Premise: What kinds of courses are offered to students who are not experiencing academic success?

Hypothesis: In most cases students attending a Gesamtschule may graduate with the Hauptschulabschluss, the Realschulabschluss or the Abitur depending on how well they did in school.


Premise: Of what nationality is Alumnus Eero Saarinen?

Hypothesis: These latter were modelled after the medieval Italian hilltown of San Gimignano – a prototype chosen for the town's pedestrian-friendly milieu and fortress-like stone towers.


Premise: What ocean is Saint Helena located in?

Hypothesis: Saint Helena (/ˌseɪnt həˈliːnə/ SAYNT-hə-LEE-nə) is a volcanic tropical island in the South Atlantic Ocean, 4,000 kilometres (2,500 mi) east of Rio de Janeiro and 1,950 kilometres (1,210 mi) west of the Cunene River, which marks the border between Namibia and Angola in southwestern Africa.


Premise: What was the age of Enlightenment centered on?

Hypothesis: The Age of Enlightenment is a time in Western philosophy and cultural life centered upon the 18th century in which reason was advocated as the primary source and legitimacy for authority.


Premise: What design element allowed the use of large clerestory windows?

Hypothesis: To achieve his aims, his masons drew on the several new features which evolved or had been introduced to Romanesque architecture, the pointed arch, the ribbed vault, the ambulatory with radiating chapels, the clustered columns supporting ribs springing in different directions and the flying buttresses which enabled the insertion of large clerestory windows.


Premise: Who served as MC for the first BBC2 broadcast?

Hypothesis: In the end the launch went ahead the following night, hosted by Denis Tuohy holding a candle.


Premise: How many major Islamic caliphates existed after Muhammad's death?

Hypothesis: Al-Khilāfat al-ʾumawiyya) was the second of the four major Islamic caliphates established after the death of Muhammad.


Premise: What was the code name for the mid-1944 offensive across China?

Hypothesis: Japan was not any closer in defeating China after this operation, and the constant defeats the Japanese suffered in the Pacific meant that Japan never got the time and resources needed to achieve final victory over China.


Premise: When did Dell describe their changing approach to manufacturing?

Hypothesis: By the late 2000s, Dell's "configure to order" approach of manufacturing—delivering individual PCs configured to customer specifications from its US facilities was no longer as efficient or competitive with high-volume Asian contract manufacturers as PCs became powerful low-cost commodities.


Premise: Who came up with the idea of "things-as-interacted-by-us"?

Hypothesis: This argument does not take into account the issues pertaining to hermeneutics, especially at the backdrop of analytic philosophy.


Premise: How many monuments can be found in Byrd Park?

Hypothesis: Prominently featured in the park is the World War I Memorial Carillon, built in 1926 as a memorial to those that died in the war.


Premise: What did the French find alienating about Catholicism?

Hypothesis: French Protestantism came to acquire a distinctly political character, made all the more obvious by the conversions of nobles during the 1550s.


Premise: What idea did Adam Smith disagree with?

Hypothesis: He postulated an "invisible hand" that regulated economic systems made up of actors guided only by self-interest.


Premise: When was the German empire created?

Hypothesis: It created the German Empire in 1871 as a German nation-state, effectively excluding the multi-ethnic Austrian Habsburg monarchy and Liechtenstein.


Premise: South Slavic people consist of which nationalities?

Hypothesis: Present-day Slavic people are classified into West Slavic (chiefly Poles, Czechs and Slovaks), East Slavic (chiefly Russians, Belarusians, and Ukrainians), and South Slavic (chiefly Serbs, Bulgarians, Croats, Bosniaks, Macedonians, Slovenes, and Montenegrins), though sometimes the West Slavs and East Slavs are combined into a single group known as North Slavs.


Premise: What suburb is located on the north and west?

Hypothesis: Surrounded by Henrico and Chesterfield counties, the city is located at the intersections of Interstate 95 and Interstate 64, and encircled by Interstate 295 and Virginia State Route 288.


Premise: What is the Foothills west of?

Hypothesis: The Foothills area is generally defined as north of River Road, east of Oracle Road, and west of Sabino Creek.


Premise: Which drum has a higher perceived pitch even though they both have indefinite pitch?

Hypothesis: For instance, a snare drum sounds higher pitched than a bass drum though both have indefinite pitch, because its sound contains higher frequencies.


Premise: Who was it that in 1063 gave rule over Galicia to his son?

Hypothesis: In 1063, Ferdinand I of Castile divided his realm among his sons, and the Kingdom of Galicia was granted to Garcia II of Galicia.


Premise: What group did Al-Badar Mujahideen break away from?

Hypothesis: Waziristan had now become the new battlefield for Kashmiri militants, who were now fighting NATO in support of Al-Qaeda.


Premise: What percentage of the budget is allocated for schools?

Hypothesis: The main source of income for the city is direct taxes (35 percent), supplemented by a 13-percent real estate tax; 19 percent of the budget comes in a transfer from the national government.


Premise: Monastics are instructed by the Buddha to live as what?

Hypothesis: In this sense, living life as the vinaya prescribes it is, as one scholar puts it: "more than merely a means to an end: it is very nearly the end in itself."


Premise: What type of structures remaining today have the largest amount of examples of the Gothic style?

Hypothesis: The greatest number of surviving Gothic buildings are churches.


Premise: According to those who argued against Hayek, what sets planned and free markets apart is what?

Hypothesis: They argued, if some of the prices chosen by socialist managers were wrong, gluts or shortages would appear, signalling them to adjust the prices up or down, just as in a free market.


Premise: What is the government of India based on?

Hypothesis: The government of India is based on a tiered system, in which the Constitution of India delineates the subjects on which each tier of government has executive powers.


Premise: What may see benefits from the Marshalls joining the International Labour Organization?

Hypothesis: This may impact business conditions in the islands.


Premise: How many versions of the CECH-4000 were made?

Hypothesis: The white colored Super Slim model was released in the United States on January 27, 2013 as part of the Instant Game Collection Bundle.


Premise: Where is Taylor Hicks from?

Hypothesis: According to season five winner Taylor Hicks, who is from the state of Alabama, "People in the South have a lot of pride ...


Premise: Sentient life according to Buddhism runs between what two points?

Hypothesis: Rebirth refers to a process whereby beings go through a succession of lifetimes as one of many possible forms of sentient life, each running from conception to death.


Premise: What does the written score not usually contain explicitly?

Hypothesis: This is left to the discretion of the performers, who are guided by their personal experience and musical education, their knowledge of the work's idiom, their personal artistic tastes, and the accumulated body of historic performance practices.


Premise: Approximately how many Europeans dead does Victor Davis Hanson assert are part of Napoleon's military record?

Hypothesis: Critics argue Napoleon's true legacy must reflect the loss of status for France and needless deaths brought by his rule: historian Victor Davis Hanson writes, "After all, the military record is unquestioned—17 years of wars, perhaps six million Europeans dead, France bankrupt, her overseas colonies lost."


Premise: What is a cause of severe environmental issues in the Niger Delta?

Hypothesis: In January 2013, a Dutch court rejected four out of five allegations brought against the firm over oil pollution in the Niger Delta but found a subsidiary guilty of one case of pollution, ordering compensation to be paid to a Nigerian farmer.


Premise: What is it called to check data passed between units?

Hypothesis: The data being passed can be considered as "message packets" and the range or data types can be checked, for data generated from one unit, and tested for validity before being passed into another unit.


Premise: When did the Dashnaktsutyun originate?

Hypothesis: During the 1890s, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, commonly known as Dashnaktsutyun, became active within the Ottoman Empire with the aim of unifying the various small groups in the empire that were advocating for reform and defending Armenian villages from massacres that were widespread in some of the Armenian-populated areas of the empire.


Premise: What act was approved on April 29th, 2010?

Hypothesis: It had also been introduced in 2007.


Premise: what was an earlier technology used to connect to the internet?

Hypothesis: ISPs provide Internet access, employing a range of technologies to connect users to their network.


Premise: Where did the government relocate to in 1937?

Hypothesis: On 6 November 1936 the city became the capital of Republican Spain under the control of the prime minister Manuel Azana; the government moved to the Palau de Benicarló, its ministries occupying various other buildings.


Premise: What is the name of the museum that specifically focus on a single inventor located the city?

Hypothesis: There is also the Connecticut Children's Museum; the Knights of Columbus museum near that organization's world headquarters; the Peabody Museum of Natural History; the Yale University Collection of Musical Instruments; the Eli Whitney Museum (across the town line in Hamden, Connecticut, on Whitney Avenue); the Yale Center for British Art, which houses the largest collection of British art outside the U.K., and the Yale University Art Gallery, the nation's oldest college art museum.[citation needed]


Premise: Who was the founder of the city of Bern?

Hypothesis: It has long been considered likely that the city was named after the Italian city of Verona, which at the time was known as Bern in Middle High German.


Premise: How old was Eisenhower when he died?

Hypothesis: On March 31, Eisenhower's body was returned to the National Cathedral, where he was given an Episcopal Church funeral service.


Premise: What type of music included noise, homemade instruments, and randomly found objects?

Hypothesis: In Brazil, the post-punk scene grew after the generation of Brasilia rock with bands such as Legião Urbana, Capital Inicial and Plebe Rude and then the opening of the music club Madame Satã in São Paulo, with acts like Cabine C, Titãs, Patife Band, Fellini and Mercenárias, as documented on compilations like The Sexual Life of the Savages and the Não Wave/Não São Paulo series, released in the UK, Germany and Brazil, respectively.[citation needed]


Premise: Why have these recent immigrants had trouble becoming permanent residents?

Hypothesis: It had a history of African slavery, although Britain abolished it decades before the US.


Premise: Who put out a report in 2012?

Hypothesis: A 2012 report by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology made several key recommendations to reduce regulatory burdens to new drug development, including 1) expanding the FDA's use of accelerated approval processes, 2) creating an expedited approval pathway for drugs intended for use in narrowly defined populations, and 3) undertaking pilot projects designed to evaluate the feasibility of a new, adaptive drug approval process.


Premise: What did the Prussian Army hold in Paris on 17 February?

Hypothesis: The Prussian Army, under the terms of the armistice, held a brief victory parade in Paris on 17 February; the city was silent and draped with black and the Germans quickly withdrew.


Premise: What style of sacred musical form emerged in the 1330s?

Hypothesis: From the 1330s and onwards, emerged the polyphonic style, which was a more complex fusion of independent voices.


Premise: What crime was Gaddafi suspected of being involved in during his time in the military?

