Premise: Kanye drew inspiration from The Rolling Stones, U2, and Led Zeppelin in what ways?

Hypothesis: The musical evolution arose from him listening to music genres encompassing European Britpop and Euro-disco, American alternative and indie-rock, and his native Chicago house.


Premise: What is an example of a code of law in ancient India?

Hypothesis: An example of a code of law in ancient India is the Manusmṛti or Laws of Manu.


Premise: What is another name used for bacterial cell wall?

Hypothesis: Antibacterial antibiotics are commonly classified based on their mechanism of action, chemical structure, or spectrum of activity.


Premise: What is a primary interest to prospective NPO employees?

Hypothesis: Competition for employees with the public and private sector is another problem that Nonprofit organizations will inevitably face, particularly for management positions.


Premise: What is an example of a simple definition of time?

Hypothesis: Time has long been a major subject of study in religion, philosophy, and science, but defining it in a manner applicable to all fields without circularity has consistently eluded scholars.


Premise: How many types of transistors are there?

Hypothesis: For a field-effect transistor, the terminals are labeled gate, source, and drain, and a voltage at the gate can control a current between source and drain.


Premise: When was Nanking captured?

Hypothesis: but then the city of Xuzhou was taken by Japanese in May.


Premise: Which empire did Xiang Liang and Xiang Yu rebel against?

Hypothesis: Under the Later Han, control of the area returned to the settlement below Mount Kuaiji but authority over the Minyue hinterland was nominal at best and its Yue inhabitants largely retained their own political and social structures.


Premise: What was Sichuan referred to as by ancient Chinese sources?

Hypothesis: Sichuan was referred to in ancient Chinese sources as Ba-Shu (巴蜀), an abbreviation of the kingdoms of Ba and Shu which existed within the Sichuan Basin.


Premise: How much was Turkey ordered to pay in compensation to Cyprus?

Hypothesis: In 2014, Turkey was ordered by the European Court of Human Rights to pay well over $100m in compensation to Cyprus for the invasion; Ankara announced that it would ignore the judgment.


Premise: When was Tamyra Gray eliminated?

Hypothesis: Christina Christian was hospitalized before the top six result show due to chest pains and palpitations, and she was eliminated while she was in the hospital.


Premise: At what conference did Richard Borshay speak?

Hypothesis: Therefore, no surplus of resources can be accumulated by any single member.


Premise: What legislation was passed to discourage the country from getting involved in a foreign war?

Hypothesis: Congress refused membership in the League of Nations, and in response to the growing turmoil in Europe and Asia, the gradually more restrictive Neutrality Acts were passed, which were intended to prevent the U.S. from supporting either side in a war.


Premise: Along with Surry Nuclear Generating Station, what is Richmond's main electricity generator?

Hypothesis: Electricity in the Richmond Metro area is provided by Dominion Virginia Power.


Premise: When did African states become independent?

Hypothesis: As African states became independent in the 1960s, the Soviet Union offered many of their citizens the chance to study in Russia.


Premise: Did the earthquake or resulting tsunamis and landslides do the most damage to Alaskan communities?

Hypothesis: It was over one thousand times more powerful than the 1989 San Francisco earthquake.


Premise: Why did Morris Jr make the computer worm?

Hypothesis: On November 2, 1988, many started to slow down, because they were running a malicious code that demanded processor time and that spread itself to other computers – the first internet "computer worm".


Premise: What adjective did CNET use to describe the PS3 Super Slim's design?

Hypothesis: Tech media website CNET gave new Super Slim 4 out of 5 stars ("Excellent"), saying "The Super Slim PlayStation 3 shrinks a powerful gaming machine into an even tinier package while maintaining the same features as its predecessors: a great gaming library and a strong array of streaming services [...]", whilst also criticising the "cheap" design and disc-loader, stating: "Sometimes [the cover] doesn't catch and you feel like you're using one of those old credit card imprinter machines.


Premise: What is High Speed only supported by?

Hypothesis: SuperSpeed is supported only by USB 3.0 and newer interfaces, and requires a connector and cable with extra pins and wires, usually distinguishable by the blue inserts in connectors.


Premise: What group was established in response to Executive Order 9808?

Hypothesis: Following the Sergeant Isaac Woodard incident, President Harry S. Truman, himself a combat veteran of World War I, issued Executive Order 9808 establishing the President's Committee on Civil Rights to examine the violence and recommend appropriate federal legislation.


Premise: What nation is on the north, east, and western borders of Swaziland?

Hypothesis: A small, landlocked kingdom, Swaziland is bordered in the North, West and South by the Republic of South Africa and by Mozambique in the East.


Premise: What percentage of Christians are Protestant?

Hypothesis: Nondenominational, evangelical, independent and other churches are on the rise, and constitute a significant part of Protestant Christianity.


Premise: When was the satellite dish installed?

Hypothesis: Since all international telephone and internet communications are relying on this single satellite link both internet and telephone service are subject to sun outages.


Premise: When was Oklahoma's centennial year?

Hypothesis: Oklahoma's centennial celebration was named the top event in the United States for 2007 by the American Bus Association, and consisted of multiple celebrations saving with the 100th anniversary of statehood on November 16, 2007.


Premise: Who moved the Roman Empire capital in 330 AD?

Hypothesis: "Hellenistic" is distinguished from "Hellenic" in that the first encompasses the entire sphere of direct ancient Greek influence, while the latter refers to Greece itself.


Premise: Who famously crossed the Alps with a herd of elephants?

Hypothesis: Hannibal famously crossed the Alps with a herd of elephants, and the Romans had settlements in the region.


Premise: How many Armenians reside in the United States?

Hypothesis: It maintains good relations with the United States especially through its Armenian diaspora.


Premise: What type of tree was the Bodhi Tree?

Hypothesis: The south branch of the original fig tree available only in Anuradhapura Sri Lanka is known as Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi.


Premise: Which direction does I-10 run through Tucson?

Hypothesis: I-19 is the only Interstate highway that uses "kilometer posts" instead of "mileposts", although the speed limits are marked in miles per hour instead of kilometers per hour.


Premise: What is the first example of Hellenistic period royal palace?

Hypothesis: The royal palace (basileion) also came into its own during the Hellenistic period, the first extant example being the massive fourth-century villa of Cassander at Vergina.


Premise: What other painters were not thought of as being as Cubist as Braque and Picasso?

Hypothesis: It is difficult to apply to painters such as Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Robert Delaunay and Henri Le Fauconnier, whose fundamental differences from traditional Cubism compelled Kahnweiler to question their right to be called Cubists at all.


Premise: In what year did William Winde design the house which forms the core of the palace?

Hypothesis: Sheffield's leasehold on the mulberry garden site, the freehold of which was still owned by the royal family, was due to expire in 1774.


Premise: What are the non-orthodox Indian philosophies that do not accept Vedas called?

Hypothesis: These are also called the Astika (orthodox) philosophical traditions and are those that accept the Vedas as authoritative, important source of knowledge.[note 1][note 2]


Premise: When was the supposed germ warfare testing taking place?

Hypothesis: " The Ministry of Defence claims that these trials were to simulate germ warfare and that the tests were harmless.


Premise: Who beat Li Zicheng's army?

Hypothesis: Wu Sangui may have been influenced by Li Zicheng's mistreatment of his family and other wealthy and cultured officials; it was said that Li also took Wu's concubine Chen Yuanyuan for himself.


Premise: What year did New Haven became a host for the Specials Olympics?

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


Premise: Who used foreign language terms to give names to indigenous peoples?

Hypothesis: Many English exonyms have been used to refer to the indigenous peoples of the Americas.


Premise: What are large air-filled cavities that connect to the respiratory system?

Hypothesis: They have large air-filled cavities (called pneumatic cavities) which connect with the respiratory system.


Premise: What is one way that videocalling can be used?

Hypothesis: Typical use of the various technologies described above include calling or conferencing on a one-on-one, one-to-many or many-to-many basis for personal, business, educational, deaf Video Relay Service and tele-medical, diagnostic and rehabilitative use or services.


Premise: Who confirmed the dpon-chen?

Hypothesis: One of the department's purposes was to select a dpon-chen ('great administrator'), usually appointed by the lama and confirmed by the Mongol emperor in Beijing.


Premise: What has the population of Tibet primarily consisted of?

Hypothesis: Historically, the population of Tibet consisted of primarily ethnic Tibetans and some other ethnic groups.


Premise: When were the immigration protocols relaxed in Norfolk Island?

Hypothesis: In 2012, immigration controls were relaxed with the introduction of an Unrestricted Entry Permit for all Australian and New Zealand citizens upon arrival and the option to apply for residency; the only criteria are to pass a police check and be able to pay into the local health scheme.


Premise: What do many villages have that protects them in times of imminent or impending danger ?

Hypothesis: All male children in Buddhist families are encouraged to be a novice (beginner for Buddhism) before the age of twenty and to be a monk after the age of twenty.


Premise: Who has authority over Longwood house?

Hypothesis: It is still French property, administered by a French representative and under the authority of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.


Premise: Why is it more economical for scientists to study a small number of species?

Hypothesis: Because of the great diversity found in animals, it is more economical for scientists to study a small number of chosen species so that connections can be drawn from their work and conclusions extrapolated about how animals function in general.


Premise: In 1872 the island contained how many Muslims?

Hypothesis: In 1777–78, 47,000 Muslims constituted a majority over the island's 37,000 Christians.


Premise: The Copper Canyon is deeper than what popular American canyon?

Hypothesis: Although Chihuahua is primarily identified with the Chihuahuan Desert for namesake, it has more forests than any other state in Mexico, with the exception of Durango.


Premise: In what year did a European explorer first see the Marshall Islands?

Hypothesis: Islands in the archipelago were first explored by Europeans in the 1520s, with Spanish explorer Alonso de Salazar sighting an atoll in August 1526.


Premise: Who was the new lead singer for Van Halen on 5150?

Hypothesis: Van Halen released 5150 (1986), their first album with Sammy Hagar on lead vocals, which was number one in the US for three weeks and sold over 6 million copies.


Premise: When did Switzerland sign the Kyoto Protocol?

Hypothesis: Switzerland has one of the best environmental records among nations in the developed world; it was one of the countries to sign the Kyoto Protocol in 1998 and ratified it in 2003.


Premise: Which index studies the correlation of corruption and military in a country?

Hypothesis: This index evaluates the risk of corruption in countries' military sector.


