Keartamen 3 (K3) - Finals



Moderator says: “I will read one test question for no points. This question is not reflective of the content of the round or tournament.”


0. What artist described a place “where the dogs of society howl” in a song written by his long-time collaborator Bernie Taupin — “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” — and released the songs “Bennie and the Jets” and “Tiny Dancer”?

(ELTON) JOHN

B1: Taupin also wrote the lyrics to what song that contains the lyric “Marconi plays the mamba, listen to the radio, don’t you remember?”

“WE BUILT THIS CITY”

B2: Elton John wrote the lyrics to what musical, which describes a boy beginning to learn ballet amid a miner’s strike in County Durham and in which Tom Holland starred in the West End?

BILLY ELLIOT (THE MUSICAL)


Moderator says: “Subsequent questions will count for points. Good luck and have fun!”


1. You will now be shown a series of seven images, progressing from hard to easy. You will have seven seconds to
examine each image before we move on to the next slide. The answer will be the modern-day country in which the
buildings or objects are located. Before the question, we will show you an example to familiarize you with the format.
1 — 2 — 3 — 4 — 5 — 6 — 7

FRANCE

B1: For the first bonus, you will be shown two images. Please identify the modern-country in which these buildings are located.

ITALY

B2: For the second bonus, you will be shown one image. Please identify the modern-day country in which this complex is located.

CROATIA


2. What part of the body, which a Latian nymph named Lara lost for acting against Jupiter, was shot through by Diana to cause Chione’s death and cut off by a Thracian king after he raped his sister-in-law?

TONGUE

B1: Chione had previously given birth to what two sons, each with a different divine father, in the same day?

AUTOLYCUS [TO HERMES] and PHILAMMON [TO APOLLO]

B2: Just as Procne fed her son to Tereus, what Arcadian woman was raped by her father, Clymenus, and fed him the son whom she consequently birthed?

HARPALYCE


3. What two-letter Latin particle fits the following three clues: it is used proclitically to begin a verb that is chiefly used in the imperative to mean “gimme!”; it appears in shortened form at the end of demonstratives meaning “to that place” or “here”; it is affixed to “ec-” to form an interjection that used to be translated “lo!”?

-CE

B1: The particle -ce serves as Latin’s deictic particle, meaning that words to which it is attached have meanings that depend on the context in which they are used. What deictic word, derived from this particle, means “as if”?

CEU

B2: What Latin particle can be added to interrogatives to form pronouns with a universal, generalizing force?

-(CUM)QUE


4. The death of what woman, who “passed away together with the Republic” according to a letter by the jurisconsult Servius Sulpicius Rufus, prompted the divorce of Publilia for insufficiently grieving and the composition of the Cōnsōlātiō by her father, Cicero?

TULLI(OL)A

B1: What collection of Cicero’s letters contains the letter from Servius Sulpicius Rufus on Tullia’s death?

(EPISTULAE) AD FAMILIĀRĒS

B2: A lengthy Cōnsōlātiō in 474 lines was addressed to what woman and long incorrectly attributed to Ovid?

LIVIA (DRUSILLA)


5. Note to players: A description is acceptable. Advocacy for what type of people caused Marcus Manlius Capitolinus to be condemned for tyranny, though they would ultimately be helped by the Lēx Genucia and freed from potential slavery by the Lēx Poetelia Papīria’s ban on the nexum that arose from aes aliēnum?

DEBTORS // DEBT-SLAVES // PEOPLE IN DEBT [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

B1: The Fifth Secession was supposedly sparked by the debt question. A law with what primary provision was passed to end the Fifth Secession? A description is fine.

PLEBISCITES BECAME (AUTOMATICALLY) BINDING ON THE WHOLE POPULATION (WITHOUT SENATE APPROVAL) [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

B2: Cancelling debts and enfranchising helots were portions of the modernization scheme enforced by what Greek king, who was defeated by a force jointly led by Rome and the Greek general Philopoemen?

NABIS (OF SPARTA)


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6. What Latin verb is the origin of a Hungarian or Polish light cavalry unit’s name — the “hussar” — as well as an Italian-derived noun that means “privateer” or a “swift pirate ship” — “corsair”?

