Premise: Unlike modern rock radio, what sex is adult contemporary radio said to appeal to?

Hypothesis: Unlike modern rock, which went after 18-34 men, this format appealed to women.


Premise: What was the title of the front page story on Contostavlos?

Hypothesis: The front page read: "Tulisa's cocaine deal shame"; this story was written by The Sun


Premise: What were the issue dates of the three-episode series on this public health issue?

Hypothesis: Lee, with Goodman's approval, published the story regardless in The Amazing Spider-Man #96–98 (May–July 1971), without the Comics Code seal.


Premise: In 1840 what did Saint Helena become?

Hypothesis: In 1840, St Helena became a provisioning station for the British West Africa Squadron, preventing slavery to Brazil (mainly), and many thousands of slaves were freed on the island.


Premise: What groups can express the physical symmetry hidden behind special relativity?

Hypothesis: Groups share a fundamental kinship with the notion of symmetry.


Premise: What can adult learners obtain through studying at the Edwards Campus of the University of Kansas?

Hypothesis: About 2,100 students attend the Edwards Campus, with an average age of 32.


Premise: What did Albert study in Trinity College?

Hypothesis: He played at Wimbledon in the Men's Doubles with Louis Greig in 1926, losing in the first round.


Premise: What singer had bad things to say about contestants on American Idol?

Hypothesis: Some such as singer John Mayer disparaged the contestants, suggesting that those who appeared on Idol are not real artists with self-respect.


Premise: How much more mass does Neptune have compared to Earth?

Hypothesis: Neptune, like Uranus, is an ice giant, a subclass of giant planet, due to their smaller size and higher concentrations of volatiles relative to Jupiter and Saturn.


Premise: How long does basic training last?

Hypothesis: The length of time spent in AIT depends on the MOS of the soldier, and some highly technical MOS training may require many months (e.g., foreign language translators).


Premise: What are the D+ and D- shortened with?

Hypothesis: Two types of charging port exist: the charging downstream port (CDP), supporting data transfers as well, and the dedicated charging port (DCP), without data support.


Premise: What are examples of day migrating raptors?

Hypothesis: The ability of birds to navigate during migrations cannot be fully explained by endogenous programming, even with the help of responses to environmental cues.


Premise: What are the constituents of the Pēdálion?

Hypothesis: The dogmatic decisions of the Councils, though, are to be obeyed rather than to be treated as guidelines, since they are essential for the Church's unity.


Premise: How did whitehead define "experience"?

Hypothesis: Whitehead referred to his metaphysical system as "philosophy of organism", but it would become known more widely as "process philosophy."


Premise: Approximately how much was spent on non-food retail sales in London in 2010?

Hypothesis: London is a major retail centre and in 2010 had the highest non-food retail sales of any city in the world, with a total spend of around £64.2 billion.


Premise: What was the objective of le Secret du roi?

Hypothesis: Unbeknownst to his foreign minister, Louis had established a network of agents throughout Europe with the goal of pursuing personal political objectives that were often at odds with France’s publicly stated policies.


Premise: Where does Bond go after his suspension?

Hypothesis: Bond disobeys M's order and travels to Rome to attend Sciarra's funeral.


Premise: Which theater is known for hosting a variety of musicals and plays?

Hypothesis: The San Diego Repertory Theatre at the Lyceum Theatres in Horton Plaza produces a variety of plays and musicals.


Premise: Presbyterians had to distinguished between "Church" and "Meeting house" What was "Church" referring too?

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


Premise: What area does INTIME department stores have the most influence in?

Hypothesis: For example, INTIME department store has the biggest market presence in Zhejiang province, while Jinying department stores dominate Jiangsu Province.


Premise: What school document had to meet the standards of the Board for admittance?

Hypothesis: The RIBA Guide to its Archive and History (1986) has a section on the "Statutory registration of architects" with a bibliography extending from a draft bill of 1887 to one of 1969.


Premise: When was the test model constructed?

Hypothesis: Because 65xx CPUs had not been manufactured or sold in Japan up to that time, no cross-development software was available and it had to be produced from scratch.


Premise: When was Chanakya alive?

Hypothesis: Roger Boesche describes the Arthaśāstra as "a book of political realism, a book analysing how the political world does work and not very often stating how it ought to work, a book that frequently discloses to a king what calculating and sometimes brutal measures he must carry out to preserve the state and the common good."


Premise: How many Republican appointees wrote the minority report of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission?

Hypothesis: Although they concede that governmental policies had some role in causing the crisis, they contend that GSE loans performed better than loans securitized by private investment banks, and performed better than some loans originated by institutions that held loans in their own portfolios.


Premise: The Renaissance is generally used to describe developments in what areas of life in the Middle Ages?

Hypothesis: The term "Renaissance" is still considered useful for describing certain intellectual, cultural, or artistic developments, but not as the defining feature of an entire European historical epoch.


Premise: When did the Sweet Adelines change their name to acknowledge their international reach?

Hypothesis: In 1945, the first formal women's barbershop organization, Sweet Adelines, was formed.


Premise: Which criteria is used to rank the clubs?

Hypothesis: If still equal, teams are deemed to occupy the same position.


Premise: What was Whitehead's description of God?

Hypothesis: As opposed to the most widely accepted forms of Christianity, Whitehead emphasized an idea of God that he called "the brief Galilean vision of humility":


Premise: Who was the first person born south of the 60th parallel?

Hypothesis: Emilio Marcos Palma was the first person born south of the 60th parallel south (the continental limit according to the Antarctic Treaty), as well as the first one born on the Antarctic mainland, in 1978 at Base Esperanza, on the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula; his parents were sent there along with seven other families by the Argentine government to determine if the continent was suitable for family life.


Premise: After uniting the area, what title was Harsha given?

Hypothesis: He united the small republics from Punjab to central India, and their representatives crowned Harsha king at an assembly in April 606 giving him the title of Maharaja when he was merely 16 years old.


Premise: How many people attacked the Yeongcheon police station?

Hypothesis: On 3 October, some 10,000 people attacked the Yeongcheon police station, killing three policemen and injuring some 40 more; elsewhere, some 20 landlords and pro-Japanese South Korean officials were killed.


Premise: Who was the first president of Palermo?

Hypothesis: After the plebiscite later that year Palermo, along with the rest of Sicily, became part of the new Kingdom of Italy (1861).


Premise: What did the patrician senators refusal to address the accumulating debt of the plebeians lead to?

Hypothesis: The result was the final plebeian secession.


Premise: What is the street address of the Bureau of Fire Communications alarm office in Brooklyn?

Hypothesis: There are three Bureau of Fire Communications alarm offices which receive and dispatch alarms to appropriate units.


Premise: Mahbub ul Haq and Amartya Sen pioneered what approach?

Hypothesis: The resurgent republican movement aims to provide an alternate definition of liberty from Isaiah Berlin's positive and negative forms of liberty, namely "liberty as non-domination.


Premise: What type of snake is most popular in the region with many different species?

Hypothesis: The fauna in the state is just as diverse as the flora and varies greatly due to the large contrast in climates.


Premise: What makes up cooperative cultural studies?

Hypothesis: A further and recent approach is comparative cultural studies, based on the disciplines of comparative literature and cultural studies.[citation needed]


Premise: Due to the danger the Captian Every put the trading abiliy of East India Company what  Act would he never qualify for that other pirate were later offered?

Hypothesis: To appease Emperor Aurangzeb and particularly his Grand Vizier Asad Khan, Parliament exempted Every from all of the Acts of Grace (pardons) and amnesties it would subsequently issue to other pirates.


Premise: Where did scholar Ioannis Kigalas flee to in the 17th century?

Hypothesis: Many Cypriot scholars fled Cyprus at troubled times such as Ioannis Kigalas (c. 1622–1687) who migrated from Cyprus to Italy in the 17th century, several of his works have survived in books of other scholars.


Premise: What are students taught to memorize?

Hypothesis: The naming of hanja is similar to if "water" were named "water-aqua", "horse-equus", or "gold-aurum" based on a hybridization of both the English and the Latin names.


Premise: What did Paul Vi's reforms reduce in the Curia?

Hypothesis: On 28 March, with Pontificalis Domus, and in several additional Apostolic Constitutions in the following years, he revamped the entire Curia, which included reduction of bureaucracy, streamlining of existing congregations and a broader representation of non-Italians in the curial positions.


Premise: What is the language group of the Tuvaluan language?

Hypothesis: The Tuvaluan language and English are the national languages of Tuvalu.


Premise: What typically comes after the Alpha stage in the development and testing of software?

Hypothesis: The software is released to groups of people so that further testing can ensure the product has few faults or bugs.


Premise: What year did American Idol first debut?

Hypothesis: The first season of American Idol debuted as a summer replacement show in June 2002 on the Fox network.


Premise: Until which century was the Virgin birth of Jesus held almost universally among Christians?

Hypothesis: The Virgin birth of Jesus was an almost universally held belief among Christians from the 2nd until the 19th century.


Premise: When were the Gin Act 1736 duties eliminated?

Hypothesis: The prohibitive duty was gradually reduced and finally abolished in 1742.


Premise: Sometimes clubs can do what if they feel that a punishment was too harsh?

Hypothesis: Some on-field incidents, if considered very serious (such as allegations of racial abuse), may result in competitions deciding to impose heavier sanctions than those normally associated with a red card.


Premise: What shouldn't architecture be assumed to promote, according to Rondanini?

Hypothesis: Through its own particular way of expressing values, architecture can stimulate and influence social life without presuming that, in and of itself, it will promote social development.'


Premise: When is the earlier of the two times that Christmas music on adult contemporary stations typically ends?

Hypothesis: These Christmas music marathons typically start during the week before Thanksgiving Day and end after Christmas Day, or sometimes extending to New Year's Day.


Premise: What was the time after WWII heralded as?

Hypothesis: In the late 1960s, attempts to portray a more modern image of the monarchy were made in the television documentary Royal Family and by televising Prince Charles's investiture as Prince of Wales.


Premise: Compared to the rates of cell division in eukaryotes, with what speed does binary fission occur?

Hypothesis: Binary fission is extremely fast compared to the rates of cell division in eukaryotes.


