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What is the smallest group not known to be a Galois group over $\mathbb{Q}$?

$\DeclareMathOperator\SL{SL}\DeclareMathOperator\PSL{PSL}$What is the smallest group not known to be a Galois group over $\mathbb{Q}$? Variants have been asked here before (e.g. Which small finite ...
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Is the following variant of Shafarevich's theorem known?

Let $Q$ be a finite simple group which may be realized as the Galois group of some extension of $\mathbb{Q}$ (like for instance $PSL_2(\mathbb{F}_p)$ for $p\geq 5$, or the monster group) and let $G$ ...
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