Culture

Question 0

What was the after dinner, all male “ drinking party” called?

Answer 0

Comissatio

Question 1

What does a rediarius gladiator fight with?

Answer 1

A net and trident

Question 2

The plebeian representatives to the government were called…?

Answer 2

Tribunes

Question 3

Who was the famous Roman chef whose cookbooks are the primary source today on Rome’s food?

Answer 3

Apicius

Question 4

Which type of Roman gladiator charged his opponent blindly (visor had no eyeholes) while on horseback?

Answer 4

Andabatae

Question 5

Which type of gladiator fought exotic animals?

Answer 5

Bestiarii

Question 6

Gladiator that used two swords

Answer 6

Dimachaeri

Question 7

Gladiators that fought on horseback with a spear and gladius, only fought others of this kind

Answer 7

Equites

Question 8

Celtic style charioteers brought to Rome by Ceasar

Answer 8

Essedari

Question 9

Fully armored gladiators based on Greek hoplites, carried a spear and round shield, wore crest of a griffin

Answer 9

Hoplomachi/Samnites

Question 10

What weapons did the laequerii carry?

Answer 10

A rope and noose

Question 11

Gladiators that carried a gladius and an oblong shield, wore crest of a fish

Answer 11

Murmillones/mirmillones (secutores also wore this gear as both commonly fought retiarii)

Question 12

Mounted, bow wielding gladiators

Answer 12

Saggitarii

Question 13

Gladiators equipped with a small round/square shield and a curved blade known as a sica

Answer 13

Thraces

Question 14

Gladiators that fought on foot armed with a spear

Answer 14

Velites

Question 15

What was the job of the praegenarii?

Answer 15

An opening act for gladiatorial combat, they fought with wooden swords to upbeat music

Question 16

What might a Roman say to another who was embarking on a difficult journey?

Answer 16

Di sint tecum = may the gods be with you

Question 17

How would a Roman apologize, or ask to be excused for their behavior?

Answer 17

Da Veniam = excuse me/sorry

Question 18

What is the statement said to a departing soldier?

Answer 18

Virtus tibi ac fortitudo = strength and virtue unto thee

Question 19

What might a Roman say upon receiving a guest?

Answer 19

Te salvere iubeo! = Be well!

Question 20

How would a Roman ask “what’s up?”

Answer 20

Quid novi = what news?

Question 21

Who was the Via Appia and the Aqua Appia built by and named after?

Answer 21

Appius Claudius

Question 22

Which emperor built the Pantheon?

Answer 22

Hadrian

Question 23

By whom and in what year was the Coliseum built?

Answer 23

Vespasian in 69 AD

Question 24

Which emperor built an arch commemorating the sacking of Jerusalem?

Answer 24

Titus (called the Arch of Titus)

Question 25

Roman word for "baths"

Answer 25

Thermae

Question 26

Bath buildings

Answer 26

Balnea/balneae

Question 27

Hot bath room

Answer 27

Caldarium

Question 28

Warm bath room

Answer 28

Tepidarium

Question 29

Cold bath room

Answer 29

Frigidarium

Question 30

Open air bath

Answer 30

Natatio

Question 31

Gymnasium of a bath complex

Answer 31

Palaestrae

Question 32

Changing rooms in a bath complex

Answer 32

Apodyteria

Question 33

Hot bath in the Caldarium

Answer 33

Alveus

Question 34

Scraping room in a bath complex

Answer 34

Unctorium

Question 35

Rooms of the palaestra used for relaxing within a Roman bath complex

Answer 35

Exedra

Question 36

Sweat room in a bath complex

Answer 36

Laconium

Question 37

Furnace room of a bath complex

Answer 37

Praefurnium

Question 38

Sandals to protect bathers feet from hot tiles

Answer 38

Sculpoena

Question 39

A small curved brush used to scrape off oil from the baths

Answer 39

Strigiles

Question 40

Ball playing court within a bath complex

Answer 40

Sphaeristerium

Question 41

The servant's entrance to a domus

Answer 41

Posticum

Question 42

The main room of the domus, it contains the compluvium and the impluvium

Answer 42

The atrium

Question 43

The study located between the atrium and the peristylium

Answer 43

Tablinam

Question 44

The dining room

Answer 44

Triclinium

Question 45

The front rooms in a domus that can only be reached from the outside, and can serve as shops, sheds, or housing for poor clients

Answer 45

Tabernae

Question 46

What were the four most common teams for a charioteer to belong to?

Answer 46

Whites, Blues, Greens, Reds

Question 47

Gladiator blood was thought to cure which diseases?

Answer 47

Epilepsy or infertility

Question 48

Which color denoted wealth and status among Roman men?

Answer 48

Purple, because the dye came from rare Murex seashells

Question 49

What might a Roman doctor use to ease the pain of childbirth?

Answer 49

Ringing bells

Question 50

What was the Roman's favorite seasoning?

Answer 50

Liquamen/garum

Question 51

Which seat at a convivium is reserved for the guest of honor?

Answer 51

Sixth

Question 52

Which seat at a convivium is reserved for the host?

Answer 52

Seventh