Premise: Who visited the Ukraine while the protests were taking place?

Hypothesis: In late February, large public rallies took place in Kiev to protest the election laws, on the eve of the March 26 elections to the USSR Congress of People's Deputies, and to call for the resignation of the first secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine, Volodymyr Scherbytsky, lampooned as "the mastodon of stagnation.


Premise: What house of the Supreme Soviet was not functioning as of December 26, 1991?

Hypothesis: After dissolution of the USSR, Russia declared that it assumed the rights and obligations of the dissolved central Soviet government, including UN membership.


Premise: Which languages are used for teaching in the schools of Hyderabad?

Hypothesis: Depending on the institution, students are required to sit the Secondary School Certificate or the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education.


Premise: What influenced the look of the Digimons?

Hypothesis: The franchise was first created in 1997 as a series of virtual pets, akin to—and influenced in style by—the contemporary Tamagotchi or nano Giga Pet toys.


Premise: When did the Red Army fall back to the Parnu River?

Hypothesis: The Red Army retreated behind the Pärnu River – Emajõgi line on 12 July.


Premise: Why did Kari Marx criticize Humanist Philosophy's?

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


Premise: Which bus service passes West Quay going in both directions?

Hypothesis: Certain Bluestar services also do this, while others stop at Bargate and some loop round West Quay, stopping at Hanover Buildings.


Premise: In what year did the historic old town in the center of Bern become a UNESCO World Heritage Site?

Hypothesis: Bern is ranked among the world’s top ten cities for the best quality of life (2010).


Premise: What does the word "Prehensio" translate into?

Hypothesis: For Whitehead, the term "prehension" indicates that the perceiver actually incorporates aspects of the perceived thing into itself.


Premise: Where did the torch relay happen in India?

Hypothesis: India: Due to concerns about pro-Tibet protests, the relay through New Delhi on April 17 was cut to just 2.3 km (less than 1.5 miles), which was shared amongst 70 runners.


Premise: What natural substance was used in early road pavings?

Hypothesis: In many cases, these early pavings were made from naturally occurring "bituminous rock", such as at Ritchie Mines in Macfarlan in Ritchie County, West Virginia from 1852 to 1873.


Premise: What did a bunch of Germanic tribes celebrate?

Hypothesis: Also there are some indications that the effigy of Nerthus or Freyr was placed on a ship with wheels and accompanied by a procession of people in animal disguise and men in women's clothes.


Premise: What might someone knowledgable about the history of pesticides call ther period of the 1940s and 1950s?

Hypothesis: Some sources consider the 1940s and 1950s to have been the start of the "pesticide era."


Premise: What is the average wind speed in miles per hour for St. John's?

Hypothesis: The St. John's area is subject to freezing rain (called "silver thaws"), the worst of which paralyzed the city over a three-day period in April 1984.


Premise: How many Aboriginal Protectors for the Aborigines of Victoria were appointed in 1839?

Hypothesis: Between 1836 and 1842 Victorian Aboriginal groups were largely dispossessed[by whom?] of their land.


Premise: What was the fate of the other partners of the Universal Film Manufacturing Company?

Hypothesis: Eventually all would be bought out by Laemmle.


Premise: Russian victories against which countries increased British fears?

Hypothesis: As far as Britain was concerned, defeats inflicted by Russia on Persia and Turkey demonstrated its imperial ambitions and capabilities and stoked fears in Britain of an overland invasion of India.


Premise: What posses a threat each year to Florida

Hypothesis: Hurricanes pose a severe threat each year during the June 1 to November 30 hurricane season, particularly from August to October.


Premise: How does BYU feel about being rated the #1 stone cold sober school?

Hypothesis: As mentioned earlier, The Princeton Review has rated BYU the "#1 stone cold sober school" in the nation for several years running, an honor which the late LDS Church president Gordon B. Hinckley had commented on with pride.


Premise: What is in Ski Valley?

Hypothesis: Catalina Highway stretches 25 miles (40 km) and the entire mountain range is one of Tucson's most popular vacation spots for cycling, hiking, rock climbing, camping, birding, and wintertime snowboarding and skiing.


Premise: Approximately how many total viewers watched the England World Cup qualifier on the internet on 10 October 2009?

Hypothesis: As a result of Setanta Sports's demise, England's World Cup qualifier in Ukraine on 10 October 2009 was shown in the United Kingdom on a pay-per-view basis via the internet only.


Premise: The Luftwaffe's change in strategy targeted what primarily?

Hypothesis: In particular, the West Midlands were targeted.


Premise: What are the minimum number of families in the APG system?

Hypothesis: In APG II (2003) it is not settled; at maximum it is 457, but within this number there are 55 optional segregates, so that the minimum number of families in this system is 402.


Premise: What does the USAF use Electronic warfare aircraft for?

Hypothesis: Electronic warfare aircraft are used to keep airspaces friendly, and send critical information to anyone who needs it.


Premise: Who runs Crownhill Fort?

Hypothesis: It is owned by the Landmark Trust and is open to the public.


Premise: What did President Sarkozy think Secretary of State Rice was?

Hypothesis: Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (who was famously mistaken for a "recent American immigrant" by French President Nicolas Sarkozy), said "descendants of slaves did not get much of a head start, and I think you continue to see some of the effects of that.


Premise: What was the lockout chip number for most of Europe, save the UK and Italy?

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


Premise: What was the result of the weakening of both Prussia and Austria?

Hypothesis: In 1763 a peace settlement was reached at the Treaty of Hubertusburg, ending the war in central Europe.


Premise: What is the date that Cyrpus attained independence?

Hypothesis: The UK retained the two Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia, while government posts and public offices were allocated by ethnic quotas, giving the minority Turkish Cypriots a permanent veto, 30% in parliament and administration, and granting the three mother-states guarantor rights.


Premise: When did the ACLU first challenge the Patriot Act?

Hypothesis: Political interest groups have stated that these laws remove important restrictions on governmental authority, and are a dangerous encroachment on civil liberties, possible unconstitutional violations of the Fourth Amendment.


Premise: Which are the first areas to be pruned during puberty?

Hypothesis: Some of the most developmentally significant changes in the brain occur in the prefrontal cortex, which is involved in decision making and cognitive control, as well as other higher cognitive functions.


Premise: Who designed the Bronx Museum of the Arts' 2006 expansion?

Hypothesis: The Bronx Museum of the Arts, founded in 1971, exhibits 20th century and contemporary art through its central museum space and 11,000 square feet (1,000 m2) of galleries.


Premise: What families are playable characters in Total War: Shogun 2?

Hypothesis: The player is able to choose one of the most powerful families of Japan at the time, the Taira, Minamoto or Fujiwara; each family fielding two branches for a total of six playable clans.


Premise: On July 28 2013 what type of elections were held?

Hypothesis: Presidential elections were held on 28 July 2013, with a second round run-off held on 11 August, and legislative elections were held on 24 November and 15 December 2013.


Premise: What did the FlaK 39 have?

Hypothesis: In the late 1930s the 10.5 cm FlaK 38 appeared soon followed by the 39, this was designed primarily for static sites but had a mobile mounting and the unit had 220v 24 kW generators.


Premise: What iPod feature allowed for USB connections with the device?

Hypothesis: The third generation began including a 30-pin dock connector, allowing for FireWire or USB connectivity.


Premise: What is the Gash Group?

Hypothesis: Excavations in and near Agordat in central Eritrea yielded the remains of an ancient pre-Aksumite civilization known as the Gash Group.


Premise: How many TV films did Universal sign Spielbergo to direct?

Hypothesis: Another TV film (Something Evil) was made and released to capitalize on the popularity of The Exorcist, then a major best-selling book which had not yet been released as a film.


Premise: Who introduced the first major model for communication in 1949?

Hypothesis: The sender was the part of a telephone a person spoke into, the channel was the telephone itself, and the receiver was the part of the phone where one could hear the other person.


Premise: What are examples of a cell's external environment?

Hypothesis: Gene expression can be regulated at any step: from transcriptional initiation, to RNA processing, to post-translational modification of the protein.


Premise: What was reportly the largest ship in the Mughal Convoy in the Indian Fleet?

Hypothesis: The Mughal convoy included the treasure-laden Ganj-i-Sawai, reported to be the greatest in the Mughal fleet and the largest ship operational in the Indian Ocean, and its escort, the Fateh Muhammed.


Premise: Whites make up how much of Namibia's population?

Hypothesis: Whites (mainly of Afrikaner, German, British and Portuguese origin) make up between 4.0 and 7.0% of the population.


Premise: What building did William Buckland model the Hammon-Harwood House?

Hypothesis: Unlike the Baroque style that it replaced, which was mostly used for palaces and churches, and had little representation in the British colonies, simpler Georgian styles were widely used by the upper and middle classes.


Premise: How many destroyers were in the U.S. Third Fleet?

Hypothesis: The U.S. Third Fleet was formidable – nine large carriers, eight light carriers, six battleships, 17 cruisers, 63 destroyers and 1,000 planes – and completely outgunned Ozawa's force.


Premise: What was Marvel's self-hosted comic book convention called?

Hypothesis: Marvel held its own comic book convention, Marvelcon '75, in spring 1975, and promised a Marvelcon '76.


Premise: When was "Everybody" released?

Hypothesis: After Madonna signed a singles deal with Sire, her debut single, "Everybody", was released in October 1982, and the second, "Burning Up", in March 1983.


Premise: What files was the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI's raid mainly focused on?

Hypothesis: The files detailed the FBI's extensive COINTELPRO program, which included investigations into lives of ordinary citizens—including a black student group at a Pennsylvania military college and the daughter of Congressman Henry Reuss of Wisconsin.


Premise: How many carriers did Nagumo have at the Battle of Midway?

Hypothesis: Alerted to the need of a second strike on Midway, but also wary of the need to deal with the American carriers that he now knew were in the vicinity, Nagumo twice changed the arming orders for his aircraft.


Premise: Who presented a solution to the philosophical problem of induction centered around falsifiability?

Hypothesis: Among his contributions to philosophy is his claim to have solved the philosophical problem of induction.


Premise: Termites, bees, wasps, and what other insect are social insects?

Hypothesis: Though perhaps not as advanced as honey bees, bumblebees also potentially have some social communication behaviors.


Premise: What path did Buddha find to soothe the strictness of Sramana religions?

Hypothesis: Shramana gave rise to the concept of the cycle of birth and death, the concept of samsara, and the concept of liberation.


Premise: Who first used the term superpower?

