What's a Name In? (Part 18) Trivia Quiz

Answer: pharmacist

An APOTHECARY is a professional in the health industry trained in the preparation and dispensing of drugs for medicinal purposes. In the 14th century APOTHECARY had a more general reference--just a store or repository in general. It wasn't until later that it came to mean, specifically, a druggist.

Answer: traveler to a new country

An IMMIGRANT is someone who seeks to establish a new residency in a country other than his country of origin. IMMIGRANTS have given the English language many new words in addition to English's Latin and Greek influences. The word "banana" for instance came to us from Spanish and Portuguese IMMIGRANTS. The word IMMIGRANT though is derived from the Latin root "migr" meaning "move."

Answer: treasonous agreement

There are many CONSPIRACY theories surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. In 2003, a poll taken by ABC News suggested that 70% of Americans actually did believe his death was part of a broader plot. The reasons cited included a discrepancy in the trajectory of the bullets from Oswald's perch, while some people suspect it was a CIA plot perpetrated in disgust over JFK's failed Bay of Pigs invasion attempt.

Some even say the killing was orchestrated by Lyndon B. Johnson. Russian KGB agents are also a part of the conversation as are good ol' fashioned American mobsters.

Answer: freeing from captivity

DELIVERANCE is the preservation or freeing from danger or restraint. The movie 'Deliverance' was a nail-biting thriller from 1972 directed by John Boorman and starring Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty and Ronnie Cox. It is almost universally praised as one of the best films of 1972 and was nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards.

It is also responsible for the phrase "squeal like a pig" (an AFI 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes Nominee) entering the culture's vernacular.

Answer: hardly able to read

Someone who is SEMILITERATE has only a very limited grasp on being able to read and write in his language. The General Education Development (GED) test in the U.S. awards a certificate equivalent to a high school diploma to students who are able to perform well enough on the test's literacy skills.

Another literacy test for adults is the The Comprehensive Adult Student Assessment Systems (CASAS) test. Colleges and universities and certain other organizations use this test to determine someone's literacy level.

Answer: globe-shaped

Something that is SPHERICAL shaped is globular shaped; shaped like a globe or sphere. The word "SPHERE" comes to us from the Greek "sphaira". It is believed to be derived from another Greek word "sphuras" which meant a "dung pellet."

Answer: exciter

A STIMULUS is something that excites or goads a reaction in something else. It arouses an action or behavior. It was originally specifically a medical term. It meant something that aroused the male organ mainly, but ostensibly any organ. It came from the Latin "stimulus" meaning a "pointed stick".

Answer: heavy knife

A MACHETE is a large knife, used almost like a broadsword, to cut away and chop into thick vegetation in South America. The word is predictably Spanish in origin and probably derives from a diminutive form of "macho." Macho meant a sledgehammer. And that probably originated in the Vulgar Latin "mattea" meaning war club.

Answer: brutal slaughter

BUTCHERY refers to the a butcher's business such as preparing our meats, but it also has the figurative meaning of out and out melee, destruction or killing. BUTCHERY comes from the French "boucherie", a butcher's shop.

Answer: apothecary

Coming full circle, a PHARMACIST, or apothecary as we learned earlier in this quiz is someone who deals in the preparation and dispensing of medicinal drugs. PHARMACY is derived from the Greek "pharmakeia" which meant the use of drugs or spells to cure something, which then led to the French "farmacie" which was a purgative medicine.