🧠 Ancient Rome Quiz

Caesar's crossing of the Rubicon gave us the phrase 'crossing the Rubicon' for passing a point of no return.

Rome's wars against Carthage gave the Punic Wars their name, from the Latin word for Carthaginians, Poeni.

Vesuvius still looms over the Bay of Naples, and the ash that buried Pompeii preserved the town in remarkable detail.

Hadrian's Wall was begun after the emperor visited Britain and marked the northern edge of the province.

Cleopatra and Antony fled the Battle of Actium with part of their fleet, and both were dead within a year.

Constantine dedicated his new capital on the Bosphorus, Constantinople, which remained the heart of the Eastern Roman Empire for over a thousand years.

Cicero's first speech against Catiline opened with the famous cry 'Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra?'

Boudicca's rebellion burned Camulodunum, Londinium and Verulamium before it was crushed by Roman forces.

Arminius, a Germanic leader who had served in the Roman army, lured Varus's legions into the forest, and the defeat halted Rome's expansion east of the Rhine.

Trajan's Column carries a spiralling carved frieze telling the story of the Dacian Wars, and his ashes were later placed in its base.