Premise: Along with David Eyre, who took over the Eagle pub?

Hypothesis: The concept of a restaurant in a pub reinvigorated both pub culture and British dining, though has occasionally attracted criticism for potentially removing the character of traditional pubs.


Premise: What was the name of the campaign by the British in Holland that created a second front in the war?

Hypothesis: The main strategic result from the campaign became the delayed political settlement between the French and the Austrians.


Premise: How long was Lord Sailsbury Prime Minister?

Hypothesis: His government was weak, and the following year Lord Salisbury replaced him.


Premise: What kind of flights are offered to limited civilians?

Hypothesis: Saint Helena is one of the most remote islands in the world, has one commercial airport under construction, and travel to the island is by ship only.


Premise: How can obstruction be employed?

Hypothesis: "We know how to delay," remarked Minority Leader Gephardt Dilatory motions to adjourn, appeals of the presiding officer's ruling, or numerous requests for roll call votes are standard time-consuming parliamentary tactics.


Premise: What is the tallest skyscraper in Florida?

Hypothesis: The city currently has the eight tallest (as well as thirteen of the fourteen tallest) skyscrapers in the state of Florida, with the tallest being the 789-foot (240 m)


Premise: What town is the Q Inn located in?

Hypothesis: The town of Stalybridge in Cheshire is thought to have the pubs with both the longest and shortest names in the United Kingdom —


Premise: Many pipelines owned by Shell in the Niger Delta are described as what?

Hypothesis: The presence of companies like Shell in the Niger-Delta has led to extreme environmental issues in the Niger Delta.


Premise: How many more states aside from California does the interstate 10 run through?

Hypothesis: After traversing Los Angeles County, I-10 crosses seven more states, terminating at Jacksonville, Florida.


Premise: In what two years were the Wars of Kappel?

Hypothesis: It was not until more than one hundred years after these internal wars that, in 1648, under the Peace of Westphalia, European countries recognized Switzerland's independence from the Holy Roman Empire and its neutrality.


Premise: How many African Americans identify as multiracial on the Census of 2002?

Hypothesis: By 1990, the Census Bureau included more than a dozen ethnic/racial categories on the census, reflecting not only changing social ideas about ethnicity, but the wide variety of immigrants who had come to reside in the United States due to changing historical forces and new immigration laws in the 1960s.


Premise: What are some of the equipment used by both men and women?

Hypothesis: Combat helmets, rucksacks, combat boots, and flak jackets are designed to ensure women have the same level of protection and comfort as their male colleagues.


Premise: How did The Sun feel about the Poll tax?

Hypothesis: The Sun remained loyal to Thatcher right up to her resignation in November 1990, despite the party's fall in popularity over the previous year following the introduction of the Poll tax (officially known as the Community Charge).


Premise: What style was the church rebuilt in?

Hypothesis: It was the first church in England built in the Romanesque style.


Premise: What Armenian monasteries were built in the 11th century?

Hypothesis: From the 9th to 11th century, Armenian architecture underwent a revival under the patronage of the Bagratid Dynasty with a great deal of building done in the area of Lake Van, this included both traditional styles and new innovations.


Premise: What show did PepsiCo begin sponsoring in hopes of not missing another opportunity like American Idol?

Hypothesis: What the Los Angeles Times later called "missing one of the biggest marketing opportunities in a generation" contributed to Pepsi losing market share, by 2010 falling to third place from second in the United States.


Premise: The first national parliament of Iran was founded in what year?

Hypothesis: The Constitution included the official recognition of Iran's three religious minorities, namely Christians, Zoroastrians, and Jews, which has remained a basis in the legislation of Iran since then.


Premise: What organization's definition is widely used?

Hypothesis: The International Association for the Study of Pain's widely used definition states: "Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage.


Premise: What dielectric is matte glass and polyester?

Hypothesis: (woven glass and epoxy), FR-6


Premise: How much did a BeiDou-1 ground terminal cost in 2008?

Hypothesis: The price of the terminals was explained as being due to the cost of imported microchips.


Premise: The First Opium War led to Britain seizing what island?

Hypothesis: This trade, illegal since it was outlawed by the Qing dynasty in 1729, helped reverse the trade imbalances resulting from the British imports of tea, which saw large outflows of silver from Britain to China.


Premise: The Times, owned by News UK, is itself owned by what major corporation?

Hypothesis: The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times (founded in 1821) are published by Times Newspapers, since 1981 a subsidiary of News UK, itself wholly owned by the News Corp group headed by Rupert Murdoch.


Premise: Who was the man William IV wanted Victoria to wed instead?

Hypothesis: William IV, however, disapproved of any match with the Coburgs, and instead favoured the suit of Prince Alexander of the Netherlands, second son of the Prince of Orange.


Premise: What does the ILO stand for?

Hypothesis: Apart from the United Nations headquarters, the Swiss Confederation is host to many UN agencies, like the World Health Organization (WHO), the International Labour Organization (ILO), the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and about 200 other international organisations, including the World Trade Organization and the World Intellectual Property Organization.


Premise: What is the study of living organisms known as?

Hypothesis: The study of their properties is known as organic chemistry and their study in the context of living organisms is known as biochemistry.


Premise: When did Europe begin color broadcasts?

Hypothesis: Colour broadcasts started at similarly higher resolutions, first with the US NTSC color system in 1953, which was compatible with the earlier monochrome systems and therefore had the same 525 lines of resolution.


Premise: Where was Spielberg born?

Hypothesis: His mother, Leah (Adler) Posner (born 1920), was a restaurateur and concert pianist, and his father, Arnold Spielberg (born 1917), was an electrical engineer involved in the development of computers.


Premise: What is the name of the football club in Nanjing?

Hypothesis: Jiangsu Sainty, the football club currently staying in Chinese Super League, is a long-term tenant of Nanjing Olympic Sports Center.


Premise: Which frequencies are you most likely to hear tonearm skating?

Hypothesis: Subsonic frequencies below about 20 Hz in the audio signal are dominated by tracking effects, which is one form of unwanted rumble ("tracking noise") and merges with audible frequencies in the deep bass range up to about 100 Hz.


Premise: Who bought the Waldorf Astoria hotel in NYC in 2014?

Hypothesis: Manhattan was on track to have an estimated 90,000 hotel rooms at the end of 2014, a 10% increase from 2013.


Premise: What do some studies use the word race in the sense of?

Hypothesis: Some studies use the word race in its early essentialist taxonomic sense.


Premise: What was the afterlife of the immortals called during this period?

Hypothesis: It was thought that each person had a two-part soul: the spirit-soul (hun 魂) which journeyed to the afterlife paradise of immortals (xian), and the body-soul (po 魄) which remained in its grave or tomb on earth and was only reunited with the spirit-soul through a ritual ceremony.


Premise: Whom is the Anschutz Library named for?

Hypothesis: The libraries of the University include the Watson Library, Spencer Research Library, and Anschutz Library, which commemorates the businessman Philip Anschutz, an alumnus of the University.


Premise: What is the time period called from which no writing can be found.

Hypothesis: These civilizations possessed writing, the Minoans writing in an undeciphered script known as Linear A, and the Mycenaeans in Linear B, an early form of Greek.


Premise: What type of bird particularly played an important part in the inception of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection?

Hypothesis: Birds, specifically Darwin's finches, played an important part in the inception of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection.


Premise: What year was the Rainbow Times founded?

Hypothesis: Founded in 2006, The Rainbow Times is now based out of Boston, but serves all of New England.


Premise: For what state artifacts did the Vestals care?

Hypothesis: The Vestals cared for the Lares and Penates of the state that were the equivalent of those enshrined in each home.


Premise: Who starred in The Phantom of the Opera?

Hypothesis: Character actor Lon Chaney became a drawing card for Universal in the 1920s, appearing steadily in dramas.


Premise: Who exercises sovereignty rights for Lancashire?

Hypothesis: The county palatine boundaries remain the same[clarification needed] with the Duke of Lancaster exercising sovereignty rights, including the appointment of lords lieutenant in Greater Manchester and Merseyside.


Premise: Does England have its own Parliament?

Hypothesis: Government has been devolved to the Scottish Parliament, the National Assembly for Wales and the Northern Ireland Assembly.


Premise: When was the centrality of the "separation" concept to the Religion Clauses of the Constitution made explicit?

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


Premise: How many elements did the Chinese philosophers think the world was made of?

Hypothesis: Each Emperor chose the color that his fortune-tellers believed would bring the most prosperity and good fortune to his reign.


Premise: What was Comcast's profit margin in 2009?

Hypothesis: Net profit margin rose from 4.2% in 1999 to 8.4% in 2009, with operating margins improving 31 percent and return on equity doubling to 6.7 percent in the same time span.


Premise: What did an established church, even at the state level, have?

Hypothesis: There were also opponents to the support of any established church even at the state level.


Premise: Where did the groups the genetic clusters were taken from live from each other?

Hypothesis: It was thought that such large geographic distances would maximize the genetic variation between the groups sampled in the analysis and thus maximize the probability of finding cluster patterns unique to each group.


Premise: About when did Alsace lose its prosperity?

Hypothesis: An additional natural disaster was the Rhine rift earthquake of 1356, one of Europe's worst which made ruins of Basel.


Premise: What did the American Embargoes prevent Japan from aquiring?

Hypothesis: With the occupation of French Indochina in the years of 1940–41, and with the continuing war in China, the United States placed embargoes on Japan of strategic materials such as scrap metal and oil, which were vitally needed for the war effort.


Premise: What type of God did Whitehead believe existed?

Hypothesis: Whitehead posited that these ordered potentials exist in what he called the primordial nature of God.


Premise: What type of economy did Philadelphia have?

Hypothesis: The state government left Philadelphia in 1799, and the federal government was moved to Washington, DC in 1800 with completion of the White House and Capitol.


Premise: What is a polular green soup of Egypt?

Hypothesis: Garlic fried with coriander is added to mulukhiyya, a popular green soup made from finely chopped jute leaves, sometimes with chicken or rabbit.


Premise: WWhat's the first thing to happen when the switch is activated?

Hypothesis: The access key switches will allow the car to move at reduced inspection speed with the hoistway door open.


Premise: Which ranch applies, interprets, and occasionally overturns both state statutes and regulations?

