Premise: When was the Monastery of Martyrius re-discovered?

Hypothesis: The Monastery of Martyrius was founded in the end of the 5th century and it was re-discovered in 1982–85.


Premise: What was the change in the status of Prussia because of the war?

Hypothesis: Beside the rise of Prussia, Augustus III, although ineffective, could mustered up an army not only from Saxony, but also Poland, considering the elector was also the King of Poland.


Premise: What religion were all of Muhammad's ancestors?

Hypothesis: And that is maybe why the basic characteristic of Muhammad and other prophets was their nobility.[original research?]


Premise: How does LaserDisc operation vary from DVD?

Hypothesis: LaserDisc players can provide a great degree of control over the playback process.


Premise: What office of NARA oversees the declassification of classified materials?

Hypothesis: Executive Order 13526 directs originating agencies to declassify documents if possible before shipment to NARA for long-term storage, but NARA also stores some classified documents until they can be declassified.


Premise: What movie was made about Avicenna's younger years?

Hypothesis: The soviet film "Youth of Genius" (1982), filmed and studios Uzbekfilm and Tajikfilm, dedicated to children and youth years Avicenna.


Premise: Who developed the ductile form of tungsten?

Hypothesis: It was found that very pure tungsten formed filaments that sagged in use, and that a very small "doping" treatment with potassium, silicon, and aluminium oxides at the level of a few hundred parts per million greatly improved the life and durability of the tungsten filaments.


Premise: What kind of headphones could partially mitigate the bass response issues of the 3rd gen iPods?

Hypothesis: The problem is reduced when using high-impedance headphones and is completely masked when driving high-impedance (line level) loads, such as an external headphone amplifier.


Premise: What is typical weather in Switzerland during the summer months?

Hypothesis: The less humid winters in the mountains may see long intervals of stable conditions for weeks, while the lower lands tend to suffer from inversion, during these periods, thus seeing no sun for weeks.


Premise: In what type of climate does clothing protect against sunburn and wind damage?

Hypothesis: The most obvious function of clothing is to improve the comfort of the wearer, by protecting the wearer from the elements.


Premise: Where was the indian Fleet headed when they were attacked by Captain Every

Hypothesis: In September 1695, Captain Henry Every, an English pirate on board the Fancy, reached the Straits of Bab-el-Mandeb, where he teamed up with five other pirate captains to make an attack on the Indian fleet making the annual voyage to Mocha.


Premise: What was signed at the secret meeting in Balarus?

Hypothesis: However, by this time there was no longer any reasonable doubt that, as the preamble of the Accords put it, "the USSR, as a subject of international law and a geopolitical reality, is ceasing its existence."


Premise: What was DiFruscia's position?

Hypothesis: DiFruscia's campaign headquarters shared the same building as Kerry's.


Premise: Until what day is the Quran believed to be in effect?

Hypothesis: The Quran is considered an inimitable miracle by Muslims, effective until the Day of Resurrection—and, thereby, the central proof granted to Muhammad in authentication of his prophetic status.


Premise: Who was the United States' first President?

Hypothesis: In 1789, the first President of the United States, George Washington, was inaugurated; the first United States Congress and the Supreme Court of the United States each assembled for the first time, and the United States Bill of Rights was drafted, all at Federal Hall on Wall Street.


Premise: In Western culture, the term madrasa widely refers to the practices of what religion?

Hypothesis: In the West, the word usually refers to a specific type of religious school or college for the study of the Islamic religion, though this may not be the only subject studied.


Premise: At the time what was the population of New Haven Harbor?

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


Premise: How many waymarkers are present on the Devonport Heritage Trail?

Hypothesis: As part of Devonport's millennium regeneration project, the Devonport Heritage Trail has been introduced, complete with over 70 waymarkers outlining the route.


Premise: One of UNFPA's goals is to make all pregnancies what?

Hypothesis: Their work involves the improvement of reproductive health; including creation of national strategies and protocols, and providing supplies and services.


Premise: When did the Somer Isles Company take over managing Bermuda?

Hypothesis: Bermuda was settled and claimed by England as a result of the 1609 shipwreck there of the Virginia Company's flagship, and in 1615 was turned over to the newly formed Somers Isles Company.


Premise: What did Leibniz argue against?

Hypothesis: Arguing against the absolutist position, Leibniz offers a number of thought experiments with the purpose of showing that there is contradiction in assuming the existence of facts such as absolute location and velocity.


Premise: What was the name of the first building opened in 1855?

Hypothesis: The first building, Old College, opened on November 5, 1855.


Premise: What else does Savin-Williams suggest?

Hypothesis: Secondly, Savin-Williams suggests that researchers should forsake the general notion of sexual orientation altogether and assess only those components that are relevant for the research question being investigated.


Premise: Where can qualified researchers obtain Elizabethan folios?

Hypothesis: The Elizabethan Club, technically a private organization, makes its Elizabethan folios and first editions available to qualified researchers through Yale.


Premise: The English colonist  left virginia because of what issue with the land there?

Hypothesis: The latter had grown rapidly and land was less available.


Premise: What is the average hours of sunshine per year in Boston?

Hypothesis: Boston has a relatively sunny climate for a coastal city at its latitude, averaging over 2,600 hours of sunshine per annum.


Premise: How wide was the widest tornado ever?

Hypothesis: Less than two weeks later, on May 31, another outbreak affected the Oklahoma City area, including an EF1 and an EF0 within the city and a tornado several miles west of the city that was 2.6 miles (4.2 km) in width, the widest tornado ever recorded.


Premise: What year was the treaty ratified?

Hypothesis: The treaty was ratified in 1859.


Premise: From 1990 to 2010 what was improvement in piped water supply to urban areas?

Hypothesis: About one half of the population is connected to sanitary sewers.


Premise: When was Queen Victoria named the Empress of India?

Hypothesis: He also pushed the Royal Titles Act 1876 through Parliament, so that Victoria took the title "Empress of India" from 1 May 1876.


Premise: What dynasty came before the Han dynasty?

Hypothesis: The Han dynasty (Chinese: 漢朝; pinyin: Hàn cháo) was the second imperial dynasty of China, preceded by the Qin dynasty (221–207 BC) and succeeded by the Three Kingdoms period (220–280 AD).


Premise: In addition to its shape, what property of the English Channel affects water flow in Southampton Water?

Hypothesis: In this area the general water flow is distorted by more local conditions reaching across to France.


Premise: When did Europeans begin more intense studying of Arabic translations of classical works?

Hypothesis: Especially after the Renaissance, Europeans began more intensive study of Arabic and Persian translations of classical works as well as scientific and philosophical works of Arab and oriental origins.


Premise: What bible verse do Shia use to support their belief of succession?

Hypothesis: They support their discussion by citing Genesis 17:19–20 and Sunni hadith:Sahih Muslim, Hadith number 4478, English translation by Abdul Hamid Siddiqui.[original research?]


Premise: What determines who is the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed forces?

Hypothesis: The Canadian constitution determines that the Commander-in-Chief of the Canadian Armed Forces is the country's sovereign, who, since 1904, has authorized his or her viceroy, the governor general, to exercise the duties ascribed to the post of Commander-in-Chief and to hold the associated title since 1905.


Premise: What was in the first data dump?

Hypothesis: After the breach, The Impact Team dumped emails from the company's CEO, to prove their point, and threatened to dump customer data unless the website was taken down permanently.


Premise: How many geneticists carried out the 2013 trans-genome study?

Hypothesis: A 2013 trans-genome study carried out by 30 geneticists, from 13 universities and academies, from 9 countries, assembling the largest data set available to date, for assessment of Ashkenazi Jewish genetic origins found no evidence of Khazar origin among Ashkenazi Jews. "


Premise: How does modern font technology address the issue of depicting a Han character in alternate glyph representations?

Hypothesis: For example, the Advanced Typographic tables of OpenType permit one of a number of alternative glyph representations to be selected when performing the character to glyph mapping process.


Premise: What were 1920x1080i and 1280x720p defined by?

Hypothesis: (According to some reports, a mooted 750-line (720p) format (720 progressively scanned lines) was viewed by some at the ITU as an enhanced television format rather than a true HDTV format, and so was not included, although 1920×1080i and 1280×720p systems for a range of frame and field rates were defined by several US SMPTE standards.)


Premise: On what day do Notre Dame home football games occur?

Hypothesis: Later that day, the trumpet section will play the Notre Dame Victory March and the Notre Dame Alma Mater under the dome.


Premise: Who was the first outside club to win?

Hypothesis: The final has never been contested by two teams from outside the top division and there have only been eight winners who weren't in the top flight: Notts County (1894); Tottenham Hotspur (1901); Wolverhampton Wanderers (1908); Barnsley (1912); West Bromwich Albion (1931); Sunderland (1973), Southampton (1976) and West Ham United (1980).


Premise: What journalist drew comparisons between My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and other Kanye albums?

Hypothesis: West's fifth album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, has been noted by writers for its maximalist aesthetic and its incorporation of elements from West's previous four albums.


Premise: What description did Peter Lax use for von Neumann?

Hypothesis: The mathematician Jean Dieudonné called von Neumann "the last of the great mathematicians", while Peter Lax described him as possessing the "most scintillating intellect of this century".


Premise: What type account is needed by the U.S. to balance an account deficit?

Hypothesis: Financing these deficits required the country to borrow large sums from abroad, much of it from countries running trade surpluses.


Premise: What cause did James Wickersham focus on in his early Congressional tenure?

Hypothesis: Statehood supporters also found themselves fighting major battles against political foes, mostly in the U.S. Congress but also within Alaska.


Premise: Who was treated as second class citizens under the Ottomans?

Hypothesis: The conflict with the Ottoman Empire also presented a religious issue of importance, as Russia saw itself as the protector of Orthodox Christians, many of whom lived under Ottoman control and were treated as second-class citizens.(ch 1)


Premise: What animal are European parties responsible for releasing in Bermuda?

Hypothesis: In 1609, the English Virginia Company, which had established Jamestown in Virginia (a term originally applied to all of the North American continent) two years earlier, permanently settled Bermuda in the aftermath of a hurricane, when the crew and passengers of the Sea Venture steered the ship onto the surrounding reef to prevent its sinking, then landed ashore.


