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Item 1 · kn-001

idkn-001
sectionreasoning
domainrea
promptA shop raises its prices by 20%, then puts everything 20% off. Compared with the original price, you now pay…
options["The same as before","20% less","4% less","4% more"]

Item 2 · kn-002

idkn-002
sectionreasoning
domainrea
promptAll Bloops are Razzies, and all Razzies are Lazzies. It follows that all Bloops are…
options["Razzies only","Lazzies","Neither","It cannot be determined"]

Item 3 · kn-003

idkn-003
sectionreasoning
domainrea
promptA fair coin has landed heads five times in a row. The chance the next flip lands heads is…
options["Much less than half","Slightly less than half","Still one half","Much more than half"]

Item 4 · kn-004

idkn-004
sectionreasoning
domainrea
promptA bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total. The bat costs $1.00 more than the ball. The ball costs…
options["$0.10","$0.05","$0.15","$0.01"]

Item 5 · kn-005

idkn-005
sectionreasoning
domainrea
promptCar A drives 60 km/h for 2 hours. Car B drives 80 km/h for 1.5 hours. Which car traveled farther?
options["Car A","Car B","They tied","Cannot be determined"]

Item 6 · kn-006

idkn-006
sectionreasoning
domainrea
promptWhat comes next? 3, 6, 11, 18, 27, …
options["34","36","38","44"]

Item 7 · kn-007

idkn-007
sectionreasoning
domainrea
promptWhat comes next? 2, 6, 12, 20, 30, …
options["36","40","42","48"]

Item 8 · kn-008

idkn-008
sectionreasoning
domainrea
promptNo mammal is a bird. A bat is a mammal. A bat is therefore…
options["A bird","Not a bird","Both a mammal and a bird","Cannot be determined"]

Item 9 · kn-009

idkn-009
sectionreasoning
domainrea
promptRule: if it rains, the grass gets wet. This morning the grass is wet. What can you conclude?
options["It rained overnight","It did not rain","It cannot be determined from this alone","The grass was definitely watered"]

Item 10 · kn-010

idkn-010
sectionreasoning
domainrea
promptA bag holds 3 red marbles and 7 blue marbles. You draw one without looking. The probability it is red equals…
options["3 in 10","7 in 10","1 in 2","3 in 7"]

Item 11 · kn-011

idkn-011
sectionreasoning
domainrea
promptYou flip two fair coins and are told at least one landed heads. The probability both landed heads is…
options["1/2","1/3","1/4","2/3"]

Item 12 · kn-012

idkn-012
sectionreasoning
domainrea
promptA game pays $10 on heads and costs you $6 on tails of a fair coin. Played 100 times, your expected total winnings are about…
options["$100","$200","$400","−$100 (a loss)"]

Item 13 · kn-013

idkn-013
sectionreasoning
domainrea
prompt15 workers build a wall in 20 days. At the same pace, 25 workers would take…
options["10 days","12 days","15 days","33 days"]

Item 14 · kn-014

idkn-014
sectionreasoning
domainrea
promptTwo trains leave the same station in opposite directions, at 60 km/h and 40 km/h. After 2.5 hours they are…
options["200 km apart","250 km apart","300 km apart","150 km apart"]

Item 15 · kn-015

idkn-015
sectionreasoning
domainrea
promptA price falls by 25%, then rises by 25%. Compared with the original price, it is now…
options["The same","6.25% higher","6.25% lower","12.5% lower"]

Item 16 · kn-016

idkn-016
sectionreasoning
domainrea
promptThe average of 7 numbers is 12. Adding an eighth number, 26, the new average is…
options["13","13.5","13.75","14.75"]

Item 17 · kn-017

idkn-017
sectionreasoning
domainrea
promptSome poets are musicians, and all musicians are artists. It follows that…
options["All poets are artists","Some poets are artists","No poets are musicians","All artists are poets"]

Item 18 · kn-018

idkn-018
sectionreasoning
domainrea
promptRule: every card with a vowel on one side has an even number on the other. Four cards show A, D, 4, 7. To test the rule you must turn over…
options["A and 4","A and 7","D and 4","A and D"]

