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To honour whom was a settlement in America called Virginia?

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Queen Elizabeth I

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The term 'fourth estate' is used in reference to

A) The Executive B) The Press and news paper
C) Parliament D) The Judiciary
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) The Press and news paper

Explanation:

Thomas Carlyle attributed the origin of the term to Edmund Burke, who used it in a parliamentary debate in 1787 on the opening up of press reporting of the House of Commons of Great Britain.

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3 1539
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Before independence,Zimbabwe was a colony of ________

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Britain

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Name the man who in the 1930s raised a volunteer corps of about 100,000 pathans, known as 'Khudai Khidmatgars' or Servants of God and affiliated it to the Congress?

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Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan.

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Which territory in America did Napoleon sell to Thomas Jefferson for $ 1.5 m?

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Louisiana

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A big Naval expedition sent by Philip II against England was known as the

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Spanish Armada

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China was also known as

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Chung hua

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Name the British Viceroy who was the original practitioner of the policy of 'divide and rule' in Bengal.

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Lord Curzon

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