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2024-iqbt-nats-01-1
The Stone of the Pregnant Woman is a massive monolith found in a city named after this deity.
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{ "category": "History - Archaeology", "category_full": "History - Archaeology", "category_main": "", "difficulty": "", "packet": "2024 IQBT National Packet 01", "question_set": "2024-iqbt-nationals", "subcategory": [] }
2024-iqbt-nats-01-2
Federico Garcia Lorca's concept of duende inspired this poet's collection of the same name.
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2024-iqbt-nats-01-3
In a black-and-white photograph, a woman standing in one of these locations stares towards the right while her left hand gestures at a dropped bag.
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{ "category": "Arts - Visual - Photography or fashion/design or misc visual", "category_full": "Arts - Visual - Photography or fashion/design or misc visual", "category_main": "", "difficulty": "", "packet": "2024 IQBT National Packet 01", "question_set": "2024-iqbt-nationals", "subcategory": [] }
2024-iqbt-nats-01-4
This company announced an early attempt at a curated Internet service environment in 1983, which largely did not come to fruition.
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{ "category": "Misc/Cross - History of science & technology", "category_full": "Misc/Cross - History of science & technology", "category_main": "", "difficulty": "", "packet": "2024 IQBT National Packet 01", "question_set": "2024-iqbt-nationals", "subcategory": [] }
2024-iqbt-nats-01-5
A pioneering outdoor depiction of this scene was located at the top of a stairway in the Convent of San Marco.
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2024-iqbt-nats-01-6
In a system undergoing this kind of rotation, a radially displaced parcel oscillates at the epicyclic frequency.
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{ "category": "Science - Astronomy non space geo", "category_full": "Science - Astronomy non space geo", "category_main": "", "difficulty": "", "packet": "2024 IQBT National Packet 01", "question_set": "2024-iqbt-nationals", "subcategory": [] }
2024-iqbt-nats-01-7
One of these groups took its name from the psychiatric diagnosis exempting young men from compulsory military service, DG 307.
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{ "category": "History - European Not France/Germany/Russia 1901-present \n \n<b>2024 IQBT National All-Star Academic Tournament Round 1 Page 12 </b>", "category_full": "History - European Not France/Germany/Russia 1901-present \n \n<b>2024 IQBT National All-Star Academic Tournament Round 1 Page 12 </b>", "category_main": "", "difficulty": "", "packet": "2024 IQBT National Packet 01", "question_set": "2024-iqbt-nationals", "subcategory": [] }
2024-iqbt-nats-01-8
While in this situation, a character starts thinking about dinosaurs, and realizes his death "would be a deliberate loss to earth of good material."
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{ "category": "Literature - British fiction", "category_full": "Literature - British fiction", "category_main": "", "difficulty": "", "packet": "2024 IQBT National Packet 01", "question_set": "2024-iqbt-nationals", "subcategory": [] }
2024-iqbt-nats-01-9
This particle's "sombrero potential" allows its field to take on nonzero values everywhere.
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{ "category": "Science - Physics particles/HE", "category_full": "Science - Physics particles/HE", "category_main": "", "difficulty": "", "packet": "2024 IQBT National Packet 01", "question_set": "2024-iqbt-nationals", "subcategory": [] }
2024-iqbt-nats-01-10
This philosopher analyzed three spheres of right in Elements of the Philosophy of Right.
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{ "category": "Philosophy - 1601-1900 \n \n<b>2024 IQBT National All-Star Academic Tournament Round 1 Page 13 </b>", "category_full": "Philosophy - 1601-1900 \n \n<b>2024 IQBT National All-Star Academic Tournament Round 1 Page 13 </b>", "category_main": "", "difficulty": "", "packet": "2024 IQBT National Packet 01", "question_set": "2024-iqbt-nationals", "subcategory": [] }
2024-iqbt-nats-01-11
Two of these characters, who are given the names Flapper and Raspberry, are studied by the protagonist of a novella who determines they write using chains of semagrams with no linear sequence.
