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Virginia Certamen Questions, Round Four 1.1-26
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3rd ANNUAL CAPITAL CERTAMEN -NOVEMBER 2002
Sponsored by the Maryland Senior Classical League
LEVEL I ROUND IV
Please listen to the following passage. I will read it three times. The first four questions will concern this passage. You must answer the questions in English. Here is the passage:
Vacca magna et porca magna sunt amicae bonae. Simul currunt, ambulant, et ludunt. Sed, uno die, vacca magna est irata quod porca magna cenam eius edidit. Nunc, vacca magna et porca magna non sunt amicae bonae. Sunt hostes �ad infinitum. (READ THREE TIMES)
1. Who are the two characters in this story? (BIG) COW AND (BIG) PIG
Bonus A: What is one English derivative from magna? MAGNIFICENT, MAGNANIMOUS, etc
Bonus B: What is one English derivative from vacca? VACCINE
2. Name one thing that the cow and the pig did together in times of happiness? RAN, WALKED, or PLAYED
Bonus A: Change ambulant to the singular. AMBULAT
Bonus B: Change currunt to the 1st person plural. CURRIMUS
3. Why is the cow angry with the pig? BECAUSE THE PIG ATE HIS (THE COW'S) DINNER
Bonus A: What part of speech is irata? AN ADJECTIVE
Bonus B: Change irata to the masculine accusative plural. IRATOS
4. For how long will the cow and the pig be enemies? FOREVER
Bonus A: What case is infinitum? ACCUSATIVE
Bonus B: How would the Romans have written the phrase "ad infinitum" were it to mean "from infinity" instead of "towards infinity"? AB INFINITO
5. The answers to each of the following toss-up questions will begin with a successive letter of the Roman alphabet. For example, this answer to this toss-up will begin with A, the next with B, the next with C, and so on. Here we go. Julius Caesar said this upon crossing the Rubicon River. ALEA IACTA EST.