Premise: New Haven was feature in what movie regarding secret society and conspiracy theories?

Hypothesis: New Haven has been depicted in a number of movies.


Premise: Which other country had a sizable naval army?

Hypothesis: Conscription for overseas service was introduced only near the end of the war, and only 2,400 conscripts actually made it into battle.


Premise: Under whom was Russia declared an empire?

Hypothesis: Under Peter I (the Great), Russia was proclaimed an Empire in 1721 and became recognized as a world power.


Premise: What event on Tuvalu made assistance to the population necessary?

Hypothesis: Government and Non-Government Organisations provided assistance technical, funding and material support to Tuvalu to assist with recovery, including WHO, UNICEF, UNDP, OCHA, World Bank, DFAT, New Zealand Red Cross & IFRC, Fiji National University and governments of New Zealand, Netherlands, UAE, Taiwan and the United States.


Premise: Where did former slaves go for work once freed?

Hypothesis: Beginning several centuries ago, during the period of the Ottoman Empire, tens of thousands of Black Africans were brought by slave traders to plantations and agricultural areas situated between Antalya and Istanbul in present-day Turkey.


Premise: When is the car used in the ritual purified?

Hypothesis: Afterwards the car, the vestments, and, if you like to believe it, the divinity herself, are purified in a secret lake."


Premise: Who fought a guerrilla war against the Soviets?

Hypothesis: Half the deported perished, and the other half were not allowed to return until the early 1960s (years after Stalin's death).[citation needed]


Premise: Tito succeeded who as the President of Yugoslavia?

Hypothesis: After Stalin's death Tito rejected the USSR's invitation for a visit to discuss normalization of relations between two nations.


Premise: What countries is trophy hunting frowned upon?

Hypothesis: In Nordic countries, hunting for trophies was—and still is—frowned upon.


Premise: The president of the United States might prefer the formal treaty process on matters that require Congress to do what?

Hypothesis: Despite the relative ease of executive agreements, the President still often chooses to pursue the formal treaty process over an executive agreement in order to gain congressional support on matters that require the Congress to pass implementing legislation or appropriate funds, and those agreements that impose long-term, complex legal obligations on the United States.


Premise: What property does the final patina on cooper have?

Hypothesis: The final patina is a particularly durable layer that is highly resistant to atmospheric corrosion, thereby protecting the underlying metal against further weathering.


Premise: The name "elixir" implied a solution in what liquid?

Hypothesis: Under the laws extant at that time, prosecution of the manufacturer was possible only under the technicality that the product had been called an "elixir", which literally implied a solution in ethanol.


Premise: What is a Sangoma in Swaziland?

Hypothesis: At the end of the training, a graduation ceremony takes place where all the local sangoma come together for feasting and dancing.


Premise: What percentage of France's Jewish population survived the holocaust?

Hypothesis: The Parisian Jewish community was victim of persecution, alternating expulsions and returns, until France became the first country in Europe to emancipate its Jewish population during the French Revolution.


Premise: What bridge connects Cornwall to Plymouth via the A38?

Hypothesis: Heading east, it connects Plymouth to the M5 motorway about 40 miles (65 km) away near Exeter; and heading west it connects Cornwall and Devon via the Tamar Bridge.


Premise: What pro team has FC Ararat beaten?

Hypothesis: In football, their most successful team was Yerevan's FC Ararat, which had claimed most of the Soviet championships in the 70s and had also gone to post victories against professional clubs like FC Bayern Munich in the Euro cup.


Premise: Columbia Pictures has been owned by Sony since what year?

Hypothesis: The merger made Columbia and Epic sister labels to RCA Records, which was once owned by RCA which also owned CBS rival NBC.


Premise: Evidence from what war suggested the increased benefits of smokeless poweder rifles?

Hypothesis: Most European armies ignored the evidence of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05 which suggested that infantry armed with new smokeless-powder rifles could engage gun crews effectively.


Premise: How many times did Israelites have political independence in ancient history?

Hypothesis: Since the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE, most Jews have lived in diaspora.


Premise: How many ways did Raimon Panikkar believed cultural change can be based on?

Hypothesis: Hence Modernization could be similar or related to the enlightenment but a 'looser' term set to ideal and values that flourish.


Premise: What can cause a large change in current in LEDs?

Hypothesis: This means that a small change in voltage can cause a large change in current.


Premise: What amount of copper salt is toxic in animals?

Hypothesis: Corresponding amounts of copper salts (30 mg/kg) are toxic in animals.


Premise: How many police officers were part of the security operative?

Hypothesis: Trying to avoid the scenes that marred the relay in the UK, France and the US, the city government designed a complex security operative to protect the torch relay, involving 1200 police officers and 3000 other people, including public employees and volunteers.


Premise: What did the disputes between the staff cause to happen to the strategy against Britain?

Hypothesis: This method condemned the offensive over Britain to failure before it began.


Premise: What highway is used to designate locations in Houston?

Hypothesis: Locations in Houston are generally classified as either being inside or outside the Interstate 610 Loop.


Premise: What type of degree can you get from a high school in Raleigh?

Hypothesis: Raleigh is home to three magnet high schools and three high schools offering the International Baccalaureate program.


Premise: In the fall of 2014, which school did 21.3% 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: Who was the most successful American Idol winner on radio as of 2010?

Hypothesis: By 2010, four winners each had more than a million radio spins, with Kelly Clarkson leading the field with over four million spins.


Premise: In what countries is Protestantism one of the most popular (but not THE most popular) religions?

Hypothesis: In other historical Protestant strongholds such as Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Latvia, Estonia and Hungary, it remains one of the most popular religions.


Premise: What was the main reason for the latest schism?

Hypothesis: And in 1953 the second schism happened when the theological orientation of the Chosun Seminary (later Hanshin University) founded in 1947 could not be tolerated in the PCK and another minor group (The Presbyterian Church in the Republic of Korea, Kijang, 기장) was separated.


Premise: What feelings should Cubist architecture evoke in viewer?

Hypothesis: This should be achieved by shapes derived from pyramids, cubes and prisms, by arrangements and compositions of oblique surfaces, mainly triangular, sculpted facades in protruding crystal-like units, reminiscent of the so-called diamond cut, or even cavernous that are reminiscent of the late Gothic architecture.


Premise: Why was a solar eclipse impossible?

Hypothesis: Some Christian writers considered the possibility that pagan commentators may have mentioned this event, mistaking it for a solar eclipse - although this would have been impossible during the Passover, which takes place at the full moon.


Premise: What type of food is Armenian food most similair to?

Hypothesis: Armenian cuisine is as ancient as the history of Armenia, a combination of different tastes and aromas.


Premise: Which congregations joined the Second Great Awakening the most after 1820?

Hypothesis: The Second Great Awakening began around 1790.


Premise: Which author wrote that "Galicians are called so, because of their fair skin, as the Gauls"?

Hypothesis: In any case, Galicia, being per se a derivation of the ethnic name Kallaikói, would mean 'the land of the Galicians'.


Premise: Which type of people might have migrated from Taiwan into Southeast Asia?

Hypothesis: Austronesian people, who form the majority of the modern population in Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, East Timor, and the Philippines, may have migrated to Southeast Asia from Taiwan.


Premise: Which newspaper printed an op-ed piece that questioned Immelt's credibility as a spokesman on environmental policy?

Hypothesis: The announcement prompted an op-ed piece in The New York Times to observe that, "while General Electric's increased emphasis on clean technology will probably result in improved products and benefit its bottom line, Mr. Immelt's credibility as a spokesman on national environmental policy is fatally flawed because of his company's intransigence in cleaning up its own toxic legacy."


Premise: Which wards elect city council members in the alternate year from the mayor?

Hypothesis: Council elections are severed: Wards 1, 2, and 4 (as well as the mayor) are up for election in the same year (most recently 2011), while Wards 3, 5, and 6 share another year (most recently 2013).


Premise: What war was responsible for the creation of the Total Force Policy?

Hypothesis: Believing that no U.S. president should be able to take the United States (and more specifically the U.S. Army) to war without the support of the American people, General Abrams intertwined the structure of the three components of the army in such a way as to make extended operations impossible, without the involvement of both the Army National Guard and the Army Reserve.


Premise: What sort of thinkers were Foster and Luce?

Hypothesis: A. A. Luce and John Foster are other subjectivists.


Premise: The stock holder of the Original East India  company rasied how much money  to  try and deal with the parallel East India Company?

Hypothesis: The two companies wrestled with each other for some time, both in England and in India, for a dominant share of the trade.


Premise: What was the date of an attempted assasination on Napoleon?

Hypothesis: On 14 January 1858, an Italian refugee from Britain called Orsini attempted to assassinate Napoleon III with a bomb made in England.


Premise: What did Henrich d'Arrest seek to find?

Hypothesis: Heinrich d'Arrest, a student at the observatory, suggested to Galle that they could compare a recently drawn chart of the sky in the region of Le Verrier's predicted location with the current sky to seek the displacement characteristic of a planet, as opposed to a fixed star.


Premise: What was the record breaking transfer fee in 1996?

Hypothesis: The record transfer fee for a Premier League player has risen steadily over the lifetime of the competition.


Premise: How many years old were the Quran fragments discovered in Birmingham in 2015?

Hypothesis: In 2015, fragments of a very early Quran, dating back to 1370 years ago, were discovered in the library of the University of Birmingham, England.


Premise: What happens to information during the encoding process?

Hypothesis: Encoding allows information from the outside world to be sensed in the form of chemical and physical stimuli.


Premise: How did Nasser try to deal with the military following the coup attempt?

Hypothesis: After Nasser sacked thirty of the loyalists in response, Amer and his allies devised a plan to topple him on 27 August.


Premise: Balance of power of great powers was a major influence on what continents politics?

Hypothesis: After the Congress of Vienna, the British Empire emerged as the pre-eminent power, due to its navy and the extent of its territories, which signalled the beginning of the Pax Britannica and of the Great Game between the UK and Russia.


Premise: Isoniazid is one of the two most popular drugs for TB treatment; what's the other one?

Hypothesis: Directly observed therapy, i.e., having a health care provider watch the person take their medications, is recommended by the WHO in an effort to reduce the number of people not appropriately taking antibiotics.


