What is the flower that stands for: insinuation?

Questions

The word silly comes from the German word?

Name the only English word with three dots in a row?

Who was once fired by ‘The San Francisco Examiner with a pink slip stating ‘He just doesn’t know how to use the English language?

What might you be overtaken and passed by if you were driving down a road in Nairobi at a speed of 35 miles per hour?

The song ‘ yes, we have no bananas’ was the subject of a law suit in 1923. What musical arrangement was it copyrighted from?