Premise: Where is ENA located?

Hypothesis: Most of the grandes écoles were relocated to the suburbs of Paris in the 1960s and 1970s, in new campuses much larger than the old campuses within the crowded city of Paris, though the École Normale Supérieure has remained on rue d'Ulm in the 5th arrondissement.


Premise: What is the busiest highway in Oklahoma?

Hypothesis: More than 12,000 miles (19,000 km) of roads make up the state's major highway skeleton, including state-operated highways, ten turnpikes or major toll roads, and the longest drivable stretch of Route 66 in the nation.


Premise: When was France's 819 line system discontinued?

Hypothesis: In 1949, France started its transmissions with an 819 lines system (with 737 active lines).


Premise: Who was Cardigan under fire from when advancing on the Valley of Balaclava?

Hypothesis: Cardigan formed up his unit and charged the length of the Valley of the Balaclava, under fire from Russian batteries in the hills.


Premise: Who did Kexi thing should take over for him?

Hypothesis: Finally, in 1673, Shang Kexi petitioned Kangxi for permission to retire to his hometown in Liaodong province and nominated his son as his successor.


Premise: Little River marks the boundary between Geelong and which other city?

Hypothesis: The Little River, and the township of the same name, marks the border between Melbourne and neighbouring Geelong city.


Premise: How many municipalities?

Hypothesis: Galicia is further divided into 53 comarcas, 315 municipalities (93 in A Coruña, 67 in Lugo, 92 in Ourense, 62 in Pontevedra) and 3,778 parishes.


Premise: What F. Scott Fitzgerald novel is Yale a part of?

Hypothesis: The narrator, Nick Carraway, wrote a series of editorials for the Yale News, and Tom Buchanan was "one of the most powerful ends that ever played football" for Yale.


Premise: What year did the tradition of freshmen whitewashing the "A" begin?

Hypothesis: On Sentinel Peak (also known as "'A' Mountain"), just west of downtown, there is a giant "A" in honor of the University of Arizona.


Premise: When is his feast day celebrated?

Hypothesis: The Roman Catholic Church celebrates his feast day not on the date of his death, June 3, as is usual, nor even on the day of his papal inauguration (as is sometimes done with Popes who are Saints, such as with John Paul II) but


Premise: What did the scientist who discovered the dye do after discovering it?

Hypothesis: Perkin's discovery was prompted by his work with von Hofmann on the substance aniline, derived from coal tar, and it was this breakthrough which sparked the synthetic dye industry, a boom which some historians have labelled the second chemical revolution.


Premise: When was the first quantized model of the atom introduced?

Hypothesis: Niels Bohr introduced the first quantized model of the atom in 1913, in an attempt to overcome a major shortcoming of Rutherford's classical model.


Premise: Where did the potato originate?

Hypothesis: Genetic testing of the wide variety of cultivars and wild species suggests that the potato has a single origin in the area of southern Peru, from a species in the Solanum brevicaule complex.


Premise: In what field did Montini obtain a doctorate in?

Hypothesis: Montini concluded his studies in Milan with a doctorate in Canon Law in the same year.


Premise: what types of people did the club The Warehouse attract?

Hypothesis: Clubbers to The Warehouse were primarily black and gay, who came to dance to music played by the club's resident DJ Frankie Knuckles, whom fans refer to as the "godfather of house".


Premise: The Global COmpetitiveness Report in 2010 ranked Iran where out of 139 countries?

Hypothesis: The administration continues to follow the market reform plans of the previous one and indicated that it will diversify Iran's oil-reliant economy.


Premise: Which caretaker manager was later promoted to permanent manager at Tottenham Hotspur?

Hypothesis: Caretaker appointments are managers that fill the gap between a managerial departure and a new appointment.


Premise: About how many Australians were taken prisoner after the fall of Singapore and British Malaya?

Hypothesis: Australia had been shocked by the speedy collapse of British Malaya and Fall of Singapore in which around 15,000 Australian soldiers became prisoners of war.


Premise: How many times was Swansea bombed heavily?

Hypothesis: Not all of the Luftwaffe's effort was made against inland cities.


Premise: What chapter in the Spanish constitution describes how bills are to be passed?

Hypothesis: According to Article 91, within fifteen days of passage of a bill by the Cortes Generales, the sovereign shall give his or her assent and publish the new law.


Premise: What does USAID stand for?

Hypothesis: Its definition of Middle East corresponds to that of the State Department, which officially prefers the term Near East.


Premise: What are the threats that the MoD has identified?

Hypothesis: With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, the MoD does not foresee any short-term conventional military threat; rather, it has identified weapons of mass destruction, international terrorism, and failed and failing states as the overriding threats to Britain's interests.


Premise: What union are Yale's clerical and technical employees a part of?

Hypothesis: Clerical and technical employees are represented by Local 34 of UNITE HERE and service and maintenance workers by Local 35 of the same international.


Premise: What was the normal size disc for popular music?

Hypothesis: Because a 10-inch 78 rpm record could hold about three minutes of sound per side and the 10-inch size was the standard size for popular music, almost all popular recordings were limited to around three minutes in length.


Premise: Who was the youngest Royal Marine Brigadier?

Hypothesis: A number of other Bermudians and their descendants had preceded him into senior ranks, including Bahamian-born Admiral Lord Gambier, and Bermudian-born Royal Marines Brigadier Harvey.


Premise: What are the area of responsibilities made up of?

Hypothesis: These are composed of teaching elders and ruling elders from each of the constituent congregations.


Premise: How thick is the ice that covers Antarctica?

Hypothesis: In most of the interior of the continent, precipitation is very low, down to 20 mm (0.8 in) per year; in a few "blue ice" areas precipitation is lower than mass loss by sublimation and so the local mass balance is negative.


Premise: What did The Sun fear would result from election of the Labour Party?

Hypothesis: The election ended in the first hung parliament after an election for 36 years, with the Tories gaining the most seats and votes but being 20 seats short of an overall majority.


Premise: What did Tito offer to the retreating column?

Hypothesis: On 14 May he dispatched a telegram to the supreme headquarters Slovene Partisan Army prohibiting "in the sternest language" the execution of prisoners of war and commanding the transfer of the possible suspects to a military court.


Premise: When is the earliest know primate thought to had exist?

Hypothesis: The earliest known ancestor of primates is Archicebus achilles from around 55 million years ago.


Premise: Unlike synthetic languages, what do Hokkien sentences not indicate?

Hypothesis: Hokkien dialects are analytic; in a sentence, the arrangement of words is important to its meaning.


Premise: What was Von Neumann's given name as member of Austro-Hungarian nobility?

Hypothesis: Neumann János became Margittai Neumann János (John Neumann of Marghita), which he later changed to the German Johann von Neumann.


Premise: Under US law, what primarily distinguishes treaties, executive agreements, congressional-executive agreements, and sole executive agreements?

Hypothesis: The distinctions are primarily concerning their method of approval.


Premise: How many members are on the ad hoc panel that allows project exemptions for cases where a species may harmed?

Hypothesis: If harm cannot be avoided, the project agency can seek an exemption from the Endangered Species Committee, an ad hoc panel composed of members from the executive branch and at least one appointee from the state where the project is to occur.


Premise: What do many people gain from their identity groups?

Hypothesis: Another issue that researchers have attempted to address is the question of why people engage in discrimination, i.e., why they tend to favor those they consider a part of their "in-group" over those considered to be outsiders.


Premise: What is a major source of cooper in modern times?

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: How many were killed in the April 1979 protests?

Hypothesis: The government violently suppressed the protests, killing 100 children and teenagers.


Premise: What countries frowned upon this hunting?

Hypothesis: The safari method of hunting was a development of sport hunting that saw elaborate travel in Africa, India and other places in pursuit of trophies.


Premise: What type of church was formed after Rev G.H. Nobbs' death in 1884?

Hypothesis: After the death of the first chaplain Rev G. H. Nobbs in 1884, a Methodist church was formed and in 1891 a Seventh-day Adventist congregation led by one of Nobbs' sons.


Premise: What amendment process is generally reserved for changes that rectify obvious errors in the text?

Hypothesis: Minor corrections to a treaty may be adopted by a procès-verbal; but a procès-verbal is generally reserved for changes to rectify obvious errors in the text adopted, i.e. where the text adopted does not correctly reflect the intention of the parties adopting it.


Premise: Where were the yoeman farmers that remained neutral during the civil war located?

Hypothesis: Some of the yeoman farmers in the state's mountains and western Piedmont region remained neutral during the Civil War, while some covertly supported the Union cause during the conflict.


Premise: Who did not want their country protected by the Soviet military?

Hypothesis: Polish officials refused to allow Soviet troops into Polish territory if Germany attacked; as Polish foreign minister Józef Beck pointed out, they feared that once the Red Army entered their territories, it might never leave.


Premise: The amount of material used as a crop protection measure decreased from 1kg/ha in what year to its current 1%?

Hypothesis: In the 1960s, more than 1 kg/ha (0.89 lb/acre)


Premise: What is the usual penalty when the rules of play are violated?

Hypothesis: Penalties do not affect the yard line which the offence must reach to gain a first down (unless the penalty results in a first down being awarded); if a penalty against the defence results in the first down yardage being attained, then the offence is awarded a first down.


Premise: What helped the industry weather the 2009 economic crisis better than other sectors?

Hypothesis: Clean Edge suggests that the commercialization of clean energy will help countries around the world deal with the current economic malaise.


Premise: How many Muslims were killed during the invasion of Banu Qurayza?

Hypothesis: Two Muslims were killed


Premise: In addition to the New Haven Harbor, what additional natural element is a prominent geographic feature of the area, flanking the northeast and northwest boundaries?

Hypothesis: New Haven's best-known geographic features are its large deep harbor, and two reddish basalt trap rock ridges which rise to the northeast and northwest of the city core.


Premise: What depicts the Gigantomachy on the acropolis of the city?

Hypothesis: Eumenes II also constructed the Pergamum Altar with friezes depicting the Gigantomachy on the acropolis of the city.


Premise: What library contains the biggest assortment of 18th century British literary works?

Hypothesis: The Beinecke Rare Book Library has a large collection of rare books and manuscripts.


Premise: which bird migrates by circling the earth?

Hypothesis: Some species of tubenoses (Procellariiformes) such as albatrosses circle the earth, flying over the southern oceans, while others such as Manx shearwaters migrate 14,000 km (8,700 mi) between their northern breeding grounds and the southern ocean.


