Premise: In scientism, it is typically believed that explanations in science are what?

Hypothesis: Usually, scientism involves combining the philosophers' ancient demand for demonstrative justification with the associationists' false view that all scientific explanations are simple two-variable linear relationships.


Premise: Who was an astronomy professor at Al-Azhar University?

Hypothesis: Abd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī also delivered lectures on Islamic medicine at al-Azhar, while Maimonides delivered lectures on medicine and astronomy there during the time of Saladin.


Premise: What movie block shows foreign films?

Hypothesis: The channel also broadcasts two movie blocks during the late evening hours each Sunday: "Silent Sunday Nights", which features silent films from the United States and abroad, usually in the latest restored version and often with new musical scores; and "TCM Imports" (which previously ran on Saturdays until the early 2000s[specify]), a weekly presentation of films originally released in foreign countries.


Premise: What is the name of a political show shown on BBC in Northern Ireland?

Hypothesis: The UK nations also produce a number of programmes that are shown across the UK, such as BBC Scotland's comedy series Chewin' the Fat, and BBC Northern Ireland's talk show Patrick Kielty Almost Live.


Premise: What are the origins of western schools?

Hypothesis: Although early madaris were founded primarily to gain "knowledge of God" they also taught subjects such as mathematics and poetry.


Premise: Which constituency has become the Republican Party's staunchest supporters in Tennessee?

Hypothesis: Increasingly the Republican Party has become the party of white conservatives.


Premise: What percentage of New Yorkers use public transportation to get to work?

Hypothesis: Due to their high usage of mass transit, New Yorkers spend less of their household income on transportation than the national average, saving $19 billion annually on transportation compared to other urban Americans.


Premise: Who founded Arnold, Constable?

Hypothesis: It was founded in 1825 by Aaron Arnold (1794?-1876), an emigrant from Great Britain, as a small dry goods store on Pine Street in New York City.


Premise: What aims at bringing EU and its neighbours closer?

Hypothesis: Israel is included in the European Union's European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), which aims at bringing the EU and its neighbours closer.


Premise: In pence, what did the cheapest beer cost in the four-ale bar?

Hypothesis: By the 20th century, the saloon, or lounge bar, had become a middle-class room[citation needed]—carpets on the floor, cushions on the seats, and a penny or two on the prices,[citation needed] while the public bar, or tap room, remained working class with bare boards, sometimes with sawdust to absorb the spitting and spillages (known as "spit and sawdust"), hard bench seats, and cheap beer[citation needed].


Premise: What looks at the entire DNA mixture?

Hypothesis: Studies of autosomal DNA, which look at the entire DNA mixture, have become increasingly important as the technology develops.


Premise: What musical instrument is situated at Royal Albert Hall?

Hypothesis: The city is also home to many orchestras and concert halls, such as the Barbican Arts Centre (principal base of the London Symphony Orchestra and the London Symphony Chorus), Cadogan Hall (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra) and the Royal Albert Hall (The Proms).


Premise: What Kathmandu industry is particularly known for its English speakers?

Hypothesis: More recently, other hill ethnic groups and Caste groups from Terai have come to represent a substantial proportion of the city's population.


Premise: What group is not easily infected?

Hypothesis: Most humans are not easily infected.


Premise: What Ming prince was enthroned in Nanjing?

Hypothesis: Over two centuries after the removal of the capital to Beijing, Nanjing was destined to become the capital of a Ming emperor one more time.


Premise: In what year did Tito start working in Arab Israeli peace processes?

Hypothesis: On 1 January 1967, Yugoslavia was the first communist country to open its borders to all foreign visitors and abolish visa requirements.


Premise: What was spilled when the freighter ran aground?

Hypothesis: Nightingale Island has no fresh water, so the penguins were transported to Tristan da Cunha for cleaning.


Premise: What is another category of building that was established during the Romanesque period?

Hypothesis: By the 12th century, Romanesque architecture (termed Norman architecture in England because of its association with the Norman invasion), was established throughout Europe and provided the basic architectural forms and units that were to remain in evolution throughout the Medieval period.


Premise: What is the oldest era in Egypt?

Hypothesis: Egypt has one of the oldest civilisations in the world.


Premise: What major award did Gian Carlo Menotti win?

Hypothesis: Spoleto Festival USA, held annually in late spring, has become one of the world's major performing arts festivals.


Premise: What did Burke publish on Aug 3, 1791?

Hypothesis: Therefore, on 3 August 1791 Burke published his Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs, in which he renewed his criticism of the radical revolutionary programmes inspired by the French Revolution and attacked the Whigs who supported them, as holding principles contrary to those traditionally held by the Whig party.


Premise: What is on the former site of the Moltacqua track now?

Hypothesis: The Moltacqua racetrack, was another historic horse racetrack located on what is now Sabino Canyon Road and Vactor Ranch Trail, but it no longer exists.


Premise: What happens when a name is defective or misleading?

Hypothesis: All graphic, format, and private use characters have a unique and immutable name by which they may be identified.


Premise: In 1967, what well-known family sold The Times to a Canadian publishing magnate?

Hypothesis: In 1967, members of the Astor family sold the paper to Canadian publishing magnate Roy Thomson.


Premise: What company is managing Tuvalu's tv domain?

Hypothesis: In 1998, Tuvalu began deriving revenue from the use of its area code for premium-rate telephone numbers and from the commercialisation of its ".tv


Premise: What book inspired the renovation of Notre Dame?

Hypothesis: Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame inspired the renovation of its setting, the Notre-Dame de Paris.


Premise: What kind of book is Hayy ibn Yaqdha?

Hypothesis: Yet another influential philosopher who had an influence on modern philosophy was Ibn Tufail.


Premise: "There's an app for that!",  what have been different technologies been created to do?

Hypothesis: Today's hunters come from a broad range of economic, social, and cultural backgrounds.


Premise: Name the line that splits the Indonesian Archipelago?

Hypothesis: The islands between Java/Borneo and Papua form a mixed zone, where both types occur, known as Wallacea.


Premise: What was the group that used incendiaries and high explosives to mark targets?

Hypothesis: Special units, such as KGr 100, became the Beleuchtergruppe (Firelighter Group), which used incendiaries and high explosive to mark the target area.


Premise: What chain of pubs reported favorable profits in June 2009?

Hypothesis: After two years, the impact of the ban was mixed; some pubs suffered declining sales, while others developed their food sales.


Premise: Once everyone was a part of what group did Kant believe all of society would be enlightened?

Hypothesis: The Republic of Letters was the sum of a number of Enlightenment ideals: an egalitarian realm governed by knowledge that could act across political boundaries and rival state power.


Premise: When had the government been highly centralized?

Hypothesis: The president is the head of state and the prime minister is the head of government.


Premise: Who else did the BSA issues a report in 2011 with?

Hypothesis: In its 2011 report, conducted in partnership with IDC and Ipsos Public Affairs, the BSA stated: "Over half of the world's personal computer users – 57 percent – admit to pirating software.


Premise: What was the strategic purpose to settle this area

Hypothesis: Many settlements developed because of their strategic importance in relation to geographical features, such as river crossings or valleys in ranges of hills.


Premise: What matrix group portrays all possible rotations in n dimensions?

Hypothesis: Another important matrix group is the special orthogonal group SO(n).


Premise: In 2007 youtube launched an automated system to detect what?

Hypothesis: In June 2007, YouTube began trials of a system for automatic detection of uploaded videos that infringe copyright.


Premise: How are chatter marks formed?

Hypothesis: They are formed by abrasion when boulders in the glacier are repeatedly caught and released as they are dragged along the bedrock.


Premise: Which Queen album kicked off the 1980s?

Hypothesis: Queen began their 1980s career with The Game.


Premise: After 1877 another lighthouse was build to replace File Mile Point, what was its' name?

Hypothesis: The park remains popular among New Haveners, and is home to the Five Mile Point Lighthouse, constructed in 1847, and the Lighthouse Point Carousel, constructed in 1916.


Premise: At what date did the name Seattle first appear on official papers?

Hypothesis: The name "Seattle" appears on official Washington Territory papers dated May 23, 1853, when the first plats for the village were filed.


Premise: What word was used in the Oaths of Strasbourg for the oath's Germanic section?

Hypothesis: In the Oaths of Strasbourg (842) it appeared as teudisca to refer to the Germanic (Rhenish Franconian) portion of the oath.


Premise: What language family does Estonian belong to?

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: What may we assume the parties to a treaty intended the treaty's obligations to be if the treaty included an expiration date?

Hypothesis: Some treaties are intended by the parties to be only temporarily binding and are set to expire on a given date.


Premise: Chemicals called neurotransmitters are released at what part of the brain?

Hypothesis: With few exceptions, each neuron in the brain releases the same chemical neurotransmitter, or combination of neurotransmitters, at all the synaptic connections it makes with other neurons; this rule is known as Dale's principle.


Premise: In what city is the Passage located?

Hypothesis: In St. Petersburg


Premise: What Samoan choreographer founded Black Grace?

Hypothesis: Neil Ieremia's company Black Grace has also received international acclaim with tours to Europe and New York.


Premise: What near extinct bird of Norfolk Island has shown signs of population increase?

Hypothesis: The sooty tern (known locally as the whale bird) has traditionally been subject to seasonal egg harvesting by Norfolk Islanders.


Premise: Which promenade was formerly known as the Queen's Way?

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 do historians try to piece together from pre-Western environments?

Hypothesis: Also, though heavily influenced by Western traditions and practiced by translators taught in Western-style educational systems, Chinese and related translation traditions retain some theories and philosophies unique to the Chinese tradition.


Premise: What species of insect has the capability to walk on the surface of water?

Hypothesis: Some species, such as water striders, are capable of walking on the surface of water.


Premise: What connects continuous symmetries to conserved quantities?

Hypothesis: Symmetries that vary with location are central to the modern description of physical interactions with the help of gauge theory.


Premise: What does going into heat (estrous) prepare a female dog for?

Hypothesis: They will experience subsequent estrous cycles biannually, during which the body prepares for pregnancy.


Premise: What is an example of a type of universally prohibited action that no state can legally assume an obligation to commit or permit through a treaty?

