Trivia Quiz on Ancient History

1. Who was the last king of Troy

A) Priam

B) Laomedon

C) Aeneas

D) Ilus

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2. In mythology, which soil of Juno was considered to be the most Roman of gods

A) Jupiter

B) Mercury

C) Neptune

D) Mars

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3. Who owned a sword called crocea mors or yellow death

A) Alexander the Great

B) Julius Caesar

C) Genghis Khan

D) Napoleon Bonaparte

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4. Ilium is the Latin name for what ancient city

A) Athens

B) Troy

C) Sparta

D) Thebes

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5. Who marched his elephants through the Pyrenees & the Alps in 218 b.c.

A) Alexander the Great

B) Hasdrubal Barca

C) Julius Caesar

D) Hannibal

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6. Who named a city after his horse Bucephalus

A) Julius Caesar

B) Genghis Khan

C) Napoleon Bonaparte

D) Alexander the Great

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7. Poseidon was the greek god of the ______

A) Sky

B) Underworld

C) Sun

D) Sea

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8. Amuhea Princess of Medes was the wife of who

A) Nebuchadnezzars

B) Cyrus the Great

C) Darius I

D) Alexander the Great

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9. What ancient symbol's German name translates as "hooked cross"

A) Ankh

B) Chi-Rho

C) Tau cross

D) The swastika swastika

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10. In Greek mythology, who was minos

A) King of Athens

B) King of crete

C) King of Sparta

D) Prince of Troy

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11. In Homer's Iliad, who was the King of Troy

A) Hector

B) Aeneas

C) Priam

D) Paris

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12. When was the first leap year

A) 33 bc

B) 46 bc

C) 45 bc

D) 1 ad

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13. Who was the roman god of the sea

A) Poseidon

B) Triton

C) Neptune

D) Oceanus

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14. Neptune was the roman god of the ______

A) Thunder

B) War

C) Love

D) Sea

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15. The Colossus of Rhodes was a statue of who

A) Helios the sun god

B) Zeus

C) Athena

D) Poseidon

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16. In Greece who were the Hetaerae

A) High class Prostitutes

B) Mythical priestesses

C) Senior political advisors

D) Military escorts

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17. What was the city of Istanbul called before 330 AD

A) Constantinople

B) Chalcedon

C) Byzantium

D) Istanbul

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18. Who said 'Give me a firm place to stand and I will move the Earth' ?

A) Albert Einstein

B) Archimedes

C) Isaac Newton

D) Galileo Galilei

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19. Mare Nostrum was the Roman name for what

A) Black Sea

B) Mediterranean Sea (Our Sea)

C) Red Sea

D) Aegean Sea

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20. On which mountain did noah's ark run aground

A) Mount Everest

B) Mount Ararat

C) Mount Kilimanjaro

D) Mount Fuji

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21. What Is The Oldest Inhabited City In The World

A) Jerusalem, Israel

B) Aleppo, Syria

C) Damascus, Syria

D) Byblos, Lebanon

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22. Which of the Seven Wonders of the World was constructed by the sculptor Phidias about 430 B.C.

A) Statue of Zeus

B) Hanging Gardens of Babylon

C) Temple of Artemis at Ephesus

D) Colossus of Rhodes

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23. Where were the ancient olympics held

A) Athens

B) Delphi

C) Olympia

D) Nemea

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24. Many ancient mayan ruins are located on which peninsula

A) Baja California Peninsula

B) Yucatan peninsula

C) Iberian Peninsula

D) Malay Peninsula

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25. Who is the greek counterpart of venus

A) Hera

B) Aphrodite

C) Artemis

D) Athena

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26. Who was the father of Alexander the Great

A) Philip II of Macedon

B) Darius III

C) Philip V of Macedon

D) Antipater

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27. The site of Troy is in which modern country

A) Turkey

B) Greece

C) Bulgaria

D) Syria

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28. Who was king of macedonia from 336 to 323 b.c

A) Philip II

B) Alexander the great

C) Cassander

D) Antipater

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29. Who introduced bagpipes to the british isles

A) Greeks

B) Celts

C) Romans

D) Egyptians

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30. Ops was the wife of which Roman God

A) Jupiter

B) Neptune

C) Saturn

D) Juno

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31. Englands Stonehenge is how many years older than Rome's colosseum

A) 3,000 years

B) 2,000 years

C) 1,800 years

D) 1,500 years

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32. A trained fighter in ancient Rome

A) Centurion

B) Gladiator

C) Legionary

D) Praetorian

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33. What wonder stood 32m high in rhodes harbour

A) Lighthouse of Alexandria

B) Mausoleum at Halicarnassus

C) Great Pyramid of Giza

D) Colossus of Rhodes

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34. Who was reportedly the strongest man on earth

A) Hercules

B) Goliath

C) Samson

D) Beowulf

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35. Lee Where were the Toltecs from

A) Guatemala

B) Mexico

C) Peru

D) Spain

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36. Agrippa poisoned her husband/uncle who was he

A) Caligula

B) Claudius

C) Nero

D) Germanicus

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37. Hannibal had only one what

A) Eye after Rome attack

B) Arm after Rome attack

C) Tongue after Rome attack

D) Foot after Rome attack

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38. In Greek mythology, to where did zeus abduct europa

A) Crete

B) Cyprus

C) Libya

D) Naxos

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39. What were the wicks in the Vestal Virgins lamps made from

A) Cotton

B) Linen

C) Reeds

D) Asbestos

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40. Who ordered the persecution of the christians in which peter and paul died

A) Domitian

B) Hadrian

C) Trajan

D) Nero

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41. Chronos in Greek Saturnus in Roman Gods of what

A) The Harvest

B) Time

C) The Sky

D) The Sea

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42. What people were the first to use the rounded arch

A) Greeks

B) Egyptians

C) Babylonians

D) Romans

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43. Where were the first gambling casinos

A) Egypt

B) Venice, Italy

C) France

D) China

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44. Who was King of Mycenae and Commander of the Greek forces in the Trojan War

A) Agamemnon

B) Menelaus

C) Nestor

D) Odysseus

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45. Around 3000 bc, what writing system originated in sumer

A) Cuneiform

B) Egyptian hieroglyphs

C) Phoenician alphabet

D) Linear B

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46. What is the worlds oldest monotheistic religion

A) Hinduism

B) Zoroastrianism

C) Ancient Egyptian religion

D) Judaism

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47. The wheel was invented in about what year BC

A) 4000

B) 3000

C) 3500

D) 2500

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48. Who was called The Scourge of God

A) Genghis Khan

B) Nero

C) Charlemagne

D) Attila the Hun

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49. From which country did the original vandals come

A) Germany

B) France

C) Poland

D) England

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50. The Romans called it Numidia what do we call it today

A) Tunisia

B) Morocco

C) Libya

D) Algeria

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