Roman Baths

Names of rooms

Roman Bath Culture

Hygiene

Miscellaneous

100

A cold unheated room for colder dips into water.

a) Frigidarium

b) Apodyterium

c) Tepidarium

d) Caldarium

e) Laconicum

a) Frigidarium

100

How many baths were in the city of Rome.

a) 1

b) 54

c) 103

d) 952

100

What is this tool called?
a) Nail-file

b) Ear-scoop

c) Strigils
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QWfnznEMWA-fcUREQoE1lT_ppTTIAm-UOymkDl2xxd4/edit?tab=t.0

a) Nail-file

100

What time did baths generally open?
a) Dawn

b) Mid-Day

c) Dusk

b) Mid-Day

200

A warm room that you would go into after taking a dip in the frigidarium

a) Frigidarium

b) Apodyterium

c) Tepidarium

d) Caldarium

e) Laconicum

c) Tepidarium

200

Who could use the baths?

a) Just the rich

b) The rich and some poor

c) Anyone could use the baths

200

What is this tool called?

a) Nail-file

b) Ear-scoop

c) Strigils

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HsBpsa_thmVW1APWG51YyPapdnOKmSLSWGE2Byhfp3M/edit?tab=t.0

c) Strigils

200

How many furnaces heated the baths of Caracalla?
a) 1

b) 5

c) 25

d) 50

300

A room for undressing and leaving your clothes in. Like a locker room.

a) Frigidarium

b) Apodyterium

c) Tepidarium

d) Caldarium

e) Laconicum

b) Apodyterium

300

What room would one go to first?

a) Frigidarium

b) Apodyterium

c) Tepidarium

d) Caldarium

e) Laconicum

b) Apodyterium

300

What is this tool called?

a) Nail-file

b) Ear-scoop

c) Strigils
https://docs.google.com/document/d/18eGBOb43azTs6qrT-FGI9wVySGqZPb1dw2unYOReoVY/edit?tab=t.0

b) Ear-scoop

300

Early baths were heated using what?

a) Wood

b) Natural hot springs

c) Coal

b) Natural hot springs

400

A room for intense dry heat equivalent to a sauna today.
a) Frigidarium
b) Apodyterium
c) Tepidarium
d) Caldarium
e) Laconicum

e) Laconicum

400

What room would you visit last?
a) Frigidarium
b) Apodyterium
c) Tepidarium
d) Caldarium
e) Laconicum

e) Laconicum

400

What oils did the Romans tend to use?

a) Grape seed oil and pumice

b) Olive oil and pumice

c) Vegetable oil and pumice

b) Olive oil and pumice

400

Mosaic floor patterns would often contain depictions of what?

a) Gods

b) Roman Leaders

c) Fish and sea creatures

500

A really hot steamy room for washing

a) Frigidarium

b) Apodyterium

c) Tepidarium

d) Caldarium

e) Laconicum

d) Caldarium

500

What room would you visit after visiting the Frigidarium?

a) Frigidarium

b) Apodyterium

c) Tepidarium

d) Caldarium

e) Laconicum

c) Tepidarium

500

What were the strigils typically made of?

a) Iron

b) Gold

c) Bronze

500

The space underneath the floors used for heating was called…

Hypocaust