Item 19 · kn-019

idkn-019
sectionreasoning
domainrea
promptRule: every fragile item in this warehouse is packed in foam. You find an item with no foam packing. You can conclude it is…
options["Fragile","Not fragile","Mislabeled","Impossible to say"]

Item 20 · kn-020

idkn-020
sectionreasoning
domainrea
promptA tap fills a tank in 6 hours; a drain empties a full tank in 9 hours. With both open, an empty tank fills in…
options["7.5 hours","12 hours","15 hours","18 hours"]

Item 21 · kn-021

idkn-021
sectionreasoning
domainrea
promptWhat comes next? A, C, F, J, O, …
options["T","U","V","W"]

Item 22 · kn-022

idkn-022
sectionreasoning
domainrea
promptIf 5 machines make 5 gadgets in 5 minutes, 100 machines make 100 gadgets in…
options["5 minutes","20 minutes","100 minutes","1 minute"]

Item 23 · kn-023

idkn-023
sectionreasoning
domainrea
promptIn a group of 50 people, 30 like tea and 35 like coffee, and everyone likes at least one. How many like both?
options["5","10","15","20"]

Item 24 · kn-024

idkn-024
sectionreasoning
domainrea
promptFour friends sit in a row: Ana sits left of Ben, Cara sits right of Ben, and Dan sits between Ana and Ben. Left to right, the order is…
options["Ana–Ben–Cara–Dan","Ana–Dan–Ben–Cara","Dan–Ana–Ben–Cara","Ana–Ben–Dan–Cara"]

Item 25 · kn-025

idkn-025
sectionreasoning
domainrea
promptAn elevator starts on floor 5, goes up 3, down 5, up 2, then down 4. It ends on floor…
options["1","3","5","9"]

Item 26 · kn-026

idkn-026
sectionreasoning
domainrea
promptWhat comes next? 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, …
options["12","13","14","15"]

Item 27 · kn-027

idkn-027
sectionreasoning
domainrea
promptA cube is painted red, then cut into 27 equal small cubes (3×3×3). How many small cubes have exactly two painted faces?
options["6","8","12","20"]

Item 28 · kn-028

idkn-028
sectionreasoning
domainrea
promptA recipe for 4 servings needs 250 g of flour. For 10 servings at the same ratio you need…
options["500 g","625 g","750 g","1000 g"]

Item 29 · kn-029

idkn-029
sectionreasoning
domainrea
promptIf 8 workers dig 8 holes in 8 days, 4 workers dig 4 holes in…
options["4 days","8 days","16 days","2 days"]

Item 30 · kn-030

idkn-030
sectionreasoning
domainrea
promptRule: if the porch light is on, someone is home. Tonight nobody is home. Is the porch light on?
options["Yes","No","Cannot tell","Only if it is dark"]

Item 31 · kn-031

idkn-031
sectionknowledge
domainsci
promptWhy does the daytime sky look blue?
options["The ocean reflects its color upward","Air molecules scatter short blue wavelengths more than other colors","The atmosphere absorbs all non-blue light","Dust in the air is naturally blue"]

Item 32 · kn-032

idkn-032
sectionknowledge
domainsci
promptYou double the voltage applied to a fixed resistor. The current through it…
options["Doubles","Halves","Stays the same","Quadruples"]

Item 33 · kn-033

idkn-033
sectionknowledge
domainsci
promptWhich gas do plants take in from the air for photosynthesis?
options["Oxygen","Nitrogen","Carbon dioxide","Hydrogen"]

Item 34 · kn-034

idkn-034
sectionknowledge
domainsci
promptWhy does ice float on liquid water?
options["Ice contains trapped air bubbles","Water expands as it freezes, so ice is less dense","Cold objects are always buoyant","Surface tension holds it up"]

Item 35 · kn-035

idkn-035
sectionknowledge
domainsci
promptOcean tides are caused mainly by…
options["The Sun's heat","The Moon's gravity","Earth's rotation alone","Underwater earthquakes"]

