Question: Virgil's loss of his famiyl farm and the attempt to regain his property though poetry was the inferred motive for which work?
Answer: Eclogues

Question: To whom was Eclogue 4 addressed to?
Answer: Asinius Pollio

Question: Which Eclogues discusses homosexual love?
Answer: Ecl. 2

Question: Who helped finish the Aeneid?
Answer: Varius Rufus

Question: When where the Eclogues likely published?
Answer: before 37 BC

Question: What were Octavian' s agent d'affaires called?
Answer: Maecenas

Question: Which leading literary figure often mentioned Virgin in his poetry?
Answer: Horace

Question: Which long didactic hexameter poem did Virgil work on for several years?
Answer: Georgics

Question: To whom was Georgics dedicated to?
Answer: Maecenas

Question: The theme of Georgics is instruction in the methods of what?
Answer: running a farm

Question: Which of Virgil's poet friends committed suicide in 26 BC?
Answer: Gallus

Question: Who was Gallus disgraced by?
Answer: Augustus

Question: Octavian defeated Antony and Cleopatra at which battle?
Answer: Battle of Actium

Question: When did Octavian return from the Battle of Actium?
Answer: 31 BC

Question: Who took turns with Virgil to read the Georgics to Octavian?
Answer: Maecenas

Question: Which of Virgil's works is widely considered his finest?
Answer: The Aeneid

Question: Who commissioned the Aeneid according to Propertius?
Answer: Augustus

Question: How many books are included in The Aeneid?
Answer: 12

Question: Which of Homer's works did the first six books of the Aeneid model after?
Answer: Odyssey

Question: Which of Homer's works did the last six books of the Aeneid connect to?
Answer: Iliad

Question: Who is Aeneas' enemy throughout the Aeneid?
Answer: Juno

Question: Which queen committed suicide in Book 4 of the Aeneid?
Answer: Dido

Question: In which book does Aeneas' father die?
Answer: 5

Question: Who reveals Rome's destiny to Aeneas?
Answer: Anchises

Question: Who guides Aeneas through the Underworld?
Answer: Sibyl

Question: To whom is Aeneas betrothed?
Answer: Lavinia

Question: Which King does Aeneas ally with in Book 8 of the Aeneid?
Answer: King Evander

Question: Who had Lavinia already been promised to?
Answer: Turnus

Question: Who is roused to war by the Fury Allecto and Amata Lavinia's mother?
Answer: Turnus

Question: When did Augustus' victory at Actium against Mark Antony and Ceopatra VII occur?
Answer: 31 BC

Question: Who is the protagonist of the Aeneid?
Answer: Aeneas

Question: Who is mercilessly slaughtered by Aeneas?
Answer: Turnus

Question: Who is the founder of Rome which some scholars see strong associations with Aeneas?
Answer: Augustus

Question: Which book supposedly caused Augustus' sister to faint?
Answer: 6

Question: What was the title of Jean-Baptiste Wicar's artwork inspired by the Aeneid?
Answer: Virgil Reading the Aeneid

Question: Who did Virgil recite Books 2, 4, and 6 of the Aeneid to?
Answer: Augustus

Question: According to tradition, where did Virgil travel in 19 BC to revise the Aeneid?
Answer: Greece

Question: Where did Virgil die?
Answer: Brundisium harbor

Question: What date did Virgil die?
Answer: September 21, 19 BC

Question: Who were Virgil's literary executors?
Answer: Lucius Varius Rufus and Plotius Tucca

Question: What wish of Virgil's did Lucius Varius Rufus and Plotius Tucca disregard?
Answer: the poem be burned

Question: Who was one of Virgil's most ardent admirers who referenced Virgil in almost every line of his epic?
Answer: Silius Italicus

Question: .What was the title of Silius Italicus' epic in which Virgil was referenced in almost every line?
Answer: Punica

Question: Who bought Virgil's tomb?
Answer: Silius

Question: Which of Virgil's works was later widely interpreted to have predicted the birth of Jesus Christ?
Answer: Fourth Eclogue

