Q 01/05

Naples is the capital of which Italian region?

A) Campania

B) Calabria

C) Apulia

D) Lazio

Answer · why

A) Campania

It is the largest city in southern Italy and the third largest in the country after Rome and Milan.

Q 02/05

The first Greek colony on the site of Naples was named after which mythological figure?

A) Aeneas, the Trojan hero

B) Parthenope, a Siren

C) Neptune, god of the sea

D) Persephone, queen of Hades

Answer · why

B) Parthenope, a Siren

Her name means 'pure eyes'; the settlement stood on the island of Megaride and later Pizzofalcone hill.

Q 03/05

What does the Greek name Neapolis, adopted in the sixth century BC, mean?

A) Home of the Sirens

B) Fire mountain

C) New town

D) Sacred harbour

Answer · why

C) New town

It became one of the foremost cities of Magna Graecia and kept its Greek language under Roman rule.

Q 04/05

Which last emperor of the Western Roman Empire was exiled to Naples?

A) Flavius Honorius

B) Julius Nepos

C) Valentinian III

D) Romulus Augustulus

Answer · why

D) Romulus Augustulus

The Germanic king Odoacer sent him there in the fifth century AD.

Q 05/05

How did the Byzantine general Belisarius get into Naples in 536?

A) Through an aqueduct

B) Over the sea wall at night

C) By bribing the gates open

D) Through the catacombs

Answer · why

A) Through an aqueduct

The city then became part of the Byzantine sphere and later an independent duchy.