The Aeneid
What is the name of the goddess who promises Aeneas that he will found a new city in Book 1 of the Aeneid?
Venus
This unit of measurement comes from the old French phrase a large dozen
a gross (144)
“Multi famam, conscientiam pauci uerentur.”
“Many fear their reputation, few their conscience.”
-Pliny
While he's not out chasing a trophy wife, this is the occupation of the narcissistic antagonist from the Beaty and the Beast.
A professional hunter
Ohm's Law, stated as an equation.
V=IR
What is the name of the prophetess who guides Aeneas through the underworld in Book 6 of the Aeneid?
Sibyl of Cumae
Convert -40 degrees Celsius to Fahrenheit.
-40 F
Translate: arma virumque cano
I sing of arms and a man.
The SI unit of luminous flux is where this amorous maitre d' gets his name.
Lumiere
The scientist who invented the electrical battery is honored by this SI unit, the unit for electric potential.
Alessandro Volta
Required by Aeneus for passage into the underworld
A golden bough
The number 24 expressed in the duodecimal system
20 (base 12)
Aeneas certainly was not a philanderer, but he did have three famous consorts throughout his career. What are their names, and what is the correct chronological order?
Creusa, Dido, Lavinia
Angela Lansbury, Emma Thompson and Anne Rogers all infused their own distinctive flavor into this beloved character from Beauty and the Beast
Mrs. Potts
The reason why it is physcially impossible to shoot a balloon down at 60,000 ft elevation from 0 feet elevation with a .50 caliber machine gun.
Air resistance
This unfortunate Trojan coxswain was liquidated on the trip from Sicily to Italy?
Palinurus
How many degrees is an interior angle of a regular octagon?
135 degrees
Who says "Fléctere si néqueo súperos Acheronta movebo" in book VII of The Aeneid.
Juno
If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.
This is the name of the hardworking gentle beast that faithfully serves Maurice and Belle
Phillipe (the Belgian Draught horse)
This Law states that the strain (deformation) of an elastic object or material is proportional to the stress
Hooke's Law
According to this lecturer, the Romans’ destiny is to bring order and law to the cosmos.
Wes Callihan
According to number theory, this is a positive integer that is equal to the sum of its positive divisors, excluding the number itself.
A perfect number
The hometown of the epic poet Virgil
Cisalpine Gaul
The real life castle used for the 2017 adaptation of the Beauty and the Beast:
Chateau De Chambord in Loir-Et-Cher
The bending of light rays at the boundary between two media differing in optical density is caused by what phenomena?
the difference in the speed of light through that media. Refraction.