Hypothesis: State laws have dramatically diverged in the centuries since independence, to the extent that the United States cannot be regarded as one legal system as to the majority of types of law traditionally under state control, but must be regarded as 50 separate systems of tort law, family law, property law, contract law, criminal law, and so on.


Premise: When did the design begin for the 12.8 centimeter FlaK?

Hypothesis: In 1938 design started on the 12.8 cm FlaK.


Premise: What Scythian weapon was used during this era?

Hypothesis: During the early invasion period, the stirrup had not been introduced into warfare, which limited the usefulness of cavalry as shock troops because it was not possible to put the full force of the horse and rider behind blows struck by the rider.


Premise: When was the sash window developed?

Hypothesis: To open these large windows the sash window, already developed by the 1670s, became very widespread.


Premise: What does Lykegenes mean?

Hypothesis: However, this story may reflect a cultural influence which had the reverse direction: Hittite cuneiform texts mention a Minor Asian god called Appaliunas or Apalunas in connection with the city of Wilusa attested in Hittite inscriptions, which is now generally regarded as being identical with the Greek Ilion by most scholars.


Premise: Out of the precipitation that falls, how much of it is snow?

Hypothesis: The city receives about 35.9 inches (91.2 cm) of precipitation annually, of which 8.6 inches (21.8 cm) is snow.


Premise: When did the First Aliyah begin?

Hypothesis: Although the Zionist movement already existed in practice, Austro-Hungarian journalist Theodor Herzl is credited with founding political Zionism, a movement which sought to establish a Jewish state in the Land of Israel, thus offering a solution to the so-called Jewish Question of the European states, in conformity with the goals and achievements of other national projects of the time.


Premise: In what year was the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company founded?

Hypothesis: The Royal Dutch Petroleum Company was a Dutch company founded in 1890 to develop an oilfield in Sumatra, and initially led by August Kessler, Hugo Loudon, and Henri Deterding.


Premise: Whose technology did Apple take advantage of when introducing the Macintosh II?

Hypothesis: Updated Motorola CPUs made a faster machine possible, and in 1987 Apple took advantage of the new Motorola technology and introduced the Macintosh II at $5500, powered by a 16 MHz Motorola 68020 processor.


Premise: Queen's final tour with Freddie Mercury was in what year?

Hypothesis: In summer of 1986, Queen went on their final tour with Freddie Mercury.


Premise: Which portions of the immune system can be safely removed in these emergency cases?

Hypothesis: Prior to the designation of immunity from the etymological root immunis, which is Latin for "exempt"; early physicians characterized organs that would later be proven as essential components of the immune system.


Premise: What percent of ownership of the new company was awarded to the British?

Hypothesis: The terms of the merger gave 60 percent ownership of the new group to the Dutch arm and 40 percent to the British.


Premise: 181st Street runs through what neighborhood?

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


Premise: What did Saburo mean?

Hypothesis: For example, the full name of Oda Nobunaga would be "Oda Kazusanosuke Saburo Nobunaga" (織田上総介三郎信長), in which "Oda" is a clan or family name, "Kazusanosuke" is a title of vice-governor of Kazusa province, "Saburo" is a formal nickname (yobina), and "Nobunaga" is an adult name (nanori) given at genpuku, the coming of age ceremony.


Premise: Who was Princess Charlotte married to until her death?

Hypothesis: Her brother Leopold was Princess Charlotte's widower.


Premise: What was the name of the album Queen released in 2014?

Hypothesis: Queen first charted in the UK with their second album, Queen II, in 1974, but it was the release of Sheer Heart Attack later that year and A Night at the Opera in 1975 which brought them international success.


Premise: Who captured him during World War I?

Hypothesis: After being seriously wounded and captured by the Imperial Russians during World War I, Josip was sent to a work camp in the Ural Mountains.


Premise: Turkish Cypriots were prevented from doing what?

Hypothesis: In some areas, Greek Cypriots prevented Turkish Cypriots from travelling and entering government buildings, while some Turkish Cypriots willingly withdrew due to the calls of the Turkish Cypriot administration.


Premise: When did Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales Francis Grose start suggesting Norfolk Island be closed as a penal settlement?

Hypothesis: As early as 1794, Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales Francis Grose suggested its closure as a penal settlement, as it was too remote and difficult for shipping and too costly to maintain.


Premise: How many municipalities are there?

Hypothesis: However, in former times there were many other privileges, including the right to impose local taxes or to allow industry only within city limits.


Premise: What passed on July 18, 2007?

Hypothesis: Brussels' parliament passed the resolution on July 18, 2008:


Premise: When Catalan reach Sardinia?

Hypothesis: The city of Alghero in Sardinia was repopulated with Catalan speakers in the 14th century.


Premise: What day in 2009 was Queen's Absolute Greatest released?

Hypothesis: The album was released on 16 November and peaked at number 3 in the official UK Chart.


Premise: What is the average amount lived on per day?

Hypothesis: According to some estimates about 20% of the population lives on less than US$1.25 per day.


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

Hypothesis: Command and control is "the exercise of authority and direction by a properly designated commander over assigned and attached forces in the accomplishment of the mission.


Premise: What dynasty controlled Germany in the early High Middle Ages?

Hypothesis: He and his successors faced many difficulties, including the invasion of the Mongols into Europe in the mid-13th century.


Premise: What ancient group used bitumen extraction?

Hypothesis: After centuries of silence, the first mentions of Albanian bitumen appeared only in 1868, when the Frenchman Coquand published the first geological description of the deposits of Albanian bitumen.


Premise: When did Apple begin phasing out Macintosh in favor of "Mac"?

Hypothesis: This first model was later renamed to "Macintosh 128k" for uniqueness amongst a populous family of subsequently updated models which are also based on Apple's same proprietary architecture.


Premise: Which male private school in Boston, USA has Eton formed a relationship with?

Hypothesis: Eton College is also a member of the G20 Schools Group, a collection of college preparatory boarding schools from around the world, including Turkey's Robert College, the United States' Phillips Academy and Phillips Exeter Academy, Australia's Scotch College, Melbourne Grammar School and Launceston Church Grammar School, Singapore's Raffles Institution, and Switzerland's International School of Geneva.


Premise: Schwarzenegger's initial divorce petition failed to provide for attorney's fee reimbursement and what other condition of divorce?

Hypothesis: Schwarzenegger will keep the Brentwood home as part of their divorce settlement and Shriver has purchased a new home nearby so that the children may travel easily between their parents' homes.


Premise: When did the Southern Baptist Convention vote to adopt a resolution renouncing its racist roots?

Hypothesis: On 20 June 1995, the Southern Baptist Convention voted to adopt a resolution renouncing its racist roots and apologizing for its past defense of slavery.


Premise: Name some important commodities that originated in Southeast asian region?

Hypothesis: The spice trade initially was developed by Indian and Arab merchants, but it also brought Europeans to the region.


Premise: What Egyptian institution did Nasser and his friends want to end?

Hypothesis: It was here that Nasser and his closest comrades, including Sadat and Amer, first discussed their dissatisfaction at widespread corruption in the country and their desire to topple the monarchy.


Premise: When did Longtan Containers Port Area open up?

Hypothesis: Nanjing is also the biggest container port along the Yangtze River; in March 2004, the one million container-capacity base, Longtan Containers Port Area opened, further consolidating Nanjing as the leading port in the region.


Premise: What superpower in 1980 created a stamp in honor of Avicenna?

Hypothesis: In 1980, the Soviet Union, which then ruled his birthplace Bukhara, celebrated the thousandth anniversary of Avicenna's birth by circulating various commemorative stamps with artistic illustrations, and by erecting a bust of Avicenna based on anthropological research by Soviet scholars.[citation needed]


Premise: What fictional New Haven resident is featured in the novella, The Odd Saga of the American and a Curious Iceland Flock?

Hypothesis: The TV show Gilmore Girls is set (but not filmed) in New Haven and at Yale University, as are scenes in the film


Premise: When was the treaty to regulate mining agreed upon?

Hypothesis: In 1988, the Convention on the Regulation of Antarctic Mineral Resources (CRAMRA) was adopted.


Premise: What kind of appearance did Sumerian houses have?

Hypothesis: The city was provided with towers and stood on an artificial platform; the house also had a tower-like appearance.


Premise: When were wartime licensing laws ended in Scotland?

Hypothesis: In Scotland, this stemmed out of[clarification needed] a late repeal of the wartime licensing laws, which stayed in force until 1976.


Premise: Who argued that the Old East Slavic Slavuta for the Dnieper River was derived from slova?

Hypothesis: Lozinski argues that the word *slava once had the meaning of worshipper, in this context meaning "practicer of a common Slavic religion," and from that evolved into an ethnonym.


Premise: How many aspects are there to Dukkha?

Hypothesis: The first truth explains the nature of dukkha.


Premise: When The Times was bought in 1982, who resigned as editor?

Hypothesis: However, direct input of text by journalists ("single stroke" input) was still not achieved, and this was to remain an interim measure until the Wapping dispute of 1986, when The Times moved from New Printing House Square in Gray's Inn Road (near Fleet Street) to new offices in Wapping.


Premise: When was direct integral introduced by von Neumann?

Hypothesis: The direct integral was introduced in 1949 by John von Neumann.


Premise: What was the largest denomination in North Carolina in 2010?

Hypothesis: The fourth greatest was the Presbyterian Church (USA), with 186,000 members and 710 congregations; this denomination was brought by Scots-Irish immigrants who settled the backcountry in the colonial era.


Premise: When did Bush say the 'war on terror' ends?

Hypothesis: On 16 September 2001, at Camp David, President George W. Bush used the phrase war on terrorism in an unscripted and controversial comment when he said, "This crusade – this war on terrorism – is going to take a while, ... " Bush later apologized for this remark due to the negative connotations the term crusade has to people, e.g. of Muslim faith.


Premise: What industry did the government use to help pay for its military campaigns?

Hypothesis: The period saw a number of limited institutional innovations.


Premise: What is a new term for NPOs that has started to see more use?

Hypothesis: The term "civil society organization" (CSO) has been used by a growing number of organizations, such as the Center for the Study of Global Governance.


Premise: In what kind of area did forest gardening start?