Premise: What was the maximum value a gold coin used to be able to have?

Hypothesis: In the past, "paper money" was occasionally issued in denominations less than a dollar (fractional currency) and gold coins were issued for circulation up to the value of $20 (known as the "double eagle", discontinued in the 1930s).


Premise: What group was identified as being inferior to Europeans?

Hypothesis: Subsequent influential classifications by Georges Buffon, Petrus Camper and Christoph Meiners all classified "Negros" as inferior to Europeans.


Premise: What does the TZ value EST5EDT,M3.2.0/02:00,M11.1.0/02:00 specify?

Hypothesis: Such a TZ value must be changed whenever DST rules change, and the new value applies to all years, mishandling some older timestamps.


Premise: What season is February in Tucson?

Hypothesis: Another popular event held in February, which is early spring in Tucson, is the Fiesta de los Vaqueros, or rodeo week, founded by winter visitor, Leighton Kramer.


Premise: What do Kathmandu residents earn per capita each year?

Hypothesis: Manufacturing is also important and accounts for 19% of the revenue that Kathmandu generates.


Premise: What are gold and silver coins valuable for now adays?

Hypothesis: However, since 1992, the U.S. Mint has produced special Silver Proof Sets in addition to the regular yearly proof sets with silver dimes, quarters, and half dollars in place of the standard copper-nickel versions.


Premise: What was the reason a bill was accidentally assented in 1976?

Hypothesis: The error arose because two bills of the same title had originated from the house.


Premise: Which President allowed Tsimshian settlers to inhabit Annette Island?

Hypothesis: The Tsimshian people came to Alaska from British Columbia in 1887, when President Grover Cleveland, and later the U.S. Congress, granted them permission to settle on Annette Island and found the town of Metlakatla.


Premise: In high level competitions how many preliminary rountines are there?

Hypothesis: In high level competitions, there are two preliminary routines, one which has only two moves scored for difficulty and one where the athlete is free to perform any routine.


Premise: How many racial categories would be needed with all the possible combinations of outward features?

Hypothesis: These types grade into each other like the colors of the spectrum, and not one category stands significantly isolated from the rest.


Premise: When did translation of material into Arabic begin to increase?

Hypothesis: In terms of theory, Arabic translation drew heavily on earlier Near Eastern traditions as well as more contemporary Greek and Persian traditions.


Premise: The first practical solar boat was constructed in what year?

Hypothesis: In 1996, Kenichi Horie made the first solar powered crossing of the Pacific Ocean, and the sun21 catamaran made the first solar powered crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in the winter of 2006–2007.


Premise: At what speed did urban settlements sometimes expand?

Hypothesis: Indeed, vernacular buildings make up most of the built world that people experience every day.


Premise: What was Noriega's government accused of being?

Hypothesis: The United States accused Manuel Noriega's government in Panama of being a "narcokleptocracy", a corrupt government profiting on illegal drug trade.


Premise: What happened to diplomatic envoys the Mongols sent to Japan?

Hypothesis: This would later serve as a strong defensive point against the Mongols.


Premise: Who was the famous African American musican and director?

Hypothesis: Seth Weeks was an African American who not only taught and performed in the United States, but also in Europe, where he recorded records.


Premise: What happens when a frame contains areas where nothing has moved?

Hypothesis: Interframe compression works well for programs that will simply be played back by the viewer, but can cause problems if the video sequence needs to be edited.


Premise: Which PS3 model never included OtherOS?

Hypothesis: The 'OtherOS' functionality was not present in the updated PS Slim models, and the feature was subsequently removed from previous versions of the PS3 as part of the machine's firmware update version 3.21 which was released on April 1, 2010; Sony cited security concerns as the rationale.


Premise: What death penalty drug ceased to be manufactured in 2011?

Hypothesis: In the 2010s, American jurisdictions have experienced a shortage of lethal injection drugs, due to anti-death penalty advocacy and low production volume.


Premise: Elisha Gray and what other man were behind many of the court cases?

Hypothesis: The Bell company lawyers successfully fought off myriad lawsuits generated initially around the challenges by Elisha Gray and Amos Dolbear.


Premise: Why do people eat Gaejang-guk in the summer months?

Hypothesis: The most popular Korean dog dish is gaejang-guk (also called bosintang), a spicy stew meant to balance the body's heat during the summer months; followers of the custom claim this is done to ensure good health by balancing one's gi, or vital energy of the body.


Premise: What did the British claim in 2012?

Hypothesis: On 18 December 2012, the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office named a previously unnamed area Queen Elizabeth Land in tribute to Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee.


Premise: How many Hanoverian Jews were expelled in 1938?

Hypothesis: When he learned of what was happening, he drove to the German embassy in Paris and shot the German diplomat Eduard Ernst vom Rath, who died shortly afterwards.


Premise: Why was Nasser rejected from the Academy?

Hypothesis: In 1937, Nasser applied to the Royal Military Academy for army officer training, but his police record of anti-government protest initially blocked his entry.


Premise: When did Antioine de Ville climb Mont Aiguille?

Hypothesis: In 1492 Antoine de Ville climbed Mont Aiguille, without reaching the summit, an experience he described as "horrifying and terrifying."


Premise: What notable defeat was suffered by the Arabs under Hisham?

Hypothesis: The new campaigns resulted in a number of successful raids into Anatolia, but also in a major defeat (the Battle of Akroinon), and did not lead to any significant territorial expansion.


Premise: The praying mantis symbolizes patience and what else?

Hypothesis: The ancient Chinese regarded cicadas as symbols of rebirth or immortality.


Premise: The theory states that at the center of humans beings is what?

Hypothesis: Maslow’s ‘‘Third Force Psychology Theory’’ even allows literary analysts to critically understand how characters reflect the culture and the history in which they are contextualized.


Premise: What does the term used by Physicists, partial vacuum, refer to?

Hypothesis: The Latin term in vacuo is used to describe an object as being in what would otherwise be a vacuum.


Premise: Which hedge fund manager with a networth of over a billion is considered an alumni?

Hypothesis: Author, H. G. Wells, McLaren and Ferrari Chief Designer, Nicholas Tombazis, CEO of Rolls Royce, Ralph Robins, rock band Queen, Brian May, CEO of Singapore Airlines, Chew Choon Seng, Prime Minister of New Zealand, Julius Vogel, Prime Minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi, Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore, Teo Chee Hean, Chief Medical Officer for England, Sir Liam Donaldson, Head Physician to the Queen, Huw Thomas, CEO of Moonfruit, Wendy Tan White, Businessman and philanthropist, Winston Wong, billionaire hedge fund manager Alan Howard.


Premise: What are 'centuries' in bicycling?

Hypothesis: In addition to the sports he played at Yale, Kerry is described by Sports Illustrated, among others, as an "avid cyclist", primarily riding on a road bike.


Premise: When the colors were first worn, what team did Barcelona play?

Hypothesis: In Catalonia the common perception is that the colours were chosen by Joan Gamper and are those of his home team, FC Basel.


Premise: In what region of Hyderabad is Mecca Masjid?

Hypothesis: North of the river are hospitals, colleges, major railway stations and business areas such as Begum Bazaar, Koti, Abids, Sultan Bazaar and Moazzam Jahi Market, along with administrative and recreational establishments such as the Reserve Bank of India, the Telangana Secretariat, the Hyderabad Mint, the Telangana Legislature, the Public Gardens, the Nizam Club, the Ravindra Bharathi, the State Museum, the Birla Temple and the Birla Planetarium.


Premise: What caused the bankruptcy of many farmers during this era?

Hypothesis: The result was the ultimate bankruptcy of countless farmers.


Premise: In what library can the book New York, culture capital of the world, 1940–1965 be found?

Hypothesis: In describing New York, author Tom Wolfe said, "Culture just seems to be in the air, like part of the weather."


Premise: How many square miles is Boston?

Hypothesis: The city proper covers 48 square miles (124 km2) with an estimated population of 655,884 in 2014, making it the largest city in New England and the 24th largest city in the United States.


Premise: What do people in high villages build their homes according to?

Hypothesis: Stairs leading to upper levels are sometimes built on the outside, and balconies are sometimes enclosed.


Premise: How many pregnant women die as a result of pregnancy?

Hypothesis: According to a 2013 UNICEF report, 50% of women in Guinea Bissau had undergone female genital mutilation.


Premise: Who played a cameo in a film about Feynman?

Hypothesis: This portion of Feynman's life was portrayed in the 1996 film Infinity, which featured Feynman's daughter, Michelle, in a cameo role.


Premise: What epic poem did Luís de Camões write?

Hypothesis: (c. 1524–1580) wrote the epic poem "Os Lusíadas" (The Lusiads), with Virgil's Aeneid as his main influence.


Premise: Left untreated, about how many people could contract tuberculosis from an active TB patient in a year?

Hypothesis: A person with active but untreated tuberculosis may infect 10–15 (or more) other people per year.


Premise: Who rejected the  2007 vote to overturn the motorsport ban in Switzerland?

Hypothesis: In June 2007 the Swiss National Council, one house of the Federal Assembly of Switzerland, voted to overturn the ban, however the other house, the Swiss Council of States rejected the change and the ban remains in place.


Premise: IBM span off its printer manufacturer in 1991, what was its name?

Hypothesis: IBM acquired Kenexa (2012) and SPSS (2009) and PwC's consulting business (2002), spinning off companies like printer manufacturer Lexmark (1991), and selling off product lines like its personal computer and x86 server businesses to Lenovo (2005, 2014).


Premise: What did Mach argue would happen if another object were introduce in the bucket's universe?

Hypothesis: Mach argued that, in effect, the water experiment in an otherwise empty universe would remain flat.


Premise: What name do the bays in Southampton and Morgan's Point share?

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


Premise: What does prayer usually include in Islam?

Hypothesis: Christian theologian Alister McGrath writes that there are good reasons to suggest that a "personal god" is integral to the Christian outlook, but that one has to understand it is an analogy.


Premise: Who directed the armistice negotiation for the Chinese?

Hypothesis: On the Chinese side, Zhou Enlai directed peace talks, and Li Kenong and Qiao Guanghua headed the negotiation team.


Premise: What did the mysteries seem to threaten that made the Romans occasionally attempt to ban them?

Hypothesis: Sporadic and sometimes brutal attempts were made to suppress religionists who seemed to threaten traditional morality and unity, as with the senate's efforts to restrict the Bacchanals in 186 BC.


