Premise: Upon launching, the Compass system, what was the speed promised to users?

Hypothesis: Upon the system's official launch, it pledged to offer general users positioning information accurate to the nearest 10 m, measure speeds within 0.2 m per second, and provide signals for clock synchronisation accurate to 0.02 microseconds.


Premise: What is the name of Atticus' client in the rape trial?

Hypothesis: This danger is averted when Scout, Jem, and Dill shame the mob into dispersing by forcing them to view the situation from Atticus' and Tom's points of view.


Premise: What frequently blankets San Diego in May and June?

Hypothesis: Sometimes the June gloom can last into July, causing cloudy skies over most of San Diego for the entire day.


Premise: What was British Somaliland known as upon achieving independence?

Hypothesis: Egal would later become the President of the autonomous Somaliland region in northwestern Somalia.


Premise: In what month does the city council not meet?

Hypothesis: Citizens in each of the nine districts elect one council representative each to serve a four-year term.


Premise: What other order evolved during the Jurassic?

Hypothesis: On land, dinosaurs and other reptiles stake their claim as the dominant race of the land, with species such as Dilophosaurus at the top.


Premise: Which group in Europe used Kermes dye?

Hypothesis: For the wealthy, the dye used was Kermes, made from a tiny scale insect which fed on the branches and leaves of the oak tree.


Premise: Where did the relay end in Malaysia?

Hypothesis: The 16.5 km long-relay began from the historic Independence Square, passed in front of several city landmarks before coming to an end at the iconic Petronas Twin Towers.


Premise: According to McTaggart, what are the only things that have real existence?

Hypothesis: McTaggart "thought that Hegel was wrong in supposing that metaphysics could show that the state is more than a means to the good of the individuals who compose it".


Premise: What organization do both Djibouti and Somalia belong to?

Hypothesis: Many Somalis speak it due to centuries-old ties with the Arab world, the far-reaching influence of the Arabic media, and religious education.


Premise: Where are Italian Summer feasts held?

Hypothesis: There are several major annual events such as First Night, which occurs on New Year's Eve, the Boston Early Music Festival, the annual Boston Arts Festival at Christopher Columbus Waterfront Park, and Italian summer feasts in the North End honoring Catholic saints.


Premise: What country has been increasing its support for the fossil fuel and nuclear industries?

Hypothesis: Some countries are eliminating or reducing climate disrupting subsidies and Belgium, France, and Japan have phased out all subsidies for coal.


Premise: Along with uniting the lekhitic tribes what did poland succeed in?

Hypothesis: Mieszko I of Poland (c. 935 – 25 May 992) established an elite knightly retinue from within his army, which he depended upon for success in uniting the Lekhitic tribes and preserving the unity of his state.


Premise: What's the title of the fifth film in the Terminator franchise?

Hypothesis: He starred in the fifth Terminator movie Terminator Genisys in 2015 and will reprise his role as Conan the Barbarian in The Legend of Conan.


Premise: Who replaced Smith as manager of the Everton FC in 2002?

Hypothesis: The Everton board finally ran out of patience with Smith and he was sacked in March 2002 after an FA Cup exit at Middlesbrough, with Everton in real danger of relegation.


Premise: What discovery made astronomer's debate Pluto's status as a planet?

Hypothesis: When Pluto was discovered it was considered a planet, and Neptune thus became the penultimate known planet, except for a 20-year period between 1979 and 1999 when Pluto's elliptical orbit brought it closer to the Sun than Neptune.


Premise: Napoleon's peace negotiations with Austria brought about what treaty?

Hypothesis: These negotiations resulted in the Treaty of Campo Formio, and Bonaparte returned to Paris in December as a hero.


Premise: In what year did the IFAB initially approve a fixed size as a standard pitch dimension for international matches?

Hypothesis: In 2008, the IFAB initially approved a fixed size of 105 m (344 ft) long and 68 m (223 ft) wide as a standard pitch dimension for international matches; however, this decision was later put on hold and was never actually implemented.


Premise: What hobby is balsa wood often used for?

Hypothesis: For example, mahogany is a medium-dense hardwood that is excellent for fine furniture crafting, whereas balsa is light, making it useful for model building.


Premise: Where is he cup presentation made?

Hypothesis: This means the engraver has just five minutes to perform a task which would take twenty under normal conditions, although time is saved by engraving the year on during the match, and sketching the presumed winner.


Premise: Why are divers attracted to Bermuda?

Hypothesis: Scuba divers can explore numerous wrecks and coral reefs in relatively shallow water (typically 30–40 ft or 9–12 m in depth), with virtually unlimited visibility.


Premise: How many workers worked on the wall?

Hypothesis: The present-day City Wall of Nanjing was mainly built during that time and today it remains in good condition and has been well preserved.


Premise: What law protects the teaching of Arabic and Islamic traditions in Mindanao?

Hypothesis: Department Order No. 51, which instituted Arabic-language and Islamic Values instruction for Muslim children in state schools, and authorised implementation of the Standard Madrasa Curriculum (SMC) in private-run madaris.


Premise: From what country do most domesticated  quails today descend from ?

Hypothesis: These were the common quail (Coturnix coturnix), but modern domesticated flocks are mostly of Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica) which was probably domesticated as early as the 11th century AD in Japan.


Premise: On what date did the Supreme Court of India enact restrictions on Delhi's transportation system to reduce pollution?

Hypothesis: On December 16, 2015, the Supreme Court of India mandated several restrictions on Delhi's transportation system to curb pollution.


Premise: What was another name for the later Puritan movement?

Hypothesis: The early Puritan movement was a movement for reform in the Church of England.


Premise: Tylos worshipped Zeus in the form of what Arabian sun-god?

Hypothesis: In Arabia, Bahrain, which was referred to by the Greeks as Tylos, the centre of pearl trading, when Nearchus came to discover it serving under Alexander the Great.


Premise: In what year did the United Provinces invite Francis, Duke of Anjou to lead them?

Hypothesis: However, the latter agreed to turn the United Provinces into a protectorate of England (Treaty of Nonsuch, 1585), and sent the Earl of Leicester as governor-general.


Premise: Have studies shown DST generally increases or reduces gas consumption from cars?

Hypothesis: Several studies have suggested that DST increases motor fuel consumption.


Premise: Who played the mandolin on the album Tubular Bells?

Hypothesis: Led Zeppelin's bassist John Paul Jones is an accomplished mandolin player and has recorded numerous songs on mandolin including Going to California and That's the Way; the mandolin part on The Battle of Evermore is played by Jimmy Page, who composed the song.


Premise: What was trade credit backed by when extended by temples?

Hypothesis: Rural loans commonly arose as a result of unpaid obligations due to an institution (such as a temple), in this case the arrears were considered to be lent to the debtor.


Premise: How far east of Chengdu is CETDZ?

Hypothesis: Chengdu Economic and Technological Development Zone (CETDZ) lies 13.6 km (8.5 mi) east of Chengdu, the capital city of Sichuan Province and the hub of transportation and communication in southwest China.


Premise: Who is the creator of American Idol?

Hypothesis: It began airing on Fox on June 11, 2002, as an addition to the Idols format based on the British series Pop Idol and has since become one of the most successful shows in the history of American television.


Premise: What was the objective of le Secret du roi?

Hypothesis: French policy was, moreover, complicated by the existence of the le Secret du roi—a system of private diplomacy conducted by King Louis XV.


Premise: What artist did Kanye West interrupt Taylor Swift to defend?

Hypothesis: During the ceremony, West crashed the stage and grabbed the microphone from winner Taylor Swift in order to proclaim that, instead, Beyoncé's video for "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)", nominated for the same award, was "one of the best videos of all time".


Premise: What organization does the FBI share jurisdiction with?

Hypothesis: The FBI also shares concurrent jurisdiction with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in the enforcement of the Controlled Substances Act of 1970.


Premise: What is the name of a type of dual purpose fighter-bomber aircraft used by the US Air Force?

Hypothesis: The F-16 is currently used by the USAF Air Demonstration squadron, the Thunderbirds, while a small number of both man-rated and non-man-rated F-4 Phantom II are retained as QF-4 aircraft for use as Full Scale Aerial Targets (FSAT) or as part of the USAF Heritage Flight program.


Premise: Who was it that described people living on the coast as "Celtic"?

Hypothesis: According to Pomponius Mela all the inhabitants of the coastal areas were Celtic people.


Premise: What term refers to the legislature of the Isle of man?

Hypothesis: Before the lordship of the Island was purchased by the British Crown in 1765 (the Revestment), the assent of the Lord of Mann to a bill was signified by letter to the governor.


Premise: What is the glycemic index in maltose?

Hypothesis: But with most overconsumption, it is more a problem of improper exercise and overconsumption of carbohydrates than the product itself.


Premise: What kind of property is copyright used for?

Hypothesis: The original meaning of piracy is "robbery or illegal violence at sea", but the term has been in use for centuries as a synonym for acts of copyright infringement.


Premise: Where is the Fylde coast?

Hypothesis: The major settlements in the ceremonial county are concentrated on the Fylde coast (the Blackpool Urban Area), and a belt of towns running west-east along the M65: Preston, Blackburn, Accrington, Burnley, Nelson and Colne.


Premise: What location that was once filled with passengers, dry docks, and trains is now a holding area for new cars?

Hypothesis: However, a number of these relocated to Portsmouth and by 1996, there were no longer any car ferries operating from Southampton with the exception of services to the Isle of Wight.


Premise: Why were low-ranking local tribes recruited?

Hypothesis: Often, they recruited the normally low-ranking local tribes because of their traditional knowledge of the environment and hunting techniques.


Premise: What is one company that is able to get investments from large companies?

Hypothesis: Most of the research in Thuringia is publicly funded basic research due to the lack of large companies able to invest significant amounts in applied research, with the notable exception of the optics sector at Jena.


Premise: What plays a vital role in harbouring floral and faunal species?

Hypothesis: Plant and animal species confined to a specific geographical area are called endemic species.


Premise: What annelids are hermaphrodites?

Hypothesis: The minority of living polychaetes whose reproduction and lifecycles are known produce trochophore larvae, that live as plankton and then sink and metamorphose into miniature adults.


Premise: What was the significance of EDVAC?

Hypothesis: While consulting for the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania on the EDVAC project, von Neumann wrote an incomplete First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC.


Premise: The quality of a partial vacuum refers to what?

Hypothesis: Outer space is an even higher-quality vacuum, with the equivalent of just a few hydrogen atoms per cubic meter on average.


Premise: What percent of the Bronx is Mexican?

