| Description | Era | Figure | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emperor who fiddled while Rome burned | Empire | Nero | 91%
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| Author, orator and politician; unveiled the Catiline Conspiracy to the Senate; famously prosecuted Gaius Verres | Republic | Cicero | 70%
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| Often overlooked member of the First Triumvirate, died fighting a campaign in Parthia | Republic | Marcus Licinius Crassus | 70%
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| Emperor who preceded the above | Empire | Claudius | 67%
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| First King of Rome; considered its founding father | Monarchy | Romulus | 67%
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| Was emperor when Rome was at its greatest territorial extent | Empire | Trajan | 64%
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| Famously won the battle of Zama, ending the Second Punic War | Republic | Scipio Africanus | 58%
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| Author of Metamorphoses, exiled by the Emperor for his hedonistic beliefs | Empire | Ovid | 48%
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| Was responsible for the victory at Actium; the most famous general and childhood friend of Rome's first emperor | Empire | Marcus Agrippa | 42%
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| Became dictator after marching on Rome, yet retired the role and restored democracy (debatably) | Republic | Sulla | 39%
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| Famous stoic politician, who led the Optimates sect against the First Triumvirate; died at Utica by pulling out his intestines to avoid capture | Republic | Cato the Younger | 36%
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| Brothers whose populist land reforms led them both to gruesome deaths; tribunes of the plebs | Republic | Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus | 33%
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| Lost the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, forever ending Roman control in Germania | Empire | Publius Quinctilius Varus | 27%
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| King of Rome whose supposed origins were that of a slave; Sixth King of Rome | Monarchy | Servius Tullius | 18%
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| Mobster and demagogue responsible for increasing gang violence during Rome's later years; killed by Titus Annius Milo in a street fight | Republic | Clodius Pulcher | 9%
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