What do you call a cold fire?
English is Funny...Oxymoron, what’s that?

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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Warm Blaze
Fire Chill
Fiery Freeze
Icy Inferno
Answer explanation
Shakespeare often used oxymorons like “cold fire” to express confused emotion.
Also, cold fire (plural cold fires) is a low-temperature flame, that is unlikely to set furnishings alight or burn flesh in incidental contact; frequently used for indoor pyrotechnic entertainment devices
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
What's the opposite of a peaceful riot?
Loud Calm
Tranquil Turmoil
Quiet Uproar
Serene Siege
Answer explanation
A Peaceful Riot is a Nonviolent resistance (NVR), or nonviolent action, sometimes called civil resistance
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
What do you get when you mix a vicious vegetable and a friendly fruit?
Rotten Tomato
Ruthless Raspberry
Nasty Apple
Fierce Melon
Answer explanation
An especially repellent, undesirable, or unpleasant person or thing.
This term is also used to describe a very bad and boring movie/show
4.
FILL IN THE BLANK QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
A ______ is the biggest size that you can find in this supermarket
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
What do you get when you cross a sweet sorrow and a bitter joy?
Sugarcoated Pain
Bittersweet Happiness
Sour Bliss
Happy Heartache
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
What's the opposite of a false truth?
Honest Deception
Real Lie
Genuine Fabrication
True Falsehood
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
What's the name of a working vacation?
Busy Holiday
Toiling Relaxation
Productive Rest
Laborious Leisure
Answer explanation
Spending more time resting and less time actively engaged in work not only boosts creativity and the ability to problem-solve, but it also makes the time actually spent on work more efficien
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
What do you call an original copy?
Unique Duplicate
One-of-a-kind Replica
First Imitation
Genuine Facsimile
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