Hypothesis: These are limited to such universally accepted prohibitions as those against the aggressive use of force, genocide and other crimes against humanity, piracy, hostilities directed at civilian population, racial discrimination and apartheid, slavery and torture, meaning that no state can legally assume an obligation to commit or permit such acts.


Premise: What was Detroit's murder rate in the mid to late 80s?

Hypothesis: Detroit held the title of murder capital between 1985-1987 with a murder rate around 58 per 100,000.


Premise: What did the Digimon pets originally start out as?

Hypothesis: Digimon started out as digital pets called "Digital Monsters", similar in style and concept to the Tamagotchi.


Premise: Who are the main female role models for Scout during the story?

Hypothesis: Scout's primary identification with her father and older brother allows her to describe the variety and depth of female characters in the novel both as one of them and as an outsider.


Premise: What is the purpose of a junction forward voltage?

Hypothesis: The junction forward voltage is the voltage applied to the emitter–base junction of a BJT in order to make the base conduct a specified current.


Premise: What causes gynecomastia?

Hypothesis: Some boys may develop gynecomastia due to an imbalance of sex hormones, tissue responsiveness or obesity.


Premise: To whom did Montini speak as an archbishop in the year 1957?

Hypothesis: The second meeting in 1957 gave Montini an opportunity to express the lay apostolate in modern terms: "Apostolate means love.


Premise: These free-standing statues were sometimes rendered from immestone, bronze, ivory and terracotta but were usually made from what material?

Hypothesis: The animistic idea as the representation of the imaginative reality, is sanctified in the Homeric poems and in Greek myths, in stories of the god Hephaestus (Phaistos) and the mythic Daedalus (the builder of the labyrinth) that made images which moved of their own accord.


Premise: Does intimacy between same-sex siblings increase or decrease during adolescence?

Hypothesis: In same-sex sibling pairs, intimacy increases during early adolescence, then remains stable.


Premise: How are NPOs classified in Canada?

Hypothesis: Nonprofits may incorporate either federally, under Part II of the Canada Business Corporations Act or under provincial legislation.


Premise: In 2001, what organization conducted a survey of residents regarding London's fox population?

Hypothesis: A survey in 2001 by the London-based Mammal Society found that 80 percent of 3,779 respondents who volunteered to keep a diary of garden mammal visits liked having them around.


Premise: How does Oklahoma's per-capita arts spending rank?

Hypothesis: Oklahoma is in the nation's middle percentile in per capita spending on the arts, ranking 17th, and contains more than 300 museums.


Premise: What did Fleming initially think a good use would be for it?

Hypothesis: He initially characterized some of its biological properties, and attempted to use a crude preparation to treat some infections, but he was unable to pursue its further development without the aid of trained chemists.


Premise: How many years did the AFL title sponsorship deal last?

Hypothesis: It was announced on December 12, 2012, that the AFL reached a partnership agreement with NET10 Wireless to be the first non-motorsports-related professional sports league in the United States to have a title sponsor, renaming it the NET10 Wireless Arena Football League.


Premise: What event did Kanye headline in 2011?

Hypothesis: In 2012, West released the compilation album Cruel Summer, a collection of tracks by artists from West's record label GOOD Music.


Premise: How far is the airport from downtown Charleston?

Hypothesis: It is located in the City of North Charleston and is about 12 miles (20 km) northwest of downtown Charleston.


Premise: Since when have CPUs been constructed with a microprocessor?

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


Premise: In which year was the counteroffensive strategy first conceived?

Hypothesis: The plan originated as a 1979 field training exercise war game, and metamorphosed into official Warsaw Treaty battle doctrine, until the late 1980s – which is why the People's Republic of Poland was a nuclear weapons base, first, to 178, then, to 250 tactical-range rockets.


Premise: What era is commonly known as the final phase of the Stone Age?

Hypothesis: Traditionally considered the last part of the Stone Age, the Neolithic followed the terminal Holocene Epipaleolithic period and commenced with the beginning of farming, which produced the "Neolithic Revolution".


Premise: What three major tribes occupied these formerly British territories?

Hypothesis: In the Treaty of Paris after the Revolution, the British had ceded the lands between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River to the United States, without consulting the Shawnee, Cherokee, Choctaw and other smaller tribes who lived there.


Premise: What is one thing that the Necessary is detached from?

Hypothesis: Avicenna adds that the 'Necessary-Existent-due-to-Itself' has no genus (jins), nor a definition (hadd), nor a counterpart (nadd), nor an opposite (did), and is detached (bari) from matter (madda), quality (kayf), quantity (kam), place (ayn), situation (wad), and time (waqt).


Premise: What game consoles does Spielberg own?

Hypothesis: He has also criticized the use of cut scenes in games, calling them intrusive, and feels making story flow naturally into the gameplay is a challenge for future game developers.


Premise: How much money did the State Department give the traffickers?

Hypothesis: " The U.S. State Department paid over $806,000 to known drug traffickers to carry humanitarian assistance to the Contras.


Premise: Where did the people of the Mali empire immigrate to?

Hypothesis: This influx was compounded by the decline of the Western Sudanic Mali Empire in 1375 and the Songhai Empire in 1591.


Premise: When did the Indus Valley Civilization cover parts of India and Pakistan?

Hypothesis: Cotton cultivation in the region is dated to the Indus Valley Civilization, which covered parts of modern eastern Pakistan and northwestern India between 3300 and 1300 BCE


Premise: Who has produced a number of theories and concepts such as Abhidharma and Reality in Buddhism?

Hypothesis: Buddhist scholars have produced a number of intellectual theories, philosophies and world view concepts (see, for example, Abhidharma, Buddhist philosophy and Reality in Buddhism).


Premise: When did Apple reveal it had achieved its highest quarterly earnings to date?

Hypothesis: On January 22, 2008, Apple reported the best quarter revenue and earnings in Apple's history so far.


Premise: When was the Hauppauge 1212 Personal Video Recorder introduced?

Hypothesis: In 2008, the Hauppauge 1212


Premise: What did Albert complain about Victoria?

Hypothesis: For example, about a month after Leopold's birth Albert complained in a letter to Victoria about her "continuance of hysterics" over a "miserable trifle".


Premise: In what roles did cardinals have important roles?

Hypothesis: In early modern times, cardinals often had important roles in secular affairs.


Premise: What did Nasser's political style render unnecessary?

Hypothesis: American political scientist Mark Cooper asserted that Nasser's charisma and his direct relationship with the Egyptian people "rendered intermediaries (organizations and individuals) unnecessary".


Premise: Despite the success, in what year did Date Records cease to exist?

Hypothesis: Date's biggest success was "Time of the Season" by the Zombies, peaking at #2 in 1969.


Premise: What are Florida's Mean temperatures in  late July

Hypothesis: The climate of Florida is tempered somewhat by the fact that no part of the state is distant from the ocean.


Premise: What concept does yoga accept the differentiates it from Samkhya?

Hypothesis: The Yoga school accepts the Samkhya psychology and metaphysics, but is considered theistic because it accepts the concept of "personal god", unlike Samkhya.


Premise: What is one example of traffic that passed through Hanover?

Hypothesis: It was connected to the Hanseatic League city of Bremen by the Leine, and was situated near the southern edge of the wide North German Plain and north-west of the Harz mountains, so that east-west traffic such as mule trains passed through it.


Premise: What are some examples of dominant party systems?

Hypothesis: Examples of dominant party systems include the People's Action Party in Singapore, the African National Congress in South Africa, the Cambodian People's Party in Cambodia, the Liberal Democratic Party in Japan, and the National Liberation Front in Algeria.


Premise: To what did the term magi originally refer?

Hypothesis: In the Graeco-Roman world, practitioners of magic were known as magi (singular magus), a "foreign" title of Persian priests.


Premise: What act  of provincials brought new gods into the military?

Hypothesis: By the same token, the later granting of citizenship to provincials and their conscription into the legions brought their new cults into the Roman military.


Premise: What did culture refer to in practice?

Hypothesis: In practice, culture referred to an élite ideal and was associated with such activities as art, classical music, and haute cuisine.


Premise: The Assistant Editor of The Times in 1941-1946 strongly supported what stance?

Hypothesis: Carr was well known for the strongly pro-Soviet tone of his editorials.


Premise: What is merely "a matter of judgement"?

Hypothesis: He further argued that one could use the term race if one distinguished between "race differences" and "the race concept."


Premise: What did the Circulair Savary introduce?

Hypothesis: It was not until 9 June 1982, with the Circulaire sur la langue et la culture régionales en Alsace (Memorandum on regional language and culture in Alsace) issued by the Vice-Chancellor of the Académie Pierre Deyon, that the teaching of German in primary schools in Alsace really began to be given more official status.


Premise: Which presidential adminstration limited the protective status of critical habitat in 1986?

Hypothesis: The ESA requires that critical habitat be designated at the time of or within one year of a species being placed on the endangered list.


Premise: The German beacons used what frequency band?

Hypothesis: German beacons operated on the medium-frequency band and the signals involved a two-letter Morse identifier followed by a lengthy time-lapse which enabled the Luftwaffe crews to determine the signal's bearing.


Premise: Who provided the majority of funds for his concert tour in London?

Hypothesis: In April, during the Revolution of 1848 in Paris, he left for London, where he performed at several concerts and at numerous receptions in great houses.


Premise: What is the biggest university in Switzerland?

Hypothesis: The first university in Switzerland was founded in 1460 in Basel (with a faculty of medicine) and has a tradition of chemical and medical research in Switzerland.


Premise: What year did the Enlightenment begin according to French historians?

Hypothesis: Some recent historians begin the period in the 1620s, with the start of the scientific revolution.


Premise: What is an example of a memorable name for a pub chain?

Hypothesis: Modern names are sometimes a marketing ploy or attempt to create "brand awareness", frequently using a comic theme thought to be memorable, Slug and Lettuce for a pub chain being an example.


Premise: For whom was the Uptown District water park in Houston named?

Hypothesis: Wet'n'Wild SplashTown is a water park located north of Houston.


Premise: Who did Healthcare advocates change their case to include as a defendant?

