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Virginia Certamen Questions, Round Two 1.1-18
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2. What number is missing from this sequence? unus, quattuor, octo, sedecim. Duodecim.
Bonus: What number is missing from this sequence? viginti, quadraginta, quinquaginta, sexaginta . Triginta.
3. Complete this analogy. Primus :unus ::decem : : Decimus.
Bonus: Compete this analogy. canis :canine :::feline. Feles.
4. Rome was never able to incorporate Germany into the Empire, leaving these two great rivers as Rome's northern frontier. Rhine and Danube.
Bonus: Rome was able to conquer the Dacians for a century or so, just north of the Danbus. What is the modern name for Dacia? Romania.
5. Which one of the following does not belong and why: maior, minus, optimus, longior ? Optimus -it's a superlative.
Bonus: Which one of the following does not belong and why: aetas, voluptas, feminas, aestas . Feminas -it's not a third declension noun.
6. In this sentence "The women whom I saw left the town weeping", translate the relative pronoun. Quas.
Bonus: Translate the present participle in that sentence (repeat). Lacrimantes, flentes.
7. Love those participles! In the sentence "The boy carrying the water is my sister," translate "carrying". Portans.
Bonus: How 'bout the participle in this sentence: "I saw the men leading the cattle into the field". Ducentes.
8. Which Olympian god was called "twice born" because he was snatched from his mother's womb and sewn into his father's thigh? He later became the god of wine. Dionysus /Bacchus /Liber.
Bonus: Who was the mother of Dionysus? Semele /Thyrone.
9. In the sentence "Julia is more beautiful than Aemilia" translate "more beautiful." Pulchrior.
Bonus: Change pulchrior in that sentence to the superlative. Pulcherrima.
10. Hercules labors sometimes took him far afield. His ninth labor took him to far to the north, where he encountered what band of women warriors. Amazons.