CURRŌ / CURRERE

B1: What derivative of currō means “assistance and support in times of hardship and distress”?

SUCCOR

B2: From what Latin word, with what meaning, do we derive the noun “cuirass”?

CORIUM = {COAT / PELT / HAIR / SKIN}


7. What man, one of whose bones was guarded by Damarmenus’ descendants after the fisherman caught it in his net, erected a mound called “Taraxippus” to honor a Pisan charioteer who substituted wax lynchpins for bronze on his behalf?

PELOPS

B1: A story that Pelops’ shoulder-blade had to be brought to Troy appears in the Little Iliad, one of the poems in the “Epic Cycle,” which described the entire story of the Trojan War. What was the subject of the Epic Cycle poem Nostoi? A description is fine.

(GREEKS’) RETURNS FROM TROY [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

B2: What poem of the Epic Cycle recalls the events of the Trojan War that preceded the beginning of the Iliad and probably ended with the Greeks’ treacherous killing of Palamedes?

CYPRIA


8. After its ruler responded to being cuckolded by inducing the Senones to attack, what city sought help from Rome in 391 B.C. — a reversal from a century prior, when it lost at Aricia after a “lefty” helped dissuade an attack by a king named Lars?

CLUSIUM

B1: What Italian tyrant led the forces that defeated the Clusians at the Battle of Aricia ca. 504 B.C.?

ARISTODEMUS (OF CUMAE)

B2: According to Livy, a man of what name cuckolded Arruns of Clusium? He shares a name with an earlier man who inherited all his father’s money in place of Egerius, the unborn son of his brother Arruns, though both their names probably just mean “king” in Etruscan.

LUCUMO


9. Carefully read the following passage, in which Alexander the Great reacts to having the ladder broken behind him as he climbs up a wall. You have eighty seconds after the passage is pasted. Please answer the question that follows in Latin:

Clamantibus amicis ut ad ipsos desiliret, ille rem ausus est incredibilem: in urbem hostium praecipiti saltu semet inmisit, cum vix sperare posset dimicantem se moriturum esse; quippe, antequam adsurgeret, vivus capi poterat. Sed ita saluit ut se pedibus exciperet; et, ne circumiri posset, fortuna providerat. Vetusta arbor ramos velut de industria regem protegentes obiecerat. Huius spatioso stipiti corpus adplicuit, clipeo tela excipiens. Nam cum tot manus unum peterent, nemo tamen audebat propius accedere. Pugnabat pro rege desperatio, magnum ad honeste moriendum incitamentum. Sed iam ingentem vim telorum exceperat, iam galeam saxa perfregerant, iam gravata genua succiderant.

The question: Nē undique eum hostēs circumvenīrent, quae rēs praebuit Alexandrō spatiōsum stīpitem et suōs rāmōs?

(VETUSTA) ARBOR

B1: Now, answer in English. What could’ve resulted from Alexander’s bold action, making it hard for him to hope that he would die fighting?

HE COULD'VE BEEN CAPTURED ALIVE (BEFORE STANDING UP)

B2: As the passage continues, Alexander receives a nearly mortal wound, and is described as “moribundō similis adeōque resolūtus, ut nē ad vellendum quidem tēlum sufficeret dextra.” Keeping in mind that resolvō can mean “to enfeeble,” translate this phrase.1

SIMILAR TO A DYING MAN AND SO ENFEEBLED, THAT HIS RIGHT HAND WAS NOT EVEN {SUFFICIENT FOR TEARING // UP TO THE TASK OF TEARING // ABLE TO TEAR} OUT THE {WEAPON / SPEAR / JAVELIN}


10. After arguing against the Priscillianists and Origenists in his Commonitōrium, what author traveled to Bethlehem to meet Jerome on the advice of Augustine, who also gave him the idea for his Historiae Adversus Pāgānōs?

(PAULUS) OROSIUS

B1: What other late author, probably from a few generations before Orosius, wrote Dē Compendiōsā Doctrīnā?