Hypothesis: Since the end of the World Wars, the term "great power" has been joined by a number of other power classifications.


Premise: Who was the developer of the Milanese mandolin?

Hypothesis: The strings ran between the tuning pegs and a bridge that was glued to the soundboard, as a guitar's.


Premise: How long did the Timurid empire last in Iran?

Hypothesis: In 1370, yet another conqueror, Timur, followed the example of Hulagu, establishing the Timurid Empire which lasted for another 156 years.


Premise: What does rich alluvial diamond deposits make Namibia a source of?

Hypothesis: Rich alluvial diamond deposits make Namibia a primary source for gem-quality diamonds.


Premise: Who is Greece the most important trading partner to?

Hypothesis: Greece has the largest economy in the Balkans and is as an important regional investor.


Premise: What led to the last great Taínos rebellion?

Hypothesis: Increasing punishment of the Taínos for revolting against forced labour, despite measures put in place by the encomienda, which included religious education and protection from warring tribes, eventually led to the last great Taíno rebellion.


Premise: Who was the President of the United States in 1939?

Hypothesis: They visited the 1939 New York World's Fair and stayed with President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the White House and at his private estate at Hyde Park, New York.


Premise: What was John's strategy?

Hypothesis: John was well prepared for a conflict.


Premise: What component of a universal motor is most likely to fail?

Hypothesis: An advantage of the universal motor is that AC supplies may be used on motors which have some characteristics more common in DC motors, specifically high starting torque and very compact design if high running speeds are used.


Premise: The acceptance of new concepts and sciences by universities brought these ideas what?

Hypothesis: Although universities may have been slow to accept new sciences and methodologies as they emerged, when they did accept new ideas it helped to convey legitimacy and respectability, and supported the scientific changes through providing a stable environment for instruction and material resources.


Premise: What's a third name for double daylight saving time or Double Summer Time used in Europe?

Hypothesis: See British Double Summer Time and Central European Midsummer Time for details.


Premise: Which Federal Records Center houses materials relevant to JFKs assassination?

Hypothesis: For example, the FRC in Lenexa, Kansas holds items from the treatment of John F. Kennedy after his fatal shooting in 1963.


Premise: How do Serbian nationalists feel about the Croatians using their language?

Hypothesis: The nationalists among the Croats conflictingly claim either that they speak an entirely separate language from Serbs and Bosnians or that these two peoples have, due to the longer lexicographic tradition among Croats, somehow "borrowed" their standard languages from them.[citation needed]


Premise: What party did the D.C. Statehood Party merge when?

Hypothesis: The nearest this movement ever came to success was in 1978, when Congress passed the District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment.


Premise: What does DBMS stand for?

Hypothesis: A database management system (DBMS) is a computer software application that interacts with the user, other applications, and the database itself to capture and analyze data.


Premise: Obsidian is what type of glass?

Hypothesis: Naturally occurring glass, especially the volcanic glass obsidian, has been used by many Stone Age societies across the globe for the production of sharp cutting tools and, due to its limited source areas, was extensively traded.


Premise: What library has a vast assortment of rare books and manuscripts?

Hypothesis: The Beinecke Rare Book Library has a large collection of rare books and manuscripts.


Premise: What 1683 work resulted in the standard use of tripartite periodization?

Hypothesis: Tripartite periodization became standard after the German historian Christoph Cellarius published Universal History Divided into an Ancient, Medieval, and New Period (1683).


Premise: What does Luke say one of the rebels does?

Hypothesis: Luke also follows Mark, though he describes the rebels as common criminals, one of whom defends Jesus, who in turn promises that he (Jesus) and the criminal will be together in paradise.


Premise: Why did the world community notice the need for help?

Hypothesis: Because of the magnitude of the quake, and the media attention on China, foreign nations and organizations immediately responded to the disaster by offering condolences and assistance.


Premise: Some cable boxes are capable of doing what?

Hypothesis: HDTV can be recorded to D-VHS (Digital-VHS or Data-VHS), W-VHS (analog only), to an HDTV-capable digital video recorder (for example DirecTV's high-definition Digital video recorder, Sky HD's set-top box, Dish Network's VIP 622 or VIP 722 high-definition Digital video recorder receivers, or TiVo's Series 3 or HD recorders), or an HDTV-ready HTPC.


Premise: What crime was Gaddafi suspected of being involved in during his time in the military?

Hypothesis: British trainers reported him for insubordination and abusive behaviour, stating their suspicion that he was involved in the assassination of the military academy's commander in 1963.


Premise: What was his first proposition?

Hypothesis: In it he expressed two propositions: first, infants are not to be baptized; and second, "Antichristians converted are to be admitted into the true Church by baptism.


Premise: What is ecclesiology?

Hypothesis: Federalism also finds expression in ecclesiology (the doctrine of the church).


Premise: How much of Sudan's medicines were produced by a pharmaceutical plant Clinton's operation bombed?

Hypothesis: The plant produced much of the region's antimalarial drugs and around 50% of Sudan's pharmaceutical needs.


Premise: What is the name of the first North American torchbearer?

Hypothesis: The start was at McCovey Cove, where Norman Bellingham of the U.S. Olympic Committee gave the torch to the first torchbearer, Chinese 1992 Olympic champion swimmer Lin Li.


Premise: What is the largest country that was included among the seven promoted countries?

Hypothesis: Seven countries were promoted to this category this year, leaving the "medium development" group: Albania, Belarus, Brazil, Libya, Macedonia, Russia and Saudi Arabia.


Premise: What does the color red symbolize in the clothing worn by Cardinals?

Hypothesis: When in choir dress, a Latin-rite cardinal wears scarlet garments — the blood-like red symbolizes a cardinal's willingness to die for his faith.


Premise: The Army will be keeping 5,681 of what vehicle?

Hypothesis: Of the total number of vehicles the Army will keep, 5,036 will be put in storage, 1,073 will be used for training, and the remainder will be spread across the active force.


Premise: On which date did Arsenal name a fully foreign 16-man squad for a match?

Hypothesis: Arsenal were the first to name a completely foreign 16-man squad for a match.


Premise: What nations were occupied by the Axis?

Hypothesis: Thailand has been treated by the United States in the same way as such other Axis-occupied countries as Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Greece, Norway, Poland, and the Netherlands.


Premise: IBM expanded their nondiscrimination policy in 1984 to include what?

Hypothesis: He also publicized the policy so that in his negotiations to build new manufacturing plants with the governors of two states in the U.S. South, he could be clear that IBM would not build "separate-but-equal" workplaces.


Premise: How many people died as a result of the MVD and NAA clash in 1918?

Hypothesis: Clashes soon broke out between the NAA and Soviet Internal Security Forces (MVD) troops based in Yerevan when Armenians decided to commemorate the establishment of the 1918 First Republic of Armenia.


Premise: What organization is trying to revive Sanskrit?

Hypothesis: Even the local Muslims converse in Sanskrit.


Premise: What was Spain's first national police force called, in Spanish?

Hypothesis: They adapted an existing brotherhood to the purpose of a general police acting under officials appointed by themselves, and endowed with great powers of summary jurisdiction even in capital cases.


Premise: Who is the first MMA fighter to participate in carrying the Olympic torch?

Hypothesis: Heavyweight Champion Fedor Emelianenko was one the torch bearers.


Premise: What other system of calculations are inherent in the Gregorian calendar?

Hypothesis: Calculating the day of the week is not very simple, because of the irregularities in the Gregorian system.


Premise: Against which opponent did Knute Rockne tell his team to "win one for the Gipper?"

Hypothesis: Although Weis led his team to two Bowl Championship Series bowl games, his overall record was 35–27, mediocre by Notre Dame standards, and the 2007 team had the most losses in school history.


Premise: What types of taxes do Puerto Ricans pay?

Hypothesis: Residents of Puerto Rico pay U.S. federal taxes: import/export taxes, federal commodity taxes, social security taxes, therefore contributing to the American Government.


Premise: What subjects was Popper authorized to teach in secondary school in 1929?

Hypothesis: In 1929, he obtained the authorisation to teach mathematics and physics in secondary school, which he started doing.


Premise: Where is the memorial for the Armenian Genocide?

Hypothesis: In 1967, a memorial to the victims of the Armenian Genocide was built at the Tsitsernakaberd hill above the Hrazdan gorge in Yerevan.


Premise: What was Tito's form of communism called?

Hypothesis: Tito's form of communism was labeled "Titoism" by Moscow, which encouraged purges against suspected "Titoites'" throughout the Eastern bloc.


Premise: What Church did Victoria consider herself aligned with?

Hypothesis: He passed the Public Worship Regulation Act 1874, which removed Catholic rituals from the Anglican liturgy and which Victoria strongly supported.


Premise: Who said "the outline of the life must be true: birth, maturity, renunciation, search, awakening and liberation, teaching, death."?

Hypothesis: According to author Michael Carrithers, while there are good reasons to doubt the traditional account, "the outline of the life must be true: birth, maturity, renunciation, search, awakening and liberation, teaching, death."


Premise: During which years did the execution of the Boston martyrs take place?

Hypothesis: Another example of the persecution of heretics under Protestant rule was the execution of the Boston martyrs in 1659, 1660, and 1661.


Premise: Which actor portrayed Marco Sciarra?

Hypothesis: In February 2015 over fifteen hundred extras were hired for the pre-title sequence set in Mexico, though they were duplicated in the film, giving the effect of around ten thousand extras.


Premise: There was a marked trend towards what type of approach to political issues?

Hypothesis: Much academic debate regarded one or both of two pragmatic topics: how (or whether) to apply utilitarianism to problems of political policy, or how (or whether) to apply economic models (such as rational choice theory) to political issues.


Premise: How much money did preview showings generate in the US and Canada?

Hypothesis: However, after grossing $5.25 million from its early Thursday night showings and $28 million on its opening day, weekend projections were increased to $75–80 million.


Premise: What is the linguistic categorization of *ćw and *dźw?

Hypothesis: (This coincides with the state of affairs in the neighboring Nuristani languages.)


Premise: In what group of people do the Portuguese have their origin?

Hypothesis: The most important demographic influence in the modern Portuguese seems to be the oldest one; current interpretation of Y-chromosome and mtDNA data suggests that the Portuguese have their origin in Paleolithic peoples that began arriving to the European continent around 45,000 years ago.


Premise: After the team moved to what city were the cannon left off the crest?

