This quiz complements DIG's Nov./Dec. 2008 issue, "Ice Age Animals."

Pick one answer from the menu under each question.

1. The Parthenon is a temple to this Greek goddess of wisdom and patroness of the city where the temple is located:

a. Aphrodite
b. Hera
c. Athena
d. Artemis

2. The main temple in Chichen Itza is dedicated to Kukulkan, the Maya version of this Aztec feathered serpent god:

a. Nahuatl
b. Quetzalcoatl
c. Cortes
d. Inca

3. This incredible cave temple at Elephanta is dedicated to this three-eyed Indian god:

a. Shiva
b. Kali
c. Ganesh
d. Lakshmi

4. The temple at Sounion is located on a cliff above the sea in honor of this Greek ocean god to whom it is dedicated:

a. Poseidon
b. Hades
c. Zeus
d. Apollo

5. The temple in the Forum of Julius Caesar in Rome was dedicated to the Roman goddess of love whom Caesar considered his ancestor:

a. Minerva
b. Venus
c. Vesta
d. Juno

6. This rock cut temple of Rameses II was for the gods Amun, Ptah and Re, but the four colossal statues on the façade were of Rameses himself:

a. Karnak Temple
b. Deir El-Bahri
c. Abydos Temple
d. Abu Simbel

7. The famed “Tower of Babel” is possibly the ziggurat at Babylon, which supported a temple to this creator god:

a. Ishtar
b. Marduk
c. Adad
d. Ningirsu

8. The main temple at Olympia was the centerpiece of the sanctuary where the ancient Olympics were held in this god’s honor:

a. Poseidon
b. Hermes
c. Zues
d. Hephaistos

9. The Egyptian temple on the Island of Philae, one of the possible burial places of Osiris, was built for the wife of Osiris, whose name is:

a. Isis
b. Hathor
c. Mut
d. Anukis

10. One of the world’s earliest temples is the “White Temple” at Uruk, Mesopotamia, built for the sky god, Anu by this civilization:

a. The Egyptians
b. The Simoans
c. The Chinese
d. The Sumerians

11. Asama shrines are dedicated to Konohanasakuya-hime, a goddess of the cherry blossom in the Shinto religion of this country:

a. China
b. Japan
c. India
d. Turkey

12. The “Pantheon” which means “Temple to All the Gods” is located in this city:

a. Athens
b. Cairo
c. Instanbul
d. Rome