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Multiple choice general knowledge

Virbhadra Singh is Minister for .........

Minister of Defence
Minister of Tourism and Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation
Minister of Steel
Ministry of New and Renewable Energy

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Multiple choice general knowledge

Minister of Human Resource Development

Mamata Banerjee
Sushilkumar Shinde
Dayanidhi Maran
Kapil Sibal

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Multiple choice general knowledge

Ghulam Nabi Azad is the Minister for .........

Minister of Health and Family Welfare
Minister of Panchayati Raj and Minister of Rural Development
Minister of Law and Justice
Ministry of New and Renewable Energy

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Multiple choice general knowledge sports

Who is the Minister of External Affairs

G K Vasan
Anand Sharma
S M Krishna
Murli Deora

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Multiple choice general knowledge

I'm the kind of person who is excited on learning that different words share the same origin. All but one of the following words comes from the Latin root "caput", which means "head". Which one doesn't?

Chattel
Capital
Chateau
Cattle

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Multiple choice general knowledge

I'm amazed that some authors have the audacity to simply make up new words. Friedrich Nietzsche is credited with coining the German word that, translated into English, became "superman". However, other translations were possible, such as "overman". Who is generally given credit for establishing "superman" as an English term?

Oscar Wilde
Winston Churchill
Hank Stram
George Bernard Shaw

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Multiple choice general knowledge

Which of the following words does not share a common root? (Hint: One of these words should "appear" different.)

Expectorate
Expect
Specter
All have the same root

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Multiple choice general knowledge sports

Wondering where the word croquet came from started me collecting the information for this quiz. To which of the following objects did the Old North French word from which the word croquet was derived refer?

A bow of ribbon on a woman's hat
A hooked needle
A shepherd's crook
A hockey stick

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Multiple choice general knowledge

Knowing the origin of a word often greatly increases my interest in it as well as my desire to use it. Which of these words comes from a Latin compound word meaning "detrimental to faith"? (Hint: There is a fragment of "faith" in one of these words.)

Perfidious
Deceitful
Treacherous
Punic

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Multiple choice general knowledge

what is the tagline of Apple?

Think Same
Think Different
Think Like
Think Alike

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