History, Myth, Customs

Question 1

Which member of the First Triumvirate died in 53 B.C. at Carrhae?

Answer 1

Crassus

Question 2

Which member of the First Triumvirate defeated Vercingetorix?

Answer 2

Caesar

Question 3

Which member of the First Triumvirate said “alea iacta est” as he crossed the Rubicon?

Answer 3

Caesar

Question 4

Which member of the First Triumvirate lost at the battle of Pharsalus?

Answer 4

Pompey

Question 5

Which battle ended the civil resistance against Caesar?

Answer 5

+Defeated Pompey’s sons in Munda (invasion of Gaul)

Question 6

On what date in 44 B.C. was Caesar assassinated?

Answer 6

Ides of March:March 15th

Question 7

In whose theater did Caesar die?

Answer 7

Pompey

Question 8

Which of the following was NOT a member of the Second Triumvirate?

Answer 8

Members: Antony, Ocatvian, Lepidus

Question 9

What law legalized the Second Triumvirate?

Answer 9

Lex Titia

Question 10

Where did Octavian defeat Cleopatra in 31 B.C.?

Answer 10

Actium

Question 11

Who was Rome’s first emperor?

Answer 11

Augustus

Question 12

In what year did the empire begin?

Answer 12

27 B.C.

Question 13

Where does Augustus die?

Answer 13

Nola

Question 14

What is the era of peace within the empire of Roman that was brought about by Augustus?

Answer 14

Pax Romana

Question 15

Which of the following projects did Augustus NOT engage in?

Answer 15

Engaged in building of: Pantheon, the Forum of Augustus, The Ara Pacis

Question 16

What does the title “Augustus” mean?

Answer 16

revered one

Question 17

Who was the first selected heir to Augustus?

Answer 17

Marcellus

Question 18

Whom did Augustus force Tiberius to divorce to marry Julia?

Answer 18

Vipsania

Question 19

What two grandsons of Augustus were set to be heirs until their unfortunately early deaths?

Answer 19

C. & L. Caesar

Question 20

What nephew of Tiberius and rising military star was Tiberius required to adopt in order to become emperor?

Answer 20

Germanicus

Question 21

What group of cannibals did Odysseus meet along his journey?

Answer 21

Laestrygonians

Question 22

What sorceress did Odysseus and his men encounter on the island of Aeaea?

Answer 22

Circe

Question 23

What magical herb did Hermes give to Odysseus to counter the effects of the witch on Aeaea?

Answer 23

moly

Question 24

Whose cattle did Teiresias tell Odysseus not to eat?

Answer 24

The sun god Helios

Question 25

In what passage did Odysseus encounter both Scylla and Charybdis?

Answer 25

Strait of Messina

Question 26

Who was the mother of Oedipus?

Answer 26

+Jocasta/Epicasta

Question 27

In what city was Oedipus raised?

Answer 27

Mt. Cithaeron nearThebes

Question 28

“What walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three in the evening”? (The Sphinx’s riddle)

Answer 28

man

Question 29

Who were the sons of Oedipus?

Answer 29

Eteocles, Polyneices

Question 30

Who were the daughters of Oedipus?

Answer 30

Antigone, Ismeme

Question 31

Which son of Oedipus refused to give up the throne to his brother?

Answer 31

Eteocles

Question 32

Which of the following was NOT a member of the Seven Against Thebes?

Answer 32

Adrastus, Polyneicesm Tydeus, Capaneus, Hippomedon, Parthenopeus, Amphiaraus

Question 33

Who was the wife of Amphiarius who was bribed?

Answer 33

Eriphyle

Question 34

How did Capaneus die?

Answer 34

Thunderbolt

Question 35

How did Amphiarius die?

Answer 35

Swallowed by the earth

Question 36

Who was the son of Tantalus whom Tantalus tried to serve to the gods?

Answer 36

Pelops

Question 37

Hippodameia was the daughter of which king of Pisa?

Answer 37

Oenomaus

Question 38

What charioteer was bribed to sabotage the race for the hand of Hippodameia?

Answer 38

Myrtilus

Question 39

Who are the two sons of Atreus, known collectively as the Atridae?

Answer 39

Atreus and Thyestes

Question 40

Who was the son of Thyestes?

Answer 40

Aegisthus

Question 41

For how many years would a Vestal Virgin serve?

Answer 41

30 years

Question 42

Which king of Rome was most famous for introducing many religious institutions to Rome?

Answer 42

Numa Pompilius

Question 43

What was the term for a priest of Jupiter?

Answer 43

Flamen Dialis

Question 44

Which priests would check the entrails of animals?

Answer 44

hauruspices

Question 45

Which priests were known as the “jumping priests” of Mars?

Answer 45

Salii

Question 46

What did the Romans call professional societies or guilds?

Answer 46

collegia

Question 47

What did the Romans call a shoemaker?

Answer 47

stores

Question 48

What did the Romans call a dry-cleaner?

Answer 48

fullones

Question 49

What did the Romans call a baker?

Answer 49

pistores

Question 50

What did the Romans call a painter?

Answer 50

pictores

Question 51

What was the Roman term for a play, or “game of the stage”?

Answer 51

ludi scaenici

Question 52

What term was given to comedies adapted from Greek?

Answer 52

fabulae palliatae

Question 53

What term was given to dramas about Roman history?

Answer 53

fabulae praetextae

Question 54

What term was given to tragedies based on Greek originals?

Answer 54

fabulae cothurnatae

Question 55

What term was given to mimes (the performance, not the people)?

Answer 55

fabulae riciniatae

Question 56

What is the Latin term for “bean”?

Answer 56

faba

Question 57

What is the Latin term for “pork”?

Answer 57

porcus

Question 58

What is the Latin term for the apricot?

Answer 58

malum Armeniacum

Question 59

What is the Latin term for peach?

Answer 59

malum Persicum

Question 60

What is the Latin term for the pomegranate?

Answer 60

malum Punicum