Hypothesis: The attorneys were able to demonstrate that the claims made by the plaintiff were invalid, based on the content of their web site from several years prior.


Premise: what was another name for hardcore techno from the netherlands?

Hypothesis: A new generation of clubs such as Liverpool's Cream and the Ministry of Sound were opened to provide a venue for more commercial sounds.


Premise: Around what time was the total legal number of ennoblement at 800?

Hypothesis: This is an average of only about two ennoblements per year or only 0.000 000 14 – 0.000 001 of historical population.


Premise: What university is near the New Center?

Hypothesis: Examples of the Art Deco style include the Guardian Building and Penobscot Building downtown, as well as the Fisher Building and Cadillac Place in the New Center area near Wayne State University.


Premise: Which three countries share the PAL A region?

Hypothesis: When the NES was first released in those countries, it was distributed by Mattel and Nintendo decided to use a lockout chip specific to those countries, different from the chip used in other European countries.


Premise: Where did Cabrillo leave from to embark on his journey to the West Coast?

Hypothesis: Sailing his flagship San Salvador from Navidad, New Spain, Cabrillo claimed the bay for the Spanish Empire in 1542, and named the site 'San Miguel'.


Premise: The purpose of the Compass-M1 satellite is similar to the purpose of what other satellite?

Hypothesis: The role of Compass-M1 for Compass is similar to the role of the GIOVE satellites for the Galileo system.


Premise: What do ACE inhibitors do?

Hypothesis: In the ensuring years other classes of antihypertensive drug were developed and found wide acceptance in combination therapy, including loop diuretics (Lasix/furosemide, Hoechst Pharmaceuticals, 1963), beta blockers (ICI Pharmaceuticals, 1964)


Premise: How many families lived in Raleigh in 2000?

Hypothesis: As of the 2000 United States census, there were 276,093 persons (July 2008 estimate was 380,173) and 61,371 families residing in Raleigh.


Premise: What granted Holland and Zeeland the right to accept only one religion?

Hypothesis: In the Union of Utrecht of 20 January 1579, Holland and Zeeland were granted the right to accept only one religion (in practice, Calvinism).


Premise: How are laws written that bring about a ban of incandescent light bulbs?

Hypothesis: Measures to ban light bulbs have been implemented in the European Union, the United States, Russia, Brazil, Argentina, Canada and Australia, among others.


Premise: What essential plan funtion is interrupted by triazines?

Hypothesis: Their toxicities vary greatly, but they have been phased out because of their persistence and potential to bioaccumulate.:239–240 Organophosphate and carbamates largely replaced organochlorines.


Premise: On what street was the Grecian Saloon located?

Hypothesis: Balls Pond Road in Islington was named after an establishment run by a Mr Ball that had a duck pond at the rear, where drinkers could, for a fee, go out and take a potshot at the ducks.


Premise: In what year did Louis XIV die?

Hypothesis: French historians traditionally place the Enlightenment between 1715, the year that Louis XIV died, and 1789, the beginning of the French Revolution.


Premise: When did Louis march into the city unopposed and proclaimed its annexation?

Hypothesis: Louis' advisors believed that, as long as Strasbourg remained independent, it would endanger the King's newly annexed territories in Alsace, and, that to defend these large rural lands effectively, a garrison had to be placed in towns such as Strasbourg.


Premise: Who was the first President of the Somali Republic?

Hypothesis: A government was formed by Abdullahi Issa Mohamud and Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal other members of the trusteeship and protectorate governments, with Haji Bashir Ismail Yusuf as President of the Somali National Assembly, Aden Abdullah Osman Daar as the President of the Somali Republic and Abdirashid Ali Shermarke as Prime Minister (later to become President from 1967 to 1969).


Premise: When did the king return to England?

Hypothesis: When Richard still did not return from the crusade, John began to assert that his brother was dead or otherwise permanently lost.


Premise: What does CBC use unallotted airtime for?

Hypothesis: Instead of the infomercials aired by most private stations, or a simulcast of CBC News Network in the style of BBC One's nightly simulcast of BBC News Channel, the CBC uses the time to air repeats, including local news, primetime series, movies and other programming from the CBC library.


Premise: Where do the majority of FA cup finals take place?

Hypothesis: In the 51 years prior to the Empire Stadium opening, the final (including 8 replays) was held in a variety of locations, predominantly in London, and mainly at the Kennington Oval and then Crystal Palace.


Premise: Along with Plymouth Council, what body supports the "Vision for Plymouth"?

Hypothesis: Plymouth Council is currently undertaking a project of urban redevelopment called the "Vision for Plymouth" launched by the architect David Mackay and backed by both Plymouth City Council and the Plymouth Chamber of Commerce (PCC).


Premise: What went down after Gorbachev departed from the Kremlin?

Hypothesis: On the night of December 25, 1991, at 7:32 p.m. Moscow time, after Gorbachev left the Kremlin, the Soviet flag was lowered for the last time, and the Russian tricolor was raised in its place, symbolically marking the end of the Soviet Union.


Premise: Which army invaded Burma?

Hypothesis: The Phayap Army sent troops to invade and occupy northeastern Burma, which was former Thai territory that had been annexed by Britain much earlier.


Premise: What does it mean to have the letters OU added to the ending of a males last name ?

Hypothesis: Although surnames in mainland Greece are static today, dynamic and changing patronymic usage survives in middle names where the genitive of father's first name is commonly the middle name (this usage having been passed on to the Russians).


Premise: What is a slow smooth rate of movement of faults called?

Hypothesis: It may be associated with slip along the faults; however, the slippage is slow and not considered an earthquake, where stationary faults must slip suddenly enough to create seismic waves.


Premise: When did the Xinhai Revolution topple the Qing dynasty?

Hypothesis: For the next 36 years, the 13th Dalai Lama and the regents who succeeded him governed Tibet.


Premise: What did Utrecht's location allow

Hypothesis: The location on the banks of the river Rhine allowed Utrecht to become an important trade centre in the Northern Netherlands.


Premise: What is the name of Harvards radio station?

Hypothesis: WHRB (Harvard), WUMB (UMass Boston), WMBR (MIT), WZBC (Boston College), WMFO (Tufts University), WBRS (Brandeis University), WTBU (Boston University, campus and web only), WRBB (Northeastern University) and WMLN-FM (Curry College).


Premise: What is the prominent topographical feature in Detroit?

Hypothesis: The city slopes gently from the northwest to southeast on a till plain composed largely of glacial and lake clay.


Premise: Which marina in Southampton hosted the yacht race from 1977 too 2001?

Hypothesis: From 1977 to 2001 the Whitbread Around the World Yacht Race, which is now known as the Volvo Ocean Race was based in Southampton's Ocean Village marina.


Premise: Which American Idol contestant has won the biggest number of Grammy Awards?

Hypothesis: In May 2005, Carrie Underwood was announced the winner, with Bice the runner-up.


Premise: What agreement sparked industrial development during the 1990s?

Hypothesis: During the 1990s after NAFTA was signed, industrial development grew rapidly with foreign investment.


Premise: In what year did the Heiji Rebellion occur?

Hypothesis: In 1159, the Taira and Minamoto clashed (Heiji Rebellion), and a twenty-year period of Taira ascendancy began.


Premise: What is the first step that leads to a software failure?

Hypothesis: A programmer makes an error (mistake), which results in a defect (fault, bug) in the software source code.


Premise: When did the movement get closest to success?

Hypothesis: The nearest this movement ever came to success was in 1978, when Congress passed the District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment.


Premise: What was the name of the secular legal system under the Ottoman Caliphate?

Hypothesis: At the same time the Qanun (or Kanun), a secular legal system, co-existed with religious law or Sharia.


Premise: In what year did Montini become the archbishop of the Cathedral of Milan?

Hypothesis: On 5 January 1955, Montini formally took possession of his Cathedral of Milan.


Premise: In what time period did early animals share some features with marsupials?

Hypothesis: A later eutherian, Eomaia, dated to 125 million years ago in the Early Cretaceous, possessed some features in common with the marsupials but not with the placentals, evidence that these features were present in the last common ancestor of the two groups but were later lost in the placental lineage.


Premise: Who intermediates between God and prophets?

Hypothesis: Angels acting as God's messengers deliver the divine revelation to them.


Premise: Since 1976, how many Americans have been executed for crimes committed as juveniles?

Hypothesis: Since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976, 22 people have been executed for crimes committed under the age of 18.


Premise: How much evidence of the link between the languages is currently available ?

Hypothesis: The evolution of Proto-Greek should be considered within the context of an early Paleo-Balkan sprachbund that makes it difficult to delineate exact boundaries between individual languages.


Premise: Which animal serves as a symbol throughout the book?

Hypothesis: The titular mockingbird is a key motif of this theme, which first appears when Atticus, having given his children air-rifles for Christmas, allows their Uncle Jack to teach them to shoot.


Premise: When was Milestone 1 divulged?

Hypothesis: Milestone 1, Build 7850, was leaked on April 12, 2011.


Premise: Which direction does the Cross Bronx Expressway run through the South Bronx?

Hypothesis: Like other neighborhoods in New York City, the South Bronx has no official boundaries.


Premise: What are these resources collected for?

Hypothesis: These are not new; however, the erection of these into "centres" of national and international interest in the second half of the 20th century have created larger databases not available to the scholars of the past.


Premise: When did the Australian mandolin movement begin?

Hypothesis: Skinner began teaching part-time at age 18, until the Great Depression forced him to begin teaching full-time and learn a broader range of instruments.


Premise: What does StuCo stand for?

Hypothesis: Two annual productions are especially notable: the Waa-Mu show, and the Dolphin show.


Premise: What music service is accused of providing low royalty amounts?

Hypothesis: The idea of having an all artist owned streaming service was created by those involved to adapt to the increased demand for streaming within the current music industry, and to rival other streaming services such as Spotify, which have been criticised for their low payout of royalties.


Premise: Who has been referred to as "black people"?

Hypothesis: While originally related to skin colour, the term is used to today to indicate Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander ancestry in general and can refer to people of any skin pigmentation.


Premise: In which year did Clodius die?

Hypothesis: This chaos reached a climax in January of 52 BC, when Clodius was murdered in a gang war by Milo.


