Julius Caesar Quiz

Ten questions on Julius Caesar, the man who conquered Gaul, defied the Senate and changed the calendar. How much do you really know about him?

10 questions
About 3 minutes
Medium
Includes a map and a photo

The Tusculum portrait, a marble bust of Julius Caesar possibly carved in his lifetime, showing a lean, balding man with a lined face — Photo by Carole Raddato (Following Hadrian), 2014, of the Tusculum portrait in the Museum of Antiquities, Turin. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0.

About this quiz

Caesar lived one of the most dramatic lives in history. Pirates kidnapped him as a young man, and he promised to crucify them. He conquered Gaul, crossed to Britain, fought a civil war, romanced Cleopatra, rewrote the calendar and was stabbed to death by senators who thought they were saving the Republic.

This quiz covers the stories people think they know and the details they usually get wrong. Many of the best stories come from Roman writers like Plutarch and Suetonius, who loved gossip, and the answers say so where it matters.

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Encyclopedia Julius Caesar Julius Caesar was a Roman general and dictator whose conquest of Gaul and seizure of power ended the Roman Republic.
Encyclopedia Cleopatra VII Cleopatra VII was the last pharaoh of Egypt, a Macedonian Greek ruler who allied with Caesar and Antony to keep her kingdom independent of Rome.

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