Culture Questions

Question 1

What garment was the symbol of citizenship in ancient Rome?

Answer 1

Toga

Question 2

What toga was worn by boys?

Answer 2

Toga praetexta

Question 3

What road ran from Rome to Brundisium?

Answer 3

Via Appia

Question 4

What was the port city of ancient Rome?

Answer 4

Ostia

Question 5

What was the main street of the Forum Romanum?

Answer 5

Via Sacra

Question 6

By what device did the Romans bring water into the city?

Answer 6

Aqueducts

Question 7

What mountains cap Italy?

Answer 7

Alps

Question 8

What official was the chief magistrate of the Roman Republic?

Answer 8

Consul

Question 9

Give the Latin for breakfast, lunch and dinner?

Answer 9

ientaculum, prandium, et
cena

Question 10

What was the function of a praetor?

Answer 10

Judge

Question 11

From what port would one leave to sail to Greece?

Answer 11

Brundisium

Question 12

Upon entering manhood what toga did a young put on?

Answer 12

Toga virilis

Question 13

Give the Latin and the English for the abbreviation SPQR:

Answer 13

Senatus Populusque Romanus

Question 14

What were the bundle of rods wrapped around an ax called?

Answer 14

Fasces

Question 15

What were the ludi circenses?

Answer 15

Chariot races

Question 16

What good luck charm was worn to ward off the evil eye?

Answer 16

Bulla

Question 17

What was a woman’s dress called?

Answer 17

Stola

Question 18

Where would one go to see gladiatorial combats?

Answer 18

Colosseum

Question 19

What did the Romans call the Mediterranean Sea?

Answer 19

Mare Nostrum

Question 20

By what river was Rome founded?

Answer 20

Tiber

Question 21

What temple in ancient Rome was dedicated to all gods?

Answer 21

Pantheon

Question 22

What was the field of Mars on which the army trained and assembled?

Answer 22

Campus Martius

Question 23

Name two of the seven hills of Rome:

Answer 23

Palatine, Capitoline, Aventine,
Caelian, Quirinal, Esquiline, Viminal

Question 24

What sea was to the east of Greece?

Answer 24

Aegean

Question 25

Name two cities buried by Mt. Vesuvius.

Answer 25

Pompeii, Herculaneum

Question 26

What was Gaius Iulius Caesar's praenomen?

Answer 26

Gaius

Question 27

How is Gaius abbreviated in Latin?

Answer 27

C. (original spelling Caius, from the period before the letters "C" and "G" were differentiated)

Question 28

What praenomen is abbreviated Ti.?

Answer 28

Tiberius

Question 29

What December festival provided a model for Christmas?

Answer 29

Saturnalia

Question 30

What is another name for the Coliseum?

Answer 30

Flavian Amphitheatre

Question 31

What Roman official built roads, assessed taxes and enforced morality?

Answer 31

Censors

Question 32

What did the Romans call dessert?

Answer 32

Secunda mensa

Question 33

What part of the Roman meal was called the antecena?

Answer 33

Appetizer

Question 34

What part of the Roman house was the triclinium?

Answer 34

Dining room

Question 35

What toga did a candidate for office wear?

Answer 35

Toga candida

Question 36

Out of what material was a toga made?

Answer 36

Wool (lana)

Question 37

Distinguish between mulsa and mulsum:

Answer 37

honeyed water and honeyed wine

Question 38

What was the master's study called?

Answer 38

Tablinum

Question 39

What were the baths called?

Answer 39

Thermae

Question 40

In the thermae, what did one do in the apodyterium?

Answer 40

Change clothes

Question 41

What slave accompanied a boy to school?

Answer 41

Paedagogus

Question 42

What was the patrician form of marriage called?

Answer 42

Confarreatio

Question 43

What was the morning call hour when the client met with his patron?

Answer 43

Salutatio

Question 44

What was the first day of every month?

Answer 44

Kalends

Question 45

What was the curia?

Answer 45

The senate house

Question 46

From what civilization to the north of Rome, did the Romans borrow the toga, the arch, and gladiatorial games?

Answer 46

Etruscans

Question 47

What was the reception room of a Roman house called?

Answer 47

Atrium

Question 48

What was the courtyard called?

Answer 48

Peristylium

Question 49

What modern country did the Romans call Hispania.

Answer 49

Spain

Question 50

What were pictures made from tiny pieces of glass called?

Answer 50

Mosaics