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Virginia Certamen Questions, All Four Rounds 1.1-30
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ROUND 1
1) Toss-Up: Welcome to the Sixth Annual Chancellor Certamen! We hope that you are successful in this tournament. If we were to translate that previous sentence into Latin (read it again, if necessary), we would use what use of the infinitive? INDIRECT STATEMENT
Bonus: What use of the ablative would be in our Latin sentence? ABLATIVE, PLACE WHERE
2) Toss-Up: What happened if a slave were "manumitted"? SET FREE
Bonus: What was a slave's cauda ? LOCK OF HAIR/PIG-TAIL TO IDENTIFY HIM AS A SLAVE
3) Toss-Up: What the legendary hero of Rome single-handedly held back the Etruscan army in 508 BC allowing his comrades to escape safely across the Tiber River? HORATIUS
Bonus: Horatius had to swim the river in full armor to return to Rome because his comrades had destroyed what bridge? PONS SUBLICIUS
4) Toss-Up: What is the difference between the translations of "was being carried" and "was carried"? WAS BEING CARRIED -IMPERFECT PASSIVE and WAS CARRIED -PERFECT PASSIVE
Bonus: What imperfect tense shows what type of past action? INCOMPLETE or REPEATED
5) Toss-Up: A shot from whose bow killed Achilles? PARIS
Bonus: What god was said to have guided Paris' arrow? APOLLO
6) Toss-Up: What athletic event is named after a battle between the Athenians and Persians in 490 BC? MARATHON
Bonus: In what track and field event did Myron's Discobolos participate? DISCUS
7) Toss-Up: An alea or talus was a die (singular of dice) used in games. From what were aleae or tali usually made? KNUCKLE BONES OF PIGS
Bonus: The worst throw of the dice was called a canis . What is a canis ? DOG
8) Toss-Up: A "clue" is any guide to the solution of a problem. The Middle English word clewe means a ball of yarn or thread. What hero got a clewe and solved the problem of finding his way out of the labyrinth? THESEUS
Bonus: Who gave Theseus a clewe ? ARIADNE
9) Toss-Up: Identify the common bond: Curiata, Centuriata, Tributa. COMITIA (accept ASSEMBLIES)
Bonus: Which comitium met to confer imperium on a consul or praetor ? CURIATA
10) Toss-Up: What is the difference in meaning between the verbs morior and moror ? MORIOR -TO DIE and MOROR -TO STAY