Hypothesis: This was dropped after the move to Highbury in 1913, only to be reinstated in 1922, when the club adopted a crest featuring a single cannon, pointing eastwards, with the club's nickname, The Gunners, inscribed alongside it; this crest only lasted until 1925, when the cannon was reversed to point westward and its barrel slimmed down.


Premise: How many migrants went to Eisenach?

Hypothesis: The internal migration shows a strong tendency from rural areas towards the big cities.


Premise: What is the name of the coach terminus in Melbourne?

Hypothesis: The main passenger airport serving the metropolis and the state is Melbourne Airport (also called Tullamarine Airport), which is the second busiest in Australia, and


Premise: Which candidate went on to win the South Carolina primary?

Hypothesis: Clark and Dean dropped out during this time, leaving Edwards as the only real threat to Kerry.


Premise: Who negotiated the Hellgate treaty?

Hypothesis: In 1855, Washington Territorial Governor Isaac Stevens negotiated the Hellgate treaty between the United States Government and the Salish, Pend d'Oreille, and the Kootenai people of western Montana, which established boundaries for the tribal nations.


Premise: What is the most common climate across Tennessee?

Hypothesis: The Gulf of Mexico is the dominant factor in the climate of Tennessee, with winds from the south being responsible for most of the state's annual precipitation.


Premise: How many Iraqi insurgents were killed from 2003-2011?

Hypothesis: In response to the September 11 attacks, and as part of the Global War on Terror, U.S. and NATO forces invaded Afghanistan in October 2001, displacing the Taliban government.


Premise: What is the Latin for Avicenna's psychology parts in his Book of Healing?

Hypothesis: Notably, Avicenna develops what is called the "flying man" argument in the Psychology of The Cure I.1.7 as defense of the argument that the soul is without quantitative extension, which has an affinity with Descartes's cogito argument (or what phenomenology designates as a form of an "epoche").


Premise: Crows will cooperate with small birds to drive away what predators?

Hypothesis: Crows are frequently mobbed by smaller songbirds as they prey on eggs and young from these birds' nests, but these same crows will cooperate with smaller birds to drive away hawks or larger mammalian predators.


Premise: What is the most common zinc ore?

Hypothesis: The most common zinc ore is sphalerite (zinc blende), a zinc sulfide mineral.


Premise: In what year did the Southern New England Telephone Company, formerly the District Telephone Company of New Haven, establish operations in the area?

Hypothesis: The Knights of Columbus, the world's largest Catholic fraternal service organization and a Fortune 1000 company, is headquartered in New Haven.


Premise: Who is the earliest king that is authenticated by actual physical evidence and not just legend?

Hypothesis: (c. 26th century BC), whose name is also mentioned in the Gilgamesh epic—leading to the suggestion that Gilgamesh himself might have been a historical king of Uruk.


Premise: For every 100 females age 18 and over, how many males were there?

Hypothesis: For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 94.4 males.


Premise: Why was the ability to play DVD-Video taken off of Windows Media Player?

Hypothesis: As with prior versions, third-party DVD player software can still be used to enable DVD playback.


Premise: What year saw the founding of Kathmandu's fire department?

Hypothesis: The fire service in the city is also overlooked by an international non-governmental organization, the Firefighters Volunteer Association of Nepal (FAN), which was established in 2000 with the purpose of raising public awareness about fire and improving safety.


Premise: What caused the Winter Storm of 2000?

Hypothesis: Storms of this magnitude are generally the result of cold air damming that affects the city due to its proximity to the Appalachian Mountains.


Premise: What are the 2 titular names of God in the Jewish religion?

Hypothesis: In the ancient Egyptian era of Atenism, possibly the earliest recorded monotheistic religion, this deity was called Aten, premised on being the one "true" Supreme Being and Creator of the Universe.


Premise: Did Thomas Newman compose the score after filming or during filming?

Hypothesis: Mendes revealed that the final film would have more than one hundred minutes of music.


Premise: What is different about a true predator?

Hypothesis: A true predator can commonly be known as one that kills and eats another living thing.


Premise: How many CPSU endorsement having candidates lost to independents?

Hypothesis: In district races, run-off elections were held in 76 constituencies on April 2 and 9 and fresh elections were organized on April 20 and 14 to May 23, in the 199 remaining constituencies where the required absolute majority was not attained.


Premise: Along with Arabia and Ethiopia, what land has songs that sound similar to those of Somalia?

Hypothesis: That is, they only use five pitches per octave in contrast to a heptatonic (seven note) scale, such as the major scale.


Premise: What is the only film to have a higher ticket sale in Paris than Spectre?

Hypothesis: In Paris, it has the second highest ticket sales of all time with $4.1 million tickets sold only behind Spider-Man 3 which sold over $6.32 million tickets in 2007.


Premise: How many people lived in Lawton in 2010?

Hypothesis: In descending order of population, Oklahoma's largest cities in 2010 were: Oklahoma City (579,999, +14.6%), Tulsa (391,906, −0.3%), Norman (110,925, +15.9%), Broken Arrow (98,850, +32.0%), Lawton (96,867, +4.4%), Edmond (81,405, +19.2%), Moore (55,081, +33.9%), Midwest City (54,371, +0.5%), Enid (49,379, +5.0%), and Stillwater (45,688, +17.0%).


Premise: Is the Lagrange formalism or the Hamiltonian more convenient for non-conservative systems?

Hypothesis: Usually, the Lagrange formalism is mathematically more convenient than the Hamiltonian for non-conservative systems (such as systems with friction).


Premise: Which famous inventor was a Autodidact?

Hypothesis: One may become an autodidact at nearly any point in one's life.


Premise: What was the average number of people in a Plymouth household?

Hypothesis: The city's average household size was 2.3 persons.


Premise: What is the only trade union on Tuvalu?

Hypothesis: The ADB estimates that, at any one time, about 15% of the adult male population works abroad as seafarers.


Premise: What company did Barry Weiss move to?

Hypothesis: RCA/Jive Label Group CEO Barry Weiss left the company in March 2011 to become the new CEO of Island Def Jam and Universal Republic, which were both part of Universal Music Group.


Premise: What has the simplest known circadian clock?

Hypothesis: The simplest known circadian clock is that of the prokaryotic cyanobacteria.


Premise: When was Queen Victoria born?

Hypothesis: Until 1817, Edward's niece, Princess Charlotte of Wales, was the only legitimate grandchild of George III.


Premise: What was Kinnocks party theme?

Hypothesis: "It's Time for a Change", urging voters to elect a new government after more than a decade of unbroken Conservative rule.


Premise: Where is a 10-meter statue of Tito located?

Hypothesis: Slovenia has several streets and squares named after Tito, notably Tito Square in Velenje, incorporating a 10-meter statue.


Premise: What is the name of another French Dominican friar during this time?

Hypothesis: It is at the École Biblique that the famed Jerusalem Bible (both editions) was prepared.


Premise: What is the burial place of Fructuoso Rivera?

Hypothesis: The cathedral is the burial place of Fructuoso Rivera, Juan Antonio Lavalleja and Venancio Flores.


Premise: Where was the  coronation Sejm founded?

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 children in Africa are working in the arigucultural sector?

Hypothesis: Children in Africa today are often forced into exploitative labour due to family debt and other financial factors, leading to ongoing poverty.


Premise: In what buddhism is the goal a state of nirvana?

Hypothesis: Mahayana Buddhism instead aspires to Buddhahood via the bodhisattva path, a state wherein one remains in this cycle to help other beings reach awakening.


Premise: Why did English Freemasonry almost come to a halt in 1799?

Hypothesis: In 1799, English Freemasonry almost came to a halt due to Parliamentary proclamation.


Premise: How many clubs competed in 20011-12?

Hypothesis: The competition is open to any eligible club down to Levels 10 of the English football league system - all 92 professional clubs in the Premier League and Football League (Levels 1 to 4), and several hundred "non-league" teams in Steps 1 to 6 of the National League System (Levels 5 to 10).


Premise: Who did she tell about the donation?

Hypothesis: Later that year she became the first solo female artist to headline the main Pyramid stage at the 2011 Glastonbury Festival in over twenty years, and was named the highest-paid performer in the world per minute.


Premise: What % of the population claimed social security benefits in 2006/7?

Hypothesis: Household survey results suggest the percentage of households spending less than £20 per week on a per capita basis fell from 27% to 8% between 2000 and 2004, implying a decline in income poverty.


Premise: What was the maximum length of the CAA60 format?

Hypothesis: The final variant of CAA is CAA70, which could accommodate 70 minutes of playback time per side.


Premise: What types of church were the Benedictines known for?

Hypothesis: A part of their influence was that towns developed around them and they became centers of culture, learning and commerce.


Premise: What is the dining table laid with for state banquets?

Hypothesis: State banquets also take place in the Ballroom; these formal dinners are held on the first evening of a state visit by a foreign head of state.


Premise: A person can get away from samsara by doing what?

Hypothesis: In the Buddhist view, liberation from samsara is possible by following the Buddhist path.


Premise: Some of the county attractions are

Hypothesis: There are show caves open to visitors in the Cheddar Gorge, as well as its locally produced cheese, although there is now only one remaining cheese maker in the village of Cheddar.


Premise: What did they rely less and less on?

Hypothesis: The majority of population groups at this time were still highly mobile hunter-gatherers; but now individual groups started to focus on resources available to them locally, thus with the passage of time there is a pattern of increasing regional generalization like, the Southwest, Arctic, Poverty, Dalton and Plano traditions.


Premise: From what ideals did Classical architecture emerge?

Hypothesis: The architecture and urbanism of the Classical civilizations such as the Greek and the Roman evolved from civic ideals rather than religious or empirical ones and new building types emerged.


Premise: How many teams were relegated from the Premier League in 1995?

Hypothesis: On 8 June 2006, FIFA requested that all major European leagues, including Italy's Serie A and Spain's La Liga be reduced to 18 teams by the start of the 2007–08 season.


Premise: Who tried to convert Frisians

Hypothesis: From then on Utrecht became one of the most influential seats of power for the Roman Catholic Church in the Netherlands.


Premise: The founder lineages were likely from what type of mtDNA pool?

Hypothesis: In 2006, a study by Behar et al., based on what was at that time high-resolution analysis of haplogroup K (mtDNA), suggested that about 40% of the current Ashkenazi population is descended matrilineally from just four women, or "founder lineages", that were "likely from a Hebrew/Levantine mtDNA pool" originating in the Middle East in the 1st and 2nd centuries CE.


Premise: The theorbo and what other Baroque instrument fell into disuse?