Premise: What was the effort called to upgrade the Canadian Forces?

Hypothesis: In 2008 the Government of Canada made efforts, through the Canada First Defence Strategy, to modernize the Canadian Armed Forces, through the purchase of new equipment, improved training and readiness, as well as the establishment of the Canadian Special Operations Regiment.


Premise: Who was the  vice royalty of the Sakya regime established by?

Hypothesis: P. Christiaan Klieger, an anthropologist and scholar of the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, writes that the vice royalty of the Sakya regime installed by the Mongols established a patron and priest relationship between Tibetans and Mongol converts to Tibetan Buddhism.


Premise: Where was the commander-in-chief stationed?

Hypothesis: By 1923, the department was merged into the Department of National Defence, but land forces in Canada were not referred to as the Canadian Army until November 1940.


Premise: What are restaurants and food manufacturers required to follow in order to assist consumers looking to follow dietary guidelines?

Hypothesis: Most governments provide guidance on nutrition, and some also impose mandatory disclosure/labeling requirements for processed food manufacturers and restaurants to assist consumers in complying with such guidance.


Premise: What slowed the development of solar technologies in the early 20th century?

Hypothesis: However, development of solar technologies stagnated in the early 20th century in the face of the increasing availability, economy, and utility of coal and petroleum.


Premise: What were women obliged to wear in their hair?

Hypothesis: Women's evening dress included obligatory trains and tiaras or feathers in their hair (or both).


Premise: How long does Tucson's monsoon last?

Hypothesis: Large areas of the city do not have storm sewers, so monsoon rains flood the main thoroughfares, usually for no longer than a few hours.


Premise: What does a behaviorial component focus on when defining sexual orientation?

Hypothesis: Sexual orientation differs from sexual identity in that it encompasses relationships with others, while sexual identity is a concept of self.


Premise: What did the high yield strains become resistant to?

Hypothesis: Often hybridized breeds originated in developed countries and were further hybridized with local varieties in the developing world to create high yield strains resistant to local climate and diseases.


Premise: How much did a student from outside of Kansas have to pay per course credit in 2014-15?

Hypothesis: For transfer students, who do not take part in the compact, 2014–15 per-credit-hour tuition was $295 for in-state undergraduates and $785 for out-of-state undergraduates; subject to annual increases.


Premise: What is the largest Islamic place of worship in France?

Hypothesis: Strasbourg is immersed in the Franco-German culture and although violently disputed throughout history, has been a bridge of unity between France and Germany for centuries, especially through the University of Strasbourg, currently the second largest in France, and the coexistence of Catholic and Protestant culture.


Premise: What translation of the Old Testament did he study?

Hypothesis: Nonetheless, during his later exile, with no access to a copy of the Scriptures, Athanasius could quote from memory every verse in the Old Testament with a supposed reference to the Trinity without missing any.[citation needed]


Premise: What genre was Steven Spielberg's episode of "The Name of the Game"?

Hypothesis: This futuristic science fiction episode impressed Universal Studios and they signed him to a short contract.


Premise: What conflict was this agreement in opposition of?

Hypothesis: Over time, the relative power of these five nations fluctuated, which by the dawn of the 20th century had served to create an entirely different balance of power.


Premise: On what ocean is a major port located?

Hypothesis: Transport in the Republic of the Congo includes land, air and water transportation.


Premise: The end of the war led to which companies unification?

Hypothesis: Otto von Bismarck annexed Alsace and northern Lorraine to the new German Empire in 1871; unlike other members states of the German federation, which had governments of their own, the new Imperial territory of Alsace-Lorraine was under the sole authority of the Kaiser, administered directly by the imperial government in Berlin.


Premise: In which season was the "Hollywood or Home" round added to the competition?

Hypothesis: In season thirteen, a new round called "Hollywood or Home" was added, where if the judges were uncertain about some contestants, those contestants were required to perform soon after landing in Los Angeles, and those who failed to impress were sent back home before they reached Hollywood.


Premise: During what century did gold coinage cease?

Hypothesis: Copper or bronze coins were not struck, nor were gold except in Southern Europe.


Premise: What is the HMMWV also known as?

Hypothesis: The army's most common vehicle is the High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV), commonly called the Humvee, which is capable of serving as a cargo/troop carrier, weapons platform, and ambulance, among many other roles.


Premise: How many works did Chopin write in 1845?

Hypothesis: Whereas in 1841 he had written a dozen works, only six were written in 1842 and six shorter pieces in 1843.


Premise: Which birds have a wide visual field?

Hypothesis: Birds with eyes on the sides of their heads have a wide visual field, while birds with eyes on the front of their heads, such as owls, have binocular vision and can estimate the depth of field.


Premise: What percentage of the street vendors in Hyderabad were male in 2007?

Hypothesis: Among the street vendors, 84% are male and 16% female,:12 and four fifths are "stationary vendors" operating from a fixed pitch, often with their own stall.:15–16 Most are financed through personal savings; only 8% borrow from moneylenders.:19 Vendor earnings vary from ₹50 (74¢ US) to ₹800 (US$12)


Premise: How did the Institute of International Education rank BYU in 2009 compared with U.S. universities that offer study abroad opportunities?

Hypothesis: Beyond this, BYU also runs a very large study abroad program, with satellite centers in London, Jerusalem, and Paris, as well as more than 20 other sites.


Premise: How long does it take to stamp out one CD?

Hypothesis: The time it takes to "stamp" one CD is usually two to three seconds.


Premise: What is meant by synthetic chemicals?

Hypothesis: Organic cotton is generally understood as cotton from plants not genetically modified and that is certified to be grown without the use of any synthetic agricultural chemicals, such as fertilizers or pesticides.


Premise: The debate regarding factors influencing the development of insulin and leptin is not just about how, but also about what other factor?

Hypothesis: There is a debate about how and to what extent different dietary factors— such as intake of processed carbohydrates, total protein, fat, and carbohydrate intake, intake of saturated and trans fatty acids, and low intake of vitamins/minerals—contribute to the development of insulin and leptin resistance.


Premise: What was the percentage increase on foreclosure proceedings from 2007 to 2008?

Hypothesis: This increased to 2.3 million in 2008, an 81% increase vs. 2007.


Premise: What was the commercial name of arsphenamine?

Hypothesis: The drug was given the commercial name Salvarsan.


Premise: What is the total number of congregations in Boston?

Hypothesis: The adjacent communities of Brookline and Newton are both approximately one-third Jewish.


Premise: What is monotrichous?

Hypothesis: The bacterial flagella is the best-understood motility structure in any organism and is made of about 20 proteins, with approximately another 30 proteins required for its regulation and assembly.


Premise: What happens in a market when there is competition?

Hypothesis: It is played down that this "invisible hand" acts only "frequently" and that it is "no part of his [the individual's] intentions" because competition leads to lower prices by imitating "his" invention.


Premise: How many troops did Austria and France pledge to defend each other?

Hypothesis: The now-isolated France was forced to accede to the Austro-Russian alliance or face ruin.


Premise: What is a term that can be used for someone who does not show their homosexuality openly?

Hypothesis: In studies related to sexual orientation, when dealing with the degree to which a person's sexual attractions, behaviors and identity match, scientists usually use the terms concordance or discordance.


Premise: From which group did amniotes descendents of?

Hypothesis: The first amniotes apparently arose in the Late Carboniferous.


Premise: How should the tiles be aligned next to each other?

Hypothesis: These digital images are coarse in resolution and often simply express text, such as the depth of the pool in various places, but some such digital images are used to show a sunset or other beach theme.


Premise: What group occupied the Gilbert Islands?

Hypothesis: The Japanese had already occupied Tarawa and other islands in what is now Kiribati, but were delayed by the losses at the Battle of the Coral Sea.


Premise: Who provides the city services?

Hypothesis: While not fully equivalent to a municipality, the 16 boroughs have gained significant autonomy, and since 2000 their heads of government are elected directly by plurality (they were previously appointed by the head of government of the Federal District).


Premise: Who opened the first Chinese-owned department store?

Hypothesis: At the beginning, the store mainly catered visiting ships' crews as well as British Navy staff and their families.


Premise: What was the most displacement caused by the earthquake?

Hypothesis: According to a study by the China Earthquake Administration (CEA), the earthquake occurred along the Longmenshan fault, a thrust structure along the border of the Indo-Australian Plate and Eurasian Plate.


Premise: What acted as a physical obstacle to anti-aircraft defence?

Hypothesis: Firstly, it and the steel cable were a danger to any aircraft that tried to fly among them.


Premise: What is the most populous city in Guam?

Hypothesis: The capital city is Hagåtña, and the most populous city is Dededo.


Premise: What enforced contest rule guaranteed that neither gender nor social rank would determine the judging?

Hypothesis: More importantly, the contests were open to all, and the enforced anonymity of each submission guaranteed that neither gender nor social rank would determine the judging.


Premise: What is the videoconferencing product that both IBM and PictureTel worked on?

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


Premise: What country experienced conflict with the Jewish community after World War II?

Hypothesis: After World War II, Britain found itself in intense conflict with the Jewish community over Jewish immigration limits, as well as continued conflict with the Arab community over limit levels.


Premise: Who was Thomas Jefferson in a relationship with?

Hypothesis: Tracing the genealogy of African Americans can be a very difficult process, as censuses did not identify slaves by name before the American Civil War, meaning that most African Americans did not appear by name in those records.


Premise: What is a classification used in LED lighting to describe how much usefulness it will receive?

Hypothesis: This causes stress on the material and may cause early light-output degradation.


Premise: What law covers wrongs which humans can inflict upon each other?

Hypothesis: Thus, because of its immense size and diversity, American tort law cannot be easily summarized.


Premise: How does burrowers' loosening help the soil?

Hypothesis: Some burrow while others live entirely on the surface, generally in moist leaf litter.


Premise: What was the altarpiece designed for?

Hypothesis: Although it has been damaged in past centuries, the panel has been expertly cleaned and conserved.


Premise: What is the average age of a Palermo resident?

Hypothesis: The average age of a Palermo resident is 40.4 compared to the Italian average of 42.8.


Premise: Which theory proposes that adults and adolescents both weigh the potential rewards and consequences of an action?

