Premise: In what year would the original churches evolve into the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America?

Hypothesis: Presbyterianism first officially arrived in Colonial America in 1703 with the establishment of the first Presbytery in Philadelphia.


Premise: Where would the Bizere Monastery be located today?

Hypothesis: In 2003, the remains of a mosaic pavement were discovered under the ruins of the Bizere Monastery near the River Mureş in present-day Romania.


Premise: What happened to the Saxon army?

Hypothesis: This led him to remark that he did not fight the same Austrians as he had during the previous war.


Premise: What species did the elephants at the Gash River seem to form a symbiotic relationship with?

Hypothesis: There is also a small population of elephants that roam in some parts of the country.


Premise: What is the name for the grouping of countries of China, France, Russia and the United Kingdom; Germany and Japan?

Hypothesis: Like China, France, Russia and the United Kingdom; Germany and Japan have also been referred to as middle powers.


Premise: What did the forum express for Morales and his proposed changes?

Hypothesis: Furthermore, in a cathartic blow to the US-backed elite, it questioned US interference through diplomats and NGOs.


Premise: Modern medicine indicates Chopin may have suffered from what condition?

Hypothesis: Modern research suggests that apart from any other illnesses, he may also have suffered from temporal lobe epilepsy.


Premise: What type of weather systems in Boston can produce much snow and rain?

Hypothesis: Most snowfall occurs from December through March, as most years see no measurable snow in April and November, and snow is rare in May and October.


Premise: When was the mosaic at Santa Sabina replaced with a fresco?

Hypothesis: 5th century mosaics can be found over the triumphal arch and in the nave of the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore.


Premise: What drug killed 100 people in 1937?

Hypothesis: In response to this episode, the U.S. Congress passed the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938, which for the first time required pre-market demonstration of safety before a drug could be sold, and explicitly prohibited false therapeutic claims.


Premise: What does stimuli generate to send signals along a nerve fiber?

Hypothesis: Some sensory fibers do not differentiate between noxious and non-noxious stimuli, while others, nociceptors, respond only to noxious, high intensity stimuli.


Premise: Which edition of the Guinness Book of World Record states that no female artist sold more records than Madonna?

Hypothesis: The 1998 edition of Guinness Book of World Records stated: "No female artist has sold more records than Madonna around the world".


Premise: How many quilts were flown to the region?

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


Premise: What type of generation of genetic material has a big part in making the genome what it is?

Hypothesis: Duplications play a major role in shaping the genome.


Premise: What products were exported along with indigo from the Lowcountry?

Hypothesis: With the coerced help of African slaves from the Caribbean, Eliza Lucas, daughter of plantation owner George Lucas, learned how to raise and use indigo in the Lowcountry in 1747.


Premise: What was this system to be called in North America?

Hypothesis: The American video game press was skeptical that the console could have any success in the region, with the March 1985 issue of Electronic Games magazine stating that "the videogame market in America has virtually disappeared" and that "this could be a miscalculation on Nintendo's part."


Premise: How many galleys were available by the end of 1204?

Hypothesis: Most of these ships were placed along the Cinque Ports, but Portsmouth was also enlarged.


Premise: Where was Frederic Chopin from?

Hypothesis: They include Frédéric Chopin (Poland), Franz Liszt (Hungary), Jacques Offenbach (Germany), and Igor Stravinsky (Russia).


Premise: Israel has the largest number of what per square meter in the basin?

Hypothesis: The largest makhtesh in the world is Ramon Crater in the Negev, which measures 40 by 8 kilometers (25 by 5 mi).


Premise: Who is the current CEO of the Premier League?

Hypothesis: The Football Association is not directly involved in the day-to-day operations of the Premier League, but has veto power as a special shareholder during the election of the chairman and chief executive and when new rules are adopted by the league.


Premise: Both companies no longer use what means of collecting of data?

Hypothesis: A number of parties have collected survey data, from the public and from experts, to try and gauge the level of corruption and bribery, as well as its impact on political and economic outcomes.


Premise: What milestone did Celine Dion, Mariah Carey, Phil Collins, Michael Bolton, Whitney Houston and Shania Twain share on the 1990s adult contemporary charts?

Hypothesis: Newer female singer-songwriters such as Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Jewel, Melissa Etheridge and Sheryl Crow also broke through on the AC chart during this time.


Premise: In what settlement were the dockyards located?

Hypothesis: Aside from the dockyard in the town of Devonport, industries in Plymouth such as the gasworks, the railways and tramways and a number of small chemical works had begun to develop in the 19th century, continuing into the 20th century.


Premise: What do great powers usually have?

Hypothesis: A great power is a sovereign state that is recognized as having the ability and expertise to exert its influence on a global scale.


Premise: In what state did Whitehead believe religion began?

Hypothesis: However, while Whitehead saw religion as beginning in solitariness, he also saw religion as necessarily expanding beyond the individual.


Premise: The 330 North Wabash building served as what post World War 2?

Hypothesis: Van der Rohe's 330 North Wabash building in Chicago, the original center of the company's research division post-World War II, was recognized with the 1990 Honor Award from the National Building Museum.


Premise: When was the first Windows 8 patch sent out?

Hypothesis: Windows 8's first security patches would be released on November 13, 2012; it would contain three fixes deemed "critical" by the company.


Premise: How many solider were killed in September when Islamic militants escaped?

Hypothesis: However, fighting erupted again in July 2012.


Premise: Where did Jacob and his family migrate to?

Hypothesis: Jacob and his family migrated to Ancient Egypt after being invited to live with Jacob's son Joseph by the Pharaoh himself.


Premise: Kanye's first engagement was to which well-known designer?

Hypothesis: The couple's high status and respective careers have resulted in their relationship becoming subject to heavy media coverage; The New York Times referred to their marriage as "a historic blizzard of celebrity."


Premise: What territories were annexed by Austria-Hungary in 1908?

Hypothesis: Profiting from the civil strife, Austria-Hungary officially annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1908.


Premise: How many CDs had been distrubuted worldwide by 2007?

Hypothesis: By 2007, 200 billion CDs had been sold worldwide.


Premise: What marine regiment reached the summit of Mount Suribachi?

Hypothesis: On 23 February, the 28th Marine Regiment reached the summit of Suribachi, prompting the now famous Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima picture.


Premise: What has pain sometimes been used as an argument to allow terminally ill patients the right to do?

Hypothesis: In some arguments put forth in physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia debates, pain has been used as an argument to permit terminally ill patients to end their lives.