Hypothesis: Classical musicians continued to use many of instruments from the Baroque era, such as the cello, contrabass, recorder, trombone, timpani, fortepiano and organ.


Premise: What are Airmen expected to be competent in for these Building Partnerships missions?

Hypothesis: Building Partnerships is described as airmen interacting with international airmen and other relevant actors to develop, guide, and sustain relationships for mutual benefit and security.


Premise: What is the basic organizational unit of Freemasonry?

Hypothesis: The Masonic Lodge is the basic organisational unit of Freemasonry.


Premise: What kind of elephant did the Ptolemies use?

Hypothesis: Seleucus received Indian war elephants from the Mauryan empire, and used them to good effect at the battle of Ipsus.


Premise: What are the grammatical moods of Czech verbs?

Hypothesis: It is the form found in dictionaries and the form that follows auxiliary verbs (for example, můžu tě slyšet—"I can hear you").


Premise: Who were the next settlement of people on Norfolk Island descended from?

Hypothesis: These were the descendants of Tahitians and the HMS Bounty mutineers, including those of Fletcher Christian.


Premise: When was Princess Margaret born?

Hypothesis: Elizabeth's only sibling, Princess Margaret, was born in 1930.


Premise: What river was the Mercian region south of?

Hypothesis: In terms of geography the Northumbrian region lay north of the Humber River; the Mercian lay north of the Thames and South of the Humber River; West Saxon lay south and southwest of the Thames; and the smallest, Kentish region lay southeast of the Thames, a small corner of England.


Premise: Who adopted Hrothgar's ancestor?

Hypothesis: The modern cognates of original words have been used whenever practical to give a close approximation of the feel of the original poem.


Premise: How is the Russian term for air defence abbreviated?

Hypothesis: In Russian the AA systems are called zenitnye (i.e. "pointing to zenith")


Premise: Who was brought in to preach "positive thinking"?

Hypothesis: The season started with Mack Newton being brought in to preach "positive thinking.


Premise: Current decisions by the NPCSC do not affect what?

Hypothesis: This power is a legislative power and not a judicial one in that an interpretation by the NPCSC does not affect cases which have already been decided.


Premise: What aspect or type of identity does Weinreich single out?

Hypothesis: Consequently, Weinreich gives the definition "A person's identity is defined as the totality of one's self-construal, in which how one construes oneself in the present expresses the continuity between how one construes oneself as one was in the past and how one construes oneself as one aspires to be in the future"; this allows for definitions of aspects of identity, such as: "One's ethnic identity is defined as that part of the totality of one's self-construal made up of those dimensions that express the continuity between one's construal of past ancestry and one's future aspirations in relation to ethnicity" (Weinreich, 1986a).


Premise: What played a major role in the decline of the Rus?

Hypothesis: Kiev was the main power and initiator in this relationship, once the Byzantine Empire fell into turmoil and the supplies became erratic, profits dried out, and Kiev lost its appeal.[citation needed]


Premise: Who laid the foundation stone of New Delhi?

Hypothesis: The foundation stone of New Delhi was laid by King George V and Queen Mary at the site of Delhi Durbar of 1911 at Kingsway Camp on 15 December 1911, during their imperial visit.


Premise: What two men overthrew the Iraqi monarchy?

Hypothesis: On 14 July, Iraqi army officers Abdel Karim Qasim and Abdel Salam Aref overthrew the Iraqi monarchy and, the next day, Iraqi prime minister and Nasser's chief Arab antagonist, Nuri al-Said, was killed.


Premise: When did Panama have the US-ruled Canal Zone Territory?

Hypothesis: In 2001, El Salvador adopted the U.S. dollar as its currency, while Panama has used it for decades due to its ties to the Canal Zone.


Premise: What was Nick's coronation song?

Hypothesis: Fradiani released "Beautiful Life" as his coronation single while Beckham released "Champion".


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

Hypothesis: In 1969, the School of Architecture and Urban Design (SAUD) was formed with three programs: architecture, architectural engineering, and urban planning.


Premise: What was the port of Piraeus declared to be in 2013?

Hypothesis: Since then, Piraeus has grown to become the Mediterranean's third-largest port thanks to heavy investment by Chinese logistics giant COSCO.


Premise: What famous dish is also known as hot garlic paste?

Hypothesis: Other famous dishes include bajre ki roti (millet bread) and lashun ki chutney (hot garlic paste), mawa kachori Mirchi Bada, Pyaaj Kachori and ghevar from Jodhpur, Alwar ka Mawa(Milk Cake), malpauas from Pushkar and rassgollas from Bikaner.


Premise: What was a unique feature of World Records records?

Hypothesis: At least one manufacturer in the early 1920s, World Records, produced records that played at a constant linear velocity, controlled by Noel Pemberton Billing's patented add-on governor device.


Premise: Which political division does not often utilize its power, if it has any?

Hypothesis: Where they lose a vote of confidence, have a motion of no confidence passed against them, or where they lose supply, most constitutional systems require either:


Premise: Early writers linked orientation to what concept?

Hypothesis: The earliest writers on sexual orientation usually understood it to be intrinsically linked to the subject's own sex.


Premise: What was the name given to the island reached by Miguel Lopez de Legazpi on January 9th of 1530?

Hypothesis: The Spanish ship San Pedro and two other vessels in an expedition commanded by Miguel López de Legazpi discovered an island on January 9, 1530, possibly Mejit, at 10°N, which they named "Los Barbudos".


Premise: Who was Josiah Wedgewood?

Hypothesis: As rising prosperity and social mobility increased the number of people, especially women (who found they could shop unaccompanied at department stores without damaging their reputation), with disposable income in the late Georgian period, window shopping was transformed into a leisure activity and entrepreneurs, like the potter Josiah Wedgwood, pioneered the use of marketing techniques to influence the prevailing tastes and preferences of society.


Premise: What website said the PlayStation 3 "lives up to the hype"?

Hypothesis: " CNET awarded it a score of 8.8 out of 10 and voted it as its number one "must-have" gadget, praising its robust graphical capabilities and stylish exterior design while criticizing its limited selection of available games.


Premise: What is guaranteed to the states by the federal government?

Hypothesis: The states are guaranteed military and civil defense by the federal government, which is also obliged by Article IV, Section Four, to "guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government".


Premise: Who does Modern Orthodoxy assign a central role to?

Hypothesis: Modern Orthodoxy, additionally, assigns a central role to the "People of Israel".


Premise: Which US President prevented Turkey from invading Cyprus?

Hypothesis: Meanwhile, by 1964, enosis was a Greek policy that could not be abandoned; Makarios and the Greek prime minister Georgios Papandreou agreed that enosis should be the ultimate aim and King Constantine wished Cyprus "a speedy union with the mother country".


Premise: In Wayman v. Southard, what branch was accused of being given lawmaking abilities by Congress?

Hypothesis: While Chief Justice John Marshall conceded that the determination of rules of procedure was a legislative function, he distinguished between "important" subjects and mere details.


Premise: When was the first AFL season played?

Hypothesis: Later that year both the AFL and af2 were dissolved and reorganized as a new corporation comprising teams from both leagues, and the AFL returned in 2010.


Premise: How many troops made it back to the KPA lines after retreating?

Hypothesis: American air raids caused heavy damage to the KPA, destroying most of its tanks and much of its artillery.


Premise: What has evolved over time?

Hypothesis: Meanwhile, other scripts had evolved, especially in the eastern and southern areas during the late Zhou dynasty, including regional forms, such as the gǔwén ("ancient forms") of the eastern Warring States preserved as variant forms in the Han dynasty character dictionary Shuowen Jiezi, as well as decorative forms such as bird and insect scripts.


Premise: Who attempted a large-scale effort at translation?

Hypothesis: Having conquered the Greek world, they made Arabic versions of its philosophical and scientific works.


Premise: When did Burke become the Prime Minister's private secretary?

Hypothesis: When Hamilton was appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland, Burke accompanied him to Dublin as his private secretary, a position he held for three years.


Premise: What type of grapes are grown in the valley of Valais?

Hypothesis: The driest conditions persist in all inner alpine valleys that receive less rain because arriving clouds lose a lot of their content while crossing the mountains before reaching these areas.


Premise: After its April departure, when did the torch return to China?

Hypothesis: The torch arrived in Sanya, Hainan on May 4 with celebrations attended by International Olympic Committee (IOC) officials and Chinese big names like Jackie Chan.


Premise: where was producer mr. fingers' from?

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: Which Led Zeppelin album featured the hit "Stairway to Heaven"?

Hypothesis: Led Zeppelin began to mix elements of world and folk music into their hard rock from Led Zeppelin III (1970) and Led Zeppelin IV (1971).


Premise: Water from the rivers is used in over how many hydroelectric power plants?

Hypothesis: The Alps provide lowland Europe with drinking water, irrigation, and hydroelectric power.


Premise: Aquila chrysaetos is what type of bird?

Hypothesis: Trogon mexicanus is an endemic species found in the mountains in Mexico; it is considered an endangered species[citation needed] and has symbolic significance to Mexicans.


Premise: Who came into power in 1992?

Hypothesis: Emomali Rahmon came to power in 1992, defeating former prime minister Abdumalik Abdullajanov in a November presidential election with 58% of the vote.


Premise: What is the modern replacement for Ceefax?

Hypothesis: CEEFAX has not made a full transition to digital television, instead being replaced by the new interactive BBCi service.


Premise: Who wrote an article in the New York Dail News about Obama?

Hypothesis: Stanley Crouch wrote in a New York Daily News piece "Obama's mother is of white U.S. stock.


Premise: What color is uranium?

Hypothesis: Uranium is a chemical element with symbol U and atomic number 92.


Premise: What famous statue signified the victory of the Greeks over a worthy enemy?

Hypothesis: In the early 2nd century BC, the Galatians became allies of Antiochus the Great, the last Seleucid king trying to regain suzerainty over Asia Minor.


Premise: The gardens of New Delhi are particularly stunning in which season?

Hypothesis: In addition, there are the gardens in the Presidential Estate, the gardens along the Rajpath and India Gate, the gardens along Shanti Path, the Rose Garden, Nehru Park and the Railway Garden in Chanakya Puri.


Premise: When did Virgil's reputation as a great magician begin?

Hypothesis: In the 12th century, starting around Naples but eventually spreading widely throughout Europe, a tradition developed in which Virgil was regarded as a great magician.


Premise: When does the United States Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission date the crisis to?