Item 36 · kn-036

idkn-036
sectionknowledge
domainsci
promptA metal railing and a wooden bench sit outside all night at the same temperature. The metal feels colder to the touch because…
options["Metal is always colder than wood","Metal draws heat away from your hand faster","Wood generates its own warmth","Your hand cools the wood down"]

Item 37 · kn-037

idkn-037
sectionknowledge
domainsci
promptBlood looks red mainly because of…
options["Dye inside red blood cells","Iron in hemoglobin","The heart's heat","Oxygen turning blue in veins"]

Item 38 · kn-038

idkn-038
sectionknowledge
domainsci
promptThe Moon often looks larger near the horizon than high overhead. Why?
options["The atmosphere magnifies it like a lens","The Moon is physically closer at the horizon","It is an illusion — the Moon's apparent size does not change","Dust near the horizon enlarges its image"]

Item 39 · kn-039

idkn-039
sectionknowledge
domainhis
promptGutenberg's printing press mattered most because it…
options["Was the first machine ever built","Made books cheap enough to spread ideas widely","Was funded by kings","Printed pictures in color"]

Item 40 · kn-040

idkn-040
sectionknowledge
domainhis
promptWhich came first?
options["The Roman Empire","The pyramids of Giza","The printing press","The steam engine"]

Item 41 · kn-041

idkn-041
sectionknowledge
domainhis
promptThe Berlin Wall fell in…
options["1979","1985","1989","1991"]

Item 42 · kn-042

idkn-042
sectionknowledge
domainhis
promptA major reason the overland Silk Road declined was…
options["The invention of the compass","Cheaper sea routes found by European explorers","A worldwide shortage of silk","A total ban on all trade"]

Item 43 · kn-043

idkn-043
sectionknowledge
domainhis
promptWorld War I began in…
options["1914","1918","1939","1945"]

Item 44 · kn-044

idkn-044
sectionknowledge
domainhis
promptThe Marshall Plan, launched after World War II, was mainly designed to…
options["Rebuild Western Europe's economies","Punish Germany with permanent sanctions","Create the United Nations","Fund overseas colonies"]

Item 45 · kn-045

idkn-045
sectionknowledge
domainhis
promptThe steep-sided pyramids of Meroë, in present-day Sudan, were built by the kingdom of…
options["Egypt","Kush","Axum","Mali"]

Item 46 · kn-046

idkn-046
sectionknowledge
domainhis
promptIn the 1300s–1400s, Timbuktu was a renowned center of scholarship under the…
options["Ottoman Empire","Mali Empire","Roman Empire","Inca Empire"]

Item 47 · kn-047

idkn-047
sectionknowledge
domaingeo
promptWhich continent has the most countries?
options["Asia","Africa","Europe","South America"]

Item 48 · kn-048

idkn-048
sectionknowledge
domaingeo
promptWhy does Australia have so many marsupials found nowhere else?
options["They were imported as pets long ago","Long geographic isolation let them evolve separately","The climate spontaneously produces them","They migrate there every year"]

Item 49 · kn-049

idkn-049
sectionknowledge
domaingeo
promptThe capital of Canada is…
options["Toronto","Vancouver","Ottawa","Montreal"]

Item 50 · kn-050

idkn-050
sectionknowledge
domaingeo
promptTime zones exist mainly because…
options["Countries wanted different work schedules","Earth rotates, so the Sun is overhead at different times in different places","Airlines requested them","Clocks drift on their own"]

Item 51 · kn-051

idkn-051
sectionknowledge
domaingeo
promptThe largest hot desert in the world is the…
options["Gobi","Sahara","Kalahari","Mojave"]

Item 52 · kn-052

idkn-052
sectionknowledge
domaingeo
promptWhy does it get colder as you climb a mountain?
options["The air thins and holds less heat","You get measurably closer to outer space","The Sun's rays weaken with height","Wind pushes all warm air downhill"]

Item 53 · kn-053

idkn-053
sectionknowledge
domaingeo
promptThe Amazon River runs mostly through which country before reaching the Atlantic?
options["Peru","Colombia","Brazil","Venezuela"]

