Statistics for Roman Nicknames

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Born	Hint	Answer	% Correct
63 BCE	Eventually synonymous with "emperor", Octavian's self-styled honorific.	Augustus	92%
83 BCE	Cleopatra's last boyfriend, the hero of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar".	Marc Antony	83%
236 BCE	After he defeated Hannibal at Zama, Scipio received his famous agnomen.	Africanus	67%
12 CE	As a boy, soldiers called this eventual crazy emperor "Little Boots," and it stuck.	Caligula	67%
106 BCE	Julius Caesar's major rival for power went by this shortening of his praenomen.	Pompey the Great	67%
234 BCE	Elder hardliner who espoused Roman virtue. His cognomen was a nickname.	Cato the Elder	58%
23 CE	Naturalist and author who died in Mt Vesuvius eruption, uncle to the Younger.	Pliny the Elder	50%
188 CE	Brutal emperor, killed his brother Geta, his Gallic cloak became his namesake.	Caracalla	33%
203 CE	Cousin to the previous, 14 year old emperor, fancied himself god of the sun.	Elagabalus	33%
c. 173 CE	His nickname means "the Thracian". First barbarian emperor.	Maximinus Thrax	33%
c. 59 BCE	Historian and friend of the Julio-Claudians, how Titus Livius was better known	Livy	25%