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  • 1. Who was Spartacus?
A) A Persian king
B) A Thracian gladiator
C) A Greek philosopher
D) A Roman general
  • 2. Where was Spartacus born?
A) Egypt
B) Greece
C) Rome
D) Thrace
  • 3. Which slave revolt did Spartacus lead?
A) Third Servile War
B) Punic Wars
C) Gallic 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) Crassus
B) Pompey
C) Caesar
D) Crixus
  • 6. How did Spartacus inspire his followers?
A) By threatening them with punishment
B) By his courage and leadership
C) By promising them riches
D) By betraying them to the Romans
  • 7. Where did Spartacus initially train as a gladiator?
A) Capua
B) Athens
C) Rome
D) Alexandria
  • 8. Who defeated Spartacus?
A) Crassus
B) Pompey
C) Mark Antony
D) Caesar
  • 9. What was Spartacus's role before he became a gladiator?
A) Carthaginian general
B) Soldier with the Romans
C) Roman senator
D) Greek philosopher
  • 10. In which year did Spartacus's revolt begin?
A) 73 BC
B) 71 BC
C) 72 BC
D) 75 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) Mount Vesuvius
D) Alps
  • 13. What was the estimated maximum size of Spartacus's army?
A) 100,000
B) 70,000
C) 50,000
D) 30,000
  • 14. Which Roman military punishment did Crassus revive to discipline his legions?
A) Decimation
B) Flogging
C) Imprisonment
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) Released as free citizens
D) Exiled from Italy
  • 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) 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) Sulla
B) Cicero
C) Pompey
D) Julius Caesar
  • 20. What was the primary goal of Spartacus's revolt according to some sources?
A) To establish a new empire
B) To conquer Rome
C) To escape Italy
D) To become a Roman senator
  • 21. What did Spartacus and his followers use to climb down Mount Vesuvius?
A) Ladders
B) Ropes made from vines
C) Wingsuits
D) Chains
  • 22. Which tribe is Spartacus possibly associated with according to Plutarch?
A) Spartans
B) Maedi
C) Gauls
D) Celts
  • 23. Which historian wrote that Spartacus wished to escape north into Cisalpine Gaul?
A) Plutarch
B) Appian
C) Tacitus
D) Florus
  • 24. Which sports club named after Spartacus is a football team based in Moscow?
A) PFC Spartak Nalchik
B) Spartak Tennis Club
C) HC Spartak Moscow
D) FC Spartak Moscow
  • 25. Which Polish writer authored 'Uczniowie Spartakusa' (Spartacus's disciples) in 1951?
A) Halina Rudnicka
B) Lewis Grassic Gibbon
C) Andrejs Upīts
D) Howard Fast
  • 26. Who has been called the 'Black Spartacus'?
A) Toussaint Louverture
B) Howard Fast
C) Adam Weishaupt
D) Karl Marx
  • 27. In what year did Raffaello Giovagnoli write his historical novel 'Spartacus'?
A) 1943
B) 1951
C) 1874
D) 1920
  • 28. Which football team in Slovakia is based in Trnava?
A) FC Spartak Trnava
B) FK Spartak Bánovce nad Bebravou
C) TJ Spartak Myjava
D) FK Spartak Vráble
  • 29. Which football team in Bulgaria is based in Plovdiv?
A) Spartak Sofia
B) PFC Spartak Plovdiv
C) FC Spartak Varna
D) OFC Spartak Pleven
  • 30. Which football team in Serbia is based in Subotica?
A) FK Radnički
B) Spartak Tennis Club
C) FK Spartak Subotica
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 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) Gladiatorcat
B) Spartacat
C) Fastcat
D) Marxcat
  • 33. Which network aired the television series 'Spartacus' starring Andy Whitfield and later Liam McIntyre?
A) BBC
B) Starz
C) History Channel
D) USA Network
  • 34. Who starred as Spartacus in the 2004 miniseries adapted from Howard Fast's novel?
A) Goran Višnjić
B) Shawn Roberts
C) Liam McIntyre
D) Andy Whitfield
  • 35. Which football team in Kazakhstan is named after Spartacus?
A) HC Spartak Moscow
B) Spartak (Cape Verde)
C) Barnt Green Spartak F.C.
D) FC Spartak Semey
  • 36. Who released 'Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of Spartacus' in 1992?
A) Carl Vine
B) Jeff Wayne
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) 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) Karl Marx
D) Florus
  • 39. Which composer wrote the score for the 1956 ballet 'Spartacus'?
A) Jeff Wayne
B) Alex North
C) Aram Khachaturian
D) Robert Montgomery Bird
  • 40. Which Scottish writer authored a novel titled 'Spartacus'?
A) Arthur Koestler
B) Raffaello Giovagnoli
C) Lewis Grassic Gibbon
D) Andrejs Upīts
  • 41. Who wrote 'The Last Words of Spartacus'?
A) Ben Kane
B) Yūichirō Higashide
C) Amal Donkol
D) Max Gallo
  • 42. Which Reverend used 'Spartacus to the Gladiators at Capua' for school oratory practice?
A) Elijah Kellogg
B) Raffaello Giovagnoli
C) Ben Kane
D) Arthur Koestler
  • 43. In what year was the 'Spartacus Overture' composed by Camille Saint-Saëns?
A) 1863
B) 1992
C) 1942
D) 1956
  • 44. Who wrote the 1831 play 'The Gladiator'?
A) Dymphna Cusack
B) Camille Saint-Saëns
C) Robert Montgomery Bird
D) Aram Khachaturian
  • 45. Who voiced Spartacus in the English adaptation of Fate/Apocrypha?
A) Josh Tomar
B) Goran Višnjić
C) Shawn Roberts
D) Satoshi Tsuruoka
  • 46. Which basketball team is named after Spartacus in Saint Petersburg?
A) WBC Spartak Moscow
B) PFC Spartak Nalchik
C) Spartak Saint Petersburg
D) FC Spartak Kostroma
  • 47. What was the name of the Soviet bloc version of the Olympic games?
A) The Spartakiad
B) The Gladiators' Games
C) The Roman Games
D) The Liberation 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) Raffaello Giovagnoli
B) Bertolt Brecht
C) Howard Fast
D) Arthur Koestler
  • 50. Which sitcom had Ben Brockman play Spartacus in a musical called 'Spartacus'?
A) Friends
B) The Simpsons
C) Outnumbered
D) Seinfeld
  • 51. Which author wrote the novels 'Spartacus: The Gladiator' and 'Spartacus: Rebellion'?
A) Howard Fast
B) Max Gallo
C) Arthur Koestler
D) Ben Kane
  • 52. Which football club in Ukraine was formerly known as Spartak Uzhhorod?
A) Spartak Lviv
B) Spartak Kharkiv
C) Zakarpattia Uzhhorod
D) Spartak Sumy
  • 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) Gladihoppers
C) Spartacus Legends
D) Heroscape
  • 54. Who wrote the play 'Spartacus' in 1943?
A) Andrejs Upīts
B) Raffaello Giovagnoli
C) Ben Kane
D) Arthur Koestler
  • 55. Who portrayed Spartacus in the season 6 premiere of DC's 'Legends of Tomorrow'?
A) Andy Whitfield
B) Shawn Roberts
C) Goran Višnjić
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) 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) 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) Ottawa Senators
B) Spartacus Books
C) The Bavarian Illuminati
D) The German Spartacus League
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