19.06.24: Ask the audience? Phone a friend? 50-50?

Here are some quiz questions either based on earlier posts or easy to find out:

1.      Caesar was assassinated on the Ides of March, but what is the date in our calendar?

[A] March 7^th  [B] March 1^st [C] March 15^th [D] March 31^st

2.      Which Roman author wrote about his on-off relationship with Lesbia?

[A] Catullus [B] Cicero [C] Caesar [D] Vergil

3.      What was the first capital of the Roman province of Britain?

[A] Eboracum [B] Londinium [C] Camulodunum [D] Verulamium

4.      What snack did Romans keep in a “glīrārium”?

[A] figs [B] dormice [C] sparrows [D] chickens

5.      Who witnessed and wrote about the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD79?

[A] Pliny the Younger [B] Pliny the Elder [C] Tacitus [D] Ovid

6.      Apart from Pompeii, which of these population centres was destroyed by Vesuvius?

[A] Brundisium [B] Misenum [C] Herculaneum [D] Arpinum

7.      The Appian Way connected Rome to which port?

[A] Brundisium [B] Misenum [C] Herculaneum [D] Arpinum

8.      In which of these rooms would formal dinner be eaten?

[A] ātrium [B] peristȳlium [C] tablīnum [D] trīclīnium

9.      Mark Antony was defeated at the Battle of Actium in 31BC. Who was with him?

[A] Brutus [B] Cleopatra [C] Ptolemy [D] Cassius

10.  What was the “cloaca maxima” in Rome?

[A] an indoor market [B] a sewage system [C] an assembly room [D] a bridge