Premise: How many US veterans of the Persian Gulf War have been classed as permanently disabled?

Hypothesis: The lead up to the war began with the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in August 1990 which was met with immediate economic sanctions by the United Nations against Iraq.


Premise: What was the movement called also known as execution of laws?

Hypothesis: About that time the "executionist movement" (Polish: "egzekucja praw"--"execution of the laws") began to take form.


Premise: What will the project named CASA 1000 do?

Hypothesis: Other projects at the development stage include Sangtuda-2 by Iran, Zerafshan by the Chinese company SinoHydro, and the Rogun power plant that, at a projected height of 335 metres (1,099 ft), would supersede the Nurek Dam as highest in the world if it is brought to completion.


Premise: After the battle were New Haven historical features lost or torched?

Hypothesis: New Haven was not torched as the invaders did with Danbury in 1777, or Fairfield and Norwalk a week after the New Haven raid, so many of the town's colonial features were preserved.


Premise: How many teams are active in the AFL for 2016?

Hypothesis: The league's 2016 schedule, announced on the league's website on December 10, 2015, shows an eight-team league playing a 16-game regular season over 18 weeks, with two bye weeks for each team, one on a rotational basis and the other a "universal bye" for all teams during the Independence Day weekend, the first weekend in July.


Premise: How much slower do games run on PAL consoles than NTSC due to frequency differences?

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


Premise: What is the earliest that they kept live bears in the Bärengraben?

Hypothesis: The earliest reference to the keeping of live bears in the Bärengraben dates to the 1440s.


Premise: Before Hindus are cremated, how many times are their bodies placed in the Bagmati?

Hypothesis: According to the Nepali Hindu tradition, the dead body must be dipped three times into the Bagmati before cremation.


Premise: How many main types of dogs are there?

Hypothesis: Purebred dogs of one breed are genetically distinguishable from purebred dogs of other breeds, but the means by which kennel clubs classify dogs is unsystematic.


Premise: Who designated the floating gardens as a World Heritage site?

Hypothesis: Famous landmarks in the Historic Center include the Plaza de la Constitución (Zócalo), the main central square with its epoch-contrasting Spanish-era Metropolitan Cathedral and National Palace, ancient Aztec temple ruins Templo Mayor ("Major Temple") and modern structures, all within a few steps of one another.


Premise: What are the earliest texts of Indian/Hindu philosophy?

Hypothesis: The Vedas, the earliest texts on Indian philosophy and Hindu philosophy dating back to the late 2nd millennium BC, describe ancient Hindu cosmology, in which the universe goes through repeated cycles of creation, destruction and rebirth, with each cycle lasting 4,320 million years.


Premise: What was the population of Paris in 2011?

Hypothesis: In the early 21st century, the population of Paris began to increase slowly again, as more young people moved into the city.


Premise: What is rare in LED lighting?

Hypothesis: Sudden failures, although rare, can also occur.


Premise: Which two Tennessee counties cover the area that comprised North Carolina's Tennessee County?

Hypothesis: In 1788, North Carolina created "Tennessee County", the third county to be established in what is now Middle Tennessee.


Premise: What are the main materials of cell walls of plants and fungi?

Hypothesis: Bacterial cell walls are different from the cell walls of plants and fungi, which are made of cellulose and chitin, respectively.


Premise: When was the position of prime minister finally formalized?

Hypothesis: The title was first referred to on government documents during the administration of Benjamin Disraeli but did not appear in the formal British Order of precedence until 1905.


Premise: What television network did the AFL sign a deal with in 2000?

Hypothesis: While it was not financially lucrative, it helped set the stage for what the league would become in the new millennium.


Premise: By what year had all of the pirates in the NC Province been captured or killed?

Hypothesis: North Carolina became one of the English Thirteen Colonies and with the territory of South Carolina was originally known as the Province of Carolina.


Premise: What stupa is located close to the Taragaon Museum?

Hypothesis: The Museum is within a short walk from the Boudhnath stupa, which itself can be seen from the Museum tower.


Premise: What did the Russians try to attack during the month of August?

Hypothesis: In August, the Russians again made an attack towards the base at Balaclava, defended by the French, newly arrived Sardinian and Ottoman troops.:461


Premise: During the time of the North–South division, how many households were in Nanjing?

Hypothesis: Based on historical documents, the city had 280,000 registered households.


Premise: Where did Feynman receive much inspiration?

Hypothesis: Feynman instead accepted an offer from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech)—and as he says in his book


Premise: What is the present day name of the city that the Battle of Guilford Courthouse was fought at?

Hypothesis: Although the British troops held the field at the end of the battle, their casualties at the hands of the numerically superior Continental Army were crippling.


Premise: What was later termed the photon?

Hypothesis: It was eventually called the photon.


Premise: What is the name of the stadium in Greece were the torch was taken to?

Hypothesis: The relay also included an ascent with the flame to the top of Mount Everest on the border of Nepal and Tibet, China from the Chinese side, which was closed specially for the event.


Premise: About how many Native Americans live in Montana?

Hypothesis: Approximately 63% of all Native people live off the reservations, concentrated in the larger Montana cities with the largest concentration of urban Indians in Great Falls.


Premise: What philosophy was combined with socialism and nationalism to form Third International Theory?

Hypothesis: During the early 1970s, Gaddafi formulated his own particular approach to Arab nationalism and socialism, known as Third International Theory, which has been described as a combination of "utopian socialism, Arab nationalism, and the Third World revolutionary theory that was in vogue at the time".


Premise: Which steps most closely resembles copy-text editing?

Hypothesis: The steps of examinatio and emendatio resemble copy-text editing.


Premise: What is the MWRA?

Hypothesis: As the capital of Massachusetts, Boston plays a major role in state politics.


Premise: Who managed to eventually control the territory of Arakan

Hypothesis: It was the second-largest empire in Burmese history but also one with a long ill-defined border with British India.


Premise: How were the special controllers connected to the NES?

Hypothesis: The original Famicom featured a deepened DA-15 expansion port on the front of the unit, which was used to connect most auxiliary devices.


Premise: Which city is the only one with a larger population than Miami in the southeastern United States?

Hypothesis: The 44th-most populated city proper in the United States, with a population of 430,332, it is the principal, central, and most populous city of the Miami metropolitan area, and the second most populous metropolis in the Southeastern United States after Washington, D.C.


Premise: What paparazzi member did Kanye attack at LAX in 2013?

Hypothesis: On July 19, 2013, West was leaving LAX as he was surrounded by dozens of paparazzi.


Premise: Furniture and fittings were brought over from which house?

Hypothesis: Many smaller reception rooms are furnished in the Chinese regency style with furniture and fittings brought from the Royal Pavilion at Brighton and from Carlton House.


Premise: Who did the team sign on December 10, 2014 as a free agent?

Hypothesis: On November 2, 2014, the Cubs announced that Joe Maddon had signed a five-year contract to be the 54th manager in team history.


Premise: Who criticized the sciences for distancing man from nature and not operating to make people happier?

Hypothesis: As with most Enlightenment views, the benefits of science were not seen universally; Rousseau criticized the sciences for distancing man from nature and not operating to make people happier.


Premise: When was the release preview set to expire?

Hypothesis: Many other builds were released until the Japan's Developers Day conference, when Steven Sinofsky announced that Windows 8 Release Preview (build 8400) would be released during the first week of June.


Premise: What was developed by Hans Christian  Gram?

Hypothesis: The Gram stain, developed in 1884 by Hans Christian Gram, characterises bacteria based on the structural characteristics of their cell walls.


Premise: Buildings can create ghost images because of what?

Hypothesis: Using horizontal polarization, ghosting is reduced because the amount of reflection of electromagnetic waves in the p polarization (horizontal polarization off the side of a building) is generally less than s (vertical, in this case) polarization.


Premise: When did people first start arriving in the European continent?

Hypothesis: All subsequent migrations did leave an impact, genetically and culturally, but the main population source of the Portuguese is still Paleolithic.


Premise: What battle signaled the end to the Second Macedonian War?

Hypothesis: This ended with a decisive Roman victory at the Battle of Cynoscephalae (197 BC).


Premise: With whom was a complaint lodged alleging breach of guidelines in accuracy after the incident involving Queen Elizabeth II?

Hypothesis: On 9 March 2016, The Sun's front page proclaimed that Queen Elizabeth II was backing "Brexit", a common term for a British withdrawal from the European Union.


Premise: What discipline uses infrared telescopes to see through molecular clouds?

Hypothesis: Night-vision devices using active near-infrared illumination allow people or animals to be observed without the observer being detected.


Premise: What weekly publication in New Haven is issued by Yale University?

Hypothesis: The city is also served by several student-run papers, including the Yale Daily News, the weekly Yale Herald and a humor tabloid, Rumpus Magazine.


Premise: Which company was selected to release the film?

Hypothesis: The BitTorrent company was selected by Madonna to release the film as part of a Madonna bundle.


Premise: When was the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights ratified?

Hypothesis: In the context of trademarks, this expansion has been driven by international efforts to harmonise the definition of "trademark", as exemplified by the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights ratified in 1994, which formalized regulations for IP rights that had been handled by common law, or not at all, in member states.


Premise: When was Hussain Sagar lake built?

Hypothesis: The city has numerous lakes referred to as sagar, meaning "sea".


Premise: What is a hard to pronounce and remember term meaning primarily auxiliary verbs and pronouns?

Hypothesis: As a pro-drop language, in Czech an intransitive sentence can consist of only a verb; information about its subject is encoded in the verb.


Premise: How much did security cost for the torch relay in London?

Hypothesis: The torch relay leg held in London, the host city of the 2012 Summer Olympics, on April 6 began at Wembley Stadium, passed through the City of London, and eventually ended at O2 Arena in the eastern part of the city.


Premise: What is a single term of a Swazi development committee?

Hypothesis: As noted above, there are 55 tinkhundla in Swaziland and each elects one representative to the House of Assembly of Swaziland.


Premise: Who produced Madonna's debut album?

Hypothesis: After Madonna signed a singles deal with Sire, her debut single, "Everybody", was released in October 1982, and the second, "Burning Up", in March 1983.


Premise: When did Penn Square Bank go bankrupt?

Hypothesis: In 2008, Forbes magazine named Oklahoma City the most "recession proof city in America".


