2011 Oak Hall Certamen Latin II Round 2 Flashcards
TU: What was the name of the amulet given to a child on the day it received its name?
B1: When did a boy give up his bulla?
B2: When did a girl give up her bulla?
TU: Bulla
B1: Liberalia/ At Sixteen
B2: On the eve of her wedding
TU: Which hero of the Trojan war was impaled upon a rock by Minerva as he was sailing home?
B1: Which hero of the Trojan War created a settlement in Italy and lived the rest of his days in peace there?
B2: Which man from the Trojan War sailed around the Mediterranean landing in Carthage, Sicily, and many others before finally reaching Italy?
TU: Ajax the Lesser
B1: Diomedes
B2: Aeneas
TU: For the phrase “unus nauta,” give the dative singular.
B1: Make that genitive.
B2: Now make that accusative plural.
TU: Uni Nautae
B1: Unius Nautae
B2: Duos Nautas
TU: Who traveled extensively throughout the empire and brought the beard back into favor for the Romans?
B1: Who saw in a dream the iconic phrase: “In hoc signo vinces” and proceeded to paint crosses on all of his soldiers’ shields?
B2: Which emperor finally made Christianits the official religion of the Roman Empire?
TU: Hadrian
B1: Constantine
B2: Theodosius 1
TU: What type of Dative is in the following sentence: Duae filiae mihi sunt.
B1: Translate that sentence.
B2: Say in Latin, without using a dative, “He wants to have two good friends”
TU: Possesion
B1: I have two daughters
B2: Duos bonos amicos habere vult/cupit
TU: From what Latin noun, with what meaning, do we derive “inter”?
B1: From what verb do we ultimately derive “sedition”?
B2: From what verb do we ultimately derive “magnify”?
TU: Terra - Land
B1: Eo - To go
B2: Facio - Do/Make
TU: Which child of Helios drove his father’s chariot across the sky and was eventually struck down with a lightning bolt?
B1: Into what type of trees were Phaethon’s sisters transformed?
B2: Into what river did Phaethon fall to his death?
TU: Phaethon
B1: Poplar trees
B2: Eridanus
TU: Who bequeathed his kingdom of Pergamum to Rome in 133 BC?
B1: Which of the Gracchi was elected tribune in the same year?
B2: When was his brother Gaius killed?
TU: Attalus III
B1: Tiberius
B2: 121 BC
TU: Your doctor tells you to use a prescription p.o. How should you take it?
B1: You have another bottle of medication that reads p.r.n.. When should you take it?
B2: In your now drug-induced state you misread your last medicine bottle as q.e.d. instead of q.i.d.. What did you think your medicine said?
TU: By mouth/Orally
B1: As needed
B2: That which must be demonstrated
TU: Who said that the Trojans should not trust the Greeks even though they bear gifts?
B1: What happened to Laocoon after he said this?
B2: What action had he taken to anger the gods?
TU: Laocoon
B1: He was killed by sea serpents
B2: He threw a spear at the horse
TU: Give the genitive singular of the pronoun Ego.
B1: Change mei to the ablative
B2: Change me to the ablative plural.
TU: Mei
B1: Me
B2: Nobis
TU: What is the meaning of the Latin noun lux?
B1: …of the Latin noun lupus?
B2: …of the Latin noun lepus?
TU: Light
B1: Wolf
B2: Rabbit
TU: What three person ball game was popular at the Roman baths?
B1: In what exercise courtyard might one play Trigon?
B2: What room in the baths would you visit to get a massage?
TU: Trigon
B1: Palaestra
B2: Unctorium
TU: Who immediately succeeded Otho?
B1: Who immediately succeeded Domitian?
B2: Who immediately succeeded Marcus Aurelius?
TU: Vitellius
B1: Nerva
B2: Commodus
TU: Complete the analogy: dicere:dici::audire:
B1: …paro:paravi::fero:
B2: …voco:vocavit::iuvo:
TU: Audiri
B1: Tuli
B2: Iuvit