Hypothesis: The behavioral decision-making theory proposes that adolescents and adults both weigh the potential rewards and consequences of an action.


Premise: Other than Asian students, who else was allegedly being discriminated against?

Hypothesis: This Supreme Court case will likely be decided in June 2016 or slightly earlier.


Premise: What is an example of a solar-mediated weather event?

Hypothesis: Sunlight may be stored as gravitational potential energy after it strikes the Earth, as (for example) water evaporates from oceans and is deposited upon mountains (where, after being released at a hydroelectric dam, it can be used to drive turbines or generators to produce electricity).


Premise: Who was the first communist country to open its borders to all foreign visitors?

Hypothesis: His plan called for Arabs to recognize the state of Israel in exchange for territories Israel gained.


Premise: What overlaps significantly with Haredi Judiasm?

Hypothesis: Another phenomenon that sets Hasidic Judaism apart from general Haredi Judaism is the strong emphasis placed on speaking Yiddish; in (many) Hasidic households and communities, Yiddish is spoken exclusively.


Premise: What Queen song is featured on Glee's The Graduation Album?

Hypothesis: In May 2012, the choir performed "We Are the Champions" in the episode "Nationals", and the song features in The Graduation Album.


Premise: What city was Bell born in?

Hypothesis: Born as just "Alexander Bell", at age 10 he made a plea to his father to have a middle name like his two brothers.[N 6]


Premise: Who was the Old Prussians ethnic group related to?

Hypothesis: During the wars waged in the Baltic by the Catholic German Teutonic Knights; the lands inhabited by the ethnic group of the Old Prussians (the current reference to the people known then simply as the "Prussians"), were conquered by the Germans.


Premise: Who was known as being a founder of humanism thought in China?

Hypothesis: Among them Duke of Zhou, respected as a founder of Rujia (Confucianism), is especially prominent and pioneering in humanistic thought.


Premise: What was Chopin's full name?

Hypothesis: " Chopin was born in what was then the Duchy of Warsaw, and grew up in Warsaw, which after 1815 became part of Congress Poland.


Premise: What is the name of the major basketball team in Nanjing?

Hypothesis: Jiangsu Nangang Basketball Club is a competitive team which has long been one of the major clubs fighting for the title in China top level league, CBA.


Premise: What country lost Franco-Prussian war?

Hypothesis: Of the five original great powers recognised at the Congress of Vienna, only France and the United Kingdom have maintained that status continuously to the present day, although France was defeated in the Franco-Prussian War and occupied during World War II.


Premise: In what body of water do the rivers Plym and Tamar meet?

Hypothesis: Plymouth lies between the River Plym to the east and the River Tamar to the west; both rivers flow into the natural harbour of Plymouth Sound.


Premise: How much of the Thuringia population are Catholic?

Hypothesis: Members of the Catholic Church formed 7.8% of the population, while 68.2% of Thuringians were non-religious or adhere to other faiths.


Premise: What is the Naval Air Station used for?

Hypothesis: As a naval air station, the base continued to host both transient and deployed USN and USAF aircraft, as well as transitioning or deployed Royal Air Force and Canadian Forces aircraft.


Premise: When did American Idol change to a four-judge panel?

Hypothesis: The show had originally planned on having four judges following the Pop Idol format; however, only three judges had been found by the time of the audition round in the first season, namely Randy Jackson, Paula Abdul and Simon Cowell.


Premise: When did US President John F. Kennedy, in a speech, propose to join forces to reach the moon with the USSR?

Hypothesis: Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev initially rejected Kennedy's proposal.


Premise: Which comic made numerous jokes about Arsenal players?

Hypothesis: Arsenal have often been stereotyped as a defensive and "boring" side, especially during the 1970s and 1980s; many comedians, such as Eric Morecambe, made jokes about this at the team's expense.


Premise: On what does Palermo's economy rely?

Hypothesis: The economy mainly relies on tourism and services, but also has commerce, shipbuilding and agriculture.


Premise: Raeder convinced Hitler to do what?

Hypothesis: Eventually, he convinced Hitler of the need to attack British port facilities.


Premise: Which group created the legalism, the supervision of the orders of the gods, and the demand for moderation and harmony?

Hypothesis: The improvement of the old Anatolian god, and his elevation to an intellectual sphere, may be considered an achievement of the Greek people.


Premise: When was "post-punk" first used to start describing artists?

Hypothesis: The term "post-punk" was first used by journalists in the late 1970s to describe groups moving beyond punk's sonic template into disparate areas.


Premise: What differences do the Lombardic mandolins have from the Neapolitan mandolin?

Hypothesis: These mandolins are closer to the mandolino or mandore than other modern mandolins.


Premise: Who conducted the review on Thiazide Antihypertensive drugs?

Hypothesis: A 2009 Cochrane review concluded that thiazide antihypertensive drugs reduce the risk of death (RR 0.89), stroke


Premise: Where did Feynman work at in Brazil?

Hypothesis: Out of his enthusiastic interest in reaching Tuva came the phrase "Tuva or Bust" (also the title of a book about his efforts to get there), which was tossed about frequently amongst his circle of friends in hope that they, one day, could see it firsthand.


Premise: What followed cuneiform in writing?

Hypothesis: The most important archaeological discoveries in Sumer are a large number of tablets written in cuneiform.


Premise: How much money did Libya receive to stem the flow of African migrants into Europe?

Hypothesis: In October 2010, the EU paid Libya €50 million to stop African migrants passing into Europe; Gaddafi encouraged the move, saying that it was necessary to prevent the loss of European cultural identity to a new "Black Europe".


Premise: Who led the American Idol band after Rickey Minor's departure?

Hypothesis: Assistance may also be given by vocal coaches and song arrangers, such as Michael Orland and Debra Byrd to contestants behind the scene.


Premise: What does the activity of antibacterials depends on?

Hypothesis: A bactericidal activity of antibacterials may depend on the bacterial growth phase, and it often requires ongoing metabolic activity and division of bacterial cells.


Premise: What was happening in April 1848 in Paris?

Hypothesis: In April, during the Revolution of 1848 in Paris, he left for London, where he performed at several concerts and at numerous receptions in great houses.


Premise: When did cotton begin to be commercially grown in Egypt?

Hypothesis: Though known since antiquity the commercial growing of cotton in Egypt only started in 1820's, following a Frenchman, by the name of M. Jumel, propositioning the then ruler, Mohamed Ali Pasha, that he could earn a substantial income by growing an extra-long staple Maho (Barbadence) cotton, in Lower Egypt, for the French market.


Premise: What is an example of a free software license?

Hypothesis: Examples include free software licenses, like the GNU General Public License (GPL), and the Creative Commons licenses, which are predominantly applied to visual and literary works.


Premise: Guatama discovered the middle path before his what?

Hypothesis: An important guiding principle of Buddhist practice is the Middle Way (or Middle Path), which is said to have been discovered by Gautama Buddha prior to his enlightenment.


Premise: We can learn what by carefully examining our literature?

Hypothesis: Through literature we are able to continuously uncover new information about history.


Premise: What battle took place on November 30, 1853?

Hypothesis: On 28 March 1854, after Russia ignored an Anglo-French ultimatum to withdraw from the Danubian Principalities, the UK and France formally declared war.


Premise: What was the name of the new musical style introduced in the Late Middle Ages?

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


Premise: Where are 18th century "leaving portraits" kept at Eton?

Hypothesis: This range includes the important interiors of the Parlour, Election Hall, and Election Chamber, where most of the 18th century "leaving portraits" are kept.


Premise: What was MAD?

Hypothesis: Von Neumann is credited with the equilibrium strategy of mutual assured destruction, providing the deliberately humorous acronym, MAD.


Premise: What was Chopin's style based upon?

Hypothesis: In 1841, Léon Escudier wrote of a recital given by Chopin that year, "One may say that Chopin is the creator of a school of piano and a school of composition.


Premise: What is a mammal whose genome has been sequenced?

Hypothesis: Among the thousands of completed genome sequencing projects include those for rice, a mouse, the plant Arabidopsis thaliana, the puffer fish, and the bacteria E. coli.


Premise: Who used the legislative session to debate and criticize?

Hypothesis: In the first session of the new Congress of People's Deputies, from May 25 to June 9, hardliners retained control but reformers used the legislature as a platform for debate and criticism – which was broadcast live and uncensored.


Premise: Who did the Partisans have conflicts with?

Hypothesis: Despite conflicts with the rival monarchic Chetnik movement, Tito's Partisans succeeded in liberating territory, notably the "Republic of Užice".


Premise: What type of view is that classical music is primarily written musical tradition?

Hypothesis: The modernist views hold that classical music is considered primarily a written musical tradition, preserved in music notation, as opposed to being transmitted orally, by rote, or by recordings of particular performances.[citation needed]


Premise: Along with Greater Somalia ethnic Somalis, who speaks Somali?

Hypothesis: The Somali language is spoken by ethnic Somalis in Greater Somalia and the Somali diaspora.


Premise: What dog types, in the text, are used for hunting?

Hypothesis: Dogs have lived and worked with humans in so many roles that they have earned the unique nickname, "man's best friend", a phrase used in other languages as well.


Premise: Could events in the Roman Republic often include music?

Hypothesis: Many private and public events were accompanied by music, ranging from nightly dining to military parades and manoeuvres.


Premise: By what name was Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi typically known?

Hypothesis: Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi (Arabic:


Premise: How many municipalities are in Mexico City?

Hypothesis: As an "alpha" global city, Mexico City is one of the most important financial centers in the Americas.


Premise: How many of its own five stars did TechRadar award the PS3 Slim?

Hypothesis: CNET awarded PS3 Slim four out of five stars praising its Blu-ray capabilities, 120 GB hard drive, free online gaming service and more affordable pricing point, but complained about the lack of backward compatibility for PlayStation 2 games.


Premise: When were Armenian churches built with center cupola cones?

Hypothesis: By the fifth century the typical cupola cone in the center had become widely used.


Premise: Who was recognized for treating the wounded while pioneering modern nursing?

Hypothesis: The reaction in the UK was a demand for professionalization, most famously achieved by Florence Nightingale, who gained worldwide attention for pioneering modern nursing while treating the wounded.


Premise: The vaulted undercroft beneath the monks' dormitory has been a museum since when?