Hypothesis: The U.S. recession that began in December 2007 ended in June 2009, according to the U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and the financial crisis appears to have ended about the same time.


Premise: How much land has the Duck Stamp Act help purchase?

Hypothesis: Although non-hunters buy a significant number of Duck Stamps, eighty-seven percent of their sales are contributed by hunters, which is logical, as hunters are required to purchase them.


Premise: Why did sport hunters find the Arabian oryx to be a worthwhile quarry to hunt?

Hypothesis: However, the Arabian oryx has now made a comeback and been upgraded from “extinct in the wild” to “vulnerable” due to conservation efforts like captive breeding


Premise: What is a possible cause of copyright infringement?

Hypothesis: Sometimes only partial compliance with license agreements is the cause.


Premise: According to Genshin, who has the power to destroy karma?

Hypothesis: In Theravada Buddhism there can be no divine salvation or forgiveness for one's karma, since it is a purely impersonal process that is a part of the makeup of the universe.[citation needed]


Premise: How many players have 100 goals or more in the Premier League?

Hypothesis: Since the first Premier League season in 1992–93, 14 different players from 10 different clubs have won or shared the top scorers title.


Premise: When was rayon first made in France?

Hypothesis: Some garments were created from fabrics based on these fibers, such as women's hosiery from nylon, but it was not until the introduction of polyester into the fiber marketplace in the early 1950s that the market for cotton came under threat.


Premise: What profession does Frank Lambert have?

Hypothesis: Steven Waldman notes that; "The evangelicals provided the political muscle for the efforts of Madison and Jefferson, not merely because they wanted to block official churches but because they wanted to keep the spiritual and secular worlds apart."


Premise: What river saw the establishment of a new Kingdom?

Hypothesis: During the 18th century Bandia-Nzakara peoples established the Bangassou Kingdom along the Ubangi River.


Premise: Who was considered Victoria's best and kindest advisor?

Hypothesis: Victoria wrote to her uncle Leopold, whom Victoria considered her "best and kindest adviser", to thank him "for the prospect of great happiness you have contributed to give me, in the person of dear Albert ...


Premise: How did Byron name the Tuvalu islands?

Hypothesis: Keith S. Chambers and Doug Munro (1980) identified Niutao as the island that Francisco Mourelle de la Rúa sailed past on 5 May 1781, thus solving what Europeans had called The Mystery of Gran Cocal.


Premise: Who was the Secretary of War who modernized the US military at the beginning of the 20th century?

Hypothesis: Root was concerned about the Army's role in governing the new territories acquired in 1898 and worked out the procedures for turning Cuba over to the Cubans, and wrote the charter of government for the Philippines.


Premise: What are the years from 1823-1833 called?

Hypothesis: For this, he was arrested in 1820 and executed in 1822 by garroting.


Premise: What does Nanjing have that is considered one of the world's biggest?

Hypothesis: Nanjing is also one of the fifteen sub-provincial cities in the People's Republic of China's administrative structure, enjoying jurisdictional and economic autonomy only slightly less than that of a province.


Premise: Which of Hayek's articles received recognition in 2011?

Hypothesis: In 2011, his article "The Use of Knowledge in Society" was selected as one of the top 20 articles published in The American Economic Review during its first 100 years.


Premise: In how many continents is Portuguese spoken as a native language?

Hypothesis: The Portuguese language is derived from the Latin spoken by the romanized Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula around 2000 years ago—particularly the Celts, Tartessians, Lusitanians and Iberians.


Premise: What is the Kashmir Shaivism mentioned by Vidyaranya?

Hypothesis: Vidyaranya in his works mentions three major schools of Shaiva thought— Pashupata Shaivism, Shaiva Siddhanta and Pratyabhijña (Kashmir Shaivism).


Premise: What do the partians do on the conveyor?

Hypothesis: Material transport elevators generally consist of an inclined plane on which a conveyor belt runs.


Premise: Who created the ten point scale on a persons sexuals desire?

Hypothesis: From at least the late nineteenth century in Europe, there was speculation that the range of human sexual response looked more like a continuum than two or three discrete categories.


Premise: What political idealogy did Gaddafi not believe in?

Hypothesis: He read voraciously on the subjects of Nasser and the French Revolution of 1789, as well as the works of Syrian political theorist Michel Aflaq and biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Sun Yat-sen, and Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.


Premise: When was Russia renamed the Russian Federation?

Hypothesis: On December 25, 1991, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the republic was renamed the Russian Federation, which it remains to this day.


Premise: When do clubs above 9 enter?

Hypothesis: The next six rounds are the "proper" rounds where all clubs are in one draw.


Premise: What Empire held  Grecian teachers of the virginity of Mary's conception ?

Hypothesis: Mary's complete sinlessness and concomitant exemption from any taint from the first moment of her existence was a doctrine familiar to Greek theologians of Byzantium.


Premise: What did the Manchu's make all the men in the city do?

Hypothesis: The Manchus soon ordered all male residents of the city to shave their heads in the Manchu queue way.


Premise: On May 3/4 how many German bombers were lost?

Hypothesis: May, nine were shot down in one night.


Premise: At what time on Earth did Armstrong first step onto the Moon?

Hypothesis: At 02:56 UTC, July 21 (9:56 pm CDT July 20), Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the Moon.


Premise: Why was the second decline in popularity not a strong as the first?

Hypothesis: Thousands of people had learned to play the instrument.


Premise: Denmark has a committment to 100 percent renewable energy by what year?

Hypothesis: There are now 144 countries with renewable energy policy targets.


Premise: What is different in comparison between the 1800 electoral system and the system in place in 2004?

Hypothesis: This was the first time in U.S. history that an elector had cast a vote for the same person to be both president and vice president; another faithless elector in the 1800 election had voted twice for Aaron Burr, but under that electoral system only votes for the president's position were cast, with the runner-up in the Electoral College becoming vice president (and the second vote for Burr was discounted and re-assigned to Thomas Jefferson in any event, as it violated Electoral College rules).


Premise: Along with modern and classical languages, what were all students in the lycées taught?

Hypothesis: Unlike the system during the Ancien Régime, religious topics did not dominate the curriculum, although they were present in addition to teachers from the clergy.


Premise: "The Little Horse" is also known as what?

Hypothesis: This piece, in bronze, was the work of Manuel Tolsá and it has been placed at the Plaza Tolsá, in front of the Palacio de Minería (Mining Palace).


Premise: What do database administrators closely monitor?

Hypothesis: Though typically accessed by a DBMS through the underlying operating system (and often utilizing the operating systems' file systems as intermediates for storage layout), storage properties and configuration setting are extremely important for the efficient operation of the DBMS, and thus are closely maintained by database administrators.


Premise: Up until May of 2015, how much is Beyonce's total worth?

Hypothesis: MTV estimated that by the end of 2014, Beyoncé would become the highest-paid black musician in history; she succeeded to do so in April 2014.


Premise: What's the title of Schwarzenegger's 1977 book?

Hypothesis: After taking English classes at Santa Monica College in California, he earned a BA by correspondence from the University of Wisconsin–Superior, where he graduated with a degree in international marketing of fitness and business administration in 1979.


Premise: Which channels does the CD+G use to hold graphics data?

Hypothesis: The disc can be played on a regular audio CD player, but when played on a special CD+G player, it can output a graphics signal (typically, the CD+G player is hooked up to a television set or a computer monitor); these graphics are almost exclusively used to display lyrics on a television set for karaoke performers to sing along with.


Premise: Where is the highest point in the alps located?

Hypothesis: The highest pass in the alps is the col de l'Iseran in Savoy (France) at 2,770 m (9,088 ft).


Premise: Why helps add an extra bounce to the floor?

Hypothesis: Today, the floor event occurs on a carpeted 12m × 12m square, usually consisting of hard foam over a layer of plywood, which is supported by springs or foam blocks generally called a "spring" floor.


Premise: Does uniformity of the texture and grain of wood usually result from much or little contrast between earlywood and latewood?

Hypothesis: If ease of working is prized, wood should be chosen with regard to its uniformity of texture and straightness of grain, which will in most cases occur when there is little contrast between the latewood of one season's growth and the earlywood of the next.


Premise: What was a term that could describe the political philosophy of the Congo under Massamba-Debat?

Hypothesis: During Massamba-Débat's term in office the regime adopted "scientific socialism" as the country's constitutional ideology.


Premise: Who is Washington University's food provider on campus?

Hypothesis: Renovations are still ongoing; recent additions to the North Campus space include a small eatery operated by Bon Appétit Management Company, the University's on-campus food provider, completed during spring semester 2007, as well as the Family Learning Center, operated by Bright Horizons and opened in September 2010.


Premise: In what era did red white and black become part of the Nazi flag?

Hypothesis: Red, white, and black were the colors of the German Empire from 1870 to 1918, and as such they came to be associated with German nationalism.


Premise: Who did Popper say was the only thinker who might have had a greater influence on him than Hayek?

Hypothesis: While there is some dispute as to the matter of influence, Popper had a long-standing and close friendship with economist Friedrich Hayek, who was also brought to the London School of Economics from Vienna.


Premise: What religious feature did each Roman home have?

Hypothesis: Each home had a household shrine at which prayers and libations to the family's domestic deities were offered.


Premise: What rationale did Gaddafi use for joining the military?

Hypothesis: Gaddafi briefly studied History at the University of Libya in Benghazi, before dropping out to join the military.


Premise: What voltage is being used in railway system of South Africa and Chile?

Hypothesis: 3 kV DC is used in Belgium, Italy, Spain, Poland, the northern Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Chile, and former Soviet Union countries (also using 25 kV 50 Hz AC).


Premise: Why did Henry VIII wish to execute his fifth wife?

Hypothesis: Henry decided that "the repetition of so grievous a Story and the recital of so infamous a crime" in his presence "might reopen a Wound already closing in the Royal Bosom".


Premise: Who wrote The Principles of Geology?

Hypothesis: He read Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology and from the first stop ashore, at St. Jago, found Lyell's uniformitarianism a key to the geological history of landscapes.


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

Hypothesis: Regularity of housefronts along a street was a desirable feature of Georgian town planning.


Premise: What does the acronym SEATO stand for?

Hypothesis: The Treaty declared that any attack on one of the three parties in the Pacific area would be viewed as a threat to each, and that the common danger would be met in accordance with each nation's constitutional processes.


Premise: More than half of the Jews live where?

Hypothesis: More than half of the Jews live in the Diaspora (see Population table).


Premise: What year did flax prices peak?

