Roman History Drill Questions - The Empire

Question 1

The Second Triumvirate

Answer 1

Octavian
Antony
Lepidus

Question 2

Caesar’s nephew who became the first emperor of Rome

Answer 2

Octavius aka Octavian

Question 3

The author of the Aeneid who lived in the time of Augustus

Answer 3

Virgil

Question 4

The Queen of Egypt who charmed Julius Caesar and Antony

Answer 4

Cleopatra

Question 5

Octavius’ honorary name after he became Caesar

Answer 5

Augustus

Question 6

He defeated Antony and Cleopatra at the battle of Actium

Answer 6

Octavian

Question 7

He was Caesar when Christ was born

Answer 7

Augustus

Question 8

He was Caesar when Christ was crucified

Answer 8

Tiberius

Question 9

Date for the beginning of the Roman Empire

Answer 9

27 BC

Question 10

The elite soldiers who guarded the emperor

Answer 10

Praetorian Guard

Question 11

He fiddled while Rome burned

Answer 11

Nero

Question 12

The first Caesar who persecuted Christians

Answer 12

Nero

Question 13

The emperor who destroyed the Jerusalem Temple

Answer 13

Titus

Question 14

Date of the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem

Answer 14

70 AD

Question 15

Romans wanted an emperor as great as Augustus and as good as

Answer 15

Trajan

Question 16

He built a famous wall in Britain and a tomb in Rome

Answer 16

Hadrian

Question 17

The sad Stoic emperor

Answer 17

Marcus Aurelius

Question 18

He reorganized the empire

Answer 18

Diocletian

Question 19

The first Christian emperor

Answer 19

Constantine

Question 20

Constantine moved the capital of Rome to this city

Answer 20

Byzantium (Constantinople)

Question 21

Julian the

Answer 21

Apostate

Question 22

He tried to rebuild the Temple of Jerusalem to prove Christianity false

Answer 22

Julian the Apostate

Question 23

Date of the fall of Rome

Answer 23

476 AD

Question 24

The last emperor of the Western Roman Empire

Answer 24

Romulus Augustulus