Premise: What does Ronald Dworkin believe admission should represent?

Hypothesis: Scholars such as Ronald Dworkin have asserted that no college applicant has a right to expect that a university will design its admissions policies in a way that prizes any particular set of qualities.


Premise: what was the name of the first long term settler?

Hypothesis: After being joined by an Andrew Millet, three of the four men died in 1812; however, the survivor among the original three permanent settlers, Thomas Currie (or Tommaso Corri) remained as a farmer on the island.


Premise: In what year did nations standardize on red as a color for stop lights?

Hypothesis: It was standarized as the international color at the Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals of 1968.


Premise: Several torchbearers said what two things should not be combined?

Hypothesis: Despite intended torchbearers Kiran Bedi, Soha Ali Khan, Sachin Tendulkar and Bhaichung Bhutia all withdrawing from the event, the official Chinese website for the relay reported "Indian torchbearers vow to run for spirit of Olympics", and quoted torchbearers Manavjit Singh Sandhu, Abhinav Bindra, Ayaan Ali Khan and Rajinder Singh Rahelu all stating that sports and politics should not be mixed.


Premise: Who was the Foreign Minister who said he was okay with protests as long as they were peaceful?

Hypothesis: Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said Chinese officials were urging supporters to "turn up and put a point of view", but that he had no objection to it as long as they remained peaceful.


Premise: What threshold must a drug pass before it is approved?

Hypothesis: In many non-US western countries a 'fourth hurdle' of cost effectiveness analysis has developed before new technologies can be provided.


Premise: Who standardizes HDTV specifications?

Hypothesis: In anticipation of these standards the Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) organisation was formed, an alliance of broadcasters, consumer electronics manufacturers and regulatory bodies.


Premise: What can an organism that uses circadian rhythms use to its advantage that others can not?

Hypothesis: It has therefore been suggested that circadian rhythms put organisms at a selective advantage in evolutionary terms.


Premise: Where did free black people migrate to because of the looser social system?

Hypothesis: The eastern half of the state, especially the Tidewater region, developed a slave society based on a plantation system and slave labor.


Premise: Who did Nasser want to handle the day-to-day operations of the government?

Hypothesis: They asked former prime minister Ali Maher to accept reappointment to his previous position, and to form an all-civilian cabinet.


Premise: What is the nations oldest college?

Hypothesis: Harvard University, the nation's oldest institute of higher education, is centered across the Charles River in Cambridge but has the majority of its land holdings and a substantial amount of its educational activities in Boston.


Premise: What precipitated the development of the Hasidic movement?

Hypothesis: A thriving publishing industry and the printing of hundreds of biblical commentaries precipitated the development of the Hasidic movement as well as major Jewish academic centers.


Premise: What was destroyed during the pasteurisation of the milk?

Hypothesis: Pasteurisation was effective against bacteria, but it destroyed the vitamin C.


Premise: What was the name of the last residential area built by the British Raj?

Hypothesis: Most of the government offices of the new capital moved here from the 'Old secretariat' in Old Delhi (the building now houses the Delhi Legislative Assembly), a decade before the new capital was inaugurated in 1931.


Premise: What new territory was aquired in 1814?

Hypothesis: It regained control of the Bernese Oberland in 1802, and following the Congress of Vienna of 1814, it newly acquired the Bernese Jura.


Premise: What would be found with higher recorded volumes?

Hypothesis: Lower recorded volume used closer spacing; higher recorded volume used wider spacing, especially with lower frequencies.


Premise: Where is a La Quinta being built in the Bronx?

Hypothesis: Several boutique and chain hotels have opened in recent years in the South Bronx; in addition, a La Quinta Inn that has been proposed for the Mott Haven waterfront.


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

Hypothesis: On 9 January 1945, on the south shore of Lingayen Gulf on the western coast of Luzon, General Krueger's Sixth Army landed his first units.


Premise: What percentage of New Yorkers use public transportation to get to work?

Hypothesis: 54.6% of New Yorkers commuted to work in 2005 using mass transit.


Premise: How many Fortune 500 companies call Philadelpia home?

Hypothesis: The area's many universities and colleges make Philadelphia a top international study destination, as the city has evolved into an educational and economic hub.


Premise: The rules are a perfect springboard for what?

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


Premise: What part of Dukkha deals with pain?

Hypothesis: These four truths explain the nature of dukkha (suffering, anxiety, unsatisfactoriness), its causes, and how it can be overcome.


Premise: What is one typical bird found in the range?

Hypothesis: Characteristic birds of the forest are wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo silvestris), ruffed grouse


Premise: Why did the ceromony of consecrating a bishop have to be preformed by someone who was already a bishop?

Hypothesis: The rule remains that, if the person elected Pope is not yet a bishop, he is consecrated by the Dean of the College of Cardinals, the Cardinal Bishop of Ostia.


Premise: How was BYU ranked by The Princeton Review for having the happiest students and highest quality of life in 2008?

Hypothesis: The high rate of enrollment at the university by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (more than 98 percent) results in an amplification of LDS cultural norms; BYU was ranked by The Princeton Review in 2008 as 14th in the nation for having the happiest students and highest quality of life.


Premise: What type of number system was standard in Sumer and Babylonia?

Hypothesis: The first true city-states arose in Sumer, roughly contemporaneously with similar entities in what are now Syria and Lebanon.


Premise: What did students learn in the school in Alexandria?

Hypothesis: The combination of Scriptural study and of Greek learning was characteristic of the famous Alexandrian School.


Premise: What agency did Hoover not tell about the code break and the discoveries gained from it?

Hypothesis: Also during this time, a joint US/UK code-breaking effort (the Venona project)—with which the FBI was heavily involved—broke Soviet diplomatic and intelligence communications codes, allowing the US and British governments to read Soviet communications.


Premise: What is an example of a mass party?

Hypothesis: Mass parties tried to recruit new members who were a source of party income and were often expected to spread party ideology as well as assist in elections.


Premise: What platform is a browser used on?

Hypothesis: An information resource is identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI/URL) and may be a web page, image, video or other piece of content.


Premise: Which game console had a full-gore version of Mortal Kombat?

Hypothesis: One game, Mortal Kombat, would challenge this policy.


Premise: What is the molecular weight loss of antibacterial compounds?

Hypothesis: Many antibacterial compounds are relatively small molecules with a molecular weight of less than 2000 atomic mass units.[citation needed]


Premise: What dynasty did Chandragupta Maurya defeat?

Hypothesis: The Maurya Empire (322–185 BCE) was the first empire to unify India into one state, and was the largest on the Indian subcontinent.


Premise: What's the only antibiotic that might be effective against totally drug-resistant TB?

Hypothesis: Bedaquiline is tentatively supported for use in multiple drug-resistant TB.


Premise: Who was the author of Science of Logic?

Hypothesis: Hegel argues that finite qualities are not fully "real" because they depend on other finite qualities to determine them.


Premise: What is the county flower of Lancaster?

Hypothesis: In the battle for England's head/York was white, Lancaster red" (referring to the 15th-century Wars of the Roses).


Premise: What hapend to the Florida congressional map in 2015

Hypothesis: Reapportionment following the 2010 United States Census gave the state two more seats in the House of Representatives.


Premise: What would to the carmine pigment if not used diligently?

Hypothesis: The painters of the early Renaissance used two traditional lake pigments, made from mixing dye with either chalk or alum, kermes lake, made from kermes insects, and madder lake, made from the rubia tinctorum plant.


Premise: What kind of antibiotics are used for prevention of bacterial growth

Hypothesis: Bacterial infections may be treated with antibiotics, which are classified as bacteriocidal if they kill bacteria, or bacteriostatic if they just prevent bacterial growth.


Premise: What type of Republican did Eisenhower characterize himself as?

Hypothesis: Eisenhower then articulated his position as a moderate, progressive Republican: "I have just one purpose ... and that is to build up a strong progressive Republican Party in this country.


Premise: What award was presented to Kanye West on August 30, 2015?

Hypothesis: At the end of his speech, he announced, "I have decided in 2020 to run for president."


Premise: Which river marks Tennessee's border to the west?

Hypothesis: Tennessee is bordered by Kentucky and Virginia to the north, North Carolina to the east, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi to the south, and Arkansas and Missouri to the west.


Premise: Which older brother of Napoleon's did Désirée Clary's sister Julie marry?

Hypothesis: Désirée's sister Julie Clary had married Bonaparte's elder brother Joseph.


Premise: What type of message was left on the mosaics at Butrint?

Hypothesis: The mosaic pavement of the Vrina Plain basilica of Butrint, Albania appear to pre-date that of the Baptistery by almost a generation, dating to the last quarter of the 5th or the first years of the 6th century.


Premise: What does the american culture put a large emphasis on?

Hypothesis: In contrast, East Asian cultures put a great emphasis on a person's social role within social hierarchies, and view the self as fluid and malleable.


Premise: How much RAM did the first Maciuntosh board have?

Hypothesis: Smith's first Macintosh board was built to Raskin's design specifications: it had 64 kilobytes (kB) of RAM, used the Motorola 6809E microprocessor, and was capable of supporting a 256×256-pixel black-and-white bitmap display.


Premise: How much economically viable uranium is there in ore reserves, in millions of tonnes?

Hypothesis: It is estimated that 5.5 million tonnes of uranium exists in ore reserves that are economically viable at US$59 per lb of uranium, while 35 million tonnes are classed as mineral resources (reasonable prospects for eventual economic extraction).


Premise: Who filed a lawsuit over Survivor?

Hypothesis: When the third album Survivor was released in May 2001, Luckett and Roberson filed a lawsuit claiming that the songs were aimed at them.


Premise: What period preceded the Little Ice Age?

Hypothesis: The causes of the Great Famine included the slow transition from the Medieval Warm Period to the Little Ice Age, which left the population vulnerable when bad weather caused crop failures.


Premise: What percentage of uranium in nature is uranium-235?

Hypothesis: Most neutrons released by a fissioning atom of uranium-235 must impact other uranium-235 atoms to sustain the nuclear chain reaction.


Premise: What was the topic of Von Neumann's work at Princeton in 1931 - 32?

