Premise: What have general been prudent about?

Hypothesis: Except for some extreme metaphrasers in the early Christian period and the Middle Ages, and adapters in various periods (especially pre-Classical Rome, and the 18th century), translators have generally shown prudent flexibility in seeking equivalents — "literal" where possible, paraphrastic where necessary — for the original meaning and other crucial "values" (e.g., style, verse form, concordance with musical accompaniment or, in films, with speech articulatory movements) as determined from context.


Premise: What was the name of the film that the two finalists made together?

Hypothesis: Both Clarkson and Guarini made a musical film, From Justin to Kelly, which was released in 2003 but was widely panned.


Premise: Who wanted to know the moment an anti-german bloc was to form?

Hypothesis: On June 16, as the Soviets invaded Lithuania, but before they had invaded Latvia and Estonia, Ribbentrop instructed his staff "to submit a report as soon as possible as to whether in the Baltic States a tendency to seek support from the Reich can be observed or whether an attempt was made to form a bloc."


Premise: What was the name of the Native Americans that sold them the land?

Hypothesis: The Quinnipiacs, who were under attack by neighboring Pequots, sold their land to the settlers in return for protection.


Premise: Which theory does the relativity depart from?

Hypothesis: As such the covariance group of the general theory of relativity is just the covariance group of every theory.


Premise: Who was Songtsan Gampo's first wife?

Hypothesis: In 640 he married Princess Wencheng, the niece of the powerful Chinese emperor Taizong of Tang China.


Premise: The Soviet, N1 Rocket exploded and was destroyed on what date?

Hypothesis: The launch pad explosion of the N-1 on July 3, 1969 was a significant setback.


Premise: Who partitioned Nagorno-Karabakh from Armenia?

Hypothesis: Tensions also developed between Soviet Azerbaijan and its autonomous district of Nagorno-Karabakh, a majority-Armenian region separated by Stalin from Armenia in 1923.


Premise: In what year did Gaddafi found the Jamahiriya?

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


Premise: What releases formaldehyde?

Hypothesis: A resin used for making non-wrinkle shirts releases formaldehyde, which could cause contact dermatitis for some people; no disclosure requirements exist, and in 2008 the U.S. Government Accountability Office tested formaldehyde in clothing and found that generally the highest levels were in non-wrinkle shirts and pants.


Premise: What news company  discovered visual evidence of the disdain exhibited by civil employees and civilians in Burma ?

Hypothesis: The footage was filmed by members of the Burmese police force in the town of Meiktila and was used as evidence that Buddhists continued to kill Muslims after the European Union sanctions were lifted on 23 April 2013.


Premise: Which year marked the start of the private automobile's popularity increase?

Hypothesis: Melbourne is typical of Australian capital cities in that after the turn of the 20th century, it expanded with the underlying notion of a 'quarter acre home and garden' for every family, often referred to locally as the Australian Dream.


Premise: What was the name of the doctrine that separated church and non-religious affairs?

Hypothesis: Luther's doctrine of the priesthood of all believers upgraded the role of laymen in the church considerably.


Premise: What are copper salts sometimes used for?

Hypothesis: Gram quantities of various copper salts have been taken in suicide attempts and produced acute copper toxicity in humans, possibly due to redox cycling and the generation of reactive oxygen species that damage DNA.


Premise: How many core functions did the Air Force reduce its duties down to recently?

Hypothesis: Recently, the Air Force refined its understanding of the core duties and responsibilities it performs as a Military Service Branch, streamlining what previously were six distinctive capabilities and seventeen operational functions into twelve core functions to be used across the doctrine, organization, training, equipment, leadership, and education, personnel, and facilities spectrum.


Premise: How did Libya's gross domestic product increase from 1969 to 1979?

Hypothesis: In turn, the Libyans' standard of life greatly improved over the first decade of Gaddafi's administration, and by 1979 the average per-capita income was at $8,170, up from $40 in 1951; this was above the average of many industrialized countries like Italy and the U.K.


Premise: What did the Royal Charter give to the Stationers' Company of London?

Hypothesis: Prior to the Statute of Anne in 1710, the Stationers' Company of London in 1557, received a Royal Charter giving the company a monopoly on publication and tasking it with enforcing the charter.


Premise: Along with classic R&B, what genre is notably featured on soft AC stations?

Hypothesis: Soft AC, which has never minded keeping songs in high rotation literally for years in some cases, does not appear necessarily to be facing similar pressures to expand its format.


Premise: What kind of marketing budgets do NPOs usually have?

Hypothesis: Many nonprofit organizations find it difficult to create consistent messaging that resonates with their various stakeholders as marketing budgets are minimal or nonexistent.


Premise: What types of services will be offered by the BeiDou system?

Hypothesis: There are two levels of service provided — a free service to civilians and licensed service to the Chinese government and military.


Premise: What is date of the Battle of Swienta?

Hypothesis: After the decline of the Teutonic Order following its defeat in the Battle of Grunwald in 1410, and the defeat of the Livonian Order in the Battle of Swienta on 1 September 1435, the Livonian Confederation Agreement was signed on 4 December 1435.


Premise: What is a term for pubs that serve restaurant-quality food?

Hypothesis: Some pubs serve meals to a higher standard, to match good restaurant standards; these are sometimes termed gastropubs.


Premise: All entities, being unable to predict behavior, are because of what?

Hypothesis: Moreover, inability to predict an electron's movement (for instance) is not due to faulty understanding or inadequate technology; rather, the fundamental creativity/freedom of all entities means that there will always remain phenomena that are unpredictable.


Premise: What was the amount of the production loan Universal sought to complete Show Boat?

Hypothesis: They would not allow production to start on Show Boat unless the Laemmles obtained a loan.


Premise: What percentage of MCA/Universal did Matsushita Electric sell five years after acquiring the company?

Hypothesis: Matsushita provided a cash infusion, but the clash of cultures was too great to overcome, and five years later Matsushita sold an 80% stake in MCA/Universal to Canadian drinks distributor Seagram for $5.7 billion.


Premise: What department store chain did Hudson's Bay Company own until it dissolved in 2013?

Hypothesis: From its origins in the fur trade, the Hudson's Bay Company is the oldest corporation in North America and was the largest department store operator in Canada until the mid-1980s, with locations across the country.


Premise: What department does the Computer Emergency Readiness Team belong to?

Hypothesis: In 2014, the Computer Emergency Readiness Team, a division of the Department of Homeland Security, investigated 79 hacking incidents at energy companies.


Premise: How was Whitehead's theory of gravitation received?

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


Premise: What is the most authoritative classification in use today?

Hypothesis: Jared Diamond describes an "Evil Quartet" of habitat destruction, overkill, introduced species, and secondary extinctions.


Premise: What is the most popular variety of bariis?

Hypothesis: Varieties of bariis (rice), the most popular probably being basmati, usually serve as the main dish.


Premise: How many hours of community service must a student perform in order to be eligible for the New Haven Promise scholarship?

Hypothesis: Students must be enrolled in a public high school (charters included) for four years, be a resident of the city during that time, carry a 3.0 cumulative grade-point average, have a 90-percent attendance rate and perform 40 hours of service to the city.


Premise: What percentage of students were admitted to Notre Dame in fall 2015?

Hypothesis: Notre Dame is known for its competitive admissions, with the incoming class enrolling in fall 2015 admitting 3,577 from a pool of 18,156 (19.7%).


Premise: What is the motto of the New York City Fire Department?

Hypothesis: The New York City Fire Department is the largest municipal fire department in the United States and the second largest in the world after the Tokyo Fire Department.


Premise: Were the szlachta obscure and mysterious or obvious and proud.

Hypothesis: The origins of the szlachta are shrouded in obscurity and mystery and have been the subject of a variety of theories.:207 Traditionally, its members were owners of landed property, often in the form of "manor farms" or so-called folwarks.


Premise: What state is represented by the UO2+ 2 ion?

Hypothesis: The UO2+_2 ion represents the uranium(VI) state and is known to form compounds such as uranyl carbonate, uranyl chloride and uranyl sulfate.


Premise: What did Alexis Bouvard study?

Hypothesis: In 1843, John Couch Adams began work on the orbit of Uranus using the data he had.


Premise: What age ranges does Finnish comprehensive school cover?

Hypothesis: Finland has used comprehensive schools since the 1970s, in the sense that everyone is expected to complete the nine grades of peruskoulu, from the age 7 to 16.


Premise: What type of establishment was Wan Mee?

Hypothesis: This success brought an influx of new residents with a population increase within city limits of almost 50,000 between 1990 and 2000, and saw Seattle's real estate become some of the most expensive in the country.


Premise: Who was executed by the federal government on March 18, 2003?

Hypothesis: The Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana is currently the home of the only death chamber for federal death penalty recipients in the United States, where inmates are put to death by lethal injection.


Premise: The term for whole numbers is what?

Hypothesis: An ALU may also compare numbers and return boolean truth values (true or false) depending on whether one is equal to, greater than or less than the other ("is 64 greater than 65?").


Premise: When is the Korean dog recipe usually eaten?

Hypothesis: While the dishes are still popular in Korea with a segment of the population, dog is not as widely consumed as beef, chicken, and pork.


Premise: Which kinds of birds land for a few days before resuming migration?

Hypothesis: They land in the morning and may feed for a few days before resuming their migration.


Premise: Who's authority did Truman want to increase throughout the states?

Hypothesis: According to his speech, America had "reached a turning point in the long history of our country's efforts to guarantee freedom and equality to all our citizens…


Premise: What was the governing body of the Hindu states?

Hypothesis: Mantranga, the principal governing body of these states, consisted of the King, Prime Minister, Commander in chief of army, Chief Priest of the King.


Premise: During the Revolutionary War, which French colony had moved towards political independence?

Hypothesis: Saint-Domingue had managed to acquire a high level of political autonomy during the Revolutionary Wars, with Toussaint Louverture installing himself as de facto dictator by 1801.


Premise: What was the import level of Sichuan in 2008?

Hypothesis: These achievements were accomplished because of significant changes in China's foreign trade policy, acceleration of the yuan's appreciation, increase of commercial incentives and increase in production costs.


Premise: Which six universities were the most renowned in northern Europe?

Hypothesis: In other parts of Europe, the universities and schools of France and most of Europe were bastions of traditionalism and were not hospitable to the Enlightenment.


Premise: What supports UNFPA's work?

