Premise: What did the British get a license to build?

Hypothesis: The British had already arranged licence building of the Bofors 40 mm, and introduced these into service.


Premise: What type of clothing does Parkwood Topshop Athletic Ltd produce?

Hypothesis: The new division was created for Topshop to break into the activewear market, with an athletic, street wear brand being produced.


Premise: The Russians escaped under the cover of what in 1855?

Hypothesis: In September 1854, an Allied landing force was beaten back with heavy casualties, and the Allies withdrew.


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

Hypothesis: The 18th century terms Baroque and Rococo have sometimes been applied, to the art of this complex and individual period.


Premise: How much did the Higher Education Commission impact the number of PhDs in Pakistan?

Hypothesis: Some countries have tried to encourage scientific research.


Premise: Who served as production designer for Spectre?

Hypothesis: Dennis Gassner returned as the film's production designer, while cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema took over from Roger Deakins.


Premise: What President attempted to make an example out of Boston due to it's view on the Anthony Burns Fugitive Slave Case?

Hypothesis: The city reacted strongly to the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, contributing to President Franklin Pierce's attempt to make an example of Boston after the Anthony Burns Fugitive Slave Case.


Premise: What is the term for a city with a population of over 10 million?

Hypothesis: The difficult years of the Great Depression saw the election of reformer Fiorello La Guardia as mayor and the fall of Tammany Hall after eighty years of political dominance.


Premise: What happened to urban R&B in the early 1990s?

Hypothesis: This in part led to a widening of the market, not only allowing to cater to more niche markets, but it also became customary for artists to make AC-friendly singles.


Premise: Who was initially named prime minister by the GNC?

Hypothesis: The GNC proceeded to elect Mohammed Magariaf as president of the chamber, and then voted Mustafa A.G. Abushagur as Prime Minister; when Abushagar failed to gain congressional approval, the GNC instead elected Ali Zeidan to the position.


Premise: What was the benefit of Windows 8.1 with Bing?

Hypothesis: Reports also indicated that Microsoft was planning to offer cheaper Windows 8 licenses to OEMs in exchange for setting Internet Explorer's default search engine to Bing.


Premise: Who stated that they did not want to cause damage to the Internet Archive?

Hypothesis: I never intended to interfere with that goal nor cause it any harm."


Premise: Who united the 5 tribes?

Hypothesis: The migration-period peoples who later coalesced into a "German" ethnicity were the Germanic tribes of the Saxons, Franci, Thuringii, Alamanni and Bavarii.


Premise: What type of extensions do these other character encodings have?

Hypothesis: Although these encodings are sometimes referred to as ASCII, true ASCII is defined strictly only by the ANSI standard.


Premise: What do airside areas include?

Hypothesis: Airside areas include all areas accessible to aircraft, including runways, taxiways and aprons.


Premise: What are the members of a Grand Lodge called?

Hypothesis: Each Grand Lodge maintains a list of other Grand Lodges that it recognises.


Premise: On what date did Alexander speak to the Sénat conservateur?

Hypothesis: On 1 April, Alexander addressed the Sénat conservateur.


Premise: What role did Eisenhower serve under Fox Conner?

Hypothesis: He first became executive officer to General Conner in the Panama Canal Zone, where, joined by Mamie, he served until 1924.


Premise: What was Eisenhower's cause of death?

Hypothesis: On the morning of March 28, 1969, at the age of 78, Eisenhower died in Washington, D.C. of congestive heart failure at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.


Premise: Magnates recieved gifts often from who?

Hypothesis: Often, those gifts were only temporary leases, which the magnates never returned (in the 16th century, the anti-magnate opposition among szlachta was known as the ruch egzekucji praw—movement for execution of the laws—which demanded that all such possessions are returned to their proper owner, the king).


Premise: Does Washington (government) operate in both languages (bilingual-Spanish?)

Hypothesis: There are 500 Spanish newspapers, 152 magazines, and 205 publishers in the United States; magazine and local television advertising expenditures for the Hispanic market have increased much from 1999 to 2003, with growth of 58 percent and 43 percent, respectively.


Premise: Hunt was a significant contributor to what?

Hypothesis: Hunting is still vital in marginal climates, especially those unsuited for pastoral uses or agriculture.[citation needed]


Premise: Where did Plymouth's life expectancy rank out of the regions of South West England?

Hypothesis: Life expectancy, at 78.3 years for men and 82.1 for women, was the lowest of any region in the South West of England.


Premise: What other city is similar to Philadelphia's accent?

Hypothesis: Unlike the Baltimore dialect, however, the Philadelphia accent also shares many similarities with the New York accent.


Premise: What is theorized to have evolved with circadian rhythms?

Hypothesis: Previous hypotheses emphasized that photosensitive proteins and circadian rhythms may have originated together in the earliest cells, with the purpose of protecting replicating DNA from high levels of damaging ultraviolet radiation during the daytime.


Premise: What was the original name of Mexico City?

Hypothesis: Mexico’s capital is both the oldest capital city in the Americas and one of two founded by Amerindians (Native Americans), the other being Quito.


Premise: Who won a border war with Libya?

Hypothesis: The conflict lasted one week before both sides agreed to sign a peace treaty that was brokered by several Arab states.


Premise: The Libyan conflict was primarily fought between which groups?

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


Premise: Who was executed on January 17, 1977?

Hypothesis: Executions resumed on January 17, 1977, when Gary Gilmore went before a firing squad in Utah.


Premise: What element of On the Origin of Species ensured that the book would be taken seriously by scientists?

Hypothesis: While the book was readable enough to sell, its dryness ensured that it was seen as aimed at specialist scientists and could not be dismissed as mere journalism or imaginative fiction.


Premise: Prudhoe Bay is second place in production to what other oil field in the US?

Hypothesis: Prudhoe Bay on Alaska's North Slope is still the second highest-yielding oil field in the United States, typically producing about 400,000 barrels per day (64,000 m3/d), although by early 2014 North Dakota's Bakken Formation was producing over 900,000 barrels per day (140,000 m3/d).


Premise: What was Apple's market share in the U.S. by 2006?

Hypothesis: As of October 2006, research firms IDC and Gartner reported that Apple's market share in the U.S. had increased to about 6 percent.


Premise: What was the walk score given to Boston?

Hypothesis: As of 2015[update], Walk Score still ranks Boston as the third most walkable US city, with a Walk Score of 80, a Transit Score of 75, and a Bike Score of 70.


Premise: Who created a pathway for education for women in the Islamic world?

Hypothesis: According to the Sunni scholar Ibn ʻAsākir in the 12th century, there were opportunities for female education in the medieval Islamic world, writing that women could study, earn ijazahs (academic degrees), and qualify as scholars and teachers.


Premise: If long-term pain can be relieved by therapy, what does a person's neurotic triad score do?

Hypothesis: When long-term pain is relieved by therapeutic intervention, scores on the neurotic triad and anxiety fall, often to normal levels.


Premise: What program can be used to modify files based on ReplayGain measurements?

Hypothesis: ReplayGain is a standard for measuring and storing the loudness of an MP3 file (audio normalization) in its metadata tag, enabling a ReplayGain-compliant player to automatically adjust the overall playback volume for each file.


Premise: What is the Galleria the largest of in Texas?

Hypothesis: The Theater District is a 17-block area in the center of downtown Houston that is home to the Bayou Place entertainment complex, restaurants, movies, plazas, and parks.


Premise: Nationalist in Northern Ireland want to join which country?

Hypothesis: (In the context of Northern Ireland, unionists are those who want Northern Ireland to remain a part of the United Kingdom and nationalists are those who want Northern Ireland join with the rest of Ireland.)


Premise: When does Seattle want to be rated as a climate neutral city?

Hypothesis: In February 2010, the city government committed Seattle to becoming North America's first "climate neutral" city, with a goal of reaching zero net per capita greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.


Premise: What denominations did the Third Great Awakening affect?

Hypothesis: It affected pietistic Protestant denominations and had a strong element of social activism.


Premise: What material sometimes used for dog chews reacts similarly to wood because of its water content?

Hypothesis: A similar effect of common observation is in the softening action of water on rawhide, paper, or cloth.


Premise: Where was there a drought?

Hypothesis: Widespread drought in North China, combined with the imperialist designs of European powers and the instability of the Qing government, created conditions that led to the emergence of the Righteous and Harmonious Fists, or "Boxers."


Premise: What handcrafts do they include?

Hypothesis: These include woolen and pashmina shawls, carpets, silver and metal ware, embroidered chappals, grass shoes, Kangra and Gompa style paintings, wood work, horse-hair bangles, wooden and metal utensils and various other house hold items.


Premise: What can be deployed as an offensive measure to refuse airspace use to an opponent?

Hypothesis: A surface-based air defence capability can also be deployed offensively to deny the use of airspace to an opponent.


Premise: To what did the Christian church equate the peace of the emperors?

Hypothesis: The peace of the emperors was the peace of God; as far as the Church was concerned, internal dissent and doctrinal schism were a far greater problem.


Premise: What was the name of Estêvão Gomes's ship?

Hypothesis: A Spanish expedition led by captain Estêvão Gomes, a Portuguese sailing for Emperor Charles V, arrived in New York Harbor in January 1525 aboard the purpose-built caravel "La Anunciada" and charted the mouth of the Hudson River, which he named Rio de San Antonio.


Premise: Elements in a half wave dipole and on an identical axis are said to be what?

Hypothesis: This consists of two 1⁄4-wavelength elements arranged end-to-end, and lying along essentially the same axis (or collinear), each feeding one side of a two-conductor transmission wire.


Premise: What languages besides Portuguese are taught in Brasilia's schools?

Hypothesis: The Portuguese language is the official national language and the primary language taught in schools.


Premise: What media conglomerate did Comcast try to buy in 2004?

Hypothesis: On February 11, 2004, Comcast announced a $54 billion bid for The Walt Disney Company, as well as taking on $12 billion of Disney's debt.


Premise: What religion was Burke's father?

Hypothesis: Born in Ireland to a Catholic mother and a Protestant father, Burke vigorously defended the Anglican Church, but also demonstrated sensitivity to Catholic concerns.


Premise: Aside from Italo-Dalmatian, what is another term for the group that Italian languages belong to?

Hypothesis: The languages of Italy are primarily Latin-based Romance languages, with the most widely spoken languages falling within the Italo-Dalmatian language family.