Hypothesis: Also, my work on various forms of operator theory, Berlin 1930 and Princeton 1935–1939; on the ergodic theorem, Princeton, 1931–1932."


Premise: Entrapment pumps often work without seals, moving parts and what else?

Hypothesis: Entrapment pumps can capture gases in a solid or absorbed state, often with no moving parts, no seals and no vibration.


Premise: How many people were confirmed dead only in the Sichuan province?

Hypothesis: The earthquake left about 4.8 million people homeless, though the number could be as high as 11 million.


Premise: Who was the principal of Sangzao Middle School?

Hypothesis: During a three-year period that ended in 2007, he oversaw a major overhaul of his school.


Premise: What do professional and amateur singers often sing?

Hypothesis: Translations of sung texts—whether of the above type meant to be sung or of a more or less literal type meant to be read—are also used as aids to audiences, singers and conductors, when a work is being sung in a language not known to them.


Premise: Many scholars confuse identity as a category of practice and what other category?

Hypothesis: Brubaker and Cooper note a tendency in many scholars to confuse identity as a category of practice and as a category of analysis (Brubaker & Cooper 2000, p. 5).


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

Hypothesis: Reporters in Chengdu said they saw cracks on walls of some residential buildings in the downtown areas, but no buildings collapsed.


Premise: When did the Pusasn railroad strike begin?

Hypothesis: On 3 October, some 10,000 people attacked the Yeongcheon police station, killing three policemen and injuring some 40 more; elsewhere, some 20 landlords and pro-Japanese South Korean officials were killed.


Premise: What did John Gould announce in 1837?

Hypothesis: In March 1837, ornithologist John Gould announced that Darwin's rhea was a separate species from the previously described rhea (though their territories overlapped), that mockingbirds collected on the Galápagos Islands represented three separate species each unique to a particular island, and that several distinct birds from those islands were all classified as finches.


Premise: Mahbub ul Haq and Amartya Sen pioneered what approach?

Hypothesis: The capability approach, pioneered by economists Mahbub ul Haq and Amartya Sen and further developed by legal scholar Martha Nussbaum, understands freedom under allied lines: the real-world ability to act.


Premise: After what language evolved was writing introduced?

Hypothesis: Writing was not introduced to India until after Sanskrit had evolved into the Prakrits; when it was written, the choice of writing system was influenced by the regional scripts of the scribes.


Premise: What show did Spielberg work with Rodat on?

Hypothesis: In 2011, Spielberg launched Falling Skies, a science fiction television series, on the TNT network.


Premise: The city also host a large international tennis event, when does it usually take place?

Hypothesis: The city is home to the Pilot Pen International tennis event, which takes place every August at the Connecticut Tennis Center, one of the largest tennis venues in the world.


Premise: What was one of the names that was initially considered for Washington University in St. Louis?

Hypothesis: The board first approved "Eliot Seminary," but William Eliot was uncomfortable with naming a university after himself and objected to the establishment of a seminary, which would implicitly be charged with teaching a religious faith.


Premise: What was oral music subject to every time is was transmitted?

Hypothesis: It is in this time that the notation of music on a staff and other elements of musical notation began to take shape.


Premise: What position was Tito appointed to in 1941 by the Central Committee?

Hypothesis: On 27 June 1941, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia appointed Tito Commander in Chief of all project national liberation military forces.


Premise: How many square kilometers of ocean do the Marshall Islands cover?

Hypothesis: The islands are located about halfway between Hawaii and Australia, north of Nauru and Kiribati, east of the Federated States of Micronesia, and south of the U.S. territory of Wake Island, to which it lays claim.


Premise: Which act got rid of the NIA and the CIG?

Hypothesis: Lawrence Houston, head counsel of the SSU, CIG, and, later CIA, was a principle draftsman of the National Security Act of 1947 which dissolved the NIA and the CIG, and established both the National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency.


Premise: Who was the third caliph?

Hypothesis: The Umayyad family had first come to power under the third caliph, Uthman ibn Affan (r. 644–656), but the Umayyad regime was founded by Muawiya ibn Abi Sufyan, long-time governor of Syria, after the end of the First Muslim Civil War in 661 CE/41 AH.


Premise: How large is Charleston, South Carolina?

Hypothesis: North Charleston blocks any expansion up the peninsula, and Mount Pleasant occupies the land directly east of the Cooper River.


Premise: What are some of the graduate programs available at AUA?

Hypothesis: The American University of Armenia has graduate programs in Business and Law, among others.


Premise: What do physicians recommend to counteract this potential issue?

Hypothesis: Clinicians have recommended that extra contraceptive measures be applied during therapies using antibacterials that are suspected to interact with oral contraceptives.


Premise: What did the Angiosperm Phylogeny group use determine a phylogeny of flowering plants?

Hypothesis: The theoretical possibility of a practical method for identification of plant species and commercial varieties by DNA barcoding is the subject of active current research.


Premise: What percentage of Castille's total earnings was Galicia responsible for?

Hypothesis: As a result, from 1480 to 1520 the Kingdom of Galicia contributed more than 10% of the total earnings of the Crown of Castille, including the Americas, well over its economic relevance.


Premise: in 1778 most of the troops that the EIC had were from where?

Hypothesis: It recruited largely Indian troops, and trained them along European lines.


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

Hypothesis: In August 1836, two real estate entrepreneurs—Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen—from New York, purchased 6,642 acres (26.88 km2) of land along Buffalo Bayou with the intent of founding a city.


Premise: What organization classifies this as a current serious threat in the whole world??

Hypothesis: This has led to widespread problems with antimicrobial and antibiotic resistance, so much as to prompt the World Health Organization to classify antimicrobial resistance as a "serious threat [that] is no longer a prediction for the future, it is happening right now in every region of the world and has the potential to affect anyone, of any age, in any country".


Premise: What happened to the Länder as they lost importance during the Nazi regime?

Hypothesis: They became administrative regions of a centralised country.


Premise: Who established the first samurai-led administration?

Hypothesis: The winner, Taira no Kiyomori, became an imperial advisor, and was the first warrior to attain such a position.


Premise: After whom is Olin Business School named?

Hypothesis: In 2002, an Executive MBA program was established in Shanghai, in cooperation with Fudan University.


Premise: Where does RIBA's business group have its headquarters office?

Hypothesis: RIBA Enterprises is the commercial arm of RIBA, with a registered office in Newcastle upon Tyne, a base at 15 Bonhill Street in London, and an office in Newark.


Premise: What does Spain's government accounts for?

Hypothesis: The current Spanish constitution has been implemented in such a way that, in many respects, Spain can be compared to countries which are undeniably federal.


Premise: In which publication was cartoon first used to describe gag single-panel illustrations?

Hypothesis: Definitions of comics which emphasize sequence usually exclude gag, editorial, and other single-panel cartoons; they can be included in definitions that emphasize the combination of word and image.


Premise: What has reached 5,000-cycle lifetimes?

Hypothesis: Micro connectors were designed with frequent charging of portable devices in mind; not only is design lifetime of the connector improved to 10,000 cycles, but it was also redesigned to place the flexible contacts, which wear out sooner, on the easily replaced cable, while the more durable rigid contacts are located in the micro-USB receptacles.


Premise: How many times has Portugal requested external financial support?

Hypothesis: It was the third time that the Portuguese government had requested external financial aid from the IMF—the first occasion occurred in the late 1970s following the Carnation's Revolution.


Premise: How long have Masonic Lodges been in Iraq?

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


Premise: Who headed the WPD before Eisenhower?

Hypothesis: He was appointed Deputy Chief in charge of Pacific Defenses under the Chief of War Plans Division (WPD), General Leonard T. Gerow, and then succeeded Gerow as Chief of the War Plans Division.


Premise: What vowel stays distinct?

Hypothesis: e ɛ/ > [ə]; /o ɔ u/ > [u]; /i/ remains distinct.


Premise: Who argued for Americans to use the term "African American"?

Hypothesis: Some surveys suggest that the majority of Black Americans have no preference for "African American" or "Black", although they have a slight preference for "black" in personal settings and "African American" in more formal settings.


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

Hypothesis: Alluding to the membership of a lodge of operative masons, they relate a mythologised history of the craft, the duties of its grades, and the manner in which oaths of fidelity are to be taken on joining.


Premise: What percentage of the New York City cab fleet was clean diesel or hybrid in 2010?

Hypothesis: Mass transit use in New York City is the highest in the United States.


Premise: Who gave rise to the Theravada school?

Hypothesis: Originally, these schisms were caused by disputes over vinaya, and monks following different schools of thought seem to have lived happily together in the same monasteries, but eventually, by about 100 CE if not earlier, schisms were being caused by doctrinal disagreements too.


Premise: What is the characteristic that most separates humans from animals?

Hypothesis: For Cicero, a lawyer, what most distinguished humans from brutes was speech, which, allied to reason, could (and should) enable them to settle disputes and live together in concord and harmony under the rule of law.


Premise: What type of visual character is achieved by using the pointed arch?

Hypothesis: While, structurally, use of the pointed arch gave a greater flexibility to architectural form, it also gave Gothic architecture a very different and more vertical visual character than Romanesque.


Premise: What is the court case that ruled that schools were subject to local control?

Hypothesis: In a narrow decision, the Court found that schools were a subject of local control and that suburbs could not be forced to solve problems in the city's school district.


Premise: What was one of the first alloys used by humans?

Hypothesis: As no metallurgic processes were used to separate iron from nickel, the alloy was used as it was.


Premise: In what century did the Gothic style first flourish?

Hypothesis: It was used mainly in churches and cathedrals, and continued in use until the 16th century in much of Europe.


Premise: What did Senator Heinrich's bill require?

Hypothesis: On February 12, 2014, Senator Martin Heinrich introduced a bill in the US Senate.


Premise: What is another possible weapon for anti-aircraft use?

Hypothesis: Another potential weapon system for anti-aircraft use is the laser.


Premise: Which two areas in the British Isles hasn't experienced a large population growth in the last one hundred years?

Hypothesis: However, since the Great Irish Famine, the population of Ireland has fallen to less than one tenth of the population of the British Isles.


Premise: Why did the cubs need to host their home games at an alternative site?

