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Round 1
1. Use the noun amicus, amici with the correct ending in the following sentence: I gave the book to my
friend.
AMICO
B1. What case is used to show a part of the whole, as well as possession? GENITIVE
B2. What's the case for direct address?
VOCATIVE
2. Complete the analogy Ulixes : Odysseus :: _________ : Persephone. PROSERPINA
B1. Pius : Aeneas :: ________ : Achates
FIDUS
B2. Metamorphoses : The Golden Ass :: Eclogues : __________
BUCOLICS
3. Consider the famous phrase cave canem. What's the mood of the verb in that warning?
IMPERATIVE
B1. What cardinal direction would we travel from Rome to Mt Soracte, famous from Horace's
ode?
NORTH
B2. On what ancient road would we travel from Rome to Soracte?
Via FLAMINIA
5. What's the Latin state motto of Alabama?
AUDEMUS JURA NOSTRA DEFENDERE
B1. A famous quotation from Cicero is translated as 'let arms yield to the toga'? What's the Latin
motto of Wyoming?
CEDANT ARMA TOGAE
B2. What's the mood of the verb in that phrase? SUBJUNCTIVE
6. What regal potentate is referred to as īnfēlīx and sometimes laetissima? She was also called Elissa and
her pudor was as an univīra. She gained her land by cutting a hide into thin strips and stretching it out in
a circular border. Name the Phoenician Queen of Carthage who falls for Aeneas: DIDO
B1. What Theban king blinded himself after killing his father and marrying his mother?
OEDIPUS
B2. Oedipus' death and burial occurred in what Athenian suburb near Plato's Academy? The
Blind Boys of Alabama recorded a namesake gospel from the same spot. What's the city in the name of
the last of Sophocles' Theban plays?
COLONóS
7. This Roman day was originally thought to mark the occurrence of the New Moon. It was generally on
the 13th of the month, but on the longer ones with thirty-one days, it falls on the 15th. Name the most
famous day of March, witness to the assassination of Julius Caesar.
IDES
B1. Perhaps taking its name from the phrase Kalo Juno Novella, what is the name of the first of
every month?
KALENDS/Kallendae
B2. What high-ranking post was in charge of the Roman calendar? Caesar began his term in this
office in 63 BC:
PONTIFex Maximus
8. Who's the maternal grandfather of Caligula? He accompanied Octavian to Macedonia in 44 BC, then
fought on the side of the triumvers against the liberators in the Philippi campaign. Who went on to serve
as the primary general for Octavian and defeat Antony at Actium?
Marcus AGRIPPA
Bonus on Medical Latin
B1. If your doctor told you to put something in your O.S. where should you stick it?
LEFT EYE (oculus sinister)
drug?
B2. If you see a medicine bottle that says T.I.D. on it, how many times a day should you take this
3X (ter in die)
9. What's the present passive infinitive of the verb 'to love' in Latin? It's also the first name of an
Alabama alumnus and current receiver for the Oakland Raiders.
AMARI
Boni are yes or no, the question is simple: is he a Roman?
B1. Horatius Cocles? YES, defended the Sublician against Etruscans
B2. Orgetorix? NO, he's the Helvetian from book 1 of de Bellō Gallicō
10. In the middle of the 5th century BC Rome faced a problem. The consul Minucius managed to get
himself surrounded on Mons Algidus by the Aequi, and to solve the problem the Romans appointed this
man. Who took the reins as dictator and turned sure defeat into victory, then relinquished his power
sixteen days into his term?
CINCINNATUS
B1. What's the mood of dic, duc, fer, and fac?
IMPERATIVES
B2. What case is the subject of an indirect statement?
ACCUSATIVE
Round 2.
1. Please translate the following sentence into English: Caesar cogitavit Brutum bonum esse.
CAESAR THOUGHT THAT BRUTUS WAS GOOD.
Bonus theme: Where in the world?
B1. In what province would you find Taraconnensis, Baetica, and Lusitania? HISPANIA
(Spain)
B2. Where would you find Boeotia, Arcadia, Epirus, and Achaea?
GRAECIA (Greece,
Hellas)
2. You'll have a bonus from the Latin juke box but first…Achilles appears in the Odyssey in the
Underworld. After hearing about the exploits of his son, he wanders off into a field of unwilting flowers.
What sort of special underworld flower never dies?