Premise: What is a genotype?

Hypothesis: According to Mendelian inheritance, variations in an organism's phenotype (observable physical and behavioral characteristics) are due in part to variations in its genotype (particular set of genes).


Premise: What was the name of the junior fashions launched in 2009 by Beyoncé and her mother?

Hypothesis: In July 2009, Beyoncé and her mother launched a new junior apparel label, Sasha Fierce for Deréon, for back-to-school selling.


Premise: What festival was celebrated in the 1950s in recognition of the city's Mexican and Spanish past?

Hypothesis: During the 1950s there was a citywide festival called Fiesta del Pacifico highlighting the area's Spanish and Mexican past.


Premise: What rank within India was HITEC City given by the World Bank Group in 2009?

Hypothesis: In 2009 the World Bank Group ranked the city as the second best Indian city for doing business.


Premise: What happened to President Bonaparte in 1852?

Hypothesis: The following year, President Bonaparte was declared Emperor Napoleon III, by which time Russell's administration had been replaced by a short-lived minority government led by Lord Derby.


Premise: What 2003 movie featuring Julia Roberts was filmed in New Haven?

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


Premise: Why was Iran included in the collection of regions?

Hypothesis: It is now generally used only in historical contexts, to describe the countries of Western Asia from the Mediterranean to (or including) Iran.


Premise: Petrochemical refineries and manufacturing plants were built due to the demand for what items during the war?

Hypothesis: When World War II started, tonnage levels at the port decreased and shipping activities were suspended; however, the war did provide economic benefits for the city.


Premise: What are some good standard home solutions?

Hypothesis: Standard home solutions such as salted rice water, salted yogurt drinks, vegetable and chicken soups with salt can be given.


Premise: Movement For democracy in Liberia requested the extradition of whom"

Hypothesis: In 2006, the government established a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to address the causes and crimes of the civil war.


Premise: How many universities were in Pakistan in 2001?

Hypothesis: In Pakistan, establishment of the Higher Education Commission in 2002, resulted in a 5-fold increase in the number of PhDs and a 10-fold increase in the number of scientific research papers in 10 years with the total number of universities increasing from 115 in 2001 to over 400 in 2012.[citation needed]


Premise: What is required of commentators before publishing or airing content ?

Hypothesis: " The most significant change has come in the form that media organisations will no longer have to submit their content to a censorship board before publication.


Premise: Why did the Chinese PLA Navy need 4-5 years for Liaoning to reach full capacity?

Hypothesis: On 26 December 2012, the People's Daily reported that it will take four to five years for Liaoning to reach full capacity, mainly due to training and coordination which will take significant amount of time for Chinese PLA Navy to complete as this is the first aircraft carrier in their possession.


Premise: What were two large ports on the English east coast in the North?

Hypothesis: However, as with the attacks in the south, the Germans failed to prevent maritime movements or cripple industry in the regions.


Premise: How many narrow-gauge lines in Slovakia?

Hypothesis: In Portugal, it is used in the Cascais Line and in Denmark on the suburban S-train system.


Premise: In which year did Sante Fe inhabitants return home from seeking refuge?

Hypothesis: The absence of servants and workers forged the spirit of northern people as self-dependent, creative people that defended their European heritage.


Premise: How long go did this crime take place?

Hypothesis: Almost 60 years later, 80 year old career criminal Henry (Harry)


Premise: What can be used to balance out a portion of the energy used by HVAC systems?

Hypothesis: In the United States, heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems account for 30% (4.65 EJ/yr) of the energy used in commercial buildings and nearly 50% (10.1 EJ/yr) of the energy used in residential buildings.


Premise: In what year did the NHL play against World Hockey Association teams?

Hypothesis: Since the 2000s, some preseason games have been played in Europe against European teams, as part of the NHL Challenge and NHL Premiere series.


Premise: What are morphemes?

Hypothesis: Some authors have proposed that there may be evidence of a sub-stratum or add-stratum language for geographic features and various crafts and agricultural activities, called variously Proto-Euphratean or Proto Tigrean, but this is disputed by others.


Premise: What do critics have to say about this payment?

Hypothesis: Though designed to help teams adjust to the loss of television revenues (the average Premier League team receives £55 million while the average Football League Championship club receives £2 million), critics maintain that the payments actually widen the gap between teams that have reached the Premier League and those that have not, leading to the common occurrence of teams "bouncing back" soon after their relegation.


Premise: What churches have been strongly engaged in the ecumenical movement?

Hypothesis: The ecumenical movement has had an influence on mainline churches, beginning at least in 1910 with the Edinburgh Missionary Conference.


Premise: Earthquakes hit both Greece and Turkey in which year?

Hypothesis: Greece became the tenth member of the European Communities (subsequently subsumed by the European Union) on 1 January 1981, ushering in a period of sustained growth.


Premise: In what year were Bois de Boulogne and Bois de Vincennes annexed?

Hypothesis: Excluding the outlying parks of Bois de Boulogne and Bois de Vincennes, Paris covers an oval measuring about 87 km2 (34 sq mi) in area, enclosed by the 35 km (22 mi) ring road, the Boulevard Périphérique.


Premise: What hurt the Auto industry?

Hypothesis: The gasoline crises of 1973 and 1979 also affected Detroit and the U.S. auto industry.


Premise: How old was Napoleon when he married Joséphine de Beauharnais?

Hypothesis: Napoleon married Joséphine de Beauharnais in 1796, when he was 26; she was a 32-year-old widow whose first husband had been executed during the Revolution.


Premise: Who was the Uruguayan revolutionary that united with others from Buenos Aires?

Hypothesis: In 1811, the forces deployed by the Junta Grande of Buenos Aires and the gaucho forces led by Artigas started a siege of Montevideo, which had refused to obey the directives of the new authorities of the May Revolution.


Premise: What happens to the natural carcidan cycle when light-dark patterns are disrupted?

Hypothesis: When those patterns are disrupted, they disrupt the natural circadian cycle.


Premise: Written IPA consonants use symbols for what?

Hypothesis: For instance, ⟨p⟩ represents the voiceless bilabial stop, and ⟨pʰ⟩ represents the aspirated bilabial stop.


Premise: WHy did the foundation make the switch

Hypothesis: This was because the sanitation sector was generally receiving less attention from other donors and from governments, and because the Foundation believed it had the potential to make a real difference through strategic investments.


Premise: What 'side' was Richmond on in the Civil War?

Hypothesis: During the American Civil War, Richmond served as the capital of the Confederate States of America.


Premise: What is a primary reason that ships have shorter runways than land runways have?

Hypothesis: Creating such a surface at sea poses constraints on the carrier – for example, the fact that it is a ship means that a full-length runway would be costly to construct and maintain.


Premise: What actions were taken to help the PVA?

Hypothesis: For what are they giving their lives?


Premise: What ws the final day of the 19th Party Conference?

Hypothesis: On July 1, 1988, the fourth and last day of a bruising 19th Party Conference, Gorbachev won the backing of the tired delegates for his last-minute proposal to create a new supreme legislative body called the Congress of People's Deputies.


Premise: Where are HNIC broadcasts aired?

Hypothesis: This was required by the CRTC as Rogers exercises editorial control and sells all advertising time during the HNIC broadcasts, even though the CBC bug and promos for other CBC Television programs appear throughout HNIC.


Premise: What is the definition of radiant luminous efficacy?

Hypothesis: The radiant luminous efficacy (LER) is the ratio of the visible light flux emitted (the luminous flux) to the total power radiated over all wavelengths.


Premise: The Municipality of Montevideo was first created by a legal act of what?

Hypothesis: The Municipality of Montevideo was first created by a legal act of 18 December 1908.


Premise: Who did Egypt send to Greece with an Army?

Hypothesis: Ibrahim landed in the Peloponnese in February 1825 and had immediate success: by the end of 1825, most of the Peloponnese was under Egyptian control, and the city of Missolonghi—put under siege by the Turks since April 1825—fell in April 1826.


Premise: What was the industry standard on equalization practices?

Hypothesis: In the US there were more varied practices and a tendency to use higher bass turnover frequencies such as 500 Hz as well as a greater treble rolloff like −8.5 dB and even more to record generally higher modulation levels on the record.


Premise: What is the oldest Slav state in Central Europe?

Hypothesis: In this period, there existed central Slavic groups and states such as the Balaton Principality, but the subsequent expansion of the Magyars, as well as the Germanisation of Austria, separated the northern and southern Slavs.


Premise: Magna Graecia is Latin for what term?

Hypothesis: (Latin: Magna Graecia, or Greater Greece) and Asia Minor.


Premise: What sets the Zoo San Juan de Aragon apart from the others?

Hypothesis: Zoo San Juan de Aragon is near the San Juan de Aragon Park in the Gustavo A. Madero.


Premise: Name the three writers who were in part resonsible for the reemergence of Cubism between 1917 and 1924.

Hypothesis: The reemergence of Cubism coincided with the appearance from about 1917–24 of a coherent body of theoretical writing by Pierre Reverdy, Maurice Raynal and Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler and, among the artists, by Gris, Léger and Gleizes.


Premise: Who instructed the King to only shake hands with whites in South Africa?

Hypothesis: George was appalled, however, when instructed by the South African government to shake hands only with whites, and referred to his South African bodyguards as "the Gestapo".


Premise: Who did Santa Anna order the reinstatement as comandante general?

Hypothesis: Santa Anna ordered the reinstatement of Mendarozqueta as comandante general.


Premise: Where is uranium naturally formed?

Hypothesis: Along with all elements having atomic weights higher than that of iron, it is only naturally formed in supernovae.


Premise: WHat percentage of people suffer from atypical symptoms?

Hypothesis: Among those over 75 years old, about 5% have had an MI with little or no history of symptoms.


Premise: Who directed the 1962 film?

Hypothesis: It was adapted into an Oscar-winning film in 1962 by director Robert Mulligan, with a screenplay by Horton Foote.


Premise: What battle did Napoleon fight against the Mamluks?

Hypothesis: He fought the Battle of Shubra Khit against the Mamluks, Egypt's ruling military caste.


Premise: Where lobbying is controlled, what does it provide for consideration to determine improper influencing?

Hypothesis: Where lobbying is (sufficiently) regulated, it becomes possible to provide for a distinctive criteria and to consider that trading in influence involves the use of "improper influence", as in article 12 of the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption (ETS 173) of the Council of Europe.


