Premise: How many acres of land did Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen purchase in 1836?

Hypothesis: The Allen brothers decided to name the city after Sam Houston, the popular general at the Battle of San Jacinto, who was elected President of Texas in September 1836.


Premise: At what point was the entire Roman world joined together under Roman control?

Hypothesis: With some major exceptions of outright military rule, the Roman Republic remained an alliance of independent city-states and kingdoms (with varying degrees of independence, both de jure and de facto) until it transitioned into the Roman Empire.


Premise: Who is mercilessly slaughtered by Aeneas?

Hypothesis: As the protagonist of the poem, Aeneas seems to waver constantly between his emotions and commitment to his prophetic duty to found Rome; critics note the breakdown of Aeneas' emotional control in the last sections of the poem where the "pious" and "righteous" Aeneas mercilessly slaughters Turnus.


Premise: What branch of the military began to have a strong presence in San Diego in 1901?

Hypothesis: Significant U.S. Navy presence began in 1901 with the establishment of the Navy Coaling Station in Point Loma, and expanded greatly during the 1920s.


Premise: What was Nintendo's euphemism for "video game system?"

Hypothesis: This text was later changed to "Official Nintendo Seal of Quality".


Premise: What made seeing the PVA units difficult during the day?

Hypothesis: During daylight activity or marching, soldiers were to remain motionless if an aircraft appeared, until it flew away; PVA officers were under order to shoot security violators.


Premise: Who helped "graphic novel" get public attention?

Hypothesis: The term became widely known with the public after the commercial success of Maus, Watchmen, and The Dark Knight Returns in the mid-1980s.


Premise: When did the alpine crystals begin to be classified?

Hypothesis: Alpine crystals have been studied and collected for hundreds of years, and began to be classified in the 18th century.


Premise: In what arena was Kalinga a formidable power?

Hypothesis: During the reign of Khārabēḷa, the Chedi dynasty of Kaḷinga ascended to eminence and restored the lost power and glory of Kaḷinga, which had been subdued since the devastating war with Ashoka.


Premise: What did Diamond find about the women?

Hypothesis: Diamond (2003) found that over 7 years 2/3 of the women changed their sexual identity at least once, with many reporting that the label was not adequate in capturing the diversity of their sexual or romantic feelings.


Premise: What is movement by ripples called?

Hypothesis: The septa of such species also enable them to change the shapes of individual segments, which facilitates movement by peristalsis ("ripples" that pass along the body) or by undulations that improve the effectiveness of the parapodia.


Premise: Larry McKinney explained that a two-month delay in drilling could do what?

Hypothesis: A two-month delay could wipe out the entire drilling season."


Premise: When did the Island start to experience a period of prosperity?

Hypothesis: Captain James Cook visited the island in 1775 on the final leg of his second circumnavigation of the world.


Premise: What do six of the questions asses?

Hypothesis: Six of these questions assess sexual attraction, four assess sexual behavior, and two assess sexual orientation identity.


Premise: What are the impermanent sources of positive ecclesiastical law?

Hypothesis: In the Roman Church, universal positive ecclesiastical laws, based upon either immutable divine and natural law, or changeable circumstantial and merely positive law, derive formal authority and promulgation from the office of pope, who as Supreme Pontiff possesses the totality of legislative, executive, and judicial power in his person.


Premise: Why is it difficult to measure corruption?

Hypothesis: While "corruption" indices first appeared in 1995 with the Corruption Perceptions Index CPI, all of these metrics address different proxies for corruption, such as public perceptions of the extent of the problem.


Premise: Installing keyloggers and making operating system modifications are examples of ways unauthorized users for what?

Hypothesis: Even when the system is protected by standard security measures, these may be able to be by passed by booting another operating system or tool from a CD-ROM or other bootable media.


Premise: Which religios center is located at 210 West?

Hypothesis: At 210 West is the Capuchin Monastery of St. John the Baptist, part of St. John the Baptist Church on 30th Street.


Premise: What was the average price to rent an average apartment in Bern?

Hypothesis: The average rate for a one-room apartment was 619.82 CHF (US$500,


Premise: What countries did King Louis XV want keep in his sphere of influence to thwart the interests of Russia?

Hypothesis: Unbeknownst to his foreign minister, Louis had established a network of agents throughout Europe with the goal of pursuing personal political objectives that were often at odds with France’s publicly stated policies.


Premise: Name a city that the Greeks nested in ?

Hypothesis: While the Alexandrian empire did not survive its creator's death intact, the cultural implications of the spread of Hellenism across much of the Middle East and Asia were to prove long lived as Greek became the lingua franca, a position it retained even in Roman times.


Premise: Who do the Anglican churches have communion with?

Hypothesis: As the name suggests, the communion is an association of churches in full communion with the Archbishop of Canterbury.


Premise: What does ALS stand for?

Hypothesis: On runways, green lights indicate the beginning of the runway for landing, while red lights indicate the end of the runway.


Premise: Who led the militia that defended Richmond?

Hypothesis: The latter motive proved to be in vain, and in 1781, under the command of Benedict Arnold, Richmond was burned by British troops, causing Governor Thomas Jefferson to flee as the Virginia militia, led by Sampson Mathews, defended the city.


Premise: How many Guinean soldiers did the PAIGC kill?

Hypothesis: Some escaped to settle in Portugal or other African nations.


Premise: Who was the Canadian Minister of Justice?

Hypothesis: Alan Dershowitz described Sudan as an example of a government that "actually deserve(s)" the appellation "apartheid."


Premise: What did Ludwig Von Mises and Friedrich Hayek run?

Hypothesis: However, a group of central European economists led by Austrian School economists Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek identified the collectivist underpinnings to the various new socialist and fascist doctrines of government power as being different brands of political totalitarianism.


Premise: What month and year was the black beret replaced?

Hypothesis: The U.S. Army black beret (having been permanently replaced with the patrol cap) is no longer worn with the new ACU for garrison duty.


Premise: Are parties required to reveal their funding?

Hypothesis: Some countries provide both direct and indirect public funding to political parties.


Premise: What borough has the largest population of Jewish people?

Hypothesis: Christianity (59%), particularly Catholicism (33%), was the most prevalently practiced religion in New York as of 2014, followed by Judaism, with approximately 1.1 million Jews in New York City, over half living in Brooklyn.


Premise: What can cause mutation in bacteria?

Hypothesis: However, all bacteria can evolve by selection on changes to their genetic material DNA caused by genetic recombination or mutations.


Premise: What do psychologists use to visually map emotional experiences?

Hypothesis: A further step can be taken by looking at the map's dimensions of the emotional experiences.


Premise: When did Wales outlaw smoking in public?

Hypothesis: In March 2006, a law was introduced to forbid smoking in all enclosed public places in Scotland.


Premise: What was the name of the 17 minute film called?

Hypothesis: Working with photographer Steven Klein, Madonna completed a 17-minute film called secretprojectrevolution.


Premise: How many Greek natural citizens are Catholic?

Hypothesis: Greek citizens who are Roman Catholic are estimated to be at around 50,000 with the Roman Catholic immigrant community in the country approximately 200,000.


Premise: What sits on Beacon Hill today?

Hypothesis: The largest reclamation efforts took place during the 19th century; beginning in 1807, the crown of Beacon Hill was used to fill in a 50-acre (20 ha) mill pond that later became the Haymarket Square area.


Premise: What grade was given to Northwestern on the 2010 College Sustainability Report Card  by The Sustainable Endowments Institute?

Hypothesis: In January 2009, the Green Power Partnership (GPP, sponsored by the EPA) listed Northwestern as one of the top 10 universities in the country in purchasing energy from renewable sources.


Premise: Layla and Majnun is an example of what kind of poetry?

Hypothesis: It is a tragic story of undying love much like the later Romeo and Juliet, which was itself said to have been inspired by a Latin version of Layla and Majnun to an extent.


Premise: What companies have developed iPod interfacing for their stereo systems?

Hypothesis: Some independent stereo manufacturers including JVC, Pioneer, Kenwood, Alpine, Sony, and Harman Kardon also have iPod-specific integration solutions.


Premise: What did Rome do about human sacrifice?

Hypothesis: Rome banned it on several occasions under extreme penalty.


Premise: Who seized the US Embassy in Iran in 1979?

Hypothesis: On Jimmy Carter's final day in office, the last hostages were finally set free as a result of the Algiers Accords.


Premise: Who proclaimed House Unity Day in Chicago?

Hypothesis: The proclamation recognized Chicago as the original home of house music and that the music's original creators "were inspired by the love of their city, with the dream that someday their music would spread a message of peace and unity throughout the world".


Premise: The often unclear division between a self-executing treaty and a non-self-executing treaty can lead to a treaty being what if disagreements exist within a party?

Hypothesis: The division between the two is often not clear and is often politicized in disagreements within a government over a treaty, since a non-self-executing treaty cannot be acted on without the proper change in domestic law.


Premise: What caused the 2008 floods?

Hypothesis: In 2013, heavy waves once again breached the city walls of Majuro.


Premise: Who wrote that Baptists referred to themselves as "the Christians commonly—though falsely—called Anabaptists?"

Hypothesis: Baptists rejected the name Anabaptist when they were called that by opponents in derision.


Premise: NYC's fashion industry employs how many people?

Hypothesis: The city's fashion industry provides approximately 180,000 employees with $11 billion in annual wages.


Premise: Pope Pius XII raised him to what rank?

Hypothesis: On 12 January 1953, he was appointed Patriarch of Venice and, accordingly, raised to the rank of Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prisca by Pope Pius XII.


Premise: What features do they have that mimic passenger elevators?

Hypothesis: they usually do not have the same safety features found in passenger elevators, like various ropes for redundancy.


Premise: What years did the war last through?

Hypothesis: A civil war was fought almost immediately after independence, lasting from 1992 to 1997.


Premise: Many Jews were denied full Roman citizenship until what year?

Hypothesis: Many Jews were denied full Roman citizenship until 212 CE, when Emperor Caracalla granted all free peoples this privilege.


Premise: What treaty was signed in 1936?

Hypothesis: British troops remained stationed in Egypt until the signing of the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty in 1936, under which it was agreed that the troops would withdraw but continue to occupy and defend the Suez Canal zone.


Premise: WHy did King louis approve the privilege?

