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Mastermind 2016 - Robert Harris > Pompeii > Flashcards

Pompeii Flashcards

1
Q

Book starts at

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Conticinium, Mars, 22 August - 04:21

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2
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Engineer’s name

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Marcus ATTILIUS Primus

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3
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Where is Attilius based

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Misenum

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4
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Constellation that rises on Festival of Vinalia

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Vintager

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5
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Overseer

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Gavius Corax

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Name of the aqueduct around the Bay of Naples

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Aqua Augusta

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7
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Who had recruited Attilius’ great grandfather?

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Marcus Agrippa

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8
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Which aqua did Attilius’ great grandfather build?

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Aqua Julia

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9
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Which aqua did Attilius’ grandfather build?

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Anio Novus

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Which aqua did Attilius’ father build?

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Aqua Claudia

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11
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Where does the Aqua Augusta start?

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Appenninus - springs of Serinus

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12
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Architect to the Divine Augustus (chinrest)

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Vitruvius

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13
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Province book takes place in

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Campania

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14
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Villain of the piece

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Numerus Popidius AMPLIATUS

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15
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Ampliatus’ villa on Bay of Naples

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Villa Hortensia, Misenum

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16
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Augustan aristocrat who threw slaves to his eels

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Vedius Pollo

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17
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Ampliatus’s eels

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Moray

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18
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One of Ampliatus’s eels was a favourite of which emperor?

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Nero

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19
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Ampliatus’s teenage son

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Celsinus

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20
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Which fish had the slave “killed”?

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Red Mullet

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21
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Ampliatus’s daughter

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Corelia

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22
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Terminus of the Aqua Autusta

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Piscina Miribilis - Pool of Wonders

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23
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Attilius’s predecessor

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Exomnius Aelianus - sicilian, 20 years

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24
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Person administering aqueducts

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Curator Aquarium - Rome

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25
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Name of Curator Aquarium

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Acilius Aviola

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26
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Where was Attilius working when transferred

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Anio Novus

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27
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Philosophical school Attilius subscribes to

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Stoics

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28
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Attilius’s household slave

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Phylo

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29
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Attilius’s late wife

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Sabina

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30
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Temple build by Ampliatus in Pompeii

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Cult of Isis - presented in Celsinus’s name

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31
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What does Attilius smell in the water at the Villa Hortentius

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Sulphur

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32
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What game is Corax playing with Musa and Becco

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Bones

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33
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Atillius’s greek slave

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Polites

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34
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Which hill are the Claudia and Anio Novus in Rome?

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Esquiline

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35
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One quinariae

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Daily requirement of 200 people

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36
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How much water is in the Piscina?

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Enough for two days

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37
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Whose mouth does the Aqua Augusta flow from into the Piscina?

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Nepture

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38
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Admiral

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Giaus Plinius - Pliny the Elder

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39
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Pliny’s great work

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Natural History

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40
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Where does Atillius send men to shut off the Augusta?

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Abellinum

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41
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Pliny’s wine

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Caecuban

42
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Sacrificed to Jupiter

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White bull

43
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Fastest ship in the fleet, lent to Atillius

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Minerva

44
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Public holiday

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Vulcanalia (appropriate)

45
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Current emperor

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TITUS Caesar Vespasianus Augustus

46
Q

What is the Venus Throw in dice?

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Four sixes

47
Q

What sort of ship is the Minerva?

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Liburnum

48
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Captain of the Minerva

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Torquatus

49
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Emporer who was Pliny’s friend

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Vespasian

50
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Pliny’s water clock, specifications by …

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Ctesibius of Alexandria

51
Q

Ampliatus granted freedom by …

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Popidius

52
Q

Soil found around Puteoli that forms the basis for Roman concrete

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Puteolanum

53
Q

Slave who set up rebel camp on top of Vesusvius

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Spartacus

54
Q

Greatest villa on the bay

A

Villa Calpurnia

55
Q

Owner of Villa Calpurnia

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Pedius Cascus (former consul)

56
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Pedius Cascus’s wife

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Rectina

57
Q

Pedius Cascus’s philosophers

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Epicurians

58
Q

Where does water enter Pompeii?

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By the Vesuvius gate (castellum aquae)

59
Q

River flowing through Pompeii

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Sarnus

60
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Slave at Pompeii’s castellum aquae

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Tiro (blind)

61
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Where did Exomnius have rooms in Pompeii?

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Africanus’s place (brothel)

62
Q

Popidius’s doorman

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Massavo

63
Q

Who is Corelia due to marry?

A

Popidius

64
Q

What is Ampliatus building in Pompeii?

A

Baths

65
Q

Salve lucrum

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Hail profit

66
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Lucrum gaudium

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Profit is joy

67
Q

The rule of Varro

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Guests at dinner party should not be less than the Graces (three) or more than the Muses (nine)

68
Q

Trimalchio

A

Freed slave of monstrous wealth in satire by Titus Petronius

69
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Fate of Petronius

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Ordered to suicide by Nero - broke fluorspar wine-dipper with 300,000

70
Q

Centre dish at Ampliatus’s feast

A

Eel

71
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Capsa

A

Cheap beechwood document case

72
Q

Corelia’s birds

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Goldfinches

73
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Ex-gladiator on Atillius’s team

A

Brebix

74
Q

Where is the Villa Calpurnia

A

Herculaneum

75
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Pliny: In cardiac disease the only relief lies in …

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wine

76
Q

What has Pliny decided to call the tremors from the volcano?

A

Harmonic episodes

77
Q

Pliny’s widowed sister

A

Julia

78
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What sort of gladiator was Brebix

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Murmillo - 30 fights

79
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Population of Pompeii

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20,000

80
Q

Sybil of Pompeii

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Biria Onomastia

81
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God the sybil sacrifices snakes to

A

Sabazios

82
Q

Where in Sicily was Exomnius from?

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Caetana (near Etna)

83
Q

What day does Vesuvius erupt?

A

Jupiter (August 24)

84
Q

From the womb feet first like …

A

Agrippa

85
Q

Where did Pliny serve in the army?

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Upper Germany

86
Q

How often is the Piscina Miribalis emptied for maintenance?

A

Every ten years

87
Q

What does Pliny find in amphora dropped into the reservoir

A

Silver coins - 250k sesterces

88
Q

Which emperor is pictured on the coins found in the reservoir?

A

Vespasian

89
Q

Who’s money is found in the reservoir?

A

Exomnius

90
Q

Samnite fortress

A

Nola

91
Q

Breeze from the North East

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Caurus

92
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Whose body does Attilius find at the top of Vesuvius

A

Exomnius

93
Q

Who follows Attilius up Vesuvius to kill him

A

Gavius Corax

94
Q

Who has written the greek account of Vesuvius

A

Strabo

95
Q

Who has written the Latin account of the Pompeii earthquake

A

Seneca

96
Q

How many Hiroshimas?

A

100,000

97
Q

What rains down on Pompeii first

A

Pumice

98
Q

Observation platform on ship

A

Carchesium - “drinking cup”

99
Q

Whose villa do they spend the night after the eruption

A

Pomponianus - Stabiae

100
Q

Who gives Attilius his helmet when he sets off for Pompeii from Stabiae (three miles)

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Torquatus

101
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Where do Attilius and Corelia survive the eruption

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The aqueduct

102
Q

Where does Pliny die

A

Stabiae

Mastermind 2016 - Robert Harris (10 decks)

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