ASPHODEL
It's time for the Latin Jukebox! Carmina Adelis – bonus set
B1. Salve
HELLO
B2. Volvens in alto
Rolling in the Deep
3. Time to differentiate in meaning. Ready? Define laudō and claudō:
Laudo = PRAISE, claudo = CLOSE
B1. Conficio and deficio
B2. Mitto and amitto
conficio= FINISH, deficio = FAIL, REVOLT
mitto= SEND, amitto= LOSE
4. Please identify the use of the ablative from the following sentence. Mīles hostem gladiō necāvit.
INSTRUMENT or MEANS
B1. Please translate that sentence: THE SOLDIER KILLED THE ENEMY WITH A SWORD.
B2. What rank of soldier would be in charge of 80-100 common soldiers? CENTURION
5. He was helped by Iolaus and was sent on missions by Eurystheus. In many ways the original Greek
hero, he sailed on the Argo with Jason but was nearly killed as an infant when snakes attacked him. What
son of Alcmene was consumed in a fire and reborn as a god after accomplishing his 12 Labors?
HERCULES
B1. Distinguish in meaning between Mégara and Megára:
Mégara = POLIS on Corintian isthmus, Megára = WIFE of HERCULES
B2. Megaera, which is now an English word that means shrew, is one of three of these avenging
deities along with her sisters Tisiphone and Alecto. Name 'em. Any name will do.
FURIES/ERINYES/EUMINIDES
6. If you walked into a Roman house you could see two water structures. What do you call the pool of
rainwater in the middle of the floor?
IMPLUVIUM
Bonus on Roman meals!
B1. Spelled the same as a professional wrestler, what's the Latin for supper?
CENA
B2. What's the Latin for lunch or even brunch?
PRANDIUM
7. Answer in Latin, please. Quot oculi tibi sunt?
DUO
B1. Quot capita tibi sunt?
UNUM
B2. Quot digitī tibi sunt?
DECEM (vīgintī if they do toes)
8. Who first rose to prominence on Marius' staff during the Jugurthan War, gave Pompey his cognomen,
nearly killed Caesar, and went on to march on Athens once and Rome twice? This 'lucky' dictator undid
all the reforms of the Gracchi and started the first proscriptions. Name him. SULLA
B1. What sort of people captured Caesar following his ouster from Rome? Plutarch says they
demanded 20 talents of silver for his ransom, at which point Caesar laughs at them and demands he's
worth 50.
PIRATES
B2. What is the fate of those pirates who captured Caesar?
9. Which word does not belong in the following list: ad, per, inter, pro, per.
CRUCIFIED
PRO
B1. What Latin word is at the root of the English words admonish, monstrosity, and muster?
MONEO, MONēRE
B2. It almost sounds like an emperor: what English derivative of modus means spacious, comfy,
or roomy?
COMMODIOUS
10. She was finally defeated by Suetonius Paulinus. Under the reign of Nero, which Queen of the Iceni
revolted and caused panic throughout Britannia?
BOUDICCA
B1. Following the Great Fire of Rome, Nero decided to blame the blaze on what religious group?
CHRISTIANS
B2. He's not a cleaning product, but it sounds like it. Eventually vaulting Galba to power, what
general was the first to rebel against Nero?
VINDEX
Round 3.
1. A scene of the Danaiads decorates his sword belt. Which son of Evander falls to Turnus, who
promptly takes his balteus as a trophy thus enraging Aeneas?
PALLAS
B1. According to tradition, Evander erected the Altar to Hercules in Rome's cattle market or
Forum Boarium. Into what geometric shape was the Temple to Hercules built near that altar? CIRCLE
B2. The Temple to Hercules is frequently confused by tourists with what other major circular
temple in the Forum Romanum?
Temple of VESTA
2. What underworld punishment faced the daughters of Daunus after all but one of the 50 sisters killed
their husbands on their communal wedding night?
FILL WATER jars with HOLES in em
Bonus set on a simple question: Is she a Roman? Yes or no?
B1. Tarpeia? YES, an original traitor, this daughter of the Capitoline garrison who betrays Rome
to the Sabines, is crushed with shields and thrown off the Tarpeian Rock.
B2. Zenobia? NO. Greek probably, Queen of Palmyra, but personally claimed to be descended
from Dido.
3. It's time for the Latin Jukebox! The Greeks would call it 'to ergon.' What would the Romans call the
past three weeks' Billboard number one hit by Rihanna? It features Drake and is entitled "Work."
LABOR
B1. Labor features in the motto of what Midwestern state?