Hypothesis: In addition, the King's right to raise taxes was abolished; no new taxes could be raised without the agreement of the nobility.


Premise: How far back could these recording practices be traced?

Hypothesis: It eventually became the technical predecessor to the RIAA curve.


Premise: Ottoman artists mixed Chinese art with the art of what else?

Hypothesis: The greatest of the court artists enriched the Ottoman Empire with many pluralistic artistic influences: such as mixing traditional Byzantine art with elements of Chinese art.


Premise: Who is United Nations' Secretary-General?

Hypothesis: The group is to be co-chaired by Kandeh Yumkella, the chair of UN Energy and director general of the UN Industrial Development Organisation, and Charles Holliday, chairman of Bank of America".


Premise: How old was Gladstone after the general election in 1892?

Hypothesis: Gladstone returned to power after the 1892 general election; he was 82 years old.


Premise: Beside the public universities, what other type of institutions provide education in Seattle?

Hypothesis: Seattle is home to the University of Washington, as well as the institution's professional and continuing education unit, the University of Washington Educational Outreach.


Premise: Contributions exceeded how much in 2014?

Hypothesis: The amount includes $477 million to the organization’s core resources and $529 million earmarked for specific programs and initiatives.


Premise: How did the Germans confuse the British?

Hypothesis: From the German point of view, March 1941 saw an improvement.


Premise: What is green the color of in the Eastern Catholic Church?

Hypothesis: Green is one of the Christmas colors as well, possibly dating back to pre-Christian times, when evergreens were worshiped for their ability to maintain their color through the winter season.


Premise: Where were idioms and vocabulary imported from?

Hypothesis: They have acted as bridges for conveying knowledge between cultures; and along with ideas, they have imported from the source languages, into their own languages, loanwords and calques of grammatical structures, idioms and vocabulary.


Premise: How long is the Sun Link?

Hypothesis: The streetcar utilizes Sun Tran's card payment and transfer system, connecting with the University of Arizona's CatTran shuttles, Amtrak, and Greyhound intercity bus service.


Premise: When did the Southern Baptist International Mission Board forbade its missionaries to receive alien immersions for baptism?

Hypothesis: In 2005, the Southern Baptist International Mission Board forbade its missionaries to receive alien immersions for baptism.


Premise: In addition to passing an expiration date, what might cause a treaty to self-terminate?

Hypothesis: Treaties sometimes include provisions for self-termination, meaning that the treaty is automatically terminated if certain defined conditions are met.


Premise: In modern usage, why is Mizrahim sometimes termed Sephardi?

Hypothesis: In modern usage, however, the Mizrahim are sometimes termed Sephardi due to similar styles of liturgy, despite independent development from Sephardim proper.


Premise: The Royal Mews houses which type of animal?

Hypothesis: Adjacent to the palace is the Royal Mews, also designed by Nash, where the royal carriages, including the Gold State Coach, are housed.


Premise: Along with UO2, what is the commonest form of uranium oxide?

Hypothesis: Triuranium octoxide is (depending on conditions) the most stable compound of uranium and is the form most commonly found in nature.


Premise: How long did it take Columbia to produce a consumer friendly long play record?

Hypothesis: It took about eight years of study, except when it was suspended because of World War II.


Premise: What was Nanjing's GDP ranking in all of China for 2013?

Hypothesis: In 2013 the city's GDP was RMB 801 billion (3rd in Jiangsu), and GDP per capita(current price) was RMB 98,174(US$16041), a 11 percent increase from 2012.


Premise: What is Bern's ranking for the best quality of life?

Hypothesis: In 1983 the historic old town in the centre of Bern became a UNESCO World Heritage Site.


Premise: What is a mailbox provider?

Hypothesis: It provides email servers to send, receive, accept, and store email for end users or other organizations.


Premise: What did the Super Game Boy 2 add?

Hypothesis: While Nintendo never released an adapter for playing NES games on the SNES (though the instructions included a way to connect both consoles to the same TV by either daisy chaining the RF switches or using AV outputs for one or both systems), the Super Game Boy adapter cartridge allows games designed for Nintendo's portable Game Boy system to be played on the SNES.


Premise: What part of North America did Britain end up with?

Hypothesis: Spain lost control of Florida to Great Britain, but it received from the French the Île d'Orléans and all of the former French holdings west of the Mississippi River.


Premise: Who was the first person elected under the new constitution?

Hypothesis: The first person elected under the new constitution of 1825 was Simón Elías Gonzalez, who being in Sonora, was induced to remain there.


Premise: How many different worlds or realities did Popper differentiate in Objective Knowledge?

Hypothesis: World Three, he argued, was the product of individual human beings in exactly the same sense that an animal path is the product of individual animals, and that, as such, has an existence and evolution independent of any individual knowing subjects.


Premise: At what age does self-consciousness in general peak?

Hypothesis: These likely peak at age fifteen, along with self-consciousness in general.


Premise: Which theologian described Mariology as "the heresy of the Catholic Church?"

Hypothesis: Protestants in general reject the veneration and invocation of the Saints.:1174 Protestants typically hold that Mary was the mother of Jesus, but was an ordinary woman devoted to God.


Premise: Which Village already had streets when the grid plan was laid out?

Hypothesis: Streets that do continue farther west change direction before reaching the Hudson River.


Premise: Where did Jack Kilby work at when he created the first IC?

Hypothesis: The first practical ICs were invented by Jack Kilby at Texas Instruments and Robert Noyce at Fairchild Semiconductor.


Premise: What have many apartment buildings  surrounding Wrigley Field built on their rooftops?

Hypothesis: Many of the apartment buildings surrounding Wrigley Field on Waveland and Sheffield Avenues have built bleachers on their rooftops for fans to view games and other sell space for advertisement.


Premise: Who were extreme empiricists?

Hypothesis: By the late 1960s, it had become evident to most philosophers that the movement had pretty much run its course, though its influence is still significant among contemporary analytic philosophers such as Michael Dummett and other anti-realists.


Premise: What app were Arena Football League games broadcast on in 2014?

Hypothesis: Starting in 2014, ESPN returned to the AFL as broadcast partners, with weekly games being shown on CBS Sports Network, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNEWS along with all games being broadcast on ESPN3 for free live on WatchESPN.


Premise: On what date did the French begin the re-crossing of the Danube?

Hypothesis: From 30 June to the early days of July, the French recrossed the Danube in strength, with more than 180,000 troops marching across the Marchfeld towards the Austrians.


Premise: How many people in Estonia speak Estonian?

Hypothesis: Estonian (eesti keel [ˈeːsti ˈkeːl] ( listen)) is the official language of Estonia, spoken natively by about 1.1 million people in Estonia and tens of thousands in various migrant communities.


Premise: How many clubs, projects and societies is the union responsible for managing?

Hypothesis: Examples of notable student groups and projects are Project Nepal which sends Imperial College students to work on educational development programmes in rural Nepal and the El Salvador Project, a construction based project in Central America.


Premise: What did Leatherwood call Tucson in a telegram?

Hypothesis: While the exact origin of this nickname is uncertain, it is commonly traced back to Mayor R. N. "Bob" Leatherwood.


Premise: In what European countries did the Dominican Order experience changes to how they thought?

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


Premise: Who was the "architect earl"?

Hypothesis: At the forefront of the new school of design was the aristocratic "architect earl", Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington; in 1729, he and William Kent, designed Chiswick House.


Premise: For about how many years did Tammany Hall control New York political life?

Hypothesis: New York became the most populous urbanized area in the world in the early 1920s, overtaking London.


Premise: Who first leaked the photos of the new iPod color scheme?

Hypothesis: In mid-2015, several new color schemes for all of the current iPod models were spotted in the latest version of iTunes, 12.2.


Premise: What county is Charleston located in?

Hypothesis: The city lies just south of the geographical midpoint of South Carolina's coastline and is located on Charleston Harbor, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean formed by the confluence of the Ashley and Cooper Rivers, or, as is locally expressed, "where the Cooper and Ashley Rivers come together to form the Atlantic Ocean."


Premise: Who represents the Defence Medical Services on the Defence Staff?

Hypothesis: There are also three Deputy Chiefs of the Defence Staff with particular remits, Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (Capability), Deputy CDS (Personnel and Training) and Deputy CDS (Operations).


Premise: What are the two largest political parties in the UK?

Hypothesis: The UK political system, while technically a multi-party system, has functioned generally as a two-party (sometimes called a "two-and-a-half party") system; since the 1920s the two largest political parties have been the Conservative Party and the Labour Party.


Premise: What conditions did the African slaves in Brazil live in?

Hypothesis: This is not surprising, though: While the greatest number of slaves imported from Africa were sent to Brazil, totalizing roughly 3.5 million people, they lived in such miserable conditions that male African Y-DNA there is significantly rare due to the lack of resources and time involved with raising of children, so that most African descent originarily came from relations between white masters and female slaves.


Premise: Where do Eleonora's falcon breed?

Hypothesis: Predation can be heightened during migration: Eleonora's falcon Falco eleonorae, which breeds on Mediterranean islands, has a very late breeding season, coordinated with the autumn passage of southbound passerine migrants, which it feeds to its young.


Premise: What are the doctrines of the Reformed churches called?

Hypothesis: Wherever the Magisterial Reformation, which received support from the ruling authorities, took place, the result was a reformed national Protestant church envisioned to be a part of the whole invisible church, but disagreeing, in certain important points of doctrine and doctrine-linked practice, with what had until then been considered the normative reference point on such matters, namely the Papacy and central authority of the Roman Catholic Church.


Premise: Prepaid cards for Microsoft Points are available in what denominations?

Hypothesis: Microsoft Points can also be purchased through Xbox Live with a credit card in 500, 1,000, 2,000 and 5,000-point denominations.


Premise: Beyoncé was the first female singer to headline what at the 2011 Glastonbury Festival?

Hypothesis: Later that year she became the first solo female artist to headline the main Pyramid stage at the 2011 Glastonbury Festival in over twenty years, and was named the highest-paid performer in the world per minute.


Premise: At the start of the conflict with the Allies, what did Japan do?

Hypothesis: Japanese forces soon seized American, Dutch, and British possessions across the Pacific and Southeast Asia, except for Australia, which became a main American forward base along with Hawaii.


