Weekly Quiz - July 12, 2012

Ancient Intoxicants and More

This quiz was prompted by an email to your Guide asking for information on intoxicating beverages that was itself a follow-up response to a Q&A about my recent blog post about Chinese wine: Ancient History in the News: Earliest Chinese Wine?. Should you wish to read about ancient wine, or the other topics of the quiz, you'll find references at the bottom of the quiz.

1. Which was not used to store Greco-Roman wine?
Amphora
Diota
Hydria
Pelike
Stamnos

2. Which would an ancient Roman definitely not have used to stopper a wine jar?
Cork
Gypsum
Pitch
Rubber
Wood

3. Who would be the most likely to have had a beer with lunch?
A builder of the Great Wall of China
A follower of Buddha in ancient India
A member of the court of Damocles
A Peloponnesian War warrior
A pyramid builder in Egypt

4. The ancient Greeks and Romans mixed their wine with water before serving. In which of these would they have done so?
Akrataphoros
Lekythos
Luxnos
Krater
Psykter

5. Which sea was famously called the wine-dark sea?
Aegean
Black
Caspian
Mediterranean
Red

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