The big fat Ancient History Christmas quiz about things that happened 700 years before Christianity

Round 1: The Basics 1) Virgil 2) Livy 3) Augustus 4) Aeneid 5) Kingdom = King, Republic = Senate

Round 2: Aeneas and Romulus

1) Troy 2) Paris 3) Juno 4) Dido 5) Carthage 6) Cumae 7) Lavinia (daughter of Latinus) 8) Evander and Hercules

9) Ascanius 10) Turnus- King of the Rutulians 11) Numitor 12) Amulius 13) Palatine Hill 14) fake festival 15) Tatius 16) Temple of Jupiter 17) Vultures 18) Tricked the daughter of Spurius Tarpeius

Round 3: Numa, Tullus and Ancus

1) Interregnum 2) He was a Sabine 3) Lictors 4) Temple of Janus 5) Egeria 6) Hostius Hostilius 7) Great hero against Sabines (with Romulus) 8) “More war like than Romulus” 9) Sabines

10) Albans 11) Fight between triplets 12) Plague 13) Botched religious ceremony 14) House struck by lightning

Round 4: Picture round Write down what important scene is being portrayed in these old masterpieces

1) Tarquinius Priscus killed by shepherds

2) Tarquinius Superbus’ secret message

3) Romulus celebrates victory

4) Fight between Horiatii and Curiatii

5) Ancus Marcius builds a prison

6) Squabble between Romulus and Remus

7) Tarquinius Priscus gets an omen

8) Romulus becomes Quirinus

9) Servius IS FLAME BOY!

10) Numa disarms the Romans

11) Aeneas meets Anchises in the Underworld

12) Sabine women stop the war between Rome and Sabines

Round 5: The Tarquins

1) Tarquinius Priscus 2) Etruscan 3) Tanaquil 4) Tricks the sons of Marcius to go hunting 5) Latins and Sabines 6) Assassinated (set up by sons of Marcius) 7) Servius Tullus 8) Son of a ‘Slave’ 9) 3 new ones

10) Temple of Diana 11) Tullia 12) Lucius Tarquinius 13) Arruns 14) Throws him down the steps of the Curea 15) Has him killed and ‘chariots’ him 16) The ‘Street of Crime’ 17) Superbus (the proud/ arrogant) 18) Cuts heads off poppies 19) Rapes Lucrecia/ Kills Gabii leaders