Premise: What was the latest a town was established in Thuringia?

Hypothesis: Most of the towns are small with a population of less than 10,000; only the ten biggest ones have a population greater than 30,000.


Premise: Who convinced Sun Quan to make Nanjing his capital?

Hypothesis: Natural lakes such as Xuanwu Lake and Mochou Lake are located in the centre of the city and are easily accessible to the public, while hills like Purple Mountain are covered with evergreens and oaks and host various historical and cultural sites.


Premise: The stategy that Bush used against Kerry was compared to what other similar strategy in the past?

Hypothesis: " This strategy was designed to convey to American voters the idea that Bush could be trusted to be tough on terrorism while Kerry would be "uncertain in the face of danger.


Premise: What is one particular industry that exploits Endangered Species Act loopholes?

Hypothesis: Furthermore, an interview with an endangered species specialist at the US Fish and Wildlife Service revealed that the agency does not have sufficient staff to perform undercover investigations, which would catch these false "donations" and other mislabeled transactions.


Premise: Who is the famous comic strip author of Doonesbury that attended Yale University in New Haven?

Hypothesis: Garry Trudeau, creator of the political Doonesbury comic strip, attended Yale University.


Premise: What award did Bell win in 1902?

Hypothesis: Bell was later awarded the AIEE's Edison Medal in 1914 "For meritorious achievement in the invention of the telephone".


Premise: What are the names of two researchers who divided neolithic chronology into ten periods?

Hypothesis: In 1981 a team of researchers from the Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée, including Jacques Cauvin and Oliver Aurenche divided Near East neolithic chronology into ten periods (0 to 9) based on social, economic and cultural characteristics.


Premise: How many households are located in New Haven according to the 2010 U.S. Census Bureau report?

Hypothesis: The U.S. Census Bureau reports a 2010 population of 129,779, with 47,094 households and 25,854 families within the city of New Haven.


Premise: What is formed by Chinese principles?

Hypothesis: Characters formed by Chinese principles in other languages include the roughly 1,500 Japanese-made kokuji given in the Kokuji no Jiten, the Korean-made gukja, the over 10,000 Sawndip characters still in use in Guangxi, and the almost 20,000 Nôm characters formerly used in Vietnam.[citation needed]


Premise: What Arkansas city's metro area extends into Oklahoma?

Hypothesis: Of the state's ten largest cities, three are outside the metropolitan areas of Oklahoma City and Tulsa, and only Lawton has a metropolitan statistical area of its own as designated by the United States Census Bureau, though the metropolitan statistical area of Fort Smith, Arkansas extends into the state.


Premise: What made up Mauretania?

Hypothesis: The Romans interacted with and later conquered parts of Mauretania, an early state that covered modern Morocco, western Algeria, and the Spanish cities Ceuta and Melilla during the classical period.


Premise: What are member serving NPOs really focused on?

Hypothesis: The nonprofit landscape is highly varied, although many people have come to associate NPOs with charitable organizations.


Premise: What manager of Led Zeppelin tried to sign Queen?

Hypothesis: Grant wanted them to sign with Led Zeppelin's own production company, Swan Song Records.


Premise: What power does each national or regional church possess?

Hypothesis: There is no single "Anglican Church" with universal juridical authority, since each national or regional church has full autonomy.


Premise: After the fifth quark was discovered, Feynman said what had to also exist?

Hypothesis: Feynman did not dispute the quark model; for example, when the fifth quark was discovered in 1977, Feynman immediately pointed out to his students that the discovery implied the existence of a sixth quark, which was discovered in the decade after his death.


Premise: In which year did the CFL begin requiring teams to attempt 2-point conversions after scoring in a tie-breaking situation?

Hypothesis: If the team scores a touchdown, starting with the 2010 season, it is required to attempt a 2-point conversion.


Premise: What was the name of Victoria's childhood dog?

Hypothesis: Her mother was extremely protective, and Victoria was raised largely isolated from other children under the so-called "Kensington System", an elaborate set of rules and protocols devised by the Duchess and her ambitious and domineering comptroller, Sir John Conroy, who was rumoured to be the Duchess's lover.


Premise: What is the name of the exhibition installation that Madonna teamed up with fashion photographer Chris Klein called?

Hypothesis: The same year, Madonna released her ninth studio album, American Life, which was based on her observations of American society; it received mixed reviews.


Premise: What caused the Qing armies to lose many battles?

Hypothesis: Zeng Guofan's strategy was to rely on local gentry to raise a new type of military organization from those provinces that the Taiping rebels directly threatened.


Premise: What does AlGaN stand for?

Hypothesis: well layers for ultraviolet LEDs, but these devices have not yet reached the level of efficiency and technological maturity of InGaN/GaN blue/green devices.


Premise: When were the last days of the Dominion of Newfoundland?

Hypothesis: In the late 1940s, during the last days of the Dominion of Newfoundland (at the time a dominion-dependency in the Commonwealth and independent of Canada), there was mainstream support, although not majority, for Newfoundland to form an economic union with the United States, thanks to the efforts of the Economic Union Party and significant U.S. investment in Newfoundland stemming from the U.S.-British alliance in World War II.


Premise: What age segment of the population of Southampton is projected to increase the most?

Hypothesis: The highest increases are expected among the elderly.


Premise: What organization ranked New Delhi 39th in economic activity in 2011?

Hypothesis: New Delhi with Beijing shares the top position as the most targeted emerging markets retail destination among Asia-Pacific markets.


Premise: When were the earliest historical records of Sumer?

Hypothesis: Reliable historical records begin much later; there are none in Sumer of any kind that have been dated before Enmebaragesi (c. 26th century BC).


Premise: What did Xenophon say Armenian language sounded like?

Hypothesis: Historically, the name Armenian has come to internationally designate this group of people.


Premise: Whose two commentaries were incorporated into Virgil's biography by Suetonius?

Hypothesis: Although the commentaries no doubt record much factual information about Virgil, some of their evidence can be shown to rely on inferences made from his poetry and allegorizing; thus, Virgil's biographical tradition remains problematic.


Premise: What two instruments did Frédéric's father play during this time?

Hypothesis: In October 1810, six months after Fryderyk's birth, the family moved to Warsaw, where his father acquired a post teaching French at the Warsaw Lyceum, then housed in the Saxon Palace.


Premise: What retrospective of the Oscars is shown yearly on TCM?

Hypothesis: As a result of its devoted format to classic feature films, viewers that are interested in tracing the career development of actresses such as Barbara Stanwyck or Greta Garbo or actors like Cary Grant or Humphrey Bogart have the unique opportunity to see most of the films that were made during their careers, from beginning to end.


Premise: How many identical columns are used in the Cathedral of Brasília?

Hypothesis: The hyperboloid structure itself is a result of 16 identical assembled concrete columns.


Premise: How many full-time members does the Basij have?

Hypothesis: Iran has a paramilitary, volunteer militia force within the IRGC, called the Basij, which includes about 90,000 full-time, active-duty uniformed members.


Premise: Who is overlooking darker skinned latino multiracial people?

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


Premise: Who established Lane Crawford?

Hypothesis: The first department stores Lane Crawford was opened in 1850 by Scots Thomas Ash Lane and Ninian Crawford on Des Voeux Road, Hong Kong Island.


Premise: Which researchers studied corruption from Sub-Saharan countries from 1970 to 1996?

Hypothesis: University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers estimated that from 1970 to 1996, capital flight from 30 Sub-Saharan countries totaled $187bn, exceeding those nations' external debts.


Premise: What animal was carried aboard the  Zond 5?

Hypothesis: In September 1968, Zond 5 made a circumlunar flight with tortoises on board and returned to Earth, accomplishing the first successful water landing of the Soviet space program in the Indian Ocean.


Premise: How many people work in University of Oklahoma?

Hypothesis: While not in Oklahoma City proper, other large employers within the MSA region include:


Premise: What major impact did the falling of the Songhai Empire have?

Hypothesis: Following the establishment of sea routes by the European powers, the trans-Saharan trade routes lost significance.


Premise: Where does 23rd Street end?

Hypothesis: It begins at FDR Drive and ends at Eleventh Avenue.


Premise: When did the Hostellers of London become a guild?

Hypothesis: A traveller in the early Middle Ages could obtain overnight accommodation in monasteries, but later a demand for hostelries grew with the popularity of pilgrimages and travel.


Premise: How many pigs died in Sichuan?

Hypothesis: The earthquake left at least 5 million people without housing, although the number could be as high as 11 million.


Premise: What was the second american territory the English attempted to colonize?

Hypothesis: In 1584, Elizabeth I granted a charter to Sir Walter Raleigh, for whom the state capital is named, for land in present-day North Carolina (then part of the territory of Virginia).


Premise: Who can receive the Costa Book Award?

Hypothesis: For example, the Costa Book Awards are awarded to authors resident in the UK or Ireland.


Premise: Uruguay was once dubbed as what?

Hypothesis: The largest bank in Uruguay is Banco Republica (BROU), based in Montevideo.


Premise: How many torchbearers did not participate because of their concerns with Tibet?

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


Premise: What was the name of the building that was feature in America's Favorite Architecture list of 2007?

Hypothesis: The Yale School of Architecture has fostered this important component of the city's economy.


Premise: Who searched for specifically Slavic sub-group of R1a1a [M17]?

Hypothesis: Marcin Woźniak and colleagues (2010) searched for specifically Slavic sub-group of R1a1a [M17].


Premise: In 2000, what percentage of Richmond residents were multiracial?

Hypothesis: As of the census of 2000, there were 197,790 people, 84,549 households, and 43,627 families residing in the city.


Premise: Peter Fraser and Edward Sterling, two noted The Times journalists, gained what nickname for themselves?

Hypothesis: Peter Fraser and Edward Sterling were two noted journalists, and gained for The Times the pompous/satirical nickname 'The Thunderer'


Premise: Does a persons memory capacity increase with age?

Hypothesis: A growing body of research now indicates that infants as young as 6-months can recall information after a 24-hour delay.


Premise: It was confirmed by IFPI that Madonna officially sold how many albums worldwide?

Hypothesis: Madonna embarked on the Confessions Tour in May 2006, which had a global audience of 1.2 million and grossed over $193.7 million, becoming the highest-grossing tour to that date for a female artist.


Premise: How many people died on the first German raid on London?