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{ "category": "Literature - American short fiction", "category_full": "Literature - American short fiction", "category_main": "", "difficulty": "", "packet": "2024 IQBT National Packet 01", "question_set": "2024-iqbt-nationals", "subcategory": [] }
2024-iqbt-nats-01-12
In a retelling from A Wonder-Book For Girls and Boys, Nathaniel Hawthorne added a now- oft-repeated tragedy regarding this figure's daughter.
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{ "category": "Mythology - Greek/Roman", "category_full": "Mythology - Greek/Roman", "category_main": "", "difficulty": "", "packet": "2024 IQBT National Packet 01", "question_set": "2024-iqbt-nationals", "subcategory": [] }
2024-iqbt-nats-01-13
A "language of symbols and formulas" used in this activity was developed by Joculator Basiliensis, who reduced math and music to a common denominator.
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2024-iqbt-nats-01-14
This organism is thought to have lived in hydrothermal vents between 3.5 to 3.8 billion years ago.
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{ "category": "Science - Biology ecology/evolution", "category_full": "Science - Biology ecology/evolution", "category_main": "", "difficulty": "", "packet": "2024 IQBT National Packet 01", "question_set": "2024-iqbt-nationals", "subcategory": [] }
2024-iqbt-nats-01-15
This ruler's sons take turns to tell him wondrous stories in a papyrus discovered by Henry Westcar.
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{ "category": "History - World Ancient Egypt", "category_full": "History - World Ancient Egypt", "category_main": "", "difficulty": "", "packet": "2024 IQBT National Packet 01", "question_set": "2024-iqbt-nationals", "subcategory": [] }
2024-iqbt-nats-01-17
This composer's Grand, Grand Festival Overture includes parts for four rifles, three vacuum cleaners, and a floor polisher.
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{ "category": "Arts - Audio - Academic music non-opera 1881-present", "category_full": "Arts - Audio - Academic music non-opera 1881-present", "category_main": "", "difficulty": "", "packet": "2024 IQBT National Packet 01", "question_set": "2024-iqbt-nationals", "subcategory": [] }
2024-iqbt-nats-01-18
In 2016, archaeologists unearthed the remains of women at a location numbered 72 near this site, disproving it was only accessible to men.
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2024-iqbt-nats-01-19
Ambrose Crowley discovered a place with this characteristic whose characteristic landmarks are Mount Charles and Prince George Point.
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{ "category": "Geography - Australia/NZ/Oceania", "category_full": "Geography - Australia/NZ/Oceania", "category_main": "", "difficulty": "", "packet": "2024 IQBT National Packet 01", "question_set": "2024-iqbt-nationals", "subcategory": [] }
2024-iqbt-nats-01-20
The Unsold approximation explains this interaction in terms of ionization energies.
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2024-iqbt-nats-01-21
Horse manure and the microclimate created by this place caused the "pink of the fields" mushroom to be cultivated in the 1800s.
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{ "category": "Geography - Europe", "category_full": "Geography - Europe", "category_main": "", "difficulty": "", "packet": "2024 IQBT National Packet 01", "question_set": "2024-iqbt-nationals", "subcategory": [] }
2024-iqbt-nats-01-22
John A. Burns was the first member of this party to be elected Governor of Hawai'i.
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{ "category": "History - US political/government 1865-present", "category_full": "History - US political/government 1865-present", "category_main": "", "difficulty": "", "packet": "2024 IQBT National Packet 01", "question_set": "2024-iqbt-nationals", "subcategory": [] }
2024-iqbt-nats-02-1
The original manuscript of Joseph Haydn's forty-first of forty-five works in this genre featured the inscription "Jacob's Dream! by Dr. Haydn."
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{ "category": "Arts - Audio - Academic music non-opera 1750-1880", "category_full": "Arts - Audio - Academic music non-opera 1750-1880", "category_main": "", "difficulty": "", "packet": "2024 IQBT National Packet 02", "question_set": "2024-iqbt-nationals", "subcategory": [] }
2024-iqbt-nats-02-2
Answer the following about early German female playwrights.
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2024-iqbt-nats-02-3
German miners blamed these creatures for arsenical ores which corrupted more useful metals.