Premise: What Buddhism emerged in the second half of the 20th century in Japan?

Hypothesis: Soka Gakkai International (SGI) is a lay Buddhist movement linking more than 12 million people around the world, and is currently described as "the most diverse" and "the largest lay Buddhist movement in the world".[web 21]


Premise: What was the RCC's view of political parties?

Hypothesis: In May 1970, the Revolutionary Intellectuals Seminar was held to bring intellectuals in line with the revolution, while that year's Legislative Review and Amendment united secular and religious law codes, introducing sharia into the legal system.


Premise: What company bought the North Carolina plant from Dell?

Hypothesis: Most of the work that used to take place in Dell's U.S. plants was transferred to contract manufacturers in Asia and Mexico, or some of Dell's own factories overseas.


Premise: What hairstyle did Mithridates IV copy from Alexander?

Hypothesis: Mithridates also depicted himself with the anastole hairstyle of Alexander and used the symbolism of Herakles whom the Macedonian kings claimed descend from.


Premise: Are bacteria cells smaller than eukaryotic cells?

Hypothesis: Among the smallest bacteria are members of the genus Mycoplasma, which measure only 0.3 micrometres, as small as the largest viruses.


Premise: Because of low sanitation coverage 17,000 Egyptian children to die each year from what condition?

Hypothesis: Another challenge is low cost recovery due to water tariffs that are among the lowest in the world.


Premise: What nation was visited for the first time by Victoria in 1849?

Hypothesis: At the height of a revolutionary scare in the United Kingdom in April 1848, Victoria and her family left London for the greater safety of Osborne House, a private estate on the Isle of Wight that they had purchased in 1845 and redeveloped.


Premise: Which magazine declared her the most dominant woman musician?

Hypothesis: She has won 20 Grammy Awards and is the most nominated woman in the award's history.


Premise: Besides ring-porous, what's the other class hardwoods are often divided into?

Hypothesis: In discussing such woods it is customary to divide them into two large classes, ring-porous and diffuse-porous.


Premise: What is the overall party strategy for minority leader?

Hypothesis: The overall objectives are to develop a coordinated communications strategy, to share ideas and information, and to present a united front on issues.


Premise: How many terms does the mayor of the city serve?

Hypothesis: The mayor is the presiding officer of the City Council and has the power to appoint all Council committee members as well as board and commission members, with the approval of the City Council.


Premise: During what period did the Doian culture thrive?

Hypothesis: Inscriptions have been found beneath many of the rock paintings, but archaeologists have so far been unable to decipher this form of ancient writing.


Premise: What are riwaaydo?

Hypothesis: In the 1970s and early 1980s, popular musicals known as riwaayado were the main driving force behind the Somali movie industry.


Premise: What ranking in terms of GDP is Mexico City globally?

Hypothesis: Mexico City is one of the most important economic hubs in Latin America.


Premise: Latin translations indirectly advanced whose science and culture?

Hypothesis: Latin translations of Greek and original Arab works of scholarship and science helped advance European Scholasticism, and thus European science and culture.


Premise: Mustaqbal Media Corporation is based where?

Hypothesis: Other radio stations based in Mogadishu include Mustaqbal Media corporation and the Shabelle Media Network, the latter of which was in 2010 awarded the Media of the Year prize by the Paris-based journalism organisation, Reporters Without Borders (RSF).


Premise: Who owns the KUHT, KUHF, and KUHA stations?

Hypothesis: The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area is served by one public television station and two public radio stations.


Premise: Which Enlightenment philosophers sought accomodatin between reform and the traditional systems of power and faith?

Hypothesis: Both lines of thought were opposed by the conservative Counter-Enlightenment.


Premise: Who is considered the most famous basketball alumnus of KU?

Hypothesis: Kansas has counted among its coaches Dr. James Naismith (the inventor of basketball and only coach in Kansas history to have a losing record), Basketball Hall of Fame inductee Phog Allen ("the Father of basketball coaching"), Basketball Hall of Fame inductee Roy Williams of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Basketball Hall of Fame inductee and former NBA Champion Detroit Pistons coach Larry Brown.


Premise: How much did Matsushita Electric pay for MCA?

Hypothesis: He located Japanese electronics manufacturer Matsushita Electric (now known as Panasonic), which agreed to acquire MCA for $6.6 billion in 1990.


Premise: In 1941, where did representatives of the government and military meet with German officials?

Hypothesis: On 10 April 1941, Slavko Kvaternik proclaimed the Independent State of Croatia, and Tito responded by forming a Military Committee within the Central Committee of the Yugoslav Communist Party.


Premise: What Charleston Reverend established the Jenkins Orphanage?

Hypothesis: The Jenkins Orphanage was established in 1891 by the Rev. Daniel J. Jenkins in Charleston.


Premise: Who was in command of the Luftflotte 2?

Hypothesis: Kesselring, commanding Luftflotte 2, was ordered to send 50 sorties per night against London and attack eastern harbours in daylight.


Premise: What hospital is the Countess Mountbatten House a part of?

Hypothesis: The Trust owns and manages Southampton General Hospital, the Princess Anne Hospital and a palliative care service at Countess Mountbatten House, part of the Moorgreen Hospital site in the village of West End, just outside the city.


Premise: Who was the "Father of Route 66"?

Hypothesis: In 1927, Oklahoman businessman Cyrus Avery, known as the "Father of Route 66", began the campaign to create U.S. Route 66.


Premise: When did practicers of religious humanism form under the name Humanism?

Hypothesis: The movement's founder, Felix Adler, a former member of the Free Religious Association, conceived of Ethical Culture as a new religion that would retain the ethical message at the heart of all religions.


Premise: Who did Henry II express his fury and ill-will towards?

Hypothesis: In the Norman period, suffering the king's ill-will meant difficulties in obtaining grants, honours or petitions; Henry II had infamously expressed his fury and ill-will towards Thomas Becket; this ultimately resulted in Becket's death.


Premise: When did President Nixon and Brezhnev of the USSR end the Cold War?

Hypothesis: In May 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev negotiated an easing of relations known as detente, creating a temporary "thaw" in the Cold War.


Premise: What percentage of concrete mixes is aggregates?

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: What does the Endangered Species Act detail about government action regarding critical habitats?

Hypothesis: All federal agencies are prohibited from authorizing, funding or carrying out actions that "destroy or adversely modify" critical habitats (Section 7(a) (2)).


