Premise: What else, besides direction, is asymmetry attributable to?

Hypothesis: This asymmetry is perceivable on account of two features: i) the relationship between the agent capacities of the human hand (i.e., what it is and is not capable of and what it is for) and non-animal agency (i.e., what floors are and are not capable of and what they are for) and ii) that the pieces of cup came to possess exactly the nature and number of those of a cup before assembling.


Premise: What sentence was given to the absent King Idris?

Hypothesis: Idris was sentenced to execution in absentia.


Premise: What were some groups doing along the torch route that was not supportive of the Olympics?

Hypothesis: In many cities along the North American and European route, the torch relay was protested by advocates of Tibetan independence, animal rights, and legal online gambling, and people protesting against China's human rights record, resulting in confrontations at a few of the relay locations.


Premise: What organization recognizes the sovereignty of the Republic of Cyprus?

Hypothesis: In 1974 Cyprus was divided de facto when the Turkish army occupied the northern third of the island.


Premise: Who said that Cubism was becoming an influetial aspect in modern architecture ?

Hypothesis: Architectural interest in Cubism centered on the dissolution and reconstitution of three-dimensional form, using simple geometric shapes, juxtaposed without the illusions of classical perspective.


Premise: What type of connector was originally required to upload songs or recharge the iPod?

Hypothesis: Originally, a FireWire connection to the host computer was used to update songs or recharge the battery.


Premise: The Prelude field was estimated to contain how many cubic feet of natural gas reserves?

Hypothesis: FLNG technology is based on liquefied natural gas (LNG) developments that were pioneered in the mid-20th century and facilitates the exploitation of untapped natural gas reserves located in remote areas, often too small to extract any other way.


Premise: What problems could occur with laser rot?

Hypothesis: Some forms of laser rot could appear as black spots that looked like mold or burned plastic which cause the disc to skip and the movie to exhibit excessive speckling noise.


Premise: What political ideology dominated Austrian politics in the decades before the second world war?

Hypothesis: The failure of democratic parties to prevent fascism from taking over Austrian politics in the 1920s and 1930s traumatised Popper.


Premise: Which current affects Paris' weather?

Hypothesis: Some years have even witnessed long periods of harsh summer weather, such as the heat wave of 2003 when temperatures exceeded 30 °C (86 °F) for weeks, surged up to 40 °C (104 °F) on some days and seldom cooled down at night.


Premise: When did the British claim Queen Elizabeth Land in Antarctica?

Hypothesis: On 22 December 2012, the UK ambassador to Argentina, John Freeman, was summoned to the Argentine government as protest against the claim.


Premise: How many high-level Communists were purged in the Slansky trial?

Hypothesis: It has, for example, been given as one of the reasons for the Slánský trial in Czechoslovakia, in which 14 high-level Communist officials were purged, with 11 of them being executed.


Premise: Was Brazil on the list?

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


Premise: What is the main north-south freeway called?

Hypothesis: A link between I-95 and I-76, it runs below street level through Center City, connecting to the Ben Franklin Bridge at its eastern end.


Premise: What is the association a district-free city or town and its urban hinterland typically grouped into?

Hypothesis: Local associations of a special kind are an amalgamation of one or more Landkreise with one or more Kreisfreie Städte to form a replacement of the aforementioned administrative entities at the district level.


Premise: According to democratic rules of the 106th congress what leadership members do they appoint?

Hypothesis: For example, under Democratic rules for the 106th Congress, the minority leader may call meetings of the Democratic Caucus.


Premise: Who heavily influenced the early Christian philosophy of Augustine of Hippo?

Hypothesis: The early Christian philosophy of Augustine of Hippo was heavily influenced by Plato.


Premise: What U2 song was released by Lee DeWyze after winning American Idol?

Hypothesis: The final two contestants were Lee DeWyze and Bowersox.


Premise: What network aired the first season of American Idol?

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


Premise: What was the disagreement between the Justices over whether funding breached what?

Hypothesis: While the decision (with four dissents) ultimately upheld the state law allowing the funding of transportation of students to religious schools, the majority opinion (by Justice Hugo Black) and the dissenting opinions (by Justice Wiley Blount Rutledge and Justice Robert H. Jackson) each explicitly stated that the Constitution has erected a "wall between church and state" or a "separation of Church from State": their disagreement was limited to whether this case of state funding of transportation to religious schools breached that wall.


Premise: What language do most historians agree upon where the Greek names for the British Isles came from?

Hypothesis: The earliest known references to the islands as a group appeared in the writings of sea-farers from the ancient Greek colony of Massalia.


Premise: What national event during WWII left Seattle without Japanese businessmen?

Hypothesis: The war dispersed the city's numerous Japanese-American businessmen due to the Japanese American internment.


Premise: How many hours did it take to force the Russians away during the attack?

Hypothesis: The position was strong, but after three hours,:424 the frontal attack had driven the Russians out of their dug in positions with losses of 6000 men.


Premise: Where did the torch event begin in Vietnam?

Hypothesis: Some 60 torchbearers carried the torch from the downtown Opera House to the Military Zone 7 Competition Hall stadium near Tan Son Nhat International Airport along an undisclosed route.


Premise: What is the only sport newspaper in Namibia?

Hypothesis: Sister Namibia Magazine stands out as the longest running NGO magazine in Namibia, while Namibia Sport is the only national sport magazine.


Premise: What has been talked about to treat resistant bacteria?

Hypothesis: Phage therapy is another option that is being looked into for treating resistant strains of bacteria.


Premise: Along with India, what other nation was to determine the how much the US would have to compensate China?

Hypothesis: Consequently, the over-extended KPA could not be supplied throughout the south.


Premise: By whom was a report published in 2011 that demonstrated the Portuguese government encouraged over-expenditure and investment bubbles?

Hypothesis: This allowed considerable slippage in state-managed public works and inflated top management and head officer bonuses and wages.


Premise: When was the first nutrition experiment performed?

Hypothesis: Sometimes overlooked during his life, James Lind, a physician in the British navy, performed the first scientific nutrition experiment in 1747.


Premise: What action brought prosperity to Arsenal?

Hypothesis: With new signings like Malcolm Macdonald and Pat Jennings, and a crop of talent in the side such as Liam Brady and Frank Stapleton, the club enjoyed their best form since the 1971 double, reaching a trio of FA Cup finals (1978, 1979 and 1980), and losing the 1980 European Cup Winners' Cup Final on penalties.


Premise: In central and eastern Europe it is thought that Jewish scorn for the life-style of their neighbors increased due to what?

Hypothesis: The answer to why there was so little assimilation of Jews in central and eastern Europe for so long would seem to lie in part in the probability that the alien surroundings in central and eastern Europe were not conducive, though contempt did not prevent some assimilation.


Premise: What was the largest ocean during the Permian called?

Hypothesis: A new ocean was growing on its southern end, the Tethys Ocean, an ocean that would dominate much of the Mesozoic Era.


Premise: What major movement occurred in Guam in the 80's and 90's?

Hypothesis: However, the federal government rejected the version of a commonwealth that the government of Guam proposed, due to it having clauses incompatible with the Territorial Clause (Art.


Premise: How many communes of the outer suburbs are included in the metropole?

Hypothesis: It is an administrative structure for cooperation between the City of Paris and its nearest suburbs.


Premise: What is the name of The Times' atlas?

Hypothesis: Times Atlases have been produced since 1895.


Premise: What is the most common Christian denomination in Thuringia?

Hypothesis: Since the Protestant Reformation, the most prominent Christian denomination in Thuringia has been Lutheranism.


Premise: How many students out of the 900 in the school, survived the collapse?

Hypothesis: In the city of Shifang, the collapse of two chemical plants led to leakage of some 80 tons of liquid ammonia, with hundreds of people reported buried.


Premise: Who said Dodds' withdrawal was a good example of peacefully protesting?

Hypothesis: Intended torchbearer Lin Hatfield Dodds withdrew from the event, explaining that she wished to express concern about China's human rights record.


Premise: What include a synopsized adaptation of Twain's story?

Hypothesis: He published his back-translation in a 1903 volume together with his English-language original, the French translation, and a "Private History of the 'Jumping Frog' Story".


Premise: What is the highest volume output level of European 6th-generation iPods?

Hypothesis: From the fifth-generation iPod on, Apple introduced a user-configurable volume limit in response to concerns about hearing loss.


Premise: in 1793 what war was the french involded in even without a big  military presences?

Hypothesis: Elsewhere in India, the French were to remain a military threat, particularly during the War of American Independence, and up to the capture of Pondichéry in 1793 at the outset of the French Revolutionary Wars without any military presence.


Premise: On what date was Beyonce born?

Hypothesis: Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter (/biːˈjɒnseɪ/ bee-YON-say) (born September 4, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and actress.


Premise: Where are the most speakers found?

Hypothesis: It is spoken in the densely populated regions of the Barcelona province, the eastern half of the province of Tarragona, and most of the province of Girona.


Premise: Which whom did Hayek share a Nobel prize?

Hypothesis: When, in 1974, he shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics with Gunnar Myrdal, the latter complained about being paired with an "ideologue".


Premise: Why overhead wires are not being widely used?

Hypothesis: Overhead wires are safer than third rails, but they are often considered unsightly.


Premise: What type of lifestyle was prevalent in Siberia until the European Age of Discovery?

Hypothesis: Hunter-gathering lifestyles remained prevalent in some parts of the New World, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Siberia, as well as all of Australia, until the European Age of Discovery.


Premise: What happens when members increase their deposits?

Hypothesis: In layman terms, the liability of the central bank is money, and an increase in deposits in member banks, carried as a liability by the central bank, means that more money has been put into the economy.[a]


Premise: Who is one 20th century Greek composers that has had an impact on modern classical music?

Hypothesis: In the 20th century, Greek composers have had a significant impact on the development of avant garde and modern classical music, with figures such as Iannis Xenakis, Nikos Skalkottas, and Dimitri Mitropoulos achieving international prominence.


Premise: What color is zinc?

Hypothesis: Zinc is a bluish-white, lustrous, diamagnetic metal, though most common commercial grades of the metal have a dull finish.


Premise: What is Belgian Federalism?

Hypothesis: On the other hand, Belgian federalism is federated with three components.


