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Classical Literacy
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 1
I (Roman numeral)
Ge/Gaea
Achilles' heel
Aegean Sea
2. God of war
Hades/Pluto
errare humanum est
Ares/Mars
P.M./post meridiem
3. King of Troy during the Trojan War; father of Hector and Paris; begged Achilles to give his son Hector's body back to be properly buried (Achilles had been dragging it around the city)
Golden Fleece
et tu & Brute?
Priam
sine qua non
4. The wife of Odysseus; a model of faithfulness to one's husband
Penelope
Sparta
Odysseus/Ulysses
Apollo/Apollo
5. Kingdom in Asia Minor which fought against Greece in Homer's Iliad
sic transit gloria mundi
summa cum laude
verbatim
Troy
6. In early mythology & the resting place of heroes; the later mythology & where good people went in the afterlife
Minotaur
Ithaca
Elysian Fields/Elysium
polytheism
7. 'I refuse &' used by the president of the US to stop any bill he sees unfit from passing
M.D./Medicinae Doctor
Delphic Oracle
veto
et tu & Brute?
8. A serpent-like monster with many heads and poisonous breath; when one head got cut off & it grew two more; killed by Hercules as his second labor
Troy
quid pro quo
Minotaur
Hydra
9. 'per year'
summa cum laude
plebeian
per annum
Pandora
10. The daughter of king Minos of Crete & who helped Theseus escape from the labyrinth after he killed the minotaur
D (Roman numeral)
I (Roman numeral)
Pan
Ariadne
11. 'With highest honors' graduating from college in the highest grade scale
Hestia/Vesta
summa cum laude
M.D./Medicinae Doctor
L (Roman numeral)
12. 'After death'
SPQR
carpe diem
post mortem
Priam
13. 'from the library of' used as an inscription on a bookplate to show the name of the book's owner: ex libris Mark Twain.
ex libris
Dionysus/Bacchus
puerile
labor vincit omnia
14. 'seize the day'
apple of discord
fresco
Cerberus
carpe diem
15. One of the seven hills of Rome & south of the forum; the site of the imperial palace
consul
Persephone/Proserpina
Palatine Hill
Cerberus
16. The highest political office in the Roman Republic; 2 were elected every year
homo sapiens- 'wise man'
consul
Helen
per annum
17. God of love and desire; son of Aphrodite
Paris
Persephone/Proserpina
Icarus & Daedalus
Eros/Cupid
18. A town on the western coast of Italy destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuius in AD 79
Pompeii
Poseidon/Neptune
M.D./Medicinae Doctor
vs./versus
19. God of the Underworld/Tartarus
pontifex maximus
Hades/Pluto
homo sapiens- 'wise man'
sub poena
20. Site of the Apollo's oracle at Delphi; home of the Muses
etc./et cetera
Spartacus
Mt. Parnassus
lapsus linguae
21. Greek island in the Ionian Sea; the home of Odysseus
homo sapiens- 'wise man'
et tu & Brute?
Priam
Ithaca
22. 'To err is human' - in other words & it's normal to mess up
Hermes/Mercury
I (Roman numeral)
errare humanum est
P.S./post scriptum
23. A picture made from small bits of glass or pottery
mosaic
vice versa
A.M./ante meridiem
Cyclops
24. The 15th of March & the day in 44 BC Julius Caesar was assassinated
Styx
X (Roman numeral)
Ides of March
in memoriam
25. Goddess of the hearth
Hestia/Vesta
Ge/Gaea
Mt. Parnassus
Troy
26. Greek island in the Ionian Sea; the home of Odysseus
Troy
Ithaca
Mt. Vesuvius
Achilles' heel
27. Prince of Troy Who was killed by Achilles in the Iliad; Achilles tied Hector's dead body to the back of his chariot and dragged it around the city walls three times
Hector
per capita
agora/forum
Mt. Parnassus
28. Queen of Sparta Who was promised to Paris by Aphrodite for choosing her (Aphrodite) as the fairest goddess; Helen was already married to Menelaus and her kidnapping began the Trojan War
Charon
fresco
Delphic Oracle
Helen
29. 'An unwelcome person' - used in diplomacy to indicate a person Who is barred from entering a certain country
Saturnalia
Nike/Victoria
Sisyphus
persona non grata
30. Challenged Athena to a weaving contest and was turned into a spider for her excessive pride
Arachne
Troy
Demeter/Ceres
tempus fugit
31. Sailed with the Argonauts to take the Golden Fleece
Hephaestus/Vulcan
Jason
Iliad
Pegasus
32. 'The other way around'
vice versa
e pluribus unum
Penelope
Ares/Mars
33. The three goddesses who determine a person's life: when he will be born & how long he will live & and when he will die; one sister spins the thread of life & the second measures out a certain length & and the third cuts it at the end of the person's
Prometheus
the Fates
plebeian
Gorgons
34. The golden wool of a ram sought by Jason and the Argonauts
Iliad
homo sapiens- 'wise man'
Golden Fleece
Poseidon/Neptune
35. A modern day race of 26.2 miles; from Marathon in Greece & the scene of a victory over the Persians in 490 BC; the modern race is based on the tradition that a messenger ran from Marathon to Athens (26 miles) with the news.
marathon
post mortem
magnanimous
Priam
36. 'The things that must be done' - a to-do list
satyr
Pandora
agenda
Theseus
37. 'in the year of the Lord &' designating the time period after Christ's birth
in toto
A.D./anno Domini
Saturnalia
et al./ et alii
38. The wife of Odysseus; a model of faithfulness to one's husband
etc./et cetera
Chaos
mellifluous
Penelope
39. Titan best known for stealing fire from the gods and giving it to humans; He was punished by being chained to a rock and having his liver eaten by a bird everyday
rostra
Prometheus
Theseus
D (Roman numeral)
40. A material prepared in ancient Egypt from the pithy stem of a water plant & used in sheets throughout the ancient Mediterranean world for writing or painting on
Artemis/Diana
papyrus
fresco
Perseus & Medusa
41. Roman officials who were charged with protecting the people (the plebeians) from oppression; they were sacrosanct & meaning no one could harm them
L (Roman numeral)
X (Roman numeral)
tribune
consul
42. The city in Northern Africa that the Romans fought and destroyed during the Punic Wars (264-146 BC.)
iota
Pompeii
Uranus
Carthage
43. Perseus slayed Medusa the Gorgon
Odysseus/Ulysses
the furies
Perseus & Medusa
Hermes/Mercury
44. The technical biological term for the human species
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45. City-state in ancient Greece known for its powerful army; fought against Athens in the Peloponnesian Wars
Persephone/Proserpina
Sparta
jovial
sedentary
46. The river surrounding the Underworld
fasces
sedentary
Styx
Spartacus
47. The Underworld; in early mythology & everyone went to Tartarus after they died; in later mythology & only bad people went to Tartarus after they died
iota
puerile
Tartarus
laurels
48. 10
aqueduct
Golden Fleece
Golden Fleece
X (Roman numeral)
49. 'before midday &' in the morning & before noon
Pompeii
laurels
A.M./ante meridiem
labyrinth
50. 100
plebeian
Demeter/Ceres
Hermes/Mercury
C (Roman numeral)