Hypothesis: The confusion may stem from the fact that Major League Baseball did decide that, should the Cubs make it to the World Series, the American League winner would have home field advantage unless the Cubs hosted home games at an alternate site since the Cubs home field of Wrigley Field did not yet have lights.


Premise: Why can outgassing products ruin a space mission?

Hypothesis: Outgassing products may condense on nearby colder surfaces, which can be troublesome if they obscure optical instruments or react with other materials.


Premise: What is one university that was formed in the early 18th century of the empire?

Hypothesis: In 1734 an artillery school was established to impart Western-style artillery methods, but the Islamic clergy successfully objected under the grounds of theodicy.


Premise: Who led the Russian Koran Zone of Occupation?

Hypothesis: Disenfranchised, they headed for the hills, to prepare for guerrilla war against the US-sponsored ROK Government.


Premise: How many feet tall was the proposed statue of Schwarzenegger?

Hypothesis: Schwarzenegger reportedly said he was flattered, but thought the money would be better spent on social projects and the Special Olympics.


Premise: According to several scholars, what prevented markets from correctly pricing risk before the crisis?

Hypothesis: The pricing of risk refers to the incremental compensation required by investors for taking on additional risk, which may be measured by interest rates or fees.


Premise: How long were cities without electricity in June 2012?

Hypothesis: As of June 2012[update], Pakistan's electricity problems were so severe that violent riots were taking place across Punjab.


Premise: What friar helped to spread Dominican mysticism to Italy?

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: Along with The Royal Oak and The Crown, what is a traditional name for a pub?

Hypothesis: The beer houses tended to avoid the traditional pub names like The Crown, The Red Lion, The Royal Oak etc.


Premise: What broadcast for NBC was Kanye presenting for when he spoke negatively about President Bush?

Hypothesis: Once it was West's turn to speak again, he said, "George Bush doesn't care about black people.


Premise: What kills more residents than AIDS?

Hypothesis: Malaria kills more residents; 9% of the population have reported infection, It causes three times as many deaths as AIDS.


Premise: What is a polular green soup of Egypt?

Hypothesis: Fava bean is also used in making falafel (also known as "ta'meyya"), which may have originated in Egypt and spread to other parts of the Middle East.


Premise: What caused high unemployment on the island?

Hypothesis: King George VI is the only reigning monarch to have visited the island.


Premise: How much of the entire population of the planet is estimated to be carrying tuberculosis?

Hypothesis: New infections occur in about 1% of the population each year.


Premise: Realms can be understood as physical realms of what type of states?

Hypothesis: Specifically, samsara refers to the process of cycling through one rebirth after another within the six realms of existence,[note 2] where each realm can be understood as physical realm or a psychological state characterized by a particular type of suffering.


Premise: What kind of transportation network helped encourage keeping more exact schedules?

Hypothesis: However, this soon changed as rail and communication networks came to require a standardization of time unknown in Franklin's day.


Premise: What former U.S. president was born in New Haven?

Hypothesis: New Haven is the birthplace of former president George W. Bush, who was born when his father, former president George H. W. Bush, was living in New Haven while a student at Yale.


Premise: Generally, when is courtship feeding and billing performed between partners?

Hypothesis: Courtship feeding, billing and allopreening are commonly performed between partners, generally after the birds have paired and mated.


Premise: What are two other dangerous acids?

Hypothesis: Hydrogen can react spontaneously and violently at room temperature with chlorine and fluorine to form the corresponding hydrogen halides, hydrogen chloride and hydrogen fluoride, which are also potentially dangerous acids.


Premise: Which bridges were shut down because of filming?

Hypothesis: Stunt scenes involving Craig and Seydoux on a speedboat as well as a low flying helicopter near Westminster Bridge were shot at night, with filming temporarily closing both Westminster and Lambeth Bridges.


Premise: What was the intention of DBX encoded recordings?

Hypothesis: These were completely incompatible with standard record playback preamplifiers, relying on the dbx compandor encoding/decoding scheme to greatly increase dynamic range (dbx encoded disks were recorded with the dynamic range compressed by a factor of two in dB: quiet sounds were meant to be played back at low gain and loud sounds were meant to be played back at high gain, via automatic gain control in the playback equipment; this reduced the effect of surface noise on quiet passages).


Premise: Which port is Sicily's primary port?

Hypothesis: The port of Palermo, founded by the Phoenicians over 2,700 years ago, is, together with the port of Messina, the main port of Sicily.


Premise: What is another word for "breed shows"?

Hypothesis: As the breed standard only deals with the externally observable qualities of the dog (such as appearance, movement, and temperament), separately tested qualities (such as ability or health) are not part of the judging in conformation shows.


Premise: At what time does the average adult human reach his lowest temperature?

Hypothesis: This minimum occurred at approximately the middle of the eight hour sleep period for morning types, but closer to waking in evening types.


Premise: How many people are affected by zinc deficiency?

Hypothesis: Zinc is an essential mineral perceived by the public today as being of "exceptional biologic and public health importance", especially regarding prenatal and postnatal development.


Premise: What should the cost of incentives for producing solar energy be considered?

Hypothesis: Hence the additional costs of the incentives for early deployment should be considered learning investments; they must be wisely spent and need to be widely shared".


Premise: Harff and Gurr's definition of genocide included the promotion and execution of what, by a state or its agents?

Hypothesis: Harff and Gurr also differentiate between genocides and politicides by the characteristics by which members of a group are identified by the state.


Premise: Overvaluation of bundled subprime mortgages was based on the theory that housing prices would continue to do this?

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


Premise: What was the name of the government Gaddafi set up after overthrowing the monarchy?

Hypothesis: Having removed the monarchical government, Gaddafi proclaimed the foundation of the Libyan Arab Republic.


Premise: What are electron acceptors accountable for?

Hypothesis: An additional criterion of respiratory microorganisms are the electron acceptors used for aerobic or anaerobic respiration.


Premise: From where in the solar system could the meteorites have come?

Hypothesis: Among these are pieces blasted off the Moon, and probably Mars, by impacts.


Premise: How early did the relationship begin between the Pecheneg and the Rus?

Hypothesis: Some speculation exists that the Pechenegs drove off the Tivertsi and the Ulichs to the regions of the upper Dniester river in Bukovina.


Premise: What did Battle of Sinop provide for France and the U.K?

Hypothesis: Sinop provided the United Kingdom and France with the casus belli ("cause for war") for declaring war against Russia.


Premise: What type of formations is it possible Sumerians invented?

Hypothesis: The first true city-states arose in Sumer, roughly contemporaneously with similar entities in what are now Syria and Lebanon.


Premise: Where did the first relay runner disappear to with the torch??

Hypothesis: International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge said the San Francisco relay had "fortunately" avoided much of the disruptions that marred the legs in London and Paris, but "was, however, not the joyous party that we had wished it to be."


Premise: What are mutations that do not change the amino acid sequence called?

Hypothesis: Some mutations do not change the amino acid sequence because multiple codons encode the same amino acid (synonymous mutations).


Premise: What type of farming is Houston's surface soil good for?

Hypothesis: The thick, rich, sometimes black, surface soil is suitable for rice farming in suburban outskirts where the city continues to grow.


Premise: What rule predicts that emitted energy increases with temperature?

Hypothesis: But it was also known that the colour of the light given off by a hot object changes with the temperature, so that "white hot" is hotter than "red hot".


Premise: What type of focus did universities have at the end of the early modern period?

Hypothesis: Aristotle was no longer a force providing the epistemological and methodological focus for universities and a more mechanistic orientation was emerging.


Premise: How many delegates did the nazi party win in 1930?

Hypothesis: Wilhelm Frick was appointed Minister of the Interior for the state of Thuringia after the Nazi Party won six delegates to the Thuringia Diet.


Premise: Pat O'Brien portrayed which person in the film Knute Rockne?

Hypothesis: The song also was prominent in the movie Rudy, with Sean Astin as Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger, who harbored dreams of playing football at the University of Notre Dame despite significant obstacles.


Premise: How much more rain do the southern atolls get compared to the northern?

Hypothesis: The threat of drought is commonplace throughout the island chains.


Premise: What type of names do "blacks" have?

Hypothesis: They also tend to have more European-sounding names than Bantu names.


Premise: What did Kurt Godel's theorem demonstrate about axioms and the inference rules?

Hypothesis: It is generally accepted that Kurt Gödel's incompleteness theorem of 1931 definitively demonstrated that for any set of axioms and inference rules proposed to encapsulate mathematics, there would in fact be some truths of mathematics which could not be deduced from them, and hence that Principia Mathematica could never achieve its aims.


Premise: How many new cases were filed in 2010?

Hypothesis: By way of comparison, all federal district courts in 2010 together received only about 282,000 new civil cases, 77,000 new criminal cases, and 1.5 million bankruptcy cases, while federal appellate courts received 56,000 new cases.


Premise: In what year did Reprise plan to release a series of 78 rpm singles?

Hypothesis: Only one disc actually saw release, Randy Newman's I Think It's Going to Rain Today, a track from his self-titled debut album (with The Beehive State on the flipside).


Premise: What was the name of Universal's French distribution company?

Hypothesis: In the early 1970s, the unit was incorporated into the French Cinema International Corporation arm.


Premise: Who is the market strategist that believes distinctions exist between the current crisis and the Great Depression?

Hypothesis: Floyd Norris, the chief financial correspondent of The New York Times, wrote in a blog entry in March 2009 that the decline has not been a mirror image of the Great Depression, explaining that although the decline amounts were nearly the same at the time, the rates of decline had started much faster in 2007, and that the past year had only ranked eighth among the worst recorded years of percentage drops in the Dow.


Premise: When FIFA ban Barcelona from buying players?

Hypothesis: In April 2014, FIFA banned the club from buying players for the next two transfer windows following the violation of the FIFA's rules about the transfer of footballers aged under 18.


Premise: When was Vesey's plan for a slave revolt revealed?

Hypothesis: Soon after, Vesey was tried and executed, hanged in early July with five slaves.


Premise: Some of the oldest private schools in Charleston date back how long?