Premise: When was overhead wires system being used for the first time in UK?

Hypothesis: It was announced in 1926 that all lines were to be converted to DC third rail and the last overhead electric service ran in September 1929.


Premise: What species saw its numbers rising while elephant numbers remained stable?

Hypothesis: The numbers of antelope plummeted across Botswana, with a resultant decline in predator numbers, while elephant numbers remained stable and hippopotamus numbers rose.


Premise: How many staff members work for the University of Plymouth?

Hypothesis: The university formed a joint venture with the fellow Devonian University of Exeter in 2000, establishing the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry.


Premise: What title does Nguesso hold?

Hypothesis: The People's Republic of the Congo was a Marxist–Leninist one-party state from 1970 to 1991.


Premise: What do the terms "Early Modern" and  'Modern Ages" originate from?

Hypothesis: It is important to note that these terms stem from European history.


Premise: How many intelligentia were killed during operation AB-Akiton?

Hypothesis: As the result of this operation in 10 regional actions about 60,000 Polish nobles, teachers, social workers, priests, judges and political activists were killed.


Premise: What is the population of Switzerland?

Hypothesis: While the Alps occupy the greater part of the territory, the Swiss population of approximately 8 million people is concentrated mostly on the Plateau, where the largest cities are to be found: among them are the two global and economic centres, Zürich and Geneva.


Premise: How did Nasser see the prospects for Arab unity?

Hypothesis: On 19 July, for the first time, he declared that he was opting for full Arab union, although he had no plan to merge Iraq with the UAR.


Premise: Who is one of the only female composers mentioned?

Hypothesis: Almost all of the composers who are described in music textbooks on classical music and whose works are widely performed as part of the standard concert repertoire are male composers, even though there has been a large number of women composers throughout the classical music period.


Premise: What did Dominic refuse to do?

Hypothesis: He owned a single habit, refused to carry money, and would allow no one to serve him.


Premise: What is the estimated number of Buddhists in the world?

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


Premise: What are coelomata?

Hypothesis: Each mesentery is similar except that the mesothelium is the lining of each of the pair of coelomata, and the blood vessels and, in polychaetes, the main nerve cords are embedded in it.


Premise: What is one example of antibiotics that may have a possible side effect of tendon damage?

Hypothesis: Additional side-effects can result from interaction with other drugs, such as elevated risk of tendon damage from administration of a quinolone antibiotic with a systemic corticosteroid.


Premise: Who brought Louis XVI style to the court?

Hypothesis: The new interiors sought to recreate an authentically Roman and genuinely interior vocabulary.


Premise: what year did Dell stop selling products through physical retailers?

Hypothesis: In 2007, Dell started shipping its products to major retailers in the U.S. once again, starting with Sam's Club and Wal-Mart.


Premise: What did many anthropologists serve in?

Hypothesis: Many served in the armed forces, while others worked in intelligence (for example, Office of Strategic Services and the Office of War Information).


Premise: Who was a notable student of  Stanley Schachter?

Hypothesis: With his student, Jerome Singer, Schachter demonstrated that subjects can have different emotional reactions despite being placed into the same physiological state with an injection of epinephrine.


Premise: Bell thought the photophone was better than what famous invention?

Hypothesis: Bell believed the photophone's principles were his life's "greatest achievement", telling a reporter shortly before his death that the photophone was "the greatest invention [I have] ever made, greater than the telephone".


Premise: What does deism believe God's role in the universe is?

Hypothesis: In pantheism, God is the universe itself.


Premise: What year was The Traymore Hotel begun?

Hypothesis: By 1914, the hotel's owner, Daniel White, taking a hint from the Marlborough-Blenheim, commissioned the firm of Price and McLanahan to build an even bigger hotel.


Premise: What does .org on a URL mean?

Hypothesis: It is not designated specifically for charitable organizations or any specific organizational or tax-law status, however; it encompasses anything that is not classifiable as another category.


Premise: What area was known as the Slave Coast?

Hypothesis: Portuguese Guinea was known as the Slave Coast, as it was a major area for the exportation of African slaves by Europeans to the western hemisphere.


Premise: Primates have an EQ in what range?

Hypothesis: Dolphins have values higher than those of primates other than humans, but nearly all other mammals have EQ values that are substantially lower.


Premise: How many selective grammar schools are still currently functioning in England and Wales?

Hypothesis: Although comprehensive schools were introduced to England and Wales in 1965, there are 164 selective grammar schools that are still in operation.[citation needed]


Premise: In what year was the language of the Yi people standardized?

Hypothesis: The Yi people of Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture in southern Sichuan speak the Nuosu language, which is one of the Lolo-Burmese languages; Yi is written using the Yi script, a syllabary standardized in 1974.


Premise: How many German pilots were killed?

Hypothesis: Fighter Command lost 23 fighters, with six pilots killed and another seven wounded.


Premise: Napoleon's decision to reinstate what practice in France's overseas colonies has caused controversy regarding his reputation?

Hypothesis: His role in the Haitian Revolution and decision to reinstate slavery in France's oversea colonies are controversial and have an impact on his reputation.


Premise: By whom was Marcel Duchamp labeled an Orphanist?

Hypothesis: The next logical step, for Duchamp, was to present an ordinary object as a self-sufficient work of art representing only itself.


Premise: In what year was Gregg v. Georgia decided?

Hypothesis: At the first proceeding, the jury decides the defendant's guilt; if the defendant is innocent or otherwise not convicted of first-degree murder, the death penalty will not be imposed.


Premise: Do American teenagers spend more or less time in shool than adolescents in other countires?

Hypothesis: These differences may be influenced by cultural values of education and the amount of responsibility adolescents are expected to assume in their family or community.


Premise: What is found in Florida

Hypothesis: Extended systems of underwater caves, sinkholes and springs are found throughout the state and supply most of the water used by residents.


Premise: What is the Latin term for insect?

Hypothesis: Pliny the Elder introduced the Latin designation as a loan-translation of the Greek word ἔντομος (éntomos) or "insect" (as in entomology), which was Aristotle's term for this class of life, also in reference to their "notched" bodies.


Premise: Who were the opening act for Madonna's concert The Virgin tour?

Hypothesis: Beginning in April 1985, Madonna embarked on her first concert tour in North America, The Virgin Tour, with the Beastie Boys as her opening act.


Premise: By 1460, who controlled most of the territory south and west of the Rhine?

Hypothesis: By 1460, the confederates controlled most of the territory south and west of the Rhine to the Alps and the Jura mountains, particularly after victories against the Habsburgs (Battle of Sempach, Battle of Näfels), over Charles the Bold of Burgundy during the 1470s, and the success of the Swiss mercenaries.


Premise: What type of container can be used to transport draft beer, and is better for the environment that a bottle?

Hypothesis: Where legal, the use of a refillable jug, reusable bottle or other reusable containers to transport draught beer from a store or a bar, rather than buying pre-bottled beer, can reduce the environmental impact of beer consumption.


Premise: How was the new African American identity defined?

Hypothesis: A new African-American identity and culture was born that incorporated elements of the various ethnic groups and of European cultural heritage, resulting in fusions such as the Black church and Black English.


Premise: What republics did the Dutch Republic come before?

Hypothesis: It preceded the Batavian Republic, the Kingdom of Holland, the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, and ultimately the modern Kingdom of the Netherlands.


Premise: "World's Most Beautiful woman" was declared to Beyonce by which national magazine?

Hypothesis: In January 2013, GQ placed her on its cover, featuring her atop its "100 Sexiest Women of the 21st Century" list.


Premise: Why did the iron, copper and silver mines fail?

Hypothesis: Between 1950 and 1990, uranium mining was also important to cover the Soviet Union's need for this metal.


Premise: how many lions were on the EIC arms

Hypothesis: The supporters were: "Two lions rampant guardant Or, each supporting a banner erect Argent, charged with a cross Gules."


Premise: What's the German word for "seven"?

Hypothesis: Dutch shares only with Low German the development of /xs/ > /ss/


Premise: When did Queen Victoria die?

Hypothesis: She died on Tuesday, 22 January 1901, at half past six in the evening, at the age of 81.


Premise: How large is the Alvorada?

Hypothesis: The viewer has an impression of looking at a glass box, softly landed on the ground with the support of thin external columns.


Premise: What is the reason for the dramatic drop in visits to The Times website?

Hypothesis: As of October 2011, there were around 111,000 subscribers to The Times' digital products.


Premise: What do most inhabitants of Zhejiang speak?

Hypothesis: Most inhabitants of Zhejiang speak Wu, but the Wu dialects are very diverse, especially in the south, where one valley may speak a dialect completely unintelligible to the next valley a few kilometers away.


Premise: What script uses one fewer stroke?

Hypothesis: For example, the orthodox character 來 lái ("come") was written with the structure 来 in the clerical script (隶书 / 隸書, lìshū) of the Han dynasty.


Premise: What does the term Burmanisation make people feel ?

Hypothesis: The Kayin make up 7% of the population.


Premise: With what network is WUPV 65 affiliated?

Hypothesis: There are also a wide variety of radio stations in the Richmond area, catering to many different interests, including news, talk radio, and sports, as well as an eclectic mix of musical interests.


Premise: What is the name of the Marshall Islands in its native language?

Hypothesis: Geographically, the country is part of the larger island group of Micronesia.


Premise: What effect will solar energy have on the price of fossil fuels?

Hypothesis: In 2011, the International Energy Agency said that "the development of affordable, inexhaustible and clean solar energy technologies will have huge longer-term benefits.


Premise: What German areas were beginning to oppose Prussia?

Hypothesis: Meanwhile, a combined force from a number of smaller German states such as Bavaria had been established under Austrian leadership, thus threatening Prussian control of Saxony.


Premise: What percent of the population are unable to eat unfermented milk-based foods?

Hypothesis: Approximately 65 percent of the adult population produce only small amounts of lactase and are unable to eat unfermented milk-based foods.


Premise: On what aspect did Black Enterprise Magazine name Comcast a top 15 employer?

Hypothesis: In 2008, Black Enterprise magazine rated Comcast among the top 15 companies for workforce diversity.


Premise: What type of temper are people with red hair considered to have?

