Statistics for Sacks of Rome

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Year	Description	Answer	% Correct
455	King Geiseric led this invasion from North Africa, then vandalised the place	Vandals	100%
1870	The Papal States ended when King Victor Emmanuel II completed the unification of this country	Italy	91%
410	Led by King Alaric, these people themselves were fleeing the invading Huns	Visigoths	91%
1084	Pope Gregory VII probably regretted requesting military aid from Robert Guiscard’s mercenaries	Normans	82%
546	King Totila was in charge of this lot when they took Rome from the Byzantines	Ostrogoths	73%
390 BC	King Brennus of the Senones tribe sacked the city after defeating a Roman army at the Battle of the Allia	Cisalpine Gauls	64%
1943	Former allies who turned on their hosts after the Armistice of Cassibile during WWII	Germany	64%
1527	Ironically, underpaid troops of Emperor Charles V mutinied and sacked the city during the War of the League of Cognac	Holy Roman Empire	55%
846	These seaborne raiders plundered and sacked right up to the Aurelian Walls, including the basilicas of Old St Peter’s and St Paul’s	Aghlabids	36%