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Virginia Certamen Questions, All Four Rounds 1.1-20
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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 would be the correct tense of the infinitive in our Latin sentence? FUTURE
2) Toss-Up: Identify the common bond: audeo ,soleo ,gaudeo . SEMI-DEPONENT VERBS
Bonus: Give the last principal parts of each of those verbs. AUSUS and SOLITUS and GAUDEO
3) Toss-Up: Who am I? Horace said that I could play any musical instrument. I was the mother of the Orpheus by Apollo. I was the muse of epic or heroic poetry. CALLIOPE
Bonus: What mountain served as the home to the Muses? MT. HELICON
4) Toss-Up: What is the difference between salutatio and laudatio ? SALUTATIO -"GREETING BY CLIENTS IN THE MORNING" and LAUDATIO -"PRAISE OF THE DECEASED AT A FUNERAL"
Bonus: What is the difference between conclamatio and lustratio ? CONCLAMATIO -"CALLING THE NAME OF THE DEAD AT A FUNERAL" and LUSTRATIO -"CEREMONY AT WHICH A CHILD RECEIVED A NAME"
5) Toss-Up: After si ,nisi ,ne and num ,what is the meaning of quid ? "ANYTHING"
Bonus: What is the typical form of quid ? ALIQUID
6) Toss-Up: Responde Anglice: Post primum bellum Punicum, qua insula Romani potiti sunt? SICILY
Bonus: Who served as a corrupt governor of Sicily in 70 BC and by whom was he prosecuted? VERRES WAS PROSECUTED BY CICERO
7) Toss-Up: Who suffered the fate of being chained to a rock and having his liver eaten out daily by an eagle or vulture? PROMETHEUS
Bonus: Who suffered the fate of being chained to a rock for a sea-monster? ANDROMEDA
8) Toss-Up: Who am I? I believed that the laws of heaven were more important than the laws of man so I defied King Creon's orders and buried my brother, who had attacked Thebes. I was eventually buried alive for my crime and I commited suicide. ANTIGONE
Bonus: In what Greek tragedian's play by the same name is this story presented? SOPHOCLES