Premise: Which portion the cathedral was the reconstruction of the great Church of Saint-Denis begun?

Hypothesis: He designed the façade of Saint-Denis to be an echo of the Roman Arch of Constantine with its three-part division and three large portals to ease the problem of congestion.


Premise: For what film was Paltrow studying Beyonce ?

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


Premise: How many new airplanes were the soviets getting in this agreement?

Hypothesis: The Soviets were to receive a naval cruiser, the plans to the battleship Bismarck, heavy naval guns, other naval gear and thirty of Germany's latest warplanes, including the Me-109 and Me-110 fighters and Ju-88 bomber.


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

Hypothesis: Its GVA per person was £19,943 and compared to the national average of £23,755, was £3,812 lower.


Premise: What is an often used term for British withdrawal from the European Union?

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: In which year did this happen?

Hypothesis: In 585, the Visigothic King Leovigild invaded the Suebic kingdom of Galicia and defeated it, bringing it under Visigoth control.


Premise: How many cities of those the LEAA studied showed any reduction in crime?

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


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

Hypothesis: Above this altitude, oxygen enrichment is necessary to prevent altitude sickness in humans that did not undergo prior acclimatization, and spacesuits are necessary to prevent ebullism above 19 km.


Premise: What is the name given to Japanese comics volumes?

Hypothesis: Japanese comics are collected in volumes called tankōbon following magazine serialization.


Premise: Who already had contact over a network of countries ready to offer assistance to the Greeks ?

Hypothesis: During and after the Greek War of Independence, Greeks of the diaspora were important in establishing the fledgling state, raising funds and awareness abroad.


Premise: Who is the founder of the Khan Academy?

Hypothesis: Anderson asserted that it's not far-fetched to say that online video will dramatically accelerate scientific advance, and that video contributors may be about to launch "the biggest learning cycle in human history."


Premise: What is the notion of sexual orientation in west defined 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 the Israeli Air Force destroy a nuclear reactor in Syria?

Hypothesis: In what Israel described as a response to more than a hundred Palestinian rocket attacks on southern Israeli cities, Israel began an operation in Gaza on 14 November 2012, lasting eight days.


Premise: Multilateral treaties are often entered into by countries that share the same what?

Hypothesis: Multilateral treaties are often regional.[citation needed]


Premise: OCA is the preferred method of defeating what kind of attacks?

Hypothesis: OCA is the preferred method of countering air and missile threats, since it attempts to defeat the enemy closer to its source and typically enjoys the initiative.


Premise: What was Tucson's record low?

Hypothesis: F (46 °C) on June 19, 1960, and July 28, 1995, and the record minimum temperature was 6 °F (−14 °C) on January 7, 1913.


Premise: Who was impressed by the demonstration of EMALS by General Atomics?

Hypothesis: General Atomics, the developer of the EMALS, was cleared by the US government to give a technical demonstration to Indian Navy officers, who were impressed by the new capabilities of the system.


Premise: The more humanistic conception of Christ appeared when?

Hypothesis: A striking technical innovation of the Komnenian period was the production of very precious, miniature mosaic icons.


Premise: What is at the front of most modern Chinese dictionaries?

Hypothesis: Most modern Chinese dictionaries and Chinese dictionaries sold to English speakers use the traditional radical-based character index in a section at the front, while the main body of the dictionary arranges the main character entries alphabetically according to their pinyin spelling.


Premise: What was Madonna's nickname when she was younger?

Hypothesis: Since Madonna had the same name as her mother, family members called her "Little Nonni".


Premise: Where did Chopin debut after completing his studies?

Hypothesis: On 11 August, three weeks after completing his studies at the Warsaw Conservatory, he made his debut in Vienna.


Premise: Was illiteracy a factor in changing the minds of parents of child labourers?

Hypothesis: Due to this problematic trend, many parents developed a change of opinion when deciding whether or not to send their children to work.


Premise: How do most animals use the energy of sunlight?

Hypothesis: They are either used directly to help the animal grow, or broken down, releasing stored solar energy, and giving the animal the energy required for motion.


Premise: The Hospital Liaison Committees serve to bridge between hospitals, medical professionals and who?

Hypothesis: Jehovah's Witnesses have established Hospital Liaison Committees as a cooperative arrangement between individual Jehovah's Witnesses and medical professionals and hospitals.


Premise: What comic strip was created by Osamu Tezuka?

Hypothesis: The modern era of comics in Japan began after World War II, propelled by the success of the serialized comics of the prolific Osamu Tezuka and the comic strip Sazae-san.


Premise: What specific type of diphthongs were the less educated Dutch speakers in the countryside using in the 16th century?

Hypothesis: Instead, he argues, this development has been artificially frozen in an "intermediate" state by the standardisation of Dutch pronunciation in the 16th century, where lowered diphthongs found in rural dialects were perceived as ugly by the educated classes and accordingly declared substandard.


Premise: How many deaths were reported only in the Sichuan province?

Hypothesis: According to Chinese state officials, the quake caused 69,180 known deaths including 68,636 in Sichuan province; 18,498 people are listed as missing, and 374,176 injured, but these figures may further increase as more reports come in.[dated info]


Premise: What percentage of men delay their BYU enrollment to serve as a Mormon missionary?

Hypothesis: Many students (88 percent of men, 33 percent of women) either delay enrollment or take a hiatus from their studies to serve as Mormon missionaries.


Premise: In what year was the book published in which Hayek developed Hebbian learning?

Hypothesis: Hayek's expansion of the "Hebbian synapse" construction into a global brain theory has received continued attention in neuroscience, cognitive science, computer science, behavioural science, and evolutionary psychology, by scientists such as Gerald Edelman, and Joaquin Fuster.


Premise: What rule predicts that emitted energy increases with temperature?

Hypothesis: The assumption that black-body radiation is thermal leads to an accurate prediction: the total amount of emitted energy goes up with the temperature according to a definite rule, the Stefan–Boltzmann law (1879–84).


Premise: As of 2010, what is the highest capacitance a supercapacitor has achieved?

Hypothesis: They also are designed with direct current breakdown voltages of at least five times the maximum AC voltage.


Premise: Have theere been any types of chickens who were really good at cockfighting?

Hypothesis: Breeds such as the Aseel were developed in the Indian subcontinent for their aggressive behaviour.


Premise: What year did FOX announce that American Idol was cancelled?

Hypothesis: The popularity of American Idol however declined, and on May 11, 2015, Fox announced that the series would conclude its run in its fifteenth season.


Premise: On what date did the House Financial Services Committee hold a hearing to assess safety and soundness issues regarding 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 should NPOs focus on offering employees instead of high wages?

Hypothesis: NPOs are encouraged to pay as much as they are able, and offer a low stress work environment that the employee can associate him or herself positively with.


Premise: What was the policy of dividing land among families of color referred to as?

Hypothesis: The decisions came to be known as affirmative action in which mandatory, as well as voluntary programs, affirmed the civil rights of people of color.


Premise: What was the new name of the abbey when Elizabeth I reestablished it?

Hypothesis: In 1560, Elizabeth re-established Westminster as a "Royal Peculiar" – a church of the Church of England responsible directly to the Sovereign, rather than to a diocesan bishop – and made it the Collegiate Church of St Peter (that is, a non-cathedral church with an attached chapter of canons, headed by a dean.)


Premise: What do the organizing groups hope to obtain for themselves?

Hypothesis: These are rights-driven groups that organize themselves in order to achieve some sort of self-determination and the preservation of their culture for their peoples.


Premise: Which animal has one of the most complex respiratory system of all animal groups?

Hypothesis: Birds have one of the most complex respiratory systems of all animal groups.


Premise: What radio station is operated by the public school system?

Hypothesis: Many Seattle radio stations are also available through Internet radio, with KEXP in particular being a pioneer of Internet radio.


Premise: What company sold Yellow Dog Linux before Fixstars Solutions?

Hypothesis: Fixstars Solutions sells a version of Yellow Dog Linux for PlayStation 3 (originally sold by Terra Soft Solutions).


Premise: At what university was Hans Winkler employed when he created the word genome?

Hypothesis: The term was created in 1920 by Hans Winkler, professor of botany at the University of Hamburg, Germany.


Premise: What was the original name of The Times before changing its name?

Hypothesis: The Daily Universal Register and became The Times on 1 January 1788.


Premise: Who created "The Little Horse?"

Hypothesis: This piece, in bronze, was the work of Manuel Tolsá and it has been placed at the Plaza Tolsá, in front of the Palacio de Minería (Mining Palace).


Premise: When were Switzerland women granted the right to vote on a federal level?

Hypothesis: Some Swiss cantons approved this in 1959, while at the federal level it was achieved in 1971 and, after resistance, in the last canton Appenzell Innerrhoden (one of only two remaining Landsgemeinde) in 1990.


Premise: What proportion of crystalline ceramics yields a product with a CTE of around 0?

Hypothesis: At a certain point (~70% crystalline)


Premise: What has to occur for a player in association football to be shown a red penalty card?

Hypothesis: A red penalty card is issued to a player who commits a serious infraction: the player is immediately disqualified from further play and his team must continue with one less player for the game's duration.


Premise: What is the Premier League commonly referred to outside the UK?

Hypothesis: Outside the UK it is commonly referred to as the English Premier League (EPL).


Premise: Whose marriage led to the construction of Narayanhity?

Hypothesis: After the fall of the monarchy, it was converted to a museum.


Premise: Voters in the city approve which kind of amendment?

Hypothesis: Voters approved charter amendments that have lessened the penalties for possession of marijuana (1974), and that aim to protect access to abortion in the city should it ever become illegal in the State of Michigan (1990).


Premise: In what year did Susan Hockfield become President of MIT?

Hypothesis: In 2004, Provost Susan Hockfield became the President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.


Premise: In what places were asphalt used as waterproofing?

Hypothesis: In 1838, there was a flurry of entrepreneurial activity involving asphalt/bitumen, which had uses beyond paving.


Premise: What is the largest city in the ACAL region of France?

Hypothesis: German: Straßburg, [ˈʃtʁaːsbʊɐ̯k]) is the capital and largest city of the Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine (ACAL) region in eastern France and is the official seat of the European Parliament.


Premise: When were the Frankfurt proposals made?