Premise: What percentage of the population identifies as Hispanic?

Hypothesis: Hispanics of any race represented 28.6% of the population, while Asians constituted the fastest-growing segment of the city's population between 2000 and 2010; the non-Hispanic white population declined 3 percent, the smallest recorded decline in decades; and for the first time since the Civil War, the number of blacks declined over a decade.


Premise: How much electricity is imported by Estonia annually?

Hypothesis: Estonia imports 200 million kilowatt hours of electricity annually.


Premise: How did his early childhood experiences impact his later life?

Hypothesis: He repeatedly expressed a preference for the desert over the city and retreated to the desert to meditate.


Premise: By what century had almost all churches begun celebrating Easter according to the Alexandrian Easter?

Hypothesis: By the 10th century all churches (except some on the eastern border of the Byzantine Empire) had adopted the Alexandrian Easter, which still placed the vernal equinox on 21 March, although Bede had already noted its drift in 725—it had drifted even further by the 16th century.


Premise: What is Anthrozoology also known as?

Hypothesis: Anthrozoology (also known as "human–animal studies") is the study of interaction between living things.


Premise: Theravada escapes what cycle?

Hypothesis: Mahayana Buddhism instead aspires to Buddhahood via the bodhisattva path, a state wherein one remains in this cycle to help other beings reach awakening.


Premise: What fraction of the Japanese garrison on Mili died due to hunger?

Hypothesis: The battle in the Marshall Islands caused irreparable damage, especially on Japanese bases.


Premise: What position is the gymnast when in the air?

Hypothesis: The gymnast then rotates to a standing position.


Premise: What countries joined Britain as allies?

Hypothesis: Consequently, when the American War of Independence turned into a global war between 1778–83, Britain found itself opposed by a strong coalition of European powers, and lacking any substantial ally.


Premise: What is digestion?

Hypothesis: Digestion is a form of catabolism that is often divided into two processes based on how food is broken down: mechanical and chemical digestion.


Premise: Is iron more dense than zinc?

Hypothesis: Zinc is a bluish-white, lustrous, diamagnetic metal, though most common commercial grades of the metal have a dull finish.


Premise: In what year did the student paper Common Sense begin publication at Notre Dame?

Hypothesis: Likewise, in 2003, when other students believed that the paper showed a liberal bias, the conservative paper Irish Rover went into production.


Premise: What are Chalets built of?

Hypothesis: In the high villages people live in homes built according to medieval designs that withstand cold winters.


Premise: What is halite?

Hypothesis: Beneath the layers of sediment is a water-deposited layer of halite, a rock salt.


Premise: How much economic assistance does Namibia get from tourism from hunting?

Hypothesis: In addition, extreme sports such as sandboarding, skydiving and 4x4ing have become popular, and many cities have companies that provide tours.[citation needed]


Premise: Who performed the first #1 on the easy listening chart?

Hypothesis: Billboard first published the Easy Listening chart July 17, 1961, with 20 songs; the first number one was "Boll Weevil Song" by Brook Benton.


Premise: What was the total fertility rate per woman as of 2012?

Hypothesis: The birth rate in 2014 is 45.53 births per 1,000, and the total fertility rate (in 2012) was 6.4 children per woman.


Premise: Who do students often blame for their education short comings?

Hypothesis: Some claim that there is education inequality because children did not exceed the education of their parents.


Premise: What is a name of a Catholic hospital in Detroit?

Hypothesis: The metro area has many other hospitals including William Beaumont Hospital, St. Joseph's, and University of Michigan Medical Center.


Premise: When was the term "Early Modern" implemented into the English language?

Hypothesis: to distinguish the time between what we call Middle Ages and time of the late Enlightenment (1800) (when the meaning of the term Modern Ages was developing its contemporary form).


Premise: How many students attend BYU on campus?

Hypothesis: It is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), and, excluding online students, is the largest of any religious university and the third largest private university in the United States, with 29,672 on-campus students.


Premise: What building does the Detroit Symphony Orchestra play in?

Hypothesis: Major theaters in Detroit include the Fox Theatre (5,174 seats), Music Hall (1,770 seats), the Gem Theatre (451 seats), Masonic Temple Theatre (4,404 seats), the Detroit Opera House (2,765 seats), the Fisher Theatre (2,089 seats), The Fillmore Detroit (2,200 seats), Saint Andrew's Hall, the Majestic Theater, and Orchestra Hall (2,286 seats) which hosts the renowned Detroit Symphony Orchestra.


Premise: Holden acknowledges that defectors are seldom allowed a what from the church?

Hypothesis: Sociologist Rodney Stark states that Jehovah's Witness leaders are "not always very democratic" and that members "are expected to conform to rather strict standards," but adds that "enforcement tends to be very informal, sustained by the close bonds of friendship within the group", and that Jehovah's Witnesses see themselves as "part of the power structure rather than subject to it."


Premise: What remained the head of state of the British Empire?

Hypothesis: Appointments to the Order of the British Empire were at first made on the nomination of the self-governing Dominions of the Empire, the Viceroy of India, and the colonial governors, as well as on nominations from within the United Kingdom.


Premise: When did political parties organize themselves into international organizations?

Hypothesis: Some administrations (e.g. Hong Kong) outlaw formal linkages between local and foreign political organizations, effectively outlawing international political parties.


Premise: What did the Thuringian miners do to help the Soviet Union?

Hypothesis: Between 1950 and 1990, uranium mining was also important to cover the Soviet Union's need for this metal.


Premise: who declated the American frontier "closed" in 1893?

Hypothesis: The rural Plains have lost a third of their population since 1920.


Premise: Along with Germany and Switzerland, what country contained an autobahn during the Second World War?

Hypothesis: The Interstate Highway System is officially known as the 'Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways' in his honor.


Premise: What major factor has kept gumbe out of mainstream audiences?

Hypothesis: The music of Guinea-Bissau is usually associated with the polyrhythmic gumbe genre, the country's primary musical export.


Premise: What colleagues are best to work with to reach a consensus?

Hypothesis: Other techniques for fostering party harmony include the appointment of task forces composed of partisan colleagues with conflicting views to reach consensus on issues; the creation of new leadership positions as a way to reach out and involve a greater diversity of partisans in the leadership structure; and daily meetings in the Leader's office (or at breakfast, lunch, or dinner) to lay out floor strategy or political objectives for the minority party.


Premise: Vis-à-vis pubs in Ireland, what feature do pubs in Northern Ireland lack?

Hypothesis: Pubs in Northern Ireland are largely identical to their counterparts in the Republic of Ireland except for the lack of spirit grocers.


Premise: How much did Everton FC pay to transfer Belgian forward Romelu Lukaku?

Hypothesis: Everton bought the player after he played the previous year with the team on loan.


Premise: What did the Chinese media focus on as far as human rights protesters?

Hypothesis: In response to pro-Tibet and pro-human rights protests, the Chinese media focused on the more disruptive protesters, referring for example to "a very small number of 'Tibet independence' secessionists and a handful of so-called human rights-minded NGO activists" intent on "disrupting and sabotaging the Beijing Olympic Games".


Premise: For whom was Houston named?

Hypothesis: The city was named after former General Sam Houston, who was president of the Republic of Texas and had commanded and won at the Battle of San Jacinto 25 miles (40 km) east of where the city was established.


Premise: What was the standard practice in Roman religious life?

Hypothesis: Imported mystery religions, which offered initiates salvation in the afterlife, were a matter of personal choice for an individual, practiced in addition to carrying on one's family rites and participating in public religion.


Premise: Along with Guam, which other territories were in the United States jurisdiction before WWII?

Hypothesis: Since the 1960s, the economy is supported by two industries: tourism and the United States Armed Forces.


Premise: In what year did the Port of New York and New Jersey deal with unprecedented cargo volume?

Hypothesis: The Port of New York and New Jersey is also a major economic engine, handling record cargo volume in the first half of 2014.


Premise: What do annelids use jaws for?

Hypothesis: Two families, the Eunicidae and Phyllodocidae, have evolved jaws, which can be used for seizing prey, biting off pieces of vegetation, or grasping dead and decaying matter.


Premise: Who represents the 8th district?

Hypothesis: A Republican represented a significant portion of Philadelphia in the House as late as 1983, and Sam Katz ran competitive mayoral races as the Republican nominee in both 1999 and 2003.


Premise: What are small regular lines left on paper when handmade in a mould?

Hypothesis: Wove paper does not exhibit "laidlines", which are small regular lines left behind on paper when it was handmade in a mould made from rows of metal wires or bamboo.


Premise: On what day did Darlan die?

Hypothesis: The Allied leaders were "thunderstruck" by this from a political standpoint, though none of them had offered Eisenhower guidance with the problem in the course of planning the operation.


Premise: During the second half of what century did the Burke and Wills expedition give an indication of immigration flows?

Hypothesis: An influx of interstate and overseas migrants, particularly Irish, German and Chinese, saw the development of slums including a temporary "tent city" established on the southern banks of the Yarra.


Premise: How can symptoms be managed with IBS?

Hypothesis: Symptoms of diarrhea-predominant IBS can be managed through a combination of dietary changes, soluble fiber supplements, and/or medications such as loperamide or codeine.


Premise: A proper magnates own what?

Hypothesis: A proper magnate should be able to trace noble ancestors back for many generations and own at least 20 villages or estates.


Premise: Which year brought the end to silver being in dimes and quarters?

Hypothesis: Silver half dollars were last issued for circulation in 1970.


Premise: The Urums are known to speak what dialect?

Hypothesis: Other notable minority languages include Armenian, Georgian, and the Greco-Turkic dialect spoken by the Urums, a community of Caucasus Greeks from the Tsalka region of central Georgia and ethnic Greeks from southeastern Ukraine who arrived in mainly Northern Greece as economic migrants in the 1990s.


Premise: What are the estimations of how many schoolrooms collapsed?

Hypothesis: The central government estimates that over 7,000 inadequately engineered schoolrooms collapsed in the earthquake.


Premise: Why is New Mexico always an after thought in American -Spanish speaking society?

Hypothesis: Because of its relative isolation from other Spanish-speaking areas over most of its 400-year existence, New Mexico Spanish, and in particular the Spanish of northern New Mexico and Colorado has retained many elements of 16th- and 17th-century Spanish and has developed its own vocabulary.


