Animals in Latin Quiz

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Animals in Latin Quiz

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Created Nov 2, 2009 in Language
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	Geo1:	Nov 17th, 2012 at 15:16 GMT		5 points
	I-ay id-day ot-nay now-kay hat-tay 'us-say' is-ay atin-Lay or-fay ig-pay!

	janet:	Nov 17th, 2012 at 15:59 GMT		56 points
	Did anyone else try "camel" for camelopardalis?

	biziclop:	Nov 17th, 2012 at 16:00 GMT		42 points
	Camelopardalis is a cross between a camel and a leopard. Well, according to the Romans it was.

	singin185:	Nov 17th, 2012 at 16:10 GMT		7 points
	Anyone else try "cow" for mus?

	BiloxiSean:	Nov 17th, 2012 at 16:37 GMT		32 points
	Considering the story on how Rome was founded, surprised not to see lupus

	Guinefort:	Nov 17th, 2012 at 17:06 GMT		16 points
	A giraffe has a long neck like a camel and is spotted like a leopard. That was the logic for thinking it was some kind of mix, at least as far as the name goes.

	ems24:	Nov 17th, 2012 at 17:06 GMT		38 points
	I tried "moose" for mus, then immediately felt very stupid.

	WyvernSabres:	Nov 17th, 2012 at 17:18 GMT		27 points
	A plague spread by OWLS??

	kcgard2:	Nov 17th, 2012 at 17:27 GMT		14 points
	I thought the same thing Wyvern. Also, this quiz should be a guess-in-order quiz, IMO.

	biziclop:	Nov 17th, 2012 at 17:41 GMT		3 points
	Wyvern, the name of the plague is from Greek.

	DashDixon:	Nov 17th, 2012 at 17:47 GMT		17 points
	Silly cuniculus, pisTRIX are for (terrifying) kids!

	mrmanheim:	Nov 17th, 2012 at 17:51 GMT		-1 points
	Very cool quiz... only missed 2

	Azazello:	Nov 17th, 2012 at 17:56 GMT		4 points
	Camelopardalis is also a constellation. I was trying to remember the different animals represented in the stars and I just couldn't get it.

	WeaselKing1000:	Nov 17th, 2012 at 18:29 GMT		0 points
	Oo-tay Ancient-ay Ome-ray-entric-cay.

	R0GUE:	Nov 17th, 2012 at 20:10 GMT		5 points
	Thank you Clash of the Titans for Bubo!!

	Riko:	Nov 17th, 2012 at 21:33 GMT		13 points
	@WyvernSabres: My first thought too. "What kind of animal looks like swollen lymph nodes?!?'

	Sixtytwobobs:	Nov 17th, 2012 at 23:08 GMT		1 point
	I take latin and I learned pig as porcus, that is easier to figure out. I was hoping to see glis, or dormouse, it was a delicacy in ancient Rome.

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	tallerpat:	Nov 18th, 2012 at 00:57 GMT		5 points
	I would question the use of pistrix for shark. Even in Latin, it seems to be obsolete.

	arilicious:	Nov 18th, 2012 at 02:27 GMT		5 points
	Well, I think it's fair to say that my knowledge of astrology/zodiac signs came in handy here.

	dancastro:	Nov 18th, 2012 at 04:14 GMT		4 points
	@arilicious: one could expect some zodiac signs in this quiz, as all astronomical names of constellations are in Latin, and most zodiac signs (that are also constellations) represent animals. Think of the zodiac as a zoo-diac (in fact, "zodiac" is a word of Greek origin derived from that for "animal"; by the way, Germans don't use the Greek word for zodiac but its translation Tierkreis, literally "circle of animals").

	missquin:	Nov 18th, 2012 at 07:11 GMT		0 points
	all I could think is that the sign of capricorn has horns so I kept trying deer...

	Terentius_Varro:	Nov 18th, 2012 at 09:14 GMT		4 points
	Please accept 'swine' for 'sus' too. 'Porcus' would be specifically 'pig', 'sus' is more general for all porcines.

	ezois:	Nov 18th, 2012 at 15:43 GMT		2 points
	I first came upon the King's Cameleopard in Huckleberry Finn. I looked it up figuring the Mark Twain had made it up.

	Arcylix:	Nov 18th, 2012 at 21:39 GMT		2 points
	Good quiz, though I'll admit I just threw up random animals in hopes of getting one. Why I did not think of pig, I don't know...

	deppen8:	Dec 4th, 2012 at 03:35 GMT		2 points
	The answer for "aries" should be sheep. "Ram" is the name for a particular kind of sheep, an uncastrated male.

	dedetonks:	Dec 13th, 2012 at 22:02 GMT		1 point
	I wish to thank horoscopes, harry potter, and that random science book I read when I was 10, which told me what a camelopard is.