History

Question 1

How many kings were there?

Answer 1

7

Question 2

Who was the first king?

Answer 2

Romulus

Question 3

Who was the last king?

Answer 3

Tarquinius Superbus

Question 4

Who were the first consuls?

Answer 4

Brutus and Collatinus

Question 5

When was the Monarchy?

Answer 5

753 - 509 BC

Question 6

When was the Republic?

Answer 6

509 - 27 BC

Question 7

When was the Empire

Answer 7

27 BC - 476 AD

Question 8

Who was Cincinnatus?

Answer 8

The altruistic dictator who left his farm to kill bad guys, then returned to farming.

Question 9

How many Punic Wars were there?

Answer 9

3

Question 10

Who were the Punic Wars against?

Answer 10

Carthage

Question 11

Which Punic War involved Hannibal?

Answer 11

2

Question 12

Who crossed which mountain range with elephants in the 2nd Punic war?

Answer 12

Hannibal, Pyrenees (Between Spain and France)

Question 13

Where was Rome’s first province?

Answer 13

Sicily

Question 14

Who defeated Hannibal where?

Answer 14

Publius Cornelius Scipio at the Battle of Zama (Near Carthage). He earned the cognomen Africanus.

Question 15

Who said “Carthago Delenda Est”

Answer 15

Cato the Elder

Question 16

What became a province as a result of the 3rd Punic War?

Answer 16

Hispania

Question 17

Who ended the slave revolt started by Spartacus where?

Answer 17

Pompey, _______??????

Question 18

The pirates were defeated by whom, where?

Answer 18

Pompey, Mare Nostrum

Question 19

Who was in the first triumvirate?

Answer 19

Caesar, Pompey, Crassus

Question 20

Who lost the standards where?

Answer 20

Crassus, Parthia

Question 21

Who conquered Gaul and Helvetia, and also invaded Germany and Brittania?

Answer 21

Caesar (duh)

Question 22

Caesar crossed where and declared war on Rome?

Answer 22

The Rubicon

Question 23

____ and ____ fled Rome after Caesar crossed the Rubicon to ____

Answer 23

Pompey and the Senate fled to Epirus (Greece)

Question 24

Caesar defeated Pompey where?

Answer 24

Pharsalus (IS THIS MACEDONIA OR EPIRUS?)

Question 25

After Pompey was defeated at Pharsalus, he fled where?

Answer 25

Egypt

Question 26

Where did Caesar say Veni Vidi Vici?

Answer 26

Pontus where he defeated some insignificant king. (Which BTW is northern Asia Minor)

Question 27

When was Caesar killed and by whom?

Answer 27

44 BC on the Ides of March by Brutus and the other Senators

Question 28

Who formed the 2nd Triumvirate?

Answer 28

Marc Antony, Octavian, Lepidus

Question 29

Pompey defeated Marc Antony where?

Answer 29

Battle of Actium (Naval)

Question 30

What was the ara pacis?

Answer 30

Altar of peace made by Augustus.

Question 31

Who closed the doors of the temple of Janus?

Answer 31

Augustus, Pax Romana

Question 32

Who was the patron of Vergil and Horace?

Answer 32

Maecenas (a good friend of Augustus)

Question 33

Who was Augustus' right hand man?

Answer 33

Agrippa

Question 34

What did Agrippa build?

Answer 34

The Pantheon

Question 35

Who were the Julio-Claudian emperors?

Answer 35

``` Augustus Tiberius Caligula Claudius Nero ```

Question 36

Who were in the Year of the Four?

Answer 36

Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian

Question 37

Who were the Flavian emperors?

Answer 37

Vespasian Titus Domitian

Question 38

Who were the five good emperors?

Answer 38

``` Nerva Trajan Hadrian Antoninus Pius Marcus Aurelius ```

Question 39

What did Commodus do?

Answer 39

Thought he was Hercules (crazy). End of the 5 good emperors.

Question 40

What did Diocletian do?

Answer 40

Split the Empire into East and West?

Question 41

What was the Edict of Milan, and who wrote it.

Answer 41

Constantine wrote it, the Edict of Milan promoted religious tolerance

Question 42

What was the Court of Nicaea

Answer 42

Where Constantine got involved with Christianity

Question 43

What big building right next to the Colosseum?

Answer 43

Arch of Constantine

Question 44

Tiberius

Answer 44

Ruled from Capri (Very small island), paranoid about being assassinated, guess what he was assassinated, almost betrayed by Sejanus, a member of his Praetorian guard, most likely because he was so paranoid

Question 45

____ invaded _____ for seashells.

Answer 45

Caligula, Britain

Question 46

Caligula

Answer 46

In addition to invading Britain for it's seashells, he also made his horse a senator. And he was assassinated.

Question 47

Claudius

Answer 47

Pretended to be stupid. He annexed Brittania, killed by his evil wife Agrippina the Younger. (Who put Nero on the throne. Great idea)

Question 48

Nero

Answer 48

Crappiest person ever. End of the Julio-Claudians (BC he sucked so much). Set a fire in Rome. Built the Domus Aurea with the Colossus, a giant golden statue of himself. He was not assassinated :O He suicided.

Question 49

Vespasian

Answer 49

Started the Flavian dynasty (yay), began construction of the Flavian Amphitheater aka the Colosseum

Question 50

Titus

Answer 50

Son of Vespasian, was emperor when Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD.

Question 51

_____, the person who completed the Colosseum, also sacked ______ in 70 AD

Answer 51

Titus, Jerusalem

Question 52

Vesuvius was located where?

Answer 52

Campania, the vacation area of Rome

Question 53

What places did Vesuvius destroy?

Answer 53

Pompeii, Herculaneum, Stabeii

Question 54

Domition

Answer 54

Ended the Flavian dynasty, bro to bro succession. He sucked, so he was assassinated. Go figure

Question 55

Nerva

Answer 55

Good emperor #1! He was appointed by the Senate

Question 56

Trajan

Answer 56

Good emperor #2!

Question 57

Who was the first foreign emperor and where was he from?

Answer 57

Trajan, Hispania

Question 58

What wall did the first foreign emperor build, and where?

Answer 58

Hadrian's wall (wow how clever) | In Britannia.

Question 59

Where was the 3rd good emperor from and who was he?

Answer 59

Hadrian, Spain (Just like Trajan!)

Question 60

Antoninus Pius

Answer 60

There is nothing significant about this guy. But he wasn't bad...

Question 61

Marcus Aurelius

Answer 61

Last of the 5 good emperors. He was a philosopher. Wrote the Meditations. He was stoic.

Question 62

The ____ associated with creativity lived onMt. Parnasus in where?

Answer 62

Muses, Achia