Premise: What school awarded Kanye west an honorary doctorate?

Hypothesis: Later that month, West was awarded an honorary doctorate by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for his contributions to music, fashion, and popular culture, officially making him an honorary DFA.


Premise: What is the average rainfall in Namibia?

Hypothesis: With an average rainfall of about 350 mm per annum, the highest rainfall occurs in the Caprivi in the northeast (about 600 mm per annum) and decreases in a westerly and southwesterly direction to as little as 50 mm and less per annum at the coast.


Premise: Who was the first Ptolemaic ruler to learn the Egyptian language?

Hypothesis: It is only until Cleopatra VII, that a Ptolemaic ruler bothered to learn the Egyptian language of their subjects.


Premise: What institutions are not subject to the same regulations as commercial banks?

Hypothesis: Thus, policymakers did not immediately recognize the increasingly important role played by financial institutions such as investment banks and hedge funds, also known as the shadow banking system.


Premise: Which two Muslim scientists did Salam celebrate as inventors of empirical methods?

Hypothesis: Salam highlights, in particular, the work of Ibn al-Haytham and Al-Biruni as the pioneers of empiricism who introduced the experimental approach, breaking way from Aristotle's influence, and thus giving birth to modern science.


Premise: How can it be recovered through steam?

Hypothesis: This reaction is also a common industrial source of carbon dioxide:


Premise: What company was Dell behind in profits in 2012?

Hypothesis: In the shrinking PC industry, Dell continued to lose market share, as it dropped below Lenovo in 2011 to fall to number three in the world.


Premise: What actor did Laemmle promote?

Hypothesis: By naming the movie stars, he attracted many of the leading players of the time, contributing to the creation of the star system.


Premise: "Shapes of Things" was a 1966 single by what band?

Hypothesis: In contrast, hard rock was most often derived from blues rock and was played louder and with more intensity.


Premise: Where did they spend most summers until 1846?

Hypothesis: He frequently visited Sand in the evenings, but both retained some independence.


Premise: Which current native tribes are thought to be descendants of the Casas Grandes?

Hypothesis: Archaeologists believe the civilization began to decline during the 13th century and by the 15th century the inhabitants of Paquime sought refuge in the Sierra Madre Occidental while others are thought to have emigrated north and joined the Ancestral Pueblo peoples.


Premise: What year did the Football Association arrange The Laws of the Game?

Hypothesis: If the score is level at the end of the game, either a draw is declared or the game goes into extra time and/or a penalty shootout depending on the format of the competition.


Premise: In what building is the current School of Architecture housed at Notre Dame?

Hypothesis: Today the school, housed in Bond Hall, offers a five-year undergraduate program leading to the Bachelor of Architecture degree.


Premise: What was Brian May diagnosed with after collapsing in 1974?

Hypothesis: While recuperating, May was initially absent when the band started work on their third album, but he returned midway through the recording process.


Premise: Where was the agreement formalised?

Hypothesis: The agreement was formalised in the Bulla Aurea, or Golden Bull.


Premise: Which northern country do the Rocky Mountains terminate at?

Hypothesis: The Rocky Mountains form a large portion of the Western U.S., entering from Canada and stretching nearly to Mexico.


Premise: What types of trees grow near rivers in western Oklahoma?

Hypothesis: Forests cover 24 percent of Oklahoma and prairie grasslands composed of shortgrass, mixed-grass, and tallgrass prairie, harbor expansive ecosystems in the state's central and western portions, although cropland has largely replaced native grasses.


Premise: What was the British hoping to inspire by their attack on Charles Town?

Hypothesis: On June 28, 1776, General Sir Henry Clinton along with 2,000 men and a naval squadron tried to seize Charles Towne, hoping for a simultaneous Loyalist uprising in South Carolina.


Premise: Who does Vasari believe destroyed ancient buildings after they conquered Rome?

Hypothesis: At the time in which Vasari was writing, Italy had experienced a century of building in the Classical architectural vocabulary revived in the Renaissance and seen as evidence of a new Golden Age of learning and refinement.


Premise: How many sorties a night were crews asked to fly?

Hypothesis: Added to the tension of the mission which exhausted and drained crews, tiredness caught up with and killed many.


Premise: What other instruments do the Japanese madnolin orchestras play?

Hypothesis: The expansion of mandolin use continued after World War II through the late 1960s, and Japan still maintains a strong classical music tradition using mandolins, with active orchestras and university music programs.


Premise: Who did Kerry share a campaign headquarters with?

Hypothesis: DiFruscia's campaign headquarters shared the same building as Kerry's.


Premise: What is the most well-known summary of Calvin's teachings?

Hypothesis: Today, this term also refers to the doctrines and practices of the Reformed churches of which Calvin was an early leader.


Premise: Who edited the Polish National Edition?

Hypothesis: Among modern scholarly editions of Chopin's works are the version under the name of Paderewski published between 1937 and 1966 and the more recent Polish "National Edition", edited by Jan Ekier, both of which contain detailed explanations and discussions regarding choices and sources.


Premise: How did Henry the Young King die?

Hypothesis: Henry the Young King fought a short war with his brother Richard in 1183 over the status of England, Normandy and Aquitaine.


Premise: The lack of assimilation of Jews in central and eastern Europe lies in part to the fact that they lived almost exclusively in what?

Hypothesis: The answer to why there was so little assimilation of Jews in central and eastern Europe for so long would seem to lie in part in the probability that the alien surroundings in central and eastern Europe were not conducive, though contempt did not prevent some assimilation.


Premise: What date did William Whitney Brazelton Die?

Hypothesis: Brazelton was eventually tracked down and killed on Monday August 19, 1878, in a mesquite bosque along the Santa Cruz River 3 miles (5 km)


Premise: How long is the Port of Nanjing?

Hypothesis: The port area is 98 kilometres (61 mi) in length and has 64 berths including 16 berths for ships with a tonnage of more than 10,000.


Premise: What was the Taragaon Museum prior to being a museum?

Hypothesis: Restoration works began in 2010 to rehabilitate the Taragaon hostel into the Taragaon Museum.


Premise: What kind of harmony has Estonian lost?

Hypothesis: Furthermore, the apocope of word-final sounds is extensive and has contributed to a shift from a purely agglutinative to a fusional language.[citation needed]


Premise: What was the Indian Rebellion of 1857 also called?

Hypothesis: This essentially brought an end to the Mughal Empire.


Premise: Who arrested Sayyid Hasan ar-Rida al-Mahdi as-Sanussi?

Hypothesis: Gaddafi took control of the Berka barracks in Benghazi, while Omar Meheisha occupied Tripoli barracks and Jalloud seized the city's anti-aircraft batteries.


Premise: What did earning the ijazat al-tadris award students?

Hypothesis: The Arabic term ijāzat al-tadrīs was awarded to Islamic scholars who were qualified to teach.


Premise: Who designed the SNES controllers?

Hypothesis: It also features an ergonomic design by Lance Barr, later used for the NES-102 model controllers, also designed by Barr.


Premise: What kind of relationship exists between a tree's properties and its wood's properties?

Hypothesis: There is a strong relationship between the properties of wood and the properties of the particular tree that yielded it.


Premise: Where does the montane zone extend from?

Hypothesis: The montane zone extends from 800 to 1,700 m (2,625 to 5,577 ft), followed by the sub-Alpine zone from 1,600 to 2,400 m (5,249 to 7,874 ft).


Premise: Why would zinc possibly be derived from the German word zinke?

Hypothesis: Yet another possibility is that the word is derived from the Persian word سنگ seng meaning stone.


Premise: What does Darwin note about the embryos of many different species in the same class?

Hypothesis: He says, "What can be more curious than that the hand of a man, formed for grasping, that of a mole for digging, the leg of the horse, the paddle of the porpoise, and the wing of the bat, should all be constructed on the same pattern, and should include the same bones, in the same relative positions?"


Premise: What did IMF forecast Greece's unemployment rate to be in 2012?

Hypothesis: IMF's forecast said that Greece's unemployment rate would hit the highest 14.8 percent in 2012 and decrease to 14.1 in 2014.


Premise: In the 15th century, the ruler of which port embraced Islam?

Hypothesis: The ruler of the region's most important port, Malacca Sultanate, embraced Islam in the 15th century, heralding a period of accelerated conversion of Islam throughout the region as Islam provided a positive force among the ruling and trading classes.


Premise: What must happen before the Supreme Court will reverse a decision by a lower court refusing to uphold a constitutional law?

Hypothesis: However, under the principle of stare decisis, no sensible lower court will enforce an unconstitutional statute, and any court that does so will be reversed by the Supreme Court.


Premise: Who was Gaddafi's first father-in-law?

Hypothesis: She was the daughter of General Khalid, a senior figure in King Idris' administration, and was from a middle-class background.


Premise: Paragraph 6 of Article 29 states that a referendum, in the event of a successful petition should be held within how many years?

Hypothesis: The complaint was dismissed in July 1961 on the grounds that Article 29 had made the new delimitation of the federal territory an exclusively federal matter.


Premise: Why were they striking?

Hypothesis: Callaghan had been widely expected to call a general election in the autumn of 1978 when most opinion polls showed Labour to have a narrow lead.


Premise: What other property can you assume of wood that is diseased?

Hypothesis: Abnormal discoloration of wood often denotes a diseased condition, indicating unsoundness.


Premise: ACT Chief Minister Jon Stanhope said which organization intended to ensure that China supporters outweighed Tibet supporters?

Hypothesis: Also, Australia's ACT Chief Minister, Jon Stanhope confirmed that the Chinese embassy was closely involve to ensure that "pro-China demonstrators vastly outnumbered Tibetan activists.


Premise: BDNF is an abbreviation for what term?

Hypothesis: In 1971 Tim Bliss and Terje Lømo published a paper on a phenomenon now called long-term potentiation: the paper showed clear evidence of activity-induced synaptic changes that lasted for at least several days.


Premise: What did the Mesopotamian use to record data about the world around them?

Hypothesis: From their beginnings in Sumer (now Iraq) around 3500 BC, the Mesopotamian people began to attempt to record some observations of the world with numerical data.


Premise: What purpose does diesel fuel have in Alaska?