Hypothesis: Gaddafi briefly studied History at the University of Libya in Benghazi, before dropping out to join the military.


Premise: What is the former name of the Qiantang River?

Hypothesis: It is usually glossed as meaning "Crooked" or "Bent River", from the meaning of Chinese 折, but is more likely a phono-semantic compound formed from adding 氵 (the "water" radical used for river names) to phonetic 折 (pinyin zhé but reconstructed Old Chinese *tet), preserving a proto-Wu name of the local Yue, similar to Yuhang, Kuaiji, and Jiang.


Premise: What island do many people think causes the double high tide in Southampton Water?

Hypothesis: Southampton Water has the benefit of a double high tide, with two high tide peaks, making the movement of large ships easier.


Premise: What is another name for an elevator shaft?

Hypothesis: An elevator is essentially a platform that is either pulled or pushed up by a mechanical means.


Premise: How many countries signed the treaty protecting Antarctica from claims?

Hypothesis: Antarctica's status is regulated by the 1959 Antarctic Treaty and other related agreements, collectively called the Antarctic Treaty System.


Premise: What type of dipoles which add to the dielectric constant cannot move instantly if a rapidly changing time varying voltage is driving the capacitor?

Hypothesis: If a capacitor is driven with a time-varying voltage that changes rapidly enough, at some frequency the polarization of the dielectric cannot follow the voltage.


Premise: What was imported by the settlers of the island?

Hypothesis: They imported livestock, fruit trees and vegetables, and built a chapel and one or two houses.


Premise: What is produced in the lungs by coughing?

Hypothesis: Symptoms are usually worse at night and in the early morning or in response to exercise or cold air.


Premise: Where did Frédéric live with his family while they were in Warsaw?

Hypothesis: Fryderyk lived with his family in the Palace grounds.


Premise: What team defeated Arsenal in the finals of the Champions League in 2005-2006 season?

Hypothesis: Arsenal had never progressed beyond the quarter-finals of the Champions League until 2005–06; in that season they became the first club from London in the competition's fifty-year history to reach the final, in which they were beaten 2–1 by Barcelona.


Premise: How many universities were in Pakistan in 2001?

Hypothesis: Several Muslim countries like Turkey and Iran exhibit high scientific publication.


Premise: What metropolitan area lies beyond the Metropolitan Green Belt?

Hypothesis: Beyond this is the vast London commuter belt.


Premise: How many pounds of PCBs are estimated to be retained in the sediment behind Woods Pond dam?

Hypothesis: This is estimated to be about 11,000 pounds of PCBs.


Premise: What was Valencia named during the time of Abdullah?

Hypothesis: Also at this time Valencia received the name Medina al-Turab (City of Sand).


Premise: Is Spain apart of federalism?

Hypothesis: Asymmetric federalism exists where states are granted different powers, or some possess greater autonomy than others do.


Premise: Is there seeding?

Hypothesis: There is no seeding, the fixtures in each round being determined by a random draw.


Premise: What is built in Avalon

Hypothesis: The Episcopal seat of the Bishop of Bath and Wells is now in the Cathedral Church of Saint Andrew in the city of Wells, having previously been at Bath Abbey.


Premise: Charleston and Berkeley is combined with what other county to form a metropolitan statistical area?

Hypothesis: These cities combined with other incorporated and unincorporated areas along with the city of Charleston form the Charleston-North Charleston Urban Area with a population of 548,404 as of 2010.


Premise: How was the PVA transporting supplies at one point?

Hypothesis: The PVA had outrun its logistics capability and thus were unable to press on beyond Seoul as food, ammunition, and matériel were carried nightly, on foot and bicycle, from the border at the Yalu River to the three battle lines.


Premise: What area holds the largest collection of plum blossoms in all of China?

Hypothesis: Instead, Nanjing, as a popular tourist destination, hosts a series of government-organised events throughout the year.


Premise: Who composed the The Finnish Infantry Regiment 200?

Hypothesis: The Finnish Infantry Regiment 200 (Estonian: soomepoisid) was formed out of Estonian volunteers in Finland.


Premise: Who was President and CEO of the New York Federal Reserve Bank in June 2008?

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: What is another name that Ireland is also called?

Hypothesis: Ireland, sometimes called the Republic of Ireland, governs five sixths of the island of Ireland, with the remainder of the island forming Northern Ireland.


Premise: Who is the world's oldest reigning monarch?

Hypothesis: She is the world's oldest reigning monarch as well as Britain's longest-lived.


Premise: Switzerland, France, Austria and Italy have the greatest what?

Hypothesis: The range continues toward Vienna in Austria, and east to the Adriatic Sea and into Slovenia.


Premise: Aside from Alan Prince who brought optimality theory to morphology?

Hypothesis: The approach was soon extended to morphology by John McCarthy and Alan Prince, and has become a dominant trend in phonology.


Premise: There is a theory that in Greek Alpes is a name of what origin?

Hypothesis: This may be consistent with the theory that in Greek Alpes is a name of non-Indo-European origin (which is common for prominent mountains and mountain ranges in the Mediterranean region).


Premise: What company was charted in 1600 for trade to the East Indies?

Hypothesis: Elizabeth I of England, primarily interested in trade with the east, collaborated with English merchants to form the first trading companies to the far-flung regions, using their own jargon.


Premise: If "Vlaams" is "Flemish," what would English speakers call "West-Vlaams"?

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: How must Whiteheads cosmology now be considered?

Hypothesis: He articulated a view that might perhaps be regarded as dual to Einstein's general relativity, see Whitehead's theory of gravitation.


Premise: When was William James born?

Hypothesis: Around the beginning of the 20th century, William James (1842–1910) coined the term "radical empiricism" to describe an offshoot of his form of pragmatism, which he argued could be dealt with separately from his pragmatism – though in fact the two concepts are intertwined in James's published lectures.


Premise: How many "voices" did Montini's posters claim the people of Milan would hear?

Hypothesis: "If only we can say Our Father and know what this means, then we would understand the Christian faith."


Premise: What are the three types of origin testing?

Hypothesis: Autosomal DNA is a mixture from an individual's entire ancestry, Y-DNA shows a male's lineage only along his strict-paternal line, mtDNA shows any person's lineage only along the strict-maternal line.


Premise: What part of China (North, East, South, West) is Nanjing located?

Hypothesis: Nanjing is also one of the fifteen sub-provincial cities in the People's Republic of China's administrative structure, enjoying jurisdictional and economic autonomy only slightly less than that of a province.


Premise: When did China lose its permanent seat at UN security council?

Hypothesis: Yet, as the Cold War continued, authorities began to question if France and the United Kingdom could retain their long-held statuses as great powers.


Premise: How many Americans died in the Pearl Harbor attacks?

Hypothesis: At the time of the attack, the U.S. was not officially at war anywhere in the world, which means that the people killed or property destroyed at Pearl Harbor by the Japanese attack had a non-combatant status.[nb 11]


Premise: What other team besides the Chicago Cubs is tied for being the oldest currently active U.S. professional sports club?

Hypothesis: Officially, the Cubs are tied for the distinction of being the oldest currently active U.S. professional sports club, along with the Atlanta Braves, which also began play in the NL in 1876 as the Boston Red Stockings (Major League Baseball does not officially recognize the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players as a major league.)


Premise: Where is the Kingdom of Pergamon?

Hypothesis: After Alexander the Great's ventures in the Persian Empire, Hellenistic kingdoms were established throughout south-west Asia (Seleucid Empire, Kingdom of Pergamon), north-east Africa (Ptolemaic Kingdom) and South Asia (Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, Indo-Greek Kingdom).


Premise: What sort of details did the Modernists' want in their buildings?

Hypothesis: Immediately after World War I, pioneering modernist architects sought to develop a completely new style appropriate for a new post-war social and economic order, focused on meeting the needs of the middle and working classes.


Premise: The pitch halfway between C (60) and C♯ (61) is labeled what?

Hypothesis: For example, the pitch halfway between C (60) and C♯ (61) can be labeled 60.5.


Premise: How many tax brackets does Montana have?

Hypothesis: Montana has no sales tax.


Premise: What type of rallies were being held in March of 1991?

Hypothesis: Despite an estimated loss of 300 lives over the course of four days, nonviolent protesters continued to return to Bamako each day demanding the resignation of the dictatorial president and the implementation of democratic policies.


Premise: How much money did Merck make from sales of Zocor and Mevacor?

Hypothesis: Researchers tested simvastatin, later sold by Merck as Zocor, on 4,444 patients with high cholesterol and heart disease.


Premise: These civic ideas allowed what to come into being?

Hypothesis: The architecture and urbanism of the Classical civilizations such as the Greek and the Roman evolved from civic ideals rather than religious or empirical ones and new building types emerged.


Premise: What does the decree of the Council of Trent imply?

Hypothesis: , c. xii), which seems to imply that not all hunting is illicit, and canonists generally make a distinction declaring noisy (clamorosa) hunting unlawful, but not quiet (quieta) hunting.


Premise: What planting zone does the city land in?

Hypothesis: The suburbs to the immediate north and west lie in the transition zone from a humid subtropical (Cfa) to a humid continental climate (Dfa).


Premise: When did the Iconodules  change the cross in the Hagia Sophia?

Hypothesis: The crosses were substituted with the image of the Theotokos in both churches after the victory of the Iconodules (787–797 and in 8th–9th centuries respectively, the Dormition church was totally destroyed in 1922).


Premise: Which arena was constructed under Jenkins at Notre Dame?

Hypothesis: Since 2005, Notre Dame has been led by John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., the 17th president of the university.


Premise: Where is Carnival celebrated?

Hypothesis: In all major cities and many towns throughout the country, Carnival is celebrated.


Premise: Those with high levels of identity diffusion are classified as what?

Hypothesis: Weinreich's identity variant similarly includes the categories of identity diffusion, foreclosure and crisis, but with a somewhat different emphasis.


Premise: What was the name of the Greatest Hits compilation Queen released after the split from Paul Rodgers?

Hypothesis: In mid-2009, after the split of Queen + Paul Rodgers, the Queen online website announced a new greatest hits compilation named Absolute Greatest.


Premise: How much money in financial support did Washington University receive in 2007?

Hypothesis: During fiscal year 2007, $537.5 million was received in total research support, including $444 million in federal obligations.


Premise: What disaster caused a massive migration in the Fujiian region?

Hypothesis: The Jìn court fled from the north to the south, causing large numbers of northern Han Chinese to move into Fujian region.


Premise: In France and Germany, what languages will often be substituted by native speakers of Dutch dialects?

