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AJCL Certamen Prelims 2015 Round 1 1. Which blind King was received by Theseus in Athens? The Blind Boys of Alabama made a gospel version of his saga at Colonus. Name the Theban with a swollen foot: Oedipus Bonus 1. Who was Oedipus' mother/wife? Jocasta Bonus 2. Please give the dictionary form, in Latin, of the beast whose riddle Oedipus unravels? Sphinx, sphingis, f. sphinx 2. Give the dative singular, in Latin, for the phrase 'good sailor.' Bono nautae Bonus 1. Please make bono nautae plural: bonis nautis Bonus 2. Please change that to genitive: bonorum nautarum 3. What specific type of garment was worn by a general in triumph, and later by the Roman emperors? It's a pure purple toga: toga picta Bonus 1. What type of toga would have been bleached with urine and coated with clay to make it gleaming white? Toga candida Bonus 2. A giant, sacred type of this dress most associated with Spartan women was made for Athena during the Great Panathenaia. Name it. Peplos 4. Who is the uncle of Perdix? He made a special, wide dance floor for Ariadne and went on to design and build a structure for the son of Pasiphae he would barley escape himself. He fashioned wings of wax for himself and his son. Who built the Labyrinth? Daedalus Bonus 1. 5. Please translate the verb ambulo into Latin in the following sentence: walking toward the river when the enemy attacked. AMBULABANT The soldiers were Bonus 1. That soldier will walk to his post. AMBULABIT Bonus 2. The soldiers had walked back to camp before dark. AMBULAVERANT 6. Welcome to the Cinema Romana. This tournament will feature questions about the Latin titles of the Master of Suspense! We begin with one of the last films Hitchcock made in the UK before his move to Hollywood. What title would translate to Matrona Evanescit? The Lady Vanishes Bonus 1. Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy mentions a 'Wheel of Fortune' but strangely no Vanna White. What would Vanna Alba call such a device? Rota Fortunae Bonus 2. Nelly mentions Vanna White in this hit song which could be translated equita mecum, sort of… Ride wit me 7. Complete the analogy: moneo: monuit :: sto : __________ stetit Bonus 1. On which of Rome's seven hills did Romulus start building Rome? Palatine Bonus 2. Give the Roman numeral for how many vultures Romulus saw to claim the city? XII 8. He is one of the true villans in history. One day the Romans were besieging Ardea when the officers got bored. They started drinking, then started boasting about the virtue of their wives. After a stalkery tour, they come to the consensus that Lucretia, wife of Collatinus, is the best of all. Who inadverdently serves as the catalyst to the ouster of his family and the monarchy through his deception and rapacious actions? Sextus Tarquinius It's a bonus on the movies! Bonus 1. Roar! What's the motto of MGM studios? Ars gratia artis Bonus 2. The beginning of the film Gladiator is pretty cool, if a bit excessive. Similar to a mangonel, what is the name of the wildly-kicking catapult usually reserved for sieges featured in the in the attack. onager You're playing for a bonus on Kings, but first… 9. Please translate king into Latin from the following sentence: The enemy was defeated by the king. Ā regē Bonus 1. Which Sabine and King of Rome learned much from his consort, the nymph Egeria? Numa Pompilius Bonus 2. Near Nemi, the King of the Wood, the Rex Nemorensis, inspired James Frazer's influential Golden Bough. The king was also a priest to what divinity? Diana 10. Lake Nemi is famous for strawberries, the Pope's holiday getaway in the country, and a giant pleasure boat probably built for this Julio-Claudian. His conquest of the sea is nearly as famous as his favourite horse, Incitatus. What son of Germanicus was extremely fond of his sisters, especially Drusilla. Caligula Bonus 1. What heroic soothsayer lived for generations before he drank from a spring. He fell down dead instantly. Tiresias Bonus 2. Tiresias was struck blind by Hera and Zeus gave him seven lives because of a pronouncement he made to end a famous argument. Why was he consulted? He'd been a man and a woman/both sexes/something like that. 11. Using an ablative absolute and the verb duco, translate into Latin 'since Augustus is the leader…' Augusto duce Bonus 1. What's the supine of duco? Ductum, -u Bonus 2. Translate