Grammar
What person is a verb ending -t?
He/she/it (or 3rd singular)
If "a doing/being word" is the answer, what is the question?
A verb
What does dominus mean?
Master
What type of gladiators fought with a net and trident?
retiarius
What feature of the planet causes volcanoes?
Tectonic plates
What case and number is puellam
Accusative Singular
If "when the verb happens" is the answer, what is the question?
What does sedet mean?
(He) sits
What room was the tablinum?
Study.
What year did Vesuvius erupt?
79AD
What case and number is servos
Accusative Plural
What does Accusative mean?
Object/verb happens to it
What does fabula mean?
Story/play
What was the Latin for the exercise-ground outside the Baths?
palaestra
What was the most destructive tide of boiling mud called?
Pyroclastic surge/flow
What tense and a person is a verb ending -isti?
Perfect, you (or 2nd sing)
What does Perfect mean?
Verb completed in the past
What is the Latin for 'slave-girl/maid'
ancilla
What was the name of the underfloor heating?
hypocaust
Pliny (the Younger)
What is the dative singular of rex?
regi
What does Declension mean?
Group of nouns (with the same endings)
What is the Latin for 'he looks around'?
circumspectat
Why were the Games banned at Pompeii in 59AD?
Rioting between Pompeians and Nucerians (after a gladiator fight)
What year (to the nearest 100) was Pompeii rediscovered?
1549AD.