Premise: How many people demonstrated?

Hypothesis: On October 17, 1987, about 3,000 Armenians demonstrated in Yerevan complaining about the condition of Lake Sevan, the Nairit chemicals plant, and the Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant, and air pollution in Yerevan.


Premise: what happened to the internet in the late 1980s?

Hypothesis: By the late 1980s, a process was set in place towards public, commercial use of the Internet.


Premise: What happened to the French Mediterranean fleet?

Hypothesis: In the Battle of Quiberon Bay on 20 November, the British admiral Edward Hawke with 23 ships of the line caught the French Brest fleet with 21 ships of the line under Marshal de Conflans and sank, captured, or forced many of them aground, putting an end to the French plans.


Premise: Food with an emphasis on seafood, salt, and dairy is an exaple of what?

Hypothesis: Irish Americans are a major influence on Boston's politics and religious institutions.


Premise: What group controlled the Mafia in New York in the 20th century?

Hypothesis: The 20th century saw a rise in the Mafia, dominated by the Five Families, as well as in gangs, including the Black Spades.


Premise: What was another name used for Higher Education?

Hypothesis: Tertiary education is normally taken to include undergraduate and postgraduate education, as well as vocational education and training.


Premise: In what year did Egypt sell its portion of Suez Canal?

Hypothesis: In 1875 Ismail was forced to sell Egypt's share in the canal to the British Government.


Premise: The Holy Roman Empire comprised of how many petty states?

Hypothesis: The new German Empire included 25 states (three of them, Hanseatic cities) and the imperial territory of Alsace-Lorraine.


Premise: How many crew were with Kerry?

Hypothesis: According to Kerry and the two crewmen who accompanied him that night, Patrick Runyon and William Zaladonis, they surprised a group of Vietnamese men unloading sampans at a river crossing, who began running and failed to obey an order to stop.


Premise: Which three parts make up the TSFSR?

Hypothesis: The TSFSR existed from 1922 to 1936, when it was divided up into three separate entities (Armenian SSR, Azerbaijan SSR, and Georgian SSR).


Premise: When is Guinea-Bissau warm?

Hypothesis: The average rainfall for Bissau is 2,024 millimetres (79.7 in) although this is almost entirely accounted for during the rainy season which falls between June and September/October.


Premise: What is its largest island?

Hypothesis: A Illa de Arousa.


Premise: What was the first album Beyoncé released as a solo artist?

Hypothesis: Managed by her father, Mathew Knowles, the group became one of the world's best-selling girl groups of all time.


Premise: What is the name of the shawl that married women wear on their upper bodies?

Hypothesis: Unmarried or young women, however, do not always cover their heads.


Premise: From what land did the people of Niutao believe they came?

Hypothesis: On Niutao, Funafuti and Vaitupu the founding ancestor is described as being from Samoa; whereas on Nanumea the founding ancestor is described as being from Tonga.


Premise: Which French station has refused to adopt a 24 hour schedule?

Hypothesis: Its French counterpart, Ici Radio-Canada Télé, still signs off every night.


Premise: Where is the OTS in the US currently located?

Hypothesis: OTS, previously located at Lackland AFB, Texas until 1993 and located at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama since 1993, in turn encompasses two separate commissioning programs: Basic Officer Training (BOT), which is for line-officer candidates of the active-duty Air Force and the U.S. Air Force Reserve; and the Academy of Military Science (AMS), which is for line-officer candidates of the Air National Guard.


Premise: How many albums does Kanye have on the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" list?

Hypothesis: Three of his albums rank on Rolling Stone's 2012 "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" list; two of his albums feature at first and eighth, respectively, in Pitchfork Media's The 100 Best Albums of 2010–2014.


Premise: How many singles did her second album produce?

Hypothesis: The album's lead single "Déjà Vu", featuring Jay Z, reached the top five on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.


Premise: What institution controls BYU?

Hypothesis: The university is broadly organized into 11 colleges or schools at its main Provo campus, with certain colleges and divisions defining their own admission standards.


Premise: The Church of Central Africa-Presbyterian often offers what services?

Hypothesis: Part of the Presbyterian Church in Malawi and Zambia is known as CCAP, Church of Central Africa-Presbyterian.


Premise: What does using race as a category within the law legitimize?

Hypothesis: The European Union uses the terms racial origin and ethnic origin synonymously in its documents and according to it "the use of the term 'racial origin' in this directive does not imply an acceptance of such [racial] theories".[full citation needed]


Premise: What is the name of the book written by Anton Hansen Tammsaare?

Hypothesis: Anton Hansen Tammsaare's social epic and psychological realist pentalogy Truth and Justice captured the evolution of Estonian society from a peasant community to an independent nation.


Premise: What had caused citizens to vacate their farms?

Hypothesis: Their poverty usually led them to vote for the candidate who offered them the most.


Premise: On which street is the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center located?

Hypothesis: Notable locations include East River Ferry, LaptopMD headquarters, Mercy College Manhattan Campus, and Jacob K. Javits Convention Center.


Premise: All taxis in Delhi were ordered to switch to what type of fuel by March 1, 2016?

Hypothesis: Among the measures, the court ordered to stop registrations of diesel cars and sport utility vehicles with an engine capacity of 2,000 cc and over until March 31, 2016.


Premise: Which ethnicity claimed the majority in Bermuda during the 17th century?

Hypothesis: In the 17th century, this was not so.


Premise: Where did the Portuguese royal family move in 1808?

Hypothesis: He also created a Royal Police Guard for Rio de Janeiro in 1809.


Premise: what sometimes prefers a more lenient position on Dietray laws?

Hypothesis: Rather, the Orthodox community, as a counterreaction to the liberalism of the Haskalah movement, began to embrace far more stringent halachic practices than their predecessors, most notably in matters of Kashrut and Passover dietary laws, where the strictest possible interpretation becomes a religious requirement, even where the Talmud explicitly prefers a more lenient position, and even where a more lenient position was practiced by prior generations.


Premise: What was the result for Admiral Byng?

Hypothesis: A British attempt at relief was foiled at the Battle of Minorca, and the island was captured on 28 June (for which Admiral Byng was court-martialed and executed).


Premise: Who fined Queen for donating to a school for the deaf and blind?

Hypothesis: Queen donated to a school for the deaf and blind as a philanthropic gesture but were fined by the British Musicians' Union and placed on the United Nations' blacklisted artists.


Premise: Upon what is Portuguese agriculture based?

Hypothesis: However, the sector also includes larger scale intensive farming export-oriented agrobusinesses backed by companies (like Grupo RAR's Vitacress, Sovena, Lactogal, Vale da Rosa, Companhia das Lezírias and Valouro).


Premise: What caused a dramatic shift in Italian sentiment toward the war?

Hypothesis: Bismarck's demand for the return of Alsace caused a dramatic shift in that sentiment in Italy, which was best exemplified by the reaction of Garibaldi soon after the revolution in Paris, who told the Movimento of Genoa on 7 September 1870 that "Yesterday I said to you: war to the death to Bonaparte.


Premise: Who has the power to appoint and dismiss the Prime Minister?

Hypothesis: Presidential powers include the appointment of the Prime Minister and the other members of the Government (where the President takes into account the results of legislative elections); dismissing the Prime Minister; dissolving the Assembly of the Republic (to call early elections); vetoing legislation (which may be overridden by the Assembly with a supermajority); and declaring a state of war or siege.


Premise: Who was over the new U.S. Strategic Air Forces in the Pacific command?

Hypothesis: On 26 July 1945, the President of the United States Harry S. Truman, the President of the Nationalist Government of China Chiang Kai-shek and the Prime Minister of Great Britain Winston Churchill issued the Potsdam Declaration, which outlined the terms of surrender for the Empire of Japan as agreed upon at the Potsdam Conference.


Premise: When was Victoria's coronation?

Hypothesis: Charles Greville supposed that the widowed and childless Melbourne was "passionately fond of her as he might be of his daughter if he had one", and Victoria probably saw him as a father figure.


Premise: The city of Charleston is defined by the limits of the Parish of St. Michael and what other parish?

Hypothesis: The traditional parish system persisted until the Reconstruction Era, when counties were imposed.[citation needed]


Premise: What is omitted when an act is published?

Hypothesis: However, the date on which the assent was notified is printed in brackets.


Premise: Which region of America was the novel set in?

Hypothesis: Scholars have noted that Lee also addresses issues of class, courage, compassion, and gender roles in the American Deep South.


Premise: What percentage of difference is there between the genetic material of humans and the genetic material of chimpanzees?

Hypothesis: This suggests that everything that separates us from chimpanzees must be encoded in that very small amount of DNA, including our behaviors.


Premise: When was Nanjing considered to be the biggest city in the world?

Hypothesis: Nanjing remained the capital of the Ming Empire until 1421, when the third emperor of the Ming dynasty, the Yongle Emperor, relocated the capital to Beijing.


Premise: What did the Imperial Japanese Navy Wakamiya conduct in September 1914?

Hypothesis: In September 1914 the Imperial Japanese Navy Wakamiya conducted the world's first successful ship-launched air raid: on 6 September 1914 a Farman aircraft launched by Wakamiya attacked the Austro-Hungarian cruiser SMS Kaiserin Elisabeth and the German gunboat Jaguar in Kiaochow Bay off Tsingtao; neither was hit.


Premise: What enrichment process was used by the Manhattan Project?

Hypothesis: The gaseous diffusion process had been the leading method for enrichment and was used in the Manhattan Project.


Premise: How many households were there in Atlantic City during the 2010 United States Census?

Hypothesis: 37.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 14.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.


Premise: What season is black bear hunting allowed?

Hypothesis: There is a spring hunting season for black bear and in most years, limited hunting of bison that leave Yellowstone National Park is allowed.


Premise: In what year did Pope John XXIII die?

Hypothesis: He was viewed as most likely to continue the Second Vatican Council, which already, without any tangible results, had lasted longer than anticipated by John XXIII, who had a vision but "did not have a clear agenda.


Premise: How many base stations did China Mobile have suspended?

Hypothesis: China Unicom's service in Wenchuan and four nearby counties was cut off, with more than 700 towers suspended.


Premise: Which doctor from Pakistan served until 2000?

Hypothesis: 1987–2000 Dr Nafis Sadik (Pakistan)_1969–87 Mr Rafael M. Salas (Philippines)


Premise: What event is stated as a reason why the word heretic is used less often in modern times?

Hypothesis: Perhaps due to the many modern negative connotations associated with the term heretic, such as the Spanish inquisition, the term is used less often today.