Premise: What type of government did Espartero have?

Hypothesis: Under his progressive government the old regime was tenuously reconciled to his liberal policies.


Premise: What year was the earliest reference to classical music?

Hypothesis: The earliest reference to "classical music" recorded by the Oxford English Dictionary is from about 1836.


Premise: What is the southern most continent?

Hypothesis: It covers more than 14,000,000 km2 (5,400,000 sq mi), making it the fifth-largest continent, about 1.3 times as large as Europe.


Premise: What percentage of Congolese citizens identify as Awakening Lutherans?

Hypothesis: According to CIA World Factbook, the people of Republic of the Congo are largely a mix of Catholics (33.1%), Awakening Lutherans (22.3%) and other Protestants (19.9%).


Premise: who released the hit single "promised land"?

Hypothesis: Europeans embraced house, and began booking legendary American house DJs to play at the big clubs, such as Ministry of Sound, whose resident, Justin Berkmann brought in Larry Levan.


Premise: When does inflammatory diarrhea occur?

Hypothesis: Inflammatory diarrhea occurs when there is damage to the mucosal lining or brush border, which leads to a passive loss of protein-rich fluids and a decreased ability to absorb these lost fluids.


Premise: Who was a French philospher that celebrated the virtues of nature?

Hypothesis: In the 18th and 19th century, green was associated with the romantic movement in literature and art.


Premise: What company now runs Brasilia's airport?

Hypothesis: This was the main requirement made by the federal government, which transferred the operation of the terminal to the Inframerica Group after an auction.


Premise: What leads from the salivary glands to the reservoirs?

Hypothesis: The salivary ducts lead from the glands to the reservoirs and then forward through the head to an opening called the salivarium, located behind the hypopharynx.


Premise: If you were unable to choose the antenna you wanted how could you still achieve this result?

Hypothesis: Resonant antennas are expected to be used around a particular resonant frequency; an antenna must therefore be built or ordered to match the frequency range of the intended application.


Premise: What is the original cell of the plant?

Hypothesis: The process results from the epigenetic activation of some genes and inhibition of others.


Premise: When did the Korean War end?

Hypothesis: The Korean War (in South Korean Hangul: 한국전쟁, Hanja: 韓國戰爭, Hanguk Jeonjaeng, "Korean War"; in North Korean Chosungul: 조국해방전쟁, Joguk Haebang Jeonjaeng, "Fatherland Liberation War"; 25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953)[a] was started when North Korea invaded South Korea.


Premise: Name some of the jobs in the CAF off limits to women in the 1980s.

Hypothesis: In 1987, occupations and units with the primary role of preparing for direct involvement in combat on the ground or at sea were still closed to women: infantry, armoured corps, field artillery, air-defence artillery, signals, field engineers, and naval operations.


Premise: How did the Bristol Blenheim F.1 perform against German aircraft?

Hypothesis: Moreover, the Blenheim struggled to reach the speed of the German bombers.


Premise: Why did Francis fail to kill Queen Victoria?

Hypothesis: On 3 July, two days after Francis's death sentence was commuted to transportation for life, John William Bean also tried to fire a pistol at the Queen, but it was loaded only with paper and tobacco and had too little charge.


Premise: On what date was full British citizenship restored to the citizens of the island?

Hypothesis: The citizens of Saint Helena hold British Overseas Territories citizenship.


Premise: The Diaz administration allowed the elite to concentrate wealth by favoring what?

Hypothesis: The need of laborers to construct the extensive infrastructure projects resulted in a significant Asian immigration, mostly from China.


Premise: When did inhaled corticosteroids and short acting beta agonist start being used?

Hypothesis: Oral corticosteroids began to be used for this condition in the 1950s while inhaled corticosteroids and selective short acting beta agonist came into wide use in the 1960s.


Premise: What is reduced when a dog has countershading?

Hypothesis: A countershaded animal will have dark coloring on its upper surfaces and light coloring below, which reduces its general visibility.


Premise: What kind of support does Dell provide using a computer's service-tag?

Hypothesis: Dell also provide on-line support by using the computer's service-tag that provides full list of the hardware elements installed originally, purchase date and provides the latest upgrades for the original hardware drivers.


Premise: What year did the Irish Times start?

Hypothesis: The Times is the first newspaper to have borne that name, lending it to numerous other papers around the world, including The Times of India (founded in 1838), The Straits Times (Singapore) (1845), The New York Times (1851), The Irish Times (1859), Le Temps (France) (1861-1942), the Cape Times (South Africa) (1872), the Los Angeles Times (1881), The Seattle Times (1891), The Manila Times (1898), The Daily Times (Malawi) (1900), El Tiempo (Colombia) (1911), The Canberra Times (1926), and The Times (Malta) (1935).


Premise: In what year was the Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy founded?

Hypothesis: The Institute's mission is to "[advance] post-partisanship, where leaders put people over political parties and work together to find the best ideas and solutions to benefit the people they serve," and to "seek to influence public policy and public debate in finding solutions to the serious challenges we face.


Premise: In what century was Southampton Castle built?

Hypothesis: Following the Norman Conquest in 1066, Southampton became the major port of transit between the then capital of England, Winchester, and Normandy.


Premise: In recent years what has Ann Arbor become?

Hypothesis: In A Prairie Home Companion broadcast from Ann Arbor, Garrison Keillor described Ann Arbor as "a city where people discuss socialism, but only in the fanciest restaurants."


Premise: Where is a good source of marine research in Cork?

Hypothesis: Examples include the Tyndall National Institute (ICT hardware research), IMERC (Marine Energy), Environmental Research Institute, NIMBUS (Network Embedded Systems); and CREATE (Advanced Therapeutic Engineering).


Premise: Who linked De Stijl to Cubist theory?

Hypothesis: The influential De Stijl movement embraced the aesthetic principles of Neo-plasticism developed by Piet Mondrian under the influence of Cubism in Paris.


Premise: Which seven CDPs were incorporated as part of the 1980 Census?

Hypothesis: Of Alaska's 2010 Census population figure of 710,231, 20,429 people, or 2.88% of the population, did not live in an incorporated city or census-designated place.


Premise: Who has the record for scoring the most goals in single season?

Hypothesis: Andrew Cole and Alan Shearer hold the record for most goals in a season (34) – for Newcastle and Blackburn respectively.


Premise: When was the age limit increased to 28?

Hypothesis: The initial age limit was sixteen to twenty-four in the first three seasons, but the upper limit was raised to twenty-eight in season four, and the lower limit was reduced to fifteen in season ten.


Premise: What does an upstream ISP provide for an ISP?

Hypothesis: An upstream ISP usually has a larger network than the contracting ISP or is able to provide the contracting ISP with access to parts of the Internet the contracting ISP by itself has no access to.


Premise: What were three sites used for filming Spectre?

Hypothesis: Mendes also confirmed several filming locations, including London, Mexico City and Rome.


Premise: Whitehead's education style was to teach what?

Hypothesis: For Whitehead, education should be the exact opposite of the multidisciplinary, value-free school model – it should be transdisciplinary, and laden with values and general principles that provide students with a bedrock of wisdom and help them to make connections between areas of knowledge that are usually regarded as separate.


Premise: By what percent is Yale committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions below 1990 levels by the year 2020?

Hypothesis: As part of this commitment, the university allocates renewable energy credits to offset some of the energy used by residential colleges.


Premise: What helped cause the most life like sound?

Hypothesis: When the record was played back using a complementary inverse curve, signal-to-noise ratio was improved and the programming sounded more lifelike.


Premise: When was Plymouth Gin first distilled?

Hypothesis: During the 1930s, it was the most widely distributed gin and has a controlled term of origin.


Premise: When was Antarctica still joined to Australia?

Hypothesis: In the Eocene epoch, about 40 Ma Australia-New Guinea separated from Antarctica, so that latitudinal currents could isolate Antarctica from Australia, and the first ice began to appear.


Premise: How many people attended Nasser's funeral?

Hypothesis: Nasser's funeral procession through Cairo on 1 October was attended by at least five million mourners.


Premise: Who won American Idols fourteenth season?

Hypothesis: Nick Fradiani won the season, defeating Clark Beckham.


Premise: Why was that type of cross important?

Hypothesis: However, early Christian writers who speak of the shape of the particular gibbet on which Jesus died invariably describe it as having a cross-beam.


Premise: Buddhism may have spread quickly because of what Mauryan emperor?

Hypothesis: Buddhism may have spread only slowly in India until the time of the Mauryan emperor Ashoka, who was a public supporter of the religion.


Premise: What does DEUS INDICAT mean?

Hypothesis: Or, between two pennants flottant Argent, each charged with a cross Gules, over the sphere the words DEUS INDICAT" (Latin: God Indicates).


Premise: How is the city commonly abbreviated?

Hypothesis: This motto was quickly adopted as a city nickname, but has faded since the new motto Capital en Movimiento ("Capital in Movement") was adopted by the administration headed by Marcelo Ebrard, though the latter is not treated as often as a nickname in media.


Premise: How many computers were at Eaton in the 1970s?

Hypothesis: From the latter part of the 19th century this curriculum has changed and broadened: for example, there are now more than 100 students of Chinese, which is a non-curriculum course.


Premise: What is the name of the university building in Bologna, built in the 14th and 15th centuries?

Hypothesis: By the late Middle Ages university towns had grown in wealth and importance as well, and this was reflected in the buildings of some of Europe's ancient universities.


Premise: How much money in US dollars did the Carnival industry make in 2012?

Hypothesis: Local tourists pay $500–950, depending on the costume, to buy a Samba costume and dance in the parade.


Premise: The discovery of what tombs raised the profile of Hellenistic art?

Hypothesis: The renewal of the historiographical approach as well as some recent discoveries, such as the tombs of Vergina, allow a better appreciation of this period's artistic richness.


Premise: Who led the signing of the Cambridge Agreement?

Hypothesis: In 1629, the Massachusetts Bay Colony's first governor, John Winthrop, led the signing of the Cambridge Agreement, a key founding document of the city.


Premise: When was the birth of the Italian Empire declared?

Hypothesis: This Fascist period was characterized by imperial expansion in the name of a "new Roman Empire".


Premise: Who starred in The Phantom of the Opera?

Hypothesis: His two biggest hits for Universal were The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) and The Phantom of the Opera (1925).


Premise: Which city in Sichuan is known for its machinery production?

