Keartamen 5 (K5) - Preliminary Round 2

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 novel, where a boy says that he can “sing C sharp” and thus “ought to be chief,” includes the destruction of Ralph’s conch shell and the downfall of Piggy amid fighting by a group of boys stranded on an island?

LORD OF THE FLIES

B1: In a novel by Daniel Defoe, what character is stranded for decades on a deserted island, where he rescues a man that he calls “Friday”?

ROBINSON CRUSOE

B2: What author wrote Treasure Island, a novel that includes the character Long John Silver?

(ROBERT LOUIS) STEVENSON

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

1. In Latin, what color is represented directly by the noun cānitiēs, metaphorically by the material ebur and the material calx, and figuratively by the nouns lac and nix?

WHITE / GRAY / WHITE-GRAY / HOAR

B1: What color was represented metaphorically by the nouns ostrum and mūrex?

PURPLE / VIOLET / INDIGO

B2: What color was represented metaphorically by the noun smaragdus?

GREEN // EMERALD (GREEN)

2. Events of what type — first proposed by Sicinius — caused the consular election of Horatius Barbatus and Valerius Potitus, the passage of the Lēx Hortēnsia, and Agrippa Menenius’ “Belly and Limbs” speech to rebelling plebeians?

(PLEBEIAN) SECESSION(S) // SĒCESSIŌ(NĒS PLĒBIS)

B1: The second plebeian secession, which resulted in the election of Horatius and Valerius, was precipitated by the actions of what group, including one of its members’ attacks on Verginia?

(SECOND) DECEMVIRATE // (SECOND) DECEMVIRĪ

B2: A law with what primary provision was passed to end the Fifth Secession? A description is fine.

{PLEBISCITES // RESOLUTIONS OF THE PLEBEIAN COUNCIL} BECAME (AUTOMATICALLY) BINDING ON THE WHOLE POPULATION (WITHOUT SENATE APPROVAL) [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

3. What two-word phrase, which starts a text saying “cōnsectētur adipiscing elit” in adaptation of Cicero’s Dē Fīnibus, is a truncation meaning “pain itself” that graphic designers use to test the look of typefaces and layouts?

LOREM IPSUM

B1: Translate this sentence that provides the original context for the phrase: “neque quisquam est, quī dolōrem ipsum, quia dolor sit, amet.”

{NOR // AND NOT} IS THERE ANYONE WHO LOVES PAIN ITSELF, BECAUSE IT IS PAIN [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

B2: “Pangrams,” or sentences using every letter, are often used to test typefaces, as with “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” Concise Latin pangrams are nonsensical, so translate this couplet from the Aeneid, which contains every Latin letter besides k and z: “Forte diē sollemnem illō rēx Arcas honōrem / Amphitryōniadae magnō dīvīsque ferēbat.”

BY CHANCE, ON THAT DAY, {THE ARCADIAN KING // KING ARCAS} WAS BEARING (THE) {SOLEMN / CUSTOMARY / YEARLY / RECURRING / APPOINTED} HONOR TO {THE GREAT SON OF AMPHITRYON // GREAT HERACLES // GREAT HERCULES} AND THE GODS [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

4. What sort of creature, one of which stopped a wine-cup from reaching the lips of Ancaeüs, was sent to avenge the non-sacrifice of first-fruits by Oeneüs, causing a heroic hunt in Calydon?

BOAR / PIG

B1: Ancaeüs joined the expedition of the Argonauts and returned safely to Greece, only to be killed by a boar. What role in the expedition did Ancaeüs assume after Tiphys’ death, being chosen over the volunteer Erginus?

HELMSMAN / STEERSMAN / PILOT / STEERING

B2: Another Ancaeüs joined the expedition of the Argonauts and returned safely to Greece, only to be killed in the Calydonian boar hunt. What son took over his kingdom and led the forces of landlocked Arcadia to the Trojan War?

AGAPENOR

5. What man was the focus of a monumental painting by Philoxenus of Eretria that was copied at Pompeii’s “House of the Faun” in mosaic form, showing his victory at the Battle of Issus?

ALEXANDER {THE GREAT // III}

B1: What man served as Alexander’s personal sculptor, creating the stock representation of him with tousled hair and an upward glance?

LYSIPPOS / LYSIPPUS

B2: Lysippus was otherwise known for portraying whom in a “weary” statue, a copy of which became famous in the Renaissance after entering the possession of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese?

HERACLES / HERCULES

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6. Writers in what genre used the name of a mountain on Delos and the name of the island itself to disguise the identities of Hostia and Plania, the women addressed by Tibullus and Propertius in love-poems?

ELEGY / ELEGIES

B1: The first book of Propertius’ elegies is sometimes simply called Cynthia instead of what one-word Greek name?

