Trivia Quiz on Ancient Rome Part 3

1. Which City Was Engulfed In Lava From Mount Vesuvius In AD79?

A) Pompeii

B) Herculaneum

C) Stabiae

D) Naples

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2. What country started the tradition of exchanging gifts?

A) Greece

B) Spain

C) Germany

D) Italy (Romans)

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3. Which emperor made his horse a senator?

A) Nero

B) Commodus

C) Elagabalus

D) Caligula

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4. Who ruled rome when Christ was born?

A) Julius Caesar

B) Augustus Caesar

C) Tiberius

D) Caligula

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5. Who Was The First Roman Emperor

A) Julius Caesar

B) Nero

C) Tiberius

D) Augustus (Gaius Julius Octavianus)

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6. What did Julius Caesar cross to signal a revolt against the senate?

A) The Tiber

B) The Nile

C) Rubikon

D) The Rhine

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7. What is the Roman numeral for fifty

A) X

B) L

C) C

D) D

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8. These fighters always began a bout by saying, "Hail Emperor, those about to die salute you."?

A) Centurions

B) Spartans

C) Gladiators

D) Samurai

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9. This assassin of Julius Caesar was his friend.

A) Cassius

B) Brutus

C) Casca

D) Mark Antony

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10. Name The Slave Who Lead An Unsuccessful Revolt By The Gladiators Against Rome?

A) Gannicus

B) Julius Caesar

C) Spartacus

D) Crassus

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11. Which Wall Did The Romans Build To Keep Out Marauding Scots?

A) Antonine's Wall

B) Offa's Dyke

C) Hadrians Wall

D) London Wall

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12. How Many Men Were There In A Roman Legion?

A) 4500

B) 4800

C) 6000

D) 7000

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13. Messala was the gad guy in which 50s blockbuster ?

A) The Ten Commandments

B) Quo Vadis

C) The Robe

D) Ben Hur

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14. How many stab wounds did Julius Caesar have when he died ?

A) 22

B) 24

C) 25

D) 23

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15. He ruled Rome when Christ was born.

A) Nero

B) Julius Caesar

C) Caesar augustus

D) Constantine the Great

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16. He was stabbed by Cassius.

A) Brutus

B) Nero

C) Julius caesar

D) Cleopatra

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17. The Romans built these to convey water.

A) Aqueduct

B) Canal

C) Dam

D) Siphon

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18. Who fiddled while Rome burned?

A) Julius Caesar

B) Caligula

C) Nero

D) Commodus

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19. Calpurnia Was The 3rd Wife Of Which Roman Emperor

A) Nero

B) Augustus

C) Julias Caesar

D) Caligula

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20. Who said "Veni, vidi, vici" (I came, I saw, I conquered)

A) Julius caesar

B) Marcus Brutus

C) Augustus

D) Pompey

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21. Who presided over the trial of Jesus?

A) Herod Antipas

B) Caiaphas

C) Annas

D) Pontius Pilate

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22. Roman statues were made with detachable whats, so that one what could be removed and replaced by another?

A) Noses

B) Hands

C) Heads

D) Feet

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23. Who outlawed gladiator sports in Rome?

A) Caesar

B) Nero

C) Augustus

D) Caligula

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24. One who fought professionally in Roman arenas was a(n) ____________.

A) Gladiator

B) Centurion

C) Lanista

D) Bestiarius

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25. What Name Was Given To The Practise Of Killing Every Tenth Man In A Mutinous Roman Cohort?

A) Decimate

B) Damnatio memoriae

C) Tenth-man levy

D) Tribunician purge

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26. Who said "Veni, vidi, vici" (I came, I saw, I conquered)?

A) Julius Caesar

B) Augustus

C) Alexander the Great

D) Napoleon Bonaparte

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27. He is said to have fiddled while Rome burned.

A) Julius Caesar

B) Nero

C) Caligula

D) Constantine

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28. Who ordered the persecution of the Christians in which Peter and Paul died?

A) Nero

B) Caligula

C) Domitian

D) Trajan

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29. Which Roman Emperor Followed Claudius?

A) Caligula

B) Nero

C) Hadrian

D) Tiberius

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30. What is the Roman numeral for fifty?

A) L

B) XL

C) LV

D) C

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31. What volcano destroyed Pompeii

A) Etna

B) Krakatoa

C) Vesuvius

D) Santorini

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32. Who is the Roman goddess of destiny?

A) Juno

B) Vesta

C) Fortuna

D) Minerva

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33. Neptune was the Roman god of the ______?

A) The Sky

B) The Underworld

C) The Harvest

D) Sea

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34. Who was the roman god of wine?

A) Dionysus

B) Saturn

C) Bacchus

D) Jupiter

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