SB - General Knowledge 2024 (Regionals)

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In the play, a character claims his father would "make a good monarch of a desert" after being told a city belongs to its king. A messenger describes how Haemon killed himself in a cave while clutching a hanged body. Ismene refuses to help her sister bury Creon in this play. The deceased rebel Polynices is given burial rites by the title woman.

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Antigone

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This man commissioned TV cartoons in which he is depicted as the hero "Super Moustache." After disqualifying María Corina Machado, this man faced Edmundo González Urrutia in a rigged July 2024 election. In April 2024, U.S. sanction snapbacks were applied to the government of this man, who heads the PSUV. Since the 2013 death of Hugo Chávez, what autocrat has been president of Venezuela?

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Nicolás Maduro

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This river flows past two of the four rotating pilgrimage sites of a festival that takes place every twelve years when the planet Jupiter completes an orbit. On this river, staircases known as ghats are used for bathing and cremation during the Kumbh Mela pilgrimage. At Allahabad, devotees believe an invisible river called Saraswati joins this river and the Yamuna. Name this holiest river of India.

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Ganges (or Ganga)

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This material's life cycle is divided into anagen, catagen, telogen, and exogen phases. This material is compulsively removed in the mental condition trichotillomania. Its namesake "bulb" contains melanocytes that determine this substance's color. Alopecia leads to loss of this material. Like nails, it is primarily composed of keratin. Name this biological material that grows out of follicles in the scalp.

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Human hair (accept hair bulb(s) or hair loss or hair follicle(s))

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A work by this artist shows three huddled men who face downwards and extend their left arms together. This artist included the stoic-looking Jean d’Aire as one of a sculpture’s six title figures.

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Auguste Rodin

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The construction of this shape involves joining both intersections of two circles to one of their centers. Joining opposite vertices of this regular polygon divides it into multiple smaller regular polygons.

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Hexagons

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Mary Colter designed this national park’s Hopi House, which showcases Native American arts. Hikers in this national park can reach Ooh Aah Point and the Phantom Ranch by descending the Bright Angel Trail.

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Grand Canyon National Park

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This author wrote about Neville in a novel about six friends of the deceased Percival. In another novel by this author, the section “Time Passes” describes a house that stands empty for years before Lily Briscoe returns to the Isle of Skye.

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Adeline Virginia Woolf

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Anthocyanin pigments from this organism’s aleurone layer are released when its Activator locus modulates the activity of its Dissociation locus. Teosintes are the wild relatives of this domesticated organism in genus Zea.

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Maize or corn

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A collision between this object and a flying whetstone injured its owner during a fight against a drunk giant. A pair of iron gloves is required to properly use this object, which was used to resurrect two goats that its owner killed and ate.

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Mjölnir