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