Item 54 · kn-054

idkn-054
sectionknowledge
domaingeo
promptWhich country has the world's largest population?
options["China","India","United States","Indonesia"]

Item 55 · kn-055

idkn-055
sectionknowledge
domainart
promptIn Renaissance painting, "perspective" refers to…
options["Painting only religious subjects","A technique that creates the illusion of depth","Using only bright colors","Painting entirely from memory"]

Item 56 · kn-056

idkn-056
sectionknowledge
domainart
promptA metaphor differs from a simile because a metaphor…
options["Compares two unlike things","Uses the words \"like\" or \"as\"","States the comparison directly, without \"like\" or \"as\"","Is always longer"]

Item 57 · kn-057

idkn-057
sectionknowledge
domainart
promptThe oboe belongs to which instrument family?
options["Brass","Percussion","Strings","Woodwind"]

Item 58 · kn-058

idkn-058
sectionknowledge
domainart
promptWho wrote the novel "1984"?
options["Aldous Huxley","George Orwell","Ray Bradbury","Franz Kafka"]

Item 59 · kn-059

idkn-059
sectionknowledge
domainart
promptWho painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
options["Leonardo da Vinci","Michelangelo","Raphael","Donatello"]

Item 60 · kn-060

idkn-060
sectionknowledge
domainart
promptA traditional sonnet has how many lines?
options["10","12","14","16"]

Item 61 · kn-061

idkn-061
sectionknowledge
domainart
promptThe woodblock print series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji", including "The Great Wave", was made by…
options["Hiroshige","Hokusai","Utamaro","Sesshū"]

Item 62 · kn-062

idkn-062
sectionknowledge
domainart
prompt"The Epic of Gilgamesh", among the oldest surviving works of literature, comes from…
options["Ancient Greece","Mesopotamia","Ancient Egypt","The Indus Valley"]

Machine-readable (public fields)

