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Lines 1.113-1.147
Virginia Certamen Questions, All Four Rounds 1.113-147
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Bonus: Who was the author of the Lives of the Twelve Caesars ? SUETONIUS
20) Toss-Up: Give the first person singular, imperfect passive subjunctive of the verb from which we derive the noun "expulsion". EXPELLERER
Bonus: Change to the pluperfect. EXPULSUS ESSEM
ROUND 3
1) Toss-Up: What tough Roman king was responsible for the destruction of Alba Longa? TULLUS HOSTILIUS
Bonus: Who had founded Alba Longa? ASCANIUS
2) Toss-Up: What is the perfect active infinitive of the verb from which we derive the English noun "spectator." SPECTAVISSE
Bonus: Change to the future active infinitive. SPECTATURUS ESSE
3) Toss-Up: Economists often speak of per capita income. What does per capita mean? FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL
Bonus: Rome has been called the caput mundi . What does this mean? THE CENTER OF THE WORLD
4) Toss-Up: Arrange these lements of a Roman boy's education in the proper sequence: rhetor ,grammaticus ,ludus litterarius . LUDUS LIT. ,GRAMM. ,RHETOR
Bonus: Name one of the two Greek elements of a youth's training that the Roman's considered mere frills. MUSIC or PHYS. ED. or GYMNASTICS
5) Toss-Up: What cliff-top fortress was the site where Jewish rebels chose to commit suicide rather than surrender to the beseiging Romans? MASADA
Bonus: In what year did this seige end? AD 73
6) Toss-Up: Indentify the common bond: in ,super ,sub . PREPOSITIONS WHICH CAN TAKE THE ACCUSATIVE OR ABLATIVE CASES
Bonus: What does sub taking the accusative case mean? UNDER, UP TO, TO THE FOOT OF
7) Toss-Up: What is the term for an uninvited dinner guest? UMBRA
Bonus: Umbrae would not be given food from the main course but frusta instead. What is this? SCRAPS or LEFT-OVERS
8) Toss-Up: Which god carried the thyrsus ? DIONYSUS or BACCHUS
Bonus: What was Mercury's wand called? CADUCEUS
9) Toss-Up: What is the third person singular, imperfect indicative of the verb from which we get the English word "patience"? PATIEBATUR
Bonus: Chnge patiebatur to the subjunctive. PATERETUR
10) Toss-Up: In the use of Roman numerals, what does it mean when there is a bar over the numerals? X 1000
Bonus: What did it mean when a Roman numeral had a bar on top and on the left and right? X 1,000,000