Premise: What is the name of the media magnate that bought The Times in the 1980s?

Hypothesis: Robert Holmes à Court, another Australian magnate had previously tried to buy The Times in 1980.


Premise: Who did Torii Mototada serve?

Hypothesis: Torii Mototada (1539–1600) was a feudal lord in the service of Tokugawa Ieyasu.


Premise: What are Lipananahay?

Hypothesis: For example, Armenians who originate from Iran are referred to as Parskahay (Պարսկահայ), while Armenians from Lebanon are usually referred to as Lipananahay (Լիբանանահայ).


Premise: How many votes must be in favor of the exemption in order to award the exemption?

Hypothesis: Five of the seven committee members must vote for the exemption to allow taking (to harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect, or significant habitat modification, or to attempt to engage in any such conduct) of listed species.


Premise: When did Ford Park Cemetery first operate?

Hypothesis: The mid-19th century burial ground at Ford Park Cemetery was reopened in 2007 by a successful trust and the City council operate two large early 20th century cemeteries at Weston Mill and Efford both with crematoria and chapels.


Premise: Who is Charles Kenzie Steele Jr?

Hypothesis: Reacting to media criticism of Michelle Obama during the 2008 presidential election, Charles Kenzie Steele, Jr., CEO of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference said, "Why are they attacking Michelle Obama, and not really attacking, to that degree, her husband?


Premise: What year was game theory established?

Hypothesis: This theorem establishes that in zero-sum games with perfect information (i.e. in which players know at each time all moves that have taken place so far), there exists a pair of strategies for both players that allows each to minimize his maximum losses, hence the name minimax.


Premise: Which is the other name that Madonna is always referred as?

Hypothesis: Madonna is known for reinventing both her music and image, and for maintaining her autonomy within the recording industry.


Premise: Which album by Kanye West has been talked about by writers for having maximalist aesthetic?

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


Premise: What were stronghold called?

Hypothesis: Strongholds called grόd were built where the religious cult was powerful, where trials were conducted, and where clans gathered in the face of danger.


Premise: When are cabooses still used occasionally?

Hypothesis: It continues to offer one of the last flag stop routes in the country.


Premise: Why does an ISP need to pay an upstream ISP?

Hypothesis: Just as their customers pay them for Internet access, ISPs themselves pay upstream ISPs for Internet access.


Premise: What two letters can be replaced with each other a lot of the time in Estonian?

Hypothesis: The initial letter 's' is often dropped, for example 'skool' becomes 'kool', 'stool' becomes 'tool'.


Premise: What did Blair agree to in order to get the support of Rupert Murdoch?

Hypothesis: In exchange for Rupert Murdoch's support, Blair agreed not to join the European Exchange Rate Mechanism – which John Major had withdrawn the country from in September 1992 after barely two years.


Premise: Who has objected to the idea of IP because "property" implies scarcity?

Hypothesis: Other arguments along these lines claim that unlike the situation with tangible property, there is no natural scarcity of a particular idea or information: once it exists at all, it can be re-used and duplicated indefinitely without such re-use diminishing the original.


Premise: What is the regional magazine in Namibia?

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


Premise: What palace was Frédéric sometimes invited to as a companion of the ruler's son?

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


Premise: How many estimated civilians were killed by the Japanese searching for Doolittle's men?

Hypothesis: The Japanese killed an estimated 250,000 civilians while searching for Doolittle’s men.


Premise: What other type of endings do Catalan words have?

Hypothesis: In contrast with other Romance languages, Catalan has many monosyllabic words; and those ending in a wide variety of consonants and some consonant clusters.


Premise: What year were bushranger films banned by Victorian politicians?

Hypothesis: The 1970s saw the rise of the Australian New Wave and its Ozploitation offshoot, instigated by Melbourne-based productions Stork and Alvin Purple.


Premise: Whose winning design for public competition began the dominance of Greek style architecture?

Hypothesis: Seen in its wider social context, Greek Revival architecture sounded a new note of sobriety and restraint in public buildings in Britain around 1800 as an assertion of nationalism attendant on the Act of Union, the Napoleonic Wars, and the clamour for political reform.


Premise: At what battle were the Bourbons victorious?

Hypothesis: After the victory of the Bourbons at the Battle of Almansa on 25 April 1707, the English army evacuated Valencia and Philip V ordered the repeal of the privileges of Valencia as punishment for the kingdom's support of Charles of Austria.


Premise: When were the Gin Act 1736 duties eliminated?

Hypothesis: The Gin Act 1751 however was more successful.


Premise: The interracial couples in Liberia result in what?

Hypothesis: There is a high percentage of interracial marriage between ethnic Liberians and the Lebanese, resulting in a significant mixed-race population especially in and around Monrovia.


Premise: who was the main island named after?

Hypothesis: The islands were first sighted in 1506 by Portuguese explorer Tristão da Cunha; rough seas prevented a landing.


Premise: What was the verdict in Maclean's trial?

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 was the name given to Executive Order 9980?

Hypothesis: Executive Order 9980, named Regulations Governing for Employment Practices within the Federal Establishment, instituted fair employment practices in the civilian agencies of the federal government.


Premise: What do people desire to use science to confirm?

Hypothesis: As another example, she points to work by Thomas et al., who sought to distinguish between the Y chromosomes of Jewish priests (Kohanim), (in Judaism, membership in the priesthood is passed on through the father's line) and the Y chromosomes of non-Jews.


Premise: How many jobs did Houston add for every one lost?

Hypothesis: In 2013, Houston was identified as the #1 U.S. city for job creation by the U.S. Bureau of Statistics after it was not only the first major city to regain all the jobs lost in the preceding economic downturn, but after the crash, more than two jobs were added for every one lost.


Premise: What is the cost of R/O produced water?

Hypothesis: R/O water is only intended to be produced when storage falls below 30%, however demand to replenish household storage supplies with tanker-delivered water means that the R/O desalination units are continually operating.


Premise: What does St Pete feature for a race

Hypothesis: The Grand Prix of St. Petersburg and Grand Prix of Miami have held IndyCar races as well.


Premise: What type of combat was seen for the first time in the history of war?

Hypothesis: After these dramatic reversals of fortune, which saw Seoul change hands four times, the last two years of conflict became a war of attrition, with the front line close to the 38th parallel.


Premise: What is Jidaigeki?

Hypothesis: Jidaigeki (literally historical drama) has always been a staple program on Japanese movies and television.