B2. Give the full motto of Oklahoma:
OKLAHOMA
LABOR OMNIA VINCIT
4. Translate the following sentence into English: Quintus casam intravit et puellas vidit.
QUINTUS ENTERED THE HOUSE AND SAW GIRLS.
B1. If Quintus married one of those girls, what would she call him during their marriage
ceremony?
GAIUS
B2. If Quintus entered the baths, what room would he visit to change out of his toga?
APODYTERIUM
5. Complete the analogy: Delphi: Phocis :: Dodōna : ____________
EPIRUS
B1. Name the daughter of Neoptolemus of Epirus who married Philip II. She's Alexander the
Great's snake-handling mother.
OLYMPIAS
B2. What god had his oracle at Dodōna?
ZEUS
6. "Oh rex, habeo novem librōs qui multa oracula habent. Quid mihi pro librōs dabis?" The Sibyl would
have addressed which of Rome's kings like that? His wife, Tullia, was first married to his brother.
Tarquinius SUPERBUS
A gladiator type bonus!
B.1 What type of gladiator fought with a net and trident?
B.2 What sort fought from a chariot?
RETIARIUS
ESSEDARIUS
7. A bonus on "is he a Roman" awaits. But first… what English word from the Latin for a set of folding
doors is a device used for controlling the volume of liquid through a pipe or duct? VALVE
Time for a bonus set on is he a Roman?
B1. Ariovistus?
NO, a Suebian driven back over the Rhine by Caesar
B2. Antigonus the One Eyed?
NO, one of the Diadochi
8. There's the Arles or Mourning, Actium, Primaporta, Farneese or Forbers, and finally the posthumous
type of portraiture for this first Julio-Claudian Emperor. Who was proclaimed and approved by the
Senate in 27 BC?
OCTAVIAN (AUGUSTUS)
B1. Name the autobiography of Augustus, the "things done."
RES GESTAE
B2. Augustus' daughter Julia, the mother of Lucius and Gaius, married which of Augustus'
entourage?
Marcus Vispsanius AGRIPPA or TIBERIUS
9. Translate the indicative verb from the following sentence into Latin: "Caesar ought to protect his
men."
DEBET
B1. The infinitive:
SERVARE
B2. What was the specific use of servare in that sentence?
10. Which state has the same motto as its eponymous university?
B.1 What's that motto?
COMPLIMENTARY
MISSISSIPPI
VIRTUTE ET ARMIS
B.2 Which Olympian has the same basic name in both Greek and LATIN?
APOLLO
11. Identify the use of the ablative in the following sentence: Multīs verbīs poēta fabulam narrābat.
MEANS
B1. How about: Corpus Hectoris ā Achille tractum est?
AGENT
B2. Who was Hector's wife, the mother of Astyanax?
ANDROMACHE
12. A site of one of the wonders of the ancient world, what city was located in southwest Caria and is
known today as Bodrum in Turkey? Home to Artemisia and Herodotus, where would you go to visit the
tomb of Mausolus, the Mausoleum?
HALICARNASSUS
It's a Geography Bonus!
B1. What did the Romans call Ireland?
HIBERNIA (take Scotia)
B2. What region to the south of Mauretania and the Atlas in Morocco was famous for its lions?
GAETULIA
13. You've got a Latin in Spain bonus, but first…
Sporting the abbreviation SPQC on their city shield, what Roman city was founded by the Etruscans?
Cato the Elder wrote lovingly about their spelt and bronzes. Originally known as Capeva, what was the
first terminus on the Via Appia?
CAPUA
Latin in Spain, Imperial Edition
B1. Which Spanish emperor extended the empire to its largest extent after taking Dacia?
TRAJAN
B2. Which Spanish emperor build a temple to all the gods in the Campus Martius? HADRIAN
14. A native of Troezen near Mycenae, which son of Aethra killed Periphetes, Sinis, Sciron, and
Procrustes on his way to Athens?
THESEUS
B1. During a triumph, victorious Roman generals would paint their faces red and get to wear a
special toga. What do you call the toga?
TOGA PICTA
B2. During the procession slaves would stand behind the general and repeat what two-word
phrase?
MOMENTO MORI
15. It'll be a bonus from the Cinema Romana for you, but first translate the pronoun from the following
sentence into Latin: The wars which Caesar fought in Gaul were difficult. QUAE
B1. What new movie could be called Liber Silva?
JUNGLE BOOK
B2. How about a remake of an old classic out soon, Manes Rumpentes? GHOSTBUSTERS
Round 4.
