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TO1: Salvete, magistri magistraeque clarissimi. Estisne parati? PARATI/AE SUMUS B1: Bene! Facite sonum anseris. TEAM SHOULD HONK LIKE GEESE B2: Optime! Facite sonum camelopardalis morientis. TEAM SHOULD MAKE A SOUND LIKE A DYING GIRAFFE TO2: Buzz in right now. B1: Nice buzzing skills. Now tell me: what did Hannibal Barca use to break up gigantic stones in his path as he crossed the Alps? FIRE AND VINEGAR B2: Speaking of the 2nd Punic War, what Numidian princess seduced Scipio’s pal Masinissa to suborn him? SOPHONISBA TO3: Translate alliteratively: Titus Tiberio duas perfidias dixit. TITUS TOLD TWO TREACHERIES TO TIBERIUS. B1: Translate alliteratively: When Cornelia yielded the ashes of Claudius to Cinna, she sang a very famous song. CUM CORNELIA CINERES CINNAE CLAUDII CESSERIT, CLARISSIMUM CARMEN CECINIT. B2: Translate alliteratively: the phlegmatic sea monster had put the winged Pegasus near a bridge. PITUITOSUS PISTRIS PINNIGERUM PEGASUM PROPRE PONTEM POSUERAT. TO4: Who was the muse of history? CLIO B1/B2: Name four more muses for five points. CALLIOPE, EUTERPE, ERATO, POLYHYMNIA, URANIA, MELPOMENE, THALIA, TERPSICHORE TO5: What is the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet? PI nd B1: Give the 2 person plural imperfect indicative passive of the Greek verb παυ-ω. ε-παυ-εσθε B2: Give the participle of the Greek verb that means “to know”. ειδως, ειδυι-α TO6: What Greek hero tried to avoid his duty by pretending to be crazy and plowing his fields with salt? ODYSSEUS B1: Who exposed his ruse? PALAMEDES B2: What terrible vengeance did Odysseus wreak on Palamedes? HE HID GOLD IN PALAMEDES’ TENT, WROTE A FAKE LETTER FROM PRIAM, THEN ACCUSED HIM OF BEING A TRAITOR TO7: Translate the following into Latin: “hi, sailor. You come here often?” SALVE, NAUTA. VENISNE SAEPE HIC? B1: Now translate the following: si lacrima esses, non flerem ne te amittem. IF YOU WERE A TEAR DROP, I WOULD NEVER CRY LEST I LOSE YOU. B2: Music to my ears. How about: admittamus scelus perfectum; cor tuum furor, meum furaris. LET’S COMMIT THE PERFECT CRIME: I STEAL YOUR HEART, YOU STEAL MINE. TO8: Welcome back to the Cinema Romana, Oscar edition! What Oscar-winning movie would have been called by the Romans: Conjunctus Gallicus? THE FRENCH CONNECTION B1: What about Unus Super Nidum Cuculi Volavit? ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST B2: And how about Factum Est Una Nocte? IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT TO9: If Santa had delivered presents to people in ancient Rome, whose official residence would he have visited in the Roman Forum? THE PONTIFEX MAXIMUS’ HOUSE/HOUSE OF THE VESTALS B1: Into which building in the Forum might Santa have thrown coal down the hole in the top? CARCER B2: If Santa had wanted to store the presents in a safe place, where in the Roman Forum would he have put those goodies? THE TEMPLE OF SATURN TO10: According to Pliny the Elder, what animal would seek its ophidian vengeance no matter what the cost if its mate had been slain? SNAKE B1: According to Herodotus, what valuable plant that produces an oil used in incense and perfume was protected by winged serpents? FRANKINCENSE B2: According to Artemidorus Daldianus, dreams about what bird signify godless, unholy women who are never kind to the men who support them, for this bird is hard to tame, speckled, and they alone of the birds have no respect for the gods. PARTRIDGE TO11: Who famously quipped, “Lycoris has buried all the female friends she had. If only she were friends with my wife!” MARTIAL B1: One of Rome’s emperors noticed a man at the Circus with a packed lunch. Annoyed by this, the emperor told him, “Even I go home when I want to eat.” Not in the least intimidated, the subject of imperial disapproval shot back, “Well, no one’s going to steal your place, are they?” Who was the emperor? AUGUSTUS B2: What king of Armenia, before the battle of Tigranocerta in 69 BC and upon reviewing a Roman army of 12,000 facing his army of 135,000, famously said, “If that’s an army, they are too few. If it’s a diplomatic embassy, they are too many?” The Romans, by the by, tore his army to pieces. TIGRANES (THE GREAT) TO12: What Roman empress changed her name to Lycisca when she snuck out of the imperial residence to work as a lady of the night? MESSALINA B1: What future empress and formidable virago made a living diving for sponges after she had been exiled from Rome? AGRIPPINA THE YOUNGER B2: What snake-loving Greek vixen gave her husband’s a magnificent tomb and ordered that the sword with which the deed was done to be given a place of honor at a temple