Hypothesis: Forest gardens originated in prehistoric times along jungle-clad river banks and in the wet foothills of monsoon regions.[citation needed]


Premise: Who replaced Lord Rosenbery after only a year of government?

Hypothesis: Gladstone returned to power after the 1892 general election; he was 82 years old.


Premise: What is the main mechanism for MI?

Hypothesis: The mechanism of an MI often involves the complete blockage of a coronary artery caused by a rupture of an atherosclerotic plaque.


Premise: What is AtDNA generally only used to measure?

Hypothesis: Autosomal "atDNA" markers are also used, but differ from mtDNA or Y-DNA in that they overlap significantly.


Premise: Who was the ruler at the begining of Kievan?

Hypothesis: Kievan Rus' begins with the rule (882–912) of Prince Oleg, who extended his control from Novgorod south along the Dnieper river valley in order to protect trade from Khazar incursions from the east and moved his capital to the more strategic Kiev.


Premise: During what event was Legalism abolished?

Hypothesis: By the time of the Xinhai Revolution in 1911, there were many calls, such as the May Fourth Movement, to completely abolish the old imperial institutions and practices of China.


Premise: Where are offical tumbling competitions allowed?

Hypothesis: From 1974 to 1998 it was included as an event for both genders at the Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships.


Premise: What features were added to the lock screen?

Hypothesis: Windows 8 also adds native support for USB 3.0 devices, which allow for faster data transfers and improved power management with compatible devices, and hard disk 4KB Advanced Format support, as well as support for near field communication to facilitate sharing and communication between devices.


Premise: What kind program is commonly used to move files between iTunes and an iPod?

Hypothesis: Usually iTunes is used to transfer media to an iPod, though several alternative third-party applications are available on a number of different platforms.


Premise: When did Andragoras' reign end?

Hypothesis: Arsaces II sued for peace became a vassal of the Seleucids and it was not until the reign of Phraates I (168–165 BCE), that the Arsacids would again begin to assert their independence.


Premise: Who hosts the Star of the Month films?

Hypothesis: TCM regularly airs a "Star of the Month" throughout the year on Wednesdays starting at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time, in which most, if not all, feature films from a classic film star are shown during that night's schedule.


Premise: When did Arsenal become based in Highbury?

Hypothesis: In 2006, they moved to the Emirates Stadium in nearby Holloway.


Premise: What percentage of New York private sector jobs are in the securities industry?

Hypothesis: The city's securities industry, enumerating 163,400 jobs in August 2013, continues to form the largest segment of the city's financial sector and an important economic engine, accounting in 2012 for 5 percent of the city's private sector jobs, 8.5 percent (US$3.8 billion) of its tax revenue, and 22 percent of the city's total wages, including an average salary of US$360,700.


Premise: When did a similar revolt occur in Castile?

Hypothesis: The agermanats are comparable to the comuneros of neighbouring Castile, who fought a similar revolt against Charles from 1520–1522.


Premise: Where is the Silbermann organ located?

Hypothesis: In addition to the cathedral, Strasbourg houses several other medieval churches that have survived the many wars and destructions that have plagued the city: the Romanesque Église Saint-Étienne, partly destroyed in 1944 by Allied bombing raids, the part Romanesque, part Gothic, very large Église Saint-Thomas with its Silbermann organ on which Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Albert Schweitzer played, the Gothic Église protestante Saint-Pierre-le-Jeune with its crypt dating back to the seventh century and its cloister partly from the eleventh century, the Gothic Église Saint-Guillaume with its fine early-Renaissance stained glass and furniture, the Gothic Église Saint-Jean, the part Gothic, part Art Nouveau Église Sainte-Madeleine, etc.


Premise: What power plant was damaged by the earthquake?

Hypothesis: The Zipingpu Hydropower Plant (simplified Chinese: 紫坪铺水库; traditional Chinese: 紫坪鋪水庫) located 20 km east of the epicenter was damaged.


Premise: What can be reused after the formation?

Hypothesis: The process also produces alumina, but the expensive gallium, which prevents the formation of an oxide skin on the pellets, can be re-used.


Premise: In the U.S what does "Cultural Studies" focus largely on in this field?

Hypothesis: Cultural studies in this sense, then, can be viewed as a limited concentration scoped on the intricacies of consumerism, which belongs to a wider culture sometimes referred to as "Western Civilization" or as "Globalism."


Premise: Who did Frédéric visit Berlin with in September 1828?

Hypothesis: On an 1829 return trip to Berlin, he was a guest of Prince Antoni Radziwiłł, governor of the Grand Duchy of Posen—himself an accomplished composer and aspiring cellist.


Premise: What happens to grain when it is soaked in water?

Hypothesis: Grain is malted by soaking it in water, allowing it to begin germination, and then drying the partially germinated grain in a kiln.


Premise: Where was the destination of Kaleva?

Hypothesis: The following day, some 90,000 additional troops entered the country.


Premise: What is the highest point in Eritrea?

Hypothesis: The highest point of the country, Emba Soira, is located in the center of Eritrea, at 3,018 meters (9,902 ft) above sea level.


Premise: What was the Palma family sent to Antarctica to determine?

Hypothesis: Several bases are now home to families with children attending schools at the station.


Premise: When did Russian language spread to the peasants?

Hypothesis: By the mid-20th century, such dialects were forced out with the introduction of the compulsory education system that was established by the Soviet government.


Premise: What was the value of CDOs at their peak in 2006?

Hypothesis: In 2009, private issuance was less than $150 billion, and almost all of it was asset-backed issuance supported by the Federal Reserve's TALF program to aid credit card, auto and small-business lenders.


Premise: Which BYU college was founded by former alumnus Harvey Fletcher?

Hypothesis: Harvey Fletcher, also an alumnus of BYU, inventor of stereophonic sound, went on to carry out the now famous oil-drop experiment with Robert Millikan, and was later Founding Dean of the BYU College of Engineering.


Premise: When did the Mielnik Polish–Lithuanian union reform?

Hypothesis: On 23 October 1501, at Mielnik Polish–Lithuanian union was reformed at the Union of Mielnik (Polish: unia mielnicka, unia piotrkowsko-mielnicka).


Premise: How many square miles are land in NYC?

Hypothesis: 164.1 sq mi (425 km2) of this is water and 304.8 sq mi (789 km2) is land.


Premise: Pierre Gassendi lived from what year to what year?

Hypothesis: John "Walking" Stewart (1747-1822), whose insistence in seeing matter as endowed with a moral dimension had a major impact on the philosophical poetry of William Wordsworth (1770-1850).


Premise: When did the slave trade hit the CAR region?

Hypothesis: In the mid 19th century, the Bobangi people became major slave traders and sold their captives to the Americas using the Ubangi river to reach the coast.


Premise: What term does Luther assign to the practice of Jewish Prayer?

Hypothesis: In his work "On the Jews and Their Lies" (1543), German Reformation leader Martin Luther claims that Jewish history was "assailed by much heresy", and that Christ the logos swept away the Jewish heresy and goes on to do so, "as it still does daily before our eyes."


Premise: Did the followers of Meletius obey the guidelines of Nicaea?

Hypothesis: Accused of mistreating Arians and Meletians, Athanasius answered those charges at a gathering of bishops in Tyre, the First Synod of Tyre, in 335.


Premise: What did Ptolemy suggest that a southern land mass would do to preserve?

Hypothesis: Even in the late 17th century, after explorers had found that South America and Australia were not part of the fabled "Antarctica", geographers believed that the continent was much larger than its actual size.


Premise: Why did tigers became extinct in Sariska?

Hypothesis: At one point, due to poaching and negligence, tigers became extinct at Sariska, but five tigers have been relocated there.


Premise: Theravada means what?

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


Premise: Which group do humans belong too?

Hypothesis: Most mammals, including the six most species-rich orders, belong to the placental group.


Premise: What is the overwhelming ethnic majority in Nanjing?

Hypothesis: As in most of eastern China the ethnic makeup of Nanjing is predominantly Han nationality (98.56 percent), with 50 other minority nationalities.


Premise: In comparison to blue and green, what would describe the wavelength of orange or red light?

Hypothesis: Colors with a shorter wavelength, such as blue and green, scatter more strongly, and are removed from the light that finally reaches the eye.


Premise: What technique can be used to produce images of internal abnormalities?

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


Premise: What was proclaimed the state religion under Theodosius I?

Hypothesis: The emperor Julian made a short-lived attempt to revive traditional and Hellenistic religion and to affirm the special status of Judaism, but in 380 under Theodosius


Premise: What does VLW stand for?

Hypothesis: After the war, the Aegidienkirche was not rebuilt and its ruins were left as a war memorial.


Premise: When was the first female ascent on Mont Blanc?

Hypothesis: Edward Whymper reached the top of the Matterhorn in 1865 (after seven attempts), and in 1938 the last of the six great north faces of the Alps was climbed with the first ascent of the Eiger Nordwand (north face of the Eiger).


Premise: What is the space age?

Hypothesis: The Space Age is a period encompassing the activities related to the Space Race, space exploration, space technology, and the cultural developments influenced by these events.


Premise: In what year did the Glorious Revolution occur?

Hypothesis: Gin was brought to England by the Dutch after the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and became very popular after the government created a market for "cuckoo grain" or "cuckoo malt" that was unfit to be used in brewing and distilling by allowing unlicensed gin and beer production, while imposing a heavy duty on all imported spirits.


Premise: What is the highest peak in Antarctica?

Hypothesis: Vinson Massif, the highest peak in Antarctica at 4,892 m (16,050 ft), is located in the Ellsworth Mountains.


Premise: Who was the leader of the group attacked by the people of the Marshall Islands in 1834?

Hypothesis: A number of vessels visiting the islands were attacked and their crews killed.


Premise: What convention recognizes Russian in Georgia?

Hypothesis: Ethnologue cites Russian as the country's de facto working language.


Premise: What does 'mysh' mean?

Hypothesis: Free programs leveraging this Unicode extension are available which allow users to type Russian characters, even on Western 'QWERTY' keyboards.


Premise: In what year did Ramsay MacDonald become the Labour PM?

Hypothesis: The 1923 general election was fought on the Conservatives' protectionist proposals but, although they got the most votes and remained the largest party, they lost their majority in parliament, necessitating the formation of a government supporting free trade.