Premise: What was the name Loughborough University was known by from 1966 to 1996?

Hypothesis: Loughborough University was called Loughborough University of Technology from 1966 to 1996, the only institution in the UK to have had such a designation.


Premise: Where will Holyport College be located?

Hypothesis: Eton now co-sponsors a state sixth-form college in Newham, a deprived area of East London, called the London Academy of Excellence, opened in 2012, which is free of charge and aims to get all its students into higher education.


Premise: Who was Kerry's 2nd wife's previous husband?

Hypothesis: Early the following year, Senator Heinz was killed in a plane crash near Lower Merion.


Premise: Anniversaries of Napoleon's life and reign were sometimes celebrated in an effort to disrupt what?

Hypothesis: There were also subversive activities celebrating anniversaries of Napoleon's life and reign and disrupting royal celebrations—they demonstrated the prevailing and successful goal of the varied supporters of Napoleon to constantly destabilize the Bourbon regime.


Premise: Who became the first black African riders to compete in the Tour de France?

Hypothesis: Teklehaimanot and fellow Eritrean Merhawi Kudus became the first black African riders to compete in the Tour de France when they were selected by the MTN–Qhubeka team for the 2015 edition of the race, where, on 9 July, Teklehaimanot became the first African rider to wear the polkadot jersey.


Premise: What are homogeneous states?

Hypothesis: Tensions between territories can still be found in federalist countries such as Canada and federation as a way to appease and quell military conflict has failed recently in places like Lybia or Iraq, while the formula is simultaneously proposed and dismissed in countries such as Ukraine or Syria.


Premise: How many terms does the mayor of the city serve?

Hypothesis: The mayor and city council members serve two-year terms: the mayor is elected every even-numbered year, while half of the city council members are up for election annually (five in even-numbered and five in odd-numbered years).


Premise: The introduction of what caused the larger anti-aircraft guns to disappear in the USSR?

Hypothesis: The US started an upgrade of their defences using the Nike Ajax missile, and soon the larger anti-aircraft guns disappeared.


Premise: What type of antenna would be best if placement was tricky?

Hypothesis: Low-gain antennas have shorter range, but the orientation of the antenna is relatively unimportant.


Premise: In what year was the territory of Warmia incorporated?

Hypothesis: The territory of Warmia was incorporated into the lands of former Ducal Prussia, which, by administrative deed of 31 January 1773 were named East Prussia.


Premise: Nitroglycerin can be used to help what?

Hypothesis: Nitroglycerin or opioids may be used to help with chest pain; however, they do not improve overall outcomes.


Premise: What is believed to be the first Buddhist temple in this area?

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


Premise: In what state did the president of HHC previously work?

Hypothesis: Bellevue is the designated hospital for treatment of the President of the United States and other world leaders if they become sick or injured while in New York City.


Premise: Where is Blair Field?

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: Who was The Dean of St. Paul?

Hypothesis: The Dean of St Paul's is ex officio the Dean of the Order.


Premise: How many acres were burned in the historic Cedar Fire of 2003?

Hypothesis: The fire burned 280,000 acres (1,100 km2), killed 15 people, and destroyed more than 2,200 homes.


Premise: Three protester climbed what to hang two banners on April 7, 2008?

Hypothesis: Among them was San Francisco resident Laurel Sutherlin, who spoke to the local TV station KPIX-CBS5 live from a cellphone, urging the International Olympic Committee to ask China not to allow the torch to go through Tibet.


Premise: With whom did Tito sign an agreement on September 28 1944?

Hypothesis: On 28 September 1944, the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) reported that Tito signed an agreement with the Soviet Union allowing "temporary entry" of Soviet troops into Yugoslav territory which allowed the Red Army to assist in operations in the northeastern areas of Yugoslavia.


Premise: What is one way that the Empire was described as it related to culture?

Hypothesis: When compared to the Turkish folk culture, the influence of these new cultures in creating the culture of the Ottoman elite was clear.


Premise: How much treasure was taken by pirates?

Hypothesis: In September 1695, Captain Henry Every, an English pirate on board the Fancy, reached the Straits of Bab-el-Mandeb, where he teamed up with five other pirate captains to make an attack on the Indian fleet making the annual voyage to Mocha.


Premise: What realm was guarded by gateways containing various monsters?

Hypothesis: The dead were buried outside the city walls in graveyards where a small mound covered the corpse, along with offerings to monsters and a small amount of food.


Premise: When did the Board of Trustees pass a resolution to desegregate the Washington University undergraduate division?

Hypothesis: In May 1952, the Board of Trustees passed a resolution desegregating the school's undergraduate divisions.


Premise: Which was the first new indoor mall in Melbourne?

Hypothesis: Height limits in the Melbourne CBD were lifted in 1958, after the construction of ICI House, transforming the city's skyline with the introduction of skyscrapers.


Premise: Where did Eisenhower work during his brother's first year of college?

Hypothesis: Though Eisenhower was among the winners of the entrance-exam competition, he was beyond the age limit for the Naval Academy.


Premise: What did television do for wrestling?

Hypothesis: The advent of television gave professional wrestling a new outlet, and wrestling (along with boxing) was instrumental in making pay-per-view a viable method of content delivery.


Premise: Which theatre was Melbourne's first live performance institution?

Hypothesis: The city's East End Theatre District includes theatres that similarly date from 1850s to the 1920s, including the Princess Theatre, Regent Theatre, Her Majesty's Theatre, Forum Theatre, Comedy Theatre, and the Athenaeum Theatre.


Premise: In what year was Tuvalu discovered by a European?

Hypothesis: In 1568, Spanish navigator Álvaro de Mendaña was the first European to sail through the archipelago, sighting the island of Nui during his expedition in search of Terra Australis.


Premise: What is one type of MCU bridge?

Hypothesis: There are MCU bridges for IP and ISDN-based videoconferencing.


Premise: How many township-level divisions of Zhejiang are there?

Hypothesis: Those are in turn divided into 1,570 township-level divisions (761 towns, 505 townships, 14 ethnic townships, and 290 subdistricts).


Premise: On what charge was Li Ying jailed for?

Hypothesis: However the emperor permanently barred Li Ying and his associates from serving in office, marking the beginning of the Partisan Prohibitions.


Premise: What term characterizes the type of procedure used in Roman Church courts?

Hypothesis: This is in contrast to the adversarial form of proceeding found in the common law system of English and U.S. law, which features such things as juries and single judges.


Premise: Reform Judaism originated among what type of Jew?

Hypothesis: Reform Judaism, which does not necessarily follow those minhagim, did nonetheless originate among Ashkenazi Jews.


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

Hypothesis: Evidence supporting the hygiene hypothesis includes lower rates of asthma on farms and in households with pets.


Premise: Who attacked the abbey?

Hypothesis: Oliver Cromwell was given an elaborate funeral there in 1658, only to be disinterred in January 1661 and posthumously hanged from a gibbet at Tyburn.


Premise: When did electric street lights replace the gas operated lights?

Hypothesis: The first telephone lines were installed in 1882 and electric street lights took the place of the gas operated ones in 1886.


Premise: What does LV-ROM stand for?

Hypothesis: If all 54,000 frames are used for data storage an LV-ROM disc can contain 324 MB of data per side.


Premise: To what extent does wealth reach from affluent down to average population?

Hypothesis: Corruption is often cited by Egyptians as the main impediment to further economic growth.


Premise: What form of art had the most prestige in this era?

Hypothesis: Metalwork continued to be the most prestigious form of art, with Limoges enamel a popular and relatively affordable option for objects such as reliquaries and crosses.


Premise: What decade showed a change in the way people kept dogs as pets?

Hypothesis: People and dogs have become increasingly integrated and implicated in each other's lives, to the point where pet dogs actively shape the way a family and home are experienced.


Premise: What British architect was responsible for designing much of New Delhi?

Hypothesis: Much of New Delhi, planned by the leading 20th-century British architect Edwin Lutyens, was laid out to be the central administrative area of the city as a testament to Britain's imperial pretensions.


Premise: What is a good technique to foster party harmony?

Hypothesis: Gephardt added that "inclusion and empowerment of the people on the line have to be done to get the best performance" from the minority party.


Premise: Oxygen from what kind of fossil were used to date the Hirnantian faunal stage?

Hypothesis: The most-commonly accepted theory is that these events were triggered by the onset of an ice age, in the Hirnantian faunal stage that ended the long, stable greenhouse conditions typical of the Ordovician.


Premise: What are Moraines?

Hypothesis: Moraines, piles of rock picked up during the movement of the glacier, accumulate at edges, center and the terminus of glaciers.


Premise: What was the name of Queen's first album?

Hypothesis: Retrospectively, "Keep Yourself Alive" is cited as the highlight of the album, and in 2008 Rolling Stone ranked it 31st in the "100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time", describing it as "an entire album's worth of riffs crammed into a single song".


Premise: How long was symphonic instrumentation faithful to Beethoven's after he died?

Hypothesis: The Ninth asks for a second pair of horns, for reasons similar to the "Eroica" (four horns has since become standard); Beethoven's use of piccolo, contrabassoon, trombones, and untuned percussion—plus chorus and vocal soloists—in his finale, are his earliest suggestion that the timbral boundaries of symphony should be expanded.


Premise: Was the visit from the Burmese delegate welcome in the United States in 2010?

Hypothesis: In May 2013, Thein Sein became the first Myanmar president to visit the White House in 47 years; the last Burmese leader to visit the White House was Ne Win in September 1966.


Premise: How many acres of parks does Houston have?

Hypothesis: Of the 10 most populous U.S. cities, Houston has the most total area of parks and green space, 56,405 acres (228 km2).


Premise: Poor conditions found in developing countries may also be found in what type of nations?

Hypothesis: While most examples of such conditions are found in developing countries, clothes made in industrialized nations may also be manufactured similarly, often staffed by undocumented immigrants.[citation needed]


Premise: What techniques does the Cyberspace Support branch of the Air Force use?

Hypothesis: Cyberspace Support is foundational, continuous, or responsive operations ensuring information integrity and availability in, through, and from Air Force-controlled infrastructure and its interconnected analog and digital portion of the battle space.


Premise: What is the typical goal for the life of a tungsten filament bulb?

Hypothesis: Because of this, the lifetime of a filament lamp is a trade-off between efficiency and longevity.


