Keartamen 5 (K5) - Semifinals

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0. What character, whose library is burned down by a priest and a barber, rides his horse Rocinante and tries to “tilt at windmills” he thinks are giants in a Spanish-language novel by Miguel de Cervantes?

DON QUIXOTE

B1: Name Quixote’s squire, who provides quips about Quixote's behavior throughout the novel.

SANCHO (PANZA) // (SANCHO) PANZA

B2: According to the title of the novel, Don Quixote hailed from what region in central Spain?

LA MANCHA

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1. What Latin verb can be prefixed by ob- or con- to mean “happen to,” completes an idiom meaning “hit the nail on the head” — “rem acū [blank]” — and acts as the ultimate root of the adjective integer?

TANGŌ / TANGERE / TETIGISTĪ

B1: What Latin verb derived from tangō means “to reach” or “arrive to”?

ATTINGŌ / ATTINGERE

B2: Fill in this line, spoken by Aeneas upon seeing Carthage’s murals of the Trojan War, with the appropriate three-word Latin phrase: “[blank] et mentem mortālia tangunt.”

SUNT LACRIMAE RĒRUM

2. What sort of people encountered the fanged, taloned Keres or their brother Moros — the signs of fulfilled moirai — before reaching the realm of Katachthonios and the awful god Thanatos?

(THE) DYING / DEAD (WARRIORS) / SOULS [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

B1: According to Hesiod’s Theogony, what goddess bore these and other negative personifications without a father?

NYX

B2: The Keres appear among the baneful personifications depicted on what object, which is described at length in an archaic epic that was attributed to Hesiod and describes the expedition against Ares’ son Cycnus?

SHIELD OF HERACLES

3. What man received both 100,000 sesterces annually and the ōrnāmenta cōnsulāria for educating Domitian’s nephews and becoming a professor of rhetoric, the topic addressed in his Īnstitūtiō Ōrātōria?

(MARCUS FABIUS) QUINTILIAN(US)

B1: Quintilian hailed from what Spanish town, where his father was also an orator?

CALAGURRIS / CALAHORRA

B2: What orator did Quintilian consider the greatest he had ever heard, though Quintilian was biased as his student?

DOMITIUS AFER

4. In what kingdom was a coalition of “sun-citizens” of the utopia Heliopolis defeated by Marcus Perperna, meaning that the pretender Aristonicus failed to retake the throne recently bequeathed to Rome?

(KINGDOM OF) PERGAMUM

B1: The revolt of Aristonicus was perhaps sparked by the rebellion of enslaved people in Sicily a few years before. What two men led this revolt, only to themselves be partly defeated by Marcus Perperna?

EUNUS and CLEON

B2: The Romans handed over much of the Pergamene territory to Cappadocia’s ruler, who had what dynastic name?

ARIARATHES (VI) // ARIARATHID

5. What sort of object — which could be secured with a claustrum or a sera — could be called an ōstium, split into two halves as forēs, and tended regularly by a iānitor?

DOOR(S) [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

B1: What door-related noun fills in the Latin phrase “rēs in [blank] est,” which means “the matter hangs in the balance”?

CARDŌ / CARDINE

B2: What is the meaning of the Latin word aulaeum when used in a door-related context?

CURTAIN / TAPESTRY (HUNG OVER A DOORWAY) // PORTIÈRE [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

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6. What man’s brothers-in-law — the Vitellii — and sons — Titus and Tiberius — conspired to restore Tarquinius Superbus, whose ouster had made him the colleague of Tarquinius Collatinus as Rome’s first consuls?

(LUCIUS JUNIUS) BRUTUS

B1: Shortly after, Brutus fought the Battle of Silva Arsia, where he killed what son of Tarquinius Superbus, only to be killed by him at the same moment?

ARRUNS (TARQUINIUS)

B2: After Brutus died, what man was chosen as Rome’s first suffect-consul, but died only a few days later of old age?

(SPURIUS) LUCRETIUS (TRICIPITINUS) // (SPURIUS LUCRETIUS) TRICIPITINUS

7. What two consonants start the suffix in Latin adjectives for “twice as great” and “double,” with the latter sometimes translated as “twofold” since the suffix comes from the verb meaning “to fold”?

P and L

B1: Duplus, duplex, and plicō may come from the same Indo-European root as what Latin noun meaning “hide,” since it carries similar linguistic implications?

