Q 01/05

Milan is the capital of which Italian region?

A) Lombardy

B) Piedmont

C) Veneto

D) Emilia-Romagna

Answer · why

A) Lombardy

Lombardy. The name comes from the Lombards, a Germanic people who took Milan in 569 but made nearby Pavia the capital of their Italian kingdom.

Q 02/05

What was Milan's name under the Romans?

A) Insubria

B) Mediolanum

C) Mediomatrici

D) Ticinum

Answer · why

B) Mediolanum

Mediolanum. Rome captured the town in 222 BC, and its name, usually read as 'in the middle of the plain', wore down over the centuries into Milano.

Q 03/05

For more than a century until AD 402, Milan was the capital of which state?

A) The Gallic Empire

B) The Eastern Roman Empire

C) The Western Roman Empire

D) The Ostrogothic Kingdom

Answer · why

C) The Western Roman Empire

The Western Roman Empire. Co-emperor Maximian set up court in Milan in the late 3rd century, and it stayed until 402, when the Visigoths besieged the ...

Q 04/05

Which emperor issued the Edict of Milan in AD 313?

A) Diocletian

B) Theodosius

C) Valentinian

D) Constantine

Answer · why

D) Constantine

Constantine. He was in Milan for his sister's wedding to his co-emperor Licinius, and the two rulers agreed there to let Christians and everyone else ...

Q 05/05

Which 4th-century bishop is the patron saint of Milan?

A) Ambrose

B) Augustine

C) Januarius

D) Nicholas

Answer · why

A) Ambrose

Ambrose. He was the Roman governor sent to keep the peace at a disputed election in 374 when the crowd began chanting for him as bishop, though he had...