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What is the most popular form of entertainment in Ancient Rome?
what is Gladiatorial combat?
Who is the god of music and poetry?
Who is Apollo?
What monster is know as the Little King and was said to be so venomous that it could kill a man with its gaze or breath?
What is the Basilisk?
What sea is Rome surrounded by?
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
Who was killed on the 15th of March?
*Bonus: what is the name of this date?
Who was Gaius Julius Caesar?
Bonus: What was the Ides of March?
What is the world’s largest unsupported concrete dome?
Hint: it has to do with Rome
What is the Pantheon?
What is the name of the Roman goddess that was believed to be born from Jupiter‘s head? (you must answer with the Roman name)
Who is Minerva?
What are the pair of monsters in the sea of monsters that are the living whirlpool and the six headed beast? (1/2 for each)
Hint: Odysseus faced one and Jason the other
What is Scylla and Charybdis?
Name 2 of the 3 largest cities the Roman Empire built?
What is Rome, Alexandria, Antioch?
Who was the first official Roman Emperor?
Who was Augustus?
How many different rooms on average were there in Roman baths?
Hint: Answer less than 10
What is 4-6?
Which goddess is the mother of Aeneas? (Roman name)
Who is Venus?
What ability did the Crocotta (a mythical wolf-dog) have to lure people to their deaths?
At its height the Roman Empire covered _____ modern nations and 5 million square km.
*if you get within 5, it is considered correct
What is 40?
Who is generally considered the worst Roman emperor?
Who was Caligula?
How much is the Roman Numeral CMXCIXCMXCIX
Hint: C=100; M=1000
What is 999,999
What is the Roman name of the father of the main gods? (ie. Jupiter, Neptune, Juno)
Who is Saturn?
What monster‘s blood was Amphisbaena (the mother of ants) serpent born from?
Who is Medusa?
During which emperor’s reign did the Roman Empire reach its greatest geographical extent?
Hint: time period is 98-117 AD
Who was Trajan?
What did Caligula try to make his consul?
What is his horse?
What material did Roman use for bandages to stop bleeding?
What is the name of the goddess of magic, fertility, and protection that became very popular among Roman women and was adopted from another culture?
Who is Isis? (Egyptian)
What spirits did the Romans hold the festival Lemuria to appease?
What are the Lemures and Larvae?
What is the name of an unnatural hill in Rome reaching 150 feet that is made of discarded olive oil jars?
What is Garbage Mountain (Monte Testaccio)?
Because of his reported hate for baldness, what did Julius Caesar make illegal?
What is standing over him and looking down at his thinning hair?