Premise: What do present day Dominican Order associates do?

Hypothesis: Associates do not take vows, but rather make a commitment to be partners with vowed members, and to share the mission and charism of the Dominican Family in their own lives, families, churches, neighborhoods, workplaces, and cities.


Premise: Emperor Daigo ruled during what years?

Hypothesis: Another Fujiwara became regent, Sesshō for his grandson, then a minor emperor, and yet another was appointed Kampaku.


Premise: Which city in Greece is Melbourne's sister city?

Hypothesis: Thessaloniki is Melbourne's Greek sister city.


Premise: What is another term for vegetables that was used?

Hypothesis: But they objected, preferring vegetables (pulses) and water in accordance with their Jewish dietary restrictions.


Premise: Where did the Saint Helena cricket team make it's debut in international cricket?

Hypothesis: The Saint Helena cricket team made its debut in international cricket in Division Three of the African region of the World Cricket League in 2011.


Premise: What language did the Huns adopt?

Hypothesis: After Attila's unexpected death the Hunnic Empire collapsed with the Huns disappearing as a people in Europe – who either escaped into Asia, or otherwise blended in amongst Europeans.


Premise: What related fields do linguistic anthropologists draw on?

Hypothesis: Linguistic anthropologists often draw on related fields including sociolinguistics, pragmatics, cognitive linguistics, semiotics, discourse analysis, and narrative analysis.


Premise: When did Captain Damian de Esplana arrive?

Hypothesis: After his arrival in 1674, Captain Damian de Esplana ordered the arrest of rebels who attacked the population of certain towns.


Premise: What is the second purpose of air defence?

Hypothesis: The critical issue is to hit a target moving in three-dimensional space; an attack must not only match these three coordinates, but must do so at the time the target is at that position.


Premise: where did the UK rule the islands from?

Hypothesis: The occupation also prevented the United States from using Tristan da Cunha as a cruiser base, as it had during the War of 1812.


Premise: What sea plankton doe many sea creatures rely on to live?

Hypothesis: The emperor penguin is the only penguin that breeds during the winter in Antarctica, while the Adélie penguin breeds farther south than any other penguin.


Premise: In what year was the ArenaBowl first played at a neutral location?

Hypothesis: This was also the first year the ArenaBowl was played at a neutral site.


Premise: What agreement failed?

Hypothesis: The failed Magna Carta agreement was resuscitated by Marshal's administration and reissued in an edited form in 1217 as a basis for future government.


Premise: What is the first Nidāna?

Hypothesis: Then the absence of the first Nidāna—ignorance—leads to the absence of the others.


Premise: What was Elizabeth's wealth extimated to be in 1971?

Hypothesis: Jock Colville, who was her former private secretary and a director of her bank, Coutts, estimated her wealth in 1971 at £2 million (equivalent to about £25 million today).


Premise: What related attraction was at the same site before the Urban Wildlife Centre?

Hypothesis: The Common includes Hawthorns Urban Wildlife Centre on the former site of Southampton Zoo, a paddling pool and several lakes and ponds.


Premise: What nationality was santiago Ramon y Cajal?

Hypothesis: The first real progress toward a modern understanding of nervous function, though, came from the investigations of Luigi Galvani, who discovered that a shock of static electricity applied to an exposed nerve of a dead frog could cause its leg to contract.


Premise: Who led Chopin's funeral procession?

Hypothesis: At the graveside, the Funeral March from Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 2 was played, in Reber's instrumentation.


Premise: Which former co-host of CBS's The Early Show graduated from BYU?

Hypothesis: BYU also graduated American activist and contributor for ABC News Elizabeth Smart-Gilmour.


Premise: Which group provided oversight for the electoral process in 2009?

Hypothesis: According to the Congolese Observatory of Human Rights, a non-governmental organization, the election was marked by "very low" turnout and "fraud and irregularities".


Premise: What building provides the location of the Washington University School of Law?

Hypothesis: In the 2015 US News & World Report America's Best Graduate Schools, the law school is ranked 18th nationally, out of over 180 law schools.


Premise: What is the flashing indicator of a general hardware error known as?

Hypothesis: A "General Hardware Failure" is recognized on all models released before the Xbox 360 S by three quadrants of the ring around the power button flashing red.


Premise: Who is it named after?

Hypothesis: It is also one of the fastest-growing cities in the country.


Premise: What have scientists learned about angiosperms from DNA sequencing?

Hypothesis: As a result of this work, many questions, such as which families represent the earliest branches of angiosperms, have now been answered.


Premise: If your computer runs Vista, what's the maximum number of start and end rules you can have for each time zone setting?

Hypothesis: Older Microsoft Windows systems usually store only a single start and end rule for each zone, so that the same Canadian setting reliably supports only post-2006 time stamps.


Premise: On what date did the French begin the re-crossing of the Danube?

Hypothesis: The French were too exhausted to pursue the Austrians immediately, but Napoleon eventually caught up with Charles at Znaim and the latter signed an armistice on 12 July.


Premise: What eventually led to the creation of the peasant/smerdy class?

Hypothesis: The change in political structure led to the inevitable development of the peasant class or smerdy.


Premise: Kenneth Samuel Wuest believes that the Biblical Christian term referenced people who did not acknowledge who?

Hypothesis: The city of Antioch, where someone gave them the name Christians, had a reputation for coming up with such nicknames.


Premise: Israel defines itself as what?

Hypothesis: Israel is a developed country and an OECD member, with the 35th-largest economy in the world by nominal gross domestic product as of 2015[update].


Premise: As of 2000, how many people lived in Ceilândia?

Hypothesis: The main purpose of the metro is to serve cities, such as Samambaia, Taguatinga and Ceilândia, as well as Guará and Águas Claras.


Premise: What railroad route passes through Tucson?

Hypothesis: The city of Tucson is also a major hub for the Union Pacific Railroad's Sunset Route that links the Los Angeles ports with the South/Southeast regions of the country.


Premise: What is the nickname for Gorbachev's new doctrine?

Hypothesis: All had been occupied by the Soviet Red Army in 1945, had Soviet-style socialist states imposed upon them, and had very restricted freedom of action in either domestic or international affairs.


Premise: What is the East front of the palace known as?

Hypothesis: By 1847, the couple had found the palace too small for court life and their growing family, and consequently the new wing, designed by Edward Blore, was built by Thomas Cubitt, enclosing the central quadrangle.


Premise: What does NCAZ take care of?

Hypothesis: Amt für den Militärischen Abschirmdienst and other national organisations in Germany taking care of national security aspects.


Premise: Who did the Queen feature in her book that drew so much criticism?

Hypothesis: Through the 1860s, Victoria relied increasingly on a manservant from Scotland, John Brown.


Premise: What would possibly prevent the even spread of relief benefits from Iran's nuclear and sanctions deal of 2015?

Hypothesis: Following a successful implementation of the 2015 nuclear and sanctions relief deal, the resulting benefits might not be distributed evenly across the Iranian economy as political elites such as the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps have garnered more resources and economic interests.


Premise: What does Switzerland charge for the disposal of in order to encourage recycling?

Hypothesis: Rubbish (except dangerous items, batteries etc.) is only collected if it is in bags which either have a payment sticker attached, or in official bags with the surcharge paid at the time of purchase.


Premise: The next layer's surface-to-air missiles are carried by what?

Hypothesis: If an attacker is able to penetrate this layer, then the next layers would come from the surface-to-air missiles carried by the carrier's escorts; the area-defence missiles, such as the RIM-67 Standard, with a range of up to 100 nmi, and the point-defence missiles, like the RIM-162 ESSM, with a range of up to 30 nmi.


Premise: What has rapidly spread due to economic increase?

Hypothesis: It has been estimated that about 20,300MW of hydro electric power can be generated in the State by constructing various major, medium, small and mini/micro hydel projects on the five river basins.


Premise: Near what Texas city is the Spindletop oil field located?

Hypothesis: The following year, oil discovered at the Spindletop oil field near Beaumont prompted the development of the Texas petroleum industry.


Premise: Who was the replacement to play Freddie Mercury in the film of the same name?

Hypothesis: In September 2010, Brian May announced in a BBC interview that Sacha Baron Cohen was to play Mercury in a film of the same name.


Premise: What does downtown Miami possess more of than any other US city?

Hypothesis: For more than two decades, the Port of Miami, known as the "Cruise Capital of the World", has been the number one cruise passenger port in the world.


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

Hypothesis: The degree of uncertainty as to estimates of sea level change relative to the islands of Tuvalu was reflected in the conclusions made in 2002 from the available data.


Premise: How many albums did Beyonce sell in the first week when she released her second album?

Hypothesis: Beyoncé's second solo album B'Day was released on September 5, 2006, in the US, to coincide with her twenty-fifth birthday.


Premise: Did all AV receivers carry the demodulator circuits necessary for LaserDiscs, or only high-end models?

Hypothesis: Although DVD players were capable of playing Dolby Digital tracks, the signal out of DVD player were not in a modulated form and not compatible with the inputs designed for LaserDisc AC-3.


Premise: How is data stored on DVDs?

Hypothesis: The signal produced is dependent on the equipment used to master the disc.


Premise: How many people participated in Bike Miami in October of 2009?

Hypothesis: The city has begun construction of bike routes as of late 2009, and ordinances requiring bike parking in all future construction in the city became mandatory as of October 2009.


Premise: What was the date of the bombing of Hamburg?

Hypothesis: In comparison to the later Allied bombing campaign against Germany, the Blitz resulted in relatively few casualties; the British bombing of Hamburg in July 1943 inflicted some 42,000 civilian deaths, about the same as the entire Blitz.


Premise: What is Catalan a variety of?

Hypothesis: Catalan bears varying degrees of similarity to the linguistic varieties subsumed under the cover term Occitan language (see also differences between Occitan and Catalan and Gallo-Romance languages).


Premise: In which year did Madonna move to New York City?

Hypothesis: After performing in the music groups Breakfast Club and Emmy, she signed with Sire Records (an auxiliary label of Warner Bros. Records) in 1982 and released her self-titled debut album the following year.


Premise: The earliest uses of brass has been attributed to what ancient location?

Hypothesis: The mines of Rajasthan have given definite evidence of zinc production going back to the 6th century BC.