Hypothesis: Sichuan is one of the major industrial centers of China.


Premise: What can be treated using genetic engineering?

Hypothesis: However, the genomes of cells in an adult organism can be edited using gene therapy techniques to treat genetic diseases.


Premise: What percent of the Manhattan population has a university degree, as of 2000?

Hypothesis: In 2000, according to the U.S. Census, out of the nearly 800,000 people in the Bronx who were then at least 25 years old, 62.3% had graduated from high school and 14.6% held a bachelor's or higher college degree.


Premise: Which year was used for estimates in the 2011 report?

Hypothesis: These were devised and launched by Pakistani economist Mahbub ul Haq in 1990 and had the explicit purpose "to shift the focus of development economics from national income accounting to people-centered policies".


Premise: What countries had Tajikistan been working with to use ports?

Hypothesis: In recent years Tajikistan has pursued agreements with Iran and Pakistan to gain port access in those countries via Afghanistan.


Premise: The Banská Akadémia was originally intended for training workers in what two precious metals?

Hypothesis: The world's first institution of technology or technical university with tertiary technical education is the Banská Akadémia in Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia, founded in 1735, Academy since December 13, 1762 established by queen Maria Theresa in order to train specialists of silver and gold mining and metallurgy in neighbourhood.


Premise: What did these 30 attendants wear?

Hypothesis: The Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee sent out a team of 30 unarmed attendants selected from the People's Armed Police to escort the flame throughout its journey.


Premise: What party established Nanjing as the capital of the Republic of China?

Hypothesis: The following decade is known as the Nanking decade.


Premise: What was the war called fought between the British and French against the Qing?

Hypothesis: Even though the Board of Rites and Lifan Yuan performed some duties of a foreign office, they fell short of developing into a professional foreign service.


Premise: What force were most commanders opposed to the Korea invasion part of?

Hypothesis: Most commanders who did opposed or otherwise resisted/resented Hideyoshi ended up as part of the so-called Eastern Army, while commanders loyal to Hideyoshi and his son (a notable exception to this trend was Katō Kiyomasa, who deployed with Tokugawa and the Eastern Army) were largely committed to the Western Army; the two opposing sides (so named for the relative geographical locations of their respective commanders' domains) would later clash, most notably at the Battle of Sekigahara, which was won by Tokugawa Ieyasu and the Eastern Forces, paving the way for the establishment of the Tokugawa Shogunate.


Premise: Who concealed the identity of Emperor He's mother?

Hypothesis: With the aid of the eunuch Zheng Zhong (d. 107 AD), Emperor He (r. 88–105 AD) had Empress Dowager Dou (d. 97 AD) put under house arrest and her clan stripped of power.


Premise: What has Brazil avoided?

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


Premise: What is the economy of Boston?

Hypothesis: A global city, Boston is placed among the top 30 most economically powerful cities in the world.


Premise: The Stonewall riots are named after what building?

Hypothesis: They are widely considered to constitute the single most important event leading to the gay liberation movement and the modern fight for LGBT rights in the United States.


Premise: Who was the thirty year war between?

Hypothesis: The Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) was one of the most destructive conflicts in European history.


Premise: What office replaced the imperial guards?

Hypothesis: The new Metropolitan Police Board replaced the largely ceremonial imperial guard units.


Premise: Where did Kanye premier a film directed by himself in 2012?

Hypothesis: West also directed a film of the same name that premiered at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival in custom pyramid-shaped screening pavilion featuring seven screens.


Premise: Where did the Estudiantina Figaro play?

Hypothesis: " The group landed in the U.S. on January 2, 1880 in New York City, and played in Boston and New York to wildly enthusiastic crowds.


Premise: How many times has Daniel Craig portrayed James Bond in films?

Hypothesis: Rory Kinnear also reprised his role as Bill Tanner in his third appearance in the series.


Premise: Efforts were made to reduce analog HDTV to how much of the bandwith of SDTV?

Hypothesis: Early HDTV commercial experiments, such as NHK's MUSE, required over four times the bandwidth of a standard-definition broadcast.


Premise: How many classes of chronic pain patients are there?

Hypothesis: The Multidimensional Pain Inventory (MPI) is a questionnaire designed to assess the psychosocial state of a person with chronic pain.


Premise: How many MP did they get in the election in 1924?

Hypothesis: Thus, with the acquiescence of Asquith's Liberals, Ramsay MacDonald became the first ever Labour Prime Minister in January 1924, forming the first Labour government, despite Labour only having 191 MPs (less than a third of the House of Commons).


Premise: How many Estonian museums existed in 2010?

Hypothesis: In 2010, there were 245 museums in Estonia whose combined collections contain more than 10 million objects.


Premise: Between what years was Jose batlle y Ordonez president of Uruguay?

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


Premise: What symbol set has a defining property of ambiguity?

Hypothesis: Back-translation must in general be less accurate than back-calculation because linguistic symbols (words) are often ambiguous, whereas mathematical symbols are intentionally unequivocal.


Premise: New Haven Hospital is located at where in Hospital Green?

Hypothesis: The carts cluster at three main points: by Yale – New Haven Hospital in the center of the Hospital Green (Cedar and York streets), by Yale's Trumbull College (Elm and York streets), and on the intersection of Prospect and Sachem streets by the Yale School of Management.


Premise: What kind of bombing raids were most favored?

Hypothesis: It was also thought the bombing of residential centres would cause a collapse of civilian will, which might have led to the collapse of production and civil life.


Premise: Before it shut down, what was the tuna loining plant attempting to produce?

Hypothesis: After the plant closed, it was taken over by the government, which had been the guarantor of a $2 million loan to the business.[citation needed]


Premise: Who was the first dog to orbit the earth in 1957?

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: Who began moderating the use of Hanja?

Hypothesis: After Kim Jong Il, the second ruler of North Korea, died in December 2011, Kim Jong Un stepped up and began mandating the use of Hanja as a source of definition for the Korean language.


Premise: Why might the method gradually applying the operating voltage not be suitable to protect electrolytic capacitors in modern devices?

Hypothesis: Unfortunately, the use of this technique may be less satisfactory for some solid state equipment, which may be damaged by operation below its normal power range, requiring that the power supply first be isolated from the consuming circuits.


Premise: What has become a common research tool with model organisms?

Hypothesis: Genetic engineering is now a routine research tool with model organisms.


Premise: What was the name of the film's soundtrack called?

Hypothesis: The Next Best Thing, and contributed two songs to the film's soundtrack; "Time Stood Still" and a cover of Don McLean's 1971 song "American Pie".


Premise: What other countries are important to the duck husbandry business?

Hypothesis: China was also by far the largest producer of goose and guinea fowl meat, with a 94% share of the 2.6 million tonne global market.


Premise: What are some of the reasons for a party's failure?

Hypothesis: In dominant-party systems, opposition parties are allowed, and there may be even a deeply established democratic tradition, but other parties are widely considered to have no real chance of gaining power.


Premise: What did the label of  Hellenes come to stand for during the Common Era of Greece ?

Hypothesis: Of the new eastern religions introduced into the Greek world, the most successful was Christianity.


Premise: Describe Gaddafi's early childhood.

Hypothesis: Gaddafi's upbringing in Bedouin culture influenced his personal tastes for the rest of his life.


Premise: The Saraguro and Panzaleo are two of the member groups of what population?

Hypothesis: Approximately 96.4% of Ecuador's Indigenous population are Highland Quichuas living in the valleys of the Sierra region.


Premise: The devastating wreck of the flotilla is said to have inspired what playwrite?

Hypothesis: The flotilla was broken up by a storm.


Premise: WHat caste system does the hindu society have?

Hypothesis: An exact counterpart of Szlachta society was the Meerassee system of tenure of southern India—an aristocracy of equality—settled as conquerors among a separate race.:484


Premise: What is the current height limitation in Paris in central areas?

Hypothesis: In recent developments, a 1974-2010 building height limitation of 37 metres (121 ft) was raised to 50 m (160 ft) in central areas and 180 metres (590 ft) in some of Paris' peripheral quarters, yet for some of the city's more central quarters, even older building-height laws still remain in effect.


Premise: What are the major roads in Richmond?

Hypothesis: Surrounded by Henrico and Chesterfield counties, the city is located at the intersections of Interstate 95 and Interstate 64, and encircled by Interstate 295 and Virginia State Route 288.


Premise: How many radioisotopes of zinc have been discovered?

Hypothesis: Several dozen radioisotopes have been characterized.


Premise: When were proposals for a Chief Councillor put on hold?

Hypothesis: These proposals were put to a referendum on 23 March 2013 where they were defeated by 158 votes to 42 on a 10% turnout.


Premise: How did the French defend the Fortress of Louisbourg?

Hypothesis: French naval deployments in 1757 also successfully defended the key Fortress of Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island, securing the seaward approaches to Quebec.


Premise: What are some of the other terms for zinc?

Hypothesis: The word is probably derived from the German zinke, and supposedly meant "tooth-like, pointed or jagged" (metallic zinc crystals have a needle-like appearance).


Premise: The nature of knowledge, evidence, experience, and causation together are called what?

Hypothesis: Much of what is incorporated in the scientific method (the nature of knowledge, evidence, experience, and causation) and some modern attitudes towards the relationship between science and religion were developed by his protégés David Hume and Adam Smith.


Premise: What kinds of courses does RIBA conduct accreditation services for apart from the Architects Registration Board?

Hypothesis: In addition to the Architects Registration Board, the RIBA provides accreditation to architecture schools in the UK under a course validation procedure.


Premise: What are different designs aimed at increasing?

Hypothesis: This can be accomplished in many different ways leading to a plethora of antenna designs.


Premise: What were all members instructed to report weekly to the Brooklyn headquarters?

Hypothesis: Disappointed by the changes, tens of thousands of defections occurred during the first half of Rutherford's tenure, leading to the formation of several Bible Student organizations independent of the Watch Tower Society, most of which still exist.


Premise: What years did Cleomenes III rule?

Hypothesis: The Spartan king Cleomenes III (235–222 BCE) staged a military coup against the conservative ephors and pushed through radical social and land reforms in order to increase the size of the shrinking Spartan citizenry able to provide military service and restore Spartan power.


Premise: What percentage of people worked in business support?

Hypothesis: In 2010 it was the workplace of 144,600 employees, of whom 38 percent worked in finance and insurance, 16 percent in business support services.


Premise: What is the name of the amphitheater in Raleigh?