NONIUS MARCELLUS

B2: Orosius attacked the poet Claudian as a pāgānus, using what Latin superlative adjective to describe his stubbornness?

PERVICĀCISSIMUS


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11. What meaning is shared by the adjective immundus, the adjective taeter, and the adjective illautus, which is an antonym of lautus, a participle also seen as lavātus?

DIRTY / UNCLEAN(ED) / UNWASHED / DISGRACEFUL / BASE / IMPURE / FILTHY / FOUL [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

B1: What is the meaning of the Latin adjective lutōsus, a synonym of lutulentus, when it is used in a literal manner?

MUDDY / MUD-STAINED / MIRY

B2: What transferred meaning is given to the Latin noun lustrum — a word literally meaning “swamp” — when it is used in the plural, as in the line “postquam altōs ventum in montēs atque invia lustra” from Aeneid 4?

{HAUNT(S) / DEN(S) / LAIR(S)} (OF WILD BEASTS)


12. Three decades after a proconsul named Cornelius Cossus had defended its then-ruler, what kingdom’s monarch was assassinated by his cousin Caligula, prompting a failed revolt that caused Claudius to divide it into two provinces, Caesariensis and Tingitana?

MAURETANIA

B1: What important general began his career by putting down the revolt in Mauretania on behalf of Claudius?

(GAIUS) SUETONIUS PAULINUS

B2: While suppressing the Mauretanian revolt, Suetonius Paulinus became the first Roman to traverse what specific geographical feature?

MT. ATLAS // (THE) ATLAS MOUNTAINS


13. Who leads a grandson of Priam who is also named Priam and three squadrons of riders in a display of horsemanship in Book 5 of the Aeneid, a poem where he also cries “why, we’re even eating our tables” to his father in Book 7?

ASCANIUS / IULUS

B1: In Aeneid 7, Allecto causes Ascanius to shoot what type of animal that belonged to Tyrrhus, the keeper of the king’s herds, sparking the war between the Trojans and Rutulians?

STAG / DEER

B2: Give the two-word Latin phrase for the horsemanship exercises described in Aeneid 5. Vergil’s narration serves as an aetiology for the institution, which was popular during the Caesarian and Augustan periods.

LŪSUS TROIAE // LŪDUS TROIAE


14. Note to players: A description is acceptable. What stylistic choice, mocked by Cato when the preface to Annālēs by Aulus Postumius Albinus apologized for any resulting imperfections, was continued by historians such as Fabius Pictor even after a Tarentine grammaticus created a vernacular literature with the Odusia?

WRITING IN GREEK (RATHER THAN WRITING IN LATIN) [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

B1: What Roman, who wrote lost bucolic poems in Greek, ran a literary circle that included Lygdamus and Sulpicia?

(MARCUS VALERIUS) MESSALLA (CORVINUS)

B2: What other author of a history in Greek translated for Critolaüs, Diogenes, and Carneades when they came to Rome in 155 B.C.?

(GAIUS) ACILIUS


15. Say in the best classical Latin using the verb obstō: “The soldiers said that Caesar did not prevent them from setting sail.”

MĪLITĒS DĪXĒRUNT CAESAREM NŌN OBSTITISSE QUĪN NĀVĒS SOLVERENT [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

B1: Now say in the best classical Latin: He would have sold these things, had there been some delay in sending them that money.

HAEC VĒNDIDISSET, SĪ {QUID MORAE // QUA MORA} FUISSET QUŌMINUS {AD EŌS // EĪS} {ILLAM PECŪNIAM MITTERE(N)T // ILLA PECŪNIA MITTERĒTUR} [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

B2: Now translate into English this sentence, adapted from Cicero’s Epistulae ad Familiārēs: “Nēmō est enim quīn sciat, quōminus contiō fieret, per adversāriōs tuōs esse factum.”

THERE IS NO ONE THAT DOES NOT KNOW THAT IT HAPPENED THROUGH YOUR ADVERSARIES THAT NO {MEETING / GATHERING / ASSEMBLY} OCCURRED [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]


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16. What city, which Pityreus willingly left to the Heraclid general Deïphontes, was home to the club-wielding brigand Periphetes and the cult of a god whom the Romans relocated to Tiber Island to cure a plague — Asclepius?