Premise: By what year did the Allies force the French out of the Iberian peninsula?

Hypothesis: Several months after Corunna, the British sent another army to the peninsula under the future Duke of Wellington.


Premise: The Standard Elocutionist was printed how many times?

Hypothesis: His father published a variety of works on the subject, several of which are still well known, especially his The Standard Elocutionist (1860), which appeared in Edinburgh in 1868.


Premise: Who is responsible for proposing BYU's current name?

Hypothesis: The school, however, did not become a university until the end of Benjamin Cluff, Jr's term at the helm of the institution.


Premise: What did authors and artists begin advocating for instead of the underground scene?

Hypothesis: Writers like Paul Morley began advocating "overground brightness" instead of the experimental sensibilities promoted in early years.


Premise: What is the film's theme song?

Hypothesis: This Used to Be My Playground", which became a Hot 100 number one hit.


Premise: What country is the Premier League the most distributed televised sports broadcast?

Hypothesis: The Premier League is particularly popular in Asia, where it is the most widely distributed sports programme.


Premise: When did Britain transfer Hong Kong to China?

Hypothesis: The transfer of Hong Kong to China in 1997 marked for many the end of the British Empire.


Premise: What do latinos consider a light skinned mulatto to be?

Hypothesis: Many Latin American migrants have been mestizo, Amerindian, or other mixed race.


Premise: When did Cloudina exist?

Hypothesis: It is not until the early Ordovician that the first annelid jaws are found, thus the crown-group cannot have appeared before this date and probably appeared somewhat later.


Premise: Which two countries sought to crush the nascent republic?

Hypothesis: At the same time, some Alsatians were in opposition to the Jacobins and sympathetic to the invading forces of Austria and Prussia who sought to crush the nascent revolutionary republic.


Premise: When was the Treaty of Kyakhta written?

Hypothesis: In exchange for territory and trading rights, the Qing would have a free hand dealing with the situation in Mongolia.


Premise: What denominations are considered to be better educated than most other groups?

Hypothesis: Episcopalians and Presbyterians, as well as other WASPs, tend to be considerably wealthier and better educated (having graduate and post-graduate degrees per capita) than most other religious groups in United States, and are disproportionately represented in the upper reaches of American business, law and politics, especially the Republican Party.


Premise: What was Zhou's ineffective response to the issue plaguing the PVA?

Hypothesis: On 1 March 1951 Mao sent a cable to Stalin, in which he emphasized the difficulties faced by Chinese forces and the urgent need for air cover, especially over supply lines.


Premise: What is the fourth and final stomach compartment in ruminants?

Hypothesis: The abomasum is the fourth and final stomach compartment in ruminants.


Premise: What was the focus of the Northern Renaissance?

Hypothesis: The renewal of learning in Europe, that began with 12th century Scholasticism, came to an end about the time of the Black Death, and the initial period of the subsequent Italian Renaissance is sometimes seen as a lull in scientific activity.


Premise: What advantage did Washington have over the British generals?

Hypothesis: As the war ended, Washington watched proudly as the final British army quietly sailed out of New York City in November 1783, taking the Loyalist leadership with them.


Premise: Why do many hip hop and R&B artists turn to house music?

Hypothesis: Many hip hop and R&B artists also turn to house music to add a mass appeal to the music they produce.


Premise: What event was coincidental with the North American megafauna extinction?

Hypothesis: North American megafauna extinction was coincidental with the Younger Dryas impact event, possibly making hunting a less critical factor in prehistoric species loss than had been previously thought.


Premise: Who performed the song "Everybody"?

Hypothesis: Estonia won the Eurovision Song Contest in 2001 with the song "Everybody" performed by Tanel Padar and Dave Benton.


Premise: How many homes had been rebuilt?

Hypothesis: 1,300 schools had been reconstructed, with initial relocation of 25 townships, including Beichuan and Wenchuan, two of the most devastated areas.


Premise: True aspirated consonants have been found in Kelabit Taa and what else?

Hypothesis: They have been documented in Kelabit Taa, and the Kx'a languages.


Premise: Who lived at Buckingham Palace during WWI?

Hypothesis: During World War I, the palace, then the home of King George V and Queen Mary, escaped unscathed.


Premise: Where does rationalism say knowledge comes from?

Hypothesis: Philosophical empiricists hold no knowledge to be properly inferred or deduced unless it is derived from one's sense-based experience.


Premise: Which year was the Lancashire County Cup abandoned?

Hypothesis: Rugby League has also seen a representative fixture between Lancashire and Yorkshire contested 89 times since its inception in 1895.


Premise: When did the second line of Metrobus open?

Hypothesis: As the microbuses were removed from its route, it was hoped that the Metrobús could reduce pollution and decrease transit time for passengers.


Premise: What is limited by Miami's high water table?

Hypothesis: For this reason, the mass transit systems in and around Miami are elevated or at-grade.[citation needed]


Premise: How did the original  Constitution identify its society members ?

Hypothesis: A century later, when the Treaty of Lausanne was signed between Greece and Turkey in 1923, the two countries agreed to use religion as the determinant for ethnic identity for the purposes of population exchange, although most of the Greeks displaced (over a million of the total 1.5 million) had already been driven out by the time the agreement was signed.[note 1]


Premise: What root did Egyptians use to source their red pigment alizarin?

Hypothesis: The Egyptians used the root of the rubia, or madder plant, to make a dye, later known as alizarin, and also used it to color white power to use as a pigment, which became known as madder lake, alizarin or alizarin crimson.


Premise: It has been suggested that a primary Baptist principle is that local Baptist Churches are what?

Hypothesis: It has been suggested that a primary Baptist principle is that local Baptist Churches are independent and self-governing, and if so the term 'Baptist denomination' may be considered somewhat incongruous.


Premise: What did Pinnacle Entertainment intend to replace the Sands Atlantic City with?

Hypothesis: The biggest disappointment was when MGM Resorts International announced that it would pull out of all development for Atlantic City, effectively ending their plans for the MGM Grand Atlantic City.


Premise: What important aim of minority leader pertaining to elections?

Hypothesis: Despite the minority leader's restricted ability to set the House's agenda, there are still opportunities for him to raise minority priorities.


Premise: What changed worldwide property drasrically?

Hypothesis: It was the largest and most important economic depression in the 20th century, and is used in the 21st century as an example of how far the world's economy can fall.


Premise: Where does a cappella still maintain a heavy presence?

Hypothesis: Contemporary a cappella includes many vocal groups and bands who add vocal percussion or beatboxing to create a pop/rock/gospel sound, in some cases very similar to bands with instruments.


Premise: What was the name of the colony founded by the Pilgrim Fathers in the New World?

Hypothesis: This settlement continued as a trading post for the Roman Empire, until it was surpassed by the more prosperous village of Sutton, now called Plymouth.


Premise: The state decreed that how many men serve along the border in 1846?

Hypothesis: Continuing to anticipate a war, the state legislature on July 11, 1846 by decree enlisted 6,000 men to serve along the border; during that time Ángel Trías quickly rose to power by portraying zealous anti-American rhetoric.


Premise: What is a current LZ based coding scheme that does well?

Hypothesis: For most LZ methods, this table is generated dynamically from earlier data in the input.


Premise: What is Longjing tea also called?

Hypothesis: Longjing tea (also called dragon well tea), originating in Hangzhou, is one of the most prestigious, if not the most prestigious Chinese tea.


Premise: How much is Eddy Street Commons at Notre Dame expected to cost?

Hypothesis: The Eddy Street Commons drew union protests when workers hired by the City of South Bend to construct the public parking garage picketed the private work site after a contractor hired non-union workers.


Premise: What is the symbol for zinc?

Hypothesis: Zinc is a chemical element with symbol Zn and atomic number 30.


Premise: What school disagreed with the principles of the Mimamsa school?

Hypothesis: They considered the Upanishads and other self-knowledge, spirituality-related texts to be of secondary importance, a philosophical view that the Vedanta school disagreed with.


Premise: How many people competed to be Brasilia's urban planner?

Hypothesis: Building Brasília was part of Juscelino's "fifty years of prosperity in five" plan.


Premise: For whom did Hayek work upon being hired by Ludwig von Mises?

Hypothesis: Upon the completion of his examinations, Hayek was hired by Ludwig von Mises on the recommendation of Wieser as a specialist for the Austrian government working on the legal and economic details of the Treaty of Saint Germain.


Premise: What caused an increasingly literate population to develop in the Enlightenment era?

Hypothesis: An increasingly literate population seeking knowledge and education in both the arts and the sciences drove the expansion of print culture and the dissemination of scientific learning.


Premise: The largest Carnival celebration takes place in which city?

Hypothesis: The largest celebration takes place in the city of Panjim which was part of Velha Conquista, Goa, but now is celebrate throughout the state.


Premise: Which huge internet seller is headquartered in Seattle?

Hypothesis: Internet retailer Amazon.com (#49), coffee chain Starbucks (#208), department store Nordstrom (#227), and freight forwarder Expeditors International of Washington (#428).


Premise: Where was  fresh food sold daily in Charleston in 1840?

Hypothesis: The slave trade also depended on the port of Charleston, where ships could be unloaded and the slaves bought and sold.


Premise: What kind of printing press helped increase the circulation and influence of The Times back in 1817?

Hypothesis: Under the editorship of Barnes and his successor in 1841, John Thadeus Delane, the influence of The Times rose to great heights, especially in politics and amongst the City of London.


Premise: What did Nasser symbolize?

Hypothesis: Through his actions and speeches, and because he was able to symbolize the popular Arab will, Nasser inspired several nationalist revolutions in the Arab world.


Premise: Who did Henry II express his fury and ill-will towards?

Hypothesis: From Henry II onwards, ira et malevolentia had come to describe the right of the king to express his anger and displeasure at particular barons or clergy, building on the Norman concept of malevoncia – royal ill-will.


Premise: What is the pro of 4GL over a 3G language?

Hypothesis: These 4G languages are less procedural than 3G languages.


Premise: What city did Muravyev decide not to take control over?

Hypothesis: A relieving force fell back and there was a possibility of taking Erzerum, but Muravyev chose not to.


Premise: When was Roland Barthes book published?

Hypothesis: The French theorist Roland Barthes was among the first to propose that wrestling was worthy of deeper analysis, in his essay "The World of Wrestling" from his book Mythologies, first published in 1957.


Premise: What is still the conventional use of the ETX code?