Hypothesis: It is characterized by high levels of the reddish pigment pheomelanin (which also accounts for the red color of the lips) and relatively low levels of the dark pigment eumelanin.


Premise: To whom did Hayek owe his intellectual success?

Hypothesis: Hayek's greatest intellectual debt was to Carl Menger, who pioneered an approach to social explanation similar to that developed in Britain by Bernard Mandeville and the Scottish moral philosophers in the Scottish Enlightenment.


Premise: When did the RIR begin to host the Capital City 400?

Hypothesis: oval short-track has become known as the "Toughest Track in the South" and "The Action Track", and features weekly stock car racing on Friday nights.


Premise: What type of color devices are computer displays and televisions?

Hypothesis: A unique green (green appearing neither yellowish nor bluish) is produced on such a device by mixing light from the green primary with some light from the blue primary.


Premise: When did Estonia unite with the WTO?

Hypothesis: With assistance from the European Union, the World Bank and the Nordic Investment Bank, Estonia completed most of its preparations for European Union membership by the end of 2002 and now has one of the strongest economies of the new member states of the European Union.[citation needed]


Premise: What instrument gained prominence in the 19th and 20th century?

Hypothesis: On the other hand, instruments such as the acoustic guitar, once associated mainly with popular music, gained prominence in classical music in the 19th and 20th centuries.


Premise: How did France's native allies treat the British prisoners?

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: Who was one the most well known modern decorative modelers of the Greeks ?

Hypothesis: Notable modern Greek artists include Renaissance painter Dominikos Theotokopoulos (El Greco), Panagiotis Doxaras, Nikolaos Gyzis, Nikiphoros Lytras, Yannis Tsarouchis, Nikos Engonopoulos, Constantine Andreou, Jannis Kounellis, sculptors such as Leonidas Drosis, Georgios Bonanos, Yannoulis Chalepas and Joannis Avramidis, conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos, soprano Maria Callas, composers such as Mikis Theodorakis, Nikos Skalkottas, Iannis Xenakis, Manos Hatzidakis, Eleni Karaindrou, Yanni and Vangelis, one of the best-selling singers worldwide Nana Mouskouri and poets such as Kostis Palamas, Dionysios Solomos, Angelos Sikelianos and Yannis Ritsos.


Premise: How much cargo theft did the Thames River Police prevent in its first year?

Hypothesis: Word of this success spread quickly, and the government passed the Marine Police Bill on 28 July 1800, transforming it from a private to public police agency; now the oldest police force in the world.


Premise: What other things do the two languages seem to have in common ?

Hypothesis: The characteristically Greek representation of word-initial laryngeals by prothetic vowels is shared, for one, by the Armenian language, which also seems to share some other phonological and morphological peculiarities of Greek; this has led some linguists to propose a hypothetical closer relationship between Greek and Armenian, although evidence remains scant.


Premise: Why was the Kulluk oil rig being towed to Washington?

Hypothesis: As the Kulluk oil rig was being towed to the American state of Washington to be serviced in preparation for the 2013 drilling season, a winter storm on 27 December 2012 caused the towing crews, as well as the rescue service, to lose control of the situation.


Premise: What is a belembaotuyan in Guam?

Hypothesis: Other practices predating Spanish conquest include galaide' canoe-making, making of the belembaotuyan (a string musical instrument made from a gourd), fashioning of åcho' atupat slings and slingstones, tool manufacture, Måtan Guma' burial rituals, and preparation of herbal medicines by Suruhanu.


Premise: Which scientist was influenced by Marxism in the United Kingdom?

Hypothesis: In the United Kingdom, sociologists and other scholars influenced by Marxism, such as Stuart Hall (1932–2014) and Raymond Williams (1921–1988), developed cultural studies.


Premise: Where was Mary consecrated as a virgin?

Hypothesis: Mary was given to service as a consecrated virgin in the Temple in Jerusalem when she was three years old, much like Hannah took Samuel to the Tabernacle as recorded in the Old Testament.


Premise: What year did the crop economy change?

Hypothesis: St Helena's economy is now weak, and is almost entirely sustained by aid from the British government.


Premise: What area of China has the least amount of sunlight?

Hypothesis: Under the Köppen climate classification, the Sichuan Basin (including Chengdu) in the eastern half of the province experiences a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cwa or Cfa), with long, hot, humid summers and short, mild to cool, dry and cloudy winters.


Premise: In what country were the Berbice and Skepi dialects spoken?

Hypothesis: Other Dutch-based creole languages once spoken in the Americas include Mohawk Dutch (in Albany, New York), Berbice (in Guyana), Skepi (in Essequibo, Guyana) and Negerhollands (in the United States Virgin Islands).


Premise: What was the purpose of editing the dispatch?

Hypothesis: The German forces were superior in numbers, had better training and leadership and made more effective use of modern technology, particularly railroads and artillery.


Premise: What feature helped flowers not get plucked?

Hypothesis: Flower evolution continues to the present day; modern flowers have been so profoundly influenced by humans that some of them cannot be pollinated in nature.


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

Hypothesis: During the down peak period the benefit of destination control will be limited as passengers have a common destination.


Premise: Where is the Cathedral of the Holy Cross located?

Hypothesis: Other churches include Christ Church (better known as Old North Church, 1723), the oldest church building in the city, Trinity Church (1733), Park Street Church (1809), Old South Church (1874), Jubilee Christian Church and Basilica and Shrine of Our Lady of Perpetual Help on Mission Hill (1878).


Premise: What is the main goals for the sweetness of beer?

Hypothesis: Hops contribute a bitterness that balances the sweetness of the malt; the bitterness of beers is measured on the International Bitterness Units scale.


Premise: In the aftermath of the Austro-Prussian war, formed what group?

Hypothesis: In the aftermath of the Austro–Prussian War of 1866, Prussia had annexed numerous territories and formed the North German Confederation.


Premise: What did Barcelona build in 1922?

Hypothesis: This led to several expansion projects: the grandstand in 1944, the southern stand in 1946, and finally the northern stand in 1950.


Premise: What is considered to be the end game of Gaius Gracchus?

Hypothesis: This last proposal was not popular with the plebeians and he lost much of his support.


Premise: What happened to David Bradley's shop that led to the creation of salt water taffy?

Hypothesis: The traditional story is that Bradley's shop was flooded after a major storm, soaking his taffy with salty Atlantic Ocean water.


Premise: Until 1933 how many configurations in the German states occurred?

Hypothesis: In fact, until 1933 there were only four changes in the configuration of the German states: The 7 Thuringian states were merged in 1920, whereby Coburg opted for Bavaria, Pyrmont joined Prussia in 1922, and Waldeck did so in 1929.


Premise: What was kermes lake made from?

Hypothesis: The painters of the early Renaissance used two traditional lake pigments, made from mixing dye with either chalk or alum, kermes lake, made from kermes insects, and madder lake, made from the rubia tinctorum plant.


Premise: When did the Nicaraguans arrive?

Hypothesis: Throughout the 1980s with the United States supported Contra War (or Contra-revolutionary war) which continued up until 1988, and the economic collapse of the country many more Nicaraguans migrated to the United States amongst other countries.


Premise: What is the record number of tourists that have visited New York in a year?

Hypothesis: Tourism is a vital industry for New York City, which has witnessed a growing combined volume of international and domestic tourists – receiving approximately 51 million tourists in 2011, 54 million in 2013, and a record 56.4 million in 2014.


Premise: What contributes to endangerment?

Hypothesis: All these animals have been hunted to endangerment or extinction.


Premise: What is the GDP of Kathmandu?

Hypothesis: Manufacturing is also important and accounts for 19% of the revenue that Kathmandu generates.


Premise: What are the two highest ranking Sub-Saharan countries?

Hypothesis: All 22 countries in that category are located in Africa.


Premise: What group advises the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting?

Hypothesis: The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty (also known as the Environmental Protocol or Madrid Protocol) came into force in 1998, and is the main instrument concerned with conservation and management of biodiversity in Antarctica.


Premise: When was the term "Early Modern" implemented into the English language?

Hypothesis: The term "Early Modern" was introduced in the English language in the 1930s.


Premise: What are Dame Lois Browne-Evans and her husband putting an emphasis on?

Hypothesis: The late PLP leader, Dame Lois Browne-Evans, and her Trinidadian-born husband, John Evans (who co-founded the West Indian Association of Bermuda in 1976), were prominent members of this group.


Premise: What was Madonna's sixth album named?

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


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

Hypothesis: Hispanics or Latinos of any race were 30.45% (12,044) of the population.


Premise: What is the Cayuga name for Oklahoma?

Hypothesis: The state's name is derived from the Choctaw words okla and humma, meaning "red people".


Premise: What shape does the eastern end often exhibit in France?

Hypothesis: In France the eastern end is often polygonal and surrounded by a walkway called an ambulatory and sometimes a ring of chapels called a "chevet".


Premise: What was Chancellor Wrighton's initial sentiment to hosting another presidential debate at Washington University after 2004?

Hypothesis: Although Chancellor Wrighton had noted after the 2004 debate that it would be "improbable" that the university will host another debate and was not eager to commit to the possibility, he subsequently changed his view and the university submitted a bid for the 2008 debates.


Premise: What terms does behavorial science use instead of using gender binary conceptualization?

Hypothesis: Sexual preference may also suggest a degree of voluntary choice, whereas the scientific consensus is that sexual orientation is not a choice.


Premise: What did Hume think is a circular argument?

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


Premise: What is the Chinese name for a seismometer?

Hypothesis: Zhang called his device the 'instrument for measuring the seasonal winds and the movements of the Earth' (Houfeng didong yi 候风地动仪), so-named because he and others thought that earthquakes were most likely caused by the enormous compression of trapped air.


Premise: What is Australia's largest free community festival?

Hypothesis: The city celebrates a wide variety of annual cultural events and festivals of all types, including Australia's largest free community festival—Moomba, the Melbourne International Arts Festival, Melbourne International Film Festival, Melbourne International Comedy Festival and the Melbourne Fringe Festival.


Premise: What is an ogonek?

Hypothesis: For example, a Latin small letter "i" with an ogonek, a dot above, and an acute accent, which is required in Lithuanian, is represented by the character sequence U+012F, U+0307, U+0301.


Premise: What was a dpon-chen?