duco in the sentence Lead the army! into Latin duc 12. During a dangerous attack by the Aequi, what reluctant yet excellent commander was found plowing his fields and attending his farm? Cincinnatus Bonus 1. The Black Sea was known to the Greeks as what rather more pleasant name? Euxine Sea Bonus 2. What part of the Mediterranean is named for the founder of the Etruscans? Tyrrhenian Sea 13. This author didn't want to pay tax, so he gave an extravagant funeral and constructed an epic tomb for his housefly on his grounds knowing tax exemptions were going to be issued for all burial grounds. He also wrote the Georgics and Eclogues. Who went on to pen the Aeneid? (at least mostly) Vergil It's a bonus on that Rascal, Vergil… Bonus 1. If you expected to read tenuerunt, but came across tenuere instead, what has Vergil just done? Used a shortened perfect Bonus 2. What happened if you wanted to see accessistis, but read accestis? syncope 14. Homer is may be describing nearby Kephalonia of Captain Corelli's Mandolin fame instead of this island itself. To what place was Odysseus trying to return to realize his nostos? Ithaca/Ithake Bonus 1. Near Ithake is the Ambrician Gulf. What sea battle of 31 BC lent Octavian hegemony over the Roman Imperium? Actium Bonus 2. Who defeated Hannibal at the Battle of Zama in 202 BC? Scipio Africanus 15. What derivative of plicare means two-fold? Duplicate Bonus 1. What mountain range runs down the center of Italy? Apennines Bonus 2. What river lends its name to the Iberian peninsula? Iberus/Ebro 2015 AJCL Certamen Prelims Round 2 1. His name means 'broad strength.' Zeus proclaimed that on the day Alcmeme was to give birth to Hercules that a child of his would be born to rule over all others. Hera rushed to Argos, where she keeps some of her arms, and induced the wife of Sthenelus, King of Mycenae and Tiryns, to give birth to this man. After death this man's head apparently shriveled up to resemble a duck's. He is most famous for imposing the Labors on Hercules. Eurystheus (Eujrusqeuv") Bonus 1. Hera, or rather Juno, keeps her chariot in this place which she also cherishes. Aristotle admired their government. It's citadel is known as the Byrsa. Name it. Carthage Bonus 2. Venus' numen is worshiped at this city on Cyprus. Where does Aeneas' mom have a temple in addition to a hundred altars glowing with incense and exhaling wreaths of fresh cut flowers? Paphos 2. From what Latin word with what meaning are all of the following derived: common, communist, municipal, and remuneration? Munus – gift (need both, prompt partial answer) Bonus 1. After his exile from power, Tarquinius Superbus fled to the aid of Lars Porsenna in this Etruscan stronghold: Clusium/Closium/Clusinum/Chiusi/Clevsin/Clusio(n) – anything like that Bonus 2. Porsenna met his match in a young maiden sent to him as a hostage. She led a group of girls out of his camp and swam across the Tiber. Who was the only woman honored with an equestrian statue on the Via Sacra? Cloelia 3. Identify the ablative usage in the following sentence: Pater amīcī mecum ambulābant. Accompaniment Bonus 1. Who didn't pay the gods for building the famous walls of Troy? It's why Poseidon sent a sea monster to terrorize the city and Apollo sent them a plague. King Laomedon Bonus 2. Laomedon's most famous son is his youngest. He changes his name from Podarces after ransoming himself from Hercules with a golden veil made by his sister, Hesione. Priam 4. Welcome to the Cinema Romana! For a change, name this recent Academy Award Winner: Duodecim Annos Servus 12 Years a Slave Bonus 1. Quid Anglicē significat 'quotīdiē'? (cotidie) every day Bonus 2. Quid Anglice significat 'clam' secretly, in secret 5. Tribus et viginti vulneribus confossus est. With these words Eutropius describes the death of what Roman leader whose mortal wounds were inflicted by a conspiracry of senators led by Brutus and Cassius? Julius Caesar Bonus 1. What temple does Octavian vow to avenge the death of Caesar? Mars Ultor (Avenger) Bonus 2. Which member of the 2nd triumvirate remained in Italy during the Philippi campaign? Lepidus 6. Please translate the following into English: Sapiens fēmina urbem servāvit. The wise woman saved(preserved, protected) the city Bonus 1. What was Rome's most disastrous defeat in the Second Punic War? Cannae Bonus 2. What 206 battle saw Scipio develop his double envelopment