Hypothesis: The cost of a gallon of gas in urban Alaska today is usually 30–60¢ higher than the national average; prices in rural areas are generally significantly higher but vary widely depending on transportation costs, seasonal usage peaks, nearby petroleum development infrastructure and many other factors.


Premise: What makes a plant non-vascular?

Hypothesis: do not produce ground-penetrating vascular roots and most of the plant participates in photosynthesis.


Premise: On what day is TCM Underground shown?

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


Premise: What was the value of the second largest technology buyout?

Hypothesis: The $24.4 billion buyout was projected to be the largest leveraged buyout backed by private equity since the 2007 financial crisis.


Premise: How many people came to the Tucson Festival of Books in 2010?

Hypothesis: Since 2009, the Tucson Festival of Books has been held annually over a two-day period in March at the University of Arizona.


Premise: What university did Edmond Halley attend?

Hypothesis: On leaving the University of Oxford, in 1676, Edmond Halley visited Saint Helena and set up an astronomical observatory with a 7.3-metre-long (24 ft) aerial telescope with the intention of studying stars from the Southern Hemisphere.


Premise: What was Valencia's population in 1860?

Hypothesis: By 1860 the municipality had 140,416 inhabitants, and beginning in 1866 the ancient city walls were almost entirely demolished to facilitate urban expansion.


Premise: Does Myanmar offer any destinations  that might be good for outside enthusiasts ?

Hypothesis: They are not to discuss politics with foreigners, under penalty of imprisonment and, in 2001, the Myanmar Tourism Promotion Board issued an order for local officials to protect tourists and limit "unnecessary contact" between foreigners and ordinary Burmese people.


Premise: What is one of the ways that PR uses its capabilities in a crisis?

Hypothesis: PR also enhances the development of an effective, global capacity to protect and recover isolated personnel wherever they are placed at risk; deny an adversary's ability to exploit a nation through propaganda; and develop joint, interagency, and international capabilities that contribute to crisis response and regional stability.


Premise: Between 2002 and 2007, by what percentage did the rate of unemployment change?

Hypothesis: By early December 2009, the unemployment rate had reached 10.2% – a 23-year record high.


Premise: Who was a tutelary god of Wilusa?

Hypothesis: He is pictured as a terrible god, less trusted by the Greeks than other gods.


Premise: How many years would Italy have to allow Italian Somaliland to become independent?

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


Premise: From where did the ideology of the Liberals stem?

Hypothesis: The Commonwealth Liberal Party was a fusion of the Free Trade Party and the Protectionist Party in 1909 by the second prime minister, Alfred Deakin, in response to Labor's growing electoral prominence.


Premise: Who founded the Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Manufacturing Co, Limited?

Hypothesis: This new style is credited to mandolins designed and built by Orville Gibson, a Kalamazoo, Michigan luthier who founded the "Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Manufacturing Co., Limited" in 1902.


Premise: What is one benefit of transferring an older format to a newer format?

Hypothesis: Anyone can do this using a standard record player with a suitable pickup, a phono-preamp (pre-amplifier) and a typical personal computer.


Premise: What industry was targeted

Hypothesis: The office was directed to target Medical/Bio-Sciences among others.


Premise: At an extremely large airport, what is in place but not usually used?

Hypothesis: Rather, aircraft (usually only commercial with long routes) request approach clearance while they are still hours away from the airport, often before they even take off from their departure point.


Premise: What adjective would those against DST use to describe the energy savings touted by supporters?

Hypothesis: Farmers have tended to oppose DST.


Premise: What may have a wide range of meanings?

Hypothesis: A single character may also have a range of meanings, or sometimes quite distinct meanings; occasionally these correspond to different pronunciations.


Premise: What did Bloomberg name Namibia?

Hypothesis: Worldwide, Namibia also fared better than Hungary, Brazil and Mexico.


Premise: What items replaced previously items made of stone?

Hypothesis: Stone arrowheads, knives and scrapers from the era are commonly found.


Premise: Who was the Minoan "Mistres of the animals?"

Hypothesis: Apollo's sister Artemis, who was the Greek goddess of hunting, is identified with Britomartis (Diktynna), the Minoan "Mistress of the animals".


Premise: How many licenses did Microsoft sell in the first six months?

Hypothesis: In March 2013, Microsoft also amended its certification requirements to allow tablets to use the 1024×768 resolution as a minimum; this change is expected to allow the production of certified Windows 8 tablets in smaller form factors—a market which is currently dominated by Android-based tablets.


Premise: When did Napoleon divorce Josephine?

Hypothesis: Desperate for a legitimate heir, Napoleon divorced Joséphine in January 1810 and started looking for a new wife.


Premise: How many species is the recent day turkey suspected to have embarked from?

Hypothesis: The modern domesticated turkey is descended from one of six subspecies of wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) found in the present Mexican states of Jalisco, Guerrero and Veracruz. Pre-Aztec tribes in south-central Mexico first domesticated the bird around 800 BC, and Pueblo Indians inhabiting the Colorado Plateau in the United States did likewise around 200 BC.


Premise: What was a complication of the SV40 virus?

Hypothesis: It was later determined that SV40 was present as a contaminant in polio vaccine lots that had been administered to 90% of the children in the United States.


Premise: What was the art of the Fabbrica usually used for?

Hypothesis: Works of the Fabbrica were often used as papal gifts.


Premise: When was formal education for Islamic women halted?

Hypothesis: Despite the recognition of women's aptitudes during the Abbasid dynasty, all these came to an end in Iraq with the sack of Baghdad in 1258.


Premise: Which president signed an Act directing the delisting of the Northern Rocky Mountain population of gray wolf?

Hypothesis: On April 15, 2011, President Obama signed the Department of Defense and Full-Year Appropriations Act of 2011.


Premise: What regulates dielectric dispersion?

Hypothesis: A changing dielectric constant with frequency is referred to as dielectric dispersion, and is governed by dielectric relaxation processes, such as Debye relaxation.


Premise: Where did Columbus believe he had arrived?

Hypothesis: This unifying concept, codified in law, religion, and politics, was not originally accepted by indigenous peoples but has been embraced by many over the last two centuries.[citation needed]


Premise: Who was appointed regent-governor of the Kingdom of Hungary in 1446?

Hypothesis: Hunyadi was considered one of the most relevant military figures of the 15th century: Pope Pius II awarded him the title of Athleta Christi or Champion of Christ for being the only hope of resisting the Ottomans from advancing to Central and Western Europe.


Premise: What are the most common rocks found in West Antarctica?

Hypothesis: The most common rocks in West Antarctica are andesite and rhyolite volcanics formed during the Jurassic period.


Premise: What makes the Windows 8 interface difficult to use?

Hypothesis: Bright wrote that its system of hot corners and edge swiping "wasn't very obvious" due to the lack of instructions provided by the operating system on the functions accessed through the user interface, even by the video tutorial added on the RTM release (which only instructed users to point at corners of the screen or swipe from its sides).


Premise: In the modern era, has any non-league team reached the quarter finals??

Hypothesis: In the modern era, non-league teams have never reached the quarter finals, and teams below Level 2 have never reached the final.[note 1]


Premise: In what years did Peruvian ships seek laborers in the Polynesian islands?

Hypothesis: While some islanders were voluntary recruits the "blackbirders" were notorious for enticing islanders on to ships with tricks, such as pretending to be Christian missionaries, as well as kidnapping islanders at gun point.


Premise: Who noted Gaddafi's opposition to apartheid?

Hypothesis: U.S. President Barack Obama stated that it meant that "the shadow of tyranny over Libya has been lifted," while UK Prime Minister David Cameron stated that he was "proud" of his country's role in overthrowing "this brutal dictator".


Premise: How much of the world's child labour does India's workers contribute to?

Hypothesis: Due to a large number of children being illegally employed, the Indian government began to take extensive actions to reduce the number of children working, and to focus on the importance of facilitating the proper growth and development of children.


Premise: Of what nationality was Jan van Eyck?

Hypothesis: Very small woodcuts, nearly all religious, were affordable even by peasants in parts of Northern Europe from the middle of the 15th century.


Premise: What video frequency does PAL use?

Hypothesis: To mostly correct this issue, a switch can be added to place the SNES PPU into a 60 Hz mode supported by most newer PAL televisions.


Premise: What was the name of the UN-conventional system that was implemented?

Hypothesis: An unconventional power succession system was established (rota system) whereby power was transferred to the eldest member of the ruling dynasty rather than from father to son, i.e. in most cases to the eldest brother of the ruler, fomenting constant hatred and rivalry within the royal family.[citation needed]


Premise: What principal contribution did von Neumann make to atomic bomb?

Hypothesis: While von Neumann did not originate the "implosion" concept, he was one of its most persistent proponents, encouraging its continued development against the instincts of many of his colleagues, who felt such a design to be unworkable.


Premise: Which city is Tennessee's fourth largest?

Hypothesis: The third urban area, the Tri-Cities, comprising Bristol, Johnson City, and Kingsport and their environs, is located to the northeast of Knoxville.


Premise: Would linguistic differences make it difficult or easy to point out someone who moved from a different region of the Netherlands?

Hypothesis: Next to sound shifts, there are ample examples of suffix differences.


Premise: The Fund's programs support women, men, and who else?

Hypothesis: The Fund works with governments and non-governmental organizations in over 150 countries with the support of the international community, supporting programs that help women, men and young people:


Premise: What was San Diego's population at the time of the 2010 census?

Hypothesis: As of the Census of 2010, there were 1,307,402 people living in the city of San Diego.


Premise: Besides assembly panels, what's the other type of panel?

Hypothesis: The bare board manufactures always uses panels, not only for efficiency, but because of the requirements the plating process.


Premise: What was the name of the 1909 Cubist sculpture Picassos created?

Hypothesis: According to Douglas Cooper: "The first true Cubist sculpture was Picasso's impressive Woman's Head, modeled in 1909–10, a counterpart in three dimensions to many similar analytical and faceted heads in his paintings at the time.


Premise: What cities flourished after they were conquered by the Romans?

Hypothesis: Punic Carthago was gone, but the other punic cities in the western mediterranean flourished under Roman rule.


Premise: The 2011 census in London found what percentage of children to be white?

Hypothesis: In January 2005, a survey of London's ethnic and religious diversity claimed that there were more than 300 languages spoken in London and more than 50 non-indigenous communities with a population of more than 10,000.


Premise: Thomas J. Watson Sr. was fired from what company?