Hypothesis: Metternich told Napoleon these were the best terms the Allies were likely to offer; after further victories, the terms would be harsher and harsher.


Premise: What book is considered a religious interpretation of the traditions and early national history of the Jews?

Hypothesis: The Hebrew Bible, a religious interpretation of the traditions and early national history of the Jews, established the first of the Abrahamic religions, which are now practiced by 54% of the world.


Premise: Where does a eukaryote store the cell's DNA?

Hypothesis: This is a major form of regulation in eukaryotic cells and also occurs in some prokaryotes.:7.5


Premise: What is a popular grain source for brewing beer in Mexico?

Hypothesis: Less widely used starch sources include millet, sorghum and cassava root in Africa, and potato in Brazil, and agave in Mexico, among others.


Premise: What did Martin Luther post on the castle church of Wittenberg?

Hypothesis: The immediate provocation spurring this act was Pope Leo X’s renewal of the indulgence for the building of the new St. Peter's Basilica in 1514.


Premise: What finally become of Kanye's clothing line in 2009?

Hypothesis: " The line was developed over the following four years – with multiple pieces teased by West himself – before the line was ultimately cancelled in 2009.


Premise: What is being conducted to extend the railway?

Hypothesis: A survey is being conducted to extend this railway line to Kangra (via Nadaun).


Premise: What role did Pope John XXIII's death precipitate the election of?

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


Premise: How many copies of On the Origin of Species were created in the first printing?

Hypothesis: On the Origin of Species was first published on Thursday 24 November 1859, priced at fifteen shillings with a first printing of 1250 copies.


Premise: What year did Bell get the patent for his telephone?

Hypothesis: His research on hearing and speech further led him to experiment with hearing devices which eventually culminated in Bell being awarded the first U.S. patent for the telephone in 1876.[N 4] Bell considered his most famous invention an intrusion on his real work as a scientist and refused to have a telephone in his study.[N 5]


Premise: What law states, in part, that energy can change from one form to another?

Hypothesis: Common energy forms include the kinetic energy of a moving object, the potential energy stored by an object's position in a force field (gravitational, electric or magnetic), the elastic energy stored by stretching solid objects, the chemical energy released when a fuel burns, the radiant energy carried by light, and the thermal energy due to an object's temperature.


Premise: Who agreed upon the 16:9 aspect ratio?

Hypothesis: An aspect ratio of 16:9 was duly agreed upon at the first meeting of the IWP11/6 working party at the BBC's Research and Development establishment in Kingswood Warren.


Premise: USB connects what?

Hypothesis: This gives Ethernet a significant safety advantage over USB with peripherals such as cable and DSL modems connected to external wiring that can assume hazardous voltages under certain fault conditions.


Premise: What area of Mali did conflict arise in January of 2012?

Hypothesis: In response to Islamist territorial gains, the French military launched Opération Serval in January 2013.


Premise: Who starred as Chopin in Impromptu?

Hypothesis: Chopin's life and his relations with George Sand have been fictionalized in numerous films.


Premise: For what battle was Sam Houston known as commander?

Hypothesis: Houston was founded in 1836 on land near the banks of Buffalo Bayou (now known as Allen's Landing) and incorporated as a city on June 5, 1837.


Premise: How many inpatients did the the Hospital Vilardebo have in 1915?

Hypothesis: The hospital was originally one of the best of Latin America and in 1915 grew to 1,500 inpatients.


Premise: What are some locations of the air bases?

Hypothesis: Major air bases are located in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland and Labrador, while administrative and command and control facilities are located in Winnipeg and North Bay.


Premise: When did the Roman Republic begin?

Hypothesis: However, most use the same date as did the ancient Romans themselves, the Roman Senate's grant of extraordinary powers to Octavian and his adopting the title Augustus in 27 BC, as the defining event ending the Republic.


Premise: What storage system for dates led to the system clock error?

Hypothesis: However, for some users, the hardware's operating system clock (mainly updated from the internet and not associated with the internal clock) needed to be updated manually or by re-syncing it via the internet.


Premise: Other than being cheaper, what is another main draw of processed foods?

Hypothesis: In general, whole, fresh foods have a relatively short shelf-life and are less profitable to produce and sell than are more processed foods.


Premise: When did Israel and Turkey's relations take a downturn?

Hypothesis: Although Turkey and Israel did not establish full diplomatic relations until 1991, Turkey has cooperated with the State since its recognition of Israel in 1949.


Premise: What was the reason behind these interactions?

Hypothesis: In contrast to this viewpoint, an article and associated editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine in May 2015 emphasized the importance of pharmaceutical industry-physician interactions for the development of novel treatments, and argued that moral outrage over industry malfeasance had unjustifiably led many to overemphasize the problems created by financial conflicts of interest.


Premise: Who formed the basis for modern scientific method?

Hypothesis: Indeed, he concurred with the main ideas of rationalism, most importantly the idea that rational concepts can be meaningful and the idea that rational concepts necessarily go beyond the data given by empirical observation.


Premise: What was the modern Conservative party created from?

Hypothesis: The modern Conservative Party was created out of the 'Pittite' Tories of the early 19th century.


Premise: Where could citizens register "Bohemian-Moravian-Slovak' as being their spoken language?

Hypothesis: In the Austro-Hungarian Empire, "Bohemian-Moravian-Slovak" was a language citizens could register as speaking (with German, Polish and several others).


Premise: On what date did Victoria turn 18?

Hypothesis: Victoria turned 18 on 24 May 1837, and a regency was avoided.


Premise: How many languages are used in the Congo?

Hypothesis: Ethnically and linguistically the population of the Republic of the Congo is diverse—Ethnologue recognises 62 spoken languages in the country—but can be grouped into three categories.


Premise: Roughly how many passengers travel daily on London's cable car?

Hypothesis: Costing £60 million to build, it carries over 3,500 passengers every day, although this is very much lower than its capacity.


Premise: Stone tools and control of fire are emphasised in what hypothesis?

Hypothesis: With the establishment of language, culture, and religion, hunting became a theme of stories and myths, as well as rituals such as dance and animal sacrifice.


Premise: What did translators of this time assume was better than the actual text they were translating?

Hypothesis: For scholarship they cared no more than had their predecessors, and they did not shrink from making translations from translations in third languages, or from languages that they hardly knew, or—as in the case of James Macpherson's "translations" of Ossian—from texts that were actually of the "translator's" own composition.


Premise: In what year could Nepal be said to have been discovered by the outside world?

Hypothesis: The art objects are also seen in street corners, lanes, private courtyards and in open ground.


Premise: The largest populations of the county

Hypothesis: The largest urban areas in terms of population are Bath, Weston-super-Mare, Taunton, Yeovil and Bridgwater.


Premise: When did Bush say 'major combat operations' were complete in Iraq?

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


Premise: What did European cultural ideas follow?

Hypothesis: There was also a rise, especially toward the end of the era, of nationalism in music (echoing, in some cases, political sentiments of the time), as composers such as Edvard Grieg, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and Antonín Dvořák echoed traditional music of their homelands in their compositions.


Premise: What was Kerry's major?

Hypothesis: He appeared in the Fulbright Hearings before the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs where he deemed United States war policy in Vietnam to be the cause of war crimes.


Premise: What does CATOBAR allow for?

Hypothesis: CATOBAR is most commonly used on USN supercarriers as it allows the deployment of heavy jets with full loadouts, especially on ground-attack missions.


Premise: What event did Beyoncé perform at one month after Obama's inauguration?

Hypothesis: The following month, Beyoncé performed at the Super Bowl XLVII halftime show, held at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans.


Premise: How are Christmas colored light bulbs created?

Hypothesis: These are created by coloring the glass with a dopant; which is often a metal like cobalt (blue) or chromium (green).


Premise: What has the Princess Alexandra Dock become?

Hypothesis: The Princess Alexandra Dock was converted into a marina.


Premise: How many species of moss is there?

Hypothesis: This compares to around 12,000 species of moss or 11,000 species of pteridophytes, showing that the flowering plants are much more diverse.


Premise: What professorship did Father Josh Carrier hold at Notre Dame?

Hypothesis: One of Carrier's students was Father John Augustine Zahm (1851–1921) who was made Professor and Co-Director of the Science Department at age 23 and by 1900 was a nationally prominent scientist and naturalist.


Premise: What was the stage name adopted by Farrokh Bulsara?

Hypothesis: Mercury joined the band in 1970, suggested "Queen" as a new band name, and adopted his familiar stage name.


Premise: How many registered fan clubs does Barcelona have worldwide?

Hypothesis: In addition to membership, as of 2010[update] there are 1,335 officially registered fan clubs, called penyes, around the world.


Premise: When was USB Battery Charging Specification Revision 1.2 released?

Hypothesis: On the other hand, several changes are made and limits are increasing including allowing 1.5 A on charging downstream ports for unconfigured devices, allowing high speed communication while having a current up to 1.5 A, and allowing a maximum current of 5 A. Also, revision 1.2 removes support for USB ports type detection via resistive detection mechanisms.


Premise: Which factors make Melbourne one of the moust vibrant destinations in Australia?

Hypothesis: For five years in a row (as of 2015) it has held the top position in a survey by The Economist Intelligence Unit of the world's most liveable cities on the basis of a number of attributes which include its broad cultural offerings.


Premise: How many nuclear isomers does zinc have?

Hypothesis: Zinc has 10 nuclear isomers.


Premise: British involvement in European matters in the late 19th century was considered what?

Hypothesis: Besides, the Crown Prince's marriage with the daughter of Queen Victoria was only the most prominent of several German–British relationships.


Premise: What was a personal obligation of the szlachtas?

Hypothesis: Inclusion in the class was almost exclusively based on inheritance.


Premise: Which species have long-distance migrants in the same family?

Hypothesis: Those that have long-distance migrants in the same family, such as the common chiffchaff Phylloscopus collybita, are species of southern hemisphere origins that have progressively shortened their return migration to stay in the northern hemisphere.


Premise: What year were the mosaic pavements installed at the Otranto Cathedral?

Hypothesis: Southern Italy was also part of the Norman kingdom but great mosaics did not survive in this area except the fine mosaic pavement of the Otranto Cathedral from 1166, with mosaics tied into a tree of life, mostly still preserved.