Hypothesis: In both Germany and France the Dutch standard language is largely absent and speakers of these Dutch dialects will use German or French in everyday speech.


Premise: Along with the ancient Phoenicians, Egyptians and Babylonians, what ancient people regarded myrrh as a luxury?

Hypothesis: Somali sailors and merchants were the main suppliers of frankincense, myrrh and spices, items which were considered valuable luxuries by the Ancient Egyptians, Phoenicians, Mycenaeans and Babylonians.


Premise: What document established Manhattan's numbered street grid?

Hypothesis: 155th Street is a major crosstown street considered to form the boundary between Harlem and Washington Heights.


Premise: What two algorithms have compression ratios of up to 1200-fold?

Hypothesis: Other algorithms in 2009 and 2013 (DNAZip and GenomeZip) have compression ratios of up to 1200-fold—allowing 6 billion basepair diploid human genomes to be stored in 2.5 megabytes (relative to a reference genome or averaged over many genomes).


Premise: Which street begins just North of East Houston Street at Avenue A?

Hypothesis: East 1st Street begins just North of East Houston Street at Avenue A and continues to Bowery.


Premise: What is the name of the typeface that Times New Roman is based on?

Hypothesis: However, all the new fonts have been variants of the original New Roman font:


Premise: What was Libya's socialist government called?

Hypothesis: NATO intervened militarily on the side of the NTC, bringing about the government's downfall.


Premise: When was the suit settled?

Hypothesis: West's attorneys argued that the music video amounted to satire and therefore was covered under the First Amendment.


Premise: How is most research in Thuringia funded?

Hypothesis: Erfurt is a centre of Germany's horticultural research, whereas Weimar and Gotha with their various archives and libraries are centres of historic and cultural research.


Premise: What allegation did the government level against The Sun in 2003?

Hypothesis: The paper rebutted the claim, believing that it was not racist to suggest that a "tide" of unchecked illegal immigrants was increasing the risk of terrorist attacks and infectious diseases.


Premise: What may people who have lived in the same area for generations have in common?

Hypothesis: The Human Genome Project states "People who have lived in the same geographic region for many generations may have some alleles in common, but no allele will be found in all members of one population and in no members of any other."


Premise: Why are Avian hearts larger than mammalian hearts when compared to body mass?

Hypothesis: This adaptation allows more blood to be pumped to meet the high metabolic need associated with flight.


Premise: When did the "P" sound of Pretannia change to the "B" sound of Britannia?

Hypothesis: The shift from the "P" of Pretannia to the "B" of Britannia by the Romans occurred during the time of Julius Caesar.


Premise: When was the soundtrack of Twilight Princess made available?

Hypothesis: Both six- and seven-track versions of the game's soundtrack were released on November 19, 2006, as part of a Nintendo Power promotion and bundled with replicas of the Master Sword and the Hylian Shield.


Premise: How many homes were rebuilt?

Hypothesis: He stated that 200,000 homes had been rebuilt, and 685,000 were under reconstruction, but 1.94 million households were still without permanent shelter.


Premise: Who wrote a more professional version of History of the Inductive Sciences?

Hypothesis: A more formal study of the history of science as an independent discipline was launched by George Sarton's publications, Introduction to the History of Science (1927) and the Isis journal (founded in 1912).


Premise: What percentage of broadcasting revenue is divided equally by all La Liga clubs?

Hypothesis: This is in contrast to some other European Leagues, including La Liga, in which each club sells its rights individually, leading to a much higher share of the total income going to the top few clubs.


Premise: When were 10 to 20% of Tibets males monks?

Hypothesis: Before the 1950s, between 10 and 20% of males in Tibet were monks.


Premise: What is South Africa's ranking?

Hypothesis: The highest-scoring Sub-Saharan countries, Gabon and South Africa, are ranked 119th and 121st, respectively.


Premise: During what season were Arsenal's away colors white shirts and white or black shorts?

Hypothesis: For many years Arsenal's away colours were white shirts and either black or white shorts.


Premise: What do some environmentalists assert reintroducing predators would achieve?

Hypothesis: Hunting is claimed to give resource managers an important tool in managing populations that might exceed the carrying capacity of their habitat and threaten the well-being of other species, or, in some instances, damage human health or safety.[citation needed]


Premise: When were the papal terms for submission accepted?

Hypothesis: John paid some of the compensation money he had promised the church, but he ceased making payments in late 1214, leaving two-thirds of the sum unpaid; Innocent appears to have conveniently forgotten this debt for the good of the wider relationship.


Premise: Customarily where is the expected place in the lives of the people for the home of monks in Burma ?

Hypothesis: A novitiation ceremony called shinbyu is the most important coming of age events for a boy, during which he enters the monastery for a short time.


Premise: How many Qianhu offices were there?

Hypothesis: The Mingshi states that administrative offices were set up under these high commanderies, including one Itinerant Commandery, three Pacification Commissioner's Offices, six Expedition Commissioner's Offices, four Wanhu offices (myriarchies, in command of 10,000 households each) and seventeen Qianhu offices (chiliarchies, each in command of 1,000 households).


Premise: What television station is operated by the French government?

Hypothesis: Another news agency is France Diplomatie, owned and operated by the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, and pertains solely to diplomatic news and occurrences.


Premise: How high was the dome at the Romanesque revival building?

Hypothesis: After the ceasefire following the Fall of France in June 1940, Alsace was annexed to Germany and a rigorous policy of Germanisation was imposed upon it by the Gauleiter Robert Heinrich Wagner.


Premise: What was the last territory added to British India?

Hypothesis: Relationships with neighbouring British territories then broke down, starting the First Anglo-Sikh War; this led to a British official being resident in Lahore and the annexation in 1849 of territory south of the Satluj to British India.


Premise: What are older migrating birds better at?

Hypothesis: The ability of birds to navigate during migrations cannot be fully explained by endogenous programming, even with the help of responses to environmental cues.


Premise: What fault tore in two places?

Hypothesis: Japanese seismologist Yuji Yagi at the University of Tsukuba said that the earthquake occurred in two stages: "The 155-mile Longmenshan Fault tore in two sections, the first one ripping about seven yards, followed by a second one that sheared four yards."


Premise: What was Tito's former name?

Hypothesis: As the Communist Party was outlawed in Yugoslavia starting on 30 December 1920, Josip Broz took on many assumed names during his activity within the Party, including "Rudi", "Walter", and "Tito."


Premise: What was the original target age for the Digimon series?

Hypothesis: Despite all that, the setting of the country was still in Japan and the characters were Japanese in the dub.


Premise: What theory describes the implied egalitarianism of Neolithic societies?

Hypothesis: Theories to explain the apparent implied egalitarianism of Neolithic (and Paleolithic) societies have arisen, notably the Marxist concept of primitive communism.


Premise: Jews from what nation chartered the RMS Queen Elizabeth 2?

Hypothesis: In February 1973, Israeli forces shot down Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114, which had strayed from Egyptian airspace into Israeli-held territory during a sandstorm.


Premise: Who was Frédéric's first professional teacher in music?

Hypothesis: It quickly became apparent that he was a child prodigy.


Premise: The anterior section is closest to the what?

Hypothesis: The anterior segment, closest to the head, is the prothorax, with the major features being the first pair of legs and the pronotum.


Premise: In what period did Vyakarana begin?

Hypothesis: Patanjali, who lived three centuries after Pāṇini, wrote the Mahābhāṣya, the "Great Commentary" on the Aṣṭādhyāyī and Vārtikas.


Premise: What two words is "architecture" a combination of?

Hypothesis: Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural symbols and as works of art.


Premise: Who is in charge of releasing the World Directory of Medical Schools?

Hypothesis: Nowadays the university is ranked among famous higher Medical Institutions and takes its honorable place in the World Directory of Medical Schools published by the WHO.


Premise: What was removed from the Freemasonry constitution?

Hypothesis: The new constitutions read, "Its principles are absolute liberty of conscience and human solidarity", the existence of God and the immortality of the soul being struck out.


Premise: What does CSTO stand for?

Hypothesis: Armenia is member of Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) along with Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.


Premise: What percentage of the Taínos were dead thirty years after contact with Columbus?

Hypothesis: Within thirty years about 70% of the Taínos had died.


Premise: Who avoided a death sentence in favor of 15 years in jail?

Hypothesis: Naguib was removed from the presidency and put under house arrest, but was never tried or sentenced, and no one in the army rose to defend him.


Premise: What two dominant traits do great powers usually possess?

Hypothesis: Great powers characteristically possess military and economic strength, as well as diplomatic and soft power influence, which may cause middle or small powers to consider the great powers' opinions before taking actions of their own.


Premise: What company did Dell acquire in 2009?

Hypothesis: Dell was a pure hardware vendor for much of its existence, but with the acquisition in 2009 of Perot Systems, Dell entered the market for IT services.


Premise: Who expressed best wishes for the pope's health?

Hypothesis: Pope John XXIII offered to mediate between US President John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962.


Premise: What type of facility did Popper plan to open that would benefit from his furniture-making skills?

Hypothesis: He worked in street construction for a short amount of time, but was unable to cope with the heavy labour.


Premise: Who recorded the trip aboard the Janet Nicoll?

Hypothesis: The Janet Nicoll visited three of the Ellice Islands; while Fanny records that they made landfall at Funafuti, Niutao and Nanumea, Jane Resture suggests that it was more likely they landed at Nukufetau rather than Funafuti.


Premise: What is a more recent name for the smooth jazz format?

Hypothesis: In recent years, the Smooth Jazz format has been renamed to Smooth AC, as an attempt to lure younger listeners.


Premise: What religion did Zhang Jue practice?

Hypothesis: The Yellow Turbans and Five-Pecks-of-Rice adherents belonged to two different hierarchical Daoist religious societies led by faith healers Zhang Jue (d. 184 AD) and Zhang Lu (d. 216 AD), respectively.


Premise: The mosaics uncovered in Libya were from which century?

Hypothesis: In 1913 the Zliten mosaic, a Roman mosaic famous for its many scenes from gladiatorial contests, hunting and everyday life, was discovered in the Libyan town of Zliten.


Premise: What is the largest school for Barelvis people in India?

Hypothesis: In India the majority of these schools follow the Hanafi school of thought.


Premise: What Eastern Roman Emperor reconquered Italy?

Hypothesis: The Eastern Roman Empire, often referred to as the Byzantine Empire after the fall of its western counterpart, had little ability to assert control over the lost western territories.


Premise: When did Sikhism begin?