Hypothesis: Thomas J. Watson, Sr., fired from the National Cash Register Company by John Henry Patterson, called on Flint and, in 1914, was offered CTR.


Premise: What is the name of the Santa Monica Freeway?

Hypothesis: The Santa Monica Freeway between Santa Monica and downtown Los Angeles has the distinction of being one of the busiest highways in all of North America.


Premise: When was Maria Deraismes initiated into Freemasonry?

Hypothesis: Maria Deraismes was initiated into Freemasonry in 1882, then resigned to allow her lodge to rejoin their Grand Lodge.


Premise: What is the acronym for British Broadcasting Corporation?

Hypothesis: The corporation, which has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a Royal charter since 1927, has produced television programmes from its own since 1932, although the start of its regular service of television broadcasts is dated to 2 November 1936.


Premise: Rummel postulates that murder of people of government is due to national, ethnic, racial and which other membership?

Hypothesis: The ordinary meaning is murder by government of people due to their national, ethnic, racial, or religious group membership.


Premise: What was the name of the first settlement in the area?

Hypothesis: Europeans came to the Delaware Valley in the early 17th century, with the first settlements founded by the Dutch, who in 1623 built Fort Nassau on the Delaware River opposite the Schuylkill River in what is now Brooklawn, New Jersey.


Premise: What style of logo did Chapman introduce in the 1930s?

Hypothesis: The monogram theme was developed into an Art Deco-style badge on which the letters A and C framed a football rather than the letter F, the whole set within a hexagonal border.


Premise: What makes bacteria resistant to antibiotic treatment?

Hypothesis: In developed countries, antibiotics are used to treat bacterial infections and are also used in farming, making antibiotic resistance a growing problem.


Premise: Who was hired in 1830 to finish the work on the palace?

Hypothesis: While the work was in progress, in 1826, the King decided to modify the house into a palace with the help of his architect John Nash.


Premise: On what date is the Presentation of Christ in the Temple celebrated by Anglicans?

Hypothesis: This feast is called in older prayer books the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary on February 2.


Premise: What city department runs the public school system?

Hypothesis: The New York City Public Schools system, managed by the New York City Department of Education, is the largest public school system in the United States, serving about 1.1 million students in more than 1,700 separate primary and secondary schools.


Premise: When did season two air?

Hypothesis: The number of episodes increased, as did the show's budget and the charge for commercial spots.


Premise: What led to constant problems with the Khazars?

Hypothesis: The rapid expansion of the Rus' to the south led to conflict and volatile relationships with the Khazars and other neighbors on the Pontic steppe.


Premise: Approximately how many troops were in the army Napoleon led into Damascus?

Hypothesis: Bonaparte discovered that many of the defenders were former prisoners of war, ostensibly on parole, so he ordered the garrison and 1,400 prisoners to be executed by bayonet or drowning to save bullets.


Premise: In what year was United World Pictures founded?

Hypothesis: The new combine, United World Pictures, was a failure and was dissolved within one year.


Premise: What is the name of the official residence in Belgrade?

Hypothesis: In Belgrade he resided in the official residence, the Beli dvor, and maintained a separate private home.


Premise: What is Mr. Hinx's job?

Hypothesis: That evening he visits Sciarra's widow Lucia, who tells him about Spectre, a criminal organisation to which her husband belonged.


Premise: Who joined the Cossacks in 1648?

Hypothesis: Later, in 1670–71 the Don Cossacks led by Stenka Razin initiated a major uprising in the Volga region, but the Tsar's troops were successful in defeating the rebels.


Premise: How much was Kanye's bail bond?

Hypothesis: On September 26, 2008, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said it would not file felony counts against West over the incident.


Premise: Where is Cyprus located?

Hypothesis: It is located south of Turkey, west of Syria and Lebanon, northwest of Israel and Palestine, north of Egypt and east of Greece.


Premise: Where does Brazil's president live, in Portuguese?

Hypothesis: Between the federal and civic buildings on the Monumental Axis is the city's cathedral, considered by many to be Niemeyer's finest achievement (see photographs of the interior).


Premise: What was the sender in the initial model?

Hypothesis: The sender was the part of a telephone a person spoke into, the channel was the telephone itself, and the receiver was the part of the phone where one could hear the other person.


Premise: What song did she perform at the MTV Awards?

Hypothesis: In August, the couple attended the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards, at which Beyoncé performed "Love on Top" and started the performance saying "Tonight I want you to stand up on your feet, I want you to feel the love that's growing inside of me".


Premise: What group popularized early Protestant teachings about separation of church and state?

Hypothesis: Democracy, social-contract theory, separation of powers, religious freedom, separation of church and state – these achievements of the Reformation and early Protestantism were elaborated on and popularized by Enlightenment thinkers.


Premise: What kind of the wine is regularly consumed by the French?

Hypothesis: This phenomenon has been termed the French paradox, and is thought to occur from protective benefits of regularly consuming red wine.


Premise: What percentage of Tennessee tourists daily spending in 2013 went toward accommodation?

Hypothesis: In 2013 tourism within the state from local citizens accounted for 39.9% of tourists, the second highest originating location for tourists to Tennessee is the state of Georgia, accounting for 8.4% of tourists.:17 Forty-four percent of stays in the state


Premise: What are ganglia?

Hypothesis: However, in most polychaetes the two main nerve cords are fused, and in the tube-dwelling genus Owenia the single nerve chord has no ganglia and is located in the epidermis.


Premise: What was Wilson named by the Baseball Writer's Association of America?

Hypothesis: Wilson was named "Most Useful" player that year by the Baseball Writers' Association of America, as the official N.L. Most Valuable Player Award was not awarded until the next season.


Premise: what does the 2N is the JEDEC EIA370 mean?

Hypothesis: A letter suffix (such as "A") is sometimes used to indicate a newer variant, but rarely gain groupings.


Premise: Who was the representative of the Somali Film Agency in Rome?

Hypothesis: The Somali filmmaker Ali Said Hassan concurrently served as the SFA's representative in Rome.


Premise: What is the independant agency under the Department of State for the purpose of determining and distributing foreign aid called?

Hypothesis: Its definition of Middle East corresponds to that of the State Department, which officially prefers the term Near East.


Premise: Which researcher developed the current method for testing an individual's process along the stages of identity?

Hypothesis: Erikson's theory of stages of development includes the identity crisis in which adolescents must explore different possibilities and integrate different parts of themselves before committing to their beliefs.


Premise: How do regulatory regions on different chromosomes operate in order to allow regions on different chromosomes to come into contact with one another?

Hypothesis: Regulatory regions of a gene such as enhancers do not necessarily have to be close to the coding sequence on the linear molecule because the intervening DNA can be looped out to bring the gene and its regulatory region into proximity.


Premise: What does data security avoid?

Hypothesis: Data security prevents unauthorized users from viewing or updating the database.


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

Hypothesis: The third-largest university in Texas, the University of Houston has nearly 40,000 students on its 667-acre campus in southeast Houston.


Premise: What does 'Articulata' mean?

Hypothesis: It is at least as easy to assume that they evolved segmented bodies independently as it is to assume that the ancestral protostome or bilaterian was segmented and that segmentation disappeared in many descendant phyla.


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

Hypothesis: When Emperor Kammu moved the capital to Heian-kyō (Kyōto), which remained the imperial capital for the next 1,000 years, he did so not only to strengthen imperial authority but also to improve his seat of government geopolitically.


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

Hypothesis: The term can be found used in an October 1845 Massachusetts Circuit Court ruling in the patent case Davoll et al. v. Brown.


Premise: The city of Varna is located on what coast of the Black Sea?

Hypothesis: In June 1854, the Allied expeditionary force landed at Varna, a city on the Black Sea's western coast (now in Bulgaria).


Premise: Who was the Minoan "Mistres of the animals?"

Hypothesis: In her earliest depictions she is accompanied by the "Mister of the animals", a male god of hunting who had the bow as his attribute.


Premise: What year marks the end of the period of the terminal eastward Lapita expansion?

Hypothesis: Scientific research is ongoing, although a number of different theories exist; including one proposing that the Samoans originated from Austronesian predecessors during the terminal eastward Lapita expansion period from Southeast Asia and Melanesia between 2,500 and 1,500 BCE.


Premise: What was the change in gathering?

Hypothesis: Starting at the transition between the Middle to Upper Paleolithic period, some 80,000 to 70,000 years ago, some hunter-gatherers bands began to specialize, concentrating on hunting a smaller selection of (often larger) game and gathering a smaller selection of food.


Premise: What ecclesiastical privilege may elders employ?

Hypothesis: Witnesses do not use elder as a title to signify a formal clergy-laity division, though elders may employ ecclesiastical privilege such as confession of sins.


Premise: What is another name that Ireland is also called?

Hypothesis: For judicial purposes, Scotland, Northern Ireland and England and Wales (the latter being one entity) form separate legal jurisdiction, with there being no single law for the UK as a whole.


Premise: Where do the Amtrak and Coaster trains primarily run?

Hypothesis: San Diego is served by the San Diego Trolley light rail system, by the SDMTS bus system, and by Coaster and Amtrak Pacific Surfliner commuter rail; northern San Diego county is also served by the Sprinter light rail line.


Premise: What does theUSB 2.0 specification require?

Hypothesis: The primary reason for this limit is the maximum allowed round-trip delay of about 1.5 μs.


Premise: What is thermal mass?

Hypothesis: When properly incorporated, thermal mass maintains space temperatures in a comfortable range and reduces the need for auxiliary heating and cooling equipment.


Premise: Which record label did Madonna sign with in 1982?

Hypothesis: She followed it with a series of commercially and critcally successful albums, including the Grammy Award winners Ray of Light (1998) and Confessions on a Dance Floor (2005).


Premise: Who blew up the HMS Jasper?

Hypothesis: On 12 July 1855 HMS Jasper grounded near Taganrog thanks to a fisherman who moved buoys into shallow water.


Premise: When was it advised for North Koreans to attempt to defeat the opposing forces at Inchon?

Hypothesis: As the overall commander of Chinese forces, Zhou Enlai suggested that the North Koreans should attempt to eliminate the enemy forces at Inchon only if they had reserves of at least 100,000 men; otherwise, he advised the North Koreans to withdraw their forces north.


Premise: When did European sport clubs begin to form in the Ottoman empire?

Hypothesis: European model sports clubs were formed with the spreading popularity of football matches in 19th century Constantinople.