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  "prompt": "A shop raises its prices by 20%, then puts everything 20% off. Compared with the original price, you now pay…",
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   "The same as before",
   "20% less",
   "4% less",
   "4% more"
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  "id": "kn-002",
  "section": "reasoning",
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  "prompt": "All Bloops are Razzies, and all Razzies are Lazzies. It follows that all Bloops are…",
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   "Lazzies",
   "Neither",
   "It cannot be determined"
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  "id": "kn-003",
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  "prompt": "A fair coin has landed heads five times in a row. The chance the next flip lands heads is…",
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   "Slightly less than half",
   "Still one half",
   "Much more than half"
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  "id": "kn-004",
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  "prompt": "A bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total. The bat costs $1.00 more than the ball. The ball costs…",
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   "$0.01"
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  "id": "kn-005",
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  "prompt": "Car A drives 60 km/h for 2 hours. Car B drives 80 km/h for 1.5 hours. Which car traveled farther?",
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   "Car B",
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   "Cannot be determined"
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  "id": "kn-006",
  "section": "reasoning",
  "domain": "rea",
  "prompt": "What comes next? 3, 6, 11, 18, 27, …",
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   "34",
   "36",
   "38",
   "44"
  ]
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  "id": "kn-007",
  "section": "reasoning",
  "domain": "rea",
  "prompt": "What comes next? 2, 6, 12, 20, 30, …",
  "options": [
   "36",
   "40",
   "42",
   "48"
  ]
 },
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  "id": "kn-008",
  "section": "reasoning",
  "domain": "rea",
  "prompt": "No mammal is a bird. A bat is a mammal. A bat is therefore…",
  "options": [
   "A bird",
   "Not a bird",
   "Both a mammal and a bird",
   "Cannot be determined"
  ]
 },
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  "id": "kn-009",
  "section": "reasoning",
  "domain": "rea",
  "prompt": "Rule: if it rains, the grass gets wet. This morning the grass is wet. What can you conclude?",
  "options": [
   "It rained overnight",
   "It did not rain",
   "It cannot be determined from this alone",
   "The grass was definitely watered"
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  "id": "kn-010",
  "section": "reasoning",
  "domain": "rea",
  "prompt": "A bag holds 3 red marbles and 7 blue marbles. You draw one without looking. The probability it is red equals…",
  "options": [
   "3 in 10",
   "7 in 10",
   "1 in 2",
   "3 in 7"
  ]
 },
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  "id": "kn-011",
  "section": "reasoning",
  "domain": "rea",
  "prompt": "You flip two fair coins and are told at least one landed heads. The probability both landed heads is…",
  "options": [
   "1/2",
   "1/3",
   "1/4",
   "2/3"
  ]
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  "id": "kn-012",
  "section": "reasoning",
  "domain": "rea",
  "prompt": "A game pays $10 on heads and costs you $6 on tails of a fair coin. Played 100 times, your expected total winnings are about…",
  "options": [
   "$100",
   "$200",
   "$400",
   "−$100 (a loss)"
  ]
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  "id": "kn-013",
  "section": "reasoning",
  "domain": "rea",
  "prompt": "15 workers build a wall in 20 days. At the same pace, 25 workers would take…",
  "options": [
   "10 days",
   "12 days",
   "15 days",
   "33 days"
  ]
 },
 {
  "id": "kn-014",
  "section": "reasoning",
  "domain": "rea",
  "prompt": "Two trains leave the same station in opposite directions, at 60 km/h and 40 km/h. After 2.5 hours they are…",
  "options": [
   "200 km apart",
   "250 km apart",
   "300 km apart",
   "150 km apart"
  ]
 },
 {
  "id": "kn-015",