PELLIS

B2: Unrelated are words like pallor, which comes from a root meaning “dull” or “gray.” Also from this root is the Latin word palumbēs, a gray-colored animal of what type?

(WOOD)PIGEON // (RING)DOVE [PROMPT ON “BIRD”]

8. What century, when a general supposedly punned “peccāvī” about a captured province, featured a naval battle at Navarino, the theft of the Elgin Marbles, and the classically influenced poetry of John Keats and Percy Shelley?

NINETEENTH (CENTURY A.D.) // 1800s (A.D.)

B1: At its height, many of the elite in the British Empire thought themselves to be heirs to the classical world. Some of this belief was rooted in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a monumental work written by what author in the late 1700s?

(EDWARD) GIBBON

B2: This belief continued even well into the twentieth century, long after the peak of the Empire. Among these was Enoch Powell, a Member of Parliament who gave a vitriolic 1968 anti-immigration speech known by what three-word English name, inspired by a phrase from the Aeneid?

RIVERS OF BLOOD (SPEECH)

9. To avoid what creatures did Amphidamas suggest a shield-wall and din be raised on Ares’ island by the Argonauts, evoking the bronze castanets used by Heracles as a disruption during his sixth labor?

BIRDS (OF ARES) // (STYMPHALIAN) BIRDS // BIRDS (ON THE ISLAND OF {ARES / DIA}) // BIRDS (THAT SHOT THEIR FEATHERS AS ARROWS) [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

B1: After they leave the island of Ares, the Argonauts are passed by a ravenous eagle, shortly afterward hear whose screams, and then see the eagle rushing back in the direction it came?

PROMETHEÜS

B2: The Argonauts reach the island of Ares after passing by the land of what people, who were openly promiscuous and starved their king for a day if he made a judgment they thought bad?

MOSSYNOECI

10. What man is sentenced to serve as law-clerk to the freedman Menander after a heavenly trial in a work that incorporates Menippean Satire and satirizes unnecessary imperial deifications with the title of Apocolocyntosis?

CLAUDIUS

B1: Although the Apocolocyntosis was not necessarily written by Seneca, the author did write a work in what genre to Claudius’ freedman Polybius in a veiled attempt to secure his return from exile?

CONSOLATION // CŌNSŌLĀTIŌ

B2: Which of Seneca’s dialogues, written around 49 A.D. with a theme perhaps inspired by his exile, was addressed to the praefectus annōnae under Claudius and contains a veiled diatribe against the emperor?

(AD PAULĪNUM) DĒ BREVITĀTE VĪTAE

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11. Translate the following sentence from English to Latin: “She waited impatiently for the gifts to arrive.” To do that, use quoad, donec, or dum with an imperfect subjunctive.

{IMPATIĒNS / IMPATIENTER // SINE PATIENTIĀ} EXSPECTĀVIT {DUM / DŌNEC / QUOAD} {DONA / MUNERA}{ADVENĪRENT / PERVENĪRENT} [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

B1: Now translate from English to idiomatic Latin: “They spotted the strait on the third day after they had set sail.”

FRETUM CŌNSPEXĒRUNT {TERTIŌ DIĒ POSTQUAM // POST TERTIUM DIEM QUAM} NĀVEM {SOLVERANT / SOLVĒRUNT} [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

B2: Now translate this Ciceronian sentence from Latin to English: “In omnibus negōtiīs prius quam aggrediāre adhibenda est praeparātiō dīligēns.”

IN ALL {BUSINESS(ES) / MATTERS}, BEFORE YOU {ATTACK / ADDRESS // WILL HAVE ATTACKED // WILL HAVE ADDRESSED} (THEM), DILIGENT PREPARATION MUST BE APPLIED [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

12. What state, where a university adopted Lord Nelson’s victorious motto “palmam quī meruit ferat,” has a name sometimes thought to mean “hot oven” in Latin and the country’s only Greek state motto?

CALIFORNIA

B1: The motto of all schools in the University of California system is what two-word Latin phrase from the opening of the Book of Genesis?

FIAT LUX

B2: Lord Nelson also adopted a Latin phrase, an anagram of his full name, that indicated he had gained honor from what place, the site of his greatest living naval victory?

(THE) NILE (RIVER) [“HONOR EST Ā NĪLŌ”]

13. The appointment in what region of the bishop Caecilianus caused a schism led by Donatus, whose influence persisted through the sack of Hippo and Augustine’s death by conquering Vandals?

