Statistics for Famous Ancient Romans

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Clue	Answer	% Correct
He crossed the Rubicon, but didn't survive the Ides of March	Julius Caesar	99%
The first emperor of Rome	Augustus	90%
He didn't actually fiddle as Rome burned	Nero	88%
Most famous assassin of the above	Brutus	87%
Emperor who built a wall in northern England	Hadrian	78%
Gladiator who led a slave revolt	Spartacus	74%
The first Christian emperor of Rome	Constantine	70%
Called "little boot", this emperor was utterly insane	Caligula	66%
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend him your ears	Mark Antony	54%
Emperor who was also a stoic philosopher	Marcus Aurelius	49%
Famous orator in the waning days of the Roman Republic	Cicero	46%
Poet who wrote "Metamorphoses"	Ovid	46%
Author of the "Aeneid"	Virgil	41%
Emperor under whom the empire reached its greatest territorial extent	Trajan	38%
Member of the First Triumvirate known for his enormous wealth	Crassus	37%
General who crushed Carthage in the Second Punic War	Scipio Africanus	36%
Name shared by two conservative Senators, "elder" and "younger"	Cato	27%
Two brothers who launched populist reforms in the 100s BC, but were killed for their efforts	Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus	20%
Wife of the above, who some consider a conspiratorial mastermind	Livia	19%
Ancient Rome's most famous doctor	Galen	15%