  "section": "reasoning",
  "domain": "rea",
  "prompt": "A price falls by 25%, then rises by 25%. Compared with the original price, it is now…",
  "options": [
   "The same",
   "6.25% higher",
   "6.25% lower",
   "12.5% lower"
  ]
 },
 {
  "id": "kn-016",
  "section": "reasoning",
  "domain": "rea",
  "prompt": "The average of 7 numbers is 12. Adding an eighth number, 26, the new average is…",
  "options": [
   "13",
   "13.5",
   "13.75",
   "14.75"
  ]
 },
 {
  "id": "kn-017",
  "section": "reasoning",
  "domain": "rea",
  "prompt": "Some poets are musicians, and all musicians are artists. It follows that…",
  "options": [
   "All poets are artists",
   "Some poets are artists",
   "No poets are musicians",
   "All artists are poets"
  ]
 },
 {
  "id": "kn-018",
  "section": "reasoning",
  "domain": "rea",
  "prompt": "Rule: every card with a vowel on one side has an even number on the other. Four cards show A, D, 4, 7. To test the rule you must turn over…",
  "options": [
   "A and 4",
   "A and 7",
   "D and 4",
   "A and D"
  ]
 },
 {
  "id": "kn-019",
  "section": "reasoning",
  "domain": "rea",
  "prompt": "Rule: every fragile item in this warehouse is packed in foam. You find an item with no foam packing. You can conclude it is…",
  "options": [
   "Fragile",
   "Not fragile",
   "Mislabeled",
   "Impossible to say"
  ]
 },
 {
  "id": "kn-020",
  "section": "reasoning",
  "domain": "rea",
  "prompt": "A tap fills a tank in 6 hours; a drain empties a full tank in 9 hours. With both open, an empty tank fills in…",
  "options": [
   "7.5 hours",
   "12 hours",
   "15 hours",
   "18 hours"
  ]
 },
 {
  "id": "kn-021",
  "section": "reasoning",
  "domain": "rea",
  "prompt": "What comes next? A, C, F, J, O, …",
  "options": [
   "T",
   "U",
   "V",
   "W"
  ]
 },
 {
  "id": "kn-022",
  "section": "reasoning",
  "domain": "rea",
  "prompt": "If 5 machines make 5 gadgets in 5 minutes, 100 machines make 100 gadgets in…",
  "options": [
   "5 minutes",
   "20 minutes",
   "100 minutes",
   "1 minute"
  ]
 },
 {
  "id": "kn-023",
  "section": "reasoning",
  "domain": "rea",
  "prompt": "In a group of 50 people, 30 like tea and 35 like coffee, and everyone likes at least one. How many like both?",
  "options": [
   "5",
   "10",
   "15",
   "20"
  ]
 },
 {
  "id": "kn-024",
  "section": "reasoning",
  "domain": "rea",
  "prompt": "Four friends sit in a row: Ana sits left of Ben, Cara sits right of Ben, and Dan sits between Ana and Ben. Left to right, the order is…",
  "options": [
   "Ana–Ben–Cara–Dan",
   "Ana–Dan–Ben–Cara",
   "Dan–Ana–Ben–Cara",
   "Ana–Ben–Dan–Cara"
  ]
 },
 {
  "id": "kn-025",
  "section": "reasoning",
  "domain": "rea",
  "prompt": "An elevator starts on floor 5, goes up 3, down 5, up 2, then down 4. It ends on floor…",
  "options": [
   "1",
   "3",
   "5",
   "9"
  ]
 },
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  "id": "kn-026",
  "section": "reasoning",
  "domain": "rea",
  "prompt": "What comes next? 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, …",
  "options": [
   "12",
   "13",
   "14",
   "15"
  ]
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 {
  "id": "kn-027",
  "section": "reasoning",
  "domain": "rea",
  "prompt": "A cube is painted red, then cut into 27 equal small cubes (3×3×3). How many small cubes have exactly two painted faces?",
  "options": [
   "6",
   "8",
   "12",
   "20"
  ]
 },
 {
  "id": "kn-028",
  "section": "reasoning",
  "domain": "rea",
  "prompt": "A recipe for 4 servings needs 250 g of flour. For 10 servings at the same ratio you need…",
  "options": [
   "500 g",
   "625 g",
   "750 g",
   "1000 g"
  ]
 },
 {
  "id": "kn-029",
  "section": "reasoning",
  "domain": "rea",
  "prompt": "If 8 workers dig 8 holes in 8 days, 4 workers dig 4 holes in…",
  "options": [
   "4 days",
   "8 days",
   "16 days",
   "2 days"
  ]
 },
 {
  "id": "kn-030",
  "section": "reasoning",
  "domain": "rea",
  "prompt": "Rule: if the porch light is on, someone is home. Tonight nobody is home. Is the porch light on?",
  "options": [
   "Yes",
   "No",
   "Cannot tell",
   "Only if it is dark"
  ]
 },
 {
  "id": "kn-031",
  "section": "knowledge",
  "domain": "sci",
  "prompt": "Why does the daytime sky look blue?",
  "options": [
   "The ocean reflects its color upward",
   "Air molecules scatter short blue wavelengths more than other colors",