Hypothesis: However, the industry declined because of transportation costs and competition from synthetic fibres.


Premise: What was William Cookworthy's profession?

Hypothesis: Local chemist William Cookworthy established his somewhat short-lived Plymouth Porcelain venture in 1768 to exploit the recently discovered deposits of local China Clay - an industry which continues to make up a portion of the city income.


Premise: What is the Boston accent known as?

Hypothesis: Boston also has its own collection of neologisms known as Boston slang.


Premise: What is the most basic way a street vendor might sell their goods?

Hypothesis: In addition, food and goods are sold from people walking with baskets, pushing carts, from bicycles or the backs of trucks, or simply from a tarp or cloth laid on the ground.


Premise: What had Darwin wanted to name his book?

Hypothesis: An abstract of an Essay on the Origin of Species and Varieties Through natural selection, but with Murray's persuasion it was eventually changed to the snappier title: On the Origin of Species, with the title page adding by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.


Premise: During what ages do reasons for alcohol consumption between males and females begin to diverge?

Hypothesis: Distinctions between the reasons for alcohol consumption of males and females begin to emerge around ages


Premise: What was the DBMS created by IBM called?

Hypothesis: Both concepts later became known as navigational databases due to the way data was accessed, and Bachman's 1973 Turing Award presentation was The Programmer as Navigator.


Premise: Michael Dorf is a law professor at what school?

Hypothesis: Columbia University law professor Michael Dorf observed that Schwarzenegger's possible lawsuit could ultimately win him the right to run for the office, noting, "The law is very clear, but it’s not 100 percent clear that the courts would enforce that law rather than leave it to the political process."


Premise: What purpose do aircraft carriers serve for aircraft?

Hypothesis: Aircraft carriers have evolved from converted cruisers to nuclear-powered warships that carry numerous fighter planes, strike aircraft, helicopters, and other types of aircraft.


Premise: What society was studied to describe the notion of collective effervescence?

Hypothesis: He explained how the heightened state of emotional energy achieved during totemic rituals transported individuals above themselves giving them the sense that they were in the presence of a higher power, a force, that was embedded in the sacred objects that were worshipped.


Premise: Where is the mosaic "Ascension of Christ" located?

Hypothesis: Almost nothing of them survived except the "Ascension of Christ" in the Latin Chapel (now confusingly surrounded by many 20th-century mosaics).


Premise: What predicts glass-forming ability?

Hypothesis: The tendency for a material to form a glass while quenched is called glass-forming ability.


Premise: Where was Eisenhower when he suffered a stroke in 1957?

Hypothesis: This incident occurred during a cabinet meeting when Eisenhower suddenly found himself unable to speak or move his right hand.


Premise: What gene did Konopka and Benzer map in the early 1970 s?

Hypothesis: Ron Konopka and Seymour Benzer isolated the first clock mutant in Drosophila in the early 1970s and mapped the "period" gene, the first discovered genetic determinant of behavioral rhythmicity.


Premise: Who came in second on American Idol in season 14?

Hypothesis: By winning, Fradiani became the first winner from the Northeast region.


Premise: Where did Ferdinand go rather than Madrid?

Hypothesis: Ferdinand refused and went to Valencia instead of Madrid.


Premise: Who fought a guerrilla war against the Soviets?

Hypothesis: The activities of Soviet forces in 1940–41 and after reoccupation sparked a guerrilla war against Soviet authorities in Estonia by the Forest Brothers, who consisted mostly of Estonian veterans of the German and Finnish armies and some civilians.


Premise: Which competitor sued Apple over rights to part of the software user interface?

Hypothesis: Apple's application to the United States Patent and Trademark Office for a patent on "rotational user inputs", as used on the iPod interface, received a third "non-final rejection" (NFR) in August 2005.


Premise: Who did Chopin play for while she sang?

Hypothesis: He passed the winter in unremitting illness, but gave occasional lessons and was visited by friends, including Delacroix and Franchomme.


Premise: How many concrete plants are in the US?

Hypothesis: Due to its highly viscous nature, asphalt/bitumen cement must be heated so it can be mixed with the aggregates at the asphalt mixing facility.


Premise: How many undergraduate programs are offered by Northwestern?

Hypothesis: Accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools and the respective national professional organizations for chemistry, psychology, business, education, journalism, music, engineering, law, and medicine, the university offers 124 undergraduate programs and 145 graduate and professional programs.


Premise: What army was unprepared for the invasion of Czechoslovakia?

Hypothesis: In 1968, Tito offered Czechoslovak leader Alexander Dubček to fly to Prague on three hours notice if Dubček needed help in facing down the Soviets.


Premise: When is Tucson's city council general election?

Hypothesis: Both the council members and the mayor serve four-year terms; none face term limits.


Premise: What company was distributing Marvel's titles at that point?

Hypothesis: In 1968, while selling 50 million comic books a year, company founder Goodman revised the constraining distribution arrangement with Independent News he had reached under duress during the Atlas years, allowing him now to release as many titles as demand warranted.


Premise: From where was the first TV show in the UK broadcasted?

Hypothesis: Simultaneous transmission of sound and picture was achieved on 30 March 1930, by using the BBC's new twin transmitter at Brookmans Park.


Premise: What musical concept did Chopin exploit?

Hypothesis: He exploited the poetic potential of the concept of the concert étude, already being developed in the 1820s and 1830s by Liszt, Clementi and Moscheles, in his two sets of studies (Op.


Premise: Does Piaget believe that egocentric thoughts decrease or increase during adolescence?

Hypothesis: Piaget describes adolescence as the stage of life in which the individual's thoughts start taking more of an abstract form and the egocentric thoughts decrease.


Premise: What country did the mandolin originate from?

Hypothesis: It is the soprano member of a family that includes the mandola, octave mandolin, mandocello and mandobass.


Premise: What is the name of the business that produces a significant portion of Telemundo's original programming?

Hypothesis: The Telemundo Television Studios produces much of the original programming for Telemundo, such as their telenovelas and talk shows.


Premise: What is US-30 also known as?

Hypothesis: Woodhaven Road (Route 63), built in 1966, and Cottman Avenue (Route 73) serve the neighborhoods of Northeast Philadelphia, running between Interstate 95 and the Roosevelt Boulevard (U.S. 1).


Premise: Who would enter Leyte Gulf to attack the Allied landing forces?

Hypothesis: The plan was likely to result in the destruction of one or more of the Japanese forces, but Toyoda justified it by saying that there would be no sense in saving the fleet and losing the Philippines.


Premise: What was Berners-Lee a director of?

Hypothesis: Berners-Lee is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which oversees the Web's continued development, and is also the founder of the World Wide Web Foundation.


Premise: When did Julius Caesar die?

Hypothesis: Mark Antony, Caesar's lieutenant, condemned Caesar's assassination, and war broke out between the two factions.


Premise: When were the first ski championships held in Murren?

Hypothesis: The latter town hosted the second Winter Olympic Games in 1928 and the fifth edition in 1948.


Premise: What did the Byzantine empire use to expand its political influence?

Hypothesis: The Byzantine Empire was able to take advantage of the turmoil to expand its political influence and commercial relationships, first with the Khazars and later with the Rus' and other steppe groups.


Premise: What's the abbreviation for a printed wiring board?

Hypothesis: However, the term printed wiring board has fallen into disuse.


Premise: What is the name of Northwestern's main student newspaper?

Hypothesis: The Daily Northwestern is the main student newspaper.


Premise: What was the term "mineral" originally meant to describe?

Hypothesis: The term "mineral" is archaic, since the intent is to describe simply the less common elements in the diet.


Premise: What was the genre of BBC Japan?

Hypothesis: BBC Japan was a general entertainment channel, which operated between December 2004 and April 2006.


Premise: Can real stacking be accomplished?

Hypothesis: Real stacking is impossible, but can be approximated in limited cases (for example, Thai top-combining vowels and tone marks can just be at different heights to start with).


Premise: What were the jewish people accused of in Alsace?

Hypothesis: Jews were subsequently forbidden to settle in the town.


Premise: What makes zinc an efficient sacrificial anode?

Hypothesis: The relative reactivity of zinc and its ability to attract oxidation to itself makes it an efficient sacrificial anode in cathodic protection (CP).


Premise: What concept did the Law of Gravitation deal with?

Hypothesis: These studies led to the unification of the two phenomena into a single theory of electromagnetism, by James Clerk Maxwell (known as Maxwell's equations).


Premise: Prajna is the wisom that is able to extinguish afflictions and bring about what?

Hypothesis: It is spoken of as the principal means of attaining nirvāṇa, through its revelation of the true nature of all things as dukkha (unsatisfactoriness), anicca (impermanence) and anatta (not-self).


Premise: What do plants need to attract to their flowering?

Hypothesis: Plant circadian rhythms tell the plant what season it is and when to flower for the best chance of attracting pollinators.


Premise: How many people where missing after the 2012 Burma civil unrest ?

Hypothesis: The immediate cause of the riots is unclear, with many commentators citing the killing of ten Burmese Muslims by ethnic Rakhine after the rape and murder of a Rakhine woman as the main cause.


Premise: Who oversees and manages the London Fire Brigade?

Hypothesis: The London Fire Brigade is the statutory fire and rescue service for Greater London.


Premise: What language is the exception?

Hypothesis: Dialects differ in the different degrees of vowel reduction, and the incidence of the pair /ɛ e/.


Premise: What did Royal Dutch Shell's bid to purchase Shell Oil Company's shares lead to?

Hypothesis: However, in 1984, Royal Dutch Shell made a bid to purchase those shares of Shell Oil Company it did not own (around 30%) and despite opposition from some minority shareholders, which led to a court case, Shell completed the buyout for a sum of $5.7 billion.


Premise: Along with controversy and schism, what upset the peace of the Church during the Late Middle Ages?

Hypothesis: Controversy, heresy, and schism within the Church paralleled the interstate conflict, civil strife, and peasant revolts that occurred in the kingdoms.


Premise: How is this treatment given?

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


Premise: What is the capacity of long term memory?

Hypothesis: Its capacity is immeasurable.


Premise: At the start of the conflict with the Allies, what did Japan do?

Hypothesis: American involvement in World War II in 1940–41 was limited to providing war material and financial support to Britain, the Soviet Union, and the Republic of China.


Premise: What outsold the NES in Europe and South America?

Hypothesis: In June 1989, Nintendo of America's vice president of marketing Peter Main, said that the Famicom was present in 37% of Japan's households.