Question: Who cautioned "we ought not to relate their lying fables, lest we fall under sentence of eternal death"?
Answer: Gregory of Tours

Question: Literate men acknowledged Virgil as a master poet despite what empire collapsing?
Answer: Western Roman

Question: Did literate men acknowledge Virgil as a master or novice poet?
Answer: master

Question: In which of Dante's works was Virgil a guide through Hell and Purgatory?
Answer: Divine Comedy

Question: Who was the author of the Divine Comedy?
Answer: Dante

Question: Who was Dante's guide through Purgatory and Hell in the Divine Comedy?
Answer: Virgil

Question: Which of Virgil's works was said by some to have predicted Jesus' birth?
Answer: Eclogues 4

Question: Which religion did some consider Virgil to have heralded in?
Answer: Christianity

Question: During which time period did Virgil's reputation inspire legends associating him with magic and prophecy?
Answer: Middle Ages

Question: Where did the tradition start which regarded Virgil as a great magician?
Answer: Naples

Question: How long did legends of Virgil's magical powers remain popular?
Answer: over two hundred years

Question: What is the modern Welsh word for phramacist?
Answer: fferyllydd

Question: Where did Virgil's name become a generic term for magic-worker?
Answer: medieval Wales

Question: When did Virgil's reputation as a great magician begin?
Answer: 12th century

Question: During which time period did the legend of Virgil in his Basket arise?
Answer: Middle Ages

Question: What is the name of the beautiful woman who Virgil enamoured?
Answer: Lucretia

Question: Which story did Virgil being left halfway in basket parallel?
Answer: Phyllis riding Aristotle

Question: Which artist made a woodcut and later an engraving of Virgil and his basket?
Answer: Lucas van Leyden

Question: During which time period did Virgil's name become associated with miraclous powers?
Answer: Middle Ages

Question: In which district is "Virgil's tomb" located?
Answer: Piedigrotta

Question: What is the entrance of the ancient Roman tunnel where "Virgil's tomb" is located also called?
Answer: grotta vecchia

Question: Besides Virgilius, which other spelling is permitted in modern usage?
Answer: Vergilius

Question: During which time period was Vergilius spelled Virgilius?
Answer: Late Empire and Middle Ages

Question: In what century did some German-trained classicists in the US suggest modifying the common usage to Vergil?
Answer: 19th

Question: Which style guide recommends using Vergilius to avoid confusion with Virgilius Maro Grammaticus?
Answer: Oxford

Question: What Country are the Alps located in?
Answer: Europe

Question: How many kilometres do the Alps stretch?
Answer: 1,200 kilometres

Question: How long has it taken for the Alps to form? 
Answer: over tens of millions of years

Question: What is the highest mountain in the Alps?
Answer: Mont Blanc

Question: The Alpine region is also known as what? 
Answer: the "four-thousanders"

Question: What affects the climate in Europe? 
Answer: The altitude and size of the range

Question: What type of animal lives inn the higher peaks?
Answer: ibex

Question: What plant grows in the rocky areas of the range?
Answer: Edelweiss

Question: Evidence of human habitation in the Alps goes as far back to what era? 
Answer: Paleolithic era

Question: How old was the mummified man discovered at the Austrian-Italian bored?
Answer: 5,000 years old

Question: What culture was well established by the 6th Century BC? 
Answer: the Celtic La Tène culture

Question: Who famously crossed the Alps with a herd of elephants? 
Answer: Hannibal

Question: What person took an army of 40,000 across the mountain passes? 
Answer: Napoleon

Question: Where was Adolf Hitlers base of operation during World War 2?
Answer: Bavarian Alps

Question: The alps is home to how many people?
Answer: 14 million people

Question: How many visitors go to the Alps annually?
Answer: 120 million

Question: What is the dominant industry in the Alpine region? 
Answer: tourist industry

Question: The English word Alps derives from what Latin Word? 
Answer: Alpes