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{ "category": "Mythology - Norse/Germanic", "category_full": "Mythology - Norse/Germanic", "category_main": "", "difficulty": "", "packet": "2024 IQBT National Packet 02", "question_set": "2024-iqbt-nationals", "subcategory": [] }
2024-iqbt-nats-02-4
A ruler with this name served as regent for Neoptolemus II of Epirus before being assassinated on the orders of Antigonus the One-Eyed.
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2024-iqbt-nats-02-5
The Chichibabin synthesis of this molecule involves condensing one molecule each of acrolein, acetaldehyde, and ammonia.
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2024-iqbt-nats-02-6
The slogan "Vote for the crook, not the fascist" targeted this politician.
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{ "category": "History - European France 1901-present", "category_full": "History - European France 1901-present", "category_main": "", "difficulty": "", "packet": "2024 IQBT National Packet 02", "question_set": "2024-iqbt-nationals", "subcategory": [] }
2024-iqbt-nats-02-7
This painting is covered with a Union Jack during exams because it is believed to be cursed.
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{ "category": "Arts - Visual - Painting 1851-1945", "category_full": "Arts - Visual - Painting 1851-1945", "category_main": "", "difficulty": "", "packet": "2024 IQBT National Packet 02", "question_set": "2024-iqbt-nationals", "subcategory": [] }
2024-iqbt-nats-02-8
This principle applies to any pair of conjugate variables since they satisfy the canonical commutation relation.
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2024-iqbt-nats-02-9
A novel set in this country is about Elias Cole, Adrian Lockheart, and Kai Mansaray, who process the trauma of a civil war.
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2024-iqbt-nats-02-10
Answer the following about the anthropological process of acculturation.
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2024-iqbt-nats-02-11
This author created a character who marries Mrs. Fielding in a novel set during Philadelphia's yellow fever epidemic.
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2024-iqbt-nats-02-12
Mireya Moscoso was elected as the first female president of this country.
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{ "category": "History - World Other Latin America", "category_full": "History - World Other Latin America", "category_main": "", "difficulty": "", "packet": "2024 IQBT National Packet 02", "question_set": "2024-iqbt-nationals", "subcategory": [] }
2024-iqbt-nats-02-13
The director of this film allegedly shipped trees from overseas for a scene in which the main characters graduate from Harvard.
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{ "category": "Arts - Misc - Academic film US 1980-present", "category_full": "Arts - Misc - Academic film US 1980-present", "category_main": "", "difficulty": "", "packet": "2024 IQBT National Packet 02", "question_set": "2024-iqbt-nationals", "subcategory": [] }
2024-iqbt-nats-02-14
In a play by this author, Leo Rosenbaum offends Nathan and Rosa by having no recollection of his life as a Jew before changing his name to Leo Chamberlain.
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2024-iqbt-nats-02-15
In June 2021, this city's acting mayor Kim Janey announced that the MBTA Route 28 would be free for three months.
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2024-iqbt-nats-02-16
Baseball pitchers often suffer tears of a ligament named for this bone, necessitating Tommy John surgery.
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2024-iqbt-nats-02-17
In April 2023, Paris became the world's first city to ban these objects after 90% of voters in a low-turnout referendum supported a ban.
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2024-iqbt-nats-02-18
This mathematician and Nikolai Smirnov give their names to a non-parametric test for one dimensional distributions.
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2024-iqbt-nats-02-19
In her book Sisters in the Wilderness, Delores Williams said that this Biblical figure's story has "'spoken' to generations of black women."
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2024-iqbt-nats-02-20
Tiffany & Co. sold unused pieces from this project as decorative souvenirs and jewelry.
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2024-iqbt-nats-02-21
Dementia with Lewy bodies and the dementia associated with this disease are the two Lewy body dementias.
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2024-iqbt-nats-02-22
A book of criticism by this author suggests Italo Calvino and Toni Morrison understand the "firm, hard-headed sense" of love rather than the term's "misuse...by pornographers and the makers of greeting-cards."