Premise: What was a function of distant country pubs before the rise of motor vehicles?

Hypothesis: In the past, many rural pubs provided opportunities for country folk to meet and exchange (often local) news, while others—especially those away from village centres—existed for the general purpose, before the advent of motor transport, of serving travellers as coaching inns.


Premise: PlayStation Network is only available for PS3 and what other device?

Hypothesis: PlayStation Network is the unified online multiplayer gaming and digital media delivery service provided by Sony Computer Entertainment for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable, announced during the 2006 PlayStation Business Briefing meeting in Tokyo.


Premise: What modern company introduced LEDs in 1968?

Hypothesis: Hewlett Packard (HP) introduced LEDs in 1968, initially using GaAsP supplied by Monsanto.


Premise: What major group did not sign the peace agreement immediately?

Hypothesis: Several groups continued to fight but other groups signed on to the agreement, or similar agreements with the government (e.g. UFR on 15 December 2008).


Premise: Under which agreement are Detroit's major newspapers published?

Hypothesis: The Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News are the major daily newspapers, both broadsheet publications published together under a joint operating agreement called the Detroit Newspaper Partnership.


Premise: What type of pixels does a dot matrix display use?

Hypothesis: Alphanumeric LEDs are available in seven-segment, starburst and dot-matrix format.


Premise: What would Japan accomplish by peace after their early victories?

Hypothesis: The Japanese leadership was aware that a total military victory in a traditional sense against the USA was impossible; the alternative would be negotiating for peace after their initial victories, which would recognize Japanese hegemony in Asia.


Premise: What are the main attractions of the Uruguayan Carnival?

Hypothesis: The main attractions of Uruguayan Carnival include two colorful parades called Desfile de Carnaval (Carnival Parade) and Desfile de Llamadas (Calls Parade, a candombe-summoning parade).


Premise: Who supported the ban against government aid to religious schools before 1970?

Hypothesis: Most important was "the pervasive secularism that came to dominate American public life," which sought to confine religion to a private sphere.


Premise: Who had previously worked on fission bomb yields before Feynman?

Hypothesis: He and Bethe developed the Bethe–Feynman formula for calculating the yield of a fission bomb, which built upon previous work by Robert Serber.


Premise: Who defeated Japan during the World War II?

Hypothesis: The Allied powers who defeated Japan in the South-East Asian theatre of World War II then contended with nationalists to whom the occupation authorities had granted independence.


Premise: What is a central part of the science of anthropology?

Hypothesis: Human time on Earth is divided up into relevant cultural traditions based on material, such as the Paleolithic and the Neolithic, of particular use in archaeology.[citation needed]


Premise: How many jobs were there in Southampton in March of 2007?

Hypothesis: This compares with an average of 2.5 per cent for England as a whole.


Premise: What was the coronation song?

Hypothesis: The winning song, "The Time of My Life", was recorded by David Cook and released on May 22, 2008.


Premise: What is one of the heaviest migratory funnels?

Hypothesis: Batumi bottleneck in the Caucasus is one of the heaviest migratory funnels on earth.


Premise: All five boroughs of New York City formed into one city on what date?

Hypothesis: were consolidated into a single city in 1898.


Premise: In what year was there a conference for organized crime figures in Atlantic City?

Hypothesis: From May 13 to May 16 in 1929, Johnson hosted a conference for organized crime figures from all across America.


Premise: About how long ago did modern human beings first come into existence?

Hypothesis: Its present form in humans differed from that of the chimpanzees by only a few mutations and has been present for about 200,000 years, coinciding with the beginning of modern humans (Enard et al. 2002).


Premise: In what year was Bush Intercontinental named a model by U.S. Customs?

Hypothesis: Houston was the headquarters of Continental Airlines until its 2010 merger with United Airlines with headquarters in Chicago; regulatory approval for the merger was granted in October of that year.


Premise: What traditional culture predominates in many areas of small farms?

Hypothesis: A traditional farmer and herder culture also predominates in many areas and small farms are omnipresent outside the cities.


Premise: What is the process by which a mature mRNA molecule is used as a template for synthesizing a new protein called?

Hypothesis: Translation is the process by which a mature mRNA molecule is used as a template for synthesizing a new protein.:6.2 Translation is carried out by ribosomes, large complexes of RNA and protein responsible for carrying out the chemical reactions to add new amino acids to a growing polypeptide chain by the formation of peptide bonds.


Premise: What change, supported by Victoria, did Disraeli make to the Anglician liturgy?

Hypothesis: He passed the Public Worship Regulation Act 1874, which removed Catholic rituals from the Anglican liturgy and which Victoria strongly supported.


Premise: When did the United States Geological Survey released its seismic hazard analysis?

Hypothesis: According to the United States Geological Survey, an updated analysis of seismic hazard in July 2014 revealed a "slightly lower hazard for tall buildings" in New York City than previously assessed.


Premise: What group sought to investigate the purchase on anti-trust grounds?

Hypothesis: According to Politico, Comcast "donated to almost every member of Congress who has a hand in regulating it."


Premise: What falls within the term "cultural anthropology"?

Hypothesis: Sometimes "culture" is also used to describe specific practices within a subgroup of a society, a subculture (e.g. "bro culture"), or a counter culture.


Premise: Which CFL games require tie-breaking rounds continue until a winner results?

Hypothesis: In a playoff or championship game, the teams continue to attempt to score from alternating 35-yard lines, until one team is leading after both have had an equal number of possessions.


Premise: What was the most popular method in the 1960s regarding science studies?

Hypothesis: Since the 1960s, a common trend in science studies (the study of the sociology and history of science) has been to emphasize the "human component" of scientific knowledge, and to de-emphasize the view that scientific data are self-evident, value-free, and context-free.


Premise: What's another term for "grounded" in the context of PCBs?

Hypothesis: When handling these boards, the user must be grounded (earthed).


Premise: What was the US military's counterpart to the British Stooge to counter the attacks by Kamikazes?

Hypothesis: Facing the threat of Japanese Kamikaze attacks the British and US developed surface-to-air rockets like British Stooge or the American Lark as counter measures, but none of them were ready at the end of the war.


Premise: When was Henry crowned King of England?

Hypothesis: Henry the Young King had been crowned King of England in 1170, but was not given any formal powers by his father; he was also promised Normandy and Anjou as part of his future inheritance.


Premise: What individual was typically in charge of a commandery?

Hypothesis: A commandery consisted of a group of counties, and was headed by an Administrator.


Premise: Who coordinated the efforts of the ROK Army, Marine Corps and the US Army to stage a successful battle?

Hypothesis: The X Corps, led by General Edward Almond, Commander, consisted of 40,000 men of the 1st Marine Division, the 7th Infantry Division and around 8,600 ROK Army soldiers.


Premise: Along with Buddhism, what religion has had a significant influence on Nepal?

Hypothesis: These are amply reflected in the many temples, shrines, stupas, monasteries, and palaces in the seven well-defined Monument Zones of the Kathmandu valley are part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site.


Premise: Why were the clean slate decrees useful to the rulers of Sumer?

Hypothesis: Customarily rulers did it at the beginning of the first full year of their reign, but they could also be proclaimed at times of military conflict or crop failure.


Premise: Madonna is recognize as the best selling female music artiste by who?

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


Premise: Who was the latest clubs have won the fa cup as part of a league cup double?

Hypothesis: In 1993, Arsenal became the first side to win both the FA Cup and the League Cup in the same season when they beat Sheffield Wednesday 2–1 in both finals.


Premise: Which company verified contents of the leaked information?

Hypothesis: Eon Productions later issued a statement confirming the leak of what they called "an early version of the screenplay".


Premise: Which court did the lawsuit take place in?

Hypothesis: Apple, Samsung, and Sandisk all settled the claims against them in January 2009.


Premise: What does a earthworms digestive systme consist of?

Hypothesis: An earthworm's digestive system consists of a mouth, pharynx, esophagus, crop, gizzard, and intestine.


Premise: What is the system that preserves the documents of US Presidents?

Hypothesis: NARA also maintains the Presidential Library system, a nationwide network of libraries for preserving and making available the documents of U.S. presidents since Herbert Hoover.


Premise: The use of bold fonts and capilization in titles falls under which unusual grammatical distinction?

Hypothesis: This is an old form of emphasis, similar to the more modern practice of using a larger or boldface font for titles.


Premise: For what was most of the the Bitumont plant's output was used for waterproofing?

Hypothesis: The value of the deposit was obvious from the start, but the means of extracting the bitumen were not.


Premise: What does Norman mean in the article when saying "Near East"?

Hypothesis: The rest of the Ottoman domain is demoted to just "the east."


Premise: What is added to almost every dish in Greece?

Hypothesis: Olive oil is added to almost every dish.


Premise: What was a possible condition that made the United Grand Lodge of England withdraw it's recognition of the Grand Orient de France?

Hypothesis: It is possible that the immediate objections of the United Grand Lodge of England were at least partly motivated by the political tension between France and Britain at the time.


Premise: Which arm of NARA handles grants?

Hypothesis: The National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC)—the agency's grant-making arm—awards funds to state and local governments, public and private archives, colleges and universities, and other nonprofit organizations to preserve and publish historical records.


Premise: What was Sega's CD add-on?

Hypothesis: Ultimately, deals with both Sony and Philips fell through, (although a prototype console was produced by Sony) with Philips gaining the right to release a series of titles based on Nintendo franchises for its CD-i multimedia player and Sony going on to develop its own console based on its initial dealings with Nintendo (the PlayStation).


Premise: Who controlled musical institutions before the 19th century?

Hypothesis: In the 19th century, musical institutions emerged from the control of wealthy patrons, as composers and musicians could construct lives independent of the nobility.


Premise: What quote sums up PC World's 2006 assessment of PS3?

Hypothesis: Business Week summed up the general opinion by stating that it was "more impressed with what [the PlayStation 3] could do than with what it currently does".


Premise: Church and state have been officially separated in Uruguay since what year?

Hypothesis: Church and state are officially separated since 1916 in Uruguay.


Premise: What new feature for PS3 was released in September of 2009?

Hypothesis: What's New was announced at Gamescom 2009 and was released on September 1, 2009, with PlayStation 3 system software 3.0.


Premise: What is the most recent standard for external drive connectivity?