Premise: What is the point of using different colors on a heat map?

Hypothesis: Task Manager has been redesigned, including a new processes tab with the option to display fewer or more details of running applications and background processes, a heat map using different colors indicating the level of resource usage, network and disk counters, grouping by process type (e.g. applications, background processes and Windows processes), friendly names for processes and a new option which allows users to search the web to find information about obscure processes.


Premise: Which battle was the second of three key French losses?

Hypothesis: The Battle of Spicheren, on 5 August, was the second of three critical French defeats.


Premise: How old was Victoria's Uncle, King Willaim on his death?

Hypothesis: Lord Conyngham then acquainted me that my poor Uncle, the King, was no more, and had expired at 12 minutes past 2 this morning, and consequently that I am Queen."


Premise: What was Isambard Brunel's nationality?

Hypothesis: Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the British engineer and railway builder, introduced the idea of a circular bar into the Swindon station pub in order that customers were served quickly and did not delay his trains.


Premise: How does she describe Jay Z?

Hypothesis: Beyoncé has stated that she is personally inspired by US First Lady Michelle Obama, saying "She proves you can do it all" and she has described Oprah Winfrey as "the definition of inspiration and a strong woman".


Premise: How many ways are there to amend an existing treaty?

Hypothesis: There are three ways an existing treaty can be amended.


Premise: Who surpassed ASCII?

Hypothesis: ASCII was the most common character encoding on the World Wide Web until December 2007, when it was surpassed by UTF-8, which is fully backward compatibe to ASCII.


Premise: Since it is written down, classical music can attain a high level of what?

Hypothesis: Another difference is that whereas most popular styles lend themselves to the song form, classical music has been noted for its development of highly sophisticated forms of instrumental music such as the concerto, symphony, sonata, and mixed vocal and instrumental styles such as opera which, since they are written down, can attain a high level of complexity.


Premise: What was a result of the Jewish Enlightenment?

Hypothesis: Since at least the time of the Ancient Greeks, a proportion of Jews have assimilated into the wider non-Jewish society around them, by either choice or force, ceasing to practice Judaism and losing their Jewish identity.


Premise: What organization did the church expect Montini to continue?

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: What kinds of things have been done by scholars interested in Darwin's work?

Hypothesis: They celebrated the ideas which "over the last 150 years have revolutionised our understanding of nature and our place within it".


Premise: How long of an 'apprenticeship' did slaves need to have before being fully freed?

Hypothesis: Under the Act, slaves were granted full emancipation after a period of 4 to 6 years of "apprenticeship".


Premise: Why did the King dislike Victoria taking the trips?

Hypothesis: William compared the journeys to royal progresses and was concerned that they portrayed Victoria as his rival rather than his heiress presumptive.


Premise: Which government awards the Order of the Bath?

Hypothesis: 21 decorations were from Yugoslavia itself, 18 having been awarded once, and the Order of the National Hero on three occasions.


Premise: When did De Braose die?

Hypothesis: The most infamous case, which went beyond anything considered acceptable at the time, proved to be that of William de Braose, a powerful marcher lord with lands in Ireland.


Premise: What is the cloud tops on Neptune temperature?

Hypothesis: Because of its great distance from the Sun, Neptune's outer atmosphere is one of the coldest places in the Solar System, with temperatures at its cloud tops approaching 55 K (−218 °C).


Premise: Many scholars argue what should be replaced with a ninety or ninety-five percent rule?

Hypothesis: The seventy-five percent rule still has defenders but other scholars argue that it should be replaced with ninety or ninety-five percent rule.


Premise: With what religion did the Ahom merge?

Hypothesis: From thirteenth till seventeenth century, repeated attempts were made by the Muslim rulers of Delhi to invade and subdue Ahoms, however the Ahoms managed to maintain their independence and ruled themselves for nearly 600 years.


Premise: Who expanded the single reeds role?

Hypothesis: While double reeded instruments like the oboe and bassoon became somewhat standardized in the Baroque, the clarinet family of single reeds was not widely used until Mozart expanded its role in orchestral, chamber, and concerto settings.


Premise: In what city was Tony Chebatoris executed?

Hypothesis: (However, the United States government executed Tony Chebatoris at the Federal Correctional Institution in Milan, Michigan in 1938.)


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

Hypothesis: The Irish guitarist Rory Gallagher often played the mandolin on stage, and he most famously used it in the song "Going To My Hometown."


Premise: How can jeopardy opinions be dissuaded?

Hypothesis: A major reason, of course, is that so few consultations result in jeopardy opinions, and those that do almost always result in the identification of reasonable and prudent alternatives to avoid jeopardy."


Premise: Why is hydrogen employed?

Hypothesis: Hydrogen is employed to saturate broken ("dangling") bonds of amorphous silicon and amorphous carbon that helps stabilizing material properties.


Premise: What property of treaties must often be interpreted when it's not clear?

Hypothesis: The language of treaties, like that of any law or contract, must be interpreted when the wording does not seem clear or it is not immediately apparent how it should be applied in a perhaps unforeseen circumstance.


Premise: When did post-punk arrive on the scene?

Hypothesis: Post-punk is a heterogeneous type of rock music that emerged in the wake of the punk movement of the 1970s.


Premise: What term characterizes the nature of changes to the charter after 1971?

Hypothesis: Supplemental Charters of 1887, 1909 and 1925 were replaced by a single Charter in 1971, and there have been minor amendments since then.


Premise: How many features of asymmetry in the cup example can be viewed?

Hypothesis: However, applying the same event in reverse, it is difficult to explain why the various pieces of the cup should fly up into the human hand and reassemble precisely into the shape of a cup, or why the water should position itself entirely within the cup.


Premise: What is it called when the owner of a pub allows patrons to remain when the pub should have closed?

Hypothesis: A "lock-in" is when a pub owner lets drinkers stay in the pub after the legal closing time, on the theory that once the doors are locked, it becomes a private party rather than a pub.


Premise: Where does the lowest zone of the Alps exist?

Hypothesis: The lowest zone is the colline zone, which exists between 500 and 1,000 m (1,640 and 3,281 ft), depending on the location.


Premise: What did John instruct Langton to do?

Hypothesis: John instructed Langton to organise peace talks with the rebel barons.


Premise: How was the British night fighter operations faring?

Hypothesis: German air supremacy at night was also now under threat.


Premise: What were CD-V's video capacities usually used for?

Hypothesis: A CD-V carried up to five minutes of analog LaserDisc-type video content (usually a music video), as well as up to 20 minutes of digital audio CD tracks.


Premise: In what year did the St Paul's Pro-Cathedral get built?

Hypothesis: In 1814, a neoclassical portico decorated with the British coat of arms was added to the Main Guard building so as to serve as a symbol of British Malta.


Premise: What does USB 2.0 High-Speed Inter-Chip eliminate?

Hypothesis: It does not have low enough latency to support RAM memory sharing between two chips.


Premise: What percentage of adolescents reported experiencing psychological aggression?

Hypothesis: When surveyed, 10-45% of adolescents reported having experienced physical violence in the context of a relationship while a quarter to a third of adolescents reported having experiencing psychological aggression.


Premise: Prior to becoming a pub, what did the Angel serve as?

Hypothesis: The Angel, Islington was formerly a coaching inn, the first on the route northwards out of London, where Thomas Paine is believed to have written much of The Rights of Man.


Premise: What does Chhauni Silkhana mean?

Hypothesis: The museum was established in 1928 as a collection house of war trophies and weapons, and the initial name of this museum was Chhauni Silkhana, meaning "the stone house of arms and ammunition".


Premise: What is the name of the stadium that held Live Aid?

Hypothesis: On July 13, 1985, Philadelphia hosted the American end of the Live Aid concert at John F. Kennedy Stadium.


Premise: For what kind of applications are non-woven reinforcement materials better than woven ones?

Hypothesis: Nonwoven reinforcements, or materials with low or no reinforcement, are more expensive but more suitable for some RF/analog applications.


Premise: Who described the Lombardi mandolin as wider and shorter than the Neoapolitan mandolin?

Hypothesis: Samuel Adelstein described the Lombardi mandolin in 1893 as wider and shorter than the Neapolitan mandolin, with a shallower back and a shorter and wider neck, with six single strings to the regular mandolin's set of 4.


Premise: What are the two most widespread varieties of wines in Switzerland?

Hypothesis: The most widespread varieties are the Chasselas (called Fendant in Valais) and Pinot noir.


Premise: What had been used to justify discrimination, apartheid, slavery and genocide in WWII?

Hypothesis: Alongside empirical and conceptual problems with "race", following the Second World War, evolutionary and social scientists were acutely aware of how beliefs about race had been used to justify discrimination, apartheid, slavery, and genocide.


Premise: What part of his mom's head would Bell talk into?

Hypothesis: He also developed a technique of speaking in clear, modulated tones directly into his mother's forehead wherein she would hear him with reasonable clarity.


Premise: What is the name of crisis where the wives of the Tories were replacing the wives of the Whigs?

Hypothesis: Many of the Queen's ladies of the bedchamber were wives of Whigs, and Peel expected to replace them with wives of Tories.


Premise: How long ago did Antarctica and Australia split?

Hypothesis: At the beginning of the period, Australia and Antarctica remained connected, and warm equatorial currents mixed with colder Antarctic waters, distributing the heat around the world and keeping global temperatures high.


Premise: Who was the main character in the third arc series?

Hypothesis: The series finale reintroduces the heroes of the previous five seasons as they all come together and help the current heroes in the final battle due to the fact that the DigiQuartz is essentially a tear in Space and Time, allowing all of the Digimon universes to converge.


Premise: Who else has a history as long standing as those of the Greeks ?

Hypothesis: Since its inception, Hellenism was primarily a matter of common culture and the national continuity of the Greek world is a lot more certain than its demographic.


Premise: What did Apple begin to eliminate in 2002?

Hypothesis: Starting in 2002, Apple moved to eliminate CRT displays from its product line as part of aesthetic design and space-saving measures with the iMac G4.


Premise: What type of plant is cotton?

Hypothesis: Cotton strippers are used in regions where it is too windy to grow picker varieties of cotton, and usually after application of a chemical defoliant or the natural defoliation that occurs after a freeze.


Premise: Where is there a non-religious majority?