Hypothesis: At the 2010 Census, 53.5% of Bronx's population was of Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin (they may be of any race).


Premise: Which two title holders fought for political power in the early 1990s?

Hypothesis: A number of the proposals were later adopted in to law in some form, to a small extent during the Keating Labor government, and to a larger extent during the Howard Liberal government (most famously the GST), while unemployment benefits and bulk billing were re-targeted for a time by the Abbott Liberal government.


Premise: How much did rubella, measles, and mumps infections drop after vaccination?

Hypothesis: The United States incidences of rubella, congenital rubella syndrome, measles, and mumps all fell by >95% in the immediate aftermath of widespread vaccination.


Premise: Where was the epicenter?

Hypothesis: The earthquake had a magnitude of 8.0 Ms and 7.9 Mw.


Premise: How many hours a day does the parade run?

Hypothesis: The parade runs from morning until late at night, 18 hours a day, 3 days before Ash Wednesday.


Premise: In the writings of Rummel, what is the first and ordinary meaning of genocide?

Hypothesis: The legal meaning of genocide refers to the international treaty, the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.


Premise: Who was responsible for Star Wars?

Hypothesis: The archaeologist and adventurer hero Indiana Jones was played by Harrison Ford (whom Lucas had previously cast in his Star Wars films as Han Solo).


Premise: Along with the Baltic and Spain, in what area were crusades called?

Hypothesis: Although the Templars and Hospitallers took part in the Spanish crusades, similar Spanish military religious orders were founded, most of which had become part of the two main orders of Calatrava and Santiago by the beginning of the 12th century.


Premise: What happened when the UGLE was formed in 1813?

Hypothesis: When the military Lodge left North America, those fifteen men were given the authority to meet as a Lodge, but not to initiate Masons.


Premise: What weakens cell walls?

Hypothesis: Vascular land plants make lignin, a polymer used to strengthen the secondary cell walls of xylem tracheids and vessels to keep them from collapsing when a plant sucks water through them under water stress.


Premise: How many days of rain does Nanjing get a year, on average?

Hypothesis: However, the time from mid-June to the end of July is the plum blossom blooming season in which the meiyu (rainy season of East Asia; literally "plum rain") occurs, during which the city experiences a period of mild rain as well as dampness.


Premise: what hit single did atkins release in 1985?

Hypothesis: Atkins, a former member of Cybotron, released Model 500 "No UFOs" in 1985, which became a regional hit, followed by dozens of tracks on Transmat, Metroplex and Fragile.


Premise: What test can tell the difference between asthma and COPD?

Hypothesis: It is the single best test for asthma.


Premise: What does Houston have the most of compared to other large US cities?

Hypothesis: A 2011 study by Walk Score ranked Houston the 23rd most walkable of the 50 largest cities in the United States.


Premise: When did Tito die?

Hypothesis: Tito became increasingly ill over the course of 1979.


Premise: Which Amy Winehouse song did Beyoncé cover and release in May 2014?

Hypothesis: In May, Beyoncé's cover of Amy Winehouse's "Back to Black" with André 3000 on The Great Gatsby soundtrack was released.


Premise: What is Russian's legal status in Ukraine?

Hypothesis: 65% of the population was fluent in Russian in 2006, and 38% used it as the main language with family, friends or at work.


Premise: What was previously located at the present location of Forest Hill Park?

Hypothesis: Two other major parks in the city along the river are Byrd Park and Maymont, located near the Fan District.


Premise: What is a major reason that Bermuda has problems with overpopulation?

Hypothesis: Because of its limited land area, Bermuda has had difficulty with over-population.


Premise: What type of atmosphere can LED lighting be used?

Hypothesis: As of 2015[update], LEDs powerful enough for room lighting remain somewhat more expensive, and require more precise current and heat management, than compact fluorescent lamp sources of comparable output.


Premise: What no longer used accessories were powered by vacuum?

Hypothesis: Manifold vacuum can be used to drive accessories on automobiles.


Premise: When might coreless motors be used in servo applications?

Hypothesis: As dynamic response requirements increase, more specialized motor designs such as coreless motors are used.


Premise: What was special about Milestone 1?

Hypothesis: It was the first build where the text of a window was written centered instead of aligned to the left.


Premise: Who was elected President in 2014?

Hypothesis: Sisi was sworn into office as President of Egypt on 8 June 2014.


Premise: What was Kerry's ranking in the Ivory Tower Survey for effectiveness as SoS?

Hypothesis: ; John Kerry and Lawrence Eagleburger tied for 11th place out of the 15 confirmed Secretaries of State in that period.


Premise: During what period of domination were many Greeks unable to interact with it's central location ?

Hypothesis: During the Ottoman rule of Greece, a number of Greek enclaves around the Mediterranean were cut off from the core, notably in Southern Italy, the Caucasus, Syria and Egypt.


Premise: What methods make up Education?

Hypothesis: Educational methods include storytelling, discussion, teaching, training, and directed research.


Premise: What setting have anthropologists done more research in recently?

Hypothesis: Since the 1980s it has become common for social and cultural anthropologists to set ethnographic research in the North Atlantic region, frequently examining the connections between locations rather than limiting research to a single locale.


Premise: In what year were Bois de Boulogne and Bois de Vincennes annexed?

Hypothesis: In 1929, the Bois de Boulogne and Bois de Vincennes forest parks were officially annexed to the city, bringing its area to about 105 km2 (41 sq mi).


Premise: What is the gold production income of poor families in Mali?

Hypothesis: For many poor families with children, it is the primary and sometimes the only source of income.


Premise: Where was the first federal parliament convened in 1901?

Hypothesis: The first federal parliament was convened on 9 May 1901 in the Royal Exhibition Building, subsequently moving to the Victorian Parliament House where it was located until 1927, when it was moved to Canberra.


Premise: What is a possible result of handling the bit reservoir?

Hypothesis: Internal handling of the bit reservoir increases encoding delay.[citation needed]


Premise: What does EAL stand for?

Hypothesis: In the 1980s the United States Department of Defense (DoD) used the "Orange Book" standards, but the current international standard ISO/IEC 15408, "Common Criteria" defines a number of progressively more stringent Evaluation Assurance Levels.


Premise: What major interstate runs from Tijuana to Los Angeles?

Hypothesis: This includes Interstate 5, which runs south to Tijuana and north to Los Angeles; Interstate 8, which runs east to Imperial County and the Arizona Sun Corridor; Interstate 15, which runs northeast through the Inland Empire to Las Vegas and Salt Lake City; and Interstate 805, which splits from I-5 near the Mexican border and rejoins I-5 at Sorrento Valley.


Premise: As of 2010, what percentage made up white people in NYC?

Hypothesis: The city's population in 2010 was 44% white (33.3% non-Hispanic white), 25.5% black (23% non-Hispanic black), 0.7% Native American, and 12.7% Asian.


Premise: What is another term for some of Yale's secret society buildings?

Hypothesis: Building constructed in a mid-century modern style; Scroll and Key, Richard Morris Hunt in a Moorish- or Islamic-inspired Beaux-Arts style (erected 1869–70); Skull and Bones, possibly Alexander Jackson Davis or Henry Austin in an Egypto-Doric style utilizing Brownstone (in 1856 the first wing was completed, in 1903 the second wing, 1911 the Neo-Gothic towers in rear garden were completed); St. Elmo, (former tomb)


Premise: What bans the killing of all wild animals?

Hypothesis: India's Wildlife Protection Act of 1972 bans the killing of all wild animals.


Premise: Who wrote a Persian translation of the Quran in the 12th century?

Hypothesis: The first fully attested complete translations of the Quran were done between the 10th and 12th centuries in Persian.


Premise: Who developed Arsphenamine?

Hypothesis: Arsphenamine proved to be the first effective treatment for syphilis, a disease which prior to that time was incurable and led inexorably to severe skin ulceration, neurological damage, and death.[citation needed]


Premise: What is the average rainfall of the Sahara?

Hypothesis: The vast central hyper-arid core of the desert is virtually never affected by northerly or southerly atmospheric disturbances and permanently remains under the influence of the strongest anticyclonic weather regime and the annual average rainfall can drop to less than 1 mm (0.04 in).


Premise: What is another expression for bilingual attitudes?

Hypothesis: There are also well ingrained diglossic attitudes against Catalan in the Valencian Community, Ibiza, and to a lesser extent, in the rest of the Balearic islands.


Premise: Why did the mail stagecoaches stop running?

Hypothesis: The Overland Mail Corporation attempted to continue running, however following the Bascom Affair, devastating Apache attacks on the stations and coaches ended operations in August 1861.[citation needed]


Premise: What qualities dis Whitehead state that Christians attributed to their version of God?

Hypothesis: Perhaps his most famous and pointed criticism of the Christian conception of God is that "the Church gave unto God the attributes which belonged exclusively to Caesar."


Premise: What is 'haecceity'?

Hypothesis: In his Harvard "Lectures on Pragmatism" (1903), Peirce enumerated what he called the "three cotary propositions of pragmatism" (L: cos, cotis whetstone), saying that they "put the edge on the maxim of pragmatism".


Premise: In 2003, how many tons of poultry were produced worldwide?

Hypothesis: Though some hunting, such as that of muttonbirds, may be sustainable, hunting has led to the extinction or endangerment of dozens of species.


Premise: How were free persons listed in the US census prior to 1850?

Hypothesis: For the first time, free persons were listed individually instead of by head of household.


Premise: What is the unit of magentic properties of atomic nuclei?

Hypothesis: It is defined in terms of the reduced Planck constant, the elementary charge and the electron mass, all of which depend on the Planck constant: the final dependence on h1/2 (r2 > 0.995) can be found by expanding the variables.


Premise: What is the Zeigarnik effect?

Hypothesis: The spacing effect shows that an individual is more likely to remember a list of items when rehearsal is spaced over an extended period of time.


Premise: What other factor is relevant to the competitive exclusion principle?

Hypothesis: This factor alone could lead to the extirpation of one or both species, but is compounded by the added factor of prey abundance.


Premise: What is the term for extinction of only hatred and greed, with residue of delusion?

Hypothesis: Bodhi and nirvana carry the same meaning, that of being freed from craving, hate, and delusion.


Premise: Which side did The Times support in the fighting that broke out in Athens in 1944?

Hypothesis: As a result of Carr's editorial, The Times became popularly known during that stage of World War II as the threepenny Daily Worker (the price of the Daily Worker being one penny).


Premise: About what percentage of the Native Americans in Montana live off the reservation?

Hypothesis: A twelfth nation, the Little Shell Chippewa is a "landless" people headquartered in Great Falls, recognized by the state of Montana but not by the U.S. Government.