Premise: What's another name for the bar-winding-rotor?

Hypothesis: In 1888, Tesla presented his paper A New System for Alternating Current Motors and Transformers to the AIEE that described three patented two-phase four-stator-pole motor types: one with a four-pole rotor forming a non-self-starting reluctance motor, another with a wound rotor forming a self-starting induction motor, and the third a true synchronous motor with separately excited DC supply to rotor winding.


Premise: What was the first self-sustained nuclear chain reaction created by human beings called?

Hypothesis: On 2 December 1942, as part of the Manhattan Project, another team led by Enrico Fermi was able to initiate the first artificial self-sustained nuclear chain reaction, Chicago Pile-1.


Premise: When did Congress pass the Espionage Act?

Hypothesis: In June 1917, the U.S. Congress passed the Espionage Act of 1917 which was later extended by the Sedition Act of 1918, enacted in May 1918.


Premise: What type of Buddhism is Tibeto-Mongolian based on?

Hypothesis: It accepts all the basic concepts of Mahāyāna, but also includes a vast array of spiritual and physical techniques designed to enhance Buddhist practice.


Premise: What does the AFE stand for?

Hypothesis: A new station, 500 metres (1,600 ft) north of the old one and part of the Tower of Communications modern complex, has taken over the rail traffic.


Premise: How long did Edison's light burn during his first successful test in 1879?

Hypothesis: After many experiments, first with carbon in the early 1880s and then with platinum and other metals, in the end Edison returned to a carbon filament.


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

Hypothesis: The hierarchical place of theological knowledge had for the most part been displaced and the humanities had become a fixture, and a new openness was beginning to take hold in the construction and dissemination of knowledge that were to become imperative for the formation of the modern state.


Premise: TV commercials using Richard Strauss' Also sprach Zarathustra have now become what?

Hypothesis: Certain staples of classical music are often used commercially (either in advertising or in movie soundtracks).


Premise: What criticism did Robert T. Bakker share about the paleontologist community regarding the last fifty years?

Hypothesis: The revisionist paleontologist Robert T. Bakker, who published his findings as The Dinosaur Heresies, treated the mainstream view of dinosaurs as dogma.


Premise: Almost all individuals who suffer from type 2 diabetes and/or obesity are found to have which trait?

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


Premise: Who built the European Court of Human Rights building?

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


Premise: What language does the name of the Niger River come from?

Hypothesis: The word ( Niger )  is an alteration of the Tuareg name egerew n-igerewen used by inhabitants along the middle reaches of the river around Timbuktu prior to 19th-century European colonialism.


Premise: Which blogger calling for demonstrations was arrested for tax evasion?

Hypothesis: A Vietnamese American was deported for planning protests against the torch, while a prominent blogger, Điếu Cày (real name Nguyễn Văn Hải), who blogged about protests around the world and who called for demonstrations in Vietnam, was arrested on charges of tax evasion.


Premise: What religion did the Sankhu monastery belong to?

Hypothesis: Very few historical records exist of the period before the medieval Licchavis rulers.


Premise: What system of temperaments was common during Bach's time?

Hypothesis: Although Bach did not use equal temperament, as a modern piano is generally tuned, changes in the temperaments from the meantone system, common at the time, to various temperaments that made modulation between all keys musically acceptable, made possible Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier.


Premise: Who led an expedition to Greece in 1751?

Hypothesis: There was little to no direct knowledge of Greek civilization before the middle of the 18th century in Western Europe, when an expedition funded by the Society of Dilettanti in 1751 and led by James Stuart and Nicholas Revett began serious archaeological enquiry.


Premise: What do unrecognized faiths and denominations in Eritrea have to undergo?

Hypothesis: All other faiths and denominations are required to undergo a registration process.


Premise: What were the subjects of Frederic Remington's paintings?

Hypothesis: The Revolutionary War soldier Nathan Hale (Yale 1773) was the prototype of the Yale ideal in the early 19th century: a manly yet aristocratic scholar, equally well-versed in knowledge and sports, and a patriot who "regretted" that he "had but one life to lose" for his country.


Premise: Where did the march happen?

Hypothesis: On April 26, 1988, about 500 people participated in a march organized by the Ukrainian Cultural Club on Kiev's Khreschatyk Street to mark the second anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, carrying placards with slogans like "Openness and Democracy to the End."


Premise: What branching common descent theory has become the most unifying one of the life sciences?

Hypothesis: Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection, with its tree-like model of branching common descent, has become the unifying theory of the life sciences.


Premise: Who has congress delegated the responsibility of establishing the rules of conduct for the courts to?

Hypothesis: Although in practice these matters are delegated to the Supreme Court, the Congress holds these powers and delegates them to the Supreme Court only for convenience in light of the Supreme Court's expertise, but can withdraw that delegation at any time.


Premise: To whom does the Facility seek to deliver aid?

Hypothesis: The rationale for the creation of the Facility being to improve the delivery of aid to Pacific island countries in support of the Aid-for-Trade (AfT) requirements.


Premise: What project is bringing organic food to all of Yale's residential college dining areas?

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


Premise: What was the dominant nationality among Europeans living in the Congo prior to the civil war?

Hypothesis: Before the 1997 war, about 9,000 Europeans and other non-Africans lived in Congo, most of whom were French; only a fraction of this number remains.


Premise: How many encyclicals did Paul VI publish?

Hypothesis: The expressed views of Paul VI reflected the teachings of his predecessors, especially Pius XI, Pius XII and John XXIII and never changed, as he repeatedly stated them in the first few years of his Pontificate


Premise: What is a new term for NPOs that has started to see more use?

Hypothesis: Instead of being defined by "non" words, some organizations are suggesting new, positive-sounding terminology to describe the sector.


Premise: Who defined a common External Power Supply for use with smartphones sold?

Hypothesis: Apple, one of the original MoU signers, makes micro-USB adapters available – as permitted in the Common EPS MoU – for its iPhones equipped with Apple's proprietary 30-pin dock connector or (later)


Premise: What is the most common way of referring to a language without making the determination of whether it's a dialect or independent language?

Hypothesis: Perhaps the most common is "variety"; "lect" is another.


Premise: What is the most common pattern of migration in the spring?

Hypothesis: The most common pattern involves flying north in the spring to breed in the temperate or Arctic summer and returning in the autumn to wintering grounds in warmer regions to the south.


Premise: R-7 Semyorka rocket resembled closely to what other missile?

Hypothesis: It would later be used to launch the first satellite into space, and derivatives would launch all piloted Soviet spacecraft.


Premise: Other than Call of Duty 2, how many games sold at least 1 million copies the first year of the 360?

Hypothesis: Gears of War would become the best-selling game on the console with 3 million copies in 2006, before being surpassed in 2007 by Halo 3 with over 8 million copies.


Premise: When was the Conference of Berlin held?

Hypothesis: Even before the turn of the 20th century, railway tracks as the Benguela railway in Angola, and the Beira railway in Mozambique, started to be built to link coastal areas and selected inland regions.


Premise: When do many insectivorous birds migrate?

Hypothesis: Many of the smaller insectivorous birds including the warblers, hummingbirds and flycatchers migrate large distances, usually at night.


Premise: What illness is possibly tied to the use of depleted uranium munitions?

Hypothesis: The major application of uranium in the military sector is in high-density penetrators.


Premise: Who was the LVMH Group accused of supporting?

Hypothesis: The effort had to be ceased when the BOCOG deemed the use of official Olympic insignia as illegal and a violation of copyright.


Premise: What portion of the European population died in the Black Death?

Hypothesis: The Late Middle Ages was marked by difficulties and calamities including famine, plague, and war, which significantly diminished the population of Europe; between 1347 and 1350, the Black Death killed about a third of Europeans.


Premise: What pope first issued Papal pronouncements against Freemasons?

Hypothesis: A number of Papal pronouncements have been issued against Freemasonry.


Premise: When was the first fibre-optic network installed?

Hypothesis: SURE provide the telecommunications service in the territory through a digital copper-based telephone network including ADSL-broadband service.


Premise: What cartoon humorist did some high profile stories for Marvel in the early years?

Hypothesis: Timely also published one of humor cartoonist Basil Wolverton's best-known features, "Powerhouse Pepper", as well as a line of children's funny-animal comics featuring popular characters like Super Rabbit and the duo Ziggy Pig and Silly Seal.


Premise: What does the Himachal legislature consist of?

Hypothesis: The legislature consists of elected members and special office bearers such as the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker who are elected by the members.


Premise: Who was persecuting the Puritans?

Hypothesis: They included nonconformists like the Puritans, who were Protestant Christians fleeing religious persecution from the Anglican King of England.


Premise: Who translated 'Reflections on the Revolution in France' into French?

Hypothesis: Immediately after reading Price's sermon, Burke wrote a draft of what eventually became, Reflections on the Revolution in France.


Premise: How many awards and decorations did Josip Broz Tito recieve?

Hypothesis: Of the 98 international awards and decorations, 92 were received once, and three on two occasions (Order of the White Lion, Polonia Restituta, and Karl Marx).


Premise: How popular is the branch of Lutheranism?

Hypothesis: With approximately 80 million adherents, it constitutes the third most common Protestant confession after historically Pentecostal denominations and Anglicanism.


Premise: Which iPod accessory was made by Apple but is no longer produced?

Hypothesis: Apple sells a few accessories, such as the now-discontinued iPod Hi-Fi, but most are manufactured by third parties such as Belkin and Griffin.


Premise: When did Natural bronze start to be used by the general public?

Hypothesis: It has a history of use that is at least 10,000 years old, and estimates of its discovery place it at 9000 BC in the Middle East; a copper pendant was found in northern Iraq that dates to 8700 BC.


Premise: How many representatives did the Premier League have in the European Club Association during the 2012-13 season?

Hypothesis: The European Club Association is responsible for electing three members to UEFA's Club Competitions Committee, which is involved in the operations of UEFA competitions such as the Champions League and UEFA Europa League.


Premise: Pitch perception  has inherent octave what?

Hypothesis: Some theories of pitch perception hold that pitch has inherent octave ambiguities, and therefore is best decomposed into a pitch chroma, a periodic value around the octave, like the note names in western music—and a pitch height, which may be ambiguous, that indicates the octave the pitch is in.