Hypothesis: UNFPA is the world's largest multilateral source of funding for population and reproductive health programs.


Premise: What models imply that changes in diversity are guided by a first-order positive feedback?

Hypothesis: The latter models imply that changes in diversity are guided by a first-order positive feedback (more ancestors, more descendants) and/or a negative feedback arising from resource limitation.


Premise: The duties of its grades is an example of what historic documents?

Hypothesis: Since the middle of the 19th century, Masonic historians have sought the origins of the movement in a series of similar documents known as the Old Charges, dating from the Regius Poem in about 1425 to the beginning of the 18th century.


Premise: What does the tree live on?

Hypothesis: and, in the past, by the American chestnut (Castanea dentata).


Premise: What fluids are in Neptune's interior?

Hypothesis: In comparing the magnetic fields of the two planets, scientists now think the extreme orientation may be characteristic of flows in the planets' interiors.


Premise: Is usage of the royal assent frequent or rare in today's societies?

Hypothesis: While the power to withhold royal assent was once exercised often in European monarchies, it is exceedingly rare in the modern, democratic political atmosphere that has developed there since the 18th century.


Premise: Different things could affect what with the shell?

Hypothesis: In this method when the sights were on the target, the barrel was pointed at the target's future position.


Premise: In addition to ground service, what other function is available at the Port of New Haven for offloading truck cargo?

Hypothesis: The port has the capacity to load 200 trucks a day from the ground or via loading docks.


Premise: Which version of iTunes was introduced with the ability to purchase games?

Hypothesis: In September 2006, the iTunes Store began to offer additional games for purchase with the launch of iTunes 7, compatible with the fifth generation iPod with iPod software 1.2 or later.


Premise: What are the two examples give for justifications and values for occupational choices?

Hypothesis: "The process by which people arrive at justifications of and values for various occupational choices."


Premise: Ancient Greece is considered to be where what was born?

Hypothesis: This ushered in a period known as the Greek Dark Ages, from which written records are absent.


Premise: What rules did a German derivatives dealer say could be quite legally circumvented through swaps?

Hypothesis: According to Der Spiegel, credits given to European governments were disguised as "swaps" and consequently did not get registered as debt because Eurostat at the time ignored statistics involving financial derivatives.


Premise: What do the costumes worn by the revelers pun about?

Hypothesis: Revelers dress in costumes embodying puns on current affairs, especially political and social events.


Premise: Who compromised hundreds of airdrops?

Hypothesis: Through him the CIA coordinated hundreds of airdrops inside the iron curtain, all compromised by Philby.


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

Hypothesis: International relations theorists have posited that great power status can be characterized into power capabilities, spatial aspects, and status dimensions.


Premise: Which two Protestant churches, along with the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches, believe that Mary is the Mother of God?

Hypothesis: Mary had been venerated since Early Christianity, and is considered by millions to be the most meritorious saint of the religion.


Premise: Where did one of the massacres occur?

Hypothesis: One of the massacres occurred in the town of Bissorã.


Premise: What rebellion began in January of 2012?

Hypothesis: In January 2012 a Tuareg rebellion began in Northern Mali, led by the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad.


Premise: How long were 5th generation iPods marketed as being able to function before needing to be charged?

Hypothesis: For example, the fifth generation 30 GB iPod is advertised as having up to 14 hours of music playback.


Premise: What was the final score of England's last match of the 1970 FIFA World Cup?

Hypothesis: England had been 2–0 up, but were eventually beaten 3–2 after extra time.


Premise: How many families lived in Raleigh in 2000?

Hypothesis: The population density was 2,409.2 people per square mile (930.2/km²).


Premise: In what decade did Philips produce a "professional" LD model for computer?

Hypothesis: In the early 1980s, Philips produced a LaserDisc player model adapted for a computer interface, dubbed "professional".


Premise: What type of organisms exist and injure tissue in infected wounds?

Hypothesis: The difference between an infection and a colonization is often only a matter of circumstance. Non-pathogenic organisms can become pathogenic given specific conditions, and even the most virulent organism requires certain circumstances to cause a compromising infection.


Premise: What is a key difference between the ARB and Royal Institute?

Hypothesis: RIBA Visiting Boards continue to assess courses for exemption from the RIBA's examinations in architecture.


Premise: What century is U.S. regulations dates from?

Hypothesis: Many hunting groups also participate in lobbying the federal government and state government.


Premise: What is the penalty for a time count on the first two downs?

Hypothesis: Instead of the penalty being 5 yards with the down repeated, the base penalty (except during convert attempts) becomes loss of down on first or second down, and 10 yards on third down with the down repeated.


Premise: What other types of language have the phonological analysis principles been applied to?

Hypothesis: The principles of phonological analysis can be applied independently of modality because they are designed to serve as general analytical tools, not language-specific ones.


Premise: What type of project has been started to rebuild the reefs at Tuvalu?

Hypothesis: The project of the Japan International Cooperation Agency is designed to increase the resilience of the Tuvalu coast against sea level rise through ecosystem rehabilitation and regeneration and through support for sand production.


Premise: Who is the CCO of Sony Music?

Hypothesis: Davis is still with Sony Music as Chief Creative Officer.


Premise: What quip was used to describe Eisenhower's cabinet?

Hypothesis: Due to a complete estrangement between the two as a result of campaigning, Truman and Eisenhower had minimal discussions about the transition of administrations.


Premise: What were some provincial governors in enforcement of the Roman edicts?

Hypothesis: In some cases and in some places the edicts were strictly enforced: some Christians resisted and were imprisoned or martyred.


Premise: What was the part of wire in Phase Break sections an arc being drawn from one wire to another?

Hypothesis: To prevent the risk of an arc being drawn across from one section of wire to earth, when passing through the neutral section, the train must be coasting and the circuit breakers must be open.


Premise: Such forms are not used by whom?

Hypothesis: Clergy of the Church of England or the Church of Scotland do not use the title Sir or Dame as they do not receive the accolade (i.e., they are not dubbed "knight" with a sword), although they do append the post-nominal letters.


Premise: Where did Martin Luther preach a sermon on Marian devotion a month before his death?

Hypothesis: His final thoughts on Marian devotion and veneration are preserved in a sermon preached at Wittenberg only a month before his death:


Premise: Where was Charles VII from?

Hypothesis: Charles VII of France ordered his chamberlain to climb Mont Aiguille in 1356.


Premise: What processors are used by the current Mac product family?

Hypothesis: The current Mac product family uses Intel x86-64 processors.


Premise: What was the artificially low limit on bulb life placed by the cartel?

Hypothesis: Since the value of the electric power they consume is much more than the value of the lamp, general service lamps emphasize efficiency over long operating life.


Premise: What does the acronym CCFL refer to?

Hypothesis: Incandescent bulbs have been replaced in many applications by other types of electric light, such as fluorescent lamps, compact fluorescent lamps (CFL), cold cathode fluorescent lamps (CCFL), high-intensity discharge lamps, and light-emitting diode lamps (LED).


Premise: Which team had no losses in 2003-2004 and ended up winning the league?

Hypothesis: In May 2008 Kevin Keegan stated that "Big Four" dominance threatened the division, "This league is in danger of becoming one of the most boring but great leagues in the world."


Premise: What philosophy did Price support?

Hypothesis: Instead, Price asserted that Englishmen should see themselves "more as citizens of the world than as members of any particular community".


Premise: The British Government agrree to extend the licensed for the company in India until 1793 for how much money

Hypothesis: Between 1756 and 1763, the Seven Years' War diverted the state's attention towards consolidation and defence of its territorial possessions in Europe and its colonies in North America.


Premise: What does NATO ascribe naval air defence as?

Hypothesis: NATO refers to airborne air defence as counter-air and naval air defence as anti-aircraft warfare.


Premise: Which trophy goes to the Canadian Interuniversity Sport football champion?

Hypothesis: The Quebec Junior Football League includes teams from Ontario and Quebec who battle for the Manson Cup.


Premise: Where was Bethea hanged?

Hypothesis: All of the executions which have taken place since the 1936 hanging of Bethea in Owensboro have been conducted within a wall or enclosure.


Premise: When did the decolonization of the Americas begin?

Hypothesis: Decolonization began with a series of revolutions in the late 18th and early-to-mid-19th centuries.


Premise: What did Boas' argue against?

Hypothesis: This has been particularly prominent in the United States, from Boas' arguments against 19th-century racial ideology, through Margaret Mead's advocacy for gender equality and sexual liberation, to current criticisms of post-colonial oppression and promotion of multiculturalism.


Premise: What does a description of a wanted individual include beyond their racial category?

Hypothesis: Thus, in addition to assigning a wanted individual to a racial category, such a description will include: height, weight, eye color, scars and other distinguishing characteristics.


Premise: Whom did Queen eventually sign with after rejecting the Swan Song records contract?

Hypothesis: Grant wanted them to sign with Led Zeppelin's own production company, Swan Song Records.


Premise: Where did Lee attend college?

Hypothesis: She attended Huntingdon College in Montgomery (1944–45), and then studied law at the University of Alabama (1945–49).


Premise: Where is Ireland's Supreme Court seated?

Hypothesis: The Supreme Court is the highest court in Ireland.


Premise: What author espoused the theory of the "pristine unconscious?"

Hypothesis: The theory suggests that human beings possess a nature within them that demonstrates their true “self” and it suggests that the fulfillment of this nature is the reason for living.


Premise: When did the 360 surrender its lead in total sales?

Hypothesis: In the US, the Xbox 360 was the leader in current-generation home console sales until June 2008, when it was surpassed by the Wii.


Premise: Who was mayor of New York during the Great Depression?

Hypothesis: The metropolitan area surpassed the 10 million mark in the early 1930s, becoming the first megacity in human history.


Premise: Who was the Battle of Hakusukinoe against?

Hypothesis: Following the Battle of Hakusukinoe against Tang China and Silla in 663 AD that led to a Japanese retreat from Korean affairs, Japan underwent widespread reform.


Premise: What is the commissioner not allowed to vote on?

Hypothesis: The 110th Congress returned the Commissioner's power to vote in the Committee of the Whole, but not on matters where the vote would represent a decisive participation.


Premise: Where was the final battle between the French and British in North America?

Hypothesis: Although they took St. John's and raided nearby settlements, the French forces were eventually defeated by British troops at the Battle of Signal Hill.


Premise: Who said, "countries that aspire to strategic international influence have aircraft carriers"?

