Spartacus - Quiz
Spartacus
  • 1. Who was Spartacus?
A) A Persian king
B) A Roman general
C) A Thracian gladiator
D) A Greek philosopher
  • 2. Where was Spartacus born?
A) Rome
B) Egypt
C) Greece
D) Thrace
  • 3. Which slave revolt did Spartacus lead?
A) Punic Wars
B) Gallic Wars
C) Second Servile War
D) Third Servile War
  • 4. Who was Spartacus' main opponent in the Third Servile War?
A) Marcus Licinius Crassus
B) Mark Antony
C) Julius Caesar
D) Pompey
  • 5. Which Roman officer helped Spartacus escape the gladiator school?
A) Pompey
B) Crixus
C) Caesar
D) Crassus
  • 6. How did Spartacus inspire his followers?
A) By promising them riches
B) By betraying them to the Romans
C) By threatening them with punishment
D) By his courage and leadership
  • 7. Where did Spartacus initially train as a gladiator?
A) Capua
B) Alexandria
C) Athens
D) Rome
  • 8. Who defeated Spartacus?
A) Caesar
B) Crassus
C) Mark Antony
D) Pompey
  • 9. What was Spartacus's role before he became a gladiator?
A) Roman senator
B) Soldier with the Romans
C) Carthaginian general
D) Greek philosopher
  • 10. In which year did Spartacus's revolt begin?
A) 75 BC
B) 71 BC
C) 72 BC
D) 73 BC
  • 11. How many gladiators initially escaped with Spartacus from the Capua school?
A) 30
B) 50
C) 100
D) About 70
  • 12. What geographical feature did Spartacus and his followers use to escape Roman forces?
A) Appennine Mountains
B) Mount Vesuvius
C) Tiber River
D) Alps
  • 13. What was the estimated maximum size of Spartacus's army?
A) 30,000
B) 70,000
C) 100,000
D) 50,000
  • 14. Which Roman military punishment did Crassus revive to discipline his legions?
A) Flogging
B) Decimation
C) Imprisonment
D) Exile
  • 15. What was the fate of the 6,000 captured rebels after Spartacus's defeat?
A) Exiled from Italy
B) Released as free citizens
C) Sent to work in mines
D) They were crucified along the Appian Way
  • 16. What was Spartacus's intended destination with his followers after escaping?
A) Sicily
B) Greece
C) Carthage
D) Egypt
  • 17. Who betrayed Spartacus by taking payment and abandoning him during the escape plan to Sicily?
A) Cilician pirates
B) Carthaginian traders
C) Roman senators
D) Greek allies
  • 18. Where did the final battle that led to Spartacus's defeat take place?
A) Near the village of Quaglietta in Lucania
B) At Capua
C) On Mount Vesuvius
D) In Rome
  • 19. Which Roman general returned from Hispania to aid Crassus against Spartacus?
A) Julius Caesar
B) Pompey
C) Cicero
D) Sulla
  • 20. What was the primary goal of Spartacus's revolt according to some sources?
A) To establish a new empire
B) To escape Italy
C) To conquer Rome
D) To become a Roman senator
  • 21. What did Spartacus and his followers use to climb down Mount Vesuvius?
A) Ladders
B) Wingsuits
C) Chains
D) Ropes made from vines
  • 22. Which tribe is Spartacus possibly associated with according to Plutarch?
A) Maedi
B) Celts
C) Spartans
D) Gauls
  • 23. Which historian wrote that Spartacus wished to escape north into Cisalpine Gaul?
A) Tacitus
B) Florus
C) Appian
D) Plutarch
  • 24. Which sports club named after Spartacus is a football team based in Moscow?
A) FC Spartak Moscow
B) PFC Spartak Nalchik
C) HC Spartak Moscow
D) Spartak Tennis Club
  • 25. Which Polish writer authored 'Uczniowie Spartakusa' (Spartacus's disciples) in 1951?
A) Andrejs Upīts
B) Howard Fast
C) Halina Rudnicka
D) Lewis Grassic Gibbon
  • 26. Who has been called the 'Black Spartacus'?
A) Karl Marx
B) Howard Fast
C) Toussaint Louverture
D) Adam Weishaupt
  • 27. In what year did Raffaello Giovagnoli write his historical novel 'Spartacus'?
A) 1874
B) 1951
C) 1943
D) 1920
  • 28. Which football team in Slovakia is based in Trnava?
A) FK Spartak Vráble
B) FK Spartak Bánovce nad Bebravou
C) TJ Spartak Myjava
D) FC Spartak Trnava
  • 29. Which football team in Bulgaria is based in Plovdiv?
A) OFC Spartak Pleven
B) FC Spartak Varna
C) PFC Spartak Plovdiv
D) Spartak Sofia
  • 30. Which football team in Serbia is based in Subotica?
A) FK Spartak Subotica
B) Spartak Tennis Club
C) FK Radnički
D) FC Spartak Moscow
  • 31. What does a player receive in Gladihoppers if they name their character Spartacus in Career Mode?
A) Spartacus's sword
B) A campaign against Spartacus
C) An endgame boss
D) A unique gladiator hero
  • 32. What was the name of the mascot for the Ottawa Senators named after Spartacus?
