Q7

A bit of trivia (meaning you either know it or you don't):

Q. Who would you be talking about if you were protecting the POTUS and the FLOTUS?

Since it's obviously an anagram, and the last two letters of the anagram seem familiar, try working along those lines.

Yesterday's answer: Pina Colada!

Q6

Q: This drink, created in Puerto Rico, literally translates to "strained pineapple" in Spanish.

Again, based on etymology, you have to go for something that sounds like pineapple in Spanish. If you are familiar with cocktails (another favourite of quizzers), then playing around with the 'pine' root should get you to... (answer in next post)

Previous post:
Petra - Rock (related to Peter, Latin root)
Veritas - Truth/True (related to lots of words with a 'ver' root like veritable, vera, Latin again I think)
Cheetah - Sita (Sanksrit root for the spots on a Cheetah, giving it its name)
Orange - N'arange (French root, converted from "a n'arange" to "an orange"!)

Exercise your etymology skills

The answer to yesterday's question was Algebra. Al-jebr should have given it away (along with polynomials, equations).

Here's another activity to develop your etymology skills. Guess the language and the meaning the following roots/words are associated with:

Petra
Veritas
Cheetah
Orange

Or just try to find as much information about their origins as possible.

You can feel free to use the web for the activities, but all quiz questions should only be 'guessed'.

Q5

An easy question, just to get a feel of words in quizzing.

Q: X (from Arabic al-jebr meaning "reunion of broken parts") concerns the study of the rules of operations and relations, and the constructions and concepts arising from them, including terms, polynomials and equations. What is X?

Hint: Clearly, related to maths. Try saying the Arabic phrase out loud.

Answer tomorrow.