Premise: What do classical performers often achieve?

Hypothesis: Generally however, it is the composers who are remembered more than the performers.


Premise: Who synthesized Amphetamine for asthma?

Hypothesis: A structurally similar compound, ephedrine, was identified by Japanese chemists in the Ma Huang plant and marketed by Eli Lilly as an oral treatment for asthma.


Premise: In Scotland, who is responsible for submitting a bill for royal assent?

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


Premise: How do both Jesus and King Carnival make a gift to the people?

Hypothesis: Before they were to run, the Jews were richly fed, so as to make the race more difficult for them and at the same time more amusing for spectators.


Premise: What was used as a model for the church Yaroslav commissioned?

Hypothesis: The model of the church was the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, and it was also called Saint Sophia Cathedral.


Premise: What year did Iran pass an economic reform plan that would replace subsidies with targeted social assistance programs?

Hypothesis: Iranian budget deficits have been a chronic problem, mostly due to large-scale state subsidies, that include foodstuffs and especially gasoline, totaling more than $84 billion in 2008 for the energy sector alone.


Premise: Of the five countries with the greatest use of Czech, which country had the lowest percent of use?

Hypothesis: Czech, the official language of the Czech Republic (a member of the European Union since 2004), is one of the EU's official languages and the 2012 Eurobarometer survey found that Czech was the foreign language most often used in Slovakia.


Premise: In what state's supreme court was State v. Santiago decided?

Hypothesis: In Maryland, Governor Martin O'Malley commuted the state's four remaining death sentences to life in prison without parole in January 2015.


Premise: What type of integration do large corporations often do?

Hypothesis: Smaller organizations, on the other hand, often focus on a specific aspect such as discovering drug candidates or developing formulations.


Premise: When was a Scottish Lodge formed 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: What is the resistance of a typical lit 100-watt incandescent bulb?

Hypothesis: For example, a 100-watt, 120-volt lamp has a resistance of 144 ohms when lit, but the cold resistance is much lower (about 9.5 ohms).


Premise: What year did Dell design its own computer?

Hypothesis: Dell traces its origins to 1984, when Michael Dell created Dell Computer Corporation, which at the time did business as PC's Limited, while a student of the University of Texas at Austin.


Premise: Who has written the only biography of Harper Lee?

Hypothesis: Having walked Boo home after he saves their lives, Scout stands on the Radley porch and considers the events of the previous three years from Boo's perspective.


Premise: According to the census of 2000, what percentage of Swiss are Buddhists?

Hypothesis: As of the 2000 census other Christian minority communities include Neo-Pietism (0.44%), Pentecostalism (0.28%, mostly incorporated in the Schweizer Pfingstmission), Methodism (0.13%), the New Apostolic Church (0.45%), Jehovah's Witnesses (0.28%), other Protestant denominations (0.20%), the Old Catholic Church (0.18%), other Christian denominations (0.20%). Non-Christian religions are Hinduism (0.38%), Buddhism (0.29%), Judaism (0.25%) and others (0.11%); 4.3% did not make a statement.


Premise: How many parts does a VHS tape have that must be manufactured?

Hypothesis: LaserDiscs were initially cheaper than videocassettes to manufacture, because they lacked the moving parts and plastic outer shell that are necessary for VHS tapes to work, and the duplication process was much simpler.


Premise: What is suffering also called?

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


Premise: how much prarie land does the "Buffalo Commons" want to return?

Hypothesis: The continuing population loss has led some to suggest that the current use of the drier parts of the Great Plains is not sustainable, and there has been a proposal - the "Buffalo Commons" - to return approximately 139,000 square miles (360,000 km2) of these drier parts to native prairie land.


Premise: There is a relationship between the size of the antenna and the size of the wavelength with what antenna type?

Hypothesis: Highly directional antennas need to be significantly larger than the wavelength.


Premise: Contestants could perform what in the final rounds for the first time ever?

Hypothesis: This was the first season where the contestants were permitted to perform in the final rounds songs they wrote themselves.


Premise: The ability to store and execute lists of instructions are called what?

Hypothesis: The ability to store and execute lists of instructions called programs makes computers extremely versatile, distinguishing them from calculators.


Premise: Where was Fauconnier's studio located?

Hypothesis: In contrast, the Salon Cubists built their reputation primarily by exhibiting regularly at the Salon d'Automne and the Salon des Indépendants, both major non-academic Salons in Paris.


Premise: What did Napoleon reorganize to supply the personnel and money required to fight great wars?

Hypothesis: He reorganized France itself to supply the men and money needed for great wars.


Premise: What is the name of a company that uses iPods as part of its training?

Hypothesis: Government departments, major institutions and international organisations have turned to the iPod line as a delivery mechanism for business communication and training, such as the Royal and Western Infirmaries in Glasgow, Scotland, where iPods are used to train new staff.


Premise: What university has the largest Native American enrollment in the US?

Hypothesis: Oklahoma holds eleven public regional universities, including Northeastern State University, the second-oldest institution of higher education west of the Mississippi River, also containing the only College of Optometry in Oklahoma and the largest enrollment of Native American students in the nation by percentage and amount.


Premise: How many people would serve concurrently in a single magisterial office?

Hypothesis: Each magisterial office would be held concurrently by at least two people.


Premise: What do Hokkein varieties retain that are no longer found in other Chinese varieties?

Hypothesis: Hokkien varieties retain many pronunciations that are no longer found in other Chinese varieties.


Premise: In additions, the train line is also connected with which airline services?

Hypothesis: Union Station is further served by four Amtrak lines: the Northeast Regional and the high-speed Acela Express provide service to New York, Washington, D.C. and Boston, and rank as the first and second busiest routes in the country; the New Haven–Springfield Line provides service to Hartford and Springfield, Massachusetts; and the Vermonter provides service to both Washington, D.C., and Vermont, 15 miles (24 km) from the Canadian border.


Premise: Who owns Walt Disney Studios?

Hypothesis: Columbia's film output is owned by Sony (through Sony Pictures Television); distribution of 20th Century Fox's film library is handled for television by its 21st Century Fox subsidiary 20th Television, and the Walt Disney Studios (owned by The Walt Disney Company) has its library film output handled for television by Disney-ABC Domestic Television.


Premise: What region is Twilight Princess the best -selling Zelda entry?

Hypothesis: In the PAL region, which covers most of Africa, Asia, Europe, and Oceania, Twilight Princess is the best-selling entry in the Zelda series.


Premise: Were the pretend baptisms real?

Hypothesis: After questioning Athanasius, Bishop Alexander informed him that the baptisms were genuine, as both the form and matter of the sacrament had been performed through the recitation of the correct words and the administration of water, and that he must not continue to do this as those baptized had not been properly catechized.


Premise: What percentage of school-aged children are estimated to attend secondary school?

Hypothesis: Statistics vary at the elementary level, suggesting that between 65 and 70% of school-aged children attend primary school; Approximately 61% attend secondary school.


Premise: In 2014, how many people died from TB?

Hypothesis: In 2014, there were 9.6 million cases of active TB which resulted in 1.5 million deaths.


Premise: What was there an influx of waves of coming into Sumerian lands?

Hypothesis: Later, the 3rd dynasty of Ur under Ur-Nammu and Shulgi, whose power extended as far as southern Assyria, was the last great "Sumerian renaissance", but already the region was becoming more Semitic than Sumerian, with the rise in power of the Akkadian speaking Semites in Assyria and elsewhere, and the influx of waves of Semitic Martu (Amorites) who were to found several competing local powers including Isin, Larsa, Eshnunna and eventually Babylon.


Premise: What is another name for the Circuit Recardo Tormo?

Hypothesis: The Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix (Gran Premi de la Comunitat Valenciana de motociclisme) is part of the Grand Prix motorcycle racing season at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo (also known as Circuit de Valencia).


Premise: How much was the royalties paid to Madonna for the music proceedings?

Hypothesis: The deal was a joint venture with Time Warner and paid Madonna an advance of $60 million.


Premise: When did Spielberg buy a sled from Citizen Kane?

Hypothesis: A collector of film memorabilia, Spielberg purchased a balsa Rosebud sled from Citizen Kane (1941) in 1982.


Premise: Who was Derby's replacement?

Hypothesis: Victoria found Gladstone's demeanour far less appealing; he spoke to her, she is thought to have complained, as though she were "a public meeting rather than a woman".


Premise: How many adherents does Thervada have?

Hypothesis: Seven million additional Buddhists are found outside of Asia.


Premise: What does OFUNAM stand for?

Hypothesis: These include the Mexico City Philharmonic, which performs at the Sala Ollin Yoliztli; the National Symphony Orchestra, whose home base is the Palacio de Bellas Artes (Palace of the Fine Arts), a masterpiece of art nouveau and art decó styles; the Philharmonic Orchestra of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (OFUNAM), and the Minería Symphony Orchestra, both of which perform at the Sala Nezahualcóyotl, which was the first wrap-around concert hall in the Western Hemisphere when inaugurated in 1976.


Premise: How many foreign born Houstonites are from Asia?

Hypothesis: residents who were born outside the United States, with nearly two-thirds of the area's foreign-born population from south of the United States–Mexico border.


Premise: What follows a geodesic of space-time?

Hypothesis: In general relativity, an inertial frame of reference is one that is following a geodesic of space-time.


Premise: Which of Hayek's works did Thatcher produce at the Conservative Research Department?

Hypothesis: During Thatcher's only visit to the Conservative Research Department in the summer of 1975, a speaker had prepared a paper on why the "middle way" was the pragmatic path the Conservative Party should take, avoiding the extremes of left and right.


Premise: What does the scope of testing the software also look at?

Hypothesis: In the current culture of software development, a testing organization may be separate from the development team.


Premise: When did the Christianization of Kievan begin?

Hypothesis: As Prince of Kiev, Vladimir's most notable achievement was the Christianization of Kievan Rus', a process that began in 988.


Premise: Which ideology did Hayek believe conservatism discouraged?

Hypothesis: In this text, Hayek also opposed conservatism for "its hostility to internationalism and its proneness to a strident nationalism" and its frequent association with imperialism.


Premise: What is the most common use of embedded youtube videos?

Hypothesis: Each YouTube video is accompanied by a piece of HTML that can be used to embed it on any page on the Web.


Premise: Do those who favor DST say people would rather have an extra hour of daylight before or after their usual workday?

