What happened?
Why is this important?
Who saw this?
What was involved?
Teams
100
The empire in which Pompeii was destroyed.
What is the Roman Empire?
100
Pompeii teaches us about this.
What is life in Roman towns?
100
This person wrote letters about Pompeii.
Who was Pliny the Younger?
100
This was a volcanic element not involved in Vesuvius.
What is lava?
100
Team One
Paul, Grace, Varun, Aaron, Rachel, Cameron, Katie
200
The volcano that erupted at Pompeii.
What is Mount Vesuvius?
200
Ash shells and artifacts
What was found at Pompeii?
200
This is where the fleet outside Pompeii was stationed.
Where is the Bay of Naples?
200
This many people were killed.
How many people is 20,000?
200
Team Two
Amun, Alexandra, Joel, Jack, Anna Clare, Maro, Nishant
300
This is how Herculaneum is related to Pompeii.
Which city was buried in ash along with Pompeii?
300
These lined the streets in Pompeii.
What are houses, factories, and merchant shops?
300
This is the person who led the fleet outside of Pompeii.
Who was Pliny the Elder?
300
This person was ridiculed for saying that Vesuvius would erupt.
Who was the soothsayer?
400
The type of town Pompeii was
What is a resort town?
400
This is the word that was created at Pompeii.
What is the word "Volcano?"
400
The person who wrote about Pompeii escaped with this person.
Who was Plinia Marcella?
400
This was the main component of the explosion.
What is ash?
500
Vesuvius erupted on this date
What happened on August 24, 79 AD/CE?
500
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500
This is the way the leader of the fleet and the person who wrote letters about Pompeii were related.
What is the father-son relationship?
500
This is the type of volcano Vesuvius is.
What is a composite volcano?
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