Premise: Mason swear at each degree to do what?

Hypothesis: The idea of Masonic brotherhood probably descends from a 16th-century legal definition of a brother as one who has taken an oath of mutual support to another.


Premise: What impacted the ability of financial institutions to lend in the financial crisis of 2007?

Hypothesis: These losses impacted the ability of financial institutions to lend, slowing economic activity.


Premise: How does central Catalan behave with the groups?

Hypothesis: Despite its relative lexical unity, the two dialectal blocks of Catalan (Eastern and Western) show some differences in word choices.


Premise: Who ran the Smithsonian in 1875?

Hypothesis: However, a chance meeting in 1874 between Bell and Thomas A. Watson, an experienced electrical designer and mechanic at the electrical machine shop of Charles Williams, changed all that.


Premise: When was Grand Bassa founded?

Hypothesis: The oldest counties are Grand Bassa and Montserrado, both founded in 1839 prior to Liberian independence.


Premise: What building is named after Earl and Kathryn Pardoe?

Hypothesis: The Margetts Theatre was named for Philip N. Margetts, a prominent Utah theatre figure.


Premise: Which character is promoted to M?

Hypothesis: Following Garreth Mallory's promotion to M, on a mission in Mexico City unofficially ordered by a posthumous message from the previous M, 007 James Bond kills three men plotting a terrorist bombing during the Day of the Dead and gives chase to Marco Sciarra, an assassin who survived the attack.


Premise: What percentage of the vote do the non-dominant parties get?

Hypothesis: The Assembly of the Republic, Regional Assemblies and local municipalities and parishes, are dominated by two political parties, the Socialist Party and the Social Democratic Party, in addition to the Unitary Democratic Coalition (Portuguese Communist Party and Ecologist Party "The Greens"), the Left Bloc and the Democratic and Social Centre – People's Party, which garner between 5 and 15% of the vote regularly.


Premise: When did Tennessee officially vote to secede?

Hypothesis: The state did not vote to join the Confederacy until President Abraham Lincoln called on it to invade its sister state, South Carolina, becoming the last or second-to-last state to officially join the Confederacy.


Premise: What is the average EQ of a person?

Hypothesis: The most widely accepted way of comparing brain sizes across species is the so-called encephalization quotient (EQ), which takes into account the nonlinearity of the brain-to-body relationship.


Premise: How many polonaises were published while Chopin lived?

Hypothesis: Chopin's mazurkas, while originating in the traditional Polish dance (the mazurek), differed from the traditional variety in that they were written for the concert hall rather than the dance hall; "it was Chopin who put the mazurka on the European musical map.


Premise: Pesticides contain at least how many ingredients?

Hypothesis: As of 2007, there were more than 1,055 active ingredients registered as pesticides, which yield over 20,000 pesticide products that are marketed in the United States.


Premise: Can the name of a certain bulb shape vary?

Hypothesis: The letters represent the shape of the bulb.


Premise: When was 'True Love' released?

Hypothesis: Bronx native Nancy Savoca's 1989 comedy, True Love, explores two Italian-American Bronx sweethearts in the days before their wedding.


Premise: What problem rocked the PC industry in 1989?

Hypothesis: Microsoft Windows 3.0 was released in May 1990, the first iteration of Windows which had a feature set and performance comparable to the significantly costlier Macintosh.


Premise: What theory did the Egyptians use to build rectilinear structures?

Hypothesis: The 3-4-5 right triangle and other rules of thumb were used to build rectilinear structures, and the post and lintel architecture of Egypt.


Premise: What body of water borders Estonia?

Hypothesis: Estonia lies on the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea immediately across the Gulf of Finland from Finland on the level northwestern part of the rising East European platform between 57.3° and 59.5° N and 21.5° and 28.1° E. Average elevation reaches only 50 metres (164 ft) and the country's highest point is the Suur Munamägi in the southeast at 318 metres (1,043 ft).


Premise: What bank is head quartered in Utrecht

Hypothesis: The economy of Utrecht depends for a large part on the several large institutions located in the city.


Premise: What sort of sound does the music of Susan Boyle have?

Hypothesis: Throughout this decade, artists such as Nick Lachey, James Blunt, John Mayer, Bruno Mars, Jason Mraz, Kelly Clarkson, Adele, Clay Aiken and Susan Boyle have become successful thanks to a ballad heavy sound.


Premise: Who was a correspondent on season two of American Idol?

Hypothesis: Kristin Adams was a correspondent for this season.


Premise: Who is responsible for Defence and Foreign Affairs?

Hypothesis: The Governor is appointed by the Queen on the advice of the British government.


Premise: What costs will solar energy lower?

Hypothesis: It will increase countries’ energy security through reliance on an indigenous, inexhaustible and mostly import-independent resource, enhance sustainability, reduce pollution, lower the costs of mitigating global warming, and keep fossil fuel prices lower than otherwise.


Premise: Where did carpet weaving initially spread to inside of the Empire?

Hypothesis: The weaving of such carpets originated in the nomadic cultures of central Asia (carpets being an easily transportable form of furnishing), and was eventually spread to the settled societies of Anatolia.


Premise: CPUs that are constructed on a single integrated circuit are called what?

Hypothesis: The control unit, ALU, and registers are collectively known as a central processing unit (CPU).


Premise: Are all algae different from land plants?

Hypothesis: The algae are a polyphyletic group and are placed in various divisions, some more closely related to plants than others.


Premise: How long does it take for patents to expire after being filed?

Hypothesis: As a result, patents required to implement MP3 expired in most countries by December 2012, 21 years after the publication of ISO CD 11172.


Premise: When was the iMac G5 released?

Hypothesis: Starting with the then-new iMac G5, released in October 2005, Apple started to include built-in iSight cameras on appropriate models, and a media center interface called Front Row that can be operated by an Apple Remote or keyboard for accessing media stored on the computer.


Premise: How many species have been downgraded from endangered to threatened status?

Hypothesis: Twenty-five others have been down listed from "endangered" to "threatened" status.


Premise: What percentage of Notre Dame students decide to study abroad?

Hypothesis: Additionally, the study abroad program ranks sixth in highest participation percentage in the nation, with 57.6% of students choosing to study abroad in 17 countries.


Premise: What is the nickname given to the first listing of endangered species?

Hypothesis: This first list is referred to as the "Class of '67" in The Endangered Species Act at Thirty, Volume 1, which concludes that habitat destruction, the biggest threat to those 78 species, is still the same threat to the currently listed species.


Premise: Where did the attendance at Arsenal games rank in relation to other English clubs?

Hypothesis: The club's location, adjoining wealthy areas such as Canonbury and Barnsbury, mixed areas such as Islington, Holloway, Highbury, and the adjacent London Borough of Camden, and largely working-class areas such as Finsbury Park and Stoke Newington, has meant that Arsenal's supporters have come from a variety of social classes.


Premise: What service did IBM provide for the Nuremberg Trials?

Hypothesis: In 1937, IBM's tabulating equipment enabled organizations to process unprecedented amounts of data, its clients including the U.S. Government, during its first effort to maintain the employment records for 26 million people pursuant to the Social Security Act, and the Third Reich, largely through the German subsidiary Dehomag.


Premise: In which Olympics was Spielberg a flagbearer?

Hypothesis: In 2006, Premiere listed him as the most powerful and influential figure in the motion picture industry.


Premise: Why did Steele say what he did?

Hypothesis: Because he has no slave blood in him."


Premise: Why do muslim anti-masonics believe that the Freemasons want to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque?

Hypothesis: Many Islamic anti-Masonic arguments are closely tied to both antisemitism and Anti-Zionism, though other criticisms are made such as linking Freemasonry to al-Masih ad-Dajjal (the false Messiah).


Premise: In what year did Chinese Foxconn emplyees kill themselves?

Hypothesis: Another employee killed himself in 2009 when an Apple prototype went missing, and claimed in messages to friends, that he had been beaten and interrogated.


Premise: What theme was Beyonce's early music?

Hypothesis: Her early songs were personally driven and female-empowerment themed compositions like "Independent Women" and "Survivor", but after the start of her relationship with Jay Z she transitioned to more man-tending anthems such as "Cater 2 U".


Premise: What does aerobic gymnastiscs involve?

Hypothesis: Aerobic gymnastics (formally Sport Aerobics) involves the performance of routines by individuals, pairs, trios or groups up to 6 people, emphasizing strength, flexibility, and aerobic fitness rather than acrobatic or balance skills.


Premise: What month was the livestock typically slaughtered?

Hypothesis: All the food that had survived the winter had to be eaten to assure that everyone was fed enough to survive until the coming spring would provide new food sources.


Premise: What happened to the BeiDou-1D satellite that needed to be repaired?

Hypothesis: In February 2007, the fourth and last satellite of the BeiDou-1 system, BeiDou-1D (sometimes called BeiDou-2A, serving as a backup satellite), was sent up into space.


Premise: What is the number of plants in the Central Sahara?

Hypothesis: Plants such as acacia trees, palms, succulents, spiny shrubs, and grasses have adapted to the arid conditions, by growing lower to avoid water loss by strong winds, by storing water in their thick stems to use it in dry periods, by having long roots that travel horizontally to reach the maximum area of water and to find any surface moisture and by having small thick leaves or needles to prevent water loss by evapo-transpiration.


Premise: What years did Germany hold possession over Lorrain-Alscace?

Hypothesis: The region, as part of Lorraine, was part of the Holy Roman Empire, and then was gradually annexed by France in the 17th century, and formalized as one of the provinces of France.


Premise: What other government officials are subject to judgments of Brazil's highest court?

Hypothesis: It is both the constitutional court and the court of last resort in Brazilian law.


Premise: What are the permanent members of UN Security Council?

Hypothesis: Sometimes the status of great powers is formally recognized in conferences such as the Congress of Vienna or an international structure such as the United Nations Security Council (China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States serve as the body's five permanent members).


Premise: The Mediterranean sea is a remaining part of which sea from the Eocene?

Hypothesis: Though the North Atlantic was opening, a land connection appears to have remained between North America and Europe since the faunas of the two regions are very similar.


Premise: In this theory, what action evokes an emotion?

Hypothesis: An emotion-evoking stimulus (snake) triggers a pattern of physiological response (increased heart rate, faster breathing, etc.), which is interpreted as a particular emotion (fear).


Premise: What is the name of the securities that enabled financial institutions to obtain investor funds to finance subprime?

Hypothesis: The collateralized debt obligation in particular enabled financial institutions to obtain investor funds to finance subprime and other lending, extending or increasing the housing bubble and generating large fees.


