B1: What War Was Brought to a Close with a Roman Victory at Zama? 2ND PUNIC

2014 TSJCL Certamen

Novice Division, Round 2

TU # 1: What war was brought to a close with a Roman victory at the Aegates Islands? 1ST PUNIC

B1: What war was brought to a close with a Roman victory at Zama? 2ND PUNIC

B2: What war was brought to a close with a Roman victory at Beneventum? WAR WITH PYRRHUS

TU # 2: Whom did Orpheus attempt to bring back from the underworld? (HIS WIFE) EURYDICE

B1: Whom did Heracles successfully bring out of the underworld? CERBERUS

B2: Whom did Theseus attempt to bring out of the underworld? PERSEPHONE/PROSERPINA

TU # 3: What English derivative of the Latin verb docēre is a type of movie that tells a factual story in a somewhat straightforward fashion? DOCUMENTARY

B1: What English derivative of the Latin verb docēre is an advanced college degree?

DOCTORATE

B2: What English derivative of the Latin verb docēre is a museum employee who tells people about the exhibits? DOCENT

TU # 4: In one of his speeches, Shakespeare's Hamlet says, "To die, to sleep, to sleep, perchance to dream." Translate into Latin, 'to sleep'? DORMIRE, QUIESCERE

B1: At the beginning of this speech he says, "To be or not to be". Now say that in Latin?

ESSE AUT NON ESSE

B2: What is the passive form of esse? DOES NOT EXIST

TU # 5: Listen carefully to the following Latin story, which I will read twice. Then answer in English the question that follows:

"Agricolae in Galliā agrōs fertilēs habuērunt. Germānī, Gallōrum hostēs, quī trāns flūmen habitābant, agrōs fertilēs nōn habuērunt. Itaque Germānī flūmen trānsiērunt et agrōs Gallōrum

cēpērunt. Nunc Germānī agrōs fertilēs et uxōrēs Gallicās habent." (repeat)

Question: Where do the Germans live in comparison to the Gauls? ACROSS THE RIVER

B1: Why did the Germans cross the river?

THEY DIDN'T HAVE FERTILE FIELDS BUT THE GAULS DID or

TO TAKE THE FIELDS OF THE GAULS AWAY FROM THEM

B2: What do the Germans now have in addition to fertile fields? GALLIC WIVES

TU # 6: When rejected by Zeus, Thetis turned to a mortal named Peleus and with him bore what famous hero? ACHILLES

B1: Achilles tried avoiding service in the Trojan War by dressing as what? A GIRL

B2: Who killed Achilles in the Trojan War? PARIS

TU # 7: Translate back into English this song title from the Disney movie "Frozen": Vīsne Aedificāre Niveum Virum? DO YOU WANT TO BUILD A SNOWMAN?

B1: Translate back into English this song title from the Disney movie "Frozen": Amor Est Aperta Ianua.

LOVE IS AN OPEN DOOR

B2: Translate back into English this song title from the Disney movie "Frozen": Conglaciātum Cor.

FROZEN HEART

TU # 8: Whom did Hephaestus catch in his own bed using a golden net?

ARES AND APHRODITE

B1: What Greek god of love was sometimes said to have been the child of Ares and Aphrodite?

EROS

B2: Phobos, one of the other children of Ares and Aphrodite, was said to have accompanied Ares into battle and was the personification of what wartime emotion? FEAR

TU # 9: From 306-302 BC and again from 297-272 BC, who was the king of the region of Epirus in Greece?

PYRRHUS

B1: How many times did Pyrrhus defeat the Romans in battle? TWICE

B2: What city in southern Italy invited Pyrrhus to come over from Epirus and help them fight the Romans? TARENTUM

TU # 10: Which of the following Latin forms does NOT belong with the others grammatically: viri, viros, viris, vires, virorum? VIRES

B1: What is the ablative plural form of the noun of which vires is a form? VIRIBUS

B2: What is the nominative singular of this noun? VIS

TU # 11: What did Phaethon do very very very badly? DRIVE THE SUN CHARIOT

B1: Who had told him he could try? HIS FATHER (HELIOS OR APOLLO)

B2: Who killed Phaethon? JUPITER/ZEUS

TU # 12: Explain the difference in meaning between the Latin words vulnus and vultus.

