Extra Credit stuff

Question 1

If Jupiter wanted to send a message, he would usually call upon what god?

Answer 1

Mercury

Question 2

What group of distinguished citizens met in the Curia and advised the consuls during the Roman Republic?

Answer 2

Senators

Question 3

Name one of these cities which Mt. Vesuvius destroyed?

Answer 3

Pompei

Question 4

Where would a Roman typically watch a chariot race?

Answer 4

Circus Maximus

Question 5

Into what creature did Minerva transform Arachne?

Answer 5

Spider

Question 6

According to legend, what was Cincinnatus doing when he was asked to be dictator?

Answer 6

Plowing a field

Question 7

Who left behind his wife Creusa as he fled from Troy with his father Anchises and son Ascanius?

Answer 7

Aeneas

Question 8

What Greek deity is often depicted with winged sandals and the snake-entwined staff called the Caduceus?

Answer 8

Hermes

Question 9

Which Ancient road was known as the “Queen of the Roads” and ran from Rome to Brundisium?

Answer 9

Via Appia

Question 10

Where would a Roman boy wear his bulla?

Answer 10

His neck

Question 11

Who were the chief executive officials in the government of the Roman Republic?

Answer 11

Consuls

Question 12

What is the Latin word for the part of your body you use to carry out the action of the verbs spectāre, vidēre, and cōnspicere?

Answer 12

Oculus

Question 13

Rather than living in houses, most Romans lived in apartment buildings called what?

Answer 13

Insula

Question 14

Who in Ancient Rome would typically say “Nōs moritūrī tē salūtāmus”?

Answer 14

Gladiators

Question 15

A wolf, a shepherd, a river, and a priestess are all featured in a story about what two brothers?

Answer 15

Romulus and Remus

Question 16

Which god of music traded his herd of cows and a magic wand in exchange for the lyre?

Answer 16

Apollo

Question 17

What town, located at the mouth of the Tiber and founded by Ancus Marcius, was the port of Rome?

Answer 17

Ostia

Question 18

Which member of the First Triumvirate was the wealthiest Roman of his day?

Answer 18

Crassus

Question 19

What emperor completed the Aqua Claudia?

Answer 19

Claudius

Question 20

Which member of the First Triumvirate conquered Mithridates VI of Pontus in 60 BCE?

Answer 20

Pompey

Question 21

Which wind did Aeolus NOT place in the bag of winds to give to Odysseus?

Answer 21

West

Question 22

What is the name of the Cyclops who imprisoned Odysseus and his men?

Answer 22

Polyphemus

Question 23

What was the name of the man who built the Aqua Appia?

Answer 23

Appius Claudius Caecus

Question 24

Of Via Appia, Via Aurelia, Via Flaminia, Via Salaria, Via Sacra, and Via Aemilia, which one ran through the middle of the Roman Forum?

Answer 24

Via Sacra

Question 25

Of Via Appia, Via Aurelia, Via Flaminia, Via Salaria, Via Sacra, and Via Aemilia, which one was built first?

Answer 25

Via Appia

Question 26

How did Odysseus escape the cave of the Cyclops?

Answer 26

Grabbed the bellies of sheep

Question 27

Odysseus and his men feasted upon the fruit of what tree which made the sailors want to stay on the island?

Answer 27

Lotus

Question 28

Of Via Appia, Via Aurelia, Via Flaminia, Via Salaria, Via Sacra, and Via Aemilia, which is known as the "salt road"?

Answer 28

Via Salaria

Question 29

Where did the First Triumvirate meet in 56 BCE to renew their agreement?

Answer 29

Luca

Question 30

Which two members of the First Triumvirate served as co-consuls in 70 BCE and 55 BCE?

Answer 30

Pompey, and Cassus

Question 31

What Roman hero bravely defended the bridge across the Tiber against Lars Porsenna and the attacking Etruscans?

Answer 31

Horatius Cocles

Question 32

What open area in ancient Rome was used for gathering the army and for voting by citizens?

Answer 32

Campus Martius

Question 33

In which entry room of a house did a Roman citizen typically receive clients and guests?

Answer 33

Atrium

Question 34

What goddess changed Actaeon into a stag that was attacked by his own hunting dogs, because he had seen her bathing in the woods?

Answer 34

Artemis

Question 35

What Roman goddess was the twin of Apollo?

Answer 35

Diana

Question 36

In what type of contest did Arachne and Minerva participate?

Answer 36

Weaving

Question 37

Who is the father of Polyphemus?

Answer 37

Posideion

Question 38

Describe the temperature of the water that was brought in by the Aqua Tepula.

Answer 38

Tepid/Lukewarm

Question 39

Which member of the first Triumvirate was the first to die?

Answer 39

Crassus

Question 40

What name did Odysseus call himself when talking to the Cyclops? (Greek or English)

Answer 40

No one

Question 41

On what island did the Cyclopes live?

Answer 41

Sicily

Question 42

Who is the king of the winds?

Answer 42

Aeolus

Question 43

Which member of the First Triumvirate served as consul as in 59 BCE?

Answer 43

Julius Ceasar

Question 44

Which member of the First Triumvirate served as the Pontifex Maximus and was a rising political star when the alliance was made?

Answer 44

Julius Ceasar

Question 45

What god is associated with the stories of Orpheus, Proserpina, and Cerberus?

Answer 45

Pluto

Question 46

Which city was conquered using a giant wooden horse as a trick?

Answer 46

Troy

Question 47

What is the Latin word for the part of your body you use to carry out the action of the verbs currere, ambulāre, and stāre?

Answer 47

Pedes

Question 48

Where did Crassus die in battle against the Parthians?

Answer 48

Carrhae

Question 49

Odysseus was king of what Greek island?

Answer 49

Ithaca

Question 50

The death of what woman, the daughter of Caesar and wife of Pompey, led to the breaking up of the alliance?

Answer 50

Julia