Hypothesis: Among "others" are Protestants not included in Evangelical Church of Germany, and other Christians such as the Restorationist New Apostolic Church.


Premise: Spectre passed which movie to become the highest grossing IMAX release in the UK?

Hypothesis: The film also broke the record for the best per-screen opening average with $110,000, a record previously held by The Dark Knight with $100,200.


Premise: How many bikes are involved in the bike share system?

Hypothesis: This includes North America's second-largest bicycle sharing system, EcoBici, launched in 2010, in which registered residents can get bicycles for 45 minutes with a pre-paid subscription of 300 pesos a year.


Premise: What is one who replaces a player during a game called?

Hypothesis: A number of players may be replaced by substitutes during the course of the game.


Premise: Who prophesized in Luke 2:25-38?

Hypothesis: They also presented Jesus –  "As it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord" (Luke 2:23other verses).


Premise: What is the nationality of Seham Sergewa?

Hypothesis: Another source—Libyan psychologist Seham Sergewa—reported that several of his female bodyguards claim to have been raped by Gaddafi and senior officials.


Premise: Who composes music for most of Spielberg's movies?

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


Premise: What does temperature impact on tool kits?

Hypothesis: Using temperature as a proxy for risk, Collard et al.'s results suggest that environments with extreme temperatures pose a threat to hunter-gatherer systems significant enough to warrant increased variability of tools.


Premise: What were Fantasia Barrino, LaToya London and Jennifer Hudson called?

Hypothesis: Much media attention on the season had been focused on the three black singers, Fantasia Barrino, LaToya London, and Jennifer Hudson, dubbed the Three Divas.


Premise: How is Punjabi written?

Hypothesis: The major and native language spoken in the Punjab is Punjabi (which is written in a Shahmukhi script in Pakistan) and


Premise: What was recognized by the time the 14th Amendment passed?

Hypothesis: Other debates center on the principle of the law of the land in America being defined not just by the Constitution's Supremacy Clause, but also by legal precedence, making an accurate reading of the Constitution subject to the mores and values of a given era, and rendering the concept of historical revisionism irrelevant when discussing the Constitution.


Premise: Where did the Eighth Army land?

Hypothesis: The Japanese put up little direct defense of Palawan, but cleaning up pockets of Japanese resistance lasted until late April, as the Japanese used their common tactic of withdrawing into the mountain jungles, dispersed as small units.


Premise: Hard rock is differentiated from heavy metal by containing more of an influence of what genre?

Hypothesis: While hard rock maintained a bluesy rock and roll identity, including some swing in the back beat and riffs that tended to outline chord progressions in their hooks, heavy metal's riffs often functioned as stand-alone melodies and had no swing in them.


Premise: What was discovered around Neptune in 2004 and 2005?

Hypothesis: In 2004 and 2005, five new small satellites of Neptune with diameters between 38 and 61 kilometres were discovered.


Premise: Who wrote The Travels of Marco Polo?

Hypothesis: Rising trade brought new methods of dealing with money, and gold coinage was again minted in Europe, first in Italy and later in France and other countries.


Premise: The Empire had a Christian majority until what time?

Hypothesis: Until the second half of the 15th century the empire had a Christian majority, under the rule of a Muslim minority.


Premise: What activities was the FBI concerned with during the Vietnam war?

Hypothesis: The files were collected for various reasons.


Premise: Colloquial stratum can be traced to several strata in what lexicon?

Hypothesis: The earliest, colloquial stratum is traced to the Han dynasty (206 BCE - 220 CE); the second colloquial one comes from the period of the Southern and Northern Dynasties (420 - 589 CE); the third stratum of pronunciations (typically literary ones) comes from the Tang Dynasty (618–907 CE) and is based on the prestige dialect of Chang'an (modern day Xi'an), its capital.


Premise: Who did Güshi Khan organize a welcome ceremony for?

Hypothesis: Soon after the victory in Ü-Tsang, Güshi Khan organized a welcoming ceremony for Lozang Gyatso once he arrived a day's ride from Shigatse, presenting his conquest of Tibet as a gift to the Dalai Lama.


Premise: Which famous scientist resolved these issues?

Hypothesis: Events seen by two different observers in motion relative to each other produce a mathematical concept of time that works sufficiently well for describing the everyday phenomena of most people's experience.


Premise: What does the Act require all hunters over the age of sixteen to do?

Hypothesis: On 16 March 1934, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act, which requires an annual stamp purchase by all hunters over the age of sixteen.


Premise: How much larger is a dog's olfactory cortex than a person's?

Hypothesis: Dogs may have as many as 300 million odour receptors in their nose, while humans may have only 5 million.


Premise: During which year was the federal government unstable?

Hypothesis: Because of the general instability of the federal government during 1828, the installation of the new legislature did not take place until the middle of the following year.


Premise: What was considered to be more important to some than serving the local government?

Hypothesis: By the Eastern Han period, local elites of unattached scholars, teachers, students, and government officials began to identify themselves as members of a larger, nationwide gentry class with shared values and a commitment to mainstream scholarship.


Premise: Which country first entered World War 2 after France's defeat?

Hypothesis: In August 1941, Churchill and Roosevelt met and signed the Atlantic Charter, which included the statement that "the rights of all peoples to choose the form of government under which they live" should be respected.


Premise: Back-to-school shopping was introduced in what year of Beyonce's clothing line?

Hypothesis: It was available at department stores including Macy's and Dillard's, and specialty stores Jimmy Jazz and Against All Odds.


Premise: Who first standardized the earliest versions of the Quran?

Hypothesis: According to the traditional narrative, several companions of Muhammad served as scribes and were responsible for writing down the revelations.


Premise: What famous American traitor has a first wife buried in a 17th century crypt in a New Haven church flanking New Haven Green?

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


Premise: Programs that convert assembly language into machine language are called what?

Hypothesis: Converting programs written in assembly language into something the computer can actually understand (machine language) is usually done by a computer program called an assembler.


Premise: Mahayana aspires to Buddhahood through what path?

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


Premise: Which Japanese Buddhist organization built a Peace Pagoda in New Delhi in 2007?

Hypothesis: In 2007, the Japanese Buddhist organisation Nipponzan Myohoji decided to build a Peace Pagoda in the city containing Buddha relics.


Premise: What is the DVB?

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


Premise: With several certifications out there that can be aquired, what is the one trait they all share?

Hypothesis: This has led some to declare that the testing field is not ready for certification.


Premise: When was the Weston model 617 created?

Hypothesis: Before the advent of the ASA system, the system of Weston film speed ratings was introduced by Edward Faraday Weston (1878–1971) and his father Dr. Edward Weston (1850–1936), a British-born electrical engineer, industrialist and founder of the US-based Weston Electrical Instrument Corporation, with the Weston model 617, one of the earliest photo-electric exposure meters, in August 1932.


Premise: Who is Kevin Faulconer?

Hypothesis: The current mayor, Kevin Faulconer, is a Republican.


Premise: What brothers were instrumental in this Greek movement of neoclassicism?

Hypothesis: The Antiquities of Athens and Other Monuments of Greece was very influential in this regard, as were Robert Wood's Palmyra and Baalbec.


Premise: What company first marketed light bulbs using the reflective capsule technique to increase energy efficiency?

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 Empire brought horses to the Americas?

Hypothesis: The Spanish Empire and other Europeans brought horses to the Americas.


Premise: What responsibilities so Presbyterians have?

Hypothesis: Above the sessions exist presbyteries, which have area responsibilities.


Premise: What have many apartment buildings  surrounding Wrigley Field built on their rooftops?

Hypothesis: On game days, many residents rent out their yards and driveways to people looking for parking spots.


Premise: What did Beyonce call her first concert tour?

Hypothesis: In April 2007, Beyoncé embarked on The Beyoncé Experience, her first worldwide concert tour, visiting 97 venues and grossed over $24 million.[note 1]


Premise: How much did the mortality rate of tuberculosis drop between 1946-1955?

Hypothesis: The report found that over the period 1946-1955, there was a 42% drop in the incidence of diseases for which antibiotics were effective and only a 20% drop in those for which antibiotics were not effective.


Premise: How many acres is the Windsor Salt Mine?

Hypothesis: The fourth border crossing is the Detroit–Windsor Truck Ferry, located near the Windsor Salt Mine and Zug Island.


Premise: What type of instrument became more refined during the classical era?

Hypothesis: While double reeded instruments like the oboe and bassoon became somewhat standardized in the Baroque, the clarinet family of single reeds was not widely used until Mozart expanded its role in orchestral, chamber, and concerto settings.


Premise: What was the name of the political system that gave rents to knights in return for military service?

Hypothesis: Manorialism, the organisation of peasants into villages that owed rent and labour services to the nobles, and feudalism, the political structure whereby knights and lower-status nobles owed military service to their overlords in return for the right to rent from lands and manors, were two of the ways society was organised in the High Middle Ages.


Premise: In the development of which religions did Magadha participate?

Hypothesis: Magadha played an important role in the development of Jainism and Buddhism, and two of India's greatest empires, the Maurya Empire and Gupta Empire, originated from Magadha.


Premise: Who did Nasser imprison thousands of?

Hypothesis: Nasser's Egyptian detractors considered him a dictator who thwarted democratic progress, imprisoned thousands of dissidents, and led a repressive administration responsible for numerous human rights violations.


Premise: How is The Bahre-Nagassi translated?

Hypothesis: The Scottish traveler James Bruce reported in 1770 that Medri Bahri was a distinct political entity from Abyssinia, noting that the two territories were frequently in conflict.


Premise: When was the term added to the dictionary?

Hypothesis: " Due to her curves and the term's catchiness, in the 2000s, the media often used the term "Bootylicious" (a portmanteau of the words booty and delicious) to describe Beyoncé, the term popularized by Destiny's Child's single of the same name.


Premise: What did Czech philologists advocate?

Hypothesis: Czech historians began to emphasize their people's accomplishments from the fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries, rebelling against the Counter-Reformation (which had denigrated Czech and other non-Latin languages).


Premise: What was the first theater of modern Greece?

Hypothesis: The Nobile Teatro di San Giacomo di Corfù was the first theatre and opera house of modern Greece and the place where the first Greek opera, Spyridon Xyndas' The Parliamentary Candidate (based on an exclusively Greek libretto) was performed.


Premise: Where was the Indo-Aryan culture located?