to defeat Mago and Hasdrubal Gisco? He drove Carthage out of Spain permanently here. Battle of Ilipa (Seville) 7. This author arrived late to his brother's funeral, but he sure must love kisses! He asks for them all to be scrambled up and for us not to care an as for the opinion of the severe old men. To the dismay of Horace, who in fact settles the lyric genre to Italic modes? Catullus Please translate the following verbs in context into Latin: Your verb will be pono Bonus 1. Sir, you placed the book on the wrong shelf. POSUISTI Bonus 2. The prisoners were placed in the dungeon. POSITI SUNT 8. He apparently came to Etruria from Greece where he was known as Lucumo. His wife was a power-hungry prophet who helped him secure the kingship. Who was the fifth king of Rome? Tarquinius Priscus Bonus 1. What type of Roman structure does the following list all name: Domitian's, Trajan's, Titus', and Caracalla's? Baths Thermae Bonus 2. Trajāna, Claudia, Virgō, Annio Novis, and the Appia? Aqueducts 9. Differentiate in meaning between ager and aeger. Field and sick Bonus 1. Who was the nephew of Hercules who served as his charioteer, helper, and advisor; especially against the Lernaean Hydra when he quickly cauterized the stumps at the ends of the snake heads. Iolaus Bonus 2. Romulus was watching his army when he disappeared and was believed to have been enveloped in a cloud. The Romans decided to deify him. Named for the hill on which this happened, what was his new god-name? Quirinus 10. What use of the genitive is found with words like satis and nihil? Partitive/of the whole/quantity Bonus 1. Who dies last in the Aeneid? Turnus Bonus 2. Complete the analogy. Achilles : Patroclus :: Aeneas : _______ Pallas 11. What Latin legal phrase describes the state of the relationship we have with many of you tonight? It indicates our legal responsibility to made custodial decisions in a parent's stead. In loco parentis It's time again, for the Latin jukebox. We look to the past few years for this round. Bonus 1. What Fun hit from 2012 might the Romans have called Aliquae Noctēs? Some nights Bonus 2. How about Dēsinere nōn possumus? We can't stop You'll be playing for a bonus on trees and the people they used to be, but first this… 12. The internet calls him 'a true artist surrounded by vicious, ignorant plebs.' Which Julio-Claudian has a neck beard? Nero Bonus 1. Which couple was transformed into an Oak and Linden tree thanks to their piety and reverence for xenia? Baucis and Philemon Bonus 2. This woman actually was an Oak nymph, a Dryad. She was bitten by a viper on her wedding day and died instantly. Her husband descended to the underworld to fetch her to no avail. Name the wife of Orpheus. Eurydice 13. Claudius was credited with rebuilding what structure which had been completed in 55 BC but subsequently burned down? The building was the largest and first of its kind, skirting the laws of the time by including a small shrine to Venus at the back thus making it, technically, a temple. It's best remembered as the building just outside of which Julius Caesar was assassinated. Theatre of Pompey Bonus 1. Which emperor, who came to power in 285 AD, brought many of the troubles of the 3rd century to a halt thanks to his idea of tetrarchy. Diocletion Bonus 2. Diocletion is known for splitting his empire in half. In his retirement, where on the Dalmatian coast of the Adriatic, does he decide to build a palace as his refuge and protection? Split (Splitona) 14. What is the idiomatic meaning of the Latin phrase 'bellum gerere'? to ware war Bonus 1. Which hero slew Memnon and his female doppelganger, Penthesilea, the Queen of the Amazons? Achilles Bonus 2. Honk, honk! Who woke to this noise on the Capitoline hill one night in 390 BC only to find Gauls trying to invade? Marcus Manlius 15. Horace once said, 'nunc est Bibendum.' One favourite Roman drink, and a particular favorite of Caligula's, was mulsum. It was made of four parts wine and one part of what sweet substance? The Roman word was mel: honey Bonus 1. Either the Greek or Roman name is sufficient for this answer. Which deity was the first born from Rhea and last to the regurgigated from Cronus and therefore, according to the Homeric Hymns, the first and last honored with toasts and wine offerings at Roman banquets? Vesta/Hestia Bonus 2. What was the traditional desert at Roman dinner parties? apples