Hypothesis: George VI and his wife resolved to stay in London, despite German bombing raids.


Premise: Which of the seven P&O cruise liners has a name that begins with "V"?

Hypothesis: The importance of Southampton to the cruise industry was indicated by P&O Cruises's 175th anniversary celebrations, which included all seven of the company's liners visiting Southampton in a single day.


Premise: How can a wrestler gain an advantage by using a referee?

Hypothesis: The most basic rule is that an action must be seen by a referee to be declared for a fall or disqualification.


Premise: In the complete list of precepts, which one is partitioned into two?

Hypothesis: For the complete list, the seventh precept is partitioned into two, and a tenth added:


Premise: In scientism, it is typically believed that explanations in science are what?

Hypothesis: In his philosophy of science, which has much in common with that of his good friend Karl Popper, Hayek was highly critical of what he termed scientism: a false understanding of the methods of science that has been mistakenly forced upon the social sciences, but that is contrary to the practices of genuine science.


Premise: What organization named Schwarzenegger the "International Star of the Decade" in 1993?

Hypothesis: In 1993, the National Association of Theatre Owners named him the "International Star of the Decade".


Premise: What is froth flotation used for?

Hypothesis: After grinding the ore, froth flotation, which selectively separates minerals from gangue by taking advantage of differences in their hydrophobicity, is used to get an ore concentrate.


Premise: How much did it cost to make one 20 GB PS3?

Hypothesis: However, they were priced at US$499 and US$599 respectively, meaning that units may have been sold at an estimated loss of $306 or $241 depending on model, if the cost estimates were correct, and thus may have contributed to Sony's games division posting an operating loss of ¥232.3 billion (US$1.97 billion) in the fiscal year ending March 2007.


Premise: What are there besides degrees of similarity with Occitan?

Hypothesis: Catalan bears varying degrees of similarity to the linguistic varieties subsumed under the cover term Occitan language (see also differences between Occitan and Catalan and Gallo-Romance languages).


Premise: What types of glass is the word commonly used to mean?

Hypothesis: The most familiar, and historically the oldest, types of glass are "silicate glasses" based on the chemical compound silica (silicon dioxide, or quartz), the primary constituent of sand.


Premise: What were the Soviets hoping to stop?

Hypothesis: This event further weakened the Soviet Union's position internationally and domestically, and stiffened Lithuanian resistance.


Premise: How is bacterial metabolism determined?

Hypothesis: The distribution of metabolic traits within a group of bacteria has traditionally been used to define their taxonomy, but these traits often do not correspond with modern genetic classifications.


Premise: Who wrote, "The test of a great power is the test of strength for war."?

Hypothesis: Later writers have expanded this test, attempting to define power in terms of overall military, economic, and political capacity.


Premise: In which era was Frédéric leave a legacy of as a leading symbol?

Hypothesis: His works remain popular, and he has been the subject of numerous films and biographies of varying degrees of historical accuracy.


Premise: Who defended fifty schools accused of price-sharing, stating they were unaware the laws had changed?

Hypothesis: They are schools that have quite openly continued to follow a long-established practice because they were unaware that the law had changed."


Premise: What established Guam as an unincorporated territory?

Hypothesis: After World War II, the Guam Organic Act of 1950 established Guam as an unincorporated organized territory of the United States, provided for the structure of the island's civilian government, and granted the people U.S. citizenship.


Premise: What mistake did MacArthur make regarding the 38th parallel?

Hypothesis: MacArthur had crossed the 38th parallel in the mistaken belief that the Chinese would not enter the war, leading to major allied losses.


Premise: What is the required education for males on Tuvalu?

Hypothesis: The teacher-pupil ratio for primary schools in Tuvalu is around 1:18 for all schools with the exception of Nauti School, which has a teacher-student ratio of 1:27.


Premise: What type of government does the United Kingdom and the Crown Dependencies have?

Hypothesis: The British monarch is the head of state for all parts of the isles except for the Republic of Ireland, where the head of state is the President of Ireland.


Premise: What did Northwestern sell to raise funds for it's first building?

Hypothesis: Another building, University Hall, was built in 1869 of the same Joliet limestone as the Chicago Water Tower, also built in 1869, one of the few buildings in the heart of Chicago to survive the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.


Premise: Which state raided Han's Korean commanderies?

Hypothesis: The Eastern Han, also known as the Later Han, formally began on 5 August 25, when Liu Xiu became Emperor Guangwu of Han.


Premise: Who marched through the lower states and captured and forts and fought many battles?

Hypothesis: Timur and Sikander Lodi also marched through the lower hills of the state and captured a number of forts and fought many battles.


Premise: What was Plymouth's 2013 GVA in millions of British Pounds?

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


Premise: When did Eduard Shevardnadze gain full membership in the Politburo?

Hypothesis: Also on July 1, Gorbachev took the opportunity to dispose of his main rival by removing Grigory Romanov from the Politburo, and brought Boris Yeltsin and Lev Zaikov into the CPSU Central Committee Secretariat.


Premise: What were the three offshoots of Cubism formed in France?

Hypothesis: In France, offshoots of Cubism developed, including Orphism, Abstract art and later Purism.


Premise: What species dominated many tree floras by the end of the Cretaceous period?

Hypothesis: By the end of the Cretaceous, angiosperms dominated tree floras in many areas, although some evidence suggests that biomass was still dominated by cycad and ferns until after the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction.


Premise: What part of the mine shaft requires routine testing?

Hypothesis: Safety testing of mine shaft elevator rails is routinely undertaken.


Premise: What rugby club did Maurie Fa'asavalu play for?

Hypothesis: Francis Meli, Ta'ane Lavulavu of Workington Town, Maurie Fa'asavalu of St Helens and David Fatialofa of Whitehaven and Setima Sa who signed with London Irish rugby club.


Premise: How many people watched the Apollo 11 landing?

Hypothesis: The landing of Apollo 11 was an event watched by over 500 million people around the world and is widely recognized as one of the defining moments of the 20th century.


Premise: How many universities are within the MSA region?

Hypothesis: Tinker Air Force Base (27,000); University of Oklahoma (11,900); University of Central Oklahoma (2,900); and Norman Regional Hospital (2,800).


Premise: Which two types of antibiotics target the cell wall?

Hypothesis: Those that target the bacterial cell wall (penicillins and cephalosporins) or the cell membrane (polymyxins), or interfere with essential bacterial enzymes (rifamycins, lipiarmycins, quinolones, and sulfonamides) have bactericidal activities.


Premise: What is Liberia's education system hampered by?

Hypothesis: In some areas primary and secondary education is free and compulsory from the ages of 6 to 16, though enforcement of attendance is lax.


Premise: Which dynasty supported the Deccani Urdu literature movement?

Hypothesis: The Qutb Shahi dynasty particularly encouraged the growth of Deccani Urdu literature leading to works such as the Deccani Masnavi and Diwan poetry, which are among the earliest available manuscripts in Urdu.


Premise: Which of the 5 powers were beginning to stagnate in early 20th century?

Hypothesis: Others, such as Russia and Austria-Hungary, stagnated.


Premise: As of 2012, how many physicians were working in New York City?

Hypothesis: Much of the scientific research in the city is done in medicine and the life sciences.


Premise: When did Japan take over Indochina?

Hypothesis: In September 1940, Japan decided to cut China's only land line to the outside world by seizing Indochina, which was controlled at the time by Vichy France.


Premise: What does it mean to say that God is omnipotent?

Hypothesis: The concept of God as described by theologians commonly includes the attributes of omniscience (infinite knowledge), omnipotence (unlimited power), omnipresence (present everywhere), omnibenevolence (perfect goodness), divine simplicity, and eternal and necessary existence.


Premise: Where are opto-isolators found?

Hypothesis: This is especially useful in medical equipment where the signals from a low-voltage sensor circuit (usually battery-powered) in contact with a living organism must be electrically isolated from any possible electrical failure in a recording or monitoring device operating at potentially dangerous voltages.


Premise: About what percentage of the Nepali population follows Islam?

Hypothesis: Islam is practised in Kathmandu but Muslims are a minority, accounting for about 4.2% of the population of Nepal.[citation needed]


Premise: During what year did Ashkenazi Jews account for 92 percent of Jews worldwide?

Hypothesis: It is estimated that in the 11th century Ashkenazi Jews composed only three percent of the world's Jewish population, while at their peak in 1931 they accounted for 92 percent of the world's Jews.


Premise: Jose Batile y Ordonez was president of where?

Hypothesis: In 1918, the park was named Parque de los Aliados, following the victory of the Allies of World War I. On 5 May 1930, after significant expansion, it was again renamed as Parque Batlle y Ordóñez, in memory of the prominent politician and president, who had died in 1929.


Premise: How is Japanese wrestling similar to American?

Hypothesis: The style of Japanese professional wrestling (puroresu) is again different.


Premise: In what year were the five boroughs combined into one city?

Hypothesis: Situated on one of the world's largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, each of which is a separate county of New York State.


Premise: Where is ornament typically not found in Georgian architecture?

Hypothesis: The style of Georgian buildings is very variable, but marked by a taste for symmetry and proportion based on the classical architecture of Greece and Rome, as revived in Renaissance architecture.


Premise: Who was noted for his complex improvisations?

Hypothesis: During the Classical era, the composer-performer Mozart was noted for his ability to improvise melodies in different styles.


Premise: What does the flounder of the Tuvalu myth represent?

Hypothesis: An important creation myth of the islands of Tuvalu is the story of the te Pusi mo te Ali (the Eel and the Flounder) who created the islands of Tuvalu; te Ali (the flounder) is believed to be the origin of the flat atolls of Tuvalu and the te Pusin (the Eel) is the model for the coconut palms that are important in the lives of Tuvaluans.


Premise: In 2014 what entity named Notre Dame 10th best of all American universities?

Hypothesis: Forbes.com's America's Best Colleges ranks Notre Dame 13th among colleges in the United States in 2015, 8th among Research Universities, and 1st in the Midwest.


Premise: What year did former Everton player Joe Royle take over managing the club?

Hypothesis: When former Everton player Joe Royle took over in 1994 the club's form started to improve; his first game in charge was a 2–0 victory over derby rivals Liverpool.


Premise: What agency is in charge of intelligence requirements?