Hypothesis: This space has been used as a museum since 1908.


Premise: What Syrian group did Nasser crack down on?

Hypothesis: Nasser subsequently opted for union, albeit on the condition that it would be a total political merger with him as its president, to which the delegates and Syrian president Shukri al-Quwatli agreed.


Premise: What Arsenal manager replaced Mee?

Hypothesis: The club's only success during this time was a last-minute 3–2 victory over Manchester United in the 1979 FA Cup Final, widely regarded as a classic.


Premise: Who supported the restoration of President Pedraza?

Hypothesis: In May 1832, José Urrea, a rising officer, supported the restoration of President Pedraza.


Premise: How was the store most often presented to the public?

Hypothesis: The store was extensively promoted through paid advertising.


Premise: What party also had the mayor as of 2015?

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


Premise: Where does Theravada have the largest following?

Hypothesis: Vajrayana, a body of teachings attributed to Indian siddhas, may be viewed as a third branch or merely a part of Mahayana.


Premise: What were the Dominican Brothers?

Hypothesis: By this choice, however, the Dominican brothers designated themselves not monks, but canons-regular.


Premise: Where does line T2 run?

Hypothesis: Five new light rail lines are currently in various stages of development.


Premise: Odd-numbered streets are one-way in which direction?

Hypothesis: In general, even-numbered streets are one-way eastbound and odd-numbered streets are one-way west.


Premise: What was the medal renamed as?

Hypothesis: It stopped being awarded by the United Kingdom as part of the 1993 reforms to the honours system, but was again awarded beginning in 2012, starting with 293 BEMs awarded for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.


Premise: What was the original purpose for the construction of the Tate Gallery?

Hypothesis: The national gallery of British art is at Tate Britain, originally established as an annexe of the National Gallery in 1897.


Premise: What were the nuns allowed to minimally do?

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


Premise: What does the Xeer system call cops?

Hypothesis: Thus, one can find odayal (judges), xeer boggeyaal (jurists), guurtiyaal (detectives), garxajiyaal (attorneys), murkhaatiyal (witnesses) and waranle (police officers) to enforce the law.


Premise: What does copper and zinc form to make?

Hypothesis: Eventually, humans learned to smelt metals such as copper and tin from ore, and, around 2500 BC, began alloying the two metals to form bronze, which is much harder than its ingredients.


Premise: Who approved the proposal given by Count Karl von Buol ?

Hypothesis: The note met with the approval of Nicholas I; however, Abdülmecid I rejected the proposal, feeling that the document's poor phrasing left it open to many different interpretations.


Premise: Who is still looking for compensation and justice?

Hypothesis: However questions still remain, as some of the corrupt government officials have still not been brought to justice, while the many families who lost their only child, are still seeking compensation and justice to what had happened.


Premise: What did Wire do with sounds, lyrics and aesthetics which different a lot from their peers?

Hypothesis: In late 1977, music writers for Sounds first used the terms "New Musick" and "post punk" to describe British acts such as Siouxsie and the Banshees and Wire, who began experimenting with sounds, lyrics and aesthetics that differed significantly from their punk contemporaries.


Premise: Which street connects East 3rd to West 3rd?

Hypothesis: The west end of these streets is Bowery and Third Avenue, except for 3rd Street (formerly Amity Place; to Sixth Avenue) and 4th Street (to 13th Street), which extend west and north, respectively, into Greenwich Village.


Premise: For how many days did the America's Cup World Series take place in Plymouth?

Hypothesis: The Port of Plymouth Regatta is one of the oldest regattas in the world, and has been held regularly since 1823.


Premise: LED efficacy is inversely proportional to what?

Hypothesis: Since LED efficacy is inversely proportional to operating temperature, LED technology is well suited for supermarket freezer lighting.


Premise: When did Armenia begin winning Olympic medals?

Hypothesis: During Soviet rule, Armenian athletes rose to prominence winning plenty of medals and helping the USSR win the medal standings at the Olympics on numerous occasions.


Premise: What are lophophores?

Hypothesis: The current view is that annelids are grouped with molluscs, brachiopods and several other phyla that have lophophores (fan-like feeding structures) and/or trochophore larvae as members of Lophotrochozoa.


Premise: Who controlled the newly restored government of the Republic of Korea?

Hypothesis: " On 29 September MacArthur restored the government of the Republic of Korea under Syngman Rhee.


Premise: Afrotheria,Xenartha, and Boreoeutheria deprives from which two lineages?

Hypothesis: Boreoeutheria in turn contains two major lineages- Euarchontoglires and Laurasiatheria.


Premise: What languages are most common?

Hypothesis: They also tend to have more European-sounding names than Bantu names.


Premise: When was MASHAV established?

Hypothesis: However, Israel has a history of providing emergency aid and humanitarian response teams to disasters across the world.


Premise: Who was the first President of Guinea-Bissau?

Hypothesis: Luís Cabral, brother of Amílcar and co-founder of PAIGC, was appointed the first President of Guinea-Bissau.


Premise: What Arkansas militia unit did Eisenhower federalize in 1957?

Hypothesis: When Faubus balked, the president placed the Arkansas National Guard under federal control and sent in the 101st Airborne Division.


Premise: The former publisher of the Boston phoenix owns what Spanish newspaper?

Hypothesis: These include El Planeta (owned by the former publisher of The Boston Phoenix), El Mundo, and La Semana.


Premise: How many magazines can call NYC home?

Hypothesis: Two of the three national daily newspapers in the United States are New York papers: The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, which has won the most Pulitzer Prizes for journalism.


Premise: What is an annelid's brain in a ring around?

Hypothesis: The brain generally forms a ring round the pharynx (throat), consisting of a pair of ganglia (local control centers) above and in front of the pharynx, linked by nerve cords either side of the pharynx to another pair of ganglia just below and behind it.


Premise: What region lays along the north border of Burma and is famed for the presence of monks ?

Hypothesis: Its north and northeast border is with the Tibet Autonomous Region and Yunnan province for a Sino-Burman border total of 2,185 km (1,358 mi).


Premise: MBS and CDO derive their value from?

Hypothesis: As part of the housing and credit booms, the number of financial agreements called mortgage-backed securities (MBS) and collateralized debt obligations (CDO), which derived their value from mortgage payments and housing prices, greatly increased.


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

Hypothesis: Vilanovins organize an elaborate ritual for the arrival of King Carnival called l'Arrivo that changes every year.


Premise: How much power will be delivered to the reciever if the antenna has an effective area of 12 m/2?

Hypothesis: For instance, if a radio wave passing a given location has a flux of 1 pW / m2 (10−12 watts per square meter) and an antenna has an effective area of 12 m2, then the antenna would deliver 12 pW of RF power to the receiver (30 microvolts rms at 75 ohms).


Premise: When were many of the large hotels demolished?

Hypothesis: Prior to and during the advent of legalized gaming, many of these hotels were demolished.


Premise: Who became president of the Congo in 1968?

Hypothesis: Marien Ngouabi, who had participated in the coup, assumed the presidency on December 31, 1968.


Premise: Her video Hollywood was a homage to which photographer?

Hypothesis: Her video for "Hollywood" (2003) was an homage to the work of photographer Guy Bourdin; Bourdin's son subsequently filed a lawsuit for unauthorised use of his father's work.


Premise: What does Miranda provide?

Hypothesis: In Miranda the court created safeguards against self-incriminating statements made after an arrest.


Premise: Who replaced Nishonov?

Hypothesis: Thousands of Soviet troops were sent to the Fergana Valley, southeast of the Uzbek capital Tashkent, to re-establish order after clashes in which local Uzbeks hunted down members of the Meskhetian minority in several days of rioting between June 4–11, 1989; about 100 people were killed.


Premise: Where are dioxins stored in our animal sources of food?

Hypothesis: Over 90% of human exposure is through food, primarily meat, dairy, fish and shellfish, as dioxins accumulate in the food chain in the fatty tissue of animals.


Premise: Which group from the Presbyterian church in rank is above sessions?

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


Premise: Which German psychologist and tutor of Popper may have originated some of Popper's ideas?

Hypothesis: Hark (Groningen, The Netherlands) published a book, called Popper, Otto Selz and the rise of evolutionary epistemology, in which he claimed that Popper took some of his ideas from his tutor, the German psychologist Otto Selz.


Premise: what was built in the 1920's and 1930's

Hypothesis: During this period, several Jugendstil houses and office buildings were built, followed by Rietveld who built the Rietveld Schröder House (1924), and Dudok's construction of the city theater (1941).


Premise: Who offered troops to the King?

Hypothesis: Thus began six years (1814–1820) of absolutist rule, but the constitution was reinstated during the Trienio Liberal, a period of three years of liberal government in Spain from 1820–1823.


Premise: How many faculty members were at Notre Dame when Hesburgh left the role of president?

Hypothesis: The Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, C.S.C., (1917–2015) served as president for 35 years (1952–87) of dramatic transformations.


Premise: Who wrote "The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution"?

Hypothesis: In his book, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution, biologist Richard Dawkins grapples with the question of why pain has to be so very painful.


Premise: What insect is not abel to perceive light and dark?

Hypothesis: Many species are able to detect light in the infrared, ultraviolet and the visible light wavelengths.


Premise: Where did Twilight Princess place among Wii titles according to IGN?

Hypothesis: Both IGN and Nintendo Power gave Twilight Princess the awards for Best Graphics and Best Story.


Premise: What was the general population's common language ?

Hypothesis: The educated speech at that time was Sanskrit, while the languages of the general population of northern India are referred to as Prakrits.


Premise: What percentage of African Americans have European ancestry?

Hypothesis: Most African Americans also have European ancestry in varying amounts; a lesser proportion have some Native American ancestry.


Premise: What organization ranked the University of Southampton in the top 80 universities worldwide in 2010?

Hypothesis: The university is ranked in the top 100 research universities in the world in the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2010.


Premise: What does the broad operational definition of a gene classify as gene-associated regions?

Hypothesis: This definition categorizes genes by their functional products (proteins or RNA) rather than their specific DNA loci, with regulatory elements classified as gene-associated regions.


Premise: What can cause excessive leakage in a capacitor?

