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Certamen L1 - 2
Another set of level 1 certamen questions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| To start us off, tell me what style of column has a capital that looks like two scrolls. | IONIC |
| Of Doric, Ionic, or Corinthian, which style of column is the most elaborate? | CORINTHIAN |
| What are the indentations on many columns called? | FLUTING |
| Say in Latin, “in the forest.” | IN SILVA |
| Now say “through the water.” | PER AQUAM |
| Now try “for the boy.” | PRO PUERO |
| How many Romance languages are there? | FIVE |
| Name the Romance Languages. | SPANISH, FRENCH, PORTUGUESE, ITALIAN,ROMANIAN |
| What is the name of the groups into which we divide Latin nouns? | DECLENSIONS |
| What declension is the noun horologium? | SECOND |
| What declension is the noun palla? | FIRST |
| If Emeril Lagasse were an ancient Roman, in what room of the Roman house would he cook? | CULINA |
| What is the Latin name for the country directly to the east of Portugal? | HISPANIA |
| In the sentence “Emeril is Portuguese,” translate the verb into Latin. | EST |
| From what Latin verb and its English meaning do we derive the word perambulator? | AMBULARE MEANING TO WALK |
| Is “ambulare” an imperative, infinitive, or interjection? | INFINITIVE |
| To what conjugation does “ambulare” belong? | FIRST |
| The name of the television brand Magnavox comes from two Latin words, magna and vox. What is the meaning of the word magna? | BIG, GREAT |
| What gender must the word vox be? | FEMININE |
| How did you know this? | BECAUSE MAGNA IS FEMININE AND SO THE NOUN VOX MUST BE FEMININE |
| How many singers are in a sextet? | SIX |
| How many in an octet? | EIGHT |
| From what Latin word and its meaning does the word dodecahedron come? | DUODECIM MEANING TWELVE |
| Give the Latin for the province from which the Romans imported most of their tutors. | GRAECIA |
| What is the Latin word for “teacher”? | MAGISTER/TRA |
| What is the Latin word for “slave”? | SERVUS |
| Which road, known as the Regina Viarum, ran the entire width of Italy? | VIA APPIA /APPIAN WAY |
| What case is “viarum”? | GENITIVE |
| What disability afflicted Appius Claudius Caecus, the constructor of theAppian Way? | BLINDNESS |
| From what Latin verb and its English meaning do we derive the word “viaduct”? | DUCERE MEANING TO LEAD |
| Say in Latin, “I lead.” | DUCO |
| Say in Latin, “he leads.” | DUCIT |
| What is the meaning of the Latin phrase “cogito ergo sum”? | I THINK THEREFORE I AM |
| What does the Latin word “frater” mean? | BROTHER |
| Try “soror.” | SISTER |
| Now try “avus.” | GRANDFATHER |
| What is the Latin word for “and”? | ET |
| Translate into English, “Vacca et porca et equus in casa currunt.” | THE COW AND THE PIG AND THE HORSE RUN IN THE HOUSE. |
| What is another Latin word for house, besides casa? | DOMUS |
| I am god of the sun and my symbol is the lyre. | APOLLO |
| Who is the sister of Apollo? | DIANA |
| What is Diana’s Greek name? | ARTEMIS |
| Which Roman Emperor was said to have fiddled while the city of Rome burned in 64 AD? | NERO |
| How would you put 64 into Roman numerals? | LXIV |
| How would you put 100 into Roman numerals? | C |
| Complete the following analogy: nose is to nasus as hand is to _____. | MANUS |
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