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What is the technical term for the order to which wasps and ants belong?

posted 1 hour ago by Vikram Luthra

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The word "ransack" comes from Old Norse and Old English words meaning "thoroughly to search the…" what?

posted Nov 6 by Puneet Batra

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The standard negative pulldown for 35 mm motion picture film is four perforations per frame along both edges, which.....

posted Nov 6 by Madhavi Latha

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What is a "homily"?

posted Nov 5 by Parampreet Kaur

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Canadian Crystal Pite, CM, who leads a company called Kidd Pivot, works in what field?

posted Nov 5 by Saif Khanam

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What is commonly referred to as the big toe?

posted Nov 4 by Kuldeep Apte

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What is tumbleweed?

posted Nov 4 by Karan Joglekar

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What was or Is the Lycian League?

posted Nov 4 by Samardeep Acharya

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Interference patterns produced when an opaque ruled pattern with transparent gaps is overlaid on another similar........

posted Oct 29 by Pushpak Chauhan

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Where would a Deemster hold office?

posted Oct 28 by Maninder Bath

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What is the focus of "The Compleat Angler" by Izaak Walton, first published in 1653 (with additions for another.........

posted Oct 28 by Rahul Vaidya

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If someone cadges something, what are they doing?

posted Oct 24 by Vishal

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What was unusual about jumps carried out by BASE jumpers Dean Potter and Bruno Valenta?

posted Oct 24 by Atif

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In surnames, e.g. Fitzwilliam, FitzGerald, Fitzherbert & Fitzhenry, what does "Fitz-" mean?

posted Oct 21 by Vikram Luthra

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What is Raman spectroscopy used to do?

posted Oct 21 by Prithvi

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Who is a central figure in Homer's "Iliad"?

posted Oct 17 by Nikhil Pandey

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Sometimes thought of as the Stone of the Hebrew Old Testament Jacob, also known as Jacob's Pillow, the Stone..........

posted Oct 17 by Pankaj Deshmukh

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What is a function of benzotriazole?

posted Oct 16 by Manish Tiwari

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What is Coade stone?

posted Oct 16 by Sidharth Malhotra

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The members of which body issued a rare joint statement at the beginning of January 2022 affirming that "a nuclear......

posted Oct 14 by Tapesh Kulkarni

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Boules for competition pétanque are required to be what?

posted Oct 10 by Kuldeep Apte

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What is Gaganyaan?

posted Oct 4 by Swati Arora

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As what does "vermicelli" literally translate from the Italian?

posted Oct 4 by Mridul

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How is the value of eight expressed in a base eight numbering system?

posted Oct 3 by Vishal

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Duck or goose feathers, from the left wing only, are used in what?

posted Oct 3 by Atif

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Food prepared under the dietary laws of Judaism is called what?

posted Oct 3 by Mohammad

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In 1886, John Pemberton claimed that a certain concoction cured diseases, including morphine addiction, dyspepsia.......

posted Oct 1 by Basabdatta Mukherjee

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What is a rhumb line?

posted Sep 30 by Anamika

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What is expected of a recidivist?

posted Sep 27 by Harshita Dhaliwal

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What is the Pusa sibirica, found exclusively in Lake Baikal?

posted Sep 26 by Sandeep Otari

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Initially mentioned in a 1906 trade magazine, later described in Dorothy Levitt's book "The Woman and the Car", then....

posted Sep 24 by Manish Tiwari

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Which cloud formation is a sign of thermals?

posted Sep 20 by Kuldeep Apte

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Hinged, chain and bar, some with "come along", are the three main types of what?

posted Sep 20 by Samardeep Acharya

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In which area did the authors of "Spycatcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer" (1987).........

posted Sep 19 by Nikita Sehgal

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What is spoor?

posted Sep 18 by Mishthy Mukherjee

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How does the game of Upwords differ from Scrabble?

posted Sep 12 by Mridul

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What did the writings of Howard L. Chace on "Anguish Languish" deal with?

posted Sep 11 by Nimish

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What characterises a Möbius strip, or loop, i.e. one formed by attaching the ends of a strip of paper to one............

posted Sep 10 by Anil Chaurasiya

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The "galop" from Offenbach's "Orphée aux Enfers" is generally associated with what?

posted Sep 9 by Riteshwar

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What is the favourite drink of a vampire?

posted Sep 5 by Vikram Luthra

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What does HTML stand for?

posted Sep 2 by Nikhil Pandey

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What was or is Icesave?

posted Aug 30 by Amarvansh

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Circe transformed Odysseus' companions into what?

posted Aug 30 by Parampreet Kaur

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Aberdeen is known as what?

posted Aug 29 by Chahat Sharma

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After several suspended efforts, Chile, with a consortium of OAS, Hyundai, SYSTRA, and Aas-Jakobsen and financial.......

posted Aug 28 by Karan Joglekar

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What is or was a belemnite?

posted Aug 27 by Anuradha Tabyal

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Périgordins are what or who?

posted Aug 26 by Rahul Vaidya

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What is found in a banket?

posted Aug 22 by Swati Arora

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What is the English translation of the title of Mozart's opera "Die Zauberflöte"?

posted Aug 20 by Basabdatta Mukherjee

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Which is a watered-looking textile finish, usually on a fabric with defined ribs including grosgrain, taffeta........

posted Aug 20 by Deepak Chitragar