What's a Name In? (Part 14) Trivia Quiz

Answer: two-faced deed

HYPOCRISY involves the dissembling nature of someone who feigns concern over some issue while holding dear to the opposite feeling or intention. It comes from the Greek "hypokrisis" which meant "play-acting."

Answer: food sellers

I love the smell of BAKERIES. In college we used to wait outside the school cafeteria's bakery in the wee hours of the morning after a night of carousing to get a hot donut from the generous workers. I miss Mother's Bake Shop in the neighborhood where I grew up--after decades of doing business it finally was usurped by the Key Food Supermarket when it expanded. My cousin out West used to run the Bainbridge Bakery out there by Bainbridge Island.

It was renowned in the area. Michael Crichton mentioned it in his novel "Disclosure."

Answer: wearing away

CORROSION occurs when an oxidation of metal causes destruction of that material, a wearing away of the metal. CORROSION can also occur in ceramics and polymers but this wearing away is called degradation, instead of electrochemical oxidation.

Answer: miniature signage

LABELS are miniature signs in a way, containing information about a product's contents, origin, manufacturer, etc. They're pasted onto bottles and cans as opposed to billboards; they're not as big generally as a sign posted on a wall or building. The word comes from the French words label, lambel, and labeau. They referred to ribbons worn on clothing.

Answer: straight

A HETEROSEXUAL person is called straight, that is, he or she is romantically and sexually interested in members of the opposite sex. The word originated in 1892 when C.G. Craddock's translated Krafft-Ebbing's "Psychopathia Sexualis". "Hetero-" comes from the Greek "heteros", which means "different" or "other."

Answer: type of communication

To communicate with the spirit world one might hold a SEANCE. In this session, a "professional" communicator with the deceased, called a medium, will collect people together to receive messages from those who crossed over.

Answer: depiction

A PORTRAYAL of something is a depiction of it, a representation of it. An actor for instance will give a portrayal of a character. A painter might depict a "Summer day by the Seine" with painterly PORTRAYAL of the scene on his canvas.

Answer: airplane section

The FUSELAGE of an aircraft is the main body that holds the passengers, the crew, and the cargo. The word comes from the French fuselé which meant "spindle-shaped."

Answer: atmospheric scientist

A WEATHERMAN is a meteorologist, someone who studies that branch of the atmospheric sciences. Some famous entertainers began their careers as a weatherman. David Letterman for instance was a weatherman in Indiana, including such shtick in his presentations as referring to made-up cities, or calling hailstones "the size of canned hams." Pat Sajak, Raquel Welch, and Gilda Radner also had gigs as meteorologists explaining the weather to TV viewers.

Answer: illustrious

Something that is illustrious, magnificent, deserving of glory is of course GLORIOUS. The word originates from the Latin "gloriosus" which meant famous, which led to the French "glorieus" which meant, blessed. On a sidenote, apropos of nothing quiz related, but I feel compelled to mention one of those weird coincidences that happens.

As soon as I typed the word "glory" above, a sportscaster on TV said the word "glory." I mean, like it was EXACTLY at the same time. God bless you all here at funtrivia.