What's a Name In? (Part 3) Trivia Quiz

Answer: plentiful

The word ABUNDANT comes from the Old French "abundant", which came from the Latin "abundantem" meaning abounding or overflowing.

In the words of Greek-American entrepreneur Peter Diamandis, "When I think about creating abundance, it's not about creating a life or luxury for everyone on this planet; it's about creating a life of possibility. It is about taking that which was scarce, and making it abundant."

Answer: seer

Someone who is CLAIRVOYANT has special psychic abilities. From the French compound word, "clair" (clear) + "voyant" (seeing).

According to a Pew Research Center survey on clairvoyance, 29% of Americans claim they "felt in touch with someone who had died", and 18% of U.S. adults say they have "been in the presence of a ghost". In addition 15% admit they have consulted a clairvoyant.

Answer: Virgin Mary

A lot of people might think that MADONNA is her stage name, but it's her actual born first name--the same as her mother's. The pop icon, Madonna Louise Ciccone was born in Bay City, Michigan, on August 16, 1958.

Answer: flower

The pale purple-colored LILAC is known as the "Queen of Shrubs" and there are over 1,000 varieties of it. The word "lilac" derives from the Persian word for flower: "lilaq".

Answer: military uniform piece

EPAULETTE comes from a French word meaning "little shoulder", which is were military personnel wear these decorative insignias used to indicate their rank.

A fun movie continuity error that fans like to spot in the movie 'Casablanca', are the disappearing and reappearing epaulettes on Major Strasser's uniform in the final scene of that movie. They're at the airport and Rick (Humphrey Bogart) is talking to the Nazi bad guy Strasser (Conrad Veidt). Watch closely and the epaulettes disappear but then reappear. I imagine a wardrobe assistant running in between takes frantically carrying the epaulettes with him/her, pinning the forgotten items on. So watch the scene--those are epaulettes.

Answer: sweet

When something tastes SUGARY, it tastes sweet. Alexander the Great's associates called sugar the "honey without bees." It was a somewhat rare or exotic ingredient in Europe until the Persians started to cultivate it and by the 14th century, sugar rivaled honey as a sweetener.

Answer: amazing

The word REMARKABLE comes to us from the French. The 16th century word "remarquable" derived from "remarquer", which basically meant what remarkable means: highly noteworthy.

Answer: salad ingredient

ESCAROLE is a leafy green, a variant of the endive family. Eat it up because it's a great source of vitamin A. It's also a healthy source of vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin B5, vitamin C, vitamin K, folate, and potassium.

Answer: worker

A HANDYMAN is someone with a skill set that makes them ideal for making repairs around the home. You want an odd-job done, then he's your guy. On television, comedian Tim Allen had a long-running hit sitcom about a handyman giving advice on TV--a TV show called "Tool Time" within the TV show, which was called "Home Improvement." It had a total of 204 episodes from 1991 to 1999 on ABC TV.

Answer: compliance

OBEDIENCE is another word that comes to us from the French. Around the 12th century their word "obedience" referred to when one yields to authority. In turn it came from the Latin "oboedientia", the noun form being "oboedientem", the verb form being oboedire "to obey".