Vocabulary
This Latin word means "dog"
canis
This goddess of love and beauty gave her name to the second planet from the Sun
Venus
This language of the Roman empire is the ancestor to the modern French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian languages.
Latin
A batter can score one of these in baseball by hitting the ball out of the play area or running the bases to home before the opposing team can tag them.
Home Run
This shape shared by hula hoops and frisbees is defined as all points in a plane that are at an exact equal distance from a fixed center point
circle
This Latin word means "cow"
vacca
This Roman and Greek god of medicine, art, archery, and the sun gave his name to some of NASA's most famous manned missions
Apollo
The United States entered this conflict after the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor
World War II
The animated comedy "the Simpsons" follows this main character, a dim-witted and overweight father of 3 voiced by Dan Castellaneta
Homer
In the Super Smash Bros video game series, this Pokemon character can Sing opponents to sleep and, if aimed just right, knock them out of the battlefield by Resting next to them
Jigglypuff
This Latin word means "hello"
salve (or salvete)
This boy tragically fell into the sea after flying too close to the sun, driving his father Daedalus into despair
Icarus
This Roman dictator was stabbed to death by members of the Senate on March 15, 44 BCE
Gaius Julius Caesar
This first Spider-Man film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, released in 2017, saw Peter Parker face off against the Vulture
Homecoming
Founded in 1949, this Danish company is the world's largest toy manufacturer
LEGO
This Latin phrase is equivalent to "My name is..."
nomen mihi est...
This musician traveled to the Underworld to save his wife Eurydice
Orpheus
the Renaissance
The orange awnings of this hardware store can be seen by looking out the windows of room 405.
Home Depot
This 2D platforming action game is the sequel to 2017 Hollow Knight and follows the former princess-protector Hornet, after she is captured and transported to the unfamiliar land of Pharloom
Silksong
This Latin word means "river"
fluvius (fluvio)
These twin sons of Mars founded the city of Rome in 753 BCE, after being nursed by a wolf as babies.
Romulus and Remus
This holiday commemorates the end of slavery in the United States on the day the Emancipation Proclamation was finally enforced in Texas in 1865
Juneteenth (June 19)
In biology, this is the tendency of organisms to maintain the same conditions (like temperature, moisture, and blood sugar) in their bodies
Homeostasis
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