FunTrivia Humanities Mix: Vol 24 Quiz

Answer: A hospital

A gurney is a flat, padded stretcher on wheels used to transport patients (and sometimes bodies) about a hospital.

Question by player Spontini

Answer: The proper term for earwax

Other interesting body parts include the philtrum, which is the groove running from your nose to your lip, and the frenulum, which is the fleshy part under your tongue and not, as you first suspected, part of a guitar. There is a wizard in "The Lord of the Rings" named Saruman, but that's as may be.

Question by player daBomb619

Answer: deceived, tricked

In its modern sense, the verb "to hoodwink" means to dupe, fool, bamboozle, cozen, delude, hornswoggle or snooker. From the 16th century, to "wink" meant to close one's eyes (compare "forty winks") and "hood" meant to cover. Thus, to hoodwink meant literally to cover someone else's eyes (e.g. to blindfold) and figuratively to deceive them.

Question by player FatherSteve

Answer: Grouse

The ruffed grouse is native to much of the North American continent, and is also the state bird of Pennsylvania. The British version of the word seems to come from the French word 'groucier', meaning to grumble, and dates back to the 1890s. The Famous Grouse is a brand of Scottish sweet-flavoured whisky, which tastes pretty 'grouse', mate!

Question by player ozzz2002

Answer: Ailurophile

An ailurophile is a person who loves cats. The word is derived from the Greek words 'ailouros' (cat) and 'philia' (love). A bibliophile is someone who loves books, a Hellenophile is an admirer of Greek culture and a philatelist is a collector of stamps.

Question by player AlonsoKing

Answer: Bagatelle

The Online Etymology Dictionary describes bagatelle as "a trifle, thing of no importance," deriving from the French "bagatelle', for a knick-knack, bauble or trinket. It was thought to first appear in the early 1600s.

A barcarole is a boat song traditionally sung by gondoliers in Venice. A baguette is a long french loaf. A barbell is a piece of gym equipment used for weightlifting and bodybuilding.

Question by player Luckycharm60

Answer: U.S. Marine

There are many stories going around as to where exactly the term "jarhead", as a nickname for Marines, originated. One story was that the company that made mason jars started making Marine helmets, and when someone found this out, the nickname started. The true story and definition of the term has never been proven.

Question by player maryjdonohoe57

Answer: Machiavelli

The term applied to cynical and calculated words, actions or motives, is 'Machiavellian'. By far, the most famous work of Niccolo Machiavelli is "The Prince." He wrote in Italy in the early 1500s, and worked for such infamous figures as Cesare Borgia.

Question by player elmo7

Answer: Old English

The word "wondrous" in current usage means to inspire an emotional response when experiencing something great or marvellous. The word comes to us from the 15th century Old English words "wundor" and "wonders" (adjectives). Both of these words described things that were seen as miracles, or things that inspired awe. Wondrous had the suffix "ly" added in the mid-16th century to become the adverb "wondrously", which meant to do something marvellously, or in a wondrous way.

Question by player Trivia_Fan54

Answer: Peter Rabbit in Beatrix Potter's story

Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human characteristics to non-human creatures and beings, phenomena, material states and objects or abstract concepts. In "Peter Rabbit", Peter is seen to wear clothes and exhibit quite human behaviours.

Question by player evilmoderate