Hypothesis: Supporters have also argued that DST decreases energy consumption by reducing the need for lighting and heating, but the actual effect on overall energy use is heavily disputed.


Premise: How much data did youtube have to hand over to Viacom as a result of the lawsuit?

Hypothesis: In June 2010, Viacom's lawsuit against Google was rejected in a summary judgment, with U.S. federal Judge Louis L. Stanton stating that Google was protected by provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.


Premise: When was the tungsten filament introduced?

Hypothesis: It was found that very pure tungsten formed filaments that sagged in use, and that a very small "doping" treatment with potassium, silicon, and aluminium oxides at the level of a few hundred parts per million greatly improved the life and durability of the tungsten filaments.


Premise: When did the most widespread melting of ice occur?

Hypothesis: According to NASA, the most widespread Antarctic surface melting of the past 30 years occurred in 2005, when an area of ice comparable in size to California briefly melted and refroze; this may have resulted from temperatures rising to as high as 5 °C (41 °F).


Premise: Who is the person that started the religion that separated itself from the Catholic Church in the 17th century ?

Hypothesis: For in that moment when she conceived, she was a holy mother filled with the Holy Spirit and her fruit is a holy pure fruit, at once God and truly man, in one person."


Premise: Who was the president of Tunisia in 2011?

Hypothesis: He suggested that Tunisia's people would be satisfied if Ben Ali introduced a Jamahiriyah system there.


Premise: What is an example of the ongoing orogeny?

Hypothesis: The tip of the mountain consists of gneisses from the African plate; the base of the peak, below the glaciated area, consists of European basement rock.


Premise: What organization is Craig Venter and Francis Collins associated with?

Hypothesis: Craig Venter and Francis Collins of the National Institute of Health jointly made the announcement of the mapping of the human genome in 2000.


Premise: Where does the typical safari hunter hang his hat at night?

Hypothesis: In Tanzania, it is estimated that a safari hunter spends fifty to one hundred times that of the average ecotourist.


Premise: What is the British Navy constructing to replace their three Invincible-class carriers?

Hypothesis: The British Royal Navy is constructing two new larger STOVL aircraft carriers, the Queen Elizabeth class, to replace the three Invincible-class carriers.


Premise: By what age had many small states covered the subcontinent?

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


Premise: What auditor company did Apple hire to oversee worker conditions following the controversy?

Hypothesis: Apple hired a workplace standards auditing company, Verité, and joined the Electronic Industry Code of Conduct Implementation Group to oversee the measures.


Premise: Against whom was gunpowder used in 1304?

Hypothesis: Cannon were being used for sieges in the 1320s, and hand-held guns were in use by the 1360s.


Premise: What affects the thermal conductivity of a gas?

Hypothesis: Higher molecular weight gasses have lower thermal conductivity, because both the molecular weight is higher and also the cross sectional area is higher.


Premise: What can a resistor control?

Hypothesis: Resistors allow control of the motor speed, although significant power is dissipated in the external resistance.


Premise: In what year was The Spectator published?

Hypothesis: Coffeehouses represent a turning point in history during which people discovered that they could have enjoyable social lives within their communities.


Premise: On what date did Bell get his patent?

Hypothesis: Bell returned to Boston the same day and the next day resumed work, drawing in his notebook a diagram similar to that in Gray's patent caveat.


Premise: How long has Switzerland hosted the United Nations Human Rights Council?

Hypothesis: Even though Switzerland is one of the most recent countries to have joined the United Nations, the Palace of Nations in Geneva is the second biggest centre for the United Nations after New York, and Switzerland was a founding member and home to the League of Nations.


Premise: How many people were killed by bomb drops during the first World War?

Hypothesis: The attitude of the Air Ministry was in contrast to the experiences of the First World War when a few German bombers caused physical and psychological damage out of all proportion to their numbers.


Premise: What was the American priority in mobilization prior to entering World War II?

Hypothesis: American involvement in World War II in 1940–41 was limited to providing war material and financial support to Britain, the Soviet Union, and the Republic of China.


Premise: Where did other American Lodges obtain their authoriisations from?

Hypothesis: Many lodges came into existence with no warrant from any Grand Lodge, applying and paying for their authorisation only after they were confident of their own survival.


Premise: Which group made up the majority of granted tourist visas in 2003?

Hypothesis: According to UNESCO and the deputy head of research for Iran Travel and Tourism Organization (ITTO), Iran is rated 4th among the top 10 destinations in the Middle East.


Premise: What two groups spread knowledge of architecture in Europe?

Hypothesis: From about 900 CE onwards, the movements of both clerics and tradesmen carried architectural knowledge across Europe, resulting in the pan-European styles Romanesque and Gothic.


Premise: What does trusted communication in a family lead to?

Hypothesis: It is important for family members to understand communication as a trusted way which leads to a well constructed family.


Premise: What could be caused by a 0.80% Blood alcohol content in a human?

Hypothesis: A BAC from 0.35% to 0.80% causes a coma (unconsciousness), life-threatening respiratory depression and possibly fatal alcohol poisoning.


Premise: What must happen quickly for glass to form?

Hypothesis: If the cooling is sufficiently rapid (relative to the characteristic crystallization time) then crystallization is prevented and instead the disordered atomic configuration of the supercooled liquid is frozen into the solid state at Tg.


Premise: What year is it planned for IB programs to be in place at Madrasah Al-Arabiah Al-Islamiah?

Hypothesis: In 2009, MUIS introduced the "Joint Madrasah System" (JMS), a joint collaboration of Madrasah Al-Irsyad Al-Islamiah primary school and secondary schools Madrasah Aljunied Al-Islamiah (offering the ukhrawi, or religious stream) and Madrasah Al-Arabiah Al-Islamiah (offering the academic stream).


Premise: Where was the "Kanye West Foundation" founded?

Hypothesis: West, alongside his mother, founded the "Kanye West Foundation" in Chicago in 2003, tasked with a mission to battle dropout and illiteracy rates, while partnering with community organizations to provide underprivileged youth access to music education.


Premise: What causes glaciers to deform and flow?

Hypothesis: Glaciers slowly deform and flow due to stresses induced by their weight, creating crevasses, seracs, and other distinguishing features.


Premise: What concern did Hills raise about power imbalances?

Hypothesis: Police development-aid to weak, failed or failing states is another form of transnational policing that has garnered attention.


Premise: How much sink hole damage did Florida suffer recently

Hypothesis: Extended systems of underwater caves, sinkholes and springs are found throughout the state and supply most of the water used by residents.


Premise: The Dominican Order in England was controlled by who?

Hypothesis: It was also, however, a group of Englishmen.


Premise: How is newline normalization accomplished in Mac OS X?

Hypothesis: This is achieved with the Cocoa text system in Mac OS X and also with W3C XML and HTML recommendations.


Premise: How high can the seismic magnitude be of a glacial earthquake?

Hypothesis: This increase in the numbers of glacial earthquakes in Greenland may be a response to global warming.


Premise: What are some Swedish sleaze metal revivalist bands?

Hypothesis: Los Angeles band Steel Panther managed to gain a following by sending up 80s glam metal.


Premise: What American naval officer led a raid that destroyed a captured American ship?

Hypothesis: After the U.S.S. Philadelphia was captured in 1803, Lieutenant Stephen Decatur led a raid which successfully burned the captured ship, preventing Tripoli from using or selling it.


Premise: How were larger mosaics usually constructed?

Hypothesis: Mosaic murals, benches and tabletops are some of the items usually made using the indirect method, as it results in a smoother and more even surface.


Premise: Who was the drummer for The Who?

Hypothesis: Subsequent albums, including Quadrophenia (1973), built on this sound before Who Are You (1978), their last album before the death of pioneering rock drummer Keith Moon later that year.


Premise: How many seats does the Pregones' new theater have?

Hypothesis: The Pregones Theater, which produces Latin American work, opened a new 130-seat theater in 2005 on Walton Avenue in the South Bronx.


Premise: What did Cyril and Mehodius come up with to help with the issue of the Slaves not having a written language?

Hypothesis: Prince Rastislav of Moravia had requested the Emperor to provide teachers to interpret the holy scriptures, so in 863 the brothers Cyril and Methodius were sent as missionaries, due to their knowledge of the Slavonic language.


Premise: What organisms are described as living on the surface of whales?

Hypothesis: Examples of this include ectoparasites such as lice, commensal ectosymbionts such as the barnacles that attach themselves to the jaw of baleen whales, and mutualist ectosymbionts such as cleaner fish.


Premise: Have the people of Greece done anything to make the matter more palatable for the people of Turkey ?

Hypothesis: The Greek flag is widely used by the Greek Cypriots, although Cyprus has officially adopted a neutral flag to ease ethnic tensions with the Turkish Cypriot minority – see flag of Cyprus).


Premise: What was historically disputed about vacuums?

Hypothesis: Historically, there has been much dispute over whether such a thing as a vacuum can exist.


Premise: What type of mission was the birthplace of the modern Pentecostal movement?

Hypothesis: Sprung from Methodist and Wesleyan roots, it arose out of meetings at an urban mission on Azusa Street in Los Angeles.


Premise: The names of many properties near Atlantic City are used in which popular board game?

Hypothesis: While the original incarnation of the game did not feature Atlantic City, it was in Indianapolis that Ruth Hoskins learned the game, and took it back to Atlantic City.


Premise: How many marks did John surrender?

Hypothesis: As part of the deal, John offered to surrender the Kingdom of England to the papacy for a feudal service of 1,000 marks (equivalent to £666 at the time) annually: 700 marks (£466) for England and 300 marks (£200) for Ireland, as well as recompensing the church for revenue lost during the crisis.


Premise: Who did Madonna turn to for comfort during her mother's illness?

Hypothesis: Madonna turned to her paternal grandmother for solace.


Premise: In what year were Jews kicked out of Spain?

Hypothesis: The Jews were expelled from Spain in 1492, and dispersed to Turkey, France, Italy, and Holland.


Premise: What other Apple product was unveiled on September 12, 2012?

Hypothesis: Apple introduced a new 8-pin dock connector, named Lightning, on September 12, 2012 with their announcement of the iPhone 5, the fifth generation iPod Touch, and the seventh generation iPod Nano, which all feature it.


Premise: I Love New York was established as advertising in what year?