   "The atmosphere absorbs all non-blue light",
   "Dust in the air is naturally blue"
  ]
 },
 {
  "id": "kn-032",
  "section": "knowledge",
  "domain": "sci",
  "prompt": "You double the voltage applied to a fixed resistor. The current through it…",
  "options": [
   "Doubles",
   "Halves",
   "Stays the same",
   "Quadruples"
  ]
 },
 {
  "id": "kn-033",
  "section": "knowledge",
  "domain": "sci",
  "prompt": "Which gas do plants take in from the air for photosynthesis?",
  "options": [
   "Oxygen",
   "Nitrogen",
   "Carbon dioxide",
   "Hydrogen"
  ]
 },
 {
  "id": "kn-034",
  "section": "knowledge",
  "domain": "sci",
  "prompt": "Why does ice float on liquid water?",
  "options": [
   "Ice contains trapped air bubbles",
   "Water expands as it freezes, so ice is less dense",
   "Cold objects are always buoyant",
   "Surface tension holds it up"
  ]
 },
 {
  "id": "kn-035",
  "section": "knowledge",
  "domain": "sci",
  "prompt": "Ocean tides are caused mainly by…",
  "options": [
   "The Sun's heat",
   "The Moon's gravity",
   "Earth's rotation alone",
   "Underwater earthquakes"
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  "id": "kn-036",
  "section": "knowledge",
  "domain": "sci",
  "prompt": "A metal railing and a wooden bench sit outside all night at the same temperature. The metal feels colder to the touch because…",
  "options": [
   "Metal is always colder than wood",
   "Metal draws heat away from your hand faster",
   "Wood generates its own warmth",
   "Your hand cools the wood down"
  ]
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 {
  "id": "kn-037",
  "section": "knowledge",
  "domain": "sci",
  "prompt": "Blood looks red mainly because of…",
  "options": [
   "Dye inside red blood cells",
   "Iron in hemoglobin",
   "The heart's heat",
   "Oxygen turning blue in veins"
  ]
 },
 {
  "id": "kn-038",
  "section": "knowledge",
  "domain": "sci",
  "prompt": "The Moon often looks larger near the horizon than high overhead. Why?",
  "options": [
   "The atmosphere magnifies it like a lens",
   "The Moon is physically closer at the horizon",
   "It is an illusion — the Moon's apparent size does not change",
   "Dust near the horizon enlarges its image"
  ]
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  "id": "kn-039",
  "section": "knowledge",
  "domain": "his",
  "prompt": "Gutenberg's printing press mattered most because it…",
  "options": [
   "Was the first machine ever built",
   "Made books cheap enough to spread ideas widely",
   "Was funded by kings",
   "Printed pictures in color"
  ]
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 {
  "id": "kn-040",
  "section": "knowledge",
  "domain": "his",
  "prompt": "Which came first?",
  "options": [
   "The Roman Empire",
   "The pyramids of Giza",
   "The printing press",
   "The steam engine"
  ]
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 {
  "id": "kn-041",
  "section": "knowledge",
  "domain": "his",
  "prompt": "The Berlin Wall fell in…",
  "options": [
   "1979",
   "1985",
   "1989",
   "1991"
  ]
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 {
  "id": "kn-042",
  "section": "knowledge",
  "domain": "his",
  "prompt": "A major reason the overland Silk Road declined was…",
  "options": [
   "The invention of the compass",
   "Cheaper sea routes found by European explorers",
   "A worldwide shortage of silk",
   "A total ban on all trade"
  ]
 },
 {
  "id": "kn-043",
  "section": "knowledge",
  "domain": "his",
  "prompt": "World War I began in…",
  "options": [
   "1914",
   "1918",
   "1939",
   "1945"
  ]
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 {
  "id": "kn-044",
  "section": "knowledge",
  "domain": "his",
  "prompt": "The Marshall Plan, launched after World War II, was mainly designed to…",
  "options": [
   "Rebuild Western Europe's economies",
   "Punish Germany with permanent sanctions",
   "Create the United Nations",
   "Fund overseas colonies"
  ]
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 {
  "id": "kn-045",
  "section": "knowledge",
  "domain": "his",
  "prompt": "The steep-sided pyramids of Meroë, in present-day Sudan, were built by the kingdom of…",
  "options": [
   "Egypt",
   "Kush",
   "Axum",
   "Mali"
  ]
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 {
  "id": "kn-046",
  "section": "knowledge",
  "domain": "his",