Premise: Who most likely lived in the large villa rustica?

Hypothesis: The mosaics of the Villa Romana del Casale near Piazza Armerina in Sicily are the largest collection of late Roman mosaics in situ in the world, and are protected as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.


Premise: What does IC stand for?

Hypothesis: Officers are instructed to "record the response that has been given" even if the person gives an answer which may be incorrect; their own perception of the person's ethnic background is recorded separately.


Premise: When was the first 3.7 cm FlaK 18 introduced?

Hypothesis: The first, the 3.7 cm FlaK 18 developed by Rheinmetall in the early 1930s, was basically an enlarged 2 cm FlaK 30.


Premise: Which season was Diana DeGarmo on?

Hypothesis: Phillips became the winner, beating Sanchez.


Premise: What is the most widely accepted explanation of Neptune's formation called?

Hypothesis: The current most widely accepted explanation of the details of this hypothesis is known as the Nice model, which explores the effect of a migrating Neptune and the other giant planets on the structure of the Kuiper belt.


Premise: What hinders export?

Hypothesis: For most Central Africans, the informal economy of the CAR is more important than the formal economy.[citation needed]


Premise: Who was the second head of government elected?

Hypothesis: The first elected head of government was Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas.


Premise: What is clothing made to order for private clients called?

Hypothesis: Paris has been an international capital of high fashion since the 19th century, particularly in the domain of haute couture, clothing hand-made to order for private clients.


Premise: How long did British military presence remain in Egypt?

Hypothesis: Continued instability due to remaining British influence and increasing political involvement by the king led to the dissolution of the parliament in a military coup d'état known as the 1952 Revolution.


Premise: Who was Jack Brown's wife?

Hypothesis: According to Smokey Robinson, Strong was a primary influence on his voice as a teenager.


Premise: Who made significant addition to a charming little quirky  scientific deviant that lead to the winning of a prestigious award of recognition and gave birth to a model ?

Hypothesis: As of 2007, Greece had the eighth highest percentage of tertiary enrollment in the world (with the percentages for female students being higher than for male) while Greeks of the Diaspora are equally active in the field of education.


Premise: The features of flowers which attract pollinators also attract what other creature?

Hypothesis: The characteristics that attract pollinators account for the popularity of flowers and flowering plants among humans.


Premise: When did authorities break up the light bulb cartel?

Hypothesis: When this was exposed in 1953, General Electric and other leading American manufacturers were banned from limiting the life.


Premise: What's the name of the agreement that ended with the start of Samoa's independence from New Zealand?

Hypothesis: After repeated efforts by the Samoan independence movement, the New Zealand Western Samoa Act 1961 of 24 November 1961 granted Samoa independence effective 1 January 1962, upon which the Trusteeship Agreement terminated.


Premise: Philip II and Alexander's court army spoke a version of what language?

Hypothesis: The spread of Greek culture and language throughout the Near East and Asia owed much to the development of newly founded cities and deliberate colonization policies by the successor states, which in turn was necessary for maintaining their military forces.


Premise: What was the goal of the council?

Hypothesis: These became the basis of the Tripitaka.


Premise: Where did Pakistan try to remove the Taliban and Al-Qaeda?

Hypothesis: Support for the U.S. cooled when America made clear its determination to invade Iraq in late 2002.


Premise: Who said "Connectedness begets vulnerability?"

Hypothesis: As Jay Cross, the chief scientist of the Internet Time Group, remarked, "Connectedness begets vulnerability."


Premise: Who was the subject of Gesta Friderici Imperatoris?

Hypothesis: Gesta Friderici Imperatoris detailing the deeds of Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, or William of Malmesbury's (d. c. 1143)


Premise: Who is considered to be "Atlantic City's Godfather?"

Hypothesis: In Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City, "Atlantic City's Godfather" Nelson Johnson describes the inspiration of Dr. Jonathan Pitney (the "Father of Atlantic City") to develop Atlantic City as a health resort, his efforts to convince the municipal authorities that a railroad to the beach would be beneficial, his successful alliance with Samuel Richards (entrepreneur and member of the most influential family in southern New Jersey at the time) to achieve that goal, the actual building of the railroad, and the experience of the first 600 riders, who "were chosen carefully by Samuel Richards and Jonathan Pitney":


Premise: Along with City College Plymouth, what college calls Plymouth home?

Hypothesis: Plymouth College of Art offers a selection of courses including media.


Premise: Who asked Paul VI for permission to cooperate with Protestants to translate the bible?

Hypothesis: When Cardinal Augustin Bea went to see him for permission for a joint Catholic-Protestant translation of the Bible with Protestant Bible societies, the pope walked towards him and exclaimed, "as far as the cooperation with Bible societies is concerned, I am totally in favour."


Premise: During was era did Buddhism first appear in the region?

Hypothesis: Buddhism first entered China during the Eastern Han and was first mentioned in 65 AD.


Premise: What class of people founded both European universities and Islamic madaris

Hypothesis: Darleen Pryds questions this view, pointing out that madaris and European universities in the Mediterranean region shared similar foundations by princely patrons and were intended to provide loyal administrators to further the rulers' agenda.


Premise: Apis and Osiris combined to make which god?

Hypothesis: Ptolemy I even created a new god, Serapis, who was combination of two Egyptian gods: Apis and Osiris, with attributes of Greek gods.


Premise: Along with the docks and grain mills, what crop has been processed in Southampton for a long time?

Hypothesis: During the latter half of the 20th century, a more diverse range of industry also came to the city, including aircraft and car manufacture, cables, electrical engineering products, and petrochemicals.


Premise: Who did the British Empire side with?

Hypothesis: If the British Empire was now going to side with the Russian Empire, the Ottoman Empire had no choice but to cultivate a relationship with the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which was supported by the German Empire.


Premise: What type of detector did H.J. Round use to help him in his discovery?

Hypothesis: His research was distributed in Soviet, German and British scientific journals, but no practical use was made of the discovery for several decades.


Premise: Who would engrave the master disc of a vinyl record?

Hypothesis: For the first several decades of disc record manufacturing, sound was recorded directly on to the "master disc" at the recording studio.


Premise: What formative period  produced bitumen?

Hypothesis: Isotopic studies attribute the oil deposits to be about 110 million years old.


Premise: What was the population of the urban area of Paris in 2012 without a fixed residence?

Hypothesis: Fifty-six percent of the homeless were born outside France, the largest number coming from Africa and Eastern Europe.


Premise: During which historical period was the wall circuit expanded?

Hypothesis: In the medieval period the wall circuit was expanded.


Premise: Why did Jordan and Lebanon seek outside aid?

Hypothesis: On 19 July, for the first time, he declared that he was opting for full Arab union, although he had no plan to merge Iraq with the UAR.


Premise: What is it referred to when more and more of energy becomes trapped in irreversible states?

Hypothesis: This has been referred to as the inevitable thermodynamic heat death of the universe.


Premise: Other than Thomson Consumer Electronics, Fraunhofer Society and CNET, who else was a part of the joint proposal?

Hypothesis: It provided the highest coding efficiency.


Premise: Along with sculptures, what type of art have people been making out of wood for centuries?

Hypothesis: It has been used to make sculptures and carvings for millennia.


Premise: What curriculum is used in non public madaris in Mindanao?

Hypothesis: While there are state-recognised Islamic schools, such as Ibn Siena Integrated School in the Islamic City of Marawi, Sarang Bangun LC in Zamboanga and SMIE in Jolo, their Islamic studies programmes initially varied in application and content.


Premise: What ultimately convinced Hitler that Raeder was right?

Hypothesis: Hitler had been convinced by Raeder that this was the right course of action due to the high success rates of the U-Boat force during this period of the war.


Premise: How many newspaper offices are located in New York?

Hypothesis: More than 200 newspapers and 350 consumer magazines have an office in the city, and the publishing industry employs about 25,000 people.


Premise: Which three Western European countries have a lower Social Progress ranking than Portugal?

Hypothesis: Portugal maintains a unitary semi-presidential republican form of government and is a developed country with an advanced economy, and a high living standard, having the 18th highest Social Progress in the world, putting it ahead of other Western European countries like France, Spain and Italy.


Premise: Who was the first person to be handed the torch in Almaty?

Hypothesis: Kazakhstan: The first torchbearer in Almaty, where the Olympic torch arrived for the first time ever on April 2, was the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbaev.


Premise: In addition to its shape, what property of the English Channel affects water flow in Southampton Water?

Hypothesis: This is not caused as popularly supposed by the presence of the Isle of Wight, but is a function of the shape and depth of the English Channel.


Premise: What do many geologists believe about earthquake prediction?

Hypothesis: In a press conference held by the State Council Information Office the day after the earthquake, geologist Zhang Xiaodong, deputy director of CEA's Seismic Monitoring Network Center, restated that earthquake prediction was a global issue, in the sense that no proven methods exist, and that no prediction notification was received before the earthquake.


Premise: Besides children, who can Take CTC  classes?

Hypothesis: The CTCs provide vocational training to students who do not progress beyond Class 8 because they failed the entry qualifications for secondary education.


Premise: In what culture of law were Jews and heretics often lumped together?

Hypothesis: The identification of Jews and heretics in particular occurred several times in Roman-Christian law,


Premise: On which label did Elvis release his early singles?

Hypothesis: The last Presley single released on 78 in the United States was RCA Victor 20-7410


Premise: Nutritional standards and recommendations are produced by a joint effort between the US Department of Agriculture and which other department?

Hypothesis: In the US, nutritional standards and recommendations are established jointly by the US Department of Agriculture and US Department of Health and Human Services.


Premise: Where was Tito serioiusly wounded and captured by the Russians at?

Hypothesis: At the outbreak of World War I in 1914, he was sent to Ruma, where he was arrested for anti-war propaganda and imprisoned in the Petrovaradin fortress.


Premise: What does the American Psychological Assocation distinguish between?

Hypothesis: While the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and American Psychiatric Association state that sexual orientation is innate, continuous or fixed throughout their lives for some people, but is fluid or changes over time for others, the American Psychological Association distinguishes between sexual orientation (an innate attraction) and sexual orientation identity (which may change at any point in a person's life).


Premise: Who is the missile test facility named after?

Hypothesis: The United States Army maintains the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site on Kwajalein Atoll.


Premise: What is The Times current price for the daily edition?

Hypothesis: The Times features news for the first half of the paper, the Opinion/Comment section begins after the first news section with world news normally following this.


Premise: What do money market funds frequently invest in?

Hypothesis: There was the equivalent of a bank run on the money market funds, which frequently invest in commercial paper issued by corporations to fund their operations and payrolls.