Hypothesis: Constant exposure to heat can cause dielectric breakdown and excessive leakage, a problem often seen in older vacuum tube circuits, particularly where oiled paper and foil capacitors were used.


Premise: What was the Swiss German name for Schwyz?

Hypothesis: The name was extended to the area dominated by the canton, and after the Swabian War of 1499 gradually came to be used for the entire Confederation.


Premise: Who were the victors of World War II?

Hypothesis: The United Kingdom, the United States, the Soviet Union and China were referred as a "trusteeship of the powerful" during the World War II  and were recognized as the Allied "Big Four" in Declaration by United Nations


Premise: What battle was the advance in the Arakan halted to release troops for?

Hypothesis: By the time campaigning ceased during the monsoon rains, the NCAC had secured a vital airfield at Myitkyina (August 1944), which eased the problems of air resupply from India to China over "The Hump".


Premise: As of 2012, how many finalists did American Idol have?

Hypothesis: In 2012, an analysis of the 131 contestants who have appeared in the finals of all seasons of the show up to that point found that 48% have some connection to the Southern United States.


Premise: On what date did the FC Barca hold a second testimonial match for Paulino Alcántara against the Spanish national team?

Hypothesis: This coincided with the transition to professional football, and, in 1926, the directors of Barcelona publicly claimed, for the first time, to operate a professional football club.


Premise: How many metric tons of bananas and copra does Samoa produce each year?

Hypothesis: If the rhinoceros beetle in Samoa were eradicated, Samoa could produce in excess of 40,000 metric tons (44,000 short tons) of copra.


Premise: When was 'Skullmonkeys' released?

Hypothesis: He has been giving thanks to his games of his division DreamWorks Interactive most notable as Someone's in the Kitchen with script written by Animaniacs' Paul Rugg, Goosebumps: Escape from HorrorLand, The Neverhood (all in 1996), Skullmonkeys, Dilbert's Desktop Games, Goosebumps: Attack of the Mutant (all 1997), Boombots (1999), T'ai Fu: Wrath of the Tiger (1999), and Clive Barker's Undying (2001).


Premise: What group made up most of Japan's first exchange students?

Hypothesis: Samurai were many of the early exchange students, not directly because they were samurai, but because many samurai were literate and well-educated scholars.


Premise: What else is St. Mary's known as?

Hypothesis: St Fin Barre's Cathedral serves the Protestant faith and is possibly the more famous of the two.


Premise: Who believed that the Ming court had full sovereignty over Tibet?

Hypothesis: Wang and Nyima argue that the Ming emperor sent edicts to Tibet twice in the second year of the Ming dynasty, and demonstrated that he viewed Tibet as a significant region to pacify by urging various Tibetan tribes to submit to the authority of the Ming court.


Premise: Who expanded the single reeds role?

Hypothesis: Wind instruments became more refined in the Classical era.


Premise: What is the average rainfall for summer months?

Hypothesis: Precipitation is moderate and somewhat evenly distributed throughout the year, although the warmer months such as May and June average more, averaging 33.5 inches (850 mm) annually, but historically ranging from 20.49 in (520 mm) in 1963 to 47.70 in (1,212 mm) in 2011.


Premise: How long was the interval between the visits from the United States Secretary of State officials ?

Hypothesis: The impact of the post-election reforms has been observed in numerous areas, including ASEAN's approval of Myanmar's bid for the position of ASEAN chair in 2014; the visit by United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in December 2011 for the encouragement of further progress—it was the first visit by a Secretary of State in more than fifty years (Clinton met with the Burmese president and former military commander Thein Sein, as well as opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi); and the participation of Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) party in the 2012 by-elections, facilitated by the government's abolition of the laws that previously barred the NLD.


Premise: Did Florida send Representatives to Philadelphia for the Declaration of Independence

Hypothesis: Neither East Florida nor West Florida would send any representatives to Philadelphia to draft the Declaration of Independence.


Premise: Red paper is used to wrap gifts of money during what special celebration in China?

Hypothesis: In Chinese cultural traditions, red is associated with weddings (where brides traditionally wear red dresses) and red paper is frequently used to wrap gifts of money or other objects.


Premise: Who is responsible for the growing pride in Brazilian communities?

Hypothesis: The bitter and sometimes violent racial tensions that have divided the US are notably absent in Brazil.


Premise: Where did the French build Fort Duquesne?

Hypothesis: Peaceful British attempts to halt this fort construction were unsuccessful, and the French proceeded to build the fort they named Fort Duquesne.


Premise: Near where do the rivers form up for the Missouri river merging?

Hypothesis: East of the divide the Missouri River, which is formed by the confluence of the Jefferson, Madison and Gallatin rivers near Three Forks, flows due north through the west-central part of the state to Great Falls.


Premise: In September of 1855, how many Turks could be found at Batum?

Hypothesis: In September 8000 Turks landed at Batum, but the main concentration was at Sukhum Kale.


Premise: When did the COM status for St. Barts take effect?

Hypothesis: On 7 February 2007, the French Parliament passed a bill granting COM status to both St. Barthélemy and (separately) to the neighbouring Saint Martin.


Premise: With whom did Montini feel he had a brother like connection to?

Hypothesis: Montini was several times openly attacked by Benito Mussolini's government as a politician, and meddling in politics, but each time he found powerful defenses by the Vatican.


Premise: What was the name of the first Cathedral?

Hypothesis: Spanish colonization commenced on June 15, 1668 with the arrival of Diego Luis de San Vitores and Pedro Calungsod, who established the first Catholic church.:64 The islands were part of the Spanish East Indies governed from the Philippines, which were in turn part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain based in Mexico City.


Premise: What physical symptom accompanied Muhammad's revelations?

Hypothesis: According to Welch, these seizures would have been seen by those around him as convincing evidence for the superhuman origin of Muhammad's inspirations.


Premise: What is another work of Avicenna that is said to not be his creation?

Hypothesis: The epistola de Re recta is somewhat less sceptical of alchemy; Anawati argues that it is by Avicenna, but written earlier in his career when he had not yet firmly decided that transmutation was impossible.


Premise: Where did this initiate?

Hypothesis: Just as artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci – partaking of the zeitgeist though not himself a humanist – advocated study of human anatomy, nature, and weather to enrich Renaissance works of art, so Spanish-born humanist Juan Luis Vives (c. 1493–1540) advocated observation, craft, and practical techniques to improve the formal teaching of Aristotelian philosophy at the universities, helping to free them from the grip of Medieval Scholasticism.


Premise: What year did the Romans invade Britain?

Hypothesis: Following the Roman invasion of Britain in AD 43 and the conquering of the local Britons in 70 AD the fortress settlement of Clausentum was established.


Premise: What stopped work in 9 factories in Coventry?

Hypothesis: Around 21 factories were seriously damaged in Coventry, and loss of public utilities stopped work at nine others, disrupting industrial output for several months.


Premise: Many early members of the Terek Cossacks were what?

Hypothesis: Cossacks, although Slavic-speaking and Orthodox Christians, came from a mix of ethnic backgrounds, including Tatars and other Turks.


Premise: Who was the replacement to play Freddie Mercury in the film of the same name?

Hypothesis: In December 2013, it was announced that Ben Whishaw, best known for playing Q in the James Bond film Skyfall, had been chosen to replace Cohen in the role of Mercury.


Premise: When was the Spitak earthquake?

Hypothesis: The national currency, the dram, suffered hyperinflation for the first years after its introduction in 1993.


Premise: What university was Melancthon from?

Hypothesis: For instance, Melanchthon and his disciples at University of Wittenberg were instrumental for integrating Copernican mathematical constructs into astronomical debate and instruction.


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

Hypothesis: The Watch Tower Society provides pre-formatted durable power of attorney documents prohibiting major blood components, in which members can specify which allowable fractions and treatments they will personally accept.


Premise: What party has won every election in Namibia?

Hypothesis: Several registered political parties are active and represented in the National Assembly, although the Swapo Party has won every election since independence.


Premise: What is the name of Chopin's biographer?

Hypothesis: Chopin's biographer Adam Zamoyski writes that he never considered himself to be French, despite his father's French origins, and always saw himself as a Pole.


Premise: When did the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge first open for traffic?

Hypothesis: Begun in 1960 and opened to traffic in 1968, the bridge is a two-tiered road and rail design spanning 4,600 metres on the upper deck, with approximately 1,580 metres spanning the river itself.


Premise: The US-buils ENIAC stands for what?

Hypothesis: It was unambiguously a Turing-complete device and could compute any problem that would fit into its memory.


Premise: Who was the adversary of Zeus in the titanomachy?

Hypothesis: A female dragon named Delphyne (δελφύς, "womb"), who is obviously connected with Delphi and Apollo Delphinios, and a male serpent Typhon (τύφειν, "to smoke"), the adversary of Zeus in the Titanomachy, who the narrators confused with Python.


Premise: Matthew described that who was present at the Crucifixion?

Hypothesis: The Gospel of Matthew describes many women at the crucifixion, some of whom are named in the Gospels.


Premise: What is one benefit of a "destination operating panel"

Hypothesis: In this way, travel time is reduced as the elevator makes fewer stops for individual passengers, and the computer distributes adjacent stops to different cars in the bank.


Premise: ISA stands for what?

Hypothesis: Weinreich's Identity Structure Analysis (ISA), is "a structural representation of the individual's existential experience, in which the relationships between self and other agents are organised in relatively stable structures over time … with the emphasis on the socio-cultural milieu in which self relates to other agents and institutions" (Weinreich and Saunderson, (eds) 2003, p1).


Premise: What language had the greatest influence on English?

Hypothesis: The influence of Old Norse certainly helped move English from a synthetic language along the continuum to a more analytic word order, and Old Norse most likely made a greater impact on the English language than any other language.


Premise: What dominated animal life in the Triassic?

Hypothesis: Animal life was then dominated by various archosaurian reptiles: dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and aquatic reptiles such as ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, and mosasaurs.


Premise: What did the component shortage of 1989 force Allan Loren to do with Macs?

Hypothesis: Furthermore, Apple had created too many similar models that confused potential buyers; at one point the product lineup was subdivided into Classic, LC, II, Quadra, Performa, and Centris models, with essentially the same computer being sold under a number of different names.


