The Roman Empire

What this quiz asks

• In Rome's founding legend, an animal like this nursed which pair of twin brothers?
• Who became the first Roman emperor, in 27 BC?
• The letters SPQR, stamped on Roman standards and buildings, stood for what?
• Under the Roman Republic, two consuls were elected each year to lead the state together.
• Before leading a great slave revolt against Rome in 73 BC, what was Spartacus?
• What was the title of the Roman officer who commanded a 'century' of soldiers?
• Roman aqueducts moved water over long distances mainly by gravity, along a gentle downhill slope.
• Which Carthaginian general crossed the Alps with war elephants to invade Italy in 218 BC?
• Which emperor was ruling when the Great Fire of Rome broke out in AD 64?
• Select ALL of these modern countries whose land was partly or wholly inside the Roman Empire at its peak in AD 117.
• Hadrian's Wall, begun in AD 122 to guard Rome's northern frontier in Britain, lies in which modern country?
• Which emperor inaugurated the Colosseum in AD 80 with 100 days of games?
• Select ALL of these men who ruled as Roman emperor.
• Did the eastern half of the Roman Empire outlast the western half by nearly a thousand years?
• Which famous road, begun in 312 BC, linked Rome to the south of Italy and was nicknamed the 'queen of roads'?
• Order these emperors by when they reigned, earliest first.
• Who wrote the eyewitness letters describing the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79?
• Which emperor dedicated a new capital on the Bosporus in AD 330, naming it after himself?
• Which Visigothic king led the sack of Rome in AD 410, the first time in 800 years a foreign enemy took the city?
• In what year AD was Romulus Augustulus, the last emperor in the West, deposed?