2011 Area C Geography Test



2011 Area C Geography Test Contest Code 16

Where is Hadrian’s wall?

Northern Britain

Northern Spain

Southern Britain

Southern Spain

Which island is closer to Cisalpine Gaul?

Baleares

Corsica

Sardinia

Sicily

Baetica is found in what region?

Britania

Gaul

Hispania

Italia

Which region has its northern border the farthest north?

Arabia

Judea

Mesopotamia

Syria

Which body of water has its eastern border the farthest east?

Adriatic Sea

Black sea

Mediterranean

The Nile

Mt Olympus was located between what two regions?

Arcadia and Thessaly

Euboea and Thessaly

Macedonia and Epirus

Macedonia and Thessaly

Name the mountain closest to Athens.

Mt Helicon

Mt Parnassus

Mt Pelium

Mt Pentelicon

Which city was closest to Mt Vesuvius?

Arpinum

Capua

Metapontum

Paestum

The island of Lesbos lays off the coast of what region?

Asia Minor

Egypt

Greece

Italy

Which of the seven hills of Rome was most northerly and formed most of the northern border of the city?

Aventine

Caelius

Esquilinus

Palatine

Quirinalis

The original Latin name for the Adriatic Sea is what?

Mare Nostrum

Mare Superum

Pontus Euxinus

Tyrrhenian

Which of these was not the same province as the others?

Aetolia

Euboea

Peloponessus

Phrygia

Which of these is geographically closest to Rome?

Alexandria

Antioch

Carthago

Ephesus

In the first century AD, if you are standing on the rostra in the Forum Romanum, looking straight ahead, what do you see?

Temple of Caesar

the Basilica Aemilia

the Basilica Julia

the Curia

to visit the geologically significant island of Thera, go to where?

Mare Aegaeum

Oceanus Atlanticus

Sinus Arabicus

the Pontus Euxinus

This river flows near Troy.

Alpheus

Halys

Maeander

Scamander

“Helvetica,” the Roman name, still appears on the postage stamp of what modern country?

Belgium

Luxembourg

Switzerland

Wales

Name the densely populated slum in ancient times that occupied the low space between the Quirinal, the Viminal, the Esquiline and the forum.

Campus Martius

Carinae

Subura

Velabrum

The islands off the coast of Hispania that supplied expert archers for the Roman military were called:

Balearics

Cyclades

Lesbos

Punics

separating France and Spain

separating Italy and France

splitting Italy, lengthwise

Sicilia

separating Armenia and Sarmatia

Aetna

Alpes

Apennines

Caucasus

Pyrenees

Which of these is NOT in the same European peninsula as the others?

Cappadocia

Dacia

Moesia

Pannonia

Which of these is NOT in the same Roman province as the others?

Actium

Arausio

Pharsalus

Thermopylae

Which of these is NOT in the Roman forum?

Basilica Julia

comitium

fountain of Juturna

Temple of Mars

Which one of these is NOT one of the Imperial Fora, a later addition to the Forum Romanum?

Forum of Hadrian

Forum Pacis

Forum Trajan

Forum Transitorium

To visit the ancient capital of Petra, with its massive cliff monuments, one would travel to where?

Egypt

Greece

Jordan

Turkey

As far as Roman authority, was concerned, Nazareth was in what region?

Egypt

Galilee

Judea

Samaria

Which of these was not in Asia Minor?

Bithynia

Cilicia

Galatia

Numidia

Match the temple or monument with its builder.

the rebuilt Pantheon

the Flavian Amphitheater, initiation

the Temple of Mars ultor

the Arch of Titus

Augustus

Domitian

Hadrian

Vespasian

Using the map above, pick the region where the given city would be located.

Cnossus

Delos

Delphi

Sardis

Sparta

What is the modern name for the classical region known as Asia?

China

Lithuania

Ukraine

Western Turkey

What is the modern name for the classical region known as Persia?

Iran

Saudi Arabia

Sudan

Syria

What is the modern name for the classical region known as Hibernia?

Ireland

Scotland

Spain

Switzerland

What is the modern name for the classical region known as Lusitania?

Czechoslovakia

France

Portugal

Spain

What is the modern name for the classical region known as Achaea?

Afghanistan

Armenia

Greece

Sweden

Tie Breakers!!!

answer on your scantron numbers 96-100

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Using the map above, name the rivers. The letters represent the where the river empties out into a larger body of water.

96) Iberus

97) Liger

98) Padus

99) Rhodanus

100) Tiber

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