Certamen - Life COPY

Question 1

Toss-Up:

Answer 1

Answer: CURSUS HONORUM

Transcript: What is the term for the series of offices an ambitious man might hold in the Roman Republic?

Question 2

Bonus:

Answer 2

Answer: QUAESTOR

Transcript: Which officer served as public treasurer?

Question 3

Bonus:

Answer 3

Answer: QUAESTOR(SHIP)

Transcript: Which office in the cursus honorum was held first?

Question 4

Toss-Up:

Answer 4

Answer: 60 B.C.

Transcript: In what year was the First Triumvirate formed?

Question 5

Bonus:

Answer 5

Answer: POMPEY, CRASSUS, JULIUS CAESAR

Transcript: Who were the members of the First Triumvirate?

Question 6

Bonus:

Answer 6

Answer: JULIUS CAESAR

Transcript: Which member of the First Triumvirate was the last to die?

Question 7

Toss-Up:

Answer 7

Answer: 79 A.D.

Transcript: In what year were Pompeii and Herculaneum buried by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius?

Question 8

Bonus:

Answer 8

Answer: TITUS

Transcript: Who was emperor when Vesuvius erupted that year?

Question 9

Bonus:

Answer 9

Answer: THE FLAVIAN DYNASTY

Transcript: To what dynasty did Titus belong?

Question 10

Toss-Up:

Answer 10

Answer: THE NINTH DAY

Transcript: On which day after his birth did a Roman boy receive his name?

Question 11

Bonus:

Answer 11

Answer: DIES LUSTRICUS

Transcript: What was the naming day of a Roman boy called?

Question 12

Bonus:

Answer 12

Answer: LUX, LUCIS, F. - LIGHT

Transcript: Give the dictionary entry for the Latin noun from which the praenomen Lucius was derived.