Hypothesis: One of the department's purposes was to select a dpon-chen ('great administrator'), usually appointed by the lama and confirmed by the Mongol emperor in Beijing.


Premise: Approximately how many sunny days does Melbourne receive annually?

Hypothesis: Melbourne receives 48.6 clear days annually.


Premise: Why was minority leader position created?

Hypothesis: To a large extent, the minority leader's position is a 20th-century innovation.


Premise: Where are other mountain areas in the British Isles?

Hypothesis: There are a number of major rivers within the British Isles.


Premise: What is the most widely known madrasah?

Hypothesis: Madaris were established throughout the Islamic world, examples being the 9th century University of al-Qarawiyyin, the 10th century al-Azhar University (the most famous), the 11th century Niẓāmīyah, as well as 75 madaris in Cairo, 51 in Damascus and up to 44 in Aleppo between 1155 and 1260.


Premise: In Sri Lanka, what was determined to be the best unifying scripture?

Hypothesis: Later in Sri Lanka, the Dhammapada was championed as a unifying scripture.


Premise: When did James I negotiate the Treaty of London?

Hypothesis: In 1603, James VI, King of Scots, ascended (as James I) to the English throne and in 1604 negotiated the Treaty of London, ending hostilities with Spain.


Premise: What system was examined to develop the neurobiological explanation of human emotion?

Hypothesis: Based on discoveries made through neural mapping of the limbic system, the neurobiological explanation of human emotion is that emotion is a pleasant or unpleasant mental state organized in the limbic system of the mammalian brain.


Premise: When did Gautama Buddha discover the Middle Way?

Hypothesis: The Middle Way has several definitions:


Premise: Which news organization did Gorbachev talk to about his resignation plans?

Hypothesis: While Gorbachev hadn't made any formal plans to leave the scene yet, he did tell CBS News that he would resign as soon as he saw that the CIS was indeed a reality.


Premise: What does the IASP advocate that the relief of pain should be recognized as?

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


Premise: Who were the parties in the Treaty of Hubertusburg?

Hypothesis: Frederick, who had considered ceding East Prussia to Russia if Peter III helped him secure Saxony, finally insisted on excluding Russia (in fact, no longer a belligerent) from the negotiations.


Premise: The City University of New York system consists of how many institutions?

Hypothesis: The public State University of New York (SUNY) system also serves New York City, as well as the rest of the state.


Premise: In what year was the first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica published?

Hypothesis: The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1771) was modelled along the same lines as the German lexicons.


Premise: What did Zhu Yuanzhang build around the city of Nanjing?

Hypothesis: It is among the longest surviving city walls in China.


Premise: What has grown significantly?

Hypothesis: Radio and TV have permeated significantly.


Premise: Why was Howard Dean proud of his graduating class?

Hypothesis: My class was the first class to have women in it; it was the first class to have a significant effort to recruit African Americans.


Premise: Who was the most famous stagecoach robber in the Tucson area?

Hypothesis: Most notable, however, were the two holdups committed by masked road-agent William Whitney Brazelton.


Premise: What does it mean to have the letters OU added to the ending of a males last name ?

Hypothesis: Exceptionally, some end in -ou, indicating the genitive case of this proper noun for patronymic reasons.


Premise: How many miles is Tuscon from the US - Mexico border?

Hypothesis: A major city in the Arizona Sun Corridor, Tucson is the largest city in southern Arizona, the second largest in the state after Phoenix.


Premise: Who used a semiotics method to study comics in the 1970s?

Hypothesis: Pierre Fresnault-Deruelle then took a semiotics approach to the study of comics, analyzing text–image relations, page-level image relations, and image discontinuities, or what Scott McCloud later dubbed "closure".


Premise: How old are the wall paintings in the Chapel and School Yard?

Hypothesis: Construction of the chapel, originally intended to be slightly over twice as long, with eighteen - or possibly seventeen - bays (there are eight today) was stopped when Henry VI was deposed.


Premise: When is sweet wort separated during the brewing process?

Hypothesis: After malting, barley is milled, which finally removes the hull, breaking it into large pieces.


Premise: Over how many years did the change to national standards undertaken at Notre Dame in the early 20th century take place?

Hypothesis: By 1921, with the addition of the College of Commerce, Notre Dame had grown from a small college to a university with five colleges and a professional law school.


Premise: Which organization founded in 1956 evolved into the modern Canadian Football League?

Hypothesis: The original forerunners to the current Canadian Football League, was established in 1956 when the IRFU and WIFU formed an umbrella organization, The Canadian Football Council (CFC).


Premise: Where can the most superb example of Umayyad mosaic floor paneling?

Hypothesis: The most superb example can be found in the bath house of Hisham's Palace, Palestine which was made around 744.


Premise: The rise in level of prices in an economy is referred to as what?

Hypothesis: The decline in the value of the U.S. dollar corresponds to price inflation, which is a rise in the general level of prices of goods and services in an economy over a period of time.


Premise: How many copies of 4 sold in the first week?

Hypothesis: 4 sold 310,000 copies in its first week and debuted atop the Billboard 200 chart, giving Beyoncé her fourth consecutive number-one album in the US.


Premise: Which new BYU school was added under Pres. Dallin H. Oaks in 1971?

Hypothesis: Oaks continued the expansion of his predecessor, adding a law school and proposing plans for a new School of Management.


Premise: Since what event did the first time black people decline in living in NYC?

Hypothesis: Hispanics of any race represented 28.6% of the population, while Asians constituted the fastest-growing segment of the city's population between 2000 and 2010; the non-Hispanic white population declined 3 percent, the smallest recorded decline in decades; and for the first time since the Civil War, the number of blacks declined over a decade.


Premise: What side of the Konigssee was St. Bartholomew's chapel built?

Hypothesis: The rivers form lakes, such as Lake Geneva, a crescent shaped lake crossing the Swiss border with Lausanne on the Swiss side and the town of Evian-les-Bains on the French side.


Premise: What tradition could be found in works by Captain Beefheart and David Bowie?

Hypothesis: Artists sought to refuse the common distinction between high and low culture and returned to the art school tradition found in the work of artists such as Captain Beefheart and David Bowie.


Premise: Installing keyloggers and making operating system modifications are examples of ways unauthorized users for what?

Hypothesis: They may also compromise security by making operating system modifications, installing software worms, keyloggers, or covert listening devices.


Premise: What area did Harsha unite during his reign?

Hypothesis: His empire collapsed after his death.


Premise: When did Khamis Gaddafi die?

Hypothesis: He also adopted two children, Hanna Gaddafi and Milad Gaddafi.


Premise: On what date did the FDIC plan to open IndyMac Federal Bank, FSB?

Hypothesis: The FDIC announced plans to open IndyMac Federal Bank, FSB on July 14, 2008.


Premise: Which city in the mid-18th century became the center of an explosion of philosophic and scientific activity?

Hypothesis: While the Philosophes of the French Enlightenment were not revolutionaries, and many were members of the nobility, their ideas played an important part in undermining the legitimacy of the Old Regime and shaping the French Revolution.


Premise: Whose thoughts were impacted by Montesquieu's philosophy?

Hypothesis: His writings considerably influenced the opinions of the framers of the United States Constitution.


Premise: On which floor is the Belgian Suite located?

Hypothesis: The rooms of the suite are linked by narrow corridors, one of them is given extra height and perspective by saucer domes designed by Nash in the style of Soane.


Premise: What is the recommendation of gramophone recordings to preserve integrity?

Hypothesis: As the playing of gramophone records causes gradual degradation of the recording, they are best preserved by transferring them onto other media and playing the records as rarely as possible.


Premise: How many airports does Tajikistan have?

Hypothesis: There are also international flights, mainly to Russia, from Khujand Airport in the northern part of the country as well as limited international services from Kulob Airport, and Qurghonteppa International Airport.


Premise: What led to the rebellion in 1810

Hypothesis: The British settlers who had remained also resented Spanish rule, leading to a rebellion in 1810 and the establishment for ninety days of the so-called Free and Independent Republic of West Florida on September 23.


Premise: What museum is next to the Science Museum of Virginia?

Hypothesis: On Boulevard proper are the Virginia Historical Society and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, lending their name to what is sometimes called the Museum District.


Premise: How many finalists were on this season?

Hypothesis: There were 13 finalists this season, but two were eliminated in the first result show of the finals.


Premise: How tall are Eagle Rock and Dans Mountain?

Hypothesis: On the same side of the Great Valley, south of the Potomac, are the Pinnacle 3,007 feet (917 m) and Pidgeon Roost 3,400 ft (1,000 m).


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

Hypothesis: For example, genes are easily added to bacteria and lineages of knockout mice with a specific gene's function disrupted are used to investigate that gene's function.


Premise: Where did the torch start in Instanbul?

Hypothesis: Turkey: The torch relay leg in Istanbul, held on April 3, started on Sultanahmet Square and finished in Taksim Square.


Premise: Which President made their stance on affirmative action clear in 1995?

Hypothesis: Bill Clinton, however, made his stance on affirmative action very clear in a speech on July 19, 1995, nearly two and a half years after his inauguration.


Premise: What is one piece that makes up an antenna system?

Hypothesis: A SWR of 1.5:1 is considered to be marginally acceptable in low power applications where power loss is more critical, although an SWR as high as 6:1 may still be usable with the right equipment.


Premise: When were the mini-A connector and and the mini-AB receptacle connector depreceated?

Hypothesis: These include the now-deprecated (i.e. de-certified but standardized) mini-A and mini-AB connectors; mini-B connectors are still supported, but are not OTG-compliant (On The Go, used in mobile devices).


Premise: What did Samoa start growing more of to make up for the lost value of rubber?

Hypothesis: When the value of natural rubber fell drastically, about the end of the Great War (World War I), the New Zealand government encouraged the production of bananas, for which there is a large market in New Zealand.[citation needed]


Premise: What do the external drives typically include?

Hypothesis: These external drives typically include a "translating device" that bridges between a drive's interface to a USB interface port.


Premise: When is the next hypothetical mission to Neptune?

Hypothesis: Such a hypothetical mission is envisioned to be possible at in the late 2020s or early 2030s.


Premise: What is the consequence in the value chain?