1. It'll be a Latin in Italy bonus, but first:
His patron was his former salty master, Livius Salinator. What early Latin author hailed from Tarentum
and is best known for his translations of the Iliad and Odyssey into Latin? Some know him best as the
father of Latin literature. Name him.
LIVIUS ANDRONICUS
Latin in Italy
B1. What's the Latin name for the Circo Massimo?
CIRCUS MAXIMUS
B2. If you took a walk on the Via Appia Antica, you would find a large circus and palace that
belonged to what Emperor who also began construction on his namesake basilica, the largest building in
the forum, which was completed by his successor after 312 AD:
MAXENTIUS
2. Let's talk about blood. Give the Latin root word and meaning from which we get the English word for
a heart attack 'coronary.'
CORONA – CROWN
B1. The Italians call this citrus a sanguini. What do we call it?
BLOOD ORANGE
B2. What Roman god is connected with ruddy complexions and optimism?
JUPITER
3. Who did Mark Antony attack at Forum Gallorum and the Battle of Mutina? After Octavian lifted the
siege, this man tried to reach Brutus and Cassius in Macedon. Who does Shakespeare mistakenly call
Decius Brutus?
DECIMUS Junius BRUTUS Albinus
B.1 In what play by Euripides does the illegitimate son of Theseus die after a Poseidon-fashioned
magic-sea-bull rushes at his horses who spook, and drag him to a painful death? HIPPOLYTUS
B2. What stepmom of Hippolytus lies to Theseus saying she was seduced by her step-son?
PHAEDRA
4. What two-word legal phrase describes a motion that challenges the legality of holding a person in
custody? It translates as "you may have the body."
HABEAS CORPUS
B.1 More legal Latin! What two Latin words are used when a person neither admits guilt nor
claims innocence?
NOLO CONTENDERE
B.1 What two Latin words are used when referring to expert testimony, asserting that an
authority has made a proclamation?
IPSE DIXIT
5. To the Romans these weren't really a thing, but to English speaking Classicists they're the cat's
pajamas. "Aurea purpuream subnectit fibula vestem" (a golden clasp secured her royal cloak) is an
example of a special adjective A, adjective B, Verb, noun A, adjective B line. What distinctive line
appears in only 34 lines of Vergil?
GOLDEN line
B1. Which of the Julio-Claudians successfully invaded Britannia and made it a province?
CLAUDIUS
B2. Which Julio-Claudian had the least military experience of all, including before during or
after his administration?
NERO
6. You'll be playing for a 'yo mamma' bonus. Which of the following phrases would indicate a weather
forecast: mare lātum, mīlitēs fortes, flūmen altum, nūbēs ātra?
NUBES ATRA
B.1 Pretend you're a muse. Who's yo mamma?
MNEMOSYNE
B2. Pretend you're one of the Graeae. Who's yo mamma? (She's got a famous part in the
Gigantomachy on the Altar of Pergamum if that helps.)
CETO
7. What term is used to describe a suffix with an independent meaning appended to any word? -Que, as
in arma virumque cano is an excellent example.
ENCLITIC
B1. If a philosopher is someone who loves wisdom, what do you call someone who loves words
and language?
PHILOLOGIST
B2. How about a lover of stamps?
PHILATELIST (take timbrophilist)
8. Can you differentiate in meaning between dēleō and doleō?
Deleo – destroy. Doleo – suffer
B.1 In the singular it means supply or plenty; in the plural, troops or stores. What's the Latin?
COPIA
B2. In the singular it means temple, in the plural, house. What's that Latin?
AEDēS
9. He told the Trojans that the horse would bring happiness to their city, along with good luck and
prosperity. Whose ruse proved to be successful?
SINON
B1. Taking the position in opposition to Sinon, what priest famously uttered the phrase 'Timeo
Danaos et dona ferentes.'
LAOCOON
B2. Often called the Trojan Iphegenia, what youngest daughter of Priam betrayed Achilles' secret
to her brothers and was sacrificed by the Greeks at the foot of Achilles' tomb.
POLYXENA
10. He benefited from the Lex Gabinia that gave him complete control of the seas to fight the pirates.
Known as the 'teenage butcher' for his zeal during the Marian Wars, who grew to champion the Senate
after the breakup of the First Triumvirate? Who fled to Egypt after losing the Battle of Pharsalus in 48?
POMPEY the Great
It's a bonus on Roman Laws
B1. The Decemviri drew up which law code of 450BC that tried to enforce the rule of law on
both upper and lower Roman classes.