Premise: What did authors and artists begin advocating for instead of the underground scene?

Hypothesis: However, during this period, major figures and artists in the scene began leaning away from underground aesthetics.


Premise: Who invaded Estonia?

Hypothesis: As with Latvia many immigrants entered Estonia under Soviet encouragement.


Premise: Where is the Italian Armenian monastery?

Hypothesis: An Armenian Catholic monastic community of 35 founded in 1717 exists on an island near Venice, Italy.


Premise: Who notably appeared in Killing Kennedy?

Hypothesis: Additionally, Richmond is gaining attention from the film and television industry, with several high-profile films shot in the metro region in the past few years, including the major motion picture Lincoln which led to Daniel Day-Lewis's third Oscar, Killing Kennedy with Rob Lowe, airing on the National Geographic Channel and Turn, starring Jamie Bell and airing on AMC.


Premise: Along with soft AC, on what station format might adult contemporary R&B be featured?

Hypothesis: As the use of drum machines, synthesizers, and sequencers dominates R&B-rooted music, adult contemporary R&B tends to take most of its cues from the more refined strains of 1970s soul, such as smooth soul, Philly soul and quiet storm.


Premise: What has been the change in foreign exhange reserves since 2011?

Hypothesis: Since the fall of Hosni Mubarak in 2011, Egypt has experienced a drastic fall in both foreign investment and tourism revenues, followed by a 60% drop in foreign exchange reserves, a 3% drop in growth, and a rapid devaluation of the Egyptian pound.


Premise: Some thought that King Edward VII's redecoration choices were at odds with whose prior work?

Hypothesis: The new King and his wife Queen Alexandra had always been at the forefront of London high society, and their friends, known as "the Marlborough House Set", were considered to be the most eminent and fashionable of the age.


Premise: What all-color musical did Universal make in 1930?

Hypothesis: The more serious All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), won its year's Best Picture Oscar.


Premise: When did the Chinese and US military have their first confrontation in Korea?

Hypothesis: It is unclear why the Chinese did not press the attack and follow up their victory.


Premise: The Further and Higher Education Act 1992 allows polytechnics to award degrees without what organization's approval?

Hypothesis: Polytechnics were granted university status under the Further and Higher Education Act 1992.


Premise: when was mr. fingers' "can you feel it?" released?

Hypothesis: Deep house's origins can be traced to Chicago producer Mr Fingers's relatively jazzy, soulful recordings "Mystery of Love" (1985) and "Can You Feel It?"


Premise: What was the topic of Von Neuman's thesis?

Hypothesis: For his thesis, he chose to produce an axiomatization of Cantor's set theory.


Premise: What names are used that are typically from  a father and have usually added a suffix or prefix ?

Hypothesis: Greek surnames were widely in use by the 9th century supplanting the ancient tradition of using the father’s name, however Greek surnames are most commonly patronymics.


Premise: What is the process called when Digimon get stronger?

Hypothesis: In this process, the Digimon change appearance and become much stronger, often changing in personality as well.


Premise: What is one city with an accumulation of secular Gothic structures?

Hypothesis: The country-houses of the nobility were slow to abandon the appearance of being a castle, even in parts of Europe, like England, where defence had ceased to be a real concern.


Premise: How much alcohol was contained in the beer Sink The Bismarck?

Hypothesis: Each of these beers are made using the eisbock method of fractional freezing, in which a strong ale is partially frozen and the ice is repeatedly removed, until the desired strength is reached, a process that may class the product as spirits rather than beer.


Premise: Around how many years ago is the current ice age pattern believed to have begun?

Hypothesis: The present pattern of ice ages began about 40 million years ago.[citation needed]


Premise: Where in London are the Albert Memorial and Royal Albert Hall located?

Hypothesis: Marble Arch and Wellington Arch, at the north and south ends of Park Lane respectively, have royal connections, as do the Albert Memorial and Royal Albert Hall in Kensington.


Premise: What did Bell succeed at without being taught?

Hypothesis: With no formal training, he mastered the piano and became the family's pianist.


Premise: What people resulted from the Spaniards intermarrying with Pipll and Lenca women?

Hypothesis: Noted Meso-American indigenous warriors to rise militarily against the Spanish included Princes Atonal and Atlacatl of the Pipil people in central El Salvador and Princess Antu Silan Ulap of the Lenca people in eastern El Salvador, who saw the Spanish not as gods but as barbaric invaders.


Premise: What state is Taylor Hicks from?

Hypothesis: According to season five winner Taylor Hicks, who is from the state of Alabama, "People in the South have a lot of pride ...


Premise: When was the Abizu Campos operation made public?

Hypothesis: Abizu Campos was convicted three times in connection with deadly attacks on US government officials: in 1937 (Conspiracy to overthrow the government of the United States), in 1950 (attempted murder), and in 1954 (after an armed assault on the US House of Representatives while in session; although not present, Abizu Campos was considered the mastermind).


Premise: What place had police experience violent problems with protesters?

Hypothesis: On March 30, 2008 in Athens, during ceremonies marking the handing over of the torch from Greek officials to organizers of the Beijing games, demonstrators shouted 'Free Tibet' and unfurled banners; some 10 of the 15 protesters were taken into police detention.


Premise: What was Spectre's original name?

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


Premise: Many Carnival traditions form an integral part of whose calendar?

Hypothesis: While forming an integral part of the Christian calendar, particularly in Catholic regions, many Carnival traditions resemble those antedating Christianity.


Premise: Which Japanese fishing port is Galicia's second to?

Hypothesis: Other important ports are Ferrol, A Coruña, and the smaller ports of Marín and Vilagarcía de Arousa, as well as important recreational ports in Pontevedra and Burela.


Premise: Who may invoke a material breach committed by a party to a treaty to suspend their obligations to that party?

Hypothesis: If a party has materially violated or breached its treaty obligations, the other parties may invoke this breach as grounds for temporarily suspending their obligations to that party under the treaty.


Premise: How many of the Australian Football League's teams are based in the Melbourne metropolitan area?

Hypothesis: Australian rules football and cricket are the most popular sports in Melbourne.


Premise: What groups did Nasser broker an agreement with?

Hypothesis: Nasser ceased all military activities and began a program to build a network of internal defenses, while receiving the financial backing of various Arab states.


Premise: How many winter days reach freezing in Seattle?

Hypothesis: The average window for freezing temperatures is November 16 thru March 10, allowing a growing season of 250 days.


Premise: Where does the majority of the Burmese country fall on the globe ?

Hypothesis: It lies in the monsoon region of Asia, with its coastal regions receiving over 5,000 mm (196.9 in) of rain annually.


Premise: What is the ancient religion of Tibet?

Hypothesis: Tibetan Buddhism is practiced not only in Tibet but also in Mongolia, parts of northern India, the Buryat Republic, the Tuva Republic, and in the Republic of Kalmykia and some other parts of China.


Premise: What island do many people think causes the double high tide in Southampton Water?

Hypothesis: This is not caused as popularly supposed by the presence of the Isle of Wight, but is a function of the shape and depth of the English Channel.


Premise: In what year did the pope make the declaration?

Hypothesis: The use of the title was reserved for the cardinals of Rome in 1567 by Pius V.


Premise: What direction is Norfolk Island in relation to Australia?

Hypothesis: The island's highest point is Mount Bates (319 metres (1,047 feet) above sea level), located in the northwest quadrant of the island.


Premise: What longitudes does Guinea-Bissau mostly lie between?

Hypothesis: Guinea-Bissau is bordered by Senegal to the north and Guinea to the south and east, with the Atlantic Ocean to its west.


Premise: Who returned as prime minister when Disraeli lost the general election in 1880?

Hypothesis: To Victoria's dismay, Disraeli lost the 1880 general election, and Gladstone returned as prime minister.


Premise: In 2001, what city's mayor picked To Kill a Mockingbird as their favorite book?

Hypothesis: In the same year, Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley initiated a reading program throughout the city's libraries, and chose his favorite book, To Kill a Mockingbird, as the first title of the One City, One Book program.


Premise: On a notebook eSATAp usually supplies how much power?

Hypothesis: Even though USB 3.0's 4.5 W is sometimes insufficient to power external hard drives, technology is advancing and external drives gradually need less power, diminishing the eSATA advantage.


Premise: FLNG technology faciliates what?

Hypothesis: On 20 May 2011, Royal Dutch Shell's final investment decision for the world's first floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility was finalized following the discovery of the remote offshore Prelude field—located off Australia's northwestern coast and estimated to contain about 3 trillion cubic feet of natural gas equivalent reserves—in 2007.


Premise: What is another more modern term used in place of "great power"?

Hypothesis: The term "great power" was first used to represent the most important powers in Europe during the post-Napoleonic era.


Premise: Maintaining that the ropes all have equal tension may reduce what?

Hypothesis: Sheave and rope wear may be significantly reduced by ensuring that all ropes have equal tension, thus sharing the load evenly.


Premise: At what conference did Richard Borshay speak?

Hypothesis: At the 1966 "Man the Hunter" conference, anthropologists Richard Borshay Lee and Irven DeVore suggested that egalitarianism was one of several central characteristics of nomadic hunting and gathering societies because mobility requires minimization of material possessions throughout a population.


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

Hypothesis: Up to 11 million men and women are members of the Basij who could potentially be called up for service; GlobalSecurity.org estimates Iran could mobilize "up to one million men".


Premise: What does the "other" box do?

Hypothesis: Typically, about five race choices are given, with the instruction to "check only one."


Premise: What foreign decorations did Tito recieve?

Hypothesis: With a highly favourable reputation abroad in both Cold War blocs, Josip Broz Tito received some 98 foreign decorations, including the Legion of Honour and the Order of the Bath.


Premise: What is the largest criticism leveled by consumers against Comcast

Hypothesis: The company's customer satisfaction often ranks among the lowest in the cable industry.


Premise: How many people were employed by the Andhra Pradesh government in 2006?

Hypothesis: As of 2006[update], the largest employers in the city were the governments of Andhra Pradesh (113,098 employees) and India (85,155).


Premise: For use with more than one channel changes are made to increase what property?

