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