Hypothesis: The end-of-text code (ETX), also known as Control-C, was inappropriate for a variety of reasons, while using Z as the control code to end a file is analogous to it ending the alphabet and serves as a very convenient mnemonic aid.


Premise: What did Zaha Hadid design?

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


Premise: What is the per capita GDP of Cyprus given by the IMF?

Hypothesis: The Cypriot government adopted the euro as the national currency on 1 January 2008.


Premise: What group did Maulana Masood Azhar lead?

Hypothesis: In 2002, the Musharraf-led government took a firm stand against the jihadi organizations and groups promoting extremism, and arrested Maulana Masood Azhar, head of the Jaish-e-Mohammed, and Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, chief of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, and took dozens of activists into custody.


Premise: For how long did the Soviet Union go unrecognized?

Hypothesis: Initially, the state did not have an official name and wasn't recognized by neighboring countries for five months.


Premise: Where is Eduardo Bonilla-Silver a Sociology professor?

Hypothesis: Color-blind racism thrives on the idea that race is no longer an issue in the United States.


Premise: Who was Archbishop of Canterbury during Paul VI papacy?

Hypothesis: Paul VI was the first pope to receive an Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, Michael Ramsey in official audience as Head of Church, after the private audience visit of Archbishop Geoffrey Fisher to Pope John XXIII on 2 December 1960.


Premise: About how many birds are released onto shooting estates every year?

Hypothesis: When in position, "beaters" move through the areas of cover, swinging sticks or flags to drive the game out.


Premise: What happened on January 1st 1901?

Hypothesis: The Australian continent was colonised by the United Kingdom in 1788, which subsequently established six, eventually self-governing, colonies there.


Premise: What year did Charles Babbage find out that An Analytical Engine was possible?

Hypothesis: After working on his revolutionary difference engine, designed to aid in navigational calculations, in 1833 he realized that a much more general design, an Analytical Engine, was possible.


Premise: In what year did Southampton's fourth cruise terminal open in the western docklands?

Hypothesis: In particular, it is a port for cruise ships; its heyday was the first half of the 20th century, and in particular the inter-war years, when it handled almost half the passenger traffic of the UK.


Premise: Along with the University of the South Pacific, what tertiary education institution exists in the Marshall Islands?

Hypothesis: The Ministry of Education (Marshall Islands) operates the state schools in the Marshall Islands.


Premise: What do abusive drugs effect in the circadian system?

Hypothesis: It is indicated that these abusive drugs affect the central circadian pacemaker.


Premise: Avoidance of unwholesome actions and use of positive actions is called what?

Hypothesis: The avoidance of unwholesome actions and the cultivation of positive actions is called sīla.


Premise: What was the date of the first action of the Franco-Prussian War?

Hypothesis: The first action of the Franco-Prussian War took place on 4 August 1870.


Premise: In developing countries, is it common for children to attend fewer or greater years of formal schooling?

Hypothesis: For instance, in many developing countries it is common for children to attend fewer years of formal schooling so that, when they reach adolescence, they can begin working.


Premise: What is the theoretical maximum efficiency of reflective capsule bulbs?

Hypothesis: This concept was pioneered by Duro-Test in 1980 with a commercial product that produced 29.8 lm/W. More advanced reflectors based on interference filters or photonic crystals can theoretically result in higher efficiency, up to a limit of about 270 lm/W (40% of the maximum efficacy possible).


Premise: What is the penalty for a time count on the first two downs?

Hypothesis: During the last three minutes of a half, the penalty for failure to place the ball in play within the 20-second play clock, known as "time count" (this foul is known as "delay of game" in American football), is dramatically different from during the first 27 minutes.


Premise: What did hunters feel hunting over the Internet violated?

Hypothesis: When Internet hunting was introduced in 2005, allowing people to hunt over the Internet using remotely controlled guns, the practice was widely criticised by hunters as violating the principles of fair chase.


Premise: Does the government allow access to any desired  media channels for residents ?

Hypothesis: In September 2011, several banned websites, including YouTube, Democratic Voice of Burma and Voice of America, were unblocked.


Premise: Since when has the severe weather in the Alps been studied?

Hypothesis: The severe weather in the Alps has been studied since the 18th century; particularly the weather patterns such as the seasonal foehn wind.


Premise: Which model does Ford manufacture in their Southampton plant?

Hypothesis: The Lloyd's Register Group has announced plans to move its London marine operations to a specially developed site at the University of Southampton.


Premise: How many of the men died in prison?

Hypothesis: Three of the men were sentenced to death (which was later reduced to life in prison), and the fourth defendant was sentenced to life in prison.


Premise: What were the Japanese originally going to drop on San Diego from their kamikaze planes?

Hypothesis: During the final months of the war, the Japanese had a plan to target multiple U.S. cities for biological attack, starting with San Diego.


Premise: Who did the Thunder lose to in the Western Conference finals?

Hypothesis: In 2014 Oklahoma City again reached the NBA's Western Conference Finals but eventually lost to the San Antonio Spurs in six games.


Premise: How long is the longest avenue in Mexico City?

Hypothesis: The most recognizable icon of Mexico City is the golden Angel of Independence on the wide, elegant avenue Paseo de la Reforma, modeled by the order of the Emperor Maximilian of Mexico after the Champs-Élysées in Paris.


Premise: What are the primary languages of Europe that are used in Burma ?

Hypothesis: The two major Indo-European languages are Pali, the liturgical language of Theravada Buddhism, and English.


Premise: Why did Gaddafi's family leave Sabha?

Hypothesis: In October 1961, he led a demonstration protesting Syria's secession from the United Arab Republic.


Premise: Housing for employees was built in what area during the 1920s?

Hypothesis: Subsequently housing for them was developed around Gole Market area in the 1920s.


Premise: When did Karma Phuntsok Namgyal reign?

Hypothesis: The second successor of this first Tsang king, Karma Phuntsok Namgyal, took control of the whole of Central Tibet (Ü-Tsang), reigning from 1611–1621.


Premise: Who tried to invade Egypt in the famous line-in-the-sand incident?

Hypothesis: Eventually, instability in the near east resulting from the power vacuum left by the collapse of the Seleucid empire caused the Roman proconsul Pompey the Great to abolish the Seleucid rump state, absorbing much of Syria into the Roman republic.


Premise: When did Armenia begin winning Olympic medals?

Hypothesis: The first medal won by an Armenian in modern Olympic history was by Hrant Shahinyan, who won two golds and two silvers in gymnastics at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.


Premise: Who created the astrolabe?

Hypothesis: The astrolabe, though originally developed by the Greeks, was perfected by Islamic astronomers and engineers, and was subsequently brought to Europe.


Premise: What was a negative of regulating the lake's water height?

Hypothesis: However, draining the wetlands also changed the habitat for fish and birds and the areas accessible for Indian cultivation close to the capital.


Premise: What is the value of the contract between Under Armour and Notre Dame?

Hypothesis: This contract, worth almost $100 million, is the most lucrative in the history of the NCAA.


Premise: Who sued Apple, Samsung Electronics and Sandisk in 2007?

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


Premise: In what year was Peter of Alexandria martyred?

Hypothesis: His successor as bishop of Alexandria, Alexander of Alexandria (312–328) was an Origenist as well as a documented mentor of Athanasius.


Premise: In the field that Stuart was working, what did he and his colleagues often concentrate on?

Hypothesis: Watching television in order to view a public perspective on a historical event should not be thought of as culture, unless referring to the medium of television itself, which may have been selected culturally; however, schoolchildren watching television after school with their friends in order to "fit in" certainly qualifies, since there is no grounded reason for one's participation in this practice.


Premise: How many school and universities are in NYC?

Hypothesis: Several sources have ranked New York the most photographed city in the world.


Premise: What is Nanjing's nationwide ranking for National key laboratories?

Hypothesis: The number of National key laboratories, National key disciplines and the academicians of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering all rank third in the nation.


Premise: What has been a major factor in the restoration of Estonia after winning their independence?

Hypothesis: An important element in Estonia's post-independence reorientation has been closer ties with the Nordic countries, especially Finland and Sweden.


Premise: What percentage of shares in Arsenal did Kroenke own by 2011?

Hypothesis: In April 2011, Kroenke achieved a full takeover by purchasing the shareholdings of Nina Bracewell-Smith and Danny Fiszman, taking his shareholding to 62.89%.


Premise: Who wanted to take over Constantinople?

Hypothesis: 10 000 Russian army corps landed on the Bosphorus shores in 1833 and helped to prevent the capture of Constantinople, thus the possible disappearance of the Ottoman Empire was prevented.


Premise: How many hours of bright sunshine does Nanjing get each year?

Hypothesis: With monthly percent possible sunshine ranging from 37 percent in March to 52 percent in August, the city receives 1,983 hours of bright sunshine annually.


Premise: What party was Pedro Albizu Campos part of?

Hypothesis: The FBI operation was covert and did not become known until U.S. Congressman Luis Gutierrez had it made public via the Freedom of Information Act in the 1980s.


Premise: How is the shofar used?

Hypothesis: The shofar is the only temple instrument still being used today in the synagogue, and it is only used from Rosh Chodesh Elul through the end of Yom Kippur.


Premise: Who do majuscules have which distinguish themselves from minuscules?

Hypothesis: Typographically, the basic difference between the majuscules and minuscules is not that the majuscules are big and minuscules small, but that the majuscules generally have the same height.


Premise: Which conjugation has less than 100 verbs?

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


Premise: How many tourists visited Israel in 2013?

Hypothesis: In 2013, a record of 3.54 million tourists visited Israel with the most popular site of attraction being the Western Wall with 68% of tourists visiting there.


Premise: How much of Melbourne's water capacity is the Thomson River Dam capable of holding?

Hypothesis: The largest dam, the Thomson River Dam, located in the Victorian Alps, is capable of holding around 60% of Melbourne's water capacity, while smaller dams such as the Upper Yarra Dam, Yan Yean Reservoir, and the Cardinia Reservoir carry secondary supplies.


Premise: When was Barcelona founded?

Hypothesis: Unlike many other football clubs, the supporters own and operate Barcelona.


Premise: The abbey was recognised as what until 1556?

Hypothesis: Westminster diocese was dissolved in 1550, but the abbey was recognised (in 1552, retroactively to 1550) as a second cathedral of the Diocese of London until 1556.


Premise: At what age did Spielberg make 'Escape to Nowhere'?

Hypothesis: Years later, Spielberg recalled to a magazine interviewer, "My dad's still-camera was broken, so I asked the scoutmaster if I could tell a story with my father's movie camera.