Hypothesis: Aircraft carriers may be classified according to the type of aircraft they carry and their operational assignments.


Premise: What is another term for kids who get preferential treatment due to their parents attending the same university?

Hypothesis: In the US, a prominent form of racial preferences relates to access to education, particularly admission to universities and other forms of higher education.


Premise: Where is the second FBI lab?

Hypothesis: The lab also maintains a second lab at the FBI Academy.


Premise: What color silk was used in Bell's coffin?

Hypothesis: Bell's coffin was constructed of Beinn Bhreagh pine by his laboratory staff, lined with the same red silk fabric used in his tetrahedral kite experiments.


Premise: Who was sent to Korea to act as an advisor to Kim Il-Sung?

Hypothesis: On 18 September, Stalin dispatched General H. M. Zakharov to Korea to advise Kim Il-sung to halt his offensive around the Pusan perimeter and to redeploy his forces to defend Seoul.


Premise: In what year was 78.26 rpm chosen as standard?

Hypothesis: In 1925, 78.26 rpm was chosen as the standard because of the introduction of the electrically powered synchronous turntable motor.


Premise: Which commercial company was LaserStack's most successful distributor?

Hypothesis: Commercially available stacks were also popular with the Voyager company being possibly the most successful distributor.


Premise: How do birds navigate and orient themselves during migration?

Hypothesis: The ability to navigate and orient themselves during migration is a much more complex phenomenon that may include both endogenous programs as well as learning.


Premise: What author claimed Schwarzenegger is power-obsessed?

Hypothesis: Schwarzenegger has said that it was never his intention to enter politics, but he says, "I married into a political family.


Premise: What did The United Nations name "The Trusteeship Of The Powerful"

Hypothesis: The United Kingdom, the United States, the Soviet Union and China were referred as a "trusteeship of the powerful" during the World War II  and were recognized as the Allied "Big Four" in Declaration by United Nations


Premise: What would verdigris do to other colors that it came in contact with?

Hypothesis: It produced a blue-green which no other pigment could imitate, but it had drawbacks; it was unstable, it could not resist dampness, it did not mix well with other colors, it could ruin other colors with which it came into contact., and it was toxic.


Premise: When did Russian language spread to the peasants?

Hypothesis: Until the 20th century, the language's spoken form was the language of only the upper noble classes and urban population, as Russian peasants from the countryside continued to speak in their own dialects.


Premise: What kind of bodies to insects have?

Hypothesis: Insects have segmented bodies supported by exoskeletons, the hard outer covering made mostly of chitin.


Premise: Some animals and reptiles native to Florida

Hypothesis: The American alligator, American crocodile, Florida panther, and manatee can be found in the Everglades National Park.


Premise: How many overseas territories remain under British sovereignty?

Hypothesis: Although the British Empire achieved its largest territorial extent immediately after World War I, Britain was no longer the world's pre-eminent industrial or military power.


Premise: What rule predicted narrow range of energy values at lower temperatures?

Hypothesis: To make Planck's law, which correctly predicts blackbody emissions, it was necessary to multiply the classical expression by a complex factor that involves h in both the numerator and the denominator.


Premise: How many government-owned public institutes of technology does Indonesia have?

Hypothesis: Other than that, there are hundreds other institute that owned by private or other institutions.


Premise: Did the glass industry have a preference for older working boys?

Hypothesis: Glass making was a dangerous and tough job especially without the current technologies.


Premise: On what developments was FLNG technology based?

Hypothesis: On 20 May 2011, Royal Dutch Shell's final investment decision for the world's first floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility was finalized following the discovery of the remote offshore Prelude field—located off Australia's northwestern coast and estimated to contain about 3 trillion cubic feet of natural gas equivalent reserves—in 2007.


Premise: Where did the moniker McCain-Feingold Bill come from?

Hypothesis: The 2004 election was the first to be affected by the campaign finance reforms mandated by the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (also known as the McCain–Feingold Bill for its sponsors in the United States Senate).


Premise: Where is the international art since 1871 displayed?

Hypothesis: International art (painting, sculpture, graphic arts) and decorative art since 1871 is displayed in the Musée d'art moderne et contemporain.


Premise: Who won the 2011 Caribbean championships?

Hypothesis: Bermuda u/19 team won the 2010 Caribbean Championships.


Premise: What was Darwin's response to the claims that certain animals could not have evolved through natural selection?

Hypothesis: Darwin proposed scenarios for the incremental evolution of each feature.


Premise: Along with soft rock, what type of music made up mainstream rock music in the late 1960s?

Hypothesis: Soft rock was often derived from folk rock, using acoustic instruments and putting more emphasis on melody and harmonies.


Premise: What is a prominent example of a movement which crosses over denominational lines?

Hypothesis: Evangelicalism is a prominent example.


Premise: What structure did the Nipponzan Myohoji decide to build in New Delhi in 2007?

Hypothesis: In 2007, the Japanese Buddhist organisation Nipponzan Myohoji decided to build a Peace Pagoda in the city containing Buddha relics.


Premise: When was 'Lectures on Pragmatism' published?

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


Premise: Developments in which revolution allowed consumer goods to be produced in greater quantities at lower prices?

Hypothesis: Literacy rates are difficult to gauge, but in France at least, the rates doubled over the course of the 18th century.


Premise: What is an important plural alternation?

Hypothesis: As in the other Western Romance languages, the main plural expression is the suffix -s, which may create morphological alternations similar to the ones found in gender inflection, albeit more rarely.


Premise: Between what years did the club hold spring training in Scottsdale, Arizona?

Hypothesis: New Orleans (1870, 1907, 1911–1912); Champaign, Illinois (1901–02, 1906); Los Angeles (1903–04, 1948–1949), Santa Monica, California (1905); French Lick, Indiana (1908, 1943–1945); Tampa, Florida (1913–1916); Pasadena, California (1917–1921); Santa Catalina Island, California (1922–1942, 1946–1947, 1950–1951); Rendezvous Park in Mesa (1952–1965); Blair Field in Long Beach, California (1966); and Scottsdale, Arizona (1967–1978).


Premise: How many primary school students are learning Dutch in Nord-Pas-de-Calais?

Hypothesis: As a foreign language, Dutch is mainly taught in primary and secondary schools in areas adjacent to the Netherlands and Flanders.


Premise: How many children were protected from death

Hypothesis: The foundation has donated billions of dollars to help sufferers of AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, protecting millions of children from death at the hands of preventable diseases.


Premise: During transmission does the electric field wave move closer to the antenna?

Hypothesis: Conversely, during reception, the oscillating electric and magnetic fields of an incoming radio wave exert force on the electrons in the antenna elements, causing them to move back and forth, creating oscillating currents in the antenna.


Premise: Where did Dell miss out on sales due to relying on the internet?

Hypothesis: Throughout the entire PC industry, declines in prices along with commensurate increases in performance meant that Dell had fewer opportunities to upsell to their customers (a lucrative strategy of encouraging buyers to upgrade the processor or memory).


Premise: What does Bushido mean?

Hypothesis: The term Bushidō, the "way of the warrior", is derived from this term and the mansion of a warrior was called bukeyashiki.


Premise: Which continent contains Tibet?

Hypothesis: It is the traditional homeland of the Tibetan people as well as some other ethnic groups such as Monpa, Qiang and Lhoba peoples and is now also inhabited by considerable numbers of Han Chinese and Hui people.


Premise: What is movement by ripples called?

Hypothesis: In species with incomplete septa or none, the blood circulates through the main body cavity without any kind of pump, and there is a wide range of locomotory techniques – some burrowing species turn their pharynges inside out to drag themselves through the sediment.


Premise: What cities house several important Jewish archaelogical sites?

Hypothesis: Several important Jewish archaeological and historical sites are found in Cairo, Alexandria and other cities.


Premise: What did Nakamura, Akasaki, and Amano receive for their work?

Hypothesis: In parallel, Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano in Nagoya were working on developing the important GaN nucleation on sapphire substrates and the demonstration of p-type doping of GaN. Nakamura, Akasaki and Amano were awarded the 2014 Nobel prize in physics for their work.


Premise: What have studies found about women and their believed sexual orientations?

Hypothesis: A study of sexual arousal patterns found that women, when viewing erotic films which show female-female, male-male and male-female sexual activity (oral sex or penetration), have patterns of arousal which do not match their declared sexual orientations as well as men's.


Premise: What action did the Red Cross recommend ?

Hypothesis: The Red Cross Society of China also stated that the disaster areas need tents, medical supplies, drinking water and food; however it recommended donating cash instead of other items, as it had not been possible to reach roads that were completely damaged or places that were blocked off by landslides.


Premise: What often plays only a small part in the structure of a gene?

Hypothesis: These include DNA regions that are not transcribed as well as untranslated regions of the RNA.


Premise: Who was the President pro tempore of the Senate in 1801 that was native to New Haven?

Hypothesis: James Hillhouse, a New Haven native, served as President pro tempore of the United States Senate in 1801.


Premise: How many times between 1908 and 1925 was Gamper president?

Hypothesis: Club president on five separate occasions between 1908 and 1925, he spent 25 years in total at the helm.


Premise: the dominion act was passed in what year

Hypothesis: To allow for agricultural development of the Great Plains and house a growing population, the US passed the Homestead Acts of 1862: it allowed a settler to claim up to 160 acres (65 ha) of land, provided that he lived on it for a period of five years and cultivated it.


Premise: When did the Andronovo culture exist?

Hypothesis: 2000 BC.


Premise: How did the Mimamsa school consider dharma?

Hypothesis: They considered the Upanishads and other self-knowledge, spirituality-related texts to be of secondary importance, a philosophical view that the Vedanta school disagreed with.


Premise: In the Estonian language how is the letter A pronounced?

Hypothesis: It is almost identical to the Bulgarian


Premise: What was the first NES emulator?

Hypothesis: The first emulator was the Japanese-only Pasofami.


Premise: The National Philatelic Museum is located in which large Indian city?

Hypothesis: New Delhi is home to Indira Gandhi Memorial Museum, National Gallery of Modern Art, National Museum of Natural History, National Rail Museum, National Handicrafts and Handlooms Museum, National Philatelic Museum, Nehru Planetarium, Shankar's International Dolls Museum.


Premise: What were white Democratic paramilitary groups in Charleston known as?