Hypothesis: is both a logo and a song that are the basis of an advertising campaign and have been used since 1977 to promote tourism in New York City, and later to promote New York State as well.


Premise: When did the US make a large loan to Britain?

Hypothesis: Britain was left essentially bankrupt, with insolvency only averted in 1946 after the negotiation of a $US 4.33 billion loan (US$56 billion in 2012) from the United States, the last instalment of which was repaid in 2006.


Premise: Tito was awarded with the Royal Order of what country?

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


Premise: Diffusive ventilation occurs by what?

Hypothesis: In discontinuous gas exchange, however, the insect takes in oxygen while it is active and small amounts of carbon dioxide are released when the insect is at rest.


Premise: In what year did Ben Franklin write a satire suggesting firing cannons at sunrise to wake people up?

Hypothesis: This 1784 satire proposed taxing shutters, rationing candles, and waking the public by ringing church bells and firing cannons at sunrise.


Premise: What Greek word is -logy derived from?

Hypothesis: (2007), it means the systematic use of sound to encode meaning in any spoken human language, or the field of linguistics studying this use.


Premise: Who composed GE's slogan "Imagination at work?"?

Hypothesis: The changes were designed by Wolff Olins and are used on GE's marketing, literature and website.


Premise: Which edge of the Hoddle Grid fronts onto the Yarra River?

Hypothesis: The grid's southern edge fronts onto the Yarra River.


Premise: What pope was the Fourth Council of the Lateran held under?

Hypothesis: The Fourth Council of the Lateran, held under Pope Innocent III, decreed (canon xv): "We interdict hunting or hawking to all clerics."


Premise: When did Kanye West post to Twitter apoloizing to Taylor Swift?

Hypothesis: In September 2010, West wrote a series of apologetic tweets addressed to Swift including "Beyonce didn't need that.


Premise: When was the patent case Davoll et al. v. Brown ruled on?

Hypothesis: Section 1 of the French law of 1791 stated, "All new discoveries are the property of the author; to assure the inventor the property and temporary enjoyment of his discovery, there shall be delivered to him a patent for five, ten or fifteen years."


Premise: After the 19th century about how much of the Greek population resided in little Asia ?

Hypothesis: The history of the Greek people is closely associated with the history of Greece, Cyprus, Constantinople, Asia Minor and the Black Sea.


Premise: When did Ibn Tufail live?

Hypothesis: The Latin translation of his philosophical novel, entitled Philosophus Autodidactus, published by Edward Pococke the Younger in 1671, had an influence on John Locke's formulation of tabula rasa in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.


Premise: Destiny's Child got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in what year?

Hypothesis: Destiny's Child embarked on a worldwide concert tour, Destiny Fulfilled... and Lovin' It and during the last stop of their European tour, in Barcelona on June 11, 2005, Rowland announced that Destiny's Child would disband following the North American leg of the tour.


Premise: How many species of birds are there?

Hypothesis: Migration is the regular seasonal movement, often north and south, undertaken by many species of birds.


Premise: What was the new name given to the RSFSR on December 25, 1991?

Hypothesis: On December 26, 1991, the USSR was self-dissolved by the Soviet of Nationalities, which by that time was the only functioning house of the Supreme Soviet (the other house, Soviet of the Union, had already lost the quorum after recall of its members by the union republics).


Premise: How does London Academy of Excellence vary in cost from Eton College?

Hypothesis: David Cameron is the 19th British prime minister to have attended the school, and has recommended that Eton set up a school in the state sector to help drive up standards.


Premise: Exposure to what compounds can also trigger asthma?

Hypothesis: Exposure to indoor volatile organic compounds may be a trigger for asthma; formaldehyde exposure, for example, has a positive association.


Premise: What league are the Chicago Cubs in?

Hypothesis: The Cubs compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a members of the National League (NL)


Premise: How are the leads of an axially configured capacitor arranged?

Hypothesis: Capacitors may have their connecting leads arranged in many configurations, for example axially or radially.


Premise: Where did Russian get specialized vocabulary from?

Hypothesis: Blocks of specialized vocabulary were adopted from the languages of Western Europe.


Premise: When did Jews originate as a national and religious group in the Middle East?

Hypothesis: The Merneptah Stele appears to confirm the existence of a people of Israel, associated with the god El, somewhere in Canaan as far back as the 13th century BCE.


Premise: What is the name of the ballet that included Chopin's work?

Hypothesis: Chopin's music was used in the 1909 ballet Chopiniana, choreographed by Michel Fokine and orchestrated by Alexander Glazunov.


Premise: What type of tree was often used for totem poles?

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


Premise: What did critics claim that Title VII advocate?

Hypothesis: Many conservatives accused it of advocating a de facto quota system, and claimed unconstitutionality as it attempts to regulate the workplace.


Premise: What can happen to an arrogant wrestler?

Hypothesis: For example, an attacking wrestler who is half-conscious may simply drape an arm over an opponent, or a cocky wrestler may place their foot gently on the opponent's body, prompting a three-count from the referee.


Premise: How many survivors were there from Yingxiu?

Hypothesis: 3,000 to 5,000 people were killed in Beichuan County, Sichuan alone; in the same location, 10,000 people were injured and 80% of the buildings were destroyed.


Premise: In addition to playing music, what other function can the iPod perform?

Hypothesis: Storage capacity varies by model, ranging from 2 GB for the iPod Shuffle to 128 GB for the iPod Touch (previously 160 GB for the iPod Classic, which is now discontinued).


Premise: What percentage of the Congo's gross domestic product did petroleum account for in 2008?

Hypothesis: The economy is a mixture of village agriculture and handicrafts, an industrial sector based largely on petroleum, support services, and a government characterized by budget problems and overstaffing.


Premise: What do some birds use for auditory communication?

Hypothesis: Calls are used for a variety of purposes, including mate attraction, evaluation of potential mates, bond formation, the claiming and maintenance of territories, the identification of other individuals (such as when parents look for chicks in colonies or when mates reunite at the start of breeding season), and the warning of other birds of potential predators, sometimes with specific information about the nature of the threat.


Premise: Who was skeptical of Stalin’s policies?

Hypothesis: Some critics of Stalin's policy, such as the popular writer Viktor Suvorov, claim that Stalin's primary motive for signing the Soviet–German non-aggression treaty was his calculation that such a pact could result in a conflict between the capitalist countries of Western Europe.[citation needed]


Premise: The state hosts populations of birds of both endemic species and what?

Hypothesis: Trogon mexicanus is an endemic species found in the mountains in Mexico; it is considered an endangered species[citation needed] and has symbolic significance to Mexicans.


Premise: What are Valencia's agricultural areas mainly planted with?

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


Premise: What were churches called before the 19th century?

Hypothesis: Early Presbyterians were careful to distinguish between the "church," which referred the members, and the "meeting house," which was the building in which the church met.


Premise: In what year did Mahamoud publish his research?


Premise: Who is responsible for appointing the Lieutenant Governor of the Union Territory of Delhi?

Hypothesis: According to the Indian constitution, if a law passed by Delhi's legislative assembly is repugnant to any law passed by the Parliament of India, then the law enacted by the parliament will prevail over the law enacted by the assembly.


Premise: What Puerto Rican leader did the FBI spy on?

Hypothesis: The FBI also spied upon and collected information on Puerto Rican independence leader Pedro Albizu Campos and his Nationalist political party in the 1930s.


Premise: What charge does hydrogen display in ionic compounds when it is called a hydride?

Hypothesis: In ionic compounds, hydrogen can take the form of a negative charge (i.e., anion) when it is known as a hydride, or as a positively charged (i.e., cation) species denoted by the symbol H+.


Premise: To indicate something is feasible in Polish, what word could be used?

Hypothesis: However, due to shifts in ecological niches of words, a common etymology is sometimes misleading as a guide to current meaning in one or the other language.


Premise: What caused the evolution of different growth strategies in bacteria?

Hypothesis: However, in natural environments, nutrients are limited, meaning that bacteria cannot continue to reproduce indefinitely.


Premise: How is production in the category tallied ?

Hypothesis: Rice accounts for 97% of total food grain production by weight.


Premise: How many tourists visited Kathmandu in the period 1961-62?

Hypothesis: From a mere 6,179 tourists in 1961/62, the number jumped to 491,504 in 1999/2000.


Premise: Where does the General Council want to promote Catalan?

Hypothesis: Nowadays, France only recognizes French as an official language.


Premise: What hurricane hit Charleston in 1989?

Hypothesis: The highest temperature recorded within city limits was 104 °F (40 °C), on June 2, 1985, and June 24, 1944, and the lowest was 7 °F (−14 °C) on February 14, 1899, although at the airport, where official records are kept, the historical range is 105 °F (41 °C) on August 1, 1999 down to 6 °F (−14 °C) on January 21, 1985.


Premise: What was the date of Feynman's birth?

Hypothesis: Richard Phillips Feynman was born on May 11, 1918, in Queens, New York City, the son of Lucille (née Phillips), a homemaker, and Melville Arthur Feynman, a sales manager.


Premise: Al-Farabi concluded a perfect vacuum was incoherent using what?

Hypothesis: In the medieval Middle Eastern world, the physicist and Islamic scholar, Al-Farabi (Alpharabius, 872–950), conducted a small experiment concerning the existence of vacuum, in which he investigated handheld plungers in water.[unreliable source?]


Premise: What do conifers use rosin to protect themselves from?

Hypothesis: For example, rosin is exuded by conifers as protection from insects.


Premise: What did Feyman do while his son worked on software?

Hypothesis: His son Carl also played a role in the development of the original Connection Machine engineering; Feynman influencing the interconnects while his son worked on the software.


Premise: What started competition between families for wealth?

Hypothesis: However, evidence of social inequality is still disputed, as settlements such as Catal Huyuk reveal a striking lack of difference in the size of homes and burial sites, suggesting a more egalitarian society with no evidence of the concept of capital, although some homes do appear slightly larger or more elaborately decorated than others.


Premise: Around what time did bronze start being formed?

Hypothesis: Arrowheads from the Chinese Qin dynasty (around 200 BC) were often constructed with a hard bronze-head, but a softer bronze-tang, combining the alloys to prevent both dulling and breaking during use.


Premise: When does Ontario expect the Canada Not-for-Profits Corpaoations Act to go into effect?

