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Classical Literacy
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Maze under the palace of Palace of Minos at Crete & where the Minotaur (half man & half bull) was thought to have been imprisoned
Cronus/Saturn
labyrinth
Cerberus
Sicily
2. Temple devoted to Athena; located on the Acropolis of Athens
Parthenon
the Fates
persona non grata
Colosseum
3. City-state in ancient Greece known for its powerful army; fought against Athens in the Peloponnesian Wars
Uranus
rara avis
Sparta
Trojan Horse
4. The messenger god; god of thieves and travelers; son of Zeus; invented the lyre; escorted people to the Underworld when they died
Hermes/Mercury
C (Roman numeral)
Pompeii
Eros/Cupid
5. A series of three wars between Rome and Carthage & a Phoenician city in Northern Africa & for control of the Mediterranean (264-146 BC)
Paris
Hephaestus/Vulcan
Punic Wars
via
6. 'I came & I saw & I conquered &' famous words of Julius Caesar
pax vobiscum
veni & vidi & vici
Pan
tribune
7. Out of her curiosity & she opened a box containing all the bad things in the world; she put the lid on just in time & so that hope did not escape from the box & too
Uranus
the furies
lapsus linguae
Pandora
8. A member of one of the original aristocratic families of Rome; 'aristocratic'
magnanimous
patrician
lapsus linguae
sic transit gloria mundi
9. Reception hall (like the living room) in a Roman house
Sisyphus
status quo
rostra
atrium
10. The city in Northern Africa that the Romans fought and destroyed during the Punic Wars (264-146 BC.)
mentor
Elysian Fields/Elysium
Palatine Hill
Carthage
11. 'Thus passes the glory of the world.' i.e. 'Worldly things are fleeting.'
Helen
Penelope
e pluribus unum
sic transit gloria mundi
12. Reception hall (like the living room) in a Roman house
atrium
summa cum laude
plebeian
Excelsior!
13. God of the Underworld/Tartarus
Hades/Pluto
apple of discord
C (Roman numeral)
Elysian Fields/Elysium
14. 'The one who says farewell' -- the student with the highest grade point average & Who is chosen to give a speech at the end of graduation
valedictorian
Mt. Olympus
atrium
post mortem
15. 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
Circus Maximus
Hector
tempus fugit
carpe diem
16. Literally 'the greatest bridge' -- the chief priest of Roman religion (later & the emperor took on this role); now used to refer to the Pope & the head of the Catholic Church
pontifex maximus
Sparta
aqueduct
sic transit gloria mundi
17. Literally & the apple that Eris (goddess of strife) threw in front of Hera & Aphrodite & and Athena to cause a dispute over Who was the fairest; figuratively & anything which causes a dispute
apple of discord
Trojan Horse
M (Roman numeral)
e.g./exempli gratia
18. Refers to an action or condition necessary for something to happen
Poseidon/Neptune
sine qua non
Styx
jovial
19. The norms or values of a society
sub rosa
lapsus linguae
mores
paterfamilias
20. The golden wool of a ram sought by Jason and the Argonauts
persona non grata
Sparta
Golden Fleece
Penelope
21. 'The one who says farewell' -- the student with the highest grade point average & Who is chosen to give a speech at the end of graduation
Ithaca
Aphrodite/Venus
valedictorian
Homer
22. 'The end'
C (Roman numeral)
Theseus
via
finis
23. 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
X (Roman numeral)
Hydra
Persephone/Proserpina
omniscient
24. Female monsters who had snakes for hair and whose horrifying gaze could turn a man to stone if he looked at them (Medusa was one of the Gorgons)
Gorgons
Augustus
Carthage
in memoriam
25. 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.
Mt. Parnassus
marathon
cornucopia
Ge/Gaea
26. The highest political office in the Roman Republic; 2 were elected every year
Aegean Sea
magnum opus
Circus Maximus
consul
27. 'To err is human' - in other words & it's normal to mess up
Artemis/Diana
N.B./nota bene
Ph.D./Philosophiae Doctor
errare humanum est
28. 'To the point of sickness' - doing/saying something over and over until everyone is sick and tired of it
iota
ad nauseam
M.D./Medicinae Doctor
plebeian
29. Home of the Greek gods
plebeian
summa cum laude
Mt. Olympus
omniscient
30. After midday/noon
muses
ex officio
Ariadne
P.M./post meridiem
31. Twin brothers & raised by a wolf; Romulus killed Remus and founded Rome
verbatim
Romulus and Remus
Poseidon/Neptune
the furies
32. The garment which signified a Roman man's citizenship
toga
Icarus & Daedalus
Tartarus
papyrus
33. King punished in Tartarus by having to roll a stone up a hill continuously for eternity; when he reached the top & the stone rolled to the bottom again
Cerberus
tempus fugit
the Fates
Sisyphus
34. A teacher Who is like a parent; comes from the Mentor & Odysseus' old friend & whom he left in charge of his son Telemachus when he went off to the Trojan War
fasces
Dionysus/Bacchus
mentor
cornucopia
35. A hollow wooden horse built by the Greeks so that they could get into the walls of Troy. The Greeks pretended to pack up and leave from the war & but some hid in the horse which was later led into the walls of Troy by the Trojans (thinking it was a
Trojan Horse
tempus fugit
aqueduct
e.g./exempli gratia
36. 'from the library of' used as an inscription on a bookplate to show the name of the book's owner: ex libris Mark Twain.
Nike/Victoria
per annum
ex libris
in loco parentis
37. 'Word for word'
the furies
semper paratus
aqueduct
verbatim
38. 500
D (Roman numeral)
cave canem
Tantalus
per annum
39. Homer's epic poem about Odysseus & kind of Ithaca & trying to find his way home from the Trojan War
in toto
the Odyssey
I (Roman numeral)
sub rosa
40. God of the sea
Poseidon/Neptune
i.e./id est
Mt. Vesuvius
Hera/Juno
41. 1
I (Roman numeral)
mores
consul
A.M./ante meridiem
42. Large island off the southeast coast of Italy; home of Mt. Etna & a huge volcano; where the Cyclopes lived in the Odyssey
agenda
terra firma
Sicily
Sparta
43. Perseus slayed Medusa the Gorgon
Ares/Mars
Zeus/Jupiter
laurels
Perseus & Medusa
44. 'per day'
per diem
Icarus & Daedalus
Iliad
e pluribus unum
45. Half-man & half-goat creatures; companions of Pan and Dionysus
etc./et cetera
Hermes/Mercury
satyr
the furies
46. Goddess of the hunt
Hannibal
Artemis/Diana
sic transit gloria mundi
the furies
47. After midday/noon
sine qua non
P.M./post meridiem
the furies
Apollo/Apollo
48. 'my fault' ; tua culpa -'your fault'
homo sapiens- 'wise man'
Tartarus
mea culpa
Atlas
49. A large horse and chariot racing track in Rome
aqueduct
Circus Maximus
Athena/Minerva
magnum opus
50. A hollow wooden horse built by the Greeks so that they could get into the walls of Troy. The Greeks pretended to pack up and leave from the war & but some hid in the horse which was later led into the walls of Troy by the Trojans (thinking it was a
Sicily
Trojan Horse
etc./et cetera
lapsus linguae