Hypothesis: The Vedic period is named after the Indo-Aryan culture of north-west India, although other parts of India had a distinct cultural identity during this period.


Premise: Where were the strikes?

Hypothesis: On October 26, twenty factories in Lviv held strikes and meetings to protest the police brutality of October 1 and the authorities' unwillingness to prosecute those responsible.


Premise: When did Aribau write Ode to the Homeland?

Hypothesis: In parallel, however, the 19th century saw a Catalan literary revival (Renaixença), which has continued up to the present day.


Premise: What is the purpose of antibiotic treatment?

Hypothesis: The antibiotic treatment may select for bacterial strains with physiologically or genetically enhanced capacity to survive high doses of antibiotics.


Premise: What was the price paid for the newspaper?

Hypothesis: IPC, under pressure from the unions, rejected Maxwell's offer, and Murdoch bought the paper for £800,000, to be paid in instalments.


Premise: Who wrote the words "Against us they have raised the bloody flag of tyranny?"

Hypothesis: In the words of his famous hymn, the Marseillaise, Rouget de Lisle wrote: "Against us they have raised the bloody flag of tyranny!"


Premise: When was the mosaic floor constructed?

Hypothesis: The floor was paved in 508/509.


Premise: What was the last Chinese dynasty?

Hypothesis: , also called the Empire of the Great Qing, or the Manchu dynasty, was the last imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1644 to 1912 with a brief, abortive restoration in 1917.


Premise: What is the intermarriage rate among non-orthodox jews?

Hypothesis: Among Orthodox Jews, the fertility rate stands at about 4.1 children per family, as compared to 1.9 children per family among non-Orthodox Jews, and intermarriage among Orthodox Jews is practically non-existent, standing at about 2%, in contrast to a 71% intermarriage rate among non-Orthodox Jews.


Premise: How many clubs are currently in the Premier League?

Hypothesis: The three lowest placed teams are relegated into the Football League Championship, and the top two teams from the Championship, together with the winner of play-offs involving the third to sixth placed Championship clubs, are promoted in their place.


Premise: What concept is sexual orientation argued as?

Hypothesis: Sexual orientation is argued as a concept that evolved in the industrialized West, and there is a controversy as to the universality of its application in other societies or cultures. Non-westernized concepts of male sexuality differ essentially from the way sexuality is seen and classified under the Western system of sexual orientation.[unreliable source?]


Premise: When did Baptist congregations split over slavery?

Hypothesis: The Methodist Episcopal Church, South had recently separated over the issue of slavery, and southern Presbyterians would do so shortly thereafter.


Premise: When did smallpox read the lands of the Iroquois?

Hypothesis: In 1633, in Plymouth, the Native Americans there were exposed to smallpox because of contact with Europeans.


Premise: Which is the most developed and well known of the Hindu schools?

Hypothesis: Each of these have been further categorized in terms of conditionality, completeness, confidence and possibility of error, by each sub-school of Vedanta.


Premise: How many Richmond inhabitants get their water from the wastewater treatment plant?

Hypothesis: This plant can treat up to 70 million gallons of water per day of sanitary sewage and stormwater before returning it to the river.


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

Hypothesis: However, evidence for this is lacking, since the simplest organisms with a circadian rhythm, the cyanobacteria, do the opposite of this - they divide more in the daytime.


Premise: What name was Adalhard the Elder also known as in 822 AD?

Hypothesis: The first historical mention of the use of hops in beer was from 822 AD in monastery rules written by Adalhard the Elder, also known as Adalard of Corbie, though the date normally given for widespread cultivation of hops for use in beer is the thirteenth century.


Premise: What condition did Frédéric describe the piano that arrived to him through many dangerous obstacles?

Hypothesis: He also had problems having his Pleyel piano sent to him.


Premise: What charity benefited from  the release of the song, God Bless the USA?

Hypothesis: Following the death of Osama bin Laden, Beyoncé released her cover of the Lee Greenwood song "God Bless the USA", as a charity single to help raise funds for the New York Police and Fire Widows' and Children's Benefit Fund.


Premise: What trait do people most commonly link red with?

Hypothesis: Surveys show that red is the color most associated with courage.


Premise: The 1812 invasion of Russia resulted in the collapse of which military unit?

Hypothesis: To enforce his blockade, Napoleon launched an invasion of Russia in the summer of 1812.


Premise: Which authorities fielded complaints from TIto about protesters?

Hypothesis: Security for the state visits was usually high to keep him away from protesters, who would frequently burn the Yugoslav flag.


Premise: What patterns of heterogeneity falsify any descriptions of population?

Hypothesis: As the anthropologists Leonard Lieberman and Fatimah Linda Jackson observed, "Discordant patterns of heterogeneity falsify any description of a population as if it were genotypically or even phenotypically homogeneous".


Premise: Who would prefix Dame, to their forenames?

Hypothesis: Wives of Knights may prefix Lady to their surnames, but no equivalent privilege exists for husbands of Knights or spouses of Dames.


Premise: Who is the President of Nigeria?

Hypothesis: At the same time, neighbouring countries, Benin, Chad, Cameroon and Niger joined Nigeria in a united effort to combat Boko Haram in the aftermath of a world media highlighted kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls and the spread of Boko Haram attacks to these countries.


Premise: In what year was Bern ranked as one of the 10 best cities for their quality of life?

Hypothesis: Bern is ranked among the world’s top ten cities for the best quality of life (2010).


Premise: Who invented the steam engine?

Hypothesis: The experiments of Lavoisier were used to create the first modern chemical plants in Paris, and the experiments of the Montgolfier Brothers enabled them to launch the first manned flight in a hot-air balloon on 21 November 1783, from the Château de la Muette, near the Bois de Boulogne.


Premise: What is the biggest known dog?

Hypothesis: The tallest dog is a Great Dane that stands 106.7 cm (42.0 in) at the shoulder.


Premise: When did the clearing of swamp land and forests begin in the British Isles?

Hypothesis: Despite this, Britain retained its primeval forests longer than most of Europe due to a small population and later development of trade and industry, and wood shortages were not a problem until the 17th century.


Premise: What was the price to take over Adelphia?

Hypothesis: The two companies paid a total of $17.6 billion in the deal that was finalized in the second quarter of 2006—after


Premise: How did Cleoptra die?

Hypothesis: Ptolemaic queens, some of whom were the sisters of their husbands, were usually called Cleopatra, Arsinoe or Berenice.


Premise: In what year did England reach the quarter-finals of the FIFA World Cup for the first time?

Hypothesis: Their first ever defeat on home soil to a foreign team was an 0–2 loss to the Republic of Ireland, on 21 September 1949 at Goodison Park.


Premise: To whom did Egypt sell its interest in Suez Canal?

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


Premise: Bugs are usually the fault of whom or what?

Hypothesis: Bugs are usually not the fault of the computer.


Premise: WHo established an elite knightly retinue?

Hypothesis: Mieszko I of Poland (c. 935 – 25 May 992) established an elite knightly retinue from within his army, which he depended upon for success in uniting the Lekhitic tribes and preserving the unity of his state.


Premise: Who recorded the visual evidence on the disdainful incident?

Hypothesis: The footage was filmed by members of the Burmese police force in the town of Meiktila and was used as evidence that Buddhists continued to kill Muslims after the European Union sanctions were lifted on 23 April 2013.


Premise: What was the ruler at the time of neoclassical introduction?

Hypothesis: Neoclassical architecture was introduced in Malta in the late 18th century, during the final years of Hospitaller rule.


Premise: What specifies the amino acid sequence of a protein?

Hypothesis: The nucleotide sequence of a gene's DNA specifies the amino acid sequence of a protein through the genetic code.


Premise: Why did Nasser abandon the Presidential Council?

Hypothesis: Nasser retracted the initiative after Amer's allies in the officers corps threatened to mobilize against him.


Premise: What percentage of Tuvalu crops were destroyed during  Cyclone Pam?

Hypothesis: Vasafua islet, part of the Funafuti Conservation Area, was severely damaged by Cyclone Pam.


Premise: What Platonic idea lost influence as a result of the work of Ockham and Duns Scotus?

Hypothesis: The lone exception to this trend was in England, where the common law remained pre-eminent.


Premise: Which political figure supported the Saar Statute referendum?

Hypothesis: The rejection of the plan by the Saarlanders was interpreted as support for the Saar to join the Federal Republic of Germany.


Premise: How many listed buildings in Somerset

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


Premise: From where id Chopin's father emigrate from?

Hypothesis: His eighteen-year-old godfather, for whom he was named, was Fryderyk Skarbek, a pupil of Nicolas Chopin.


Premise: What are two airlines that considered implementing iPod connections but did not join the 2007 agreement?

Hypothesis: Originally KLM and Air France were reported to be part of the deal with Apple, but they later released statements explaining that they were only contemplating the possibility of incorporating such systems.


Premise: What religious items did Kerry bring with him while campaigning?

Hypothesis: He also said that the Letters of Paul (Apostle Paul) moved him the most, stating that they taught him to "not feel sorry for myself."


Premise: Who were most samurais' lords?

Hypothesis: Theoretical obligations between a samurai and his lord (usually a daimyo) increased from the Genpei era to the Edo era.


Premise: In what year did the Senate declare the Bacchus subversive?

Hypothesis: In 206 BC the Sibylline books commended the introduction of cult to the aniconic Magna Mater (Great Mother) from Pessinus, installed on the Palatine in 191 BC.


Premise: What is its longest river?

Hypothesis: The largest and most important of these rivers is the Minho, known as O Pai Miño (Father Minho), 307.5 km (191.1 mi) long and discharging 419 m3 (548 cu yd) per second, with its affluent the Sil, which has created a spectacular canyon.


Premise: What is Kathmandu's fire department called?

Hypothesis: In 1975, a West German government donation added seven fire engines to Kathmandu's fire service.


Premise: How many distinct seasons does Zhejiang have?

Hypothesis: There are also many bays, of which Hangzhou Bay is the largest.


Premise: Coverage in China is reported to be partial and what?

Hypothesis: Western reporters in Beijing have described Chinese media coverage as partial and censored (for example when Chinese media did not broadcast Reporters Without Borders' disruption of the torch lighting ceremony), whereas Chinese netizens have in turn accused Western media coverage of being biased.


Premise: Where does this person announce the election of the new pope?