Premise: how did producers sometimes make edits of house music?

Hypothesis: In the early 1980s, Chicago radio jocks The Hot Mix 5, and club DJs Ron Hardy and Frankie Knuckles played various styles of dance music, including older disco records (mostly Philly disco and Salsoul tracks), electro funk tracks by artists such as Afrika Bambaataa, newer Italo disco, B-Boy hip hop music by Man Parrish, Jellybean Benitez, Arthur Baker, and John Robie, and electronic pop music by Kraftwerk and Yellow Magic Orchestra.


Premise: What does 'everted' mean?

Hypothesis: Feeding structures in the mouth region vary widely, and have little correlation with the animals' diets.


Premise: What makes glass melt at a lower temperature?

Hypothesis: Addition of lead(II) oxide lowers melting point, lowers viscosity of the melt, and increases refractive index.


Premise: What was the Phillipines ranked as?

Hypothesis: Of the major growth economies, Maplecroft ranked Philippines 25th riskiest, India 27th, China 36th, Viet Nam 37th, Indonesia 46th, and Brazil 54th - all of them rated to involve extreme risks of child labour uncertainties, to corporations seeking to invest in developing world and import products from emerging markets.


Premise: In what year did Jerome die?

Hypothesis: By the 6th century, Gregory of Tours (d. 594) had a similar dream, but instead of being chastised for reading Cicero, he was chastised for learning shorthand.


Premise: What did Nintendo release in Japan only?

Hypothesis: Nintendo had also released a 3D graphic capable headset.


Premise: In November 2008, how much had housing prices drop from their 2006 peak?

Hypothesis: Housing prices had dropped 20% from their 2006 peak, with futures markets signaling a 30–35% potential drop.


Premise: DNA samples from 1228 Russians show that the Y chromosomes analyzed, all except 20 (1.6%) fall into seven major haplogroups all characteristic to what populations?

Hypothesis: Only (0.7%) fell into haplogroups that are specific to East and South Asian populations.


Premise: For how many years was the 1986 television rights contract?

Hypothesis: The 1988 negotiations were the first signs of a breakaway league; ten clubs threatened to leave and form a "super league", but were eventually persuaded to stay.


Premise: What year did the eighth season of American Idol first air?

Hypothesis: Season eight premiered on January 13, 2009.


Premise: In what New Haven landmark was the 2009 Robert De Niro movie, Everybody's Fine, filmed?

Hypothesis: In Everybody's Fine (2009), Robert De Niro has a close encounter in what is supposed to be the Denver train station; the scene was filmed in New Haven's Union Station.


Premise: Who needed Soviet financial and military aid?

Hypothesis: Stalin made it clear that Soviet forces would not openly engage in combat, to avoid a direct war with the Americans.


Premise: What was the span of the Mature Harappan period?

Hypothesis: A sophisticated and technologically advanced urban culture developed in the Mature Harappan period, from 2600 to 1900 BCE.


Premise: How many companies were started through Northwestern's Innovations and New Ventures Office?

Hypothesis: It has also helped form over 50 Northwestern startup companies based on Northwestern technologies.


Premise: How many hours a day does the parade run?

Hypothesis: Over 50 parade groups dance, sing and play music over a five kilometre-long course.


Premise: What are the technologies used to capture solar energy characterized as?

Hypothesis: It is an important source of renewable energy and its technologies are broadly characterized as either passive solar or active solar depending on the way they capture and distribute solar energy or convert it into solar power.


Premise: What game accessory was similar to the NES Advantage?

Hypothesis: Hudson Soft, under license from Nintendo, released the Super Multitap, a multiplayer adapter for use with its popular series of Bomberman games.


Premise: When did Arsenal join the Football League?

Hypothesis: In the 1930s, Arsenal won five League Championships and two FA Cups, and another FA Cup and two Championships after the war.


Premise: What five seperate apparatuses are used in the five separate routines?

Hypothesis: The sport involves the performance of five separate routines with the use of five apparatus; ball, ribbon, hoop, clubs, rope—on a floor area, with a much greater emphasis on the aesthetic rather than the acrobatic.


Premise: At what university was Klement a student?

Hypothesis: In the past, small batches of amorphous metals with high surface area configurations (ribbons, wires, films, etc.) have been produced through the implementation of extremely rapid rates of cooling.


Premise: What model solved the problem of databases where information was missing?

Hypothesis: The relational model solved this by splitting the data into a series of normalized tables (or relations), with optional elements being moved out of the main table to where they would take up room only if needed.


Premise: How much land was the Gateway Center at Bronx Terminal Market built on?

Hypothesis: The Gateway Center at Bronx Terminal Market, in the West Bronx, is a shopping center that encompasses less than one million square feet of retail space, built on a 17 acres (7 ha) site that formerly held the Bronx Terminal Market, a wholesale fruit and vegetable market as well as the former Bronx House of Detention, south of Yankee Stadium.


Premise: Before which year were the Sana'a manuscripts produced?

Hypothesis: In 1972, in a mosque in the city of Sana'a, Yemen, manuscripts were discovered that were later proved to be the most ancient Quranic text known to exist at the time.


Premise: Why is a loss of energy difficult to measure by weight?

Hypothesis: Conversely, the mass equivalent of a unit of energy is minuscule, which is why a loss of energy (loss of mass) from most systems is difficult to measure by weight, unless the energy loss is very large.


Premise: Beyoncé is a descendant of which Acadian leader?

Hypothesis: Through her mother, Beyoncé is a descendant of Acadian leader Joseph Broussard.


Premise: What tourist destinations are the Portuguese government continuing to promote and develop?

Hypothesis: The Portuguese government continues to promote and develop new tourist destinations, such as the Douro Valley, the island of Porto Santo, and Alentejo.


Premise: Who was the pastor of the earliest church labeled "Baptist"?

Hypothesis: The Second Great Awakening in the South in the early 19th century increased church membership, as did the preachers' lessening of support for abolition and manumission of slavery, which had been part of the 18th-century teachings.


Premise: What is the total length of the Delhi Metro?

Hypothesis: Delhi Metro is the world's 12th largest metro system in terms of length.


Premise: What American professional baseball team is located on the North side of Chicago, IL?

Hypothesis: The Chicago Cubs are an American professional baseball team located on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois.


Premise: Which street has its third section between Eighth Avenue and Tenth Avenue?

Hypothesis: The second starts at a dead end, just before Avenue B, and runs to Greenwich Avenue, and the third part is from Eighth Avenue to Tenth Avenue.


Premise: When did Virgil's reputation as a great magician begin?

Hypothesis: Possibly as early as the second century AD, Virgil's works were seen as having magical properties and were used for divination.


Premise: Where were the Uyghurs transferred from?

Hypothesis: On 11 June 2009, four Uyghurs who had been held in the United States Guantánamo Bay detention camp, in Cuba, were transferred to Bermuda.


Premise: Who commissioned the Aeneid according to Propertius?

Hypothesis: Virgil worked on the Aeneid during the last eleven years of his life (29–19 BC), commissioned, according to Propertius, by Augustus.


Premise: Which of the Marshall Islands did Salazar most likely see?

Hypothesis: On August 21, he sighted an island (probably Taongi) at 14°N that he named "San Bartolome".


Premise: Who helped finish the Aeneid?

Hypothesis: Virgil came to know many of the other leading literary figures of the time, including Horace, in whose poetry he is often mentioned, and Varius Rufus, who later helped finish the Aeneid.


Premise: What was the NAS primarily a base for?

Hypothesis: Although leased for 99 years, US forces withdrew in 1995, as part of the wave of base closures following the end of the Cold War.


Premise: What work did Hayek begin in 1923?

Hypothesis: During Hayek's years at the University of Vienna, Carl Menger's work on the explanatory strategy of social science and Friedrich von Wieser's commanding presence in the classroom left a lasting influence on him.


Premise: What is used to haul passengers cars?

Hypothesis: Electric railways use electric locomotives to haul passengers or freight in separate cars or electric multiple units, passenger cars with their own motors.


Premise: Who is overlooking darker skinned latino multiracial people?

Hypothesis: Multiracial Latinos have limited media appearance; critics have accused the U.S. Hispanic media of overlooking the brown-skinned indigenous and multiracial Hispanic and black Hispanic populations by over-representation of blond and blue/green-eyed white Hispanic and Latino Americans (who resemble Scandinavians and other Northern Europeans rather than they look like white Hispanic and Latino Americans mostly of typical Southern European features), and also light-skinned mulatto and mestizo Hispanic and Latino Americans (often deemed as white persons in U.S. Hispanic and Latino populations if achieving the middle class or higher social status), especially some of the actors on the telenovelas.


Premise: What has been growing in the recent years?

Hypothesis: Economic forecasts suggest that the city will continue its strong economic growth in the coming years not only in the "oceanic" industries mentioned above, but also in tourism and new home construction as the population continues to grow.


Premise: When was the last time two black congressmen were elected?

Hypothesis: It was not until after federal civil rights legislation was passed in the mid-1960s that the majority of blacks in North Carolina would again be able to vote, sit on juries and serve in local offices.


Premise: Where was the Sep 14, 2009 action?

Hypothesis: Nabhan, a Kenyan, was wanted in connection with the 2002 Mombasa attacks.


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

Hypothesis: Ramsey met Paul three times during his visit and opened the Anglican Centre in Rome to increase their mutual knowledge.


Premise: The term for whole numbers is what?

Hypothesis: Some can only operate on whole numbers (integers) whilst others use floating point to represent real numbers, albeit with limited precision.


Premise: Does the political party of Aung San Suu Ky hold any positions among the ruling faction ?

Hypothesis: Following announcement of the by-elections, the Freedom House organisation raised concerns about "reports of fraud and harassment in the lead up to elections, including the March 23 deportation of Somsri Hananuntasuk, executive director of the Asian Network for Free Elections


Premise: What type of governments are included in federalism?

Hypothesis: It can thus be defined as a form of government in which there is a division of powers between two levels of government of equal status.


Premise: What was the case of Everson v. Board of Education the first instance of?

Hypothesis: This was the first case in which the court applied the Establishment Clause to the laws of a state, having interpreted the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment as applying the Bill of Rights to the states as well as the federal legislature.


