Question
The first prize awarded by this country’s prestigious JINR institute went to Chinese scientist Wáng Gànchāng. Scientists in this country once claimed to have discovered a substance called “polywater.” A scientist working in this country advanced “Michurinism,” a Lamarckian doctrine that vernalization was more important than natural selection. In the 1940s, nine scientists in this country starved to death preserving the VIR (*) seed bank. Engineers in this country designed the Tu-144, a noisy SST rival to the Concorde. In 1986, this country launched the world’s first modular space station, Mir. For 10 points, name this country whose Academy of Sciences was where Trofim Lysenko worked in Leningrad. ■END■
ANSWER: Soviet Union [accept Russia or USSR or Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or CCCP]
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Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | TUH | Conv. % | Power % | Neg % | Average Buzz |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 PACE NSC | 06/08/2024 | Y | 36 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 79.33 |