Premise: According to the 2011 London census, what percentage of children were black?

Hypothesis: Across London, Black and Asian children outnumber White British children by about six to four in state schools.


Premise: Companies did what in an effort to circumvent Nintendo's console authentication?

Hypothesis: Most of these companies created circuits that used a voltage spike to temporarily disable the 10NES chip in the NES.


Premise: How many miles is Tuscon from the U.S.- Mexico border?

Hypothesis: The city is  located 108 miles (174 km) southeast of Phoenix and 60 mi (97 km) north of the U.S.-Mexico border.


Premise: What country initiated conflict?

Hypothesis: However, a large French force was assembled at Toulon, and the French opened the campaign against the British by an attack on Minorca in the Mediterranean.


Premise: why do satellites need to fire engines every few day to keep orbit?

Hypothesis: Most artificial satellites operate in this region called low Earth orbit and must fire their engines every few days to maintain orbit.[citation needed]


Premise: The primary job of the brain is what?

Hypothesis: The essential function of the brain is cell-to-cell communication, and synapses are the points at which communication occurs.


Premise: When was the southern tip of Africa colonized?

Hypothesis: Britain formally acquired the colony, and its large Afrikaner (or Boer) population in 1806, having occupied it in 1795 to prevent its falling into French hands, following the invasion of the Netherlands by France.


Premise: Where is the Augmented Programme required for further education?

Hypothesis: Sixth form students who pass their PSSC go on to the Augmented Foundation Programme, funded by the government of Tuvalu.


Premise: Who won the 1876 election as a result of voter intimidation?

Hypothesis: The Red Shirts were instrumental in suppressing the black Republican vote in some areas in 1876 and narrowly electing Wade Hampton as governor, and taking back control of the state legislature.


Premise: By the beginning of what century was the Romanesque style established all over Europe?

Hypothesis: The important categories of building: the cathedral church, the parish church, the monastery, the castle, the palace, the great hall, the gatehouse, the civic building, had been established in the Romanesque period.


Premise: Ruins of merchants' homes that survive today are evidence that Southampton had rich people in what century?

Hypothesis: In 1348, the Black Death reached England via merchant vessels calling at Southampton.


Premise: What further ideas for public transportation is the city currently considering?

Hypothesis: The City of New Haven is in the very early stages of considering the restoration of streetcar (light-rail) service, which has been absent since the postwar period.


Premise: How many months of washing did a 1999 study look at?

Hypothesis: A resin used for making non-wrinkle shirts releases formaldehyde, which could cause contact dermatitis for some people; no disclosure requirements exist, and in 2008 the U.S. Government Accountability Office tested formaldehyde in clothing and found that generally the highest levels were in non-wrinkle shirts and pants.


Premise: The shrine of San Vittore in ciel d'oro had mosaics from which century?

Hypothesis: In the small shrine of San Vittore in ciel d'oro, now a chapel of Sant'Ambrogio, every surface is covered with mosaics from the second half of the 5th century.


Premise: In the 20th century most people practiced some form of what faith?

Hypothesis: Throughout the 20th century, most Bissau-Guineans practiced some form of Animism.


Premise: What happened after they decided agasint shifting?

Hypothesis: The standards committee decided against shifting, and so ASCII required at least a seven-bit code.:215, 236 § 4


Premise: Secure Blue was launched in what year?

Hypothesis: In 2006, IBM launched Secure Blue, encryption hardware that can be built into microprocessors.


Premise: What did A.W Kinglake make the British out to be?

Hypothesis: This view of 'diplomatic drift' as the cause of the war was first popularised by A. W, Kinglake, who portrayed the British as victims of newspaper sensationalism and duplicitous French and Ottoman diplomacy.


Premise: Who set fire to Plymouth in 1403?

Hypothesis: In 1403 the town was burned by Breton raiders.


Premise: How many free people of color lived in Charleston in 1860?

Hypothesis: The city also had a large class of free people of color.


Premise: With whom was it said the the movement ended?

Hypothesis: The Bengal Renaissance can be said to have started with Raja Ram Mohan Roy (1772–1833) and ended with Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941), although many stalwarts thereafter continued to embody particular aspects of the unique intellectual and creative output of the region.


Premise: Damaged aircraft can be out of action for days or what?

Hypothesis: Targets are not always easy to destroy; nonetheless, damaged aircraft may be forced to abort their mission and, even if they manage to return and land in friendly territory, may be out of action for days or permanently.


Premise: How are passenger cabs separated from the lift?

Hypothesis: The passenger cabs are mechanically separated from the lift mechanism, thus allowing the elevator shafts to be used continuously while passengers board and embark from the cabs, as well as move through show scenes on various floors.


Premise: What date marked the start of Schwarzenegger's second gubernatorial term?

Hypothesis: In 2011, Schwarzenegger completed his second term as governor.


Premise: Where can a remnant of improvisation tradition be found?

Hypothesis: Improvisation is also an important aspect in authentic performances of operas of Baroque era and of bel canto (especially operas of Vincenzo Bellini), and is best exemplified by the da capo aria, a form by which famous singers typically perform variations of the thematic matter of the aria in the recapitulation section ('B section' / the 'da capo' part).


Premise: On which date were lawsuits filed against Harvard and Chapel Hill?

Hypothesis: The UNC-Chapel Hill lawsuit alleges discrimination against white and Asian students, while the Harvard lawsuit focuses on discrimination against Asian applicants.


Premise: Whom set the most recent sales record of vinyl records since 1991?

Hypothesis: In 2014 artist Jack White sold 40,000 copies of his second solo release, Lazaretto, on vinyl.


Premise: What pump can capture gases in a solid or absorbed state?

Hypothesis: The above explanation is merely a simple introduction to vacuum pumping, and is not representative of the entire range of pumps in use.


Premise: How many seasons did the Toronto Phantoms last?

Hypothesis: While some teams have enjoyed considerable on-field and even financial success, many teams in the history of the league have enjoyed little success either on or off of the field of play.


Premise: Who is the artist that drew grapes so lifelike, birds flew up and pecked at them?

Hypothesis: Hellenistic art saw a turn from the idealistic, perfected, calm and composed figures of classical Greek art to a style dominated by realism and the depiction of emotion (pathos) and character (ethos).


Premise: What philosophical debates arose in the middle ages?

Hypothesis: For example, God's omniscience may seem to imply that God knows how free agents will choose to act.


Premise: What is the literal translation of the word "schatzi"?

Hypothesis: In 1992, Schwarzenegger and his wife opened a restaurant in Santa Monica called Schatzi On Main.


Premise: For how long at most is an unlicenced caretaker manager allowed to control a Premier League team for?

Hypothesis: The UEFA Pro Licence is required by every person who wishes to manage a club in the Premier League on a permanent basis (


Premise: How can this be adjusted more easily than changing antenna types?

Hypothesis: An antenna transmits and receives radio waves with a particular polarization which can be reoriented by tilting the axis of the antenna in many (but not all) cases.


Premise: Which athlete was ignored by media for supporting the protesters?

Hypothesis: It quoted athletes who expressed pride at taking part in the relays, to a greater extent than Western media, but not those who, like Marie-José Pérec, expressed understanding and support for the protestors.


Premise: Which country did Britain conquer in 1897?

Hypothesis: In the late 19th and early 20th centuries the independent kingdoms of what would become Nigeria fought a number of conflicts against the British Empire's efforts to expand its territory.


Premise: What did the Belorussians wish to be cleaned up?

Hypothesis: On September 30, 1989, thousands of Belorussians, denouncing local leaders, marched through Minsk to demand additional cleanup of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster site in Ukraine.


Premise: Who was sent to Switzerland?

Hypothesis: As a ruse to rally opposition against a return to the pre-1952 order, the RCC decreed an end to restrictions on monarchy-era parties and the Free Officers' withdrawal from politics.


Premise: How many North Carolinians from the west fought for the union Army?

Hypothesis: Approximately 2,000 North Carolinians from western North Carolina enlisted in the Union Army and fought for the North in the war.


Premise: Along with Lamin Khalifah Fhimah, who was suspected of the attack on Pan Am Flight 103?

Hypothesis: Meanwhile, Libya stepped up its support for anti-western militants such as the Provisional IRA, and in 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was blown up over Lockerbie in Scotland, killing 243 passengers and 16 crew members, plus 11 people on the ground.


Premise: What is flying past their destinations called?

Hypothesis: This can be due to flying past their destinations as in the "spring overshoot" in which birds returning to their breeding areas overshoot and end up further north than intended.


Premise: Who were told they would be banned from reentering Thailand?

Hypothesis: Thai authorities threatened to arrest foreign protesters and ban them from future entry into Thailand.


Premise: What popular property in Monopoly was actually a misspelling?

Hypothesis: Marvin Gardens, the leading yellow property on the board shown, is actually a misspelling of the original location name, "Marven Gardens".


Premise: In what country was John Lofting born?

Hypothesis: The first beer pump known in England is believed to have been invented by John Lofting (b. Netherlands 1659-d.


Premise: Where does ice start accululating in a glacier?

Hypothesis: Cirques are where ice begins to accumulate in a glacier.


Premise: After 1945, The Times supported what party for 5 years afterwards?

Hypothesis: However, the newspaper reverted to the Tories for the next election five years later.


Premise: What century do the terms Baroque and Rococo come from?

Hypothesis: There has been a trend in writing the history of this period to depict Hellenistic art as a decadent style, following of the Golden Age of Classical Athens.


Premise: What was the headline for a page 2 Sun story on 17 November 1989?

Hypothesis: On 17 November 1989, The Sun headlined a page 2 news story titled "STRAIGHT SEX CANNOT GIVE YOU AIDS – OFFICIAL."


Premise: What year did data for the Oakland Growth Study stop being collected?

Hypothesis: Data collection began in 1932 and continued until 1981, allowing the researchers to gather longitudinal data on the individuals that extended past adolescence into adulthood.


Premise: Which magazine did Beyonce pose on the cover for in August of 2015?

Hypothesis: In August, the cover of the September issue of Vogue magazine was unveiled online, Beyoncé as the cover star, becoming the first African-American artist and third African-American woman in general to cover the September issue.


Premise: What was the name of the first song that Taylor Hicks released after winning American Idol?

Hypothesis: Do I Make You Proud" was released as Hicks' first single and McPhee's


Premise: What was the result of the War of Independence?

Hypothesis: Subsequent annexation into Ethiopia led to the Eritrean War of Independence, ending with Eritrean independence following a referendum in April 1993.


