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- What is the largest of all the Greek islands?
- Prince Philip was born on the dining room table in Mon Repos, in a villa on which Greek island?
- What name meaning "The Twelve Islands", denotes an island group in the Aegean Sea?
- Windmills are an iconic feature of which Greek island known for its nightlife?
- Which island was historically famous for one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
- One of the busiest of the Greek Islands known for Kolumbo, an underwater volcano just off its coast?
- Farming is the second principal occupation of this island which also gives its name to a variety of lettuce?
- Which ancient Greek philosopher died on the island of Evia in 322 BC?Your answer: Aristotle
- Knossos, the capital of Minoan civilization, is the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on which island?
- Archaic Greek poet Sappho, known for her love poems to other women, lived on which island?
- Which novel by writer Louis de Bernieres is set on the Greek island of Cephalonia during the Second World War?
- Which group of islands includes seven principle islands including Corfu, Paxos and Cefalonia?
- Zakynthos is sometimes known by what name in English?
- The Spianada is a large square in which city?
Answers
- Crete
- Corfu
- Dodecanese
- Mykonos
- Rhodes (The Colossus of Rhodes)
- Santorini
- Cos
- Aristotle
- Crete
- Lesbos, or Lesvos
- Captain Corelli's Mandolin, known in the USA as Corelli's Mandolin
- Ionian
- Zante
- Corfu, or Kerkyra