Hypothesis: Planning and Directing is "the determination of intelligence requirements, development of appropriate intelligence architecture, preparation of a collection plan, and issuance of orders and requests to information collection agencies" (JP 2-01, Joint and National Intelligence Support to Military Operations).


Premise: How is a digimon reborn?

Hypothesis: The data then recomposes itself as a Digi-Egg, which will hatch when rubbed gently, and the Digimon goes through its life cycle again.


Premise: Does having unprotected sex, multiple sexual partners, and poor communication increase or decrease individual and social risk?

Hypothesis: Having unprotected sex, using poor birth control methods (e.g. withdrawal), having multiple sexual partners, and poor communication are some aspects of sexual behavior that increase individual and/or social risk.


Premise: The increase in immigrants from what country in southern Europe had a notable impact on the population growth in New Haven in the early 20th century?

Hypothesis: After the war, population grew and doubled by the start of the 20th century, most notably due to the influx of immigrants from southern Europe, particularly Italy.


Premise: What operations are results from not always completely reliable?

Hypothesis: But the results of such reverse-translation operations, while useful as approximate checks, are not always precisely reliable.


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

Hypothesis: An education at BYU is also less expensive than at similar private universities, since "a significant portion" of the cost of operating the university is subsidized by the church's tithing funds.


Premise: When were legislative elections held?

Hypothesis: A mutiny of military factions in October 2004 resulted in the death of the head of the armed forces and caused widespread unrest.


Premise: Who was a local gang ringleader in the same area?

Hypothesis: The relationship kept the flow of profits from the gang's gambling dens, prostitution, and protection rackets undisturbed.[citation needed]


Premise: What did Victoria place to memorialize Disraeli?

Hypothesis: When Disraeli died the following year, she was blinded by "fast falling tears", and erected a memorial tablet "placed by his grateful Sovereign and Friend, Victoria R.I."


Premise: When did an Air New Zealand crash on Mount Erebus?

Hypothesis: The primary response by Antarctic Treaty Parties has been to develop, through their Committee for Environmental Protection and in partnership with IAATO, "site use guidelines" setting landing limits and closed or restricted zones on the more frequently visited sites.


Premise: How many acres of land does Pelham Bay park have?

Hypothesis: Parks in New York City include Central Park, Prospect Park, Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, Forest Park, and Washington Square Park.


Premise: What does prayer usually include in Islam?

Hypothesis: Prayer often also includes supplication and asking forgiveness.


Premise: What system also complements walking and biking?

Hypothesis: The tram system that now criss-crosses the historic city centre complements walking and biking in it.


Premise: How do elevators built in pairs work?

Hypothesis: Sometimes two elevators are built so that their cars always move synchronously in opposite directions, and are each other's counterweight.


Premise: What program aired on PBS about Neptune?

Hypothesis: Because this was the last major planet the spacecraft could visit, it was decided to make a close flyby of the moon Triton, regardless of the consequences to the trajectory, similarly to what was done for Voyager 1's encounter with Saturn and its moon Titan.


Premise: What boundaries would you follow to separate PCBs on a panel?

Hypothesis: The individual PCBs can then be broken apart along this line of weakness.


Premise: From where did tribesmen that formed a unit organized by Osman I originate?

Hypothesis: The Ottoman army was once among the most advanced fighting forces in the world, being one of the first to use muskets and cannons.


Premise: What term followed "negro" and "colored"?

Hypothesis: One well-known example is the identification by Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. of his own race as "Negro" in his famous speech of 1963, I Have a Dream.


Premise: What kind of art scene was popular in the Middle Ages?

Hypothesis: Hunting scenes were popular in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.


Premise: What fact was ignored by enacting one-drop rule laws?

Hypothesis: People buried fading memories that many whites had multiracial ancestry.


Premise: In 1999, who uncovered information that exonerated death row inmate Anthony Porter only 2 days before his scheduled death?

Hypothesis: In 1999, Northwestern student journalists uncovered information exonerating Illinois death row inmate Anthony Porter two days before his scheduled execution, and the Innocence Project has since exonerated 10 more men.


Premise: What is Florida's busiest airport?

Hypothesis: The Port of Miami is the world's busiest cruise port, and MIA is the busiest airport in Florida, and the largest gateway between the United States and Latin America.


Premise: When did Prince Albert die?

Hypothesis: After Albert's death in 1861, Victoria plunged into deep mourning and avoided public appearances.


Premise: What is the span of the Early Cretaceous?

Hypothesis: The Early Cretaceous saw the expansion of seaways, and as a result, the decline and extinction of sauropods (except in South America).


Premise: What year was the turning point for Germany in the Nation Brands Index?

Hypothesis: Another global opinion poll, for the BBC, revealed that Germany is recognised for the most positive influence in the world in 2010.


Premise: Carthage and Tunisia are in what general area?

Hypothesis: Splendid mosaic floors are found in Roman villas across North Africa, in places such as Carthage, and can still be seen in the extensive collection in Bardo Museum in Tunis, Tunisia.


Premise: Approximately what percentage of Chinese morphemes lack a standard chinese character?

Hypothesis: For instance, about 20 to 25% of Taiwanese morphemes lack an appropriate or standard Chinese character.


Premise: Himachal is extremely rich in?

Hypothesis: The state is also the first state in India to achieve the goal of having a bank account for every family.[citation needed]


Premise: What destroyed the palace?

Hypothesis: Some points of interest are the Grotto (the interior was designed by the French artist Niki de Saint-Phalle), the Gallery Building, the Orangerie and the two pavilions by Remy de la Fosse.


Premise: What DuPont factory is located in the Richmond area?

Hypothesis: DuPont maintains a production facility in South Richmond known as the Spruance Plant.


Premise: How can the memory of Napoleon in Poland be characterized as?

Hypothesis: The memory of Napoleon in Poland is favorable, for his support for independence and opposition to Russia, his legal code, the abolition of serfdom, and the introduction of modern middle class bureaucracies.


Premise: What is Switzerland's most important economic sector?

Hypothesis: The service sector – especially banking and insurance, tourism, and international organisations – is another important industry for Switzerland.


Premise: Where do the officers go to complete their branch specific training?

Hypothesis: Following their basic and advanced training at the individual-level, soldiers may choose to continue their training and apply for an "additional skill identifier" (ASI).


Premise: How big was the impact the Sonderbundskrieg had on the psychology and society of the Swiss and Switzerland?

Hypothesis: After a period of unrest with repeated violent clashes such as the Züriputsch of 1839, civil war (the Sonderbundskrieg) broke out in 1847 when some Catholic cantons tried to set up a separate alliance (the Sonderbund).


Premise: The hemline of daytime skirts were allowed to rise after which year?

Hypothesis: Most men invited to Buckingham Palace in the daytime choose to wear service uniform or lounge suits; a minority wear morning coats, and in the evening, depending on the formality of the occasion, black tie or white tie.


Premise: Where did Charleston's original settlers come from?

Hypothesis: The community was established by several shiploads of settlers from Bermuda (which lies due east of South Carolina, although at 1,030 km or 640 mi, it is closest to Cape Hatteras, North Carolina), under the leadership of governor William Sayle, on the west bank of the Ashley River, a few miles northwest of the present-day city center.


Premise: How many immigrants in Paris in 2012 were from sub-Saharan Africa and Egypt?

Hypothesis: Note that the immigrants from the Americas and the South Pacific in Paris are vastly outnumbered by migrants from French overseas regions and territories located in these regions of the world.


Premise: Who did the London merchants petition to get permission to sail the Indian Ocean?

Hypothesis: The permission was granted, and despite the defeat of the English Armada in 1589, on 10 April 1591 three ships sailed from Torbay around the Cape of Good Hope to the Arabian Sea on one of the earliest English overseas Indian expeditions.


Premise: Who is the recipient?

Hypothesis: It was established on 4 June 1917 by King George V, and comprises five classes, in civil and military divisions, the most senior two of which make the recipient either a knight if male, or dame if female.


Premise: Which airport near Paris was one of the first to add civil facilities for handling passenger traffic?

Hypothesis: In 1922, the first permanent airport and commercial terminal solely for commercial aviation was opened at Flughafen Devau near what was then Königsberg, East Prussia.


Premise: How did the actual sales of the G4's compare to the sales expectations?

Hypothesis: A price drop and hardware upgrades could not offset the earlier perception of the Cube's reduced value compared to the iMac and Power Mac G4 lineup, and it was discontinued in July 2001.


Premise: What is the group of animals that often have a specialized head with feeding and sensory organs called?

Hypothesis: The remaining animals form a monophyletic group called the Bilateria.


Premise: Do some countries have negative feelings towards the word "black"?

Hypothesis: Black people is a term used in certain countries, often in socially based systems of racial classification or of ethnicity, to describe persons who are perceived to be dark-skinned compared to other given populations.


Premise: How many Pillar industries were there from the 1960s to the 1980s?

Hypothesis: Overenthusiastic in building a “world-class” industrial city, the government also made many disastrous mistakes during development, such as spending hundreds of millions of yuan to mine for non-existent coal, resulting in negative economic growth in the late 1960s.


Premise: Was there a cease fire during the talks?

Hypothesis: Large-scale bombing of North Korea continued, and protracted armistice negotiations began 10 July 1951 at Kaesong.


Premise: What was the first carrier-launched airstrike?

Hypothesis: The first carrier-launched airstrike was the Tondern Raid in July 1918.


Premise: What was Munshi lying about?

Hypothesis: He was soon promoted to "Munshi": teaching her Hindustani, and acting as a clerk.


Premise: The previous record beaten by Park Avenue was for what real estate?

Hypothesis: New York City is home to some of the nation's—and the world's—most valuable real estate.


Premise: In what year did the Admiralty Court hang 26 pirates in Newport, Rhode Island?

Hypothesis: The largest non-military mass execution occurred in one of the original thirteen colonies in 1723, when 26 convicted pirates were hanged in Newport, Rhode Island by order of the Admiralty Court.


Premise: When was Diaz Jr. elected?

Hypothesis: His successor, Democratic New York State Assembly member Rubén Díaz, Jr., who won a special election on April 21, 2009 by a vote of 86.3% (29,420) on the "Bronx Unity" line to 13.3% (4,646) for the Republican district leader Anthony Ribustello on the "People First" line, became Borough President on May 1.