Hypothesis: After former Confederates were allowed to vote again, election campaigns from 1872 on were marked by violent intimidation of blacks and Republicans by white Democratic paramilitary groups, known as the Red Shirts.


Premise: Who was Victoria's father?

Hypothesis: She inherited the throne aged 18, after her father's three elder brothers had all died, leaving no surviving legitimate children.


Premise: Who stopped attending Cabinet with the passage of the Ministry of Defence Act of 1946?

Hypothesis: The post was held by the Prime Minister of the day until Clement Attlee's government introduced the Ministry of Defence Act of 1946.


Premise: What does epigenetics study?

Hypothesis: Epigenetics is the study of mitotically and/or meiotically heritable changes in gene function that cannot be explained by changes in the underlying DNA sequence but cause the organism's genes to behave (or "express themselves") differently.


Premise: How much did crime in the country drop in 2009?

Hypothesis: While nationally crime decreased by 4% in 2009, the total crime rate in St. John's saw an increase of 4%.


Premise: For how long did Robert Walpole serve as prime minister?

Hypothesis: As a later prime minister, Lord Melbourne, said, "It matters not what we say, gentlemen, so long as we all say the same thing."


Premise: What is it called when someone wants to dissociate from the characteristics of significant others?

Hypothesis: However, the formation of one's identity occurs through one's identifications with significant others (primarily with parents and other individuals during one's biographical experiences, and also with "groups" as they are perceived).


Premise: What was the name of Lord Goring Garden?

Hypothesis: The next owner was Lord Goring, who from 1633 extended Blake's house and developed much of today's garden, then known as Goring Great Garden.


Premise: What was the name of the treaty that ended the war?

Hypothesis: This was welcomed by France and the UK, where the citizens began to turn against their governments as the war dragged on.


Premise: What place is Boston in for largest city in the US?

Hypothesis: Greater Boston as a commuting region is home to 8.1 million people, making it the sixth-largest combined statistical area in the United States.


Premise: Where are regulations codified into?

Hypothesis: Many statutes give executive branch agencies the power to create regulations, which are published in the Federal Register and codified into the Code of Federal Regulations.


Premise: How much did the Swiss economy grow in 2010?

Hypothesis: In recent years, the Swiss have brought their economic practices largely into conformity with those of the EU in many ways, in an effort to enhance their international competitiveness.


Premise: Water is diverted from rivers for what purpose?

Hypothesis: Furthermore, the decrease of glaciated areas combined with a succession of winters with lower-than-expected precipitation may have a future impact on the rivers in the Alps as well as an effect on the water availability to the lowlands.


Premise: What branch of physics might support a worldview similar to Platonic dualism?

Hypothesis: Plato was therefore a metaphysical and epistemological dualist, an outlook that modern idealism has striven to avoid: Plato's thought cannot therefore be counted as idealist in the modern sense, although quantum physics' assertion that man's consciousness is an immutable and primary requisite for not merely perceiving but shaping matter, and thus his reality, would give more credence to Plato's dualist position.[citation needed]


Premise: What did the Z3 operate for a clock frequency?

Hypothesis: Replacement of the hard-to-implement decimal system (used in Charles Babbage's earlier design) by the simpler binary system meant that Zuse's machines were easier to build and potentially more reliable, given the technologies available at that time.


Premise: Who tried to liberate the city in 1429?

Hypothesis: They repelled an attempt by Joan of Arc to liberate the city in 1429.


Premise: When a German bomber flew to close to its own beam what happened to the signal?

Hypothesis: If the German bomber flew closer to its own beam than the Meacon then the former signal would come through the stronger on the direction finder.


Premise: What kind of population does SURE service?

Hypothesis: Serving a population of more than 4,000, this single satellite link is considered inadequate in terms of bandwidth.


Premise: what countries is the Commission for Environmental Cooperation made up of?

Hypothesis: The Great Plains ecoregion includes five sub-regions: Temperate Prairies, West-Central Semi-Arid Prairies, South-Central Semi-Arid Prairies, Texas Louisiana Coastal Plains, and Tamaulipus-Texas Semi-Arid Plain, which overlap or expand upon other Great Plains designations.


Premise: What business provides banking services on Tuvalu?

Hypothesis: Banking services are provided by the National Bank of Tuvalu.


Premise: Which side of the road do vehicles on Cyprus drive on?

Hypothesis: Available modes of transport are by road, sea and air.


Premise: Where was the Cafe Procope established in 1686?

Hypothesis: The Café Procope was where Diderot and D'Alembert decided to create the Encyclopédie.


Premise: What company operates the ferries to East Cowes and Cowes?

Hypothesis: Two of these, a car ferry service and a fast catamaran passenger ferry service, provide links to East Cowes and Cowes respectively on the Isle of Wight and are operated by Red Funnel.


Premise: When was Chine's network security and information technology leadership team established?

Hypothesis: China's network security and information technology leadership team was established February 27, 2014.


Premise: What does the record-setting 35.6 degrees Celsius convert to in degrees Fahrenheit?

Hypothesis: Its southerly, low lying and sheltered location ensures it is among the warmer, sunnier cities in the UK.


Premise: Who wrote the most challenged section of the Act?

Hypothesis: Dr. Bertrand is credited with writing the most challenged section of the Act, the "takings" clause - Section 2.


Premise: The Ilkhans and Tumrids had what type of culture when ruling Iran?

Hypothesis: The Ilkhans and the Timurids soon came to adopt the ways and customs of the Iranians, choosing to surround themselves with a culture that was distinctively Iranian.


Premise: Beyonce is contributing to which food-donation campaign?

Hypothesis: Beyoncé is also taking part in "Miss a Meal", a food-donation campaign, and supporting Goodwill charity through online charity auctions at Charitybuzz that support job creation throughout Europe and the U.S.


Premise: What field did Muḥammad ibn Jābir al-Ḥarrānī al-Battānī contribute to?

Hypothesis: Heliocentric theories were also discussed by several other Muslim astronomers such as Al-Biruni, Al-Sijzi, Qotb al-Din Shirazi, and Najm al-Dīn al-Qazwīnī al-Kātibī.


Premise: What is unusual about the PVA's successful, surprise attack?

Hypothesis: The surprise assault resulted in the UN forces retreating back to the Ch'ongch'on River, while the Chinese unexpectedly disappeared into mountain hideouts following victory.


Premise: What did protesters scream during Tito's visit to the United Nations in the late 1970's?

Hypothesis: Security for the state visits was usually high to keep him away from protesters, who would frequently burn the Yugoslav flag.


Premise: Where were the sexual slave women mostly from?

Hypothesis: A widely publicised example of institutionalised sexual slavery are "comfort women", a euphemism for the 200,000 women, mostly from Korea and China, who served in the Japanese army's camps during World War II.


Premise: Who wanted to unite all of the Germans all over the area?

Hypothesis: The Nazis, led by Adolf Hitler, attempted to unite all the people they claimed were "Germans" (Volksdeutsche) into one realm, including ethnic Germans in eastern Europe, many of whom had emigrated more than one hundred fifty years before and developed separate cultures in their new lands.


Premise: What was the BBC's main competitor?

Hypothesis: The BBC Television Service (renamed "BBC tv" in 1960) showed popular programming, including drama, comedies, documentaries, game shows, and soap operas, covering a wide range of genres and regularly competed with ITV to become the channel with the highest ratings for that week.


Premise: When did the company release a trailer of the horseback riding aspect?

Hypothesis: In four months, Aonuma's team managed to present realistic horseback riding,[l] which Nintendo later revealed to the public with a trailer at Electronic Entertainment Expo 2004.


Premise: Endo received what award in 2008?

Hypothesis: Endo was awarded the 2006 Japan Prize, and the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award in 2008.


Premise: What are other common words that people may use for homosexual and heterosexual people?

Hypothesis: People may also use terms such as queer, pansensual, polyfidelitous, ambisexual, or personalized identities such as byke or biphilic.


Premise: What is the name of a publicly-available resource of KU related to community health?

Hypothesis: The Community Tool Box is a public service of the University maintained by the Work Group for Community Health and Development.


Premise: Do turntables play music on lock grooves?

Hypothesis: Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles, Super Trouper by Abba and Atom Heart Mother by Pink Floyd), the sound continues on the lock groove, which gives a strange repeating effect.


Premise: When did Kerry become a navy officer?

Hypothesis: After completing 16 weeks of Officer Candidate School at the U.S. Naval Training Center in Newport, Rhode Island, Kerry received his officer's commission on December 16, 1966.


Premise: How are stops distinguished?

Hypothesis: Stops are distinguished primarily by voicing, and voiceless stops are sometimes aspirated, while voiced stops are usually unaspirated.


Premise: How many students does the University of Fribourg have?

Hypothesis: Such is the Biblical school at Jerusalem, open to the religious of the order and to secular clerics, which publishes the Revue Biblique.


Premise: What did Spanish settlers introduce to Florida

Hypothesis: Both the Spanish and French established settlements in Florida, with varying degrees of success.


Premise: What was Albert Pike actually more of an expert in?

Hypothesis: His writings represented his personal opinion only, and furthermore an opinion grounded in the attitudes and understandings of late 19th century Southern Freemasonry of the USA.


Premise: How can a wrestler willingly submit?

Hypothesis: Occasionally, a wrestler will reach for a rope (see rope breaks below), only to put their hand back on the mat so they can crawl towards the rope some more; this is not a submission, and the referee decides what their intent is.


Premise: What would a PCB designer use heavy copper to make their circuit board resist?

Hypothesis: PCB designers and fabricators often use heavy copper when design and manufacturing circuit boards in order to increase current-carrying capacity as well as resistance to thermal strains.


Premise: What year was the Cambridge Agreement signed?

Hypothesis: In 1629, the Massachusetts Bay Colony's first governor, John Winthrop, led the signing of the Cambridge Agreement, a key founding document of the city.


Premise: What political party was Margaret Thatcher the head of in 1975?

Hypothesis: In February 1975, Margaret Thatcher was elected leader of the British Conservative Party.


Premise: What are the dominate plant species on Earth now?

Hypothesis: This is opposed to the earth's current flora, in which the dominant land plants in terms of number of species are angiosperms.


Premise: What direction has infant mortality rate taken?

Hypothesis: As a result of modernisation efforts over the years, Egypt's healthcare system has made great strides forward.


Premise: What was the HRF used with to set fuses?

Hypothesis: The British dealt with range measurement first, when it was realised that range was the key to producing a better fuse setting.


