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Quiz about Movie Titles in Latin with Numbers
Quiz about Movie Titles in Latin with Numbers

Movie Titles in Latin with Numbers Quiz


Player Billkozy inspired me to write a Latin title quiz. I've selected a few movie titles and translated them into Latin. By the way, did you ever notice that only a few movies have Latin titles?

An ordering quiz by JanIQ. Estimated time: 3 mins.
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Author
JanIQ
Time
3 mins
Type
Order Quiz
Quiz #
424,122
Updated
May 09 26
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
8 / 10
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Mobile instructions: Press on an answer on the right. Then, press on the question it matches on the left.
(a) Drag-and-drop from the right to the left, or (b) click on a right side answer, and then click on its destination box to move it.
Every title contains a number. Order the translated movie titles from the smallest number to the biggest number. One of the movies is part of a series, and I've omitted the series title and given only the subtitle (for instance: "Star Wars - The Phantom Menace" would appear as "Mina Phantasmatica", Latin for "The Phantom Menace").
What's the Correct Order?Choices
1.   
(lowest number)
Tres Reges
2.   
Partes Faciles Quinque
3.   
Octo Odiosi
4.   
Paratus Esne Lusor Unus
5.   
Duae Turres
6.   
Quattuor Pennae
7.   
Duodecim Viri Irati
8.   
Novem Vitae
9.   
Septem Magnifici
10.   
(highest number)
Decem Praecepta





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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Paratus Esne Lusor Unus

The Latin word unus meaning one is quite obvious. Paratus is the Latin for ready. Es is the second person singular of esse (to be) and I've added the suffix -ne indicating a question. Lusor is a Latin word that is not used frequently. It is one of the nouns derived from the verb ludere, to play. So lusor is a player, while ludus means a play or a game.
Put these words together and you get the movie title "Ready Player One" (2018).

Steven Spielberg directed this movie set in a near future, where a virtual reality video game controlled the lives of almost everyone. When the creator of the video game died, a pre-recorded message incited bounty hunters to find an easter egg that would grant world control. The main protagonists started exploring the game...
2. Duae Turres

Duae is the female form of the Latin word duo (meaning two), and turres is the plural of turris, a tower.

If I were to add the series title, I'd come up with "Dominus Anulorum: Duae Turres", but that would make this question stand really out of the others.

"Duae Turres" thus translates to "The Two Towers" (2002), the second instalment of the trilogy "The Lord of the Rings" directed by Peter Jackson. This movie started right where the previous episode stopped, with the break-up of "The Fellowship of the Ring" - a small group intent on destroying a ring of evil.
3. Tres Reges

Tres is Latin for three, and reges is the plural of rex which means king.

"Three Kings" (1999) was directed by David O. Russell. It told the story of three American soldiers (roles by George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg and Ice Cube) searching for bounty in the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War, who gave themselves a new mission after finding the loot: rescuing some rebels.
4. Quattuor Pennae

For those who speak any of the Roman languages, it is obvious quattuor indicates four. Pennae is the plural of penna, which means feather.
Put this together, and you get the title "The Four Feathers".

This is the title of at least four movies and one TV movie with the same story. I'll stick to the 2002 version, which was directed by Shekhar Kapur. When a young British officer (Heath Ledger) resigns from active duty just as the war in Sudan starts in the 1880s, his friends and his fiancée each send him a white feather as symbol of cowardice. The rest of the film shows how he proves them wrong.
5. Partes Faciles Quinque

Faciles is the plural of facilis, an adjective meaning easy. The opposite (difficilis) has inspired the English word difficult.
Quinque is the cardinal number five. Those who speak French (cinq) or Italian (cinque) may have it easier to recognize this word.

In Latin prose and poetry, a cardinal number frequently follows the nouns it count, contrary to English grammar. Julius Caesar famously wrote "Gallia omnia divisa est in partes tres" - translated to "The whole of Gaul is divided in three parts".

"Partes Faciles Quinque" thus translates to "Five Easy Pieces" (1970). Bob Rafelson directed this movie. Jack Nicholson played a former pianist embarking on a road trip and remembering five of his favourite pieces for piano (hence the title).
6. Septem Magnifici

Magnifici is the plural of magnificus, which was adopted into English almost unchanged: magnificent. And movie buffs will always associate the word magnificent with the number seven, although there also other movie titles containing the word "magnificent".
Septem is Latin for seven - compare the French sept and the Italian sette.

"The Magnificent Seven" was a western originally made in 1960 and directed by John Sturges. Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Horst Buchholz, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, Brad Dexter and James Coburn played seven gunfighters volunteering to defend a village against 40-odd gangsters led by Eli Wallach. But the original idea was already coined by Akira Kurosawa in his masterpiece "The Seven Samurai" (1954).
7. Octo Odiosi

Odiosi is the plural of odiosus, hateful. And octo is the Latin for eight.

Put this together, and you get "The Hateful Eight" (2015), directed by Quentin Tarantino. It was a western-like story of eight people (most of them armed and dangerous) confined in a single house during a snowstorm, and each of them had something to hide... The main roles were portrayed by Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell and Jennifer Jason Leigh.
8. Novem Vitae

Novem is Latin for nine, and vitae (the plural of vita) means life.
Put that together and you obtain the movie title "Nine Lives".

There have been several movies with this title (not all with a similar story), but I was inspired by the 2016 comedy directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and starring Kevin Spacey. The critics were very harsh for this movie, that took character swapping a bit further than the usual: not a mother and daughter or a boy and girl switching bodies, but a grumpy business man and a cat. Meow!
9. Decem Praecepta

Praecepta is the plural of praeceptum, the Latin for an order or a command. You may recognize the word prescript in it. And decem is Latin for ten.

Put that together and you get "The Ten Commandments" - the title of two movies directed by Cecile B. DeMille (while other directors tried to emulate him later on). I'm very fond of his 1956 version of this movie, starring Charlton Heston as Moses and Yul Brynner as Rameses.
10. Duodecim Viri Irati

Viri is the plural of vir, Latin for man (while mulier means woman). Irati is the masculine plural of iratus, meaning angry or angered. And duodecim literally puts two (duo) and ten (decem) together to result in the Latin word for twelve.

The correct translation of this movie title thus is "Twelve Angry Men" (1957). Sidney Lumet directed Henry Fonda and eleven others as jury members trying to reach a unanimous verdict in a murder case. Henry Fonda's character doubted the quality of the overwhelming evidence...
Source: Author JanIQ

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