Premise: What has pure copper been replaced with in the building of ships?

Hypothesis: It was originally used pure, but has since been superseded by Muntz metal.


Premise: What type of history period is often neglected in Indian histories?

Hypothesis: The division into Ancient-Medieval-Modern periods overlooks the fact that the Muslim conquests occurred gradually during which time many things came and went off, while the south was never completely conquered.


Premise: What principle is it based on?

Hypothesis: Administration of Israel's courts (both the "General" courts and the Labor Courts) is carried by the Administration of Courts, situated in Jerusalem.


Premise: What is unique about the method used for assention allowed by the Royal Assent Act 1967?

Hypothesis: Thus, unlike the granting of royal assent by the monarch in person or by Royal Commissioners, the method created by the Royal Assent Act 1967 does not require both houses to meet jointly for the purpose of receiving the notice of royal assent.


Premise: When were the Anglo-Maratha Wars fought?

Hypothesis: The border dispute between Nepal and British India, which sharpened after 1801, had caused the Anglo-Nepalese War of 1814–16 and brought the defeated Gurkhas under British influence.


Premise: What is the focus of Thuringia's research center, Jena?

Hypothesis: Thuringia's leading research centre is Jena, followed by Ilmenau.


Premise: Opera began to differentiate itself from earlier forms as what?

Hypothesis: Instrumental ensembles began to distinguish and standardize by size, giving rise to the early orchestra for larger ensembles, with chamber music being written for smaller groups of instruments where parts are played by individual (instead of massed) instruments.


Premise: What is Chrysomelidae?

Hypothesis: In a further behavioral adaptation to supplement crypsis, a number of species have been noted to perform a rocking motion where the body is swayed from side to side that is thought to reflect the movement of leaves or twigs swaying in the breeze.


Premise: Who criticized Galen in the 1500s?

Hypothesis: In the 1500s, Paracelsus was probably the first to criticize Galen publicly.


Premise: Bon Jovi's 1995 album was called what?

Hypothesis: These Days was a bigger hit in Europe than it was in the United States, spawning four Top 10 singles on the UK Singles Chart.


Premise: Who supervised the design and implementation of the iPod user interface?

Hypothesis: Apple contracted another company, Pixo, to help design and implement the user interface under the direct supervision of Steve Jobs.


Premise: In Portugal, which city was destroyed in the 1755 earthquake?

Hypothesis: Portugal lost much of its wealth and status with the destruction of Lisbon in a 1755 earthquake, occupation during the Napoleonic Wars, and the independence of Brazil, its wealthiest colony, in 1822.


Premise: How much was home equity valued in the United States in mid-2008?

Hypothesis: Total home equity in the United States, which was valued at $13 trillion at its peak in 2006, had dropped to $8.8 trillion by mid-2008 and was still falling in late 2008.


Premise: When was the confidential written report sent to the State Seismological Bureau?

Hypothesis: The official also denied that the Seismological Bureau had received reports predicting the earthquake.


Premise: Other than storage, what is the common audio format used for?

Hypothesis: It is a common audio format for consumer audio streaming or storage, as well as a de facto standard of digital audio compression for the transfer and playback of music on most digital audio players.


Premise: When was the recession declared over?

Hypothesis: The Black Wednesday economic disaster in September 1992 left the Conservative government's reputation for monetary excellence in tatters, and by the end of that year Labour had a comfortable lead over the Tories in the opinion polls.


Premise: What research centre at the University of Southampton is abbreviated NOCS?

Hypothesis: It is also home to the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS), the focus of Natural Environment Research Council-funded marine research.


Premise: What were the Reduit?

Hypothesis: The Swiss military strategy was changed from one of static defence at the borders to protect the economic heartland, to one of organised long-term attrition and withdrawal to strong, well-stockpiled positions high in the Alps known as the Reduit.


Premise: Which airline offers in-state travel with jet-service?

Hypothesis: Alaska Airlines is the only major airline offering in-state travel with jet service (sometimes in combination cargo and passenger Boeing 737-400s) from Anchorage and Fairbanks to regional hubs like Bethel, Nome, Kotzebue, Dillingham, Kodiak, and other larger communities as well as to major Southeast and Alaska Peninsula communities.


Premise: Are there any purebreed lines for poultry today?

Hypothesis: Male birds are unwanted in the egg-laying industry and can often be identified as soon as they are hatch for subsequent culling.


Premise: What European nation owned the Marshall Islands in 1874?

Hypothesis: However, Spain sold the islands to the German Empire in 1884, and they became part of German New Guinea in 1885.


Premise: Proximity and the ending of life is called?

Hypothesis: Two factors are considered here: How close the predator and prey are (in the latter two cases the term prey may be replaced with host) and whether or not the prey are directly murdered by the predator is considered, with true predation and parasitoidism involving certain death.


Premise: Which 2 album show Madonna's artistic statement?

Hypothesis: Her mature artistic statement was visible in True Blue (1986) and Like a Prayer (1989).


Premise: When was Tito sent to Vienna?

Hypothesis: In 1934 the Zagreb Provincial Committee sent Tito to Vienna where all the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia had sought refuge.


Premise: Who became British Prime Minister after Winston Churchill?

Hypothesis: Eden infuriated US President Dwight D. Eisenhower, by his lack of consultation, and Eisenhower refused to back the invasion.


Premise: Who introduced satirical strips to Japan?

Hypothesis: New publications in both the Western and Japanese styles became popular, and at the end of the 1890s, American-style newspaper comics supplements began to appear in Japan, as well as some American comic strips.


Premise: What is an example of passive solar design?

Hypothesis: The most recent approaches to solar design use computer modeling tying together solar lighting, heating and ventilation systems in an integrated solar design package.


Premise: What was the industry standard in Europe for record equalization?

Hypothesis: Over the years a variety of record equalization practices emerged and there was no industry standard.


Premise: WHy did the state affairs partly grow up on?

Hypothesis: This state of affairs grew up in part because of the extinction of the male-line descendants of the old royal dynasty (first the Piasts, then the Jagiellons), and the selection by the nobility of the Polish king from among the dynasty's female-line descendants.


Premise: Where was a lot of power placed in result of the crown tribunal?

Hypothesis: This placed much of the monarch's juridical power in the hands of the elected szlachta deputies, further strengthening the nobility class.


Premise: What happened to construction during the Depression?

Hypothesis: Construction was virtually halted in many countries.


Premise: What organization identified Saint Helena as important for bird conservation?

