Grammar
From what Latin number does "November" derive?
Novem.
What edible object am I? I am the reason why Proserpina must remain in the Underworld for six months out of every year.
Pomegranate
What Greek mathematician had a great influence on trigonometry, even developing a special theorem regarding triangles?
PYTHAGORAS
According to Greek and Roman concepts of the Underworld, sinners went to Tartarus while exceptionally good people went to what area?
ELYSIUM / ELYSIAN FIELDS
Britain is to Britannia as _____ is to Gallia.
France
List two prepositions that take the accusative case.
PER, AD, SUPER, TRANS, CIRCUM, IN (sometimes), etc..
Who am I? I was given the epithet "twice born" because I was snatched from my mother's womb as she was going up in flames and sewn into my father's thigh? I later became the god of the vine.
Dionysus / Bacchus / Liber.
Who was the last king of Rome?
Tarquinius Superbus.
Responde Latine. In what room of the Roman house might you find a lectus?
Cubiculum / triclinium
This road ran across the length of Italy from Roma to Brundisium. Name it.
Via Appia.
Which of the following adjectives is not in the comparative degree: melior,latior, maius, pessimus, maior?
Pessimus.
Who were the pious couple from Phrygia who unwittingly entertained Hermes and Zeus in their humble cottage?
Baucis and Philemon.
What famous Thracian led the slave revolt in 73 B.C.?
Spartacus
What was special about the toga candida?
It denoted running for office / it was rubbed with chalk to make it white.
Distinguish in meaning between os, oris and os, ossis.
Mouth / bone.
What use of the ablative is seen in the following sentence: Urbe capta Aeneas fugit.
Ablative absolute.
Who were Helen of Troy’s twin brothers, sons of Leda who were said to live half their time on earth, half in Heaven?
Castor and Pollux.
Please list in the order that they died the members of the First Triumvirate.
Crassus, Pompey, Caesar.
Where am I? I'm looking south towards the Palatine; to my right, high above, is the Temple of Iuppiter Optimus Maximus; to my left is the arch of Titus.
Forum.
What was the bundle of rods called that was carried in front of a Roman magistrate?
Fasces / fascis.
What is the tense and voice of morituri?
Future, active.
Medea gave a magic potion to Jason to protect him from harm. At what deity's shrine did they meet?
Hecate.
By 146 B.C. the Roman Senate was becoming disturbed by the difficulty of controlling their allied and subject states. In that year, turning to terror as a technique of empire, they utterly destroyed two great cities of the ancient world. What were they?
Carthage and Corinth.
What did the Romans call desert?
Secunda mensa.
Who was the father of Commodus?
Marcus Aurelius.