Premise: What is to the west of Guinea-Bissau?

Hypothesis: It lies mostly between latitudes 11° and 13°N (a small area is south of 11°), and longitudes 13° and 17°W.


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

Hypothesis: A variety of Indian social scientists as well as the Non-Governmental Organization (NGOs) have done extensive research on the numeric figures of child labour found in India and determined that India contributes to one-third of Asia’s child labour and one-fourth of the world's child labour.


Premise: Who is said to have mastered the astrolabe?

Hypothesis: In astronomy, Muḥammad ibn Jābir al-Ḥarrānī al-Battānī improved the precision of the measurement of the precession of the Earth's axis.


Premise: Changes in what intended to keep U.S. banks competitive with their European counterparts?

Hypothesis: However, both Barclays and Bank of America ultimately declined to purchase the entire company.


Premise: What place on the charts did Date Records' big success land on?

Hypothesis: This label released the first string of hits for Peaches & Herb and scored a few minor hits from various other artists.


Premise: What is the mesothelium made of?

Hypothesis: Each mesentery is similar except that the mesothelium is the lining of each of the pair of coelomata, and the blood vessels and, in polychaetes, the main nerve cords are embedded in it.


Premise: What was Ibn al-Haytham's nickname?

Hypothesis: Ibn al-Haytham is also regarded as the father of optics, especially for his empirical proof of the intromission theory of light.


Premise: Who took over for Jim Jordon, when he was fired?

Hypothesis: The key factors enabling it to survive were when fellow Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy assigned Mary Beth Cahill to be the campaign manager, as well as Kerry's mortgaging his own home to lend the money to his campaign (while his wife was a billionaire, campaign finance rules prohibited using one's personal fortune).


Premise: Which parent was the deciding factor for how interracial persons were recorded in this census?

Hypothesis: Persons who had minority interracial ancestry were to be reported as the race of their father.


Premise: Which Emporio Armani fragrance did Beyoncé promote in 2007?

Hypothesis: Beyoncé has worked with Tommy Hilfiger for the fragrances True Star (singing a cover version of "Wishing on a Star") and True Star Gold; she also promoted Emporio Armani's Diamonds fragrance in 2007.


Premise: How could a white child be considered a member of the Omaha tribe?

Hypothesis: If the tribe had a patrilineal system, like the Omaha, the children of white fathers were considered white.


Premise: What generates protonated molecular hydrogen?

Hypothesis: By contrast, the positive hydrogen molecular ion (H+_2) is a rare molecule in the universe.


Premise: Which division of Dell were unsuccessful in developing mobile devices?

Hypothesis: Dell's own mobility division has not managed success with developing smartphones or tablets, whether running Windows or Google Android.


Premise: What did Burke call 'a smuggling adventure'?

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


Premise: Where were slaves shipped to from West Africa?

Hypothesis: Later American English spellings, neger and neggar, prevailed in a northern colony, New York under the Dutch, and in metropolitan Philadelphia's Moravian and Pennsylvania Dutch communities; the African Burial Ground in New York City originally was known by the Dutch name "Begraafplaats van de Neger"


Premise: What era did Kanxi's rule kick off?

Hypothesis: Even though Oboi's loyalty was never an issue, his personal arrogance and political conservatism led him into an escalating conflict with the young emperor.


Premise: Who did The Sun support in the 1984 U.S. presidential election?

Hypothesis: During the general election of 1983


Premise: When was the coronation of Elizabeth as Queen?

Hypothesis: The ceremony in Westminster Abbey, with the exception of the anointing and communion, was televised for the first time.[d] Elizabeth's coronation gown was embroidered on her instructions with the floral emblems of Commonwealth countries: English Tudor rose; Scots thistle; Welsh leek; Irish shamrock; Australian wattle; Canadian maple leaf; New Zealand silver fern; South African protea; lotus flowers for India and Ceylon; and Pakistan's wheat, cotton, and jute.


Premise: Who did the Partisans have conflicts with?

Hypothesis: It is said that Tito ordered his forces to assist escaping Jews, and that more than 2,000 Jews fought directly for Tito.


Premise: When was the Renaissance era?

Hypothesis: The Renaissance era was from 1400 to 1600.


Premise: Who assisted in saving the people from starvation?

Hypothesis: On 12 June 2008, the Central African Republic requested assistance from the UN Peacebuilding Commission, which was set up in 2005 to help countries emerging from conflict avoid devolving back into war or chaos.


Premise: Israel's legislative body is called what?

Hypothesis: Israel's Supreme Court is at the head of the court system in the State of Israel.


Premise: Who suggested the name Oklahoma?

Hypothesis: Oklahoma later became the de facto name for Oklahoma Territory, and it was officially approved in 1890, two years after the area was opened to white settlers.


Premise: What does the abbreviation PR stand for in terms of the US military?

Hypothesis: It is the ability of the US government and its international partners to effect the recovery of isolated personnel across the ROMO and return those personnel to duty.


Premise: How bad is the ozone in Mexico City?

Hypothesis: Despite the cleanup, the metropolitan area is still the most ozone-polluted part of the country, with ozone levels 2.5 times beyond WHO-defined safe limits.


Premise: Who owns the majority of pre-1950 Paramount sound releases?

Hypothesis: Most Paramount sound releases made prior to 1950 are owned by EMKA, Ltd./NBCUniversal Television Distribution, while Paramount (currently owned by Viacom) holds on to most of its post-1949 releases, which are distributed for television by Trifecta Entertainment & Media.


Premise: Where is Emosson located?

Hypothesis: Some of the species of moths and insects show evidence of having been indigenous to the area from as long ago as the Alpine orogeny.


Premise: What's the most popular church in Samoa?

Hypothesis: Samoa hosts one of seven Bahá'í Houses of Worship in the world; completed in 1984 and dedicated by the Head of State, it is located in Tiapapata, 8 km (5 mi) from Apia.


Premise: Between what years was College Hall built?

Hypothesis: Construction of the chapel, originally intended to be slightly over twice as long, with eighteen - or possibly seventeen - bays (there are eight today) was stopped when Henry VI was deposed.


Premise: How much XDR DRAM is on board a PS3?

Hypothesis: Graphics processing is handled by the NVIDIA RSX 'Reality Synthesizer', which can produce resolutions from 480i/576i SD up to 1080p HD.


Premise: Where does Florida rank in US population

Hypothesis: most extensive, the 3rd most populous, and the 8th most densely populated of the United States.


Premise: What was the company that was responsible Connecticut rise as a manufacturing economy?

Hypothesis: The factory is now the Eli Whitney Museum, which has a particular emphasis on activities for children and exhibits pertaining to the A. C. Gilbert Company.


Premise: Which music journalist described Beyonce as a "crossover sex symbol?"

Hypothesis: Beyoncé has been described as a having a wide-ranging sex appeal, with music journalist Touré writing that since the release of Dangerously in Love, she has "become a crossover sex symbol".


Premise: What is a term for pubs that serve restaurant-quality food?

Hypothesis: Since the 1990s food has become a more important part of a pub's trade, and today most pubs serve lunches and dinners at the table in addition to (or instead of) snacks consumed at the bar.


Premise: What is one of the Musical schools

Hypothesis: Other schools provide education for children from the age of 3 or 4 years through to 18, such as King Edward's School, Bath, Queen's College, Taunton and Wells Cathedral School which is one of the five established musical schools for school-age children in Britain.


Premise: Who backed two puppet regimes in/around Iran during WWII?

Hypothesis: As the Soviet Union refused to relinquish the occupied Iranian territory, the Iran crisis of 1946 was followed, which particularly resulted in the dissolution of both puppet states, and the withdrawal of the Soviets.


Premise: How many people lived per square kilometer in the city limits?

Hypothesis: According to Eurostat, the EU statistical agency, in 2012 the Commune of Paris was the most densely populated city in the European Union, with 21,616 people per square kilometre within the city limits (the NUTS-3 statistical area), ahead of Inner London West, which had 10,374 people per square kilometre.


Premise: For what mineral reserve does Nanjing rank first in both East Asia and the South East Asia areas?

Hypothesis: Nanjing also possesses abundant water resources, both from the Yangtze River and groundwater.


Premise: How many Ukrainians speak Russian actively as of 2004?

Hypothesis: According to estimates from Demoskop Weekly, in 2004 there were 14,400,000 native speakers of Russian in the country, and 29 million active speakers.


Premise: When was an African American president elected?

Hypothesis: In 2008 Barack Obama was elected as the first multiracial President of the United States; he acknowledges both sides of his family and identifies as African American.


Premise: How does interchanging allophones of the same pheneme render words?

Hypothesis: First, interchanged allophones of the same phoneme can result in unrecognizable words.


Premise: How is royal assent granted within Australia?

Hypothesis: In other nations, such as Australia, the governor-general merely signs the bill.


Premise: What was the October 2014 purchase price of the Waldorf Astoria?

Hypothesis: In October 2014, the Anbang Insurance Group, based in China, purchased the Waldorf Astoria New York for US$1.95 billion, making it the world's most expensive hotel ever sold.


Premise: How many children does the protagonist, Atticus Finch, have?

Hypothesis: After two summers of friendship with Dill, Scout and Jem find that someone leaves them small gifts in a tree outside the Radley place.


Premise: What new rule was put into practice during the 2010-11 season?

Hypothesis: As of the 2010–11 season, the Premier League introduced new rules mandating that each club must register a maximum 25-man squad of players aged over 21, with the squad list only allowed to be changed in transfer windows or in exceptional circumstances.


Premise: What is also a major note in Ciudad Vieja?

Hypothesis: Also of major note in Ciudad Vieja is the Plaza de la Constitución (or Plaza Matriz).


Premise: Where is the Phase-two key switch to be found?

Hypothesis: Phase-two mode can only be activated by a key switch located inside the elevator on the centralized control panel.


Premise: What ideology did Tito abandon as part of his new socialism?

Hypothesis: Tito's new socialism met opposition from traditional communists culminating in conspiracy headed by Aleksandar Ranković.


Premise: Today's Croatian language has its roots in what other language?

Hypothesis: Whether someone spoke Croatian or Serbian was not an important distinction then, as the two languages were not distinguished by most speakers.


Premise: What is the name of the nearby minor league park?

Hypothesis: Located nearby in Bricktown, the Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark is the home to the city's baseball team, the Dodgers. "


Premise: Who threatened to retaliate?

Hypothesis: Chihuahua showed no desire to imitate the revolutionary movement and Urrea prepared to invade the state.