Premise: What subjects has John B. Cobb, Jr. written books on other than process theology?

Hypothesis: Franklin I. Gamwell writes on theology and political theory.


Premise: What forbid hunting in the woods with hounds and keeping hawks or falcons?

Hypothesis: says, "We forbid to all servants of God hunting and expeditions through the woods with hounds; and we also forbid them to keep hawks or falcons.


Premise: IS there evidence that parenting and/or childhood play a role in determining sexual orientation?

Hypothesis: Scientists do not know the exact cause of sexual orientation, but they believe that it is caused by a complex interplay of genetic, hormonal, and environmental influences.


Premise: What happens when frequency decreases in the bass?

Hypothesis: Conversely, in the bass as frequency decreased, recording amplitude increased.


Premise: How many US troops participated in the invasion?

Hypothesis: After approximately three weeks of fighting, Hussein and the Ba'ath Party were forcibly removed, followed by 9 years of military presence by the United States and the coalition fighting alongside the newly elected Iraqi government against various insurgent groups.


Premise: Where do comics usually appear?

Hypothesis: Comic strips are generally short, multipanel comics that traditionally most commonly appeared in newspapers.


Premise: Who became responsible in part for the editing of The New Humanist?

Hypothesis: Raymond B. Bragg, the associate editor of The New Humanist, sought to consolidate the input of Leon Milton Birkhead, Charles Francis Potter, and several members of the Western Unitarian Conference.


Premise: When did the Red Army fall back to the Parnu River?

Hypothesis: At the end of July the Germans resumed their advance in Estonia working in tandem with the Estonian Forest Brothers.


Premise: Who did the Ming appoint titles to?

Hypothesis: Yiu Yung-chin states that the furthest western extent of the Ming dynasty's territory was Gansu, Sichuan, and Yunnan while "the Ming did not possess Tibet."


Premise: Who repeats Aristotle's observations?

Hypothesis: Pliny the Elder, in his Historia Naturalis, repeats Aristotle's observations.


Premise: Two other major forms of nusach among Ashkenazic Jews are what?

Hypothesis: A nusach is defined by a liturgical tradition's choice of prayers, order of prayers, text of prayers and melodies used in the singing of prayers.


Premise: What year did Germany decide to try DST?

Hypothesis: Starting on 30 April 1916, Germany and its World War I ally Austria-Hungary were the first to use DST (German: Sommerzeit) as a way to conserve coal during wartime.


Premise: What is another name for a freight elevator?

Hypothesis: A freight elevator, or goods lift, is an elevator designed to carry goods, rather than passengers.


Premise: Investing capital can increase drug development costs by how much?

Hypothesis: Because of the very long time needed for discovery, development, and approval of pharmaceuticals, these costs can accumulate to nearly half the total expense.


Premise: How many evolutionary origins do short distance passerine migrants have?

Hypothesis: Short-distance passerine migrants have two evolutionary origins.


Premise: What type of geological event was feared could be caused by the morals of the emperor?

Hypothesis: If the emperor did not behave according to proper ritual, ethics, and morals, he could disrupt the fine balance of these cosmological cycles and cause calamities such as earthquakes, floods, droughts, epidemics, and swarms of locusts.


Premise: What was the birth year of King Mahendra?

Hypothesis: The Mahendra Museum is dedicated to king Mahendra of Nepal (1920–1972).


Premise: In 1934, what percentage of architects were members of professional organizations?

Hypothesis: Barnes commented that the Act's purpose was not protecting the architectural profession, and that the legitimate interests of the profession were best served by the (then) architectural associations in which some 80 per cent of those practising architecture were to be found.


Premise: What did the President think the telephone was, such that he refused to buy the patent?

Hypothesis: Two years later, he told colleagues that if he could get the patent for $25 million he would consider it a bargain.


Premise: What is one thing he wrote during this time?

Hypothesis: Through the influence of the Eusebian faction at Constantinople, an Arian bishop, George of Cappadocia, was now appointed to rule the see of Alexandria.


Premise: What is the school system praised for?

Hypothesis: Observers have praised the Wake County Public School System for its innovative efforts to maintain a socially, economically and racial balanced system by using income as a prime factor in assigning students to schools.


Premise: Name another example of a heavy isotope.

Hypothesis: Yet another example is that of a pendulum.


Premise: How much income was generated from research grants and contracts for 2013?

Hypothesis: In the financial year ended 31 July 2013, Imperial had a total net income of £822.0 million (2011/12 – £765.2 million) and total expenditure of £754.9 million (2011/12 – £702.0 million).


Premise: When was the battle of Gettysburg?

Hypothesis: The first Confederate soldier to be killed in the Civil War was Private Henry Wyatt from North Carolina, in the Battle of Big Bethel in June 1861.


Premise: When was the KInsey scale first published?

Hypothesis: The scale was developed to combat the assumption at the time that people are either heterosexual or homosexual and that these two types represent antitheses in the sexual world.


Premise: What major strike in 1934 damaged Seattle's maritime economy?

Hypothesis: Violence during the Maritime Strike of 1934 cost Seattle much of its maritime traffic, which was rerouted to the Port of Los Angeles.


Premise: How was the suit settled?

Hypothesis: It was settled out of court by her lawyers in June 2013 who said that they had cancelled because GateFive had lost its financial backers.


Premise: How did whitehead define "experience"?

Hypothesis: He used the term "experience" very broadly, so that even inanimate processes such as electron collisions are said to manifest some degree of experience.


Premise: What is the Glorious Twelfth in the UK?

Hypothesis: The open season for grouse in the UK begins on 12 August, the so-called Glorious Twelfth.


Premise: In 1835 where did Chopin and his parents visit?

Hypothesis: In July 1836 Chopin travelled to Marienbad and Dresden to be with the Wodziński family, and in September he proposed to Maria, whose mother Countess Wodzińska approved in principle.


Premise: The African Lodge re-titled itself what?

Hypothesis: Prince Hall Freemasonry exists because of the refusal of early American lodges to admit African-Americans.


Premise: What company was sued for promoting medicines for unlicensed uses and bribing doctors?

Hypothesis: On 2 July 2012, GlaxoSmithKline pleaded guilty to criminal charges and agreed to a $3 billion settlement of the largest health-care fraud case in the U.S. and the largest payment by a drug company.


Premise: Which judge denied Telewizja Polska's attempt to block the use of Internet Archive contents as evidence?

Hypothesis: Prior to the trial proceedings, EchoStar indicated that it intended to offer Wayback Machine snapshots as proof of the past content of Telewizja Polska's web site.


Premise: What name, besides springwood, is used for the part of a growth ring formed in the beginning of the growing season?

Hypothesis: If there are differences within a growth ring, then the part of a growth ring nearest the center of the tree, and formed early in the growing season when growth is rapid, is usually composed of wider elements.


Premise: What was the main allegation in The Sun's story on Contostavlos?

Hypothesis: The front page read: "Tulisa's cocaine deal shame"; this story was written by The Sun


Premise: One of the causes of the financial crisis was easier access to loans by this type borrower?

Hypothesis: The bursting of the U.S. (United States) housing bubble, which peaked in 2004, caused the values of securities tied to U.S. real estate pricing to plummet, damaging financial institutions globally.


Premise: Who was rookie of the year Runner-Up in 1989?

Hypothesis: In 1989, the first full season with night baseball at Wrigley Field, Don Zimmer's Cubs were led by a core group of veterans in Ryne Sandberg, Rick Sutcliffe and Andre Dawson, who were boosted by a crop of youngsters such as Mark Grace, Shawon Dunston, Greg Maddux, Rookie of the Year Jerome Walton, and Rookie of the Year Runner-Up Dwight Smith.


Premise: When was the second edition published?

Hypothesis: Kant says that it is not possible to infer the 'I' as an object (Descartes' cogito ergo sum) purely from "the spontaneity of thought".


Premise: Who first patented the process that creates an oxide usable in the retort process?

Hypothesis: He incorrectly thought he had discovered an ability of nerves and muscles to create electricity and called the effect "animal electricity".


Premise: What is a typical predator of dogs in places such as Turkmenistan?

Hypothesis: Leopards in particular are known to have a predilection for dogs, and have been recorded to kill and consume them regardless of the dog's size or ferocity.


Premise: What are gendarmerie?

Hypothesis: The term is most commonly associated with police services of a sovereign state that are authorized to exercise the police power of that state within a defined legal or territorial area of responsibility.


Premise: What was the first Baptist church in Canada?

Hypothesis: The church was established with the assistance of the New Light evangelist Henry Alline.


Premise: How many convergence criteria were there in the treaty?

Hypothesis: Greece met the criteria as shown in its 1999 annual public account.


Premise: What type of rich foods did people refrain from eating during Lent?

Hypothesis: During Lent, no parties or celebrations were held, and people refrained from eating rich foods, such as meat, dairy, fat and sugar.


Premise: What types of activities are granted rights in reserved forests?

Hypothesis: In reserved forests, rights to activities like hunting and grazing are sometimes given to communities living on the fringes of the forest, who sustain their livelihood partially or wholly from forest resources or products.


Premise: After the Romans conqured the British Isles what became the more common name for the country?

Hypothesis: The name Albion appears to have fallen out of use sometime after the Roman conquest of Great Britain, after which Britain became the more commonplace name for the island called Great Britain.


Premise: When was free agency scheduled to begin after the delay?

Hypothesis: Shortly thereafter, another press release announced that the draft would be held on December 9 and free agency would commence on December 11.


Premise: What district were the congressmen in 1898 from?

Hypothesis: It was not until after federal civil rights legislation was passed in the mid-1960s that the majority of blacks in North Carolina would again be able to vote, sit on juries and serve in local offices.


Premise: How many millions of years old were the plants that were discovered in New Brunswick?

Hypothesis: A 2011 discovery in the Canadian province of New Brunswick uncovered the earliest known plants to have grown wood, approximately 395 to 400 million years ago.


Premise: how much did 700 tons of saltpetre go for in the contract negotiated by Banks in 1673

Hypothesis: One governor of the company was even reported as saying in 1864 that he would rather have the saltpetre made than the tax on salt.


Premise: In what sport have judges been shown to favor athletes wearing red?

Hypothesis: Judges of tae kwon do have been shown to favor competitors wearing red protective gear over blue, and, when asked, a significant majority of people say that red abstract shapes are more "dominant", "aggressive", and "likely to win a physical competition" than blue shapes.


