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  • 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) Greece
B) Egypt
C) Thrace
D) Rome
  • 3. Which slave revolt did Spartacus lead?
A) Gallic Wars
B) Second Servile War
C) Punic Wars
D) Third Servile War
  • 4. Who was Spartacus' main opponent in the Third Servile War?
A) Julius Caesar
B) Mark Antony
C) Marcus Licinius Crassus
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 betraying them to the Romans
B) By threatening them with punishment
C) By his courage and leadership
D) By promising them riches
  • 7. Where did Spartacus initially train as a gladiator?
A) Alexandria
B) Rome
C) Capua
D) Athens
  • 8. Who defeated Spartacus?
A) Mark Antony
B) Crassus
C) Pompey
D) Caesar
  • 9. What was Spartacus's role before he became a gladiator?
A) Soldier with the Romans
B) Carthaginian general
C) Greek philosopher
D) Roman senator
  • 10. In which year did Spartacus's revolt begin?
A) 71 BC
B) 75 BC
C) 73 BC
D) 72 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) Alps
B) Mount Vesuvius
C) Appennine Mountains
D) Tiber River
  • 13. What was the estimated maximum size of Spartacus's army?
A) 50,000
B) 30,000
C) 100,000
D) 70,000
  • 14. Which Roman military punishment did Crassus revive to discipline his legions?
A) Decimation
B) Exile
C) Imprisonment
D) Flogging
  • 15. What was the fate of the 6,000 captured rebels after Spartacus's defeat?
A) Exiled from Italy
B) They were crucified along the Appian Way
C) Sent to work in mines
D) Released as free citizens
  • 16. What was Spartacus's intended destination with his followers after escaping?
A) Sicily
B) Egypt
C) Carthage
D) Greece
  • 17. Who betrayed Spartacus by taking payment and abandoning him during the escape plan to Sicily?
A) Carthaginian traders
B) Greek allies
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) In Rome
D) At Capua
  • 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 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) Wingsuits
C) Ladders
D) Chains
  • 22. Which tribe is Spartacus possibly associated with according to Plutarch?
A) Maedi
B) Spartans
C) Celts
D) Gauls
  • 23. Which historian wrote that Spartacus wished to escape north into Cisalpine Gaul?
A) Plutarch
B) Florus
C) Appian
D) Tacitus
  • 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) Howard Fast
B) Adam Weishaupt
C) Toussaint Louverture
D) Karl Marx
  • 27. In what year did Raffaello Giovagnoli write his historical novel 'Spartacus'?
A) 1920
B) 1951
C) 1943
D) 1874
  • 28. Which football team in Slovakia is based in Trnava?
A) FK Spartak Bánovce nad Bebravou
B) TJ Spartak Myjava
C) FC Spartak Trnava
D) FK Spartak Vráble
  • 29. Which football team in Bulgaria is based in Plovdiv?
A) Spartak Sofia
B) OFC Spartak Pleven
C) FC Spartak Varna
D) PFC Spartak Plovdiv
  • 30. Which football team in Serbia is based in Subotica?
A) FK Spartak Subotica
B) FK Radnički
C) FC Spartak Moscow
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) Spartacus's sword
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) Gladiatorcat
B) Fastcat
C) Marxcat
D) Spartacat
  • 33. Which network aired the television series 'Spartacus' starring Andy Whitfield and later Liam McIntyre?
A) Starz
B) BBC
C) USA Network
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) Goran Višnjić
D) Liam McIntyre
  • 35. Which football team in Kazakhstan is named after Spartacus?
A) Barnt Green Spartak F.C.
B) FC Spartak Semey
C) HC Spartak Moscow
D) Spartak (Cape Verde)
  • 36. Who released 'Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of Spartacus' in 1992?
A) Dymphna Cusack
B) Phantom Regiment
C) Carl Vine
D) Jeff Wayne
  • 37. In which game can Spartacus be a playable character if the player chooses the Spartacus Rebellion mode?
A) Gladihoppers
B) Heroscape
C) Spartacus Legends
D) Age of Empires: The Rise of Rome Expansion IV Enemies of Rome
  • 38. Who described Spartacus as 'the most splendid fellow in the whole of ancient history'?
A) Plutarch
B) Karl Marx
C) Florus
D) Appian
  • 39. Which composer wrote the score for the 1956 ballet 'Spartacus'?
A) Aram Khachaturian
B) Jeff Wayne
C) Alex North
D) Robert Montgomery Bird
  • 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) Yūichirō Higashide
B) Amal Donkol
C) Max Gallo
D) Ben Kane
  • 42. Which Reverend used 'Spartacus to the Gladiators at Capua' for school oratory practice?
A) Arthur Koestler
B) Raffaello Giovagnoli
C) Elijah Kellogg
D) Ben Kane
  • 43. In what year was the 'Spartacus Overture' composed by Camille Saint-Saëns?
A) 1942
B) 1956
C) 1863
D) 1992
  • 44. Who wrote the 1831 play 'The Gladiator'?
A) Camille Saint-Saëns
B) Dymphna Cusack
C) Aram Khachaturian
D) Robert Montgomery Bird
  • 45. Who voiced Spartacus in the English adaptation of Fate/Apocrypha?
A) Goran Višnjić
B) Satoshi Tsuruoka
C) Josh Tomar
D) Shawn Roberts
  • 46. Which basketball team is named after Spartacus in Saint Petersburg?
A) PFC Spartak Nalchik
B) FC Spartak Kostroma
C) WBC Spartak Moscow
D) Spartak Saint Petersburg
  • 47. What was the name of the Soviet bloc version of the Olympic games?
A) The Liberation Games
B) The Spartakiad
C) The Roman Games
D) The Gladiators' Games
  • 48. In which episode of the History Channel series 'Barbarians Rising' is Spartacus featured?
A) Heroes and Villains
B) Legends
C) Rebellion
D) Gladiators
  • 49. Who wrote the novel 'The Gladiators' about Spartacus?
A) Arthur Koestler
B) Bertolt Brecht
C) Howard Fast
D) Raffaello Giovagnoli
  • 50. Which sitcom had Ben Brockman play Spartacus in a musical called 'Spartacus'?
A) Friends
B) Seinfeld
C) Outnumbered
D) The Simpsons
  • 51. Which author wrote the novels 'Spartacus: The Gladiator' and 'Spartacus: Rebellion'?
A) Ben Kane
B) Max Gallo
C) Howard Fast
D) Arthur Koestler
  • 52. Which football club in Ukraine was formerly known as Spartak Uzhhorod?
A) Zakarpattia Uzhhorod
B) Spartak Kharkiv
C) Spartak Lviv
D) Spartak Sumy
  • 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) Andrejs Upīts
B) Ben Kane
C) Arthur Koestler
D) Raffaello Giovagnoli
  • 55. Who portrayed Spartacus in the season 6 premiere of DC's 'Legends of Tomorrow'?
A) Goran Višnjić
B) Andy Whitfield
C) Liam McIntyre
D) Shawn Roberts
  • 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) Sins of Rome
C) The Gladiator
D) Spartacus
  • 57. After defeating the legions commanded by Lucius Publicola and Gnaeus Clodianus, why did Spartacus turn south instead of heading north?
A) He wanted to attack Rome directly.
B) He needed more supplies.
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) Spartacus Books
B) The Bavarian Illuminati
C) Ottawa Senators
D) The German Spartacus League
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