Hypothesis: Ontario also overhauled its legislation, adopting the Ontario Not-for-Profit Corporations Act during 2010; pending the outcome of an anticipated election during October 2011,[dated info]


Premise: What country joined Egypt and Syria against Israel?

Hypothesis: Still, Nasser concluded that if Israel attacked, Egypt's quantitative advantage in manpower and arms could stave off Israeli forces for at least two weeks, allowing for diplomacy towards a ceasefire.


Premise: How much revenue is generated yearly by London's public bus service?

Hypothesis: London's bus network is one of the largest in the world, running 24 hours a day, with about 8,500 buses, more than 700 bus routes and around 19,500 bus stops.


Premise: When did the first Rajput kingdoms emerge in India?

Hypothesis: The Chola empire emerged as a major power during the reign of Raja Raja Chola I and Rajendra Chola I who successfully invaded parts of Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka in the 11th century.


Premise: What is the process of adapting to the environment and inheriting changes through use or disuse called?

Hypothesis: Both envisaged that spontaneous generation produced simple forms of life that progressively developed greater complexity, adapting to the environment by inheriting changes in adults caused by use or disuse.


Premise: How do PMs rate against other types of electric motors?

Hypothesis: With their higher flux density, electric machines with high-energy PMs are at least competitive with all optimally designed singly-fed synchronous and induction electric machines.


Premise: What 'age' is the period from Johann Sebastian Bach to Beethoven referred to as?

Hypothesis: The term "classical music" did not appear until the early 19th century, in an attempt to distinctly canonize the period from Johann Sebastian Bach to Beethoven as a golden age.


Premise: Who elects the Chief Minister?

Hypothesis: The Chief Minister of Punjab (CM) is elected by the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab to serve as the head of the provincial government in Punjab, Pakistan.


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

Hypothesis: The traditional care of the dead, however, and the perpetuation after death of their status in life were part of the most archaic practices of Roman religion.


Premise: Who is often held as the model for all things holy and pure that is not Mary ?

Hypothesis: Their expressions on the subject of the sinlessness of Mary are, it is pointed out, so ample and so absolute that they must be taken to include original sin as well as actual.


Premise: Where were records made with raised label areas?

Hypothesis: Auto-changers included a mechanism to support a stack of several records above the turntable itself, dropping them one at a time onto the active turntable to be played in order.


Premise: Who wrote a letter protesting the condemnation of Martin Luther?

Hypothesis: The term derives from the letter of protestation from Lutheran princes in 1529 against an edict condemning the teachings of Martin Luther as heretical.


Premise: Near what cities are the Portuguese airports located?

Hypothesis: Continental Portugal's 89,015 km2 (34,369 sq mi) territory is serviced by four international airports located near the principal cities of Lisbon, Porto, Faro and Beja.


Premise: Where did Russian explorers first reach North America?

Hypothesis: Before the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the overwhelming majority of Russophones in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn in New York City were Russian-speaking Jews.


Premise: What was the name of the new commander Kanmu appointed in the year 797?

Hypothesis: After making temporary gains in 794, in 797 Kammu appointed a new commander, Sakanoue no Tamuramaro, under the title Sei-i


Premise: What is Link's main form of offense in wolf form?

Hypothesis: However, "Wolf Link" gains several key advantages in return—he moves faster than he does as a human (though riding Epona is still faster) and digs holes to create new passages and uncover buried items, and has improved senses, including the ability to follow scent trails.[i]


Premise: density of oxygen like that of sea-level atmosphere is needed to do what?

Hypothesis: Cold or oxygen-rich atmospheres can sustain life at pressures much lower than atmospheric, as long as the density of oxygen is similar to that of standard sea-level atmosphere.


Premise: What state was founded following the Fourth Crusade?

Hypothesis: Appeals from those states to the papacy led to further crusades, such as the Third Crusade, called to try to regain Jerusalem, which had been captured by Saladin (d. 1193) in 1187.[Z]


Premise: How long has copper been in use?

Hypothesis: Because of these and other factors, the future of copper production and supply is the subject of much debate, including the concept of peak copper, analogous to peak oil.


Premise: What type predatory lending method did Countrywide Financial use?

Hypothesis: Predatory lending refers to the practice of unscrupulous lenders, enticing borrowers to enter into "unsafe" or "unsound" secured loans for inappropriate purposes.


Premise: Who played the drums and the mandolin in the group called The Band?

Hypothesis: Levon Helm of The Band occasionally moved from his drum kit to play mandolin, most notably on Rag Mama Rag, Rockin' Chair, and Evangeline.


Premise: If an object is black, what is known about its thermal light emission?

Hypothesis: If the object is black, meaning it absorbs all the light that hits it, then its thermal light emission is maximized.


Premise: In what language were the Vedas ?

Hypothesis: Historians formerly postulated an "epic age" as the milieu of these two epic poems, but now recognize that the texts (which are both familiar with each other) went through multiple stages of development over centuries.


Premise: What character helped Link in Twilight Princess?

Hypothesis: The story focuses on series protagonist Link, who tries to prevent Hyrule from being engulfed by a corrupted parallel dimension known as the Twilight Realm.


Premise: What had Peter Stuyvesant formally banned all of other than the Dutch Reformed Church?

Hypothesis: " The document was signed December 27, 1657 by a group of English citizens in America who were affronted by persecution of Quakers and the religious policies of the Governor of New Netherland, Peter Stuyvesant.


Premise: How many days after his abdication did Napoleon leave Paris?

Hypothesis: He left Paris three days later and settled at Josephine's former palace in Malmaison (on the western bank of the Seine about 17 kilometres (11 mi) west of Paris).


Premise: What happens with contracts to aid corruption?

Hypothesis: Access to aid may be limited to those with connections, to those who pay bribes or are forced to give sexual favors.


Premise: Are the Salvadorans a large population in the U.S.?

Hypothesis: The number of Salvadoran immigrants in the United States continued to grow in the 1990s and 2000s as a result of family reunification and new arrivals fleeing a series of natural disasters that hit El Salvador, including earthquakes and hurricanes.


Premise: What type of computer systems use an internal clock based on UTC time?

Hypothesis: A common strategy to resolve these problems in computer systems is to express time using the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) rather than the local time zone.


Premise: Who led GE's effort to build the first turbosupercharges during World War I?

Hypothesis: Superchargers became indispensable in the years immediately prior to World War II, and GE was the world leader in exhaust-driven supercharging when the war started.


Premise: What years was the Anglo-Gorkha War?

Hypothesis: After the war between Nepal and Britain, also known as the Anglo-Gorkha War (1814–1816), the British colonial government came into power and the land now comprising Himachal Pradesh became part of the Punjab Province of British India.


Premise: When did the mail stagecoaches stop running?

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


Premise: What did many other Catholics and Christians consider Paul VI reforms to be?

Hypothesis: Changes such as the reorientation of the liturgy, alterations to the ordinary of the Mass, alterations to the liturgical calendar in the motu proprio Mysterii Paschalis, and the relocation of the tabernacle were controversial among some Catholics.


Premise: What does primary school consist of?

Hypothesis: Primary (or elementary) education consists of the first five to seven years of formal, structured education.


Premise: What is another pre-modern Chinese name for Tibet?

Hypothesis: American Tibetologist Elliot Sperling has argued in favor of a recent tendency by some authors writing in Chinese to revive the term Tubote (simplified Chinese: 图伯特; traditional Chinese: 圖伯特; pinyin: Túbótè) for modern use in place of Xizang, on the grounds that Tubote more clearly includes the entire Tibetan plateau rather than simply the Tibet Autonomous Region.[citation needed]


Premise: The per capita income of New Delhi was second only to what Indian municipality?

Hypothesis: As of 2013, the per capita income of Delhi was Rs.


Premise: How many years as Czech continued to evolve and gain in regional importance?

Hypothesis: The publication of the Kralice Bible spawned widespread nationalism, and in 1615 the government of Bohemia ruled that only Czech-speaking residents would be allowed to become full citizens or inherit goods or land.


Premise: Why have some specied progressively shortened their return migration?

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


Premise: What is the Australian Aboriginal expression that indicates a very cold night?

Hypothesis: Dogs may have provided warmth, as referred to in the Australian Aboriginal expression "three dog night" (an exceptionally cold night), and they would have alerted the camp to the presence of predators or strangers, using their acute hearing to provide an early warning.


Premise: Who teaches Yale's residential college's undergraduate classes?

Hypothesis: Instead, all undergraduate courses are taught by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and are open to members of any college.


Premise: What kind of giant insect form had wingspans?

Hypothesis: During this era, some giant dragonfly-like forms reached wingspans of 55 to 70 cm (22 to 28 in), making them far larger than any living insect.


Premise: What was Spielberg's role on 'Batteries Not Included'?

Hypothesis: Spielberg was also a co-producer of the 1987 film


Premise: How many of the symbols are the same in the beginning of the ASCII and Unicode?

Hypothesis: Even more importantly, forward compatibility is ensured as software that recognizes only 7-bit ASCII characters as special and does not alter bytes with the highest bit set (as is often done to support 8-bit ASCII extensions such as ISO-8859-1) will preserve UTF-8 data unchanged.


Premise: How many verbs are in the third conjugation?

Hypothesis: Only the first conjugation is nowadays productive (with about 3500 common verbs), whereas the third (the subtype of servir, with about 700 common verbs) is semiproductive.


Premise: Where is South Beach in relation to Downtown?

Hypothesis: East of Downtown, across Biscayne Bay is South Beach.


Premise: What are the names of the two states that are sovereign in the British Isles today?

Hypothesis: The Isle of Man and the two states of the Channel Islands, Jersey and Guernsey, are known as the Crown Dependencies.


Premise: Which president of the US awarded Lee the Presidential Medal of Freedom?

Hypothesis: During the ceremony, the students and audience gave Lee a standing ovation, and the entire graduating class held up copies of To Kill a Mockingbird to honor her.[note 5] Lee was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on November 5, 2007 by President George W. Bush.


Premise: What year was the Great White Sioux War?

Hypothesis: Surveys in 1874, 1875 and 1876 helped spark the Great Sioux War of 1876.


Premise: What are three languages employed by the Manichaeans?

Hypothesis: Middle Persian, Parthian and Sogdian were also used as literary languages by the Manichaeans, whose texts also survive in various non-Iranian languages, from Latin to Chinese.


Premise: What does the population get to vote for?

