States Questions—Intermediate Flashcards
What quote is followed up with “quam minimum credula postero”?
CARPE DIEM
B1: Who is the author of the quote?
HORACE
B2: From what work of Horace does that quote come?
ODES
What four word Latin quote lets us know that there are as many points of view on a subject as there are people?
QUOT HOMINES TOT SENTENTIAE
B1: What comic playwright was the author of that quote?
TERENCE
B2: In what play by Terence do we find that quote?
PHORMIO
We hope to see you at Nationals this summer at University of Louisiana Lafayette. Please translate the Latin motto of that university: Fortiter, Feliciter, Fideliter.
BRAVELY, HAPPILY, FAITHFULLY
B1: What university, also in Louisiana, and the site of a previous National Convention, has as its motto, Non Sibi Sed Suis?
TULANE
B2: What Louisiana university has the motto Deo et Patriae? A similarly named university in Chicago has the motto Ad maiorem Dei gloriam.
LOYOLA
Who is reported to have uttered the phrase “vae, puto deus fio” on his deathbed?
VESPASIAN
B1: What is the translation of that phrase?
ALAS, I THINK I AM BECOMING A GOD
B2: Who reportedly said “vae victis” when asking for more gold from conquered Romans?
BRENNUS
As there is a new British monarch let’s talk about Latin in the UK. What does the abbreviation F. D., which is found on all British coins, stand for?
FIDEI DEFENSOR
B1: What is the meaning of Fidei Defensor?
DEFENDER OF THE FAITH
B2: What is the English for the Latin motto that appears on the Royal Seal of Scotland, Nemo Me Impune Lacessit?
NOBODY PROVOKES ME WITH IMPUNITY
New York City has a lot of schools. What university in New York has the Latin motto “perstare et praestare”?
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY / NYU
B1: What university in New York has as its motto “respice adspice prospice”?
CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK
B2: What university in New York has as its motto “in lumine Tuo videbimus lumen”?
COLUMBIA
What Latin literary phrase is used to describe when a seemingly impossible situation is suddenly solved in the nick of time?
DEUS EX MĀCHINĀ
B1: What Latin literary phrase is used to describe a story that starts in the middle, and then uses flashbacks to catch the reader up to the present moment?
IN MEDIĀS RĒS
B2: What Latin literary phrase is used to refer to characters in a play?
DRĀMATIS PERSŌNAE
What two word Latin phrase refers to attacking the character of the opponent rather than discussing the issue?
AD HOMINEM
B1: What two word Latin phrase refers to the appointment by a court of one party to act in a lawsuit on behalf of another party deemed incapable of representing themselves?
AD LITEM
B2: What two word Latin phrase refers to taxation based upon an object’s worth?
AD VALOREM
What Florida university has as its motto “Civium in moribus rei publicae salus”?
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
B1: What Florida university has as its motto “Vires, artes, mores”?
FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY
B2: What Florida university has as its motto “Magna est veritas”?
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
Where would you find the abbreviations H.I.S. and R.I.P.?
ON A TOMBSTONE
B1: What is the Latin and English for** R.I.P.**?
REQUIESCAT IN PACE-MAY HE/SHE REST IN PEACE
B2: What is the Latin and English for H.I.S.?
HIC IACET SEPULTUS/SEPULTA-HERE LIES BURIED
Translate the following Latin phrase: caveat emptor.
(LET THE) BUYER BEWARE
B1: … nōn compos mentis.
NOT OF SOUND MIND
B2: … vigilantia pretium libertātis.
VIGILANCE IS THE PRICE OF LIBERTY
Translate the motto of Sewanee, The University of the South, ecce quam bonum
BEHOLD HOW GOOD
B1: …the motto of Columbia University, in tuo lumine videbimus lumen.
IN THY (YOUR) LIGHT, WE WILL SEE LIGHT
B2: …the motto Fordham University, sapientia et doctrina.
WISDOM AND LEARNING
Give the Latin for the motto of the state of Virginia, “thus always to tyrants”
SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS
B1: …the state of Oregon, “she flies by her own wings”.
ALIS VOLAT PROPRIIS
B2: …the state of Connecticut, “nothing without divine guidance”.
NIL SINE NUMINE
What quotation from Juvenal means, “a sound mind in a sound body,”?
MENS SANA IN CORPORE SANŌ
B1: What quotation from Ovid means, “fools laugh at the Latin language,”?
RIDENT STOLIDI VERBA LATINA
B2: What quotation from Juvenal means, “who will guard the guards themselves”?
QUIS CUSTODIET IPSŌS CUSTODĒS
For what European city is Esto Perpetua the motto?
VENICE
B1: For what American city is Urbs in horto the motto?
CHICAGO
B2: For what European city is Domine dirige nos the motto?
LONDON
What Latin legal phrase means you are to produce the body and is an important point in English common law that demands a person have his day in court rather than be deprived of liberty without cause or charge.
Answer: HABEAS CORPUS
B1. What Latin phrase refers to someone or something that suddenly solves what seems to be an insoluable problem just in time?
