2010 Gwinnett County Certamen Championship

Lower Level

Round: 2

TU#1: There’s not much better or healthier than fresh fruit! What is the English word for uvae?
B1: What is the English word for delicious malae?
B2: What is the English meaning of mel?
TU#2: Complete the following analogy: celer: celerius :: bonus : ______
B1: Now try this one: malus : male :: magnus: ______
B2: Here’s one more: celer : celerrimus :: facilis: ______
TU#3: What mother/son pair did the fisherman Dictys find in a chest?
B1: What king of Seriphos and brother of Dictys fell in love with Danae?
B2: What was Polydectes’ plan to get Perseus out of the way?
TU#4: In which battle in 216 BC did Rome suffer its greatest military defeat, at the hands of Hannibal?
B1: Who were the two Roman commanders at this battle?
B2: At what lake had the Romans previously suffered a terrible defeat by Hannibal’s troops?
TU#5: Listen to the following passage, which I will read twice, then answer in English the question that follows:
“Sum rex mundī,” clamāvit Marcus, puer stultissimus, in nave stāns. Hīs verbīs dictīs, servōs suōs rēspectāvit et diū rīsit. Servī tacuērunt. Subitō, navis movit et Marcus dē nave cēcidit. Tum servī rīsērunt ut Marcus factus est rex maris.
Where does Marcus end up at the end of the story?
B1: What kind of boy is Marcus?
B2: What did Marcus claim to be?
SCORE CHECK
TU#6: After the previous year saw an emperor kill himself, which year is known today as the year of four Emperors, as it saw four different rulers including Vespasian, who ended up ruling for 10 years?
B1: Which three emperors preceded Vespasian?
B2: What were the years of Vespasian’s rule?
TU#7: The action in the Iliad begins with a sulking Achilles. Whose actions had upset Achilles and caused him to withdraw from the fighting?
B1: What had Agamemnon done?
B2: Whose death led to Achilles’ return to battle?
TU#8: Using quam, say in Latin “Girls are better than boys.”
B1: Now say the same sentence using an ablative of comparison.
B2: Using the answer to bonus 1 as your guide, now say “Girls are much better than boys.”
TU#9: What is the third person plural imperfect active subjunctive of the verb scribo?
B1: Keeping all else the same, make scriberent pluperfect.
B2: Keeping all else the same, now make scripsissent passive.
TU#10: Based on its derivation, what would you share with your companion?
B1: What would you share if you cooperate?
B2: What would you share if you attended a colloquium?
SCORE CHECK
TU#11: Translate this sentence into English: Dum puerī puellaeque ambulant in agrīs, nihil aquae bībērunt.
B1: Translate this sentence into English: Postquam pueri puellaeque domum redierunt, plus cibi consumpserunt.
B2: Cum senatores ad tabernam ivissent, nimium vini biberunt.
TU#12: Who am I? I was an oracle of Apollo whom he loved and to whom he granted to live as many years as grains of sand I held in my hand.
B1: What mistake did I make specifically when asking for this favor?
B2: Which hero did I instruct to obtain a golden bough so that I could guide him through the Underworld?
TU#13: Let's talk Roman housing. What was the Latin term for the dining room?
B1: What was the Latin term for the kitchen?
B2: We spend a lot of time learning the rooms of a Roman house, even though most Roman city-dwellers lived in apartment buildings. What was the Latin term for an apartment building?
TU#14: Driven by lust for Hera and Artemis, what two giants tried to climb to Olympus by piling one mountain on top of another?
B1: What two mountains did they use to get to Olympus?
B2: Which god had they earlier captured and imprisoned in a bronze jar for a year?
SCORE CHECK
TU#15: It is possible that you know this three-word Latin phrase because it was shouted by John Wilkes Boothe just before he shot President Lincoln; it is more likely that you know it because it is the motto of the state of Virginia. What is it?
B1: What state has as its motto Montani Semper Liberi?
B2: What state has as its motto Alis Volat Propriis? / GRAPES
APPLES
HONEY
MELIUS
MAGNOPERE
FACILLIMUS
DANAE and PERSEUS
POLYDECTES
Send him on a QUEST for the HEAD OF MEDUSA
CANNAE
Lucius Aemilius PAULLUS and Gaius Terentius VARRO
LAKE TRASIMENE
IN THE SEA
VERY STUPID, STUPIDEST
KING OF THE WORLD
69 A.D.
GALBA, OTHO, VITELLIUS
69–79 A.D.
AGAMEMNON’S
TAKEN Achilles’ concubine BRISEIS
PATROCLUS’
PUELLAE SUNT MELIORĒS QUAM PUERĪ.
PUELLAE SUNT MELIORĒS PUERĪS.
PUELLAE SUNT MULTŌ MELIORĒS PUERĪS.
SCRIBERENT
SCRIPSISSENT
SCRIPTI, ae, a ESSENT
BREAD
WORK
CONVERSATION, SPEECH
While the boys and girls walk/were walking in the fields for many days, they drank no water / nothing of water.
After the boys and girls returned home, they ate more (of) food.
When/After/Because the senators had gone to the bar/shop/tavern, they drank too much (of) wine.
SIBYL (of Cumae; Deiphobe)
FOR YOUTH TO ACCOMPANY THE MANY YEARS OF LIFE
AENEAS
TRICLINIUM
CULINA
INSULA
OTUS and EPHIALTES (Aloadae)
MT. PELION and MT. OSSA
ARES
SIC SEMPER TYRANNĪS
WEST VIRGINIA
OREGON