[QUIZ] Know Your Ruler - Roman Provincial Edition

Discussion in 'Ancient Coins' started by zumbly, Aug 4, 2018.

  1. tenbobbit

    tenbobbit Well-Known Member

    Interesting quiz, I did not do well at all.
    Much to my surprise I got the ones I didn't expect to get right & failed on those I " thought " were more my bag.
    Several of those I got wrong were a coin toss between 2 options, every time I chose Heads it came up tails, go figure.
    Mr 50% = FAIL :eggface::depressed:
     
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  3. zumbly

    zumbly Ha'ina 'ia mai ana ka puana

    For what it's worth, I like that soundtrack. Public Enemy... Slayer covering Iron Butterfly... Bangles covering Simon & Garfunkel... Roy Orbison collaborating with Glenn Danzig. Cool stuff :).
     
  4. zumbly

    zumbly Ha'ina 'ia mai ana ka puana

    Well, a test should test us a little, shouldn't it? :D

    There was a little trickiness at play, but I tried not to be too tricky. As it is, we had one person who almost scored full marks... and would have, had she not flubbed the one question with a coin I just showed her three days ago :rolleyes:.
     
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  5. TIF

    TIF Always learning.

    :shifty:
     
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  6. zumbly

    zumbly Ha'ina 'ia mai ana ka puana

    :p
     
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  7. Bert Gedin

    Bert Gedin Well-Known Member

    to dougsmit. Congrats on your 50% success !!! :happy:
     
  8. Bert Gedin

    Bert Gedin Well-Known Member

    To Roman Collector. 33.83% ? Never mind - better luck next time !
     
  9. eparch

    eparch Well-Known Member

    Only 7 correct - but educational and fun. Thanks for setting it up
     
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  10. ancient coin hunter

    ancient coin hunter 3rd Century Usurper

    6 out of 12 for me (FAIL)

    I got some of the hard ones and missed the easier ones. Oh Well.
     
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  11. Severus Alexander

    Severus Alexander find me at NumisForums

    Signed in as "Provincial Ignoramus" I scored 50% also. Knowing the questions will be tricks wrought havoc a couple of times. :) Great quiz, Z!
     
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  12. ominus1

    ominus1 Well-Known Member

    i was just listening to S&G...that was "hazy shade of winter"..i thought the Bangles were original on that till recently...:)
     
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  13. Ancient Aussie

    Ancient Aussie Well-Known Member

    Great certificate, I'm going to hang it on the wall......after I doctor the score 41.67% :(
     
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  14. lehmansterms

    lehmansterms Many view intelligence as a hideous deformity

    Fun - yes, there was a lot of toss-up guesswork involved, but it almost goes without saying that the portraiture as interpreted in the provinces can be wildly different than more familiar renderings of the same on Imperial or "semi-Imperial" (eg: the many "...Opoli" of Moesia, Antioch, Alexandria, etc.) I don't feel too bad with a score of 8 out of 12, but I admit several correct answers were pure guesswork. "IRL", for determining whose portrait is on any given coin, I depend far more on whatever bits of legend can be determined. Weird spellings not withstanding, the name of the emperor does not change no matter how much the portrait may "drift", go cartoonish or be distorted from more familiar forms.
     
  15. zumbly

    zumbly Ha'ina 'ia mai ana ka puana

    :D. I don't know if you got the Macrianus right (only 10% of quiz takers did), but I'm sure you would have if I had shown only the city gate reverse!

    Your comments are spot on. 8/12 is impressive... I would have done worse myself.
     
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  16. randygeki

    randygeki Coin Collector

    I got 50% too :/
     
  17. Bert Gedin

    Bert Gedin Well-Known Member

    Ancient Aussie - Your Certificate should really look good - 67.41% !!! ;)
     
  18. Marsyas Mike

    Marsyas Mike Well-Known Member

    That was fun, if embarrassing. I thought Number 10 was especially annoying - that guy totally looks like Philip the Arab!

    Roman Provincials certificate Aug 2018.png
     
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  19. TIF

    TIF Always learning.

    Mike-- that was my "impossible" quiz from another thread :D (and I chose each coin purposefully with the intent of "guiding" people the wrong answer to make the point about how ill advised it is to identify Provincial coins by the portrait only)

    Have you tried Zumbly's quiz yet? (first post of this thread) His is less tricky.
     
  20. Marsyas Mike

    Marsyas Mike Well-Known Member

    I did get the threads mixed up. But I feel so much smarter now, as I did better on Zumbly's quiz. In both cases my answers were wild guesses. Sorta like the SAT.

    That was a lot of fun. Thank you TIF and Zumbly!

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  21. Valentinian

    Valentinian Well-Known Member

    I thought it was difficult. Had it not been multiple choice, I would have done much worse than the 8/12 = 67% I got.
     
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