Hypothesis: On the basis of these endemics and an exceptional range of habitats, Saint Helena is on the United Kingdom's tentative list for future UNESCO World Heritage Sites.


Premise: Besides Camouflage being a reason for having certain hair colors, what other reasons have been discovered?

Hypothesis: However, although the genetic sites are known, there is still much to learn about how these genes are expressed.


Premise: What drugs were related to a kickback scheme?

Hypothesis: The settlement is related to the company's illegal promotion of prescription drugs, its failure to report safety data, bribing doctors, and promoting medicines for uses for which they were not licensed.


Premise: What did the Birao Peace Agreement call for?

Hypothesis: The Syrte Agreement in February and the Birao Peace Agreement in April 2007 called for a cessation of hostilities, the billeting of FDPC fighters and their integration with FACA, the liberation of political prisoners, integration of FDPC into government, an amnesty for the UFDR, its recognition as a political party, and the integration of its fighters into the national army.


Premise: According to the text, dog scratches can cause what?

Hypothesis: Sharp claws with powerful muscles behind them can lacerate flesh in a scratch that can lead to serious infections.


Premise: What is the UK's central bank known as?

Hypothesis: London's largest industry is finance, and its financial exports make it a large contributor to the UK's balance of payments.


Premise: Who created the first oral birth control?

Hypothesis: Based on fundamental research performed by Gregory Pincus and synthetic methods for progesterone developed by Carl Djerassi at Syntex and by Frank Colton at G.D. Searle & Co., the first oral contraceptive, Enovid, was developed by E.D. Searle and Co. and approved by the FDA in 1960.


Premise: When was the mosaic at the Nea Moni Monastery destroyed?

Hypothesis: The exceptional mosaic decoration of the dome showing probably the nine orders of the angels was destroyed in 1822 but other panels survived (Theotokos with raised hands, four evangelists with seraphim, scenes from Christ's life and an interesting Anastasis where King Salomon bears resemblance to Constantine Monomachos).


Premise: What crops does Punjab grow?

Hypothesis: Agriculture is the chief source of income and employment in Punjab; wheat and cotton are the principal crops.


Premise: What venue drove a lot of the awareness of the music from the now pop post-punk bands?

Hypothesis: The original post-punk movement ended as the bands associated with the movement turned away from its aesthetics, often in favor of more commercial sounds.


Premise: What has been done to former Uranium surface mines around Ronneburg?

Hypothesis: The condition of forests, rivers and air was improved by modernizing factories, houses (decline of coal heating) and cars, and contaminated areas such as the former Uranium surface mines around Ronneburg have been remediated.


Premise: What music genre was big in Detroit in the 1980s?

Hypothesis: The group Kiss emphasized the city's connection with rock in the song Detroit Rock City and the movie produced in 1999.


Premise: How many lines of resolution could an image using the Transformator system have?

Hypothesis: It was a research project and the system was never deployed by either the military or consumer broadcasting.


Premise: In what year did NBC beat American Idol in the ratings for the first time?

Hypothesis: Nevertheless, American Idol overall finished its ninth season as the most watched TV series for the sixth year running, breaking the previous record of five consecutive seasons achieved by CBS' All in the Family and NBC's The Cosby Show.


Premise: What architectural style does One Detroit Center boast?

Hypothesis: The post modern Neo-Gothic spires of the One Detroit Center (1993) were designed to blend with the city's Art Deco skyscrapers.


Premise: What have various Jehovah's Witnesses' publications made predictions about?

Hypothesis: Some publications also claimed that God has used Jehovah's Witnesses and the International Bible Students as a modern-day prophet.[note 5] Jehovah's Witnesses' publications have made various predictions about world events they believe were prophesied in the Bible.


Premise: What has declined in the recent years on St. John's?

Hypothesis: Predominantly Christian, the population of St. John's was once divided along sectarian (Catholic/Protestant) lines.


Premise: What does Paris region manufacturing specialize in?

Hypothesis: Most of this is due to companies relocating outside the Paris region.


Premise: What manufacturer was enlisted to design the 360's graphics processor?

Hypothesis: On August 12, 2003, ATI signed on to produce the graphic processing unit for the new console, a deal which was publicly announced two days later.


Premise: How many U.S. ships were lost at Okinawa?

Hypothesis: U.S. losses totaled 38 ships of all types sunk and 368 damaged with 4,900 sailors killed.


Premise: What has the teen timetable questionnaire been used to guage?

Hypothesis: A questionnaire called the teen timetable has been used to measure the age at which individuals believe adolescents should be able to engage in behaviors associated with autonomy.


Premise: What specifies the BOM?

Hypothesis: The BOM, code point U+FEFF has the important property of unambiguity on byte reorder, regardless of the Unicode encoding used; U+FFFE (the result of byte-swapping U+FEFF) does not equate to a legal character, and U+FEFF in other places, other than the beginning of text, conveys the zero-width non-break space (a character with no appearance and no effect other than preventing the formation of ligatures).


Premise: What kingdom did Sun Ce and Sun Quan eventually establish?

Hypothesis: Despite the removal of their court from Kuaiji to Jianye (present-day Nanjing), they continued development of the region and benefitted from influxes of refugees fleeing the turmoil in northern China.


Premise: The Iranian Parliament does not demand environmental impact studies before approving what projects?

Hypothesis: The Iranian Parliament has been showing disregard for wildlife by passing laws and regulations such as the act that lets the Ministry of Industries and Mines exploit mines without the involvement of the Department of Environment, and by approving large national development projects without demanding comprehensive study of their impact on wildlife habitats.


Premise: How are alternative splicing and coding sequences distributed?

Hypothesis: This model has been refined since the discovery of genes that can encode multiple proteins by alternative splicing and coding sequences split in short section across the genome whose mRNAs are concatenated by trans-splicing.


Premise: Where were the Carnatic Wars?

Hypothesis: During the middle decades of the 18th century, there were several outbreaks of military conflict on the Indian subcontinent, the Carnatic Wars, as the English East India Company (the Company) and its French counterpart, the Compagnie française des Indes orientales, struggled alongside local rulers to fill the vacuum that had been left by the decline of the Mughal Empire.


Premise: What position does Schwarzenegger hold with the Institute?

Hypothesis: Schwarzenegger serves as chairman of the Institute.


Premise: Who was Beyonce's duet with in ''Beautiful Liar''?

Hypothesis: At the same time, B'Day was re-released with five additional songs, including her duet with Shakira "Beautiful Liar".


