Ye Olde Professions Quiz

what about "apothecarist" - I've heard that in addition to apothecary.

Im not sure what I think, but I think apotheker among other things... didnt know what to make of it in english

great quiz

Whats the oldest?

I think subconsciously I ve allways linked it to the standing on the corners by street-walkers. Since in dutch it is hoek (the corner of the street)

With bones.

very fun!

An old professions quiz that doesn't even include the oldest profession of them all? Pfft.

Isn't Apothecary the place where you buy medicine and not a profession? I also agree that Minstrel should be accepted.

Skyrim ftw;) hahaha bard

Bonanza

i thought monger should work

"Monger" is usually a suffix, as in "fishmonger" or "ironmonger".

cheesemonger

Blessed are the cheese makers

wrong, what you say it means is its later added meaning.

No such thing as steel in Mediaeval times.

yes there was!

I beleive you are thinking about the stone age? The knights sure didnt fight with wooden swords :D

Is that why Pb is symbol for lead?

The Latin word for tin is stannum.

And more likely to be in UK as we don't use the term teamster.

Doesnt a farrier not only take cares of the hooves & horseshoes

I tried stableboy and page among other things

This is a very cool quiz. I learned a lot - 14 things to be exact. :-P

What, no milliner? and what about haberdasher for the clothing maker?

wrangler also works for horse tender

Fun quiz thanks. Could you accept ostler as someone who looks after horses?

Thank you as that is what I immediately came up with. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ostler

Constable's famous painting "The Hay Wain" got me half way there.

Loved this quiz! Thanks so much!

i have to disagree about prostitute being brought up as the oldest profession. A prostitute accepts pay for performing sexual services. While I'm sure that a caveman offering a haunch of dead something helped his chances with a cavewoman this isn't true payment or even a profession. Prostitution as it is commonly know couldn't have exited until humanity moved past the hunter-gatherer stage and started to become more agricultural. You would need a large community of people with a fair amount of surplus before services like prostitution could become a way to fully support oneself and therefore become a profession. I'd say that hunter-gatherer is realistically the oldest profession. Wow, I put way too much thought into this :)

No, he just drives it.

In the UK and Australia, midwives can be male.

Yup. The word 'midwife' is derived from the Old English for 'with woman.' The word itself isn't gendered.

Cool I didnt know that, I see it now (in most if not all germanic languages besides english a variation of - mid is still used for "with": mit, met, med, með )

It's doubtful they were male in medieval times, though.

Absolutely many still exist, and I think people who work in these professions would be insulted to hear their skills referred to as being from the Middle Ages.

A furrier doesn't make fur. Biological processes in animals do

Definitely, there was no such profession

QM: This quiz rocked! Chandler is nearly impossible, and I've never hear of Wainwright. I tried wheelwright about 5 times.

Stablehand also works with horses.

Superb quiz! All jobs still available in India!

Butcher baker & candlestick maker?

Plus, a candlestick isn't the same thing as a candle....

I tried several too, including doctor, dealer and medicineman haha. I tried to type apothecary but didnt know the ending in englsh_

agreed

Great Quiz!

Stable master (or stablemaster) should also qualify as someone who cares for horses. I believe it falls under "ye olde profession" as well.

A farrier and a furrier would go nice back to back.

And ferrier (another word for blacksmith)!

"Ye" pronunciation and definition in this context should be required for 5/5 points.

? Not sure where it appears in the quiz, but the meaning is "the" and the pronunciation is "the", exactly as we say "the" in current English. The thorn or Y shape was the symbol for the sound we make for 'th' in the.

Doula?

When I initially read the clue on "Milks cows (female)" I thought, "Cf course female cows! Good lord, what a truly awful job it would be to 'milk' male cows!"

A midwife does not have to be female. The wife part refers to the client, not the professional.

makes wagons = coachbuilder, drives a team of animals = herdsman

manages household servants = governess

A governess was hired to teach children, usually a she, and governed the children's education. They did not govern or manage the household servants.

My Mum's heating system struck a leak and it was discovered, during its replacement, that the pipes supplying her home were still lead! Eeek so the street was also dug up to replace those. This was in 2019. Plumbers are still finding lead to work with.

Maybe add a note to the description that the professions *began* in the middle-ages. I was expected to guess older, now-gone professions, but a bunch of these still exist.

Given that a baker will only earn money if he makes and sells bread, and a cooper will only make money if he makes and sells barrels, should alchemist (as it is described here) be considered an actual profession?