Latin in use
Quid agis?
What is "how are you (singular)?"
The three phases of Rome's history
DD: The # of kings in the Monarchy
What are Monarchy, Republic, & Empire?
DD. What is 7?
These are the people with whom Apollo falls in love (at least one).
Who were Daphne, Hyacinthus, and Cassandra (only one needed)?
Where you could go to watch gladiator fights.
What is the Colosseum/amphitheatre?
This is the declension of mensa, sing/pl + meanings.
What is mensa, mensae, mensae, mensam, mensa
mensae, mensarum, mensis, mensas, mensis
Quota hora est?
What is "what time is it"?
The last king of Rome and why he was overthrown
Who was Tarquinius Superbus? His son violated Lucretia, a well-born Roman woman engaged to someone else.
He receives the golden touch from Dionysos.
DD: This is why.
Who is Midas?
DD: He helped Silenus - Dionysos' tutor and friend.
The activity you do in a triclinium.
What is eat?
This is the declension of bonus (M/F/N).
dd: this is the part of speech
what is bonus/boni/bono/bonum/bono,
bona/bonae/bonae/bonam/bona,
bonum/boni/bono/bonum/bono
dd: what is an adjective?
N. B.
What is "nota bene" note well?
The first emperor of Rome
Who was Octavian/Augustus Caesar?
This is Hephaestus' Roman name.
What is Vulcan?
Where the senate meets
What is the Curia?
This is the first person pronoun declension (S/Pl).
What is ego/mei/mihi/me/me & nos/nostri,nostrum/nobis/nos/nobis?
SPQR
What is "The Senate and the People of Rome" (motto of the Roman state)?
These were two Roman generals with whom Cleopatra had affairs.
Who were Julius Caesar and Marcus Antonius?
This is Daedalus (explain who).
Who is the Athenian dude, trapped on Crete, builds labyrinth in which minotaur is hidden, flies away from Crete with son Icarus?
The garment that can only be worn by Roman citizens
DD: This was worn by a young child or baby.
What is a toga?
DD: What is a bulla?
Porta
What is carry (imperative singular)?
Sic Semper Tyrannus
daily double: who famously said this in the 1800s?
What is "Thus Always to Tyrants"?
dd: John Wilkes Booth after shooting Lincoln
This started the Punic Wars.
What was awkward miscommunication (thanks, Mamertines), and a desire on both Rome and Carthage's part to control Sicilia?
This is a chimera.
What is a lion/goat/serpent, which Bellerophon slays?
This is the oldest hill of Rome, where Romulus and Remus were raised by the she-wolf.
What is Palatine?
Marcus natare amat.
What is Marcus loves to swim?