Question 1

A rostra was a speaker's platform fashioned from _________.

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beaks of captured ships

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shields and spears

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wood and stone

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brick and concrete

Question 2

The punishment given to Atlas was to __________.

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hold up the sky (celestial sphere) on his shoulders

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forever roll a boulder up a hill only to have it fall again

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eternally rotate on wheel of fire

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have his liver eaten out by an eagle daily

Question 3

The Sacra, Salaria and Flaminia are all Roman _____________.

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roads

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amphitheaters

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bath houses

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priests

Question 4

Roman funerary masks are known as ________.

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imagines

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faciei Romani

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veteri

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patres conscripti

Question 5

Ulysses (Odysseus) traveled 20 years to get home.   Where was this?

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Ithaca

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Athens

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Parthia

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Troy

Question 6

Vessels used to transport wine and olives are _________

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amphorae

Question 7

A victory won at too great a cost is known as this type.

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Pyrrhic

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Sullan

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Marian

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Mithridatic

Question 8

Speeches in the Forum were delivered from the _______.

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rostra

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Curia

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podium

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temple

Question 9

What is the date of Rome's founding?

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April 21, 753 BCE

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January 3, 625 BCE

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March 1, 509 BCE

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December 20, 1250 BCE

Question 10

What sea did Romans call the "Mare Nostrum"?

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Mediterranean

Question 11

What famous saying represents the serving of a complete meal?

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ab ovo usque ad mala

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omnia labor vincit

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festina lente

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alea iacta est

Question 12

What is a proconsul?

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a governor of a province

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a treasurer

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a deposed consul

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an orator

Question 13

What is the modern country once known as Caledonia?

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Scotland

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Wales

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Russia

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Switzerland

Question 14

What is the Latin word for dining room?

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triclinium

Question 15

What is the Latin word for bread?

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panis

Question 16

What is the Latin word for eagle, the symbol featured on the shield?

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aquila

Question 17

What is the Latin word for shield?

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scutum

Question 18

What is the name for the central heating system in the baths (thermas)?

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hypocaust

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aqua Sulis

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cloaca maxima

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hypogeum

Question 19

What is the name for the shrine to the household gods?

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lararium

Question 20

What is the name for the lower class of Roman citizens?

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plebians

Question 21

What is the name of the instrument used to scrape off oil and dirt from the skin?

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strigil

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pilum

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caduceus

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pugio

Question 22

What is the name of the hole in the dome of the Pantheon?

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oculus

Question 23

What is the correct order of "baths" you would follow in the thermas?

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tepidarium-caldarium-frigidarium

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frigidarium-caldarium-tepidarium

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frigidarium-tepidarium-caldarium

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caldarium-tepidarium-frigidarium

Question 24

What is the term for the changing area in the baths?

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apodyterium

Question 25

What is the term for the exercise area of the baths?

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palaestra

Question 26

What is the term of office for a consul?

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one year

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5 years

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two years

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4 years

Question 27

How many consuls were there?

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2 per year

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4 per year

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12 per year

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300 per year

Question 28

What is the term of office for a dictator?

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6 months

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10 years

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life

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1 year

Question 29

What is the top of a Roman column called?

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capital

Question 30

What is the term used for freeing a slave?

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manumissio

Question 31

What is the term for foot soldiers of an infantry?

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pedites

Question 32

Thrax, Retiarius, and Secutor are all types of _______.

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gladiators

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building materials.

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soldiers

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military machines

Question 33

What role did the sagitarii have in the army?

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archers

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engineers

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cavalrymen

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slingers

Question 34

Which mountains separate Hispania from Gaul?

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Pyrenees

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Apennines

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Caucasus

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Alps

Question 35

Which monument was built to Augustan peace and family values?

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Ara Pacis

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Pantheon

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Domus Aurea

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Flavian amphitheater

Question 36

Which rhetorical device gives human characteristics to non-human or inanimate objects?

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personification

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chiasmus

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assonance

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onomatopoeia

Question 37

What kind of monster was the Lernean Hydra?

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water serpent with reduplicating heads

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whirlpool that sucked down ships

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ship-crushing rock

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bird women who sang you to death

Question 38

What territory did Rome gain after the 1st Punic War?

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Sicily

Question 39

What type of building is the Colosseum

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amphitheater

Question 40

What type of column has acanthus leaves on its capital?

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Corinthian

Question 41

What type of food and drink do gods consume?

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ambrosia and nectar

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wine and sacred bread

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wine and animal fat

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Coke and burgers

Question 42

What type of monster is Charbydis?

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whirlpool

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flesh-eating  vulture

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living skeleton

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living quicksand

Question 43

These monsters had snakes for hair and could turn you to stone.

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gorgons

Question 44

What type of painting is created on wet plaster?

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fresco

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tempura

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oil

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encaustic

Question 45

What type of priests interpret the flights of birds?

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augures

Question 46

What type of structure has a semi-circular seating area?

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theater

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amphitheater

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circus

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basilica

Question 47

What type of slave accompanies a boy to school?

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paedagogus

Question 48

Romans engineered these to transport water to the city.

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aqueducts

Question 49

What warning would you give a shopper?

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caveat emptor

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festina lente

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veni, vidi, emi

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alea iacta est

Question 50

What was Aeneas's nationality?

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Trojan

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Etruscan

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Roman

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Greek

Question 51

What was Niobe turned into after her 14 kids were killed?

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a weeping rock

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a hunting dog

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a Mulberry bush

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a swan

Question 52

On what date did Mt. Vesuvius erupt?

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August 21, 79 CE

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January 23, 509 BCE

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April 15, 44 BCE

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March 1, 753 BCE

Question 53

What is the name for the starting gates that hold the horses at the Circus?

Accepted Answer

carceres

Question 54

What is the name for the central divider at the Circus?

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spina

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