Premise: Bell needed to fix both the transmitter and what?

Hypothesis: Returning home to Brantford after six months abroad, Bell continued his experiments with his "harmonic telegraph".[N 12]


Premise: What did SASO find wrong with the KInsey scale and Klein Sexual Orientation Grid?

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


Premise: What industry does South Park give priority to?

Hypothesis: Priority has been given to the development of software industry.


Premise: What did the pamphlet that Asa Gray published defend?

Hypothesis: In America, Asa Gray argued that evolution is the secondary effect, or modus operandi, of the first cause, design, and published a pamphlet defending the book in terms of theistic evolution, Natural Selection is not inconsistent with Natural Theology.


Premise: What plan of 1811 spread a grid of streets across Manhattan?

Hypothesis: The 1825 completion of the Erie Canal through central New York connected the Atlantic port to the agricultural markets and commodities of the North American interior via the Hudson River and the Great Lakes.


Premise: Which individual began a library at Notre Dame?

Hypothesis: Beginning in 1873, a library collection was started by Father Lemonnier.


Premise: Active flight ability has played what kind of role for insects?

Hypothesis: Insects are the only invertebrates to have developed active flight capability, and this has played an important role in their success.:186 Their muscles are able to contract multiple times for each single nerve impulse, allowing the wings to beat faster than would ordinarily be possible.


Premise: What makes solar energy an appealing source of electricity>

Hypothesis: The United Nations Development Programme in its 2000 World Energy Assessment found that the annual potential of solar energy was 1,575–49,837 exajoules (EJ).


Premise: How many ITES and IT companies are located in HITEC city?

Hypothesis: The city is home to more than 1300 IT and ITES firms, including global conglomerates such as Microsoft (operating its largest R&D campus outside the US), Google, IBM, Yahoo!, Dell, Facebook,:3 and major Indian firms including Tech Mahindra, Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Polaris and Wipro.:3


Premise: Why couldn't Petrovich persuade Austria to invade Prussia?

Hypothesis: Their real desire, however, was to destroy Frederick’s power altogether, reducing his sway to his electorate of Brandenburg and giving East Prussia to Poland, an exchange that would be accompanied by the cession of the Polish Duchy of Courland to Russia.


Premise: What length is the course of study at the Notre Dame School of Architecture?

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


Premise: how many ships sailed  from Torbay?

Hypothesis: One of them, Edward Bonventure, then sailed around Cape Comorin and on to the Malay Peninsula and subsequently returned to England in 1594.


Premise: Who claimed victory at the Battle of Aegates Islands?

Hypothesis: The Romans then again defeated the Carthaginians in naval battle at the Battle of the Aegates Islands and left Carthage with neither a fleet nor sufficient coin to raise one.


Premise: What styles are modern Portuguese poetry rooted in?

Hypothesis: Modern Portuguese poetry is rooted in neoclassic and contemporary styles, as exemplified by Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935).


Premise: When did Spiro Mounds flourish?

Hypothesis: The westernmost center of the Mississippian culture was Spiro Mounds, in what is now Spiro, Oklahoma, which flourished between AD 850 and 1450.


Premise: Stainless steel is an example of what two alloys?

Hypothesis: Stainless steel is an example of a combination of interstitial and substitutional alloys, because the carbon atoms fit into the interstices, but some of the iron atoms are replaced with nickel and chromium atoms.


Premise: How long was Karim in the Queen's employment?

Hypothesis: Abdul Karim remained in her service until he returned to India with a pension on her death.


Premise: Houston ranked 3rd in which category by Forbes magazine in 2006?

Hypothesis: In 2006, the Houston metropolitan area ranked first in Texas and third in the U.S. within the Category of "Best Places for Business and Careers" by Forbes magazine.


Premise: By what year had DVD taken over the LaserDisc market?

Hypothesis: Until the end of 2001, many titles were released on VHS, LD, and DVD in Japan.


Premise: In what year was the Education Reform Act made into law?

Hypothesis: Since the 1988 Education Reform Act, parents have a right to choose which school their child should go to or whether to not send them to school at all and to home educate them instead.


Premise: Who invented low voltage electrolytic capacitors with porous carbon electrodes?

Hypothesis: He believed that the energy was stored as a charge in the carbon pores used in his capacitor as in the pores of the etched foils of electrolytic capacitors.


Premise: What type of educational institution does the term madrasa refer?

Hypothesis: Madrasa (Arabic: مدرسة, madrasah, pl. مدارس, madāris, Turkish: Medrese) is the Arabic word for any type of educational institution, whether secular or religious (of any religion).


Premise: Are albums ever reproduced?

Hypothesis: Old records and out-of-print recordings in particular are in much demand by collectors the world over.


Premise: What can sometimes be meant by the term aerial specifically?

Hypothesis: Occasionally the term "aerial" is used to mean a wire antenna.


Premise: When was Mat Hoffman Action Sports Park considered one of the best by National Geographic Society?

Hypothesis: In April 2005, the Oklahoma City Skate Park at Wiley Post Park was renamed the Mat Hoffman Action Sports Park to recognize Mat Hoffman, an Oklahoma City area resident and businessman that was instrumental in the design of the skate park and is a 10-time BMX World Vert champion.


Premise: In 2001, what percent of Nigeria's population was Muslim?

Hypothesis: An 18 December 2012 report on religion and public life by the Pew Research Center stated that in 2010, 49.3 percent of Nigeria's population was Christian, 48.8 percent was Muslim, and 1.9 percent were followers of indigenous and other religions, or unaffiliated.


Premise: Each of a parent's two genes for each trait will sort independently into gametes according to what Mendelian principle?

Hypothesis: The Mendelian principle of independent assortment asserts that each of a parent's two genes for each trait will sort independently into gametes; which allele an organism inherits for one trait is unrelated to which allele it inherits for another trait.


Premise: Geographically, what river was Northumbria north of?

Hypothesis: The four main dialectal forms of Old English were Mercian, Northumbrian, Kentish, and West Saxon.


Premise: What is an "ensi"?

Hypothesis: It is quite possible that the later Sumerian pantheon was modeled upon this political structure.


Premise: What did American bombers drop on Vietnam?

Hypothesis: After a few months with no success by the French, he added other aircraft to drop napalm for clearing purposes.


Premise: How many beaches in St. Barts are suitable to swim in?

Hypothesis: The beach of St Jean is suitable for water sports and facilities have been created for that purpose.


Premise: What was the outcome of the financial crisis since risk levels were not adequately disclosed?

Hypothesis: Several scholars have argued that a lack of transparency about banks' risk exposures prevented markets from correctly pricing risk before the crisis, enabled the mortgage market to grow larger than it otherwise would have, and made the financial crisis far more disruptive than it would have been if risk levels had been disclosed in a straightforward, readily understandable format.


Premise: Who aided U.S. forces in finding Japanese holdouts in the Philippines?

Hypothesis: Throughout the Philippines, U.S. forces were aided by Filipino guerrillas to find and dispatch the holdouts.


Premise: Who proposed this theory?

Hypothesis: If the ground is a very good conductor then almost all of the wave is reflected (180° out of phase), whereas a ground modeled as a (lossy) dielectric can absorb a large amount of the wave's power.


Premise: Who were the Ottomans led by?

Hypothesis: Karl Marx quipped that "there they are, the French doing nothing and the British helping them as fast as possible".


Premise: What is a popular drinking game where beer is often considered?

Hypothesis: Drinking games, such as beer pong, are also popular.


Premise: Which countries were part of the Zurich and London Agreement?

Hypothesis: The UK retained the two Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia, while government posts and public offices were allocated by ethnic quotas, giving the minority Turkish Cypriots a permanent veto, 30% in parliament and administration, and granting the three mother-states guarantor rights.


Premise: When was "Russian language at the turn of the 20th-21st centuries" published?

Hypothesis: In the countries of the former Soviet Union the Russian language is gradually being replaced by local languages.


Premise: What did this agreement establish?

Hypothesis: The argument given at the time was that the extra income would allow English clubs to compete with teams across Europe.


Premise: Besides the endurance running hypothesis, what other theory of food collection is there?

Hypothesis: According to the endurance running hypothesis, long-distance running as in persistence hunting, a method still practiced by some hunter-gatherer groups in modern times, was likely the driving evolutionary force leading to the evolution of certain human characteristics.


Premise: The Twilight Princess manga was only available in what country?

Hypothesis: While the manga adaptation began almost ten years after the initial release of the game on which it is based, it launched only a month before the release of the high-definition remake.


Premise: Where were hospices established?

Hypothesis: In the medieval period hospices were established by religious orders at the summits of many of the main passes.


Premise: Which government sought to rapidly accelerate the modernisation of Melbourne?

Hypothesis: To counter the trend towards low-density suburban residential growth, the government began a series of controversial public housing projects in the inner city by the Housing Commission of Victoria, which resulted in demolition of many neighbourhoods and a proliferation of high-rise towers.


Premise: The Rajpath was also known by what name?

Hypothesis: The Rajpath, also known as King's Way, stretched from the India Gate to the Rashtrapati Bhawan.


Premise: How is a weakness addressed in some other connector standards?

Hypothesis: To address a weakness present in some other connector standards, the USB specification also defines limits to the size of a connecting device in the area around its plug.


Premise: What happened to Tom at one of the 1567 that changed his title ?

Hypothesis: By the end of the 15th century the belief was widely professed and taught in many theological faculties, but such was the influence of the Dominicans, and the weight of the arguments of Thomas Aquinas (who had been canonised in 1323 and declared "Doctor Angelicus" of the Church in 1567) that the Council of Trent (1545–63)—which might have been expected to affirm the doctrine—instead declined to take a position.


Premise: What all has helped with the fight against drugs?

Hypothesis: Drug money corrupts the country's government; according to some experts the well-known personalities that fought on both sides of the civil war and have held the positions in the government after the armistice was signed are now involved in the drug trade.


Premise: In which year was the Second Council of Nicea?

Hypothesis: The icon of the Virgin Theotokos with Christ is without doubt the most venerated icon in the Orthodox Church.


Premise: During what era was the central Sudan rich in environment?

Hypothesis: During the Neolithic Era, before the onset of desertification, around 9500 BCE the central Sudan had been a rich environment supporting a large population ranging across what is now barren desert, like the Wadi el-Qa'ab.


Premise: What year was the Grace Memorial Bridge built?

Hypothesis: It replaced the Grace Memorial Bridge (built in 1929) and the Silas N. Pearman Bridge (built in 1966).