Laws of the TWELVE TABLES
B2. What later Roman emperor, the last to speak Latin as his mother tongue, compiled the
entirety of the body of Roman civil law into his "Code"?
JUSTINIAN
11. What King of Thrace is the subject of a play by Euripides and appears in the Iliad? He's killed in
book 10 during the night raid of Odysseus and Diomedes, who stole his famous horses after the
assassination. Name the unfortunate monarch:
RHESUS
Horse Bonus
B1. Which stables did Hercules have to clean as one of his labors?
AUGEAN stables
B2. Alexander the Great's horse was said to have descended from the Mares of Diomedes (not
Odysseus' buddy – the other one) who famously ate their owner. What's the name of Alexander's horse?
BUCEPHALUS
12. What two-word Latin phrase use in English offers the antonym of a revolution and refers to the
'existing state of affairs"?
STATUS QUO
It's two word Latin phrase time!
B1. What phrase refers to a school you attended? Means nourishing mother? ALMA MATER
B.2 When you get a job you may be sent on a trip. What phrase is used to refer to the daily
allowance you get for meals and other necessities?
PER DIEM
13. What's the use of the ablative in the following sentence? Jūlia cum fīliīs diū ambulābant.
ACCOMPANIMENT
B1. Can you translate the sentence?
JULIA WAS WALKING WITH HER SONS FOR A
WHILE
B2. Can you change the verb to pluperfect?
AMBULAVERAT
14. The Greeks put the colony of Cyrene here and the ruins of Leptis Magna can still be visited in this
province, which lends its name to the modern country with a capital at the old Tripōlitānia. What
province was home to Septimius Severus?
LIBYA
Bonus on the Severans
B1. Who was the Arabic wife of Septimus of Severus? She watched one of her sons kill the
other and issue a damnatio memoriae against him. Who was regarded as the most educated woman of her
age?
JULIA DOMNA
B2. Whose Edict bestowed citizenship on all free men in the Roman Empire? He needed the
taxes to pay for his massive bath complex in the south of Rome. Who he? CARACALLA
15. The year was 63 BC. In a series of speeches against what Roman politician did Cicero lament, 'O
tempora, o mores.'? This was caught by Cicero trying to overthrow the republic and he can't believe that
this man hasn't been condemned. Who lost the consular election to Cicero that year?
CATALINE
B.1 An encapsulation of an idea by Cicero, what's the motto of South Carolina that suggests
nothing is over till death?
DUM SPIRO, SPERO
B2. What cardinal direction would you be travelling if you started in a state with "Eureka" as its
motto, then went through "Diat Deus" to "Cresit Eundo."
EAST
Round 5.
1. You'll get a Wizard of Oz Bonus, but first PMAQ: E'rebody knows RIP goes on gravestones. What if
you came across a headstone or old encyclopedia entry with DSP on it? What does that tell you?
(Decessit sine prole) s/he died WITHOUT CHILDREN
B1. Say in Latin, 'If I were king of the forest." SI ESSEM REX SILVAE
B2. Say in English, "Est nullus locus similis domui."
THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME
2. For which Latin author do we have a spurious epitaph in dactylic hexameter? It was found near
Naples and says, "Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope. Cecini Pascua, rura,
duces."
VERGIL
B1. If an archaeologist found a bunch of tesserae on a site, what's he probably just discovered?
MOSAIC
B2. What did he just cut through, if he found tegulae and imbricēs?
ROOF
3. Whose death is described by Tacitus like this: "His taster tasted it, but he found it too hot and refused
it. Then cold water containing poison was added. Speechless, his whole body convulsed and he instantly
ceased to breathe." It was 55 AD, his stepbrother ordered it, and Claudius' son died. Who's the kid?
BRITANNICUS
B.1 Suetonius says this author of De Rerum Natura took a love potion and died. Whozat?
LUCRETIUS
B2. To which goddess is De Rerum Natura dedicated? VENUS
4. What Latin word can mean either husband or wife?
CONJUNX
B1. Avunculus means uncle, but how does avunculus literally translate? LITTLE
GRANDFATHER (Avus)
B2. Affinity comes from the Latin word adfīnēs. What's it mean?
In-laws
5. Imagine you're standing on the eastern edge of the Palatine Hill, you're looking east. Which of the
other hills is closest to you?
CAELIAN
B1. On which of Rome's hills was Romulus deified?
QUIRINAL
B2. What large structure would you see if you looked down from the southern slope of the
Palatine?