Hypothesis: They are particularly common on radar systems, where the same antenna is used for both broadcast and reception, or for radio and television broadcasts, where the antenna is working with a single frequency.


Premise: According to studies, what are Asians perceived to be lacking?

Hypothesis: In addition, whites and non-Asians do not differentiate among the different Asian groups and perpetuate the "model minority" stereotype.


Premise: Early churches were extremely plain, what did most churches not have in them?

Hypothesis: No stained glass, no elaborate furnishings, and no images were to be found in the meeting-house.


Premise: What percentage of adolescents reporting having experienced physical violence in a relationship?

Hypothesis: When surveyed, 10-45% of adolescents reported having experienced physical violence in the context of a relationship while a quarter to a third of adolescents reported having experiencing psychological aggression.


Premise: What is a social concept, not a scientific one?

Hypothesis: It's not a scientific one.


Premise: What did the Marxist rioters believe would cause more death and suffering than their own agitation?

Hypothesis: An event that happened in 1919 had a profound effect on him: During a riot, caused by the Communists, the police shot several unarmed people, including some of Popper's friends, when they tried to free party comrades from prison.


Premise: What archaic name was mentioned in 878

Hypothesis: The archaic name Somersetshire was mentioned in the Chronicle's entry for 878.


Premise: What virtues does modern Estonian society promote?

Hypothesis: Today, Estonian society encourages liberty and liberalism, with popular commitment to the ideals of the limited government, discouraging centralised power and corruption.


Premise: Who is the mayor of Houston since the last election?

Hypothesis: The City's elected officials are the mayor, city controller and 16 members of the Houston City Council.


Premise: How many people were left homeless because of the earthquake?

Hypothesis: It was the deadliest earthquake to hit China since the 1976 Tangshan earthquake, which killed at least 240,000 people, and the strongest in the country since the 1950 Chayu earthquake, which registered at 8.5 on the Richter magnitude scale.


Premise: The Royal Mews houses which type of animal?

Hypothesis: Also housed in the mews are the coach horses used at royal ceremonial processions.


Premise: What do health-care professionals tend to underestimate?

Hypothesis: A person's self-report is the most reliable measure of pain, with health care professionals tending to underestimate severity.


Premise: What organization does the FBI share jurisdiction with?

Hypothesis: The FBI is also charged with the responsibility of enforcing compliance of the United States Civil Rights Act of 1964 and investigating violations of the act in addition to prosecuting such violations with the United States Department of Justice (DOJ).


Premise: Where was Gonzalez located when he was elected?

Hypothesis: The first person elected under the new constitution of 1825 was Simón Elías Gonzalez, who being in Sonora, was induced to remain there.


Premise: When was the first Code produced for Eastern Churches?

Hypothesis: Most recently, 1990, the Vatican produced the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches which became the 1st code of Eastern Catholic Canon Law.


Premise: What year was the Chopiniana released?

Hypothesis: Sergei Diaghilev commissioned additional orchestrations—from Stravinsky, Anatoly Lyadov, Sergei Taneyev and Nikolai Tcherepnin—for later productions, which used the title Les Sylphides.


Premise: What cut of pork do those in Western North Carolina prefer for BBQ?

Hypothesis: The common trend across Western North Carolina is the use of premium grade Boston butt.


Premise: What is the advantage of a coiled-coil filament over a straight filament?

Hypothesis: The coiled-coil filament evaporates more slowly than a straight filament of the same surface area and light-emitting power.


Premise: In what way can Neutral triatomic hydrogen exist?

Hypothesis: Neutral triatomic hydrogen H3 can only exist in an excited form and is unstable.


Premise: Where did many of Japan's soldiers come from?

Hypothesis: To a small extent, some Vichy French, Indian National Army, and Burmese National Army forces were active in the area of the Pacific War.


Premise: What type of life is more metabolically diverse than multicellular life?

Hypothesis: For example, microbial life is metabolically and environmentally more diverse than multicellular life (see e.g., extremophile).


Premise: The term dukkha corresponds to what English terms?

Hypothesis: In English-language Buddhist literature translated from Pāli, "dukkha" is often left untranslated, so as to encompass its full range of meaning.[note 8]


Premise: The later years of the period saw the demand for which places of worship increase?

Hypothesis: Especially in country parishes, the external appearance generally retained the familiar signifiers of a Gothic church, with a tower or spire, a large west front with one or more doors, and very large windows along the nave, but all with any ornament drawn from the classical vocabulary.


Premise: When in the cycle do wake-sleep cycles break off from the circadian period?

Hypothesis: episodes are uncoupled from the endogenous circadian period of about 24.18 hours and researchers are allowed to assess the effects of circadian phase on aspects of sleep and wakefulness including sleep latency and other functions.[page needed]


Premise: How did Gaddafi lose power?

Hypothesis: Amid the Arab Spring, in 2011 an anti-Gaddafist uprising led by the National Transitional Council (NTC) broke out, resulting in the Libyan Civil War.


Premise: How long ago are the earliest texts of Indian/Hindu philosophy dated?

Hypothesis: The Vedas, the earliest texts on Indian philosophy and Hindu philosophy dating back to the late 2nd millennium BC, describe ancient Hindu cosmology, in which the universe goes through repeated cycles of creation, destruction and rebirth, with each cycle lasting 4,320 million years.


Premise: How many muslims were there in Bern in 2000?

Hypothesis: There were 324 persons (or about 0.25% of the population) who were Jewish, and 4,907 (or about 3.81% of the population) who were Muslim.


Premise: In what year did iron production in Richmond peak?

Hypothesis: Richmond's position as a center of iron production helped to fuel its popularity within the city.


Premise: What is the largest school for Barelvis people in India?

Hypothesis: Manzar Islam Bareilly, Jamia Nizamdina New Delhi, Jamia Nayeemia Muradabad which is one of the largest learning centres for the Barelvis.


Premise: What city is North America's biggest media market?

Hypothesis: Seven of the world's top eight global advertising agency networks have their headquarters in New York.


Premise: How many churches are present in Plymouth?

Hypothesis: Plymouth has about 150 churches and its Roman Catholic cathedral (1858) is in Stonehouse.


Premise: What is a notable characteristic of Somali art?

Hypothesis: Somali art is characterized by its aniconism, partly as a result of the vestigial influence of the pre-Islamic mythology of the Somalis coupled with their ubiquitous Muslim beliefs.


Premise: In what area did public rites take place in Rome?

Hypothesis: Public religion took place within a sacred precinct that had been marked out ritually by an augur.


Premise: Where did millennia of coexistence produce a culture with advanced agricultural and social patterns?

Hypothesis: Cultural practices in the Americas seem to have been shared mostly within geographical zones where unrelated peoples adopted similar technologies and social organizations.


Premise: When did parties that relied on donations start to run into problems?

Hypothesis: From the second half of the 20th century on parties which continued to rely on donations or membership subscriptions ran into mounting problems.


Premise: What instrument did Chopin's mother teach?

Hypothesis: The father played the flute and violin; the mother played the piano and gave lessons to boys in the boarding house that the Chopins kept.


Premise: What caused Romanticism to end?

Hypothesis: The decline of Romanticism occurred because a new movement, Positivism, began to take hold of the ideals of the intellectuals after 1840 and lasted until about 1880.


Premise: What was the Russian Federations previous legal name?

Hypothesis: On the same day, the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR adopted a statute to change Russia's legal name from "Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic" to "Russian Federation," showing that it was now a sovereign state.


Premise: When did Hojo Shigetoki die?

Hypothesis: In the 13th century, Hōjō Shigetoki (1198–1261 AD) wrote: "When one is serving officially or in the master's court, he should not think of a hundred or a thousand people, but should consider only the importance of the master."


Premise: What is Antarctica's average temperature during the coldest part of the year?

Hypothesis: The temperature in Antarctica has reached −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F), though the average for the third quarter (the coldest part of the year) is −63 °C (−81 °F).


Premise: Who is Tucson's 'founding father'?

Hypothesis: Eventually the town came to be called "Tucson" and became a part of Sonora after Mexico gained independence from Spain in 1821.


Premise: What important figure was killed in the raid?

Hypothesis: Among the casualties of this raid was the Swedish archbishop Johannes.


Premise: Who was the son of Al-Hakam ibn Abi al-'As?

Hypothesis: Most notable was the appointment of Marwan ibn al-Hakam, Uthman's first cousin, as his top advisor, which created a stir among the Hashimite companions of Muhammad, as Marwan along with his father Al-Hakam ibn Abi al-'As had been permanently exiled from Medina by Muhammad during his lifetime.


Premise: In what year was the word genome first created?

Hypothesis: The Oxford Dictionary suggests the name to be a blend of the words gene and chromosome.


Premise: How much of JPMorgan's investment will go to job training?

Hypothesis: On May 21, 2014, JPMorgan Chase announced that it was injecting $100 million over five years into Detroit's economy, providing development funding for a variety of projects that would increase employment.


Premise: Which Prussian territories joined Thuringia in 1945?

Hypothesis: After the Treaty of Leipzig, Thuringia had its own dynasty again, the Ernestine Wettins.


Premise: What have researchers in science labs been making?

Hypothesis: Researchers in scientific labs have been developing prototypes for fabrics that can serve functional purposes well beyond their traditional roles, for example, clothes that can automatically adjust their temperature, repel bullets, project images, and generate electricity.


Premise: Which office publishes the Code of Federal Regulations?

Hypothesis: The Office of the Federal Register publishes the Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, and United States Statutes at Large, among others.


Premise: What did Nesse and Williams learn?

Hypothesis: They cite in support of this argument research published in 1973 that found that treating Shigella with the anti-diarrhea drug (Co-phenotrope, Lomotil) caused people to stay feverish twice as long as those not so treated.


Premise: The Seleucids invaded Mesopotamia under whose guidance?

Hypothesis: The Seleucid–Parthian wars continued as the Seleucids invaded Mesopotamia under Antiochus VII Sidetes (r. 138–129 BC), but he was eventually killed by a Parthian counterattack.


Premise: What is the centerpiece of Mexico City's markets

Hypothesis: A staple for consumers in the city is the omnipresent "mercado".


Premise: What was the name of the school that served as the SADP's precursor?

Hypothesis: The design programs from the discontinued School of Fine Arts were merged into the school in 2009 forming the current School of Architecture, Design, and Planning.