Premise: What financial innovation allows investment banks and hedge banks to make large wagers?

Hypothesis: In an article in Portfolio Magazine, Michael Lewis spoke with one trader who noted that "There weren’t enough Americans with [bad] credit taking out [bad loans] to satisfy investors' appetite for the end product.


Premise: Where were the Winter Olympics held in 1924?

Hypothesis: In 1930 the Lauberhorn Rennen (Lauberhorn Race), was run for the first time on the Lauberhorn above Wengen; the equally demanding Hahnenkamm was first run in the same year in Kitzbühl, Austria.


Premise: When did Burke's mother die?

Hypothesis: His mother Mary née Nagle (c. 1702 – 1770) was a Roman Catholic who hailed from a déclassé County Cork family (and a cousin of Nano Nagle), whereas his father, a successful solicitor, Richard (died 1761), was a member of the Church of Ireland; it remains unclear whether this is the same Richard Burke who converted from Catholicism.


Premise: How many Buddhists were there in 1910?

Hypothesis: According to Johnson and Grim (2013), Buddhism has grown from a total of 138 million adherents in 1910, of which 137 million were in Asia, to 495 million in 2010, of which 487 million are in Asia.


Premise: Who did Spielberg get money from to film Close Encounters?

Hypothesis: At age thirteen, while living in Phoenix, Spielberg won a prize for a 40-minute war film he titled Escape to Nowhere, using a cast composed of other high school friends.


Premise: What did the Muslim invaders staunchly keep after invading?

Hypothesis: In that sense, the Muslim intrusions and later Muslim invasions were not dissimilar to those of the earlier invasions during the 1st millennium.


Premise: When is Children's Day?

Hypothesis: The surviving children, who were mostly living in relief centres, performed ceremonies marking the special day, but also acknowledging the earthquake.


Premise: What are the 50 states in the Union known as?

Hypothesis: State laws have dramatically diverged in the centuries since independence, to the extent that the United States cannot be regarded as one legal system as to the majority of types of law traditionally under state control, but must be regarded as 50 separate systems of tort law, family law, property law, contract law, criminal law, and so on.


Premise: How were older notions of race used?

Hypothesis: As another example, she points to work by Thomas et al., who sought to distinguish between the Y chromosomes of Jewish priests (Kohanim), (in Judaism, membership in the priesthood is passed on through the father's line) and the Y chromosomes of non-Jews.


Premise: Who married Indigenous women early on?

Hypothesis: Marriages took place in both English and Latin colonies between European men and Native women.


Premise: Where did Bell's uncle live?

Hypothesis: His family was long associated with the teaching of elocution: his grandfather, Alexander Bell, in London, his uncle in Dublin, and his father, in Edinburgh, were all elocutionists.


Premise: When did the university acquire the property for the West Campus?

Hypothesis: The West Campus building was home to the Clayton branch of the Famous-Barr department store until 1990, when the University acquired the property and adjacent parking and began a series of renovations.


Premise: How hot were Oklahoma's hottest summers?

Hypothesis: Severe drought is common in the hottest summers, such as those of 1934, 1954, 1980 and 2011, all of which featured weeks on end of virtual rainlessness and high temperatures well over 100 °F (38 °C).


Premise: What school translated Greco-Roman texts during the Islamic Golden Age?

Hypothesis: Ibn Sina created an extensive corpus of works during what is commonly known as the Islamic Golden Age, in which the translations of Greco-Roman, Persian, and Indian texts were studied extensively.


Premise: Human geneticists argue that genetic variations have been identified that show high or low frequencies among Ashkenazi Jews?

Hypothesis: Human geneticists have argued that genetic variations have been identified that show high frequencies among Ashkenazi Jews, but not in the general European population, be they for patrilineal markers (Y-chromosome haplotypes) and for matrilineal markers (mitotypes).


Premise: How many citizen's were in the year 2000 census?

Hypothesis: 51.2% of all households are made up of individuals and 10.6% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older.


Premise: How did Frederick protect Silesia when he went to invade Saxony?

Hypothesis: Accordingly, leaving Field Marshal Count Kurt von Schwerin in Silesia with 25,000 soldiers to guard against incursions from Moravia or Hungary, and leaving Field Marshal Hans von Lehwaldt in East Prussia to guard against Russian invasion from the east, Frederick set off with his army for Saxony.


Premise: Does cold or warm air facilitate the transport of water vapor?

Hypothesis: Cold air, unlike warm air, is unable to transport much water vapor.


Premise: How are ogives formed?

Hypothesis: Sometimes ogives consist only of undulations or color bands and are described as wave ogives or band ogives.


Premise: When were the two service bells cast?

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


Premise: Along with Plymouth and Devonport, what settlement comprised the Three Towns?

Hypothesis: Foulston was important for both Devonport and Plymouth and was responsible for several grand public buildings, many now destroyed, including the Athenaeum, the Theatre Royal and Royal Hotel, and much of Union Street.


Premise: In what pyramid position is an organism not preyed upon by any other predators?

Hypothesis: A predator at the top of any food chain (that is, one that is preyed upon by no organism) is called an apex predator; examples include the orca, sperm whale, anaconda, Komodo dragon, tiger, lion, tiger shark, Nile crocodile, and most eagles and owls—and even omnivorous humans and grizzly bears.


Premise: Who ruled Turkey when the Armenian genocide happened?

Hypothesis: Passage of legislation in various foreign countries condemning the persecution of the Armenians as genocide has often provoked diplomatic conflict.


Premise: What does IMF stand for?

Hypothesis: Being a growing democratic state, Armenia also hopes to get more financial aid from the Western World.


Premise: Who declared Kiev "The mother of Rus citis'?

Hypothesis: Rurik led the Rus' until his death in about 879, bequeathing his kingdom to his kinsman, Prince Oleg, as regent for his young son, Igor.


Premise: When did many former colonies' citizens begin immigrating into Britain?

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


Premise: In what year did the WHO say tuberculosis was a "global health emergency"?

Hypothesis: A number of targets they have set are not likely to be achieved by 2015, mostly due to the increase in HIV-associated tuberculosis and the emergence of multiple drug-resistant tuberculosis.


Premise: What essential condition must be met for a subset of a group to be a subgroup?

Hypothesis: In the example above, the identity and the rotations constitute a subgroup R = {id, r1, r2, r3}, highlighted in red in the group table above: any two rotations composed are still a rotation, and a rotation can be undone by (i.e. is inverse to) the complementary rotations 270° for 90°, 180° for 180°, and 90° for 270° (note that rotation in the opposite direction is not defined).


Premise: Who did Spielberg get money from to film Close Encounters?

Hypothesis: The film was made for $500, most of which came from his father, and was shown in a local cinema for one evening, which earned back its cost.


Premise: Why was Howard Dean proud of his graduating class?

Hypothesis: When challenged on the distinction between Dukakis's Harvard connection and his own Yale background, he said that, unlike Harvard, Yale's reputation was "so diffuse, there isn't a symbol, I don't think, in the Yale situation, any symbolism in it" and said Yale did not share Harvard's reputation for "liberalism and elitism".


Premise: In what settlements did most inhabitants of the Carolingian Empire live?

Hypothesis: Little trade existed and much of that was with the British Isles and Scandinavia, in contrast to the older Roman Empire with its trading networks centred on the Mediterranean.


Premise: What will cause the amount of homosexuality to vary?

Hypothesis: The following chart demonstrates how widely the prevalence of homosexuality can vary depending on what age, location and component of sexual orientation is being assessed:


Premise: A legislator said that by allowing Farrow to enter Hong Kong while denying others was a violation to what policy?

Hypothesis: In response, Lee Cheuk Yan, vice chairman of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements in China, said, "It's outrageous that the government is willing to sacrifice the image of Hong Kong because of the torch relay."


Premise: Which cameras were first of their type to adopt the ASA scale?

Hypothesis: This conversion was not necessary on Weston meters manufactured and Weston film ratings published since 1956 due to their inherent use of the ASA system; however the changes of the ASA PH2.5-1960 revision may be taken into account when comparing with newer ASA or ISO values.


Premise: What lines the coelomata of leeches?

Hypothesis: However, they are lined with mesothelium, like the coelomata and unlike the blood vessels of other annelids.


Premise: What non-state area does Nigeria have?

Hypothesis: Nigeria is divided into thirty-six states and one Federal Capital Territory, which are further sub-divided into 774 Local Government Areas (LGAs).


Premise: What was youtube's revenue as estimated in 2008?

Hypothesis: In June 2008, a Forbes magazine article projected the 2008 revenue at $200 million, noting progress in advertising sales.


Premise: In terms of budget, what is the estimated savings from using the fuel cell system?

Hypothesis: According to Giovanni Zinn of the city's Office of Sustainability, each fuel cell may save the city up to $1 million in energy costs over a decade.


Premise: Where in London are the Albert Memorial and Royal Albert Hall located?

Hypothesis: The Monument in the City of London provides views of the surrounding area while commemorating the Great Fire of London, which originated nearby.


Premise: Who brought the language Hokkien to Myanmar?

Hypothesis: Many ethnic Han Chinese emigrants to the region were Hoklo from southern Fujian, and brought the language to what is now Burma (Myanmar), Indonesia (the former Dutch East Indies) and present day Malaysia and Singapore (formerly Malaya and the British Straits Settlements).


Premise: Serialization of comics became less popular when?

Hypothesis: From the 1980s, mainstream sensibilities were reasserted and serialization became less common as the number of comics magazines decreased and many comics began to be published directly as albums.


Premise: In Byzantine Gaza, Jews were relaxed on what ban?

Hypothesis: The ban on figurative depiction was not taken so seriously by the Jews living in Byzantine Gaza.


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

Hypothesis: It derived from the Old Germanic word theudisk, one of the first names ever used for the non-Romance languages of Western Europe, meaning (pertaining to the language) of the people, that is, the native Germanic language.


Premise: what is the code point of the BOM?

Hypothesis: The UCS-2 and UTF-16 encodings specify the Unicode Byte Order Mark (BOM) for use at the beginnings of text files, which may be used for byte ordering detection (or byte endianness detection).


Premise: What did Ramsay believe about river valleys?

Hypothesis: Louis Agassiz and others established the reality of continent-covering ice ages, and "fluvialists" like Andrew Crombie Ramsay argued that river valleys were formed, over millions of years by the rivers that flow through them.


Premise: What is Neptune's largest moon?

Hypothesis: Its largest moon, Triton, was discovered shortly thereafter, though none of the planet's remaining known 14 moons were located telescopically until the 20th century.