CIRCUS MAXIMUS
6. Who's the first mother-in-law of Aeneas?
HECUBA
B.1 Understanding that he didn't actually marry Dido, who's the second? AMATA
B2. In book 7 whose hair catches fire during a sacrifice promising glorious days ahead for the
burn victim?
LAVINIA
7. In what room of the Roman house would you find allec, jus, condimenta, liquāmen, and garum?
CULINA (triclinium)
B.1 Jus, juris is an interesting word. It can mean a broth, like in the tossup, but in other contexts
what does jus, juris mean?
RIGHT, LAW
B2. Caesar says this tallest mountain separated the Sequani from the Helvetians. What mountain
played a pivotal strategic role for Caesar and Ariovistus?
JURA
8. We're looking for a number that unifies all of the following: the Iliad book with Diomedes' rampage,
the Odyssey book where Hermes goes to tell Calypso to free Odysseys, the Aeneid book with Anchises'
funeral games. In Greek, it's pente. In Latin it's quinque. What number is represented by the Roman
numeral V?
5
B1. Tanaquil: NO, she's the Etruscan wife of Tarquinius Priscus
B2. Julia Domna; NO, Syrian wife of Septimius Severus
9. Blegen, Dörpfeld, Schliemann, and now Korfmann and Rose have all had a hand in, or a spade in, the
archaeological deposits of what ancient Anatolian city centered on the Hisarlık citadel at Çanakkale?
Inspired by Homer, Schliemann went in search for ancient Ilion. Where was Priam king? TROY
The Annales bonus
B1. Whose Annales covered Roman history from the death of Augustus to suicide of Nero?
TACITUS
B2. Whose Annales are the earliest example of Latin in dactylic hexameter?
ENNIUS
10. A bonus on Roman names awaits, Please say in Latin 'it is raining.'
PLUIT
B1. What's the meaning of the name Cicero
CHICKPEA
B2. How about Crispus?
CURLY hair
11. This modern metropolis was supposedly founded by Hannibal's family. In the Roman period, it was
less important than neighboring Tarraco which served as the namesake of the largest province in
Hispannia. Where could you go to speak the Romance language Catalan and watch Leo Messi play at the
Camp Nou?
BARCELONA
B1. Who was the loyal housemaid to Penelope during Odysseus' absence? EURYCLEIA
B2. What statue did Odysseys steal from Troy? Aeneas got a holt to it somehow and brought it
to Rome. Name the wooden talisman:
PALLADIUM
12. Which of the following is not derived from habeō? Inability, hesitate, prohibit, unable
HESITATE (haereo)
B1. What do AD 253 and AD 69 have in common?
4 EMPERORS
B2. The year with the largest number of emperors, how many were there in 238? 6
(Maximinus Thrax, 3 Gordians, Pupienus and Balbinus)
13. Lissus and Gortyn are on this island, as are the mountains Dicte and Ida. Knossos and its labyrinth
are on the north side. Where did King Minos imprison the inventor Daedalus and his son? CRETE
B1. Who's the author of Ascyltus and Giton's Excellent Adventure, now conventionally called
the Satyricon?
PETRONIUS
B2. Who's the author of the line 'ave atque vale' a famous benediction given to this poet's dead
brother?
CATULLUS
14. Remus was the brother of Romulus. What's a rēmus to a nauta or a pirata?
B1. Who wrestled Thanatos to bring back Alcestis from the dead?
OAR
HERCULES
B2. What's the name for the ancient MMA in which Hercules excels? It literally means 'all of
the power.'
PANKRATION
15. Last questions of the round. The journey is almost over. What's the gender of iter? NEUTER
B1. What historian from Patāvium was accused of Patavīnitas because his massive 142 book
work mentions his hometown…a lot.
LIVY
B2. What's the name of that magnum opus of Livy?
AB URBE CONDITā
Finals
1. It's defined as a boss, or a stud, at least on a shield or sword. It can also mean a bubble. What's the
word for any round thingy, but is most commonly associated with the small pouch worn around the neck
of Roman children. What do you call the little purse where kids kept their dice and other personal items?
Boys would stop wearing them when they took up the toga virilis. BULLA
Latin in France
B1. In France they don't shout encore if an audience likes a performance and wants more, instead
they shout the Latin for "twice." What's the Latin for twice? BIS
B2. I suppose you could call it the 'Field of the Blessed' Avenue. What Parisian avenue would
you take to walk from the Louvre to the Arc de Triumph?
