Clue | Answer | % Correct |
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He crossed the Rubicon, but didn't survive the Ides of March | Julius Caesar | 94%
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Supposed author of "The Iliad" | Homer | 89%
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Founder of the Academy in Athens | Plato | 76%
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He didn't actually fiddle as Rome burned | Nero | 76%
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"Methodic" philospher who drank hemlock | Socrates | 75%
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First Roman emperor | Augustus | 71%
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Alexander the Great's tutor | Aristotle | 70%
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A2 + B2 = C2 | Pythagoras | 70%
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Gladiator who led a slave revolt | Spartacus | 67%
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Namesake of a wall in northern England | Hadrian | 62%
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First Christian emperor | Constantine | 57%
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Author of famous fables, circa 600 B.C. | Aesop | 52%
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Had a eureka moment in the bathtub | Archimedes | 48%
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Author of a doctor's oath | Hippocrates | 47%
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Led 300 Spartans at Thermopylae | Leonidas | 41%
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"The Father of History" | Herodotus | 40%
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"The Father of Geometry" | Euclid | 40%
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Lesbian poet, circa 600 B.C. | Sappho | 36%
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Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend him your ears | Mark Antony | 34%
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Poet who wrote "Metamorphoses" | Ovid | 33%
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Ancient Rome's most famous physician | Galen | 32%
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Author of the Aeneid | Virgil | 32%
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Roman emperor and stoic philosopher | Marcus Aurelius | 29%
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Famous orator in the waning days of the Roman Republic | Cicero | 27%
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