Hypothesis: Walnut Creek Amphitheatre is a large music amphitheater located in Southeast Raleigh.


Premise: What is the main reason for children today to be in the work force?

Hypothesis: Even when schools are sometimes available, they are too far away, difficult to reach, unaffordable or the quality of education is so poor that parents wonder if going to school is really worth it.


Premise: How many universities and academies participated in 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: Who sued Internet Archive in 2005?

Hypothesis: In December 2005, activist Suzanne Shell filed suit demanding Internet Archive pay her US $100,000 for archiving her web site profane-justice.org between 1999 and 2004.


Premise: What major film production company calls London home?

Hypothesis: Working Title Films has its headquarters in London.


Premise: Who headed the Anglican reforms in the middle of the 16th century?

Hypothesis: The Church of England declared its independence from the Catholic Church at the time of the Elizabethan Religious Settlement.


Premise: What was the capital of the Ottoman empire?

Hypothesis: I resulted in the emergence of a new state, Turkey, in the Ottoman Anatolian heartland following the Turkish War of Independence, as well as the founding of modern Balkan and Middle Eastern states and the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire.


Premise: Functioning as holder a light fixture can provide directed light and avoid?

Hypothesis: The most important functions are as a holder for the light source, to provide directed light and to avoid visual glare.


Premise: How much were both supplies worth?

Hypothesis: The Red Cross Society of China flew 557 tents and 2,500 quilts valued at 788,000 yuan (US$113,000) to Wenchuan County.


Premise: What is the population of Miami?

Hypothesis: According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Miami's metro area is the eighth-most populous and fourth-largest urban area in the United States, with a population of around 5.5 million.


Premise: Which Native American nation's emigration was first associated with the term "Trail of Tears?"

Hypothesis: The phrase originated as a description of the earlier emigration of the Choctaw nation.


Premise: What are the crescent shaped geographic feature of central Europe?

Hypothesis: In areas like Chiasso, Switzerland, and Neuschwanstein, Bavaria, the demarcation between the mountain range and the flatlands are clear; in other places such as Geneva, the demarcation is less clear.


Premise: How many inventors were honored at IBM's first Invention Award Dinner?

Hypothesis: In 1952, Thomas J. Watson, Jr., published the company's first written equal opportunity policy letter, one year before the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown vs. Board of Education and 11 years before the Civil Rights Act of 1964.


Premise: What StudioCanal film received an Academy Award nomination?

Hypothesis: Afterward, Universal Pictures acquired the United States distribution rights of several of StudioCanal's films, such as Mulholland Drive (which received an Oscar nomination) and Brotherhood of the Wolf (which became the second-highest-grossing French-language film in the United States since 1980).


Premise: What region has no mention?

Hypothesis: Explicitly excluded is India.


Premise: What happens when both the federal and state governments have regulations that overlap?

Hypothesis: In areas like antitrust, trademark, and employment law, there are powerful laws at both the federal and state levels that coexist with each other.


Premise: How many subordinate divisions did the National Military Establishment contain?

Hypothesis: The 1940s proved to be important in other ways as well.


Premise: Where do the pink-footed goose migrate?

Hypothesis: For example, the pink-footed goose Anser brachyrhynchus migrates from Iceland to Britain and neighbouring countries, whilst the dark-eyed junco Junco hyemalis migrates from subarctic and arctic climates to the contiguous United States and the American goldfinch from taiga to wintering grounds extending from the American South northwestward to Western Oregon.


Premise: What is another term for soul competency?

Hypothesis: Baptists subscribe to a doctrine that baptism should be performed only for professing believers (believer's baptism, as opposed to infant baptism), and that it must be done by complete immersion (as opposed to affusion or sprinkling).


Premise: Along with a subtropical highland climate, what climate classification covers Kathmandu?

Hypothesis: Under Köppen's climate classification, portions of the city with lower elevations have a humid subtropical climate (Cwa), while portions of the city with higher elevations generally have a subtropical highland climate.


Premise: Who directed 'Batman'?

Hypothesis: The film earned generally positive reviews and was another box office success, becoming the highest grossing film worldwide that year; its total box office receipts even topped those of Tim Burton's much-anticipated film Batman, which had been the bigger hit domestically.


Premise: When was HiCap announced?

Hypothesis: There have been experiments to extract uranium from sea water, but the yield has been low due to the carbonate present in the water.


Premise: How many prisoners did the French leave behind?

Hypothesis: The French troops who did not surrender retreated westward, leaving behind 1,000 dead and wounded and another 1,000 prisoners and all of their remaining ammunition.


Premise: Which Hawaiin volcano has been erupting since 1983?

Hypothesis: There has not been a major life-threatening eruption on the Hawaiian islands since the 17th century.


Premise: What is considered a location with a high level of ambiguity?

Hypothesis: Hanja are still used to some extent, particularly in newspapers, weddings, place names and calligraphy (although it is nowhere near the extent of kanji use in day-to-day Japanese society).


Premise: What is the population density of the city?

Hypothesis: The population density was 4,270.33 people per square mile (2653.47/km²).


Premise: Germanic, Romance, Slavic, and Greek all has old terms for "green" which are derived from words for what?

Hypothesis: Thus, the languages mentioned above (Germanic, Romance, Slavic, Greek) have old terms for "green" which are derived from words for fresh, sprouting vegetation.


Premise: In what part of London did Gaddafi wear traditional Arab garb?

Hypothesis: He later related that while he travelled to England believing it more advanced than Libya, he returned home "more confident and proud of our values, ideals and social character."


Premise: What is the primary sidearm used by the U.S. Army?

Hypothesis: The primary sidearm in the U.S. Army is the 9 mm M9 pistol; the M11 pistol is also used.


Premise: The USB Power Delivery revision 2.0 specification has been released as part of what?

Hypothesis: The USB Power Delivery revision 2.0 specification has been released as part of the USB 3.1 suite.


Premise: What operating system does Fixstars Solutions offer for the PlayStation 3?

Hypothesis: Retail PS3 Slim units cannot be used for supercomputing, because PS3 Slim lacks the ability to boot into a third-party OS.


Premise: What kind of filter requires a larger margin for error?

Hypothesis: Because of the Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem, frequency reproduction is always strictly less than half of the sampling frequency, and imperfect filters requires a larger margin for error (noise level versus sharpness of filter), so 8 kHz sampling rate limits the maximum frequency to 4 kHz, while 48 kHz maximum sampling rate limits an MP3 to 24 kHz sound reproduction.


Premise: Why did it receive this award?

Hypothesis: In 2010 the Premier League was awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise in the International Trade category for its outstanding contribution to international trade and the value it brings to English football and the United Kingdom's broadcasting industry.


Premise: Was does ROPMA stand for in the USAF?

Hypothesis: DOPMA also establishes limits on the number of officers that can serve at any given time in the Air Force.


Premise: What facet of religion was not an issue for Roman?

Hypothesis: Because Romans had never been obligated to cultivate one god or one cult only, religious tolerance was not an issue in the sense that it is for competing monotheistic systems.


Premise: What are some examples of phase change materials?

Hypothesis: Phase change materials such as paraffin wax and Glauber's salt are another thermal storage media.


Premise: Local disputes in rural areas are usually handled by what individuals?

Hypothesis: Various lower courts exist, though village chiefs and elders resolve most local disputes in rural areas.


Premise: What is the center of the LGBT community in Mexico City?

Hypothesis: The Historic Center is the oldest part of the city (along with some other, formerly separate colonial towns such as Coyoacán and San Ángel), some of the buildings dating back to the 16th century.


Premise: When did Microsoft start creating Windows 8?

Hypothesis: Windows 8 development started before Windows 7 had shipped in 2009.


Premise: According to Credit Suisse, what percentage of residents own their homes?

Hypothesis: According to Credit Suisse, only about 37% of residents own their own homes, one of the lowest rates of home ownership in Europe.


Premise: Beyoncé used words from which Nigerian author in her song, Flawless?

Hypothesis: In an interview published by Vogue in April 2013, Beyoncé was asked if she considers herself a feminist, to which she said, "that word can be very extreme...


Premise: What pigment was used for male skin tone in ancient wall art?

Hypothesis: An ivory painter's palette found inside the tomb of King Tutankhamun had small compartments with pigments of red ochre and five other colors.


Premise: In what city was the beer pump invented?

Hypothesis: Great Marlow Buckinghamshire 1742) an inventor, manufacturer and merchant of London.


Premise: What rank was Eisenhower promoted to in 1936?

Hypothesis: Eisenhower was promoted to the rank of permanent lieutenant colonel in 1936.


Premise: What were the alphabets of Southeast Asia?

Hypothesis: This material would have been more durable than paper in the tropical climate of Southeast Asia.


Premise: What 3 parts make up the CPU?

Hypothesis: The control unit, ALU, and registers are collectively known as a central processing unit (CPU).


Premise: Which Greek painter experimented in chiaroscuro?

Hypothesis: Developments in painting included experiments in chiaroscuro by Zeuxis and the development of landscape painting and still life painting.


Premise: Who coordinates the study program of Samskritam as a Foreign Language?

Hypothesis: In the United States, since September 2009, high school students have been able to receive credits as Independent Study or toward Foreign Language requirements by studying Sanskrit, as part of the "SAFL:


Premise: What is one of the main causes of the turbulent history?

Hypothesis: Bosniaks, Croats and Serbs differ in religion and were historically often part of different cultural circles, although a large part of the nations have lived side by side under foreign overlords.


Premise: What was the name of the bodyguard also accused of vandalism?

Hypothesis: On September 11, 2008, West and his road manager/bodyguard Don "Don C." Crowley were arrested at Los Angeles International Airport and booked on charges of felony vandalism after an altercation with the paparazzi in which West and Crowley broke the photographers' cameras.


Premise: What do the Monroeville townspeople call tourists to their town?

Hypothesis: Despite her discouragement, a rising number of tourists made to Monroeville a destination, hoping to see Lee's inspiration for the book, or Lee herself.


Premise: What other Sony gaming console was Hirai setting his sales goal to beat?

Hypothesis: In a July 2008 interview, Hirai stated that his objective is for PlayStation 3 to sell 150 million units by its ninth year, surpassing PlayStation 2's sales of 140 million in its nine years on the market.


Premise: How many families were residing in Atlantic City during the 2010 United States Census?

