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