Premise: Beyonce had an all-female tour band whose name was what?

Hypothesis: In 2006, Beyoncé introduced her all-female tour band Suga Mama (also the name of a song in B'Day) which includes bassists, drummers, guitarists, horn players, keyboardists and percussionists.


Premise: How many domestic overnight visitors came to Melbourne during the year ending March 2014?

Hypothesis: For five years in a row (as of 2015) it has held the top position in a survey by The Economist Intelligence Unit of the world's most liveable cities on the basis of a number of attributes which include its broad cultural offerings.


Premise: Who was granted higher status than the Han Chinese majority?

Hypothesis: Nevertheless, the ethno-geographic caste hierarchy favoring the Mongols and other ethnicities were accorded higher status than the Han Chinese majority.


Premise: When did Lord North take office?

Hypothesis: Burke wrote: "As to the good people of England, they seem to partake every day more and more of the Character of that administration which they have been induced to tolerate.


Premise: How many communities does the CMA include?

Hypothesis: Apart from St. John's, the CMA includes 12 other communities: the city of Mount Pearl and the towns of Conception Bay South, Paradise, Portugal Cove-St.


Premise: How does he describe what makes something real?

Hypothesis: Relations are not secondary to what a thing is, they are what the thing is.


Premise: What was the name of EIC military company?

Hypothesis: Promotion for both British and Indian soldiers was strictly by seniority, so Indian soldiers rarely reached the commissioned ranks of Jamadar or Subadar before they were middle aged at best.


Premise: What was the last to be under an International Trusteeship System?

Hypothesis: In the Report of the Committee dated 3 September 1947 to the UN General Assembly, the majority of the Committee in Chapter VI proposed a plan to replace the British Mandate with "an independent Arab State, an independent Jewish State, and the City of Jerusalem ...


Premise: How many UNESCO World Heritage Sites is Portugal home to?

Hypothesis: These include the Belém Cultural Centre in Lisbon, Serralves Foundation and the Casa da Música, both in Porto, as well as new public cultural facilities like municipal libraries and concert halls that were built or renovated in many municipalities across the country.


Premise: Who lived in buildings that would later come to be known as the Presidential Palace?

Hypothesis: Both the Qing viceroy and the Taiping king resided in buildings that would later be known as the Presidential Palace.


Premise: What is considered to have counteracted the prestige of the senatorial aristocracy?

Hypothesis: Caesar then raised the membership of the Senate to 900.


Premise: In 1730, what percentage of New York households were slave-holding?

Hypothesis: It also became a center of slavery, with 42% of households holding slaves by 1730, more than any other city other than Charleston, South Carolina.


Premise: What year was The Aims of Education and Other Essays published?

Hypothesis: Whitehead's most complete work on education is the 1929 book


Premise: When did Apple announce software that would allow Windows XP to be run on Intel-based Macs?

Hypothesis: In March 2006, a group of hackers announced that they were able to run Windows XP on an Intel-based Mac.


Premise: What percentage of the population is Christian?

Hypothesis: These statistics can be misleading, however, as many residents practice syncretic forms of Islamic and Christian faiths, combining their practices with traditional African beliefs.


Premise: What color was the chartered plane?

Hypothesis: Internationally, the torch and its accompanying party traveled in a chartered Air China Airbus A330 (registered B-6075), painted in the red and yellow colors of the Olympic Games.


Premise: What are the Flemish representatives in favor for?

Hypothesis: However, the Flemish representatives in the Parliament of the Brussels Capital-Region voted in favour of the Brussels resolution, with the exception of one party.


Premise: Who was the central theme of the mosaics at Tsromi?

Hypothesis: In Tsromi the tesserae are still visible on the walls of the 7th-century church but only faint lines hint at the original scheme.


Premise: What did the Romans call the third hour before sunrise?

Hypothesis: Although they did not fix their schedules to the clock in the modern sense, ancient civilizations adjusted daily schedules to the sun more flexibly than modern DST does, often dividing daylight into twelve hours regardless of day length, so that each daylight hour was longer during summer.


Premise: What type of book was it?

Hypothesis: An Estonian grammar book to be used by priests was printed in German in 1637.


Premise: What country was the Armée d'Angleterre intended to strike at?

Hypothesis: He intended to use this invasion force to strike at England.


Premise: What is the earliest English usage of the term Brytish Illes?

Hypothesis: The earliest known use of the phrase Brytish Iles in the English language is dated 1577 in a work by John Dee.


Premise: Do milestones such as driving a vechile, serving on a jury, voting, and marriage all have a common age of responsibility?

Hypothesis: Furthermore, even within a single nation state or culture there can be different ages at which an individual is considered (chronologically and legally) mature enough for society to entrust them with certain privileges and responsibilities.


Premise: What is the Ministry of Health responsible for?

Hypothesis: The Ministry of Health is responsible for developing health policy as well as managing the SNS.


Premise: What period was the first known city states established in Myanmar?

Hypothesis: Around the second century BC the first-known city-states emerged in central Myanmar.


Premise: What year can the festival be traced back to?

Hypothesis: The origins of this fun fair is located in the year 1529.


Premise: The basis for the stored-program computer was written by whom?

Hypothesis: With the proposal of the stored-program computer this changed.


Premise: What is the group of animals that often have a specialized head with feeding and sensory organs called?

Hypothesis: For the most part, they are bilaterally symmetric, and often have a specialized head with feeding and sensory organs.


Premise: What have general been prudent about?

Hypothesis: Despite occasional theoretical diversity, the actual practice of translation has hardly changed since antiquity.


Premise: Where did Dominic and his followers live during early 1220?

Hypothesis: Before that time the friars had only a temporary residence in Rome at the convent of San Sisto Vecchio which Honorius III had given to Dominic circa 1218 intending it to become a convent for a reformation of nuns at Rome under Dominic's guidance.


Premise: What Microsoft executive was in charge of 360 development?

Hypothesis: In February 2003, planning for the Xenon software platform began, and was headed by Microsoft's Vice President J Allard.


Premise: Birth control was prohibited in most countries before what war?

Hypothesis: Prior to the second world war, birth control was prohibited in many countries, and in the United States even the discussion of contraceptive methods sometimes led to prosecution under Comstock laws.


Premise: When was the Restatement (Second) of Torts beginning to be adopted outside of the United States?

Hypothesis: The American Law Institute subsequently adopted a slightly different version of the Greenman rule in Section 402A of the Restatement (Second) of Torts, which was published in 1964 and was very influential throughout the United States.


Premise: What did Crawford report that some of the King's advisers thought of Philip?

Hypothesis: Marion Crawford wrote, "Some of the King's advisors did not think him good enough for her.


Premise: Axons grouped together are known as what?

Hypothesis: Most of the space in the brain is taken up by axons, which are often bundled together in what are called nerve fiber tracts.


Premise: How many troops did Marshal Murat lead into Spain?

Hypothesis: Marshal Murat led 120,000 troops into Spain and the French arrived in Madrid on 24 March, where wild riots against the occupation erupted just a few weeks later.


Premise: Which school did Brigham Young Acadamy, now BYU,  break off from in 1876?

Hypothesis: The school broke off from the University of Deseret and became Brigham Young Academy, with classes commencing on January 3, 1876.


Premise: What individuals live at Fatima House at Notre Dame?

Hypothesis: While not Catholic, Buechner has praised writers from Notre Dame and Moreau Seminary created a Buechner Prize for Preaching.


Premise: Where do 8th and 9th Streets end?

Hypothesis: 8th and 9th Streets run parallel to each other, beginning at Avenue D, interrupted by Tompkins Square Park at Avenue B, resuming at Avenue A and continuing to Sixth Avenue.


Premise: What doctrine is some of Avicenna's works based around?

Hypothesis: His Logic, Metaphysics, Physics, and De Caelo, are treatises giving a synoptic view of Aristotelian doctrine, though Metaphysics demonstrates a significant departure from the brand of Neoplatonism known as Aristotelianism in Ibn Sīnā's world; Arabic philosophers[who?][year needed] have hinted at the idea that Ibn Sīnā was attempting to "re-Aristotelianise" Muslim philosophy in its entirety, unlike his predecessors, who accepted the conflation of Platonic, Aristotelian, Neo- and Middle-Platonic works transmitted into the Muslim world.


Premise: who was the spanish conquistador who had encounters with europeans and native americans?

Hypothesis: With the arrival of Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, a Spanish conquistador, the first recorded history of encounter between Europeans and Native Americans in the Great Plains occurred in Texas, Kansas and Nebraska from 1540-1542.


Premise: What Stage occurred approximately 130,000 years ago?

Hypothesis: By 15,000 years ago, the sea level had dropped to 300 to 350 feet (90 to 110 m) below the contemporary level.


Premise: Does this view contradict the belief that Mary was also born to a virgin mother ?

Hypothesis: Moreover, Hannah's prayer in the Quran for her child to remain protected from Satan (Shayṭān) was said after it had already been born, not before and expresses a natural concern any righteous parent would have.


Premise: What is the name of the museum in Glastonbury

Hypothesis: Other visitor attractions which reflect the cultural heritage of the county include: Claverton Pumping Station, Dunster Working Watermill, the Fleet Air Arm Museum at Yeovilton, Nunney Castle, The Helicopter Museum in Weston-super-Mare, King John's Hunting Lodge in Axbridge, Blake Museum Bridgwater, Radstock Museum, Museum of Somerset in Taunton, the Somerset Rural Life Museum in Glastonbury, and Westonzoyland Pumping Station Museum.


Premise: Who are the most well-known wrestling bears?

Hypothesis: Though they have not had the level of exposure as other wrestlers, bears have long been a part of professional wrestling.


Premise: What occurs when copper is placed touching another metal?

Hypothesis: As with other metals, if copper is placed against another metal, galvanic corrosion will occur.


Premise: How many contrastive aspirated fricatives does Choni Tibetan have?

Hypothesis: Some languages, such as Choni Tibetan, have up to four contrastive aspirated fricatives [sʰ]


Premise: When did the 19th century workers of Paris construct barricades and hoist red flags to protest their new government?

Hypothesis: The new government called in the French Army to put down the uprising, the first of many such confrontations between the army and the new worker's movements in Europe.


Premise: What is the winter in Namibia like?

Hypothesis: It is situated at the southern edge of the tropics; the Tropic of Capricorn cuts the country about in half.


Premise: Who ate the meat of the sacrifice during the after sacrifice  banquet?

Hypothesis: After the sacrifice, a banquet was held; in state cults, the images of honoured deities took pride of place on banqueting couches and by means of the sacrificial fire consumed their proper portion (exta, the innards).