EPIDAURUS

B1: What pair of brothers — the twin sons of Abas and Aglaea — met in single combat at Epidaurus for control over the Argolid?

ACRISIUS and PROËTUS

B2: What goatherd discovered the infantile Asclepius on Mount Myrtium near Epidaurus but abandoned him when he saw lightning shooting from his body?

ARESTHANES / ARESTHANAS


17. Particularly common in Latin descriptions of wounds, as in the phrases “Sacēs, adversa sagittā saucius ōra” and “femur trāgulā ictus,” what use of the accusative probably imitates constructions found in Homer and his successors?

GREEK (ACCUSATIVE) // (ACCUSATIVE OF) SPECIFICATION // (ACCUSATIVE OF) RESPECT // SYNECDOCHICAL (ACCUSATIVE)

B1: In similar expressions, such as “clipeumque aurōque trilīcem lōrīcam induitur,” the accusative can be regarded as the object of a verb in what voice, as is common in Greek?

MIDDLE (VOICE)

B2: What use of the accusative, found in Greek through a different formation, was particularly common in the writings of Jordanes and Gregory of Tours in parallelism, as in the sentence “acceptam ā nōbīs benedictiōnem pūrgātōque ā malae crēdulitātis venēnō pectore, dēlēbuntur inīquitātēs tuae.”

ACCUSATIVE ABSOLUTE


18. Note to players: For this question, a “decade” begins with a year that ends in “0.” For example, the decade of the
“2020s” began with the year “2020.” What decade A.D. began with Constantinople’s citizens massacring soldiers under Gainas, included a revolt by Constantine III, and featured a Roman victory at Pollentia over forces of Alaric, who began the next decade by sacking Rome?

400s (A.D.)

B1: To what people, later ruled by Theoderic the Amal, did Gainas belong?

OSTROGOTH(S)

B2: What three German tribes crossed the frozen Rhine on New Year’s Eve, 406 A.D., prompting Constantine III’s revolt?

VANDALS, ALANS, and {SUEBI / SUEVI}


19. What work praises a teacher’s ability to “pallentīs rādere mōrēs” in a phrase that rejects the “tēctae pictōria linguae” that readers might have expected in its letter to Caesius Bassus or celebration of the Stoic philosopher Cornutus?

PERSIUS’ SATIRES / SATURAE [PROMPT ON PARTIAL ANSWER]

B1: According to the Life of Persius, the poet Lucan jumped out of his chair during a recitation of Persius’ poetry and declared what sentiment? A description is fine.

PERSIUS’ WORK (NOT HIS OWN, WHICH WAS TRIVIALITIES) WAS REAL POETRY [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

B2: Persius’ early works, none of which were published, included a set of verses about what relative of Thrasea Paetus?

ARRIA (MAIOR)


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20. What country has a capital city with the motto “nisi dominus frūstrā” and kings whose motto roughly translates to “no one gets away with provoking me” — nēmō mē impūne lacessit?

SCOTLAND

B1: The motto of the Scots Guards, horror ubīque, comes from a set of lines in Aeneid 2 where Aeneas describes his search for Creusa in burning Troy. Translate those lines, knowing that “sī” means “to see if” in this context.: “horror ubīque animō, simul ipsa silentia terrent. / inde domum, sī forte pedem, sī forte tulisset, / mē referō.”

HORROR EVERYWHERE IN {MY / THE} SOUL, {AND // AT THE SAME TIME} THE VERY SILENCES FRIGHTEN (ME). THEN I BEAR MYSELF (BACK) HOME, (TO SEE) IF BY SOME CHANCE, BY SOME CHANCE SHE HAD {RETURNED // BROUGHT HER FOOT / FEET // GONE} THERE. [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

B2: The motto of Clan Bruce, which produced two Scottish kings, is what Latin word, which derives from the Aeneid phrase “[this word] Trōēs,” an expression followed shortly after by “ingēns glōria Teucrōrum”?

FUIMUS


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