1. What are the four basic categories of surnames? Nominative, Accusative, Dative, Genitive Sanguin, Phlegmatic, Choleric, Melancholy Dental, Glottal, Labial, Palatal Patronymic, Occupational, Locational, Descriptive

2. A patronymic surname is derived from which of these? The given name of the person's employer The surname of the person's overlord The name of the person's patron saint The given name of the person's father

3. Which of the following English surnames is NOT patronymic? Watkins Simpson Badcock Duke

4. Which of the following German derived surnames is NOT patronymic? Tice Fuchs Weigel Ficker

5. The common Cornish surname Angove is the equivalent of which English occupational name? Smith Weaver Miller Carpenter

6. Names such as King, Duke and Bishop are which type of surname? Descriptive Occupational Patronymic Locational

7. Which of the following surnames in NOT locational? Trounsen Hendriks Atwood Ebenhoch

8. Which group of surnames would ALL be occupational? Thatcher, Cartwright, Glasson, Turner Baxter, Zimmerman, Fletcher, Goddard Cossins, Brewster, Carter, Troxel Roscruge, Ferraro, Turchi, Messerschmidt

9. The French surname "Dubois" is which type of name and what is its meaning? patronymic - 'son of Dubya' occupational - 'blacksmith' descriptive - 'clever' locational - 'from the wood'

10. Noel Coward's surname is of which type? Descriptive Patronymic Occupational Locational

11. Which of the following surnames is now extinct? Schratzenstaller Cobbledick Shufflebottom Gaverigan

12. The surnames Bevan, Bowen and Price have what in common? They are all patronymic They all originally began with the prefix 'ap' They are all Welsh All of these things

13. The surnames Ivanovich, DiGiovanni, Evans and Jans have what in common? They are all of French origen They are descriptive surnames They are equivalent to the English 'Johnson' They are patronymics derived from James

14. Which of the following sets of names shows a patronymic, a locational, an occupational and a descriptive, in that order? Van Horn, Vogel, Voinovich, Vogt Rhys, Roscarrack, Roth, Reeves Piotrowski, Penberthy, Pflueger, Pabst Fuller, Fitzgerald, Fromm, Ferby

15. What modern European country does not have fixed surnames, but still uses a patronymic system? Luxembourg Russia Iceland Norway

16. What is the world's most common surname? Chang Weiss Smith Johnson

17. Animal surnames like Fox, Bear and Hart usually fall into the descriptive category. But what other category of surname are they occasionally derived from? Occupational Locational Patronymic All of them

18. Hudkins and Hudson are both patronymics derived from what given name? Howard Henry Roger Richard

19. Saxby, Bransby and Colby are what type of surname? Locational Descriptive Patronymic Occupational

20. Dutch surnames in New Netherlands could be confusing for what reason? People frequently omitted surnames altogether None of these Women kept their maiden name after marriage People alternated between patronymic and locational