Show:
Call Me Vocative
To Infinitive and Beyond!
Interrogative Interrogation
It's a Matter of Principle (Parts)
Dangerous Miscellaneous
100
Translate into Latin: "Hello, (female) teacher!"
Salve, Magistra!
100
Identify the finite and infinitive verbs in this sentence: "magister pueros dimittere constituit."
FINITE: constituit. INFINITIVE: dimittere
100
What does the English term "interrogative" literally mean?
Questioning, related to questions, questioning between people.
100
What are the first 2 principal parts of the verb "laudat"? (1st conjugation)
laudō, laudāre
100
What Latin noun can mean both "school" and "game"?
ludus
200
Translate into Latin: "Hello, (female) teachers!"
Salvete, Magistrae!
200
Identify the finite and infinitive verbs in this sentence: "Horatia domum redire cupit."
FINITE: cupit. INFINITIVE: redire.
200
Where in a Latin question is the interrogative word usually placed?
Beginning of the question
200
What are the first 2 principal parts of the verb "manet"? (2nd conjugation)
maneō, manēre
200
Which type of chocolate has a higher cacao content, bittersweet or semisweet?
bittersweet
300
Translate into Latin: "Bye, Quintus!"
Vale, Quinte!
300
Identify the finite and infinitive verbs in this sentence: "debemus in ludo sedere et magistrum audire."
FINITE: debemus. INFINITIVE: sedere, audire.
300
What does the interrogative word "cur" mean, and what is a modern derivative?
MEANING: why. DERIVATIVES: curious, curiosity, curiousness, curiously...
300
What are the first 2 principal parts of the verb "venit"? (4th conjugation)
veniō, venīre
300
A) What is rhetoric? B) What is a rhetorical question, and what does it have to do with rhetoric?
A) RHETORIC is the art of speaking. B) a RHETORICAL QUESTION is a question that is said aloud simply for the sake of saying it aloud, since the speaker is already pretty sure of the answer anyway.
400
Translate into Latin: "Get up, Gaius!"
"Surge, Gai!"
400
Identify the finite and infinitive verbs in this sentence: "Horatia Quintum ad ludum procedere iubet, sed Quintus festinare non cupit."
FINITES: iubet, cupit. INFINITIVES: procedere, festinare.
400
How is the following sentence translated, and what is the expected answer? "debemusne domum redire?"
TRANSLATION: "Should we return home?" EXPECTED ANSWER: either yes or no
400
What are the first 2 principal parts of the verb "currit"? (3rd conjugation regular)
currō, currere
400
In what modern region did the Mayan civilization flourish?
Central America / Mesoamerica / central Mexico down to Yucatán Peninsula
500
Translate into Latin: "Shut up, Flaccus!"
Tace, Flacce!
500
Identify the finite and infinitive verbs in this sentence: "Decimus litteras bene scribere attemptat, sed iterum scribere debet."
FINITES: attemptat, debet. INFINITIVES: scribere, scribere.
500
How is the following sentence translated, and what is the expected answer? "nonne debemus domum redire?"
TRANSLATION: Shouldn't we return home? We should return home, right? Surely we should return home? EXPECTED ANSWER: yes.
500
What are the first 2 principal parts of the verb "cupit"? (3rd conjugation "io")
cupiō, cupere
500
Every 4 years, the new President is sworn into office on the 20th or 21st of January, a.k.a. Inauguration Day. What federal holiday has occasionally coincided with the Presidential Inauguration?
Martin Luther King Jr. Day-- 3rd Monday of January every year (his actual birthday was January 15).