A) Gladiatorcat
B) Spartacat
C) Fastcat
D) Marxcat
  • 33. Which network aired the television series 'Spartacus' starring Andy Whitfield and later Liam McIntyre?
A) USA Network
B) BBC
C) History Channel
D) Starz
  • 34. Who starred as Spartacus in the 2004 miniseries adapted from Howard Fast's novel?
A) Liam McIntyre
B) Andy Whitfield
C) Goran Višnjić
D) Shawn Roberts
  • 35. Which football team in Kazakhstan is named after Spartacus?
A) Barnt Green Spartak F.C.
B) FC Spartak Semey
C) Spartak (Cape Verde)
D) HC Spartak Moscow
  • 36. Who released 'Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of Spartacus' in 1992?
A) Jeff Wayne
B) Carl Vine
C) Phantom Regiment
D) Dymphna Cusack
  • 37. In which game can Spartacus be a playable character if the player chooses the Spartacus Rebellion mode?
A) Age of Empires: The Rise of Rome Expansion IV Enemies of Rome
B) Spartacus Legends
C) Heroscape
D) Gladihoppers
  • 38. Who described Spartacus as 'the most splendid fellow in the whole of ancient history'?
A) Florus
B) Appian
C) Karl Marx
D) Plutarch
  • 39. Which composer wrote the score for the 1956 ballet 'Spartacus'?
A) Aram Khachaturian
B) Jeff Wayne
C) Robert Montgomery Bird
D) Alex North
  • 40. Which Scottish writer authored a novel titled 'Spartacus'?
A) Andrejs Upīts
B) Arthur Koestler
C) Raffaello Giovagnoli
D) Lewis Grassic Gibbon
  • 41. Who wrote 'The Last Words of Spartacus'?
A) Amal Donkol
B) Max Gallo
C) Yūichirō Higashide
D) Ben Kane
  • 42. Which Reverend used 'Spartacus to the Gladiators at Capua' for school oratory practice?
A) Raffaello Giovagnoli
B) Elijah Kellogg
C) Arthur Koestler
D) Ben Kane
  • 43. In what year was the 'Spartacus Overture' composed by Camille Saint-Saëns?
A) 1956
B) 1942
C) 1992
D) 1863
  • 44. Who wrote the 1831 play 'The Gladiator'?
A) Camille Saint-Saëns
B) Dymphna Cusack
C) Robert Montgomery Bird
D) Aram Khachaturian
  • 45. Who voiced Spartacus in the English adaptation of Fate/Apocrypha?
A) Satoshi Tsuruoka
B) Shawn Roberts
C) Goran Višnjić
D) Josh Tomar
  • 46. Which basketball team is named after Spartacus in Saint Petersburg?
A) Spartak Saint Petersburg
B) WBC Spartak Moscow
C) PFC Spartak Nalchik
D) FC Spartak Kostroma
  • 47. What was the name of the Soviet bloc version of the Olympic games?
A) The Spartakiad
B) The Liberation Games
C) The Roman Games
D) The Gladiators' Games
  • 48. In which episode of the History Channel series 'Barbarians Rising' is Spartacus featured?
A) Gladiators
B) Rebellion
C) Heroes and Villains
D) Legends
  • 49. Who wrote the novel 'The Gladiators' about Spartacus?
A) Arthur Koestler
B) Raffaello Giovagnoli
C) Bertolt Brecht
D) Howard Fast
  • 50. Which sitcom had Ben Brockman play Spartacus in a musical called 'Spartacus'?
A) Seinfeld
B) Outnumbered
C) Friends
D) The Simpsons
  • 51. Which author wrote the novels 'Spartacus: The Gladiator' and 'Spartacus: Rebellion'?
A) Howard Fast
B) Max Gallo
C) Ben Kane
D) Arthur Koestler
  • 52. Which football club in Ukraine was formerly known as Spartak Uzhhorod?
A) Spartak Sumy
B) Zakarpattia Uzhhorod
C) Spartak Lviv
D) Spartak Kharkiv
  • 53. In which wargaming system does Spartacus appear as a unique gladiator hero?
A) Age of Empires: The Rise of Rome Expansion IV Enemies of Rome
B) Heroscape
C) Spartacus Legends
D) Gladihoppers
  • 54. Who wrote the play 'Spartacus' in 1943?
A) Raffaello Giovagnoli
B) Andrejs Upīts
C) Arthur Koestler
D) Ben Kane
  • 55. Who portrayed Spartacus in the season 6 premiere of DC's 'Legends of Tomorrow'?
A) Shawn Roberts
B) Goran Višnjić
C) Andy Whitfield
D) Liam McIntyre
  • 56. Which film, directed by Stanley Kubrick in 1960, starred Kirk Douglas and was based on Howard Fast's novel?
A) Sins of Rome
B) Spartacus
C) Spartacus and the Ten Gladiators
D) The Gladiator
  • 57. After defeating the legions commanded by Lucius Publicola and Gnaeus Clodianus, why did Spartacus turn south instead of heading north?
A) He needed more supplies.
B) He wanted to attack Rome directly.
C) It is not clear why he turned south.
D) His troops demanded plundering Italy.
  • 58. Which of the following was a forerunner of the Communist Party of Germany?
A) The Bavarian Illuminati
B) Spartacus Books
C) The German Spartacus League
D) Ottawa Senators
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