A Visit to Cyprus Trivia Quiz

Answer: Aphrodite

Legend says that Aphrodite's Rock, a few miles east of Paphos, is where the goddess of love rose from the waves. This beautiful spot is probably the most photographed site in Cyprus and the rocks are especially stunning with the sunset behind them.

Answer: Richard I

On his way to the Third Crusade, Richard I married Berengaria of Navarre at Limassol on 12 May 1191. Berengaria went to the Holy Land with him but then returned to Europe. After Richard's death she lived in poverty in France until her death in 1230. She was the only Queen of England never to set foot on English soil.

Answer: 2004

The entire island entered the EU on 1 May 2004, although at this time the EU rights and obligations applied only to the areas under direct Republic of Cyprus control and not to the area administered by Turkish Cypriots.

Answer: Meze

Meze, from the word mezedes or 'little delicacies', consists of a variety of small plates of food. These start with savoury dips such as taramasalata and talatouri, followed by a wide range of meat and fish dishes, including lountza (smoked pork), halloumi (soft cheese), stifado (beef stew) and kleftiko (lamb).

Answer: Akrotiri

The Sovereign Base Areas were created in 1960 by the Treaty of Establishment, when Cyprus was granted independence. The United Kingdom wished to retain sovereignty over these areas because of the strategic location of Cyprus in the Mediterranean Sea. Akrotiri is the Western Sovereign Base and Dhekelia is the Eastern Sovereign Base (to the east of Larnaca).

Answer: Kykkos

In 1926 Michael Mouskos, later Archibishop Makarios and first President of Cyprus, went to Kykkos as a novice. The Kykkos monastery was built in 1100 and is dedicated to the Virgin Mary, because an icon of the Virgin and Child attributed to St Luke, was given to a Cypriot monk by the Emperor Comnenos. The monastery is 1318 metres high in the north west Troodos Mountains

Answer: Sweet red wine

The Cypriot wine Commanderia is said to be the oldest sweet red wine in the world, produced as long ago as 2000 BC. The name is more recent, dating to the twelfth century when the Knights of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem bought Cyprus from Richard the Lionheart.

They gave the name of their Headquarters (Grand Commanderie) to this unique wine with its delicate aroma and started exporting it to Europe where it became famous.

Answer: Cat

Legend says that Helen, mother of the Emperor Constantine, first brought cats to Cyprus to deal with the snakes. However archaeological evidence shows that there were cats in Cyprus many centuries before this. A Neolithic burial site revealed the skeleton of a young cat, buried just a few feet away from a human skeleton, which suggests that humans over nine thousand years ago may have kept cats as pets.

Answer: Brown

The 1997 note shows a Cypriot girl in traditional costume on the front, and handicraft items and Lefkara village on the back.

Answer: Beer

Keo is a Cypriot beer, produced in Limassol since 1951. The Keo Brewery was the first brewery to be built on the island. Keo is a lager-type beer, and is very welcome and thirst-quenching when drunk ice-cold on a hot summer day!