Premise: What was the first year in which a men's team played basketball at the University of Kansas?

Hypothesis: The KU men's basketball team has fielded a team every year since 1898.


Premise: What is the main effect of gender in Czech?

Hypothesis: With few exceptions, feminine nouns in the nominative case end in -a, -e, or -ost; neuter nouns in -o, -e, or -í, and masculine nouns in a consonant.


Premise: What theory did Erasmus Darwin outline in the 1790s?

Hypothesis: Charles Darwin's grandfather Erasmus Darwin outlined a hypothesis of transmutation of species in the 1790s, and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck published a more developed theory in 1809.


Premise: What has increased tourism to Tibet in recent years?

Hypothesis: However most of this investment goes to pay migrant workers who do not settle in Tibet and send much of their income home to other provinces.


Premise: Which area did Hammond develeop during his second term?

Hypothesis: The Tanana Valley is another notable agricultural locus, especially the Delta Junction area, about 100 miles (160 km) southeast of Fairbanks, with a sizable concentration of farms growing agronomic crops; these farms mostly lie north and east of Fort Greely.


Premise: The Avogadro constant is determined to be the ratio between what two factors in the X-ray crystal density method?

Hypothesis: The X-ray crystal density method is primarily a method for determining the Avogadro constant NA but as the Avogadro constant is related to the Planck constant it also determines a value for h.


Premise: What type of belief defines what is a major or minor doctrine?

Hypothesis: Most denominations share common beliefs in the major aspects of the Christian faith while differing in many secondary doctrines, although what is major and what is secondary is a matter of idiosyncratic belief.


Premise: When did Beijing agree to aid from Taiwan?

Hypothesis: Beijing accepted the aid of the Tzu Chi Foundation from Taiwan late on May 13.


Premise: What was the name of the hotel located at the corner of Illinois Avenue and the boardwalk?

Hypothesis: The hotel made use of ocean-facing hotel rooms by jutting its wings farther from the main portion of the hotel along Pacific Avenue.


Premise: What can be used to cancel a inductibe reactance or residual capacitative?

Hypothesis: On the other hand, the addition of a series inductance or parallel capacitance can be used to cancel a residual capacitative or inductive reactance, respectively.


Premise: What provides information to the SCN?

Hypothesis: The SCN receives information about illumination through the eyes.


Premise: What year was the North Carolina Symphony founded?

Hypothesis: In 1932, Raleigh Memorial Auditorium was dedicated.


Premise: Why 1kV voltage is almost always used by rail systems?

Hypothesis: Because transformers (prior to the development of power electronics) cannot step down DC voltages, trains were supplied with a relatively low DC voltage that the motors can use directly.


Premise: Why do bees sting even though it will kill them?

Hypothesis: Because of this, evolution selects against synnecrosis and it is uncommon in nature.


Premise: How long was the recovery of industrial cities from raids?

Hypothesis: The strategic impact on industrial cities was varied; most took from 10–15 days to recover from heavy raids, although Belfast and Liverpool took longer.


Premise: What hemisphere of stars did Edmond Halley want to study with the telescope?

Hypothesis: The site of this telescope is near Saint Mathew's Church in Hutt's Gate, in the Longwood district.


Premise: Who was Chairman of the Council of Ministers prior to Ryzhkov?

Hypothesis: At the next Central Committee meeting on October 15, Tikhonov retired from the Politburo and Talyzin became a candidate.


Premise: When were all the lodges in Iraq forced to close?

Hypothesis: Masonic lodges existed in Iraq as early as 1917, when the first lodge under the United Grand Lodge of England (UGLE) was opened.


Premise: When were the helicopters ordered?

Hypothesis: delivery, while troops in Afghanistan have been forced to rely on helicopters which are flying with safety faults.


Premise: Can query languages be adjusted?

Hypothesis: The semantics of query languages can be tuned according to suitable abstractions of the concrete domain of data.


Premise: The Atlas-A first launched on what date?

Hypothesis: The MX-1593 program evolved to become the Atlas-A, with its maiden launch occurring June 11, 1957, becoming the first successful American ICBM.


Premise: What type of art might one encounter at Lalithakala Thoranam?

Hypothesis: Although the city is not particularly noted for theatre and drama, the state government promotes theatre with multiple programmes and festivals in such venues as the Ravindra Bharati, Shilpakala Vedika and Lalithakala Thoranam.


Premise: Where did Polabian Slavs (Wends) settle?

Hypothesis: Polabian-Pomeranian Slavs are also known to have even settled on Norse age Iceland.


Premise: What was the early name for the Arsenal FC?

Hypothesis: Two of Dial Square's founding members, Fred Beardsley and Morris Bates, were former Forest players who had moved to Woolwich for work.


Premise: In 1849, what railroad was created?

Hypothesis: In 1849 the North Carolina Railroad was created by act of the legislature to extend that railroad west to Greensboro, High Point, and Charlotte.


Premise: What was the goal of the council?

Hypothesis: The goal of the council was to record the Buddha's teachings.


Premise: Where is Boston Common located?

Hypothesis: Along with the adjacent Boston Public Garden, it is part of the Emerald Necklace, a string of parks designed by Frederick Law Olmsted to encircle the city.


Premise: What radio stationed owned by NBC played only soft rock?

Hypothesis: Walter Sabo and his team at NBC brought in major personalities from the AM Band to the FM Band taking the format from a background to a foreground listening experience.


Premise: Whose support did Gorbachev seek in order to increase liberties?

Hypothesis: An unintended consequence was that having saved reform, Gorbachev's move ultimately killed the very system it was designed to save.


Premise: Assumptions of how the universe works are difficult to see precisely because of what?

Hypothesis: While Whitehead acknowledged that "philosophers can never hope finally to formulate these metaphysical first principles," he argued that people need to continually re-imagine their basic assumptions about how the universe works if philosophy and science are to make any real progress, even if that progress remains permanently asymptotic.


Premise: What religious minority is not officially recognized by the Iranian government?

Hypothesis: But the Bahá'í Faith, which is said to be the largest non-Muslim religious minority in Iran, is not officially recognized, and has been persecuted during its existence in Iran since the 19th century.


Premise: Who was the leader of the 18th century Swazi kingdom?

Hypothesis: The population is primarily ethnic Swazis whose language is siSwati.


Premise: When did the agency acheive a semi-automated air traffic control system?

Hypothesis: By the mid-1970s, the agency had achieved a semi-automated air traffic control system using both radar and computer technology.


Premise: What date did Thomas Watson, Jr. send out a letter about IBM hiring the best people regardless of race, gender, or origin?

Hypothesis: He also publicized the policy so that in his negotiations to build new manufacturing plants with the governors of two states in the U.S. South, he could be clear that IBM would not build "separate-but-equal" workplaces.


Premise: What sometimes happens with managers?

Hypothesis: A manager role may also be filled by a "valet", typically an appealing female who may participate in love triangle storylines, "damsel in distress" situations, and scripted fights with female wrestlers.


Premise: Which admiral who hadn't joined the rebellion was also a victim?

Hypothesis: Galicia was spared the worst of the fighting in that war: it was one of the areas where the initial coup attempt at the outset of the war was successful, and it remained in Nationalist (Franco's army's) hands throughout the war.


Premise: Over what did the Labor party divide?

Hypothesis: The Labor Party split over concerns about the influence of the Communist Party over the Trade Union movement, leading to the foundation of the breakaway Democratic Labor Party whose preferences supported the Liberal and Country parties.


Premise: Biological and botanical derivatives have what positive effects?

Hypothesis: In addition, applicators are being encouraged to consider alternative controls and adopt methods that reduce the use of chemical pesticides.


Premise: For religious Jews, "Ashkenazic" refers to what two things?

Hypothesis: These times include, for example, when two Jews of different ethnic background marry, when a non-Jew converts to Judaism and determines what customs to follow for the first time, or when a lapsed or less observant Jew returns to traditional Judaism and must determine what was done in his or her family's past.


Premise: What song was the Spectre theme comapred to unfavorably?

Hypothesis: The mixed reception to the song led to Shirley Bassey trending on Twitter on the day it was released.


Premise: Who paid to publish Principia Mathematica?

Hypothesis: Whitehead and Russell had thought originally that Principia Mathematica would take a year to complete; it ended up taking them ten years.


Premise: What does Y-DNA show?

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 year were the northern and southern carolinas seperated?

Hypothesis: North Carolina became one of the English Thirteen Colonies and with the territory of South Carolina was originally known as the Province of Carolina.


Premise: Where was Kerry's yacht built?

Hypothesis: However, on July 27, 2010, Kerry stated he had yet to take legal possession of the boat, had not intended to avoid the taxes, and that when he took possession, he would pay the taxes whether he owed them or not.


Premise: Tagalog is what kind of language?

Hypothesis: Similarly, Philippine languages such as Tagalog have some Sanskrit loanwords, although more are derived from Spanish.


Premise: A computer's assembly language is known as what?

Hypothesis: Instead, each basic instruction can be given a short name that is indicative of its function and easy to remember – a mnemonic such as ADD, SUB, MULT or JUMP.


Premise: What were issues facing play back and recording mechanics?

Hypothesis: There were acoustic limitations due to mechanical resonances in both the recording and playback system.


Premise: In what year did the Puritans survey New Haven Harbor?

Hypothesis: These settlers were hoping to establish a (in their mind) better theological community, with the government more closely linked to the church than the one they left in Massachusetts and sought to take advantage of the excellent port capabilities of the harbor.


Premise: At about what wavelength of light are human eyes most sensitive?

Hypothesis: For example, green light with a wavelength of 555 nanometres (the approximate wavelength to which human eyes are most sensitive) has a frequency of 7014540000000000000♠540 THz (7014540000000000000♠540×1012 Hz).


Premise: What adjustments were made to the orthophonic  to accommodate electric recordings?

Hypothesis: In the Orthophonic, which benefited from telephone research, the mechanical pickup head was redesigned with lower resonance than the traditional mica type.


Premise: The Islamic Prophet Muhammad carried out a siege against what tribe in February 624?

Hypothesis: The Islamic Prophet Muhammad carried out a siege against the Banu Qaynuqa tribe known as the Invasion of Banu Qaynuqa in February 624


Premise: When was it suggested that foramina premaxillae could contain the first know hairs?