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{ "category": "Literature - American any fiction", "category_full": "Literature - American any fiction", "category_main": "", "difficulty": "", "packet": "2024 IQBT National Packet 02", "question_set": "2024-iqbt-nationals", "subcategory": [] }
2024-iqbt-nats-03-1
Answer the following about getting stuck in a jar in Greek myth.
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2024-iqbt-nats-03-2
In the novel Freshwater, the unwitting prayers of Ada's Catholic father cause deities of this ethnic group to take over her mind.
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2024-iqbt-nats-03-3
An important diagram in David J. Griffiths' quantum mechanics textbook shows one of these animals climbing a ladder.
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2024-iqbt-nats-03-4
Mollie Bean and the Bell cousins were held as prisoners in this city's Castle Thunder prison.
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2024-iqbt-nats-03-5
A pioneer of this genre named Charley Patton taught younger musicians at the Dockery Plantation.
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2024-iqbt-nats-03-6
The leader of this group was described as the "first Robespierre" by Isidore Stone.
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2024-iqbt-nats-03-7
The first modern one of these devices was launched in Fresno, California, because 45% of its residents used the same company.
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2024-iqbt-nats-03-8
This concept's "Joyous," "Sorrowful," and "Glorious" forms title a set of 15 violin sonatas accompanied by a copper-engraved vignette tied to the Rosary.
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2024-iqbt-nats-03-9
The FiB index was developed by Daniel Pauly et al. to explain the observed decline in the mean value of this quantity.
[ { "answer": "<b>trophic level</b> [or <b>trophic position</b>; or mean <b>trophic level</b>; prompt on level]", "answer_primary": "{trophic level}", "clean_answers": [ "trophic position", "mean trophic level", "trophic level" ], "difficulty_modifier": "", "explanation": "",...
{ "category": "Science - Biology ecology/evolution", "category_full": "Science - Biology ecology/evolution", "category_main": "", "difficulty": "", "packet": "2024 IQBT National Packet 03", "question_set": "2024-iqbt-nationals", "subcategory": [] }
2024-iqbt-nats-03-10
Answer the following about Indigenous authors' incorporation of two-spirit identities in literature.
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2024-iqbt-nats-03-11
According to a 1993 book, this process is driven by the four factors of efficiency, calculability, predictability, and control.
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2024-iqbt-nats-03-12
These stars are the source of frequent violent flares, endangering potential life.
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2024-iqbt-nats-03-13
The Roman statesman Gaius Maecenas patronized many authors.
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2024-iqbt-nats-03-14
The historian Jonaraja claimed a queen of this region died after cutting her belly open to offer her intestines to her husband as a wedding gift.
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2024-iqbt-nats-03-15
This author's identical twin Anthony wrote a Tony Award-winning play in which the mystery writer Andrew Wyke and his wife's lover Milo Tindle engage in an escalating series of criminal activities and deceptions.
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2024-iqbt-nats-03-16
This man outlined his country's war aims in the Septemberprogramm.
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2024-iqbt-nats-03-17
This law explains why surfacing too quickly leads to decompression sickness.
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2024-iqbt-nats-03-18
A portrait of Charlotte du Val d'Ognes was attributed to this artist before being recognized as the work of his student.
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{ "category": "Arts - Visual - Painting 1701-1850", "category_full": "Arts - Visual - Painting 1701-1850", "category_main": "", "difficulty": "", "packet": "2024 IQBT National Packet 03", "question_set": "2024-iqbt-nationals", "subcategory": [] }
2024-iqbt-nats-03-19
The Kazungula Bridge was designed to be curved away from the borders of this country and Namibia.
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{ "category": "Geography - Africa", "category_full": "Geography - Africa", "category_main": "", "difficulty": "", "packet": "2024 IQBT National Packet 03", "question_set": "2024-iqbt-nationals", "subcategory": [] }
2024-iqbt-nats-03-20
Note to moderator: read answerline to second part carefully. Robert Alter's solo translation of this text has been called its first "literary" translation.
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2024-iqbt-nats-03-21
Gustav Bergmann originally coined the name for this event, which Michael Dummett traced back to Frege's Foundations of Arithmetic.
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2024-iqbt-nats-03-22
Characters in this play wonder why their mother also killed the family cat when she committed suicide.
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