(NORTH) AFRICA // AFRICA (PROCONSULARIS) // (ARCHDIOCESE / CHURCH OF) CARTHAGE

B1: What city in Africa was substantially built up at the start of the third-century A.D., receiving new docks and a grand forum as a result of the self-indulgence of an emperor and his family?

{LEPTIS / LEPCIS} MAGNA

B2: According to some sources, what Roman general called the Vandals into Africa to aid his revolt, then regretted his choices when they betrayed him and put the city of Hippo under siege?

(COUNT) BONIFACE / BONIFATIUS / BONIFACIUS

14. What author’s principle “vetustās semper ... adōranda est” underlies his seven-book work detailing three days of learned antiquarian discussions by banqueters celebrating the festival of Saturnalia?

MACROBIUS (AMBROSIUS THEODOSIUS)

B1: The third day of conversations in Sāturnālia is held at the house of what man, a pagan known for his epistolary collection Relātiōnēs?

(QUINTUS AURELIUS) SYMMACHUS

B2: Macrobius dedicated “to his Symmachus” a now-fragmentary work detailing the differences and similarities of what things in Greek and Latin?

VERB(S) / WORD(S)

15. What activity has a French name coming from levis and manus, ends with a French imperative from vidēre and ille or an Italian exclamation from praestō, and has a long nonsense word maybe derived from Abraxās?

MAGIC // SLEIGHT-OF-HAND // SORCERY // CONJURATION [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]

B1: From what third-conjugation verb do we derive “charm”?

CANŌ / CANERE

B2: What long English noun for “a performance of magic with the hands” etymologically means “quick-fingered”?

PRESTIDIGITATION

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16. Who killed the spearmen Epistrophus and Mynes, rashly slew Tenes as he defended his island, and sacked Hypoplacian Thebes and Lyrnessus, where he abducted his concubine Briseis?

ACHILLES

B1: At Hypoplacian Thebes, Achilles killed what man and his seven sons, but held such great respect for him that he was sent to his funeral pyre in his full armor?

EËTION

B2: In the Iliad, what name is shared by a city ruled by Altes that Achilles sacked and an especially swift horse that Achilles seized when sacking Eëtion’s city of Hypoplacian Thebes?

PEDASUS

17. What sort of people — including the executed Helvidius Priscus — were banished from Rome by both Vespasian and Domitian, making them martyrs celebrated in the writings of Epictetus and the emperor Marcus Aurelius?

STOIC(S) // PHILOSOPHER(S) // STOIC PHILOSOPHER(S)

B1: Also executed for his Stoic opposition was Thrasea Paetus, who was absent on the vote of deification for what woman, Nero’s second wife after she divorced the future emperor Otho?

POPPAEA (SABINA)

B2: Prominent Stoics included Arulenus and Junius, both with what cognōmen — the former condemned to death because he wrote a panegyric of Thrasea Paetus and the latter the primary Stoic tutor to Marcus Aurelius?

RUSTICUS

18. What author — though he was a “bad authority for Latin style” per Cicero — beat all nine main contemporaries in a ranking by Volcacius Sedigitus, who evidently admired his comic works like Plocium?

CAECILIUS STATIUS

B1: Both Caecilius Statius and Terence worked with what man, who was both theater producer and lead actor?

(LUCIUS AMBIVIUS) TURPIO

B2: A person with what occupation was the title character of Caecilius Statius’ play Obolostates, also known by a Latin title?

USURER / MONEYLENDER

19. Latin words for what things — except for those suffixed with -aster like oleaster and a few misfits like acer — are overwhelmingly feminine, even in the second declension, as with fīcus and quercus?

TREE(S)

B1: What tree, unusually neuter like acer, sometimes was used generally to mean “any very hard kind of tree”?

RŌBUR

B2: Give the Latin word for the fir-tree, which was used to build the ribs of the Trojan Horse in the Aeneid.

ABIĒS

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20. What man was buried under cornel bushes and spiky myrtle, whose roots were the transformed spears of a gold-hungry Thracian king and began to bleed when broken by an unknowing Aeneas?

POLYDORUS

B1: After giving Polydorus a proper burial, Aeneas sails to Delos, where he is hosted by what priest-king?

ANIUS

B2: In Thrace, Aeneas encounters Polydorus while trying to sanctify what city, his first?

AENEADAE

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