Culture Questions Final 2

Question 0

2.) when was Julius Caesar assassinated?

Answer 0

March 15 44 BC

Question 1

1.) what is the traditional date for the founding of Rome?

Answer 1

April 21 753 BC

Question 2

3.) who was “father of gods and men”?

Answer 2

Zeus (Jupiter) 3rd generation god important because he was the sky god (rain)

Question 3

6.) who were the “five good emperors”?

Answer 3

Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius

Question 4

9.) who was the most popular hero of the Greco-Roman world?

Answer 4

Heracles (Hercules)

Question 5

11.) when did the Roman Empire in the west finally fall?

Answer 5

AD 476

Question 6

12.) which goddess should have paid better attention to McGruff the Crime Dog?

Answer 6

Persephone (Proserpina)

Question 7

16.) what does the word thesaurus really mean?

Answer 7

It is Greek for treasury

Question 8

24.) Which goddess was the “patron saint” of Athens?

Answer 8

Athena (Minerva)

Question 9

31.) what does eureka mean?

Answer 9

It is Greek for “I have found it”

Question 10

33.) who was the teacher of Alexander the Great (365-322 BC)?

Answer 10

Aristotle (384-322 BC)

Question 11

36.) What is Athena’s connection to the spider?

Answer 11

She created the first one from the spinner Arachne

Question 12

42.) who the the girlfriend of Marc Antony?

Answer 12

Cleopatra

Question 13

46.) who was the empower when Jesus was born?

Answer 13

Augustus, the first emperor

Question 14

48.) what does AD stand for?

Answer 14

Annō Dominī (in the yard of The Lord)

Question 15

49.) what does “ē plūribus ūmum” mean?

Answer 15

One from money

Question 16

52.) which bird was sacred to Hera (Juno)?

Answer 16

the peacock (pāvō - peacock in Latin)

Question 17

69.) according to Julius Caesar which was the bravest of all the Gallic tribes?

Answer 17

the Belgians

Question 18

76.) what number did the Greeks and Romans not have?

Answer 18

zero

Question 19

72.) who was the highest religious official in the Roman state?

Answer 19

the Pontifex Maximus

Question 20

81.) what blessing was also a curse for King Midas?

Answer 20

the golden touch

Question 21

97.) whose eyewitness account of the Vesuvius eruption do we possess?

Answer 21

Pliny the Younger’s

Question 22

98.) who was the greatest heroine of classical antiquity?

Answer 22

Atalanta

Question 23

100.) what are the halcyon days?

Answer 23

a period of calm during the winter days (period of calm during chaos)

Question 24

107.) who were the members of the Second Triumvirate?

Answer 24

Octavian, Marc Antony, Lepidus

Question 25

114.) who was Medea’s first husband?

Answer 25

Jason

Question 26

123.) what was the brooch or pin that held the palla at the shoulder?

Answer 26

fibula

Question 27

142.) what plot device does Helen fulfill at the start of the Iliad?

Answer 27

she stands on the city walls of Troy and identifies the Greek fighters - in the tenth year of the war

Question 28

144.) how was Tyndareus responsible for the Trojan War?

Answer 28

the loyalty oath to Helen’s husband

Question 29

150.) which Greeks were the models of friendship and loyalty in the ancient world?

Answer 29

Damon and Pythias