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