Prompt 7 of 7
Name a Roman emperor
95 accepted answers across 6 rarity tiers.
100 ptsOne in a Krillion1 answer
The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.
- Silbannacus— A phantom emperor attested by just two coins. Historians still aren't sure when, or if, he ruled.
85 ptsDeep Cut65 answers
Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.
- Aemilianus
- Alexios I Komnenos
- Anastasius I
- Anthemius
- Arcadius
- Avitus
- Balbinus
- Basil II
- Carausius
- Carinus
- Carus
- Claudius Gothicus
- Constans
- Constantine II
- Constantine XI— The last Roman emperor, who died defending Constantinople's walls in 1453.
- Constantius Chlorus
- Constantius II
- Decius
- Didius Julianus— Bought the throne at auction. It did not go well.
- Domitian II— An emperor known almost entirely from two coins found centuries apart.
- Florianus
- Galba
- Galerius
- Gallienus
- Geta
- Glycerius
- Gordian I
- Gordian II
- Gordian III
- Gratian
- Heraclius
- Honorius
- Irene— Ruled as emperor, in her own name. Charlemagne's PR team seized the opening.
- Jovian
- Julius Nepos
- Justin I
- Justinian II— Deposed and his nose slit. Came back a decade later and ruled again with a golden replacement.
- Leo I
- Licinius
- Lucius Verus
- Macrinus
- Majorian
- Marcian
- Maurice
- Maxentius
- Maximinus Daza
- Numerian
- Olybrius
- Otho
- Pertinax
- Petronius Maximus
- Phocas
- Probus
- Pupienus
- Quintillus
- Severus Alexander
- Severus II
- Tacitus
- Theodosius II
- Trebonianus Gallus
- Valentinian I
- Valentinian II
- Valentinian III
- Vitellius
- Zeno
60 ptsRare15 answers
Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.
- Antoninus Pius
- Aurelian
- Caracalla
- Domitian
- Julian
- Justinian I
- Maximian
- Maximinus Thrax
- Nerva
- Philip the Arab
- Romulus Augustulus— A teenager who was the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
- Septimius Severus
- Theodosius I
- Valens
- Valerian
30 ptsSchooler8 answers
A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.
- Claudius
- Diocletian
- Hadrian
- Marcus Aurelius
- Tiberius
- Titus
- Trajan
- Vespasian
15 ptsToo Clever2 answers
An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.
- Commodus— 'The Gladiator guy.' The school knew you'd reach for the movie villain.
- Elagabalus— The internet's favorite scandalous emperor. Predictably popular.
10 ptsPlankton4 answers
The most common answer on the board.
- Augustus
- Caligula
- Constantine the Great
- Nero