Hypothesis: As a result, the Cardinal protodeacon's privilege of crowning a new pope has effectively ceased although it could be revived if a future Pope were to restore a coronation ceremony.


Premise: When did the battle for Mexico City take place

Hypothesis: After defeating the Saint Patrick's Battalion, the Mexican–American War came to a close after the United States deployed combat units deep into Mexico resulting in the capture of Mexico City and Veracruz by the U.S. Army's 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Divisions.


Premise: When did Lakulish systematize the Pasupata Shaivism?

Hypothesis: The philosophy of Pashupata sect was systematized by Lakulish in the 2nd century CE.


Premise: When was Jaws released?

Hypothesis: Three of Spielberg's films—Jaws (1975), E.T.


Premise: What does the weight of the largest metropolitan areas tend to do?

Hypothesis: In international comparison the importance of these urban areas is stronger than their number of inhabitants suggests.


Premise: By about what number of votes did Schwarzenegger win the 2003 recall election in California?

Hypothesis: On October 7, 2003, the recall election resulted in Governor Gray Davis being removed from office with 55.4% of the Yes vote in favor of a recall.


Premise: In Gallagher's definition of genocide, a source of what is malicious in it implementation of the destruction of a group?

Hypothesis: Highlighting the potential for state and non-state actors to commit genocide in the 21st century, for example, in failed states or as non-state actors acquire weapons of mass destruction, Adrian Gallagher defined genocide as 'When a source of collective power (usually a state) intentionally uses its power base to implement a process of destruction in order to destroy a group (as defined by the perpetrator), in whole or in substantial part, dependent upon relative group size'.


Premise: What plays a vital role in harbouring floral and faunal species?

Hypothesis: The forests play a vital role in harbouring more than 45,000 floral and 81,000 faunal species of which 5150 floral and 1837 faunal species are endemic.


Premise: At the end of the 19th century what was the literacy rate for the public in the Empire believed to be?

Hypothesis: In villages where two or more populations lived together, the inhabitants would often speak each other's language.


Premise: How much solar energy is captured by photosynthesis?

Hypothesis: Photosynthesis captures approximately 3,000 EJ per year in biomass.


Premise: What was the cost to watch AFL games on Ustream?

Hypothesis: After its return in 2010, the AFL had its national television deal with the NFL Network for a weekly Friday night game.


Premise: Namibia is on par with what country in terms of media and reporting?

Hypothesis: However, as in other countries, there is still mentionable influence of representatives of state and economy on media in Namibia.


Premise: What substance is hemicellulose impregnated with?

Hypothesis: It consists of cells, and the cell walls are composed of micro-fibrils of cellulose (40% – 50%) and hemicellulose (15% – 25%) impregnated with lignin (15% – 30%).


Premise: Near what square was the African Burial Ground unearthed?

Hypothesis: It also became a center of slavery, with 42% of households holding slaves by 1730, more than any other city other than Charleston, South Carolina.


Premise: What is not required but can be chosen to protect a player from head injuries?

Hypothesis: Players are forbidden to wear or use anything that is dangerous to themselves or another player, such as jewellery or watches.


Premise: What is another name for an exposure index rating?

Hypothesis: For digital photo cameras ("digital still cameras"), an exposure index (EI) rating—commonly called ISO setting—is specified by the manufacturer such that the sRGB image files produced by the camera will have a lightness similar to what would be obtained with film of the same EI rating at the same exposure.


Premise: What type of fisheries does the state have?

Hypothesis: Montana has been a destination for its world-class trout fisheries since the 1930s.


Premise: What ports were the Portuguese restricted to?

Hypothesis: The local African rulers in Guinea, some of whom prospered greatly from the slave trade, controlled the inland trade and did not allow the Europeans into the interior.


Premise: How much did George III pay for the house?

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


Premise: Who said Kanye West was the greatest hip hop artist of all time?

Hypothesis: The Guardian has compared West to David Bowie, arguing that "there is nobody else who can sell as many records as West does (30m-odd album sales and counting) while remaining so resolutely experimental and capable of stirring things up culturally and politically."


Premise: According to John Harrison, through the Constitution, what is law?

Hypothesis: For example, John Harrison asserts that the word "law" in the Constitution is simply defined as that which is legally binding, rather than being "defined by formal or substantive criteria," and therefore judges do not have discretion to decide that laws fail to satisfy such unwritten and vague criteria.


Premise: The Supreme Court of India Museum is located in what major city?

Hypothesis: New Delhi is home to Indira Gandhi Memorial Museum, National Gallery of Modern Art, National Museum of Natural History, National Rail Museum, National Handicrafts and Handlooms Museum, National Philatelic Museum, Nehru Planetarium, Shankar's International Dolls Museum.


Premise: In how many UEFA European Championship Finals has England competed?

Hypothesis: England is quite a successful nation at the UEFA European Football Championship, having finished in third place in 1968 and reached the semi-final in 1996.


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

Hypothesis: Momentum transfer pumps, which bear some similarities to dynamic pumps used at higher pressures, can achieve much higher quality vacuums than positive displacement pumps.


Premise: How wide were the wingspans of the dragonfly-like forms?

Hypothesis: The lack of flying vertebrates could have been another factor.


Premise: What is the maximum amount of load a USB 1. and 2.0 device may draw?

Hypothesis: A low-power device (such as a USB HID) draws at most one-unit load, with minimum operating voltage of 4.4 V in USB 2.0, and 4 V in USB 3.0.


Premise: In what year was the World War I Memorial Carillon constructed?

Hypothesis: Prominently featured in the park is the World War I Memorial Carillon, built in 1926 as a memorial to those that died in the war.


Premise: What range of estimates have been given for Teresa Heinz Kerry's net worth?

Hypothesis: However, estimates have frequently varied, ranging from around $165 million to as high as $3.2 billion, according to a study in the Los Angeles Times.


Premise: What direction did the North carolina railroad extend?

Hypothesis: During the Civil War, the Wilmington-to-Raleigh stretch of the railroad would be vital to the Confederate war effort; supplies shipped into Wilmington would be moved by rail through Raleigh to the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia.


Premise: How many residences does the "Vision for Plymouth" seek to build?

Hypothesis: Its projects range from shopping centres, a cruise terminal, a boulevard and to increase the population to 300,000 and build 33,000 dwellings.


Premise: Who mentions a Daurentius (577–579) that slew an Avar envoy of Khagan Bayan I?

Hypothesis: The Avars asked the Slavs to accept the suzerainty of the Avars, he however declined and is reported as saying: "Others do not conquer our land, we conquer theirs –


Premise: What is a major cause of death in neonates in Eriterea?

Hypothesis: Maternal mortality dropped by more than half from 1995 to 2002, although the figure is still high.


Premise: What type of degree were Thailand's technical colleges historically not allowed to confer?

Hypothesis: Examples are Pathumwan Institute of Technology (developed from Pathumwan Technical School), King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (Nondhaburi Telecommunications Training Centre), and King Mongkut's Institute of Technology North Bangkok (Thai-German Technical School).


Premise: How large of a percent does Lutheran's take up?

Hypothesis: Others include Presbyterian (2.52%), Pentecostal (1.99%), Episcopalian (1.12%), Lutheran (1.06%), Latter-Day Saints (0.99%), and other Christian denominations (6.68%) including Eastern Orthodox, Coptic Orthodox, Jehovah's Witness, Christian Science, Christian Unitarianism, other Mainline Protestant groups, and non-denominational.


Premise: Signing a self-executing treaty automatically does what for a party?

Hypothesis: Treaties may be seen as 'self-executing', in that merely becoming a party puts the treaty and all of its obligations in action.


Premise: What contributed to the rise of the US as a world power?

Hypothesis: Its comparatively favorable agricultural climate contributed (in part) to the country's rise as a world power, with infrequent severe drought in the major agricultural regions, a general lack of widespread flooding, and a mainly temperate climate that receives adequate precipitation.


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

Hypothesis: Greek allies had their own traditional cults to rulers as divine benefactors, and offered similar cult to Caesar's successor, Augustus, who accepted with the cautious proviso that expatriate Roman citizens refrain from such worship; it might prove fatal.


Premise: Who designed the A.C. Goode House?

Hypothesis: Some of the most architecturally noteworthy historic buildings include the World Heritage Site-listed Royal Exhibition Building, constructed over a two-year period for the Melbourne International Exhibition in 1880, A.C. Goode House, a Neo Gothic building located on Collins Street designed by Wright, Reed & Beaver (1891), William Pitt's Venetian Gothic style Old Stock Exchange (1888), William Wardell's Gothic Bank (1883) which features some of Melbourne's finest interiors, the incomplete Parliament House, St Paul's Cathedral (1891) and Flinders Street Station (1909), which was the busiest commuter railway station in the world in the mid-1920s.


Premise: As of July 2011, how many people resided on the Marshall Islands?

Hypothesis: In July 2011, the number of island residents was estimated to number about 72,191.


Premise: What argument do those opposing statehood use?

Hypothesis: Statehood opponents have argued that the statehood option garnered only 45 percent of the votes if abstentions are included.


Premise: What was the name of the military action against Libya?

Hypothesis: Throughout the conflict however, the U.S. maintained it was playing a supporting role only and was following the UN mandate to protect civilians, while the real conflict was between Gaddafi's loyalists and Libyan rebels fighting to depose him.


Premise: How much of the Bronx speaks African languages at home?

Hypothesis: A Garifuna-speaking community from Honduras and Guatemala also makes the Bronx its home.


Premise: What is the Christian Democratic Party also known as?

Hypothesis: As of 2015, Bern's City Council is made up of two representatives of the SP (Social Democratic Party, of whom one is also the mayor), and one each of CVP (Christian Democratic Party), GB (Green Alliance of Berne), and FDP (FDP.The Liberals), giving the left parties a majority of three out of five seats.


Premise: What languages do they speak?

Hypothesis: Additionally, there are around 60,000 non-Jewish African immigrants in Israel, some of whom have sought asylum.


Premise: Along with Taiwan, what empire was Korea considered to be apart of?

Hypothesis: Korea was considered to be part of the Empire of Japan as an industrialized colony along with Taiwan, and both were part of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.


Premise: Due to the numbers of expatriates of Poland after the uprising, what did it become to be known as?

