Hard Trivia Questions (Triple Points)
What is the family name of the ruling dynasty of Monaco?
Grimaldi
According to Aristotle, which government group could "evade the law"
The Ephorate
What was the name of Caesar's long term mistress / Brutus' mum
Servilia
Name all key battles on the syllabus
Marathon, Thermopylae, Artemisium, Salamis, Mycale, Plataea
“Up in the club, just broke up, I’m doing my own little thing. Decided to dip, but now you wanna trip, ‘Cause another brother noticed me”
Single Ladies
The ‘girl in the polka dot dress’ was an eye witness in whose assassination?
JFK
What are the two cults in Sparta
Lycurgus and Dioscuri
A term for 'mercy' used in this period
Clemencia
Who said this?
“one is surely right in saying that Greece was saved by the Athenians”
Herodotus
See, 'cause that's where the party's at
And you'll find out if you do that
Pump up the Jam
Who collaborated with Karl Marx to produce “The Communist Manifesto”?
Friedrich Engels
Who wrote this?
“When men stand one next to the other... a few men are killed, but they save the men behind them. When men run away, all virtue is lost.”
Tyrtaeus
Which historian said this?
"His ability to secure the affection of his men and to get the best out of them was remarkable. Soldiers who in other campaigns had not shown themselves to be any better than the average became irresistible and invincible and ready to confront any danger, once it was a question of fighting for Caesar's honour and glory"
Plutarch
Who was the Ionian Greek tyrant of Miltetus
Aristogorus
“Reach for the stars so if you fall you land on a cloud”
Homecoming
In 1547, who became the 1st Tsar of Russia?
Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible)
Name THREE of the five types of inferiors
Hypomeiones - Loss of citizenship (failed to pay taxes)
Tresantes - Cowardice in Battle
Parthenial - Child of a Spartiate father and inferior mother
Neodamodes - Freed Helots
Mothocles - Spartiate children’s adopted helot playmates
1. Caesar became Consul
2. Caesar was assassinated
(You must get both right)
1. 59 BCE
2. 44 BCE
This Spartan was in charge of the Greek fleet by order of the Hellenic League, commanded at Artemisium and Salamis
Eurybiades
“Jealousy, turning saints into the sea, Swimming through sick lullabies, Choking on your alibis”
Mr Brightside
In 1612, who became the first person to observe the planet Neptune?
Galileo
Who said this?
But Astymeloisa answers me not, but wearing her garland like some bright star shooting across the sky or golden sprout or soft plume she strides with feet outstretched… grace sits on the maiden’s tresses …
Alcman
They were both part of the main group of conspirators that killed Julius Caesar.
Who said this? “In the fighting of 480 and 479 the Greek hoplites were better equipped than any of the various infantry contingents which the Persians could put into the field: in particular their defensive armour was more comprehensive”.
R Sealy
For the queen he was no wheeler dealer
Though she'd heard the things he'd done
She believed he was a holy healer
Who would heal her son
Rasputin