A patient sitting a long time in a physician’s waiting room may or may not be patient, but the two meanings of “patient” come from the same Latin root word, which means to “suffer” or “bear” (the “endure” meaning, not the “grizzly” one). Those two meanings of “bear” are etymologically unrelated.

TV trivia fans know actor Harry Morgan from such series as “December Bride” in the 1950s, “Dragnet” in the 1960s, and “M*A*S*H” in the 1970s and ’80s. But before the age of television, Harry Morgan was the name of the main character in a:

A) Cole Porter musical

B) Longfellow poem

C) Hemingway novel

D) Radio detective series

Answer Monday.

Thursday’s answer: Immediately before the Eiffel Tower, the world’s tallest freestanding structure was the Washington Monument, in Washington, D.C.