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Classical Literacy
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. The highest political office in the Roman Republic; 2 were elected every year
Hydra
Palatine Hill
tempus fugit
consul
2. God of wine and revelry; son of Zeus and Semele
Iliad
sub rosa
Dionysus/Bacchus
Colosseum
3. 'from the office &' 'by right of office' - used to refer to someone Who is a member of a group (a board & committee & council & etc.) because they hold another office/position
Ph.D./Philosophiae Doctor
Parthenon
Hades/Pluto
ex officio
4. 'I'
ego
Demeter/Ceres
fresco
P.M./post meridiem
5. 'And you & Brutus?' famous last words of Julius Caesar as the Senate members assassinated him; Brutus was supposed to be a friend of his & but had a hand in the killing
Styx
et tu & Brute?
Daedalus
X (Roman numeral)
6. 'An unwelcome person' - used in diplomacy to indicate a person Who is barred from entering a certain country
sub poena
persona non grata
magnum opus
Pandora
7. 'After death'
via
post mortem
Mt. Parnassus
Jove
8. Doctor of medicine
sic semper tyrannis
M.D./Medicinae Doctor
Pan
Medea
9. Writing after the body of a letter
P.S./post scriptum
p.o./ per os
Persephone/Proserpina
Achilles' heel
10. 'A slip of the tongue'
Demeter/Ceres
lapsus linguae
per diem
veto
11. Greek god of nature; had the torso and head of a man & but the legs and horns of a goat
Apollo/Apollo
Pan
mosaic
Parthenon
12. A series of three wars between Rome and Carthage & a Phoenician city in Northern Africa & for control of the Mediterranean (264-146 BC)
Cronus/Saturn
Uranus
Punic Wars
Odysseus/Ulysses
13. King of Ithaca who came up with the idea of using the Trojan horse to defeat the city of Troy; hero of the Odyssey
Theseus
paterfamilias
Odysseus/Ulysses
in loco parentis
14. Site of the Apollo's oracle at Delphi; home of the Muses
ex libris
Nike/Victoria
carpe diem
Mt. Parnassus
15. The highest political office in the Roman Republic; 2 were elected every year
Hermes/Mercury
Sparta
verbatim
consul
16. First emperor of the Roman Empire; adopted son of Julius Caesar; member of the 2nd Triumvirate; also known as Octavian
the Odyssey
Augustus
labor vincit omnia
Eros/Cupid
17. God of the sun & light & reason & and the lyre
Apollo/Apollo
the Odyssey
sub rosa
et al./ et alii
18. Goddess of childbirth; married to Zeus; queen of the gods
etc./et cetera
M.D./Medicinae Doctor
I (Roman numeral)
Hera/Juno
19. Good-humored & jolly (ancient astrologers thought that the planet Jupiter fostered cheerfulness)
jovial
Hannibal
semper paratus
Mt. Olympus
20. 1
Jason
etc./et cetera
satyr
I (Roman numeral)
21. 'firm ground/solid earth'
plebeian
Demeter/Ceres
terra firma
C (Roman numeral)
22. First emperor of the Roman Empire; adopted son of Julius Caesar; member of the 2nd Triumvirate; also known as Octavian
Augustus
Persephone/Proserpina
polytheism
ego
23. 'I came & I saw & I conquered &' famous words of Julius Caesar
veni & vidi & vici
mellifluous
i.e./id est
X (Roman numeral)
24. 'The end'
Palatine Hill
finis
labor vincit omnia
Pompeii
25. Homer's epic poem about Odysseus & kind of Ithaca & trying to find his way home from the Trojan War
Perseus & Medusa
the Odyssey
Tartarus
Pantheon
26. '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
muses
Pompeii
Theseus
27. 'All-knowing'
ad nauseam
omniscient
Hannibal
Pandora
28. The wife of Odysseus; a model of faithfulness to one's husband
Jason
Penelope
veni & vidi & vici
Orpheus & Eurydice
29. 'for the time being' - temporary
pro tempore
Sparta
I (Roman numeral)
Caesar
30. 'Higher!' -- the state motto of New York
Tantalus
Helen
Excelsior!
pax vobiscum
31. A town on the western coast of Italy destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuius in AD 79
tribune
Golden Fleece
D (Roman numeral)
Pompeii
32. The city in Northern Africa that the Romans fought and destroyed during the Punic Wars (264-146 BC.)
sub rosa
Carthage
Pax Romana
Poseidon/Neptune
33. 10
fresco
X (Roman numeral)
Hercules/Heracles
finis
34. 'To err is human' - in other words & it's normal to mess up
Homer
Apollo/Apollo
errare humanum est
Paris
35. 'This for that &' a fair trade
satyr
quid pro quo
Orpheus & Eurydice
Punic Wars
36. 'beware of the dog'
V (Roman numeral)
Trojan Horse
Hydra
cave canem
37. 'in memory of'
Athens/Acropolis
Iliad
Uranus
in memoriam
38. Goddess of the hunt
Artemis/Diana
Sparta
the Fates
Styx
39. 'That is' used for further explanation: 'in other words...'
i.e./id est
et tu & Brute?
Helen
Poseidon/Neptune
40. Goddess of love
M.D./Medicinae Doctor
Aphrodite/Venus
Paris
Hannibal
41. The ninth letter of the Greek alphabet (i); commonly used in the phrase 'not one iota &' meaning 'not one bit'
Dionysus/Bacchus
iota
L (Roman numeral)
Priam
42. 'A slip of the tongue'
et al./ et alii
lapsus linguae
omniscient
sic transit gloria mundi
43. 'by mouth' - used on prescription medicines that have to be taken orally
p.o./ per os
Mt. Vesuvius
laurels
paterfamilias
44. 10
the Odyssey
magnanimous
tribune
X (Roman numeral)
45. 'from the library of' used as an inscription on a bookplate to show the name of the book's owner: ex libris Mark Twain.
Gorgons
D (Roman numeral)
ex libris
rara avis
46. Maze under the palace of Palace of Minos at Crete & where the Minotaur (half man & half bull) was thought to have been imprisoned
Mt. Parnassus
P.S./post scriptum
Hestia/Vesta
labyrinth
47. 'I refuse &' used by the president of the US to stop any bill he sees unfit from passing
errare humanum est
jovial
veto
Odysseus/Ulysses
48. God of the Underworld/Tartarus
ambrosia and nectar
veto
Helen
Hades/Pluto
49. 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
the Fates
paterfamilias
semper paratus
status quo
50. Blind poet Who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey
Aegean Sea
Elysian Fields/Elysium
Homer
in loco parentis