Hypothesis: After fighting Ahmad Shah Durrani in the later eighteenth century, the Sikhs took control of Punjab and managed to establish the Sikh Empire under Maharaja Ranjit Singh, which lasted from 1799 to 1849.


Premise: What piece did Chopin play at  Adolphe Nourrit's funeral?

Hypothesis: On 26 July 1840 Chopin and Sand were present at the dress rehearsal of Berlioz's Grande symphonie funèbre et triomphale, composed to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the July Revolution.


Premise: What is the Thunders mascot?

Hypothesis: The Thunder is known by several nicknames, including "OKC Thunder" and simply "OKC", and its mascot is Rumble the Bison.


Premise: How do people who are in favor of affirmative action view it?

Hypothesis: Proponents of affirmative action recognize that the policy is inherently unequal; however, minding the inescapable fact that historic inequalities exist in America, they believe the policy is much more fair than one in which these circumstances are not taken into account.


Premise: What cities house several important Jewish archaelogical sites?

Hypothesis: The once-vibrant and ancient Greek and Jewish communities in Egypt have almost disappeared, with only a small number remaining in the country, but many Egyptian Jews visit on religious or other occasions and tourism.


Premise: When did Prince Charles write to Burke?

Hypothesis: Burke believed the Government was not taking the uprising seriously enough, a view reinforced by a letter he had received from the Prince Charles of France (S.A.R. le comte d'Artois), dated 23 October, requesting that he intercede on behalf of the royalists to the Government.


Premise: What was the new modern army called?

Hypothesis: These units were collectively called the New Army.


Premise: What date was the first movie played in Paris for a paying crowd?

Hypothesis: The movie industry was born in Paris when Auguste and Louis Lumière projected the first motion picture for a paying audience at the Grand Café on 28 December 1895.


Premise: What aircraft offers Antarctic Support to the US Air Force?

Hypothesis: Cargo and transport aircraft are typically used to deliver troops, weapons and other military equipment by a variety of methods to any area of military operations around the world, usually outside of the commercial flight routes in uncontrolled airspace.


Premise: Who form the majority of Islamic residents of the Congo?

Hypothesis: According to CIA World Factbook, the people of Republic of the Congo are largely a mix of Catholics (33.1%), Awakening Lutherans (22.3%) and other Protestants (19.9%).


Premise: What are some areas of learning in comprehensive schools that were not found often in grammar schools?

Hypothesis: A consequence of that is a wider ranging curriculum, including practical subjects such as design and technology and vocational learning, which were less common or non-existent in grammar schools.


Premise: Which two contestants were kicked off the show for identity theft?

Hypothesis: It remains the highest-rated season in the show's run so far.


Premise: What will the Beichuan county seat be used for?

Hypothesis: There were also several concerts across the country to raise money for the survivors of the quake.


Premise: What TV network shares a parent with Marvel?

Hypothesis: With Disney, Marvel announced in October 2013 that in January 2014 it would release its first title under their joint "Disney Kingdoms" imprint "Seekers of the Weird", a five-issue miniseries.


Premise: What was missing in the formulas of prayer in Rome?

Hypothesis: The historian Livy reports an occasion when the presiding magistrate at the Latin festival forgot to include the "Roman people" among the list of beneficiaries in his prayer; the festival had to be started over.


Premise: After electrocution was outlawed, how were Nebraska death row inmates executed?

Hypothesis: Nebraska's death penalty statute was rendered ineffective on February 8, 2008 when the required method, electrocution, was ruled unconstitutional by the Nebraska Supreme Court.


Premise: Which pramanas is understanding of experts?

Hypothesis: For example, the Cārvāka nāstika philosophy holds that only one (perception) is an epistemically reliable means of knowledge, the Samkhya school holds three are (perception, inference and testimony), while the Mīmāṃsā and Advaita schools hold all six are epistemically useful and reliable means to knowledge.


Premise: Which arm of NARA handles grants?

Hypothesis: Since 1964, the NHPRC has awarded some 4,500 grants.


Premise: What groups began to appear in northern Italy and southern France during the 11th century?

Hypothesis: By the 11th century, more organised groups such as the Patarini, the Dulcinians, the Waldensians and the Cathars were beginning to appear in the towns and cities of northern Italy, southern France and Flanders.


Premise: How much of Nigeria's population in 2009 was urban?

Hypothesis: The results of the most recent census were released in December 2006 and gave a population of 140,003,542.


Premise: What is the name of Britain's best-selling travel magazine?

Hypothesis: The first issue of The Sunday Times Travel Magazine was in 2003, and it includes news, features and insider guides.


Premise: Where did the Metro Department store originally begin?

Hypothesis: 2007 saw the re-opening of Jakarta's Seibu, poised to be the largest and second most upscale department store in Indonesia after Harvey Nichols, which the latter closed in 2010 and yet plans to return.


Premise: What percent reduction of greenhouse gases does Mayor de Blasio want to see by 2050?

Hypothesis: The city government was a petitioner in the landmark Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency Supreme Court case forcing the EPA to regulate greenhouse gases as pollutants.


Premise: Where was the first Nationalist victory?

Hypothesis: The Japanese achieved major military victories, but world opinion—in particular in the United States—condemned Japan, especially after the Panay Incident.


Premise: What customer services did the Marble Palace offer?

Hypothesis: He offered European retail merchandise at fixed prices on a variety of dry goods, and advertised a policy of providing "free entrance" to all potential customers.


Premise: Who founded the Han dynasty?

Hypothesis: It was founded by the rebel leader Liu Bang, known posthumously as Emperor Gaozu of Han, and briefly interrupted by the Xin dynasty (9–23 AD) of the former regent Wang Mang.


Premise: What percentage of copper that has been mined is still being used today?

Hypothesis: It is estimated that 80% of the copper ever mined is still in use today.


Premise: What is the UK definition of game is governed by?

Hypothesis: The definition of game in the United Kingdom is governed by the Game Act 1831.


Premise: In 1843 what brought growth to Utrecht

Hypothesis: Growth of the city increased when, in 1843, a railway connecting Utrecht to Amsterdam was opened.


Premise: Who showed a great amount of respect to Deshin Shekpa?

Hypothesis: Norbu writes that the Yongle Emperor, following the tradition of Mongol emperors and their reverence for the Sakya lamas, showed an enormous amount of deference towards Deshin Shekpa.


Premise: Greece holds what rank among most visited countries in the world?

Hypothesis: Greece is a developed country with high standards of living[citation needed] and high Human Development Index.


Premise: How many counties does Oklahoma have?

Hypothesis: Oklahoma has two courts of last resort: the state Supreme Court hears civil cases, and the state Court of Criminal Appeals hears criminal cases (this split system exists only in Oklahoma and neighboring Texas).


Premise: What type of climate does the island of the Azores have?

Hypothesis: Consequently, the island of the Azores have been identified as having a Mediterranean climate (both Csa and Csb types), while some islands (such as Flores or Corvo) are classified as Maritime Temperate (Cfb) and Humid subtropical (Cfa), respectively, according to Köppen-Geiger classification.


Premise: What was the name of the project to change the location of I-40 and make a new entrance to the city?

Hypothesis: The "Core-to-Shore" project was created to relocate I-40 one mile (1.6 km) south and replace it with a boulevard to create a landscaped entrance to the city.


Premise: When did Beyoncé endorse on March 26, 2013?

Hypothesis: She publicly endorsed same sex marriage on March 26, 2013, after the Supreme Court debate on California's Proposition 8.


Premise: Who are Swiss citizens required to buy health insurance from?

Hypothesis: While the cost of the system is among the highest it compares well with other European countries in terms of health outcomes; patients who are citizens have been reported as being, in general, highly satisfied with it.


Premise: If you'd been diagnosed with tuberculosis in 1995, how great a chance would you have faced of dying from it?

Hypothesis: The chance of death from a case of tuberculosis is about 4% as of 2008, down from 8% in 1995.


Premise: Which year was used for estimates in the 2010 report?

Hypothesis: The 2010 Human Development Report by the United Nations Development Program was released on November 4, 2010, and calculates HDI values based on estimates for 2010.


Premise: What kind of high class building does Strasbourg offer?

Hypothesis: Strasbourg also offers high-class eclecticist buildings in its very extended German district, the Neustadt, being the main memory of Wilhelmian architecture since most of the major cities in Germany proper suffered intensive damage during World War II.


Premise: What occurs in bright light to leaves during fall?

Hypothesis: The brighter the light during this period, the greater the production of anthocyanins and the more brilliant the resulting color display.


Premise: What dubious distinction has Comcast earned twice from The Consumerist?

Hypothesis: Comcast has violated net neutrality practices in the past; and, despite Comcast's commitment to a narrow definition of net neutrality, critics advocate a definition of which precludes distinction between Comcast's private network services and the rest of the Internet.


Premise: When was the Lauberhorn Rennen ran for the first time on the Lauberhorn above Wengen?

Hypothesis: In 1930 the Lauberhorn Rennen (Lauberhorn Race), was run for the first time on the Lauberhorn above Wengen; the equally demanding Hahnenkamm was first run in the same year in Kitzbühl, Austria.


Premise: When was English introduced as a first foreign language in many cantons?

Hypothesis: The minimum age for primary school is about six years in all cantons, but most cantons provide a free "children's school" starting at four or five years old.


Premise: where is Beacon Fell County Park located?

Hypothesis: To the east of the county are upland areas leading to the Pennines.


Premise: What issue did Spielberg address in his movie Munich?

Hypothesis: In later years, his films began addressing humanistic issues such as the Holocaust (in Schindler's List), the transatlantic slave trade (in Amistad), war (in Empire of the Sun, Saving Private Ryan, War Horse and Bridge of Spies) and terrorism (in Munich).


Premise: What does the term Appalachian refer to?

Hypothesis: Most broadly, it refers to the entire mountain range with its surrounding hills and the dissected plateau region.


Premise: Which scientist was in favor of Lamarckism in the 1850s?

Hypothesis: While few naturalists were willing to consider transmutation, Herbert Spencer became an active proponent of Lamarckism and progressive development in the 1850s.


Premise: Nearly all gasoline sold in the U.S. is mixed with what percentage of ethanol?

Hypothesis: Nearly all the gasoline sold in the United States today is mixed with 10 percent ethanol, a mix known as E10, and motor vehicle manufacturers already produce vehicles designed to run on much higher ethanol blends.


Premise: What ideaology is found in the natural sciences?

Hypothesis: In this way the idea of race as we understand it today came about during the historical process of exploration and conquest which brought Europeans into contact with groups from different continents, and of the ideology of classification and typology found in the natural sciences.