Premise: When did Rębała and colleagues studied several Slavic populations with the aim of localizing the Proto-Slavic homeland?

Hypothesis: Specific studies of Slavic genetics followed.


Premise: What platform is a browser used on?

Hypothesis: A web browser (commonly referred to as a browser) is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web.


Premise: English Heritage has funded what for the chapter house?

Hypothesis: English Heritage have funded a major programme of work on the chapter house, comprising repairs to the roof, gutters, stonework on the elevations and flying buttresses as well as repairs to the lead light.


Premise: How many segments is 122nd Street divided into?

Hypothesis: ; -73.9540 122nd Street is divided into three noncontiguous segments, E 122nd Street, W 122nd Street, and W 122nd Street Seminary Row, by Marcus Garvey Memorial Park and Morningside Park.


Premise: Are there academic programs in Yale's residential colleges?

Hypothesis: The colleges are led by a master and an academic dean, who reside in the college, and university faculty and affiliates comprise each college's fellowship.


Premise: What classical architecture is Georgian architecture based on?

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: What percentage of students at Notre Dame participated in the Early Action program?

Hypothesis: Admitted students came from 1,311 high schools and the average student traveled more than 750 miles to Notre Dame, making it arguably the most representative university in the United States.


Premise: Who lost the 2015 Nigerian presidential election?

Hypothesis: In the March 28, 2015 presidential election, General Muhammadu Buhari emerged victorious to become the Federal President of Nigeria, defeating then incumbent Goodluck Jonathan.


Premise: Who became the CEO of RCA Records?

Hypothesis: Peter Edge became the new CEO of the RCA Records unit.


Premise: Who is Northwestern's faculty member notable for winning a Pulitzer Prize?

Hypothesis: Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Garry Wills; American Academy of Arts and Sciences fellow Monica Olvera de la Cruz and MacArthur Fellowship recipients Stuart Dybek, and Jennifer Richeson.


Premise: What did the joint proposal provide?

Hypothesis: It provided the highest coding efficiency.


Premise: What is the main driver of reduced costs?

Hypothesis: Innovation has helped, but the main driver of reduced costs has been market expansion.


Premise: What is the main winding on a squirrel cage motor capable of withstanding?

Hypothesis: In single phase squirrel cage motors, the primary winding within the motor housing is not capable of starting a rotational motion on the rotor, but is capable of sustaining one.


Premise: What is the general opinion of the difficulty level of Whitehead's work in philosophy?

Hypothesis: His philosophical work is generally considered to be among the most difficult to understand in all of the western canon.


Premise: During what century did the nomad lifestyle decline among Somalis?

Hypothesis: They are traditionally nomads, but since the late 20th century, many have moved to urban areas.


Premise: What does a B.mus. or M.mus. degree include?

Hypothesis: This training may be from private lessons from instrument or voice teachers or from completion of a formal program offered by a Conservatory, college or university, such as a B.mus. or M.mus.


Premise: What office did Sanha hold in 2012?

Hypothesis: In 2012, President Rachide Sambu-balde Malam Bacai Sanhá died.


Premise: How many countries produced concentrated uranium oxides in 2005?

Hypothesis: Kazakhstan continues to increase production and may have become the world's largest producer of uranium by 2009 with an expected production of 12,826 tonnes, compared to Canada with 11,100 t and Australia with 9,430 t.


Premise: What year did the CBC begin contributing funds to the show Doctor Who?

Hypothesis: Beginning in 2005, the CBC has contributed production funds for the BBC Wales revival of Doctor Who, for which it received a special credit at the end of each episode.


Premise: Where is GE's headquarters located?

Hypothesis: GE is a multinational conglomerate headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut.


Premise: Whose laws would take precedence according to the declaration of national sovereignty?

Hypothesis: On November 16, 1988, the Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSR adopted a declaration of national sovereignty under which Estonian laws would take precedence over those of the Soviet Union.


Premise: What group took tents and quilts to Wenchuan county?

Hypothesis: The Sichuan Ministry of Civil Affairs said that they have provided 30,000 tents for those left homeless.


Premise: Buddhism had similiar tenets to what other common religion?

Hypothesis: For example, Buddhism's emphasis on the Middle way not only provides a unique guideline for ethics but has also allowed Buddhism to peacefully coexist with various differing beliefs, customs and institutions in countries where it has resided throughout its history.


Premise: Why did Hume say we expect the sun to rise?

Hypothesis: Thus, as a simple instance posed by Hume, we cannot know with certainty by inductive reasoning that the sun will continue to rise in the East, but instead come to expect it to do so because it has repeatedly done so in the past.


Premise: How much increase in land space did the filling of the borrow pits cause?

Hypothesis: Since 1994 a project has been in development to assess the environmental impact of transporting sand from the lagoon to fill all the borrow pits and low-lying areas on Fongafale.


Premise: What does VOR stand for?

Hypothesis: Some airports are equipped with a VHF omnidirectional range (VOR) to help pilots find the direction to the airport.


Premise: What is a solar cell?

Hypothesis: A solar cell is a device that converts light directly into electricity using the photoelectric effect.


Premise: Along with the first and second, what person influenced verb variation in Old English?

Hypothesis: The form of the verb varies with person (first, second and third), number (singular and plural), tense (present and past), and mood (indicative, subjunctive and imperative).


Premise: In 2014, which three Tennessee counties took in the most money from tourism?

Hypothesis: Tourism contributes billions of dollars each year to the state's economy and Tennessee is ranked among the Top 10 destinations in the US.


Premise: What sport do the Richmond Kickers compete in?

Hypothesis: There are also several minor league sports in the city, including the Richmond Kickers of the USL Professional Division (third tier of American soccer) and the Richmond Flying Squirrels of the Class AA Eastern League of Minor League Baseball (an affiliate of the San Francisco Giants).


Premise: Approximately how many Cherokees died along their "Trail of Tears?"

Hypothesis: The Cherokees were not the only American Indians forced to emigrate as a result of the Indian removal efforts of the United States, and so the phrase "Trail of Tears" is sometimes used to refer to similar events endured by other American Indian peoples, especially among the "Five Civilized Tribes".


Premise: What does PXFM stand for?

Hypothesis: The immediate predecessors of MP3 were "Optimum Coding in the Frequency Domain" (OCF), and Perceptual Transform Coding (PXFM).


Premise: What is the name of the executive order that transferred Guam over to the U.S?

Hypothesis: The United States took control of the island in the 1898 Spanish–American War, as part of the Treaty of Paris.


Premise: Which technique did the Impressionists use to make their subjects simple forms?

Hypothesis: This familiar explanation "fails to give adequate consideration to the complexities of a flourishing art that existed just before and during the period when Picasso's new painting developed.


Premise: What is a popular tabloid magazine in Namibia?

Hypothesis: Other mentionable newspapers are the tabloid Informanté owned by TrustCo, the weekly Windhoek Observer, the weekly Namibia Economist, as well as the regional Namib Times.


Premise: How did Habermas describe the public sphere?

Hypothesis: Habermas said that the public sphere was bourgeois, egalitarian, rational, and independent from the state, making it the ideal venue for intellectuals to critically examine contemporary politics and society, away from the interference of established authority.


Premise: Who controlled the coast of China?

Hypothesis: The Axis states which assisted Japan included the authoritarian government of Thailand in World War II, which quickly formed a temporary alliance with the Japanese in 1941, as the Japanese forces were already invading the peninsula of southern Thailand.


Premise: According to the 2010 census, what was the white population in Seattle?

Hypothesis: The 2010 census showed that Seattle was one of the whitest big cities in the country, although its proportion of white residents has been gradually declining.


Premise: What format is used to store internal time in systems that use zoneinfo?

Hypothesis: Internal time is stored in timezone-independent epoch time; the TZ is used by each of potentially many simultaneous users and processes to independently localize time display.


Premise: The NES was duplicated on which medium in order to make clones easy to produce?

Hypothesis: Others have been produced with certain specialized markets in mind, such as an NES clone that functions as a rather primitive personal computer, which includes a keyboard and basic word processing software.


Premise: On what date was John Spenkelink executed?

Hypothesis: The first use of lethal injection was on December 7, 1982, when Charles Brooks, Jr., was executed in Texas.


Premise: What is the meaning of Education psychology?

Hypothesis: Educational psychology is the study of how humans learn in educational settings, the effectiveness of educational interventions, the psychology of teaching, and the social psychology of schools as organizations.


Premise: What type of educational institutions are in the area, that Nanjing can brag about?

Hypothesis: It boasts some of the most prominent educational institutions in the region, some of which are listed as follows:


Premise: What may have been North Korea's goal in the way they rapidly withdrew from South Korea?

Hypothesis: Historian Bruce Cumings argues, however, the KPA's rapid withdrawal was strategic, with troops melting into the mountains from where they could launch guerrilla raids on the UN forces spread out on the coasts.


Premise: The Moti Azima Gallery contains objects that might be found in a Nepalese house of what time period?

Hypothesis: Also of note is the Moti Azima Gallery, located in a three storied building in Bhimsenthan which contains an impressive collection of traditional utensils and handmade dolls and items typical of a medieval Newar house, giving an important insight into Nepali history.


Premise: What was Mohamed Siad Barre's rank?

Hypothesis: On 15 October 1969, while paying a visit to the northern town of Las Anod, Somalia's then President Abdirashid Ali Shermarke was shot dead by one of his own bodyguards.


Premise: What group are older than the Dominican Friars?

Hypothesis: Prior Diego sanctioned the building of a monastery for girls whose parents had sent them to the care of the Albigensians because their families were too poor to fulfill their basic needs.


Premise: Of the universities in Hyderabad how many are state run?

Hypothesis: There are 13 universities in Hyderabad: two private universities, two deemed universities, six state universities and three central universities.


Premise: When did the other two major British stations start color programming?

Hypothesis: (BBC One and ITV began 625-line colour broadcasts simultaneously on 15 November 1969).


Premise: What types of groups are NARA's holdings classified into?

Hypothesis: Records include paper documents, microfilm, still pictures, motion pictures, and electronic media.


Premise: Where in North Carolina did Blackbeards ship crash?

Hypothesis: In June 1718 Blackbeard, aka Edward Teach, ran his flagship, the Queen Anne's Revenge, aground at Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina, in present-day Carteret County.