Hypothesis: The Senate is the upper house, consisting of 11 members appointed by the governor on the advice of the premier and the leader of the opposition.


Premise: What is the half life of 72Zn?

Hypothesis: 65Zn, which has a half-life of 243.66 days, is the most long-lived radioisotope, followed by 72Zn with a half-life of 46.5 hours.


Premise: Based on the above definition, materialism is not consistent with what?

Hypothesis: Materialism, in this view, therefore becomes incompatible with most world religions, including Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.


Premise: What familial role was Albert Grzymała compared to in regards to Frédéric?

Hypothesis: Two Polish friends in Paris were also to play important roles in Chopin's life there.


Premise: What other modern material has joined composites, carbon fiber, titanium, and aluminum to replace wood in the manufacture of sporting equipment?

Hypothesis: One noteworthy example of this trend is the golf club commonly known as the wood, the head of which was traditionally made of persimmon wood in the early days of the game of golf, but is now generally made of synthetic materials.


Premise: What did Augustus wish to do for Roman religion?

Hypothesis: a fact lost neither on Augustus in his program of religious reform, which often cloaked autocratic innovation, nor on his only rival as mythmaker of the era, Ovid.


Premise: Between what period of time did the Tethys disappear?

Hypothesis: Subsequent uplift of mountains in the western Mediterranean region and a global fall in sea levels combined to cause a temporary drying up of the Mediterranean Sea resulting in the Messinian salinity crisis near the end of the Miocene.


Premise: Grande Saline Bay provides docking for what kind of boats?

Hypothesis: Grande Saline Bay provides temporary anchorage for small vessels while Colombier Bay, to the northwest, has a 4 fathoms patch near mid entrance.


Premise: How can the ideal self be described in terms of the adolescent?

Hypothesis: Exploring these possibilities may result in abrupt changes in self-presentation as the adolescent chooses or rejects qualities and behaviors, trying to guide the actual self toward the ideal self (who the adolescent wishes to be) and away from the feared self (who the adolescent does not want to be).


Premise: What percentage of Richmond's 1900 population was African American?

Hypothesis: In 1900, the Census Bureau reported Richmond's population as 62.1% white and 37.9% black.


Premise: What happened to The reformers in the Qing dynasty?

Hypothesis: The last days of the Qing Dynasty were marked by civil unrest and foreign invasions.


Premise: Where are rose windows never found in the facades of cathedrals?

Hypothesis: Above the main portal there is generally a large window, like that at York Minster, or a group of windows such as those at Ripon Cathedral.


Premise: What do the locals call The Vine?

Hypothesis: There are a number of pubs in the Midlands or the North which still retain this set up but these days the beer is fetched by the customer from the taproom or public bar.


Premise: When did elections that provided for a House of Assembly for Swaziland occur?

Hypothesis: Elections under this constitution were held in 1967.


Premise: What is located where the first theatre building in Charles Town once stood?

Hypothesis: The Charles Towne Library Society was established in 1748 by well-born young men who wanted to share the financial cost to keep up with the scientific and philosophical issues of the day.


Premise: The Seljuk Empire was influenced by the cultures of others resulting in it being referred to as what?

Hypothesis: Despite newer added amalgamations, the Ottoman dynasty, like their predecessors in the Sultanate of Rum and the Seljuk Empire, were thoroughly Persianised in their culture, language, habits and customs, and therefore, the empire has been described as a Persianate empire.


Premise: What is the name of the song that Jessica Sanchez released first after American Idol?

Hypothesis: Phillips released "Home" as his coronation song, while Sanchez released "Change Nothing".


Premise: What was the code first called in Europe?

Hypothesis: His British colleague Hugh McGregor Ross helped to popularize this work –  according to Bemer, "so much so that the code that was to become ASCII was first called the Bemer-Ross Code in Europe".


Premise: During what season does Iran's northern region's temperatures never go higher than 29c?

Hypothesis: On the northern edge of the country (the Caspian coastal plain) temperatures rarely fall below freezing and the area remains humid for the rest of the year.


Premise: What does ARB stand for?

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


Premise: What political view did Gladstone hold?

Hypothesis: Victoria found Gladstone's demeanour far less appealing; he spoke to her, she is thought to have complained, as though she were "a public meeting rather than a woman".


Premise: What is the nearest wavelength to the radiation that a human eye can see?

Hypothesis: Near-infrared is the region closest in wavelength to the radiation detectable by the human eye, mid- and far-infrared are progressively further from the visible spectrum.


Premise: Which Indonesian leader co-founded the Non-Aligned movement with Tito?

Hypothesis: In 1961, Tito co-founded the movement with Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, India's Jawaharlal Nehru, Indonesia's Sukarno and Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, in an action called The Initiative of Five (Tito, Nehru, Nasser, Sukarno, Nkrumah), thus establishing strong ties with third world countries.


Premise: Where were the first demonstrations in Armenia?

Hypothesis: Daily demonstrations, which began in the Armenian capital Yerevan on February 18, initially attracted few people, but each day the Nagorno-Karabakh issue became increasingly prominent and numbers swelled.


Premise: What is the Arabic term for the surface-level aspects of a text?

Hypothesis: Commentators with an esoteric slant believe that the ultimate meaning of the Quran is known only to God.


Premise: What are the two satellite constellations?

Hypothesis: It consists of two separate satellite constellations – a limited test system that has been operating since 2000, and a full-scale global navigation system that is currently under construction.


Premise: What part of Manhattan are the West Bronx's streets similar to?

Hypothesis: Much of the West Bronx's street numbering carries over from upper Manhattan, but does not match it exactly; East 132nd Street is the lowest numbered street in the Bronx.


Premise: When did Elizabeth become the longest reigning monarch?

Hypothesis: She is the longest-reigning queen regnant in history, the world's oldest reigning monarch and second-longest-serving current head of state after King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand.


Premise: In the 19th century, what city of Egypt was a large community of Italian Egyptians?

Hypothesis: Arabic was adopted by the Egyptians after the Arab invasion of Egypt.


Premise: What is it about prehistoric hunter-gatherers that impresses Shultziner?

Hypothesis: Lee and Guenther have rejected most of the arguments put forward by Wilmsen.


Premise: Through what can Link's reaction and mood can be discerned?

Hypothesis: His emotions and responses are largely indicated visually by nods and facial expressions.


Premise: What year was the union of brest

Hypothesis: The Orthodox nobles' rights were nominally equal to those enjoyed by Polish and Lithuanian nobility, but there was a cultural pressure to convert to Catholicism, that was greatly eased in 1596 by the Union of Brest.


Premise: What is a flammeum?

Hypothesis: A Roman general receiving a triumph had his entire body painted red in honor of his achievement.


Premise: Which fleet did the Japanese destroy?

Hypothesis: The Japanese victory occurred a mere three decades after the Meiji Restoration set a feudal Japan on course to emulate the Western nations in their economic and technological achievements.


Premise: What age ran from 1700 to 1200 BCE?

Hypothesis: The Late Bronze Age (from 1700 to 1200 BCE)


Premise: Who were proposed new regulations called "The Volcker Rule" named after?

Hypothesis: The proposals were dubbed "The Volcker Rule", in recognition of Paul Volcker, who has publicly argued for the proposed changes.


Premise: What type of ceilings became commonplace?

Hypothesis: Plasterwork ceilings, carved wood, and bold schemes of wallpaint formed a backdrop to increasingly rich collections of furniture, paintings, porcelain, mirrors, and objets d'art of all kinds.


Premise: What international law was Henry Dunant mostly responsible for?

Hypothesis: The Geneva Convention, an important part of humanitarian international law, was largely the work of Henry Dunant, a reformed pietist.


Premise: When were the gods below and the dead celebrated?

Hypothesis: Chthonic gods such as Dis pater, the di inferi ("gods below"), and the collective shades of the departed (di Manes) were given dark, fertile victims in nighttime rituals.


Premise: In which psychoanalysts clinics did Popper volunteer?

Hypothesis: After that he did voluntary service in one of psychoanalyst Alfred Adler's clinics for children.


Premise: When did ceremonial regalia first appear in the Masonic culture?

Hypothesis: The fifteenth century also sees the first evidence of ceremonial regalia.


Premise: How many universities does Rajasthan have?

Hypothesis: Rajasthan has nine universities and more than 250 colleges, 55,000 primary and 7,400 secondary schools.


Premise: Who is the only reigning Monarch to have visited the island?

Hypothesis: One commentator has observed that, notwithstanding the high unemployment resulting from the loss of full passports during 1981–2002, the level of loyalty to the British monarchy by the St Helena population is probably not exceeded in any other part of the world.


Premise: what did knights of the turntable release in 1984?

Hypothesis: Techno-Scratch" was released by the Knights Of The Turntable in 1984 which had a similar techno sound to Cybotron.


Premise: What did the characters use to transform themselves into special Digimons?

Hypothesis: After the defeat of Cherubimon, the Digidestined find they must face an even greater challenge as they try to stop the Royal Knights—


Premise: In what year did the establishment of the Qutb dynasty occur?

Hypothesis: During his rule, he had the Charminar and Mecca Masjid built in the city.


Premise: To what historical figure can the words "Do you love me more" be attributed?

Hypothesis: These words meant to Paul VI love without limits, and they underscore the Church's fundamental approach to ecumenism.


Premise: In what part of India did the Tamil dynasties rule?

Hypothesis: The Sangam literature deals with the history, politics, wars and culture of the Tamil people of this period.


Premise: How many times more abundant than silver is uranium in the Earth's crust?

Hypothesis: Uranium's average concentration in the Earth's crust is (depending on the reference) 2 to 4 parts per million, or about 40 times as abundant as silver.


Premise: Who did Aberdeen appoint the position of British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire to?

Hypothesis: In February 1853, the British government of Lord Aberdeen, the prime minister, re-appointed Stratford Canning as British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire.:110 Having resigned the ambassadorship in January, he had been replaced by Colonel Rose as chargé d'affaires.


Premise: Who negotiated an apology from The Sun for its misreporting of this story?

Hypothesis: " The apology had been negotiated by the Press Complaints Commission.


Premise: What is the ancient religion of Tibet?

Hypothesis: Bön is the ancient religion of Tibet, but has been almost eclipsed by Tibetan Buddhism, a distinctive form of Mahayana and Vajrayana, which was introduced into Tibet from the Sanskrit Buddhist tradition of northern India.