MONOBIBLOS

B2: In the Apologia, Apuleius exposes the real names of elegists’ muses as a form of self-defense. He also declares, probably incorrectly, that Vergil is represented in the second Eclogue by Corydon and a slave of Asinius Pollio is represented by what other speaker?

ALEXIS

7. What man — who said he was the greatest-ever left-handed fighter on a statue of Hercules, his supposed divine patron — renamed Rome after himself when he succeeded his more stoic father, Marcus Aurelius?

COMMODUS

B1: At one point, it was rumored that Commodus would move permanently into the gladiatorial barracks and become sole consul dressed as a gladiator. As a result, conspirators killed him on New Year’s Eve of what year A.D., which was followed by the “Year of the Five Emperors”?

192 (A.D.)

B2: As a gladiator, Commodus was reputed to have used special crescent-shaped arrows to shoot what animals, one of whose heads he severed and brandished in front of the attending senators as a warning?

OSTRICH(ES)

8. What kind of word, which can undergo “case attraction,” begins a subjunctive clause that describes the sort of person someone is — that is, their characteristics — like in “sunt quī dīcant”?

RELATIVE (PRONOUN)

B1: Say in Latin using a relative pronoun: He sends the soldiers to pitch camp.

MĪLITĒS MITTIT QUĪ CASTRA PŌNANT [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

B2: Say in Latin using rogō and a relative pronoun: He asks the gods for the courage to fight more boldly.

{DEŌS / DĪVŌS} {VIRTŪTEM / AUDĀCIAM / FORTITŪDINEM} ROGAT {QUŌ / QUĀ} {AUDĀCIUS / FERŌCIUS} PUGNET [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

9. What author perhaps adopted and adapted a farcical name meaning “clown” while working as an actor, partly explaining the difficulty in authenticating his 21 genuine works, which included Menaechmī and Mīles Glōriōsus?

(TITUS MACCIUS) PLAUTUS

B1: What scholar, the author of Dē Rē Rūsticā and Menippean Satires, established the canon of 21 genuine plays of Plautus, including by discarding any plays ascribed to the author “Plautius”?

VARRO (OF REATE // REATINUS)

B2: The possible meaning of “Plautus” as “flat-footed” would identify the author with the plānipedēs, actors in which genre?

MIME / MĪMUS / MĪMĪ

10. What Latin verb, the ultimate root of an English word meaning “Western world” that is contrasted with “Orient,” lies at the root of the English words “decay,” “deciduous,” and “cascade”?

CADŌ / CADERE

B1: The Latin word cadaver likely also derives from cadō. However, Isidore of Seville improbably said the word came from a contraction of the first few letters of each word in the phrase carō data vermibus, which has a similar meaning. What is the literal meaning of that phrase?

{FLESH / MEAT} GIVEN TO WORMS

B2: Here are three more of Isidore’s improbable contractive etymologies where the Latin word is supposedly represented by the meaning of the phrase and some of its letters. Give the Latin word for any of the three: laedens pedem; ferens nos extra; gulam dividens.

LAPIS = LAEDENS PEDEM (HARMING THE FOOT); FENESTRA = FERENS NOS EXTRA (BEARING US OUTSIDE); GLADIUS = GULAM DIVIDENS (DIVIDING THE THROAT)

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11. What group, uniquely given the ability to look up to the stars, was repopulated on the heights above Delphi on the advice of Themis, who said “throw your mother’s bones” to the lonely Deucalion and Pyrrha?

HUMAN RACE // (HU)MANKIND // HUMANS // MEN and WOMEN [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

B1: Deucalion and Pyrrha were actually cousins, since their fathers were what pair of brothers?

PROMETHEUS and EPIMETHEUS

B2: After landing on Mt. Parnassus, Deucalion and Pyrrha sacrificed to Themis, the mountain gods, and the nymphs of what place, where Typhon had earlier put the sinews of Zeus to be guarded by Delphyne?

CORYCIAN CAVE

12. What three-letter ending is added to the verbal stem levā- to mean “consolation,” just like it ends a noun meaning “seed,” a noun meaning “divine will,” and a noun meaning “competition”?

-MEN

B1: What Latin word, formed with a similar ending and similar process, means “hindrance” in the singular and “baggage” in the plural?

IMPEDĪMENTUM

B2: What Latin word with the ending -mentum, sometimes meaning “alphabet” in the plural, perhaps derives from the three consecutive consonants at the center of the classical Roman alphabet?

ELEMENTUM / ELEMENTA

13. What author criticizes but still uses the exaggerated numbers of Valerius Antias in his so-called first “decade,” which reaches the Third Samnite War after describing the monarchy’s history ab urbe conditā?

LIVY // (TITUS) LIVIUS

B1: Livy’s sources include the occasional use of what work, written by Cato the Elder as the first Latin history?

