Certamen Starter Pack #2

1. According to its Latin motto, what state only requires you to look around if you seek a pleasant peninsula?

2. According to Roman Tradition, what hero saved Rome from the Etruscans by defending the Pons Sublicius?

3. After she brought about her father's death by cutting her purple lock of hair, who was changed into a ciris bird?

4. During the Salutatio it was customary for clients to bring what small gift basket to their patrons?

5. From the blood of what Spartan youth did Apollo cause a flower to grow after accidentally killing him with a discus?

6. From what Latin noun with what meaning do we derive the English noun coin?

7. From what Latin noun with what meaning do we derive the English word "coward"?

8. Generally worn by freedmen, what conical hat was also placed upon slaves during auctions?

9. Give the Latin and English for the motto of Kentucky.

10. Give the Latin and English for the motto of London?

11. Give the Latin and English for the state motto of New Mexico.

12. Give the Latin and English for the state motto of New York.

13. Give the Latin and English for the state motto of South Carolina.

14. Give the Latin and English for the state of Idaho?

15. Give the Latin and English for the state of Kansas?

16. Give the Latin and English for the state of Wyoming.

17. Give the Latin motto and its meaning for the state of Arizona.

18. Give the Latin term for the person whose duties included placing a titulus and pilleus upon slaves to prepare them for auction?

19. In which part of a Roman house would you find an impluvium for collecting rainwater?

20. In which room of a Roman house was it customary to eat?

21. In which room of a Roman house was it customary to sleep?

22. Into what was Clytie transformed because of her jealous actions against her sister Leucothoe?

23. Into what were the tears of the Heliades transformed?

24. The former Latin motto of Wyoming was "cedant arma togae". Translate this into English.

25. The Latin phrase "crescite et multiplicamini" is the Latin motto of what U.S. state?

26. The recently adopted Latin motto of North Dakota is "serit ut alteri saeclo prosit". Translate this into English.

27. Translate into English the motto of Alabama, which is rendered in Latin as "audemus iura nostra defendere".

28. Translate into English the motto of Boston, which is rendered in Latin as "sicut patribus, sit deus nobis".

29. Translate into English the motto of the Olympics. "Citius, Altius, Fortius"

30. Translate into English the motto of the state of Colorado. "Nil sine numine"

31. Translate into English the motto of the US Coast Guard. "Semper Paratus"

32. Translate into English the motto of the US Marine Corps. "Semper Fidelis"

33. Translate into English the motto of Vermont, "stella quarta decima fulgeat".

34. Translate into English the state motto of Connecticut. "Qui transtulit sustinet."

35. Translate into English the state motto of Missouri. "Salus populi suprema lex est."

36. Translate into English the state motto of North Carolina. "Esse quam videri."

37. Translate into English the state motto of Oklahoma. "Labor omnia vincit."

38. Translate into English the state motto of Oregon. "Alis volat propiis."

39. What battle of 260 B.C was Rome's first major naval victory?

40. What battle of 321 B.C was a decisive victory for the Samnites?

41. What childhood amulet did Roman boys lay aside during their Liberalia when they assumed the toga virilis?

42. What city has as its Latin motto "urbs in horto" which means "a city in a garden"?

43. What consul of 249 B.C was responsible for the naval disaster at Drepana?

44. What consul was victorious at the battle of Mylae?

45. What couple, riding an oxcart, led the Encheleans into various wars until that tribe was routed and they were transformed into snakes?

46. What daughter of Peneius was changed into a Laurel tree as she fled from Apollo?

47. What device marked the hours of the night as well as day and could be used in the house with the use of water?

48. What European city has as its Latin motto "fluctuat nec mergitur" which means "it is tossed by the waves but does not sink"?