Premise: Where are most of the trees located in Mexico City?

Hypothesis: Mexico city primarily rests on what was Lake Texcoco.


Premise: Who was blamed for the week long rebellion of 1866?

Hypothesis: The Italian government blamed anarchists and the Church, specifically the Archbishop of Palermo, for the rebellion and began enacting anti-Sicilian and anti-clerical policies.


Premise: What is the only mainstream computer platform to successfully transition to a new CPU architecture?

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: Who wrote The Case Against Christianity?

Hypothesis: Philosopher Michael Martin, in his book The Case Against Christianity, evaluated three historical Christian creeds (the Apostles' Creed, the Nicene Creed and the Athanasian Creed) to establish a set of basic assumptions which include belief in theism, the historicity of Jesus, the Incarnation, salvation through faith in Jesus, and Jesus as an ethical role model.


Premise: What sport is played at the Swarnandhra Pradesh Sports Complex?

Hypothesis: The most popular sports played in Hyderabad are cricket and association football.


Premise: What younger sister of Beyonce also appeared in Destiny's Child?

Hypothesis: Beyoncé's younger sister Solange is also a singer and a former member of Destiny's Child.


Premise: In what year did the Battle of Actium take place?

Hypothesis: It is often considered a period of transition, sometimes even of decadence or degeneration, compared to the enlightenment of the Greek Classical era.


Premise: What does act 21 in Namibia regulate?

Hypothesis: Its primary objectives are to regulate the tourism industry and to market Namibia as a tourist destination.


Premise: Who did Innocent disavow?

Hypothesis: John refused Innocent's request that he consent to Langton's appointment, but the pope consecrated Langton anyway in June 1207.


Premise: The Han court replaced several kings with members of what royal family?

Hypothesis: By 157 BC, the Han court had replaced all of these kings with royal Liu family members, since the loyalty of non-relatives to the throne was questioned.


Premise: Where was this origin of this redefinition ?

Hypothesis: In the 5th century BC, they were redefined as contemporary speakers of Aeolic Greek which was spoken mainly in Thessaly, Boeotia and Lesbos.


Premise: How many consecutive elections did the Lyons Government win?

Hypothesis: With Australia still suffering the effects of the Great Depression, the newly formed party won a landslide victory at the 1931 Election, and the Lyons Government went on to win three consecutive elections.


Premise: What was the primary concern of other nations who objected to including political groups in the definition of genocide?

Hypothesis: The exclusion of political groups was in fact originally promoted by a non-governmental organization, the World Jewish Congress, and it corresponded to Raphael Lemkin’s vision of the nature of the crime of genocide.”


Premise: Where the first Germanic words for God masculine or feminine?

Hypothesis: The earliest written form of the Germanic word God (always, in this usage, capitalized) comes from the 6th-century Christian Codex Argenteus.


Premise: What is the minimum height in meters of the region Mexico City is located in?

Hypothesis: It has a minimum altitude of 2,200 meters (7,200 feet) above sea level and is surrounded by mountains and volcanoes that reach elevations of over 5,000 metres (16,000 feet).


Premise: Colombier Bay has what type of helpful structures placed in the water?

Hypothesis: Anchoring is prohibited in the Reserve and mooring buoys are in place in some of the protected bays like Colombier


Premise: What trend has accompanied Estonia's cooperation with Western powers?

Hypothesis: Since regaining independence, Estonia has pursued a foreign policy of close co-operation with its Western European partners.


Premise: Where does the Red Book mention copy protection?

Hypothesis: Philips has stated that such discs are not permitted to bear the trademarked Compact Disc Digital Audio logo because they violate the Red Book specifications.


Premise: What is the name of the solar powered car race held every two years?

Hypothesis: Development of a solar-powered car has been an engineering goal since the 1980s.


Premise: What aids birds with flight?

Hypothesis: Most birds are highly adapted for rapid digestion to aid with flight.


Premise: What was Tito's form of communism called?

Hypothesis: The event was significant not only for Yugoslavia and Tito, but also for the global development of socialism, since it was the first major split between Communist states, casting doubt on Comintern's claims for socialism to be a unified force that would eventually control the whole world, as Tito became the first (and the only successful) socialist leader to defy Stalin's leadership in the COMINFORM.


Premise: The study of the humanities at the end of the early modern period replaced the study of the work of what individual?

Hypothesis: By the end of the early modern period, the structure and orientation of higher education had changed in ways that are eminently recognizable for the modern context.


Premise: What is a noted hotel brand throughout North America?

Hypothesis: The original services of an inn are now also available at other establishments, such as hotels, lodges, and motels, which focus more on lodging customers than on other services, although they usually provide meals; pubs, which are primarily alcohol-serving establishments; and restaurants and taverns, which serve food and drink.


Premise: How could Kinsey have avoided losing this crucial information?

Hypothesis: It would have been quite simple for Kinsey to have measured the two dimensions separately and report scores independently to avoid loss of information.


Premise: How many undergrad students were in Oklahoma in 2007?

Hypothesis: In the 2007–2008 school year, there were 181,973 undergraduate students, 20,014 graduate students, and 4,395 first-professional degree students enrolled in Oklahoma colleges.


Premise: One of the leading performers of the laiko genre is who?

Hypothesis: The leading performers of the genre include Apostolos Kaldaras, Grigoris Bithikotsis, Stelios Kazantzidis, George Dalaras, Haris Alexiou and Glykeria.


Premise: What was signed in 1579

Hypothesis: This was the start of a long period of stagnation of trade and development in Utrecht.


Premise: What battle marked the beginning of significant antiaircraft warfare?

Hypothesis: Poland's AA defences were no match for the German attack and the situation was similar in other European countries.


Premise: What politicians pushed for statehood for Puerto Rico?

Hypothesis: Pierluisi urged Obama to begin legislation in favor of the statehood of Puerto Rico, in light of its win in the referendum.


Premise: What percentage of the barrier will be constructed on the Green Line?

Hypothesis: In response to increasing attacks as part of the Second Intifada, the Israeli government started to construct the Israeli West Bank barrier.


Premise: Investment in what greatly accelerated the outward suburban sprawn and declining inner city population?

Hypothesis: In later years, with the rapid rise of motor vehicle ownership, the investment in freeway and highway developments greatly accelerated the outward suburban sprawl and declining inner city population.


Premise: In Israel, the term Ashkenazi is now used to refer to whom?

Hypothesis: In Israel, the term Ashkenazi is now used in a manner unrelated to its original meaning, often applied to all Jews who settled in Europe and sometimes including those whose ethnic background is actually Sephardic.


Premise: Who gave Chopin instruction on how to play the organ?

Hypothesis: The success of this concert led to an invitation to give a similar recital on the instrument before Tsar Alexander I, who was visiting Warsaw; the Tsar presented him with a diamond ring.


Premise: Who granted the act Act of "Nihil novi nisi commune consensu"?

Hypothesis: This date commonly marks the beginning of the First Rzeczpospolita, the period of a szlachta-run "Commonwealth".


Premise: What are six companies that made some of the first peripherals for the iPod?

Hypothesis: Among the first accessory manufacturers were Griffin Technology, Belkin, JBL, Bose, Monster Cable, and SendStation.


Premise: What size of weapon calibers are better hitting at short range fast targets?

Hypothesis: Weapons between 20 mm and 40 mm caliber have been widely used in this role.


Premise: What causes the meat of some poultry to show rainbow like colr striations?

Hypothesis: Dark meat, which avian myologists refer to as "red muscle", is used for sustained activity—chiefly walking, in the case of a chicken.


Premise: What part of their motherboards does Dell not reveal the specifications of?

Hypothesis: This meant customers wishing to upgrade their hardware would have to replace parts with scarce Dell-compatible parts instead of commonly available parts.


Premise: Why does psychiatrist Anil Aggrawal say androphilia and gynephilia are needed terms?

Hypothesis: Any attempt to classify them may not only cause confusion but arouse offense among the affected subjects.


Premise: When did the Chalukyans rule from Badami?

Hypothesis: The Chalukya dynasty ruled parts of southern and central India from Badami in Karnataka between 550 and 750, and then again from Kalyani between 970 and 1190.


Premise: Immigrants arriving by sea are coming mainly for what reason?

Hypothesis: There were 856,723 arrivals by sea in Greece, an almost fivefold increase to the same period of 2014, of which the Syrians represent almost 45%.


Premise: For how long has Somalia had connections to the Arab world?

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: Why did the Pan American Health Organization release this statement?

Hypothesis: The Pan American Health Organization further called on governments, academic institutions, professional associations and the media to expose these practices and to promote respect for diversity.


Premise: Who discovered the chemical structure of penicillin?

Hypothesis: Florey credited Dubos with pioneering the approach of deliberately and systematically searching for antibacterial compounds, which had led to the discovery of gramicidin and had revived Florey's research in penicillin.


Premise: What types of areas are managed by the federal government as public lands?

Hypothesis: According to an October 1998 report by the United States Bureau of Land Management, approximately 65% of Alaska is owned and managed by the U.S. federal government as public lands, including a multitude of national forests, national parks, and national wildlife refuges.


Premise: What political theory did Eisenhower use to oppose McCarthy?

Hypothesis: On the domestic front, he covertly opposed Joseph McCarthy and contributed to the end of McCarthyism by openly invoking the modern expanded version of executive privilege.


Premise: What drugs reduce the risk of death and other events in people with high blood pressure?

Hypothesis: A 2009 Cochrane review concluded that thiazide antihypertensive drugs reduce the risk of death (RR 0.89), stroke


Premise: What is the role of the Permanent Secretary?

Hypothesis: His or her role is to ensure the MoD operates effectively as a department of the government.


Premise: Which Baghdad scholar identified justified seven different Quranic readings?

Hypothesis: The first Quranic manuscripts lacked these marks, therefore several recitations remain acceptable.


Premise: Which cardinal became heavily engaged in the passage of Nostra aetate?

Hypothesis: Cardinal Augustin Bea, the President of the Christian Unity Secretariat, always had the full support of Paul VI in his attempts to ensure that the Council language was friendly and open to the sensitivities of Protestant and Orthodox Churches, whom he had invited to all sessions at the request of Pope John XXIII.


Premise: Around when did the Old Prussian language become extinct?

Hypothesis: The Old Prussian language had become extinct by the 17th or early 18th century.


Premise: Which African-American woman before Beyonce had posed for SI Swimsuit issue?

