Word Origins
This word for a place to keep books comes from the Latin liber, meaning “book.”
What is library?
Alligator mississippiensis (NCAA-SEC)
What are the Florida Gators?
Scottish-born inventor Alexander Graham Bell patented this device in 1876, allowing voices to travel over wires.
What is the telephone?
Before building a global beauty and fashion empire, Kim Kardashian first gained fame on this reality show that documented the lives of her family in Calabasas, California.
What is Keeping up with the Kardashians?
In 2008, she became the first (and to date, only) woman to win the popular vote in a party’s presidential primary. Ironically, she did not win the nomination that year.
Who is Hillary Clinton?
The word “salary” comes from the Latin salarium, referring to money given to Roman soldiers to buy this seasoning.
What is salt?
Panthera onca (NFL)
What are the Jacksonville Jaguars?
Hungarian architect and professor created this colorful 3-D puzzle in 1974 that became one of the best-selling toys ever.
What is the Rubik's Cube?
Fittingly, the first contestant eliminated from this franchise's currently-airing 50th season is the only returnee from their 1st season, premiered 2000.
What is Survivor?
This 19 c. formerly-enslaved orator and Civil RIghts leader made famous by a series of autobiographies, once said in reference to slavery: “What man can make, man can unmake”
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This everyday word comes from the Greek kubernetes, meaning “steersman” or “pilot,” and later inspired a modern tech term.
What is governor?
Mammuthus columbi (NHL)
What are the Utah Mammoth?
Mexican-born chemist Luis Ernesto Miramontes co-invented the compound used in the first widely available version of this medication that transformed reproductive health in the 20th century
What is the birth control pill?
The first season of this Emmy-winning competition show ended most episodes with contestants filming a low-budget music video for the host’s song “Cover Girl (Put the Bass in Your Walk).”
What is Ru Paul's Drag Race?
The Quasi War, an 18 c. conflict in which France and the US escalated the harassment of each other’s sailors on the high seas, allowed this President to become known as “Father of the Navy”
Who is John Adams?
The English word “quarantine” comes from the Italian quaranta giorni, meaning this number of days ships once had to wait before entering port.
What is 40?
Canis lupus lycaon (NBA)
What are the Minnesota Timberwolves?
Turkish immigrant Hamdi Ulukaya popularized this thick, strained style of breakfast food in the U.S.
What is Greek Yogurt?
In the U.K. version of this dating show, the 2019 season introduced “Casa Amor,” a twist that splits the original islanders into two villas.
What is Love Island?
After working at Chicago’s Hull House and as New York’s Industrial Commissioner, Frances Perkins became Secretary of this Cabinet Department, where she oversaw New Deal legislation including the Social Security Act.
What is the Department of Labor?
The word “robot” was first introduced in a 1920 play by this Czech writer.
Who is Karel Capek?
Bucephala clangula (PWHL)
What are the Vancouver Goldeneyes?
Austrian-born actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr co-developed a “frequency-hopping” system during World War II that became the basis for this modern wireless technology.
What is Wi-Fi?
Contestants on this Netflix real estate reality show work for the Oppenheim Group selling luxury homes in Los Angeles.
What is Selling Sunset?
The 1894 Pullman Strike, in which labor unions obstructed trains nationwide until their arrest en masse, saw the rise to prominence of this notable labor leader, who would later run for President in 1900, 1904, 1908, 1912, and (from prison) 1920.
Who is Eugene Debs?