Hypothesis: In the 1950s, it was suggested that the foramina (passages) in the maxillae and premaxillae (bones in the front of the upper jaw) of cynodonts were channels which supplied blood vessels and nerves to vibrissae (whiskers) and so were evidence of hair or fur; it was soon pointed out, however, that foramina do not necessarily show that an animal had vibrissae, as the modern lizard Tupinambis has foramina that are almost identical to those found in the nonmammalian cynodont Thrinaxodon.


Premise: What year was it discovered that petroleum could be distilled into kerosene?

Hypothesis: In 1849, Dr. Abraham Gesner, a Canadian geologist, devised a method where kerosene could be distilled from petroleum.


Premise: Which rivers run through the city?

Hypothesis: Center City has grown into the second-most populated downtown area in the United States, after Midtown Manhattan in New York City, with an estimated 183,240 residents in 2015.


Premise: What factors did the Young Bengal movement  say were needed for civil conduct?

Hypothesis: One of the earliest social movements that emerged during this time was the Young Bengal movement, which espoused rationalism and atheism as the common denominators of civil conduct among upper caste educated Hindus.


Premise: What is karma according to Buddhism?

Hypothesis: In Buddhism, Karma (from Sanskrit: "action, work") is the force that drives saṃsāra—the cycle of suffering and rebirth for each being.


Premise: What does D-VHS stand for?

Hypothesis: Some cable boxes are capable of receiving or recording two or more broadcasts at a time in HDTV format, and HDTV programming, some included in the monthly cable service subscription price, some for an additional fee, can be played back with the cable company's on-demand feature.


Premise: What kind of distinction is lacking between social and cultural anthropology?

Hypothesis: There is no hard-and-fast distinction between them, and these categories overlap to a considerable degree.


Premise: What cancer can be caused by too much time in the sun?

Hypothesis: It alters sunlight exposure; whether this is beneficial depends on one's location and daily schedule, as sunlight triggers vitamin D synthesis in the skin, but overexposure can lead to skin cancer.


Premise: What is the present day system being used by Houston for representation?

Hypothesis: Houston was incorporated in 1837 under the ward system of representation.


Premise: What individuals can take part in the Umhlanga Reed Dance?

Hypothesis: Only childless, unmarried girls can take part.


Premise: Who lived in native communities, speaking the language and participating in the affairs of tribes?

Hypothesis: Some Europeans living among Indigenous Americans were called "white Indians".


Premise: What are the possibly outcomes of a story?

Hypothesis: There is a story for each match, and even a longer story for successive matches.


Premise: Which individual held the responsibility to oversee the interactions of the empire's nobles with the court?

Hypothesis: The Minister of the Imperial Clan oversaw the imperial court's interactions with the empire's nobility and extended imperial family, such as granting fiefs and titles.


Premise: What has been the change in foreign exhange reserves since 2011?

Hypothesis: Foreign direct investment (FDI) in Egypt increased considerably before the removal of Hosni Mubarak, exceeding $6 billion in 2006, due to economic liberalisation and privatisation measures taken by minister of investment Mahmoud Mohieddin.[citation needed]


Premise: What is the benefit of external views of data?

Hypothesis: This allows users to see database information in a more business-related way rather than from a technical, processing viewpoint.


Premise: When was Torii Mototada born?

Hypothesis: Torii Mototada (1539–1600) was a feudal lord in the service of Tokugawa Ieyasu.


Premise: What type of installations are hydraulic elevators best suited for?

Hypothesis: The low mechanical complexity of hydraulic elevators in comparison to traction elevators makes them ideal for low rise, low traffic installations.


Premise: Along with Bat and trap, what game is popular in south London pubs?

Hypothesis: Shove ha'penny and Bat and trap were also popular in pubs south of London.


Premise: What are challenged to an unpopular political party?

Hypothesis: As third party movements have learned, the Electoral College's requirement of a nationally distributed majority makes it difficult for third parties to succeed.


Premise: Who was the family member that Emperor Shao escaped with?

Hypothesis: When the eunuchs discovered this, however, they had her brother He Miao (何苗) rescind the order.


Premise: What do the majority of defintions surronding sexual orientation include?

Hypothesis: Most definitions of sexual orientation include a psychological component, such as the direction of an individual's erotic desires, or a behavioral component, which focuses on the sex of the individual's sexual partner/s.


Premise: Who operated the automatic beam system?

Hypothesis: It was, in effect, an automatic beam-tracking system, operated through the bomber's autopilot.


Premise: What was burned during these boycotts?

Hypothesis: The effort had to be ceased when the BOCOG deemed the use of official Olympic insignia as illegal and a violation of copyright.


Premise: Thousands of soldiers put their weapons down and joined what type of efforts?

Hypothesis: By 26 March, the growing refusal of soldiers to fire into the largely nonviolent protesting crowds turned into a full-scale tumult, and resulted into thousands of soldiers putting down their arms and joining the pro-democracy movement.


Premise: What company operated passenger ships across the Atlantic, including the RMS Queen Elizabeth?

Hypothesis: Southampton was subsequently the home port for the transatlantic passenger services operated by Cunard with their Blue Riband liner RMS Queen Mary and her running mate RMS Queen Elizabeth.


Premise: What term can mean a non-fiction piece of a collection of short pieces?

Hypothesis: Despite incorporating the term "novel"—a term normally associated with fiction—"graphic novel" also refers to non-fiction and collections of short works.


Premise: Which actor portrayed Bill Tanner?

Hypothesis: Rory Kinnear also reprised his role as Bill Tanner in his third appearance in the series.


Premise: What is a good source for business start-ups in Cork?

Hypothesis: In CIT, The Rubicon Centre is a business innovation hub that is home to 57 knowledge based start-up companies.


Premise: The first Glauber's salt heating system was first used where?

Hypothesis: The "Dover House" (in Dover, Massachusetts) was the first to use a Glauber's salt heating system, in 1948.


Premise: The United States has how many Freemason members?

Hypothesis: Freemasonry, as it exists in various forms all over the world, has a membership estimated by the United Grand Lodge of England at around six million worldwide.


Premise: What century was the majority of the Navicella mosaic destroyed?

Hypothesis: The giant mosaic, commissioned by Cardinal Jacopo Stefaneschi, was originally situated on the eastern porch of the old basilica and occupied the whole wall above the entrance arcade facing the courtyard.


Premise: How were rebounds of minority enrollment explained in Long's report?

Hypothesis: At the same time, affirmative action itself is both morally and materially costly: 52 percent of white populace (compared to 14 percent of black) thought it should be abolished, implying white distaste of using racial identity, and full-file review is expected to cost the universities an additional $1.5 million to $2 million per year, excluding possible cost of litigation.


Premise: What is another pan-European style?

Hypothesis: The major architectural undertakings were the buildings of abbeys and cathedrals.


Premise: What is the term used for books that lay out spelling rules?

Hypothesis: Both Serbian and Croatian variants were represented in respectively different grammar books, dictionaries, school textbooks and in books known as pravopis (which detail spelling rules).


Premise: What is the refractive index of the ground?

Hypothesis: On the other hand, the vertical component of the wave's electric field is reflected at grazing angles of incidence approximately in phase.


Premise: What was the name of the famous school during the high middle ages?

Hypothesis: During the High Middle Ages, Chartres Cathedral operated the famous and influential Chartres Cathedral School.


Premise: When did Eastern Nigeria declare its independence?

Hypothesis: In May 1967, the Eastern Region declared independence as a state called the Republic of Biafra, under the leadership of Lt.


Premise: What did the Watch Tower Society admit in 1980?

Hypothesis: Watch Tower Society literature did not state dogmatically that 1975 would definitely mark the end, but in 1980 the Watch Tower Society admitted its responsibility in building up hope regarding that year.


Premise: What is some of the evidence backing the hygiene hypothesis?

Hypothesis: It has been proposed that the reduced exposure to bacteria and viruses is due, in part, to increased cleanliness and decreased family size in modern societies.


Premise: What type of food was preferred in Rajasthani cooking?

Hypothesis: Originating from the Marwar region of the state is the concept Marwari Bhojnalaya, or vegetarian restaurants, today found in many parts of India, which offer vegetarian food of the Marwari people.


Premise: Features on a browser can range from minimal with little support to what?

Hypothesis: Browsers which include additional components to support e-mail, Usenet news, and Internet Relay Chat (IRC), are sometimes referred to as "Internet suites" rather than merely "web browsers".


Premise: What is Korsakoff's syndrome?

Hypothesis: Hyperthymesia, or hyperthymesic syndrome, is a disorder that affects an individual's autobiographical memory, essentially meaning that they cannot forget small details that otherwise would not be stored.


Premise: Where was the Hollywood round moved to?

Hypothesis: Idol Gives Back was canceled for this season due to the global recession at the time.


Premise: Who was the runner up for season two?

Hypothesis: Ruben Studdard emerged as the winner, beating Clay Aiken by a small margin.


Premise: Why did Victoria inherit the throne?

Hypothesis: Victoria was the daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, the fourth son of King George III.


Premise: With the right tools, what area could get free BBC broadcasts from Astra 2D?

Hypothesis: This led to some broadcasts being made unavailable on the Sky Digital platform, such as Scottish Premier League and Scottish Cup football, while on other platforms such broadcasts were not disrupted.


Premise: How much of the population is Jewish in Bern?

Hypothesis: There were 324 persons (or about 0.25% of the population) who were Jewish, and 4,907 (or about 3.81% of the population) who were Muslim.


Premise: What is the only remaining waterway in Palermo?

Hypothesis: Today the only waterway not drained yet is the Oreto river that divides the downtown of the city from the western uptown and the industrial districts.


Premise: Two tanks one of oil, one of water fed what kind of fire?

Hypothesis: The oil-fed fires were then injected with water from time to time; the flashes produced were similar to those of the German C-250 and C-500 Flammbomben.


Premise: In general, how much beer can a microbrewery make and still be classified as a microbrewery?

Hypothesis: A microbrewery, or craft brewery, produces a limited amount of beer.


Premise: The years 1804-1910 marked what era?

Hypothesis: The major time divisions of classical music up to 1900 are the early music period, which includes Medieval (500–1400) and Renaissance (1400–1600) eras, and the Common practice period, which includes the Baroque (1600–1750), Classical (1750–1830) and Romantic (1804–1910) eras.


Premise: Greece is where geographically?