Premise: What were two of Dick Dale's better known songs?

Hypothesis: Other antecedents include Link Wray's instrumental "Rumble" in 1958, and the surf rock instrumentals of Dick Dale, such as "Let's Go Trippin'" (1961) and "Misirlou" (1962).


Premise: How many candidates did John Kerry name as potential prospects to be his running mate?

Hypothesis: Days before Kerry announced Edwards as his running mate, Kerry gave a short list of three candidates: Sen John Edwards, Rep Dick Gephardt, and Gov Tom Vilsack.


Premise: Along with Liban Abdi, Ayub Daud and Abdisalam Ibrahim, who is a notable Somali football player?

Hypothesis: In addition, several international footballers such as Mohammed Ahamed Jama, Liban Abdi, Ayub Daud and Abdisalam Ibrahim have played in European top divisions.


Premise: What does the Pregones specialize in?

Hypothesis: Some artists from elsewhere in New York City have begun to converge on the area, and housing prices have nearly quadrupled in the area since 2002.


Premise: What  the profession of Gian Carlo Menotti?

Hypothesis: It was founded in 1977 by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Gian Carlo Menotti, who sought to establish a counterpart to the Festival dei Due Mondi (the Festival of Two Worlds) in Spoleto, Italy.


Premise: How many people migrated to Thuringia between 2008 and 2012?

Hypothesis: Between Thuringia and the other German states, the balance is negative:


Premise: When was the earliest Presbyterian churches founded by Scotland in England?

Hypothesis: Following the 'Disruption' in 1843 many of those linked to the Church of Scotland eventually joined what became the Presbyterian Church of England in 1876.


Premise: What typically happened aboard the ship on wheels?

Hypothesis: Aboard the ship would the marriage of a man and woman be consummated as a fertility ritual.


Premise: When did the Turkish Seljuk Sultanate of Rum reach its demise?

Hypothesis: It is not well understood how the early Ottomans came to dominate their neighbours, as the history of medieval Anatolia is still little known.


Premise: At what rate is the drain-source current increased when the gate-source current is increased?

Hypothesis: As the gate–source voltage (VGS) is increased, the drain–source current (IDS) increases exponentially for VGS below threshold, and then at a roughly quadratic rate (IGS ∝ (VGS − VT)2) (where VT is the threshold voltage at which drain current begins) in the "space-charge-limited" region above threshold.


Premise: Which improvements were most well regarded?

Hypothesis: Other improvements and features (such as File History, Storage Spaces, and the updated Task Manager) were also regarded as positive changes.


Premise: What happened to the Premier League's televsion rights after this decision?

Hypothesis: The League's decision to assign broadcasting rights to BSkyB in 1992 was at the time a radical decision, but one that has paid off.


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

Hypothesis: Under Tito's leadership, Yugoslavia became a founding member of the Non-Aligned Movement.


Premise: What type of imbalances have increased as a result of the instability?

Hypothesis: It takes longer on average to register a new business in Guinea-Bissau (233 days or about 33 weeks) than in any other country in the world except Suriname.


Premise: Which music chart said in 2013 it would start taking youtube data into account for its ratings?

Hypothesis: By early 2013 Billboard had announced that it was factoring YouTube streaming data into calculation of the Billboard Hot 100 and related genre charts.


Premise: Where did Truman Capote live in relation to Lee?

Hypothesis: Just as Dill lived next door to Scout during the summer, Capote lived next door to Lee with his aunts while his mother visited New York City.


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

Hypothesis: The Bulgarian Empire was in decline by the 14th century, and the ascendancy of Serbia was marked by the Serbian victory over the Bulgarians in the Battle of Velbazhd in 1330.


Premise: What award was My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy omitted from?

Hypothesis: Dark Fantasy went on to go platinum in the United States, but its omission as a contender for Album of the Year at the 54th Grammy Awards was viewed as a "snub" by several media outlets.


Premise: How many bearers of the torch were used in India?

Hypothesis: Indian film star Aamir Khan states on his personal blog that the "Olympic Games do not belong to China" and confirms taking part in the torch relay "with a prayer in his heart for the people of Tibet, and ... for all people across the world who are victims of human rights violations".


Premise: After WWII how many states initially remained in Germany?

Hypothesis: During the Allied occupation of Germany after World War II, internal borders were redrawn by the Allied military governments.


Premise: What Boston investment firm helped make mutual funds popular in the 1980's?

Hypothesis: The city is home to the headquarters of Santander Bank, and Boston is a center for venture capital firms.


Premise: Who was the Army Chief of Staff at this time?

Hypothesis: After years of complaints that it wasn't suited well for most work conditions, Army Chief of Staff General Martin Dempsey eliminated it for wear with the ACU in June 2011.


Premise: Aside from the Ottoman Empire, which other empire did the Serb and Croat lands in the mid 19th century belong to?

Hypothesis: At that time, Serb and Croat lands were still part of the Ottoman and Austrian Empires.


Premise: What formed an important part of European colonization?

Hypothesis: Treaties formed an important part of European colonization and, in many parts of the world, Europeans attempted to legitimize their sovereignty by signing treaties with indigenous peoples.


Premise: What industry-based nickname does Tucson have?

Hypothesis: Tucson is the second-largest populated city in Arizona behind Phoenix, both of which anchor the Arizona Sun Corridor.


Premise: When did La Taverne Angaise open?

Hypothesis: Several of the best-known restaurants in Paris today appeared during the Belle Epoque, including Maxim's on Rue Royale, Ledoyen in the gardens of the Champs-Élysées, and the Tour d'Argent on the Quai de la Tournelle.


Premise: What is the name of KU athletic teams?

Hypothesis: Their most recent championship came on June 8, 2013 when the KU women's track and field team won the NCAA outdoor in Eugene, Oregon becoming the first University of Kansas women's team to win a national title.


Premise: Where can quails typically be found in the wild?

Hypothesis: It migrated across Egypt in vast flocks and the birds could sometimes be picked up off the ground by hand.


Premise: What influenced the increasing development of armor?

Hypothesis: One of the major developments in the military sphere during the Late Middle Ages was the increased use of infantry and light cavalry.


Premise: Where were the free people of color located in north carolina in 1860?

Hypothesis: They were also concentrated in the eastern coastal plain, especially at port cities such as Wilmington and New Bern, where a variety of jobs were available.


Premise: What series on this network was given a Marvel graphic novel?

Hypothesis: With ABC, a Once Upon a Time graphic novel was announced for publication in September.


Premise: What are two types of railway transportation still use DC motor?

Hypothesis: Since such conversion was not well developed in the late 19th century and early 20th century, most early electrified railways used DC and many still do, particularly rapid transit (subways) and trams.


Premise: What did Lemi Ponifasio name his dance company?

Hypothesis: Lemi Ponifasio is a director and choreographer who is prominent internationally with his dance Company MAU.


Premise: From what did  DNA need to be protected in the earliest cells?

Hypothesis: Previous hypotheses emphasized that photosensitive proteins and circadian rhythms may have originated together in the earliest cells, with the purpose of protecting replicating DNA from high levels of damaging ultraviolet radiation during the daytime.


Premise: What platform was The Life of Pablo officially released on?

Hypothesis: He released the album exclusively on Tidal on 14 February 2016 following a performance on SNL.


Premise: Of what class was more than half of Rome's population?

Hypothesis: Approximately half Rome's population were slave or free non-citizens.


Premise: In what year was the final Greek resistance?

Hypothesis: The Attalid dynasty of Pergamum lasted little longer; a Roman ally until the end, its final king Attalus III died in 133 BC without an heir, and taking the alliance to its natural conclusion, willed Pergamum to the Roman Republic.


Premise: The advent of what telescope made it easier to study Neptune?

Hypothesis: Most telescopic data was fairly limited until the advent of Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and large ground-based telescopes with adaptive optics (AO).


Premise: Where were aristocrats buried from the Middle Ages?

Hypothesis: From the Middle Ages, aristocrats were buried inside chapels, while monks and other people associated with the abbey were buried in the cloisters and other areas.


Premise: When was the administrative county abolished?

Hypothesis: By the census of 1971, the population of Lancashire and its county boroughs had reached 5,129,416, making it the most populous geographic county in the UK.


Premise: When are firewords heard every day?

Hypothesis: It serves as ground zero during the Les Falles when the fireworks of the Mascletà can be heard every afternoon.


Premise: When did the decedents of the Congo and Afro-Caribbean arrive in liberia?

Hypothesis: The Kpelle comprise more than 20% of the population and are the largest ethnic group in Liberia, residing mostly in Bong County and adjacent areas in central Liberia.


Premise: How much of the population lives below the poverty line?

Hypothesis: More than two-thirds of the population lives below the poverty line.


Premise: Along with breweries, what type of company may run a pub chain?

Hypothesis: Organisations such as Wetherspoons, Punch Taverns and O'Neill's were formed in the UK in the wake of the Beer Orders.


Premise: What organization does Jay Cross belong to?

Hypothesis: As Jay Cross, the chief scientist of the Internet Time Group, remarked, "Connectedness begets vulnerability."


Premise: How do police identify someone as belonging to an ethnic group?

Hypothesis: Officers are instructed to "record the response that has been given" even if the person gives an answer which may be incorrect; their own perception of the person's ethnic background is recorded separately.


Premise: The safety and efficacy of new drugs must be approved by what organization in the US?

Hypothesis: In the United States, new pharmaceutical products must be approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as being both safe and effective.


Premise: During which process did our current idea of race come about?

Hypothesis: In this way the idea of race as we understand it today came about during the historical process of exploration and conquest which brought Europeans into contact with groups from different continents, and of the ideology of classification and typology found in the natural sciences.


Premise: By what method was Gary Gilmore executed?

Hypothesis: Although hundreds of individuals were sentenced to death in the United States during the 1970s and early 1980s, only ten people besides Gilmore (who had waived all of his appeal rights) were actually executed prior to 1984.


Premise: How long does it take for an broiler raisedin an intensive environment very to reach optimum size?

Hypothesis: Broilers grow so fast, their legs cannot always support their weight and their hearts and respiratory systems may not be able to supply enough oxygen to their developing muscles.


Premise: Why was Jaws nearly shut down?

Hypothesis: Despite the film's ultimate, enormous success, it was nearly shut down due to delays and budget over-runs.


Premise: When a computer goes back and repeats instructions of a program over until an internal condition is met is called what?

