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Question 1

Mallius Maximus and Servilius Caepio led a failed Roman army at what battle in 105 atainst the Cimbri and Teutones?

Answer 1

Arausio

Question 2

What Latin term is given to the adjournment of business for reigious reasons, one of which delayed Marius’s control over the army against Mithridates until he threatened the consuls at swordpoint?

Answer 2

iustitium

Question 3

As a child, who caught an eagle’s nest with 7 eagle chicks, an omen he claims portends him to serve as consul 7 times?

Answer 3

Marius

Question 4

Perhaps sponsored by a noble named Herennius, Marius fought under than general at Numantia in 133 BC?

Answer 4

Marius

Question 5

While both consuls of 87 BC pledged their allegiance to Sulla, which consul grew into more of a popularis leading to his exile by Octavius and his working with Marius?

Answer 5

Cinna

Question 6

What two men tried to offer Equitius as tribune until Sempronia didn’t recognize him, quelling any debate over his relation to Tiberius Gracchus?

Answer 6

Saturninus and Glaucia

Question 7

A soothsayer in Untica prophesied that what man was ceratin to succeed no matter his ambitions, fitting for a man who served as consul 7 times?

Answer 7

Marius

Question 8

Because a slight price increase in grain happened during his tenure as quaestor of the cura annonae, who was ousted and replaced by Aemilus Scaurus in the late 100s BC?

Answer 8

Saturninus

Question 9

By adding a sanctio, what man imposed heavy penalties against anyone who didn’t swear support for his law, leading to the eventual exile of his longtime rival Metellus Numidicus?

Answer 9

Saturninus

Question 10

80,000 Roman soldiers fell at what battle of 105 BC against the Cimbri and Teutones?

Answer 10

Arausio

Question 11

At what battle in 102 BC did Marius defeat the Teutones?

Answer 11

Aquae Sextiae

Question 12

Because a praetor in office can’t be a candidate for consul, Marius blocked what man’s bid for the office in 99 BC until Saturninus’s mob forced his way in?

Answer 12

Glaucia

Question 13

Despite his age, who insisted on training with the young soldiers in the Campus Martius with the hope of commanding the Roman army against Mithridates in 88 BC, only to be devastated when Sulla was chosen instead?

Answer 13

Marius

Question 14

When they were told to return to the consul’s command by Metellus Pius, whose soldiers instead went to the army of Marius and Cinna?

Answer 14

Gnaeus Octavius’s

Question 15

Although he was vetoed by his colleague Metellus Caprarius, who attempted to remove Servilius Glaucia and Saturninus from the senatorial rolls during his tenure as censor?

Answer 15

Numidicus

Question 16

What tribune was stoned by a mob of young nobles and their supporters after he surrendered due to thirst and was promised safety from Gaius Marius?

Answer 16

Saturninus

Question 17

While Marcus Antonius was a lock for one of the consulships of 99 BC, who ran against Glaucia until he was clubbed to death?

Answer 17

Gaius Memmius

Question 18

What general cut off the water supply from the Capitol to wait out Saufeius, Glaucia, and Saturninus, only to promise them safety before they were stoned by a mob?

Answer 18

Marius

Question 19

When Marius sacked Ostia, what general finally joined the side of Octavius before dying almost immediatley after?

Answer 19

Pompeius Strabo

Question 20

Recruited from the capite censi, whose veterans would have had no land to return to following their African campaign had it not been for the land reforms of Saturninus?

Answer 20

Marius’s

Question 21

Although much of the senate was eying the new land in Transalpine Gaul for themselves, what tribune of 100 BC proposed a bill granting that land to Marius’s veterans?

Answer 21

Saturninus

Question 22

Refusing to support a law settling colonists in Greece, Asia, Africa, and other parts of Italy, who was exiled by his longtime rival Saturninus?

Answer 22

Metellus Numidicus

Question 23

While the Roman people gave credit to Jugurtha’s capture to Marius, the aristocracy credited what man and future rival of Marius with the capture of Jugurtha in the field?

