Characters
Verbs
Nouns
Culture
Mythology
100
This is the family dog. What is his name and who is he named after?
Cerberus, named after the dog who guards the underworld.
100
This is how you tell a verb is imperfect.
What are "-ba-"?
100
These are the three noun cases we have learned this year.
What are the nominative, dative, and accusative cases?
100
A murmillo, retiarius, and a Samnite are all types of this.
What are gladiators?
100
This is the number of official Olympians in Greek mythology.
What is 12?
200
This character was purchased into Caecilius’s family in Stage 3.
Who is Melissa?
200
These are the present tense verb endings.
What are "-o, -s, -t, -mus, -tis, -nt" ?
200
When I ask you what “number” a noun is, I am asking whether the verb is this or this.
What are singular and plural?
200
A man would wear a tunica and a toga; a woman would wear this.
What is a stola?
200
Juno’s husband, Jupiter, often has extramarital affairs. She is ironically the goddess of this.
What is marriage?
300
This is Caecilius’s full name.
Who is Lucius Caecilius Iucundus?
300
This is the tense of this verb: audivit.
What is the perfect tense?
300
This is how you translate the dative case.
What is "to/for ____?"
300
The caldarium, palaestra, and apodyterium are all parts of this.
What are the baths?
300
This is the relationship between Apollo and Diana.
What is siblings? (Extra 100 points if you said twins.)
400
This is the name Grumio goes by in Stage 11 when he pretends to be a citizen.
Who is Lucius Spurius Pomponianus?
400
This is the tense of this verb: erat.
What is imperfect?
400
The subject is which case and usually at this part of the sentence.
What are the nominative case and beginning of the sentence?
400
This is a Roman holiday in which they would sacrifice goats, have a feast, and chase women around with sticks to promote fertility.
What is Lupercalia?
400
Hephaestus was thrown off Mount Olympus by his mother, Juno, because he was ugly. This is his Roman name.
What is Vulcan?
500
Put these characters in the order they appear in CLC: Alexander (Q’s bff and L’s love interest), Syphax (the slave dealer), Pantagathus (the barber),
Syphax, Pantagathus, Alexander
500
Describe the difference between the uses of the imperfect and perfect tenses.
The imperfect tense is for ongoing or background past actions. The perfect tense is used for one time or interrupting past actions.
500
The “family” of endings a noun belongs to is called this.
What is a declension?
500
The large flows of ash and toxic gasses that poured down Mount Vesuvius towards Pompeii and Herculaneum are called this.
What are pyroclastic flows?
500
The Roman deity (really a Titan) who devoured all his children except for one before vomiting them all back up when his youngest, Jupiter, poisoned him.
Who is Saturn?