6️⃣ Week 6 Certamen

Question 1

Who allegedly saw a burning cross with the phrase in hoc signo vinces in the sky before attacking Maxentius at the Battle of Milvian Bridge?

Answer 1

Constantine

Question 2

What praetorian prefect who supplanted Gordian III ruled Rome during Rome’s 1000th anniversary?

Answer 2

Philip the Arab

Question 3

At what battle in 312 AD did the usurper Constantine defeat Maxentius?

Answer 3

Milvian Bridge / Saxa Rubra

Question 4

What half-vandal soldier served as magister equitum for Theodosius and regent for his young son Honorius?

Answer 4

Stilicho

Question 5

What general earned the title “Last of the Romans” after his defeat of Attila in 451 BC?

Answer 5

Aetius

Question 6

What emperor issued an edict of maximum prices in 301 AD?

Answer 6

Diocletian

Question 7

What emperor lived a life of leisure while his father ruled the empire, and continued to do so in Campania after he was deposed by Odoacer?

Answer 7

Romulus Augustulus

Question 8

Who was the last emperor to rule a united Roman Empire?

Answer 8

Theodosius I

Question 9

At what battle in 260 AD did Valerian become the first emperor captured alive in battle?

Answer 9

Edessa

Question 10

What emperor permanently disbanded the praetorian guard?

Answer 10

Constantine

Question 11

Which Tetrarch moved the Eastern capital of the empire to Nicomedia?

Answer 11

Diocletian

Question 12

What emperor attempted to secure the pax deorum by performing the first systematic prosection of Christians throughout the empire?

Answer 12

Decius

Question 13

After chasing him around the Bosphorus, where in September of 324 A.D. did the forces of Constantine finally defeat Licinius?

Answer 13

Chrysopolis

Question 14

Where did Constantine summon an ecumenical council to solve the religious differences in the Christian church?

Answer 14

Nicaea

Question 15

Who, seventeen or eighteen at the time, obtained control of the East, while his ten-year-old brother became the Western Emperor in 395AD?

Answer 15

Arcadius

Question 16

What emperor was referred to as the “Apostate” because of his attempt to restore Paganism as the state religion?

Answer 16

Julian

Question 17

What Roman count (comes) checked Atila and the Huns at the Battle of Catalaunian Plain?

Answer 17

Aetius

Question 18

After what battle in 324 AD did Constantine emerge as sole emperor?

Answer 18

Chrysopolis

Question 19

Who was mercifully apppointed as Corrector Lucaniae after the fall of the Imperium Galliarum in 273 AD?

Answer 19

Tetricus

Question 20

Where did Constantine and Licinius meet in 313 AD so that Licinius could marry Constantia and the two men could make an agreement on religious toleration?

Answer 20

Milan

Question 21

At what battle of 378 AD was the emperor Valens killed in battle?

Answer 21

Adrianople

Question 22

Where on August 9, 378 AD was a Roman emperor killed in battle against the gothic chieftan Fritigern?

Answer 22

Adrianople

Question 23

Who divided the empire into twleve dioceses?

Answer 23

Diocletian

Question 24

What emperor succeeded an Apostate and restored Christianity as the official state religion?

Answer 24

Jovian

Question 25

What event in 325 AD saw 300 bishops gathered to settle a dispute between the Arian Heresy and the Athanasians?

Answer 25

Council of Nicaea

Question 26

Who was the last Western Roman emperor?

Answer 26

Romulus Augustulus

Question 27

What emperor was baptized on his deathbed in 337 AD?

Answer 27

Constantine

Question 28

What Germanic Chieftan sacked Rome in 476 AD and deposed Romulus Augustulus?

Answer 28

Odoacer

Question 29

Who was the first emperor from the Equestrian rank?

Answer 29

Macrinus

Question 30

What mistress of Commodus took part in the plot that ultimately killed him in 192 A.D?

Answer 30

Marcia

Question 31

What emperor could allegedly hit an ostrich with a javelin at 50 paces and could frequently be seen in the arena dressed as Hercules?

Answer 31

Commodus

Question 32

What two brothers succeeded Septimius Severus?

Answer 32

Caracalla and Geta

Question 33

What son of Marcus Aurelius ruled from 180-192 A.D?

Answer 33

Commodus

Question 34

Who reigned as emperor from 222-235 A.D?

Answer 34

Severus Alexander

Question 35

What Syrian woman was the wife of Septimius Severus?

Answer 35

Julia Domna

Question 36

What senator purchased the empire at an auction for 25,000 sesterces?

Answer 36

Didius Julianus

Question 37

Who ruled from 211 and 217 A.D?

Answer 37

Caracalla

Question 38

What son of Julia Soaemias ruled from 218-222 A.D. and identified himself with the Syrian sun god Elagabal?

Answer 38

Elagabalus/Heliogabalus/Varius Avitus