Latin Language
What is the dative singular form of manus?
MANUI
This man’s second wife was killed by a cursed dress, a wedding gift from his first wife; that second wife was Creusa. Before this man abandoned Medea, she had helped him complete three tasks set by her father, Aeetes. Who was this hero who led the Argonauts to retrieve the Golden Fleece?
JASON
Who wrote two treatises on his own military campaigns—one about war against Pompey and another about war in Gaul?
JULIUS CAESAR
Which of the Flavian emperors saw, during his reign: a rebellion led by Terentius Maximus squashed; a war resumed in Britannia that had Agricola pushing farther into Caledonia; a great fire in Rome; and the eruption of Vesuvius?
TITUS (FLAVIUS CAESAR VESPASIANUS AUGUSTUS)
In the name Marcus Tullius Cicero, what is the cognomen?
CICERO
What is the Latin verb and meaning from which we derive the English words cascade and decay?
CADO- FALL
What golden-antlered deer did Heracles spend an entire year in pursuit of in Arcadia as his third labor?
CERYNEIAN HIND
What first work by Ovid consisted of 49 poems in elegiac couplets and whose title translates to “Loves”?
AMORES
What consul died in combat at the Battle of Silva Arsia while trying to prevent Tarquinius Superbus from reclaiming the throne?
(LUCIUS JUNIUS) BRUTUS
Give the meaning of the motto of the state of Alabama, which is “Audemus iura nostra defendere?”
WE DARE TO DEFEND OUR RIGHTS
Translate into English the following sentence: “Media nocte castra ponenda sunt.”
CAMP MUST BE PITCHED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT
Who are both grand-parents of Zeus and his siblings?
URANUS & GAIA/GE
What metrical term is given to a foot that consists of two long syllables?
SPONDEE
This early Roman patriot defended a bridge against the Etruscans alone. What was his name?
HORATIUS (COCLES)
What Roman festival associated with Pan would one find Roman men running through the streets naked striking young women with leather thongs called februa?
LUPERCALIA
For the verb pingo, give the perfect active infinitive.
PINXISSE
What cousin of Theseus’ mother went to Troy to aid his brother, but was killed upon returning by his adulterous wife?
AGAMEMNON
At the end of Book 4 of the Aeneid, who unknowingly built what would be the funeral pyre for her sister Dido?
ANNA
Which member of the Julio-Claudian family was married first to Marcellus, then Agrippa, and finally Tiberius?
JULIA THE ELDER (or JULIA DAUGHTER OF AUGUSTUS)
What is the English translation of the hit TV drama rendered into Latin as, Ludus Spoliorum?
GAME OF THRONES
Translate into Latin: “We believe that Vergil wrote very beautiful poems.”
CREDIMUS VERGILIUM PULCHERRIMA CARMINA SCRIPISSE
According to some sources, who sparked a war between the Amazons and Athenians by kidnapping or by helping Heracles kidnap the Amazonian queen Hippolyta?
THESEUS
What son of Eupeithes, was the first of the suitors of Penelope to be shot by Odysseus because he was the most insolent of them all?
ANTINOUS
Under the reign of which king did the Romans first engage in war with the people of Alba Longa?
TULLUS HOSTILIUS
What is the Latin name of the fruit imported to Italy in the Third century A.D.?
CITRUS