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#914. What is 'habeas corpus'?

#915. What is 'Mandamus'?

#916. What is 'Certiorari'?

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#917. Which of the following metals in their purest form have the highest density?

Ir, Os, Pt, U, Th, Pu, Au.

#918. Which element has the current largest atomic radius known?

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#919. What is the difference between an Imperial Gallon (UK) and US liquid Gallon?

#920. What does VLSI stand for?

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#921. What is 'Histopathology'?

#922. What are 'Aldebaran' and 'Achernar'?

#923. What does BSE (in Mad cow disease) stand for?

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

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#924. What is the name of the acid in apple?

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#925. What chemical is this?

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#926. Which one of the following is not an allotrope of carbon?
(a) Soot
(b) Graphite
(c) Diamond
(d) Carborundum

#927. Who for the first time saw bacteria through a microscope
made by himself?
(a) Anton van Leeuwenhoek
(b) Louis Pasteur
(c) Robert Hooke
(d) Robert Virchow

#928. A bus moving at a speed of 24 m/s begins to slow at a rate of 3 m/s each second. How far does it go before stopping?

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

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#929. By what name was japan formerly known as?

#930. What are arboreal animals?

#931. Which is the slowest animal on earth?

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#932. What is 'Bundestag'?

#933. Who were 'Gestapo'?

#934. What are'Little Boy' and 'Fat Man'?

#935. Which country did the mathematicians Gora Shimura and yukuta Taniyama hail from?

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

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#936. What is 'racemic mixture'?

#937. What are the chemicals

and

respectively?

#938. What is the chemical formula of 'Bleaching powder'?

#939. What do the class Aves of subphylum Vertebrata of Phylum Chordata of the Animal Kingdom represent?

#940. Who was known as 'The man of Blood and Iron'?

$941. What are 'synapses'?

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

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#942. What does MASER stand for?

#943. What is a stroboscope?

#944. What is a theodolite?

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#945. What is 'Young's Modulus'?

#946. What is the effective capacitance of three capacitors of 2 microfarads, 4 microfacrads and 8 mincrofarads connected in series?

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#947. Name the biggest temple in the world.

#948. Where was Guru Nanak Dev, the first of the ten Sikh Gurus, born?

#949. Where was lord Gautama Buddha (Siddhartha) born?

#950. Of which country is 'Suva' the capital?

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

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#951. What is the full name of Mahatma Gandhiji?

#952. Who is the author of 'Brain'?

#953. According to Jain tradition, who was the 24th and the last Tirthankara?

#954. In SI unit, how much does 1 liter of water at room temperature weigh approximately?

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

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#955. Who was Zeno of Citium?

#956. When did Albert Einstein propound the 'Special Theory of Relativity' and when the 'General Theory of Relativity'?

#957. Of which country was Kenneth Kaunda the President for about 27 years?

#958. What do 'LIFO' and 'FIFO'stand for?

#959. Which country do the 'Maori' belong to?

#960. Name the three chemicals whose structures are given below:-

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

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#961. Who was the US President when Watergate scandals occured?

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

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#962. What is 'watt' the unit of?

#963. What is 'Pascal' the unit of?

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#964. What is a 'sextant'?

#965. What is an 'epidiascope'?

#966. What is the SI unit of luminous intensity?

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#967. Which is the largest rough gem-quality diamond ever found?

#968. In which part of the world is the language'Swahili' spoken?

#969. What is the functions of  'Inverter' and 'Rectifier'?

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

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#970. In which year did the unification of Federal Republic of Germany and German Democratic republic take place?

#971. What number in Roman numbers is expressed as MDCLVI? What major historic even occured during AD of that year?

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

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#972. How is Hibiscus rosa-sinensis better known as?

#973. Which micro-organism causes 'amebiasis'?

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#974. What is the product of velocity and mass?

#975. What is the SI unit of the Universal Gravitational Constant G?

#976. What Greek letter is used to represent 'Torque'?

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

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#977. What is 'Allotropy'?

#978. What is the approximate value of G, the Universal Gravitation constant (with SI units)?

#979. What does 'Pascal's law' state?

#980. How is an 'isobar' different in cartigraphy from that in nuclear physics?

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

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#981. In which country is Pisa (where the famous Leaning Tower of Pisa is situated)?

#982. Where was Napoleon Bonaparte born and where did he die?

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