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Weekly Quizzes on Ancient / Classical History Features

Special Quizzes and Quizzes on Weekly Articles on Ancient/Classical History

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Caesarea Pontius Pilate inscription

Inscription found at Caesarea Maritima mentioning Pontius Pilate as prefect of Judea and connecting him with the reign of Tiberius.

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I hope you enjoy these mostly very short quizzes.

The format of the quizzes varies, but the majority of the multiple choice quizzes are five questions long. The daily trivia challenge is just a single question with a multiple choice answer each day for 365 days. It is a page you might bookmark so you can return to it often.

Many of these quizzes involve Javascript, so make sure you turn on that capacity on your computer.

Almost all are self-grading, although some of the older ones don't provide answers, but refer to articles on the site with answers implicitly or explicitly stated in those articles.

I have no access to your responses, so please do not be embarrassed to guess. Most will not break or refuse to go further if you skip a question or three.

Some of these quizzes are pseudo-psychological quizzes; others test your familiarity with historical and mythological concepts mentioned in articles on this site. The most popular are of the pseudo-psychological type like Which Roman Are You? or Which Greek Goddess Are You?

Some of the questions are exceedingly easy; others, equally obscure. I try to make sure there is a range generally within a given test, but in some areas, like calendars, there are different levels of quizzes.

The list of quizzes should keep growing, so check back again in a few months for more.

Which Greek Hero Are You Quiz

Which Greek Goddess Are You Quiz

Which Roman Are You Quiz

Romance Language Quiz

Toga-Clad People Quiz

Roman Clothing Quiz

Funerary Monuments Quiz

Roman Geography Quiz

Daily Trivia Challenge Question

ANE Quiz

Boar Hunt Quiz

Literature Quiz

Cardinal Numbers Quiz

Alaric Quiz

Word Derivations Quiz

Important People Quiz

Daedalus Quiz

Colosseum Quiz

Sparta Quiz

The Pharaohs and Dynasties

Fall of Rome Quiz

Dionysus Quiz

Ancient / Classical History General 1

Ancient / Classical History General 2

Ancient / Classical History General 3

Ancient / Classical History General 4

Ancient China

Ancient Rome

Ancient Egypt

Ancient Greece Astronomy

Comedy - Playwrights

Writing

Aphrodite

Ancient History

Seleucids

Epic

Roman Historians

Law

Innovations of the Roman Kings

Poetry

Flood Myth

Early Church

Bath

Gladiators

Archaic Greece

Age of Pericles

Demeter

Seneca's Oedipus

Marius

Mithridates

Hadrian

Doric

Satire

Monasticism

Olympics

Manuscript Tradition

Philosophy

Panhellenic Games

Odyssey XI

Aeneid VI

Massilia

Heretic Pharaoh

Euripides' Alcestis

Odyssey I

Who wants to be a Millionaire - Ancient Classical History Style #1

Oresteia/House of Atreus

Soulmates

Calendars of the Maya

Thesmophoria

Odyssey II

Roman Marriage

Vestal Virgins

Hermes

First Gods Genealogy

Cleisthenes

Solon and the Rise of Democracy

Hanno of Carthage

Ancient Greek Love Magic

Ancient Greek Women Poets

Roman Calendar

Geometry Etymology

People in The Venus Throw

Jewish Calendar

Hercules' 12 Labors

Stilicho and Rufinus

End of Tetrarchy and Constantine

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