ORĪGINĒS

B2: Livy also used but criticized the annals of what pro-Marian historian, whose son wrote the epyllion Io?

(GAIUS) LICINIUS MACER

14. What man introduced an especially intricate dance called “Crane” at Delos, where he stopped after leaving Naxos and the woman whose gift let him safely retrace his twisted path in the Minotaur’s labyrinth?

THESEUS

B1: After Theseus abandoned Ariadne on Naxos, she married Dionysus. Among her children was what Chian king, whose name meant “wine-faced” and who blinded Orion?

OENOPION

B2: Many scholars think that the word geranos does not indicate a “crane,” but rather what type of animal, supposedly tamed by a primitive Minoan goddess identified by Arthur Evans?

SNAKE(S) / SERPENT(S)

15. Often called the cavum aedium, known by styles including Tuscānicum and testūdinātum, and containing the compluvium and impluvium, what room was the central court of a Roman house?

ĀTRIUM / ATRIUM

B1: The Roman ātrium often contained a shrine dedicated to what Roman household gods?

LARĒS // PENĀTĒS // LARĒS and PENĀTĒS

B2: Also in the ātrium was what object, rarely used but known by the terms geniālis and adversus?

LECTUS // (MARRIAGE) COUCH / BED

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16. Translate this sentence into English: “Peregrīnātōrēs pavidī percēpērunt procellam propinquāre.” More simply, that’s “Viātōrēs timidī vīdērunt tempestātem appropinquāre,” with viātor meaning “traveler.”

THE {TIMID / TREMBLING / FEARFUL} TRAVELERS {PERCEIVED / SAW} THAT A STORM WAS APPROACHING [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

B1: Now translate this sentence from Latin to English: “Peregrīnātōrēs proficīscentēs praecurrere procellam properāvērunt.”

THE TRAVELERS {(AS THEY WERE) DEPARTING // AS THEY DEPARTED} {HASTENED / HURRIED} TO {OUTRUN // RUN BEFORE} THE STORM [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

B2: Keeping the sentence fully alliterative with the impersonal verb pertaedet, say in Latin: “The travelers were thoroughly weary of the dangerous storms.”

{PERTAESUM EST // PERTAEDĒBAT} PEREGRĪNĀTŌRĒS PERĪCULŌSĀRUM PROCELLĀRUM

17. What Roman deity, probably originally worshipped alongside Lua before his consort was reinterpreted as Ops, reigned during Italy’s abundant Golden Age and was celebrated in a December festival of gift-giving?

SATURN

B1: What agricultural god, often considered a son of Saturn, was worshipped as a prophetic woodpecker by the native Italians?

PICUS

B2: Saturn’s consort Rhea was originally paired with what chthonic granary god, who had a subterranean altar in the Circus Maximus that was only exposed during his festivals in late August and mid-December?

CONSUS

18. What Latin noun, in various forms, fills in the blanks in the following phrases: “Castīgat rīdendō [blank]”; “Quid lēgēs sine [blank] vānae prōficiunt”?; “[blank] maiōrum”; “Ō tempora, Ō [blank]!”

MŌRĒS / MŌS / MŌRIBUS

B1: What university adapts Horace’s phrase “Quid lēgēs sine mōribus vānae prōficiunt” for its motto?

(UNIVERSITY OF) PENNSYLVANIA // (U)PENN

B2: What two universities from the same state have the mottoes “cīvium in mōribus reī pūblicae salūs” and “vīrēs, artēs, mōrēs”?

{(UNIVERSITY OF) FLORIDA // UF} and {FLORIDA STATE // FSU}

19. What topic was addressed by Marcus Gavius, who took the name Apicius, as well as Ennius’ poem Hedyphagetica and the main surviving fragment of the novel Satyricon — Trimalchio’s cēna?

COOKING / FOOD / EATING / GASTRONOMY / DINI NG

B1: In the Satyricon, what man is overwhelmed by Trimalchio’s banquet, which includes a platter of food marked with the twelve zodiac signs and featuring food appropriate to each one?

ENCOLPIUS

B2: What work includes Catius hastily recounting new gastronomic principles and a story of Nasidienus’ dinner-party?

HORACE’S {SATIRES // SATURAE // SERMŌNĒS}

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20. What Roman’s will, seized illegally from the temple of Vesta, named his twins “Sun” and “Moon” as heirs alongside Ptolemy Philadelphus, whom he had with Cleopatra shortly before their defeat at Actium?

(MARK) ANTONY // (MARCUS) ANTONIUS

B1: Among the will’s other clauses was that Antony would be buried at what city, where he had earlier made a series of “donations” of lands to his three children?

ALEXANDRIA

B2: During the celebrations preceding the “donations,” Antony paraded what Armenian ruler through Alexandria after taking his capital to avenge his earlier desertion?

ARTAVASDES (II OF ARMENIA)

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