Hypothesis: This is called the flow of control within the program and it is what allows the computer to perform tasks repeatedly without human intervention.


Premise: How many sides are closed in a typical cirque?

Hypothesis: Two glacial cirques may form back to back and erode their backwalls until only a narrow ridge, called an arête is left.


Premise: What accounting software company has a major presence in Tucson?

Hypothesis: Raytheon Missile Systems (formerly Hughes Aircraft Co.), Texas Instruments, IBM, Intuit Inc., Universal Avionics, Honeywell Aerospace, Sunquest Information Systems, Sanofi-Aventis, Ventana Medical Systems, Inc., and Bombardier Aerospace all have a significant presence in Tucson.


Premise: What kind of vision do owls have?

Hypothesis: Most birds cannot move their eyes, although there are exceptions, such as the great cormorant.


Premise: Who removed their Libyan military bases in March of 1970?

Hypothesis: His administration insisted that the U.S. and U.K. remove their military bases from Libya, with Gaddafi proclaiming that "the armed forces which rose to express the people's revolution [will not] tolerate living in their shacks while the bases of imperialism exist in Libyan territory.


Premise: In adverse weather conditions, what can be used to improve traction on the landing strip?

Hypothesis: The fields must be kept clear of debris using cleaning equipment so that loose material does not become a projectile and enter an engine duct (see foreign object damage).


Premise: How did the ruler of Pontus anger Rome?

Hypothesis: Mithridates antagonised Rome by seeking to expand his kingdom, and Rome for her part seemed equally eager for war and the spoils and prestige that it might bring.


Premise: Hoe did everyone learn that Beyonce performed for Kaddafi?

Hypothesis: Rolling Stone reported that the music industry was urging them to return the money they earned for the concerts; a spokesperson for Beyoncé later confirmed to The Huffington Post that she donated the money to the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund.


Premise: In Eastern Armenian, aspirated consonants occur in what?

Hypothesis: For example, in Eastern Armenian, aspiration is contrastive even word-finally, and aspirated consonants occur in consonant clusters.


Premise: What language, according to the text, may need double stops to indicate aspiration length?

Hypothesis: Hence, the two degrees of aspiration in Korean stops are sometimes transcribed ⟨kʰ kʰʰ⟩ or ⟨kʻ⟩ and ⟨kʰ⟩, but they are usually transcribed [k] and [kʰ], with the details of voice-onset time given numerically.


Premise: What did the foundation announce in 2011

Hypothesis: Their grant-making focus has been since 2011 on sanitation science and technology ("transformative technologies"), delivery models at scale, urban sanitation markets, building demand for sanitation, measurement and evaluation as well as policy, advocacy and communications.


Premise: Aging adult's ability to recognize pain may be blunted by what?

Hypothesis: An aging adult may not respond to pain in the way that a younger person would.


Premise: Who did the Japanese form their military  forces after?

Hypothesis: The Japanese government began modelling their ground forces after the French military.


Premise: What are the main arenas for Lucha Libre?

Hypothesis: The main venues in the city are Arena México and Arena Coliseo.


Premise: In what year did the first public video-conference take place?

Hypothesis: In 1995 the first public videoconference between North America and Africa took place, linking a technofair in San Francisco with a techno-rave and cyberdeli in Cape Town.


Premise: What internet services were decreased in the area?

Hypothesis: Eventually, a handful of major news and media websites were made accessible online in the region, albeit with dramatically pared back webpages.


Premise: Who demonstrated the first blue LED?

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


Premise: When did the vinyl LP records Era begin?

Hypothesis: When the 12-inch vinyl LP era began in 1949, the single record often had the same or similar number of tunes as a typical album of 78s, and was still often referred to as an "album".


Premise: What year was the Rotovirus vaccine used?

Hypothesis: Since this time, more effective vaccines have been developed that have the potential to save many thousands of lives in developing nations, while reducing the overall cost of treatment, and the costs to society.


Premise: What historically significant Dutch document begins with the phrase "Forsachistu diobolae"?

Hypothesis: From this Frankish document written around 510 the oldest sentence has been identified as Dutch:


Premise: What is it called when too many consumers attempt to save or pay down debt at the same time?

Hypothesis: Too many consumers attempting to save (or pay down debt) simultaneously is called the paradox of thrift and can cause or deepen a recession.


Premise: For the first quarter of 2009, what was the annualized rate of decline in GDP in Mexico?

Hypothesis: The Brookings Institution reported in June 2009 that U.S. consumption accounted for more than a third of the growth in global consumption between 2000 and 2007.


Premise: During what period was adult contemporary its most commercially successful?

Hypothesis: By the 1980s, tastes had changed and radio formats reflected this change, including musical artists such as Journey.


Premise: What was later realized that caused naturalistic mechanisms such as neo-Lamarckism to be embraced?

Hypothesis: Eventually it was realised that supernatural intervention could not be a scientific explanation, and naturalistic mechanisms such as neo-Lamarckism were favoured over natural selection as being more compatible with purpose.


Premise: What video frequency does PAL use?

Hypothesis: PAL consoles face another incompatibility when playing out-of-region cartridges: the NTSC video standard specifies video at 60 Hz while PAL operates at 50 Hz, resulting in approximately 16.7% slower gameplay.


Premise: How large is the metro system of Mexico City?

Hypothesis: Mexico City is the only city in the world to use the icon reference and has become a popular culture trademark for the city.


Premise: When was the Commonwealth Aboriginal Councils and Associations Act adopted?

Hypothesis: From an academic perspective, social enterprise is for the most part considered a sub-set of the nonprofit sector as typically they too are concerned with a purpose relating to a public good, however these are not bound to adhere to a nonprofit legal structure and many incorporate and operate as for-profit entities.


Premise: Which two mayors accomplished the zoning code revamp?

Hypothesis: The zoning changes were intended to rectify incorrect zoning mapping that would streamline future community preferences and development, which the city forecasts an additional 100,000 residents and 40,000 jobs to be added to Philadelphia in 2035.


Premise: According to the census of 2000, what percentage of Swiss are Jehova's Witnesses?

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


Premise: Which bacteria cause Rocky Mountain spotted fever disiease?

Hypothesis: One species of Rickettsia causes typhus, while another causes Rocky Mountain spotted fever.


Premise: In what types of eukaryotes is there a large amount of non-coding DNA?

Hypothesis: In prokaryotes, most of the genome (85–90%) is non-repetitive DNA, which means coding DNA mainly forms it, while non-coding regions only take a small part.


Premise: What was the name of  the editor who helped Lee finish her book?

Hypothesis: After finishing the first draft and returning it to Lippincott, the manuscript, at that point titled "Go Set a Watchman", fell into the hands of Therese von Hohoff Torrey — known professionally as Tay Hohoff — a small, wiry veteran editor in her late 50s.


Premise: Where did France try to invade in 1898?

Hypothesis: The scramble continued into the 1890s, and caused Britain to reconsider its decision in 1885 to withdraw from Sudan.


Premise: What were they using the airport to stage for?

Hypothesis: Chengdu Shuangliu Airport reopened later on the evening of May 12, offering limited service as the airport began to be used as a staging area for relief operations.


Premise: The works of which two scholars were used to teach Sanskrit to the higher castes of India?

Hypothesis: Sanskrit linguist Madhav Deshpande says that when the term "Sanskrit" arose it was not thought of as a specific language set apart from other languages, but rather as a particularly refined or perfected manner of speaking.


Premise: Who discovered the incompleteness theorem of 1931?

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


Premise: For what  did Canadian natives use asphalt as a waterproofing material?

Hypothesis: However, it wasn't until 1787 that fur trader and explorer Alexander MacKenzie saw the Athabasca oil sands and said, "At about 24 miles from the fork (of the Athabasca and Clearwater Rivers) are some bituminous fountains into which a pole of 20 feet long may be inserted without the least resistance."


Premise: Where did a large percentage of experts on the modern Middle East began their training?

Hypothesis: Expertise on the modern Middle East is almost never mixed or confused with studies of the Ancient Near East, although often "Ancient Near East" is abbreviated to "Near East" without any implication of modern times.


Premise: What happens in the event of a tie?

Hypothesis: Prior to the semi-finals, fixtures ending in a tie are replayed once only.


Premise: What percentage of building collapsed in Beichuan?

Hypothesis: In the city of Dujiangyan, south-east of the epicenter, a whole school collapsed with 900 students buried and fewer than 60 survived.


Premise: What form does Link take in the Twilight Realm?

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


Premise: What kind of prediction does the assumption that black body radiation is thermal lead to?

Hypothesis: It still was not clear why the spectrum of a hot object had the form that it has (see diagram).


Premise: What were Sun staff accused of in a 2014 trial?

Hypothesis: In October 2014, the trial of six senior staff and journalists at The Sun newspaper began.


Premise: Who was not pleased by de Melo's second marriage?

Hypothesis: In contrast to his father, Joseph I was fond of de Melo, and with the Queen Mother's approval, he appointed Melo as Minister of Foreign Affairs.


Premise: Beyonce took home how many awards at the 57th Grammy Awards?

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: What did Imperial College announce it would do after Professor Grimm's death?

Hypothesis: The College has announced an internal inquiry into Stefan Grimm's death.


Premise: Privilege of Piotrkow was granted when?

Hypothesis: It bound the peasant to the land, as only one son (not the eldest) was permitted to leave the village; townsfolk (Polish: "mieszczaństwo") were prohibited from owning land; and positions in the Church hierarchy could be given only to nobles.


Premise: What is Korea's largest port?

Hypothesis: By late August, the Pusan Perimeter had some 500 medium tanks battle-ready.


Premise: Who was the first person to take a spacewalk?

Hypothesis: On March 18, 1965, about a week before the first American piloted Project Gemini space flight, the USSR accelerated the competition, by launching the two-cosmonaut Voskhod 2 mission with Pavel Belyayev and Alexey Leonov.


Premise: What was the issue Nasser led a protest against?

Hypothesis: The incident garnered his first mention in the press: the nationalist newspaper Al Gihad reported that Nasser led the protest and was among the wounded.


Premise: Signatories to the CPPC are required to prevent and punish what?

Hypothesis: Despite official protests from other signatories (notably Cyprus and Norway) on the ethics and legal standing of these reservations, the immunity from prosecution they grant has been invoked from time to time, as when the United States refused to allow a charge of genocide brought against it by former Yugoslavia following the 1999 Kosovo War.


