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100 Hardest and easiest questions for SC as of April 2026

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Many acids corrode many metals, such as iron and copper, and oxygen

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11 Mar 2016, 14:40

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25 Apr 2023, 03:24

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Two-time Presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan,

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Every Monday, either the math department chair or the member

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The Federal investigators at Stapleton Industries have failed to find

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11 Jun 2013, 13:54

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10 Apr 2023, 10:31

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In the 1560 Battle of Okehazama, in which the warlord

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08 Aug 2012, 17:06

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According to Kepler’s Second Law of Planetary Motion, as a planet move

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02 Jan 2013, 14:15

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In Major League Baseball, a "perfect game" is a

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20 Jul 2012, 15:43

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18 Mar 2023, 11:49

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Zhuangzi had an interpretation of Daoism that was highly imaginative,

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12 Mar 2016, 16:14

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02 Mar 2023, 06:04

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That the Fifth Lateran Council (1512 – 1517), [u]had it addressed the

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26 Jul 2021, 08:26

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30 Jan 2023, 10:23

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James Joyce wrote the novel Ulysses through the teens and published it

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Developing East Asian information technology sectors, especially the o

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25 May 2016, 10:33

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The FDA enacted these recent restrictions both to prohibit individual

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28 Nov 2012, 11:59

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For parts of his life, Burroughs, a writer in self-imposed exile, and

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10 Mar 2016, 17:09

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08 Dec 2022, 04:15

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The state of Maine, in the extreme northeast corner of the

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22 Sep 2016, 06:45

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30 Nov 2022, 11:13

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Because of Elnath Industries posting a second consecutive

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04 Dec 2012, 12:49

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01 Sep 2022, 18:26

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Potassium, whose outer electron is easily lost, is a highly reactive m

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20 May 2016, 10:35

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21 Jul 2022, 00:23

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The motion of the Sun in the sky, as well as the Moon and planets and

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11 Oct 2016, 14:19

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In 1871, Charles Darwin published The Descent of Man, and before that,

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12 Apr 2022, 23:34

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The CEO of Ergon, a multi-million dollar company, asked the consultant

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08 Apr 2015, 14:25

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07 Apr 2022, 02:34

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Ancient Celtic legend holds that the mythical figure of

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Long before Thomas Edison made a long-lasting and commercially viable

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The term Immaculate Conception , a doctrine that the Roman

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Although Bryant was better at gaining the support of rural voters than

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While the Senate of the Roman Republic did not have the power to enact

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A highly educated member of wealthy and aristocratic Boston

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Studies show that teachers unconsciously assume that

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01 May 2013, 10:29

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Political satire typically seizes on a public official s

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Though generally regarded as a fairly undramatic, even bland

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Opposing government interference to the action of the free market, Wil

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16 Jun 2020, 08:48

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The board of trustees, worried about the Neith corporation's rising de

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The film professor said he regarded Leni Riefenstahl more

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20 Jun 2019, 17:55

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The end of the Montgomery Bus Boycott was the Browder v. Gayle (1956)

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The continental United States receives an average of 30 inches of

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Both the caribou and the reindeer belong to the species Rangifer taran

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Whereas heat transferred between the ocean and the atmosphere occurs

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United States Senator Daniel Inouye was appointed to several posts

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Before scientists learned how to make a synthetic growth hormone, remo

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A recent report shows that over the last five years many banks have mo

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With a rotational axis tilted nearly parallel to the plane of the Sola

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17 Jun 2023, 00:19

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All of the university’s faculty is appalled by the decision to hire as

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With a global team of analysts studying every move of the Asian mar

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After a dip caused by Congressional embroilment, many growth stocks ar

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25 Jun 2017, 00:24

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1998 saw several new ventures promoting online distance learning both

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25 Aug 2019, 23:22

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10 Sep 2023, 04:53

Because of the author’s resistance to giving us a straightforward crim

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18 Mar 2019, 00:34

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With California expected to see severe electricity shortfalls and perh

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In an America steeped in Romanticism, cemeteries were laid out beyond

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New genetic evidence together with recent studies of elephan

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