Questions

A pencil is an implement for writing or drawing. It is a thin core of graphite well mixed with clay, inside a wooden body as protective casing that prevents the core from being broken.

Here there are combination of two series.

 1) 9, 18, 36, 72, 144

 2) 8, 6, 4, 2, 0

Therefore, The next number in the given series is 0.

Duncan Passage is a strait in the Indian Ocean. It is about 48 km wide.

It separates Rutland Island to the north, and Little Andaman to the south.

West of Duncan Passage is the Bay of Bengal, east is the Andaman Sea.

In the given sentence,

Despite is the preposition. It does not take 'of' after it. Therefore, the grammar mistake in the given sentence is 'of'.

Hence, the correct sentence is  "She went to gym despite her illness."

In India, Andhra Pradesh & the Krishna-Godavari Delta region is called as "Rice Bowl of India".

Coming to the Indian State, Chhattisgarh is also known as Rice Bowl of India.