Rome quiz

Which famous Rome attraction was originally called the Flavian Amphitheatre?

The Castel Sant’Angelo, on the right bank of the River Tiber in Rome, was built as a mausoleum for which Roman Emperor, best known for his wall-building antics in Britain?

The Vatican City’s army, thought to be around 130-strong and famed for its colourful Renaissance-style uniforms, is exclusively made up of men from which country?

In Rome, how is the Basilica of St Mary and the Martyrs, a converted ancient Roman temple which contains the tombs of the first two Italian kings, better known?

The alleged skull of which saint adds a sprinkle of romance to Rome’s Basilica of Santa Maria In Cosmedin, best known as the home of the Mouth of Truth?

Which of the following is not one of the Seven Hills of Rome?

The 2,300-year-old Appian Way, large parts of which are still intact outside the Italian capital, connected Rome to which Italian port city, 563km away?

Whose face is self-referentially depicted on the flayed skin of St Bartholomew in the Last Judgment section of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican City?

Who was infamously assassinated in what is now the Largo di Torre Argentina in Rome?

Which sculptor and architect designed St Peter’s Square in the Vatican and created the Fontana dei Tritone in Piazza Barberini plus the Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi in Piazza Navona?