Premise: When is the weekly Mail forecast to pass The Sun in terms of circulation?

Hypothesis: The average circulation for The Sun on Sunday in March 2014 was 1,686,840; but in May 2015 The Mail on Sunday sold more copies for the first time, an average of 28,650 over those of its rival: 1,497,855 to 1,469,195.


Premise: What is living law mostly made up of?

Hypothesis: Thus, most U.S. law (especially the actual "living law" of contract, tort, property, criminal, and family law experienced by the majority of citizens on a day-to-day basis) consists primarily of state law, which can and does vary greatly from one state to the next.


Premise: Which forms retained the long bony tails of their ancestors?

Hypothesis: Many groups retained primitive characteristics, such as clawed wings and teeth, though the latter were lost independently in a number of avialan groups, including modern birds (Aves).


Premise: Who eradicated the Sakya viceregal regime?

Hypothesis: The Mongol Yuan court was forced to accept him as the new viceroy, and Changchub Gyaltsen and his successors, the Phagmodrupa Dynasty, gained de facto rule over Tibet.


Premise: What do Fick's laws do?

Hypothesis: Botany was greatly stimulated by the appearance of the first "modern" text book, Matthias Schleiden's Grundzüge der Wissenschaftlichen Botanik, published in English in 1849 as Principles of Scientific Botany.


Premise: What trophy is awarded to the winner of Canadian inter-university football competition?

Hypothesis: Canadian football is also played at the high school, junior, collegiate, and semi-professional levels: the Canadian Junior Football League, formed May 8, 1974, and Quebec Junior Football League are leagues for players aged 18–22, many post-secondary institutions compete in Canadian Interuniversity Sport for the Vanier Cup, and senior leagues such as the Alberta Football League have grown in popularity in recent years.


Premise: What was played at Chopin's graveside?

Hypothesis: The funeral procession to Père Lachaise Cemetery, which included Chopin's sister Ludwika, was led by the aged Prince Adam Czartoryski.


Premise: The Inuplat population inhabit what areas?

Hypothesis: The North Slope and Little Diomede Island are occupied by the widespread Inupiat people.


Premise: When was the Joe Louis memorial dedicated?

Hypothesis: A memorial to Joe Louis at the intersection of Jefferson and Woodward Avenues was dedicated on October 16, 1986.


Premise: How many members were in the Young Liberals by Sept 1945?

Hypothesis: It became the nucleus of the Liberal Party's youth division, the Young Liberals.


Premise: Which script evolved from the Gupta script in the 8th century?

Hypothesis: Around the eighth century, the Śāradā script evolved out of the Gupta script.


Premise: What position of power did Harold L. Ickes hold?

Hypothesis: FDR's New Deal programs often contained equal opportunity clauses stating "no discrimination shall be made on account of race, color or creed",:11 but the true forerunner to affirmative action was the Interior Secretary of the time, Harold L. Ickes.


Premise: What is the Mongolian name for Neptune?

Hypothesis: In Mongolian, Neptune is called Dalain Van (Далайн ван), reflecting its namesake god's role as the ruler of the sea.


Premise: What is the name of the university's group service-learning expedition in Asia, Africa or Latin America?

Hypothesis: A large and growing number of students participate in the university's Global Engagement Summer Institute (GESI), a group service-learning expedition in Asia, Africa, or Latin America, in conjunction with the Foundation for Sustainable Development.


Premise: Who was sent to negotiate a peace treaty with the rebels?

Hypothesis: Two months later, after consultation with the Audencia of Santo Domingo, Enriquillo was offered any part of the island to live in peace.


Premise: What languages were freely mixed?

Hypothesis: Knowledge of Latin was widespread, and most szlachta freely mixed Polish and Latin vocabulary (the latter, "macaronisms"—from "macaroni") in everyday conversation.


Premise: What division of dialects does Hokkien belong to?

Hypothesis: The term Hokkien (福建; hɔk˥˥kɪɛn˨˩) is itself a term not used in Chinese to refer to the dialect, as it simply means Fujian province.


Premise: What theory supports this?

Hypothesis: One of the first quantum effects to be explicitly noticed (but not understood at the time) was a Maxwell observation involving hydrogen, half a century before full quantum mechanical theory arrived.


Premise: Name some historic private houses in the county

Hypothesis: Somerset has 11,500 listed buildings, 523 scheduled monuments, 192 conservation areas, 41 parks and gardens including those at Barrington Court, Holnicote Estate, Prior Park Landscape Garden and Tintinhull Garden, 36 English Heritage sites and 19 National Trust sites, including Clevedon Court, Fyne Court, Montacute House and Tyntesfield as well as Stembridge Tower Mill, the last remaining thatched windmill in England.


Premise: Who became president of the Congo in 1968?

Hypothesis: One year later, President Ngouabi proclaimed Congo Africa's first "people's republic", the People's Republic of the Congo, and announced the decision of the National Revolutionary Movement to change its name to the Congolese Labour Party (PCT).


Premise: What was the cause of the Hamidian Massacres of Armenians?

Hypothesis: The cause of the onus was the Hamidian Massacres of Armenians because they were Christians, but it seemed to spill over into the protracted conflicts of the Balkans.


Premise: What are teeth used for?

Hypothesis: Teeth (singular tooth) are small whitish structures found in the jaws (or mouths) of many vertebrates that are used to tear, scrape, milk and chew food.


Premise: When did Namibia become German Imperial protectorate?

Hypothesis: The dry lands of Namibia were inhabited since early times by San, Damara, and Namaqua, and since about the 14th century AD by immigrating Bantu who came with the Bantu expansion.


Premise: What do dancers lampoon in the ritual heralding the coming of King Carnival?

Hypothesis: It includes a raucous procession of floats and dancers lampooning current events or public figures and a bitingly satiric sermon (el sermo) delivered by the King himself.


Premise: What is a hydrostatic gauge used for?

Hypothesis: The McLeod gauge can measure vacuums as high as 10−6 torr (0.1 mPa), which is the lowest direct measurement of pressure that is possible with current technology.


Premise: Bribes can be direct or what?

Hypothesis: Furthermore, such a dissociation makes the prosecution of bribery offences easier since it can be very difficult to prove that two parties (the bribe-giver and the bribe-taker) have formally agreed upon a corrupt deal.


Premise: How many countries did the group of Greenpeace activists represent?

Hypothesis: Around the same time period, a reporter for Fortune magazine spoke with Edward Itta, an Inupiat Eskimo leader and the former mayor of the North Slope Borough, who expressed that he was conflicted about Shell's plans in the Arctic, as he was very concerned that an oil spill could destroy the Inupiat Eskimo's hunting-and-fishing culture, but his borough also received major tax revenue from oil and gas production; additionally, further revenue from energy activity was considered crucial to the future of the living standard in Itta's community.


Premise: How did the Good Friday earthquake compare to the 1989 San Francisco earthquake?

Hypothesis: It was the second-most-powerful earthquake in the recorded history of the world, with a moment magnitude of 9.2.


Premise: Why were television ratings down across the board during American Idols seventh season?

Hypothesis: The strong finish of season seven also helped Fox become the most watched TV network in the country for the first time since its inception, a first ever in American television history for a non-Big Three major broadcast network.


Premise: What were members who did not practice the physical craft known as?

Hypothesis: There is no clear mechanism by which these local trade organisations became today's Masonic Lodges, but the earliest rituals and passwords known, from operative lodges around the turn of the 17th–18th centuries, show continuity with the rituals developed in the later 18th century by accepted or speculative Masons, as those members who did not practice the physical craft came to be known.


Premise: What tradition was fostered by Eisenhower's reaction to McCarthy's subpoena threats?

Hypothesis: Ike's denial of McCarthy's access to his staff reduced McCarthy's hearings to rants about trivial matters, and contributed to his ultimate downfall.


Premise: Where was the Telugu film industry ranked in 2012 in India in comparison to Bollywood?

Hypothesis: In 2005, Guinness World Records declared Ramoji Film City to be the world's largest film studio.


Premise: What were all members instructed to report weekly to the Brooklyn headquarters?

Hypothesis: In 1919, he instituted the appointment of a director in each congregation, and a year later all members were instructed to report their weekly preaching activity to the Brooklyn headquarters.


Premise: What religion was Steven Spielberg's family?

Hypothesis: Three years later, the family moved to Phoenix, Arizona.:548 Spielberg attended Hebrew school from 1953 to 1957, in classes taught by Rabbi Albert L. Lewis.


Premise: What day did the torch arrive in San Francisco?

Hypothesis: The torch relay's North American leg occurred in San Francisco, California on April 9.


Premise: Which nationalities worked together in the Battle of Umm Qasr?

Hypothesis: The first ground attack came at the Battle of Umm Qasr on 21 March 2003 when a combined force of British, American and Polish forces seized control of the port city of Umm Qasr.


Premise: In what year did Italians discover the Code of Justinian?

Hypothesis: Although there were substantial changes in society and political structures, the break with Antiquity was not complete.


Premise: Who portrayed Chopin in A Song to Remember?

Hypothesis: The 1945 biographical film A Song to Remember earned Cornel Wilde an Academy Award nomination as Best Actor for his portrayal of the composer.


Premise: Who was Mania in Roman religion?

Hypothesis: The small woolen dolls called Maniae, hung on the Compitalia shrines, were thought a symbolic replacement for child-sacrifice to Mania, as Mother of the Lares.


Premise: Cooler objects glow less than objects that are what?

Hypothesis: The hot object in equilibrium with light absorbs just as much light as it emits.


Premise: What condition are bears usually brought in in?

Hypothesis: Usually declawed and muzzled, they often wrestled shoot matches against audience members, offered a cash reward if they could pin the bear.


Premise: Single leg skills are found in the form of what normally?

Hypothesis: Single leg skills are generally found in the form of scissors, an element often done on the pommels.


Premise: Which sister did Frédéric play duets with sometimes while being tutored at this time?

Hypothesis: His elder sister Ludwika also took lessons from Żywny, and occasionally played duets with her brother.


Premise: When was the earliest Presbyterian churches founded by Scotland in England?

Hypothesis: A number of new Presbyterian Churches were founded by Scottish immigrants to England in the 19th century and later.


Premise: The Southminster Presbyterian Church in Pittsburg has partnerships with churches in which two countries?

Hypothesis: The Presbyterian Church of Nigeria, western Africa is also healthy and strong in mostly the southern states of this nation, strong density in the south-eastern states of this country.


