Pompeii

Question 1

Book starts at

Answer 1

Conticinium, Mars, 22 August - 04:21

Question 2

Engineer’s name

Answer 2

Marcus ATTILIUS Primus

Question 3

Where is Attilius based

Answer 3

Misenum

Question 4

Constellation that rises on Festival of Vinalia

Answer 4

Vintager

Question 5

Overseer

Answer 5

Gavius Corax

Question 6

Name of the aqueduct around the Bay of Naples

Answer 6

Aqua Augusta

Question 7

Who had recruited Attilius’ great grandfather?

Answer 7

Marcus Agrippa

Question 8

Which aqua did Attilius’ great grandfather build?

Answer 8

Aqua Julia

Question 9

Which aqua did Attilius’ grandfather build?

Answer 9

Anio Novus

Question 10

Which aqua did Attilius’ father build?

Answer 10

Aqua Claudia

Question 11

Where does the Aqua Augusta start?

Answer 11

Appenninus - springs of Serinus

Question 12

Architect to the Divine Augustus (chinrest)

Answer 12

Vitruvius

Question 13

Province book takes place in

Answer 13

Campania

Question 14

Villain of the piece

Answer 14

Numerus Popidius AMPLIATUS

Question 15

Ampliatus’ villa on Bay of Naples

Answer 15

Villa Hortensia, Misenum

Question 16

Augustan aristocrat who threw slaves to his eels

Answer 16

Vedius Pollo

Question 17

Ampliatus’s eels

Answer 17

Moray

Question 18

One of Ampliatus’s eels was a favourite of which emperor?

Answer 18

Nero

Question 19

Ampliatus’s teenage son

Answer 19

Celsinus

Question 20

Which fish had the slave “killed”?

Answer 20

Red Mullet

Question 21

Ampliatus’s daughter

Answer 21

Corelia

Question 22

Terminus of the Aqua Autusta

Answer 22

Piscina Miribilis - Pool of Wonders

Question 23

Attilius’s predecessor

Answer 23

Exomnius Aelianus - sicilian, 20 years

Question 24

Person administering aqueducts

Answer 24

Curator Aquarium - Rome

Question 25

Name of Curator Aquarium

Answer 25

Acilius Aviola

Question 26

Where was Attilius working when transferred

Answer 26

Anio Novus

Question 27

Philosophical school Attilius subscribes to

Answer 27

Stoics

Question 28

Attilius's household slave

Answer 28

Phylo

Question 29

Attilius's late wife

Answer 29

Sabina

Question 30

Temple build by Ampliatus in Pompeii

Answer 30

Cult of Isis - presented in Celsinus's name

Question 31

What does Attilius smell in the water at the Villa Hortentius

Answer 31

Sulphur

Question 32

What game is Corax playing with Musa and Becco

Answer 32

Bones

Question 33

Atillius's greek slave

Answer 33

Polites

Question 34

Which hill are the Claudia and Anio Novus in Rome?

Answer 34

Esquiline

Question 35

One quinariae

Answer 35

Daily requirement of 200 people

Question 36

How much water is in the Piscina?

Answer 36

Enough for two days

Question 37

Whose mouth does the Aqua Augusta flow from into the Piscina?

Answer 37

Nepture

Question 38

Admiral

Answer 38

Giaus Plinius - Pliny the Elder

Question 39

Pliny's great work

Answer 39

Natural History

Question 40

Where does Atillius send men to shut off the Augusta?

Answer 40

Abellinum

Question 41

Pliny's wine

Answer 41

Caecuban

Question 42

Sacrificed to Jupiter

Answer 42

White bull

Question 43

Fastest ship in the fleet, lent to Atillius

Answer 43

Minerva

Question 44

Public holiday

Answer 44

Vulcanalia (appropriate)

Question 45

Current emperor

Answer 45

TITUS Caesar Vespasianus Augustus

Question 46

What is the Venus Throw in dice?

Answer 46

Four sixes

Question 47

What sort of ship is the Minerva?

Answer 47

Liburnum

Question 48

Captain of the Minerva

Answer 48

Torquatus

Question 49

Emporer who was Pliny's friend

Answer 49

Vespasian

Question 50

Pliny's water clock, specifications by ...

Answer 50

Ctesibius of Alexandria

Question 51

Ampliatus granted freedom by ...