Premise: How many stories tall will each of the three proposed towers be?

Hypothesis: The three towers proposed will stand 23 storeys high and will be surrounded by smaller apartment blocks, office blocks and shops.


Premise: Why is DC motor being used more than AC type?

Hypothesis: Until the mid 1980s this was only practical with the brush-type DC motor, although such DC can be supplied from an AC catenary via on-board electric power conversion.


Premise: What systems did the Sumerians develop which remain the first known these types to this day?

Hypothesis: Conjointly with the spread of writing, the first formal schools were established, usually under the auspices of a city-state's primary temple.


Premise: What bird is mentioned in the book of Job?

Hypothesis: Is it by your insight that the hawk hovers, spreads its wings southward?"


Premise: What does rendering software display when it can't process a Unicode character?

Hypothesis: The Apple's Last Resort font will display a substitute glyph indicating the Unicode range of the character, and the SIL International's Unicode Fallback font will display a box showing the hexadecimal scalar value of the character.


Premise: When did local high speed rail service that linked London and Kent begin?

Hypothesis: The first high-speed domestic trains started in June 2009 linking Kent to London.


Premise: What is Unicode available through Windows on?

Hypothesis: Although a great deal of text is still stored in legacy encodings, Unicode is used almost exclusively for building new information processing systems.


Premise: What is the most popular type of poulty that is farmed?

Hypothesis: These are often situated close to where the feed is grown or near to where the meat is needed, and result in cheap, safe food being made available for urban communities.


Premise: How many people between the ages of 30 and 34 live in Southampton?

Hypothesis: The 20–24 age range is the most populous, with an estimated 32,300 people falling in this age range.


Premise: Why isn't unalloyed zinc used in construction applications?

Hypothesis: In building facades, roofs or other applications in which zinc is used as sheet metal and for methods such as deep drawing, roll forming or bending, zinc alloys with titanium and copper are used.


Premise: Who was TCM's partner in the TCM Wineclub?

Hypothesis: In October 2015, TCM announced the launch of the TCM Wineclub, in which they teamed up with Laithwaite to provide a line of mail-order wines from famous vineyards such as famed writer-director-producer Francis Ford Coppola's winery.


Premise: In Australia, what percentage of non-passerine birds were partially migratory

Hypothesis: Partial migration can form a large percentage of the migration behaviour of birds in some regions; in Australia, surveys found that 44% of non-passerine birds and 32% of passerines were partially migratory.


Premise: What PC was taking corporate customers from Dell?

Hypothesis: In addition, while the Asian PC vendors had been improving their quality and design, for instance Lenovo's ThinkPad series was winning corporate customers away from Dell's laptops, Dell's customer service and reputation had been slipping.


Premise: What was the $7 million used for?

Hypothesis: The money went toward behavioral science research, which was supported by foundation officers who aimed to "improve mankind" under an informal, loosely defined human engineering effort.


Premise: Who was also executed on the day of William R. Tolbert's death?

Hypothesis: Doe and the other plotters later executed a majority of Tolbert's cabinet and other Americo-Liberian government officials and True Whig Party members.


Premise: What happens with these soft feacal pellets?

Hypothesis: They also produce normal droppings, which are not eaten.


Premise: What happens to the wages of adults?

Hypothesis: Child labour, claim these activists, also leads to poor labour standards for adults, depresses the wages of adults in developing countries as well as the developed countries, and dooms the third world economies to low-skill jobs only capable of producing poor quality cheap exports.


Premise: Along with Old Saxon, what language is closely related to Old English?

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


Premise: Who was the first person to bring Presbyterianism into Taiwan?

Hypothesis: English Presbyterian missionary James Laidlaw Maxwell established the first Presbyterian church in Tainan in 1865.


Premise: how many lions were on the EIC arms

Hypothesis: The East India Company's arms, granted in 1698, were: "Argent a cross Gules; in the dexter chief quarter an escutcheon of the arms of France and England quarterly, the shield ornamentally and regally crowned Or."


Premise: What sport does the most famous Namibian athlete participate in?

Hypothesis: The most famous athlete from Namibia is Frankie Fredericks, sprinter (100 and 200 m).


Premise: What other bird was very common before WWII according to the elders?

Hypothesis: According to many elders, ko'ko' birds were common in Guam before World War II.


Premise: Which river does 181st Street run near?

Hypothesis: 181st Street is a major thoroughfare running through the Washington Heights neighborhood.


Premise: What did the English Dominican mystics not require in their work?

Hypothesis: They experienced a mystical process that allowed them, in the end, to experience what they had already gained knowledge of through their faith only.


Premise: What is another solution to the problem of temporal paradoxes?

Hypothesis: Another solution to the problem of causality-based temporal paradoxes is that such paradoxes cannot arise simply because they have not arisen.


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

Hypothesis: While it is undisputed that early humans were hunters, the importance of this for the emergence of the Homo genus from the earlier Australopithecines, including the production of stone tools and eventually the control of fire, are emphasised in the hunting hypothesis and de-emphasised in scenarios that stress omnivory and social interaction, including mating behaviour, as essential in the emergence of human behavioural modernity.


Premise: Where did the new wave of diplomats often come from?

Hypothesis: In the 20th century after decades of intense warfare and political turmoil terms such as "Near East", "Far East" and "Middle East" were relegated to the experts, especially in the new field of political science.


Premise: What is the name of earliest man made place of worship?

Hypothesis: This site was developed by nomadic hunter-gatherer tribes, evidenced by the lack of permanent housing in the vicinity and may be the oldest known human-made place of worship.


Premise: When would PVA forces march to minimize the chances of being seen?

Hypothesis: The PVA marched "dark-to-dark" (19:00–03:00), and aerial camouflage (concealing soldiers, pack animals, and equipment) was deployed by 05:30.


Premise: In what century was Cafe Anglais, Cafe de Paris and Rocher de Cancale opened?

Hypothesis: The famous Paris restaurants of the 19th century, including the Café de Paris, the Rocher de Cancale, the Café Anglais, Maison Dorée and the Café Riche, were mostly located near the theatres on the Boulevard des Italiens; they were immortalised in the novels of Balzac and Émile Zola.


Premise: What type of rich foods did people refrain from eating during Lent?

Hypothesis: Before Lent began, all rich food and drink were consumed in what became a giant celebration that involved the whole community, and is thought to be the origin of Carnival.


Premise: What street is mentioned in the movie Taxi Driver as the location where a cab driver is assaulted?

Hypothesis: The street and the surrounding neighborhood of Harlem is then referred to as "Mau Mau Land" by another character named Wizard, slang indicating it is a majority black area.


Premise: Identity diffusion, foreclosure, and crisis are categories of what?

Hypothesis: Weinreich's identity variant similarly includes the categories of identity diffusion, foreclosure and crisis, but with a somewhat different emphasis.


Premise: How do freight elevators differ from passenger elevators?

Hypothesis: Freight elevators are typically larger and capable of carrying heavier loads than a passenger elevator, generally from 2,300 to 4,500 kg.


Premise: How many of West's albums were included on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list?

Hypothesis: The College Dropout at number 298, Late Registration at number 118, and My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy at number 353.


Premise: Who interviewed Kerry in Oct 2004 about his religion?

Hypothesis: I've spent some time reading and thinking about religion and trying to study it, and I've arrived at not so much a sense of the differences, but a sense of the similarities in so many ways."


Premise: Who is affected by pharmaceutical fraud?

Hypothesis: It affects individuals and public and private insurers.


Premise: What kind of ports are Taizhou and Ningbo?

Hypothesis: Ningbo, Wenzhou, Taizhou and Zhoushan are important commercial ports.


Premise: The imperial family of Rome used the church of Santa Costanza as what?

Hypothesis: However it seems that it was not until the Christian era that figural wall mosaics became a major form of artistic expression.


Premise: What other groups during this period for form minorities?

Hypothesis: The indigenous Balts who survived the conquest were gradually converted to Christianity.


Premise: What year did Alexander III Invade Persia?

Hypothesis: Following the assassination of Phillip II, his son Alexander III ("The Great") assumed the leadership of the League of Corinth and launched an invasion of the Persian Empire with the combined forces of all Greek states in 334 BC.


Premise: Does this tax exempt status apply to other taxes?

Hypothesis: The exemption does not apply to other Federal taxes such as employment taxes.


Premise: What does a "tag" entail?

Hypothesis: This is known as a "tag", with the participants "tagging out" and "tagging in".


Premise: The two great ancient Greek historians were?

Hypothesis: Plato and Aristotle authored philosophical texts that are the foundation of Western philosophy, Sappho and Pindar were influential lyric poets, and Herodotus and Thucydides were early Greek historians.


Premise: As Jews were expelled from England, France, and parts of Germany they head into which three countries?

Hypothesis: With the onset of the Crusades in 1095, and the expulsions from England (1290), France (1394), and parts of Germany (15th century), Jewish migration pushed eastward into Poland (10th century), Lithuania (10th century), and Russia (12th century).


Premise: Who married Indigenous women early on?

Hypothesis: Some early male settlers married Indigenous American women and had informal unions with them.


Premise: What did Bell  instruct his dog to do?

Hypothesis: With little convincing, visitors believed his dog could articulate "How are you grandma?"


Premise: In what year did Emperor Ling die?

Hypothesis: When Cao Pi, King of Wei, usurped the throne from Emperor Xian, the Han dynasty ceased to exist.


Premise: What language family is Czech?

Hypothesis: However, most Slavic languages (including Czech) have been distanced in this way from Russian influences because of widespread public resentment against the former Soviet Union (which occupied Czechoslovakia in 1968).


Premise: What position was Ben Franklin appointed in 1776?

Hypothesis: Although he was temporarily disabled by gout and unable to attend most meetings of the Committee, Franklin made several small changes to the draft sent to him by Thomas Jefferson.


Premise: Does apomixis only occur in the parent?

Hypothesis: Apomixis can also happen in a seed, producing a seed that contains an embryo genetically identical to the parent.


Premise: Since when have the Basel II recommendations been in effect?

Hypothesis: Think-tanks such as the World Pensions Council have also argued that European legislators have pushed somewhat dogmatically for the adoption of the Basel II recommendations, adopted in 2005, transposed in European Union law through the Capital Requirements Directive (CRD), effective since 2008.


Premise: What are two other major populated cities in England?

