TU # 1: Define the Latin Adjective 'Sordidus'. DIRTY, UNCLEAN, FOUL, FILTHY, POOR, LOW

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TU # 1: Define the Latin adjective 'sordidus'. DIRTY, UNCLEAN, FOUL, FILTHY, POOR, LOW B1: Define the Latin adjective 'sonorus'. NOISY, LOUD, RESOUNDING B2: Define the Latin adjective 'sollicitus'. WORRIED, ANXIOUS, UNEASY

TU # 2 . In the sentence Marcus was standing on the bridge with his father translate with his father

Answer: CUM PATRE B1. What use of the ablative is cum patre in that sentence? Answer: ACCOMPANIMENT B2. Now translate this sentence into Latin

The farmer had carryied the water with his hands

Answer: AGRICOLA MANIBUS AQUAM PORTAVERAT.

TU # 3: What would a Roman boy expect to learn from a rhetor? PUBLIC SPEAKING/ORATORY/SPEECH-WRITING B1: For what purpose in a school was an abacus used? COUNTING/MATHEMATICS B2: What was the term for an older man who generally accompanied a boy to school, making sure he paid attention and made it safely home again? PAEDAGOGUS

TU # 4: What Roman goddess was known to the Greeks as Trivia or Phoebe but was best known as the goddess of the hunt? DIANA B1: On what island was she born? DELOS / ORTYGIA B2: Who was her mother? LETO

TU # 5: Listen carefully to the following Latin story, which I will read twice. Then answer in English the question that follows: "Vesuvius mōns, postquam diū quiēverat, subitō īgnem et lapidēs et pulverem et cinerem ēmīsit. Regiō tōta tremuit, et fūmus tōtum montem occulit. Trēs urbēs dēlētae sunt, sed nunc illae urbēs vidērī ā visitātōribus multīs possunt." (repeat) Question: According to the story, name three things that came from the mountain during the eruption. FIRE, STONES, DUST, ASH, SMOKE B1: According to the story, when did the volcano erupt? AFTER IT HAD BEEN QUIET FOR A LONG TIME B2: What does the story say about the current status of the three cities that were destroyed? MANY VISITORS CAN NOW VISIT THEM

TU # 6: What man, the husband of Julius Caesar's aunt, was a leader of the Populares and was elected consul seven times? GAIUS MARIUS B1: Against what king of Numidia did Marius conclude a war in 105 BC? JUGURTHA B2: Where in 102 BC did Marius defeat the Teutones? AQUAE SEXTIAE

TU # 7: Name the mother of Heracles. ALCMENE/ALCMENA B1: Name the mother of Perseus. DANAË B2: Name the mother of Theseus. AETHRA

TU # 8: In the sentence: Marcus will give money to the man. Translate to the man 2014 TSJCL Novice Finals, Page 1 Answer: VIRO B1. Translate the whole sentence Answer: MARCUS PECUNIAM VIRO DABIT

B2. Translate: The women will work in the temple. Answer: FEMINAE IN TEMPLO LABORABUNT.

TU # 9: On which hill of ancient Rome was the temple to Diana? AVENTINE B1: Give the name of the hill where the temple to Juno Moneta was located? CAPITOLINE B2: Which hill shared its name with a festival to the deified Romulus? QUIRINAL

TU # 10: What god arrived in Rome in the form of a snake following a plague in the year 293 BC? AESCULAPIUS/ASCLEPIUS B1: Where in Rome did the snake go when it arrived? TIBER ISLAND B2: To what Greek city, site of a famous outdoor theater, had the Romans gone to obtain the snake and bring it back to Rome? EPIDAUROS

TU # 11: Name this U.S. state. Its name is derived through Spanish from the Latin word for “painted,” and although it does not share a border with Texas, it lies only 35 miles away. COLORADO B1: The name of what U.S. state ultimately comes through Spanish from the Latin word meaning 'snow- covered'? NEVADA B2: The name of what U.S. state ultimately comes through French from the Latin words meaning 'green mountain'? VERMONT

TU # 12: What Roman statesman was consul in the year that the future emperor Augustus was born? CICERO / ANTONIUS HYBRIDA B1: What title was Cicero given for thwarting the plot of Catiline? PATER PATRIAE B2: In what year was Cicero's consulship and Catiline's plot? 63 BC

TU # 13: How many of Odysseus's men were drowned by Charybdis? NONE B1: What was Charybdis? WHIRLPOOL B2: How many of Odysseus's men were eaten by Scylla? SIX

TU # 14: Give the definition of the Latin noun from which we derive the English word 'temperature'. TIME B1: What English derivative of the Latin noun tempus is a fit of anger? TEMPER B2: What derivative of tempus refers to the time at which the action of a verb in a sentence takes place? TENSE

TU # 15: In the sentence The consuls whom the farmers saw had many children Translate whom

Answer: QUOS B1. Change quos to the singular Answer: QUEM

B2. In the sentence The girl who was bringing water had food too Translate who Answer: QUAE

TU # 16: Translate: "Cōnservā pecūniam. Vīve melius," the slogan of a major retail chain. SAVE MONEY. LIVE BETTER B1: Translate this, the slogan of a popular gaming platform: "Vīve in tuō mundō. Lude in nostrō." LIVE 2014 TSJCL Novice Finals, Page 2 IN YOUR WORLD. PLAY IN OURS B2: Translate this, the slogan of a theme park: "Felicissimus Locus in Terrā". THE HAPPIEST PLACE ON EARTH

TU # 17: Written in dactylic hexameter, this collection of verses became one of Rome's most treasured possessions. They were consulted mainly in order to find out how to avoid future calamities through religious practices, rather than to know future events. What were these books called? SIBYLLINE BOOKS B1: Who bought them for the Romans from the Sibyl of Cumae? TARQUINIUS SUPERBUS B2: During the first century BC, how many men were charged with the care and protection of these books? TEN / FIFTEEN

TU # 18: Who in mythology learned multiple times during his life that no matter how clever they are, one's own inventions can have negative and even deadly consequences, such as the wings he made for himself and his son? DAEDALUS B1: Why was Daedalus's clever invention of the labyrinth later a problem for him? HE WAS IMPRISONED IN IT / HE WAS IMPRISONED FOR HELPING THESEUS GET OUT OF IT B2: Where did Daedalus get the raw materials to build the wings for himself and his son? BY CATCHING BIRD FEATHERS FROM A WINDOW

TU # 19: Which of the following Latin nouns correctly completes the proverb: "_____ sana in corpore sano.": mēnsa, mēnsis, mēnsūra, mēns? MĒNS B1: Define mēnsa. TABLE B2: Define mēnsis. MONTH

TU # 20: In 1987, two population researchers coined the term 'millennials' to describe the generation of people born in the early 1980s. From what two Latin words with what meanings does the word 'millennial' derive? MILLE-THOUSAND and ANNUS-YEAR B1: What creature's name suggests that it has 1000 feet? MILLIPEDE B2: What English derivative of mille comes from the fact that it was the equivalent of 1000 Roman paces? MILE

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