(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.
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Cleopatra & Marc Antony’s tale told as fairy tales
A Rudius (or the wooden sword that symbolized a gladiator gaining his freedom) is mentioned
Commodus threatens to assassinate his family members
A gladiator uses a spiked mace (they weren’t common weapons))
Anyone claims to restore the Roman Republic (It was long gone c. 27 BCE)
A historical reenactment battle features the Romans (they never featured Roman soldiers)
Anyone refers to the Colosseum (it was actually called the Flavian Amphitheater)
Lucilla conspires to kill her brother Commodus (she did)
Animals appear out of a trap doors!
A Retarius uses a trident!
A chariot with blades on its wheels (didn’t exit)
Marcus Aurelius Outlaws Gladiator Games in Rome (he condoned and hosted them)
A rich woman lusts after a gladiator (happened a lot)
Commodus gets murdered in the arena (he didn’t, he was strangled in a bathtub)
Maximus yells “Are you not entertained?!”
A female gladiator is shown (they existed!)
Someone is threatened by being fed to the lions
A Gladiator uses an ax (they weren’t common weapons)
Commodus inappropriately lusts have his sister (he may have)
Women and men are shown seated together in the arena (would have been seated separately)
Commodus murders his dad (he didn’t)
Someone receives the Missio (the right to live) after his battle due to putting on a good show
A reference to someone being “elected” to the Senate (it was a hereditary position)
The Praetorian Guard (the emperor’s body guard) do Commodus’ bidding
Marcus Aurelius names Commodus his heir on his death bed (actually happened years earlier)
Roman legionary tactics are used in the arena
Maggots were for their medicinal properties?
Maximus prays to figurines of his household Lares (or gods)