Premise: Mahayana schools recognize all or part of what?

Hypothesis: Mahayana schools recognize all or part of the Mahayana Sutras.


Premise: Which Indie band said Beyoncé was an inspiration for one of hteir albums?

Hypothesis: American indie rock band White Rabbits also cited her an inspiration for their third album Milk Famous (2012), friend Gwyneth Paltrow studied Beyoncé at her live concerts while learning to become a musical performer for the 2010 film Country Strong.


Premise: Is the migration to Thuringia steady or fluctuating?

Hypothesis: Between Thuringia and the other German states, the balance is negative:


Premise: What happens during "laser lock"?

Hypothesis: One such problem is "laser lock", where the player reads the same two fields for a given frame over and over again, causing the picture to look frozen as if the movie were paused.


Premise: What is the maximum efficiency of reflective capsule bulbs as tested in labs?

Hypothesis: Laboratory proof-of-concept experiments have produced as much as 45 lm/W, approaching the efficacy of compact fluorescent bulbs.


Premise: What did Myanmar do that made it know to be one of the originals in a particular finance producing endeavor ?

Hypothesis: The wealth was however, mainly concentrated in the hands of Europeans.


Premise: When did Humphrey Gilbert first set sail for the West Indies?

Hypothesis: That year, Gilbert sailed for the West Indies with the intention of engaging in piracy and establishing a colony in North America, but the expedition was aborted before it had crossed the Atlantic.


Premise: How large is Lafayette Park?

Hypothesis: Planned by Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig Hilberseimer and Alfred Caldwell it includes a landscaped, 19-acre (7.7 ha) park with no through traffic, in which these and other low-rise apartment buildings are situated.


Premise: What was the literacy rate of Rajasthan in 1991?

Hypothesis: This was the highest leap in the percentage of literacy recorded in India (the rise in female literacy being 23%).


Premise: What happens in empirical therapy?

Hypothesis: In empirical therapy, a patient has proven or suspected infection, but the responsible microorganism is not yet unidentified.


Premise: What does a student receive when work is Sent Up For Good?

Hypothesis: For Good and the student will receive a card to be signed by House Master, tutor and division master.


Premise: Which entity subsumed the Kakatiya dynasty?

Hypothesis: The Kakatiya dynasty was reduced to a vassal of the Khilji dynasty in 1310 after its defeat by Sultan Alauddin Khilji of the Delhi Sultanate.


Premise: Along with the New Orleans VooDoo, Kansas City Brigade, Philadelphia Soul and Georgia Force, what former team returned for the 2011 season?

Hypothesis: For the 2011 season, the Philadelphia Soul, Kansas City Brigade, San Jose SaberCats, New Orleans VooDoo, and the Georgia Force returned to the AFL after having last played in 2008.


Premise: An MRI study on dogs proved that dogs use the same parts of what as humans?

Hypothesis: The latest study using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to humans and dogs together proved that dogs have same response to voices and use the same parts of the brain as humans to do so.


Premise: What type of sex are most earthworms?

Hypothesis: Most mature clitellates (the group that includes earthworms and leeches) are full hermaphrodites, although in a few leech species younger adults function as males and become female at maturity.


Premise: Each year, how much more money does New York City give to the federal government than it gets back?

Hypothesis: It receives 83 cents in services for every $1 it sends to the federal government in taxes (or annually sends $11.4 billion more than it receives back).


Premise: When was the photoelectric effect first observed?

Hypothesis: It was first observed by Alexandre Edmond Becquerel in 1839, although credit is usually reserved for Heinrich Hertz, who published the first thorough investigation in 1887.


Premise: Where did British forces and Egyptian police clash?

Hypothesis: On 25 January 1952, a confrontation between British forces and police at Ismailia resulted in the deaths of 40 Egyptian policemen, provoking riots in Cairo the next day which left 76 people dead.


Premise: What agreement was reached a the Council of Nicaea ?

Hypothesis: The meeting reached consensus on the Nicene Creed and other statements.


Premise: What are the four recognized levels of testing software?

Hypothesis: Tests are frequently grouped by where they are added in the software development process, or by the level of specificity of the test.


Premise: Arnold J Toynbee believed what?

Hypothesis: Geography alone was not a sufficient explanation of the terms, he believed.


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

Hypothesis: One of the newest parks, the Promenade des Berges de la Seine (2013), built on a former highway on the Left Bank of the Seine between the Pont de l'Alma and the Musée d'Orsay, has floating gardens and gives a view of the city's landmarks.


Premise: What percentage of sexually active teenagers will contract an STI?

Hypothesis: Adolescents in the United States often chose "anything but intercourse" for sexual activity because they mistakenly believe it reduces the risk of STIs.


Premise: Why was the term transistor used?

Hypothesis: Having unearthed Lilienfeld’s patents that went into obscurity years earlier, lawyers at Bell Labs advised against Shockley's proposal because the idea of a field-effect transistor that used an electric field as a "grid" was not new.


Premise: When did the continuous attack start?

Hypothesis: The British wanted to attack that afternoon, but the French wanted to defer the attack.


Premise: What does the amygdala region of the brain do?

Hypothesis: The only significant group difference between these orientations was found in the amygdala, a brain region known to be involved in regulating fear.


Premise: Witchety grubs serve as personal clan totems in what country?

Hypothesis: In the case of the 'San' bush-men of the Kalahari, it is the praying mantis which holds much cultural significance including creation and zen-like patience in waiting.:9


Premise: How many visitors came to London for Victorias coronation?

Hypothesis: She became the first sovereign to take up residence at Buckingham Palace and inherited the revenues of the duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall as well as being granted a civil list allowance of £385,000 per year.


Premise: What is one possible serious side effect of over-using antibiotics?

Hypothesis: However, some antibiotics have been associated with a range of adverse side effects.


Premise: Who modelled the effigies in the museum?

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


Premise: Who did not want to participate in the relay as 'caged woman'?

Hypothesis: On April 16, a protest was organised in Delhi "against Chinese repression in Tibet", and was broken up by the police.


Premise: When is the Tucson Festival of Books held?

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: Did that used to have a different name?

Hypothesis: This European place applies even if the team is relegated or is not in the English top flight.


Premise: What type of research was Princess Elizabeth station built to study?

Hypothesis: Belgian polar explorer Alain Hubert stated: "This base will be the first of its kind to produce zero emissions, making it a unique model of how energy should be used in the Antarctic."


Premise: What did Chopin create for Grand Duke Constantine?

Hypothesis: In 1817 the Saxon Palace was requisitioned by Warsaw's Russian governor for military use, and the Warsaw Lyceum was reestablished in the Kazimierz Palace (today the rectorate of Warsaw University).


Premise: When were public schools become more and more developed?

Hypothesis: Charter schools are another example of alternative education, which have in the recent years grown in numbers in the US and gained greater importance in its public education system.


Premise: What were the two Japanese sects of Buddhism?

Hypothesis: Tendai originated in China and is based on the Lotus Sutra, one of the most important sutras of Mahayana Buddhism; Saichō was key to its transmission to Japan.


Premise: During what season does the emperor penguin breed?

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


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

Hypothesis: Georges Cuvier strongly disputed such ideas, holding that unrelated, fixed species showed similarities that reflected a design for functional needs.


Premise: What Muslim endeavors thrived on the coastal areas of south India?

Hypothesis: Additionally, Muslim trading communities flourished throughout coastal south India, particularly on the western coast where Muslim traders arrived in small numbers, mainly from the Arabian peninsula.


Premise: What appointment was the start of Cesar's political rise?

Hypothesis: In the middle Republican era, even Scipio's tentative hints that he might be Jupiter's special protege sat ill with his colleagues.


Premise: The front of the Hudson River was named what by Estevao Gomes?

Hypothesis: A Spanish expedition led by captain Estêvão Gomes, a Portuguese sailing for Emperor Charles V, arrived in New York Harbor in January 1525 aboard the purpose-built caravel "La Anunciada" and charted the mouth of the Hudson River, which he named Rio de San Antonio.


Premise: Why is using racial categorization for profiling often criticized?

Hypothesis: This use of racial categories is frequently criticized for perpetuating an outmoded understanding of human biological variation, and promoting stereotypes.


Premise: What specialized academy does Southampton Solent University host?

Hypothesis: It is also host to the Warsash Maritime Academy, which provides training and certification for the international shipping and off-shore oil industries.


Premise: Who recognized and gave Russia the special guardian role?

Hypothesis: Nicholas believed that the European powers, especially Austria, would not object strongly to the annexation of a few neighbouring Ottoman provinces, especially considering that Russia had assisted Austria's efforts in suppressing the Hungarian Revolution in 1849.


Premise: Under what circumstances do glaciers form?

Hypothesis: This glacial ice will fill the cirque until it 'overflows' through a geological weakness or vacancy, such as the gap between two mountains.


Premise: Who first suggested the existence of discrete inheritable units?

Hypothesis: The existence of discrete inheritable units was first suggested by Gregor Mendel (1822–1884).


Premise: Who commissioned the Abbey to be built?

Hypothesis: According to a tradition first reported by Sulcard in about 1080, a church was founded at the site (then known as Thorn Ey (Thorn Island)) in the 7th century, at the time of Mellitus, a Bishop of London.


Premise: What state of affairs produced revelations and problems for Elizabeth?

Hypothesis: Criticism was focused on the institution of the monarchy itself and the Queen's wider family rather than her own behaviour and actions.


Premise: In what year was amphetamine first tested on asthma patients?

Hypothesis: Following the work of Henry Dale and George Barger at Burroughs-Wellcome, academic chemist Gordon Alles synthesized amphetamine and tested it in asthma patients in 1929.


Premise: What interdisciplinary fields has anthropology been central in the development of?

Hypothesis: Anthropology is a global discipline where humanities, social, and natural sciences are forced to confront one another.


Premise: What conflicts can be attributed to Disraeli's stance on foreign policy?

Hypothesis: Disraeli's expansionist foreign policy, which Victoria endorsed, led to conflicts such as the Anglo-Zulu War and the Second Anglo-Afghan War.


Premise: When a computer goes back and repeats instructions of a program over until an internal condition is met is called what?

Hypothesis: Similarly, a computer may sometimes go back and repeat the instructions in some section of the program over and over again until some internal condition is met.


Premise: Where did the Kadamba dynasty originate?