Hypothesis: At the 2010 United States Census, there were 39,558 people, 15,504 households, and 8,558 families residing in the city.


Premise: Between what years did cubism begin?

Hypothesis: The first organized group exhibition by Cubists took place at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris during the spring of 1911 in a room called 'Salle 41'; it included works by Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Fernand Léger, Robert Delaunay and Henri Le Fauconnier, yet no works by Picasso or Braque were exhibited.


Premise: What kind of living materials formed the basis of bitumen?

Hypothesis: The vast Alberta bitumen resources are believed to have started out as living material from marine plants and animals, mainly algae, that died millions of years ago when an ancient ocean covered Alberta.


Premise: How many types of charging ports exist?

Hypothesis: A portable device can recognize the type of USB port; on a dedicated charging port, the D+ and D− pins are shorted with a resistance not exceeding 200 ohms, while charging downstream ports provide additional detection logic so their presence can be determined by attached devices.


Premise: What rulings do American courts rarely follow?

Hypothesis: The reason is that although the courts of the various Commonwealth nations are often influenced by each other's rulings, American courts rarely follow post-Revolution Commonwealth rulings unless there is no American ruling on point, the facts and law at issue are nearly identical, and the reasoning is strongly persuasive.


Premise: How could a merchant prevent having to register as one?

Hypothesis: These were often petty shopkeepers of urban marketplaces; merchants such as industrialists and itinerant traders working between a network of cities could avoid registering as merchants and were often wealthier and more powerful than the vast majority of government officials.


Premise: Bi-racial would be coded as what?

Hypothesis: These include "Bi Racial, Combination, Everything, Many, Mixed, Multi National, Multiple, Several and Various".


Premise: Who starred in 'Savage'/

Hypothesis: He fulfilled his contract by directing the TV film-length pilot of a show called Savage, starring Martin Landau.


Premise: When was the Philadelphia Convention?

Hypothesis: James Wilson said during the Philadelphia Convention in 1787 that, "Laws may be unjust, may be unwise, may be dangerous, may be destructive; and yet not be so unconstitutional as to justify the Judges in refusing to give them effect."


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

Hypothesis: The balance of payments identity requires that a country (such as the U.S.) running a current account deficit also have a capital account (investment) surplus of the same amount.


Premise: When was 'The World In Grey' published?

Hypothesis: According to Don Bosco's prophecy: "Between parallels 15 and 20, around a lake which shall be formed; A great civilization will thrive, and that will be the Promised Land."


Premise: What founder of pragmatism's collected papers did Charles Hartshorne ans Paul Weiss edit?

Hypothesis: Charles Hartshorne (along with Paul Weiss) edited the collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, one of the founders of pragmatism.


Premise: Where did a protector put a notice because of Queen Victoria's lack of public appearances in March of 1864?

Hypothesis: In March 1864, a protester stuck a notice on the railings of Buckingham Palace that announced "these commanding premises to be let or sold in consequence of the late occupant's declining business".


Premise: What year was Osmania University formed?

Hypothesis: The Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Open University, established in 1982, is the first distance learning open university in India.


Premise: When was the Wye College campus closed?

Hypothesis: Wye College campus was finally closed in September 2009.


Premise: Who replaced Derby when he resigned in 1868?

Hypothesis: Palmerston died in 1865, and after a brief ministry led by Russell, Derby returned to power.


Premise: How can associationism be defined?

Hypothesis: In addition to being conducive to Enlightenment ideologies of liberty, self-determination and personal responsibility, it offered a practical theory of the mind that allowed teachers to transform longstanding forms of print and manuscript culture into effective graphic tools of learning for the lower and middle orders of society.


Premise: In what year was the cotton gin invented?

Hypothesis: Although the city lost the status of state capital to Columbia in 1786, Charleston became even more prosperous in the plantation-dominated economy of the post-Revolutionary years.


Premise: Which Spielberg films has Tom Cruise been in?

Hypothesis: Spielberg has used Tom Hanks on several occasions and has cast him in Saving Private Ryan, Catch Me


Premise: When did the Seventh-day Adventist arrive on the island?

Hypothesis: The Catholics are pastorally served by the Mission sui iuris of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, whose office of ecclesiastical superior is vested in the Apostolic Prefecture of the Falkland Islands.


Premise: What was the population of New Haven according to the 2010 Census?

Hypothesis: According to a census of 1 July 2012, by the Census Bureau, the city had a population of 130,741.


Premise: What does DRM stand for?

Hypothesis: The ReWritable Audio CD is designed to be used in a consumer audio CD recorder, which will not (without modification) accept standard CD-RW discs.


Premise: According to Human Rights Watch, how many prisoners were killed on June 29, 1996?

Hypothesis: His government's treatment of non-Arab Libyans has also came in for criticism from human rights activists, with native Berbers, Italians, Jews, refugees, and foreign workers all facing persecution in Gaddafist Libya.


Premise: what is the fullwidth tilde character code in Microsoft Windows?

Hypothesis: Injective mappings must be provided between characters in existing legacy character sets and characters in Unicode to facilitate conversion to Unicode and allow interoperability with legacy software.


Premise: What is the minimum amount of nominees taken on the day of nomination in the Swazi Parliament?

Hypothesis: On the day of nomination, the name of the nominee is raised by a show of hand and the nominee is given an opportunity to indicate whether he or she accepts the nomination.


Premise: What mode of transportation took over from the canals?

Hypothesis: Canal traffic peaked in the 1860s and slowly gave way to railroads, allowing Richmond to become a major railroad crossroads, eventually including the site of the world's first triple railroad crossing.


Premise: What block does Northwestern Catalan and Valencian belong to?

Hypothesis: Western Catalan comprises the two dialects of Northwestern Catalan and Valencian; the Eastern block comprises four dialects: Central Catalan, Balearic, Rossellonese, and Alguerese.


Premise: What other European country were claims similar to those levied against Greece made?

Hypothesis: This led to claims that Greece (similar claims have been made about other European countries like Italy) had not actually met all five accession criteria, and the common perception that Greece entered the Eurozone through "falsified" deficit numbers.


Premise: From where does the phrase humanist originate?

Hypothesis: The term umanista comes from the latter part of the 15th century.


Premise: What is often done with Sichuan's natural gas reserves?

Hypothesis: Sichuan also possesses China's largest proven natural gas reserves, the majority of which is transported to more developed eastern regions.


Premise: In what month did the AFL season originally begin?

Hypothesis: Beginning with the 2003 season, the AFL made a deal with NBC to televise league games, which was renewed for another two years in 2005.


Premise: When did Tibet and China sign a peace treaty?

Hypothesis: Tibet continued as a Central Asian empire until the mid-9th century, when a civil war over succession led to the collapse of imperial Tibet.


Premise: What Kathmandu industry is particularly known for its English speakers?

Hypothesis: The major languages are Nepali and Nepal Bhasa, while English is understood by many, particularly in the service industry.


Premise: If long-term pain can be relieved by therapy, what does a person's neurotic triad score do?

Hypothesis: Some investigators have argued that it is this neuroticism that causes acute pain to turn chronic, but clinical evidence points the other way, to chronic pain causing neuroticism.


Premise: When were samurai becoming less warrior-like?

Hypothesis: During the Tokugawa shogunate, samurai increasingly became courtiers, bureaucrats, and administrators rather than warriors.


Premise: In what year did the Marshall Islands achieve total sovereignty?

Hypothesis: Self-government was achieved in 1979, and full sovereignty in 1986, under a Compact of Free Association with the United States.


Premise: In the first half of 2010, what percentage of shooting victims were African-American or Hispanic?

Hypothesis: In the first six months of 2010, 95.1% of all murder victims and 95.9% of all shooting victims in New York City were black or Hispanic; additionally, 90.2 percent of those arrested for murder and 96.7 percent of those arrested for shooting someone were black or Hispanic.


Premise: Which dog-sled race in Alaska is the most famous?

Hypothesis: Various races are held around the state, but the best known is the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, a 1,150-mile (1,850 km) trail from Anchorage to Nome (although the distance varies from year to year, the official distance is set at 1,049 miles or 1,688 km).


Premise: What nation's cameras does the CIPA DC-004 apply to?

Hypothesis: The CIPA DC-004 standard requires that Japanese manufacturers of digital still cameras use either the REI or SOS techniques, and DC-008 updates the Exif specification to differentiate between these values.


Premise: What was the result of their recommendation?

Hypothesis: Since the formation of the Premier League, football grounds in England have seen constant improvements to capacity and facilities, with some clubs moving to new-build stadiums.


Premise: How old was Sigismund of Luxemburg when he was named heir?

Hypothesis: Louis did not leave a son as heir after his death in 1382.


Premise: What happened to the people that sentenced Priscillian to death?

Hypothesis: However, his accusers were excommunicated both by Ambrose of Milan and Pope Siricius, who opposed Priscillian's heresy, but "believed capital punishment to be inappropriate at best and usually unequivocally evil".


Premise: What was the Anschluss?

Hypothesis: The Poverty of Historicism (1944) and The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945)—were inspired by his reflection on the events of his time and represented, in a sense, a reaction to the prevalent totalitarian ideologies that then dominated Central European politics.


Premise: When was the Trieno Liberal?

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: What was the primary fighting force in southern Afghanistan?

Hypothesis: The initial force consisted of roughly 3,300 British, 2,000 Canadian, 1,400 from the Netherlands and 240 from Australia, along with special forces from Denmark and Estonia and small contingents from other nations.


Premise: What was important and unique about regional leaders?

Hypothesis: The origins of the szlachta, while ancient, have always been considered obscure.:207 As a result, its members often referred to it as odwieczna (perennial).:207 Two popular historic theories of origin forwarded by its members and earlier historians and chroniclers involved descent from the ancient Iranian tribes known as Sarmatians or from Japheth, one of Noah's sons


Premise: How far does a glacier have to move to cause glacial earthquakes?

Hypothesis: This increase in the numbers of glacial earthquakes in Greenland may be a response to global warming.


Premise: How many wins does the Notre Dame men's basketball team have?

Hypothesis: The men's basketball team has over 1,600 wins, one of only 12 schools who have reached that mark, and have appeared in 28 NCAA tournaments.


Premise: What is the main feature of this attraction?

Hypothesis: The central element of this attraction is a simulated free-fall achieved through the use of a high-speed elevator system.


Premise: What industries accounted for most of the city's job gains?