Hypothesis: Some of these estimates also take into account the opportunity cost of investing capital many years before revenues are realized (see Time-value of money).


Premise: What are the tallest trees in the world?

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


Premise: When was Diodotus II overthrown?

Hypothesis: Diodotus II, son of Diodotus, was overthrown in about 230 BC by Euthydemus, possibly the satrap of Sogdiana, who then started his own dynasty.


Premise: What suggests that memory has two different components?

Hypothesis: The term of internal representation implies that such definition of memory contains two components: the expression of memory at the behavioral or conscious level, and the underpinning physical neural changes (Dudai 2007).


Premise: When was The Deccan Times founded?

Hypothesis: One of Hyderabad's earliest newspapers, The Deccan Times, was established in the 1780s.


Premise: What was the estimated value of CDO issuance in Q1 2004?

Hypothesis: CDO issuance grew from an estimated $20 billion in Q1 2004 to its peak of over $180 billion by Q1 2007, then declined back under $20 billion by Q1 2008.


Premise: What did the Germans use to avoid British blockades?

Hypothesis: The Soviets also helped Germany to avoid British naval blockades by providing a submarine base, Basis Nord, in the northern Soviet Union near Murmansk.


Premise: What chemical causes emeralds to be green?

Hypothesis: By far the largest contributor to green in nature is chlorophyll, the chemical by which plants photosynthesize and convert sunlight into chemical energy.


Premise: What is early Islamic metaphysics imbued with?

Hypothesis: Early Islamic philosophy and Islamic metaphysics, imbued as it is with Islamic theology, distinguishes more clearly than Aristotelianism between essence and existence.


Premise: By what height did sea levels rise at the end of the last glacial period?

Hypothesis: In addition, many areas above about 40 degrees north latitude had been depressed by the weight of the Pleistocene glaciers and rose as much as 180 metres (591 ft) over the late Pleistocene and Holocene, and are still rising today.


Premise: What is the name of Portugal's national energy transmission company?

Hypothesis: Portugal’s national energy transmission company, Redes Energéticas Nacionais (REN), uses sophisticated modeling to predict weather, especially wind patterns, and computer programs to calculate energy from the various renewable-energy plants.


Premise: Where was Gonzalez located when he was elected?

Hypothesis: The course thus outlined was followed by Governor José Isidro Madero, who succeeded in 1830, associated with J. J. Calvo as general commander, stringent laws being issued against secret societies, which were supposed to be the main spring to the anti-clerical feeling among liberals.


Premise: What resulted in effective and long-term isolation of Jewish communities?

Hypothesis: During the millennia of the Jewish diaspora the communities would develop under the influence of their local environments: political, cultural, natural, and populational.


Premise: Slavs that were caught were moved to what area?

Hypothesis: The Byzantine recovery of lost provinces began toward the end of the 8th century and most of the Greek peninsula came under imperial control again, in stages, during the 9th century.


Premise: Do clubs replay each other?

Hypothesis: Replays were traditionally played three or four days after the original game, but from 1991–92 they were staged at least 10 days later on police advice.


Premise: How long after the annexation of Kresy was the amendment made?

Hypothesis: Eleven days after the Soviet invasion of the Polish Kresy, the secret protocol of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact was modified by the German–Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Demarcation,) allotting Germany a larger part of Poland and transferring Lithuania's territory (with the exception of left bank of river Scheschupe, the "Lithuanian Strip") from the envisioned German sphere to the Soviets.


Premise: In which British group is Tuvalu a member?

Hypothesis: Tuvalu is a member of the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank.


Premise: What are some of the findings that support their argument?

Hypothesis: In 1991, Gribbin and Davies released their book The Matter Myth, the first chapter of which, "The Death of Materialism", contained the following passage:


Premise: What do cotton linters look like?

Hypothesis: Cotton linters are fine, silky fibers which adhere to the seeds of the cotton plant after ginning.


Premise: Where then does the elevator go?

Hypothesis: The elevator will then travel non-stop to the selected floor, and will remain in code-blue service until switched off in the car.


Premise: What number of troops did France have to contend with?

Hypothesis: The French had been slowly reinforced and their force numbered only 35,000.


Premise: Who was responsible for seeking justice in the Roman courts?

Hypothesis: If the accused were a noble and the victim, not a noble, the likelihood of finding for the accused was small.


Premise: When did Kerry run for president?

Hypothesis: In his 2004 presidential campaign, Kerry criticized George W. Bush for the Iraq War.


Premise: What are three things the new movements try to achieve?

Hypothesis: This in contrast to modernist and globally uniform architecture, as well as leaning against solitary housing estates and suburban sprawl.


Premise: Who became the new Iraqi president after the coup?

Hypothesis: Abdel Salam Aref, a Nasserist, was chosen to be the new president.


Premise: What event led to English temporarily losing its importance as a literary language?

Hypothesis: It is considered to represent the "classical" form of Old English.


Premise: What are the other levels classified by?

Hypothesis: Tests are frequently grouped by where they are added in the software development process, or by the level of specificity of the test.


Premise: Which society was Albert the president of?

Hypothesis: He developed an interest in working conditions, and was President of the Industrial Welfare Society.


Premise: Who replaced Gladstone for only a few short months?

Hypothesis: Gladstone was replaced by Lord Salisbury.


Premise: What did the Gupta Empires trade ties influence?

Hypothesis: Strong trade ties also made the region an important cultural centre and established it as a base that would influence nearby kingdoms and regions in Burma, Sri Lanka, Maritime Southeast Asia, and Indochina.


Premise: When was the Congo's train system built?

Hypothesis: The country also has a large port on the Atlantic Ocean at Pointe-Noire and others along the Congo River at Brazzaville and Impfondo.


Premise: What prominent business professor has been heavily influenced by Whitehead?

Hypothesis: One of the leading figures having an explicitly Whiteheadian and panexperientialist stance towards management is Mark Dibben, who works in what he calls "applied process thought" to articulate a philosophy of management and business administration as part of a wider examination of the social sciences through the lens of process metaphysics.


Premise: What type of rites varied in accordance with status and religion?

Hypothesis: Funeral and commemorative rites varied according to wealth, status and religious context.


Premise: By when does the plan call for improvement of rural Tibetan income?

Hypothesis: The plan calls for improvement of rural Tibetan income to national standards by 2020 and free education for all rural Tibetan children.


Premise: Who describes adolescence as the stage of life in which the individual's thoughts start taking more of an abstract form?

Hypothesis: The thoughts, ideas and concepts developed at this period of life greatly influence one's future life, playing a major role in character and personality formation.


Premise: Who makes party policy?

Hypothesis: Party policy is made almost entirely by the parliamentary parties, not by the party's rank-and-file members, although Liberal party members do have a degree of influence over party policy.


Premise: What publication does Ken Tucker work for?

Hypothesis: Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly considered that "As TV, American Idol is crazily entertaining; as music, it's dust-mote inconsequential".


Premise: What is one dimension that communication is typically described along?

Hypothesis: Communication is usually described along a few major dimensions:


Premise: What was the agreement that recognized Greece as a state called?

Hypothesis: As a result of years of negotiation, the nascent Greek state was finally recognized under the London Protocol in 1830.


Premise: What type of personnel did every camp have?

Hypothesis: Each camp had its own religious personnel; standard bearers, priestly officers and their assistants, including a haruspex, and housekeepers of shrines and images.


Premise: What is Mirella Biano's occupation?

Hypothesis: Gaddafi was a very private individual, who described himself as a "simple revolutionary" and "pious Muslim" called upon by Allah to continue Nasser's work.


Premise: Under what type of tradition did Sanskrit begin?

Hypothesis: Sanskrit originated in an oral society, and the oral tradition was maintained through the development of early classical Sanskrit literature.


Premise: Ogranisms use camoflauge to blend with their habitat and what else?

Hypothesis: One adaptation helping both predators and prey avoid detection is camouflage, a form of crypsis where species have an appearance that helps them blend into the background.


Premise: What times are generally reserved for local newscasts?

Hypothesis: In addition to the mentioned late local newscasts, CBC stations in most markets fill early evenings with local news programs, generally from 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., while most stations also air a single local newscast on weekend evenings (comprising a supper hour broadcast on Saturdays and a late evening newscast on Sundays).


Premise: What attributes were bestowed on homo spaiens afer?

Hypothesis: But the scientific classification of phenotypic variation was frequently coupled with racist ideas about innate predispositions of different groups, always attributing the most desirable features to the White, European race and arranging the other races along a continuum of progressively undesirable attributes.


Premise: In which year was a settlement reached regarding GE's pollution of the Housatonic River?

Hypothesis: In 1983, New York State Attorney General Robert Abrams filed suit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York to compel GE to pay for the cleanup of what was claimed to be more than 100,000 tons of chemicals dumped from their plant in Waterford, New York.


Premise: How much of the population must have been in favor of the revision?

Hypothesis: If at least one tenth of those entitled to vote in Bundestag elections were in favour of a revision, the federal government had to include the proposal into its legislation.


Premise: In what year were there several cases that helped to redefine Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander?

Hypothesis: In 2012, a number of high-profile cases highlighted the legal and community attitude that identifying as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander is not dependent on skin colour, with a well-known boxer Anthony Mundine being widely criticised for questioning the "blackness" of another boxer and journalist Andrew Bolt being successfully sued for publishing discriminatory comments about Aboriginals with light skin.


Premise: What day did Charleston's airport hit the coldest day on record?

Hypothesis: The highest temperature recorded within city limits was 104 °F (40 °C), on June 2, 1985, and June 24, 1944, and the lowest was 7 °F (−14 °C) on February 14, 1899, although at the airport, where official records are kept, the historical range is 105 °F (41 °C) on August 1, 1999 down to 6 °F (−14 °C) on January 21, 1985.


Premise: If they're not purely hunter-gatherers, then what do they have a history of being?

Hypothesis: In the early 1980s, a small but vocal segment of anthropologists and archaeologists attempted to demonstrate that contemporary groups usually identified as hunter-gatherers do not, in most cases, have a continuous history of hunting and gathering, and that in many cases their ancestors were agriculturalists and/or pastoralists[citation needed] who were pushed into marginal areas as a result of migrations, economic exploitation, and/or violent conflict (see, for example, the Kalahari Debate).