Hypothesis: In elsewhere on Great Britain and on Ireland, high density of population is limited to areas around, or close to, a few large cities.


Premise: What does the conceptual view offer?

Hypothesis: The conceptual view provides a level of indirection between internal and external.


Premise: What year did the Sheffield FA form?

Hypothesis: Some came up with their own distinct codes of rules, most notably the Sheffield Football Club, formed by former public school pupils in 1857, which led to formation of a Sheffield FA in 1867.


Premise: What is operational in the USA, Australia, Germany, France and The United Kingdom?

Hypothesis: As of 2008[update], geothermal power development was under way in more than 40 countries, partially attributable to the development of new technologies, such as Enhanced Geothermal Systems.


Premise: Who gave followers of Humanism the ability to think out of bounds?

Hypothesis: With this end in view, Renaissance Church authorities afforded humanists what in retrospect appears a remarkable degree of freedom of thought.


Premise: Who was sent home the week after the judges saved Matt Giraud?

Hypothesis: The next week, Lil Rounds and Anoop Desai were eliminated.


Premise: Chopin's polonaises needed what kind of playing technique?

Hypothesis: Chopin's polonaises show a marked advance on those of his Polish predecessors in the form (who included his teachers Zywny and Elsner).


Premise: How much bail money did they spend?

Hypothesis: After the imprisonment of protesters of Gray's death, Beyoncé and Jay-Z donated thousands of dollars to bail them out.


Premise: Why would an author utilize experimental narratives in literature?

Hypothesis: They may indicate to a reader that there is a familiar structure and presentation to a work, such as a conventional murder-mystery novel; or, the author may choose to experiment with their technique to surprise the reader.


Premise: Shell was accused of participating in the execution of which southern Nigerian tribal leader?

Hypothesis: The lawsuits were brought against Royal Dutch Shell and Brian Anderson, the head of its Nigerian operation.


Premise: What does the University of California call its campus in Mexico City?

Hypothesis: The second largest higher-education institution is the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN), which includes among many other relevant centers the Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados (Cinvestav), where varied high-level scientific and technological research is done.


Premise: What operator drops off and picks up passengers at West Quay?

Hypothesis: Uni-link passes West Quay in both directions, and Wilts & Dorset drop passengers off and pick them up there, terminating at a series of bus stands along the road.


Premise: What is the name of the flag airline carrier in Switzerland?

Hypothesis: The Swiss autobahn/autoroute system requires the purchase of a vignette (toll sticker)—which costs 40 Swiss francs—for one calendar year in order to use its roadways, for both passenger cars and trucks.


Premise: Which publication said the 2009 defence budget was more than 10% overbudget?

Hypothesis: According to figures published by the London Evening Standard the defence budget for 2009 is "more than 10% overspent" (figures cannot be verified) and the paper states that this had caused Gordon Brown to say that the defence spending must be cut.


Premise: In what decade did Everton experience a revival?

Hypothesis: The mid-1980s represented their most recent period of sustained success, with two League Championship successes, an FA Cup, and the 1985 European Cup Winners' Cup.


Premise: What are some examples of how a noble person should look before Christians came?

Hypothesis: For centuries prior the arrival of Christians, first nation Hawaiian aesthetics, such as dark skin and ample bodies, had been considered signs of nobility.


Premise: When will a new international school open in Brasilia?

Hypothesis: August 2016 will see the opening of a new international school - The British School of Brasilia.


Premise: What place's control was the Communist Party of Lithuania out from under after the split?

Hypothesis: On December 7, 1989, the Communist Party of Lithuania under the leadership of Algirdas Brazauskas, split from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and abandoned its claim to have a constitutional "leading role" in politics.


Premise: What Heavy Metal band had a video game in which Queen was featured?

Hypothesis: : Van Halen, "Stone Cold Crazy" in Guitar Hero: Metallica, and "Bohemian Rhapsody" in Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock.


Premise: Appropriate exercise and reducing glycemic load are two examples of ways to stimulate which process?

Hypothesis: It is important to note that it has been demonstrated that appropriate exercise, more regular food intake, and reducing glycemic load (see below) all can reverse insulin resistance in overweight individuals (and thereby lower blood sugar levels in those with type 2 diabetes).


Premise: What did red white and black become associated with in Germany?

Hypothesis: The red part of the flag was also chosen to attract attention - Hitler wrote: "the new flag ... should prove effective as a large poster" because "in hundreds of thousands of cases a really striking emblem may be the first cause of awakening interest in a movement.


Premise: What does a perfective verb have added in prefix pairs?

Hypothesis: In suffix pairs, a different infinitive ending is added to the perfective stem; for example, the perfective verbs koupit (to buy) and prodat (to sell) have the imperfective forms kupovat and prodávat.


Premise: By accepting the deal with the USSR, Hitler admitted that it prevented what?

Hypothesis: That day, Hitler told the British ambassador to Berlin that the pact with the Soviets prevented Germany from facing a two front war, changing the strategic situation from that in World War I, and that Britain should accept his demands regarding Poland.


Premise: Where is chemical energy stored and released?

Hypothesis: Elastic energy in materials is also dependent upon electrical potential energy (among atoms and molecules), as is chemical energy, which is stored and released from a reservoir of electrical potential energy between electrons, and the molecules or atomic nuclei that attract them.[need quotation to verify].The list is also not necessarily complete.


Premise: What did Chopin have a hard time getting delivered to Majorca?

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


Premise: What two systems did Voyska PVO have?

Hypothesis: The most extreme case was the Soviet Union, and this model may still be followed in some countries: it was a separate service, on a par with the navy or ground force.


Premise: What branch of government can determine what acts it writes?

Hypothesis: At the same time, the federal government has considerable discretion: the legislative branch is free to decide what statutes it will write, as long as it stays within its enumerated powers and respects the constitutionally protected rights of individuals.


Premise: ICBMs is an abbreviation for what?

Hypothesis: Given this new danger, the United States participated in an arms race with the Soviet Union that included development of the hydrogen bomb, as well as intercontinental strategic bombers and intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) capable of delivering nuclear weapons.


Premise: What language did the Huns adopt?

Hypothesis: The Huns living in Germanic territories in Eastern Europe adopted an East Germanic language as their lingua franca.


Premise: Who was the first person to carry the torch?

Hypothesis: The People's Republic of China called this a "disgraceful" attempt to sabotage the Olympics.


Premise: What does Hogarth say in detail?

Hypothesis: Hogarth then proceeds to say where and why in some detail, but no more mention is made of the classics.


Premise: What does Zhe mean in Chinese?

Hypothesis: It is usually glossed as meaning "Crooked" or "Bent River", from the meaning of Chinese 折, but is more likely a phono-semantic compound formed from adding 氵 (the "water" radical used for river names) to phonetic 折 (pinyin zhé but reconstructed Old Chinese *tet), preserving a proto-Wu name of the local Yue, similar to Yuhang, Kuaiji, and Jiang.


Premise: What was the name of the NES clone produced in Taiwan?

Hypothesis: In particular, the Dendy (Russian: Де́нди), an unlicensed hardware clone produced in Taiwan and sold in the former Soviet Union, emerged as the most popular video game console of its time in that setting and it enjoyed a degree of fame roughly equivalent to that experienced by the NES/Famicom in North America and Japan.


Premise: What made the Timoto-cuicas so advanced?

Hypothesis: In total it is estimated that there were between 350 thousand and 500 thousand inhabitants, the most densely populated area being the Andean region (Timoto-cuicas), thanks to the advanced agricultural techniques used.


Premise: Besides fuels and paving, what accounts for most of the other use of bitumen?

Hypothesis: Roofing shingles account for most of the remaining asphalt/bitumen consumption.


Premise: When did the sixth season of Digimon begin airing?

Hypothesis: Three and a quarter years after the end of the fifth series, a new sixth series was confirmed by Bandai for the Digimon anime, its official name of the series revealed in the June issue of Shueisha's V Jump magazine being Digimon Xros Wars.


Premise: Who partially funds Politics and Policy?

Hypothesis: The organization is funded in part by the Buffett Center.


Premise: Large, slow servos can use what types of motors?

Hypothesis: Motors intended for use in a servomechanism must have well-documented characteristics for speed, torque, and power.


Premise: What was Charles Luciano's nickname?

Hypothesis: The men who called this meeting were Masseria family lieutenant Charles "Lucky" Luciano and former Chicago South Side Gang boss


Premise: What is the Roman board game Tabula a precursor to?

Hypothesis: The city of Rome had a place called the Campus Martius ("Field of Mars"), which was a sort of drill ground for Roman soldiers.


Premise: What is the IrDA?

Hypothesis: These devices usually conform to standards published by IrDA, the Infrared Data Association.


Premise: What do you call the length of time that foam is on top of beer because of carbonation?

Hypothesis: Hops have an antibiotic effect that favours the activity of brewer's yeast over less desirable microorganisms and aids in "head retention", the length of time that a foamy head created by carbonation will last.


Premise: How many seats are in Notre Dame Stadium?

Hypothesis: Today the team competes in Notre Dame Stadium, an 80,795-seat stadium on campus.


Premise: Which shopping area is on East University?

Hypothesis: To the east of the University of Arizona, Third Street is bike-only except for local traffic and passes by the historic homes of the Sam Hughes neighborhood.


Premise: What's the equivalent of Universities of Technology in French-speaking areas?

Hypothesis: degrees and roughly correspond to Instituts de technologie of French-speaking areas and Technische Universität of Germany in prestige.


Premise: The governor of what state commuted four death sentences in January 2015?

Hypothesis: In Maryland, Governor Martin O'Malley commuted the state's four remaining death sentences to life in prison without parole in January 2015.


Premise: Who did Nasser appoint as the new head of Egypt's armed forces?

Hypothesis: On 11 July, Nasser replaced Amer with Mohamed Fawzi as general commander, over the protestations of Amer's loyalists in the military, 600 of whom marched on army headquarters and demanded Amer's reinstatement.


Premise: How long did it take for states like New York to abolish all slave laws?

Hypothesis: Most northern states abolished slavery, sometimes, like New York, in programs of gradual emancipation that took more than two decades to be completed.


Premise: How many years did the CFL South Division last?

Hypothesis: The move was aborted after three years; the Baltimore Stallions were the most successful of the numerous Americans teams to play in the CFL, winning the 83rd Grey Cup.