Hypothesis: In France he used the French versions of his given names, and after receiving French citizenship in 1835, he travelled on a French passport.


Premise: What is the name of the second film that Madonna directed?

Hypothesis: She also directed her second feature film, W.E., a biographic about the affair between King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson; it was co-written with Alek Keshishian.


Premise: Who are the Quechua and Chorote?

Hypothesis: Minor but important peoples are the Quechua (6,739), the Charrúa (4,511), the Pilagá (4,465), the Chané (4,376), and the Chorote (2,613).


Premise: What was a crime in the eighteenth century that could cause severe punishment but was mostly ignored?

Hypothesis: In 1976, philosopher and historian Michel Foucault argued in The History of Sexuality that homosexuality as an identity did not exist in the eighteenth century; that people instead spoke of "sodomy," which referred to sexual acts.


Premise: What are the two ways that food is broken down?

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


Premise: What were the nuns tested on?

Hypothesis: Candidates to profession were tested to reveal whether they were actually married women who had merely separated from their husbands.


Premise: What was previously used to group plants?

Hypothesis: As a simple example, prior to the use of genetic evidence, fungi were thought either to be plants or to be more closely related to plants than animals.


Premise: What did the claims of officials imply about the nature of the individuals?

Hypothesis: Such claims suggested personal character and policy as divinely inspired; an appointment to priesthood offered divine validation.


Premise: Who shot at the queen?

Hypothesis: Victoria was outraged when he was found not guilty by reason of insanity, but was so pleased by the many expressions of loyalty after the attack that she said it was "worth being shot at—to see how much one is loved".


Premise: What century did Bern outgrow the peninsula?

Hypothesis: The city was originally built on a hilly peninsula surrounded by the River Aare, but outgrew natural boundaries by the 19th century.


Premise: Of what were such claims of deity relations the start?

Hypothesis: In the mid-to-late Republican era, and probably much earlier, many of Rome's leading clans acknowledged a divine or semi-divine ancestor and laid personal claim to their favour and cult, along with a share of their divinity.


Premise: When was the greylag goose first domesticated by humans?

Hypothesis: The greylag goose (Anser anser) was domesticated by the Egyptians at least 3000 years ago, and a different wild species, the swan goose (Anser cygnoides), domesticated in Siberia about a thousand years later, is known as a Chinese goose.


Premise: Schwarzenegger was the spokesperson for the Special Olympic games held in what city in China?

Hypothesis: Arnold Schwarzenegger has been involved with the Special Olympics for many years after they were founded by his ex-mother-in-law, Eunice Kennedy Shriver.


Premise: Where did Napoleon III meet Victoria and Albert, before accompanying them to Paris?

Hypothesis: Napoleon III met the couple at Dunkirk and accompanied them to Paris.


Premise: Who wrote Shahnameh?

Hypothesis: It is a tragic story of undying love much like the later Romeo and Juliet, which was itself said to have been inspired by a Latin version of Layla and Majnun to an extent.


Premise: When did it become illegal for a person to own a dog in The Hague?

Hypothesis: In 2015 city councillor Hasan Küçük of The Hague called for dog ownership to be made illegal in that city.


Premise: In terms of size where does Swaziland rank within Africa in terms of country size?

Hypothesis: They established their kingdom in the mid-18th century under the leadership of Ngwane III; the present boundaries were drawn up in 1881.


Premise: In what century did Alfred unify Anglo-Saxon England?

Hypothesis: Alfred advocated education in English alongside Latin, and had many works translated into the English language; some of them, such as Pope Gregory I's treatise Pastoral Care, appear to have been translated by Alfred himself.


Premise: What notable Roman figure died in 408?

Hypothesis: The emperors of the 5th century were often controlled by military strongmen such as Stilicho (d. 408), Aspar (d. 471),


Premise: What kind of patents were allegedly inherited?

Hypothesis: The court subsequently tossed the award, however, finding that one patent had not been infringed and that the other was not even owned by Alcatel-Lucent; it was co-owned by AT&T and Fraunhofer, who had licensed it to Microsoft, the judge ruled.


Premise: To where did Seattle's Baseball team relocate in 1969?

Hypothesis: Seattle was also home to a previous Major League Baseball franchise in 1969: the Seattle Pilots.


Premise: How many Commonwealth nations still consider the British Queen their head of state?

Hypothesis: Most former British colonies and protectorates are among the 53 member states of the Commonwealth of Nations, a non-political, voluntary association of equal members, comprising a population of around 2.2 billion people.


Premise: According to some sources, what is theorized to be the maximum nails used?

Hypothesis: However, throughout history larger numbers of nails have been hypothesized, at times as high as 14 nails.


Premise: When does the middle of summer occur on Cyprus?

Hypothesis: The middle of summer is hot – in July and August on the coast the average temperature is usually around 33 °C (91 °F) during the day and around 22 °C (72 °F) at night (inland, in the highlands average temperature exceeds 35 °C (95 °F)) while in the June and September on the coast the average temperature is usually around 30 °C (86 °F) during the day and around 20 °C (68 °F) at night in Limassol, while is usually around 28 °C (82 °F) during the day and around 18 °C (64 °F) at night in Paphos.


Premise: Which birds drum territorially?

Hypothesis: The Coenocorypha snipes of New Zealand drive air through their feathers, woodpeckers drum territorially, and palm cockatoos use tools to drum.


Premise: How much of Brasilia's GDP is from Agribusiness?

Hypothesis: The major roles of construction and of services (government, communications, banking and finance, food production, entertainment, and legal services) in Brasília's economy reflect the city's status as a governmental rather than an industrial center.


Premise: What was the first antibiotic developed from nature?

Hypothesis: In 1939, coinciding with the start of World War II, Rene Dubos reported the discovery of the first naturally derived antibiotic, tyrothricin, a compound of 20% gramicidin and 80% tyrocidine, from B. brevis.


Premise: How many attendants accompanied the flame during it's travels?

Hypothesis: According to Asian Times, sworn in as the "Beijing Olympic Games Sacred Flame Protection Unit" during a ceremony in August 2007, their main job is to keep the Olympic flame alight throughout the journey and to assist in transferring the flame between the torches, the lanterns and the cauldrons.


Premise: Because of the lack of pay, what was the type of honor in being a priest?

Hypothesis: For those who had reached their goal in the Cursus honorum, permanent priesthood was best sought or granted after a lifetime's service in military or political life, or preferably both: it was a particularly honourable and active form of retirement which fulfilled an essential public duty.


Premise: What are some factors that make developing and maintaining an identity during the adolescent years a difficult task?

Hypothesis: But, developing and maintaining identity (in adolescent years) is a difficult task due to multiple factors such as family life, environment, and social status.


Premise: when did the FAA shift to a more step-by-step approach to providing air traffic controllers with more advanced equipment?

Hypothesis: In 1994, the FAA shifted to a more step-by-step approach that has provided controllers with advanced equipment.


Premise: What is mainly responsible for the connection of the antenna to its end destinations?

Hypothesis: An antenna lead-in is the transmission line (or feed line) which connects the antenna to a transmitter or receiver.


Premise: Where is Prince Richard's son, Alexander Windsor, Earl of?

Hypothesis: Besides Prince William and Prince Harry, members of the extended British Royal Family who have attended Eton include Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester and his son Alexander Windsor, Earl of Ulster; Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, his eldest son George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews and grandson Edward Windsor, Lord Downpatrick and his youngest son Lord Nicholas Windsor; Prince Michael of Kent and his son Lord Frederick Windsor; James Ogilvy, son of Princess Alexandra and the Right Honourable Angus Ogilvy, himself an Eton alumnus.


Premise: What year was Freddie Mercury's final public appearance with Queen?

Hypothesis: That same year, Mercury made his final public appearance when he joined the rest of Queen to collect the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music.


Premise: What league can compete?

Hypothesis: The competition is open to any eligible club down to Levels 10 of the English football league system - all 92 professional clubs in the Premier League and Football League (Levels 1 to 4), and several hundred "non-league" teams in Steps 1 to 6 of the National League System (Levels 5 to 10).


Premise: On which road does 120th Street begin?

Hypothesis: It begins on Riverside Drive at the Interchurch Center.


Premise: Which cemetery was Chopin buried in?

Hypothesis: At the graveside, the Funeral March from Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 2 was played, in Reber's instrumentation.


Premise: What was in the first data dump?

Hypothesis: The group claimed that they had taken not only company data but user data as well.


Premise: What was Izvestiya?

Hypothesis: Speaking in St. Petersburg, Russia on 30 June 2011, the head of Russia's United Shipbuilding Corporation said his company expected to begin design work for a new carrier in 2016, with a goal of beginning construction in 2018 and having the carrier achieve initial operational capability by 2023.


Premise: What are two languages that were forced out by the spread of Arabic?

Hypothesis: The geographical regions in which Iranian languages were spoken were pushed back in several areas by newly neighbouring languages.


Premise: What was the goal of Cobb's second book on economics?

Hypothesis: Cobb also co-authored a book with economist Herman Daly entitled For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future (1989), which applied Whitehead's thought to economics, and received the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order.


Premise: In what year was the election held that let Pompey and Crassus obtain the seat of consul?

Hypothesis: The two were soon elected, and quickly dismantled most of Sulla's constitution.


Premise: Who rebuked OFHEO in 2003 for their attempt at regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac?

Hypothesis: The hearings never resulted in new legislation or formal investigation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, as many of the committee members refused to accept the report and instead rebuked OFHEO for their attempt at regulation.


Premise: What does caboclos mean?

Hypothesis: This proposal has been criticized since the term pardo is considered to include a wide range of multiracial people, such as caboclos (mestizos), assimilated Amerindians and tri-racials, not only people of partial African and European descent.


Premise: What shape was newly discovered bacteria from deep under Earth?

Hypothesis: This wide variety of shapes is determined by the bacterial cell wall and cytoskeleton, and is important because it can influence the ability of bacteria to acquire nutrients, attach to surfaces, swim through liquids and escape predators.


Premise: What are T roads, the lowest level that typically serves local interests?

Hypothesis: Typically they are improved earth roads which are occasionally paved.


Premise: What types of human knowledge did Hume say there are?

Hypothesis: Hume divided all of human knowledge into two categories: relations of ideas and matters of fact (see also Kant's analytic-synthetic distinction).