Premise: What group founded the Delhi Sultanate in the 13th century?

Hypothesis: The Delhi Sultanate ruled the major part of northern India in the early 14th century, but declined in the late 14th century when several powerful Hindu states such as the Vijayanagara Empire, Gajapati Kingdom, Ahom Kingdom, as well as Rajput dynasties and states, such as Mewar dynasty, emerged.


Premise: What does the creditworthiness of businesses depend on?

Hypothesis: In the case of businesses, their creditworthiness depends on their future profits.


Premise: Who wrote in their will that they received loving care from the emperor in the east?

Hypothesis: If the emperor continues to care for us, please follow his edicts and the imperial envoy should be well received."


Premise: What has no distinction between the categories  of voiced, voiceless, aspirated and unaspirated?

Hypothesis: Some of the Dravidian languages, such as Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, and Kannada, have a distinction between voiced and voiceless, aspirated and unaspirated only in loanwords from Indo-Aryan languages.


Premise: WHo elected the king?

Hypothesis: Despite having a king, Poland was called the nobility's Commonwealth because the king was elected by all interested members of hereditary nobility and Poland was considered to be the property of this class, not of the king or the ruling dynasty.


Premise: How many boroughs had very high HDI scores in 2005?

Hypothesis: The Human Development Index report of 2005  shows that there were three boroughs with a very high Human Development Index, 12 with a high HDI value (9 above .85) and one with a medium HDI value (almost high).


Premise: What is the name of the mosque under construction in Minneapolis?

Hypothesis: In the Somali diaspora, multiple Islamic fundraising events are held every year in cities like Birmingham, London, Toronto and Minneapolis, where Somali scholars and professionals give lectures and answer questions from the audience.


Premise: What is required in order for hardware to be compromised?

Hypothesis: Using devices and methods such as dongles, trusted platform modules, intrusion-aware cases, drive locks, disabling USB ports, and mobile-enabled access may be considered more secure due to the physical access (or sophisticated backdoor access) required in order to be compromised.


Premise: When are state banquets held?

Hypothesis: On this grand occasion, all the state rooms are in use, as the royal family proceed through them, beginning at the great north doors of the Picture Gallery.


Premise: Who thought Burke was like an architect remodeling an old house instead of tearing it down?

Hypothesis: In politics he resembled the modern architect who would restore an old house instead of pulling it down to construct a new one on the site".


Premise: What two organizations had Wheeler headed prior to joining the FCC?

Hypothesis: Critics noted in 2013 that Tom Wheeler, the head of the FCC, which has to approve the deal, is the former head of both the largest cable lobbying organization, the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, and as largest wireless lobby, CTIA – The Wireless Association.


Premise: What did the Convulsion caused by the global depression resul in?

Hypothesis: The convulsion brought on by the worldwide depression resulted in the rise of Nazism.


Premise: When was the reference software approved?

Hypothesis: The reference software in C language was later published as a freely available ISO standard.


Premise: Canada's Supreme Court didn't actually become that country's highest court until when?

Hypothesis: In Canada, the Supreme Court of Canada was established in 1875 but only became the highest court in the country in 1949 when the right of appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council was abolished.


Premise: In what year did Pope Paul VI close the Second Vatican Counsel?

Hypothesis: Succeeding Pope John XXIII, he continued the Second Vatican Council which he closed in 1965, implementing its numerous reforms, and fostered improved ecumenical relations with Eastern Orthodox and Protestants, which resulted in many historic meetings and agreements.


Premise: What percent of the population is under 30 years old?

Hypothesis: The Pamiris of Badakhshan, a small population of Yaghnobi people, and a sizeable minority of Ismailis are all considered to belong to the larger group of Tajiks.


Premise: Where can view the network of tunnels to the catacombs?

Hypothesis: In Paris' Roman era, its main cemetery was located to the outskirts of the Left Bank settlement, but this changed with the rise of Catholicism, where most every inner-city church had adjoining burial grounds for use by their parishes.


Premise: How often has Montana voted for a Democratic governor?

Hypothesis: Overall, since 1889 the state has voted for Democratic governors 60 percent of the time and Democratic presidents 40 percent of the time, with these numbers being 40/60 for Republican candidates.


Premise: What is another name for Eisenhower Expressway?

Hypothesis: Several highways are also named for him, including the Eisenhower Expressway (Interstate 290) near Chicago and the Eisenhower Tunnel on Interstate 70 west of Denver.


Premise: How long could a recording be on a 10 inch disc in the 1903?

Hypothesis: From 1903 onwards, 12-inch records (30.5 cm) were also sold commercially, mostly of classical music or operatic selections, with four to five minutes of music per side.


Premise: What was the aim of the partnership with Fold3.com?

Hypothesis: Allen Weinstein explained that this partnership would "allow much greater access to approximately 4.5 million pages of important documents that are currently available only in their original format or on microfilm" and "would also enhance NARA's efforts to preserve its original records."


Premise: How many countries did her song "Irreplaceable" get number one status in?

Hypothesis: B'Day also produced three other singles; "Ring the Alarm", "Get Me Bodied", and "Green Light" (released in the United Kingdom only).


Premise: Who is BJP's Chief MInister of Himachal Pradesh?

Hypothesis: BJP's Prem Kumar Dhumal was sworn in as Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh on 30 December 2007.


Premise: What other system of calculations are inherent in the Gregorian calendar?

Hypothesis: In conjunction with the system of months there is a system of weeks.


Premise: Ancient Galicians took control of which city in northern Portugal?

Hypothesis: Later the Muslims invaded Spain (711), but the Arabs and Moors never managed to have any real control over Galicia, which was later incorporated into the expanding Christian Kingdom of Asturias, usually known as Gallaecia or Galicia (Yillīqiya and Galīsiya) by Muslim Chroniclers, as well as by many European contemporaries.


Premise: How many books out of 33, from 1975 to 1984, rejected race?

Hypothesis: Since 1932, an increasing number of college textbooks introducing physical anthropology have rejected race as a valid concept: from 1932 to 1976, only seven out of thirty-two rejected race; from 1975 to 1984, thirteen out of thirty-three rejected race; from 1985 to 1993, thirteen out of nineteen rejected race.


Premise: What was the location of the earliest settlement near Plymouth?

Hypothesis: Plymouth's early history extends to the Bronze Age, when a first settlement emerged at Mount Batten.


Premise: Though the Muslims couldn't take full control of Galicia, when was it that they invaded Spain?

Hypothesis: This era consolidated Galicia as a Christian society which spoke a Romance language.


Premise: On how many of Tuvalu's islands did people live?

Hypothesis: Eight of the nine islands of Tuvalu were inhabited; thus the name, Tuvalu, means "eight standing together" in Tuvaluan (compare to *walo meaning "eight" in Proto-Austronesian).


Premise: What was Comcast's telecommunication business prior to 1999?

Hypothesis: Comcast University started in 1999 as well as Comcast Interactive Capital Group to make technology and Internet related investments taking its first investment in VeriSign.


Premise: Did other countries actively participate in business that first rang a bell to begin in the winter of 2014 in Myanmar ?

Hypothesis: The Yangon Stock Exchange Joint Venture Co. Ltd will be set up with Myanma Economic Bank sharing 51 percent, Japan's Daiwa Institute of Research Ltd 30.25 percent and Japan Exchange Group 18.75 percent.


Premise: Who was the leader of South Vietnam in 1954?

Hypothesis: In late 1954, Gen. J. Lawton Collins was made ambassador to "Free Vietnam" (the term South Vietnam came into use in 1955), effectively elevating the country to sovereign status.


Premise: What area is usually grouped with the Appalachians?

Hypothesis: In addition to the true folded mountains, known as the ridge and valley province, the area of dissected plateau to the north and west of the mountains is usually grouped with the Appalachians.


Premise: What is the average day emperature of Limassol during winter?

Hypothesis: Among all cities in the Mediterranean part of the European Union, Limassol has one of the warmest winters, in the period January – February average temperature is


Premise: How can botany be applied to combating world hunger?

Hypothesis: Botanical research has diverse applications in providing staple foods, materials such as timber, oil, rubber, fibre and drugs, in modern horticulture, agriculture and forestry, plant propagation, breeding and genetic modification, in the synthesis of chemicals and raw materials for construction and energy production, in environmental management, and the maintenance of biodiversity.


Premise: Which company is Alaska's only professional opera?

Hypothesis: The most prominent orchestra in Alaska is the Anchorage Symphony Orchestra, though the Fairbanks Symphony Orchestra and Juneau Symphony are also notable.


Premise: Which architect designed the Broadway Village shopping Center?

Hypothesis: As one of the oldest parts of town, Central Tucson is anchored by the Broadway Village shopping center designed by local architect Josias Joesler at the intersection of Broadway Boulevard and Country Club Road.


Premise: How is the Eritrean highway system named?

Hypothesis: The next higher level road is a secondary road and typically is a single-layered asphalt road that connects district capitals together and those to the regional capitals.


Premise: Why is it important for textual critics to analyze the Gospels?

Hypothesis: Textual scholars have debated for centuries which sources are most closely derived from the original, hence which readings in those sources are correct.[citation needed]


Premise: How many PlayStation 3 consoles was Dr. Frank Mueller able to cluster together?

Hypothesis: Also, on January 3, 2007, Dr. Frank Mueller, Associate Professor of Computer science at NCSU, clustered 8 PS3s.


Premise: When was the Berlin Society of Anthropology founded by Rudolph Virchow?

Hypothesis: Similar organizations in other countries followed: The American Anthropological Association in 1902, the Anthropological Society of Madrid (1865), the Anthropological Society of Vienna (1870), the Italian Society of Anthropology and Ethnology (1871), and many others subsequently.


Premise: When did John meet the rebel leaders at Runnymede?

Hypothesis: John met the rebel leaders at Runnymede, near Windsor Castle, on 15 June 1215.


Premise: Which president created a policy of non-discrimination for defense contractors?

Hypothesis: President Roosevelt had established a policy of non-discrimination for defense contractors, and blacks gained some opportunities, especially in shipbuilding, although not without resistance from whites and increasing social tensions that erupted into occasional violence.


Premise: If diarrhea is stopped, would could happen?

Hypothesis: As a result, if it is stopped, there might be a delay in recovery.


Premise: What activists were reported to have been arrested?

Hypothesis: Kazakhstan: The first torchbearer in Almaty, where the Olympic torch arrived for the first time ever on April 2, was the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbaev.