A Lot In My Pot? Trivia Quiz

Answer: Potent

Treebeard was an Ent, which when added to pot, gives us potent.
Potent, meaning very powerful or mighty is of Latin origin. It is used often to describe strong smells or herbal mixtures with a strong taste or smell. It can be used to describe powerful people such as business moguls, but is not usually used to describe strong people such as bodybuilders.

Answer: Potage

A long time is an age, which when added to pot gives us potage.
Potage is a word borrowed from the French language to describe a thick soup. It is also used to describe other thick foodstuffs such as porridge or stew. Potage, also spelled "pottage" quite literally means "food cooked in a pot" in Old French.

Answer: Potion

A charged atom is an ion, which when added to pot gives us potion.
Potion is a word that arrives with us via Old French and Latin origins, being derived from the word "pocion", meaning a draught or medicine in Old French, and "potio" meaning drink in Latin.
It is often used to describe a mystical brew favoured by witches and the most well known potion must surely be that drunk by Juliet in Shakespeare's "Romeo And Juliet" (circa 1595).

Answer: Potted

The cuddly toy was "ted", which when added to pot gives us potted.
Potted originally referred to meat, which was preserved in a pot. There seems to no clear consensus on whether the term "potted" meaning drunk reaches us through the preservative qualities of alcohol, or through the old custom of serving alcohol in pint pots (glasses). Pickled, stewed and juiced are all other food related words which also mean to be drunk.

Answer: Poteen

The Dutch word for one is "een", which joins pot to create poteen .
Poteen, also spelled "poitín" is an Irish moonshine made from potatoes and distilled in a pot still, known as a "pota" or pot.

Answer: Potties

The neckwear we needed was ties, which when added to pot provides potties.
Potty is an abridged version of chamber pot, a vessel used for urinating in. A potty is an invaluable tool when toilet training children, which can be a frustrating task, enough to drive one potty. No coincidence that another definition of potty is mildly insane perhaps?

Answer: Potash

Fire remains are ash, and ash added to pot would give us potash.
Potash is the potassium rich salt created when sea beds evaporated millions of years ago. It is usually mined, with huge operations to extract it being performed in Saskatchewan, Canada as well as in various locations in Russia, China and many other countries.
Potash is widely used in the production of fertilizers and can have many benefits for both the crop and the soil.

Answer: Pothole

Courtney Love's band were Hole, and hole, when added to pot will give pothole.
A pothole was originally a term used to describe flaws in glaciers, but now is commonly used to refer to holes in road surfaces, caused like their glacial cousins by a combination of water and weight.

Answer: Potshot

A measure of liquor would be a shot, which combined with pot gives us potshot.
The word "potshot" has its origins in hunting, where it is used to define a shot taken at an easy or unprepared target, but something that would be ideal for the cooking pot as opposed to a trophy one would display or boast about.

Answer: Potable

Another word for competent is able, which goes nicely on the end of pot to give potable.
Potable, meaning fit for drinking first appeared circa the 15th century and is derived from the Latin, "potare" meaning to drink.