Hypothesis: Similarly, the rate of new jobs added to the city's economy lagged behind the national job growth.


Premise: After what possible event would the speech called one of the greatest in history have been delivered?

Hypothesis: Eisenhower's sense of responsibility was underscored by his draft of a statement to be issued if the invasion failed.


Premise: What is the rate of interreligious marriage in Mexico?

Hypothesis: In the United States, only about a third of children from intermarriages affiliate with Jewish religious practice.


Premise: What is the estimated total cost of the Chinook helicopter project?

Hypothesis: By the time the Chinooks are airworthy, the total cost of the project could be as much as £500m.


Premise: By what method do quantum computers solve encryption algorithms quickly?

Hypothesis: There is active research to make computers out of many promising new types of technology, such as optical computers, DNA computers, neural computers, and quantum computers.


Premise: What businesses were the dominant brewers of beer in England by the close of the 17th century?

Hypothesis: By the end of the century almost all beer was brewed by commercial breweries.


Premise: What man was Gladstone blamed for after his death at Khartoum?

Hypothesis: Victoria was pleased when Gladstone resigned in 1885 after his budget was defeated.


Premise: When did Nintendo announce Zelda would appear on the Wii?

Hypothesis: They also announced that Zelda would appear on the Wii (then codenamed "Revolution"), but it was not clear to the media if this meant Twilight Princess or a different game.


Premise: What are possessed individuals known as?

Hypothesis: The possessed individual is referred to as a ghorala ("mount").


Premise: Who proclaimed House Unity Day in Chicago?

Hypothesis: Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley proclaimed August 10, 2005 to be "House Unity Day" in Chicago, in celebration of the "21st anniversary of house music" (actually the 21st anniversary of the founding of Trax Records, an independent Chicago-based house label).


Premise: Which channel aired 'Terra Nova'?

Hypothesis: In 2011, Spielberg launched Falling Skies, a science fiction television series, on the TNT network.


Premise: What is the altitude which the FAA regulates over?

Hypothesis: The FAA became more involved with the environmental aspects of aviation in 1968 when it received the power to set aircraft noise standards.


Premise: When was the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company founded?

Hypothesis: In February 1907, the Royal Dutch Shell Group was created through the amalgamation of two rival companies: the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company of the Netherlands and the "Shell" Transport and Trading Company Ltd of the United Kingdom.


Premise: What event caused sea levels to decrease approximately 100,000 years ago?

Hypothesis: Beginning some 130,000 years ago the Sangamonian Stage raised sea levels to approximately 25 feet (8 m) above the current level.


Premise: Who oversees the transit network in Paris?

Hypothesis: The syndicate coordinates public transport and contracts it out to the RATP (operating 347 bus lines, the Métro, eight tramway lines, and sections of the RER), the SNCF (operating suburban rails, one tramway line and the other sections of the RER) and the Optile consortium of private operators managing 1,176 bus lines.


Premise: Where is 1520 Sedgwick?

Hypothesis: The Bronx's evolution from a hot bed of Latin jazz to an incubator of hip hop was the subject of an award-winning documentary, produced by City Lore and broadcast on PBS in 2006, "From Mambo to Hip Hop: A South Bronx Tale".


Premise: What is the name of Plymouth Council's urban redevelopment project?

Hypothesis: Plymouth Council is currently undertaking a project of urban redevelopment called the "Vision for Plymouth" launched by the architect David Mackay and backed by both Plymouth City Council and the Plymouth Chamber of Commerce (PCC).


Premise: Who presented himself as a model?

Hypothesis: According to the scriptures, Gautama Buddha presented himself as a model.


Premise: What is the Windows 8 price?

Hypothesis: As part of a launch promotion, Microsoft offered Windows 8 Pro upgrades at a discounted price of US$39.99 online, or $69.99 for retail box from its launch until January 31, 2013; afterward the Windows 8 price has been $119.99 and the Pro price $199.99.


Premise: What describes Habitat destruction, Invasive species, Pollution, human over-Population, and Over-harvesting?

Hypothesis: Jared Diamond describes an "Evil Quartet" of habitat destruction, overkill, introduced species, and secondary extinctions.


Premise: Métal hurlant was of what genre?

Hypothesis: Adult-oriented and experimental comics flourished in the 1970s, such as in the experimental science fiction of Mœbius and others in Métal hurlant, even mainstream publishers took to publishing prestige-format adult comics.


Premise: What is one example of an acoustic phonograph on which one would listen to electric recordings?

Hypothesis: It was not unusual for electric recordings to be played back on acoustic phonographs.


Premise: How much of GE's revenues is derived from the financial services it provides?

Hypothesis: It is also one of the largest lenders in countries other than the United States, such as Japan.


Premise: What is so good about ac powered HP-LEDs?

Hypothesis: The low-power dissipation of these LEDs affords them more flexibility than the original AC LED design.


Premise: When did Harper Lee pass away?

Hypothesis: To Kill a Mockingbird was Lee's only published book until Go


Premise: what was the name of mel and kim's number-one hit single in the UK?

Hypothesis: Stock Aitken Waterman's productions for Mel and Kim, including the number-one hit "Respectable", added elements of house to their previous Europop sound, and session group Mirage scored top-ten hits with "Jack Mix II" and "Jack Mix IV", medleys of previous electro and Europop hits rearranged in a house style.


Premise: How long is the Picture Gallery in yards?

Hypothesis: The Gallery is hung with numerous works including some by Rembrandt, van Dyck, Rubens and Vermeer; other rooms leading from the Picture Gallery are the Throne Room and the Green Drawing Room.


Premise: Who sang in a voice that is in the high octave range from the Modern Greek Era ?

Hypothesis: Alexandrian Constantine P. Cavafy and Nobel laureates Giorgos Seferis and Odysseas Elytis are among the most important poets of the 20th century.


Premise: When are infectious diseases called contagious diseases?

Hypothesis: Infectious diseases are sometimes called contagious disease when they are easily transmitted by contact with an ill person or their secretions (e.g., influenza).


Premise: What replaced theological studies in universities at the completion of the early modern period?

Hypothesis: By the end of the early modern period, the structure and orientation of higher education had changed in ways that are eminently recognizable for the modern context.


Hypothesis: Thus, a contagious disease is a subset of infectious disease that is especially infective or easily transmitted.


Premise: What was the total average family size?

Hypothesis: The average household size was 1.87.


Premise: How long is the total railway system in Portugal?

Hypothesis: A national railway system that extends throughout the country and into Spain, is supported and administered by Comboios de Portugal.


Premise: How much of the Thuringia population are Catholic?

Hypothesis: Furthermore, there are some Orthodox communities of Eastern European migrants and some traditional Protestant Free churches in Thuringia without any societal influence.


Premise: What former appropriations chairman was nominated for minority leader in 1876,77,79?

Hypothesis: Another scholar contends that the minority leader position emerged even before 1883.


Premise: What official title did the Viceroy of Deccan hold?

Hypothesis: In 1713 Farrukhsiyar, the Mughal emperor, appointed Asif Jah I to be Viceroy of the Deccan, with the title Nizam-ul-Mulk (Administrator of the Realm).


Premise: What type of birds lay its eggs on bare rock?

Hypothesis: Bird eggs are usually laid in a nest.


Premise: What English music group was an inspiration for Kanye West on his second album?

Hypothesis: Though West had not been able to afford many live instruments around the time of his debut album, the money from his commercial success enabled him to hire a string orchestra for his second album Late Registration.


Premise: The Torah im Derech Eretz insisted that Jews should attempt to engage and influence what?

Hypothesis: While insisting on strict adherence to Jewish beliefs and practices, he held that Jews should attempt to engage and influence the modern world, and encouraged those secular studies compatible with Torah thought.


Premise: Who were the collaborators assisting Japan in Hong King?

Hypothesis: Collaborationist units from Hong Kong (reformed ex-colonial police), Philippines, Dutch East Indies (the PETA) and Dutch Guinea, British Malaya and British Borneo, Inner Mongolia and former French Indochina (after the overthrow of Vichy French regime) as well as Timorese militia also assisted Japanese war efforts.


Premise: Who governed the areas of Tibet and Mongolia?

Hypothesis: This institution was established to supervise the administration of Tibet and the Mongol lands.


Premise: What is the United States Statutes at Large?

Hypothesis: The Statutes at Large present a chronological arrangement of the laws in the exact order that they have been enacted.


Premise: What is the name of the dog with four eyes in Norse mythology?

Hypothesis: In Norse mythology, a bloody, four-eyed dog called Garmr guards Helheim.


Premise: What is the minimum amount of copper rabbits should have in their diet?

Hypothesis: Gram quantities of various copper salts have been taken in suicide attempts and produced acute copper toxicity in humans, possibly due to redox cycling and the generation of reactive oxygen species that damage DNA.


Premise: Which region manufactures textiles, heavy industrial products & high-tech electronic goods?

Hypothesis: The region notably manufactures textiles, electronic high-tech goods such as microprocessors and heavy industrial products such as automobiles.


Premise: How many Egyptians died in the battle for Port Said?

Hypothesis: Between 750 and 1,000 Egyptians were killed in the battle for Port Said.


Premise: What was responsible for bringing the language of North middle China to the Fujian region?

Hypothesis: These two waves of migrations from the north generally brought the language of northern Middle Chinese into the Fujian region.


Premise: When did Mahmud Ghanznavi conquer Kangara?

Hypothesis: During the Vedic period, several small republics known as "Janapada" existed which were later conquered by the Gupta Empire.


Premise: What happens when frequency decreases in the bass?

Hypothesis: Therefore, it was necessary to attenuate the bass frequencies below about 250 Hz, the bass turnover point, in the amplified microphone signal fed to the recording head.


Premise: Where are the suites located that the Queen and Prince Phillip use?

Hypothesis: At the centre of this suite is the Bow Room, through which thousands of guests pass annually to the Queen's Garden Parties in the Gardens.


Premise: With what schools does the Washington University School of Law offer joint-degree programs?

Hypothesis: Washington University School of Law offers joint-degree programs with the Olin Business School, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the School of Medicine, and the School of Social Work.


Premise: What three things are Pentecostals committed to?

Hypothesis: Because of their commitment to biblical authority, spiritual gifts, and the miraculous, Pentecostals tend to see their movement as reflecting the same kind of spiritual power and teachings that were found in the Apostolic Age of the early church.


Premise: Aside from bombers, what aid did Eisenhower provide to the French?