Premise: what was the 1989 hit theme released by KMS?

Hypothesis: In 1989, KMS had another hit release of "Rock to the Beat" which was a theme in Chicago dance clubs.[citation needed]


Premise: What insurance company is located in downtown Detroit?

Hypothesis: OnStar, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and HP Enterprise Services are located at the Renaissance Center.


Premise: What term do those who disagree with Hayek use to describe his ideals?

Hypothesis: His opponents have attacked Hayek as a leading promoter of "neoliberalism".


Premise: What groups did Hoover deny the existence of?

Hypothesis: Although Hoover initially denied the existence of a National Crime Syndicate in the United States, the Bureau later conducted operations against known organized crime syndicates and families, including those headed by Sam Giancana and John Gotti.


Premise: What type of teaching is provided at Indian madaris?

Hypothesis: Some madaris in India, for example, have a secularised identity.


Premise: Former German territory that lie east of the Oder-Neisse Line went under which countries administration?

Hypothesis: Former German territory that lie east of the Oder-Neisse Line fell under either Polish or Soviet administration but attempts were made at least symbolically not to abandon sovereignty well into the 1960s.


Premise: Was the new Count of Oeiras opposed by anyone after the Tavora affair?

Hypothesis: However, historians also argue that Pombal’s "enlightenment," while far-reaching, was primarily a mechanism for enhancing autocracy at the expense of individual liberty and especially an apparatus for crushing opposition, suppressing criticism, and furthering colonial economic exploitation as well as intensifying book censorship and consolidating personal control and profit.


Premise: What is the decomposition of water into its components called?

Hypothesis: Some such organisms, including the alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and cyanobacteria, have evolved a second step in the dark reactions in which protons and electrons are reduced to form H2 gas by specialized hydrogenases in the chloroplast.


Premise: What is one way that videoconferencing is useful?

Hypothesis: Rural areas can use this technology for diagnostic purposes, thus saving lives and making more efficient use of health care money.


Premise: What was the sun's circulation per day in March 2014?

Hypothesis: The Sun had the largest circulation of any daily newspaper in the United Kingdom, but in late 2013 slipped to second largest Saturday newspaper behind the Daily Mail.


Premise: Along with "KTM," what is another nickname of Kathmandu?

Hypothesis: Kathmandu is also known informally as "KTM" or the "tri-city".


Premise: What percentage of San Diego's population was under the age of 18 in 2000?

Hypothesis: Millennials (ages 18 through 34) constitute 27.1% of San Diego's population, the second-highest percentage in a major U.S. city.


Premise: On what day were King Dom Carlos I and and his heir, Prince Royal Dom Luis Filipe, Duke of Braganza, murdered?

Hypothesis: On 1 February 1908, the king Dom Carlos I of Portugal and his heir apparent, Prince Royal Dom Luís Filipe, Duke of Braganza, were murdered in Lisbon.


Premise: What are pseudoproblems?

Hypothesis: As a result, most metaphysical, ethical, aesthetic and other traditional philosophical problems came to be considered pseudoproblems.


Premise: How many American reported being of more than one race in the Census 2000?

Hypothesis: Race was asked differently in the Census 2000 in several other ways than previously.


Premise: Did Patasse get a majority of the votes?

Hypothesis: When a second round of elections were finally held in 1993, again with the help of the international community coordinated by GIBAFOR, Ange-Félix Patassé won in the second round of voting with 53% of the vote while Goumba won 45.6%.


Premise: What do critics of affirmative action believe should be the main factor in hiring?

Hypothesis: Many believe that the diversity of current American society suggests that affirmative action policies succeeded and are no longer required.


Premise: What are some examples of Armenian folk music instruments?

Hypothesis: Artists such as Sayat Nova are famous due to their influence in the development of Armenian folk music.


Premise: In what century were the Meiji reforms?

Hypothesis: Emperor Meiji abolished the samurai's right to be the only armed force in favor of a more modern, western-style, conscripted army in 1873.


Premise: Which dogsled race most accurately follows the route of the 1925 serum run?

Hypothesis: The "Serum Run" is another sled dog race that more accurately follows the route of the famous 1925 relay, leaving from the community of Nenana (southwest of Fairbanks) to Nome.


Premise: More than how many thousand folk religious organisations were registered in Zhejiang in 2015?

Hypothesis: In mid-2015 the government of Zhejiang recognised folk religion as "civil religion" beginning the registration of more than twenty thousand folk religious associations.


Premise: Who is the competition open too?

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: Elimination of what helped the efficiency of diesel traction to go up?

Hypothesis: Thus the overall efficiency of electric traction as compared to diesel more than doubled between 1950 and the mid-1970s in the Soviet Union.


Premise: What banners appeared on the winners' podium at the August 2013 ceremony?

Hypothesis: Belgian Grand Prix on 25 August 2013, in which "SaveTheArctic.org" banners appear at the winners' podium ceremony.


Premise: Who led the British during the Battle of the Nile?

Hypothesis: On 1 August, the British fleet under Horatio Nelson captured or destroyed all but two French vessels in the Battle of the Nile, defeating Bonaparte's goal to strengthen the French position in the Mediterranean.


Premise: What video game featured Santa Monica in 2015?

Hypothesis: (2004), Tony Hawk's American Wasteland (2005), L.A. Rush (2005), Midnight Club: Los Angeles (2008), Cars Race-O-Rama (2009), Grand Theft Auto V (2013) as a fictional district – Del Perro, Call of Duty: Ghosts (2013) as a fictional U.S. military base – Fort Santa Monica, The Crew (2014), Need for Speed (2015)


Premise: What color is the exterior of Schwarzenegger's Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse?

Hypothesis: He was spotted and filmed in 2015 Summer in his car, silver painted with bright aluminium forged wheels.


Premise: When was the first documented translation efforts by foreign Buddhist monks in China?

Hypothesis: The first documented translation efforts by foreign Buddhist monks in China were in the 2nd century CE, probably as a consequence of the expansion of the Kushan Empire into the Chinese territory of the Tarim Basin.


Premise: Madonna was nominated to be inducted twice which year to the Songwriter Hall of Fame?

Hypothesis: Madonna's early songwriting skill was developed during her time with the Breakfast Club in 1979.


Premise: Who was President and CEO of the New York Federal Reserve Bank in June 2008?

Hypothesis: These entities became critical to the credit markets underpinning the financial system, but were not subject to the same regulatory controls.