Hypothesis: Bishop England, Porter-Gaud School, and Ashley Hall are the city's oldest and most prominent private schools, and are a significant part of Charleston history, dating back some 150 years.


Premise: When was Yale Law School created?

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


Premise: What does retroviral coverage help prevent?

Hypothesis: Only 20% of infected pregnant women receive anti retroviral coverage to prevent transmission to newborns.


Premise: The success of what program has made Israel one of seven countries capable of launching satellites?

Hypothesis: The success of the Ofeq program has made Israel one of seven countries capable of launching such satellites.


Premise: Are adolescents that have a good relationship with their parents more or less likely to smoke, drink, fight, or engage in unprotected sex?

Hypothesis: Adolescents who have a good relationship with their parents are less likely to engage in various risk behaviors, such as smoking, drinking, fighting, and/or unprotected sexual intercourse.


Premise: How many congregations meet on the BYU campus every Sunday?

Hypothesis: More than 150 congregations meet on BYU campus each Sunday.


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

Hypothesis: It was not unusual for electric recordings to be played back on acoustic phonographs.


Premise: When The Times began producing its newpaper in both broadsheet and tabloid sizes, which region did The Times withdraw its broadsheet from sale?

Hypothesis: In November 2003, News International began producing the newspaper in both broadsheet and tabloid sizes.


Premise: What is federlism defined as?

Hypothesis: Its distinctive feature, exemplified in the founding example of modern federalism of the United States of America under the Constitution of 1789, is a relationship of parity between the two levels of government established.


Premise: Who did early court cases focus on?

Hypothesis: Early court cases focused on the liability of Internet service providers (ISPs) for hosting, transmitting or publishing user-supplied content that could be actioned under civil or criminal law, such as libel, defamation, or pornography.


Premise: What is the legal name of the "Stupid Motorist Law"?

Hypothesis: If the road is flooded and a barricade is in place, motorists who drive around the barricade can be charged up to $2000 for costs involved in rescuing them.


Premise: Beyonce tied with which artist for most nominations by a female artist?

Hypothesis: She tied with Lauryn Hill for most Grammy nominations in a single year by a female artist.


Premise: What is the characteristic that most separates humans from animals?

Hypothesis: Gellius maintains that this common usage is wrong, and that model writers of Latin, such as Cicero and others, used the word only to mean what we might call "humane" or "polite" learning, or the Greek equivalent Paideia.


Premise: Who was a meeting organized for in 1929 in Atlantic City?

Hypothesis: The men who called this meeting were Masseria family lieutenant Charles "Lucky" Luciano and former Chicago South Side Gang boss


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

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


Premise: The Encyclopaedia Britannica was modelled along the same lines as a work from which country?

Hypothesis: In Germany, practical reference works intended for the uneducated majority became popular in the 18th century.


Premise: Where was the sub base located?

Hypothesis: The Soviets also helped Germany to avoid British naval blockades by providing a submarine base, Basis Nord, in the northern Soviet Union near Murmansk.


Premise: What was the new method of linear programming that von Neumann suggested?

Hypothesis: Von Neumann's algorithm was the first interior point method of linear programming.


Premise: When did Leonid Brezhnev die?

Hypothesis: Even after he died in 1982, the era didn’t end until Mikhail Gorbachev took power and introduced liberal reforms in Soviet society.


Premise: The writers Jonassohn and Bjornson cite various reasons for the lack of widespread support of what?

Hypothesis: As such the wording of the treaty is not intended to be a definition suitable as a research tool, and although it is used for this purpose, as it has an international legal credibility that others lack, other definitions have also been postulated.


Premise: What is the main element for aerobic photorophy?

Hypothesis: In unusual circumstances, the gas methane can be used by methanotrophic bacteria as both a source of electrons and a substrate for carbon anabolism.


Premise: What did von Bredow's Pyrrhic victory become known as?

Hypothesis: Von Bredow's attack had succeeded only because of an unusually effective artillery bombardment just before the charge, along with favorable terrain that masked his approach.


Premise: What are some species of whales that can be seen around Norfolk Island today?

Hypothesis: Southern right whales were once regular migrants to the Norfolk hence naming the island as the "Middle ground" by whalers, but had been severely depleted by historical hunts, and further by illegal Soviet and Japan whaling, resulting in none of very few, if remnants still live, right whales in these regions along with Lord Howe Island.


Premise: What is the second airport that serves Houston?

Hypothesis: Houston's aviation history is showcased in the 1940 Air Terminal Museum located in the old terminal building on the west side of the airport.


Premise: When did agrarian societies start to arise in Southeast Europe?

Hypothesis: In southeast Europe agrarian societies first appeared in the 7th millennium BC, attested by one of the earliest farming sites of Europe, discovered in Vashtëmi, southeastern Albania and dating back to 6,500 BC.


Premise: What type of process theology does C. Robert Mesle promote?

Hypothesis: C. Robert Mesle, for instance, advocates a "process naturalism", i.e. a process theology without God.


Premise: What typically arose as a result of unpaid obligations?

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


Premise: What is an example of a name for a beer house?

Hypothesis: The beer houses tended to avoid the traditional pub names like The Crown, The Red Lion, The Royal Oak etc.


Premise: The kidnapping of the Duke of Enghien violated the sovereignty of what locale?

Hypothesis: On the advice of Talleyrand, Napoleon ordered the kidnapping of the Duke of Enghien, violating the sovereignty of Baden.


Premise: Where is West Raleigh?

Hypothesis: West Raleigh lies along Hillsborough Street and Western Boulevard.


Premise: In what year did Universal's deal with Legendary Pictures begin?

Hypothesis: Universal's multi-year film financing deal with Elliott Management expired in 2013.


Premise: For whom is Green Hall named?

Hypothesis: The University of Kansas School of Law was the top law school in the state of Kansas, and 68th nationally, according to the 2014 U.S. News & World Report "Best Graduate Schools" edition.


Premise: What condition did Droney have?

Hypothesis: In January 1977, Droney promoted him to First Assistant District Attorney, essentially making Kerry his campaign and media surrogate because Droney was afflicted with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gehrig's Disease).


Premise: What questionaire has been used to measure the age in which adolescents should be able to engage in autonomous behaviors?

Hypothesis: A questionnaire called the teen timetable has been used to measure the age at which individuals believe adolescents should be able to engage in behaviors associated with autonomy.


Premise: Which birds often undertake circumpolar trips between breeding seasons?

Hypothesis: These birds are characterised by a breeding season spent in the temperate or polar regions and a non-breeding season in the tropical regions or opposite hemisphere.


Premise: What is the code for the Unicode replacement character?

Hypothesis: The Apple's Last Resort font will display a substitute glyph indicating the Unicode range of the character, and the SIL International's Unicode Fallback font will display a box showing the hexadecimal scalar value of the character.


Premise: Chopin accompanied which singer for friends?

Hypothesis: Occasionally he played, or accompanied the singing of Delfina Potocka, for his friends.


Premise: When did Spiro Mounds flourish?

Hypothesis: Evidence exists that native peoples traveled through Oklahoma as early as the last ice age.


Premise: What did the French, German, Dutch and Belgian governments finally compromise on with regards to managing the ECB?

Hypothesis: This was opposed by the German, Dutch and Belgian governments who saw Duisenberg as a guarantor of a strong euro.


Premise: How many gardens and parks are in Miami?

Hypothesis: There are over 80 parks and gardens in the city.


Premise: How many times did Israelites have political independence in ancient history?

Hypothesis: Israelites enjoyed political independence twice in ancient history, first during the periods of the Biblical judges followed by the United Monarchy.[disputed – discuss]


Premise: What were some of the multi-ethnic confederacies of Eurasia?

Hypothesis: The Slavs emerged from obscurity when the westward movement of Germans in the 5th and 6th centuries CE (thought to be in conjunction with the movement of peoples from Siberia and Eastern Europe: Huns, and later Avars and Bulgars) started the great migration of the Slavs, who settled the lands abandoned by Germanic tribes fleeing the Huns and their allies: westward into the country between the Oder and the Elbe-Saale line; southward into Bohemia, Moravia, much of present-day Austria, the Pannonian plain and the Balkans; and northward along the upper Dnieper river.


Premise: On what date did New York record its highest temperature ever?

Hypothesis: Extreme temperatures have ranged from −15 °F (−26 °C), recorded on February 9, 1934, up to 106 °F (41 °C) on July 9, 1936.


Premise: What did Eastland believe the founders of affirmative action did not consider?

Hypothesis: Eastland believes that affirmative action is a great risk that only sometimes pays off, and that without it we would be able to compete more freely with one another.


Premise: Who led the third voyage?

Hypothesis: For a period of fifteen years the charter awarded the newly formed company a monopoly on trade with all countries east of the Cape of Good Hope and west of the Straits of Magellan.


Premise: What type of practices were those affecting the care of the dead?

Hypothesis: Roman beliefs about an afterlife varied, and are known mostly for the educated elite who expressed their views in terms of their chosen philosophy.


Premise: During what time period did the Dominican Order do its best work?

Hypothesis: Founded to preach the Gospel and to combat heresy, the teaching activity of the order and its scholastic organization placed the Preachers in the forefront of the intellectual life of the Middle Ages.


Premise: Sending a ship to the Black Sea violated the terms made during what agreement?

Hypothesis: Napoleon III responded with a show of force, sending the ship of the line Charlemagne to the Black Sea.


Premise: What small music venue in Southampton is named after an aquatic mammal?

Hypothesis: The city also has several smaller music venues, including the Brook, The Talking Heads, The Soul Cellar, The Joiners and Turner Sims, as well as smaller "club circuit" venues like Hampton's and Lennon's, and a number of public houses including the Platform tavern, the Dolphin, the Blue Keys and many others.


Premise: Who were Magisterial reformers?

Hypothesis: Contrary to how the Protestant Reformers were often characterized, the concept of a catholic or universal Church was not brushed aside during the Protestant Reformation.


Premise: Who implemented reforms to reduce the Fujiwara's influence on government?

Hypothesis: Go-Sanjo, determined to restore imperial control through strong personal rule, implemented reforms to curb Fujiwara influence.


Premise: On what media was most of these work released?

