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Interesting Questions, Facts and Information
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 Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
 Spartacus
He was crucified. He was forced by Crassus to fight to the death with one of his fellow slaves and the victor would be crucified. Despite his fellow slave's efforts to kill him (he didn't want Spartacus to be crucified, he loved him too much), Spartacus killed his fellow slave and was crucified.
| When fighting a fellow gladiator of his, Spartacus lost and Crassus ordered him to be killed. What happened instead? | Spartacus
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The fellow gladiator rebelled and was killed. The fellow gladiator of Spartacus didn't want to kill him so he threw one of his weapons into the spectator box where Crassus was sitting. Needless to say, the Roman guards killed the gladiator.
| Where did Varinia and Spartacus first meet? | Spartacus
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In a holding cell. The two of them met for the first time in a holding cell for Spartacus. They later married.
Stanley Kubrick. 'Spartacus' was directed by the late Stanley Kubrick.
| For how long has Spartacus remained a slave? | Spartacus
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Since he was a boy. He became a slave when he was about 12 or 13.
| Name the port that was the slave army's main destination? (Arrangements were made for the slaves to embark on ships provided by the Cilician pirates to bring them home) | Spartacus
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Brundisium. The advance scouting party exclaimed, "Tonight, we camp by the sea!" The ships never came and the slaves had to face Crassus as the armies of Pompey and Lucullus were closing in.
| Who was Spartacus' second-in-command? | Spartacus
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Crixus. He had been the first of a matched pair of gladiators for Crassus' entertainment in Capua and is later killed in the final battle against Crassus' legions.
| Glabrus, commander of the garrison of Rome and Crassus's lackey was to depart the city with how many number of cohorts? | Spartacus
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6. They also left at night as Crassus did not want a spectacle. (A cohort is the ancient equivalent of a modern battalion).
| In a scene originally cut from the movie, Marcus Licinius Crassus asks his slave Antoninus "if he liked _______ or ________?" | Spartacus
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oysters snails. The scene was restored for the re-mastered print with Anthony Hopkins pinch-hitting for Laurence Olivier as they had lost the original audio. It was censored during its first release due to the sexual ambiguities the scene suggested which was taboo at that time.
| Spartacus and his followers were encamped near this famous volcano. What is it? | Spartacus
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Mount Vesuvius. As told during the meeting of the Roman Senate, the speaker at the forum describes Spartacus and his slave army encamped at the escarpments of Mt. Vesuvius.
| A former slave, he became the trainer for the gladiators. He is later killed by Spartacus (being drowned in a vat of stew). What was his name? | Spartacus
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Marcellus. The riot started when Marcellus hit Spartacus in the mouth with his whip after he sarcastically tells him, "no talking, slave..."
| Lentalus Batiatus (the Vinista of Capua) was played by whom? | Spartacus
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Peter Ustinov. Peter Ustinov stole the show and won as best supporting actor for his role in "Spartacus".
| Spartacus originally came from which Roman province? | Spartacus
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Thrace. After attacking a guard, another Roman is heard to refer to Spartacus as a "Thracian dog!"
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