Hypothesis: In 2007, Beyoncé was featured on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, becoming the second African American woman after Tyra Banks, and People magazine recognized Beyoncé as the best-dressed celebrity.


Premise: What consoles can be used to play Twilight Princess?

Hypothesis: Zeruda no Densetsu: Towairaito Purinsesu?) is an action-adventure game developed and published by Nintendo for the GameCube and Wii home video game consoles.


Premise: Whom did Bush want to stand beside him as Vice President?

Hypothesis: During the convention and throughout the campaign, Bush focused on two themes: defending America against terrorism and building an ownership society.


Premise: Who were Virgil's literary executors?

Hypothesis: Augustus ordered Virgil's literary executors, Lucius Varius Rufus and Plotius Tucca, to disregard Virgil's own wish that the poem be burned, instead ordering it published with as few editorial changes as possible.


Premise: What is the color red associated with?

Hypothesis: The color scheme happened to get inordinate attention that year, so the cycle was stopped lest it cause confusion the following election.


Premise: What harms the adherence to the Constitution in Thailand?

Hypothesis: Ancient prejudices and political bias have been present in the three branches of government with each of their foundings, and justice has been processed formally according to the law but in fact more closely aligned with royalist principles that are still advocated in the 21st century.[citation needed]


Premise: What percentage of Valencia's workers are employed in the agricultural sector?

Hypothesis: However, the city still maintains an important industrial base, with 5.5% of the population employed in this sector.


Premise: What had an astrologer predicted to warrant from Rome by Tiberius?

Hypothesis: In the late 1st century AD, Tacitus observed that astrologers "would always be banned and always retained at Rome".


Premise: Who was Cyprus settled by in 2nd millennium BC?

Hypothesis: As a strategic location in the Middle East, it was subsequently occupied by several major powers, including the empires of the Assyrians, Egyptians and Persians, from whom the island was seized in 333 BC by Alexander the Great.


Premise: What features were removed in the SNS-101?

Hypothesis: Like the earlier redesign of the NES (the NES-101 model), the new model was slimmer and lighter than its predecessor, but it lacked S-Video and RGB output, and it was among the last major SNES-related releases in the region.


Premise: Why were former Sun staff members put in police custody in early 2012?

Hypothesis: On 28 January 2012, police arrested four current and former staff members of The Sun, as part of a probe in which journalists paid police officers for information; a police officer was also arrested in the probe.


Premise: The importance of can be seen in what legends?

Hypothesis: Game in these areas was used as a source of food and furs, often provided via professional huntsmen, but it was also expected to provide a form of recreation for the aristocracy.


Premise: In what year did Frank Shuman patent his solar engine?

Hypothesis: Shuman then constructed a full-scale steam engine powered by low-pressure water, enabling him to patent the entire solar engine system by 1912.


Premise: For how long does the fixed rate of tuition last?

Hypothesis: Beginning in the 2007–2008 academic year, first-time freshman at KU pay a fixed tuition rate for 48 months according to the Four-Year Tuition Compact passed by the Kansas Board of Regents.


Premise: During whose presidency were Egyptians nostalgic for Nasser?

Hypothesis: While Nasser was increasingly criticized by Egyptian intellectuals following the Six-Day War and his death in 1970, the general public was persistently sympathetic both during and after Nasser's life.


Premise: Is the RICO Act still used today?

Hypothesis: All of the FBI work was done undercover and from within these organizations, using the provisions provided in the RICO Act.


Premise: Why do cells of Myxobacteria migrate towards each other?

Hypothesis: For example, about one in 10 cells migrate to the top of these fruiting bodies and differentiate into a specialised dormant state called myxospores, which are more resistant to drying and other adverse environmental conditions than are ordinary cells.


Premise: What percentage did independent companies' energy production increase between 2009 and 2010?

Hypothesis: In 2009 DEI supplied for 85.6% of all energy demand in Greece, while the number fell to 77.3% in 2010.


Premise: What Jubilee did Elizabeth celebrate in 1977?

Hypothesis: In 1977, Elizabeth marked the Silver Jubilee of her accession.


Premise: The last slave in New York was freed when?

Hypothesis: After the American Revolutionary War, the number and proportion of free people of color increased markedly in the North and the South as slaves were freed.


Premise: Clark field was how many miles northwest of Manila?

Hypothesis: With heavy air support, Army units pushed inland, taking Clark Field, 40 miles (64 km) northwest of Manila, in the last week of January.


Premise: Parties to a treaty may disagree over a desire to create an obligation under what?

Hypothesis: Another situation can occur when one party wishes to create an obligation under international law, but the other party does not.


Premise: A score-centric approach strictly emphasizes what?

Hypothesis: Yet, even with the score providing the key elements of the music, there is considerable controversy about how to perform the works.


Premise: What party was in power when Margaret Thatcher was made Secretary of State for Education?

Hypothesis: In 1970 Margaret Thatcher became Secretary of State for Education of the new Conservative government.


Premise: What year did South Carolina pass a law allowing them to repeal Federal Law?

Hypothesis: The state's politicians worked on a compromise law in Washington to gradually reduce the tariffs.


Premise: When did Filipinos start migrating to Mexico City?

Hypothesis: On the other hand, Mexico City is also home to large communities of expatriates and immigrants, most notably from the rest of North America (U.S. and Canada), from South America (mainly from Argentina and Colombia, but also from Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and Venezuela), from Central America and the Caribbean (mainly from Cuba, Guatemala, El Salvador, Haiti and Honduras); from Europe (mainly from Spain, Germany and Switzerland, but also from Czech Republic, Hungary, France, Italy, Ireland, the Netherlands, Poland and Romania), from the Middle East (mainly from Egypt, Lebanon and Syria); and recently from Asia-Pacific (mainly from China and South Korea).


Premise: How many of the poorest families did not have any wealth decline during the financial crisis?

Hypothesis: On the other hand, half of the poorest families did not have wealth declines at all during the crisis.


Premise: How was the belief of the existance of God and the immortal soul replaced in the constitution?

Hypothesis: The new constitutions read, "Its principles are absolute liberty of conscience and human solidarity", the existence of God and the immortality of the soul being struck out.


Premise: What breed of dog did The Sun mistakenly report that Elton John owned?

Hypothesis: In November, the Daily Mirror found their rival's only source for the rent boy story and he admitted it was a totally fictitious concoction created for money.


Premise: How much of the US believes Spielberg is influential?

Hypothesis: Spielberg received a score of 47, meaning 47% of the US believes he is influential.


Premise: Who was responsible for the invention of the seismometer?

Hypothesis: Using a water clock, waterwheel and a series of gears, the Court Astronomer Zhang Heng (78–139 AD) was able to mechanically rotate his metal-ringed armillary sphere.


Premise: Who has not been brought to justice?

Hypothesis: However questions still remain, as some of the corrupt government officials have still not been brought to justice, while the many families who lost their only child, are still seeking compensation and justice to what had happened.


Premise: How much money has the sale of Federal Duck Stamps generated since 1934?

Hypothesis: Although non-hunters buy a significant number of Duck Stamps, eighty-seven percent of their sales are contributed by hunters, which is logical, as hunters are required to purchase them.


Premise: What is the Schauspielhaus in English?

Hypothesis: The Theater für Niedersachsen is another big theatre in Hanover, which also has an own Musical-Company.


Premise: What ruler opposed the British use of permits and ended up at war?

Hypothesis: The Nawab of Bengal Siraj Ud Daulah, the de facto ruler of the Bengal province, opposed British attempts to use these permits.


Premise: Which historians were favourably inclined towards the king?

Hypothesis: Tudor historians were generally favourably inclined towards the king, focusing on John's opposition to the Papacy and his promotion of the special rights and prerogatives of a king.


Premise: Where was Chopin's first concert in Paris held?

Hypothesis: Although it is not known exactly when Chopin first met Liszt after arriving in Paris, on 12 December 1831 he mentioned in a letter to his friend Woyciechowski that "I have met Rossini, Cherubini, Baillot, etc.—also Kalkbrenner.


Premise: How recently were voluntary standards of pesticide regulation updated?

Hypothesis: The Code was updated in 1998 and 2002.


Premise: What part of the Olympic area was not damaged?

Hypothesis: None of the Olympic venues were damaged.


Premise: What resulted between the Chinese and Japanese after the Coup?

Hypothesis: Tensions between China and Japan rose after China intervened to suppress the uprising.


Premise: What direction are the Tortolita Mountains from Tuscon?

Hypothesis: Tucson is situated on an alluvial plain in the Sonoran desert, surrounded by five minor ranges of mountains: the Santa Catalina Mountains and the Tortolita Mountains to the north, the Santa Rita Mountains to the south, the Rincon Mountains to the east, and the Tucson Mountains to the west.


Premise: Bismarck desired an early piece but lacked what in the negotiation process?

Hypothesis: After the German victory at Sedan, most of the French standing army was either besieged in Metz or prisoner of the Germans, who hoped for an armistice and an end to the war.


Premise: At what age could a male common expect to be conscripted into the military?

Hypothesis: At the beginning of the Han dynasty, every male commoner aged twenty-three was liable for conscription into the military.


Premise: How much oil reserves does Iran have?

Hypothesis: It also ranks fourth in oil reserves with an estimated 153,600,000,000 barrels.


Premise: What was one of the most important ways that post-punk artists created their new sound?

Hypothesis: The innovative production techniques devised by post-punk producers such as Martin Hannett and Dennis Bovell during this period would become an important element of the emerging music, with studio experimentation taking a central role.


Premise: How many theaters approximately are located in Hanover?


Premise: In what two years were the Wars of Kappel?

Hypothesis: The success of Zwingli's Reformation in some cantons led to inter-cantonal religious conflicts in 1529 and 1531 (Wars of Kappel).


Premise: In which year did Newcastle United pay £15 million to transfer Alan Shearer to their club?

Hypothesis: The three highest transfer in the sport's history had a Premier League club on the selling end, with Tottenham Hotspur selling Gareth Bale to Real Madrid for £85 million in 2013, Manchester United's sale of Cristiano Ronaldo to Real Madrid for £80 million in 2009, and Liverpool selling Luis Suárez to Barcelona for £75 million in 2014.


Premise: What type of organism was named after Beyonce in 2012?

Hypothesis: In January 2012, research scientist Bryan Lessard named Scaptia beyonceae, a species of horse fly found in Northern Queensland, Australia after Beyoncé due to the fly's unique golden hairs on its abdomen.


Premise: When did the tour begin?

Hypothesis: It became the most successful tour of her career and one of the most-successful tours of all time.