Hypothesis: Most of these works have been released on Compact Disks and can regularly be heard on radio stations on the ABC and MBS networks.


Premise: What size are the wafers used to create white LEDs?

Hypothesis: A new style of wafers composed of gallium-nitride-on-silicon (GaN-on-Si) is being used to produce white LEDs using 200-mm silicon wafers.


Premise: In which countries did the British Isles provide most of the founding settlers?

Hypothesis: The demographics of Britain itself was changed after the Second World War owing to immigration to Britain from its former colonies.


Premise: Who was the Chairman of Augusta National and friend to Eisenhower?

Hypothesis: Eisenhower was a golf enthusiast later in life, and joined the Augusta National Golf Club in 1948.


Premise: What does Darwin use to illustrate the effects of artificial selection?

Hypothesis: As an illustration of artificial selection, he describes fancy pigeon breeding, noting that "[t]he diversity of the breeds is something astonishing", yet all were descended from one species of rock pigeon.


Premise: What year did Gladstone resign?

Hypothesis: Victoria was pleased when Gladstone resigned in 1885 after his budget was defeated.


Premise: During what years was the Russo-Turkish war?

Hypothesis: By the late 18th century, a number of defeats in several wars with Russia led some people in the Ottoman Empire to conclude that the reforms of Peter the Great had given the Russians an edge, and the Ottomans would have to keep up with Western technology in order to avoid further defeats.


Premise: Which country has 11% of households who speak Afrikaans?

Hypothesis: It is the lingua franca in Namibia, where it is spoken natively in 11 percent of households.


Premise: When did the developer preview expire?

Hypothesis: The Windows Store was announced during the presentation, but was not available in this build.


Premise: Which agency regulates safety of pesticides in the US?

Hypothesis: Proper pesticide use decreases these associated risks to a level deemed acceptable by pesticide regulatory agencies such as the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) of Canada.


Premise: Along with the Somali Youth League and Somali National League, what was an early Somali political organization?

Hypothesis: Following World War II, Britain retained control of both British Somaliland and Italian Somaliland as protectorates.


Premise: What year were women allowed to attend Northwestern University?

Hypothesis: Instruction began in 1855; women were admitted in 1869.


Premise: What term is sometimes used for dialects that only differ in vocabulary?

Hypothesis: Where a distinction can be made only in terms of pronunciation (including prosody, or just prosody itself), the term accent may be preferred over dialect.


Premise: What year was the first dog sent into space?

Hypothesis: Dogs have lived and worked with humans in so many roles that they have earned the unique nickname, "man's best friend", a phrase used in other languages as well.


Premise: When is it believed that the earliest know hair was said to exist?

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


Premise: What is the path of moderation called he followed?

Hypothesis: He realized that he had taken this kind of practice to its limit, and had not put an end to suffering.


Premise: In what hemisphere did west Antarctica share during the Cambrian?

Hypothesis: By the start of the Devonian period (416 Ma), Gondwana was in more southern latitudes and the climate was cooler, though fossils of land plants are known from this time.


Premise: When did Captain Damian de Esplana arrive?

Hypothesis: Jose de Quiroga arrived in 1680 and continued some of the development projects started by his predecessors.


Premise: What year was Harper Lee born?

Hypothesis: Born in 1926, Harper Lee grew up in the Southern town of Monroeville, Alabama, where she became close friends with soon-to-be famous writer Truman Capote.


Premise: What do vaccines need to work?

Hypothesis: Antibacterial vaccines have been responsible for a drastic reduction in global bacterial diseases.


Premise: What does Tuscon have a high net loss of?

Hypothesis: A similar scenario is seen in Alice Springs, Australia, which averages 11 inches (279.4 mm) a year, but has a desert climate.


Premise: How many employees are there in San Diego for every 137 residents?

Hypothesis: San Diego is a sanctuary city, however, San Diego County is a participant of the Secure Communities program.


Premise: Shorter wavelength diodes provide wavelengths as low as what?

Hypothesis: Ultraviolet LEDs in a range of wavelengths are becoming available on the market.


Premise: Which publication was unhappy with the amount of non-athlete torchbearers?

Hypothesis: An article published on Macao Daily News criticized that the list of the torchbearers could not fully represent the Macanese and that there were too many non-athletes among the torchbearers.


Premise: What does Heer Ranjha sing about?

Hypothesis: Love legends of Heer Ranjha, Mirza Sahiban, Sohni Mahenwal and Saiful Mulk are sung in different styles.


Premise: Which part of the bird developed from forelimbs?

Hypothesis: Wings, which evolved from forelimbs, give most birds the ability to fly, although further speciation has led to some flightless birds, including ratites, penguins, and diverse endemic island species of birds.


Premise: What two instruments did Chopin's father play?

Hypothesis: The father played the flute and violin; the mother played the piano and gave lessons to boys in the boarding house that the Chopins kept.


Premise: Crimson is identified by what sRGB number?

Hypothesis: So that the maximum number of colors can be accurately reproduced on your computer screen, each color has been given a code number, or sRGB, which tells your computer the intensity of the red, green and blue components of that color.


Premise: What is Sumerian writing considered to be in the development of man's ability to create literature?

Hypothesis: Sumerian continued to be the language of religion and law in Mesopotamia long after Semitic speakers had become dominant.


Premise: When did Holmes die?

Hypothesis: The British pilot became a King's Messenger after the war, and died at the age of 90 in 2005.


Premise: Which direction does la Meridiana run?

Hypothesis: There is a bronze line, la


Premise: What is a common prize in a ladder match?

Hypothesis: In the basic ladder match, the wrestlers or teams of wrestlers must climb a ladder to obtain a prize that is hoisted above the ring.


Premise: What sources did Early Modern age universities rely on for medical curricula?

Hypothesis: Aristotle was prevalent throughout the curriculum, while medicine also depended on Galen and Arabic scholarship.


Premise: During what war Did the EIC get letter of marque for its vessels

Hypothesis: Similarly, the Earl of Mornington, an East India Company packet ship of only six guns, also sailed under a letter of marque.


Premise: What is an example of the ongoing orogeny?

Hypothesis: The Matterhorn is an example of the ongoing orogeny and shows evidence of great folding.


Premise: What kind of geologic activity occurred during the Mesozoic?

Hypothesis: The Mesozoic was a time of significant tectonic, climate and evolutionary activity.


Premise: In what year did Jaun de Bermudez first reach Bermuda?

Hypothesis: In 1609, the English Virginia Company, which had established Jamestown in Virginia (a term originally applied to all of the North American continent) two years earlier, permanently settled Bermuda in the aftermath of a hurricane, when the crew and passengers of the Sea Venture steered the ship onto the surrounding reef to prevent its sinking, then landed ashore.


Premise: What entity governed Portugal until 1976?

Hypothesis: He initiated the process of accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) by starting accession negotiations as early as 1977.


Premise: Who did Freddie Mercury collaborate with in 1988?

Hypothesis: With The Miracle, the band's songwriting became more collaborative, and they vowed to credit the final product only to Queen as a group.


Premise: What year was Melbourne officially declared a city?

Hypothesis: After the federation of Australia in 1901, it served as the nation's interim seat of government until 1927.


Premise: What was the agreement that recognized Greece as a state called?

Hypothesis: After years of negotiation, three Great Powers, Russia, the United Kingdom and France, decided to intervene in the conflict and each nation sent a navy to Greece.


Premise: Who believed that Tibet barely had any diplomatic relations with the Ming?

Hypothesis: Van Praag writes that these "tributary missions" were simply prompted by China's need for horses from Tibet, since a viable horse market in Mongol lands was closed as a result of incessant conflict.


Premise: What caused disagreement about Yale's new position?

Hypothesis: Expansion caused controversy about Yale's new roles.


Premise: What are some other attractions

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


Premise: What did the publication of the Kralice Bible spawn?

Hypothesis: A biblical translation, the Kralice Bible, was published during the late sixteenth century (around the time of the King James and Luther versions) which was more linguistically conservative than either.


Premise: What was the earlier name of Hobby Airport?

Hypothesis: The second-largest commercial airport is William P. Hobby Airport (named Houston International Airport until 1967) which operates primarily short- to medium-haul domestic flights.


Premise: Who are some well-known Punjab poets?

Hypothesis: In the composition of classical ragas, there are such masters as Malika-i-Mauseequi (Queen of Music)


Premise: In what year was CIPA DC-004 introduced?

Hypothesis: Following the publication of CIPA DC-004 in 2006, Japanese manufacturers of digital still cameras are required to specify whether a sensitivity rating is REI or SOS.[citation needed]


Premise: What new theory states that traumatic events during adolescence have lifelong effects?

Hypothesis: Another recent study put forth a new theory entitled the adolescent epistemological trauma theory, which posited that traumatic life events such as parental divorce during the formative period of late adolescence portend lifelong effects on adult conflict behavior that can be mitigated by effective behavioral assessment and training.


Premise: What does "open mouth operations" mean?

Hypothesis: Usually, the short-term goal of open market operations is to achieve a specific short-term interest rate target.


Premise: What is the largest art museum in the north of the country?

Hypothesis: Mishkan Le'Omanut on Kibbutz Ein Harod Meuhad is the largest art museum in the north of the country.


Premise: What street was renamed in the late 2000s to commemorate the street version of baseball?

Hypothesis: Stickball, a street version of baseball, was popularized by youths in the 1930s, and a street in the Bronx was renamed Stickball Boulevard in the late 2000s to memorialize this.


Premise: Who published "Credit Correlation: Life After Copulas" in 2007?

Hypothesis: See also the article by Donnelly and Embrechts and the book by Brigo, Pallavicini and Torresetti, that reports relevant warnings and research on CDOs appeared in 2006.


Premise: What is the average time an American watches TV in day?

Hypothesis: In January 2012, it was estimated that visitors to YouTube spent an average of 15 minutes a day on the site, in contrast to the four or five hours a day spent by a typical U.S. citizen watching television.


Premise: In the children's TV show, The Wombles, what character asks others to bring him any copies of The Times that they find amongst the litter?

Hypothesis: In The Wombles, Uncle Bulgaria read The Times and asked for the other Wombles to bring him any copies that they found amongst the litter.