in Delphi? OLYMPIAS TO13: If someone promised to pay you back on the Greek Kalends, when would it happen? NEVER B1: If someone was described as having Punica fides, what did that mean literally and figuratively? PUNIC FAITH, I.E. TREACHERY B2: What does the expression, honor est a Nilo, mean, and what Admiral’s name is also an anagram of those Latin words, in honor of his winning the battle of the Nile? HONOR IS FROM THE NILE, HORATIO NELSON TO14: Responde Latine: quid tibi nomen est? THE TEAM MEMBER SHOULD GIVE HIS/HER NAME WITH MIHI NOMEN EST B1: Quot calces tibi sunt? DUAE B2: Ormini, et monstrate mihi ungues. PLAYERS SHOULD ALL STAND AND SHOW THEIR FINGER/TOENAILS TO15: Using the verb prandeo, say in Latin, “I hope that you will dine with me.” SPERO TE MECUM PRANSURUM ESSE B1: Using a second person future imperative, say in Latin, “dine with me tomorrow, girls!” PRANDETOTE MECUM CRAS, PUELLAE B2: Say in Latin, “would that I could dine with Julia!” UTINAM PRANDEREM CUM IULIA TO16: What use of the genitive is found in this sentence: teneo caritatem tui? OBJECTIVE GENITIVE B1: What use of the genitive is in arguit me furti? GENITIVE OF CHARGE OF PENALTY B2: Change the phrase supellex antiqua to the genitive. SUPPELLECTILIS ANTIQUAE TO17: Of coepi, odi, and memini, which, if any, have imperatives? MEMINI B1: Which have future infinitives? ODI, COEPI B2: Which are translated as present tense verbs? ODI, MEMINI TO18: On the Ides of March, 44 BC, Julius Caesar attended an ill-fated meeting of the Senate at the Theater of Pompey. That has nothing to do with the question. Using the passive periphrastic, say in Latin: Cicero must persuade Caesar. CAESARI PERSUADENDUM EST A CICERONE B1: VISUAL AID: In 69 AD, there were four emperors, what short-lived emperor of 69 AD is labeled as A? VITELLIUS B2: VISUAL AID: And what other short-lived emperor of 238 AD, the Year of the Six Emperors, is labeled as B? PUPIENUS (MAXIMUS) TO19: As this is the nineteenth question, it appears the round is almost over. What fun we shall!...but it is necessary to continue the round. Oh well. What rhetorical device, other than hyperbole or alliteration, did I just employ? APOSIOPESIS (when the obvious conclusion of the statement is left out) B1: What literary device occurs in this boast: “you’ve got to come look at my bitchin’ new set of wheels!” SYNECHDOCHE B2: What literary device occurs in “I said that I would love her forever, that diamonds and roses…but she went home with Brian”? ANACOLUTHON (cutting short the first of two expressions to give the impression of haste or boredom) TO20: You know you may be a Roman if you stay home all day if you see a woodpecker over your left shoulder or hear an owl. You may also be a Roman si in taberna curru proeliatus sis. Translate the Latin for me, please. IF YOU HAVE EVER USED A CHARIOT IN A BAR FIGHT. B1: Si coquum vomendo in mensam conlaudes. IF YOU COMPLIMENT THE COOK BY THROWING UP. B2: Si saepe quid habeas in animo dicere priusquam ad verbum pervenias, obliviscaris. IF YOU OFTEN FORGET WHAT YOU WERE GOING TO SAY BEFORE YOU GET TO THE VERB. EXTRA TO: Which king of early Rome began life as a baby with a flaming head? SERVIUS TULLIUS B1: Who was his wife? TARQUINIA B2: What was his mother’s name? OCRISIA EXTRA: TO: How many Vestal Virgins traditionally served Vesta? SIX B1: From what city did the cult of Vesta originate before it came to Rome? ALBA LONGA B2: What did the Vestal Tuccia do to prove the false charges of fornication? SHE CARRIED WATER IN A SIEVE (FROM THE TIBER TO THE TEMPLE) EXTRA: TO: We all know that rhein in Greek means to flow. What Greek derivative means “a flowing nose”? RHINORRHEA B1: What about “flowing words”? LOGORRHEA B2: Diarrhea is the most familiar of the flowing terms. What does the first root, “dia” mean? THROUGH EXTRA: TO: Where did the battle occur between Eteocles and Polynices? THEBES B1: Who buried Polynices? ANTIGONE B2: Which of the Seven Against Thebes was punished by Athena for impiety after he devoured the brains of his fallen foe, Melanippus? TYDEUS EXTRA: TO: What Roman author claimed “satura quidem tota nostra est”? QUINTILIAN B1: Translate that saying. SATIRE INDEED IS WHOLLY OURS. B2: What second century BC author was the first great satirist? LUCILIUS EXTRA: TO: What is the common element in the derivation of the English words “plover”, “fulminate”, “imbricate”, and “niveous”? THEY ALL COME FROM LATIN WORDS HAVING TO DO WITH WEATHER B1: What Latin noun with what meaning is at the root of “niveous”? NIX, NIVIS, F., SNOW B2: “Imbricate” means “overlapping”; what is its etymology? IT COMES FROM THE OVERLAPPING RAIN TILES ON A ROOF