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Title: Etymology quiz
Post by: Jonathon on March 28, 2006, 10:50:29 AM

How well do you know word origins? (http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/departments/adultlearning/?page=Quiz81&Quizid=81>1=7872)

<—10 out of 12

Title: Etymology quiz
Post by: Porter on March 28, 2006, 10:54:46 AM

6/12

Title: Etymology quiz
Post by: saxon75 on March 28, 2006, 11:16:34 AM

Me too.

Title: Etymology quiz
Post by: Noemon on March 28, 2006, 11:45:33 AM

Hm.  The quiz isn't displaying.  Does it use flash by any chance?  My workplace has blocked flash, much to my irritation and dismay.

Title: Etymology quiz
Post by: Jonathon on March 28, 2006, 11:56:15 AM

No, it's not Flash. Maybe they've just blocked whatever server it's coming from.

Title: Etymology quiz
Post by: pooka on March 28, 2006, 12:04:55 PM

:thought she posted:

Title: Etymology quiz
Post by: JT on March 28, 2006, 02:13:36 PM

50%

Title: Etymology quiz
Post by: Jonathon on March 28, 2006, 03:56:57 PM

So which ones are you guys missing? I second-guessed myself on parasite and had almost no idea on paparazzi. The one for fascism was less of a test of word history and more of a test of coin trivia.

Title: Etymology quiz
Post by: Porter on March 28, 2006, 04:00:30 PM

I didn't know:

halibut, cliche, parasite, sarcasm, tycoon, paparazzi, fascism.

Title: Etymology quiz
Post by: Jonathon on March 28, 2006, 04:04:35 PM

That's not surprising. I don't remember where I learned the origin of halibut, but I recognized it when I saw it. I discovered the origin of cliche just last week as I was looking it up to see if it had to have an accent on the e. Sarcasm was an educated guess based, and I knew tycoon.

Title: Etymology quiz
Post by: sarcasticmuppet on March 28, 2006, 08:27:19 PM

I think I missed halibut, tycoon, paparazzi, and facsism, and anther one equaling 50%.  The correct choices sarcasm and parasite sounded vaguely familiar to me.

Title: Etymology quiz
Post by: Teshi on March 30, 2006, 09:02:09 AM

6/12

I got sarcasm, cliche, guerilla, river horse, orangutan and tycoon.

I knew or could work out 4/12- the others I guessed on (tycoon and cliche).