# It's from where? **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [May 25, 2023, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-from-where/984600 "2023-05-25T21:39:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2023, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-from-where/984600/61 "2023-06-05T16:17:34Z")
Replying to jodhpurs: Riding breeches named for the city in Northern India Cheddar ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2023, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-from-where/984600/62 "2023-06-05T16:22:05Z")
Can we repeat? Because cheddar was already played in post #45. ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2023, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-from-where/984600/63 "2023-06-05T16:31:54Z")
Oops something went wrong because when I searched for cheddar it didn’t come up! Instead of cheddar: muslin ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2023, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-from-where/984600/64 "2023-06-05T17:11:59Z")
A cotton fabric named for Mosul, Iraq where it was originally manufactured. Yttrium (The most interesting thing about this one is I could have picked any of FOUR different elements and gotten the same answer.) ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2023, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-from-where/984600/65 "2023-06-05T17:37:21Z")
Yttrium: from a quarry where the rock sample that the element was extracted from. The quarry was in the village of Ytterby, near Stockholm Sweden. Mocha ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2023, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-from-where/984600/66 "2023-06-05T19:19:55Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > Mocha From the coffee trade port of Al Mokka in Yemen. **Magenta** ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2023, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-from-where/984600/67 "2023-06-05T22:59:00Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > Magenta Italian city where they fought a battle in the 19th century. Color name apparently from that of the uniforms of the Zouave troops. Dungeness ---
**Author:** ![Quondam\_Mechanic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quondam_mechanic/32/3404_2.png) [@Quondam\_Mechanic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quondam_Mechanic)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2023, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-from-where/984600/68 "2023-06-07T22:29:40Z")
The crab’s name comes from the Dungeness Spit, a long sand spit in Washington – itself presumably named for Dungeness, England. Armageddon ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2023, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-from-where/984600/69 "2023-06-08T00:11:44Z")
From Tel Megiddo, an Bronze Age Canaanite city-state, later a royal city in the Israelite kingdom, supposed in Christian eschatology to be the site of an apocalyptic battle between good and evil. Mascara. ---
**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2023, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-from-where/984600/70 "2023-06-10T01:22:39Z")
After much research, I found a reference _(it’s from Wikipedia, so take that for whatever it’s worth)_ to the Algerian town of Mascara, since the French discovered antimony powder during their conquest of Algeria during the mid-19th century – and Roman historical records indicate the use of antimony as eye makeup (it was called _stibium_, however). Since the use of dark eye makeup predates that significantly, I’m more inclined to believe the word came from the Arabic _maskharah_ (meaning _buffoon_), or the Italian _maschera_ or Spanish _máscara_ – words that mean _mask_, and the fact that there happens to be a city in Algeria named Mascara is merely a coincidence. Moving along … **Colby cheese** _ **-“BB”-** _ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-from-where/984600.md?page=3)