VULNUS=WOUND and VULTUS=FACE, COUNTENANCE

B1: What declension is vulnus? THIRD

B2: What gender is vulnus? NEUTER

TU # 13: In about 145 BC the first temporary wooden one of these entertainment structures was erected in Rome, but only long enough for the festival for which the structure was built. What type of structure was it? THEATER

B1: Ninety years later Rome had its first permanent theater. Who built it? POMPEY

B2: What made the location of this theater so different from the type of terrain on which Greek theaters were usually built? IT WAS BUILT ON FLAT GROUND;

GREEK THEATERS WERE USUALLY BUILT ON A HILLSIDE

TU # 14: Translate the Latin word for 'boy' for the following sentence: "No one believed the boy who cried 'wolf'". PUERO

B1: Give the Latin word for 'boy' for the following sentence: "We persuaded the boys to leave."

PUERIS

B2: Give the Latin word for 'boy' for the following sentence: "Robin was called the Boy Wonder."

PUER

TU # 15: Which of the following Latin words serves as a synonym for the Latin phrase puerī et puellae: amīcitia, senēs, vestēs, līberī, capillī? LĪBERĪ

B1: Which of the following Latin words serves as a synonym for the Latin phrase vir et fēmina: vīcīnī, hominēs, moenia, sellae, pictōrēs? HOMINĒS

B2: Which of the following Latin words serves as a synonym for the Latin phrase pistor et senātor: servī, mīlitēs, ianuae, fēlēs, cīvēs? CĪVĒS

TU # 16: Time for some more derivatives charades. When recognized, silently act out the following English adjective without speaking: 'circumspect'.

PLAYER SHOULD LOOK AROUND THE ROOM, AS IF CAUTIOUSLY

B1: Now act out the following English adjective without speaking: 'sedate'.

PLAYER(S) SHOULD ACT CALM/QUIET

B2: Now act out the following English adjective without speaking: 'timorous'.

PLAYER(S) SHOULD ACT FEARFUL, TIMID

TU # 17: What politician's career began in the Third Punic War when he was assigned as a military tribune to the staff of his brother-in-law, Scipio Aemilianus? TIBERIUS GRACCHUS

B1: What were the latifundia that Tiberius Gracchus worked hard to stop?

LARGE FARMS / PLANTATIONS (OWNED BY THE WEALTHY)

B2: What was the ager publicus that Tiberius Gracchus tried to get control of on behalf of Rome's homeless war veterans? PUBLIC LAND OWNED BY THE STATE

TU # 18: What king in mythology, without knowing it, could have bought only one present on Valentine's Day to give to both his wife and mother, since they were the same person? OEDIPUS

B1: Of what city was Oedipus king? THEBES

B2: How did Oedipus's mother become a widow?

OEDIPUS (UNKNOWINGLY) KILLED HER FIRST HUSBAND, HIS FATHER

TU # 19: What did a Roman generally hope to stop doing when sitting in a frigidarium? SWEATING

B1: What room at the baths did a Roman bather visit twice during each visit?

DRESSING ROOM / APODYTERIUM

B2: What was done to a bather in the room called the unctorium? OILING/SCRAPING

TU # 20: Translate the following Latin sentence into English: "Mīlitēs nostrī fortissimē prō patriā pugnāverant." OUR SOLDIERS HAD FOUGHT VERY BRAVELY FOR THE COUNTRY

B1: Translate the following Latin sentence into English: "Hostēs vestrī montēs altissimōs superāvērunt."

YOUR ENEMIES CROSSED (OVER) VERY HIGH MOUNTAINS

B2: Translate the following Latin sentence into English: "Gallī fortēs Rōmānōs fortissimōs vincent."

THE BRAVE GAULS WILL DEFEAT THE VERY BRAVE ROMANS

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