Premise: To what language group does Old English belong?

Hypothesis: Like other old Germanic languages, it is very different from Modern English and difficult for Modern English speakers to understand without study.


Premise: On which day does Eastern Market attract the most visitors?

Hypothesis: The Eastern Market farmer's distribution center is the largest open-air flowerbed market in the United States and has more than 150 foods and specialty businesses.


Premise: What development has made it unnecessary for MLB teams to play exhibition games with teams from other leagues?

Hypothesis: The two Canadian MLB teams, the Toronto Blue Jays of the American League and the Montreal Expos of the National League, met annually to play the Pearson Cup exhibition game; this tradition ended when the Expos moved to Washington DC for the 2005 season.


Premise: What features of an infectious organism does a culture allow examining?

Hypothesis: More detailed identification techniques involve the culture of infectious agents isolated from a patient.


Premise: What stadium do the patriots play in?

Hypothesis: While they have played in suburban Foxborough since 1971, the New England Patriots of the National Football League were founded in 1960 as the Boston Patriots, changing their name after relocating.


Premise: What languages do residents of Norfolk Island speak?

Hypothesis: Islanders speak both English and a creole language known as Norfuk, a blend of 18th-century English and Tahitian.


Premise: What is the Presbyterian government known as?

Hypothesis: A congregation issues a call for the pastor's service, but this call must be ratified by the local presbytery.


Premise: What is the Fiesta de los Vaqueros?

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


Premise: How many artists signed the frame of the mosaic at the Church of St Stephen?

Hypothesis: The frame of the mosaic is especially decorative.


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

Hypothesis: Popular opinion remained firmly behind the celebration of Mary's conception.


Premise: What does God contribute to a married couple's child?

Hypothesis: They constitute a union of the loving couple with a loving God, in which the two persons create a new person materially, while God completes the creation by adding the soul.


Premise: What religion did Irish and Italian immigrants bring with them to Boston?

Hypothesis: Irish immigrants dominated the first wave of newcomers during this period, especially following the Irish Potato Famine; by 1850, about 35,000 Irish lived in Boston.


Premise: What is a video-conference also known as?

Hypothesis: A videoconference (also known as a videoteleconference) allows two or more locations to communicate via live, simultaneous two-way video and audio transmissions.


Premise: What was Pangaea's southern continent called?

Hypothesis: Pangaea gradually split into a northern continent, Laurasia, and a southern continent, Gondwana.


Premise: Where did Victoria become seriously ill during one of her trips?

Hypothesis: Victoria disliked the trips; the constant round of public appearances made her tired and ill, and there was little time for her to rest.


Premise: For how many years did Arsenal play at Highbury?

Hypothesis: In July 2006, they moved into the Emirates Stadium, after 93 years at Highbury.


Premise: What is a good reason to have testers and developers separate?

Hypothesis: Whatever biases the programmers may have had, the tester likely has a different set and may emphasize different areas of functionality.


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

Hypothesis: According to a 2001 report from The World Factbook by CIA, about 50% of Nigeria's population is Muslim, 40% are Christians and 10% adhere to local religions.


Premise: What might a clock showing the same times twice in one day lead to?

Hypothesis: People must remember to change their clocks; this can be time-consuming, particularly for mechanical clocks that cannot be moved backward safely.


Premise: Providing a government service from the lowest form of local government that can adequately provide the service is called what?

Hypothesis: In contrast, in a centralized authority, even minute proportions of public funds can be large sums of money.


Premise: What kind of cancer did the King develop?

Hypothesis: The King was well enough to open the Festival of Britain in May 1951, but on 23 September 1951, his left lung was removed by Clement Price Thomas after a malignant tumour was found.


Premise: Who sponsored the resolution to reopen trade with Vietnam, along with Kerry?

Hypothesis: In 1994 the Senate passed a resolution, sponsored by Kerry and fellow Vietnam veteran John McCain, that called for an end to the existing trade embargo against Vietnam; it was intended to pave the way for normalization.


Premise: What did Jesus do before he was arrested?

Hypothesis: Jesus then had to make his way to the place of his crucifixion.


Premise: What is the major group that believes in Eastern Orthodox Christianity?

Hypothesis: Thus, the number of adherents of Lutheranism and Orthodoxy, without regard to citizenship or ethnicity, is roughly equal.


Premise: What is Link's main weapon?

Hypothesis: Link uses a sword and shield in combat, complemented with secondary weapons and items, including a bow and arrows, a boomerang, bombs, and the Clawshot (similar to the Hookshot introduced earlier in the The Legend of Zelda series).[d]


Premise: Which film grossed more money for its opening weekend in the North American market, Skyfall or Spectre?

Hypothesis: The film ended up grossing $70.4 million in its opening weekend (about $20 million less than Skyfall's $90.6 million debut, including IMAX previews), but nevertheless finished first at the box office.


Premise: What was the PLDA formerly known as?

Hypothesis: The Professional Lighting Designers Association (PLDA), formerly known as ELDA is an organisation focusing on the promotion of the profession of Architectural Lighting Design.


Premise: The second largest city in the US is what?

Hypothesis: New York City is the most-populous city in the United States, with an estimated record high of 8,491,079 residents as of 2014, incorporating more immigration into the city than outmigration since the 2010 United States Census.


Premise: Did the India goverment take any actions against child labour?

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


Premise: What piece of Chopin's work was dedicated to Schumann?

Hypothesis: Schumann named a piece for him in his suite Carnaval, and Chopin later dedicated his Ballade No. 2 in F major to Schumann.


Premise: What did the Endangered Species Act authorize the Secretary of the Interior to do?

Hypothesis: The act did not address the commerce in endangered species and parts.


Premise: In what year was HMNB Davenport established?

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


Premise: What category of game is Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess?

Hypothesis: Zeruda no Densetsu: Towairaito Purinsesu?) is an action-adventure game developed and published by Nintendo for the GameCube and Wii home video game consoles.


Premise: What does 'tabula rasa' mean?

Hypothesis: Locke is famously attributed with holding the proposition that the human mind is a tabula rasa, a "blank tablet", in Locke's words "white paper", on which the experiences derived from sense impressions as a person's life proceeds are written.


Premise: Who was disqualified for having a police record?

Hypothesis: Clark also claimed that Abdul gave him preferential treatment on the show due to their affair.


Premise: What event is exceedingly relevant for young males that involves monks in Burma ?

Hypothesis: A novitiation ceremony called shinbyu is the most important coming of age events for a boy, during which he enters the monastery for a short time.


Premise: What type of traders did the trading companies employ on Tuvalu?

Hypothesis: O'Brien was the first European to settle in Tuvalu, he became a trader on Funafuti in the 1850s.


Premise: How do Palermo's temperatures compare to the rest of Europe?

Hypothesis: Palermo is one of the warmest cities in Europe (mainly due to its warm nights), with an average annual air temperature of 18.5 °C (65.3 °F).


Premise: About how many days a year in Plymouth are over 77 °F?

Hypothesis: On average, 4.25 days of the year will report a maximum temperature of 25.1 °C (77 °F) or above.


Premise: What type of scholars have provided proof that mechanical engineering was prominent during the Han period?

Hypothesis: Evidence of Han-era mechanical engineering comes largely from the choice observational writings of sometimes disinterested Confucian scholars.


Premise: What would happen if a lower court refused to uphold a constitutional law?

Hypothesis: Conversely, any court that refuses to enforce a constitutional statute (where such constitutionality has been expressly established in prior cases) will risk reversal by the Supreme Court.


Premise: What was the name of the new anesthetic used during leopolds birth?

Hypothesis: Victoria was so impressed by the relief it gave from the pain of childbirth that she used it again in 1857 at the birth of her ninth and final child, Beatrice, despite opposition from members of the clergy, who considered it against biblical teaching, and members of the medical profession, who thought it dangerous.


Premise: At what team's game was an announcement by the AFL supposed to happen on October 30?

Hypothesis: " Announcements have yet to be made on any sort of expansion plans.


Premise: When did GUM begin to decline and lose power?

Hypothesis: In trying to create a socialist consumer culture from scratch, GUM recast the functions and meanings of buying and selling, turning them into politically charged acts that could either contribute to or delay the march toward utopian communism.


Premise: Beginning in 1814, The Times was printed using what new kind of press?

Hypothesis: Beginning in 1814, the paper was printed on the new steam-driven cylinder press developed by Friedrich Koenig.


Premise: What battle began when two armies collided in the town of Froschwiller?

Hypothesis: The Battle of Wörth (also known as Fröschwiller or Reichshoffen) began when the two armies clashed again on 6 August near Wörth in the town of Fröschwiller, about 10 miles (16 km) from Wissembourg.


Premise: When did Julius Caesar's term as consul end?

Hypothesis: After his term as consul in 59 BC, he was appointed to a five-year term as the proconsular Governor of Cisalpine Gaul (part of current northern Italy), Transalpine Gaul (current southern France) and Illyria (part of the modern Balkans).


Premise: Who was the creator of typeface font used by The Times?

Hypothesis: The Times began printing headlines in a new font, Times Modern.


Premise: What sort of capacitors are used to carry a varying signal from the conductive plate of one tube to the grid circuit of the next stage?

Hypothesis: In many vacuum tube circuits, interstage coupling capacitors are used to conduct a varying signal from the plate of one tube to the grid circuit of the next stage.


Premise: Who used the vetoes that they had been given to prevent the appointment of magistrates?

Hypothesis: From 375 BC to 371 BC, the republic experienced a constitutional crisis during which the tribunes used their vetoes to prevent the election of senior magistrates.


Premise: Together, Bristol, Johnson City, and Kingsport are known by what name?

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


Premise: What does Kermes vermilio eat to survive?

Hypothesis: A red dye called Kermes was made beginning in the Neolithic Period by drying and then crushing the bodies of the females of a tiny scale insect in the genus Kermes, primarily Kermes vermilio.


Premise: In what year were bike lanes added on Dixwell Avenue and Howard Avenue?

Hypothesis: Since then, bike lanes have also been added to sections of Howard Ave, Elm St, Dixwell Avenue, Water Street, Clinton Avenue and State Street.


