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Ancient Rome Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Tyrant of Syracuse used his power unjustly
Hiero II
Parthia
Gaius Gracchus
Imperator
2. Augustus - Tiberius - Caligula - Cladius - Nero
Julio-Claudian Emperors
Messiah
Pompey
Horatius
3. Place in Sicily
Imperium
Syracuse
Proletariat
Antonius Pius
4. Hellenized Jew - encouraged Greek culture - one of the people responsible for Jesus's death
Pontifex Maximus
King Herod
Tiberius
St. Paul
5. Killed by Caesar - ordered death of Pompey - King and Egypt both - fighting against his sister to be ruler
Sejanus
Otho
Battle of Actium
Ptolemy XIII
6. Killed by Caesar - ordered death of Pompey - King and Egypt both - fighting against his sister to be ruler
Res Publicas
Plebeian
The Gladiator War
Ptolemy XIII
7. Cannot propose laws but can veto laws - 10 in the Government - Serve for one year
Battle of Pharsalus
Lucius Verus
Tribune
Ptolemy XIII
8. Leader of the Huns from 434 to 453 CE - led the Hunds west into Germanic territory - threatening Rome
Attila the Hun
Parthia
The Jugurthine War
Romulus Augustus (aka Romulus Augustulus)
9. One of Antoninus Pius' heirs. Not interested in politics so made his brother Lucius Verus co-emperor. Commodus was his heir - more interested in philosophy stoic philosopher
Marcus Aurelius
Sulla
Commodus
Hasdrubal
10. African kingdom - that allies with Rome
Galba
Tribune
Numidia
Cassius
11. Fought in Cannae - the Carthaginians won because they attacked the Romans from 4 sides
The Edict of Milan
Rome
Attila the Hun
Battle of Cannae
12. Major enemy with Rome - allianced on and off with Rome
Mithridates VI
Res Publicas
Parthia
Lucretia
13. The second town that Numitor ruled
Sabines
Corvus
Alba Longa
Tribune
14. Anointed one - Jewish term for savior
Sulla
Imperium
Messiah
Attila the Hun
15. Military leader - goes against Rome - after he lost in Africa he was kicked out of Carthage
Imperator
Hannibal Barca
Latins
Popularis
16. Word for someone who follows one of the non-major religion today
Pagan
Caesarion
Cato
Caligula
17. Worked through the people to get power
Popularis
Pontius Pilate
Sejanus
Crassus
18. Marcus Aurelius' heir - open about his male lover his men killed him
The Triumvirate
Messiah
Commodus
Imperator
19. Proud
Superbus
Battle of Zama
Sabines
Commodus
20. Love the the Lord your God with all your heart - and Love your neighbor as you love yourself
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21. King - roman governor of Syria - secular king of the Jews
Etruscans
Herod
Carthago delenda est
Crassus
22. Brother of Titus became imperator by Praetorian Guard and princep by the Senate - he soon disregarded the Senate and merely did everything for the people of Rome - had people start referring to him as dominus et dues meaning Lord of God - first ruler
Domitian
Tribune
Eunus
Consuls
23. Major enemy with Rome - allianced on and off with Rome
Rhea Silvia
Consuls
Parthia
Hannibal Barca
24. Slave who led the rebellion against Sicily - starts theFirst Servile War - which is a revolt against rich
John the Baptist
Eunus
Rome
The Triumvirate
25. King of Britain - fought against Rome
Nero
Mark Antony
Caractacus
Republic
26. Religious power of the Emperor
Trajan (what a boss)
Rome
Pontifex Maximus
Syracuse
27. The gladiators chose as their coach - very smart and strong - knew what to do in the 'battles'
Spartacus
Zealots
Latifundia
Alba Longa
28. Where the slaves revolted - they were being held in Capua and they broke loose stole knives from a butcher shop and this was the start of The Gladiator War
Plebeian Secession
Plebeian
The Gladiator War
Tiber River
29. Sister to Ptolemy XIII - Pharaoh of Egypt - had an affair with Caesar has an illegitimate child with Caesar - has 3 kids with Antony: Alexander Helios - Cleopatra Selene - and Ptolemy Philadelphos
Plebeian Secession
Cleoptra XIII
Jugurtha
Plebeian
30. Military power of the emperor
Battle of Pharsalus
John the Baptist
Imperium
Corvus
31. Lowest class of people - usually farmers
Plebeian
Tarquin the Younger (the Proud)
Galba
Latins
32. River that has a bridge that connects to Rome.
Caligula
Marcus Aurelius
Tiber River
Latifundia
33. Romulus' land that he shared with his brother - became the center of Rome.
Pax Romana
Horatius
Attila the Hun
Palatine Hill
34. 4th Julio-Claudian emperor - 'half-wit' - conquered Britain (defeats Caractacus - The King of British tribes) - paranoid - poisoned by wife-Mushrooms and doctor-poison feather
Marius
Jesus Christ (Jesús Christos)
Cato
Claudius
35. Became the Romans: one of the earliest tribes
Commodus
Optimate
Sabines
Gauis Julius Caesar
36. Large estate
Latifundia
Gauis Julius Caesar
Marius
Sabines
37. Head of government - becomes senators at the end of term - serves a 1 year term - there is two of them
Lucius Verus
Cato
Princeps
Consuls
38. Son of Vespian helps him (Vespian) in the 'war' where the Jewish zealots proclaimed war on the Roman soldiers
Princeps
Titus
Superbus
Ptolemy XIII
39. Another conspirator
Gladiators
Cassius
Diocletian
Herod
40. General for Roman army - captures Jugurtha - 6 times consul - 5 times in a row - was taken over by Sulla - he was exiled from Rome
Patrician
Brutus
Gauis Julius Caesar
Marius
41. I forbid
Cinna
Sulla
Veto
Nerva
42. Urban landless poor
Proletariat
Brutus
Tribune
Princeps
43. Orator - famous speaker in the Senate who becomes a senator
The Triumvirate
Cicero
Pompeii
Pagan
44. Marius' assistant - his army comes through Rome and fights Marius
Consuls
Proletariat
Herod
Sulla
45. Fought in Cannae - the Carthaginians won because they attacked the Romans from 4 sides
Battle of Cannae
Sulla
King Herod
Tiber River
46. Nephew of King of Numidia - he killed his cousins so he could become the King - bribes Rome to stay in power
Commodus
Proletariat
Jugurtha
Nero
47. Brother of Tiberius that campaigned for his brother - and continued Tiberius' reforms
Gaius Gracchus
Octavian
Cleoptra XIII
Marcus Aurelius
48. Moment you can never you can take back - Caesar crossed itr
Res Publicas
Spartacus
Jesus Christ (Jesús Christos)
Crossing the Rubicon
49. Minnows - killed by Sejanus Head of Praetorian Guard who wanted to rebel - Jesus died in his reign
Tiberius
Popularis
Caracalla
Optimate
50. Junior lieutenant sent to defeat army and does but they send Pompey who takes the glory
Crassus
Sabines
Veto
Battle of Actium