Premise: What party dominated until the mid-20th century

Hypothesis: After the Great Depression, Democratic registrations increased, but the city was not carried by Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt in his landslide victory of 1932 (in which Pennsylvania was one of the few states won by Republican Herbert Hoover).


Premise: In 2002, where did Bell place in a list of the Greatest Britons?

Hypothesis: Alexander Graham Bell was ranked 57th among the 100 Greatest Britons (2002) in an official BBC nationwide poll, and among the Top Ten Greatest Canadians (2004), and the 100 Greatest Americans (2005).


Premise: What is the current usually beng put into it or pulled out of?

Hypothesis: Another common design is the folded dipole, which is essentially two dipoles placed side-by-side and connected at their ends to make a single one-wavelength antenna.


Premise: Who is responsible for purification of compounds found in mineral sources?

Hypothesis: By the late 1880s, German dye manufacturers had perfected the purification of individual organic compounds from coal tar and other mineral sources and had also established rudimentary methods in organic chemical synthesis.


Premise: What is the Boston accent known as?

Hypothesis: Boston shares many cultural roots with greater New England, including a dialect of the non-rhotic Eastern New England accent known as Boston English, and a regional cuisine with a large emphasis on seafood, salt, and dairy products.


Premise: Who won the auction for the AFL's assets?

Hypothesis: All assets of the Arena Football League were put up for auction.


Premise: What are the QF-4 aircraft being replaced by the US Air Force?

Hypothesis: These extant QF-4 aircraft are being replaced in the FSAT role by early model F-16 aircraft converted to QF-16 configuration.


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

Hypothesis: During the period of North–South division, Nanjing remained the capital of the Southern dynasties for more than two and a half centuries.


Premise: What is the term for sincere traditional-style architecture that sticks to regional architecture?

Hypothesis: For sincere traditional-style architecture that sticks to regional architecture, materials and craftsmanship, the term Traditional Architecture (or vernacular) is mostly used.


Premise: What caused the energy efficiency to go up?

Hypothesis: Since energy-intensity is the inverse of energy-efficiency it drops as efficiency goes up.


Premise: What did Friedrinch Netzsche consider Humanism to be?

Hypothesis: For Friedrich Nietzsche, humanism was nothing more than a secular version of theism.


Premise: Who was tasked with the job to make improvements to the AA as a result of the German attacks?

Hypothesis: German air attacks on the British Isles increased in 1915 and the AA efforts were deemed somewhat ineffective, so a Royal Navy gunnery expert, Admiral Sir Percy Scott, was appointed to make improvements, particularly an integrated AA defence for London.


Premise: When did Tsar Nicholas II ban alcohol?

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: How does Alberta handle NPOs filing for incorporation?

Hypothesis: Canada allows nonprofits to be incorporated or unincorporated.


Premise: What can improve the efficiency of LED-based white light?

Hypothesis: Among the challenges being faced to improve the efficiency of LED-based white light sources is the development of more efficient phosphors.


Premise: For what purpose was asphalt used in swimming pools and baths?

Hypothesis: Asphalt/bitumen was also used for flooring, paving and waterproofing of baths and swimming pools during the early 20th century, following similar trends in Europe.


Premise: What at the main Hokkioen urban centers?

Hypothesis: In Chinese linguistics, these dialects are known by their classification under the Quanzhang Division (Chinese: 泉漳片; pinyin: Quánzhāng piàn) of Min Nan, which comes from the first characters of the two main Hokkien urban centers Quanzhou and Zhangzhou.


Premise: What are an institute of technology called in France?

Hypothesis: They are referred-to as institut universitaire de technologie (IUT).


Premise: The idea of culture in Europe in the 19th century reflected what during this time period?

Hypothesis: Another facet of the Romantic movement was an interest in folklore, which led to identifying a "culture" among non-elites.


Premise: How old are most of the native language speakers in northern Catalonia?

Hypothesis: On the other hand, there are several language shift processes currently taking place.


Premise: What is the body clock gene in animals necessary to ensure?

Hypothesis: Mutations or deletions of clock gene in mice have demonstrated the importance of body clocks to ensure the proper timing of cellular/metabolic events; clock-mutant mice are hyperphagic and obese, and have altered glucose metabolism.


Premise: What option besides removing the video does youtube grant copyright holders?

Hypothesis: Much of YouTube's revenue goes to the copyright holders of the videos.


Premise: What did Apple consolidate in 1998?

Hypothesis: Its Xserve server was discontinued in 2011 in favor of the Mac Mini and Mac Pro.


Premise: Where can all the traditional costumes be seen parading on the Sunday of the festival?

Hypothesis: People who are disguised pass through the crowd and perform a part of the traditional costume they wear.


Premise: What year did the government start giving out Morrison shelters?

Hypothesis: The government distributed Anderson shelters until 1941 and that year began distributing the Morrison shelter, which could be used inside homes.:190


Premise: Where did Cixi go after Beijing fell to the 8 armies?

Hypothesis: She fled to Xi'an.


Premise: The rapid development of what did British rule cause in India?

Hypothesis: The subcontinent gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1947, after the British provinces were partitioned into the dominions of India and Pakistan and the princely states all acceded to one of the new states.


Premise: Where did the social aspect of science originate?

Hypothesis: The mid 20th century saw a series of studies relying to the role of science in a social context, starting from Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions in 1962.


Premise: What Latin term is used to describe an object in a vacuum?

Hypothesis: Physicists often discuss ideal test results that would occur in a perfect vacuum, which they sometimes simply call "vacuum" or free space, and use the term partial vacuum to refer to an actual imperfect vacuum as one might have in a laboratory or in space.


Premise: What titles did Barcelona win in 1948 and 1949?

Hypothesis: The building of Camp Nou commenced on 28 March 1954, before a crowd of 60,000 Barça fans.


Premise: When was the name Oklahoma made official?

Hypothesis: Choctaw Chief Allen Wright suggested the name in 1866 during treaty negotiations with the federal government regarding the use of Indian Territory, in which he envisioned an all-Indian state controlled by the United States Superintendent of Indian Affairs.


Premise: How much time do Tucson schools give students off to attend the Fiesta de los Vaqueros?

Hypothesis: The Fiesta de los Vaqueros marks the beginning of the rodeo season in the United States.


Premise: Who is generally accepted as the voice of Freemasonry?

Hypothesis: His writings represented his personal opinion only, and furthermore an opinion grounded in the attitudes and understandings of late 19th century Southern Freemasonry of the USA.


Premise: Which government built the island's airport?

Hypothesis: The UK government has spent £250 million in the construction of the island's airport.


Premise: Under the Drug Kingpin Act of 1988 and Federal Death Penalty Act of 1994, about how many crimes were punishable by death?

Hypothesis: Since no one has yet been sentenced to death for such non-death capital offenses, the Supreme Court has not ruled on their constitutionality.


Premise: Who is exempt from the standard and uses their own?

Hypothesis: Currently, everyone who writes in Valencian uses this standard, except the Royal Academy of Valencian Culture (Acadèmia de Cultura Valenciana, RACV), which uses for Valencian an independent standard.


Premise: What is penicillins produced by?

Hypothesis: These include, for example, the beta-lactam antibiotics, which include the penicillins (produced by fungi in the genus Penicillium), the cephalosporins, and the carbapenems.


Premise: Who ruled Swaziland in the late 1970s?

Hypothesis: At this point Sobhuza II had ruled Swaziland for 61 years, making him the longest ruling monarch in history.


Premise: who were some of the DJs that brought the ibiza sound to uk clubs in late 1987?

Hypothesis: By late 1987, DJs such as Trevor Fung, Paul Oakenfold and Danny Rampling were bringing the Ibiza sound to UK clubs such as the Haçienda in Manchester, and in London clubs such as Shoom in Southwark, Heaven, Future and Spectrum.


Premise: Insects bodies are supported by what?

Hypothesis: Insects have segmented bodies supported by exoskeletons, the hard outer covering made mostly of chitin.


Premise: Had the FDIC disallowed IndyMac from acquiring new brokered deposits on this date, the threat of brokered deposit losses would have been $500 million a month?

Hypothesis: Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) would later point out that brokered deposits made up more than 37 percent of IndyMac's total deposits and ask the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) whether it had considered ordering IndyMac to reduce its reliance on these deposits.


Premise: How can a bacteria in the soil affect a plant?

Hypothesis: Schell and Van Montagu (1977) hypothesised that the Ti plasmid could be a natural vector for introducing the Nif gene responsible for nitrogen fixation in the root nodules of legumes and other plant species.


Premise: What was the tag line requirement before?

Hypothesis: Previously, television advertisements only required a written "paid for by" disclaimer on the screen.


Premise: on January 1, 1934, Mecklenburg-Schwerin was united with which state?

Hypothesis: After the Nazi Party seized power in January 1933, the Länder increasingly lost importance.


Premise: Who consistently requested that a referendum be held immediately to settle the question of Eritrean sovereignty?

Hypothesis: The Independence Bloc of Eritrean parties consistently requested from the UN General Assembly that a referendum be held immediately to settle the Eritrean question of sovereignty.


Premise: What type of people did Trinity College Dublin not allow to earn degrees there?

Hypothesis: In 1744, Burke started at Trinity College Dublin, a Protestant establishment, which up until 1793, did not permit Catholics to take degrees.


Premise: What was the final implication of Joseph Bédier's analysis of the stemmatic method?

Hypothesis: He concluded that this outcome was unlikely to have occurred by chance, and that therefore, the method was tending to produce bipartite stemmas regardless of the actual history of the witnesses.


Premise: What rate per minute did ground transmitters send?

Hypothesis: Transmitters on the ground sent pulses at a rate of 180 per minute.


Premise: Up to how many cigarette butts enter the storm water runoff every day in Melbourne?

Hypothesis: It was subject to controversy and strict regulations among fears that beaches and marine wildlife could be affected by the disturbance of heavy metals and other industrial sediments.


Premise: What do many white long term floridian families identify with

Hypothesis: White Americans of all European backgrounds are present in all areas of the state.


Premise: What has been investigated as a means of rebuilding the reefs at Tuvalu?

Hypothesis: The reefs at Funafuti have suffered damage, with 80 per cent of the coral becoming bleached as a consequence of the increase in ocean temperatures and ocean acidification.


