How often do you think about the Roman Empire?
This system of yearly dating was used by the Romans was called Ab Urbe Condita, which means...
What is "from the founding of the city"?
What is Lake Baikal?
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
What is Pride and Prejudice?
"Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."
What is Casablanca?
"Reductio ad Absurdum"
What is "reduction to the absurdity" [leading back to the crazy conclusion]?
This diarchical position was the final goal of the Cursus Honorum
What is a consul?
This Roman hill was home to the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus, the ancient citadel, and the Tarpeian Rock.
What is the Capitoline Hill?
"At last on a night of rain, he smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. The grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise."
What is Return of the King?
"I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse."
What is The Godfather?
"Quid pro quo"
What is, "Which for which"
"Something for something"
"This for that"?
Julius Caesar [begrudgingly] gave this highest honour up in order to run for political office; he also was later awarded 4 of these on the same day.
What is a triumph?
Is this place a country? Depends on who you ask. If you are in Turkey, the answer is "yes"; as for the rest of the world, the answer is "no".
What is Northern Cyprus?
"Whatever it is, I fear the Danaans, even bearing gifts."
What is the Aeneid?
"You can't handle the truth!"
What is A Few Good Men?
"O tempora, o mores!"
What is "Oh times, oh customs!"
OR "What times, what morals"?
This Roman Emperor dissolved his vassals from their allegiances following a spectacular military victory from a Frankish upstart, finally bringing an end to the Empire.
Who is Francis II?
This landlocked South American country has two capital cities, an official one and an administrative one
What is Bolivia?
"Here vigour failed the lofty fantasy:
But now was turning my desire and will,
Even as a wheel that equally is moved,
The Love which moves the sun and the other stars."
What is Paradiso?
"Go ahead, make my day."
What is Sudden Impact?
"Quod erat Demonstrandum"
What is, "That which was to be demonstrated/proved"?
Due to this Emperor's publishing of the 212 Constitutio Antoniniana, all free non-citizens of the Empire became citizens with the name "Marcus Aurelius"?
[Give the Emperor's nickname]
Who is Carcalla?
[Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, born Lucius Septimius Bassianus]
Which small mountain country shares a co-ruler with the Head of State of another?
What is Andorra?
"But I am constant as the Northern Star,
Of whose true-fix'd and resting quality
There is no fellow in the firmament. "
What is Julius Caesar?
"Bad luck to kill a seabird."
What is The Lighthouse?
"Caveat emptor"
What is, "[May the] Buyer Beware"?