Premise: Who made accusations of treason against Dou Wu?

Hypothesis: General Zhang Huan (張奐) favored the eunuchs.


Premise: A USB connection is based on what?

Hypothesis: USB device communication is based on pipes (logical channels).


Premise: What political party is mostly supported by orthodox jews?

Hypothesis: On the other hand, Orthodox Jews subscribing to Modern Orthodoxy in its American and UK incarnations, tend to be far more right-wing than both non-orthodox and other orthodox Jews.


Premise: What are Nanjing's main water sources?

Hypothesis: Nanjing is endowed with rich natural resources, which include more than 40 kinds of minerals.


Premise: Where did the war begin?

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


Premise: Who did Anwar Sadat succeed?

Hypothesis: In February 1972, Gaddafi and Sadat signed an unofficial charter of merger, but it was never implemented as relations broke down the following year.


Premise: What theory  did Einstein have reservations about?

Hypothesis: Despite his reservations about its interpretation, Einstein also made contributions to quantum mechanics and, indirectly, quantum field theory, primarily through his theoretical studies of the photon.


Premise: What type of Theravada rejects the intermediate state idea?

Hypothesis: The orthodox Theravada position rejects this; however there are passages in the Samyutta Nikaya of the Pali Canon that seem to lend support to the idea that the Buddha taught of an intermediate stage between one life and the next.[page needed]


Premise: What is there limited quality data for evaluating despite the huge number of wounds seen in a clinical practice?

Hypothesis: A review of chronic wounds in the Journal of the American Medical Association's "Rational Clinical Examination Series" quantified the importance of increased pain as an indicator of infection.


Premise: Sea breezes occur during what season?

Hypothesis: Due to its situation along the North Atlantic, the city often receives sea breezes, especially in the late spring, when water temperatures are still quite cold and temperatures at the coast can be more than 20 °F (11 °C) colder than a few miles inland, sometimes dropping by that amount near midday.


Premise: How many Brazillians have some indigenous ancestry?

Hypothesis: With this addition Brazil has now overtaken the island of New Guinea as the country having the largest number of uncontacted tribes.


Premise: The National History Museum of Montevideo is located where?

Hypothesis: The Historical Museum has annexed eight historical houses in the city, five of which are located in the Ciudad Vieja.


Premise: In 1997 who revised the classification of mammals?

Hypothesis: Their 1997 book, Classification of Mammals above the Species Level, is the most comprehensive work to date on the systematics, relationships, and occurrences of all mammal taxa, living and extinct, down through the rank of genus, though recent molecular genetic data challenge several of the higher level groupings.


Premise: Who shored up the 1984 roster with a series of transactions?

Hypothesis: In December, 1983 Scott Sanderson was acquired from Montreal in a three-team deal with San Diego for Carmelo Martínez.


Premise: What is highly recommended by medical experts for male players?

Hypothesis: An athletic supporter and protective cup is highly recommended for male players by medical experts and professionals.


Premise: How does Arsenal match day revenue compare with other stadium in the world?

Hypothesis: The Deloitte Football Money League is a publication that homogenizes and compares clubs' annual revenue.


Premise: Who issued a statement calling for North Korea's unconditional surrender?

Hypothesis: MacArthur made a statement demanding the KPA's unconditional surrender.


Premise: When did the Estonian Independent Signal Battalion face off against the Soviets?

Hypothesis: Most of the Estonian Defence Forces surrendered according to the orders of the Estonian government, believing that resistance was useless and were disarmed by the Red Army.


Premise: When did Nintendo release a cleaning kit?

Hypothesis: Problems with the 10NES lockout chip frequently resulted in the console's most infamous problem: the blinking red power light, in which the system appears to turn itself on and off repeatedly because the 10NES would reset the console once per second.


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

Hypothesis: The new wave of diplomats often came from those programs.


Premise: What do people think about giant killers?

Hypothesis: Almost every club in the League Pyramid has a fondly remembered giant-killing act in its history.


Premise: On what day did Bell go back to Boston?

Hypothesis: Bell's patent 174,465, was issued to Bell on March 7, 1876, by the U.S. Patent Office.


Premise: Who distributed 'War Horse'?

Hypothesis: The film was released and distributed by Disney, with whom DreamWorks made a distribution deal in 2009.


Premise: What type of enviornment is poultry most commonly raised in?

Hypothesis: Sixteen billion birds are raised annually for consumption, more than half of these in industrialised, factory-like production units.


Premise: Artist of the Decade was bestowed upon Beyonce from which magazine?

Hypothesis: [She] and not any superannuated rock star was arguably the greatest live performer of the past 10 years."


Premise: What was the name of Charles A. Lindbergh's plane that was built in San Diego by Ryan Airlines?

Hypothesis: Charles A. Lindbergh's plane The Spirit of St. Louis was built in San Diego in 1927 by Ryan Airlines.


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

Hypothesis: In order to overcome this, he had to partially depressurize his spacesuit to a potentially dangerous level.


Premise: What do students do during the traditional Primal Scream event held before finals week every quarter?

Hypothesis: And in one of the University's newer traditions, every year during freshman orientation, known as Wildcat Welcome, freshmen and transfer students pass through Weber Arch to the loud huzzahs of upperclassmen and the music of the University Marching Band.


Premise: How man men did the Austrian forces have when stopping the attack on Vidin?

Hypothesis: In the west, the Russians were dissuaded from attacking Vidin by the presence of the Austrian forces, which had swelled to 280,000 men.


Premise: What was once an indicator of the devices creator?

Hypothesis: Since devices are second-sourced, a manufacturer's prefix (like "MPF" in MPF102, which originally would denote a Motorola FET) now is an unreliable indicator of who made the device.


Premise: At what age did Chopin  leave Poland?

Hypothesis: A child prodigy, he completed his musical education and composed his earlier works in Warsaw before leaving Poland at the age of 20, less than a month before the outbreak of the November 1830 Uprising.


Premise: What does Tablados mean?

Hypothesis: Notable displays include "Desfile de las Llamadas" ("Parade of the Calls"), which is a grand united parade held on the south part of downtown, where it used to be a common ritual back in the early 20th century.


Premise: What determines a mammals diet type?

Hypothesis: To maintain a high constant body temperature is energy expensive – mammals therefore need a nutritious and plentiful diet.


Premise: The Battle of of Lepanto took place in what year?

Hypothesis: Prior to the Greek revolution, there had been a number of wars which saw Greeks fight against the Ottomans, such as the Greek participation in the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, the Epirus peasants' revolts of 1600–1601, the Morean War of 1684–1699, and the Russian-instigated Orlov Revolt in 1770, which aimed at breaking up the Ottoman Empire in favor of Russian interests.[page needed]


Premise: Who argued that colonies were redundant?

Hypothesis: The growth of trade between the newly independent United States and Britain after 1783 seemed to confirm Smith's view that political control was not necessary for economic success.


Premise: What type of tolerances does the USB standard specify for compliant USB connectors?

Hypothesis: Compliant devices must either fit within the size restrictions or support a compliant extension cable that does.


Premise: Raeder convinced Hitler to do what?

Hypothesis: Hitler had been convinced by Raeder that this was the right course of action due to the high success rates of the U-Boat force during this period of the war.


Premise: What means did Gandhi espouse to gain self-rule?

Hypothesis: The Gandhi-led independence movement opposed the British rule using non-violent methods like non-cooperation, civil disobedience and economic resistance.


Premise: Where did Freemasonry originate?

Hypothesis: Freemasonry was particularly prevalent in France – by 1789, there were perhaps as many as 100,000 French Masons, making Freemasonry the most popular of all Enlightenment associations.


Premise: The violin, cello, contrabass and what other instrument form the string section of the orchestra?

Hypothesis: The Classical era stringed instruments were the four instruments which form the string section of the orchestra: the violin, viola, cello and contrabass.


Premise: When did Switzerland ratify the Kyoto Protocol

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


Premise: What are electric double-layer capacitors called today?

Hypothesis: Because the double layer mechanism was not known by him at the time, he wrote in the patent: "It is not known exactly what is taking place in the component if it is used for energy storage, but it leads to an extremely high capacity.".


Premise: What, according to the text, are two examples of "old world" dogs?

Hypothesis: These include the "old world dogs" (e.g., Malamute and Shar Pei), "Mastiff"-type (e.g., English Mastiff), "herding"-type (e.g., Border Collie), and "all others" (also called "modern"- or "hunting"-type).


Premise: When did militaristic Boulangism collapse?

Hypothesis: Datta (2005) shows that, following the collapse of militaristic Boulangism in the late 1880s, the Napoleonic legend was divorced from party politics and revived in popular culture.


Premise: When was Simon Hall opened?

Hypothesis: Simon Hall was opened in 1986 after a donation from John E. Simon.


Premise: What are primarily morphosyllabic?

Hypothesis: Excluding foreign loan words, these are typically words for plants and small animals.


Premise: How many magazines can call NYC home?

Hypothesis: More than 200 newspapers and 350 consumer magazines have an office in the city, and the publishing industry employs about 25,000 people.


Premise: What could you find in Novgorod that you couldn't in most other cities?

Hypothesis: Novgorod had a sewage system and wood paving not often found in other cities at the time.


Premise: In 2011, what school was built on Roosevelt Island?

Hypothesis: By mid-2014, Accelerator, a biotech investment firm, had raised more than US$30 million from investors, including Eli Lilly and Company, Pfizer, and Johnson & Johnson, for initial funding to create biotechnology startups at the Alexandria Center for Life Science, which encompasses more than 700,000 square feet (65,000 m2) on East 29th Street and promotes collaboration among scientists and entrepreneurs at the center and with nearby academic, medical, and research institutions.


Premise: What is the city's largest age group?

Hypothesis: In 2000, the city's population pyramid had a largely stationary shape.


Premise: When does Wayback Machine save a copy of a website?

Hypothesis: They revisit sites every few weeks or months and archive a new version if the content has changed.


Premise: Which uprising occurred from 1946 to 1951?

Hypothesis: Between 1946 and 1951, the Communist Party of India fomented the Telangana uprising against the feudal lords of the Telangana region.


Premise: What are a couple other ways to write countout?