Premise: What year was Aswan High Dam completed?

Hypothesis: Egypt's economy depends mainly on agriculture, media, petroleum imports, natural gas, and tourism; there are also more than three million Egyptians working abroad, mainly in Saudi Arabia, the Persian Gulf and Europe.


Premise: What was censored?

Hypothesis: Although this program was not a direct copycat of Tsar Nicholas II's outright prohibition during World War I, Gorbachev faced the same adverse economic reaction as did the last Tsar.


Premise: What is the highest peak of the province?

Hypothesis: Zhejiang consists mostly of hills, which account for about 70% of its total area.


Premise: What political philosophy was discussed in the second volume of The Green Book?

Hypothesis: The second dealt with Gaddafi's beliefs regarding socialism, while the third explored social issues regarding the family and the tribe.


Premise: Where do archeologists believe that alchemy was first practiced?

Hypothesis: It was most prevalent in Alexandria, where alchemy is thought to have begun.


Premise: How many British and Australian prisoners survived out of about 2500 around Sandakan?

Hypothesis: At one of the very worst sites, around Sandakan in Borneo, only six of some 2,500 British and Australian prisoners survived.


Premise: What article did BBC put out about China just days earlier?

Hypothesis: Several days earlier, the BBC had published an article entitled "The challenges of reporting in China", responding to earlier criticism.


Premise: What is the name of the American Idol theme attraction with Disney?

Hypothesis: American Idol also partnered with Disney in its theme park attraction The American Idol Experience.


Premise: What is included in the second part of the critical apparatus?

Hypothesis: This contains the text that the author has determined most closely approximates the original, and is accompanied by an apparatus criticus or critical apparatus.


Premise: How much did '1941' earn?

Hypothesis: His next film, 1941, a big-budgeted World War II farce, was not nearly as successful and though it grossed over $92.4 million worldwide (and did make a small profit for co-producing studios Columbia and Universal)


Premise: What did Frédéric label the place in which he placed Maria and her mother's letters about the unlikely marriage?

Hypothesis: However, by early 1837 Maria Wodzińska's mother had made it clear to Chopin in correspondence that a marriage with her daughter was unlikely to proceed.


Premise: What residence was the Paul VI staying in on the day of his death?

Hypothesis: According to his will, he was buried in the grottos of the Vatican not in an ornate tomb, but in a grave in the ground.


Premise: What have been found in Alpine areas of France and Italy?

Hypothesis: Evidence of human habitation has been found in caves near Vercors, close to Grenoble; in Austria the Mondsee culture shows evidence of houses built on piles to keep them dry.


Premise: When transmitted over the internet, colors are typically to what?

Hypothesis: When transmitted directly through the Internet, the colors are typically pre-converted to 8-bit RGB channels for additional storage savings with the assumption that it will only be viewed only on a (sRGB) computer screen.


Premise: Which direction does the water flow in this area?

Hypothesis: From this point, it then flows generally east through fairly flat agricultural land and the Missouri Breaks to Fort Peck reservoir.


Premise: The extent of Victorias political influence became well known after the publishing of what?

Hypothesis: Biographies of Victoria written before much of the primary material became available, such as Lytton Strachey's Queen Victoria of 1921, are now considered out of date.


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

Hypothesis: Until the late 19th century, very few Presbyterians ever referred to their buildings as "churches."


Premise: In the 2008 primary, how much of the Bronx vote did Romney get?

Hypothesis: In the Presidential primary elections of February 5, 2008, Sen. Clinton won 61.2% of the Bronx's 148,636 Democratic votes against 37.8% for Barack Obama and 1.0% for the other four candidates combined (John Edwards, Dennis Kucinich, Bill Richardson and Joe Biden).


Premise: Which Catholic practices did Wycliffe speak out against?

Hypothesis: Wycliffe held that the Bible should be the only authority in religious questions, and he spoke out against transubstantiation, celibacy and indulgences.


Premise: What does 'soo and maal' mean in English?

Hypothesis: The name "Somali" is, in turn, held to be derived from the words soo and maal, which together mean "go and milk"


Premise: Insects are a class of what?

Hypothesis: They are the most diverse group of animals on the planet, including more than a million described species and representing more than half of all known living organisms.


Premise: What is the name of the LLC sister company of Eon Productions?

Hypothesis: In November 2013 MGM and the McClory estate formally settled the issue with Danjaq, LLC—sister company of Eon Productions—with MGM acquiring the full copyright film rights to the concept of Spectre and all of the characters associated with it.


Premise: What is the name of Boston Colleges radio station?

Hypothesis: WHRB (Harvard), WUMB (UMass Boston), WMBR (MIT), WZBC (Boston College), WMFO (Tufts University), WBRS (Brandeis University), WTBU (Boston University, campus and web only), WRBB (Northeastern University) and WMLN-FM (Curry College).


Premise: When did Just and Hanaman receive their patent for the tungsten filament lamp?

Hypothesis: On 13 December 1904, Hungarian Sándor Just and Croatian Franjo Hanaman were granted a Hungarian patent (No. 34541) for a tungsten filament lamp that lasted longer and gave brighter light than the carbon filament.


Premise: What is an annelid's cuticle made of?

Hypothesis: Their bodies are covered by a cuticle (outer covering) that does not contain cells but is secreted by cells in the skin underneath, is made of tough but flexible collagen and does not molt – on the other hand arthropods' cuticles are made of the more rigid α-chitin, and molt until the arthropods reach their full size.


Premise: In 1918 which way did the French idealogies shift that effected Cubism?

Hypothesis: The occasional return to classicism—figurative work either exclusively or alongside Cubist work—experienced by many artists during this period (called Neoclassicism) has been linked to the tendency to evade the realities of the war and also to the cultural dominance of a classical or Latin image of France during and immediately following the war.


Premise: In what year did the reauthorization of capital punishment occur?

Hypothesis: Possibly in part due to expedited federal habeas corpus procedures embodied in the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, the pace of executions picked up, reaching a peak of 98 in 1999 and then they declined gradually to 28 in 2015.


Premise: When were the preserved hill forts in Estonia built?

Hypothesis: Worth mentioning is especially the architectural ensemble that makes out the medieval old town of Tallinn, which is on the UNESCO World Heritage List.


Premise: How many thousands of years ago may have clothing been worn?

Hypothesis: Another theory is that modern humans are the only survivors of several species of primates who may have worn clothes and that clothing may have been used as long ago as 650 thousand years ago.


Premise: What other type of disorders are frequent in asthma sufferers?

Hypothesis: A number of other health conditions occur more frequently in those with asthma, including gastro-esophageal reflux disease (GERD), rhinosinusitis, and obstructive sleep apnea.


Premise: What does Tanka mean?

Hypothesis: The Duomin (Chinese: 惰民; pinyin: duò mín; Wade–Giles: to-min) are a caste of outcasts in this province.


Premise: North Zhejiang and south Jiangsu are famed for their opulence and what else?

Hypothesis: Since ancient times, north Zhejiang and neighbouring south Jiangsu have been famed for their prosperity and opulence[citation needed], and simply inserting north Zhejiang place names (Hangzhou, Jiaxing, etc.)


Premise: Which famous clothing company was BYU alumnus Matthew K. McCauley CEO of?

Hypothesis: Additionally, alumni of BYU who have served as business leaders include Citigroup CFO Gary Crittenden '76, former Dell CEO Kevin Rollins '84, Deseret Book CEO Sheri L. Dew, and Matthew K. McCauley, CEO of children's clothing company Gymboree.


Premise: In what century were castles first built?

Hypothesis: During the 11th and 12th centuries, these lands, or fiefs, came to be considered hereditary, and in most areas they were no longer divisible between all the heirs as had been the case in the early medieval period.


Premise: In Canada, who is authorized to defer assent and to whom?

Hypothesis: A lieutenant governor may defer assent to the governor general, and the governor general may defer assent to federal bills to the sovereign.


Premise: Along with the Eagle and Child, at what pub did the Inklings regularly meet?

Hypothesis: The Eagle and Child and the Lamb and Flag, Oxford, were regular meeting places of the Inklings, a writers' group which included J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis.


Premise: When was the iMac G5 released?

Hypothesis: MacBook Pro, iMac, MacBook Air, and Mac Mini computers now also feature the "Thunderbolt" port, which Apple says can transfer data at speeds up to 10 gigabits per second.


Premise: When was Paris' population peak?

Hypothesis: The city's population loss came to an end in the 21st century; the population estimate of July 2004 showed a population increase for the first time since 1954, and the population reached 2,234,000 by 2009.


Premise: Which regions of Thuringia have the most political power?

Hypothesis: Independent cities (i.e. urban districts) have greater powers (the same as any district) than towns within a district.


Premise: What famous disaster happened in Boston in 1872?

Hypothesis: After The Great Boston Fire of 1872, workers used building rubble as landfill along the downtown waterfront.


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

Hypothesis: The city adopted the Commissioners' Plan of 1811, which expanded the city street grid to encompass all of Manhattan.


Premise: Which term used in the Quran to indicate itself means "book"?

Hypothesis: Such terms include kitāb (book); āyah (sign); and sūrah (scripture).


Premise: What did Ayaan Ali Khan and Manavjit Singh Sandhu say should not be mixed?

Hypothesis: Despite intended torchbearers Kiran Bedi, Soha Ali Khan, Sachin Tendulkar and Bhaichung Bhutia all withdrawing from the event, the official Chinese website for the relay reported "Indian torchbearers vow to run for spirit of Olympics", and quoted torchbearers Manavjit Singh Sandhu, Abhinav Bindra, Ayaan Ali Khan and Rajinder Singh Rahelu all stating that sports and politics should not be mixed.


Premise: Who gave the teacher the new job ?

Hypothesis: Pope Pius IX would later appoint Spada Master of the Sacred Palace in 1867.


Premise: Who ruled the  Jin dynasty?

Hypothesis: The Song were far more concerned with countering northern enemy states of the Khitan-ruled Liao dynasty (907–1125) and Jurchen-ruled Jin dynasty (1115–1234).


Premise: How much does the program cost?

Hypothesis: Another initiative, presented by the late Mayor Thomas Menino, is the Renew Boston Whole Building Incentive, which reduces the cost of living in buildings that are deemed energy efficient.