Premise: What does the eel of the Tuvalu creation myth represent?

Hypothesis: The stories as to the ancestors of the Tuvaluans vary from island to island.


Premise: Who suggested that humankind does not exist inside time, but is time?

Hypothesis: According to Martin Heidegger we do not exist inside time, we are time.


Premise: How many players can an NFL team have in the regular season?

Hypothesis: These exhibition games, most of which are held in the month of August, are played for the purpose of helping coaches narrow down the roster from the offseason limit of 90 players to the regular-season limit of 53 players.


Premise: What has traditionally been the strongest service export sectors in Uruguay?

Hypothesis: Banking has traditionally been one of the strongest service export sectors in Uruguay: the country was once dubbed "the Switzerland of America", mainly for its banking sector and stability, although that stability has been threatened in the 21st century by the recent global economic climate.


Premise: How many users are subscribed to Xbox Live?

Hypothesis: Microsoft has allowed previous Xbox Live subscribers to maintain their profile information, friends list, and games history when they make the transition to Xbox Live Gold.


Premise: What big cat is said to inhabit the mountains of the Gash-Barka Region?

Hypothesis: Lions are said to inhabit the mountains of the Gash-Barka Region.


Premise: How many Aborigines were said to be resident in squalid camps in Melbourne in January 1844?

Hypothesis: By 1845, fewer than 240 wealthy Europeans held all the pastoral licences then issued in Victoria and became a powerful political and economic force in Victoria for generations to come.


Premise: What is Neptune named after?

Hypothesis: Neptune is the eighth and farthest known planet from the Sun in the Solar System.


Premise: What does organozinc chemisty describe?

Hypothesis: Organozinc chemistry is the science of organozinc compounds describing their physical properties, synthesis and reactions.


Premise: What kind of species does a solitary wasp prey upon?

Hypothesis: Some insects display a rudimentary sense of numbers, such as the solitary wasps that prey upon a single species.


Premise: What did Abdullah have built outside Valencia?

Hypothesis: I, the first emir of Cordoba, ordered the city destroyed in 755 during his wars against other nobility, but several years later his son, Abdullah, had a form of autonomous rule over the province of Valencia.


Premise: How many nursing homes does HHC operate?

Hypothesis: The New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) operates the public hospitals and clinics in New York City.


Premise: What was the document Nasser backed to push his socialist reforms?

Hypothesis: In October 1961, Nasser embarked on a major nationalization program for Egypt, believing the total adoption of socialism was the answer to his country's problems and would have prevented Syria's secession.


Premise: Rhythm guitar in hard rock usually plays what?

Hypothesis: The bass guitar works in conjunction with the drums, occasionally playing riffs, but usually providing a backing for the rhythm and lead guitars.


Premise: What authors have suggested Rutherford invited and cultivated opposition for the purpose of publicity?

Hypothesis: Whalen, Harrison and Schnell have suggested Rutherford invited and cultivated opposition for publicity purposes in a bid to attract dispossessed members of society, and to convince members that persecution from the outside world was evidence of the truth of their struggle to serve God.


Premise: What was the name of the conditional surrender that ended fighting on the western front?

Hypothesis: By summer 1918, a million American soldiers, or "doughboys" as they were often called, of the American Expeditionary Forces were in Europe under the command of John J. Pershing, with 25,000 more arriving every week.


Premise: Where was Goa?

Hypothesis: In December 1547, Francis was in Malacca (Malaysia) waiting to return to Goa (India) when he met a low-ranked samurai named Anjiro (possibly spelled "Yajiro").


Premise: How many patents did Bell co-author?

Hypothesis: The range of Bell's inventive genius is represented only in part by the 18 patents granted in his name alone and the 12 he shared with his collaborators.


Premise: When is Tucson's city council primary?

Hypothesis: Council members are nominated by their wards via a ward-level primary held in September.


Premise: Who was the religious leader that lead the pilgrims to New Haven Harbor?

Hypothesis: In April 1638, the main party of five hundred Puritans who left the Massachusetts Bay Colony under the leadership of the Reverend John Davenport and the London merchant Theophilus Eaton sailed into the harbor.


Premise: Other than Buddhists, who worships at Swayambhu?

Hypothesis: Although the site is considered Buddhist, it is revered by both Buddhists and Hindus.


Premise: The most important of the ancient gods was who?

Hypothesis: The principal gods of the ancient Greek religion were the Dodekatheon, or the Twelve Gods, who lived on the top of Mount Olympus.


Premise: What did Celtic tribes mine from the Alps?

Hypothesis: In the 8th to 6th centuries BC during the Hallstatt culture, Celtic tribes mined copper; later the Romans mined gold for coins in the Bad Gastein area.


Premise: What are non-rock styles that post-punk used as inspiration?

Hypothesis: Though the music varied widely between regions and artists, the post-punk movement has been characterized by its "conceptual assault" on rock conventions and rejection of aesthetics perceived of as traditionalist, hegemonic or rockist in favor of experimentation with production techniques and non-rock musical styles such as dub, electronic music, disco, noise, jazz, krautrock, world music and the avant-garde.


Premise: What are three of the bays named?

Hypothesis: There is a Hamilton Parish in addition to the City of Hamilton (which is in Pembroke Parish).


Premise: What form of government did Cesar seem to be attempting?

Hypothesis: The first and last Roman known as a living divus was Julius Caesar, who seems to have aspired to divine monarchy; he was murdered soon after.


Premise: Who was Eisenhower's favorite author?

Hypothesis: His favorite reading material for relaxation were the Western novels of Zane Grey.


Premise: The Londre Centre for Nanotechnology was a joint effort between UCL and which college?

Hypothesis: The London Centre for Nanotechnology was established in the same year as a joint venture between UCL and Imperial College London.


Premise: What is the second airport that serves Houston?

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: What flourished in Somerset after the Industrial revelotuion

Hypothesis: Farming continued to flourish, however, and the Bath and West of England Society for the Encouragement of Agriculture, Arts, Manufactures and Commerce was founded in 1777 to improve farming methods.


Premise: Who was Eisenhower's budget director?

Hypothesis: After selecting his budget director, Joseph M. Dodge, Eisenhower asked Herbert Brownell and Lucius Clay to make recommendations for his cabinet appointments.


Premise: What established the European balance of power in 1815?

Hypothesis: The causes of the Franco-Prussian War are deeply rooted in the events surrounding the unification of Germany.


Premise: How much was 1 US Dollar worth in Iranian Rials in April 2013?

Hypothesis: Sanctions have led to a steep fall in the value of the rial, and as of April 2013 one US dollar is worth 36,000 rial, compared with 16,000 in early 2012.


Premise: What is one trait that horizontal gene transfer is a common means of spreading?

Hypothesis: This mechanism is a common source of new genes in prokaryotes, sometimes thought to contribute more to genetic variation than gene duplication.


Premise: What does the plan call for all rural Tibetan children to receive for free?

Hypothesis: From January 18–20, 2010 a national conference on Tibet and areas inhabited by Tibetans in Sichuan, Yunnan, Gansu and Qinghai was held in China and a substantial plan to improve development of the areas was announced.


Premise: What is a possible cause of copyright infringement?

Hypothesis: For example, in 2013, the US Army settled a lawsuit with Texas-based company Apptricity, which makes software that allows the army to track their soldiers in real time.


Premise: Are the bacteria that is found on poultry easy to get rid of?

Hypothesis: Thorough cooking of the product would kill these bacteria, but a risk of cross-contamination from improper handling of the raw product is still present.


Premise: In what year was the first line of the Melbourne cable tramway system built?

Hypothesis: In 1885 the first line of the Melbourne cable tramway system was built, becoming one of the worlds most extensive systems by 1890.


Premise: Why did the government  and civil service not want to relocate during the war?

Hypothesis: The relocation of the government and the civil service was also planned, but would only have occurred if necessary so as not to damage civilian morale.:33


Premise: What was the ethnicity of the second largest group of immigrants in 1900?

Hypothesis: By 1900, Germans constituted the largest immigrant group, followed by the Irish, Jews, and Italians.


Premise: Tragedy was a dramatic style that evolved from what?

Hypothesis: Greek drama exemplifies the earliest form of drama of which we have substantial knowledge.


Premise: At what temple did the ceremonies for the Yongle Emperor's deceased parents take place?

Hypothesis: At Linggu Temple in Nanjing, he presided over the religious ceremonies for the Yongle Emperor's deceased parents, while twenty-two days of his stay were marked by religious miracles that were recorded in five languages on a gigantic scroll that bore the Emperor's seal.


Premise: What is a gene whose sequence shows no similarity to existing genes called?

Hypothesis: Two primary sources of orphan protein-coding genes are gene duplication followed by extremely rapid sequence change, such that the original relationship is undetectable by sequence comparisons, and formation through mutation of "cryptic" transcription start sites that introduce a new open reading frame in a region of the genome that did not previously code for a protein.


Premise: On what date did French troops begin to cross the Rhine?

Hypothesis: His basic objective was to destroy the isolated Austrian armies in Southern Germany before their Russian allies could arrive.


Premise: What was the name of the United States' second prison?

Hypothesis: The end of West 10th Street toward the Hudson River was once the home of Newgate Prison, New York City's first prison and the United States' second.


Premise: What company is responsible for over 100 stores in the country?

Hypothesis: Mexico has a large number of department stores based in Mexico, of which the most traditional are El Palacio de Hierro (High end and luxury goods) and Liverpool (Upper-middle income), with its middle income sister store Fabricas de Francia.


Premise: How much did Charles B. Johnson pledge to Yale in 2013?

Hypothesis: Charles B. Johnson, a 1954 graduate of Yale College, pledged a $250 million gift in 2013 to support of the construction of two new residential colleges.


Premise: What is the GDP of Kathmandu?

Hypothesis: The economic output of the metropolitan area alone is worth more than one third of national GDP around $6.5billion in terms of nominal GDP NR.s 550 billion approximately per year $2200 per capital income approx three times national average.


Premise: Why did the British and Americans want to cede most of Eritrea to the Ethiopians?

Hypothesis: The British and Americans preferred to cede all of Eritrea except the Western province to the Ethiopians as a reward for their support during World War II.


Premise: Economic distortion is created by corruption in the public sector by diverting what into capital projects?