CHAMPS ELYSéES
2. Viperfish are frequently stranded on shore around dawn in this deep and dangerous straight.
Berlusconi has proposed a 6-lane super freeway and railroad bridge with pillars taller than the Empire
State Building that would link Calabria with Sicily. Where were ancient travelers frequently shipwrecked
thanks to Scylla and Charybdis?
Straight of MESSINA
Bonus on pretty hard mythology
B1. His mom, Creusa, the daughter of Erechtheus, and princess of Athens, bore him out of
wedlock with Apollo. Who went on to become the progenitor of all the Ionians? ION
B2. Name the sister of Eirene and daughter of Zeus and Themis who oversaw divine justice;
she's known in Latin as Justitia and sometimes as the white one, Astraea?
DIKE
3. Periscope, periphrasis, peristyle, peripheral, peripteral, and periptero all have something in common.
What's the meaning behind the Greek root word peri?
AROUND
Bonus on Philosophers!
B1. What pre-Socratic 'weeping philosopher' supposed constant change and flux in all things and
said 'you cannot step into the same river twice' with the tweetable panta rhei?
HERACLITUS
B2. Into which of the ancient wonders of the world did Heraclitus deposit his works as a
dedication to a goddess?
Temple of Artemis @Ephesus, The ARTEMISIUM
4. What case is governed by the preposition prō?
ABLATIVE
B1. What case is governed by the preposition prae?
ABLATIVE!
B2. What case is governed by the preposition sine?
ABLATIVE!!
5. In 107 BC, which man became consul for the first of his record seven consulships? He was the uncle
of Julius Caesar who died early in a civil war with Sulla. Who transformed the Roman army into his
mules?
MARIUS
B1. Who was Rome fighting in 107? They were in Numidia.
JUGURTHA
B2. Plutarch proclaimed Marius one of three Founders of Rome. Name the other founder who
rid the city of Brennus and the Gauls and sacked Veii…so not Romulus. Marcus Furius CAMILLUS
6. Give the principal parts of fugio:
FUGIO, FUGERE, FUGI, FUGITUM
B1. Ago?
AGO, AGERE, EGI, ACTUM
B2. Augeo?
AUGEO, AUGERE, AUXI, AUCTUM
7. This king decided to live on the Caelian. He was third King of Rome and expanded Roman territory
and presided over the Horatii fighting the Curiatii. Whose name even sounds like he liked to fight?
TULLUS HOSTILIUS
B.1 Fearing attack by the Etruscans, Tullus and Mettius Fufetius decided their triplet champions
should fight. What city of Ascanius was home to the Curiatii and Fufetius?
ALBA LONGA
B2. How did Tullus die?
BOLT/FIRE/TURNED TO ASH
LIGHTING
8. Consider the sentence "Claudius, give me that book." Translate Claudius into Latin.
CLAUDI
B1. What form of "me" should you use in Latin?
B.2 Translate the verb into Latin:
MIHI/DATIVE
DA
9. Everyone loves gladiators! What type of gladiator was an evolved form of the Gallus, or Gaul, and
named and known for the fish-crest on the top of his helmet?
MURMILLO(N)
B1. Gladiatorial battles were inherited by the Romans from what civilization that utilized this
type of combat at funeral games?
ETRUSCANS
B2. In the homeland of some Roman kings, what Etruscan necropolis features the greatest
frequency of tomb paintings, such as in the Tomb of Hunting and Fishing, Tomb of the Whipping, and the
Tomb of the Leopards, amongst others?
TARQUINIA/MONTEROZZI
10. Polybius said that it was out in the Atlantic somewhere, but modern Greeks tell you that he was
mistaken. What was the ancient name for the island of Gāvdos? It contains the southernmost point in
Europe in addition to the beaches that captured Odysseus' attention for seven years. Where did the
enchantress Calypso hide the hero?
OGYGIA
B1. On what Homeric island did Circe turn Odysseus' men to swine?
AEAEA
B2. Named for the metal it produced abundantly, what eastern Mediterranean island features
Venus' lovely seashore at Paphos?
CYPRUS
11. What English derivative of agere means 'able to move quickly and easily'?
AGILE
B1. Another ago derivative, what means 'to demand and obtain a payment from someone'?
EXACT
B2. How about 'open to two interpretations or having a double meaning'? AMBIGUOUS
12. A yes or no bonus set awaits you, but first: She helped care for Hephaestus after he fell to the
island of Lemnos. What daughter of Nereus married the king of Phthia, Pelius? Their son, Achilles, is
the hero of the Iliad.
THETIS
Bonus set: Is he a Roman or not?
