History Questions

Question 1

On what hill did Romulus found Rome?

Answer 1

Palatine

Question 2

Give the exact date for the founding of Rome.

Answer 2

April 21, 753 BC

Question 3

Give the exact date for the assassination of Caesar.

Answer 3

March 15, 44 BC

Question 3

Give the exact date for the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius.

Answer 3

Aug. 24, 79 AD

Question 4

Who were the first two emperors of Rome?

Answer 4

Augustus, Tiberius

Question 5

In what year did the western Roman Empire fall?

Answer 5

476 AD

Question 6

What king established religious customs?

Answer 6

Numa Pompilius

Question 7

Who was the last king of Rome?

Answer 7

Tarquinius Superbus

Question 8

Who was the last emperor of the western empire?

Answer 8

Romulus Augustulus

Question 9

In what year did the Roman republic begin?

Answer 9

509 BC

Question 10

Who was the first consul of ancient Rome?

Answer 10

Brutus

Question 11

Who were the members of the 1st triumvirate?

Answer 11

Caesar, Crassus and Pompey

Question 12

Name in order the three kinds of government the Romans had in their history.

Answer 12

monarchy, republic, empire

Question 13

Who led a slave revolt in 73 BC?

Answer 13

Spartacus

Question 14

In 458 BC, what Roman left his plow to become dictator?

Answer 14

Cincinnatus

Question 15

What city did Ascanius found?

Answer 15

Alba Longa

Question 16

Against whom did the Romans fight the Punic Wars?

Answer 16

Carthage

Question 17

With what tribe did the early Romans join?

Answer 17

Sabines

Question 18

Where in 216 BC did Hannibal defeat the Romans?

Answer 18

Cannae

Question 19

Where in 202 BC did the Romans defeat Hannibal?

Answer 19

Zama

Question 20

What Roman general defeated Hannibal?

Answer 20

Scipio Africanus

Question 21

From what rock in ancient Rome were traitors thrown?

Answer 21

Tarpeian Rock

Question 22

What Roman defended the Pons Sublicius against Etruscans who were trying to put Tarquinius Superbus back on the throne?

Answer 22

Horatius

Question 23

What Roman displayed his courage to the Etruscan king Lars Porsenna by burning his right hand?

Answer 23

Scaevola

Question 24

When was the legendary fall of Troy?

Answer 24

1184 BC

Question 25

When was the first recorded Olympic Games?

Answer 25

776 BC

Question 26

In what year was the Colosseum completed?

Answer 26

80 AD

Question 27

What king drained the forum and build the Circus Maximus?

Answer 27

Tarquinius Priscus

Question 28

What laws written in 451-450 BC were the foundation of law for Rome?

Answer 28

The Laws of the 12 Tables

Question 29

Who was Rome's greatest orator?

Answer 29

Cicero

Question 30

What Greek historian was known as the father of history?

Answer 30

Herodotus

Question 31

What Roman historian recorded the stories of virtue and vice that were learned by Roman school children?

Answer 31

Livy

Question 32

As the result of the Second Punic War, what island became Rome's first province?

Answer 32

Sicily

Question 33

What king established social class based upon wealth?

Answer 33

Servius Tullius

Question 34

Who was the first French national hero, defeated by Caesar at Alesia in 52 BC?

Answer 34

Vercingetorix

Question 35

Who sacked Carthage in the Third Punic War?

Answer 35

Scipio Africanus

Question 36

Name in order the Julio-Claudian dynasty?

Answer 36

Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero

Question 37

What Julio-Claudian emperor's name means 'little boot?

Answer 37

Caligula

Question 38

By whom was the Via Appia built in 312 BC?

Answer 38

Appius Claudius Caecus

Question 39

Who was famous for repeatedly declaring “Carthago delenda est"? "Carthage must be destroyed"

Answer 39

Cato the Elder

Question 40

What did Caesar say when crossing the Rubicon?

Answer 40

Álea iacta est

Question 41

Name any one of the civil wars in the 1st century BC?

Answer 41

Marius vs. Sulla, Caesar vs. Pompey, Octavian & Antony vs. Cassius & Brutus, Octavian vs. Antony

Question 42

In what year was the first triumvirate formed?

Answer 42

60 BC

Question 43

What final words did Shakespeare give Caesar?

Answer 43

Et tu, Brute?

Question 44

Who was aroused by geese to find the Gauls climbing the Capitoline?

Answer 44

Marcus Manlius

Question 45

In what year did the eastern Roman Empire fall?

Answer 45

1453 AD

Question 46

What Carthaginian prisoner ensured his own death when he advised his fellow Romans not to accept peace terms from the Carthaginians?

Answer 46

Regulus

Question 47

Against whom, in the reign of Tullus Hostilius, did the Horatii fight?

Answer 47

Curiatii

Question 48

What was Augustus called before he was called Augustus?

Answer 48

Octavian (after adoption) or Octavius (at birth)