| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Name the founders of Rome according to legend? | Romulus/Remus | 96%
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| Who crossed the Rubicon in 49 BC? | Julius Caesar | 70%
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| What was the victor's name when he became the first emperor of Rome? | Augustus | 52%
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| Who was Rome's greatest enemy who in 216 BC crushed their army at Cannae? | Hannibal | 52%
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| Which ambitious Roman leader had molten gold poured down the throat of his corpse by the Parthians after his defeat at Carrhae in symbolic mockery of his wealth and greed? | Crassus | 35%
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| After the murder of the crosser of the Rubicon in 44 BC which of the two main rivals was victorious in the civil war that followed? | Octavian | 30%
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| Who was the above's main rival in the civil war that ensued? | Pompey | 26%
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| And the name of the long war in which the battle of Cannae occured? | Second Punic War | 22%
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| Which Roman emperor conquered the Dacians and incorporated their kingdom into a Roman province? A column still exists in Rome that was erected to celebrate his victories. | Trajan | 22%
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| What was bizarre about their infancy according to legend? | Suckled by she-wolf | 4%
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