  "prompt": "In the 1300s–1400s, Timbuktu was a renowned center of scholarship under the…",
  "options": [
   "Ottoman Empire",
   "Mali Empire",
   "Roman Empire",
   "Inca Empire"
  ]
 },
 {
  "id": "kn-047",
  "section": "knowledge",
  "domain": "geo",
  "prompt": "Which continent has the most countries?",
  "options": [
   "Asia",
   "Africa",
   "Europe",
   "South America"
  ]
 },
 {
  "id": "kn-048",
  "section": "knowledge",
  "domain": "geo",
  "prompt": "Why does Australia have so many marsupials found nowhere else?",
  "options": [
   "They were imported as pets long ago",
   "Long geographic isolation let them evolve separately",
   "The climate spontaneously produces them",
   "They migrate there every year"
  ]
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 {
  "id": "kn-049",
  "section": "knowledge",
  "domain": "geo",
  "prompt": "The capital of Canada is…",
  "options": [
   "Toronto",
   "Vancouver",
   "Ottawa",
   "Montreal"
  ]
 },
 {
  "id": "kn-050",
  "section": "knowledge",
  "domain": "geo",
  "prompt": "Time zones exist mainly because…",
  "options": [
   "Countries wanted different work schedules",
   "Earth rotates, so the Sun is overhead at different times in different places",
   "Airlines requested them",
   "Clocks drift on their own"
  ]
 },
 {
  "id": "kn-051",
  "section": "knowledge",
  "domain": "geo",
  "prompt": "The largest hot desert in the world is the…",
  "options": [
   "Gobi",
   "Sahara",
   "Kalahari",
   "Mojave"
  ]
 },
 {
  "id": "kn-052",
  "section": "knowledge",
  "domain": "geo",
  "prompt": "Why does it get colder as you climb a mountain?",
  "options": [
   "The air thins and holds less heat",
   "You get measurably closer to outer space",
   "The Sun's rays weaken with height",
   "Wind pushes all warm air downhill"
  ]
 },
 {
  "id": "kn-053",
  "section": "knowledge",
  "domain": "geo",
  "prompt": "The Amazon River runs mostly through which country before reaching the Atlantic?",
  "options": [
   "Peru",
   "Colombia",
   "Brazil",
   "Venezuela"
  ]
 },
 {
  "id": "kn-054",
  "section": "knowledge",
  "domain": "geo",
  "prompt": "Which country has the world's largest population?",
  "options": [
   "China",
   "India",
   "United States",
   "Indonesia"
  ]
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 {
  "id": "kn-055",
  "section": "knowledge",
  "domain": "art",
  "prompt": "In Renaissance painting, \"perspective\" refers to…",
  "options": [
   "Painting only religious subjects",
   "A technique that creates the illusion of depth",
   "Using only bright colors",
   "Painting entirely from memory"
  ]
 },
 {
  "id": "kn-056",
  "section": "knowledge",
  "domain": "art",
  "prompt": "A metaphor differs from a simile because a metaphor…",
  "options": [
   "Compares two unlike things",
   "Uses the words \"like\" or \"as\"",
   "States the comparison directly, without \"like\" or \"as\"",
   "Is always longer"
  ]
 },
 {
  "id": "kn-057",
  "section": "knowledge",
  "domain": "art",
  "prompt": "The oboe belongs to which instrument family?",
  "options": [
   "Brass",
   "Percussion",
   "Strings",
   "Woodwind"
  ]
 },
 {
  "id": "kn-058",
  "section": "knowledge",
  "domain": "art",
  "prompt": "Who wrote the novel \"1984\"?",
  "options": [
   "Aldous Huxley",
   "George Orwell",
   "Ray Bradbury",
   "Franz Kafka"
  ]
 },
 {
  "id": "kn-059",
  "section": "knowledge",
  "domain": "art",
  "prompt": "Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?",
  "options": [
   "Leonardo da Vinci",
   "Michelangelo",
   "Raphael",
   "Donatello"
  ]
 },
 {
  "id": "kn-060",
  "section": "knowledge",
  "domain": "art",
  "prompt": "A traditional sonnet has how many lines?",
  "options": [
   "10",
   "12",
   "14",
   "16"
  ]
 },
 {
  "id": "kn-061",
  "section": "knowledge",
  "domain": "art",
  "prompt": "The woodblock print series \"Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji\", including \"The Great Wave\", was made by…",
  "options": [
   "Hiroshige",
   "Hokusai",
   "Utamaro",
   "Sesshū"
  ]
 },
 {
  "id": "kn-062",
  "section": "knowledge",
  "domain": "art",
  "prompt": "\"The Epic of Gilgamesh\", among the oldest surviving works of literature, comes from…",
  "options": [
   "Ancient Greece",
   "Mesopotamia",
   "Ancient Egypt",
   "The Indus Valley"
  ]
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]

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