Premise: In what year were twice as many glacial earthquakes seen than in any other year in Greenland?

Hypothesis: In a study using data from January 1993 through October 2005, more events were detected every year since 2002, and twice as many events were recorded in 2005 as there were in any other year.


Premise: What millet was subject to Justinian's Code?

Hypothesis: Under the millet system, non-Muslim people were considered subjects of the Empire, but were not subject to the Muslim faith or Muslim law.


Premise: What are a few examples of social and religious transition ceremonies?

Hypothesis: Some examples of social and religious transition ceremonies that can be found in the U.S., as well as in other cultures around the world, are Confirmation, Bar and Bat Mitzvahs, Quinceañeras, sweet sixteens, cotillions, and débutante balls.


Premise: What hospital in New Haven provides notable cardiac emergency care?

Hypothesis: New Haven Hospital has four pavilions, including the Yale – New Haven Children's Hospital and the Smilow Cancer Hospital; the Hospital of Saint Raphael is several blocks north, and touts its excellent cardiac emergency care program.


Premise: Who are the two ministers used by Queen Anne simultaneously?

Hypothesis: Kings sometimes divided power equally between two or more ministers to prevent one minister from becoming too powerful.


Premise: How is behavioral autonomy defined?

Hypothesis: Psychologists have identified three main types of autonomy: emotional independence, behavioral autonomy, and cognitive autonomy.


Premise: In what district of London is The Fitzroy Tavern located?

Hypothesis: The Fitzroy Tavern is a pub situated at 16 Charlotte Street in the Fitzrovia district, to which it gives its name.


Premise: In what year did the Korean War begin?

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


Premise: Of what dynasty was Otto I a member?

Hypothesis: By the late 10th century Italy had been drawn into the Ottonian sphere after a period of instability; Otto III (r. 996–1002) spent much of his later reign in the kingdom.


Premise: What team won the Soviet football Cup in 1973 and 1975?

Hypothesis: Armenia competed internationally as part of the USSR national football team until the Armenian national football team was formed in 1992 after the split of the Soviet Union.


Premise: Is there an agency that decides if someone is using the domain designation incorrectly?

Hypothesis: Currently, no restrictions are enforced on registration of .com or .org, so one can find organizations of all sorts in either of these domains, as well as other top-level domains including newer, more specific ones which may apply to particular sorts of organizations such as .museum for museums or .coop for cooperatives.


Premise: At what age is the average turkey considered ready for the initial step of the commercial food process?

Hypothesis: However, they are increasingly becoming part of the everyday diet in many parts of the world.


Premise: Kukuzelis reformed the music of which religion?

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


Premise: Besides customer problems, what other area is Comcast often criticized over?

Hypothesis: While Working For America's Worst Company," the article also claimed that Comcast is obsessed with sales, doesn't train its employees properly and concluded that "the system makes good customer service impossible."


Premise: Identify a success of the Austrians?

Hypothesis: Despite this, the Austrians, under the command of General Laudon, captured Glatz (now Kłodzko, Poland) in Silesia.


Premise: When was the political relationship between England and Scotland disputed?

Hypothesis: He refused William's request for the earldom of Northumbria, but did not intervene in Scotland itself and focused on his continental problems.


Premise: What accident caused the delay in plans for the new nuclear power plant in Bern?

Hypothesis: The former ten-year moratorium on the construction of new nuclear power plants was the result of a citizens' initiative voted on in 1990 which had passed with 54.5%


Premise: What is the difference in time between the calendars?

Hypothesis: The canonical Easter tables were devised at the end of the third century, when the vernal equinox fell either on 20 March or 21 March depending on the year's position in the leap year cycle.


Premise: About how many public schools are there in New York City?

Hypothesis: The New York City Public Schools system, managed by the New York City Department of Education, is the largest public school system in the United States, serving about 1.1 million students in more than 1,700 separate primary and secondary schools.


Premise: How long can it take to reach the equilibrium ratio?

Hypothesis: Hydrogen detonation parameters, such as critical detonation pressure and temperature, strongly depend on the container geometry.


Premise: What are two national parks located in the mountainous regions?

Hypothesis: These areas contain some spectacular scenery as well, as evidenced by such national parks as Yosemite and Mount Rainier.


Premise: Along with soft AC, on what station format might adult contemporary R&B be featured?

Hypothesis: Adult contemporary R&B may be played on both soft AC stations and urban AC.


Premise: Who supposedly created the site?

Hypothesis: On April 4, it was reported that the Chinese government appeared to be running an anti-CNN website that criticizes the cable network’s coverage of recent events.


Premise: What does WHO recommend to do?

Hypothesis: Research does not support the limiting of milk to children as doing so has no effect on duration of diarrhea.


Premise: What nationality was Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan?

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


Premise: What does attaching a zinc disc to a ships iron rudder do?

Hypothesis: Zinc acts as the anode (negative terminus) by slowly corroding away as it passes electric current to the steel pipeline.[note 2] Zinc is also used to cathodically protect metals that are exposed to sea water from corrosion.


Premise: What is the H.323 technique also known as?

Hypothesis: These use a standards-based H.323 technique known as "decentralized multipoint", where each station in a multipoint call exchanges video and audio directly with the other stations with no central "manager" or other bottleneck.


Premise: What Brigade was the 24th Michigan Infantry Regiment a part of?

Hypothesis: Numerous men from Detroit volunteered to fight for the Union during the American Civil War, including the 24th Michigan Infantry Regiment (part of the legendary Iron Brigade), which fought with distinction and suffered 82% casualties at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863.


Premise: What did the Prime Minister announce during the first week of May in 2013?

Hypothesis: In the first week of May 2013, Prime Minister Passos Coelho announced a significant government plan for the public sector, whereby 30,000 jobs will be cut and the number of weekly working hours will be increased from 35 to 40 hours.


Premise: How many tourists did Greece welcome in 2009?

Hypothesis: The same survey showed that the average tourist expenditure while in Greece was $1,073, ranking Greece 10th in the world.


Premise: What is one difficulty when using surface mount components?

Hypothesis: Surface mount components avoid undesirable high-frequency effects due to the leads and simplify automated assembly, although manual handling is made difficult due to their small size.


Premise: Who purchased a plot of land in the name of the English residents?

Hypothesis: A section of the cemetery, known as British Cemetery Montevideo Soldiers and Sailors, contains the graves of quite a number of sailors of different nationalities, although the majority are of British descent.


Premise: Chopin was active during what era?

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


Premise: Which culture adapted the use of mosaics for large ground coverings in their villas?

Hypothesis: Greek figural mosaics could have been copied or adapted paintings, a far more prestigious artform, and the style was enthusiastically adopted by the Romans so that large floor mosaics enriched the floors of Hellenistic villas and Roman dwellings from Britain to Dura-Europos.


Premise: What was the estimated population of the entire Tuscan area in 2013?

Hypothesis: The Tucson MSA forms part of the larger Tucson-Nogales combined statistical area (CSA), with a total population of 980,263 as of the 2010 Census.


Premise: Boston is split between how many congressional districts?

Hypothesis: Both are Democrats; a Republican has not represented a significant portion of Boston in over a century.


Premise: What do household animals prey upon?

Hypothesis: Predators of this classification need not eat prey entirely.


Premise: Which birds are popular as pets?

Hypothesis: Songbirds, parrots, and other species are popular as pets.


Premise: Who raided the colonial settlements?

Hypothesis: The Americo-Liberian settlers did not identify with the indigenous peoples they encountered, especially those in communities of the more isolated "bush.


Premise: What was Philip V known as?

Hypothesis: Philip V, who came to power when Doson died in 221 BC, was the last Macedonian ruler with both the talent and the opportunity to unite Greece and preserve its independence against the "cloud rising in the west": the ever-increasing power of Rome.


Premise: What was the population of Tuscon in 2006?

Hypothesis: In 2006 the population of Pima County, in which Tucson is located, passed one million while the City of Tucson's population was 535,000.


Premise: Along with Reims, where is a notable Gothic cathedral in France located?

Hypothesis: From the early 12th century, French builders developed the Gothic style, marked by the use of rib vaults, pointed arches, flying buttresses, and large stained glass windows.


Premise: The borough of Staten Island is primarily located on what island?

Hypothesis: This situation of boroughs separated by water led to the development of an extensive infrastructure of bridges and tunnels.


Premise: What is rare in LED lighting?

Hypothesis: Early red LEDs were notable for their short service life.


Premise: What nationality were the forces that invaded the Congo to assist Sassou in taking control of the country?

Hypothesis: In early October, the Angolan socialist régime began an invasion of Congo to install Sassou in power.


Premise: What type of physical fitness activities were taught in the early madaris?

Hypothesis: The first part of madrasa based education is estimated from the first day of "nabuwwat" to the first portion of the "Umaiya" caliphate.[citation needed]


Premise: What reinforcements were the Saxons expecting?

Hypothesis: At the Battle of Lobositz on 1 October 1756, Frederick prevented the isolated Saxon army from being reinforced by an Austrian army under General Browne.


Premise: With what type of metering can the Standard Output Sensitivity not be used?

Hypothesis: The Standard Output Sensitivity (SOS) technique, also new in the 2006 version of the standard, effectively specifies that the average level in the sRGB image must be 18% gray plus or minus 1/3 stop when the exposure is controlled by an automatic exposure control system calibrated per ISO 2721 and set to the EI with no exposure compensation.


Premise: How many public airports does Oklahoma have?

Hypothesis: Between the two, six airlines operate in Oklahoma.


Premise: In capturing Vionville, what was further blocked in the west?

Hypothesis: Once blocked from retreat, the French in the fortress of Metz had no choice but to engage in a fight that would see the last major cavalry engagement in Western Europe.


Premise: Whose energy levels are lower than the electrons in the electroluminescence process?

Hypothesis: The charge carriers recombine in a forward-biased P-N junction as the electrons cross from the N-region and recombine with the holes existing in the P-region.


Premise: In addition to cannon fire, what did Franklin suggest to act as Parisians' alarm clock?

Hypothesis: This 1784 satire proposed taxing shutters, rationing candles, and waking the public by ringing church bells and firing cannons at sunrise.