Premise: What writer was known to visit both the Cheshire Cheese and the Prospect of Whitby?

Hypothesis: Many of London's pubs are known to have been used by famous people, but in some cases, such as the association between Samuel Johnson and Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, this is speculative, based on little more than the fact that the person is known to have lived nearby.


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

Hypothesis: Over 400,000 visitors came to London for the celebrations.


Premise: What was the only difference in the study between gay and straight men?

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


Premise: In 1946, the Greeks made up what percent of Cyprus' population?

Hypothesis: In January 1950, the Church of Cyprus organised a referendum under the supervision of clerics and with no Turkish Cypriot participation, where 96% of the participating Greek Cypriots voted in favour of enosis, The Greeks were 80.2% of the total island' s population at the time (census 1946).


Premise: What type of cheese is the county famous for

Hypothesis: The town of Glastonbury has mythical associations, including legends of a visit by the young Jesus of Nazareth and Joseph of Arimathea, with links to the Holy Grail, King Arthur, and Camelot, identified by some as Cadbury Castle, an Iron Age hill fort.


Premise: Dogs had a worth to what type of early humans?

Hypothesis: In some cultures, however, dogs are also a source of meat.


Premise: Who is pictured on Bermudian dollars?

Hypothesis: In 1970 the country switched its currency from the Bermudian pound to the Bermudian dollar, which is pegged at par with the US dollar.


Premise: According to Hayek, what is necessary for the implementation of a socialist economy?

Hypothesis: In his popular book, The Road to Serfdom (1944) and in subsequent academic works, Hayek argued that socialism required central economic planning and that such planning in turn leads towards totalitarianism.


Premise: What comedy production did Spectre actors appear in?

Hypothesis: On 13 March 2015, several members of the cast and crew, including Craig, Whishaw, Wilson and Mendes, as well as previous James Bond actor, Sir Roger Moore, appeared in a sketch written by David Walliams and the Dawson Brothers for Comic Relief's Red Nose Day on BBC One.


Premise: What important revolutionary document was signed in Philadelphia?

Hypothesis: Philadelphia's importance and central location in the colonies made it a natural center for America's revolutionaries.


Premise: When did Tsar Nicholas II ban alcohol?

Hypothesis: Poorer, less educated Russians resorted to drinking unhealthy substitutes such as nail polish, rubbing alcohol or men's cologne, which only served to be an additional burden on Russia's healthcare sector due to the subsequent poisoning cases.


Premise: What's the name for the type of accent that Dutch used to mark the difference between the word for "a" or "an" and the word for "one"?

Hypothesis: Its most common use is to differentiate between the indefinite article 'een' (a, an) and the numeral 'één' (one).


Premise: What commission did Napoleon receive upon his graduation?

Hypothesis: Such was the odious sight which was the first to strike me."


Premise: What declined under competition?

Hypothesis: But now the demand for handicrafts has increased within and outside the country.


Premise: In the fall of 2014, which school did 5.7% of undergraduates enroll in?

Hypothesis: The Kellogg School of Management's MBA, the School of Law's JD, and the Feinberg School of Medicine's MD are the three largest professional degree programs by enrollment.


Premise: In what century did public drinking regulations first exist in England?

Hypothesis: Tavern owners were required to possess a licence to sell ale, and a separate licence for distilled spirits.


Premise: What type of nut is poisonous to dogs?

Hypothesis: Theobromine is toxic to dogs because, although the dog's metabolism is capable of breaking down the chemical, the process is so slow that even small amounts of chocolate can be fatal, especially dark chocolate.


Premise: What was the price for early HDTVs?

Hypothesis: Judgment Day, Lawrence of Arabia, A League of Their Own, Bugsy, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Bram Stoker's Dracula and Chaplin were among the theatrical releases available on MUSE LDs.


Premise: The Phanerozoic era covers what time period?

Hypothesis: Over the next 400 million years or so, invertebrate diversity showed little overall trend, and vertebrate diversity shows an overall exponential trend.


Premise: What is an example of a Sanskrit loanword used in Southeast Asian languages?

Hypothesis: Many Sanskrit loanwords are also found in Austronesian languages, such as Javanese, particularly the older form in which nearly half the vocabulary is borrowed.


Premise: Where did Kanye begin production on his sixth album?

Hypothesis: Sessions for West's sixth solo effort begin to take shape in early 2013 in his own personal loft's living room at a Paris hotel.


Premise: Around 70 BC, Arachosia and what other region where taken over by tribal invasion?

Hypothesis: After the death of Menander (c. 130 BC), the Kingdom appears to have fragmented, with several 'kings' attested contemporaneously in different regions.


Premise: Where did it sell?

Hypothesis: It was duly sold at Christie's auction house on 19 May 2005 for £420,000 (£478,400 including auction fees and taxes).


Premise: What artist made portraits of the Chopin family in 1829?

Hypothesis: In 1829 the artist Ambroży Mieroszewski executed a set of portraits of Chopin family members, including the first known portrait of the composer.[n 7]


Premise: Google made youtube streamable on what gaming console in DEC. of 2013?

Hypothesis: In January 2009, YouTube launched "YouTube for TV", a version of the website tailored for set-top boxes and other TV-based media devices with web browsers, initially allowing its videos to be viewed on the PlayStation 3 and Wii video game consoles.


Premise: Of what dynasty was Otto I a member?

Hypothesis: In the early 10th century, the Ottonian dynasty had established itself in Germany, and was engaged in driving back the Magyars.


Premise: What did Marxist-Leninst add to Chinese philosophy?

Hypothesis: Mao Zedong (Máo zé dōng) added Marxist-Leninist thought.


Premise: What primary difference was there between the NAAL and Delta study that made comparisons difficult?

Hypothesis: For example, only 12 percent of study participants identified the My Pyramid graphic two years after it had been launched by the USDA.


Premise: Who is the current Lord Mayor of Plymouth?

Hypothesis: It is traditional that the position of the Lord Mayor alternates between the Conservative Party and the Labour Party annually and that the Lord Mayor chooses the Deputy Lord Mayor.


Premise: According to QS World University Rankings and Al-Azhar University, Alexandria University and Ain Shams University are all ranked where?

Hypothesis: American University in Cairo is ranked as 360 according to QS World University Rankings and Al-Azhar University, Alexandria University and Ain Shams University fall in the 701+ range.


Premise: What school founded in 1794 first used a form of the word polytechnic in its name?

Hypothesis: The English term polytechnic appeared in the early 19th century, from the French École Polytechnique, an engineering school founded in 1794 in Paris.


Premise: What was the name of the Philippines nation?

Hypothesis: The major Allied participants were the United States, the Republic of China, the United Kingdom (including the armed forces of British India, the Fiji Islands, Samoa, etc.), Australia, the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the Netherlands (as the possessor of the Dutch East Indies and the western part of New Guinea), New Zealand, and Canada, all of whom were members of the Pacific War Council.


Premise: What palace was Frédéric sometimes invited to as a companion of the ruler's son?

Hypothesis: Fryderyk and his family moved to a building, which still survives, adjacent to the Kazimierz Palace.


Premise: When did Chopin receive his first major endorsement from Robert Schumann?

Hypothesis: At the end of 1831, Chopin received the first major endorsement from an outstanding contemporary when Robert Schumann, reviewing the Op.


Premise: When was a new Constitution adopted in Switzerland?

Hypothesis: The Federal Constitution adopted in 1848 is the legal foundation of the modern federal state.


Premise: How many inches of precipitation does NYC get in a year?

Hypothesis: The city receives 49.9 inches (1,270 mm) of precipitation annually, which is fairly spread throughout the year.


Premise: How much did the third Terminator movie make domestically alone?

Hypothesis: Rise of the Machines, which went on to earn over $150 million domestically.


Premise: What are the devotional practices?

Hypothesis: Devotional practices include bowing, offerings, pilgrimage, and chanting.


Premise: Who has "observer status" to CARICOM?

Hypothesis: This is a socio-economic bloc of nations in or near the Caribbean Sea.


Premise: The pheasants, grouse and their allies form which group?

Hypothesis: The earliest divergence within the Neognathes was that of the Galloanserae, the superorder containing the Anseriformes (ducks, geese, swans and screamers) and the Galliformes (the pheasants, grouse, and their allies, together with the mound builders and the guans and their allies).


Premise: What can devices request?

Hypothesis: In July 2012, the USB Promoters Group announced the finalization of the USB Power Delivery ("PD") specification, an extension that specifies using certified "PD aware" USB cables with standard USB Type-A and Type-B connectors to deliver increased power (more than 7.5 W) to devices with larger power demand.


Premise: Into what larger waterway do the West Haven Harbor and New Haven Harbor recess as embayments?

Hypothesis: Both harbors are embayments of Long Island Sound.


Premise: How many reporters did Lamb hire for the Mirror's initial staff?

Hypothesis: Lamb hastily recruited a staff of about 125 reporters, who were mostly selected for their availability rather than their ability.


Premise: Most eusocial insects lead what kind of life once becoming an adult?

Hypothesis: This sort of care is typical for most species of bees and various types of wasps.


Premise: Who was responsible for creating antisemetic and anti-masonic propaganda?

Hypothesis: RSHA Amt VII (Written Records) was overseen by Professor Franz Six and was responsible for "ideological" tasks, by which was meant the creation of antisemitic and anti-Masonic propaganda.


Premise: With whom did Chopin go to London with in 1837?

Hypothesis: In June 1837 Chopin visited London incognito in the company of the piano manufacturer Camille Pleyel where he played at a musical soirée at the house of English piano maker James Broadwood.


Premise: Were multiple scripts used during the Han period?

Hypothesis: Contrary to the popular belief of there being only one script per period, there were in fact multiple scripts in use during the Han period.


Premise: Who was in charge of the Governemnt at the time of Victorias ascession?

Hypothesis: At the time of her accession, the government was led by the Whig prime minister Lord Melbourne, who at once became a powerful influence on the politically inexperienced Queen, who relied on him for advice.


Premise: What occurs between the second and third parts of the education process prescribed by the Royal Institute?

Hypothesis: The RIBA has three parts to the education process:


Premise: In what type of writing would a more familiar, standard literary narrative structure be employed?

Hypothesis: Literary techniques encompass a wide range of approaches to crafting a work: whether a work is narrated in first-person or from another perspective, whether to use a traditional linear narrative or a nonlinear narrative, or the choice of literary genre, are all examples of literary technique.


