Author Topic: Etymology quiz (Read 1913 times)

Jonathon · « **on:** March 28, 2006, 10:50:29 AM »

How well do you know word origins?

<—10 out of 12

Porter · « **Reply #1 on:** March 28, 2006, 10:54:46 AM »

6/12

saxon75 · « **Reply #2 on:** March 28, 2006, 11:16:34 AM »

Me too.

Noemon · « **Reply #3 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.

Jonathon · « **Reply #4 on:** March 28, 2006, 11:56:15 AM »

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

pooka · « **Reply #5 on:** March 28, 2006, 12:04:55 PM »

:thought she posted:

JT · « **Reply #6 on:** March 28, 2006, 02:13:36 PM »

Jonathon · « **Reply #7 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.

Porter · « **Reply #8 on:** March 28, 2006, 04:00:30 PM »

I didn't know:

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

Jonathon · « **Reply #9 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.

sarcasticmuppet · « **Reply #10 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.

Teshi · « **Reply #11 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).