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100 Hardest and easiest questions for SC as of April 2026

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Upset over the high-handedness of the security agencies, the

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American Heart Association researchers have calculated that

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The invention of the elevator in the mid-nineteenth century

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I had started posting couple of difficult SC questions which

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Though considered aesthetically primitive at the time, Henri

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In the 1980s advertising revenues accounted for

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26 Apr 2012, 07:31

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Though laypeople often refer to the panda as a bear, due to its physic

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With an emphasis on color and form at the expense of exact duplication

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The more people that move to western states, which is an already

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Used until the end of the Second World War, the German army employed

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According to the Federal Trade Commission, the recent

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Though margarine was introduced as a supposedly healthful alternative

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau contended that man is good only when in “the

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Schistosomiasis, a disease caused by a parasitic worm, is prevalent in

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Many entomologists say that campaigns to eradicate the fire ant in the

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Almost all motor vehicles on the road have a suspension system, that

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The times and amplitude of neap tides, the low amplitude tides that

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Scientists who studied the famous gold field known as Serra Pelada con

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Ancient tradition credited the Athenian Thespis as having

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The head of the Istanbul Chamber of Physicians,

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Studies of fitness tests show that playing..

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In the search for alien life, astronomers have recently

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Television programs developed in conjunction with the marketing of

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Increases in the cost of energy, turmoil in the international money

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Researchers have found that large fish are most likely to contain

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While Hans Holbein the Younger is most often identified with his Engli

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The public's widespread belief in the existence of UFOs and their gene

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The team who I follow just signed a multi-milliom dollar contract with

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Minnesota is the only one of the contiguous forty-eight states that st

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With its abundance of noun inflections, Icelandic is one of several Ge

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In addition to mathematical achievements in areas such as

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Because of rapid technology breakthroughs in the last 20 years, many

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The philosophy of the Founding Fathers, the political and military lea

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12 Mar 2019, 09:11

Five small cosmic bodies, discovered in 2002 and 2003,

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One of the greatest scientific thinkers of the 1700s, the theory that

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Led by New York's Guggenheim, some museums are using web sites not as

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The Davenport Oil & Gas Company has announced that, beginning next yea

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The South African delegation expressed its grief on the demise of Nels

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Saltatory conduction of axons relies on the presence of protective mye

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Viruses, due to their inability to sustain life processes on their ow

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According to a recent report, glassworks constructed in the last twent

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Predator X, the largest marine predator ever discovered, would have be

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By offering personalized customer service options and an array of new

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An analysis of the company’s documents reveals that their recent n

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King of Babylonia in the 18th century BC, the legal code developed by

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The tower, one of several new residential developments taking place in

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Architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Rosen House for Stanley and

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Southern Mesopotamia is an alluvial country, and the ancient cities,

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In the interests of boosting attendance, the Boston Baseball Club has

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