KIN 2501 JACOBSEN LATEST EXAMS UPDATED QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS FIRM A+
✔✔flute - ✔✔musical instrument accompanied athletes' training
✔✔pindar - ✔✔poet
✔✔Olympia, olive - ✔✔Where were the Olympia games held and what was the prize?
✔✔Delphi, bay/laurel - ✔✔Where were the Pythian games held and what was the prize?
✔✔Nemea, parsley - ✔✔Where were the Nemean games held and what was the prize?
✔✔Isthimia, pine - ✔✔Where were the Isthmian games held and what was the prize?
✔✔Olympia, Pythian, Nemean, Isthmian - ✔✔What 4 games make up the Wreath
Games?
✔✔4 - ✔✔Olympics were held every ________ years.
✔✔Delphi - ✔✔sacred site of the god Apollo
✔✔Nemean - ✔✔wreath games that honored Zeus
✔✔Isthmian - ✔✔wreath games that honored Poseidon
✔✔secular games - ✔✔games initially held in over 300 cities primarily for entertainment
✔✔ancient olympics - ✔✔largest set of religious festivals, honored Zeus, held in late
summer
✔✔Olympia - ✔✔considered a sanctuary, a holy place
✔✔treasury building - ✔✔where valuable art was placed on display
✔✔stadion - ✔✔about 600 ft
✔✔polestra - ✔✔where athletes trained
✔✔national unity, communication, religion - ✔✔What were 3 things the ancient olympics
fostered?
, ✔✔participants of ancient olympics - ✔✔all spoke the same language and all had the
same religious beliefs; upper class men who took an oath of fair play and had trained for
at least 10 months; came to Olympia for last month to train to prove they were citizen
and had no criminal record
✔✔unmarried - ✔✔Women were allowed to go to the ancient olympics if they were
________.
✔✔thrown off a cliff - ✔✔If unauthorized women attended the ancient olympics, they
were ________.
✔✔attend in the nude - ✔✔They passed a law for trainers at the ancient olympics to
________ to enforce the law of married women not being allowed at the games.
✔✔olive wreath - ✔✔What would you get officially if you won the ancient olympics?
✔✔fame and fortune - ✔✔What would you get in practice if you won the ancient
olympics?
✔✔stade race - ✔✔only event at the first 13 olympics
✔✔owner - ✔✔Who won the horse races, the jockey or the owner?
✔✔pancration - ✔✔outlawed biting, hitting nose or mouth, no gouging, discouraged
hitting the genitals of opponent
✔✔various foot races - ✔✔evolved from stade race
✔✔pentathlon - ✔✔winner of this event recognized as best overall athlete
✔✔horse race, chariot race, wrestling, boxing, pancration, various footraces, pentathlon
- ✔✔What were 7 the events of the eventual 5-day program of the ancient olympics?
✔✔discus, long jump, wrestling, javelin, stade race - ✔✔What were the events of the
pentathlon?
✔✔religious, winning - ✔✔The emphasis of the olympics gradually changed from
________ to ________.
✔✔past winners, nutrition - ✔✔Olympians were soon trained by ________ and focused
on ________.
✔✔Heraean games - ✔✔games in honor of Zeus's wife Hera
AND ANSWERS FIRM A+
✔✔flute - ✔✔musical instrument accompanied athletes' training
✔✔pindar - ✔✔poet
✔✔Olympia, olive - ✔✔Where were the Olympia games held and what was the prize?
✔✔Delphi, bay/laurel - ✔✔Where were the Pythian games held and what was the prize?
✔✔Nemea, parsley - ✔✔Where were the Nemean games held and what was the prize?
✔✔Isthimia, pine - ✔✔Where were the Isthmian games held and what was the prize?
✔✔Olympia, Pythian, Nemean, Isthmian - ✔✔What 4 games make up the Wreath
Games?
✔✔4 - ✔✔Olympics were held every ________ years.
✔✔Delphi - ✔✔sacred site of the god Apollo
✔✔Nemean - ✔✔wreath games that honored Zeus
✔✔Isthmian - ✔✔wreath games that honored Poseidon
✔✔secular games - ✔✔games initially held in over 300 cities primarily for entertainment
✔✔ancient olympics - ✔✔largest set of religious festivals, honored Zeus, held in late
summer
✔✔Olympia - ✔✔considered a sanctuary, a holy place
✔✔treasury building - ✔✔where valuable art was placed on display
✔✔stadion - ✔✔about 600 ft
✔✔polestra - ✔✔where athletes trained
✔✔national unity, communication, religion - ✔✔What were 3 things the ancient olympics
fostered?
, ✔✔participants of ancient olympics - ✔✔all spoke the same language and all had the
same religious beliefs; upper class men who took an oath of fair play and had trained for
at least 10 months; came to Olympia for last month to train to prove they were citizen
and had no criminal record
✔✔unmarried - ✔✔Women were allowed to go to the ancient olympics if they were
________.
✔✔thrown off a cliff - ✔✔If unauthorized women attended the ancient olympics, they
were ________.
✔✔attend in the nude - ✔✔They passed a law for trainers at the ancient olympics to
________ to enforce the law of married women not being allowed at the games.
✔✔olive wreath - ✔✔What would you get officially if you won the ancient olympics?
✔✔fame and fortune - ✔✔What would you get in practice if you won the ancient
olympics?
✔✔stade race - ✔✔only event at the first 13 olympics
✔✔owner - ✔✔Who won the horse races, the jockey or the owner?
✔✔pancration - ✔✔outlawed biting, hitting nose or mouth, no gouging, discouraged
hitting the genitals of opponent
✔✔various foot races - ✔✔evolved from stade race
✔✔pentathlon - ✔✔winner of this event recognized as best overall athlete
✔✔horse race, chariot race, wrestling, boxing, pancration, various footraces, pentathlon
- ✔✔What were 7 the events of the eventual 5-day program of the ancient olympics?
✔✔discus, long jump, wrestling, javelin, stade race - ✔✔What were the events of the
pentathlon?
✔✔religious, winning - ✔✔The emphasis of the olympics gradually changed from
________ to ________.
✔✔past winners, nutrition - ✔✔Olympians were soon trained by ________ and focused
on ________.
✔✔Heraean games - ✔✔games in honor of Zeus's wife Hera
