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In 2020, text alerts about bringing these objects into cars were issued by the Nazer-1 program. Counterprotests to an incident involving these objects in Karnataka’s Udupi District in 2021 used a similar saffron object. (-5[1])At the 2023 Grammys, Jill Biden presented a new award to a song written about actions involving these objects called “Baraye.” The 2017 White Wednesday campaign inspired the Girl of Enghelab Street to stand on a telecom box and hold one of these objects on a stick. (10[1])People who shouted the phrase “Jin, jiyan, azadi!” to protest these (10[1])objects (10[4])were (10[1])blamed (10[2])by state media (10[1])for potentially (10[2])framing a series (-5[1])of 2023 school (10[1])poisonings. Dozens of people have been charged with (-5[1])moharebeh for attacking Basij forces amid protests over these objects (10[2])that began (10[1])due to a September 2022 death (10[1])that occurred under custody of the “morality (10[1])police.” For 10 points, Mahsa Amini was arrested for improperly wearing what garment that is mandatory for women in Iran? ■END■ (10[3])

ANSWER: hijab [or ḥijāb; accept headscarves or headscarf; accept veils; accept burkas; accept niqabs; accept chadors; accept face coverings or head coverings; prompt on coverings]
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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y21100%0%14%111.29

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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Subhamitra Banerjee RoychoudhuryMichigan AMIT A33-5
Cormac BeirneMcGill AYale A8010
Robert CondronChicago CIllinois A9110
S. A. ShenoyGeorgia Tech BClaremont A9210
Qingyu ZhangFlorida BDuke A9210
Vinu HariharUC Berkeley BWUSTL B9210
Frederick Rivas-GiorgiYale BFlorida A9210
Danny HanPenn AHouston A9310
Yared TadesseCornell BBrown A9410
Charles HangWUSTL AColumbia B9410
Alan WuRutgers BTexas A9710
Vivek SasseChicago BNorth Carolina A9910
Eric WolfsbergStanford ANorthwestern A9910
Michael MaysImperial AVirginia A102-5
Isaac MammelMaryland ARutgers A10510
Halle FriedmanNYU AMinnesota B113-5
Ethan AshbrookMinnesota AHarvard A12310
Chris RayOhio State AColumbia A12310
Shahar SchwartzUC Berkeley AJohns Hopkins A12510
Alex LiGeorgia Tech APenn State A13110
Isak JatoiSouth Carolina APurdue A13810
Nathan SheffieldMIT AMichigan A15910
Nicholas TunksMinnesota BNYU A15910
Alana DickeyVirginia AImperial A15910