49. What group of Campanian Mercenaries seized the city of Messana in 289 B.C?

50. What happened to the Roman army at the Caudine Forks after they were defeated?

51. What is the Latin term for a slave who was in charge of managing a familia rustica?

52. What is the Latin term for the 9th day after birth when an infant was given his name?

53. What is the Latin term for the guardian spirit that entered the world with boys?

54. What is the only State in the union with a Greek motto?

55. What King of Epirus did the Tarentines appeal to for help in 280 B.C?

56. What Latin adverb with what meaning lies at the ultimate root of clandestine?

57. What Latin noun is at the root of cavalier?

58. What Latin noun with what meaning is at the ultimate root of chef?

59. What Latin noun with what meaning is at the ultimate root of proctor?

60. What Latin noun with what meaning is at the ultimate root of trident?

61. What Latin noun with what meaning lies at the root of kennel?

62. What Latin verb with what meaning lies at the root of "challenge"?

63. What Latin verb with what meaning lies at the root of "chisel", "concise", and "suicide"?

64. What Latin verb with what meaning lies at the root of chisel?

65. What Latin verb with what meaning lies at the root of chowder, scald, and cauldron?

66. What Latin verb with what meaning lies at the root of the English noun chauffeur?

67. What Latin verb with what meaning lies at the ultimate root of "nonchalant"?

68. What Ligurian musician was changed into a swan as he mourned for his friend Phaethon?

69. What man did the Senate chose to be dictator to save the Romans at Mt.Algidus?

70. What man, the only member of both decemviri councils, is infamous for his tyrannical actions?

71. What naval battle of 241 B.C proved to be the deciding battle of the First Punic War?

72. What piece of naval technology did the Romans use against the Carthaginians to turn a naval battle into a land battle?

73. What Plebeian consul, responsible for the Foedus Cassianum, was executed by a patrician consul n 485 B.C?

74. What Roman commander committed the devotio during the battle of Sentinum?

75. What Roman commander was the victorious admiral at the battle of Aegates Islands?

76. What Roman patrician, exiled through plebeian hostility, led a Volscian attack on Rome in 491 B.C?

77. What Sennonian chieftain reportedly said vae victis to the Romans when they complained of weighted scales?

78. What son of Cephissus & Leiriope fell in love with his own reflection and wasted away watching it?

79. What Spartan mercenary did the Carthaginians hire in 255 B.C to reform their military?

80. What state has as its Latin motto "civilitas successit barbarum ", which means "civilization succeeds barbarism"?

81. What state's legislature displayed their great facility with the text of Lucretius when they accepted "crescit eundo" as their state motto?

82. What two day battle did Pyrrhus fight against the Romans in 279 B.C, ultimately winning another Pyrrhic victory?

83. What two Latin nouns with what meanings lie at the root of dandelion?

84. What US state has as its motto "Dirigo" which means I direct?

85. What war ended with the consul Gaius Lutatius Catulus destroying a Carthaginian fleet near the Aegates Islands in 241 BC?

86. What woman from Colophon dared to challenge Athena to a weaving contest and as a result was transformed into a spider?

87. What word is shared by the mottoes of Missouri and Idaho?

88. Where did Pyrrhus defeat the Romans in 280 B.C?

89. Where did the Romans defeat Pyrrhus in 275 B.C?

90. Where in 295 B.C did the Romans defeat a coalition of Samnites, Etruscans, Sabines, and Umbrians?

91. Where in 390 B.C were the Romans routed by Gaullic invaders?

92. Where in 458 B.C was a Roman army trapped by the Aequi?

93. Where, in 225 BC, did the consuls Gaius Atilius Regulus and Lucius Aemilius Papus decimate a force of over 70,000 Insubrian Gauls?

94. Which Greek deity had the epithet "Argeiphontes", meaning "killer of Argus"?

95. Which Greek deity had the epithet "Ennosigaeus", meaning "Earth-shaker"?

96. Which Greek deity had the epithet "Promachos"?

97. Which Greek deity had the epithets "Anadyomene", and "Cytheria"?

98. Which Greek deity had the epithets "Delphinius", and "Smintheus"?

99. Which Greek Olympian does Homer call "Nephelegereta" meaning "the cloud gatherer"?

100. Which of the following if any does not belong because of derivation? Cutlet, accolade, accost, coast

101. Which of the following words if any does not share the same Latin root as the others? Chivalry, chef, cavalier, cavalry

102. Which pious couple offered to kill their pet goose to provide a meal for a pair of disguised gods?

103. Which state called upon an exchange between Cicero and his brother when accepting the phrase "dum spiro, spero" as its Latin motto?

104. Which two women persuaded Coriolanus to turn back from his assault on Rome?

105. Which US state has a future imperative in its Latin motto?

106. While grieving over the loss of his daughter who flung himself from a cliff and was transformed into a hawk?

107. Who blinded Polymnestor for killing her youngest son and was transformed into a fiery-eyed dog?

108. Who sacked Carthage in 146 BC?

109. Who sacked Corinth in 146 BC?

110. Who stuck his right hand in a fire to prove the resolve of the Romans to Lars Porsenna?

111. Who twice punished by Demeter in the underworld - first trapped under a heavy stone, and later transformed into an owl?

112. Who was the Samnite commander at the battle of Caudine Forks?

113. Whose rude laughter at the way Demeter greedily drank barley water resulted in his transformation into a lizard?