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Yes, there have been lots of topics that have been one-days special. MIT happens to be one of them. If the list is too daunting to search, the MIT One-Day happened in November 2018.
mit

The questions refer to the content of the one-days. For the MIT section in particular, the questions refer to the one-day answers.
study skills

The Study Skills Assessment one-day involved a particular town. These questions refer to the same town.
change two letters

Some of these sections don't directly refer to the particular one-day questions themselves, but they do follow the same format. Make sure to look at the one-day to determine how to properly format the answers.
country anagrams, 44 letters, 27 letters

In that one-day, it was not sufficient to just determine what the things in the parentheses are. Make sure to look at the one-day to determine how to properly format the answers.
flip a coin

This one is a little less obvious what the theme is, particularly since the Smith Note has been lost to history. You might want to look at the questions and answers to try to find a theme here.
flip a coin

Each question is written in such a way that there are two "obvious" possibilities, and then including relatively obscure facts to distinguish the two. "The other side" refers to the possibility not taken.
what comes fourth

You can answer these questions without seeing the sequences themselves (if you're not logged in), because the answers provided provide a reasonably thorough explanation as to what sequences the questions were about.
cryptic clues

You will need to use the answers for this one.
cryptic clues

The "nth thing" refers to the "nth answer". You will then need to transform these answers using the corresponding cryptic indicators.
paradoxes

You want to take one letter from each question. Ignore spaces, numbers, and other punctuation.
write a one day

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...and that's what makes these "one-days special".

MIT
  1. Start at MIT.
  1. Find the word between the vehicles and the photographic equipment. What is the title of the 2020 MIT Mystery Hunt puzzle whose answer is this word?
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  1. Go down to the next person you see. What is the title of their 1957 book?
6 5 20 21 11 3 15 14
  1. One of the words you see has a two-letter abbreviation that doesn't share any letters with it. What is that word?
17 4 8 18
  1. One person is BOLDLY described as thrifty and rich. What are their initials?
13 1 7
  1. Go to the next location.
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  1. Look around you. What county are you in?
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  1. What is the motto?
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  1. What is the full name of the road between the church and the restaurant?
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  1. Go to the next location.
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  1. You think of a mesh and a major city. What are their names?
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  1. You think of some watery places and some riddles. What are their names?
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  1. Go to the next location.
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  1. Split a word in half. What is the result’s cartoon partner?
 12 7
  1. You see three numbers. Adding two of them and subtracting the third gives you a number associated with a video game. What is the given name of this game's director?
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  1. Who is the current world champion in the activity immediately preceding one of the numbers?
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  1. Go to the next location.
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  1. First, find (someone who twists mechanical puzzles who's pragmatic but comes from Hell).
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  1. You also want to (mix chocolate bean) with (rowing implements made from saguaros).
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  1. Go to the next location.
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  1. Find a familial term that can be replaced with a different familial term in order to go to the other side. What is the new term?
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  1. You can swap a foreign-language infinitive and a word in a certain set in order to go to the other side. What is the result if you shift that word 10 places backwards in the set?
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  1. One country can be replaced with another country to uniquely go to the other side. What is the new country?
5 3 7 8 11 6
  1. There is an author. What author is on the other side?
15 1 9
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  1. Two letters come sixth; what do they stand for?
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  1. Who is twelfth (and would be thirteenth if the list were remade today)?
14 3 4
  1. What might come fifth, despite neither fitting the pattern nor the personhood of the ones before it?
 15 12 11 6 5
  1. One list can be exactly tripled in size in a natural way, such that the new list contains the old list, but not consecutively. What's fifth?
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  1. Go to the next location.
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  1. What can be found on the icon at the beginning of a list?
  1. Guess what word I'm thinking!
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  1. Who was number one with BS? Initials, please.
  1. Guess another word I'm thinking!
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  1. What Tony-winning musical follows the wife of a president?
  1. What fairly common chess opening begins with a knight move?
  1. What animals are also a nickname for the people here?
  1. What button can typically be found in opposition to "FF"?
  1. What word means "a problem or difficulty"?
  1. Go to the next location.
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  1. With "The", one of these is also a book in a children's book series. What is the name of the book that preceded this one (also without leading articles, so it belongs here)?
8 2 6 1 9
  1. What album did the band you see release?
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  1. What Chicago company was acquired by the company you see?
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  1. Smashing the sixth thing, after 500 times, you only find ends.
4
  1. Inside the eighth thing, you can find a shelter.
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  1. At the gold-tipped edges of the twelfth thing, you just find control.
5 1 6
  1. Go to the next location.
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  1. Which team lost to the Phillies by 1?
1 3 4 8 9
  1. In two days, who will suffer a notable knee injury?
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  1. Go to the next location.
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  1. Apply the instruction to the questions to get another instruction.
  1. Perform this instruction to get the answer to this puzzle.