Premise: When did multiracial people start to organize for more inclusive racial identifiers?

Hypothesis: In the 1980s, parents of mixed-race children began to organize and lobby for the addition of a more inclusive term of racial designation that would reflect the heritage of their children.


Premise: Nara was the former capital for how many years?

Hypothesis: Nara was abandoned after only 70 years in part due to the ascendancy of Dōkyō and the encroaching secular power of the Buddhist institutions there.


Premise: How many weeks did the finals of season thirteen last?

Hypothesis: The finals lasted eight weeks in season one, eleven weeks in subsequent seasons until seasons ten and eleven which lasted twelve weeks except for season twelve, which lasted ten weeks, and season thirteen, which lasted for thirteen weeks.


Premise: How is the propulsion powered in a climbing elevator?

Hypothesis: The propulsion can be done by an electric or a combustion engine.


Premise: What type of pavement techniques had already been tried by a competitor of Claridge?

Hypothesis: Then on 25 November 1837, Richard Tappin Claridge patented the use of Seyssel asphalt (patent #7849), for use in asphalte pavement, having seen it employed in France and Belgium when visiting with Frederick Walter Simms, who worked with him on the introduction of asphalt to Britain.


Premise: What method was used to execute Leonard Shockley?

Hypothesis: The last execution of a juvenile may have been Leonard Shockley, who died in the Maryland gas chamber on April 10, 1959, at the age of 17.


Premise: What time period does Johnathon Israel focus on?

Hypothesis: Israel argues that until the 1650s Western civilization "was based on a largely shared core of faith, tradition and authority".


Premise: What is the annual average direct solar irradiation?

Hypothesis: The Sahara has a huge potential for solar energy production.


Premise: Along with August, what is typically the hottest month in Plymouth?

Hypothesis: Snow is rare, not usually equating to more than a few flakes, but there have been exclusions, namely the European winter storms of 2009-10 which, in early January, covered Plymouth in at least 1 inch (2.5 cm) of snow; more on higher ground.


Premise: Who created the first solar cell using silver selenide in place of copper oxide?

Hypothesis: A solar cell is a device that converts light directly into electricity using the photoelectric effect.


Premise: Who took the place of Konayev?

Hypothesis: The "Jeltoqsan" (Kazakh for "December") of 1986 were riots in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, sparked by Gorbachev's dismissal of Dinmukhamed Konayev, the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan and an ethnic Kazakh, who was replaced with Gennady Kolbin, an outsider from the Russian SFSR.


Premise: Who invented track lighting?

Hypothesis: It has regained some popularity recently in low-voltage tracks, which often look nothing like their predecessors because they do not have the safety issues that line-voltage systems have, and are therefore less bulky and more ornamental in themselves.


Premise: What airline uses this airport as its primary international hub?

Hypothesis: It is also the second largest hub and primary international hub for American Airlines.


Premise: What was determined to be the smallest effective round in 1935?

Hypothesis: The army was forbidden from considering anything larger than .50-inch.


Premise: What are examples of finite symmetry groups used in coding theory?

Hypothesis: Finite symmetry groups such as the Mathieu groups are used in coding theory, which is in turn applied in error correction of transmitted data, and in CD players.


Premise: What sort of definition can be used to conveniently encompass the complexity of diverse phenomena?

Hypothesis: This definition categorizes genes by their functional products (proteins or RNA) rather than their specific DNA loci, with regulatory elements classified as gene-associated regions.


Premise: What was the total amount of the rescue package given to Greece?

Hypothesis: As a consequence, there was a crisis in international confidence in Greece's ability to repay its sovereign debt, as reflected by the rise of the country's borrowing rates (although their slow rise – the 10-year government bond yield only exceeded 7% in April 2010 – coinciding with a large number of negative articles, has led to arguments about the role of international news media in the evolution of the crisis).


Premise: What was included in religious humanism that was similiar to other religion?

Hypothesis: Religious humanism is an integration of humanist ethical philosophy with religious rituals and beliefs that centre on human needs, interests, and abilities.


Premise: What sound standard is supported for the marketplace videos?

Hypothesis: With the exception of short clips, content is not currently available for streaming, and must be downloaded.


Premise: What is the maximum uranium-235 isotope concentration for uranium to be considered depleted?

Hypothesis: This process produces huge quantities of uranium that is depleted of uranium-235 and with a correspondingly increased fraction of uranium-238, called depleted uranium or 'DU'.


Premise: What was PlayStation 3's toughest competitor in the video game market?

Hypothesis: Furthermore, PS3 had to compete directly with Xbox 360 which had a market head start, and as a result the platform no longer had exclusive titles that the PS2 enjoyed such as the Grand Theft Auto and Final Fantasy series (regarding cross-platform games, Xbox 360 versions were generally considered superior in 2006, although by 2008 the PS3 versions had reached parity or surpassed), and it took longer than expected for PS3 to enjoy strong sales and close the gap with Xbox 360.


Premise: What Tennessee recording company first promoted Elvis Presley?

Hypothesis: Memphis is also home to Sun Records, where musicians such as Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, and Charlie Rich began their recording careers, and where rock and roll took shape in the 1950s.[not verified in body]


Premise: What is a fine, tightly twisted type of cotton fabric?

Hypothesis: The yarn is spun so that it is compact and solid.


Premise: Where is St. Brendan's school located?

Hypothesis: Brendan´s school, before named St.


Premise: Who wrote the Germania?

Hypothesis: Tacitus wrote in his Germania: Germania 9.6: Ceterum nec cohibere parietibus deos neque in ullam humani oris speciem adsimulare ex magnitudine caelestium arbitrator – "The Germans, however, do not consider it consistent with the grandeur of celestial beings to confine the gods within walls, or to liken them to the form of any human countenance."


Premise: What other political hot issue did voters in Seattle vote to legalize in 2012?

Hypothesis: In the same election, an overwhelming majority of Seattleites also voted to approve the legalization of the recreational use of cannabis in the state.


Premise: What is Korsakoff's syndrome?

Hypothesis: Korsakoff's syndrome, also known as Korsakoff's psychosis, amnesic-confabulatory syndrome, is an organic brain disease that adversely affects memory by widespread loss or shrinkage of neurons within the prefrontal cortex.


Premise: What was Burke's mother's maiden name?

Hypothesis: The Burke dynasty descends from an Anglo-Norman knight surnamed de Burgh (latinised as de Burgo) who arrived in Ireland in 1185 following Henry II of England's 1171 invasion of Ireland.


Premise: What field does the ijazah signify expertise in?

Hypothesis: In madaris, the ijāzahs were only issued in one field, the Islamic religious law of sharīʻah, and in no other field of learning.


Premise: Easy listening was predominately what type of music?

Hypothesis: Whereas most easy listening music was instrumental, created by relatively unknown artists, and rarely purchased, AC was an attempt to create a similar "lite" format by choosing certain tracks (both hit singles and album cuts) of popular artists.


Premise: Who is the most famous athlete from Namibia?

Hypothesis: He is also known for humanitarian activities in Namibia and beyond.


Premise: What transformed a large part of the world in the 19th century?

Hypothesis: Recent research from 2006 examines the gradual development of industry and further development of shipping in a predominantly agricultural economy, calculating an average rate of per capita GDP growth between 1833 and 1911 that was only slightly lower than that of the other Western European nations.


Premise: What do you get when you combine a lysosome and a phagosome?

Hypothesis: M. tuberculosis is able to reproduce inside the macrophage and will eventually kill the immune cell.


Premise: How were East Prussians able to pay for land improvements and road construction?

Hypothesis: Darré, a neopaganist rural romantic, wanted to enforce his vision of an agricultural East Prussia.


Premise: What acts by Napoleon laid the groundwork for modernized Education in France and much of Europe?

Hypothesis: Napoleon synthesized the best academic elements from the Ancien Régime, The Enlightenment, and the Revolution, with the aim of establishing a stable, well-educated and prosperous society.


Premise: What is the head person of a heretical movement called?

Hypothesis: The founder or leader of a heretical movement is called a heresiarch, while individuals who espouse heresy or commit heresy are known as heretics.


Premise: What is the home stadium of the Carolina Hurricanes called?

Hypothesis: The team played its first two seasons more than 60 miles away at Greensboro Coliseum while its home arena, Raleigh Entertainment and Sports Arena (later RBC Center and now PNC Arena), was under construction.


Premise: What attracts planets and celestial items?

Hypothesis: The energy levels of hydrogen can be calculated fairly accurately using the Bohr model of the atom, which conceptualizes the electron as "orbiting" the proton in analogy to the Earth's orbit of the Sun.


Premise: About how many Montanans  died in the war?

Hypothesis: When the U.S. entered World War II on December 8, 1941, many Montanans already had enlisted in the military to escape the poor national economy of the previous decade.


Premise: In what year was the Constitution adopted?

Hypothesis: The RSFSR was established on November 7, 1917 (October Revolution) as a sovereign state.


Premise: What percentage of teens say they text every day?

Hypothesis: Several sources report a high proportion of adolescents who use social media: 73% of 12–17 year olds reported having at least one social networking profile; two-thirds (68%) of teens text every day, half (51%) visit social networking sites daily, and 11% send or receive tweets at least once every day.


Premise: What were universal motor pole pieces constructed from?

Hypothesis: Universal motors also formed the basis of the traditional railway traction motor in electric railways.


Premise: How many families are there in Tucson as of 2010?

Hypothesis: As of the census of 2010, there were 520,116 people, 229,762 households, and 112,455 families residing in the city.


Premise: What is Seattle's gay pride parade called?

Hypothesis: Among Seattle's prominent annual fairs and festivals are the 24-day Seattle International Film Festival, Northwest Folklife over the Memorial Day weekend, numerous Seafair events throughout July and August (ranging from a Bon Odori celebration to the Seafair Cup hydroplane races), the Bite of Seattle, one of the largest Gay Pride festivals in the United States, and the art and music festival Bumbershoot, which programs music as well as other art and entertainment over the Labor Day weekend.


Premise: Who replaced Derby after his resignation?

Hypothesis: Derby resigned in 1868, to be replaced by Benjamin Disraeli, who charmed Victoria.


Premise: At what milestone was the archive made public?

Hypothesis: When the archive reached its fifth anniversary, it was unveiled and opened to the public in a ceremony at the University of California, Berkeley.


Premise: Where did Avicenna think Venus was in relation to the sun?

Hypothesis: He claimed to have observed Venus as a spot on the Sun.


Premise: Which magazine interviewed Brian May about Live Aid?

