What seven-letter word has hundreds of letters in it?

Can you complete the sequence puzzle?

AR TA GE CA LE VI LI _

Count the number of lines in the image below ?

What goes through cities and fields, but never moves?

They are the five precious gems of an everyday sort and all can be found on a Tennis Court. Who are they?

The following four words might seem abrupt to you. But you can make them meaningful by just adding vowels.
RDSH
GGPLNT
TMT
NN

Hint: All of them are vegetables.

I have a big mouth and I am also quite loud! I am NOT a gossip but I do get involved with everyone's dirty business.

A detective visits his friend John just to discover that John's neighbour Dr Jacob was murdered. Dr Jacob, who is a mathematician wrote the murderer's name in a code word "Hcqtfz". There were five suspects
1. Ajit
2. Pankaj
3. Ganpat
4. Deenu
5. Hariya

The Detective was instantly able to find the murderer.
Can you?

There is a square piece of paper with a hole that is denoted by the circle on the top right side in the given picture. You have to cut the paper in a manner that it forms two and only two separate pieces of paper and then rearrange the pieces in a manner that the holes come in the centre of the paper.

There are 3 apples in the basket and you take away 2. How many apples do you have now?