Hypothesis: Further requests for assistance from the French were agreed to but only on conditions Eisenhower knew were impossible to meet – allied participation and congressional approval.


Premise: What was ASCII published as and when?

Hypothesis: There was some debate at the time whether there should be more control characters rather than the lowercase alphabet.:435 The indecision did not last long: during May 1963 the CCITT Working Party on the New Telegraph Alphabet proposed to assign lowercase characters to columns 6 and 7, and International Organization for Standardization TC 97 SC 2 voted during October to incorporate the change into its draft standard.


Premise: Who was depicted with the Empress Zoe on a panel in the gallery of the Hagia Sophia?

Hypothesis: A mosaic panel on the gallery shows Christ with Constantine Monomachos and Empress Zoe (1042–1055).


Premise: For how long was Spanish the official language of Galicia?

Hypothesis: Spanish was nonetheless the only official language in Galicia for more than four centuries.


Premise: Who succeeded Carrion Jr.?

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


Premise: Which company was the world's largest privately held ink manufacturer till 2005?

Hypothesis: The Borders chain was based in the city, as was its flagship store until it closed in September 2011.


Premise: How many primary schools are in St. John's?

Hypothesis: There are currently 36 primary, elementary and secondary schools in the city of St. John's, including three private schools.


Premise: In what year did Paul VI issue a regulation?

Hypothesis: On 1 March 1968, he issued a regulation, a process that had been initiated by Pius XII and continued by John XXIII.


Premise: How many floors does the Gateway Center at Bronx Terminal Market's parking garage have?

Hypothesis: The two main buildings are linked by a six-level garage for 2,600 cars.


Premise: What did Mikhail Gorbachev introduce?

Hypothesis: In the second half of the 1980s, newly appointed Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev introduced the perestroika and glasnost reforms.


Premise: In what decade did people in New Jersey stop speaking Jersey Dutch?

Hypothesis: Owing to Dutch commercial and colonial rivalry in the 16th and 17th centuries, the English term came to refer exclusively to the Dutch.


Premise: To make the Mongol-Tibetan alliance stronger who became the 4th Dalai Lama?

Hypothesis: " To further cement the Mongol-Tibetan alliance, the great-grandson of Altan Khan—the 4th Dalai Lama (1589–1616)—was made the fourth Dalai Lama.


Premise: The main cause of degradation has been what?

Hypothesis: The main cause of degradation has been grazing.


Premise: What was Frédéric prone to during early childhood as a result of his slight build?

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


Premise: Who have been jointly working on protection against cyberwarfare?

Hypothesis: The Ministry of Defence and the Defence Forces have been working on a cyberwarfare and defence formation for some years now.


Premise: How many executive orders were issued to help prevent discrimination?

Hypothesis: The order "established in the Civil Service Commission a Fair Employment Board of not less than seven persons." Executive Order 9981, named Establishing the President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services, called for the integration of the Armed Forces and the creation of the National Military Establishment to carry out the executive order.


Premise: Along what major road are most hotels located?

Hypothesis: As of 2013 the City of Paris had 1,570 hotels with 70,034 rooms, of which 55 were rated five-star, mostly belonging to international chains and mostly located close to the centre and the Champs-Élysées.


Premise: Which Armenian church recognizes the Pope?

Hypothesis: While the Armenian Apostolic Church remains the most prominent church in the Armenian community throughout the world, Armenians (especially in the diaspora) subscribe to any number of other Christian denominations.


Premise: Which government awards the Legion of Honour and the National Order of Merit?

Hypothesis: The most notable awards included the French Legion of Honour and National Order of Merit, the British Order of the Bath, the Soviet Order of Lenin, the Japanese Order of the Chrysanthemum, the German Federal Cross of Merit, and the Order of Merit of Italy.


Premise: Whose court did Pletho arrive in and begin a new period of translation in Renaissance Italy?

Hypothesis: Meanwhile, in Renaissance Italy, a new period in the history of translation had opened in Florence with the arrival, at the court of Cosimo de' Medici, of the Byzantine scholar Georgius Gemistus Pletho shortly before the fall of Constantinople to the Turks (1453).


Premise: Where is Raleigh-Durham International Airport?

Hypothesis: Raleigh-Durham International Airport, the region's primary airport and the second-largest in North Carolina, located northwest of downtown Raleigh via Interstate-40 between Raleigh and Durham, serves the city and greater Research Triangle metropolitan region, as well as much of eastern North Carolina.


Premise: Did changes move along at a uniform pace for the Burmese people?

Hypothesis: For the first time in history, the Burmese language and culture came to predominate the entire Irrawaddy valley.


Premise: What was the name of the non-subscription Xbox online gaming service?

Hypothesis: When the Xbox 360 was released, Microsoft's online gaming service Xbox Live was shut down for 24 hours and underwent a major upgrade, adding a basic non-subscription service called Xbox Live Silver (later renamed Xbox Live Free) to its already established premium subscription-based service (which was renamed Gold).


Premise: How much natural gas is Egypt producing in a day?

Hypothesis: In 2013, Egypt was the largest consumer of oil and natural gas in Africa, as more than 20% of total oil consumption and more than 40% of total dry natural gas consumption in Africa.


Premise: What are the low mountain ranges that are located along the pacific coast called?

Hypothesis: Along the coast is a series of low mountain ranges known as the Pacific Coast Ranges.


Premise: What accounts for 16.9% of Switzerland's exported goods?

Hypothesis: The largest exported goods are chemicals (34% of exported goods), machines/electronics (20.9%), and precision instruments/watches (16.9%).


Premise: Where did British forces and Egyptian police clash?

Hypothesis: Afterwards, Nasser published a simple six-point program in Rose al-Yūsuf to dismantle feudalism and British influence in Egypt.


Premise: What year did Diamond Comic Distributors team up with Marvel?

Hypothesis: In late 1994, Marvel acquired the comic book distributor Heroes World Distribution to use as its own exclusive distributor.


Premise: When designing a capacitor, what is an important rating to consider?

Hypothesis: Reversal ratings will often affect the design considerations for the capacitor, from the choice of dielectric materials and voltage ratings to the types of internal connections used.


Premise: Who turned the novel into a play?

Hypothesis: The book has also been adapted as a play by Christopher Sergel.


Premise: What was the date of the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre?

Hypothesis: A century later, during the French Wars of Religion, Paris was a stronghold of the Catholic League.


Premise: Who awarded Beyonce and award for writing?

Hypothesis: Eat, Play, Love", a cover story written by Beyoncé for Essence that detailed her 2010 career break, won her a writing award from the New York Association of Black Journalists.


Premise: What animals were not vulnerable to the mongoose?

Hypothesis: In cases such as the zebra mussel, invasion of US waterways was unintentional.


Premise: How are the different cells formed?

Hypothesis: as it continues to divide.


Premise: What was Berns unemployment rate in 2010?

Hypothesis: As of 2010[update], Bern had an unemployment rate of 3.3%.


Premise: Dogs were depicted as art on the walls of what?

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


Premise: What is the earliest decade of music typically featured on the rhythmic oldies format?

Hypothesis: Rhythmic oldies stations still exist today, but target African-Americans as opposed to a mass audience.


Premise: Who built the Harwell CADET?

Hypothesis: At the University of Manchester, a team under the leadership of Tom Kilburn designed and built a machine using the newly developed transistors instead of valves.


Premise: What Japanese group opposed an invasion of Australia?

Hypothesis: The Japanese Army opposed the plan and it was rejected in favour of a policy of isolating Australia from the United States via blockade by advancing through the South Pacific.


Premise: What was the term for the oppositional literary sphere of a "multitude of versifiers and would-be-authors"?

Hypothesis: These men came to London to become authors, only to discover that the literary market simply could not support large numbers of writers, who, in any case, were very poorly remunerated by the publishing-bookselling guilds.


Premise: Why did some accuse Ibn Sina of burning down the royal library?

Hypothesis: Ibn Sina's chief reward for this service was access to the royal library of the Samanids, well-known patrons of scholarship and scholars.


Premise: What actor was scheduled to attend a San Francisco Olympic protest?

Hypothesis: On April 8, numerous protests were planned including one at the city's United Nations Plaza led by actor Richard Gere and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.


Premise: What is the fine Art Nouveau villa called?

Hypothesis: As for modern and contemporary architecture, Strasbourg possesses some fine Art Nouveau buildings (such as the huge Palais des Fêtes and houses and villas like Villa Schutzenberger and Hôtel Brion), good examples of post-World War II functional architecture (the Cité Rotterdam, for which Le Corbusier did not succeed in the architectural contest) and, in the very extended Quartier Européen, some spectacular administrative buildings of sometimes utterly large size, among which the European Court of Human Rights building by Richard Rogers is arguably the finest.


Premise: Who was the intended audience of Whitehead's first two mathematics books?

Hypothesis: In addition to numerous articles on mathematics, Whitehead wrote three major books on the subject:


Premise: Who rules with Jesus Christ in heaven according to Jehovah Witnesses?

Hypothesis: They believe the kingdom was established in heaven in 1914, and that Jehovah's Witnesses serve as representatives of the kingdom on earth.


Premise: How many municipalities in Thuringia are classified as towns?

Hypothesis: Of the approximately 850 municipalities of Thuringia, 126 are classed as towns (within a district) or cities (forming their own urban district).


Premise: Where are the rotifera most prominent?

Hypothesis: The most prominent are the Rotifera or rotifers, which are common in aqueous environments.


Premise: When was the Developer preview initially intended to expire?

Hypothesis: The Windows Store was announced during the presentation, but was not available in this build.


Premise: In which year did Brazel become independent?

Hypothesis: Shortly after, independence was granted to all its colonies, with the exception of Macau, which was handed over to China in 1999.


Premise: When was Leonardo Bruni's "History of the Florentine People" published?

Hypothesis: The term "Late Middle Ages" refers to one of the three periods of the Middle Ages, along with the Early Middle Ages and the High Middle Ages.


Premise: Mahayana includes which practices of Buddhism?

Hypothesis: Tibetan Buddhism, which preserves the Vajrayana teachings of eighth century India, is practiced in regions surrounding the Himalayas, Mongolia and Kalmykia.


Premise: What did both Weinrich and Weinberg critisize the KInsey scale for?

Hypothesis: It would have been quite simple for Kinsey to have measured the two dimensions separately and report scores independently to avoid loss of information.