Premise: Buddha rejected the assertion "I have a Self" and what other related assertion?

Hypothesis: In fact, the Buddha rejected both of the metaphysical assertions "I have a Self" and "I have no Self" as ontological views that bind one to suffering.[note 9]


Premise: What chemical process turned some SNES cases yellow?

Hypothesis: The ABS plastic used in the casing of some older SNES and Super Famicom consoles is particularly susceptible to oxidization on exposure to air, likely due to an incorrect mixture of the stabilizing or flame retarding additives.


Premise: Why were parties upset in the 2005 election?

Hypothesis: The most recent elections, in February 2010, saw the ruling PDPT lose four seats in Parliament, yet still maintain a comfortable majority.


Premise: What myth did Bruce Voeller preserve in the 1970s?

Hypothesis: Voeller generalized this finding and used it as part of the modern gay rights movement to convince politicians and the public that "we [gays and lesbians] are everywhere".


Premise: What does this US presence represent during a humanitarian crisis?

Hypothesis: The global reach capability of airlift provides the ability to apply US power worldwide by delivering forces to crisis locations.


Premise: When was the George Warren Brown School of Social Work founded?

Hypothesis: The school was endowed by Bettie Bofinger Brown and named for her husband, George Warren Brown, a St. Louis philanthropist and co-founder of the Brown Shoe Company.


Premise: What was the relationship with the bishop like for citizens of Utrecht

Hypothesis: The relations between the bishop, who controlled many lands outside of the city, and the citizens of Utrecht was not always easy.


Premise: What is the king offering Theotokos in the Monreale mosaics?

Hypothesis: The iconography of the mosaics in the presbytery is similar to Cefalu while the pictures in the nave are almost the same as the narrative scenes in the Cappella Palatina.


Premise: What officer primarily had duties over finance matters?

Hypothesis: Their duties were often financial.


Premise: From what centuries does  the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum have collections?

Hypothesis: The collection includes works from 19th, 20th, and 21st century American and European artists, including George Caleb Bingham, Thomas Cole, Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, Alexander Calder, Jackson Pollock, Rembrandt, Robert Rauschenberg, Barbara Kruger, and Christian Boltanski.


Premise: What did  Athanasius do to protect himself?

Hypothesis: He quietly withdrew from Alexandria, 5 October, and took up his abode in a country house outside the city.


Premise: What was the central theme of Godel's announcement that the axiomatic system was not complete?

Hypothesis: A strongly negative answer arrived in September 1930 at the historic mathematical Congress of Königsberg, in which Kurt Gödel announced his first theorem of incompleteness: the usual axiomatic systems are incomplete, in the sense that they cannot prove every truth which is expressible in their language.


Premise: How many race categories were respondents able to select in the Census 2000?

Hypothesis: Race was asked differently in the Census 2000 in several other ways than previously.


Premise: What maintains a historical understanding of jewish Identity?

Hypothesis: Orthodoxy thus rejects patrilineal descent as a means of establishing Jewish identity.


Premise: Who signed the order to get rid of the OSS?

Hypothesis: This led to the creation of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS).


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

Hypothesis: Other well-known central neighborhoods include Condesa, known for its Art Deco architecture and its restaurant scene; Colonia Roma, a beaux arts neighborhood and artistic and culinary hot-spot, the Zona Rosa, formerly the center of nightlife and restaurants, now reborn as the center of the LGBT and Korean-Mexican communities; and Tepito and La Lagunilla, known for their local working-class foklore and large flea markets.


Premise: Along what highway did Umar bin Abdul-Aziz build caravanserais?

Hypothesis: Umar bin Abdul-Aziz developed it further by building caravanserais at stages along the Khurasan highway.


Premise: What is the name of the sub-chiefs in Tuvalu?

Hypothesis: Each island has its own high-chief, or ulu-aliki, and several sub-chiefs (alikis).


Premise: What two mountains ranges are located on the island of Cyprus?

Hypothesis: The Troodos Mountains cover most of the southern and western portions of the island and account for roughly half its area.


Premise: What body passed the Drug Kingpin Act of 1988?

Hypothesis: Since no one has yet been sentenced to death for such non-death capital offenses, the Supreme Court has not ruled on their constitutionality.


Premise: Why would an author utilize experimental narratives in literature?

Hypothesis: Literary techniques encompass a wide range of approaches to crafting a work: whether a work is narrated in first-person or from another perspective, whether to use a traditional linear narrative or a nonlinear narrative, or the choice of literary genre, are all examples of literary technique.


Premise: The interceptors were no longer built because of the shift of the bombing role to what?

Hypothesis: The interceptor aircraft (or simply interceptor) is a type of fighter aircraft designed specifically to intercept and destroy enemy aircraft, particularly bombers, usually relying on high speed and altitude capabilities.


Premise: How many basic vowel phonemes does Czech contain?

Hypothesis: Czech contains ten basic vowel phonemes, and three more found only in loanwords.


Premise: During what time was the cold war close to happening?

Hypothesis: The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, leaving the United States as the dominant military power, though Russia retained much of the massive Soviet nuclear arsenal.


Premise: Who rebuked OFHEO in 2003 for their attempt at regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac?

Hypothesis: On September 10, 2003, the House Financial Services Committee held a hearing at the urging of the administration to assess safety and soundness issues and to review a recent report by the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) that had uncovered accounting discrepancies within the two entities.


Premise: While Darwin wasn't sure about blending inherited traits, what was his opinion about utilizing inherited variation?

Hypothesis: Although Darwin had privately questioned blending inheritance, he struggled with the theoretical difficulty that novel individual variations would tend to blend into a population.


Premise: What part of Brazil does not observe DST?

Hypothesis: Some countries observe it only in some regions; for example, southern Brazil observes it while equatorial Brazil does not.


Premise: What is the biggest concern of non-profits in Australia?

Hypothesis: A nonprofit organisation in Australia can choose from a number of legal forms depending on the needs and activities of the organisation: co-operative, company limited by guarantee, unincorporated association, incorporated association (by the Associations Incorporation Act 1985) or incorporated association or council (by the Commonwealth Aboriginal Councils and Associations Act 1976).


Premise: In Swaziland, what is SIMPA?

Hypothesis: SIMPA is a government owned management and development institute and IDM is a regional organisation in Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland that provides training, consultancy, and research in management.


Premise: What work is Muḥammad ibn Jābir al-Ḥarrānī al-Battānī known for as it regards to earth?

