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1.
  Cleopatra, Last Queen Of The Nile    
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
Cleopatra was the last queen of Egypt. How much do you really know about this amazing woman who fought to save Egypt from the clutches of the Roman war machine?
Tough, 15 Qns, sonnysbaby86, May 24 18
Tough
sonnysbaby86
May 24 18
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  Cleopatra Craziness    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Have a blast, you Cleopatra loving fools!
Difficult, 10 Qns, Laura_Pie, Jul 17 20
Difficult
Laura_Pie
Jul 17 20
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  Cleopatra - Queen of the Nile    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This quiz is all about Cleopatra, one of the most famous Queens of Egypt. I hope you enjoy!
Difficult, 10 Qns, tigergoddess, Mar 20 11
Difficult
tigergoddess
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  Cleopatra: The Queen of Kings    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This is the first of my Female Royalty series. Let me know if you want me to do another, because I have ideas for a lot more. Thanks and good luck!
Difficult, 10 Qns, emfranks10, Jan 09 13
Difficult
emfranks10
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Cleopatra Trivia Questions
1. What year did Cleopatra and her brother Ptolemy XIII take power?

From Quiz Cleopatra - Queen of the Nile

Answer: 51 BC

Cleopatra first took power when she was eighteen. She was married to her younger brother Ptolemy XIII. (In Ancient Egypt that was allowed). They ruled together for four years before Ptolemy drowned in 47 BC.

2. What snake did Cleopatra's father's, Ptolemy XII's, servant find in his room?

From Quiz Cleopatra: The Queen of Kings

Answer: puff adder

Yes, the snake bit his servant who quickly died.

3. When was Cleopatra born?

From Quiz Cleopatra, Last Queen Of The Nile

Answer: 69 B.C.

Cleopatra was born in 69 B.C.

4. How many languages did Cleopatra speak?

From Quiz Cleopatra Craziness

Answer: 8

She was the only one of her family in a long time to actually speak Egyptian.

5. What was her full name?

From Quiz Cleopatra, Last Queen Of The Nile

Answer: Cleopatra Philopator VII

Cleopatra's middle name was Philopator, not Tryphanea like her older sister's.

6. What was the name of Cleopatra's youngest sister?

From Quiz Cleopatra Craziness

Answer: Arsinoe & Arsinoe IV & Arsinoe 4

There were only three choices for the names of the Ptolemy daughters, Cleopatra, Berenice and Arsinoe.

7. Only one of Cleopatra's children survived and led a normal life (all the others were killed). Which one was it?

From Quiz Cleopatra - Queen of the Nile

Answer: Cleopatra Selene

Caesarion was murdered trying while trying to flee to India in the wake of his mother's and Anthony's suicide. The twins and Ptolemy Philadelphus were living with Antony's fourth wife, Octavia, when both boys disappeared. Cleopatra Selene survived to marry King Juba of Mauritania and had two children, Ptolemy and Drusilla.

8. Who did Cleopatra marry?

From Quiz Cleopatra: The Queen of Kings

Answer: Marc Antony

Julius Caesar gave her and her father help, there was no Ptolemy Auletes XXI, and Geoffery Chaucer is an English author.

9. Who was Cleopatra's first lover?

From Quiz Cleopatra Craziness

Answer: Julius Caesar

Antony was her second lover and Mardian and Olympus were her friends from childhood. Olympus was also her physician.

10. How old was Cleopatra when she died?

From Quiz Cleopatra - Queen of the Nile

Answer: 39

When Antony heard the inaccurate news that Cleopatra was dead, he committed suicide. It is said he died in the arms of the truly alive Cleopatra. Cleopatra later killed herself by allowing a deadly snake, said to be an Egyptian asp, to bite her.

11. What was Cleopatra's father's nickname?

From Quiz Cleopatra: The Queen of Kings

Answer: Auletes

He was nicknamed "Auletes" because of his flute-playing.

12. While the name Cleopatra is normally used when speaking of the Cleopatra everyone knows about (and who this quiz is about), it is also the name of Cleopatra's eldest sister. What is this sister's second name?

From Quiz Cleopatra - Queen of the Nile

Answer: Tryphaena

Cleopatra had three sisters; two older, one younger. Tryphaena (which mean "pleasure seeker") was the eldest out of them all. It is believed that she was named after her mother, Cleopatra V Tryphaena.

13. How many children did Cleopatra have with Julius Caesar and Marc Antony?

From Quiz Cleopatra: The Queen of Kings

Answer: 4

They were Cleopatra Selene II, Alexander Helios, and Ptolemy Philadelphus. The one by Caesar was Caeasarion.

14. Cleopatra was supposedly not a woman of great beauty, yet she captured the hearts of two of Rome's most prominent men. Who was the first?

From Quiz Cleopatra, Last Queen Of The Nile

Answer: Gaius Julius Caesar

Gaius Julius Caesar was the first to fall in love with Cleopatra, and also helped her regain her throne. When he was murdered in Pompey's Theatre, Cleopatra was residing in Rome.

