Q6

Horace Walpole coined the term "serendipity." What prompted him to create this word?

A: After learning that Belgian Trappist monks from the Abbey of Seren du Pois discovered spontaneous fermentation had occurred when some of their stored grains had fallen into a cask of water to produce ale

B:After reading the Persian fairy tale "The Three Princes of Serendip", where the princes were "always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of"

C: After learning the story of Prince Faisal Serendi, who discovered vast oil reserves across what is now Saudi Arabia after his camel's hoof had stepped in some tarry sand

D: After he stumbled upon a priceless painting by the French painter Jacquemart de Hesdin, entitled "Seraphim de Pithé", purchased by his grandfather, stored in his cellar

B