Hypothesis: Officials may increase the technical complexity of public sector projects to conceal or pave the way for such dealings, thus further distorting investment.


Premise: What emergency session was called by Stalin?

Hypothesis: On 27 September, Stalin convened an emergency session of the Politburo, in which he condemned the incompetence of the KPA command and held Soviet military advisers responsible for the defeat.


Premise: I which church was Beyonce  a member and soloist  in the choir?

Hypothesis: In fall of 1990, Beyoncé enrolled in Parker Elementary School, a music magnet school in Houston, where she would perform with the school's choir.


Premise: Where is the "dish bell" kept?

Hypothesis: In addition there are two service bells, cast by Robert Mot, in 1585 and 1598 respectively, a Sanctus bell cast in 1738 by Richard Phelps and Thomas Lester and two unused bells—one cast about 1320, by the successor to R de Wymbish, and a second cast in 1742, by Thomas Lester.


Premise: What call sign does an Air Force aircraft have when a president is traveling on it?

Hypothesis: Columbine II is the only presidential aircraft to have ever been sold to the public and is the only remaining presidential aircraft left unrestored and not on public display.


Premise: What anti-aircraft gun did the British Army begin to use?

Hypothesis: All armies soon deployed AA guns often based on their smaller field pieces, notably the French 75 mm and Russian 76.2 mm, typically simply propped up on some sort of embankment to get the muzzle pointed skyward.


Premise: At what stadium do Arsenal Ladies usually play?

Hypothesis: The men's and women's clubs are formally separate entities but have quite close ties; Arsenal Ladies are entitled to play once a season at the Emirates Stadium, though they usually play their home matches at Boreham Wood.


Premise: How much has been invested in Detroit since 2006?

Hypothesis: Since 2006, $9 billion has been invested in downtown and surrounding neighborhoods; $5.2 billion of that in has come in 2013 and 2014.


Premise: What type of government does Spain have?

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 what country did the revolutions begin?

Hypothesis: Described as a revolutionary wave, the period of unrest began in France and then, further propelled by the French Revolution of 1848, soon spread to the rest of Europe.


Premise: When did approach lighting come into use?

Hypothesis: The first lighting used on an airport was during the latter part of the 1920s; in the 1930s approach lighting came into use.


Premise: How do some mixed raced people feel?

Hypothesis: Some multiracial individuals feel marginalized by U.S. society.


Premise: What international newspapers is in the Asia District?

Hypothesis: The Campus is the student newspaper at Oklahoma City University.


Premise: Who was appointed general editor for The Times in 1817?

Hypothesis: Thomas Barnes was appointed general editor in 1817.


Premise: Where did Beatrice meet and fall in love with Prince Henry?

Hypothesis: Beatrice and Henry planned to marry, but Victoria opposed the match at first, wishing to keep Beatrice at home to act as her companion.


Premise: How often does Montana voted for a Democratic president?

Hypothesis: In presidential elections, Montana was long classified as a swing state, though the state has voted for the Republican candidate in all but two elections from 1952 to the present.


Premise: What were the Libyan people instructed to create in conjunction with the Popular Revolution?

Hypothesis: As part of this Popular Revolution, Gaddafi invited Libya's people to found General People's Committees as conduits for raising political consciousness.


Premise: In 1961 who became the president of IBM?

Hypothesis: In 1956, the company demonstrated the first practical example of artificial intelligence when Arthur L. Samuel of IBM's Poughkeepsie, New York, laboratory programmed an IBM 704 not merely to play checkers but "learn" from its own experience.


Premise: What is  a plant scientist called?

Hypothesis: A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who specializes in this field.


Premise: How long did the Great Irish Famine cause a population decline in Ireland?

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: What rugby union team is based in Plymouth?

Hypothesis: Plymouth Albion Rugby Football Club is a rugby union club that was founded in 1875 and are currently competing in the third tier of Professional English Rugby .


Premise: What institution of a party to a treaty must act to fulfill the party's obligations under a non-self-executing treaty?

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


Premise: How many parks are there in the city of Ann Arbor?

Hypothesis: The city contains 157 municipal parks ranging from small neighborhood green spots to large recreation areas.


Premise: What language is used in Congolese schools?

Hypothesis: Enterprising individuals have set up private schools, but they often lack the technical knowledge and familiarity with the national curriculum to teach effectively.


Premise: What have some of Czech's characters been used for by phonologists to denote?

Hypothesis: The last two letters are sometimes written with a comma above (ʼ, an abbreviated háček) because of their height.


Premise: What are the series of events that ended centuries of prosperity in Europe, starting around 1300, known as?

Hypothesis: Around 1300, centuries of prosperity and growth in Europe came to a halt.


Premise: How many municiplaities are in Bern?

Hypothesis: With a population of 140,634 (November 2015), Bern is the fifth most populous city in Switzerland.


Premise: What ages are officially compulsary for education in Eritrea?

Hypothesis: Skill shortages are present at all levels of the education system, and funding for and access to education vary significantly by gender and location.


Premise: What is the name of the riot in Detroit in 1967?

Hypothesis: It was the most costly riot in the United States.


Premise: What person wrote The Incoherence of the Philosophers?

Hypothesis: However, while Hayy lives alone with animals on the desert island for the rest of the story in Philosophus Autodidactus, the story of Kamil extends beyond the desert island setting in Theologus Autodidactus, developing into the earliest known coming of age plot and eventually becoming the first example of a science fiction novel.


Premise: What does the USB specification limit?

Hypothesis: USB devices are also required to automatically enter ultra low-power suspend mode when the USB host is suspended.


Premise: What opera legend also has a famous restaurant in Mexico City?

Hypothesis: These include Paris' Au Pied de Cochon and Brasserie Lipp, Philippe (by Philippe Chow); Nobu, Morimoto; Pámpano, owned by Mexican-raised opera legend Plácido Domingo.


Premise: What sort of components can be added to the equivalent circuit of a capacitor in order to deal with leakage current and parasitic effects?

Hypothesis: Some of these, such as leakage current and parasitic effects are linear, or can be assumed to be linear, and can be dealt with by adding virtual components to the equivalent circuit of the capacitor.


Premise: Where is Summerhaven?

Hypothesis: Summerhaven is the road to Ski Valley which hosts a ski lift, several runs, a giftshop, and nearby restaurant.


Premise: How does Spielberg feel about cutscenes in games?

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: What is the Michelson-Morley experiment?

Hypothesis: Outside the realm of quantum physics, the various aether theories in classical physics, which supposed a "fifth element" such as the Luminiferous aether, were nullified by the Michelson-Morley experiment—an attempt to detect the motion of earth through the aether.


Premise: What does not include characters in the Chinese family?

Hypothesis: Characters formed by Chinese principles in other languages include the roughly 1,500 Japanese-made kokuji given in the Kokuji no Jiten, the Korean-made gukja, the over 10,000 Sawndip characters still in use in Guangxi, and the almost 20,000 Nôm characters formerly used in Vietnam.[citation needed]


Premise: What is the term for needing the Bible for salvation?

Hypothesis: The use of the phrases as summaries of teaching emerged over time during the Reformation, based on the overarching principle of sola scriptura (by scripture alone).


Premise: What religion is a minority in CAR?

Hypothesis: The Central African Republic Bush War began in 2004 and, despite a peace treaty in 2007 and another in 2011, fighting broke out between various factions in December 2012, leading to ethnic and religious cleansing of the Muslim minority and massive population displacement in 2013 and 2014.


Premise: What sports does Kampong support

Hypothesis: Kampong's men and women top hockey squads play in the highest Dutch hockey league, the Rabohoofdklasse.


Premise: How much did Viacom want in damages in their lawsuit against youtube?

Hypothesis: Organizations including Viacom, Mediaset, and the English Premier League have filed lawsuits against YouTube, claiming that it has done too little to prevent the uploading of copyrighted material.


Premise: What year was the earliest reference to classical music?

Hypothesis: The term "classical music" did not appear until the early 19th century, in an attempt to distinctly canonize the period from Johann Sebastian Bach to Beethoven as a golden age.


Premise: About how many people were killed in the October 20 bombing of Gaddafi's convoy?

Hypothesis: At around 8.30am, NATO bombers attacked, destroying at least 14 vehicles and killing at least 53.


Premise: Which guerrilla group fought for Namibia's independence?

Hypothesis: In response to the 1966 ruling by the International Court of Justice, South-West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO) military wing, People's Liberation Army of Namibia, a guerrilla group began their armed struggle for independence, but it was not until 1988 that South Africa agreed to end its occupation of Namibia, in accordance with a UN peace plan for the entire region.


Premise: Zener diodes below what voltage are not widely available?

Hypothesis: Although LED forward voltage is far more current-dependent than a Zener diode, Zener diodes with breakdown voltages below 3 V are not widely available.


Premise: What show did Simon Cowell join after leaving American Idol?

Hypothesis: Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler joined Randy Jackson as judges following the departures of Simon Cowell (who left to launch the U.S. version of The X Factor), Kara DioGuardi (whose contract was not renewed) and Ellen DeGeneres, while Nigel Lythgoe returned as executive producer.


Premise: What precision did the FBI believe they could reach with chemical signatures?

Hypothesis: It found the analytic model used by the FBI for interpreting results was deeply flawed, and the conclusion, that bullet fragments could be matched to a box of ammunition, was so overstated that it was misleading under the rules of evidence.


Premise: What word meaning "Low Dutch" was sometimes used to distinguish Dutch from Germany's language?

Hypothesis: One of them was it reflected a distinction with Hoogduits, "High Dutch", meaning the language spoken in Germany.


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

Hypothesis: Nigeria has additionally founded regional cooperative efforts in West Africa, functioning as standard-bearer for the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and ECOMOG, economic and military organisations, respectively.


Premise: What year did Positivism end?

Hypothesis: The Romantic Movement of the early 19th century reshaped science by opening up new pursuits unexpected in the classical approaches of the Enlightenment.


Premise: The diplomatic agreement between South Africa, Angola, and Cuba was observed by the USSR and what other country?

Hypothesis: Attempts to persuade South Africa to agree to the plan's implementation were not successful until 1988 when the transition to independence finally started under a diplomatic agreement between South Africa, Angola and Cuba, with the USSR and the USA as observers, under which South Africa agreed to withdraw and demobilise its forces in Namibia.


Premise: At what location did the incident leading to West's second arrest take place?