Premise: What does Darwin say can explain diverse feature such as antlers on deer and bright feathers on certain male birds?

Hypothesis: Darwin proposes sexual selection, driven by competition between males for mates, to explain sexually dimorphic features such as lion manes, deer antlers, peacock tails, bird songs, and the bright plumage of some male birds.


Premise: What position was held by Gaddafi's brother-in-law?

Hypothesis: Gaddafi responded to the announcement with a speech on Libyan national television, in which he called on supporters to "Trample on those recognitions, trample on them under your feet ...


Premise: In addition to finding already dead animals, what other cause of death were their animal finds?

Hypothesis: Rather than killing large animals for meat, according to this view, they used carcasses of such animals that had either been killed by predators or that had died of natural causes.


Premise: Where do people dress in masks and costume?

Hypothesis: i artista d'honor dalt del llit (Lord of the Tall Banana in Bloom, of the Voyeurs and Punks and the Artist of Honor upon the Bed).


Premise: Along with hospitals, medical centers and biotechnology industries, what is notably present in the Civic Center?

Hypothesis: The Civic Center is a major center for hospitals, research institutes, medical centers, and biotechnology industries.


Premise: What religious activity was responsible for the growing demand for hostelries?

Hypothesis: The Hostellers of London were granted guild status in 1446 and in 1514 the guild became the Worshipful Company of Innholders.


Premise: How many outreach events were held at Eton by Oxford University in 2010?

Hypothesis: In April 2011 the Labour MP David Lammy described as unfair and 'indefensible' the fact that Oxford University had organised nine 'outreach events' at Eton in 2010, although he admitted that it had, in fact, held fewer such events for Eton than for another independent school, Wellington College.


Premise: When did Apple begin shipping computers with CD-RW drives?

Hypothesis: Apple would later introduce an update to its iTunes music player software that enabled it to burn CDs, along with a controversial "Rip, Mix, Burn" advertising campaign that some felt encouraged media piracy.


Premise: What was happening to Idris' government in the 1960s?

Hypothesis: Idris' government was increasingly unpopular by the latter 1960s; it had exacerbated Libya's traditional regional and tribal divisions by centralising the country's federal system in order to take advantage of the country's oil wealth, while corruption and entrenched systems of patronage were widespread throughout the oil industry.


Premise: What shopping center is located along Broadway?

Hypothesis: Tucson's "Restaurant Row" is also located on the east side, along with a significant corporate and financial presence.


Premise: What is another name for "Curia Regis"?

Hypothesis: Hence, all acts include the clause "Be it enacted by the Queen's (King's) most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows...".


Premise: Burke thought religion was beneficial to what besides souls?

Hypothesis: Burke's religious thought was grounded in the belief that religion is the foundation of civil society.


Premise: Adding additional metadata allows players to handle gapless playback and deliver what?

Hypothesis: Encoder / decoder overall delay is not defined, which means there is no official provision for gapless playback.


Premise: What is the name of the city-state that contains Bremen and Bremerhaven?

Hypothesis: With an emphasis on geographical conditions, Berlin and Hamburg are frequently called Stadtstaaten (city-states), as is the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, which in fact includes the cities of Bremen and Bremerhaven.


Premise: Who created an investigation into whether or not the Soviet-German Pact happened?

Hypothesis: For decades, it was the official policy of the Soviet Union to deny the existence of the secret protocol to the Soviet–German Pact.


Premise: What do enemies do to defeated companions?

Hypothesis: The artificial intelligence (AI) of enemies in Twilight Princess is more advanced than that of enemies in The Wind Waker.


Premise: In which generation did iPod start providing compatibility with USB?

Hypothesis: As of the first-generation iPod Nano and the fifth-generation iPod Classic, Apple discontinued using FireWire for data transfer (while still allowing for use of FireWire to charge the device) in an attempt to reduce cost and form factor.


Premise: When did a guerrilla group fight for Namibia's independence?

Hypothesis: Outside the central-southern area of Namibia (known as the "Police Zone" since the German era and which contained the main towns, industries, mines and best arable land), the country was divided into "homelands", the version of South African bantustan applied to Namibia, although only a few were actually established because indigenous Namibians often did not cooperate.


Premise: Under what policy was Eton able to receive funds without farming?

Hypothesis: Asked to explain under what grounds it was eligible to receive farming subsidies, Eton admitted that it was 'a bit of a mystery'.


Premise: Who wrote the book Colonel Sun?

Hypothesis: Bond's torture by Blofeld mirrors his torture by the title character of Kingsley Amis' continuation novel Colonel Sun.[citation needed]


Premise: Why was the USAF forced to ground some of its squadrons in 2013?

Hypothesis: The Commander of Air Combat Command, General Mike Hostage indicated that the USAF must reduce its F-15 and F-16 fleets and eliminate platforms like the A-10 in order to focus on a fifth-generation jet fighter future.


Premise: What were once in widespread use?

Hypothesis: This process resulted in a highly complex system that was never mastered by more than 5% of the population.


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

Hypothesis: Most insects, except some species of cave crickets, are able to perceive light and dark.


Premise: When was the UGLE formed?

Hypothesis: When the military Lodge left North America, those fifteen men were given the authority to meet as a Lodge, but not to initiate Masons.


Premise: Why is inbreeding avoided?

Hypothesis: Cooperative breeding in birds typically occurs when offspring, usually males, delay dispersal from their natal group in order to remain with the family to help rear younger kin.


Premise: What does a student receive when work is Sent Up For Good?

Hypothesis: If any boy produces an outstanding piece of work, it may be "


Premise: When did Rogier van der Weyden die?

Hypothesis: From about 1450 printed books rapidly became popular, though still expensive.


Premise: Who brought Christian missionaries to Hawaii?

Hypothesis: No matter how much they adapted their mannerisms to Western standard, some of the Anglo-Saxon missionaries were relentless in referring to the indigenous women as "Hawaiian squaws.


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

Hypothesis: They have been bred for herding livestock, hunting (e.g. pointers and hounds), rodent control, guarding, helping fishermen with nets, detection dogs, and pulling loads, in addition to their roles as companions.


Premise: Which king commissioned massive redecoration in the Belle Epoque cream and gold color scheme?

Hypothesis: Buckingham Palace—the Ballroom, Grand Entrance, Marble Hall, Grand Staircase, vestibules and galleries redecorated in the Belle époque cream and gold colour scheme they retain today—once again became a setting for entertaining on a majestic scale but leaving some to feel King Edward's heavy redecorations were at odds with Nash's original work.


Premise: What can be used to give fluids when they can not drink?

Hypothesis: Plain water may be used if more specific and effective ORT preparations are unavailable or are not palatable.


Premise: What was the Grand Council?

Hypothesis: The Grand Councillors[h] served as a sort of privy council to the emperor.


Premise: Have any other countries ever competed?

Hypothesis: Welsh sides that play in English leagues are eligible, although since the creation of the League of Wales there are only six clubs remaining:


Premise: Who was a recent mayor of Miami?

Hypothesis: In recent years the city government, under Mayor Manny Diaz, has taken an ambitious stance in support of bicycling in Miami for both recreation and commuting.


Premise: Why are smoking bans in place?

Hypothesis: Smoking bans are effective in decreasing exacerbations of asthma.


Premise: What was the name of Sand's daughter's fiance that contributed to deteriorating the relationship between Sand and Chopin?

Hypothesis: Chopin's relations with Sand were soured in 1846 by problems involving her daughter Solange and Solange's fiancé, the young fortune-hunting sculptor Auguste Clésinger.


Premise: In 2014, how much research funding did Northwestern receive?

Hypothesis: Northwestern received $550 million in research funding in 2014.


Premise: On Chopin's 200th anniversary critics of what publication made recommendations on recordings of Chopin's work?

Hypothesis: On the occasion of the composer's bicentenary, the critics of The New York Times recommended performances by the following contemporary pianists (among many others): Martha Argerich, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Emanuel Ax, Evgeny Kissin, Murray Perahia, Maurizio Pollini and Krystian Zimerman.


Premise: What gene distribution decreases as you move away from the equator in either direction?

Hypothesis: As the anthropologists Leonard Lieberman and Fatimah Linda Jackson observed, "Discordant patterns of heterogeneity falsify any description of a population as if it were genotypically or even phenotypically homogeneous".


Premise: Who evaluates dogs at breed shows?

Hypothesis: As the breed standard only deals with the externally observable qualities of the dog (such as appearance, movement, and temperament), separately tested qualities (such as ability or health) are not part of the judging in conformation shows.


Premise: When did Kerry speak to the OAS?

Hypothesis: In a speech before the Organization of American States in November 2013, Kerry remarked that the era of the Monroe Doctrine was over.


Premise: In what year was the Imperial Tientsin University founded in China?

Hypothesis: To this day, about half of China's elite universities remain essentially polytechnical.


Premise: Who made the accusation that the Christians had started the Great Fire?

Hypothesis: After the Great Fire of Rome in 64 AD, Emperor Nero accused the Christians as convenient scapegoats, who were later persecuted and killed.


Premise: What was the name of the large air raid that took place in daylight hours in Britain?

Hypothesis: On 15 September, on a date known as the Battle of Britain Day, a large-scale raid was launched in daylight, but suffered significant loss for no lasting gain.


Premise: How many people live in the British Isles?

Hypothesis: Situated in the North Atlantic, the islands have a total area of approximately 315,159 km2, and a combined population of just under 70 million.


Premise: To what does the concept of atman refer?

Hypothesis: Jīvanmukti (liberation during life) can be achieved through Self-knowledge, the understanding that ātman within is same as ātman in another person and all of Brahman – the eternal, unchanging, entirety of cosmic principles and true reality.


Premise: What did this cause when the expelled parties were replaced?

Hypothesis: Ethnic Russians were sent in to replace those expelled and


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

Hypothesis: In November 2014, Queen released a new album, Queen Forever, featuring vocals from the late Mercury.


Premise: Is the color difference between heartwood and sapwood usually very subtle or conspicuous?

Hypothesis: In species which show a distinct difference between heartwood and sapwood the natural color of heartwood is usually darker than that of the sapwood, and very frequently the contrast is conspicuous (see section of yew log above).


Premise: Who occupied the Red Sea coast during the last interglacial period?

Hypothesis: During the last interglacial period, the Red Sea coast of Eritrea was occupied by early anatomically modern humans.


Premise: What's the medical term for TB when it spreads from the lungs to other parts of the body?

