Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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A) First emperor of Rome | Augustus | 97%
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G) Men who were trained to fight in public games | Gladiators | 92%
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L) Military unit of roughly 5000 men | Legion | 85%
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C) General who conquered Gaul | Caesar (Julius) | 83%
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R) Founding brother who was slain for scaling his brothers wall | Remus | 83%
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S) The ruling body of men | Senate | 83%
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W) Defensive structures in Scotland, prefixed by 'Hadriens' and 'Antonine' | Walls | 83%
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X) Roman numeral for 38 | XXXVIII | 81%
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I) Peninsula upon which Rome sits | Italy | 77%
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K) Rome supposedly had 7 of these prior to the formation of the republic | Kings | 73%
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H) King of Judea c37bc- c4bc | Herod the Great | 70%
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Y) Modern name of the north English Roman city of Eboracum | York | 70%
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B) British warrior queen who led an unsuccessful rebellion against Roman rule | Boudicca | 68%
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O) Poet of the Augustan era, author of metamorphosis | Ovid | 61%
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F) Short lived imperial dynasty involving Vespasian, Titus and Domitian | Flavian | 51%
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P) Famous general and member of the first triumvirate, cleared the Mediterranean of pirates | Pompey the Great | 47%
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V) Priestesses of the godess Vesta, faced terrible punishments for breaking their vows of chastity | Vestal Virgins | 45%
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J) Granddaughter of A) her vivacious life scandalised Rome, later forced into exile | Julia the Younger | 44%
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U) Where Pluto resided | Underworld | 43%
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T) Celebratory procession awarded to a successful general | Triumph | 42%
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D) Roman province, now part of Romania and Serbia | Dacia | 40%
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M) consul an unprecedented 7 times, responsible for many reforms in civilian and military life | Marius (Gaius) | 25%
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Q) First official post on the 'cursus honorum' | Quaestor | 25%
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E) Syrian born emporer, prone to wild excesses by all accounts | Elagabalus | 23%
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Z) Rebellious queen of Palmyra, eventually caught and captured on the orders of the emporer Aurellian | Zenobia | 18%
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N) Name for the first man of a family line to serve in the senate or consulship 'new man' | Novus Homo | 11%
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