Scavenger

Question 1

What percentage of people in Rome were slaves?

Answer 1

20%-30%

Question 2

How many rooms in a Roman farmhouse?

Answer 2

1 or 2

Question 3

Why would some Roman’s adopt?

Answer 3

There was no male heir

Question 4

Nickname for freshman students in the US miltary academies

Answer 4

Plebe

Question 5

When the Romans wrote stories, what two languages did they use?

Answer 5

Latin and Greek

Question 6

What color clothing did a woman have to wear before she got married?

Answer 6

White

Question 7

What color border did senators wear on their toga?

Answer 7

Purple

Question 8

What are dormice

Answer 8

Eaten as appetizers

Question 9

Soldiers could not marry and had to serve for how many years?

Answer 9

16

Question 10

This room was usually missing from a commoner’s house.

Answer 10

Kitchen

Question 11

Roman children started school at what age?

Answer 11

7

Question 12

What is Roman numeral M?

Answer 12

1000

Question 13

Where did politicians give speeches when trying to get elected?

Answer 13

Rostra

Question 14

Romans sometimes ate the tongues of this animal?

Answer 14

Peacocks and flamingos

Question 15

Poor farmers usually ate beans and what?

Answer 15

Beans and porridge

Question 16

Romans built 900 of them in the empire.

Answer 16

Bridges

Question 17

What is latin for road?

Answer 17

Via

Question 18

What races were held in a circus arena?

Answer 18

Chariot races

Question 19

How many wives could a Roman man have at one time?

Answer 19

1

Question 20

What was the most popular seafood in Rome?

Answer 20

Oysters

Question 21

Sculptures were so popular that artists would mass produce them. What part of the body though, were they missing?

Answer 21

Heads

Question 22

What was the main eating utensil?

Answer 22

Spoon

Question 23

Main drink in Rome?

Answer 23

Wine

Question 24

About how many hours did the Romans work each day?

Answer 24

Six

Question 25

For a short time, who raised Romulus and his twin brother Remus?

Answer 25

Wolf and sheep

Question 26

This city was a resort area in ancient Rome.

Answer 26

Pompeii

Question 27

Who got the best seats in the colosseum?

Answer 27

Senators

Question 28

What is a culina?

Answer 28

Kitchen

Question 29

They were long channels used to carry water into the city.

Answer 29

Aqueducts

Question 30

Why was there a standard for weight and measurement in the forum

Answer 30

Keep from cheating

Question 31

Why did children wear a bulla

Answer 31

To protect them from evil spirits

Question 32

What was a stola?

Answer 32

A traditional form of clothing worn by women

Question 33

What was the name given to the west exit of the colosseum?

Answer 33

The gate of death

Question 34

Sometimes Romans would get clean by pouring this on their bodies and scraping it off?

Answer 34

Oil

Question 35

Some had libraries, food courts, gardens and reading rooms.

Answer 35

Bath

Question 36

The king of all Roman gods.

Answer 36

Jupiter