15. What was the name of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar's child?

From Quiz Cleopatra Craziness

Answer: Ptolemy Caesarion

He is often known simply as Ptolemy Caesar and he was co-regent with Cleopatra from 50-47BC. Cleopatra gave her son the name Caesar even though he could not be accepted as Julius Caesar's heir in Rome.

16. According to legend, how did Cleopatra commit suicide?

From Quiz Cleopatra: The Queen of Kings

Answer: She had two asps hidden in a fig basket.

She committed suicide because Marc Antony did so and presumably she did not want to be paraded through the streets of Rome as a prisoner.

17. What was the name of the goddess that was Cleopatra's 'mother'?

From Quiz Cleopatra Craziness

Answer: Isis

Cleopatra believed that she was the daughter of Isis and that that made her immortal and that the bite of an asp would take her to the gods.

18. Who was Cleopatra's lover before she married?

From Quiz Cleopatra: The Queen of Kings

Answer: Julius Caesar

They had one child, Ptolemy Caesar, nicknamed Caesarion ("little Caesar").

19. Cleopatra snagged herself another prominent Roman after Caesar's death. Who was he?

From Quiz Cleopatra, Last Queen Of The Nile

Answer: Marcus Antonius & Mark Antony & Marc Antony & Mark Anthony & Anthony & Marc Anthony & Antony & Anthony

Marcus Antonius was said to be madly in love with Cleopatra. It must have been so because he ended up marrying her also according to the Egyptian custom.

20. Why did Cleopatra roll herself up in a carpet in order to gain access to her own palace?

From Quiz Cleopatra Craziness

Answer: Her sister placed guards there to prevent her from entering

Caesar was visiting Egypt and staying in Ptolemy's palace, where Ptolemy XIII had stationed guards to prevent Cleopatra's entry. Cleopatra knew that she would have to find a way in if she wanted to carry out her plan to seduce Caesar and get him to proclaim her as the Queen.

21. What was Cleopatra's father mockingly called?

From Quiz Cleopatra - Queen of the Nile

Answer: The Flute Player

Her father was called this because he had chubby cheeks, which made him like the player of a wind instrument. Auletes translates literally as "[reed] pipes player".

22. When did Cleopatra, along with her little brother, ascend the throne?

From Quiz Cleopatra: The Queen of Kings

Answer: March, 51 B.C.

Ptolemy XII died in March of 51 B.C., making Cleopatra and Ptolemy XIII joint rulers.

23. What was the name of the Egyptian ruler who ordered the execution of Pompey The Great?

From Quiz Cleopatra, Last Queen Of The Nile

Answer: Ptolemy XIII

Ptolemy XIII, who was only a teenager at that time, ordered the execution of Pompey thinking this would please Caesar, while in fact Caesar grieved over the death of his son-in-law.

24. What year was Cleopatra born?

From Quiz Cleopatra Craziness

Answer: 69 BC

She was 18-years-old when her father died and left his kingdom to her.

25. How many years older was Cleopatra than her brother Ptolemy XIII when they first jointly took the throne?

From Quiz Cleopatra - Queen of the Nile

Answer: 6

When they first took the throne, she was 18 and he was 12. Cleopatra was ten years older than her youngest brother. Though she was pretty much the middle child, Cleopatra outlived all of her siblings.

26. Who murdered Pompey, Caesar's ally?

From Quiz Cleopatra: The Queen of Kings

Answer: Ptolemy XIII

He thought Caesar would be pleased with him. He was wrong!

27. Cleopatra had a eunuch whom she befriended as a little girl. What was his name?

From Quiz Cleopatra, Last Queen Of The Nile

Answer: Mardian

Mardian was a eunuch who learnt to read and write at the Royal Palace. Cleopatra befriended him at a young age and they stayed friends for a lifetime.

28. How many siblings did Cleopatra have?

From Quiz Cleopatra Craziness

Answer: 5

She had two older sisters, Cleopatra VI, who has been said to have died as a child, and Berenice who their father had beheaded. She had one younger sister named Arsinoe who later challenged her for the throne and ended up losing. As well, she had two younger brothers Ptolemy XIII and Ptolemy XIV, since Cleopatra was forced to have a consort she was married to the younger brother.

29. Finally, when did Cleopatra die?

From Quiz Cleopatra: The Queen of Kings

Answer: August 12,, 30 B.C.

That's when she committed suicide. I hope you enjoyed my quiz! Please rate, comment, message me, whatever! Let me know if you want me to do another quiz!

30. What were the names of Cleopatra and Antony's twins?

From Quiz Cleopatra Craziness

Answer: Alexander Helios and Cleopatra Selene

At the time these twins were born, Antony was married to Octavia, the sister of Cleopatra's rival, Octavian. She bore him two daughters. Antony and Cleopatra also had another son named, Ptolemy Philadelphes.

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