Hypothesis: Kadamba (345 – 525 CE) was an ancient royal dynasty of Karnataka, India that ruled northern Karnataka and the Konkan from Banavasi in present-day Uttara Kannada district.


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

Hypothesis: The three existing service Ministers—the Secretary of State for War, the First Lord of the Admiralty, and the Secretary of State for Air—remained in direct operational control of their respective services, but ceased to attend Cabinet.


Premise: What other massive agency's creation was the DHS compared to?

Hypothesis: A new cabinet-level agency called the United States Department of Homeland Security was created in November 2002 to lead and coordinate the largest reorganization of the U.S. federal government since the consolidation of the armed forces into the Department of Defense.[citation needed]


Premise: What is absent in a coreless DC motor?

Hypothesis: Optimized for rapid acceleration, these motors have a rotor that is constructed without any iron core.


Premise: Atticus is tasked with killing what animal in the novel?

Hypothesis: Carolyn Jones argues that the dog represents prejudice within the town of Maycomb, and Atticus, who waits on a deserted street to shoot the dog, must fight against the town's racism without help from other white citizens.


Premise: What color is also used interchangeably with "undried" for wood?

Hypothesis: Drying produces a decided increase in the strength of wood, particularly in small specimens.


Premise: Of what city was he bishop?

Hypothesis: Athanasius is a renowned Christian theologian, a Church Father, the chief defender of Trinitarianism against Arianism, and a noted Egyptian leader of the fourth century.


Premise: What has Guam recently being trying to protect?

Hypothesis: Tumon Bay has since been made into a preserve.


Premise: When was Victoria's coronation?

Hypothesis: Her coronation took place on 28 June 1838 at Westminster Abbey.


Premise: What year did Estonia reclaim their independence?

Hypothesis: In 1999, Estonia experienced its worst year economically since it regained independence in 1991, largely because of the impact of the 1998 Russian financial crisis.[citation needed]


Premise: What is the study of the differenet varieties of Catalan?

Hypothesis: It is a subdiscipline of Catalan philology and other affine studies and has as an objective to analyse the relation between the Catalan language, the speakers and the close reality (including the one of other languages in contact).


Premise: What is one reason the world population of Jews difficult to determine?

Hypothesis: In addition to issues with census methodology, disputes among proponents of halakhic, secular, political, and ancestral identification factors regarding who is a Jew may affect the figure considerably depending on the source.


Premise: What are organisms called that show carnivory and herbivory?

Hypothesis: Organisms that eat detritivores or parasites would also be difficult to classify by such a scheme.


Premise: Who owns 19 Recordings?

Hypothesis: 19 Recordings, a recording label owned by 19 Entertainment, currently hold the rights to phonographic material recorded by all the contestants.


Premise: Mont Blanc, the Matterhorn, and peaks in the Pennine Alps cosist of what?

Hypothesis: The core regions of the Alpine orogenic belt have been folded and fractured in such a manner that erosion created the characteristic steep vertical peaks of the Swiss Alps that rise seemingly straight out of the foreland areas.


Premise: How many people saw the first step onto the Moon?

Hypothesis: His first words when he stepped off the LM's landing footpad were, "That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind."


Premise: What happens when you bite something you cant chew?

Hypothesis: Teeth (singular tooth) are small whitish structures found in the jaws (or mouths) of many vertebrates that are used to tear, scrape, milk and chew food.


Premise: Dominic studied in what city?

Hypothesis: When the brethren left Prouille, then, to begin their apostolic work, Dominic sent Matthew of Paris to establish a school near the University of Paris.


Premise: The American Library Associated ranked To Kill a Mockingbird where on its most frequently challenged books of 2000-2009?

Hypothesis: To Kill a Mockingbird has been a source of significant controversy since its being the subject of classroom study as early as 1963.


Premise: How do translators preserve context?

Hypothesis: The particular syntax (sentence-structure) characteristics of a text's source language are adjusted to the syntactic requirements of the target language.


Premise: What remains as a testament to the time and work the indigenous people spent cultivating the flora of the Americas?

Hypothesis: Although some indigenous peoples of the Americas were traditionally hunter-gatherers—and many, especially in Amazonia, still are—many groups practiced aquaculture and agriculture.


Premise: What shortcoming was noticeable, from the start, for Wesley Clark?

Hypothesis: This weakness was apparent in his first few debates, although he soon presented a range of position papers, including a major tax-relief plan.


Premise: During the period of Georgian architecture what did landowners turn into?

Hypothesis: There was an enormous amount of building in the period, all over the English-speaking world, and the standards of construction were generally high.


Premise: What choir did Beyoncé sing in for two years?

Hypothesis: Beyoncé's interest in music and performing continued after winning a school talent show at age seven, singing John Lennon's "Imagine" to beat 15/16-year-olds.


Premise: Whom are referred to as "The forgoten people?"

Hypothesis: Throughout their history, the Liberals have been in electoral terms largely the party of the middle class (whom Menzies, in the era of the party's formation called "The forgotten people"), though such class-based voting patterns are no longer as clear as they once were.


Premise: Which medium allowed for multiple audio tracks, Laserdisc or VHS?

Hypothesis: LaserDisc had a number of advantages over VHS.


Premise: Where does Canada rank in world's oil supplies?

Hypothesis: Because of oil price increases after 2003, producing bitumen became highly profitable, but as a result of the decline after 2014 it became uneconomic to build new plants again.


Premise: Mason swear at each degree to do what?

Hypothesis: Accordingly, Masons swear at each degree to keep the contents of that degree secret, and to support and protect their brethren unless they have broken the law.


Premise: What share of the US digital music player market does iPod hold?

Hypothesis: Since October 2004, the iPod line has dominated digital music player sales in the United States, with over 90% of the market for hard drive-based players and over 70% of the market for all types of players.


Premise: Along with Jama Korshel, who led the Supreme Revolutionary Council?

Hypothesis: Alongside Barre, the Supreme Revolutionary Council (SRC) that assumed power after President Sharmarke's assassination was led by Lieutenant Colonel Salaad Gabeyre Kediye and Chief of Police Jama Korshel.


Premise: Which contestant was saved by the judges in season nine of American Idol?

Hypothesis: That week, Adam Lambert was invited back to be a mentor, the first Idol alum to do so.


Premise: Who did Gorbachev make First Secretary of the Azerbaijan Communist Party in 1988?

Hypothesis: Gorbachev refused to make any changes to the status of Nagorno Karabakh, which remained part of Azerbaijan.


Premise: What was the child vaccination rate according to a 2005 survey of Hyderabad?

Hypothesis: Only 61% of children had been provided with all basic vaccines (BCG, measles and full courses of polio and DPT), fewer than in all other surveyed cities except Meerut.:98


Premise: What did the LEAA say was reduced 10% to 13% in Washington, DC during daylight savings?

Hypothesis: However, the LEAA did not filter out other factors, and it examined only two cities and found crime reductions only in one and only in some crime categories; the DOT decided it was "impossible to conclude with any confidence that comparable benefits would be found nationwide".


Premise: What is another likely country for statehood?

Hypothesis: Some proposals call for the Virgin Islands to be admitted with Puerto Rico as one state (often known as the proposed "Commonwealth of Prusvi", for Puerto Rico/U.S. Virgin Islands, or as "Puerto Virgo"), and for the amalgamation of U.S. territories or former territories in the Pacific Ocean, in the manner of the "Greater Hawaii" concept of the 1960s.


Premise: Who are the only women who follow the tradition of covering half of their faces, though not their hair?

Hypothesis: In offices, both men and women often dress in suits.


Premise: What buddhism has a goal of Buddhahood or rainbow body?

Hypothesis: Mahayana Buddhism instead aspires to Buddhahood via the bodhisattva path, a state wherein one remains in this cycle to help other beings reach awakening.


Premise: Where did Augustine say time could not appear?

Hypothesis: But Augustine presented the first philosophical argument for the reality of Creation (against Aristotle) in the context of his discussion of time, saying that knowledge of time depends on the knowledge of the movement of things, and therefore time cannot be where there are no creatures to measure its passing (Confessions Book XI ¶30; City of God Book XI ch.6).


Premise: What social media platform did Beyoncé upload a picture of her paper ballot on?

Hypothesis: Beyoncé uploaded pictures of her paper ballot on Tumblr, confirming she had voted in support for the Democratic Party and to encourage others to do so.


Premise: Which directions does the South Saharan run?

Hypothesis: The South Saharan steppe and woodlands ecoregion is a narrow band running east and west between the hyper-arid Sahara and the Sahel savannas to the south.


Premise: What can products not use if they want to avoid infringing on patent rights?

Hypothesis: In September 1998, the Fraunhofer Institute sent a letter to several developers of MP3 software stating that a license was required to "distribute and/or sell decoders and/or encoders".


Premise: What relations does the television show Gilmore Girls have to New Haven city?

Hypothesis: A fictional native of New Haven is Alex Welch from the novella, The Odd Saga of the American and a Curious Icelandic Flock.


Premise: What company helped in the creation of community service videoconferencing?

Hypothesis: While videoconferencing technology was initially used primarily within internal corporate communication networks, one of the first community service usages of the technology started in 1992 through a unique partnership with PictureTel and IBM Corporations which at the time were promoting a jointly developed desktop based videoconferencing product known as the PCS/1.


Premise: Approximately how many African Americans lived in Tennessee in 1900?

Hypothesis: In 1889 the General Assembly passed four laws described as electoral reform, with the cumulative effect of essentially disfranchising most African Americans in rural areas and small towns, as well as many poor Whites.


Premise: What was the seat of government during the colonial times of the Viceroyalty of the Rio de la Plata?

Hypothesis: It is located in front of Constitution Square, in Ciudad Vieja.


Premise: To prevent high water pressures at lower elevations what were built on many of the city's buildings?

Hypothesis: In the 1800s, the city required their installation on buildings higher than six stories to prevent the need for excessively high water pressures at lower elevations, which could break municipal water pipes.


Premise: Who did General Hodge restore power to, resulting in protests?

Hypothesis: He established control by restoring to power the key Japanese colonial administrators, but in the face of Korean protests he quickly reversed this decision.


Premise: What does this type of elevator use to propel the cage?

Hypothesis: A elevator of this kind uses a vacuum on top of the cab and a valve on the top of the "shaft" to move the cab upwards and closes the valve in order to keep the cab at the same level.