Premise: Who was the father of American football?

Hypothesis: Yale has produced alumni distinguished in their respective fields.


Premise: Who is the Brown School's current Dean?

Hypothesis: In addition to affiliation with the university-wide Institute of Public Health, Brown houses 12 research centers.


Premise: What happens if the soverign doesn't sign the bill within the six-month time frame?

Hypothesis: Article 93 of that document gives the Jordanian sovereign six months to sign or veto any legislation sent to him from the National Assembly; if he vetoes it within that timeframe, the assembly may override his veto by a two-thirds vote of both houses; otherwise, the law does not go into effect (but it may be reconsidered in the next session of the assembly).


Premise: In addition to onomatopoeia and captions, what can be used to show the dialogue in comics?

Hypothesis: Often textual devices such as speech balloons, captions, and onomatopoeia indicate dialogue, narration, sound effects, or other information.


Premise: Where do green turtles live?

Hypothesis: Though they live in the sea, the females come to the shore to lay eggs and are protected by private societies.


Premise: Which Soviet Foreign Minister lost his job because of his favorable attitude towards the west?

Hypothesis: The ensuing discussion of a potential political deal between Germany and the Soviet Union had to be channeled into the framework of economic negotiations between the two countries, because close military and diplomatic connections, as was the case before the mid-1930s, had afterward been largely severed.


Premise: Where is the largest neutrino telescope on Earth?

Hypothesis: Antarctic ice serves as both the shield and the detection medium for the largest neutrino telescope in the world, built 2 km (1.2 mi) below Amundsen–Scott station.


Premise: What techniques does the Cyberspace Support branch of the Air Force use?

Hypothesis: The cyberspace support mission incorporates CNE and CND techniques.


Premise: Who denounced many nobles?

Hypothesis: Many nobles were, in actuality, really usurpers, being commoners, who moved into another part of the country and falsely pretended to noble status.


Premise: What did the POW/MIA committee conclude about Vietnam POWs?

Hypothesis: The committee's report, which Kerry endorsed, stated there was "no compelling evidence that proves that any American remains alive in captivity in Southeast Asia."


Premise: What does the USAF slogan Uno Ab Alto mean?

Hypothesis: For many years, the U.S. Air Force used "Aim High" as its recruiting slogan; more recently, they have used "Cross into the Blue", "We've been waiting for you" and "Do Something Amazing", "Above All", and the newest one, as of 7 October 2010, considered a call and response, "Aim high" followed with the response,


Premise: What did the morphologist Ernst Haeckel convince Huxley of about comparative anatomy and paleontology?

Hypothesis: Later, the German morphologist Ernst Haeckel would convince Huxley that comparative anatomy and palaeontology could be used to reconstruct evolutionary genealogies.


Premise: Who was taken prisoner at the Battle of Manzikert?

Hypothesis: The Turks also had difficulties, losing control of Jerusalem to the Fatimids of Egypt and suffering from a series of internal civil wars.


Premise: How many students attend BYU on campus?

Hypothesis: Approximately 99 percent of the students are members of the LDS Church, and one-third of its US students are from Utah.


Premise: Who is the Chief Executive Officer of the China American Football League?

Hypothesis: Martin E. Judge, partner Ron Jaworski, CAFL CEO Gary Morris and president David Niu.


Premise: What is the major difference between the two blocks?

Hypothesis: The main difference lies in the treatment of unstressed a and e; which have merged to /ə/ in Eastern dialects, but which remain distinct as /a/


Premise: What were the Leyte beachheads of the U.S. Sixth Army secured from?

Hypothesis: The battle secured the beachheads of the U.S. Sixth Army on Leyte against attack from the sea, broke the back of Japanese naval power and opened the way for an advance to the Ryukyu Islands in 1945.


Premise: When was the Battle of Hakusukinoe?

Hypothesis: Following the Battle of Hakusukinoe against Tang China and Silla in 663 AD that led to a Japanese retreat from Korean affairs, Japan underwent widespread reform.


Premise: What did Elizabeth join in 1946?

Hypothesis: In 1946, she was inducted into the Welsh Gorsedd of Bards at the National Eisteddfod of Wales.


Premise: How many bills did Andrew Jackson veto

Hypothesis: During his two terms in office, he vetoed twelve bills—more than all of his predecessors combined.


Premise: On what date was the 2009 Human Development Report released?

Hypothesis: The 2009 Human Development Report by UNDP was released on October 5, 2009, and covers the period up to 2007.


Premise: Serving in President Obama's cabinet, this man has also studied at Yale, can you guess who?

Hypothesis: In addition to being the site of the college educations of both Presidents Bush, as Yale students, New Haven was also the temporary home of former presidents William Howard Taft, Gerald Ford, and Bill Clinton, as well as Secretary of State John Kerry.


Premise: What forms in a tree to increase its diameter?

Hypothesis: Wood, in the strict sense, is yielded by trees, which increase in diameter by the formation, between the existing wood and the inner bark, of new woody layers which envelop the entire stem, living branches, and roots.


Premise: What does mulatto mean?

Hypothesis: In later censuses, people of African descent were classified by appearance as mulatto (which recognized visible European ancestry in addition to African) or black.


Premise: How many radioisotopes of zinc have been discovered?

Hypothesis: The isotopes 65Zn, 71Zn, 77Zn and 78Zn each have only one excited state.


Premise: What is the Norfuk language a mixture of?

Hypothesis: The act recognises and protects use of the language but does not require it; in official use, it must be accompanied by an accurate translation into English.


Premise: In addition to Hindus, who regards the Bagmati River as sacred?

Hypothesis: Many relatives who join the funeral procession also take bath in the Bagmati River or sprinkle the holy water on their bodies at the end of cremation as the Bagmati is believed to purify people spiritually.


Premise: How did he believe Jesus came into the world?

Hypothesis: Completed probably early in his life, before the Arian controversy, they constitute the first classic work of developed Orthodox theology.


Premise: How much did a jewel case cost in 1995?

Hypothesis: The most expensive part of a CD is the jewel case.


Premise: When was the biggest cathedral in Switzerland built?

Hypothesis: Within the Old Town, there are eleven 16th century fountains, most attributed to Hans Gieng, that are on the list.


Premise: The song "I'll Remember" was recorded for which film?

Hypothesis: The song was recorded for Alek Keshishian's film With Honors.


Premise: When did the latest magnitude 6 aftershock occur?

Hypothesis: Between 64 and 104 major aftershocks, ranging in magnitude from 4.0 to 6.1, were recorded within 72 hours of the main quake.


Premise: What was considered a deep flaw of Georgian architecture?

Hypothesis: Georgian architecture is characterized by its proportion and balance; simple mathematical ratios were used to determine the height of a window in relation to its width or the shape of a room as a double cube.


Premise: What type of art was created by Charles Baudelaire and Paul Verlaine?

Hypothesis: Paris became the laboratory of Naturalism (Émile Zola) and Symbolism (Charles Baudelaire and Paul Verlaine), and of Impressionism in art (Courbet, Manet, Monet, Renoir.)


Premise: When did the US capture Baghdad?

Hypothesis: Baghdad, Iraq's capital city, fell to American forces in April 2003 and Saddam Hussein's government quickly dissolved.


Premise: What is added to to increase ability for reception?

Hypothesis: Contrast this tiny component to the massive and very tall towers used at AM broadcast stations for transmitting at the very same frequency, where every percentage point of reduced antenna efficiency entails a substantial cost.


Premise: What was the result for the Native American tribes?

Hypothesis: The Native American tribes were excluded from the settlement; a subsequent conflict, known as Pontiac's War, was also unsuccessful in returning them to their pre-war status.


Premise: What is the second largest ethnic group in the city?

Hypothesis: The city and greater area also has a growing immigrant population of South Asians, including the tenth-largest Indian community in the country.


Premise: What religious groups are primarily targeted by this war?

Hypothesis: The War on Terrorism is a global effort by the governments of several countries (primarily the United States and its principal allies) to neutralize international terrorist groups (primarily Islamic Extremist terrorist groups, including al-Qaeda) and ensure that countries considered by the US and some of its allies to be Rogue Nations no longer support terrorist activities.


Premise: Where is work that has been Sent Up For Good stored?

Hypothesis: Sent Up For Good", storing the effort in the College Archives for posterity.


Premise: What is a well capitalized ratio?

Hypothesis: IndyMac warned that if its regulators found its capital position to have fallen below "well capitalized" (minimum 10% risk-based capital ratio) to "adequately capitalized" (8–10% risk-based capital ratio) the bank might no longer be able to use brokered deposits as a source of funds.


Premise: At what pressure does PSA work best in?

Hypothesis: This is because high-pressure H_2 is the most marketable product and Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) purification systems work better at higher pressures.


Premise: When did the Portuguese explore the interior of Guinea-Bissau?

Hypothesis: The Portuguese in Guinea were largely restricted to the port of Bissau and Cacheu.


Premise: Who introduced a system of musical notation used in the Balkans in the 14th century?

Hypothesis: The main representatives of the new style, often referred to as ars nova as opposed to the ars antiqua, were the composers Philippe de Vitry and Guillaume de Machaut.


Premise: What is the standard display resolution of the NES?

Hypothesis: The console's 2 kB of onboard RAM may be used for tile maps and attributes on the NES board and 8 kB of tile pattern ROM or RAM may be included on a cartridge.


Premise: What is the name of the The Times founder's grandson who succeeded his father as editor?

Hypothesis: The Times was beginning to suffer from the rise in competition from the penny press, notably The Daily Telegraph and The Morning Post.


Premise: What hardware defect code plagued the 360?

Hypothesis: To aid customers with defective consoles, Microsoft extended the Xbox 360's manufacturer's warranty to three years for hardware failure problems that generate a "General Hardware Failure" error report.


Premise: What provides a bridge between the different dungeons?

Hypothesis: Link navigates these dungeons and fights a boss at the end in order to obtain an item or otherwise advance the plot.


Premise: When was CLIPSAS set up?

Hypothesis: In 1961, an umbrella organisation, Centre de Liaison et d'Information des Puissances maçonniques Signataires de l'Appel de Strasbourg (CLIPSAS) was set up, which today provides a forum for most of these Grand Lodges and Grand Orients worldwide.