Hypothesis: These are collectively denoted as "extrapulmonary tuberculosis".


Premise: Where is the Mona Lisa housed?

Hypothesis: The Louvre was the world's most visited art museum in 2014, with 9.3 million visitors.


Premise: Where does Dr. Carlos Moore work?

Hypothesis: According to Dr. Carlos Moore, resident scholar at Brazil's University of the State of Bahia, in the 21st century Afro-multiracials in the Arab world, including Arabs in North Africa, self-identify in ways that resemble multi-racials in Latin America.


Premise: How many people are listed as missing?

Hypothesis: The earthquake left about 4.8 million people homeless, though the number could be as high as 11 million.


Premise: Which system had electrical tracking?

Hypothesis: The British Wilson-Dalby gun director used a pair of trackers and mechanical tachymetry; the operator entered the fuse length, and deflection angles were read from the instruments.


Premise: What were rabbis from the ghettos forced to march through the city streets wearing?

Hypothesis: Continuously in the 18th and 19th centuries CE, as part of the annual Saturnalia abuse of the carnival in Rome, rabbis of the ghetto were forced to march through the city streets wearing foolish guise, jeered upon and pelted by a variety of missiles from the crowd.


Premise: What is the name of Boston Colleges radio station?

Hypothesis: Boston is the largest broadcasting market in New England, with the radio market being the 11th largest in the United States.


Premise: Why did Karl von Loesch bury the microfilm?

Hypothesis: Colonel Thomson and his American counterpart Ralph Collins agreed to transfer von Loesch to Marburg in the American zone if he would produce the microfilms.


Premise: A torque motor at low voltage provides what?

Hypothesis: In this application, driven from a low voltage, the characteristics of these motors allow a relatively constant light tension to be applied to the tape whether or not the capstan is feeding tape past the tape heads.


Premise: What is the altitude of the Compass-M1 satellite?

Hypothesis: The role of Compass-M1 for Compass is similar to the role of the GIOVE satellites for the Galileo system.


Premise: How tall is One World Trade Center in meters?

Hypothesis: The rebuilding of the area, has created a new One World Trade Center, and a 9/11 memorial and museum along with other new buildings and infrastructure.


Premise: What type of light would be used illuminate the entrance to a property?

Hypothesis: These lights are installed for safety, security, and for decoration.


Premise: Who is another leading Islamic figure in medicine?

Hypothesis: Along with Rhazes, Abulcasis, Ibn al-Nafis, and al-Ibadi, Ibn Sīnā is considered an important compiler of early Muslim medicine.


Premise: What scientific act is Friedrich Wohler known for?

Hypothesis: The synthesis of urea by Friedrich Wöhler opened a new research field, organic chemistry, and by the end of the 19th century, scientists were able to synthesize hundreds of organic compounds.


Premise: What type of musician is Sahan Arzruni?

Hypothesis: Other Armenian diasporans that rose to fame in classical or international music circles are world-renowned French-Armenian singer and composer Charles Aznavour, pianist Sahan Arzruni, prominent opera sopranos such as Hasmik Papian and more recently Isabel Bayrakdarian and Anna Kasyan.


Premise: What rank was Milpa Alta nationally in terms of HDI score?

Hypothesis: The only borough that did not present a high HDI was that of rural Milpa Alta which presented a "medium" HDI of .7984, far below all other boroughs (627th nationally while the rest stood in the top 200).


Premise: What type of donations did the Jerkins Orphanage accept?

Hypothesis: The orphanage accepted donations of musical instruments and Rev. Jenkins hired local Charleston musicians and Avery Institute Graduates to tutor the boys in music.


Premise: In what year did Time magazine choose Seattle Central Community College as community college of the year?

Hypothesis: Seattle is home to the University of Washington, as well as the institution's professional and continuing education unit, the University of Washington Educational Outreach.


Premise: What does Condoleeza Rice prefer to term people as?

Hypothesis: She has also rejected an immigrant designation for African Americans and instead prefers the term "black" or "white" .


Premise: What television station made a documentary on Chopin?

Hypothesis: The Women Behind The Music (2010), and in a 2010 documentary realised by Angelo Bozzolini and Roberto Prosseda for Italian television.


Premise: Who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918?

Hypothesis: The very first Solvay Conference in 1911 was devoted to "the theory of radiation and quanta".


Premise: Who wrote Epistolae?

Hypothesis: The first book printed in France, Epistolae ("Letters"), by Gasparinus de Bergamo (Gasparino da Barzizza), was published in Paris in 1470 by the press established by Johann Heynlin.


Premise: What controversy currently surrounds the Rus?

Hypothesis: To some extent the controversy is related to the foundation myths of modern states in the region.


Premise: What process signals the need for the prime minister to resign in Australia?

Hypothesis: In Australia, the Prime Minister is expected to step down if s


Premise: What party did The Times support in 2001 and 2005 general elections?

Hypothesis: Though traditionally a moderate newspaper and sometimes a supporter of the Conservative Party, it supported the Labour Party in the 2001 and 2005 general elections.


Premise: When were the basic properties of capacitors first discovered?

Hypothesis: In October 1745, Ewald Georg von Kleist of Pomerania, Germany, found that charge could be stored by connecting a high-voltage electrostatic generator by a wire to a volume of water in a hand-held glass jar.


Premise: Who led the Labour Party in the 1970 General Election?

Hypothesis: In the October election an editorial asserted: "ALL our instincts are left rather than right and we would vote for any able politician who would describe himself as a Social Democrat."


Premise: What is the weather like in the summer time in the British Isles?

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


Premise: How much energy do electric motors use in the modern United States?

Hypothesis: Instead every machine could be equipped with its own electric motor, providing easy control at the point of use, and improving power transmission efficiency.


Premise: In how many languages were students in institutions of higher education being educated in 1974?

Hypothesis: The economy of Russia became heavily industrialized, accounting for about two-thirds of the electricity produced in the USSR.


Premise: Which architect was a transitional figure?

Hypothesis: The European Grand Tour became very common for wealthy patrons in the period, and Italian influence remained dominant, though at the start of the period Hanover Square, Westminster (1713 on), developed and occupied by Whig supporters of the new dynasty, seems to have deliberately adopted German stylisic elements in their honour, especially vertical bands connecting the windows.


Premise: Who set up a spy ring in the Yugoslav party?

Hypothesis: Tito's leading role in liberating Yugoslavia not only greatly strengthened his position in his party and among the Yugoslav people, but also caused him to be more insistent that Yugoslavia had more room to follow its own interests than other Bloc leaders who had more reasons (and pressures) to recognize Soviet efforts in helping them liberate their own countries from Axis control.


Premise: What was the name of the event the athletic program was involved with prior to the Mountain West Conference?

Hypothesis: He was also one of several key college leaders who brought about the creation of the Mountain West Conference, which BYU's athletics program joined —


Premise: Who was the first governor of Saint Helena?

Hypothesis: In 1657, Oliver Cromwell granted the English East India Company a charter to govern Saint Helena and the following year the company decided to fortify the island and colonise it with planters.


Premise: Who eventually brought the Greeks together?

Hypothesis: Both Athens and Sparta were later overshadowed by Thebes and eventually Macedon, with the latter uniting the Greek world in the League of Corinth (also known as the Hellenic League or Greek League) under the guidance of Phillip II, who was elected leader of the first unified Greek state in history.


Premise: What was the amended joint agreement called?

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


Premise: What year did FOX announce that American Idol was cancelled?

Hypothesis: For an unprecedented eight consecutive years, from the 2003–04 television season through the 2010–11 season, either its performance or result show had been ranked number one in U.S. television ratings.


Premise: When did the US capture Baghdad?

Hypothesis: The first ground attack came at the Battle of Umm Qasr on 21 March 2003 when a combined force of British, American and Polish forces seized control of the port city of Umm Qasr.


Premise: What term describes the introductory symmetry group of the square?

Hypothesis: Conceptually, group theory can be thought of as the study of symmetry.t[›]


Premise: Where is the village of Avoriaz located?

Hypothesis: Some high mountain villages, such as Avoriaz (in France), Wengen, and Zermatt (in Switzerland) are accessible only by cable car or cog-rail trains, and are car free.


Premise: How much of a surplus did The Great Ehibition raise?

Hypothesis: Albert insisted the Great Exhibition surplus should be used as a home for culture and education for everyone.


Premise: In addition to being used to build things, what has wood been used for over thousands of years?

Hypothesis: It has been used for thousands of years for both fuel and as a construction material.


Premise: Buddha was part of what subcontinent?

Hypothesis: According to Buddhist tradition, the Buddha lived and taught in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent, present-day Nepal sometime between the 6th and 4th centuries


Premise: What did the court determine was the fate for Maclean after shooting the Queen?

Hypothesis: Victoria was outraged when he was found not guilty by reason of insanity, but was so pleased by the many expressions of loyalty after the attack that she said it was "worth being shot at—to see how much one is loved".


Premise: What bacteria do in fruiting bodies?

Hypothesis: In these fruiting bodies, the bacteria perform separate tasks; this type of cooperation is a simple type of multicellular organisation.


Premise: What was the first plant grouping based on DNA sequencing?

Hypothesis: In 1998 the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group published a phylogeny for flowering plants based on an analysis of DNA sequences from most families of flowering plants.


Premise: Who maintains a standard of grouping for naming purposes?

Hypothesis: These groupings have since been revised to align better with the Darwinian principle of common descent – grouping organisms by ancestry rather than superficial characteristics.


Premise: To what do oscillators in the skin respond?

Hypothesis: Though oscillators in the skin respond to light, a systemic influence has not been proven.


Premise: When did Peirce die?

Hypothesis: Charles Peirce (1839–1914) was highly influential in laying the groundwork for today's empirical scientific method.[citation needed]


Premise: What type of designer is natural selection?

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


Premise: Apis and Osiris combined to make which god?

Hypothesis: The Ptolemies took on the traditions of the Egyptian Pharaohs, such as marrying their siblings (Ptolemy II was the first to adopt this custom), having themselves portrayed on public monuments in Egyptian style and dress, and participating in Egyptian religious life.


Premise: What was Joseph Bédier's main criticism of the stemmatic method?

Hypothesis: He surveyed editions of medieval French texts that were produced with the stemmatic method, and found that textual critics tended overwhelmingly to produce trees divided into just two branches.


Premise: What are snowbirds

Hypothesis: Republicans, made up mostly of white conservatives, have dominated throughout much of the rest of Florida, particularly in the more rural and suburban areas.