Premise: Less than 1% of the world's total grid electricity was generated by solar energy in what year?

Hypothesis: In 2013 solar generated less than 1% of the worlds total grid electricity.


Premise: Along with sweating and muscle tension, what might be a physiological response to danger?

Hypothesis: For example, the realization of danger and subsequent arousal of the nervous system (e.g. rapid heartbeat and breathing, sweating, muscle tension) is integral to the experience of fear.


Premise: When was the "Palace of Trade" built?

Hypothesis: Recognized as an emporium for high-quality fashions, the store soon outgrew the Marble House and erected a cast-iron building on Broadway and Nineteenth Street in 1869; this “Palace of Trade” expanded over the years until it was necessary to move into a larger space in 1914.


Premise: What is nonverbal communication?

Hypothesis: Nonverbal communication also relates to intent of a message.


Premise: What can be used in a wrestling story?

Hypothesis: Celebrities would also be involved in storylines.


Premise: What was a nickname of Florence Lawrence?

Hypothesis: That company quickly evolved into the Independent Moving Pictures Company (IMP), with studios in Fort Lee, New Jersey, where many early films in America's first motion picture industry were produced in the early 20th century.


Premise: Which structure in the church became a historical monument?

Hypothesis: The first cannon fired hit a bell in the tower of the church, instantly breaking it in half; soon after, 200 men of the imperial army forces surrendered.


Premise: What was the increase in non-German population between 2011 and 2013?

Hypothesis: Nevertheless, the number rose from 33,000 in July 2011, an increase of 24% in only two years.


Premise: What did Bell call his cord-free phone?

Hypothesis: Both men later became full associates in the Volta Laboratory Association.


Premise: What is the Dutch language officially called in the Netherlands?

Hypothesis: In both Belgium and the Netherlands, the native official name for Dutch is Nederlands, and its dialects have their own names, e.g. Hollands "Hollandish", West-Vlaams "Western Flemish", Brabants "Brabantian".


Premise: In degrees Fahrenheit, what is Plymouth's annual mean temperature?

Hypothesis: As a result of this summer highs are lower than its southerly latitude should warrant, but as a contrast the coldest month of February has mean minimum temperatures as mild as between 3 and 4 °C (37 and 39 °F).


Premise: Minkowski and von Mering did surgical tests on what animal?

Hypothesis: In 1869, Oskar Minkowski and Joseph von Mering found that diabetes could be induced in dogs by surgical removal of the pancreas.


Premise: What is the name given to Victoria on official documents?

Hypothesis: Lord Conyngham then acquainted me that my poor Uncle, the King, was no more, and had expired at 12 minutes past 2 this morning, and consequently that I am Queen."


Premise: When did EMI create the first stereo discs?

Hypothesis: The ultimately dominant "45/45" stereophonic record system was invented by Alan Blumlein of EMI in 1931 and patented the same year.


Premise: Dogs have hunted with and done other things for people for a long time, but what is a more recent help to people they provide?

Hypothesis: Dogs perform many roles for people, such as hunting, herding, pulling loads, protection, assisting police and military, companionship, and, more recently, aiding handicapped individuals.


Premise: What does the term "Second Hundred Years' War" describe?

Hypothesis: The war has been described as the first "world war", although this label was also given to various earlier conflicts like the Eighty Years' War, the Thirty Years' War, the War of the Spanish Succession and the War of the Austrian Succession, and to later conflicts like the Napoleonic Wars.


Premise: What did Gaddafi seize during the coup?

Hypothesis: Gaddafi's Free Officers recognized this as their chance to overthrow the monarchy, initiating "Operation Jerusalem".


Premise: What covers the remaining 377 square miles?

Hypothesis: Its urbanized zone covers roughly 244 sq mi (630 km2) resulting in a density of 2,500 per square mile (2013 est), compared with larger rural watershed areas incorporated by the city, which cover the remaining 377 sq mi (980 km2) of the city limits.


Premise: Tito was awarded the Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of what country?

Hypothesis: I, Order of Georgi Dimitrov, Order of Karl Marx, Order of Manuel Amador Guerrero, Order of Michael the Brave, Order of Pahlavi, Order of Sukhbaatar, Order of Suvorov, Order of the Liberator, Order of the October Revolution, Order of the Queen of Sheba, Order of the White Rose of Finland, Partisan Cross, Royal Order of Cambodia and Star of People's Friendship and Thiri Thudhamma Thingaha.[citation needed]


Premise: What kind of island is St. Barts?

Hypothesis: Saint Barthélemy, a volcanic island fully encircled by shallow reefs, has an area of 25 square kilometres (9.7 sq mi) and a population of 9,035 (Jan. 2011 estimate).


Premise: What is the process in which plants convert solar energy into stored energy called?

Hypothesis: By photosynthesis green plants convert solar energy into chemically stored energy, which produces food, wood and the biomass from which fossil fuels are derived.


Premise: What were some of Egypt's foreign influences?

Hypothesis: Egypt's rich cultural heritage is an integral part of its national identity, having endured, and at times assimilated, various foreign influences, including Greek, Persian, Roman, Arab, Ottoman, and European.


Premise: What was the biggest problem General Washington faced?

Hypothesis: As a strategist, however, he had a better idea of how to win the war than they did.


Premise: What is on the background of the image which can be used as a scale to represent the size of the mechanism?

Hypothesis: There's a barrel on the background of the image of the left which can be used as a scale to represent the size of the mechanism


Premise: What is a developing field of time related study?

Hypothesis: The use of time is an important issue in understanding human behavior, education, and travel behavior.


Premise: What culture was well established by the 6th Century BC?

Hypothesis: The 18th and 19th centuries saw an influx of naturalists, writers, and artists, in particular the Romantics, followed by the golden age of alpinism as mountaineers began to ascend the peaks.


Premise: What is digestion?

Hypothesis: Digestion is the breakdown of large insoluble food molecules into small water-soluble food molecules so that they can be absorbed into the watery blood plasma.


Premise: What is TRON?

Hypothesis: An example of one is TRON (although it is not widely adopted in Japan, there are some users who need to handle historical Japanese text and favor it).


Premise: How old was Jovanka Broz when she married Tito?

Hypothesis: His best known wife was Jovanka Broz.


Premise: Which city became a major center of book production?

Hypothesis: The city of Pergamon also had a large library and became a major center of book production.


Premise: Which city has almost all of its sidewalks in Portuguese pavement?

Hypothesis: In Portuguese-speaking countries, many cities have a large amount of their sidewalks and even, though far more occasionally, streets done in this mosaic form.


Premise: Where does the homing pigeon vanish?

Hypothesis: Other approaches used in pigeon homing studies make use of the direction in which the bird vanishes on the horizon.


Premise: What is the only city that had a lower vaccination rate for children than Hyderabad in the 2005 National Family Health Survey?

Hypothesis: Only 61% of children had been provided with all basic vaccines (BCG, measles and full courses of polio and DPT), fewer than in all other surveyed cities except Meerut.:98


Premise: What two types of education does BYU strive to excel in while combining?

Hypothesis: This weaving of the secular and the religious aspects of a religious university goes back as far as Brigham Young himself, who told Karl G. Maeser when the Church purchased the school: "I want you to remember that you ought not to teach even the alphabet or the multiplication tables without the Spirit of God."


Premise: What newspaper was founded in 1935?

Hypothesis: The Detroit television market is the 11th largest in the United States; according to estimates that do not include audiences located in large areas of Ontario, Canada (Windsor and its surrounding area on broadcast and cable TV, as well as several other cable markets in Ontario, such as the city of Ottawa) which receive and watch Detroit television stations.


Premise: How many certified albums does Madonna have?

Hypothesis: The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) listed her as the best-selling female rock artist of the 20th century and the second best-selling female artist in the United States, with 64.5 million certified albums.


Premise: Ehat is the vegetation type on Antarctica?

Hypothesis: Vegetation, where it occurs, is tundra.


Premise: What is the first known extant writing about architecture called?

Hypothesis: The earliest surviving written work on the subject of architecture is De architectura, by the Roman architect Vitruvius in the early 1st century AD.


Premise: What are hymns to the Theotokos called in Orthodox tradition?

Hypothesis: Orthodox Christianity includes a large number of traditions regarding the Ever Virgin Mary, the Theotokos.


Premise: What word is used in France for comics?

Hypothesis: The French term for comics, bandes dessinées ("drawn strip") emphasizes the juxtaposition of drawn images as a defining factor, which can imply the exclusion of even photographic comics.


Premise: the term 'house music' came from the labeling of records at what store?

Hypothesis: record store, where he worked in the early 1980s: bins of music that DJ Knuckles played at the Warehouse nightclub were labelled in the store "


Premise: When and who abolished the serfdom?

Hypothesis: Along with Romania, Polish landless or domestic serfs were the only ones to be given land after serfdom was abolished.


Premise: What is a cause of death to birds during migration?

Hypothesis: Migration carries high costs in predation and mortality, including from hunting by humans, and is driven primarily by availability of food.


Premise: When did Labour publish a new draft manifesto?

Hypothesis: It was a continuation of the trend that had begun under the leadership of Neil Kinnock.


Premise: What were the sixteen kingdoms called?

Hypothesis: In the later Vedic Age, a number of small kingdoms or city states had covered the subcontinent, many mentioned in Vedic, early Buddhist and Jaina literature as far back as 500 BCE.


Premise: What is encoded about a subject in verbs in Czech?

Hypothesis: Because Czech uses grammatical case to convey word function in a sentence (instead of relying on word order, as English does), its word order is flexible.


Premise: What was the nationality of Matsushita Electric?

Hypothesis: Anxious to expand the company's broadcast and cable presence, longtime MCA head Lew Wasserman sought a rich partner.


Premise: What does the CAR get help with with regards to communication from ITU-D?

Hypothesis: In addition, the Central African Republic receives international support on telecommunication related operations from ITU Telecommunication Development Sector (ITU-D) within the International Telecommunication Union to improve infrastructure.


Premise: Along with the physiological response, what did Cannon believe was triggered by an emotional event?

Hypothesis: An emotion-evoking event (snake) triggers simultaneously both a physiological response and a conscious experience of an emotion.


Premise: Where are the non jewish immigrants from?

Hypothesis: Most of the migrants are from communities in Sudan and Eritrea, particularly the Niger-Congo-speaking Nuba groups of the southern Nuba Mountains; some are illegal immigrants.


Premise: What kind of strong fibers are part of the composite of wood?

Hypothesis: It is an organic material, a natural composite of cellulose fibers (which are strong in tension) embedded in a matrix of lignin which resists compression.