Answer 23

Sulla

Question 24

Already enjoying support from the Metellans, what man marries into the Julian gens by way of Julia, the aunt of Julius Caesar?

Answer 24

Marius

Question 25

Supposedly feigning a stomachache not to anger the Saturnians nor the senatorial class, who began to see Saturninus as a liability in his campaign for one of his many consulships?

Answer 25

Marius

Question 26

While Glaucia and Saturninus claimed that he was a son of Tiberius Gracchus, whose identity was put into question by Numidicus and Sempronia to bar a campaign for tribune?

Answer 26

Equitius

Question 27

Who allied himself with a fellow tribune, Gaius Norbanus, to attack generals like Servilius Caepio who failed a campaign against the Germans?

Answer 27

Saturninus

Question 28

What consul of 87 BC grew disgusted with Cinna’s emergence as a popularis and exiled him from Rome?

Answer 28

Gnaeus Octavius

Question 29

Whose ashes were thrown into the River Anio by Sulla after his death at the start of his consulship in 86 BC?

Answer 29

Marius’s

Question 30

Marius overlooked the fact that his men would be looking to their general for rewards and land (and therefore stayed with Sulla) since they were picked from what class of citizens in Rome?

Answer 30

capite censi

Question 31

Ignoring the consitutional right for him to be in the city during his candidacy, who was elected consul in 104 to deal with two threatening Germanic tribes, the Cimbri and the Teutones?

Answer 31

Marius

Question 32

With Romulus the first and Camillus the second, what man is considered the third founder of Rome after victories in 102 and 102 BC over the Teutones and Cimbri?

Answer 32

Marius

Question 33

In order to condemn incompetent military generals, who proposed the Lex Appuleia de Maiestate as tribune of 103 BC?

Answer 33

Saturninus

Question 34

When Sulla was chosen to lead the Roman forces against Mithridates, Marius convinced what tribune to pass a law shifting control to Marius?

Answer 34

Sulpicius Rufus

Question 35

After proposing legislation hurting the nobility, what tribune of 119 was summoned by the consul where he threatened to arrest both the consul and his patron Metellus?

Answer 35

Marius

Question 36

Along with the quaestor Saufeius and his ally Glaucia, what three time tribune fled to the Capitol after Scaurus’s Senatus Consultum Ultimum?

Answer 36

Saturninus

Question 37

Spurred on by failed campaigns against the Germans, what law was proposed by Saturninus in 103 BC to condemn incompetent generals?

Answer 37

Lex Appuleia de Maiestate

Question 38

After the brutal clubbing of Gaius Memmius, who issued a Senatus Consultum Ultimum against Glaucia and Saturninus, forcing them to flee to the Capitol?

Answer 38

Aemilius Scaurus

Question 39

When a flatterer asked Scipio Aemilianus where Rome could find another general like him, Scipio told him to look no further than what soldier who would eventually become consul 7 times?

Answer 39

Marius

Question 40

Who opposed Saturninus’s bid for the tribunate until he was chased to an inn and stabbed by Saturninan faithfuls?

Answer 40

Nonius

Question 41

What two men, who both served under Scipio Aemilianus at Numantia, became rivals in Numidia by 109 BC?

Answer 41

Marius & Jugurtha

Question 42

At what former Samnite capital did the Italian tribes set their own capital during the Social War?

Answer 42

Bovianum

Question 43

What father-in-law of Jugurtha betrayed him by giving him to the Roman people?

Answer 43

Bocchus

Question 44

Who avoided the death penalty after molesting ambassadors of Mithridates VI until the mob helped him?

Answer 44

Saturninus

Question 45

Who took advantage of a slight rise in the price of grain to oust and replace Saturninus as quaestor in 105 BC?

Answer 45

Aemilius Scaurus

Question 46

At what battle in 101 BC did Marius defeat the Cimbri?

Answer 46

Vercellae

Question 47

What man’s assassination in 91 BC precipitated the Social War?

Answer 47

Livius Drusus