Q 01/05

Spartacus was a gladiator from which region, in what is now Bulgaria?

A) Illyria

B) Thrace

C) Macedonia

D) Dacia

Answer · why

B) Thrace

He may have belonged to the Maedi tribe near the Strymon river.

Q 02/05

According to Appian, what had Spartacus been before he was enslaved and sold as a gladiator?

A) A Thracian tribal king

B) A pirate of Cilicia

C) A soldier with the Romans

D) A shepherd of Lucania

Answer · why

C) A soldier with the Romans

Florus adds that he was a mercenary who deserted and was enslaved before his strength got him picked as a gladiator.

Q 03/05

According to Plutarch, Spartacus's wife, enslaved with him, was what?

A) A Roman noblewoman

B) A Greek physician

C) A gladiator's daughter

D) A prophetess

Answer · why

D) A prophetess

She belonged to the Maedi tribe.

Q 04/05

The gladiatorial school Spartacus escaped from was near which city?

A) Neapolis

B) Rome

C) Pompeii

D) Capua

Answer · why

D) Capua

The 6,000 crosses after the war lined the road from Rome to that same city.

Q 05/05

Who owned the gladiatorial school from which Spartacus escaped?

A) Publius Varinius

B) Gaius Claudius Glaber

C) Sempronius Gracchus

D) Lentulus Batiatus

Answer · why

D) Lentulus Batiatus

Peter Ustinov won an Oscar playing him in the 1960 film.