Premise: How many international organizations donated?

Hypothesis: Saudi Arabia was the largest aid donor to China, providing close to €40,000,000 in financial assistance, and an additional €8,000,000 worth of relief materials.


Premise: Why is the port so important?

Hypothesis: The Commercial Port of Guam is the island's lifeline because most products must be shipped into Guam for consumers.


Premise: What is extensive pretrial discovery a part of?

Hypothesis: Generally, American civil procedure has several notable features, including extensive pretrial discovery, heavy reliance on live testimony obtained at deposition or elicited in front of a jury, and aggressive pretrial "law and motion" practice designed to result in a pretrial disposition (that is, summary judgment) or a settlement.


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

Hypothesis: IGN ranked the game as the 4th-best Wii game.


Premise: How did Boganda die?

Hypothesis: MESAN continued to exist, but its role was limited.


Premise: How does Switzerland rank worldwide in areas such as quality of life and civil liberties?

Hypothesis: Zürich and Geneva have each been ranked among the top cities with the highest quality of life in the world, with the former ranked 2nd globally, according to Mercer.


Premise: In Pakistan, a student's tests in what grade determine their admission to a diploma program?

Hypothesis: Students are admitted to the diploma program based on their results in the 10th grade standardized exams.


Premise: What is ecclesiology?

Hypothesis: As in political federalism, in presbyterian ecclesiology there is shared sovereignty.


Premise: What are the three most spoken languages in Egypt?

Hypothesis: The spoken languages are: Egyptian Arabic (68%), Sa'idi Arabic (29%), Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Arabic (1.6%), Sudanese Arabic (0.6%), Domari (0.3%), Nobiin (0.3%), Beja (0.1%), Siwi and others.


Premise: What type of government does Burma operate under ?

Hypothesis: Such an assertion assumes that reforms only occurred when the military was able to safeguard its own interests through the transition—here, "transition" does not refer to a transition to a liberal democracy, but transition to a quasi-military rule.


Premise: Who were the majority of names on the custodial detention list?

Hypothesis: In 1939, the Bureau began compiling a custodial detention list with the names of those who would be taken into custody in the event of war with Axis nations.


Premise: The inclination of the roof cannot exceed how much?

Hypothesis: The inclination of the roof cannot exceed 40%, allowing the snow to stay on top, thereby functioning as insulation from the cold.


Premise: Who governs Northwestern?

Hypothesis: Northwestern is privately owned and is governed by an appointed Board of Trustees.


Premise: What happened to the Fatburger chains that Kanye established?

Hypothesis: In February 2011, West shut down the Fatburger located in Orland Park.


Premise: Who previously owned the property where Tyson Research Center is located?

Hypothesis: Washington University obtained Tyson as surplus property from the federal government in 1963.


Premise: How many Apostles were there at the Last Supper?

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


Premise: Outside of sun exposure in what circumstance did pigment made from rubia tinctorum fade?

Hypothesis: This color leaned toward brick-red, and faded easily in the sun or during washing.


Premise: In what year was Somerset House designed?

Hypothesis: But as the period came to an end many commercial projects were becoming sufficiently large, and well-funded, to become "architectural in intention", rather than having their design left to the lesser class of "surveyors".


Premise: What was the inaugural year of the AFL?

Hypothesis: The sport was invented in the early 1980s and patented by Foster, a former executive of the United States Football League and the National Football League.


Premise: At what point does the coastal plin transition to the Piedmont region?

Hypothesis: The coastal plain transitions to the Piedmont region along the Atlantic Seaboard fall line, a line which marks the elevation at which waterfalls first appear on streams and rivers.


Premise: Some elevators may use the color convention for only what purpose?

Hypothesis: An example of a place whose elevators use only the color convention to differentiate between directions is the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, where a single circle can be made to light up green for "up" and red for "down".


Premise: What are some new initiatives that may impact the concept of comprehensive schools?

Hypothesis: In principle, comprehensive schools were conceived as "neighbourhood" schools for all students in a specified catchment area.


Premise: In which year did Feynman orate the Caltech commencement speech?

Hypothesis: He instructed the graduating class that "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.


Premise: How is paperfoam commonly disposed of?

Hypothesis: Made out of paper, and known commercially as paperfoam, the new packaging has very similar mechanical properties to some expanded plastic packaging, but is biodegradable and can also be recycled with ordinary paper.


Premise: In 1930s how many indentured children were there?

Hypothesis: Swiss municipality guardianship authorities acted so, commonly tolerated by federal authorities, to the 1960s, not all of them of course, but usually communities affected of low taxes in some Swiss cantons Swiss historian Marco Leuenberger investigated, that in 1930 there were some 35,000 indentured children, and between 1920 and 1970 more than 100,000 are believed to have been placed with families or homes.


Premise: Antarctica was a part of what supercontinent?

Hypothesis: During the Cretaceous, the late Paleozoic-early Mesozoic supercontinent of Pangaea completed its breakup into present day continents, although their positions were substantially different at the time.


Premise: Where was Beyoncé's first public performance after giving birth?

Hypothesis: On January 7, 2012, Beyoncé gave birth to her first child, a daughter, Blue Ivy Carter, at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York.


Premise: What were 2 former Northwestern basketball players charged and convicted for in 1998?

Hypothesis: In 1998, two former Northwestern basketball players were charged and convicted for sports bribery as a result of being paid to shave points in games against three other Big Ten schools during the 1995 season.


Premise: Who was the Collector for the port of Pennsylvania in 1715?

Hypothesis: The Collector for the port of Pennsylvania, John Moore, wrote of attending lodges there in 1715, two years before the formation of the first Grand Lodge in London.


Premise: What percentage of applicants did BYU accept for it's summer term and fall semester in 2013?

Hypothesis: BYU accepted 49 percent of the 11,423 people who applied for admission in the summer term and fall semester of 2013.


Premise: Which conjugation has less than 100 verbs?

Hypothesis: The verbs of the second conjugation are fewer than 100, and it is not possible to create new ones, except by compounding.


Premise: Who can freely withdraw from  their reserve accounts at the Federal Reserve?

Hypothesis: When the Federal Reserve makes a purchase, it credits the seller's reserve account (with the Federal Reserve).


Premise: When has the Olmec tablet been dated to?

Hypothesis: What may be the earliest-known example in the Americas of an extensive text thought to be writing is by the Cascajal Block.


Premise: What part of Oklahoma does the Flint Hills reach into?

Hypothesis: A portion of the Flint Hills stretches into north-central Oklahoma, and near the state's eastern border, Cavanal Hill is regarded by the Oklahoma Tourism & Recreation Department as the world's tallest hill;


Premise: IndyMac offered this type of questionable loans to borrowers?

Hypothesis: IndyMac often made loans without verification of the borrower’s income or assets, and to borrowers with poor credit histories.


Premise: What was the driving force behind Milton Winternitz's research?

Hypothesis: Progress toward his plans for an Institute of Human Relations, envisioned as a refuge where social scientists would collaborate with biological scientists in a holistic study of humankind, unfortunately lasted for only a few years before the opposition of resentful anti-Semitic colleagues drove him to resign.


Premise: Who caused Oda Nobunaga's death?

Hypothesis: Attacking from the "sanctuary" of Buddhist temples, they were constant headaches to any warlord and even the Emperor who tried to control their actions.


Premise: Where did Ted Hoff, Federico Faggin, and Stanley Mazor work at?

Hypothesis: This new development heralded an explosion in the commercial and personal use of computers and led to the invention of the microprocessor.


Premise: What is comprised of a stop, fricative, and aspirated release?

Hypothesis: A doubled aspirated affricate has a longer hold in the stop portion and then has a release consisting of the fricative and aspiration.


Premise: What two subjects of Avicenna's have been reprinted extensively?

Hypothesis: The Latin editions of part of these works have been modified by the corrections which the monastic editors confess that they applied.


Premise: What group does C support England joining?

Hypothesis: C campaigns for Britain to form alongside 8 other countries "Nine Eyes ", a global surveillance and intelligence co-operation initiative between nine member states, and uses his influence to close down the '00' section, believing it to be outdated.


Premise: What does Hogarth say in detail?

Hypothesis: Hogarth gives no evidence of being familiar with the contemporaneous initial concept of the Middle East.


Premise: Who discovered non-radio uses for early LED devices?

Hypothesis: In 1957, Braunstein further demonstrated that the rudimentary devices could be used for non-radio communication across a short distance.


Premise: What dialect is Standard Somali based on?

Hypothesis: The coastal dialects have additional phonemes which do not exist in Standard Somali.


Premise: When did the indigenous Estonians try to overthrow their Danish and German rulers?

Hypothesis: After initial success the revolt was ended by the invasion of the Teutonic Order.


Premise: What was London's original name, as founded by the Romans?

Hypothesis: Since at least the 19th century, the term London has also referred to the metropolis developed around this core.


Premise: When did Apple reveal it had achieved its highest quarterly earnings to date?

Hypothesis: 42% of Apple's revenue for the First fiscal quarter of 2008 came from iPod sales, followed by 21% from notebook sales and 16% from desktop sales.


Premise: who co-wrote the hit song "on and on" in 1984?

Hypothesis: "On and On" is sometimes cited as the 'first house record', though other examples from around that time, such as J.M. Silk's "Music is the Key" (1985), have also been cited.


Premise: Which movement took place during the 19th century?

Hypothesis: The Romantic Movement of the early 19th century reshaped science by opening up new pursuits unexpected in the classical approaches of the Enlightenment.


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

Hypothesis: The Latin term in vacuo is used to describe an object as being in what would otherwise be a vacuum.


Premise: What devices were painted with radium paint?

Hypothesis: Besides the pottery glazes, uranium tile glazes accounted for the bulk of the use, including common bathroom and kitchen tiles which can be produced in green, yellow, mauve, black, blue, red and other colors.


Premise: The timpani ans castanets are what type of instrument?

Hypothesis: Percussion instruments included the timpani, snare drum, tambourine and the castanets.


Premise: What percentage of potentially habitable modes have Tetrapods not yet invaded?

Hypothesis: As one author states, "Tetrapods have not yet invaded 64 per cent of potentially habitable modes, and it could be that without human influence the ecological and taxonomic diversity of tetrapods would continue to increase in an exponential fashion until most or all of the available ecospace is filled."


