Roman Life - Food and Meals - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
how many people could dine at a traditional roman dinner party	9	100%
chief meal; dinner	cena	100%
fermented fish sauce	garum	100%
couch for dining (three made up the triclinium, 3 diners sat on each couch, 9 total diners)	lectus	100%
dining room	triclinium	100%
fermented wine	vinum	100%
from the egg to the apples (beginning to end of a Roman meal)	ab ovo usque ad mala	50%
dark bitter oil which flows from first pressing of olives	amurca	50%
upper millstone of a grail mill	catillus	50%
traditional Roman dinner party	convivium/sumposium	50%
doormouse; a delicacy	glis	50%
appetizer	gustatio	50%
appetizers of cena	gustus/antecena	50%
breakfast	ientaculum	50%
a fermented fish sauce similar to garum	liquamen	50%
"master of drinking", decides how strong the alcohol will be, determined by whoever achieved a Venus throw	magister bibendi/rex bibendi/arbiter bibendi	50%
apricot	malum armeniacum (Armenian apple)	50%
Roman term for peach	malum persicum (Persian apple)	50%
pomegranate	malum punicum (Phoenician apple)	50%
lower millstone of a grain mill	meta	50%
grain mill	mola	50%
drink made of water and honey	mulsa	50%
drink made of wine and honey	mulsum	50%
edible olive oil	oleum	50%
lunch	prandium	50%
dessert	secunda mensa (second table)	50%
deli	thermopolium	50%
light evening meal (sometimes the cena was eaten at midday)	vesperna/merenda	50%

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