Silver comes from an Anglo-Saxon word; which element's name comes from the Spanish for "little silver"?

Which author departed from her theme of Chinese-American mothers and daughters with 2005's "Saving Fish from Drowning"? Who had never held public office before she was elected governor of Alabama in 1966? Sherman Minton was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1949 by which president? Sherry Stringfield practiced law on which ABC cop show before getting her medical degree on "ER"? Since the breakup of the Soviet Union, which has been the largest country in the world by area? Which singer's ex-son-in-law, Sidney Lumet, directed her as a witch in "The Wiz"? Sir, to toy with a woman's affections makes you a cad, a bounder, and which body part, technically the calcaneus? Slower than a gallop, which horse's gait is named for a pilgrimage site in England?