Lingua Latina Occasionibus Omnibus Quiz

Answer: Hot enough for you?

As a true hater of warm weather, I would be downgrading my planned tip after this unfeeling remark. It is ALWAYS hot enough for me. But I might first respond, "Illud iterum dicere potes!" (You can say that again!)

Answer: If you can read this bumper sticker, you are both very well educated and much too close

If you could answer this question, you may already have worked out what the other bumper stickers would have read.
Honk if you speak Latin = Sona si Latine loqueris
When catapults are outlawed, only outlaws will have catapults = Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt, tum soli proscripti catapultas habebunt
Save the whales = Balaenae nobis conservandae sunt

Answer: Do you by any chance happen to own a large, yellowish, very flat cat?

If only the taxi driver had paid attention to those bumper stickers reading "Frena pro feris teneo" (I brake for animals) and watched where he was going, this sad situation might have been avoided.

Answer: Eamus, O Tibialia Rubentia

"Let's go, Red Sox"; NEVER the Yankees (Ianqui), Twins (Gemini) or White Sox (Tibialia Alba). And, on the way in, we would be asserting that "Stadium sedipilae optimum Saeptum Paludosum etiamnunc est" ("The best baseball stadium is still Fenway Park").

Answer: Perscriptio in manibus tabellarorium est.

One might say "No, excuse me, I believe I'M next" ("Non, mihi ignosce, credo ME insequentem esse"), "No cutting in" ("Noli inferre te in agmen") or "Hey, we're all in line here" ("Heus, hic nos omnes in agmine sunt"); this is not an appropriate situation in which to aver that "The check is in the mail" ("Perscriptio in manibus tabellarorium est").

Answer: These are great seats, aren't they?

The quizzical look from my friend alerted me to the fact that I had slipped into Latin without noticing, so I followed with, "Denuone Latine loquebar? Me ineptum. Interdum modo elabitur." ("Was I speaking Latin again? Silly me. Sometimes it just sort of slips out.")

Answer: The Beatles

Only the Rolling Stones (Lapides Provolventes) are another English group. The Monkees (Simitatores) and Beach Boys (Pueri Litoris) were both American groups of the era.

Answer: Jeopardy!

"Jeopardy!" first ran on television from 1964 until 1975 (when I first fell in love with it); in a weekly version from 1974 to 1975; and in a revival 1978 to 1979. Its current incarnation has been on air since 1984.

Hollywood Squares = Quadrata Iliceti
The Price is Right = Pretium Iustum Est
Wheel of Fortune = Rota Fortunae

Answer: Hawaii Five-0

Yep, he enjoys watching Jack Lord and James MacArthur capture bad guys in sun-drenched Hawaii. Gilligan's Island (Insula Gilliganis), Mission: Impossible (Opus: Quod Fieri non Potest) and The Flintstones (Illi Silices) are also popular in his household.

Answer: A total turkey

Being an eager beaver (fiber fervidus) would actually be a good thing for your team. A couch potato (radix lecti) wouldn't be of much use to a baseball team, but also wouldn't be likely to take the field. Being a dumb bunny (cuniculus inscius) wouldn't be much help, but a fan might be happy to live with sub-par intellectual skills if the player performed well on the field. There is no excuse for the total turkey.

Always one to follow a trend, I joined in with my personal favorite insult, "Utinam modo subiunctivo semper male utaris!" ("May you always misuse the subjunctive!") Now it's time to head home and stock up on more useful phrases.