Hypothesis: A countout (alternatively "count-out" or "count out") happens when a wrestler is out of the ring long enough for the referee to count to ten (twenty in some promotions) and thus disqualified.


Premise: What bacteria is an exception to single circular chromosome rule?

Hypothesis: Spirochaetes of the genus Borrelia are a notable exception to this arrangement, with bacteria such as Borrelia burgdorferi, the cause of Lyme disease, containing a single linear chromosome.


Premise: Where do the Tigers play?

Hypothesis: All these teams but one play within the city of Detroit itself (the NBA's Detroit Pistons play in suburban Auburn Hills at The Palace of Auburn Hills).


Premise: The chemicals used by insects to communicate are called what?

Hypothesis: These chemicals, termed semiochemicals, are often derived from plant metabolites include those meant to attract, repel and provide other kinds of information.


Premise: When was Sultan Hamid unseated?

Hypothesis: Armenian reform package (1914) was presented as a solution by appointing an inspector general over Armenian issues.


Premise: When did the Standard Capital Corporation take control of Universal?

Hypothesis: The production went $300,000 over budget; Standard called in the loan, cash-strapped Universal could not pay, Standard foreclosed and seized control of the studio on April 2, 1936.


Premise: In what province did the Ostrogoths settle?

Hypothesis: The settlement did not go smoothly, and when Roman officials mishandled the situation, the Ostrogoths began to raid and plunder.[D]


Premise: What is formed when the collagen and elastic glycoproteins surrounding eukaryotic cells are calcified?

Hypothesis: All animals have eukaryotic cells, surrounded by a characteristic extracellular matrix composed of collagen and elastic glycoproteins.


Premise: What is the main provision that pubs offer?

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: When was free agency first scheduled to begin?

Hypothesis: Dates were eventually announced as December 2 for the dispersal draft and December 4 for free agency, but shortly before the draft the league issued a press release announcing the draft had been postponed one day to December 3.


Premise: How many Dominican nunneries were there by 1358?

Hypothesis: There were one hundred and fifty-seven nunneries in the order by 1358.


Premise: Where can a student find to study art in Seattle?

Hypothesis: Seattle also has a number of smaller private universities including Seattle University and Seattle Pacific University, the former a Jesuit Catholic institution, the latter Free Methodist; universities aimed at the working adult, like City University and Antioch University; colleges within the Seattle Colleges District system, comprising North, Central, and South; seminaries, including Western Seminary and a number of arts colleges, such as Cornish College of the Arts, Pratt Fine Arts Center, and The Art Institute of Seattle.


Premise: What did the United Nations take charge of with regards to child labour?

Hypothesis: This initiative aims to progressively eliminate child labour through strengthening national capacities to address some of the causes of child labour.


Premise: What did Galen believe that pneuma was?

Hypothesis: Galen believed in the bodily humours of Hippocrates, and he taught that pneuma is the source of life.


Premise: Who did Prior Diego admire more than the Holy Church?

Hypothesis: On the other hand, the Cathars lived in a state of self-sacrifice that was widely appealing.


Premise: Madonna's album topped in how many countries chart worldwide?

Hypothesis: The album topped the charts in over 28 countries worldwide, an unprecedented achievement at the time, and became her best-selling studio album of her career to this date with sales of 25 million.


Premise: In what state did Kanye West record them majority of his fourth album?

Hypothesis: West had previously experimented with the technology on his debut album The College Dropout for the background vocals of "Jesus Walks" and "Never Let Me Down."


Premise: How many records has Underwood sold in America?

Hypothesis: In May 2005, Carrie Underwood was announced the winner, with Bice the runner-up.


Premise: What documentary features a white man in North Carolina?

Hypothesis: The True Story of a White Boy


Premise: What town was the Bodhi Tree in?

Hypothesis: At the age of 35, he famously sat in meditation under a Ficus religiosa tree now called the Bodhi Tree in the town of Bodh Gaya and vowed not to rise before achieving enlightenment.


Premise: Who was influenced by  Jan Baudouin de Courtenay?

Hypothesis: He also worked on the theory of phonetic alternations (what is now called allophony and morphophonology), and had a significant influence on the work of Ferdinand de Saussure.


Premise: What was the main problem the Qing had in preventing invasion from Europe?

Hypothesis: At the start of the Opium War, China had no unified navy and no sense of how vulnerable she was to attack from the sea; British forces sailed and steamed wherever they wanted to go......


Premise: What was teh iOS market share in 2013?

Hypothesis: However, this is still well below Android and iOS, which posted 43.4% and 48.2% market share respectively, although both operating systems have been on the market much longer than Windows 8.


Premise: What is often prescribed by the grammar of a language or by conventions of a particular discipline?

Hypothesis: In orthography, the uppercase is primarily reserved for special purposes, such as the first letter of a sentence or of a proper noun, which makes the lowercase the more common variant in text.


Premise: What is the name of the text that has information regarding Ayurveda?

Hypothesis: Ayurveda is a system of traditional medicine that originated in ancient India before 2500 BC, and is now practiced as a form of alternative medicine in other parts of the world.


Premise: What was a desirable feature of Georgian town planning?

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


Premise: What did AIG receive for promising to pay Party A in the event that Party B defaulted?

Hypothesis: However, AIG did not have the financial strength to support its many CDS commitments as the crisis progressed and was taken over by the government in September 2008.


Premise: What percentage of the population is economically active

Hypothesis: The percentage of the population who are economically active is higher than the regional and national average, and the unemployment rate is lower than the regional and national average.


Premise: What percentage of the population in Southeast Asia practice Islam?

Hypothesis: Islam is the most widely practised religion in Southeast Asia, numbering approximately 240 million adherents which translate to about 40% of the entire population, with majorities in Indonesia, Brunei, Malaysia and in Southern Philippines with Indonesia as the largest and most populated Muslim country around the world.


Premise: What future American founding father fought in the French and Indian War?

Hypothesis: Beginning in 1689, the colonies became involved in a series of wars between Great Britain and France for control of North America, the most important of which were Queen Anne's War, in which the British conquered French colony Acadia, and the final French and Indian War (1754–63) when Britain was victorious over all the French colonies in North America.


Premise: What percentage of GDP was the budget deficit of Greece in 2009?

Hypothesis: After several upward revisions, the 2009 budget deficit is now estimated at 15.7% of GDP.


Premise: Which science is concerned with the study of the dynamics of ice?

Hypothesis: Many astronomical observations are better made from the interior of Antarctica than from most surface locations because of the high elevation, which results in a thin atmosphere; low temperature, which minimizes the amount of water vapour in the atmosphere; and absence of light pollution, thus allowing for a view of space clearer than anywhere else on Earth.


Premise: Who was the Dutch Admiral in charge of the East Indies?

Hypothesis: His small force of submarines sank more Japanese ships in the first weeks of the war than the entire British and US navies together, an exploit which earned him the nickname "Ship-a-day Helfrich".


Premise: What two countries is treating pain a specialty in?

Hypothesis: The International Association for the Study of Pain advocates that the relief of pain should be recognized as a human right, that chronic pain should be considered a disease in its own right, and that pain medicine should have the full status of a specialty.


Premise: What's  window shapes di Czech Cubist architects use?

Hypothesis: Thus, new forms of windows and doors were also created, e. g. hexagonal windows.


Premise: What was the DBMS created by IBM called?

Hypothesis: IBM also had their own DBMS in 1966, known as Information Management System (IMS).


Premise: Which actress portrayed Eve Moneypenny?

Hypothesis: Daniel Craig returned for his fourth appearance as James Bond, while Ralph Fiennes, Naomie Harris and Ben Whishaw reprised their roles as M, Eve Moneypenny and Q respectively, having been established in Skyfall.


Premise: What is Reading Terminal called now?

Hypothesis: The Pennsylvania Railroad first operated Broad Street Station, then 30th Street Station and Suburban Station, and the Reading Railroad operated out of Reading Terminal, now part of the Pennsylvania Convention Center.


Premise: In which century were antibiotics first introduced?

Hypothesis: This has led to widespread problems with antimicrobial and antibiotic resistance, so much as to prompt the World Health Organization to classify antimicrobial resistance as a "serious threat [that] is no longer a prediction for the future, it is happening right now in every region of the world and has the potential to affect anyone, of any age, in any country".


Premise: On March 23, 1833, who headlined and performed with Chopin at a concert?

Hypothesis: Examples include a concert on 23 March 1833, in which Chopin, Liszt and Hiller performed (on pianos) a concerto by J.S. Bach for three keyboards; and, on 3 March 1838, a concert in which Chopin, his pupil Adolphe Gutmann, Charles-Valentin Alkan, and Alkan's teacher Joseph Zimmermann performed Alkan's arrangement, for eight hands, of two movements from Beethoven's 7th symphony.


Premise: Where was an attempt made to take the torch?

Hypothesis: In Ladbroke Grove a demonstrator attempted to snatch the torch from Konnie Huq in a momentary struggle, and in a separate incident, a fire extinguisher was set off near the torch.


Premise: How are the many calculations to determine torque done?

Hypothesis: Once these have been established by mathematical analysis using FEA or other tools the torque may be calculated as the integral of all the vectors of force multiplied by the radius of each vector.


Premise: Who was the influential New Haven general that hoped to avoid conflict with the British Parliament as the American Revolution loomed closer?

Hypothesis: As the American Revolution approached, General David Wooster and other influential residents hoped that the conflict with the government in Britain could be resolved short of rebellion.


Premise: When did efforts begin to try and identify the origins of Ashkenazi Jews through DNA analysis?

Hypothesis: Genome-wide association studies have also been employed to yield findings relevant to genetic origins.


Premise: By 1945 what was the total sale of 45s?

Hypothesis: By 1954, 200 million 45s had been sold.


Premise: What atmospheric gas can be determined from fossilized leaf sizes and shapes?

Hypothesis: Palynology, the analysis of fossil pollen deposits in sediments from thousands or millions of years ago allows the reconstruction of past climates.


Premise: What geological theory was applied to the Paris Basin?

Hypothesis: Over the first half of the 19th century, geologists such as Charles Lyell, Adam Sedgwick, and Roderick Murchison applied the new technique to rocks throughout Europe and eastern North America, setting the stage for more detailed, government-funded mapping projects in later decades.