Answer: DEUS EX MACHINA
B2. What Latin phrase refers to the characters in a play?
Answer: DRAMATIS PERSONAE
The motto of John’s Hopkins University reminds us of the importance of truth. What is the Latin and English for this motto?
Answer: VERITAS VOS LIBERABIT, THE TRUTH WILL
SET YOU FREE
B1. Sometimes lawyers work for free to defend the truth. Give the full Latin phrase that
describes such free work.
Answer: PRO BONO PUBLICO
B2. Some might doubt the sanity of those who work for no pay and perhaps use this Latin phrase to describe someone they think is not of sound mind.
Answer: NON COMPOS MENTIS
Give the Latin and the English for the motto of the University of New Mexico
Answer: LUX HOMINUM VITA, LIGHT, THE LIFE OF MEN
B1. What is the motto of Washington University in St. Louis?
Answer: PER VERITATEM, VIS
B2. What does this mean?
Answer: THROUGH TRUTH, STRENGTH
Give the Latin phrase that means “let the buyer beware”?
Answer: CAVEAT EMPTOR
B1. What Latin legal phrase means to adjourn without a specified date for meeting again,
literally meaning “without a date”
Answer: SINE DIE
B2. What Latin legal phrase means “under the protection of the law” literally meaning “in the
bosom of the law ”
Answer: IN GREMIO LEGIS
What university has the motto perstare et praestare
Answer: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
B1. What does that motto mean?
Answer: TO PERSEVERE AND SURPASS
B2. What state has the motto dum spiro, spero?
Answer: SOUTH CAROLINA
By now you probably know your Latin teacher pretty well and the know their method of working. What is the Latin phrase that describes a person’s standard way of working?
Answer: MODUS OPERANDI
B1. Sometimes modus operandi - M.O. for short – is used to describe a criminals usual way of working and can be a way to predict the criminal’s actions and capture him “red handed.” What is the Latin legal phrase for a person caught red-handed?
Answer: IN FLAGRANTE DELICTO
B2. Even if someone is caught in flagrante, the offence may be so slight that no one chooses toprosecute the case. What is the Latin for the maxim that says “the law does not care about trifles?”
Answer: DE MINIMIS NON CURAT LEX
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit is a quotation from which Latin author?
Answer: VERGIL
B1. What does the phrase mean?
Answer: PERHAPS IT WILL CHEER (US) TO REMEMBER EVEN
THESE THINGS ONE DAY (or reasonable approximation).
B2. In what work of Vergil is this line said?
Answer: AENEID
The U.S. Navy has an unofficial Latin motto: Non sibi, sed patriae. What does this mean?
Answer: Not for (her)self but for (her) country
B1. The USS John F. Kennedy, recently decommissioned, had a Latin motto that was a quotation from Kennedy’s inaurgural address. Date, nolite rogare. What does this mean?
Answer: GIVE, DON’T ASK
B2. What well know English phrase does this Latin motto approximate
Answer: ASK NOT WHAT YOUR COUNTRY CAN DO FOR YOU, BUT
WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR YOUR COUNTRY.
What state has the motto Audēmus iura nostra defendere?
ALABAMA
B1: Translate this motto.
WE DARE (TO) DEFEND OUR RIGHTS
B2: Give the Latin and English for the motto of Arizona.
DITAT DEUS - GOD ENRICHES
What Latin phrase means “on the spur of the moment”?
EX TEMPORE
B1: What Latin phrase means “for the time being”
PRO TEMPORE
B2: What Latin phrase means “time flies”?
TEMPUS FUGIT
Give the Latin and English for the motto of the University of Florida
CĪVIUM IN MORIBUS REĪ PUBLICAE SALŪS -
IN THE CHARACTER OF ITS CITIZENS LIES THE WELFARE OF THE STATE
B1: Give the Latin and English for the motto of the University of Texas.
DISCIPLĪNA PRAESIDIUM CĪVITĀTIS - TRAINING, THE DEFENSE OF THE STATE
B2: Give the Latin and English for the motto of the University of Vermont.
STUDIĪS ET REBUS HONESTĪS - TO HONORABLE PURSUITS AND DEEDS
Give the Latin and English for the abbreviation b.i.d.
BIS IN DIE - TWICE (IN) A DAY
B1: …p.r.n.
PRO RĒ NATĀ - AS NEEDED
B2: …o.s.
OCULUS SINISTER - THE LEFT EYE
Of Michigan, Maryland, Maine, and Kentucky, which has a three word Latin motto?
KENTUCKY
B1: Kentucky’s Latin motto is Deō Gratiam Habeāmus. Translate it.
LET US HAVE THANKS FOR GOD / LET US BE GRATEFUL TO GOD
B2: Give the Latin and English for the motto of Michigan.
SĪ QUAERIS P(A)ENINSULAM AMOENAM, CIRCUMSPICE -
IF YOU SEEK A PLEASANT PENINSULA, LOOK AROUND YOU