Hypothesis: Functionally, the drive appears to the user much like an internal drive.


Premise: What was the name of the legislative body that was brought into existance in 1989?

Hypothesis: Under Gorbachev's leadership, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1989 introduced limited competitive elections to a new central legislature, the Congress of People's Deputies (although the ban on other political parties was not lifted until 1990).


Premise: What is more important for a textual critic: quality or quantity?

Hypothesis: They proposed nine critical rules, including a version of Bengel's rule, "The reading is less likely to be original that shows a disposition to smooth away difficulties.


Premise: When was Thuringia's first railway built?

Hypothesis: By 1920, many branch lines had been built, giving Thuringia one of the densest rail networks in the world before World War II with about 2,500 km of track.


Premise: In addressing the issue of "in part," the Appeals Chamber found that the part must be a substantial part of what?

Hypothesis: The aim of the Genocide Convention is to prevent the intentional destruction of entire human groups, and the part targeted must be significant enough to have an impact on the group as a whole.


Premise: What number word is spelled the same in English and Low German?

Hypothesis: Voicing of pre-vocalic initial voiceless alveolar fricatives occurs, although less in Dutch than in German (Du zeven, Germ sieben [z] vs. Eng seven and LG seven [s]), and also the shift in /θ/


Premise: What kind of scale does the KSOG use?

Hypothesis: Introduced in Klein's book The Bisexual Option, the KSOG uses a 7-point scale to assess seven different dimensions of sexuality at three different points in an individual's life: past (from early adolescence up to one year ago), present (within the last 12 months), and ideal (what would you choose if it were completely your choice).


Premise: The 120 operational and developmental properties within the college that are not core to the academic mission belong to which portfolio?

Hypothesis: Unitised Scheme – a unit trust vehicle for College, Faculties and Departments to invest endowments and unfettered income to produce returns for the long term; (ii) Non-Core Property – a portfolio containing around 120 operational and developmental properties which College has determined are not core to the academic mission; and (iii) Strategic Asset Investments – containing College’s shareholding in Imperial Innovations and other restricted equity holdings.


Premise: What is the maximum LER possible?

Hypothesis: The maximum LER possible is 683 lm/W for monochromatic green light at 555 nanometers wavelength, the peak sensitivity of the human eye.


Premise: What year was the UAR formed?

Hypothesis: However, in January 1958, a second Syrian delegation managed to convince Nasser of an impending communist takeover and a consequent slide to civil strife.


Premise: When was a 11kV system of NY, New Haven and Hartford was converted to 12.5 kV?

Hypothesis: The SEPTA power distribution system uses a 2:1 ratio autotransformer system, with the catenary fed at 12 kV and a return feeder wire fed at 24 kV. The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad used an 11 kV system between New York City and New Haven, Connecticut which was converted to 12.5 kV 60 Hz in 1987.


Premise: What Red Cross team left Taipei on May 16

Hypothesis: A direct chartered cargo flight was made by China Airlines from Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport to Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport sending some 100 tons of relief supplies donated by the Tzu Chi Foundation and the Red Cross Society of Taiwan to the affected areas.


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

Hypothesis: Beyoncé embarked on The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour on April 15 in Belgrade, Serbia; the tour included 132 dates that ran through to March 2014.


Premise: What helps bacteria to survive?

Hypothesis: Only the intimate association with the hydrogen-consuming Archaea keeps the hydrogen concentration low enough to allow the bacteria to grow.


Premise: How many executions occurred in 1999?

Hypothesis: Since the death penalty was reauthorized in 1976, 1,411 people have been executed, almost exclusively by the states, with most occurring after 1990.


Premise: Why have aircraft carriers increased in size since World War II?

Hypothesis: Today's aircraft carriers are so expensive that nations which operate them risk significant political, economic, and military impact if a carrier is lost, or even used in conflict.


Premise: What type of pictoral aid is often used to show this?

Hypothesis: It is typically represented by a three-dimensional graph, or polar plots of the horizontal and vertical cross sections.


Premise: On what date was Comcast's purchase of controlling interest in NBCUniversal reported?

Hypothesis: Following a tentative agreement on by December 1, on December 3, 2009, the parties announced that Comcast would buy a controlling 51% stake in NBCUniversal for $6.5 billion in cash and $7.3 billion in programming.


Premise: What country conquered the Algiers from the Ottomans in   1830?

Hypothesis: France conquered the regency of Algiers from the Ottomans in 1830, and French rule spread south from Algeria and eastwards from Senegal into the upper Niger to include present-day Algeria, Chad, Mali then French Sudan including Timbuktu, Mauritania, Morocco (1912), Niger, and Tunisia (1881).


Premise: What were the higher nobility named?

Hypothesis: The higher nobility were named 'kunigai' or 'kunigaikščiai' (dukes)—i.e., loanword from Scandinavic konung.


Premise: Why was SASO created?

Hypothesis: Rather than providing a final solution to the question of how to best measure sexual orientation, the SASO is meant to provoke discussion and debate about measurements of sexual orientation.


Premise: what year was the history of Ming produced?

Hypothesis: According to the official Twenty-Four Histories, the History of Ming compiled in 1739 by the subsequent Qing dynasty (1644–1912), the Ming dynasty established the "É-Lì-Sī Army-Civilian Marshal Office" (Chinese: 俄力思軍民元帥府) in western Tibet and installed the "Ü-Tsang Itinerant High Commandery" and "Amdo-Kham Itinerant High Commandery" to administer Kham.


Premise: What phrase describing dogs is used in different languages?

Hypothesis: In 1957, a husky-terrier mix named Laika became the first animal to orbit the Earth.


Premise: When was the Promenade des Berges de la Seine built?

Hypothesis: Between 1853 and 1870, the Emperor Napoleon III and the city's first director of parks and gardens, Jean-Charles Alphand, created the Bois de Boulogne, the Bois de Vincennes, Parc Montsouris and the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont, located at the four points of the compass around the city, as well as many smaller parks, squares and gardens in the Paris' quarters.


Premise: Beyonce would take a break from music in which year?

Hypothesis: During the break she and her father parted ways as business partners.


Premise: What selling methods did the Marble Palace use?

Hypothesis: His innovations included buying from manufacturers for cash and in large quantities, keeping his markup small and prices low, truthful presentation of merchandise, the one-price policy (so there was no haggling), simple merchandise returns and cash refund policy, selling for cash and not credit, buyers who searched worldwide for quality merchandise, departmentalization, vertical and horizontal integration, volume sales, and free services for customers such as waiting rooms and free delivery of purchases.


Premise: The remains of an ancient bridge found on the shore of the River Thames was dated back to what archaeological period?

Hypothesis: This bridge either crossed the Thames, or went to a now lost island in the river.


Premise: What magazine awarded Southampton "fittest city in the UK" in 2006?

Hypothesis: In 2007, it had slipped one place behind London, but was still ranked first when it came to the parks and green spaces available for exercise and the amount of television watched by Sotonians was the lowest in the country.


Premise: As one of the oldest school which was founded in 1660, what is it's name?

Hypothesis: Hopkins School, a private school, was founded in 1660 and is the fifth-oldest educational institution in the United States.


Premise: Who has congress delegated the responsibility of establishing the rules of conduct for the courts to?

Hypothesis: An example of the first view is the regulation of attorneys and judges, and the establishment of rules for the conduct of the courts, by the Congress and in the states the legislatures.


Premise: How many times did Chopin and Liszy perform together in public?

Hypothesis: They performed together on seven occasions between 1833 and 1841.


Premise: Who did the British deport from Lie Saint-Jean?

Hypothesis: British Prime Minister William Pitt's focus on the colonies for the 1758 campaign paid off with the taking of Louisbourg after French reinforcements were blocked by British naval victory in the Battle of Cartagena and in the successful capture of Fort Duquesne and Fort Frontenac.


Premise: How long did Enrique 's deal as coach run?

Hypothesis: Two days later, it was announced that Luis Enrique would return to Barcelona as head coach, after he agreed to a two-year deal.


Premise: What must a species do in order to be classified as a predator?

Hypothesis: The key characteristic of predation however is the predator's direct impact on the prey population.


Premise: What constituted World One in Popper's theory?

Hypothesis: The influence of World Three, in his view, on the individual human mind (World Two) is at least as strong as the influence of World One.


Premise: What munition hit Kerry's boat?

Hypothesis: Though wounded like several others earlier that day, Kerry did not lose any time off from duty.


Premise: What organization calls the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts home?

Hypothesis: The center attracts many large-scale operas, ballets, concerts, and musicals from around the world and is Florida's grandest performing arts center.


Premise: How much did Oklahoma's population decline from 1930 to 1950?

Hypothesis: Over a twenty-year period ending in 1950, the state saw its only historical decline in population, dropping 6.9 percent as impoverished families migrated out of the state after the Dust Bowl.


Premise: Why is the king allowed to appoint members of parliament?

Hypothesis: The king is allowed by the constitution to appoint some members to parliament for special interests.


Premise: When was Yale Divinity School established?

Hypothesis: In 1887, as the college continued to grow under the presidency of Timothy Dwight V, Yale College was renamed Yale University.


Premise: Name one other group present at the Crucifixion?

Hypothesis: Apart from these women, the three Synoptic Gospels speak of the presence of others: "the chief priests, with the scribes and elders"; two robbers crucified, one on Jesus' right and one on his left, whom the Gospel of Luke presents as the penitent thief and the impenitent thief; "the soldiers", "the centurion and those who were with him, keeping watch over Jesus"; passers-by; "bystanders", "the crowds that had assembled for this spectacle"; and "his acquaintances"


Premise: In what year did "Notre Dame Victory March" get copyrighted?

Hypothesis: The lyrics were revised in the 1920s; it first appeared under the copyright of the University of Notre Dame in 1928.


Premise: What store is a part of the Metro AG?

Hypothesis: Next to some smaller, independent department stores these are Karstadt (in 2010 taken over by Nicolas Berggruen, also operating the KaDeWe in Berlin, the Alsterhaus in Hamburg and the Oberpollinger in Munich), GALERIA Kaufhof (part of the Metro AG).


Premise: During the low volume hours, what can the upper deck function as?

Hypothesis: The lower deck is turned off during low-volume hours, and the upper deck can act as a single-level elevator stopping at all adjacent floors.


