2️⃣ Week 2 Certamen

Question 1

What war ended with the consul Gaius Lutatius Catulus destroying a Carthaginian fleet near the Aegates Islands in 241 BC?

Answer 1

First Punic War

Question 2

Where, in 225 BC, did the consuls Gaius Atilius Regulus and Lucius Aemilius Papus decimate a force of over 70,000 Insubrian Gauls?

Answer 2

Cape Telamon

Question 3

What piece of naval technology did the Romans use against the Carthaginians to turn a naval battle into a land battle?

Answer 3

Corvus

Question 4

What King of Epirus did the Tarentines appeal to for help in 280 B.C?

Answer 4

Pyrrhus

Question 5

What consul was victorious at the battle of Mylae?

Answer 5

Duilius

Question 6

What Spartan mercenary did the Carthaginians hire in 255 B.C to reform their military?

Answer 6

Xanthippus

Question 7

What group of Campanian Mercenaries seized the city of Messana in 289 B.C?

Answer 7

The Mamertines

Question 8

What Roman commander was the victorious admiral at the battle of Aegates Islands?

Answer 8

Lutatius Catulus

Question 9

What battle of 260 B.C was Rome’s first major naval victory?

Answer 9

Mylae

Question 10

What Roman patrician, exiled through plebeian hostility, led a Volscian attack on Rome in 491 B.C?

Answer 10

Coriolanus

Question 11

Which two women persuaded Coriolanus to turn back from his assault on Rome?

Answer 11

Veturia (mother), Volumnia (wife)

Question 12

What naval battle of 241 B.C proved to be the deciding battle of the First Punic War?

Answer 12

Aegates island

Question 13

Where in 295 B.C did the Romans defeat a coalition of Samnites, Etruscans, Sabines, and Umbrians?

Answer 13

Sentinum

Question 14

What consul of 249 B.C was responsible for the naval disaster at Drepana?

Answer 14

Publius Claudius Pulcher

Question 15

What happened to the Roman army at the Caudine Forks after they were defeated?

Answer 15

Driven under the Yolk

Question 16

Where did the Romans defeat Pyrrhus in 275 B.C?

Answer 16

Beneventum

Question 17

What Plebian consul, responsible for the Foedus Cassianum, was executed by a patrician consul n 485 B.C?

Answer 17

Spurrius Cassius

Question 18

What Roman commander committed the devotio during the battle of Sentinum?

Answer 18

Decius Mus

Question 19

What man did the Senate chose to be dictator to save the Romans at Mt.Algidus?

Answer 19

Cincinnatus

Question 20

Who sacked Carthage in 146 BC?

Answer 20

Scipio Aemilianus

Question 21

What Sennonian chieftain reprotedly said vae victis to the Romans when they complained of weighted scales?

Answer 21

Brennus

Question 22

What man, the only member of both decemviri councils, is infamous for his tyrannical actions?

Answer 22

Appius Claudius

Question 23

Where in 458 B.C was a Roman army trapped by the Aequi?

Answer 23

Mt.Algidus

Question 24

Where in 390 B.C were the Romans routed by Gaullic invaders?

Answer 24

Allia River

Question 25

Who was the Samnite commander at the battle of Caudine Forks?

Answer 25

Gavius Pontius

Question 26

Where did Pyrrhus defeat the Romans in 280 B.C?

Answer 26

Heraclea

Question 27

What battle of 321 B.C was a decisive victory for the Samnites?

Answer 27

Caudine Forks

Question 28

Who stuck his right hand in a fire to prove the resolve of the Romans to Lars Porsenna?

Answer 28

Mucius Scaevola

Question 29

According to Roman Tradition, what hero saved Rome from the Etruscans by defending the Pons Sublicius?

Answer 29

Horatius Cocles

Question 30

Who sacked Corinth in 146 BC?

Answer 30

Mummius

Question 31

What two day battle did Pyrrhus fight against the Romans in 279 B.C, ultimately winning another Pyrrhic victory?

Answer 31

Asculum