Premise: What affect  did the discovery of gravitational waves have on Whitehead's theory?

Hypothesis: Whitehead's view has now been rendered obsolete, with the discovery of gravitational waves.


Premise: What did Burke think the British Empire should be governed based on?

Hypothesis: The historian Piers Brendon asserts that Burke laid the moral foundations for the British Empire, epitomised in the trial of Warren Hastings, that was ultimately to be its undoing: when Burke stated that "The British Empire must be governed on a plan of freedom, for it will be governed by no other", this was "...an ideological bacillus that would prove fatal.


Premise: When were the Houston Astros formed?

Hypothesis: The Houston Rockets are a National Basketball Association (NBA) franchise based in the city since 1971.


Premise: What did Jedlik's improved device eliminate the need for?

Hypothesis: The device employed no permanent magnets, as the magnetic fields of both the stationary and revolving components were produced solely by the currents flowing through their windings.


Premise: In additional to rising populations and increased urbanisation, what else did Commercial development increase the need for?

Hypothesis: Commercial development likewise increased the demand for information, along with rising populations and increased urbanisation.


Premise: Which part of the bird developed from forelimbs?

Hypothesis: Birds have wings which are more or less developed depending on the species; the only known groups without wings are the extinct moas and elephant birds.


Premise: What kind of proof is acceptable for participation in auctions?

Hypothesis: These can be the public debt of member states, but a fairly wide range of private banking securities are also accepted.


Premise: What bachelor's degree is offered at NU-Q through the Medill School of Journalism?

Hypothesis: In February 2016, Northwestern reached an agreement with the Qatar Foundation to extend the operations of the NU-Q branch for an additional decade, through the 2027-2028 academic year.


Premise: What phases of flight will passengers be able to use electronic devices?

Hypothesis: On October 31, 2013, after outcry from media outlets, including heavy criticism  from Nick Bilton of The New York Times, the FAA announced it will allow airlines to expand the passengers use of portable electronic devices during all phases of flight, but mobile phone calls will still be prohibited.


Premise: What is one way you could group pesticides?

Hypothesis: Pesticides can be classified based upon their biological mechanism function or application method.


Premise: New forms of Buddhism are created because of what reason?

Hypothesis: Modern influences increasingly lead to new forms of Buddhism that significantly depart from traditional beliefs and practices.


Premise: How many awards did Beyoncé win at the 57th Annual Grammys?

Hypothesis: At the 57th Annual Grammy Awards in February 2015, Beyoncé was nominated for six awards, ultimately winning three: Best R&B Performance and Best R&B Song for "Drunk in Love", and Best Surround Sound Album for Beyoncé.


Premise: How long did the Mac Plus remain in production, unchanged?

Hypothesis: In September 1986, Apple introduced the Macintosh Programmer's Workshop, or MPW, an application that allowed software developers to create software for Macintosh on Macintosh, rather than cross compiling from a Lisa.


Premise: What Act declares Non-Australian residents "outside of Australia" while they are on Norfolk Island?

Hypothesis: Non-Australian citizens who are Australian permanent residents should be aware that during their stay on Norfolk Island they are "outside of Australia" for the purposes of the Migration Act.


Premise: What is the Kashmir Shaivism mentioned by Vidyaranya?

Hypothesis: Early history of Shaivism is difficult to determine.


Premise: When was most of the urbanization completed?

Hypothesis: While the initial focus was on developing modern hospitals, schools, factories and massive public works, perhaps the most long-lasting effects of the Porfirian modernization were creation of the Colonia Roma area and the development of Reforma Avenue.


Premise: Which Queen album is the eighth best-selling album in the UK of all time?

Hypothesis: Innuendo was released in early 1991 with an eponymous number 1 UK hit and other charting singles including, "The Show Must Go On".


Premise: Both authors valued what over social standing?

Hypothesis: " Both Austen and Lee challenged the social status quo and valued individual worth over social standing.


Premise: Who led led the Serbian Army at the Battle of Kosovo?

Hypothesis: Yet Serbian dominance was short-lived; the Serbian army led by the Lazar Hrebljevanovic was defeated by the Ottomans at the Battle of Kosovo in 1389, where most of the Serbian nobility was killed and the south of the country came under Ottoman occupation, as much of southern Bulgaria had become Ottoman territory in 1371.


Premise: What year was tritium discovered?

Hypothesis: He produced solid hydrogen the next year.


Premise: How many years was normal to span between offices prior to the populares controlling the city?

Hypothesis: As such, he sought to strengthen the aristocracy, and by extension the senate.


Premise: What excuse did Kolingba use to deny the election results?

Hypothesis: Pressure from the United States, France, and from a group of locally represented countries and agencies called GIBAFOR (France, the USA, Germany, Japan, the EU, the World Bank, and the UN) finally led Kolingba to agree, in principle, to hold free elections in October 1992 with help from the UN Office of Electoral Affairs.


Premise: What name did Kanye's early production style coin.

Hypothesis: " Early in his career, West pioneered a style of production dubbed "chipmunk soul" which utilized pitched-up vocal samples, usually from soul and R&B songs, along with his own drums and instrumentation.


Premise: Lemming's concept of genocide triggered legal action in which realm?

Hypothesis: He created a concept of mobilizing much of the international relations and community, to working together and preventing the occurrence of such events happening within history and the international society.


Premise: Treating the hunt as a cost-benefit scenario is referred to a what?

Hypothesis: The treatment of consumption in terms of cost-benefit analysis is known as optimal foraging theory, and has been quite successful in the study of animal behavior.


Premise: When was Jaws released?

Hypothesis: He has been associated with composer John Williams since 1974, who composed music for all save five of Spielberg's feature films.


Premise: Before the Bey Hive, fans of Beyonce were called what?

Hypothesis: The Bey Hive is the name given to Beyoncé's fan base.


Premise: What component gives glass the ability to conduct electricity?

Hypothesis: Presence of alkaline metal ions has also detrimental effect to the loss tangent of the glass, and to its electrical resistance; glasses for electronics (sealing, vacuum tubes, lamps...) have to take this in account.


Premise: What did the military governors residence used to be called?

Hypothesis: As for French Neo-classicism, it is the Opera House on Place Broglie that most prestigiously represents this style.


Premise: What is another benefit of a "destination operating panel"?

Hypothesis: During the down peak period the benefit of destination control will be limited as passengers have a common destination.


Premise: Who was set up as Patriarch of Kiev and all Ukraine on the 18th of November?

Hypothesis: On November 18, 1990, the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church enthroned Mstyslav as Patriarch of Kiev and all Ukraine during ceremonies at Saint Sophia's Cathedral.


Premise: Yale University also contains a historical site within it campus, the name of it?

Hypothesis: The Hillhouse Avenue area, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is also a part of Yale's campus, has been called a walkable museum, due to its 19th-century mansions and street scape; Charles Dickens is said to have called Hillhouse Avenue "the most beautiful street in America" when visiting the city in 1868.


Premise: What popular Samoan band has a number in its name?

Hypothesis: The Yandall Sisters' cover of the song Sweet Inspiration reached number one on the New Zealand charts in 1974.


Premise: Who was one of the old masters from the Greeks ?

Hypothesis: Alexandrian Constantine P. Cavafy and Nobel laureates Giorgos Seferis and Odysseas Elytis are among the most important poets of the 20th century.


Premise: Some dogs help fishermen with what?

Hypothesis: They have been bred for herding livestock, hunting (e.g. pointers and hounds), rodent control, guarding, helping fishermen with nets, detection dogs, and pulling loads, in addition to their roles as companions.


Premise: What do most matches have?

Hypothesis: Also, anything from a character's own hair to their job with the promotion can be wagered in a match.


Premise: How is the evacuation tube sealed?

Hypothesis: The bulb is then inserted into the lamp base, and the whole assembly tested.


Premise: As of May 2010 how many total video views had youtube attained?

Hypothesis: According to data published by market research company comScore, YouTube is the dominant provider of online video in the United States, with a market share of around 43% and more than 14 billion views of videos in May 2010.


Premise: When was Gaius Marius elected to the position of consul?

Hypothesis: He also bribed several Roman commanders, and at least two tribunes, before and during the war.


Premise: What is the cost of admission to the Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery?

Hypothesis: The Plymouth Athenaeum, which includes a local interest library, is a society dedicated to the promotion of learning in the fields of science, technology, literature and art.


Premise: The abdomen is less strong than the thorax and what?

Hypothesis: The abdomen is the largest tagma of the insect, which typically consists of 11–12 segments and is less strongly sclerotized than the head or thorax.


Premise: Language, dress, behavior, and choice of space are affected by recognition by what group?

Hypothesis: Identity is made evident through the use of markers such as language, dress, behaviour and choice of space, whose effect depends on their recognition by other social beings.


Premise: Who argued that regulations led to excessive lending to risky governments?

Hypothesis: Lending to AA-rated sovereigns has a risk-weight of zero, thus increasing lending to governments and leading to the next crisis.


Premise: What English born architect designed the Old Montreal Custom House?

Hypothesis: In Montreal, English born architect John Ostell worked on a significant number of remarkable constructions in the Georgian style such as the Old Montreal Custom House and the Grand séminaire de Montréal.


Premise: What were the most vital American ships at the time of the attack?

Hypothesis: American losses were less serious than initially thought: The American aircraft carriers, which would prove to be more important than battleships, were at sea, and vital naval infrastructure (fuel oil tanks, shipyard facilities, and a power station), submarine base, and signals intelligence units were unscathed.


Premise: When did the western half of the state become Hesse?

Hypothesis: With the division of the house of Wettin in 1485, Thuringia went to the senior Ernestine branch of the family, which subsequently subdivided the area into a number of smaller states, according to the Saxon tradition of dividing inheritance amongst male heirs.


Premise: How much money have retailers lost?

Hypothesis: Retailers have lost over a billion dollars, while piracy has resulted in 46,000 fewer production-level jobs and almost 25,000 retail jobs.


Premise: If Neptune formed closer to the sun, what is the matter density?

Hypothesis: The current most widely accepted explanation of the details of this hypothesis is known as the Nice model, which explores the effect of a migrating Neptune and the other giant planets on the structure of the Kuiper belt.


Premise: What was John Sheahan and Barney Mckenna's band called?

Hypothesis: John Sheahan and the late Barney McKenna, respectively fiddle player and tenor banjo player with The Dubliners, are also accomplished Irish mandolin players.