Premise: Gotamas teachings may have been personal and adjusted to the need of each what?

Hypothesis: According to Bronkhorst, the four truths may not have been formulated in earliest Buddhism, and did not serve in earliest Buddhism as a description of "liberating insight".


Premise: To set the record for Grammys, how many did Beyonce win?

Hypothesis: Sasha Fierce (2008), which saw the birth of her alter-ego Sasha Fierce and earned a record-setting six Grammy Awards in 2010, including Song of the Year for "Single Ladies


Premise: When was "Music" released?

Hypothesis: The Next Best Thing, and contributed two songs to the film's soundtrack; "Time Stood Still" and a cover of Don McLean's 1971 song "American Pie".


Premise: What was trade credit backed by when extended by temples?

Hypothesis: The trade credit was usually extended by temples in order to finance trade expeditions and was nominated in silver.


Premise: Thousands of years ago, dogs were depicted on the walls of what?

Hypothesis: Hunting scenes were popular in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.


Premise: The segregation of science writing means that articles in those subjects primarily appear where?

Hypothesis: As advances and specialization have made new scientific research inaccessible to most audiences, the "literary" nature of science writing has become less pronounced over the last two centuries.


Premise: What are organic plants understood to be?

Hypothesis: Organic cotton is generally understood as cotton from plants not genetically modified and that is certified to be grown without the use of any synthetic agricultural chemicals, such as fertilizers or pesticides.


Premise: What type of music does Kraftwerk make?

Hypothesis: German artists also make up a large percentage of Industrial music acts, which is called Neue Deutsche Härte.


Premise: How many river animals were thought to be found during   the ice age era?

Hypothesis: People lived on the edge of the desert thousands of years ago since the last ice age.


Premise: For the Pasupatas, how was the union of the soul with God achieved?

Hypothesis: The causes were of thirteen kinds, the five organs of cognition, the five organs of action, the three internal organs, intellect, the ego principle and the cognising principle.


Premise: What is assumed about the sea level reports and records of Tuvalu?

Hypothesis: Whether there are measurable changes in the sea level relative to the islands of Tuvalu is a contentious issue.


Premise: What type of law is still in practice in which heresy results in execution?

Hypothesis: One example is the 1989 fatwa issued by the government of Iran, offering a substantial bounty for anyone who succeeds in the assassination of author Salman Rushdie, whose writings were declared as heretical.


Premise: Which town's people surrendered to the Germans?

Hypothesis: The French troops who did not surrender retreated westward, leaving behind 1,000 dead and wounded and another 1,000 prisoners and all of their remaining ammunition.


Premise: Which library was built at Notre Dame in 1963?

Hypothesis: The most famous is Notre Dame Stadium, home of the Fighting Irish football team; it has been renovated several times and today it can hold more than 80 thousand people.


Premise: At which battle was Obregon badly defeated?

Hypothesis: Villa was forced from the city in early 1915 and attacked the forces of Gen. Obregón at the Battle of Celaya and was badly defeated in the bloodiest battle of the revolution, with thousands dead.


Premise: How much XDR DRAM is on board a PS3?

Hypothesis: PlayStation 3 has 256 MB of XDR DRAM main memory and 256 MB of GDDR3 video memory for the RSX.


Premise: Who wrote The Case Against Christianity?

Hypothesis: Linda Woodhead attempts to provide a common belief thread for Christians by noting that "Whatever else they might disagree about, Christians are at least united in believing that Jesus has a unique significance."


Premise: What language does the word "symbiosis" come from?

Hypothesis: Symbiosis (from Greek σύν "together" and βίωσις "living") is close and often long-term interaction between two different biological species.


Premise: What was the war called fought between the British and French against the Qing?

Hypothesis: It was not until 1861 — a year after losing the Second Opium War to the Anglo-French coalition — that the Qing government bowed to foreign pressure and created a proper foreign affairs office known as the Zongli Yamen.


Premise: Howmany governemnt run channels do Puntland and Somaliland regions have?

Hypothesis: The Puntland and Somaliland regions also each have one government-run TV channel, Puntland TV and Radio and Somaliland National TV, respectively.


Premise: Who made HDTV official in 1993?

Hypothesis: HDTV technology was introduced in the United States in the late 1980s and made official in 1993 by the Digital HDTV Grand Alliance, a group of television, electronic equipment, communications companies consisting of AT&T Bell Labs, General Instrument, Philips, Sarnoff, Thomson, Zenith and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.


Premise: Which inventors patented the tungsten filament lamp?

Hypothesis: On 13 December 1904, Hungarian Sándor Just and Croatian Franjo Hanaman were granted a Hungarian patent (No. 34541) for a tungsten filament lamp that lasted longer and gave brighter light than the carbon filament.


Premise: The NVA was aided by military and financial aid from what two countries?

Hypothesis: Fighting on one side was a coalition of forces including the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam or the "RVN"), the United States, supplemented by South Korea, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, and the Philippines.


Premise: What word that means human relationships is at the core of Samoa's culture?

Hypothesis: The Samoan culture is centred around the principle of vāfealoa'i, the relationships between people.


Premise: What disappeared in 2009 prior to the suicide of a Foxconn employee?

Hypothesis: In 2010, a number of workers committed suicide at a Foxconn operations in China.


Premise: What is the oldest way to study migration?

Hypothesis: Swans have been marked with a nick on the beak since about 1560 in England.


Premise: What was the average temperature for July 2011?

Hypothesis: Some years have even witnessed long periods of harsh summer weather, such as the heat wave of 2003 when temperatures exceeded 30 °C (86 °F) for weeks, surged up to 40 °C (104 °F) on some days and seldom cooled down at night.


Premise: The term "Dominican mysticism" is also knows as what?

Hypothesis: A smaller emphasis on doctrinal activity favoured the development here and there of the ascetic and contemplative life and there sprang up, especially in Germany and Italy, the mystical movement with which the names of Meister Eckhart, Heinrich Suso, Johannes Tauler, and St. Catherine of Siena are associated.


Premise: Where is Velenje located?

Hypothesis: Slovenia has several streets and squares named after Tito, notably Tito Square in Velenje, incorporating a 10-meter statue.


Premise: How old is Seattle's Symphony Orchestra?

Hypothesis: The Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestras (SYSO) is the largest symphonic youth organization in the United States.


Premise: What percentage of the vote did Schwarzenegger's opponent Bustamante receive?

Hypothesis: Schwarzenegger was elected Governor of California under the second question on the ballot with 48.6% of the vote to choose a successor to Davis.


Premise: What type of drugs was Tulisa accused of supplying?

Hypothesis: At her subsequent trial, the case against Tulisa collapsed at Southwark Crown Court in July 2014, with the judge commenting that there were "strong grounds" to believe that Mahmood had lied at a pre-trial hearing and tried to manipulate evidence against the co-defendant Tulisa.


Premise: Who wrote the book 'Memoirs of a Geisha' is based on?

Hypothesis: In 2005, he served as a producer of Memoirs of a Geisha, an adaptation of the novel by Arthur Golden, a film to which he was previously attached as director.


Premise: What Univerity was Aparna Labroo associated with?

Hypothesis: The researchers asked participants to rate a number of things such as: the spiciness of chicken-wing sauce, the aggressiveness of a fictional character, how attractive someone was, their feelings about specific words, and the taste of two juices–all under different lighting conditions.


Premise: What kind of group runs The Procession?

Hypothesis: The parade is followed by performances on an outdoor stage, culminating in the burning of an urn in which written prayers have been collected from participants and spectators.


Premise: What happened to Apple's market share with the release of Windows 95?

Hypothesis: Compaq, who had previously held the third place spot among PC manufacturers during the 1980s and early-mid 1990s, initiated a successful price war in 1994 that vaulted them to the biggest by the year end, overtaking a struggling IBM and relegating Apple to third place.


Premise: What was the altitude range in feet of the stratosphere gun?

Hypothesis: Their larger 90 mm M3 gun would prove, as did the eighty-eight, to make an excellent anti-tank gun as well, and was widely used late in the war in this role.


Premise: What was the result of the naval encounter between Britain and France?

Hypothesis: The first British action was the assault on Acadia on 16 June 1755 in the Battle of Fort Beauséjour, which was immediately followed by their expulsion of the Acadians.


Premise: What does this result in?

Hypothesis: Returning to the basic concept of current flows in a conductor, consider what happens if a half-wave dipole is not connected to a feed point, but instead shorted out.


Premise: What is the average elevation of Tibet, in feet?

Hypothesis: Tibet is the highest region on Earth, with an average elevation of 4,900 metres (16,000 ft).


Premise: POJ alphabet has been used since late in what century?

Hypothesis: POJ was developed first by Presbyterian missionaries in China and later by the indigenous Presbyterian Church in Taiwan; use of this alphabet has been actively promoted since the late 19th century.


Premise: What was the three Han Bannermen position called?

Hypothesis: The three Liaodong Han Bannermen officers who played a massive role in the conquest of southern China from the Ming were Shang Kexi, Geng Zhongming, and Kong Youde and they


Premise: What is pain medicine often under disciplines like physiatry, neurology, etc?

Hypothesis: Elsewhere, pain medicine is a subspecialty under disciplines such as anesthesiology, physiatry, neurology, palliative medicine and psychiatry.


Premise: What English Heritage status does the Civic Centre possess?

Hypothesis: Most of the city centre shops had been destroyed and those that remained were cleared to enable a zoned reconstruction according to his plan.


Premise: How many Japanese ships were sunk in 1942 by United States submarines?

Hypothesis: The number of U.S. submarines patrols (and sinkings) rose steeply: 350 patrols (180 ships sunk) in 1942, 350 (335) in 1943, and 520 (603) in 1944.


Premise: Over 90% of homes use solar hot water systems in which two countries?

Hypothesis: In the United States, Canada and Australia heating swimming pools is the dominant application of solar hot water with an installed capacity of 18 GWth as of 2005.


Premise: How did monaterism aim to control the economy?

Hypothesis: In the 1970s, monetarism has adapted into supply-side economics which advocates reducing taxes as a means to increase the amount of money available for economic expansion.


Premise: What was the response of the Argentine response to the British land claim?

Hypothesis: Argentine–UK relations had previously been damaged throughout 2012 due to disputes over the sovereignty of the nearby Falkland Islands, and the 30th anniversary of the Falklands War.


Premise: How many Unicom towers were suspended?

Hypothesis: China Mobile had more than 2,300 base stations suspended due to power disruption or severe telecommunication traffic congestion.


Premise: In what book did Kakar contend that the international definition of genocide was too narrow?