Premise: What do annelids without septa have to use for circulation?

Hypothesis: Species with well-developed septa generally also have blood vessels running all long their bodies above and below the gut, the upper one carrying blood forwards while the lower one carries it backwards.


Premise: What does the Dutch word "kroes" mean in English?

Hypothesis: Vowel length is not always considered a distinctive feature in Dutch phonology, because it normally co-occurs with changes in vowel quality.


Premise: What country found bank accounts and real estate owned by the Sassou regime?

Hypothesis: Internationally, Sassou's regime has been hit by corruption revelations despite attempts to censor them.


Premise: The Enlightenment is frequently linked to the French Revolution of what year?

Hypothesis: The Enlightenment has been frequently linked to the French Revolution of 1789.


Premise: In what environment are bacteria being cultivated in labs?

Hypothesis: In the laboratory, bacteria are usually grown using solid or liquid media.


Premise: Can anyone in Burma Join the military forces in Burma ?

Hypothesis: Such persecution and targeting of civilians is particularly notable in Eastern Myanmar, where over 3000 villages have been destroyed in the past ten years.


Premise: What army were Korean men conscripted into?

Hypothesis: Japanese Korea conscripted 2.6 million forced laborers controlled with a collaborationist Korean police force; some 723,000 people were sent to work in the overseas empire and in metropolitan Japan.


Premise: What brought up enhancement of drug regulations?

Hypothesis: The thalidomide tragedy resurrected Kefauver's bill to enhance drug regulation that had stalled in Congress, and the Kefauver-Harris Amendment became law on 10 October 1962.


Premise: How many miles of hidden tunnel were on the island?

Hypothesis: The heavy American naval and air bombardment did little but drive the Japanese further underground, making their positions impervious to enemy fire.


Premise: How far is Raleigh from Richmond?

Hypothesis: Its central Piedmont location situates Raleigh about two hours west of Atlantic Beach, North Carolina, by car and four hours east of the Great Smoky Mountains.


Premise: What characteristics has Beyonce received acclaim for?

Hypothesis: Beyoncé has received praise for her stage presence and voice during live performances.


Premise: Which year was used for estimates in the 2015 report?

Hypothesis: Below is the list of the "very high human development" countries:


Premise: For what would a bill be submitted to the Supreme Court of Scotland?

Hypothesis: Royal assent is signified by letters patent under the Great Seal of Scotland in the following form which is set out in The Scottish Parliament (Letters Patent and Proclamations)


Premise: Which bird sees more daylight than any other during migration?

Hypothesis: Some, such as the black guillemot Cepphus grylle and some gulls, are quite sedentary; others, such as most terns and auks breeding in the temperate northern hemisphere, move varying distances south in the northern winter.


Premise: How does Article 12 of the 1886 Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works use the term piracy?

Hypothesis: The term "piracy" has been used to refer to the unauthorized copying, distribution and selling of works in copyright.


Premise: Where are the clicks meant for the top level page routed?

Hypothesis: Carefully drafting a combination of stylesheets, iframes, buttons and text boxes, a user can be led into believing that they are typing the password or other information on some authentic webpage while it is being channeled into an invisible frame controlled by the attacker.


Premise: What is the importance pertaining to the age of the hominid that was found in Eritrea?

Hypothesis: It is believed that the section of the Danakil Depression in Eritrea was also a major player in terms of human evolution, and may contain other traces of evolution from Homo erectus hominids to anatomically modern humans.


Premise: What year was Maurice Barrès's Les Déracinés written?

Hypothesis: Datta (2005) shows that, following the collapse of militaristic Boulangism in the late 1880s, the Napoleonic legend was divorced from party politics and revived in popular culture.


Premise: Which country had successful public analog HDTV broadcasting?

Hypothesis: In addition, recording and reproducing an HDTV signal was a significant technical challenge in the early years of HDTV (Sony HDVS).


Premise: Where does the mandolin that Gaetano Vinaccia reside?

Hypothesis: There is confusion currently as to the name of the eldest Vinaccia luthier who first ran the shop.


Premise: What type of hardware is Secure Blue?

Hypothesis: These microprocessors do not use von Neumann architecture, and they consume less memory and power.


Premise: What happens after an enhancer binds an activator protein?

Hypothesis: For example, enhancers increase transcription by binding an activator protein which then helps to recruit the RNA polymerase to the promoter; conversely silencers bind repressor proteins and make the DNA less available for RNA polymerase.


Premise: What is the name of a magazine published at KU?

Hypothesis: The William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications is recognized for its ability to prepare students to work in a variety of media when they graduate.


Premise: In the late nineties, what was considered the rate of cable-borne elevator problems?

Hypothesis: In 1998, it was estimated that approximately eight millionths of one percent (1 in 12 million) of elevator rides result in an anomaly, and the vast majority of these were minor things such as the doors failing to open.


Premise: Where had northern printing been moved to?

Hypothesis: Northern printing had earlier been switched to a new plant at Knowsley on Merseyside and the Scottish Sun to another new plant at Motherwell near Glasgow.


Premise: How fast can Ultra Speed CDs write?

Hypothesis: High Speed CD-RW drives can typically write to both original ReWritable CDs and High Speed ReWritable CDs.


Premise: In what year did Argentina's University Revolution occur?

Hypothesis: Reforms in Argentina were the result of the University Revolution of 1918 and its posterior reforms by incorporating values that sought for a more equal and laic higher education system.


Premise: What 2 Gulf monarchies have pledged billions of dollars to help Egypt overcome recent economic difficulties?

Hypothesis: The Arab League briefly moved from Egypt to Tunis in 1978 to protest the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty, but it later returned to Cairo in 1989.


Premise: From what country did the largest number of foreign-born immigrants originate as of 2011?

Hypothesis: The ten largest sources of foreign-born individuals in the city as of 2011 were the Dominican Republic, China, Mexico, Guyana, Jamaica, Ecuador, Haiti, India, Russia, and Trinidad and Tobago, while the Bangladeshi immigrant population has since become one of the fastest growing in the city, counting over 74,000 by 2013.


Premise: What was Ibn Tufail's religion?

Hypothesis: In the 12th century CE the Andalusian Muslim philosopher and novelist Abu Bakr Ibn Tufail (known as "Abubacer" or "Ebn Tophail" in the West) included the theory of tabula rasa as a thought experiment in his Arabic philosophical novel, Hayy ibn Yaqdhan in which he depicted the development of the mind of a feral child "from a tabula rasa to that of an adult, in complete isolation from society" on a desert island, through experience alone.


Premise: What did the MFA put quotas on?

Hypothesis: Although many countries recognize treaties like the International Labor Organization, which attempt to set standards for worker safety and rights, many countries have made exceptions to certain parts of the treaties or failed to thoroughly enforce them.


Premise: Why did God want to act through Afonso?

Hypothesis: The story associated with this miracle tells that before the Battle of Ourique (25 July 1139), an old hermit appeared before Count Afonso Henriques (future Afonso I) as a divine messenger.


Premise: About how many years between World Cups?

Hypothesis: Association football is governed internationally by the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA; French: Fédération Internationale de Football Association), which organises World Cups for both men and women every four years.


Premise: Aside from the koofiyad, what do Somali men wear on their head?

Hypothesis: On their heads, they often wrap a colorful turban or wear the koofiyad, an embroidered fez.


Premise: When did the movement that considered the use of peaceful means to solve the plight of lesser classes begin?

Hypothesis: After several failures, the movement's leaders decided to use any means that were necessary to accomplish their goals.


Premise: What typically follows the signatures in a treaty?

Hypothesis: If the treaty is executed in multiple copies in different languages, that fact is always noted, and is followed by a stipulation that the versions in different languages are equally authentic.


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

Hypothesis: The Bohr magneton and the nuclear magneton are units which are used to describe the magnetic properties of the electron and atomic nuclei respectively.


Premise: What happened two years after San Diego elected it's first mayor?

Hypothesis: Two years later the city was bankrupt; the California legislature revoked the city's charter and placed it under control of a board of trustees, where it remained until 1889.


Premise: Who owns Walt Disney Studios?

Hypothesis: Classic films released by 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, Universal Studios, and Columbia Pictures are licensed individually for broadcast on Turner Classic Movies.


Premise: What power was Congress given by the Constitution?

Hypothesis: The Federal Reserve Note is the only type that remains in circulation since the 1970s.


Premise: What language are lyrics typically sung in?

Hypothesis: Lyrics are almost always in Guinea-Bissau Creole, a Portuguese-based creole language, and are often humorous and topical, revolving around current events and controversies, especially AIDS.


Premise: What kind of plan was it?

Hypothesis: The first five-year plan allocated ₹ 52.7 million to Himachal.


Premise: There was a need to separate what from the terrain of the Ottoman Empire?

Hypothesis: The Christians saw the country as the land of the Old and New Testaments, where Christianity had developed.


Premise: What battle took place in 1683?

Hypothesis: The Ottomans gradually fell behind the Europeans in military technology as the innovation that fed the Empire's forceful expansion became stifled by growing religious and intellectual conservatism.


Premise: What Israeli orchestra has been in operation for more than seventy years?

Hypothesis: Among Israel's world-renowned orchestras is the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, which has been in operation for over seventy years and today performs more than two hundred concerts each year.


Premise: How many national parks does Portugal have?

Hypothesis: Protected areas of Portugal include one national park (Portuguese: Parque Nacional), 12 natural parks (Portuguese: Parque Natural), nine natural reserves (


Premise: What is the effigy of Viscount Nelson wearing?

Hypothesis: During recent conservation of Elizabeth I's effigy, a unique corset dating from 1603 was found on the figure and is now displayed separately.[citation needed]


Premise: By 2009, by how much had the rate of HIV infection decreased?

Hypothesis: Despite criticism from other European nations, who stated Portugal's drug consumption would tremendously increase, overall drug use has declined along with the number of HIV infection cases, which had dropped 50 percent by 2009.


Premise: What sizes were record album covers available in?

Hypothesis: These albums came in both 10-inch and 12-inch sizes.


Premise: What is the size of New York City in square miles?

Hypothesis: Situated on one of the world's largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, each of which is a separate county of New York State.


Premise: When does the Congo experience dry season?

