HOA X Reviewer (part 2)

A detailed illustration of Roman and Egyptian architectural elements, showcasing columns, temples, and baths, with a backdrop of a historical city setting.

Exploring Roman and Egyptian Architecture

Test your knowledge of ancient architectural wonders with our comprehensive quiz focused on Roman and Egyptian architecture. From iconic public baths to elaborate temples, this quiz covers a wide range of topics to challenge your understanding and appreciation of historical designs.
Are you ready to dive into history and discover the secrets of these magnificent structures?

50 engaging questions
Multiple choice and checkbox formats
Perfect for architecture enthusiasts

50 Questions12 MinutesCreated by BuildingWonders42

It started with animistic worship then shift to worship of gods and goddesses of the Greeks.

Climate

Religion

Sacred enclosures with simple open altars.

Temples

Tombs

Houses

Cities

ROMAN ARCHITECTURE: Public baths

Balneum

Thermae

Basilicas

Forum

A quadrangle opening in the atrium of the Roman house, towards which the roof sloped so as to throw the rain water in a shallow cistern or impluvium in the floor.

Pozzolana

Templum

Compluvium

Impluvium

Space on the ground or in the sky marked out for the purpose of taking omens.

Compluvium

Impluvium

Pozzolana

Templum

Flat-sloping coffered ceilings, elaborately carved, carved doorframes and colored dados around the wall.

Houses

Tombs

Temples

Baths

A drainage system and an open drain.

Forum

Aqueduct

Basilica

Cloaca Maxima

ROMAN ARCHITECTURE: Smaller public bath

Circus

Aqueduct

Balneum

Thermae

Public open space for social, civic or market purposes found in every Roman towns.

Thermae

Balneum

Circus

Forum

A hall with nave and aisles used for the administration of justice.

Circus

Basilicas

Theatre-in-the-round with seating encompassing the central arena.

Colloseum

Amphitheatres

A great awning drawn over a Roman theatres and amphitheatres to protect people from the sun.

Frigidarium

Velarium

A range of columns surrounding a court or a temple.

Peristyle

Hypostyle

Eye-circular window

Oculus

Clerestory

Produced by the pressure of the mud roof against the wall.

Egyptian gorge cornice

Egyptian columns

Mythical monster with a body of a lion and head of a man or a woman.

Pylons

Sphinx

Body of a lion, head of a man or a woman.

Androsphinx

Criosphinx

Hieracosphinx

Body of a lion, head of a hawk.

Androsphinx

Criosphinx

Hieracosphinx

Body of a lion, head of a ram.

Androsphinx

Criosphinx

Hieracosphinx

Mass of masonry with central opening forming the monumental entrance to Egyptian temples.

Avenue of sphinxes

Pylons

A pillared hall in which the roof rests on columns; applied to many columned halls of Egyptian architecture.

Cenotaph

Hypostyle hall

An ancient Egyptian rectangular, flat topped funerary mound with battered sloping sides covering a burial chamber below the ground.

Pyramid

Mastaba

Consisted a chamber behind a porticoed facade plainly imitating wooden construction in the character of the eight of sixteen sided slightly fluted tapered column their trabeation and rafter ends above. (huh)

Tomb of Khnemhetep

Tomb of Beni Hasan

The cathedral is one of the finest Romanesque building in the world.

Sicily Cathedral

Pisa Cathedral

GREEK ARCHITECTURE: supreme deity or the goddess of fertility; wife of Zeus.

Athena

Demeter

Hera

From what architecture are these characters: Flat roof, Megaron/mainland domestic unit, cyclopean type

Roman Architecture

Aegean Architecture

Use of false arches

Vaults

Corbel

Pointed domes

Vaults

Corbel

The principal feature of this palace is the Lion gate.

Palace of Tyrins

Palace at Mycenae

The entrance gateway or vestibule of the Hellenic Period.

Crepis

Propylaea

DORIC ORDER: the upper step forming the platform on which the colonnade is placed.

Crepidoma

Entasis

Stylobate

Shaft

DORIC ORDER: the crowning upper portion of the entablature

Mutule

Antefixa

Metope

Cornice

CORINTHIAN ORDER: stalks between the leaves at the upper tier surmounted by a calyx.

Echinus

Caulicoli

Greek term for column.

Phidias

Stylos

Temples with cella surrounded by columns.

Peripteral temples

Pseudodipteral temples

Contains more than one temple and contain those of lesser importance or contain temples built at different periods.

Theatre

Sanctuaries

Monumental, rectangular in plan and with architectural motifs and mouldings such as triglyph and metope frieze or screen of columns.

Banqueting hall

Altar

The main temple dedicated to Athena

Athens

Parthenon

The entablature is resting on the maidens' head that supports a roof or flat slab.

Parthenon

Erechtheion

GREEK ARCHITECTURE: an open place assembly or a market place.

Stoa

Bouleuterion

Prytaneion

Agora

GREEK ARCHITECTURE: a free-standing portico or detached colonnade used for covered walk and meeting place.

Stoa

Bouleuterion

Prytaneion

Agora

GREEK ARCHITECTURE: Greek senate or council house

Stoa

Bouleuterion

Prytaneion

Agora

GREEK ARCHITECTURE: circular building where the committee of the council, when in office, dined in this building at state expense.

Stoa

Agora

Tholos

GREEK ARCHITECTURE: the public hall or state dining room

Stoa

Bouleuterion

Prytaneion

Agora

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