Premise: Under what rule did Aristotle believe a nation should be led?

Hypothesis: Plato nevertheless hoped that the best men would be good at respecting established laws, explaining that "Where the law is subject to some other authority and has none of its own, the collapse of the state, in my view, is not far off; but if law is the master of the government and the government is its slave, then the situation is full of promise and men enjoy all the blessings that the gods shower on a state."


Premise: What did the plaintiffs claim the university had for an admissions policy?

Hypothesis: In 2012, Abigail Fisher, an undergraduate student at Louisiana State University, and Rachel Multer Michalewicz, a law student at Southern Methodist University, filed a lawsuit to challenge the University of Texas admissions policy, asserting it had a "race-conscious policy" that "violated their civil and constitutional rights".


Premise: Who may permit a person to hunt animals in India despite it being banned?

Hypothesis: However, the Chief Wildlife Warden may, if satisfied that any wild animal from a specified list has become dangerous to human life, or is so disabled or diseased as to be beyond recovery, permit any person to hunt such an animal.


Premise: A mooted 750-line was seen by some at the ITU as what?

Hypothesis: It also includes the alternative 1440×1152 HDMAC scan format.


Premise: What does the one drop rule do?

Hypothesis: As a result, they have not united for a stronger civil rights movement.[citation needed]


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

Hypothesis: Nonetheless, during his later exile, with no access to a copy of the Scriptures, Athanasius could quote from memory every verse in the Old Testament with a supposed reference to the Trinity without missing any.[citation needed]


Premise: What event prompted BYU Pres. Howard S. MacDonald to purchase a portion of an Air Force Base to house a sudden influx of students?

Hypothesis: When he first received the position, the Second World War had just ended, and thousands of students were flooding into BYU.


Premise: What restricted the 1870s Child labour in Australia?

Hypothesis: Child labour was not as excessive in Australia as in Britain.


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

Hypothesis: The trade-off is typically set to provide a lifetime of several hundred to 2,000 hours for lamps used for general illumination.


Premise: Broader ecological impacts can occur when an apex predator is removed, in the case of Yellowstone, this includes alteration to the?

Hypothesis: Increased browsing on willows and conifers along Blacktail Creek due to a lack of predation caused channel incision because they helped slow the water down and hold the soil in place.


Premise: What brief crisis rose in the school at the time of Brimhall's presidency that caused the crises' theory to not be taught for a time?

Hypothesis: Brimhall also presided over the University during a brief crisis involving the theory of evolution.


Premise: What is the term for light radiation in the 4000–400 cm−1 spectrum?

Hypothesis: Typically, the technique is used to study organic compounds using light radiation from 4000–400 cm−1, the mid-infrared.


Premise: What two units used the Rapier missile system?

Hypothesis: The Rapier missile system was the primary GBAD system, used by both British artillery and RAF regiment, a few brand-new FIM-92 Stinger were used by British special forces.


Premise: Dukkha can be translated as what word in regards to unhappiness?

Hypothesis: The first truth explains the nature of dukkha.


Premise: What percent of the population has completed additionaly higher education?

Hypothesis: In Bern, about 50,418 or (39.2%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 24,311 or (18.9%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule).


Premise: Who defines the concept of race in the United States Census?

Hypothesis: The racial categories represent a social-political construct for the race or races that respondents consider themselves to be and "generally reflect a social definition of race recognized in this country.


Premise: Which friend learned from Beyonce while preparing for the film, "Country Strong?"

Hypothesis: Nicki Minaj has stated that seeing Beyoncé's Pepsi commercial influenced her decision to appear in the company's 2012 global campaign.


Premise: In what parish was HMNB Davenport located?

Hypothesis: In the nearby parish of Stoke Damerel the first dockyard, HMNB Devonport, opened in 1690 on the eastern bank of the River Tamar.


Premise: Who handles fires in Southampton?

Hypothesis: There are three fire stations within the city boundaries at St Mary's, Hightown and Redbridge.


Premise: Who were the leaders of the Age of Awakening?

Hypothesis: It began on a cultural level, resulting in the establishment of Estonian language literature, theatre and professional music and led on to the formation of the Estonian national identity and the Age of Awakening.


Premise: How many people were in the Dominions' armies?

Hypothesis: Over 2.5 million men served in the armies of the Dominions, as well as many thousands of volunteers from the Crown colonies.


Premise: What is an investigatory stop's search limited to?

Hypothesis: The court further held that during an investigatory stop a police officer's search " [is] confined to what [is] minimally necessary to determine whether [a suspect] is armed, and the intrusion, which [is] made for the sole purpose of protecting himself and others nearby, [is] confined to ascertaining the presence of weapons" (U.S. Supreme Court).


Premise: Increased aggresiveness and early sexual maturation in adolescent boys are due to a surge of what?

Hypothesis: However, early puberty is not always positive for boys; early sexual maturation in boys can be accompanied by increased aggressiveness due to the surge of hormones that affect them.


Premise: How many different ethnic categories were listed on the modern census?

Hypothesis: By 1990, the Census Bureau included more than a dozen ethnic/racial categories on the census, reflecting not only changing social ideas about ethnicity, but the wide variety of immigrants who had come to reside in the United States due to changing historical forces and new immigration laws in the 1960s.


Premise: Which abbot of St. Alban's abbey built a mechanical clock around 1330?

Hypothesis: Waterclocks, and later, mechanical clocks, were used to mark the events of the abbeys and monasteries of the Middle Ages.


Premise: How much inflation did the Congo experience as a result of the devaluation of the Franc?

Hypothesis: The government has mortgaged a substantial portion of its petroleum earnings, contributing to a shortage of revenues.


Premise: Who bought the Fort Lowell sanitarium in 1928?

Hypothesis: The sanitarium was then sold to Harvey Adkins in 1928.


Premise: What country other than Russia declared they'd stay in DST all year?

Hypothesis: The 2011 declaration by Russia that it would not turn its clocks back and stay in DST all year long was subsequently followed by a similar declaration from Belarus.


Premise: What is used to allow one to control the function of wave fronts moving through an antenna?

Hypothesis: It can, for instance, bring the wave to a focus or alter the wave front in other ways, generally in order to maximize the directivity of the antenna system.


Premise: Who defeated the court of Song?

Hypothesis: Song was eventually exterminated by the Mongol empire under the name Yuan and in Yuan dynasty the city's status as a hub of the textile industry was further consolidated.


Premise: In the Soviet section to the north, what did they want to expel from their land?

Hypothesis: In 1967 the remnants of Königsberg Castle were demolished on the orders of Leonid Brezhnev to make way for a new "House of the Soviets".


Premise: When did Burke leave the Whig party?

Hypothesis: This provoked a reply from Fox, yet he was unable to give his speech for some time since he was overcome with tears and emotion, he appealed to Burke to remember their inalienable friendship, but also repeated his criticisms of Burke and uttered "unusually bitter sarcasms".


Premise: What enabled descriptions and specification of instruments?

Hypothesis: Printing enabled the standardization of descriptions and specifications of instruments, as well as instruction in their use.


Premise: Which team participated in the 2008 FIRS World Championship?

Hypothesis: Inline hockey was first played in 1995 and has also become more and more popular in the last years.


Premise: What does DEUS INDICAT mean?

Hypothesis: Where God Leads, Nothing Hurts).


Premise: Approximately how many passengers used Indira Gandhi Airport from 2012-2013?

Hypothesis: Indira Gandhi International Airport, situated to the southwest of Delhi, is the main gateway for the city's domestic and international civilian air traffic.


Premise: Who was invited to the Chicago Divinity school as one of Whitehead's only experts?

Hypothesis: Wieman's lecture was so brilliant that he was promptly hired to the faculty and taught there for twenty years, and for at least thirty years afterward Chicago's Divinity School was closely associated with Whitehead's thought.


Premise: Who claimed Estonia's national resources?

Hypothesis: On November 16, 1988, the Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSR adopted a declaration of national sovereignty under which Estonian laws would take precedence over those of the Soviet Union.


Premise: Which country is considering joining the Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)?

Hypothesis: All of the states except for East Timor are members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).


Premise: What National Hockey League season was cancelled?

Hypothesis: The AFL also became the third sports league to lose its postseason (the first being Major League Baseball, which lost its postseason in 1994 because of a strike).


Premise: During what century was the Roman conversion to Christianity considered complete?

Hypothesis: For much of the 4th century, Roman society stabilised in a new form that differed from the earlier classical period, with a widening gulf between the rich and poor, and a decline in the vitality of the smaller towns.


Premise: Which look of Madonna became a fashion trend?

Hypothesis: She was able to transmit her avant-garde downtown New York fashion sense to the American audience.


Premise: What process of papermaking is most heavily linked to the pollution?

Hypothesis: Conventional bleaching of wood pulp using elemental chlorine produces and releases into the environment large amounts of chlorinated organic compounds, including chlorinated dioxins.


Premise: Who founded the CSAD?

Hypothesis: Among its many activities CSAD numbers "a long-term project to create a library of digitised images of Greek inscriptions.


Premise: What else was included in the 1967 referendum?

Hypothesis: During this period many Aboriginal activists began to embrace the term "black" and use their ancestry as a source of pride.


Premise: How is Punjabi written?

Hypothesis: Punjabi is the provincial language of Punjab.


Premise: What does Mardi Gras translate to in French?

Hypothesis: Customs originated in the onetime French colonial capitals of Mobile (now in Alabama), New Orleans (Louisiana) and Biloxi (Mississippi), all of which have celebrated for many years with street parades and masked balls.


Premise: After all cars go to the lobby, what is the next step?

Hypothesis: Once all cars have successfully returned, the system will then automatically select one or more cars to be used for normal operations and these cars will return to service.


Premise: What did the old letters ⟨і⟩ and ⟨ѵ⟩ become?

Hypothesis: While these older letters have been abandoned at one time or another, they may be used in this and related articles.


Premise: When did the Scholastic Magazine of Notre dame begin publishing?

Hypothesis: The newspapers have varying publication interests, with The Observer published daily and mainly reporting university and other news, and staffed by students from both Notre Dame and Saint Mary's College.


Premise: What hotel is adjacent to the Atlantic City Convention Center?

Hypothesis: Boardwalk Hall was Atlantic City's primary convention center until the opening of the Atlantic City Convention Center in 1997.


