Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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Volcano, destroyed the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in 79 AD | Vesuvius | 94%
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Germanic tribe, sacked Rome under King Alaric in 410 AD before settling in Southern Gaul and Hispania | Visigoths | 86%
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Statue of Aphrodite made in the 2nd Century BC, rediscovered on the Greek island of Milos in 1820 | Venus de Milo | 80%
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Iron-Age Kingdom also known as Urartu, centred around a lake of the same name in modern-day Armenia | Van | 75%
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Germanic tribe who migrated through Gaul and Hispania before settling in North Africa. Sacked Rome in 455 AD under King Gaiseric | Vandals | 73%
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Roman poet who composed the Aeneid - a founding mythology linking Rome to Mycenaean Greece | Virgil | 67%
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Priestesses of the Roman Goddess of the hearth, their duties included maintaining the Sacred Flame of the temple | Vestal Virgins | 57%
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The highest ranking official / adviser to the Pharaohs of ancient Egypt | Vizier | 47%
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City on the Ganges, one of the oldest in India, an important religious and cultural location | Varanasi | 43%
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Tribal confederation, occupied the Adriatic coast of North East Italy throughout the first millenium | Veneti | 37%
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9th Roman Emperor, a successful general who founded the Flavian dynasty | Vespasian | 37%
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Gallic King who led a united Celtic revolt against Roman rule. Defeated by Julius Caesar at the Battle of Alesia in 52 BC | Vercingetorix | 31%
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Roman general, lost three legions in 9 AD after being ambushed by the Germanic Chieftain Arminius in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest | Varus | 27%
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Emperor of Eastern Rome, brother of Valentinian, killed by invading Goths under Fritigern in 378 AD at the battle of Adrianople | Valens | 18%
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Roman town near modern-day St Albans, sacked and burnt by the Iceni Queen Boudica | Verulamium | 12%
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Roman fortress located just South of Hadrian’s Wall, now a museum | Vindolanda | 8%
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