Can you name the person, place or event that completes each clue about Roman history? by vsnowthawe

Clue
Eponymous founder of the city
Her rape and suicide led to the expulsion of the Tarquins
The Romans lost three legions in this military disaster
Julius Caesar's famous son-in-law
First demand for political equality
Author of Rome's national epic
The 'Stoic' emperor
Founder of the Principate
Rome's archnemesis during the Second Punic War
Caesar's henchman and Cleopatra's lover
Series of conflicts against Carthage
He earned his name from his military exploits in northern Europe
Author of the history of Rome from the foundation of the city
Hannibal's defeater
Caesar's assassin
Augustus' successor
First empress of Rome
Greek historian of Rome
Proconsul of Gaul turned dictator
Converted Rome to Christianity
Augustus' right-hand general
Late republican orator and statesman
Naval battle that ended the civil wars
Brutus and Cassius met their end here
Caesar said 'alia iacta est' ('the die is cast') after crossing this

Clue
Defeater of Pyrrhus
His name is a byword for 'empty victory'
The model dictator; George Washington's admirers called him this
Caesar routs Pompey
He saved Rome from the Gauls
First written laws
Mythical founder of Rome
Members of the First Triumvirate
Area of Italy in which Rome is located
He fiddled while Rome burned
Marc Anthony, Octavian, and Lepidus
Stuttering emperor and protagonist of Robert Graves novels
Hannibal routes the Romans on this body of water
Rome fights with its own allies
Series of expansive wars fought in the 4th and 3rd centuries BCE
Brothers, tribunes, agitators for reform
Cicero drove him out of the Senate with one of his most famous speeches
Historian of Rome's first emperors
Lucius Sulla's reign of terror
He was consul seven times
Biographer of the Caesars
'Little Boot'
Augustus banished him to the Black Sea for licentious behavior
He committed suicide at Utica to escape Caesar's pardon
He said: 'Carthago delenda est!' ('Carthage must be destroyed!')

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Roman History Challenge Quiz

by vsnowthawe

Created Mar 27, 2010 in History
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	AdamBishop:	Mar 27th, 2010 at 14:04 GMT	2 points
	Nice collection of trivia, but with some problems - most importantly, you need more alternate answers for Teutoburg, and it is "secession of the plebs", not "succession". Also, Pyrrhus is given away in the previous question.

	cep8888:	Mar 27th, 2010 at 18:02 GMT	2 points
	If I remember correctly, he wasn't actually called Scipio Africanus until after he defeated Hannibal. I do think that should be what's displayed, but you might want to accept just Scipio.

	Terentius_Varro:	Mar 27th, 2010 at 20:19 GMT	4 points
	This quiz has potential, but you've also made some (big) mistakes. 1) Tarquinius raped Lucretia, not Lavinia. 2) Few if any designate Livia as empress. A much better description would be wife of Augustus/Octavian. I do agree with you that she is worth a mention. 3) Constantine didn't convert Rome to Christianity, he merely granted religious freedom within the Empire 4) Fabius Maximius Cunctator didn't defeat Pyrrhus, Manius Curius Dentatus did, although defeating isn't quite true too. F. Maxiumius Cunctator is famous for the war of attrition he waged against Hannibal in Italia (hence the 'Fabian strategy'). 5) You might want to change the clue for Aeneas, because this one could also point to Remus. 6) The dictatorship of Sulla isn't known as 'proscriptions'. It was merely a part of his policy to give back power to the optimates. After Caesar's death there was another round of proscriptions, which cost the life of among many others M. Tullius Cicero. Furthermore you might want add some alternative answers on some names, like accepting Catilina and some other variations for the 'Members of the First Triumvirate' answer. Lastly I hope you could give all names the same format. I know it's nitpicking, but it could really mean the difference between a good and a great quiz;)

	Vasiliy:	Mar 28th, 2010 at 18:21 GMT	3 points
	Great quiz! Terentius Varro pointed out most of the small annoyances/errors, but another small point that irked me was that Caesar would have said 'alea iacta est', and not 'alia iacta est'.

	tulliuscicero:	Aug 5th, 2010 at 22:22 GMT	1 point
	Catilina is the actual Latin spelling, several clues are genuinely atrocious, and for Caesar, Pompey and Crassus, you really need alternate answers.

	pixiepop:	Oct 15th, 2011 at 16:13 GMT	1 point
	I completely concur with Terentius Varro. Also, it didnt accept it when I put in Scipio, so I concluded you wanted his full name. It didnt accept Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus either... :( some of your questions were rather vague as well. And it didnt accept First Secession of the Plebians. It only accepted First secession of the Plebs. For the Aeneas question, I would suggest rephrasing the question to "Mythical Ancestor of the Roman people".