Hypothesis: West was arrested again on November 14, 2008 at the Hilton hotel near Gateshead after another scuffle involving a photographer outside the famous Tup Tup Palace nightclub in Newcastle upon Tyne.


Premise: How does Alice Jones describe her?

Hypothesis: According to Barbara Ellen of The Guardian Beyoncé is the most in-charge female artist she's seen onstage, while Alice Jones of The Independent wrote she "takes her role as entertainer so seriously she's almost too good."


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

Hypothesis: During this period, Bengal witnessed an intellectual awakening that is in some way similar to the Renaissance in Europe during the 16th century, although Europeans of that age were not confronted with the challenge and influence of alien colonialism.


Premise: Does chicken contain fat?

Hypothesis: Chicken meat contains about two to three times as much polyunsaturated fat as most types of red meat when measured by weight.


Premise: What was the name of the campaign by the British in Holland that created a second front in the war?

Hypothesis: In the Kingdom of Holland, the British launched the Walcheren Campaign to open up a second front in the war and to relieve the pressure on the Austrians.


Premise: What element of a combustion engine does a governor monitor?

Hypothesis: The latter monitors engine speed by counting electrical pulses from the ignition system or from a magnetic pickup and, depending on the speed, makes small adjustments to the amount of current applied to the motor.


Premise: Who was the final Commander-in-chief of the Mughal army?

Hypothesis: The remnants of the Mughal dynasty were finally defeated during the Indian Rebellion of 1857, also called the 1857 War of Independence, and the remains of the empire were formally taken over by the British while the Government of India Act 1858 let the British Crown assume direct control of India in the form of the new British Raj.


Premise: What prompted a help program produced by cotton producers in the 1960s?

Hypothesis: Beginning as a self-help program in the mid-1960s, the Cotton Research and Promotion Program (CRPP) was organized by U.S. cotton producers in response to cotton's steady decline in market share.


Premise: On Indian Independence Day, the Prime Minister addresses the nation from what location?

Hypothesis: National events such as Republic Day, Independence Day and Gandhi Jayanti (Gandhi's birthday) are celebrated with great enthusiasm in New Delhi and the rest of India.


Premise: What year did Mexico City host the olympics?

Hypothesis: Mexico City remains the only Latin American city to host the Olympic Games, having held the Summer Olympics in 1968, winning bids against Buenos Aires, Lyon and Detroit.


Premise: What is one family of birds have adaptations to produce a nutritive fluid to their chicks?

Hypothesis: Some birds carry water for chicks at the nest in their crop or regurgitate it along with food.


Premise: On what day did the Confederacy surrender Richmond to the Union?

Hypothesis: The Union troops eventually managed to stop the raging fires but about 25% of the city's buildings were destroyed-


Premise: Who drafted the first technical dictionary?

Hypothesis: The first technical dictionary was drafted by John Harris and entitled Lexicon Technicum:


Premise: The first person to have control over driving their spacecraft was whom?

Hypothesis: Though he did not achieve orbit like Gagarin, he was the first person to exercise manual control over his spacecraft's attitude and retro-rocket firing.


Premise: Which mountains contain those parts of Tennessee with a temperate climate?

Hypothesis: The Gulf of Mexico is the dominant factor in the climate of Tennessee, with winds from the south being responsible for most of the state's annual precipitation.


Premise: What magazine put Boston on its Future best City For Biking list?

Hypothesis: In 2008, as a consequence of improvements made to bicycling conditions within the city, the same magazine put Boston on its "Five for the Future" list as a "Future Best City" for biking, and Boston's bicycle commuting percentage increased from 1% in 2000 to 2.1% in 2009.


Premise: The ability to appeal a case provided by Sweden's court system is called what?

Hypothesis: If a lower court has to try a case which involves a question where there is no settled interpretation of the law, it can also refer the question to the relevant Supreme Court for an answer.


Premise: How many heads did the scarlet beast which a woman sat on have?

Hypothesis: And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: "And upon her forehead was a name written a mystery: Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots and of all the abominations of the earth:


Premise: The idea that judgment can't be identified with emotion is an objection to what school of thought?

Hypothesis: There are some theories on emotions arguing that cognitive activity in the form of judgments, evaluations, or thoughts are necessary in order for an emotion to occur.


Premise: Who thought Burke's trial of Hastings was a moral foundation of the British Empire?

Hypothesis: As a consequence of this opinion, Burke objected to the opium trade, which he called a "smuggling adventure" and condemned "the great Disgrace of the British character in India".


Premise: In 1264 AD, what caused the Kyburg dynasty to fall?

Hypothesis: With the extinction of its male line in 1263 the Kyburg dynasty fell in AD 1264; then the Habsburgs under King Rudolph


Premise: Which state executed James French?

Hypothesis: The last use of the electric chair between the first electrocution on August 6, 1890 and the moratorium was when Oklahoma electrocuted James French on August 10, 1966.


Premise: Which Confederations Cup did Brasilia host?

Hypothesis: The city was one of the main host cities of the 2014 FIFA World Cup.


Premise: What monarch bestowed the first Lord Mayor on Plymouth?

Hypothesis: Plymouth was granted the dignity of Lord Mayor by King George V in 1935.


Premise: What are Catalan and Valencian the names for?

Hypothesis: See also status of Valencian below.


Premise: What did Gautama spend the rest of his life doing after reaching enlightenment?

Hypothesis: At the age of 35, he famously sat in meditation under a Ficus religiosa tree now called the Bodhi Tree in the town of Bodh Gaya and vowed not to rise before achieving enlightenment.


Premise: Who was Kerry's paternal grandfather?

Hypothesis: His maternal ancestors were of Scottish and English descent, and his maternal grandfather James Grant Forbes II was a member of the Forbes family, while his maternal grandmother Margaret Tyndal Winthrop was a member of the Dudley–Winthrop family.


Premise: Which country took over Iran's territories in the Caucasus in the 19th Century?

Hypothesis: During the 19th century, Iran irrevocably lost swaths of its territories in the Caucasus which made part of the concept of Iran for centuries, to neighboring Imperial Russia.


Premise: What is the name of the second Digimon series?

Hypothesis: As of 2011, there have been six series — Digimon Adventure, the follow-up sequel Digimon Adventure 02, Digimon Tamers, Digimon Frontier, Digimon Data Squad and Digimon Fusion.


Premise: What part of 2012 was to have seen Phase I of Miami Central Station begin?

Hypothesis: Phase I of Miami Central Station is scheduled to begin service in the spring of 2012, and Phase II in 2013.


Premise: With what French city is Plymouth twinned?

Hypothesis: The City of Plymouth is divided into 20 wards, 17 of which elect three councillors and the other three electing two councillors, making up a total council of 57.


Premise: When was the torch in Istanbul?

Hypothesis: Turkey: The torch relay leg in Istanbul, held on April 3, started on Sultanahmet Square and finished in Taksim Square.


Premise: Burke thought religion was beneficial to what besides souls?

Hypothesis: He linked the conservation of a state (established) religion with the preservation of citizens' constitutional liberties and highlighted Christianity's benefit not only to the believer's soul, but also to political arrangements.


Premise: Pasteurisation and autoclavation are examples of what kind of technique?

Hypothesis: Since the Industrial Revolution some two hundred years ago, the food processing industry has invented many technologies that both help keep foods fresh longer and alter the fresh state of food as they appear in nature.


Premise: In 2007, which music professor said he believes this criticism does involve race as well?

Hypothesis: Emmett Price, a professor of music at Northeastern University, wrote in 2007, that he thinks race plays a role in many of these criticisms, saying white celebrities who dress similarly do not attract as many comments.


Premise: Along with MeadWestvaco, what Fortune 500 company is based in Richmond?

Hypothesis: Dominion Resources and MeadWestvaco, Fortune 500 companies, are headquartered in the city, with others in the metropolitan area.


Premise: What year did Iran pass an economic reform plan that would replace subsidies with targeted social assistance programs?

Hypothesis: In 2010, the economic reform plan was approved by parliament to cut subsidies gradually and replace them with targeted social assistance.


Premise: When the photon energy is less than the work function of the material the light is shone upon, how many photoelectrons are emitted?

Hypothesis: This kinetic energy (for each photoelectron) is independent of the intensity of the light, but depends linearly on the frequency; and if the frequency is too low (corresponding to a photon energy that is less than the work function of the material), no photoelectrons are emitted at all, unless a plurality of photons, whose energetic sum is greater than the energy of the photoelectrons, acts virtually simultaneously (multiphoton effect)


Premise: What is the yearly revenue of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation?

Hypothesis: HHC's MetroPlus Health Plan is one of the New York area's largest providers of government-sponsored health insurance and is the plan of choice for nearly half million New Yorkers.


Premise: What group wanted to use violent means to over throw the British rule?

Hypothesis: However, revolutionary activities against the British rule took place throughout the Indian subcontinent and some others adopted a militant approach like the Indian National Army that sought to overthrow British rule by armed struggle.


Premise: Who denounced Jewish People in many of his writings?

Hypothesis: Pope St. Gregory stigmatized Judaism and the Jewish People in many of his writings.


Premise: What type of music did critics associate with corrupt high culture?

Hypothesis: These critics considered folk music (as produced by "the folk", i.e., rural, illiterate, peasants) to honestly express a natural way of life, while classical music seemed superficial and decadent.


Premise: Because higher performance was needed, Krupp's workers designed what?

Hypothesis: In response Krupp's engineers presented a new 88 mm design, the FlaK 36.


Premise: What is the name of the agreement that guarantee Burma's freedom from foreign rule ?

Hypothesis: Following World War II, Aung San negotiated the Panglong Agreement with ethnic leaders that guaranteed the independence of Myanmar as a unified state.


Premise: When was John appointed the Lord of Ireland?

Hypothesis: John's elder brothers William, Henry and Geoffrey died young; by the time Richard I became king in 1189, John was a potential heir to the throne.


Premise: Where does informal learning usually take place?

Hypothesis: Informal learning usually takes place outside educational establishments, does not follow a specified curriculum and may originate accidentally, sporadically, in association with certain occasions, from changing practical requirements.


Premise: Which Swiss population is the only one to have practiced Steinstossen since prehistoric times?

Hypothesis: Practiced only among the alpine population since prehistoric times, it is recorded to have taken place in Basel in the 13th century.