Yesterday Is History
The names of Rome’s traditional founder and his brother.
Romulus and Remus
Give the full identification (case, number, and gender) of Gloriam.
Feminine accusative plural
Ego miser sum
I am a miserable man
This is the carnivorous dinosaur that Dr. Grant is an expert with in Jurassic Park.
Velociraptor
This is the number of Olympian deities.
Twelve.
The Carthaginian general who attacked Rome with war elephants.
Hannibal Barca
Give the full identification (case, number, and gender) of Romanorum.
Genitive, plural, masculine/neuter
(100 bonus points if you name who wrote/said it).
O all-powerful Jupiter…do you see these things?
(Virgil, Book IV Aeneid).
DAILY DOUBLE: Finish this phrase: After si, nisi, num, and ne…
-ali takes a holiday (all the -alis go away).
The Greek god who created horses.
Poseidon
Name all three members of the First Triumvirate.
Give the full identification (person, number, tense, voice, mood) of Utuntur.
Third person, plural, present, deponent/active, indicative
Sic semper tyrannis.
(Double points if you name the person who made this phrase famous).
Thus always to tyrants.
(John Wilkes Booth)
He is known as the Father of History.
Herodotus of Halicarnassus
Name the two brothers who led the Greeks against the Trojans in the Trojan War.
Menelaus and Agamemnon
DAILY DOUBLE: This man is the gladiator who led a two year revolt against Rome from 73-71 BCE.
Spartacus
Give the full identification (case, number, and gender) of viris. (Hint: this is not from vir)
Accusative, plural, feminine from vis.
Alea iacta est.
(50 bonus points if you name the speaker).
The dice has been cast.
(Julius Caesar)
How many Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) movies have been released?
Twenty-nine or too many
Name three monsters in classical myth.
Chimera, Nemean Lion, Hydra, Scylla, Charybdis, Minotaur, etc.
The traditional founding date of Rome.
(April 21) 753 BCE
Give the full identification (case, number, gender, tense, voice) of Exultentibus.
Dative/ablative, masculine/feminine/neuter, plural, present, active participle
Si vis pacem, para bellum.
If you want peace, prepare for war.
Name the five freedoms guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution’s first amendment (100 points per freedom).
Freedom of speech, press, religion, assembly, and petition.
The names of the five rivers in the Underworld (100 points each).
1. Styx
2. Lethe (Forgetfulness)
3. Acheron (Woe or Misery)
4. Phlegethon (Fire)
5. Cocytus (Lamentation)