FunTrivia Humanities Mix: Vol 3 Quiz

Answer: Minos

He is a somewhat a heartless king, for he is the one that made King Aegeus pick Athenian youths to be sent to the labyrinth and be fed to the Minotaur.

Question by player rohnald

Answer: barouche

Schooners, galleons, and clippers are all sailing ships. A barouche is a type of horse-drawn carriage.

Question by player daBomb619

Answer: Puck

Puck, also known as Robin Good Fellow, is the mischievous fairy sprite in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," written around 1595. It is one of the most popular and most often performed of all the Bard's comedies, and it features some outlandish cases of mistaken identity. Puck is a central figure in the action, an impish jester who delights in practical jokes, and playing with the emotions of the lovers who wander into his domain, an enchanted forest.

Question by player Nealzineatser

Answer: Your hat

A coif is a tight fitting hat that completely covers all sides and the top of the head. They have been worn for centuries in Europe with various decorations. Often they were worn under other hats. There are even examples of coifs made of chain mail made for wearing in battle.

Question by player dcpddc478

Answer: separate

Separate means to keep apart or divide. Espouse, wed, and unite indicate a merger of at least two entities.






Question by player lowtechmaster

Answer: mean (intend) and mean (unkind)

Homographs are words with the same spelling, but different meanings. For example the word "mean" can have at least four different meanings: 1. Signify, 2. Intend, 3. Unkind, and 4. Average. All of these "mean" words are homographs of each other (but not mien, mane or mine). Generally, homographs have different roots, often coming from different languages. Mean = "signify" comes from Old English "mænan" = "to mean". Mean = "unkind" comes from the Old English "ġemǣne" = "common". Mean = "average" comes from the same Latin root "medianus" which also gives us "median". Isn't language fun?

Question by player Flamis

Answer: They originate from Latin

Romance languages include Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian and Romanian. The name "Romance language" was derived from the fact that they originated from Latin, the language of the classical Roman civilisation. Italian is the closest language to Latin.

Question by player ClaudiaCat

Answer: Speak

Henry Higgins (played most famously by Rex Harrison) is a professor of linguistics and phonetics and despairs of the English ever learning how to talk properly. As a throwaway line in the same song he says of the Americans that they haven't spoken English for years, while he comments that the French don't care what they do so long as they say it properly.

Question by player garrybl

Answer: Agricultural and Mechanical

The original intended mission of A&M universities was to educate and prepare young men for careers in farming and the military.

Question by player Lodger_Moore

Answer: cloche

The bailey, part of the motte-and-bailey construction that was popular with medieval castles, is the enclosed courtyard surrounding the motte, which is the raised hill that the castle is built on. The keep is a fortified tower and the stronghold of the castle. A postern is a secondary door in a castle wall. A cloche is a bell-shaped hat.

Question by player daBomb619