Premise: What war ended in 1479?

Hypothesis: The original brotherhoods continued to serve as modest local police-units until their final suppression in 1835.


Premise: What churches have been strongly engaged in the ecumenical movement?

Hypothesis: There has been a strong engagement of Orthodox churches in the ecumenical movement, though the reaction of individual Orthodox theologians has ranged from tentative approval of the aim of Christian unity to outright condemnation of the perceived effect of watering down Orthodox doctrine.


Premise: What was the first bowl game Northwestern appeared in after 1949?

Hypothesis: The team did not win a bowl since the 1949 Rose Bowl until the 2013 Gator Bowl.


Premise: What country was Alsace annexed to?

Hypothesis: The last Jews were deported on 15 July 1940 and the main synagogue, a huge Romanesque revival building that had been a major architectural landmark with its 54-metre-high dome since its completion in 1897, was set ablaze, then razed.


Premise: What Corps included 40,000 men from the 1st Marine Division?

Hypothesis: When authorized, he activated a combined U.S. Army and Marine Corps, and ROK Army force.


Premise: What did Solange's husband make hours after Chopin's death along with his death mask?

Hypothesis: Later that morning, Solange's husband Clésinger made Chopin's death mask and a cast of his left hand.


Premise: Which Australian Rules Football team is Cork home to?

Hypothesis: Cork Racing, a motorsport team based in Cork, has raced in the Irish Formula Ford Championship since 2005.


Premise: What spurred the FBIs technological upgrade?

Hypothesis: After Congress passed the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA, 1994), the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA, 1996), and the Economic Espionage Act (EEA, 1996), the FBI followed suit and underwent a technological upgrade in 1998, just as it did with its CART team in 1991.


Premise: Why did Armenia make Christianity its official religion?

Hypothesis: in the early years of the 4th century, likely AD 301, partly in defiance of the Sassanids it seems.


Premise: What commission was created in 1955?

Hypothesis: In 1871, construction began on the Second Empire-style Philadelphia City Hall.


Premise: How did the Sumerians refer to their land?

Hypothesis: The term "Sumerian" is the common name given to the ancient non-Semitic inhabitants of Mesopotamia, Sumer, by the Semitic Akkadians.


Premise: What was the United Kingdom's average per capita GVA in 2013?

Hypothesis: Plymouth's gross value added (a measure of the size of its economy) was 5,169 million GBP in 2013 making up 25% of Devon's GVA.


Premise: Who won the season?

Hypothesis: Allen won the contest in the most controversial voting result since season two.


Premise: Where was the Aztec's central capital located?

Hypothesis: The Olmecs, who flourished from between 1200 BCE to about 400 BCE in the coastal regions of the Gulf of Mexico; the Zapotecs and the Mixtecs, who held sway in the mountains of Oaxaca and the Isthmus of Tehuantepec; the Maya in the Yucatan (and into neighbouring areas of contemporary Central America); the Purépecha in present-day Michoacán and surrounding areas, and the Aztecs/Mexica, who, from their central capital at Tenochtitlan, dominated much of the centre and south of the country (and the non-Aztec inhabitants of those areas) when Hernán Cortés first landed at Veracruz.


Premise: Who was Foot replaced by?

Hypothesis: Foot resigned and was replaced as leader by Neil Kinnock, with Roy Hattersley as his deputy.


Premise: Being excluded from doing what, made it so that black people could not serve on juries or in public office?

Hypothesis: It was not until 1992 that another African American was elected as a US Representative from North Carolina.


Premise: Along with the United Church of Christ and the UCCCMI, what is a main religion of the Marshall Islands?

Hypothesis: The majority of the citizens of the Marshall Islands are of Marshallese descent, though there are small numbers of immigrants from the United States, China, Philippines and other Pacific islands.


Premise: In what year did Everton win their second FA Cup?

Hypothesis: Everton also won their second FA Cup in 1933 with a 3–0 win against Manchester City in the final.


Premise: In what years did Liberia host national fairs?

Hypothesis: Liberia has a long, rich history in textile arts and quilting, as the settlers brought with them their sewing and quilting skills.


Premise: Warfare in Normandy was shaped by what?

Hypothesis: It was difficult for a commander to advance far into fresh territory without having secured his lines of communication by capturing these fortifications, which slowed the progress of any attack.


Premise: What was the final build Microsoft decided to manufacture?

Hypothesis: On August 1, 2012, Windows 8 (build 9200) was released to manufacturing with the build number 6.2.9200.16384 .


Premise: What is the most intensive type of enclosure system used in the poultry business?

Hypothesis: The most intensive system for egg-laying chickens is battery cages, often set in multiple tiers.


Premise: What adjective would those against DST use to describe the energy savings touted by supporters?

Hypothesis: Opponents argue that actual energy savings are inconclusive, that DST increases health risks such as heart attack, that DST can disrupt morning activities, and that the act of changing clocks twice a year is economically and socially disruptive and cancels out any benefit.


Premise: When did the Cubs announce a move of their top class A affiliate from Daytona to Myrtle Beach?

Hypothesis: Two days later, on the 18th, the Cubs signed a 4-year player development contract with the South Bend Silver Hawks of the Midwest League, ending their brief relationship with the Kane County Cougars and shortly thereafter renaming the Silver Hawks the South Bend Cubs.


Premise: What film depicts the Chicago Cubs defeating a baseball team from Miami in the 2015 World Series?

Hypothesis: In 2015, the Miami Marlins failed to make the playoffs and were able to make it to the 2015 National League Wild Card round and move on to the 2015 National League Championship Series by October 21, 2015, the date where protagonist Marty McFly traveled to the future in the film.


Premise: What are the other modern and hunting types of dogs called?

Hypothesis: Systematic analyses of the dog genome has revealed only four major types of dogs that can be said to be statistically distinct.


Premise: What is the purpose of antibiotic treatment?

Hypothesis: The emergence of resistance of bacteria to antibiotics is a common phenomenon.


Premise: What 70s style of pop music was Queen associated with?

Hypothesis: Queen composed music that drew inspiration from many different genres of music, often with a tongue-in-cheek attitude.


Premise: What testing does the code require?

Hypothesis: Because it is impossible to verify the system at all times, the code requires periodic testing of the pressure capability.


Premise: Who receives retroviral coverage?

Hypothesis: The prevalence of HIV-infection among the adult population is 1.8%.


Premise: What was ASCII published as and when?

Hypothesis: With the other special characters and control codes filled in, ASCII was published as ASA X3.4-1963, leaving 28 code positions without any assigned meaning, reserved for future standardization, and one unassigned control code.:66, 245


Premise: What type of government did the Puritan settlers establish?

Hypothesis: One of the principal differences between the two colonies was that the New Haven colony was an intolerant theocracy that did not permit other churches to be established, while the Connecticut colony permitted the establishment of other churches.


Premise: What was the intended purpose of the miniature mosaic icons?

Hypothesis: These products of extraordinary craftmanship were intended for private devotion.


Premise: What type of exoskeleton do insects have?

Hypothesis: Insects may be found in nearly all environments, although only a small number of species reside in the oceans, a habitat dominated by another arthropod group, crustaceans.


Premise: What party established Nanjing as the capital of the Republic of China?

Hypothesis: In 1927, the Kuomintang (KMT; Nationalist Party) under Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek again established Nanjing as the capital of the Republic of China, and this became internationally recognized once KMT forces took Beijing in 1928.


Premise: What is the regional magazine in Namibia?

Hypothesis: Sister Namibia Magazine stands out as the longest running NGO magazine in Namibia, while Namibia Sport is the only national sport magazine.


Premise: Zinc oxide is used to fortify what product?

Hypothesis: For fortification, however, a 2003 review recommended zinc oxide in cereals as cheap, stable, and as easily absorbed as more expensive forms.


Premise: Where did John Clarke establish a Baptist church?

Hypothesis: Both Roger Williams and John Clarke, his compatriot and coworker for religious freedom, are variously credited as founding the earliest Baptist church in North America.


Premise: What is the amount of bitumen that can be extracted in Alberta?

Hypothesis: The Athabasca oil sands is the largest asphalt/bitumen deposit in Canada and the only one accessible to surface mining, although recent technological breakthroughs have resulted in deeper deposits becoming producible by in situ methods.


Premise: The British-Irish Council has added representatives from which parliament?

Hypothesis: Since then the role and scope of the body has been expanded to include representatives from the Scottish Parliament, the National Assembly for Wales, the Northern Ireland Assembly, the States of Jersey, the States of Guernsey and the High Court of Tynwald (Isle of Man).


Premise: How large is Punjab?

Hypothesis: Punjab is bordered by the Indian states of Jammu and Kashmir to the northeast and Punjab and Rajasthan to the east.


Premise: What date did IBM announce that its executives would forgo bonuses for fiscal year 2013?

Hypothesis: After ten successive quarters of flat or sliding sales under Chief Executive Virginia Rometty IBM is being forced to look at new approaches.


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

Hypothesis: Other lodges in the colony obtained authorisations from the later Antient Grand Lodge of England, the Grand Lodge of Scotland, and the Grand Lodge of Ireland, which was particularly well represented in the travelling lodges of the British Army.


Premise: Who was the British Prime Minister in 1982?

Hypothesis: The handover ceremony in 1997 marked for many, including Charles, Prince of Wales, who was in attendance, "the end of Empire".


Premise: What is the abbreviation for the United Nations' Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions?

Hypothesis: The nation holds a seat on the United Nations' Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ).


Premise: To the end of which era could you find 16 rpm setting on record players?

Hypothesis: Subsequently, the 16 2⁄3 rpm speed was used for narrated publications for the blind and visually impaired, and were never widely commercially available, although it was common to see new turntable models with a 16 rpm speed setting produced as late as the 1970s.


Premise: What Boston church is one of the oldest congregations in the US?

Hypothesis: As of 2010 the Catholic Church had the highest number of adherents as a single denomination in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton Metro area, with more than two million members and 339 churches, followed by the Episcopal Church with 58,000 adherents in 160 churches.


Premise: What are writing systems which make no distinction between majuscales and minuscules often referred to as?

Hypothesis: Most Western languages (particularly those with writing systems based on the Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Coptic, and Armenian alphabets) use letter cases in their written form as an aid to clarity.


Premise: How many members are on the NYC city council?

Hypothesis: The City Council is a unicameral body consisting of 51 council members whose districts are defined by geographic population boundaries.


