1994 LJCL Certamen Questions
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- Name the goddess of love and beauty.
- Venus/Aphrodite
- Complete this analogy: pater:patrem as puer:_______
- puerum
- Who was the Olympian husband of Venus?
- Vulcan/Hephaestus
- puerum: pueris as arborem:________
- Arboribus
- Give the complete founding date of Rome.
- April 21, 753 B.C.
- Give the complete date of Caesar's assassination.
- March 15, 44 B.C.
- What was the good luck charm worn by children called?
- bulla
- A boy gave up his bulla at the age of 16 when he became a man. Name the toga which he would then wear.
- toga virilis
- Name the last king of Rome.
- Tarquinius Superbus
- Name the king of Rome who established religious practices.
- Numa Pompilius
- Who killed Medusa?
- Perseus
- What would happen if one looked at Medusa?
- They would be turned into stone
- What did a Roman call his kitchen?
- culina
- What did a Roman call his study?
- Tablinum
- What two letters are the sign for the imperfect tense in Latin?
- -ba-
- Express in Latin: we were coming
- veniebamus
- Between what two hills was the Roman Forum located?
- Capitoline and Palatine
- Name any two hills in Rome besides the Capitoline and Palatine.
- Aventine, Caelian, Esquiline, Quirinal, Viminal
- Which deity had the owl as a symbol?
- Athena/Minerva
- Who challenged Athena to a spinning (weaving) contest?
- Arachne
- Translate into English the nouns of address in the following sentence: "Tacite, pueri et puellae!"
- boys and girls