Premise: What are Bermuda's largest economic sectors?

Hypothesis: Recently, its economic status has been affected by the global recession.


Premise: Which two figures refused to back down after the churches worked out their disagreements?

Hypothesis: While the churches eventually worked out their differences and came to an initial agreement, both Nicholas I of Russia and Napoleon III refused to back down.


Premise: What is the name of the book that has the laws and ethics for Orthodox Judaism?

Hypothesis: Although Orthodox Judaism would probably be considered the mainstream expression of Judaism prior to the 19th century, for some Orthodox Judaism is a modern self-identification that distinguishes it from traditional pre-modern Judaism.


Premise: How many North Korean prisoners of war were held by UN forces?

Hypothesis: The missions of the 187th were to cut the road north going to China, preventing North Korean leaders from escaping from Pyongyang; and to rescue American prisoners of war.


Premise: Who made up the majority of soldiers in the Ottoman Empire ?

Hypothesis: Added to this, in the first half of the Ottoman period men of Greek origin made up a significant proportion of the Ottoman army, navy, and state bureaucracy, having been levied as adolescents (along with especially Albanians and Serbs) into Ottoman service through the devshirme.


Premise: What does acceleration of oxygen consumption do?

Hypothesis: Eardrums and sinuses may be ruptured by rapid decompression, soft tissues may bruise and seep blood, and the stress of shock will accelerate oxygen consumption leading to hypoxia.


Premise: What country has the second largest Somali population?

Hypothesis: The overwhelming majority of Somalis speak the Somali language, which is part of the Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family.


Premise: what do high winds in the area sometimes cause?

Hypothesis: The region (especially the High Plains) is periodically subjected to extended periods of drought; high winds in the region may then generate devastating dust storms.


Premise: How is the health of the general publis affected by pesticides?

Hypothesis: The general public also benefits from the use of pesticides for the control of insect-borne diseases and illnesses, such as malaria.


Premise: What effect was rising salinity having on the agricultural productivity of the Sumerian lands?

Hypothesis: This greatly upset the balance of power within the region, weakening the areas where Sumerian was spoken, and comparatively strengthening those where Akkadian was the major language.


Premise: How lond did the creation of Red Book CD-DA standard take?

Hypothesis: After a year of experimentation and discussion, the Red Book CD-DA standard was published in 1980.


Premise: How many times had Eisenhower been elected to office prior to becoming president?

Hypothesis: Eisenhower was the only general to serve as President in the 20th century and the most recent President to have never held elected office prior to the Presidency (The other Presidents who did not have prior elected office were Zachary Taylor, Ulysses S. Grant, William Howard Taft and Herbert Hoover).


Premise: What profession utilizes videoconferencing technology to conduct online sessions?

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


Premise: What has the catalog of infectious agents grown to the point of?

Hypothesis: First, the catalog of infectious agents has grown to the point that virtually all of the significant infectious agents of the human population have been identified.


Premise: What are common diameters found in phonograph records?

Hypothesis: A gramophone record (phonograph record in American English) or vinyl record, commonly known as a "record", is an analogue sound storage medium in the form of a flat polyvinyl chloride (previously shellac) disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove.


Premise: what territory is Tristan da Cunha part of?

Hypothesis: The island has a population of 267 as of January 2016.


Premise: How many members does the Governing Body consist of?

Hypothesis: There is no election for membership; new members are selected by the existing body.


Premise: What has caused the mortality rate to decrease?

Hypothesis: Airway remodeling is observed, but it is unknown whether these represent harmful or beneficial changes.


Premise: When was the sovereignty law passed?

Hypothesis: Under pressure from the Popular Front the Communist authorities in Azerbaijan started making concessions.


Premise: What is another term for Hegel's "subject"?

Hypothesis: But until Spirit's "self-realization" occurs and Spirit graduates from Spirit to Absolute Spirit status, subject (a human mind) mistakenly thinks every "object" it observes is something "alien," meaning something separate or apart from "subject.


Premise: Madero received support from which country?

Hypothesis: Insisting on a new election, Madero won overwhelmingly in late 1911, and he established a liberal democracy and received support from the United States and popular leaders such as Orozco and Villa.


Premise: What function does copper serve when used in textile fibers?

Hypothesis: Textile fibers use copper to create antimicrobial protective fabrics, as do ceramic glazes, stained glass and musical instruments.


Premise: Procopius said Sclaveni and Antae were both called what?

Hypothesis: He describes their social structure and beliefs:


Premise: Who is responsible for day-to-day FBI operations?

Hypothesis: The director also is in charge of making sure the leadership in any one of the FBI field offices is manned with qualified agents.


Premise: This gallery contains works of artist such as The Hungry Eye, what is name of the place?

Hypothesis: Westville galleries include Kehler Liddell, Jennifer Jane Gallery, and The Hungry Eye.


Premise: What was discovered as the result of both Columbus' and da Gama's voyages?

Hypothesis: Europeans would later begin an era of world discovery.


Premise: What is one scheme of Quantum Dot excitation?

Hypothesis: This scheme is commonly studied for quantum dot display.


Premise: What's one reason the capital was moved to Richmond?

Hypothesis: On April 18, 1780, the state capital was moved from the colonial capital of Williamsburg to Richmond, to provide a more centralized location for Virginia's increasing westerly population, as well as to isolate the capital from British attack.


Premise: When she was born, where in the order of succession was Elizabeth?

Hypothesis: During her grandfather's reign, Elizabeth was third in the line of succession to the throne, behind her uncle Edward, Prince of Wales, and her father, the Duke of York.


Premise: What is the name of the second largest island of the territory of Norfolk Island?

Hypothesis: Phillip Island, the second largest island of the territory, is located at 29°07′S 167°57′E / 29.117°S 167.950°E / -29.117; 167.950, seven kilometres (4.3 miles) south of the main island.


Premise: When did Bell cease to be President of the National Geographic Society?

Hypothesis: He was one of the founders of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers in 1884, and served as its president from 1891–92.


Premise: How many miles of roads are unpaved on Cyprus?

Hypothesis: Cyprus is one of only four EU nations in which vehicles drive on the left-hand side of the road, a remnant of British colonisation (the others being Ireland, Malta and the United Kingdom).


Premise: Who had been a key player in the 1945 season?

Hypothesis: In the following two decades after Sianis' ill will, the Cubs played mostly forgettable baseball, finishing among the worst teams in the National League on an almost annual basis.


Premise: Who did the Independent state wouldn't decide the election?

Hypothesis: During the campaign for the United Kingdom general election, 2010, The Independent ran ads declaring that "Rupert Murdoch won't decide this election – you will."


Premise: When did the Apollo 14 mission land successfully?

Hypothesis: Apollo 13 encountered an in-flight spacecraft failure and had to abort its lunar landing in April 1970, returning its crew safely but temporarily grounding the program again.


Premise: What is one type of metal which the conducting plates in electrolytic capacitors are commonly made of?

Hypothesis: Electrolytic capacitors will self-degrade if unused for a period (around a year), and when full power is applied may short circuit, permanently damaging the capacitor and usually blowing a fuse or causing failure of rectifier diodes (for instance, in older equipment, arcing in rectifier tubes).


Premise: In what year did the company that was to become IBM form?

Hypothesis: Securities analysts nicknamed the company Big Blue for its size and common use of the color in products, packaging and its logo.


Premise: What gender does the majority of non-Belgian Dutch speakers use instead of the masculine and feminine?

Hypothesis: Standard Dutch uses three genders to differentiate between natural gender and three when discerning grammatical gender.


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

Hypothesis: Within three years this led to the imposition of British and French controllers who sat in the Egyptian cabinet, and, "with the financial power of the bondholders behind them, were the real power in the Government."


Premise: What language does the General Council want to promote?

Hypothesis: Nowadays, France only recognizes French as an official language.


Premise: When did Edmund Burke graduate?

Hypothesis: Burke graduated from Trinity in 1748.


Premise: Who developed a heat-treating method that allowed carbon filaments to be molded into shapes?

Hypothesis: Lewis Latimer, employed at the time by Edison, developed an improved method of heat-treating carbon filaments which reduced breakage and allowed them to be molded into novel shapes, such as the characteristic "M" shape of Maxim filaments.


Premise: What city was Louis Armstrong from?

Hypothesis: At the Colored Waif's Home Brass Band in New Orleans, for example, a young trumpeter named Louis Armstrong first began to draw attention.


Premise: About how many Japanese emigrated to the Marshalls when it was a Japanese colony?

Hypothesis: Despite the Marshalls' small area and few resources, the absorption of the territory by Japan would to some extent alleviate Japan's problem of an increasing population with a diminishing amount of available land to house it.


Premise: Where did the Moriscos go when they were forced out of Spain?

Hypothesis: From 1609 through 1614, the Spanish government systematically forced Moriscos to leave the kingdom for Muslim North Africa.


Premise: What is required by the second stage in the education provisions set out by RIBA?

Hypothesis: A further year out must be taken before the RIBA Part III professional exams can be taken.


Premise: What happened to the Saxon army?

Hypothesis: The Prussians then occupied Saxony; after the Siege of Pirna, the Saxon army surrendered in October 1756, and was forcibly incorporated into the Prussian army.


Premise: What did Jan Hus advocate for among the Czech commoners?

Hypothesis: Bohemia (as Czech civilization was known by then) increased in power over the centuries, as its language did in regional importance.


Premise: Who in Houston tends to vote Republican?

Hypothesis: Much of the city's wealthier areas vote Republican while the city's working class and minority areas vote Democratic.


Premise: What was the first, hidden game included with the original iPod?

Hypothesis: Later revisions of the iPod added three more games: Parachute, Solitaire, and Music Quiz.


Premise: What illness was Nasser diagnosed with in 1960?

Hypothesis: He suffered two major heart attacks (in 1966 and 1969), and was on bed rest for six weeks after the second episode.


Premise: Around how many rebellious uprisings and civil wars happened in the 1st century BC?

Hypothesis: Rome was also plagued by several slave uprisings during this period, in part because vast tracts of land had been given over to slave farming in which the slaves greatly outnumbered their Roman masters.


Premise: What is the average annual temperature in southeast Oklahoma?

