# Round Four 1.1-44 Virginia Certamen Questions, Round Four, Lines 1.1-1.44. Latin. Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/virginia-certamen-questions/round-four-2/1.1 2 nd ANNUAL CAPITAL CERTAMEN – FEBRUARY 2002 Sponsored by the Maryland Senior Classical League LEVEL I ROUND IV 1. Which planet in our solar system is so named because its color is that of blood: red? MARS Bonus 1. Which planet's speed around the sun gave it its name? MERCURY Bonus 2. Which planet's greenish blue color of the sea gave it its name? NEPTUNE 2. In the sentence, "He was saved by food," translate "food." CIBO Bonus 1. What use of the ablative is cibo? MEANS Bonus 2. In the sentence, "For he's a jolly, good fellow," translate "he's." EST 3. Who rises when her twin brother has stabled his horses which pull the chariot of the sun? DIANA/ARTEMIS Bonus 1. What lover, a constellation in the winter sky, is Diana said to have killed? ORION Bonus 2. Quis erat mater Dianae? LATONA (LETO) 4. In qua patria est urbs Roma? (IN) ITALIA/ ITALY Bonus 1. Say in Latin "into Italy." IN ITALIAM Bonus 2. Say in Latin "around the city." CIRCUM URBEM 5. Say "thank you" in Latin. GRATIAS (+ AGO) Bonus 1. Say "hello" to me in Latin. SALVE Bonus 2. What does SALVE mean literally? BE/ STAY WELL/HEALTHY 6. Through what sea did a Roman sail to reach Egypt? MEDITERRANEAN Bonus 1. Romans sailing to Egypt probably landed in what capital city of the Ptolemies? ALEXANDRIA Bonus 2. The Romans called the Mediterranean Mare Nostrum . Give a derivative from mare . MARITIME, etc 7. What was the Graeco-Latin word for the slave who accompanied a Roman boy to school? PAEDAGOGUS/ PEDAGOGUE Bonus 1. What were a Roman schoolboy's tabellae ? WAX TABLETS Bonus 2. What is the Latin word for "book"? LIBER 8. Shakespeare's Hamlet begins his soliloquy "To be or not to be." How would one say "to be" in Latin? ESSE Bonus 1. What derivative of that verb means "being" or "existence"? ESSENCE Bonus 2. What is the Latin word for "tomorrow," the root of our English word "procrastinate"? CRAS 9. What is the Latin motto of the United States? E PLURIBUS UNUM Bonus 1. What does that mean? ONE OUT OF MANY Bonus 2. What US motto might appear in English as Deo Credimus ? IN GOD WE TRUST --- Virginia Certamen Questions, Round Four. Text: The Latin Library (thelatinlibrary.com), used with permission. Changes: HTML markup removed and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea. License: Used with permission (https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/about.html). Source: https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/certamen/capital2002.1.4.html.