Premise: What was Simpson's pen-name?

Hypothesis: Simpson (under his pen-name, Weale) explains that this entire region "is politically one region – in spite of the divisions into which it is academically divided."


Premise: In what year did the Hyderabad Literary Festival start?

Hypothesis: Organisations engaged in the advancement of literature include the Sahitya Akademi, the Urdu Academy, the Telugu Academy, the National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, the Comparative Literature Association of India, and the Andhra Saraswata Parishad.


Premise: How many people inhabit metro Detroit?

Hypothesis: Detroit (/dᵻˈtrɔɪt/) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan, the fourth-largest city in the Midwest and the largest city on the United States–Canada border.


Premise: How many convicts are listed in the database at Norfolk Island?

Hypothesis: In 1824 the British government instructed the Governor of New South Wales Thomas Brisbane to occupy Norfolk Island as a place to send "the worst description of convicts".


Premise: Which Swiss motorcycle racer won the 2005 MotoGP World Championship in the 125cc category?

Hypothesis: Switzerland also won the A1GP World Cup of Motorsport in 2007–08 with driver Neel Jani.


Premise: What is directly above the premier in the People's Republic of China?

Hypothesis: Premier read as (Simplified Chinese: 总理; pinyin: Zŏnglĭ) in Chinese.


Premise: What is one of the C2 related functions that the Command and Control mission of the Air Force uses?

Hypothesis: This core function includes all of the C2-related capabilities and activities associated with air, space, cyberspace, nuclear, and agile combat support operations to achieve strategic, operational, and tactical objectives.


Premise: Which two accessories were featured in the movie The Wizard?

Hypothesis: Other accessories include the Power Pad and the Power Glove, which was featured in the movie The Wizard.


Premise: What was the lockout chip number for the USA and Canada?

Hypothesis: Known regions are: USA/Canada (3193 lockout chip), most of Europe (3195), Asia (3196) and UK, Italy and Australia (3197).


Premise: What two structures does a neuron extend when it is in place during development?

Hypothesis: The result of this pathfinding process is that the growth cone navigates through the brain until it reaches its destination area, where other chemical cues cause it to begin generating synapses.


Premise: For what constituency was Nancy Astor elected?

Hypothesis: In 1919 Nancy Astor was elected the first ever female member of parliament to take office in the British Houses of Parliament for the constituency of Plymouth Sutton.


Premise: What did Yale do about the Title IX complaint?

Hypothesis: In response, the university formed a Title IX steering committee to address complaints of sexual misconduct.


Premise: Why did they decide against shifting code?

Hypothesis: The committee debated the possibility of a shift function (like in ITA2), which would allow more than 64 codes to be represented by a six-bit code.


Premise: In what year did the Marshall Islands gain official recognition by the major European nations?

Hypothesis: The European powers recognized the islands as part of the Spanish East Indies in 1874.


Premise: What is the most simple example of topological groups?

Hypothesis: The most basic examples are the reals R under addition, (R ∖ {0}, ·), and similarly with any other topological field such as the complex numbers or p-adic numbers.


Premise: What type of fixtures are used typically used for indoor lighting?

Hypothesis: Lighting can also be an intrinsic component of landscape projects.


Premise: What medium has added to the fan base of Arsenal?

Hypothesis: There have always been Arsenal supporters outside London, and since the advent of satellite television, a supporter's attachment to a football club has become less dependent on geography.


Premise: When did the Avid Life Media CEO resign?

Hypothesis: When Avid Life Media, the parent company that created the Ashley Madison website, did not take the site offline, The Impact Group released two more compressed files, one 9.7GB and the second 20GB.


Premise: How many hours of sunshine does New York receive every year?

Hypothesis: The area averages 234 days with at least some sunshine annually, and averages 57% of possible sunshine annually, accumulating 2,535 hours of sunshine per annum.


Premise: What is the national currency of Armenia?

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


Premise: What type of diet can modern domesticated dogs thrive eating that other dogs cannot?

Hypothesis: Although initially thought to have originated as a manmade variant of an extant canid species (variously supposed as being the dhole, golden jackal, or gray wolf), extensive genetic studies undertaken during the 2010s indicate that dogs diverged from an extinct wolf-like canid in Eurasia 40,000 years ago.


Premise: On what website can many a capella groups' music be listened to?

Hypothesis: Like the other groups, examples of their music can be found on YouTube.


Premise: How old was Beyonce when she went to her first Michael Jackson concert as a kid?

Hypothesis: She admires Diana Ross as an "all-around entertainer" and Whitney Houston, who she said "inspired me to get up there and do what she did.


Premise: WHen did Brown announce his intention to stand down?

Hypothesis: However, the Labour Party would have had to form a coalition with more than one other smaller party to gain an overall majority; anything less would result in a minority government.


Premise: In which park did Everton FC originally play?

Hypothesis: Everton originally played in the southeast corner of Stanley Park, which was the site for the new Liverpool F.C. stadium, with the first official match taking place in 1879.


Premise: What state employed Abmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi?

Hypothesis: In the Middle Ages, several powerful Somali empires dominated the regional trade including the Ajuran Sultanate, which excelled in hydraulic engineering and fortress building, the Sultanate of Adal,


Premise: At what event was Kinect announced?

Hypothesis: During their CES 2010 keynote speech, Robbie Bach and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer went on to say that Kinect will be released during the holiday period (November–January) and it will work with every 360 console.


Premise: What scenes did the paintings on homes depict?

Hypothesis: At Çatal höyük, houses were plastered and painted with elaborate scenes of humans and animals.


Premise: What was the Monte Carlo method?

Hypothesis: During this time he contributed to the development of the Monte Carlo method, which allowed solutions to complicated problems to be approximated using random numbers.


Premise: In addition to hearing him play, what else did people seek from Chopin in London?

Hypothesis: Chopin was also sought after for piano lessons, for which he charged the high fee of one guinea (£1.05 in present British currency) per hour, and for private recitals for which the fee was 20 guineas.


Premise: Which Van Halen instrumental showcased the guitar mastery of Eddie Van Halen?

Hypothesis: He popularised a guitar-playing technique of two-handed hammer-ons and pull-offs called tapping, showcased on the song "Eruption" from the album Van Halen, which was highly influential in re-establishing hard rock as a popular genre after the punk and disco explosion, while also redefining and elevating the role of electric guitar.


Premise: What elements of Proto-Indo-Iranian did not diverge according to the ensuing split between eastern and western variants?

Hypothesis: These concern the fate of the Proto-Indo-Iranian first-series palatal consonants, *ć and *dź:


Premise: What do scholars recognize about the life of the Buddha?

Hypothesis: Most accept that he lived, taught and founded a monastic order, but do not consistently accept all of the details contained in his biographies.


Premise: What did the Destroyers for Bases Agreement do?

Hypothesis: In September 1940, as part of the Destroyers for Bases Agreement, the UK granted the US base rights in Bermuda.


Premise: In what year did Umar ibn Ad Al-Aziz die?

Hypothesis: Imam Abu Muhammad Adbullah ibn Abdul Hakam stated that Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz also stopped the personal allowance offered to his relatives stating that he could only give them an allowance if he gave an allowance to everyone else in the empire.


Premise: How many miles long is Metrorail?

Hypothesis: A free, elevated people mover, Metromover, operates 21 stations on three different lines in greater Downtown Miami, with a station at roughly every two blocks of Downtown and Brickell.


Premise: Where is BBC banned from reporting?

Hypothesis: On April 19, the BBC reported that 1,300 people had gathered outside BBC buildings in Manchester and London, protesting against what they described as Western media bias.


Premise: What are not pair with transformations in the theory of relativity?

Hypothesis: The symmetry group of the general theory of relativity includes all differentiable transformations, i.e., all properties of an object are dynamical, in other words there are no absolute objects.


Premise: How much more does a average commercial  turkey weigh in comparison to its wild turkey cousins ?

Hypothesis: Many different breeds have been developed, but the majority of commercial birds are white, as this improves the appearance of the dressed carcass, the pin feathers being less visible.


Premise: What is the name given when zones of gradation exits?

Hypothesis: There are exceptions to this rule, especially if the speciation process was relatively recent or incomplete as is the case with many cattle and dog species.


Premise: Who is considered the "father of the computer"?

Hypothesis: Charles Babbage, an English mechanical engineer and polymath, originated the concept of a programmable computer.


Premise: What was manufactured that helped the Valencian economy improve?

Hypothesis: The Valencian economy recovered during the 18th century with the rising manufacture of woven silk and ceramic tiles.


Premise: How many pubs applied to be allowed to sell alcohol 24 hours a day?

Hypothesis: This allowed pubs in England and Wales to apply to the local council for the opening hours of their choice.


Premise: In 2011, plans were made to decrease hospitals to how many?

Hypothesis: In 2010, there were 138 hospitals with 31,000 beds in the country, but on 1 July 2011, the Ministry for Health and Social Solidarity announced its plans to decrease the number to 77 hospitals with 36,035 beds, as a necessary reform to reduce expenses and further enhance healthcare standards.[disputed – discuss]


Premise: Who is Galicia's patron saint?

Hypothesis: The patron saint of Galicia is Saint James the Greater, whose body was discovered – according to the Catholic tradition – in 814 near Compostela.


Premise: Who wrote Shahnameh?

Hypothesis: Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, the national epic of Iran, is a mythical and heroic retelling of Persian history.


Premise: What is hottest temperature recorded with Charleston's city limits?

Hypothesis: Hurricanes are a major threat to the area during the summer and early fall, with several severe hurricanes hitting the area – most notably Hurricane Hugo on September 21, 1989 (a category 4 storm).


Premise: An axon can connect to how many other cells?

Hypothesis: When an action potential, traveling along an axon, arrives at a synapse, it causes a chemical called a neurotransmitter to be released.


Premise: Who wrote a successful natural history textbook for children titled The Easy Introduction to the Knowledge of Nature (1782)?

Hypothesis: The first significant work that expressed scientific theory and knowledge expressly for the laity, in the vernacular, and with the entertainment of readers in mind, was Bernard de Fontenelle's Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds (1686).


Premise: What inconsistency would be found in this explanation?