Hypothesis: The dry season is from June to August while in the majority of the country the wet season has two rainfall maxima: one in March–May and another in September–November.


Premise: In kilometers, how far apart was each stage of the Umayyad highways?

Hypothesis: The main highways were divided into stages of 12 miles (19 km)


Premise: What did Hopkins believe was required other than calories, protein and minerals to help prevent deficiency diseases?

Hypothesis: In the middle of twelve years of attempts to isolate them, Hopkins said in a 1906 lecture that "unsuspected dietetic factors," other than calories, protein, and minerals, are needed to prevent deficiency diseases.


Premise: What may be formed between the external ectoderm and an internal endoderm layers?

Hypothesis: In most cases, a mesoderm also develops between them.


Premise: What did Hume say can't be rationally justified?

Hypothesis: Most of Hume's followers have disagreed with his conclusion that belief in an external world is rationally unjustifiable, contending that Hume's own principles implicitly contained the rational justification for such a belief, that is, beyond being content to let the issue rest on human instinct, custom and habit.


Premise: Which political forces maintained strong control over the state until shortly after French intervention?

Hypothesis: President Juárez, in an effort to organize a strong defense against the French, decreed a list of national guard units that every state had to contribute to the Ministry of War and the Navy; Chihuahua was responsible for inducting 2,000 men.


Premise: How many professors have been disciplined according to the new Statement on Academic Freedom?

Hypothesis: " The new rules have not affected BYU's accreditation, as the university's chosen accrediting body allows "religious colleges and universities to place limitations on academic freedom so long as they publish those limitations candidly", according to associate academic vice president Jim Gordon.


Premise: Computing resources that are created in cell phones are called what?

Hypothesis: The same developments that spurred the growth of laptop computers and other portable computers allowed manufacturers to integrate computing resources into cellular phones.


Premise: Why are several anthropologists dismissed from their jobs, according to David H. Price?

Hypothesis: At the same time, David H. Price's work on American anthropology during the Cold War provides detailed accounts of the pursuit and dismissal of several anthropologists from their jobs for communist sympathies.


Premise: What is usually written in song forms?

Hypothesis: Whereas most popular styles are usually written in song forms, classical music is noted for its development of highly sophisticated musical forms, like the concerto, symphony, sonata, and opera.


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

Hypothesis: Traditionally, the first foreign language in school was always one of the other national languages, although recently (2000) English was introduced first in a few cantons.


Premise: When was the first time Liszt and Chopin performed together?

Hypothesis: Their last appearance together in public was for a charity concert conducted for the Beethoven Memorial in Bonn, held at the Salle Pleyel and the Paris Conservatory on 25 and 26 April 1841.


Premise: Media Transfer Protocol was designed by who?

Hypothesis: Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) was designed by Microsoft to give higher-level access to a device's filesystem than USB mass storage, at the level of files rather than disk blocks.


Premise: Who was the chief architect of the Temple of Solomon?

Hypothesis: During these three rituals, the candidate is progressively taught the meanings of the Lodge symbols, and entrusted with grips, signs and words to signify to other Masons that he has been so initiated.


Premise: What was the name of 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 created dBASE?

Hypothesis: C. Wayne Ratliff the creator of dBASE stated: "dBASE was different from programs like BASIC, C, FORTRAN, and COBOL in that a lot of the dirty work had already been done.


Premise: What was Nasser's political opposition like in the 1965 election?

Hypothesis: During the presidential referendum in Egypt, Nasser was re-elected to a second term as UAR president and took his oath on 25 March 1965.


Premise: Who wrote "Poem to the Memory of Newton?"

Hypothesis: Sir Richard Blackmore committed the Newtonian system to verse in Creation, a Philosophical Poem in Seven Books (1712).


Premise: What view towards cognitive development during adolescence did Piaget take?

Hypothesis: There are at least two major approaches to understanding cognitive change during adolescence.


Premise: In Britain, what was the most liked illustrated humor periodical?

Hypothesis: Illustrated humour periodicals were popular in 19th-century Britain, the earliest of which was the short-lived The Glasgow Looking Glass in 1825.


Premise: What year did the railroad to London from Southampton open fully?

Hypothesis: Southampton subsequently became known as The Gateway to the Empire.


Premise: In what form is anatta not meant as a metaphysical assertion?

Hypothesis: In fact, the Buddha rejected both of the metaphysical assertions "I have a Self" and "I have no Self" as ontological views that bind one to suffering.[note 9]


Premise: How should parasite classification be viewed instead of as four isolated forms?

Hypothesis: It is therefore wise to treat this classification system as a continuum rather than four isolated forms.


Premise: What are some of the luminous efficacies of yellow phosphor based white LED compared to blue?

Hypothesis: For example, the luminous efficacy of a typical YAG yellow phosphor based white LED ranges from 3 to 5 times the luminous efficacy of the original blue LED because of the human eye's greater sensitivity to yellow than to blue (as modeled in the luminosity function).


Premise: Who stated that Beyoncé is the most important musician of the 21st century?

Hypothesis: [She] and not any superannuated rock star was arguably the greatest live performer of the past 10 years."


Premise: When was a study about the DNA of a young boy published in Nature?

Hypothesis: A 2013 study in Nature reported that DNA found in the 24,000-year-old remains of a young boy from the archaeological Mal'ta-Buret' culture suggest that up to one-third of the indigenous Americans may have ancestry that can be traced back to western Eurasians, who may have "had a more north-easterly distribution 24,000 years ago than commonly thought".


Premise: What did a former member of the Hellenic Statistical Authority say the deficit had been inflated to justify?

Hypothesis: Greece was accused of trying to cover up the extent of its massive budget deficit in the wake of the global financial crisis.


Premise: What instrument did he mostly compose for?

Hypothesis: He gained and has maintained renown worldwide as one of the leading musicians of his era, whose "poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was without equal in his generation.


Premise: What outlines the responsibilities and provides a plan for coordination during a cyber incident?

Hypothesis: The Cyber Incident Management Framework for Canada outlines these responsibilities, and provides a plan for coordinated response between government and other partners in the event of a cyber incident.


Premise: Who has abandoned the term Near East?

Hypothesis: The countries of the former empires of the 19th century have in general abandoned the term and the subdivision in favor of Middle East, North Africa and various forms of Asia.


Premise: How old was Mary when she was consecrated as a virgin?

Hypothesis: Some apocryphal accounts state that at the time of her betrothal to Joseph, Mary was 12–14 years old, and he was thirty years old, but such accounts are unreliable.


Premise: The smaller German states joined which side?

Hypothesis: Reluctantly, by following the imperial diet, most of the states of the empire joined Austria's cause.


Premise: Who lost the architectural contest?

Hypothesis: Other noticeable contemporary buildings are the new Music school Cité de la Musique et de la Danse, the Musée d'Art moderne et contemporain and the Hôtel du Département facing it, as well as, in the outskirts, the tramway-station Hoenheim-Nord designed by Zaha Hadid.


Premise: What did this menace undermine?

Hypothesis: After the First World War, however, it became apparent that the number of mixed-race people was growing at a faster rate than the white population, and by 1930 fear of the "half-caste menace" undermining the White Australia ideal from within was being taken as a serious concern.


Premise: What is a popular business for international Asian countries in Burma ?

Hypothesis: Despite Western isolation, Asian corporations have generally remained willing to continue investing in the country and to initiate new investments, particularly in natural resource extraction.


Premise: From what dialect is Hindi descended?

Hypothesis: Words originating in Sanskrit are estimated at roughly fifty percent of the vocabulary of modern Indo-Aryan languages, as well as the literary forms of Malayalam and Kannada.


Premise: What offshoots of polychaetes are only segmented in the rear?

Hypothesis: It now seems that segmentation can appear and disappear much more easily in the course of evolution than was previously thought.


Premise: In what month and year did Comcast buy 49% of NBCUniversal?

Hypothesis: After that deal, GE owned 80% of NBC Universal; Vivendi held the remaining 20%, with an option to sell its share in 2006.


Premise: What sportswear company has a deal with the University of Kansas?

Hypothesis: Sheahon Zenger was introduced as KU's new athletic director in January 2011.


Premise: What publication revealed information about the working conditions of iPod labor?

Hypothesis: Apple investigated the case with independent auditors and found that, while some of the plant's labour practices met Apple's Code of Conduct, others did not: employees worked over 60 hours a week for 35% of the time, and worked more than six consecutive days for 25% of the time.


Premise: What direction from Boston is Boston Harbor?

Hypothesis: The Mystic River separates Charlestown from Chelsea and Everett, and Chelsea Creek and Boston Harbor separate East Boston from Boston proper.


Premise: What year was the New York Life Building built?

Hypothesis: Heading east, 27th Street passes through Chelsea Park between Tenth and Ninth Avenues, with the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) on the corner of Eighth.


Premise: What other national examinations are available?

Hypothesis: Individuals who pass this exam become ‘Lighting Certified’ and may append the abbreviation LC to their name.


Premise: What can one use to look at differences between groups instead of physical differences?

Hypothesis: Another way to look at differences between populations is to measure genetic differences rather than physical differences between groups.


Premise: What is another country with which the Gothic style is distinctly connected with?

Hypothesis: The Gothic style is most particularly associated with the great cathedrals of Northern France, the Low Countries, England and Spain, with other fine examples occurring across Europe.


Premise: How many members did the original Houston city council have?

Hypothesis: The city of Houston's official 2010 census count was 600 shy of the required number; however, as the city was expected to grow beyond 2.1 million shortly thereafter, the two additional districts were added for, and the positions filled during, the August 2011 elections.


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

Hypothesis: A broad operational definition is sometimes used to encompass the complexity of these diverse phenomena, where a gene is defined as a union of genomic sequences encoding a coherent set of potentially overlapping functional products.


Premise: What does Lawson suggest has contributed to the consistency of the sense of urgency in Jehovah Witnesses' apocalyptic message?

Hypothesis: Sociologist Ronald Lawson has suggested the religion's intellectual and organizational isolation, coupled with the intense indoctrination of adherents, rigid internal discipline and considerable persecution, has contributed to the consistency of its sense of urgency in its apocalyptic message.


Premise: What group did Umar ibn Ad Al-Aziz grant liberties to?

Hypothesis: When successive governments tried to reverse Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz's tax policies it created rebellion.