Premise: Benito Juarez was reelected in which year?

Hypothesis: But soon after the election, President Juárez had another crisis on his hands; the Juárez administration was suspected to be involved in the assassination of the military chief José María Patoni executed by General Canto in August 1868.


Premise: In 2005, what percentage of New York residents used mass transit to get to work?

Hypothesis: 54.6% of New Yorkers commuted to work in 2005 using mass transit.


Premise: Which island of Tuvalu was identified as the one that Mourelle sailed past in 1781?

Hypothesis: Captain John Byron passed through the islands of Tuvalu in 1764 during his circumnavigation of the globe as captain of the Dolphin (1751).


Premise: What office contains the FBI's administrative offices?

Hypothesis: The FBI is organized into functional branches and the Office of the Director, which contains most administrative offices.


Premise: What people have a thistle for their Commonwealth emblem?

Hypothesis: Despite the death of Queen Mary on 24 March, the coronation on 2 June 1953 went ahead as planned, as Mary had asked before she died.


Premise: How many months were in a year in the original Mayan calendars?

Hypothesis: Lunisolar calendars have a thirteenth month added to some years to make up for the difference between a full year (now known to be about 365.24 days) and a year of just twelve lunar months.


Premise: Who wrote in 1818 about the popularity of Chopin?

Hypothesis: During this period, Fryderyk was sometimes invited to the Belweder Palace as playmate to the son of the ruler of Russian Poland, Grand Duke Constantine; he played the piano for the Duke and composed a march for him.


Premise: What year was the DOE report about fuel consumption published?

Hypothesis: The 2008 DOE report found no significant increase in motor gasoline consumption due to the 2007 United States extension of DST.


Premise: What type of architecture did Georgian replace?

Hypothesis: The period brought the vocabulary of classical architecture to smaller and more modest buildings than had been the case before, replacing English vernacular architecture (or becoming the new vernacular style) for almost all new middle-class homes and public buildings by the end of the period.


Premise: Who was given the right to appoint shugo?

Hypothesis: After the Genpei war of the late 12th century, a clan leader Minamoto no Yoritomo obtained the right to appoint shugo and jito, and was allowed to organize soldiers and police, and to collect a certain amount of tax.


Premise: What was the name of the person that attempted to assasinate Napoleon?

Hypothesis: On her return Victoria wrote to Derby reprimanding him for the poor state of the Royal Navy in comparison to the French one.


Premise: What is the abbreviation ICRISAT short for?

Hypothesis: In Mali the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and the Aga Khan Foundation, trained women's groups to make equinut, a healthy and nutritional version of the traditional recipe di-dèguè (comprising peanut paste, honey and millet or rice flour).


Premise: Which two prizes are dedicated to mathematics?

Hypothesis: Other specialist prizes include the Newcastle Classical Prize; the Rosebery Exhibition for History; the Queen’s Prizes for French and German; the Duke of Newcastle’s Russian Prize; the Beddington Spanish Prize; the Strafford and Bowman Shakespeare Prizes; the Tomline and Russell Prizes in Mathematics; the Sotheby Prize for History of Art; the Waddington Prize for Theology and Philosophy; the Birley Prize for History; The Lower Boy Rosebery Prize and the Wilder Prize for Theology.


Premise: On what material did the phonautograph operate?

Hypothesis: But he had no working model to demonstrate the feasibility of these ideas.


Premise: When did the BeiDou-2 begin construction?

Hypothesis: It is planned to begin serving global customers upon its completion in 2020.


Premise: Why was United Stated excluded from League of Nations Council?

Hypothesis: However, the Council began with only four permanent members—the United Kingdom, France, Italy, and Japan—because the United States, meant to be the fifth permanent member, left because the US Senate voted on 19 March 1920 against the ratification of the Treaty of Versailles, thus preventing American participation in the League.


Premise: What federal district court has its main courthouse in Brooklyn?

Hypothesis: Uniquely among major American cities, New York is divided between, and is host to the main branches of, two different US district courts: the District Court for the Southern District of New York, whose main courthouse is on Foley Square near City Hall in Manhattan and whose jurisdiction includes Manhattan and the Bronx, and the District Court for the Eastern District of New York, whose main courthouse is in Brooklyn and whose jurisdiction includes Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island.


Premise: Where do many modern day hunter-gatherers live?

Hypothesis: In the resulting competition for land use, hunter-gatherer societies either adopted these practices or moved to other areas.


Premise: Who made it next to impossible to learn about their heritage for African Americans?

Hypothesis: Additionally, African Americans found it, near, impossible to learn about their Indigenous American heritage as many family elders withheld pertinent genealogical information.


Premise: What do visps purchase services from?

Hypothesis: A virtual ISP (VISP) is an operation that purchases services from another ISP, sometimes called a wholesale ISP in this context, which allow the VISP's customers to access the Internet using services and infrastructure owned and operated by the wholesale ISP.


Premise: In recent times what is one interior use copper been expanded to include?

Hypothesis: Some of copper's other important benefits as an architectural material include its low thermal movement, light weight, lightning protection, and its recyclability.


Premise: What do scholars that specialize in the medieval period describe madaris as?

Hypothesis: Despite the many similarities, medieval specialists have coined the term "Islamic college" for madrasa and jāmiʻah to differentiate them from the legally autonomous corporations that the medieval European universities were.


Premise: What type of public elevator in Yalta, Ukraine, transport passengers from a hill above the Black Sea to a tunnel down on the beach?

Hypothesis: For example, there is a 3-station underground public elevator in Yalta, Ukraine, which takes passengers from the top of a hill above the Black Sea on which hotels are perched, to a tunnel located on the beach below.


Premise: What are a couple examples of Summer music festivals held in Portugal?

Hypothesis: Portugal has several summer music festivals, such as Festival Sudoeste in Zambujeira do Mar, Festival de Paredes de Coura in Paredes de Coura, Festival Vilar de Mouros near Caminha, Boom Festival in Idanha-a-Nova Municipality, Optimus Alive!,


Premise: What type of control system did the 55 millimeter gun use?

Hypothesis: The system used a centralised control system including both search and targeting radar, which calculated the aim point for the guns after considering windage and ballistics, and then sent electrical commands to the guns, which used hydraulics to point themselves at high speeds.


Premise: How big is the jumbotron going to be?

Hypothesis: Called the 1060 Project, the proposed plans included vast improvements to the stadium's facade, infrastructure, restrooms, concourses, suites, press box, bullpens, and clubhouses, as well as a 6,000-square foot jumbotron to be added in the left field bleachers, batting tunnels, a 3,000-square-foot video board in right field, and, eventually, an adjacent hotel, plaza, and office-retail complex.


Premise: What is the name for passive elements nearer to the source of the signal?

Hypothesis: The end closer to the source is referred to as the front.


Premise: Who is the notable artist of the Beaux-Arts school responsible for designing both New Haven's Union Station and New Haven Public Library?

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


Premise: Who brought the message of mixed gender, practicing masonic lodges to the English speaking?

Hypothesis: Annie Besant spread the phenomenon to the English speaking world.


Premise: On what street in New York was GE headquartered before moving to Fairfield?

Hypothesis: Its main offices are located at 30 Rockefeller Plaza at Rockefeller Center in New York City, known now as the Comcast Building.


Premise: What philosophical perspective did Waitz hold?

Hypothesis: It is to be presumed fundamentally that the species, man, is a unity, and that "the same laws of thought are applicable to all men".


Premise: As what was Constantine honored when he died?

Hypothesis: He may have officially ended – or attempted to end – blood sacrifices to the genius of living emperors but his Imperial iconography and court ceremonial outstripped Diocletian's in their supra-human elevation of the Imperial hierarch.


Premise: Who created on of the earliest sexual classification schemes?

Hypothesis: The definitions of each category of Ulrichs' classification scheme are as follows:


Premise: Which oceans did the sub base provide access to?

Hypothesis: This also provided a refueling and maintenance location, and a takeoff point for raids and attacks on shipping.


Premise: Where is the theater District located?

Hypothesis: The British newspaper The Guardian called Boston Symphony Hall "one of the top venues for classical music in the world," adding that "Symphony Hall in Boston was where science became an essential part of concert hall design.


Premise: What are the responsibilities of the elder pastors?

Hypothesis: Teaching and ruling elders are ordained and convene in the lowest council known as a session or consistory responsible for the discipline, nurture, and mission of the local congregation.


Premise: Which campus is home to the fraternity quads?

Hypothesis: South Campus is home to the University's humanities buildings, Pick-Staiger Concert Hall and other music buildings, the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, and the sorority quads.


Premise: Who plays an influential role in the formation of party policy?

Hypothesis: A party's floor leader, in conjunction with other party leaders, plays an influential role in the formulation of party policy and programs.


Premise: What does Spielberg do with Academy Awards he buys?

Hypothesis: Spielberg has purchased Academy Award statuettes being sold on the open market and donated them to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, to prevent their further commercial exploitation.


Premise: What year did Coolie labourers arrive?

Hypothesis: The coolie labourers arrived in 1810, and their numbers reached 600 by 1818.


Premise: When was the Chiefs of Staff Committee formed?

Hypothesis: During the 1920s and 1930s, British civil servants and politicians, looking back at the performance of the state during World War I, concluded that there was a need for greater co-ordination between the three Services that made up the armed forces of the United Kingdom—the British Army, the Royal Navy, and the Royal Air Force.


Premise: What are waders called in North America?

Hypothesis: Many species, such as dunlin Calidris alpina and western sandpiper Calidris mauri, undertake long movements from their Arctic breeding grounds to warmer locations in the same hemisphere, but others such as semipalmated sandpiper C. pusilla travel longer distances to the tropics in the Southern Hemisphere.


Premise: What percentage of poultry is tainted with Staphylococcus bacteria?

Hypothesis: A 2011 study by the Translational Genomics Research Institute showed that 47% of the meat and poultry sold in United States grocery stores was contaminated with Staphylococcus aureus, and 52% of the bacteria concerned showed resistance to at least three groups of antibiotics.


Premise: What did Steve Jobs introduce on January 24, 1984?

Hypothesis: Steve Jobs introduced the original Macintosh computer on January 24, 1984.


Premise: Which society was Feynman elected to?

Hypothesis: Feynman was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1965.