Answer 51

Popidius

Question 52

Soil found around Puteoli that forms the basis for Roman concrete

Answer 52

Puteolanum

Question 53

Slave who set up rebel camp on top of Vesusvius

Answer 53

Spartacus

Question 54

Greatest villa on the bay

Answer 54

Villa Calpurnia

Question 55

Owner of Villa Calpurnia

Answer 55

Pedius Cascus (former consul)

Question 56

Pedius Cascus's wife

Answer 56

Rectina

Question 57

Pedius Cascus's philosophers

Answer 57

Epicurians

Question 58

Where does water enter Pompeii?

Answer 58

By the Vesuvius gate (castellum aquae)

Question 59

River flowing through Pompeii

Answer 59

Sarnus

Question 60

Slave at Pompeii's castellum aquae

Answer 60

Tiro (blind)

Question 61

Where did Exomnius have rooms in Pompeii?

Answer 61

Africanus's place (brothel)

Question 62

Popidius's doorman

Answer 62

Massavo

Question 63

Who is Corelia due to marry?

Answer 63

Popidius

Question 64

What is Ampliatus building in Pompeii?

Answer 64

Baths

Question 65

Salve lucrum

Answer 65

Hail profit

Question 66

Lucrum gaudium

Answer 66

Profit is joy

Question 67

The rule of Varro

Answer 67

Guests at dinner party should not be less than the Graces (three) or more than the Muses (nine)

Question 68

Trimalchio

Answer 68

Freed slave of monstrous wealth in satire by Titus Petronius

Question 69

Fate of Petronius

Answer 69

Ordered to suicide by Nero - broke fluorspar wine-dipper with 300,000

Question 70

Centre dish at Ampliatus's feast

Answer 70

Eel

Question 71

Capsa

Answer 71

Cheap beechwood document case

Question 72

Corelia's birds

Answer 72

Goldfinches

Question 73

Ex-gladiator on Atillius's team

Answer 73

Brebix

Question 74

Where is the Villa Calpurnia

Answer 74

Herculaneum

Question 75

Pliny: In cardiac disease the only relief lies in ...

Answer 75

wine

Question 76

What has Pliny decided to call the tremors from the volcano?

Answer 76

Harmonic episodes

Question 77

Pliny's widowed sister

Answer 77

Julia

Question 78

What sort of gladiator was Brebix

Answer 78

Murmillo - 30 fights

Question 79

Population of Pompeii

Answer 79

20,000

Question 80

Sybil of Pompeii

Answer 80

Biria Onomastia

Question 81

God the sybil sacrifices snakes to

Answer 81

Sabazios

Question 82

Where in Sicily was Exomnius from?

Answer 82

Caetana (near Etna)

Question 83

What day does Vesuvius erupt?

Answer 83

Jupiter (August 24)

Question 84

From the womb feet first like ...

Answer 84

Agrippa

Question 85

Where did Pliny serve in the army?

Answer 85

Upper Germany

Question 86

How often is the Piscina Miribalis emptied for maintenance?

Answer 86

Every ten years

Question 87

What does Pliny find in amphora dropped into the reservoir

Answer 87

Silver coins - 250k sesterces

Question 88

Which emperor is pictured on the coins found in the reservoir?

Answer 88

Vespasian

Question 89

Who's money is found in the reservoir?

Answer 89

Exomnius

Question 90

Samnite fortress

Answer 90

Nola

Question 91

Breeze from the North East

Answer 91

Caurus

Question 92

Whose body does Attilius find at the top of Vesuvius

Answer 92

Exomnius

Question 93

Who follows Attilius up Vesuvius to kill him

Answer 93

Gavius Corax

Question 94

Who has written the greek account of Vesuvius

Answer 94

Strabo

Question 95

Who has written the Latin account of the Pompeii earthquake

Answer 95

Seneca

Question 96

How many Hiroshimas?

Answer 96

100,000

Question 97

What rains down on Pompeii first

Answer 97

Pumice

Question 98

Observation platform on ship

Answer 98

Carchesium - "drinking cup"

Question 99

Whose villa do they spend the night after the eruption

Answer 99

Pomponianus - Stabiae

Question 100

Who gives Attilius his helmet when he sets off for Pompeii from Stabiae (three miles)

Answer 100

Torquatus

Question 101

Where do Attilius and Corelia survive the eruption

Answer 101

The aqueduct

Question 102

Where does Pliny die

Answer 102

Stabiae