Diversity Quiz 1
Questions
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Revived soulless corpse or mindless unresponsive person?
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Old woman or grandmother, also obscurely a headscarf, and (slightly misspelled) hit song for artist whose name is actually in the word (bonus point for artist name)?
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Long course bathsponge?
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Inspirational aura or personality (of a person)?
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Distinguished and sometimes self-important female singer?
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Spiritual teacher or expert mentor?
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Sour bacterial fermentation of milk?
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(Take a) look (at something), typically "Let's have a .... at that", originally British army slang?
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Low bed or mattress?
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A moving marker, especially digital, orginally runner or messenger?
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Love it or hate it food brand originally an earthenware cooking-pot?
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Common sense or intellect, from a language ironically used jokingly to describe nonsense or the impossible to understand?
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Official person or body responsible for investigating complaints?
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Audacity or boldness, usually shameless, a word with Aramaic roots?
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High performance, notably of cars?
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Celebratory or entertainment gathering or event, typically a suffix for words like film, book, arts, etc?
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Enthusiastic or enthusiasm, from military use and original meaning 'work together'?
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Subject of Himalayan cryptozoology?
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Crazy, derived from a bovine/equine disease?
Answers
- Zombie - Bantu
- Babushka - Russian
- Loofah - Arabic
- Charisma - Latin
- Diva - Italian
- Guru - Sanskrit
- Yoghurt - Turkish
- Dekko
- Futon - Japanese
- Cursor - Latin
- Marmite - French
- Nous - Greek
- Ombudsman - Swedish
- Chutzpah - Yiddish
- GT/Gran Turismo - Italian
- Fest - German
- Gung-ho - Chinese
- Yeti - Tibetan
- Loco- Spanish