Hypothesis: The exclusion of social and political groups as targets of genocide in the CPPCG legal definition has been criticized by some historians and sociologists, for example M. Hassan Kakar in his book The Soviet Invasion and the Afghan Response, 1979–1982 argues that the international definition of genocide is too restricted, and that it should include political groups or any group so defined by the perpetrator and quotes Chalk and Jonassohn: "Genocide is a form of one-sided mass killing in which a state or other authority intends to destroy a group, as that group and membership in it are defined by the perpetrator.


Premise: Which year was the study published?

Hypothesis: A detailed account of the techniques used to isolate the sounds deleted during MP3 compression, along with the conceptual motivation for the project, was published in the 2014 Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference.


Premise: Which European government contributed the least to the UNFPA in 2008?

Hypothesis: Of the total income of M845.3 M, $118 was donated by the Netherlands, $67 M by Sweden, $62 M by Norway, $54 M by Denmark, $53 M by the UK, $52 M by Spain, $19 M by Luxembourg.


Premise: What model is the most popular aicraft in Alaska?

Hypothesis: Much of this service can be attributed to the Alaska bypass mail program which subsidizes bulk mail delivery to Alaskan rural communities.


Premise: What was the last 78 released in the UK by RCA?

Hypothesis: One Night (1958), while the last 78 in the UK was RCA 1194, A Mess Of Blues/Girl Of My Best Friend


Premise: On which book and who was the author was one of the main sources of the historical study of Cubism based?

Hypothesis: It came to rely heavily on Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler's book Der Weg zum Kubismus (published in 1920), which centered on the developments of Picasso, Braque, Léger, and Gris.


Premise: Where does the Waldensian movement still exist currently?

Hypothesis: After his death, his teachings on apostolic poverty gained currency among Arnoldists, and later more widely among Waldensians and the Spiritual Franciscans, though no written word of his has survived the official condemnation.


Premise: A reversible process is one in which this does not happen.

Hypothesis: A reversible process is one in which this sort of dissipation does not happen.


Premise: To what area's language is Tuvaluan closely related?

Hypothesis: The Tuvaluan language and English are the national languages of Tuvalu.


Premise: What office did Ibn Sina receive in Hamadan?

Hypothesis: Ibn Sina was even raised to the office of vizier.


Premise: In what writing did he recount his time in exiles?

Hypothesis: This began a "golden decade" of peace and prosperity, during which time Athanasius assembled several documents relating to his exiles and returns from exile in the Apology Against the Arians.


Premise: What is Everton Football Club's semi-official club nickname?

Hypothesis: Since going blue in 1901, Everton have been given the simple nickname "The Blues".


Premise: What are ways that a charitable foundation receives money for it's cause?

Hypothesis: Most rely on external funding (government funds, grants from charitable foundations, direct donations) to maintain their operations and changes in these sources of revenue may influence the reliability or predictability with which the organization can hire and retain staff, sustain facilities, create programs, or maintain tax-exempt status.


Premise: What was the name of the Philippines nation?

Hypothesis: Mexico, Free France and many other countries also took part, especially forces from other British colonies.


Premise: Are townhouses, condominiums, and apartment buildings found more prevalent in the metropolitan area or outside the city?

Hypothesis: Free standing dwellings with relatively large gardens are perhaps the most common type of housing outside inner city Melbourne.


Premise: What is Fairfield Court?

Hypothesis: Richmond's East End includes neighborhoods like rapidly gentrifying Church Hill, home to St. John's Church, as well as poorer areas like Fulton, Union Hill, and Fairmont, and public housing projects like Mosby Court, Whitcomb Court, Fairfield Court, and Creighton Court closer to Interstate 64.


Premise: Which type mandolin had a tendency not to stay in the player's lap?

Hypothesis: The former are often too soft-toned to hold their own in a session (as well as having a tendency to not stay in place on the player's lap), whilst the latter tend to sound harsh and overbearing to the traditional ear.


Premise: Where is the source of the Yangtze river?

Hypothesis: The Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon, along the Yarlung Tsangpo River, is among the deepest and longest canyons in the world.


Premise: What economic sectors does Egypt have?

Hypothesis: Its economy is one of the largest and most diversified in the Middle East, with sectors such as tourism, agriculture, industry and services at almost equal production levels.


Premise: Who ruled after Guangxu?

Hypothesis: Puyi, the oldest son of Zaifeng, Prince Chun, and nephew to the childless Guangxu Emperor, was appointed successor at the age of two, leaving Zaifeng with the regency.


Premise: How many satellites were launched since 2007?

Hypothesis: It was followed by further nine satellites during 2009-2011, achieving functional regional coverage.


Premise: What award given by a Japanese foundation did Popper win in 1992?

Hypothesis: In 1992, he was awarded the Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy for "symbolising the open spirit of the 20th century" and for his "enormous influence on the formation of the modern intellectual climate".


Premise: Hitting, throwing objects, and slaps are examples of what type of aggression?

Hypothesis: This reported aggression includes hitting, throwing things, or slaps, although most of this physical aggression does not result in a medical visit.


Premise: Where does London rank in terms of the world's largest cities?

Hypothesis: London ranks as one of the most expensive cities in the world, alongside Tokyo and Moscow.


Premise: Prince Andrews, son of Prince Phillip visited in what year?

Hypothesis: This was in 1947 when the King, accompanied by Queen Elizabeth (later the Queen Mother), Princess Elizabeth


Premise: An exchange of people between Greece and Turkey took place under what agreement?

Hypothesis: The exchange was part of the terms of the Treaty of Lausanne which ended the war.


Premise: What does the pain usually stem from with MI?

Hypothesis: Chest pain is the most common symptom of acute MI and is often described as a sensation of tightness, pressure, or squeezing.


Premise: Organochlorine hydrocarbons effect what balance of the nerve fiber?

Hypothesis: The phenoxy and benzoic acid herbicides function similar to plant growth hormones, and grow cells without normal cell division, crushing the plant's nutrient transport system.:300


Premise: What was Metacritics score for Spectre?

Hypothesis: Rotten Tomatoes sampled 274 reviews and judged 64% of the critiques to be positive, saying that the film "nudges Daniel Craig's rebooted Bond closer to the glorious, action-driven spectacle of earlier entries, although it's admittedly reliant on established 007 formula.


Premise: Who was the head of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 2007?

Hypothesis: In 2007, RIBA called for minimum space standards in newly built British houses after research was published suggesting that British houses were falling behind other European countries. "


Premise: What types of software bugs are difficult to find during testing?

Hypothesis: A fundamental problem with software testing is that testing under all combinations of inputs and preconditions (initial state) is not feasible, even with a simple product.:17-18


Premise: After Antigonus was killed, what region did Ptolemy take over?

Hypothesis: Meanwhile, Lysimachus took over Ionia, Seleucus took Cilicia, and Ptolemy captured Cyprus.


Premise: How many fraternities does Northwestern recognize?

Hypothesis: Northwestern recognizes 21 fraternities and 18 sororities.


Premise: By cardinal direction, what part of the city is referred to as Downtown?

Hypothesis: Just northwest of Downtown, is the Civic Center, which is Miami's center for hospitals, research institutes and biotechnology with hospitals such as Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami VA Hospital, and the University of Miami's Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine.


Premise: What year did Timothy Geithner become U.S. Treasury Secretary?

Hypothesis: In a June 2008 speech, President and CEO of the New York Federal Reserve Bank Timothy Geithner—who in 2009 became Secretary of the United States Treasury—placed significant blame for the freezing of credit markets on a "run" on the entities in the "parallel" banking system, also called the shadow banking system.


Premise: How many businesses are there in the primary sector?

Hypothesis: 16,413 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 950 businesses in this sector.


Premise: Name one company that sells flexible-fuel cars?

Hypothesis: Ford, DaimlerChrysler, and GM are among the automobile companies that sell flexible-fuel cars, trucks, and minivans that can use gasoline and ethanol blends ranging from pure gasoline up to 85% ethanol (E85).


Premise: Who introduced the term biological diversity to the scientific community?

Hypothesis: Until then the term "natural diversity" was common, introduced by The Science Division of The Nature Conservancy in an important 1975 study, "The Preservation of Natural Diversity."


Premise: The mosaic floor in the Church of St Stephen is the largest in what country?

Hypothesis: On the central panel hunting and fishing scenes are depicted while another panel illustrates the most important cities of the region.


Premise: What language does the word Music see it's origins in?

Hypothesis: The word itself derives from Greek μουσική (mousike), "(art) of the Muses".


Premise: When were several new villages built in France almost exclusively for skiing?

Hypothesis: Until this point Austria and Switzerland had been the traditional and more popular destinations for winter sports, but by the end of the 20th century and into the early 21st century, France, Italy and the Tyrol began to see increases in winter visitors.


Premise: Whose teachings did all samurai read?

Hypothesis: Theoretical obligations between a samurai and his lord (usually a daimyo) increased from the Genpei era to the Edo era.


Premise: How much land does the ecoregion cover?

Hypothesis: This ecoregion covers 1,101,700 km2 (425,400 mi2) in Algeria, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, and Sudan.


Premise: What was Miller citing?

Hypothesis: These were fighting words to be coming from a country that once insisted Europe needed Turkey and was willing to spill blood over it.


Premise: Why was the Port Phillip Channel Deppening Project subject to controversy and strict regulations?

Hypothesis: It was subject to controversy and strict regulations among fears that beaches and marine wildlife could be affected by the disturbance of heavy metals and other industrial sediments.


Premise: What other career did Virgil consider?

Hypothesis: Macrobius says that Virgil's father was of a humble background; however, scholars generally believe that Virgil was from an equestrian landowning family which could afford to give him an education.


Premise: What did Wilhelm Wien discover?

Hypothesis: Nevertheless, Wilhelm Wien discovered the mathematical relationship between the peaks of the curves at different temperatures, by using the principle of adiabatic invariance.


Premise: What year was To Kill a Mockingbird first published?

Hypothesis: To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960.


Premise: What organization debates the rule of law?

Hypothesis: The Security Council has held a number of thematic debates on the rule of law, and adopted resolutions emphasizing the importance of these issues in the context of women, peace and security, children in armed conflict, and the protection of civilians in armed conflict.


Premise: What was Beyoncé's first acting job, in 2006?

Hypothesis: Sasha Fierce (2008), which saw the birth of her alter-ego Sasha Fierce and earned a record-setting six Grammy Awards in 2010, including Song of the Year for "Single Ladies


Premise: What type of God is the Muslim God?

Hypothesis: God is often believed to be forgiving.