi, an important site of religion in Greece and the location of the oracle, which could predict the future, but revealed it in a riddle. In Delphi is an egg-shaped stone near a fissure coming out of the earth. What is the mythological significance of this location?
8. We drive to northeast Greece and come to a valley where numerous monasteries are perched atop sheer cliffs, with access sometimes only with baskets hoisted from below. Where are we?
9. No trip to Greece is complete without a visit to the Aegean islands. Arriving in Santorini, the island which forms part of the rim of a largely submerged volcano crater, we hear about the legend of Atlantis and the tumultuous geologic history of this area. What is the other name of this famous island of Santorini?
10. We head back to Athens, our departure point for this trip. Is the following statement true or false: the summer Olympic games of 2004 was only the second time Athens hosted the Olympic games since the resumption of the modern Olympic games in 1896.
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