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100
In 216 BC, the Romans faced their worst defeat of the 2nd Punic War here. Nearly 70,000 Roman soldier were slaughtered.
What is Cannae?
100
She gave Theseus a ball of thread to help him through the Labyrinth of the Minotaur.
Who is Ariadne?
100
The exercise grounds of the Roman baths
What is the palaestra?
100
The form of the dative case displayed in this sentence: nomen mihi est Marcus.
What is the dative of possession?
100
The author of the Aeneid, Eclogues, and Georgics.
Who is Virgil?
200
The third emperor of Rome who named his horse Incitatus a senator.
Who is Caligula?
200
He was fated to kill his grandfather, King Acrisius. His parents were Zeus and Danae.
Who is Perseus?
200
A chariot driven by four horses.
What is a quadriga?
200
The voice of the following verbs: laudatur, capti sunt, audimini.
What is passive?
200
Wrote lyric poetry to Lesbia.
Who is Catullus?
300
This city along with Carthage was sacked by the Romans in 146 BC.
What is Corinth?
300
Heracles' eleventh labor for King Eurysteus. It involved Atlas and Ladon.
What is stealing the golden apples of the Hesperides?
300
Roman word for breakfast
What is ientaculum?
300
The Latin relative pronoun needed for this sentence: The teachers whom I love teach Latin.
What is 'quas'?
300
Wrote a letter describing eruption of Vesuvius.
Who is Pliny the Younger?
400
He disguised himself as woman to enter the Bona Dea festival and had an affair with Pompeia, Caesar's second wife.
Who is Clodius Pulcher?
400
One of his epithets is "twice-born". His mother was the mortal Semele. His father was Zeus.
Who is Dionysus?
400
A slave who accompanied a child to and from school.
What is a paedogogus?
400
The English translation for "Et Caesar et Tiberius Gracchus a senatoribus necati sunt."
What is "Both Caesar and Tiberius Gracchus were killed by senators"?
400
His hands and head were nailed onto the Rostra in the Forum Romanum.
Who is Cicero?
500
The prophetic wife of Tarquinius Priscus.
Who is Tanaquil?
500
Father of Niobe. His son married Hippodamia. Cursed eternally in Tartarus.
Who is Tantalus?
500
The Roman festival on March 17 in which Roman boys entered manhood, giving up their bulla and toga praetexta for the toga virilis.
What is Liberalia?
500
The number of conjugations, multiplied by the number of voices, minus the number of declensions in Latin.
What is tres?
500
Lucretius was part of this school of ancient philosophy.
What is Epicureanism?