FunTrivia Humanities Mix: Vol 26 Quiz

Answer: Knead

The word "knead" is originally Germanic in origin. Of the options listed, only "nead" has no meaning in English.

Question by player Trufflesss

Answer: Leonardo Da Vinci

Not many people may know this, but the Mona Lisa is also known as La Gioconda or La Joconde. Leonardo Da Vinci painted this portrait in the 16th century in oil, on a poplar panel, in Florence, Italy.

Question by player Dwayne_13

Answer: Bulls

Taurophobia is the fear of bulls. A picador is a mounted rider that jabs at the bull with a lance to weaken it.

Question by player MsKreant

Answer: a primate of the family Hominidae

The taxonomic family Hominidae includes humans, chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and orangutans. These are the manlike primates or great apes. The biological family name Hominidae derives from the Latin "homo" (the genitive is "hominis") meaning man. Compare "homunculus".

Question by player FatherSteve

Answer: Spittoon

In the late 19th century in the United States chewing tobacco was popular, and this led to people spitting on the floor or in the street. In order to improve health and public manners spittoons were introduced. They were large bowls, often metal, and were particularly found in saloons, hotels, banks and stores.

The word cuspidor actually means 'spitter' in Portuguese.

Question by player Tekka

Answer: Chicago

The musical 'Chicago' is originally based on a theatre play, written in 1926, by Maurine Dallas Watkins. She wrote the play whilst working as a reporter, basing it on various cases of corruption that she worked on as a journalist.
The musical was written and composed by Fred Ebb and John Kander and had its debut in 1975 at the Broadway theatre 46th Street Theatre, where it was well received.

Question by player DoveHouse

Answer: intimidate

Before it came to denote a caterpillar tractor used for clearing or leveling, the word "bulldozer" meant "someone who uses violence to intimidate". The verb "to bulldoze" first appeared in the US South during the Reconstruction, referring to the actions of people who, in the years following the American Civil War, used violent tactics to prevent blacks from voting in the 1876 presidential election.

The most widely accepted etymology of "bulldoze" is a combination of "bull" (the animal) and "dose" (meaning "a severe beating or whipping): "a dose meant for a bull" was a synonym for violent bullying.

In 1886, a large-caliber pistol was also named "bulldozer". The modern use of "bulldozer" as a driver-operated machine dates from the 1930s or 1940s; in modern English, "bulldoze" is used to mean "push through forcefully".

Question by player LadyNym

Answer: whiskey

The Gaelic word "usquebae" comes from the Gaelic words "uisge" which means water and "beatha" which means life. "Usquebae", used in English since at least as long ago as the 16th century, became "whiskeybae", which got shortened to whiskey.

Question by player napierslogs

Answer: keel

The anadrome of a word is one where its spelling is reversed. If you reverse the letters in leek, you get keel; therefore, the anadrome of leek is keel. Also, the anadrome must be a word meaning it is incorrect to say rewsna is an anadrome of answer.

In the question above, leek (a type of plant) and keel (to walk in a way that it appears you can't control how you walk) are both words, so leek is indeed an anadrome of keel. Furthermore, an anagram is formed by switching letters in a word or phrase around. One way of doing that is by reversing the letters.

As such, all anadromes are also anagrams but not all anagrams are not anadromes.

Question by player Buddy1

Answer: Post hoc, ergo propter hoc

Post hoc, ergo propter hoc (after this, therefore because of this) is the assumption that event A caused event B because event A occurred before event B. However, temporal proximity does not prove causation.

Argumentum ad lapidem ("appeal to the stone") is method of attacking a claim simply by dismissing it as too ridiculous or too incredible to merit refutation, without offering proof of its falsehood. For example the argument that disease is cause by microbes rather than bad air would be refuted by stating, "That's preposterous."

The bandwagon fallacy attempts to prove the truth of a statement by showing that it is popular. For example, "Guzzler gasoline is the best; all the NASCAR drivers are using it!"

An ad hominem ("at the man") attack seeks to attack some trait of the speaker rather than the content of the argument. For example: "Brian's claim that vaccines are safe cannot be true, since he doesn't attend church."

Question by player Samoyed7