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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
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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