Hypothesis: Located in Southern Europe, Greece consists of a mountainous, peninsular mainland jutting out into the sea at the southern end of the Balkans, ending at the Peloponnese peninsula (separated from the mainland by the canal of the Isthmus of Corinth) and strategically located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa.


Premise: Why does the mRNA match the sequence of the gene's DNA coding strand?

Hypothesis: The mRNA matches the sequence of the gene's DNA coding strand because it is synthesised as the complement of the template strand.


Premise: Why are Arabic translation efforts important to Western translation traditions?

Hypothesis: Arabic translation efforts and techniques are important to Western translation traditions due to centuries of close contacts and exchanges.


Premise: What online media outlet ran an investigative series on Comcast in 2014?

Hypothesis: A 2014 investigative series published by The Verge involved interviews with 150 of Comcast's employees.


Premise: What are another names for genetic pollution?

Hypothesis: These phenomena can be especially detrimental to rare species that come into contact with more abundant ones.


Premise: Through what period did the second empire last?

Hypothesis: The Second Empire was the Imperial Bonapartist regime of Napoleon III from 1852 to 1870, between the Second Republic and the Third Republic, in France.


Premise: What is the emblem of England?

Hypothesis: The ceremony in Westminster Abbey, with the exception of the anointing and communion, was televised for the first time.[d] Elizabeth's coronation gown was embroidered on her instructions with the floral emblems of Commonwealth countries: English Tudor rose; Scots thistle; Welsh leek; Irish shamrock; Australian wattle; Canadian maple leaf; New Zealand silver fern; South African protea; lotus flowers for India and Ceylon; and Pakistan's wheat, cotton, and jute.


Premise: What is one way to classify pesticides?

Hypothesis: Another way to think about pesticides is to consider those that are chemical pesticides or are derived from a common source or production method.


Premise: How many days does Malmedy's festival take place before Shrove Tuesday?

Hypothesis: The Cwarmê Sunday is the most important and insteresting to see.


Premise: When was the Siku Quanshu finished?

Hypothesis: The Qianlong Emperor sponsored the largest collection of writings in Chinese history, the Siku Quanshu, completed in 1782.


Premise: Who benefited from the demotion of Malenkov?

Hypothesis: As First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, Nikita Khrushchev's authority was significantly enhanced by Malenkov's demotion.


Premise: In what year was Mubariz Khan defeated by Asif Jah I?

Hypothesis: In 1713 Farrukhsiyar, the Mughal emperor, appointed Asif Jah I to be Viceroy of the Deccan, with the title Nizam-ul-Mulk (Administrator of the Realm).


Premise: Who wrote The Crucifixion of Jesus?

Hypothesis: In his book The Crucifixion of Jesus, physician and forensic pathologist Frederick Zugibe studied the likely circumstances of the death of Jesus in great detail.


Premise: Who gave Beyoncé the Pop Songwriter of the Year award in 2001?

Hypothesis: Beyoncé was the third woman to have writing credits on three number one songs ("Irreplaceable", "Grillz" and "Check on It") in the same year, after Carole King in 1971 and Mariah Carey in 1991.


Premise: What word means using a single unaccompanied vocal melody line?

Hypothesis: Polyphonic vocal genres, which used multiple independent vocal melodies, began to develop during the high medieval era, becoming prevalent by the later 13th and early 14th century.


Premise: What are usually analyzed by associating groups to them and studying the elements of the corresponding groups?

Hypothesis: Mathematical objects are often examined by associating groups to them and studying the properties of the corresponding groups.


Premise: What was expected when the divine intervention benefited the patron?

Hypothesis: The same divine agencies who caused disease or harm also had the power to avert it, and so might be placated in advance.


Premise: What time was the crucifiction per Mark?

Hypothesis: In Mark 15:25 crucifixion takes place at the third hour (9 a.m.) and Jesus' death at the ninth hour (3 p.m.).


Premise: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States are part of what international forum?

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


Premise: Who did Güshi Khan grant the governing authority to?

Hypothesis: In a second ceremony held within the main hall of the Shigatse fortress, Güshi Khan enthroned the Dalai Lama as the ruler of Tibet, but conferred the actual governing authority to the regent Sonam Chöpel.


Premise: What country joined an alliance with Egypt, Syria and Saudi Arabia?

Hypothesis: In January 1957, the US adopted the Eisenhower Doctrine and pledged to prevent the spread of communism and its perceived agents in the Middle East.


Premise: What was the name of the meeting to make an alliance between Zwingli and Luther?

Hypothesis: A meeting was held in his castle in 1529, now known as the Colloquy of Marburg, which has become infamous for its failure.


Premise: Who supported the reaction against the government?

Hypothesis: The anti-clerical feeling was widespread, and Durango supported the initial reaction against the government at Mexico.


Premise: How are things in statistical mechanics?

Hypothesis: On one hand, statistical mechanics is far superior to classical thermodynamics, in that thermodynamic behavior, such as glass breaking, can be explained by the fundamental laws of physics paired with a statistical postulate.


Premise: What empire took over parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan in 720?

Hypothesis: The early Islamic literature indicates that the conquest of India was one of the very early ambitions of the Muslims, though it was recognized as a particularly difficult one.


Premise: Which decade did massive job losses happen in NYC due to industrial issues?

Hypothesis: While a resurgence in the financial industry greatly improved the city's economic health in the 1980s, New York's crime rate continued to increase through that decade and into the beginning of the 1990s.


Premise: New Delhi first hosted the Asian Games in what year?

Hypothesis: New Delhi was interested  in bidding for the 2019 Asian Games but was turned down by the government on 2 August 2010 amid allegations of corruption in 2010 Commonwealth Games .


Premise: In what year was Kitab al-Miraj likely translated into Latin?

Hypothesis: These works are said to have been inspired by several Moorish delegations from Morocco to Elizabethan England at the beginning of the 17th century.


Premise: Which is larger, divisions or unions of Protestantism?

Hypothesis: Various ecumenical movements have attempted cooperation or reorganization of the various divided Protestant denominations, according to various models of union, but divisions continue to outpace unions, as there is no overarching authority to which any of the churches owe allegiance, which can authoritatively define the faith.


Premise: What is note worthy about the bird population of Burma ?

Hypothesis: The abundance of birds is notable with over 800 species, including parrots, peafowl, pheasants, crows, herons, and paddybirds.


Premise: What is the number used to indicate pure red in sRGB?

Hypothesis: The sRGB number of pure red, for example, is 255, 00, 00, which means the red component is at its maximum intensity, and there is no green or blue.


Premise: What is J Dilla's occupation?

Hypothesis: In the 1990s and the new millennium, the city has produced a number of influential hip hop artists, including Eminem, the hip-hop artist with the highest cumulative sales, hip-hop producer J Dilla, rapper and producer Esham and hip hop duo Insane Clown Posse.


Premise: What region is centered around the Four Corners?

Hypothesis: A portion known as the Colorado Plateau, centered around the Four Corners region, is considered to have some of the most spectacular scenery in the world.


Premise: It is easy for a prospective user of an encoder to research the best choice because of what factor?

Hypothesis: Comparisons are widely available, so it is easy for a prospective user of an encoder to research the best choice.


Premise: What was hunting regarded as in British India?

Hypothesis: During the feudal and colonial times in British India, hunting was regarded as a regal sport in the numerous princely states, as many maharajas and nawabs, as well as British officers, maintained a whole corps of shikaris (big-game hunters), who were native professional hunters.


Premise: When did Ford Park Cemetery reopen?

Hypothesis: There is also a privately owned cemetery on the outskirts of the city, Drake Memorial Park which does not allow headstones to mark graves, but a brass plaque set into the ground.


Premise: Schwarzenegger bought Baena and their son a four-bedroom house in what year?

Hypothesis: KNX 1070 radio reported that in 2010 he bought a new four-bedroom house, with a pool, for Baena and their son in Bakersfield, about 112 miles (180 km) north of Los Angeles.


Premise: Which other Austrian scholar and friend of Popper also worked near him at the London School of Economics?

Hypothesis: While there is some dispute as to the matter of influence, Popper had a long-standing and close friendship with economist Friedrich Hayek, who was also brought to the London School of Economics from Vienna.


Premise: Who wrote on the clay tablets in Babylonian astronomy?

Hypothesis: In Babylonian astronomy, records of the motions of the stars, planets, and the moon are left on thousands of clay tablets created by scribes.


Premise: What was the practical ceiling of the effective heavy guns?

Hypothesis: Although the use of the guns improved civilian morale, with the knowledge the German bomber crews were facing the barrage, it is now believed that the anti-aircraft guns achieved little and in fact the falling shell fragments caused more British casualties on the ground.


Premise: An axon that can greatly increase speed of signals is wrapped in what?

Hypothesis: A myelinated axon is wrapped in a fatty insulating sheath of myelin, which serves to greatly increase the speed of signal propagation.


Premise: What prize did Von Neuman win at the conclusion of his gymansium formal education?

Hypothesis: At the conclusion of his education at the gymnasium, von Neumann sat for and won the Eötvös Prize, a national prize for mathematics.


Premise: What country was the second largest source of foreign-born New Yorkers in 2011?

Hypothesis: In New York, no single country or region of origin dominates.


Premise: What can be used a main source of light for a building during the day?

Hypothesis: Daylighting (using windows, skylights, or light shelves) is sometimes used as the main source of light during daytime in buildings.


Premise: How many native Armenians are in Armenia today?

Hypothesis: They, as well as the Armenians of Iran and Russia speak the Eastern dialect of the Armenian language.


Premise: BeDuhn clarifies that the differences are actually due to what?

Hypothesis: Although the general public and many Bible scholars assume that the differences in the New World Translation are the result of religious bias on the part of its translators, BeDuhn stated: “


Premise: Who was the lead singer of Stone Temple Pilots?

Hypothesis: The long awaited Guns N' Roses album Chinese Democracy was finally released in 2008, but only went platinum and failed to come close to the success of the band's late 1980s and early 1990s material.


Premise: Which Enlightenment philosopher advocated democracy, individual liberty, freedom of expression, and eradication of religious authority?

Hypothesis: There were two distinct lines of Enlightenment thought: the radical enlightenment, inspired by the philosophy of Spinoza, advocating democracy, individual liberty, freedom of expression, and eradication of religious authority; and a second, more moderate variety, supported by René Descartes, John Locke, Christian Wolff, Isaac Newton and others, which sought accommodation between reform and the traditional systems of power and faith.