Hypothesis: They concluded that such an eclipse would have been visible, for thirty minutes, from Jerusalem and suggested the gospel reference to a solar eclipse was the result of a scribe wrongly amending a text.


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

Hypothesis: It became the rapper's sixth consecutive number one debut, but also marked his lowest solo opening week sales.


Premise: In what year was an agreement reached to ban mining in Antarctica?

Hypothesis: The 1991 Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty also restricts a struggle for resources.


Premise: What is the federation of Australia?

Hypothesis: When the Constitution of Australia came into force, the colonies collectively became states of the Commonwealth of Australia.


Premise: Who is the elder brother of Musa al-Kadhim?

Hypothesis: The Ismailis believe that whether Imam Ismail did or did not die before Imam Ja'far, he had passed on the mantle of the imamate to his son Muḥammad ibn Ismail as the next imam.


Premise: Who can restore a database that has been corrupted?

Hypothesis: When this state is needed, i.e., when it is decided by a database administrator to bring the database back to this state (e.g., by specifying this state by a desired point in time when the database was in this state), these files are utilized to restore that state.


Premise: How do regulatory regions act?

Hypothesis: These act by binding to transcription factors which then cause the DNA to loop so that the regulatory sequence (and bound transcription factor) become close to the RNA polymerase binding site.


Premise: What was the term used to not only describe Darwin's theories, but the whole spectrum of evolution-ism after his book met with success?

Hypothesis: Darwin's book legitimised scientific discussion of evolutionary mechanisms, and the newly coined term Darwinism was used to cover the whole range of evolutionism, not just his own ideas.


Premise: What parts of reptiles respond to sensory cues?

Hypothesis: The motor centers of reptiles react to sensory cues of vision, sound, touch, chemical, gravity, and motion with pre-set body movements and programmed postures.


Premise: What was the PS3 console able to play after the system software was updated to 3.50?

Hypothesis: System software update 3.50 prepared it for 3D films.


Premise: What happens to the subject and object to produce a passive voice in Czech?

Hypothesis: For example, to change "Peter killed Paul" to "Paul was killed by Peter" the order of subject and object is inverted: Petr zabil Pavla ("Peter killed Paul") becomes "Paul, Peter killed" (Pavla zabil Petr).


Premise: During the middle and early parts of what decade did the similarity of Easy Listening and Hot 100 increase?

Hypothesis: The adult contemporary format began evolving into the sound that later defined it, with rock-oriented acts as Chicago, The Eagles, and Elton John becoming associated with the format.


Premise: What notable artist and Royal Academician was born in Plympton?

Hypothesis: Painter Sir Joshua Reynolds, founder and first president of the Royal Academy was born and educated in nearby Plympton, now part of Plymouth.


Premise: Burma was formerly annexed by what country?

Hypothesis: The Phayap Army sent troops to invade and occupy northeastern Burma, which was former Thai territory that had been annexed by Britain much earlier.


Premise: Which area is called the heart of the world's Coral reef biodiversity?

Hypothesis: The Coral Triangle is the heart of the world's coral reef biodiversity, the Verde Passage is dubbed by Conservation International as the world's "center of the center of marine shorefish biodiversity".


Premise: What was the area previously named?

Hypothesis: According to a tradition first reported by Sulcard in about 1080, a church was founded at the site (then known as Thorn Ey (Thorn Island)) in the 7th century, at the time of Mellitus, a Bishop of London.


Premise: What service did IBM provide for the Nuremberg Trials?

Hypothesis: IBM provided translation services for the Nuremberg Trials.


Premise: Where did the two authors work together as paleontologist?

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


Premise: Which type of document was general unicameral because the writer used one type of writing but not another?

Hypothesis: Both majuscule and minuscule letters existed, but the difference between the two variants was initially stylistic rather than orthographic and the writing system was still basically unicameral: a given handwritten document could use either one style or the other but these were not mixed.


Premise: The people of Greece that had higher education saw what dialect as beneath them?

Hypothesis: Many of the educated elite saw this as a peasant dialect and were determined to restore the glories of Ancient Greek.


Premise: What other cultures do the Romioi  clam to be their birthright ?

Hypothesis: Byzantine Greeks called themselves Romioi and considered themselves the political heirs of Rome, but at least by the 12th century a growing number of those educated, deemed themselves the heirs of ancient Greece as well, although for most of the Greek speakers, "Hellene" still meant pagan.


Premise: What was formed in 1941 to protect airfields?

Hypothesis: In addition the RAF regiment was formed in 1941 with responsibility for airfield air defence, eventually with Bofors 40mm as their main armament.


Premise: In what dance do the participants lob more than 75 tons of hard candy at each other?

Hypothesis: On Dijous Gras, Vilanovin children are excused from school to participate in the Merengada, a day-long scene of eating and fighting with sticky, sweet meringue.


Premise: What was one of the main causes of the split in Protestantism?

Hypothesis: They disagreed with one another concerning the presence of Christ and his body and blood in Holy Communion.


Premise: How many frequencies does the COMPASS system use?

Hypothesis: Frequencies for COMPASS are allocated in four bands: E1, E2, E5B, and E6 and overlap with Galileo.


Premise: What has been accused of reducing access to medicines in developing countries?

Hypothesis: Patents have been criticized in the developing world, as they are thought to reduce access to existing medicines.


Premise: Why did Yongle Emperor send Yang Sanbao into Tibet?

Hypothesis: However, Van Praag states that Tibetan rulers upheld their own separate relations with the kingdoms of Nepal and Kashmir, and at times "engaged in armed confrontation with them."


Premise: What physical symptom accompanied Muhammad's revelations?

Hypothesis: The Islamic studies scholar Welch states in the Encyclopaedia of Islam that he believes the graphic descriptions of Muhammad's condition at these moments may be regarded as genuine, because he was severely disturbed after these revelations.


Premise: What first-ever game did Northwestern host in 1939?

Hypothesis: In 1933, a proposal to merge Northwestern with the University of Chicago was considered but rejected.


Premise: Which penguin breeds the furterest south of all the penguin breeds?

Hypothesis: The rockhopper penguin has distinctive feathers around the eyes, giving the appearance of elaborate eyelashes.


Premise: Who conquered Switzerland in 1798?

Hypothesis: It had been imposed by a foreign invading army and destroyed centuries of tradition, making Switzerland nothing more than a French satellite state.


Premise: What body ruled the Eisenhower was not a professional writer?

Hypothesis: Eisenhower's profit on the book was substantially aided by an unprecedented ruling by the U.S. Department of the Treasury that Eisenhower was not a professional writer, but rather, marketing the lifetime asset of his experiences, and thus he only had to pay capital gains tax on his $635,000 advance instead of the much higher personal tax rate.


Premise: What subset of Unicode is used by Windows?

Hypothesis: Several subsets of Unicode are standardized: Microsoft Windows since Windows NT 4.0 supports WGL-4 with 652 characters, which is considered to support all contemporary European languages using the Latin, Greek, or Cyrillic script.


Premise: What figure died on June 28th 1855?

Hypothesis: In June, a third bombardment was followed after two days by a successful attack on the Mamelon, but a follow-up assault on the Malakoff failed with heavy losses.


Premise: Who reestablished Washington University's football team?

Hypothesis: Compton reestablished the Washington University football team, making the declaration that athletics were to be henceforth played on a "strictly amateur" basis with no athletic scholarships.


Premise: In which of John Locke's works are natural rights most famously defined and discussed?

Hypothesis: Both Rousseau and Locke's social contract theories rest on the presupposition of natural rights, which are not a result of law or custom, but are things that all men have in pre-political societies, and are therefore universal and inalienable.


Premise: What are logograms?

Hypothesis: In certain cases compound words and set phrases may be contracted into single characters.


Premise: What did Hanover possibly originally mean?

Hypothesis: Its original name Honovere may mean "high (river)bank", though this is debated (cf.


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

Hypothesis: During its years of colonial rule, Japan moved more than 1,000 Japanese to the Marshall Islands although they never outnumbered the indigenous peoples as they did in the Mariana Islands and Palau.


Premise: How many weapons can be equipped by Link if playing Twilight Princess on a GameCube?

Hypothesis: The player controls Link's sword by swinging the Wii Remote.


Premise: What are a couple of styles of combat based on?

Hypothesis: Various forms of weaponry are sometimes used.


Premise: Where did Jules Verne do research for his stories?

Hypothesis: Another of Victor Hugo's works, Les Misérables, written while he was in exile outside France during the Second Empire, described the social change and political turmoil in Paris in the early 1830s.


Premise: As of the end mid December of 2012, how many logical data records are stored at NARA?

Hypothesis: As of December 2012, the catalog consisted of about 10 billion logical data records describing 527,000 artifacts and encompassing 81% of NARA's records.


Premise: Who was soon allied with Caesar's adopted son following his death?

Hypothesis: Antony was defeated in the naval Battle of Actium in 31 BC, and he committed suicide with his lover, Cleopatra.


Premise: How much has translation changed since antiquity?

Hypothesis: Despite occasional theoretical diversity, the actual practice of translation has hardly changed since antiquity.


Premise: On which channel are committee meetings often shown?

Hypothesis: Committee hearings are often televised on C-SPAN.


Premise: What was the average hours per work week in October 2009?

Hypothesis: The output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States—decreased at an annual rate of approximately 6% in the fourth quarter of 2008 and first quarter of 2009, versus activity in the year-ago periods.


Premise: The abbey was without towers following the renovation by whom?

Hypothesis: Images of the abbey prior to the construction of the towers are scarce, though the abbey's official website states that the building was without towers following Yevele's renovation, with just the lower segments beneath the roof level of the Nave completed.


Premise: Who predicted Charleston would become a 'great port towne'?

Hypothesis: It was soon predicted by the Earl of Shaftesbury, one of the Lords Proprietors, to become a "great port towne", a destiny the city quickly fulfilled.


Premise: What is an important farming activity in mountain villages?

Hypothesis: Cheesemaking is an ancient tradition in most Alpine countries.


Premise: How many citizens of Thuringia are over the age of 65?

Hypothesis: Overall, there are 115 to 120 men per 100 women in the 25–40 age group ("family founders") which has negative consequences for the birth ratio.