History
What Roman dictator famously crossed the Rubicon?
Who is Julius Caesar?
This room of a Roman house had an opening to let in water and sunlight.
What is the atrium?
What son of Zeus was extremely strong and is most famously known for his 12 Labors?
Who is Hercules/Heracles?
Name the six noun cases
Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Accusative, Ablative, Vocative
Which Greek Poet inspired Vergil’s Aeneas with his works, The Iliad and The Odyssey?
Under which emperor was the domus aurea built after a great fire in 64 AD?
Who is Nero?
Which of the three names of a free-born Roman marked his clan, or gens?
What is the nomen?
Name the Greek Names of 5 Olympian Gods or Goddesses
Zeus, Poseidon, Hera, Demeter, Athena, Ares, Artemis, Apollo, Hermes, Aphrodite, Dionysus, Hephaestus (any 5)
For the word amo, amare, state the 2nd person, plural, perfect, indicative, active form.
What is Amavistis?
Which Roman poet wrote the work Metamorphoses?
Who is Ovid/Publius Ovidius Naso?
Which King created the first census?
Who is Servius Tullius?
The entrance to a Roman house, derived from the same word as the word “mouth” was called the...
What is the ostium?
Take the number of Fates. Multiply by the number of Muses, subtract the number of heads on the Hydra, and add the number of Olympian Deities. What is the final number?
What is 30?
Words such as “licet”, “decet” and “accidit” fall under what category of verbs?
What are Impersonal verbs?
Which author famously wrote lyric poems about his lover, Lesbia?
Who is Catullus?
Emperor Caligula once tried to make this horse of his consul of Rome.
Who is Incitatus?
Although originally denoting knights, this group later became known primarily as the business class.
Who are the equites?
Name this Greek hero who was the first to die on the Shores of Troy
Who is Protesilaus?
Differentiate in meaning between the words ramus and remus
“Ramus” means “branch”, while “remus” means “oar”
Considered the father of Latin poetry, which author wrote the Annals, which detailed a history of Rome from Aeneas’s time to his own day?
Who is Ennius/Quintus Ennius?
Julius Caesar was ironically assassinated under the statue of this man.
Who is Pompey?
A church was later built in this bath’s tepidarium.
What are the Baths of Diocletian?
What King of the Rutulians led an army against Aeneas and his Trojan men over the Latium princess Lavinia’s hand in marriage?
Who is Turnus?
Name one of the two Latin words from which the English word “Fumigate” is derived
Ago, agere - to do
Fumus - smoke
(Accept either)
Name 2 of the 6 Comedies by the playwright Terence
Andria (The Girl from Andros) (166 BC)
Hecyra (The Mother-in-Law) (165 BC)
Heauton Timorumenos (The Self-Tormentor) (163 BC)
Phormio (161 BC)
Eunuchus (161 BC)
Adelphoe (The Brothers) (160 BC)
(ACCEPT ANY 2)