Hypothesis: Precipitation and temperatures decline from east to west accordingly, with areas in the southeast averaging an annual temperature of 62 °F (17 °C) and an annual rainfall of generally over 40 inches (1,020 mm) and up to 56 inches (1,420 mm), while areas of the (higher-elevation) panhandle average 58 °F (14 °C), with an annual rainfall under 17 inches (430 mm).


Premise: What was the name of the US study of nuclear fallout on Bikini Atoll?

Hypothesis: Project 4.1 was a medical study conducted by the United States of those residents of the Bikini Atoll exposed to radioactive fallout.


Premise: Journals from the 18th century have no substantial differences from what?

Hypothesis: The consensus among linguists is that modern, standard Czech originated during the eighteenth century.


Premise: What was necessary for testing in schools applying to the RIBA Board?

Hypothesis: The Guide's section on "Education" records the setting up in 1904 of the RIBA Board of Architectural Education, and the system by which any school which applied for recognition, whose syllabus was approved by the Board and whose examinations were conducted by an approved external examiner, and whose standard of attainment was guaranteed by periodical inspections by a "Visiting Board" from the BAE, could be placed on the list of "recognized schools" and its successful students could qualify for exemption from RIBA examinations.


Premise: What divided Asia on a similar basis?

Hypothesis: Beyond the Ganges and Himalayas (including the Tien Shan) were Serica and Serae (sections of China) and some other identifiable far eastern locations known to the voyagers and geographers but not to the general European public.


Premise: Along with class and race, what is regarded as an essential category of historical analysis?

Hypothesis: Historians, like other social scientists, assume that emotions, feelings and their expressions are regulated in different ways by both different cultures and different historical times, and constructivist school of history claims even that some sentiments and meta-emotions, for example Schadenfreude, are learnt and not only regulated by culture.


Premise: What did the Football Association want to do through building a relationship with the new league?

Hypothesis: The FA did not enjoy an amicable relationship with the Football League at the time and considered it as a way to weaken the Football League's position.


Premise: How does Switzerland treat alliances that might entail military or political action?

Hypothesis: Traditionally, Switzerland avoids alliances that might entail military, political, or direct economic action and has been neutral since the end of its expansion in 1515.


Premise: Which school of medicine was based on strict observation?

Hypothesis: Inﬂuenced by Philinus of Cos (ﬂ. 250), a student of Herophilos, a new medical sect emerged, the Empiric school, which was based on strict observation and rejected unseen causes of the Dogmatic school.


Premise: What percentage of females in Hyderabad were employed in 2005?

Hypothesis: According to a 2005 survey, 77% of males and 19% of females in the city were employed.


Premise: What was Nasser known for in regard to ordinary citizens?

Hypothesis: Historian Elie Podeh wrote that a constant theme of Nasser's image was "his ability to represent Egyptian authenticity, in triumph or defeat".


Premise: Who did the Russians offer to sell Alaska to?

Hypothesis: In 1859 the Russians offered to sell the territory to the United States, hoping that its presence in the region would offset the plans of Russia's greatest regional rival, the United Kingdom.


Premise: What does this secretion system transport?

Hypothesis: This secretion system transports various molecules, from ions, drugs, to proteins of various sizes (20 - 900 kDa).


Premise: how many ships sailed Torbay?

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


Premise: In what year was Palermo founded?

Hypothesis: Palermo then became a possession of Carthage, before becoming part of the Roman Republic, the Roman Empire and eventually part of the Byzantine Empire, for over a thousand years.


Premise: Who commanded the army?

Hypothesis: In times of war, the stadtholder, who commanded the army, would have more power than the raadspensionaris.


Premise: What was the value of this extension?

Hypothesis: Premier League viewership has increased rapidly, with NBC and NBCSN averaging a record 479,000 viewers in the 2014–15 season, up 118% from 2012–13 when coverage still aired on Fox Soccer and ESPN/ESPN2 (220,000 viewers), and NBC Sports has been widely praised for its coverage.


Premise: In the United States, what are operators of lodgings sometimes called?

Hypothesis: The original services of an inn are now also available at other establishments, such as hotels, lodges, and motels, which focus more on lodging customers than on other services, although they usually provide meals; pubs, which are primarily alcohol-serving establishments; and restaurants and taverns, which serve food and drink.


Premise: Children were employed in the home, factories and were else in the 20th century?

Hypothesis: Factories and mines were not the only places where child labour was prevalent in the early 20th century.


Premise: What are incunabula's?

Hypothesis: As one of the earliest centers of book-printing in Europe (see above: History), Strasbourg for a long time held a large number of incunabula—documents printed before 1500—in her library as one of her most precious heritages.


Premise: Infinite Comics is related to what comics media platform?

Hypothesis: Also in March, Marvel announced its Marvel ReEvolution initiative that included Infinite Comics, a line of digital comics, Marvel AR, an application software that provides an augmented reality experience to readers and Marvel


Premise: The interjection "O" has been replaced by which more common and preferred word in English?

Hypothesis: In English, capital letters are used as the first letter of a sentence, a proper noun, or a proper adjective.


Premise: What can be said about the accuracy of presentational immediacy?

Hypothesis: Presentational immediacy, on the other hand, is what is usually referred to as "pure sense perception", unmediated by any causal or symbolic interpretation, even unconscious interpretation.


Premise: What was Miller citing?

Hypothesis: For his authority Miller invokes the people, citing the "collective wisdom" of Europe, and introducing a concept to arise many times in the decades to follow under chilling circumstances:


Premise: When was Victoria's final child, Beatrice, born?

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: What is the biggest killer in Portugal?

Hypothesis: Portugal has the highest mortality rate for diabetes in the Eur-A, with a sharp increase since the 1980s.


Premise: What was Israel's population in 2016?

Hypothesis: 1,760,400 Arabs comprised 20.7% of the population, while non-Arab Christians and people who have no religion listed in the civil registry made up 4.4%.


Premise: What two political parties dominate Portugal's government?

Hypothesis: The Assembly of the Republic, Regional Assemblies and local municipalities and parishes, are dominated by two political parties, the Socialist Party and the Social Democratic Party, in addition to the Unitary Democratic Coalition (Portuguese Communist Party and Ecologist Party "The Greens"), the Left Bloc and the Democratic and Social Centre – People's Party, which garner between 5 and 15% of the vote regularly.


Premise: What is another magazine that is published in Oklahoma City?

Hypothesis: In addition, there is a magazine published by Back40 Design Group called The Edmond Outlook.


Premise: Who published a work in 1937 on the relationship between emotion and the limbic system?

Hypothesis: Emotions are thought to be related to certain activities in brain areas that direct our attention, motivate our behavior, and determine the significance of what is going on around us.


Premise: When was migration finally accepted?

Hypothesis: Thomas Bewick's A History of British Birds (Volume 1, 1797) mentions a report from "a very intelligent master of a vessel" who, "between the islands of Minorca and Majorca, saw great numbers of Swallows flying northward", and states the situation in Britain as follows:


Premise: Risch thinks imperfect categories still have what?

Hypothesis: Any category you come up with is going to be imperfect, but that doesn't preclude you from using it or the fact that it has utility."


Premise: What influence did Madonna music video reflects?

Hypothesis: The imagery and incorporation of Hispanic culture and Catholic symbolism continued with the music videos from the True Blue era.


Premise: What is  a plant scientist called?

Hypothesis: Botany, also called plant science(s) or plant biology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology.


Premise: What was the style of worship of Hindu Gods?

Hypothesis: Ronald Inden writes that by the 8th century CE symbols of Hindu gods "replaced the Buddha at the imperial centre and pinnacle of the cosmo-political system, the image or symbol of the Hindu god comes to be housed in a monumental temple and given increasingly elaborate imperial-style puja worship".


Premise: Daft Punk, Stardust, Cassius, St. Germain, and DJ Falcon all came from what scene?

Hypothesis: Towards the end of the 1990s and into the 2000s, producers such as Daft Punk, Stardust, Cassius, St. Germain and DJ Falcon began producing a new sound out of Paris's house scene.


Premise: How many kilometers does Guinea-Bissau cover?

Hypothesis: It covers 36,125 square kilometres (13,948 sq mi) with an estimated population of 1,704,000.


Premise: To what location is Selenizza bitumen native?

Hypothesis: Selenizza is a naturally occurring solid hydrocarbon bitumen found in the native asphalt deposit of Selenice, in Albania, the only European asphalt mine still in use.


Premise: At what institution of higher education is the Tisch School of the Arts located?

Hypothesis: The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute is in Union Square, and Tisch School of the Arts is based at New York University, while Central Park SummerStage presents performances of free plays and music in Central Park.


Premise: What are the effigies made of?

Hypothesis: Later wax effigies include a likeness of Horatio, Viscount Nelson, wearing some of his own clothes and another of Prime Minister William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, modelled by the American-born sculptor Patience Wright.[citation needed]


Premise: In what country is the US's Task Force Smith located?

Hypothesis: The KPA progressed southwards, pushing back the US force at Pyongtaek, Chonan, and Chochiwon, forcing the 24th Division's retreat to Taejeon, which the KPA captured in the Battle of Taejon; the 24th Division suffered 3,602 dead and wounded and 2,962 captured, including the Division's Commander, Major General William F. Dean.


Premise: What is the idea there the practitioner promises to work for the complete enlightenment of all beings by practicing the six paramitas?

Hypothesis: Mahayana Buddhism encourages everyone to become bodhisattvas and to take the bodhisattva vow, where the practitioner promises to work for the complete enlightenment of all beings by practicing the six pāramitās.


Premise: What is the term given to denote the series of stages involved in the development of an adult insect?

Hypothesis: The higher level relationship of the Hexapoda is unclear.


Premise: What year did the French Emperor Napoleon III take control of Longwood house?

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


Premise: What is the phenomenon where an organism looks like another species called?

Hypothesis: One such example is the drone fly, which looks a lot like a bee, yet is completely harmless as it cannot sting at all.


Premise: In what century was the Corpus Juris Civilis rediscovered?

Hypothesis: Canon law was also studied, and around 1140 a monk named Gratian (fl. 12th century), a teacher at Bologna, wrote what became the standard text of canon law—the Decretum.


Premise: From Thionville towards Trier, what was the final destination of the offensive?

Hypothesis: A pre-war plan laid out by the late Marshal Niel called for a strong French offensive from Thionville towards Trier and into the Prussian Rhineland.