B1. Mettius Fufetius? NO, King of Alba Longa torn in two by chariots by Tullus Hostilius
B2. Gaius Pontius? NO, he's the Samnite commander at Caudine Forks
13. I hope you like pronouns! ego : mihi :: hic : ________
B1. Nos : noster :: vos : _____________
B2. Tu : tui :: is : _________________
HUIC
VESTER
EIUS
14. What do all of the following years have in common: 390 BC, 410 AD, and 455 AD? Rome SACKED
B1. The 390 sack was the Gauls, and in 410 it was the Visigoths. Who sacked Rome in 455?
VANDALS
B2. What ancient city did the Vandals make their capital in the fight against Belisarius?
CARTHAGE
15. Which doesn't belong in the following list? Orpheus, Hercules, Phineus, Zetes, Castor
PHINEUS
B.1 Why does Phineus not belong with the others?
ARGONAUTS
D.2 Name the creatures that Phineus needs help defeating.
HARPIES
16. Which of the following doesn't belong in the list? Avis, vulnus, canis, equus?
B1. What's the meaning of vulnus?
VULNUS
WOUND
B2. Define any of the other three words from the question. BIRD, DOG, HORSE
17. In poem One, this author describes the golden dove-pulled chariot whirring over the black earth with
dense wings. Along with Homer and Hesiod, this lyric poet helped to bring Greece out of the Dark Ages
with such stirring images. Sadly most of her poetry has been lost. Name the Mytilenian:
SAPPHO
The Silver Age
B1. Famous for his Epigrams, which author from Spain was particularly active during the later
part of the Flavian Dynasty?
MARTIAL
B2. What young author of the Pharsalia and nephew of Seneca the Younger got into a feud with
Nero and was eventually ordered to commit suicide after taking part in the Pisonian conspiracy? LUCAN
18. What Italic tribe did Plutarch claim to have descended from Spartans? Titus Tatius is probably their
most famous king, although Numa Pompilius was certainly one, too. Horace had a villa in their hills, and
their kidnapping by Romulus gave Rome her first generation of mothers. Name tribe: SABINES
Horace
B1. O, Thaliarchus, on what mountain does he ask if you see the deep snow and the trees covered
with snow and the rivers frozen with sharp ice?
SORACTE
B2. Horace asks a fiery woman who she's with now in that pleasing cave. He warns all those for
whom she shines untried. Who has that golden hair, tired back simplex munditia?
PYRRHA
19. He didn't trust a tonsor because he thought he'd be killed by his barber so instead of getting haircuts
he just singed off his curly hair and bead with a super-hot iron. One of the rare Emperors "born in
purple", who devalued the currency, cut out a number of conspiracies in 182, and was eventually
assassinated by Narcissus the wrestler?
COMMODUS
It's the Roman jukebox B1. What Bieber hit song would the Romans have called Ama Se LOVE YOURSELF
B2. What about the Beetles song heri? YESTERDAY
20. Translate into English: Vīta quā fruimur brevis est.
SHORT
THE LIFE WHICH WE ENJOY IS
And a myth bonus
B1. Which of the three sons of Zeus and Europa did not become a judge in the Underworld but
went on to become the progenitor of, or maybe even be, a great spearman in the Trojan War?
SARPEDON
b.2 Sharing his name with a giant killed by Athena, what King of Crete was the stepfather of
Minos, Rhadamanthus, and Sarpedon?
ASTERION
EXTRAS
1. Translate the sentence into English: Claudia cum duōbus amicīs ad Forum ambulat.
Claudia walks into the forum with two friends.
B1. Romulus magnō labore urbem condit.
Romulus founds the city with great effort.
B2. Picasso and David painted versions of this event when Romulus and the Romans fought for
their new wives. What is it?
Rape of the SABINES
2. Name one of the three islands that boarder the Tyrrhenian Sea. CORSICA/SARDINIA/SICILY
B1.Name the other
B.2 Name the other
3. Please answer with a Latin noun. What substance was mixed with wine to make mulsum? MEL
B.1 What's the Latin for grapes?
UVAE
B2. How about the word for vinegar or sour wine?
ACēTUM
4. Which daughter of Zeus and Hera was the goddess of youth and cupbearer to the gods? HEBE
B1. Which Trojan youth replaced Hebe as cupbearer?
GANYMEDE
B2. Which ancient author mentions that Hera is upset at the change, nursing the wound deep in
her heart, and counts it as an ancient grudge against all Trojans?
VERGIL