Hypothesis: When interviewed for Mojo magazine the band said the most amazing sight at Live Aid was to see the audience clapping to "Radio Ga Ga".


Premise: According to Mendelian inheritance, what is part of the cause of variations in an organism's phenotype?

Hypothesis: According to Mendelian inheritance, variations in an organism's phenotype (observable physical and behavioral characteristics) are due in part to variations in its genotype (particular set of genes).


Premise: What is a "grand" sometimes shortened to?

Hypothesis: The dollar has also been, referred to as a "bone" and "bones" in plural (e.g. "twenty bones" is equal to $20).


Premise: What is one material used in electrical-excitation?

Hypothesis: The structure of QD-LEDs used for the electrical-excitation scheme is similar to basic design of OLEDs.


Premise: What is speed limit for railways?

Hypothesis: Railways must operate at variable speeds.


Premise: What was the main reason Sanjaya garnered such attention?

Hypothesis: However, on April 18, Sanjaya was voted off.


Premise: Till what year did Ptolemy's family rule Egypt?

Hypothesis: Ptolemy's family ruled Egypt until the Roman conquest of 30 BC.


Premise: What percent of apartments are seasonal apartments?

Hypothesis: In 2000[update], a total of 65,538 apartments (90.6% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 5,352 apartments (7.4%) were seasonally occupied and 1,444 apartments (2.0%) were empty.


Premise: Who did samurai wives have to take care of?

Hypothesis: Confucian law, which helped define personal relationships and the code of ethics of the warrior class required that a woman show subservience to her husband, filial piety to her parents, and care to the children.


Premise: What year was the Battle of Bloody Ridge?

Hypothesis: October–25 November 1952), the Battle of Hill Eerie (21 March–21 June 1952), the sieges of Outpost Harry (10–18 June 1953), the Battle of the Hook (28–29 May 1953), the Battle of Pork Chop Hill (23 March–16 July 1953), and the Battle of Kumsong (13–27 July 1953).


Premise: What is the name of the stadium

Hypothesis: Two other buildings were constructed around the Nieuw Galgenwaard stadium (2007).


Premise: What language  is parlo or temo ?

Hypothesis: In verbs, 1st person present indicative desinence is -o, -i or ∅ in all conjugations.


Premise: What type of policy was the focus of Eisenhower's inaugural address?

Hypothesis: His inaugural address, as well, was exclusively devoted to foreign policy and included this same philosophy, as well as a commitment to foreign trade and the United Nations.


Premise: By what name is Mary referred to in the Qur'an?

Hypothesis: It mentions how Mary was informed by an angel that she would become the mother of Jesus through the actions of God alone.


Premise: How many planning districts make up Philadelphia?

Hypothesis: The zoning changes were intended to rectify incorrect zoning mapping that would streamline future community preferences and development, which the city forecasts an additional 100,000 residents and 40,000 jobs to be added to Philadelphia in 2035.


Premise: What was the title of the first book printed in France?

Hypothesis: The first book printed in France, Epistolae ("Letters"), by Gasparinus de Bergamo (Gasparino da Barzizza), was published in Paris in 1470 by the press established by Johann Heynlin.


Premise: The concern was over what in China and Tibet?

Hypothesis: On April 1, 2008, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved a resolution addressing human rights concerns when the Beijing Olympic torch arrives in San Francisco on April 9.


Premise: What does the Omni processor do

Hypothesis: The aim of the "Omni Processor" is to convert excreta (for example fecal sludge) into beneficial products such as energy and soil nutrients with the potential to develop local business and revenue.


Premise: Where was the FIFA World Cup able to be watched in HDTV?

Hypothesis: The matches were shown in 8 cinemas in Italy and 2 in Spain.


Premise: What college was the forerunner for the engineering faculty at the University of Tokyo?

Hypothesis: In Japan, an institute of technology (工業大学, kōgyō daigaku?) is a type of university that specializes in the sciences.


Premise: Declaration that decrees are not severe was done by who?

Hypothesis: Benedict XIV (De synodo diœces., l. II, c.


Premise: Analysis by what organization detailed that municipality-based rankings may be inaccurate?

Hypothesis: The research organization called for comparisons based on neighborhoods, blocks, or standard methodologies (similar to those used by Brookings, DiversityData, and other established institutions), not based on municipalities.


Premise: What is the name of the son of Chen Zheng?

Hypothesis: In 677 (during the reign of Emperor Gaozong), Chen Zheng (陳政), together with his son Chen Yuanguang (陳元光), led a military expedition to pacify the rebellion in Fujian.


Premise: Who was the municipality's first mayor?

Hypothesis: The municipality's first mayor (1909–1911) was Daniel Muñoz.


Premise: John treated Hugh with what?

Hypothesis: Rather than negotiating some form of compensation, John treated Hugh "with contempt"; this resulted in a Lusignan uprising that was promptly crushed by John, who also intervened to suppress Raoul in Normandy.


Premise: What did the state economic system hope to avoid?

Hypothesis: The ultimate aim was to increase the state revenues without damaging the prosperity of subjects to prevent the emergence of social disorder and to keep the traditional organization of the society intact.


Premise: How can DC motor turn universal?

Hypothesis: DC commutating electric motors, if fitted with laminated pole pieces, become universal motors because they can also operate on AC; reversing the current in both stator and rotor does not reverse the motor.


Premise: Who is the monarch that has some of the most impressive built in their honor in the Myanmar

Hypothesis: Hanthawaddy monarchs introduced religious reforms that later spread to the rest of the country.


Premise: In what year did the Treaty of Berlin occur?

Hypothesis: Nevertheless, in 1881, Thessaly and small parts of Epirus were ceded to Greece as part of the Treaty of Berlin, while frustrating Greek hopes of receiving Crete.


Premise: In what year did Emperor Wu of Han's reign end?

Hypothesis: The ultimate Han victory in these wars eventually forced the Xiongnu to accept vassal status as Han tributaries.


Premise: Nigeria is a 'standard-bearer' in what international group?

Hypothesis: Nigeria was also a founding member of the Organisation for African Unity (now the African Union), and has tremendous influence in West Africa and Africa on the whole.


Premise: In 2010, what percent of Alaska's population did not live in a city or CDP?

Hypothesis: Of Alaska's 2010 Census population figure of 710,231, 20,429 people, or 2.88% of the population, did not live in an incorporated city or census-designated place.


Premise: Overdependence on oil income led to the fall of what form of government in Nigeria?

Hypothesis: That spelled doom to federalism in Nigeria.


Premise: Unlike most religions, Buddhism has no single central what?

Hypothesis: Other scholars say there is no universally accepted common core.


Premise: What event occured that automatically ranked Bermuda as the oldest remaining British Overseas Territory?

Hypothesis: Since the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997, it is the most populous Territory.


Premise: What happened to Libya's laws as a result of the first point of Gaddafi's speech?

Hypothesis: The fourth point announced that the population must form People's Committees and be armed to defend the revolution, while the fifth proclaimed the beginning of a cultural revolution to expunge Libya of "poisonous" foreign influences.


Premise: What feature did the safety elevator display?

Hypothesis: The design of the Otis safety elevator is somewhat similar to one type still used today.


Premise: What are three things the new movements try to achieve?

Hypothesis: Concurrently, the recent movements of New Urbanism, Metaphoric architecture and New Classical Architecture promote a sustainable approach towards construction, that appreciates and develops smart growth, architectural tradition and classical design.


Premise: What new genre di John Field invent?

Hypothesis: He essentially established a new genre with his own set of free-standing preludes (Op.


Premise: What two women were said to be obsessed by "mania?"

Hypothesis: Plato describes the priestesses of Delphi and Dodona as frenzied women, obsessed by "mania" (μανία, "frenzy"), a Greek word he connected with mantis (μάντις, "prophet").


Premise: where does T5 run?

Hypothesis: Five new light rail lines are currently in various stages of development.


Premise: What entity makes the defining formula for the HDI well-known?

Hypothesis: The formula defining the HDI is promulgated by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).


Premise: Orthodox Jewish groups reject what precedent?

Hypothesis: The Orthodox Jewish movements consider all non-Orthodox Jewish movements to be unacceptable deviations from authentic Judaism; both because of other denominations' doubt concerning the verbal revelation of Written and Oral Torah, and because of their rejection of Halakhic precedent as binding.


Premise: Whose work, Canzoniere, is considered to be the first example of modern lyric poetry?

Hypothesis: The application of the vernacular did not entail a rejection of Latin, and both Dante and Boccaccio wrote prolifically in Latin as well as Italian, as would Petrarch later (whose Canzoniere also promoted the vernacular and whose contents are considered the first modern lyric poems).


Premise: What is the two step process?

Hypothesis: The "sons" made during a "three-step" electroforming make better stampers since they don't require silver removal (which reduces some high fidelity because of etching erasing part of the smallest groove modulations) and also because they have a stronger metal structure than "fathers".


Premise: There are two types of sleep called what?

Hypothesis: There are two types of sleep: REM sleep (with dreaming) and NREM (non-REM, usually without dreaming) sleep, which repeat in slightly varying patterns throughout a sleep episode.


Premise: What does the abbreviation STOIC stand for?

Hypothesis: The department had bought an early AMPEX Type A 1-inch videotape recorder and this was used to produce an occasional short news programme which was then played to students by simply moving the VTR and a monitor into a common room.


Premise: What American carrier joined the USS Yorktown to stop the Japanese attack on Port Moresby in 1942?

Hypothesis: They discovered an attack was planned against Port Moresby; if it fell, Japan would control the seas to the north and west of Australia and could isolate the country.


Premise: What newspaper was founded by Express Newspaper?

Hypothesis: The Daily Star had been launched in 1978 by Express Newspaper, and by 1981 had begun to affect sales of The Sun.


Premise: Who won the Al-Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights in 1989?

Hypothesis: Also in 1989, the government founded the Al-Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights, to be awarded to figures from the Third World who had struggled against colonialism and imperialism; the first year's winner was South African anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela.


Premise: In what century is it believed that delegations of Moors began to influence western works by the likes of Shakespeare?

Hypothesis: The Moors also had a noticeable influence on the works of George Peele and William Shakespeare.


Premise: The Interchurch Center is the start of which street?

Hypothesis: 120th Street traverses the neighborhoods of Morningside Heights, Harlem, and Spanish Harlem.


Premise: According to the Association of Religion Data in 2010, what percentage of Alaskans are members of a relgious congregation?

Hypothesis: Alaska has been identified, along with Pacific Northwest states Washington and Oregon, as being the least religious states of the USA, in terms of church membership.