Premise: When was the title of prime minister first used?

Hypothesis: Louis XIV and his descendants generally attempted to avoid giving this title to their chief ministers.


Premise: Where were the first followers mainly found?

Hypothesis: They taught generations of Whitehead scholars, the most notable of which is John B. Cobb, Jr.


Premise: How far do bike paths stretch in Strasbourg?

Hypothesis: With more than 500 km (311 mi) of bicycle paths, biking in the city is convenient and the CTS operates a cheap bike-sharing scheme named Vélhop'.


Premise: Sergei Diaghilev obtained additional orchestrations for subsequent productions, using which title?

Hypothesis: Sergei Diaghilev commissioned additional orchestrations—from Stravinsky, Anatoly Lyadov, Sergei Taneyev and Nikolai Tcherepnin—for later productions, which used the title Les Sylphides.


Premise: How many Billboard chart toppers did American Idol contestants have within the first ten seasons?

Hypothesis: The series was also said by a rival TV executive to be "the most impactful show in the history of television".


Premise: Who are the six officials of The Order?

Hypothesis: The Order's King of Arms is not a member of the College of Arms, as are many other heraldic officers.


Premise: During what period were the Little Tough Guys films produced?

Hypothesis: By the early 1940s, the company was concentrating on lower-budget productions that were the company's main staple: westerns, melodramas, serials and sequels to the studio's horror pictures, the latter now solely B pictures.


Premise: How much of a decrease in sales have Windows devices experienced?

Hypothesis: However, according to research firm NPD, sales of devices running Windows in the United States have declined 21 percent compared to the same time period in 2011.


Premise: What website hosted auditions for American Idols tenth season?

Hypothesis: Season ten is the first to include online auditions where contestants could submit a 40-second video audition via Myspace.


Premise: What ownership stake did Ccomcast get in this deal?

Hypothesis: GE would maintain 49% control of the new company, while Comcast owned 51%.


Premise: What television station released a documentary on Chopin?

Hypothesis: Chopin's life was covered in a BBC TV documentary Chopin –


Premise: What nationality was Heinrich Anton de Bary?

Hypothesis: In 1879, the German mycologist Heinrich Anton de Bary defined it as "the living together of unlike organisms."


Premise: How did these politicians voice their concerns?

Hypothesis: Several days after the referendum, the Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi, Governor Luis Fortuño, and Governor-elect Alejandro García Padilla wrote separate letters to the President of the United States Barack Obama addressing the results of the voting.


Premise: The control of universities by the state can be attributed to the advancement in the development of what?

Hypothesis: As universities increasingly came under state control, or formed under the auspices of the state, the faculty governance model (begun by the University of Paris) became more and more prominent.


Premise: What was the highest temperature recorded in Houston?

Hypothesis: Officially, the hottest temperature ever recorded in Houston is 109 °F (43 °C), which was reached both on September 4, 2000 and August 28, 2011.


Premise: In the 18th century what function, besides President, did the Delaware President serve?

Hypothesis: In both Delaware and Pennsylvania, members of the executive council served at the same time as judges.


Premise: How long have Alpine crystals been studied and collected?

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


Premise: What did Seoul Semiconductor name their ac powered HP-LED?

Hypothesis: LEDs have been developed by Seoul Semiconductor that can operate on AC power without the need for a DC converter.


Premise: How close to the line of scrimmage can defensive players approach before a play is run?

Hypothesis: The defending team must stay a yard or more back from the line of scrimmage.


Premise: What award did American Idol win for its Idol Gives Back charity work?

Hypothesis: For A Variety, Music Or Comedy Series in 2009, and the show won a Creative Arts Emmys each in 2007 and 2008, three in 2009, and two in 2011, as well as a Governor's Award in 2007 for its Idol Gives Back edition.


Premise: Who represents the national government on a local level?

Hypothesis: Governors are appointed by the Government of Estonia for a term of five years.


Premise: What is the number 4 leading cause of death in the world?

Hypothesis: In 2012, approximately 3.1 million people have died due to lower respiratory infections, making it the number 4 leading cause of death in the world.


Premise: When was Morphine and Quinine first available?

Hypothesis: Rational drug discovery from plants started particularly with the isolation of morphine, analgesic and sleep-inducing agent from opium, by the German apothecary assistant Friedrich Sertürner, who named the compound after the Greek god of dreams, Morpheus.


Premise: Aside from the larger ports, roughly how many other organized ports are there?

Hypothesis: Other important ports are Ferrol, A Coruña, and the smaller ports of Marín and Vilagarcía de Arousa, as well as important recreational ports in Pontevedra and Burela.


Premise: Many German-born Londoners were British citizens by birth due to what?

Hypothesis: Note that some of the German-born population, in 18th position, are British citizens from birth born to parents serving in the British Armed Forces in Germany.


Premise: Where is Tito's birthplace in Croatia?

Hypothesis: At the same time, runners in Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina set off for Kumrovec, Tito's birthplace in northern Croatia.


Premise: What year did Thailand form an alliance with Japan?

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


Premise: When did RCA release the 45?

Hypothesis: This format was soon dropped as it became clear that the RCA 45 was the single of choice and


Premise: What sort of functions do the products of operon genes typically have?

Hypothesis: The products of operon genes typically have related functions and are involved in the same regulatory network.:7.3


Premise: When did the Black Death end?

Hypothesis: The Late Middle Ages was marked by difficulties and calamities including famine, plague, and war, which significantly diminished the population of Europe; between 1347 and 1350, the Black Death killed about a third of Europeans.


Premise: How were the semi-finalists split up to perform in seasons two and three?

Hypothesis: In the first three seasons, the semi-finalists were split into different groups to perform individually in their respective night.


Premise: Why did Jesus submit to crucifixion?

Hypothesis: John Calvin supported the "agent of God" Christology and argued that in his trial in Pilate's Court Jesus could have successfully argued for his innocence, but instead submitted to crucifixion in obedience to the Father.


Premise: After the Licensing Act 2003, who determined the operating hours of pubs?

Hypothesis: This allowed pubs in England and Wales to apply to the local council for the opening hours of their choice.


Premise: What can cause a break down of a biodiversity system?

Hypothesis: A 2007 study conducted by the National Science Foundation found that biodiversity and genetic diversity are codependent—that diversity among species requires diversity within a species, and vice versa.


Premise: What other language has she sung?

Hypothesis: While she almost exclusively releases English songs, Beyoncé recorded several Spanish songs for Irreemplazable (re-recordings of songs from B'Day for a Spanish-language audience), and the re-release of B'Day.


Premise: In what sea is Elba located?

Hypothesis: In the first few months on Elba he created a small navy and army, developed the iron mines, and issued decrees on modern agricultural methods.


Premise: What type of fisheries does the state have?

Hypothesis: The state has robust recreational lake trout and kokanee salmon fisheries in the west, walleye can be found in many parts of the state, while northern pike, smallmouth and largemouth bass fisheries as well as catfish and paddlefish can be found in the waters of eastern Montana.


Premise: How many Aboriginal Protectors for the Aborigines of Victoria were appointed in 1839?

Hypothesis: The British Colonial Office appointed five Aboriginal Protectors for the Aborigines of Victoria, in 1839, however their work was nullified by a land policy that favoured squatters to take possession of Aboriginal lands.


Premise: How much did  philanthropic foundations donate between 1925 and 1940?

Hypothesis: Between 1925 and 1940, philanthropic foundations, especially ones connected with the Rockefellers, contributed about $7 million to support the Yale Institute of Human Relations and the affiliated Yerkes Laboratories of Primate Biology.


Premise: Against whom was gunpowder used in 1304?

Hypothesis: Gunpowder was known in Europe by the mid-13th century with a recorded use in European warfare by the English against the Scots in 1304, although it was merely used as an explosive and not as a weapon.


Premise: Along with gas cooled reactors, what type of reactor doesn't use uranium-235?

Hypothesis: The concentration and amount of uranium-235 needed to achieve this is called a 'critical mass'.


Premise: What are all USB On-The-Go devices required to have?

Hypothesis: Prior to the development of micro-USB, USB On-The-Go devices were required to use mini-AB receptacles to perform the equivalent job.


Premise: When was the Bologna process adopted?

Hypothesis: Higher education in state-run educational establishments is provided on a competitive basis, a system of numerus clausus is enforced through a national database on student admissions.


Premise: Greece was split into sections of different rulers in what year?

Hypothesis: The re-establishment of the Byzantine imperial capital in Constantinople in 1261 was accompanied by the empire's recovery of much of the Greek peninsula, although the Frankish Principality of Achaea in the Peloponnese and the rival Greek Despotate of Epirus in the north both remained important regional powers into the 14th century, while the islands remained largely under Genoese and Venetian control.


Premise: What did the Tibetans use against Ming forays?

Hypothesis: The Ming initiated sporadic armed intervention in Tibet during the 14th century, but did not garrison permanent troops there.


Premise: When was the Zinoviev letter published?

Hypothesis: The letter had little impact on the Labour vote—which held up.


Premise: What do some viruses store their genome in instead of DNA?

Hypothesis: Some viruses store their genome in RNA instead of DNA and some gene products are functional non-coding RNAs.


Premise: Where is Columbia University located?

Hypothesis: In 1948, Eisenhower became President of Columbia University, an Ivy League university in New York City.


Premise: What were two other locations people began to fly to instead of going to Atlantic City?

Hypothesis: But perhaps the biggest factor in the decline in Atlantic City's popularity came from cheap, fast jet service to other premier resorts, such as Miami Beach and the Bahamas.


Premise: What is the time limit for designating a species critical habitat after the species has been added to the endangered list?

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


Premise: What happened in the Early Ceramic period?

Hypothesis: The floodplain of the Santa Cruz River was extensively farmed during the Early Agricultural period, circa 1200 BC to AD 150.


Premise: How does man first perceive features of an object?

Hypothesis: In sense perception, the perceiver senses the form of the object; first, by perceiving features of the object by our external senses.


Premise: Bribery is an example of corruption that involves what type of gain?

Hypothesis: Some forms of corruption – now called "institutional corruption" – are distinguished from bribery and other kinds of obvious personal gain.


Premise: What was the name of Napoleon's valet?

Hypothesis: Forshufvud, in a 1978 book with Ben Weider, noted that Napoleon's body was found to be remarkably well preserved when moved in 1840.