Year | Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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247-183 BC | Military commander in the second Punic War who crossed the Alps with elephants | Hannibal | 97%
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69-31 BC | Queen of Egypt who seduced Julius Caesar and Marc Anthony. In 32 BC the Roman senate declared war against her and after her defeat she committed suicide with an asp. | Cleopatra | 89%
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c. 406–453 | Leader of the huns who was feared and got the nickname 'scourge of god' | Attila | 83%
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c. 111–71 BC | One of the escaped slave leaders in a major slave uprising against the Roman Republic. Subject of major film in 1960 and miniseries. | Spartacus | 80%
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30?-60? | Queen of the British Iceni who led an unsuccessful uprising against the conquering forces of the Roman Empire in AD 60 or 61. | Boudica | 63%
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287-212 BC | Greek mathematician and inventor who may have used mirrors acting collectively as a parabolic reflector to burn Roman ships attacking Syracuse. | Archimedes | 62%
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80?-46 BC | Chieftain of the Arverni tribe who united the Gauls in a failed revolt against Julius Caesar. Now a folk hero in France. | Vercingetorix | 51%
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319/318–272 BC | King of Epirus who had some victories against Rome but whit heavy losses. He famously said: "If we are victorious in one more battle with the Romans, we shall be utterly ruined" | Pyrrhus of Epirus | 43%
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18/17 BC – 21 AD | Leader of the german tribes at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in 9 AD, in which three Roman legions under the command of general Publius Quinctilius Varus were destroyed. | Arminius | 36%
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285 - 229 BC | General in the first Punic war who made - number 5 - his son to swear never to be a "Friend of Rome" and "Never to show goodwill to the Romans | Hamilcar | 36%
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135–63 BC | King of Pontus who started a genocide against the Romans in the east; He also created immunity to poisons by regularly ingesting sub-lethal doses | Mithridates VI | 33%
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c. 370 – 410 | King of the Visigoths who is responsible for the sack of Rome in 410 | Alaric | 29%
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4th century BC | Leader of a gallic tribe which sieged and sacked Rome uttering the words 'Vae victis' which means ‘Woe to the vanquished,’ | Brennus | 20%
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c. 389 – 477 | He also sacked Rome in 455 but he was so fierce that the name of the Vandals is still a term for barbaric destruction. | Gaiseric | 16%
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?- 270 | Sasanian king of Iran who led several wars against the Roman empire. In 260 he defeated and captured the Roman emperor, Valerian and plundered the eastern provinces. | Shapur | 16%
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