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Virginia Certamen Questions, Round One 1.1-14
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Bonus: What is the verb and meaning from which Orient derives? Orior (oriri, ortus sum) to rise.
2. What great general of Rome, a relative of Julius Caesar, won important victories over dangerous Germanic tribes invading Italy from the north in 102 and 101 B. C. Marius.
Bonus: Name one of the tribes defeated by Marius in these campaigns. Cimbri, Tuetones.
3. What number is missing from the following seqence: tres, sex, duodecim ? Novem.
Bonus: What number is missing from this sequence? centum, ducenti, quadringenti, quingenti ? Trecenti.
4. Who forced Albinus and his Roman army to walk under the yoke in 110 B. C., but lived to regret it when Marius captured him four years later? Jugurtha.
Bonus: Another enemy of Rome forced an Roman army under the yoke two centuries earlier after surrounding the army in a valley in the hills north of Capua. Who were these enemies? Samnites.
5. Medea gave a magic potion to Jason to protect him from harm. At what deity's shrine did they meet? Hecate.
Bonus: What Argonaut, a nephew o Medea, led Jason there? Argus.
6. What people of Italy, other than the Romans, wore the toga? The Etruscans.
Bonus: Name the famous Etruscan city, a day's journey west of Rome, where the sacred objects of Rome were taken during the Gallic siege. Caere.
7. What use of the ablative is seen in the following sentence: Puto hanc puellam pulchriorem esse illa . Ablative of comparison.
Bonus: That sentence said "I think this girl is prettier than that one". If we changed puellam to templum ,what would happen to pulchriorem ? It would change to pulchrius .
8. Jealous gods were always dangerous. What other god paid the price of Boreas' jealousy by accidentally killing a friend during a game of discus throwing? Apollo.