Latin

Vocabulary

100

This Latin word means "dog"

canis

200

This Latin word means "hello"

salve (or salvete)

300

This Latin phrase is equivalent to "My name is..."

nomen mihi est...

400

This Latin word means "grandmother"

avia

500

This Latin word refers to the main room of a Roman house, which functioned like a lobby or waiting room.

atrium

Mythology

100

This goddess of love and beauty gave her name to the second planet from the Sun

Venus

200

These twin sons of Mars founded the city of Rome in 753 BCE, after being nursed by a wolf as babies.

Romulus and Remus

300

This boy tragically fell into the sea after flying too close to the sun, driving his father Daedalus into despair

Icarus

400

This musician traveled to the Underworld to save his wife Eurydice

Orpheus

500

This hero killed the Minotaur, and was the son of king Aegeus of Athens

Theseus

History

100

This language of the Roman empire is the ancestor to the modern French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian languages.

Latin

200

This Roman province contained the city of Alexandria and the Nile River Delta; before being taken over by the Romans, it had been ruled by the likes of Cleopatra and Ramses.

Egypt (Aegyptus)

300

This Roman dictator was stabbed to death by members of the Senate on March 15, 44 BCE

(Gaius) Julius Caesar

400

This city, home to the banker Caecilius, was famously destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE

Pompeii

500

This Carthaginian general nearly brought the Roman Republic to its knees during his invasion of Italy, after crossing the Alps with war elephants

Hannibal

Novellas

100

This Roman girl who just wants to be alone was the main character of our second novella

Syra

200

As a young wizard, Marcus mainly occupied himself by distributing this to the Romans and Egyptians

magical medicine (medicina magica)

300

Syra's story ended after being bitten by this exotic animal, whose Latin name is Camelopardalis

a giraffe

400

To escape from the Sphinx, Marcus' parents gave him this wondrous item

a magical toga of invisibility

500

Syra finds no solitude in this famous marketplace, where Romans would trade, conduct business, and engage in political debates

The Forum

Off-Topic

100

In physics, this force of attraction causes objects to fall towards the ground when dropped

Gravity

200

The United States entered this conflict after the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor

World War II

300

Founded in 1949, this Danish company is the world's largest toy manufacturer

LEGO

400

This country, whose name comes from the Latin word for Silver, was the winner of the 2022 FIFA World Cup

Argentina

500

Name one of the two people currently (as of 2026) serving the state of New York in the United States Senate

(Chuck) Schumer and (Kirsten) Gillibrand