Premise: What pass was opened to the Banner Armies?

Hypothesis: They retained the imperial examinations to recruit Han Chinese to work under or in parallel with Manchus.


Premise: What is a complex behavior that dogs inherited from wolves?

Hypothesis: Domestic dogs inherited complex behaviors, such as bite inhibition, from their wolf ancestors, which would have been pack hunters with complex body language.


Premise: Who lived in native communities, speaking the language and participating in the affairs of tribes?

Hypothesis: They "lived in native communities for years, learned native languages fluently, attended native councils, and often fought alongside their native companions.


Premise: Where was Corey Moss' article published?

Hypothesis: Adrian Moreira, senior vice president for adult music for RCA Music Group, said, "We've seen a fairly tidal shift in what AC will play".


Premise: How much increase in population has the inner Seattle city had since 1990?

Hypothesis: As a sign of increasing inner-city growth, the downtown population crested to over 60,000 in 2009, up 77% since 1990.


Premise: What band did Tim Staffell join after leaving Smile?

Hypothesis: Bulsara felt that he and the band had the same tastes and soon became a keen fan of Smile.


Premise: what type of islands are the Tristan da Cunha

Hypothesis: The territory consists of the main island, also named Tristan da Cunha, which has a north–south length of 11.27 kilometres (7.00 mi) and has an area of 98 square kilometres (38 sq mi), along with the smaller, uninhabited Nightingale Islands and the wildlife reserves of Inaccessible and Gough Islands.


Premise: How many racial choices are there on standardized tests?

Hypothesis: For example, when applying to schools or for a job, or when taking standardized tests, Americans are sometimes asked to check boxes corresponding to race or ethnicity.


Premise: What was the name of the fired Atari CEO?

Hypothesis: However, Atari discovered at that show that its competitor Coleco was illegally demonstrating its Coleco Adam computer with Nintendo's Donkey Kong game.


Premise: Chopins relations with whom have been fictionalized in movies?

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


Premise: How many museums are found in Egypt?

Hypothesis: Because of this wide variation of ages, the continuous contact with other nations and the big number of conflicts Egypt had been through, at least 60 museums may be found in Egypt, mainly covering a wide area of these ages and conflicts.


Premise: What did Jahn promote the use of?

Hypothesis: Jahn promoted the use of parallel bars, rings and high bar in international competition.


Premise: Which festival draws up to 3 million people?

Hypothesis: River Days, a five-day summer festival on the International Riverfront lead up to the Windsor–Detroit International Freedom Festival fireworks, which draw super sized-crowds ranging from hundreds of thousands to over three million people.


Premise: What deepest part of the ocean was bacteria found?

Hypothesis: Other researchers reported related studies that microbes thrive inside rocks up to 580 metres below the sea floor under 2.6 kilometres of ocean off the coast of the northwestern United States.


Premise: What does transcription produce?

Hypothesis: The gene's DNA is used as a template to generate a complementary mRNA.


Premise: Victoria Park is located in what London district?

Hypothesis: There are also numerous parks administered by London's borough Councils, including Victoria Park in the East End and Battersea Park in the centre.


Premise: What popular musical casted a teacher-dealer?

Hypothesis: Instruments were marketed by teacher-dealers, much as the title character in the popular musical The Music Man.


Premise: Which Soviet countries did the RSFSR border on the west?

Hypothesis: Within the Soviet Union, the RSFSR bordered the Ukrainian, Belarusian, Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian SSRs to its west and Azerbaijan, Georgian and Kazakh SSRs to the south.


Premise: What is the mock combat roughly based on?

Hypothesis: The largest of these is in Huejotzingo, Puebla where most townspeople take part in mock combat with rifles shooting blanks, roughly based on the Battle of Puebla.


Premise: What cemetery in New Haven is situated next to the campus of Yale University and has been designated a National Historic Landmark?

Hypothesis: Grove Street Cemetery, a National Historic Landmark which lies adjacent to Yale's campus, contains the graves of Roger Sherman, Eli Whitney, Noah Webster, Josiah Willard Gibbs, Charles Goodyear and Walter Camp, among other notable burials.


Premise: What is a huge concern for SASO?

Hypothesis: Major criticisms of the SASO have not been established, but a concern is that the reliability and validity remains largely unexamined.


Premise: Who imposed sanctions against Iran as a result of Iran's nuclear program?

Hypothesis: This has led the UN Security Council to impose sanctions against Iran which had further isolated Iran politically and economically from the rest of the global community.


Premise: In Singapore, the varient of Hokkien has a significant amount of loanwords from where?

Hypothesis: Additionally, extensive contact with the Japanese language has left a legacy of Japanese loanwords in Taiwanese Hokkien.


Premise: Who polices incorporated areas of Tennessee's counties?

Hypothesis: Local law enforcement is divided between County Sheriff's Offices and Municipal Police Departments.


Premise: When was the thermionic triode invented?

Hypothesis: The triode, however, was a fragile device that consumed a lot of power.


Premise: Is an eldery person with alzheimers having the same problem as a similar aged person experiencing memory loss?

Hypothesis: However, memory loss is qualitatively different in normal aging from the kind of memory loss associated with a diagnosis of Alzheimer's (Budson & Price, 2005).


Premise: Why did Iran have to build its own military hardware, vehicles, and weapons after the 1979 Revolution?

Hypothesis: Since the 1979 Revolution, to overcome foreign embargoes, Iran has developed its own military industry, produced its own tanks, armored personnel carriers, guided missiles, submarines, military vessels, guided missile destroyer, radar systems, helicopters and fighter planes.


Premise: Who was the Vice Minister of Health?

Hypothesis: Vice Minister of Health Gao Qiang told reporters in Beijing that the "public health care system in China is insufficient.


Premise: How many Technical Universities are there in the Netherlands today?

Hypothesis: In the Netherlands, four former institutes of technology have become universities over the past decades.


Premise: Why does zinc protect metals exposed to sea water from corroding?

Hypothesis: A zinc disc attached to a ship's iron rudder will slowly corrode, whereas the rudder stays unattacked.


Premise: What did Morning find when he looked at biology textbooks during the 1952-2002 period?

Hypothesis: Morning (2008) looked at high school biology textbooks during the 1952-2002 period and initially found a similar pattern with only 35% directly discussing race in the 1983–92 period from initially 92% doing so.


Premise: What is hightened during migration?

Hypothesis: Predation can be heightened during migration: Eleonora's falcon Falco eleonorae, which breeds on Mediterranean islands, has a very late breeding season, coordinated with the autumn passage of southbound passerine migrants, which it feeds to its young.


Premise: What is the Kathmandu Valley's average temperature in winter, in degrees Fahrenheit?

Hypothesis: The average winter temperature is 10.1 °C (50.2 °F).


Premise: Where did the attack occur?

Hypothesis: On October 1, 1989, a peaceful demonstration of 10,000 to 15,000 people was violently dispersed by the militia in front of Lviv's Druzhba Stadium, where a concert celebrating the Soviet "reunification" of Ukrainian lands was being held.


Premise: What does apatheia mean?

Hypothesis: In this political climate, Hellenistic philosophers went in search of goals such as ataraxia (un-disturbedness), autarky (self-sufficiency) and apatheia (freedom from suffering), which would allow them to wrest well-being or eudaimonia out of the most difficult turns of fortune.


Premise: Who promoted settlement in Montana in the early 1900s

Hypothesis: In the early 1900s, James J. Hill of the Great Northern began promoting settlement in the Montana prairie to fill his trains with settlers and goods.


Premise: Napoleon wrote his family's succession into the constitution in an attempt to prevent the restoration of what former ruling family?

Hypothesis: He believed that a Bourbon restoration would be more difficult if his family's succession was entrenched in the constitution.


Premise: What kind of Chinese make up the vast majority of the population?

Hypothesis: There are also 400,000 members of ethnic minorities, including approximately 200,000 She people and approximately 20,000 Hui Chinese[citation needed].


Premise: When she was betrothed to Joseph, approximately how old was Mary?

Hypothesis: Some apocryphal accounts state that at the time of her betrothal to Joseph, Mary was 12–14 years old, and he was thirty years old, but such accounts are unreliable.


Premise: What did Palermo expansion lack?

Hypothesis: The reduced importance of agriculture in the Sicilian economy has led to a massive migration to the cities, especially Palermo, which swelled in size, leading to rapid expansion towards the north.


Premise: In what two years was there a financial crisis?

Hypothesis: After the financial crisis of 2007–08, it was known in 2008–2009 that two Portuguese banks (Banco Português de Negócios (BPN) and Banco Privado Português (BPP)) had been accumulating losses for years due to bad investments, embezzlement and accounting fraud.


Premise: When did devolution in the UK begin?

Hypothesis: Devolution in the UK began with the Government of Ireland Act 1914 which granted home rule to Ireland as a constituent country of the former United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.


Premise: What was the intention behind the passage of the Beer Act of 1830?

Hypothesis: The freely available beer was thus intended to wean the drinkers off the evils of gin, or so the thinking went.


Premise: The sanctiy of human life is known as what?

Hypothesis: To the Orthodox Jew, halakha is a guide, God's Law, governing the structure of daily life from the moment he or she wakes up to the moment he goes to sleep.


Premise: How much did Dell pay in fines to settle fraud charges against it?

Hypothesis: Michael Dell and other executives also paid penalties and suffered other sanctions, without admitting or denying the charges.


Premise: Captain America, Thor and Ultron all inhabit what fictional milieu?

Hypothesis: Most of Marvel's fictional characters operate in a single reality known as the Marvel Universe, with locations that mirror real-life cities.


Premise: What is an antenna designed to have?

Hypothesis: Antenna tuning generally refers to cancellation of any reactance seen at the antenna terminals, leaving only a resistive impedance which might or might not be exactly the desired impedance (that of the transmission line).


Premise: What program at Washington University ranks first in the 2016 in the U.S. News & World Reports rankings?

Hypothesis: Graduate schools include the School of Medicine, currently ranked sixth in the nation, and the George Warren Brown School of Social Work, currently ranked first.


Premise: W is set to to be the major stock holder of the business that first rang a bell to begin in the winter of 2014 in Myanmar ?

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