Chef and Meatballs

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**This is an interactive problem.** Chef has cooked $N$ meatballs, numbered $1$ through $N$. No two meatballs contain the same amount of meat. You want to eat the meatiest meatball, i.e. the meatball with the maximum amount of meat, but you do not know which one it is and Chef does not want to just give it for you. Therefore, he decided to play a game with you. You may ask Chef at most $Q =

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