Hypothesis: In astronomy, Muḥammad ibn Jābir al-Ḥarrānī al-Battānī improved the precision of the measurement of the precession of the Earth's axis.


Premise: What is a roman catholic school

Hypothesis: Other schools provide education for children from the age of 3 or 4 years through to 18, such as King Edward's School, Bath, Queen's College, Taunton and Wells Cathedral School which is one of the five established musical schools for school-age children in Britain.


Premise: What is the name of a marble sculpture that was rediscovered in the late 15th century?

Hypothesis: The marble is a Hellenistic or Roman copy of a bronze original by the Greek sculptor Leochares, made between 350 and 325 BCE.


Premise: What was a drawback of laser read discs?

Hypothesis: ELPJ, a Japanese-based company, sells a laser turntable that uses a laser to read vinyl discs optically, without physical contact.


Premise: Were Gaddafi's parents educated?

Hypothesis: Education in Libya was not free, but his father thought it would greatly benefit his son despite the financial strain.


Premise: What did Darwin expect to see between species with the addition of artificial selection?

Hypothesis: Using a tree diagram and calculations, he indicates the "divergence of character" from original species into new species and genera.


Premise: What year did the USSR disband?

Hypothesis: However, the USSR dissolved in 1991 and the remains of its space program were distributed to various Eastern European countries.


Premise: What was the new name given to the RSFSR on December 25, 1991?

Hypothesis: On December 25, 1991, the Russian SFSR was renamed the Russian Federation.


Premise: Who made the film O Tamaiti?

Hypothesis: Director Sima Urale is an award-winning filmmaker.


Premise: Who was the first known Presbyterian in England?

Hypothesis: Thomas Cartwright is thought to be the first Presbyterian in England.


Premise: How many medical schools are in Hyderabad?

Hypothesis: Hyderabad has five major medical schools—


Premise: How many elections are required to assend a bill that the monarch has vetoed?

Hypothesis: Articles 77–79 of the Norwegian Constitution specifically grant the monarch of Norway the right to withhold royal assent from any bill passed by the Storting.


Premise: When was H.R. 2000 introduced?

Hypothesis: On February 12, 2014, Senator Martin Heinrich introduced a bill in the US Senate.


Premise: Where did Baptist missionaries take an active role in the anti-slavery movement?

Hypothesis: At the same time, during and after slavery, slaves and free formed their own Spiritual Baptist movements - breakaway spiritual movements which often expressed resistance to oppression.


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

Hypothesis: Although Tito was formally an ally of Stalin after World War II, the Soviets had set up a spy ring in the Yugoslav party as early as 1945, giving way to an uneasy alliance.[citation needed]


Premise: While race difference possible to easily see, they need not be given what?

Hypothesis: In a response to Livingstone, Theodore Dobzhansky argued that when talking about race one must be attentive to how the term is being used: "I agree with Dr. Livingstone that if races have to be 'discrete units,' then there are no races, and if 'race' is used as an 'explanation' of the human variability, rather than vice versa, then the explanation is invalid.


Premise: Where did the group travel to after Barcelona?

Hypothesis: Although this period had been productive, the bad weather had such a detrimental effect on Chopin's health that Sand determined to leave the island.


Premise: What threatens some bird species?

Hypothesis: For example, in the East Asian–Australasian Flyway, up to 65% of key intertidal habitat at the Yellow Sea migration bottleneck has been destroyed since the 1950s.


Premise: What can cause paraplegia?

Hypothesis: Paraplegia, the loss of sensation and voluntary motor control after serious spinal cord damage, may be accompanied by girdle pain at the level of the spinal cord damage, visceral pain evoked by a filling bladder or bowel, or, in five to ten per cent of paraplegics, phantom body pain in areas of complete sensory loss.


Premise: What was the part of wire in Phase Break sections an arc being drawn from one wire to another?

Hypothesis: The earthed section prevents an arc being drawn from one live section to the other, as the voltage difference may be higher than the normal system voltage if the live sections are on different phases and the protective circuit breakers may not be able to safely interrupt the considerable current that would flow.


Premise: Which practice was banned by the Eritrean government with claimes it is painful and has life-threatening health problems for women?

Hypothesis: The Eritrean government has banned female genital mutilation (FGM), saying the practice was painful and put women at risk of life-threatening health problems.


Premise: Who gave the EU translations of the European Constitution?

Hypothesis: For example, during the drafting of the European Constitution in 2004, the Spanish government supplied the EU with translations of the text into Basque, Galician, Catalan, and Valencian, but the latter two were identical.


Premise: In what year was Melbourne Chinatown founded?

Hypothesis: Chinese migrants founded the Melbourne Chinatown in 1851, which remains the longest continuous Chinese settlement in the Western World.


Premise: What are another names for genetic pollution?

Hypothesis: Endemic species can be threatened with extinction through the process of genetic pollution, i.e. uncontrolled hybridization, introgression and genetic swamping.


Premise: Why are high-index glasses valued?

Hypothesis: These high-index glasses (inaccurately known as "crystal" when used in glass vessels) cause more chromatic dispersion of light, and are prized for their diamond-like optical properties.


Premise: Who was the first westerner to translate One Thousand and One Nights?

Hypothesis: All Arabian fantasy tales tend to be called Arabian Nights stories when translated into English, regardless of whether they appear in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights or not.


Premise: What department store brand is now out of business in Australia?

Hypothesis: Harris Scarfe, though only operating in four states and one territory, is a department store using both the large full-line and small discount department store formats.


Premise: Street lights help reduce?

Hypothesis: Over time, electric lighting became ubiquitous in developed countries.


Premise: The electric eel uses electric shock for defense and what other purpose?

Hypothesis: A predator small enough to be prey for others, the domestic cat uses its formidable teeth and claws as weapons against animals that might confuse a cat with easier prey.


Premise: When was the American Church in Paris founded?

Hypothesis: There are several important churches for the English-speaking community: the American Church in Paris, founded in 1814, was the first American church outside the United States; the current church was finished in 1931.


Premise: What percentage of people infected with polio develop disease?

Hypothesis: For example, less than 5% of individuals infected with polio develop disease.


Premise: On what boulevard does the Republic Day parade take place each year?

Hypothesis: The annual Republic Day parade takes place here on 26 January.


Premise: Where is the only iron deposit on earth?

Hypothesis: It became one of the most important metals to the ancients.


Premise: What does Whitehead call experiences that are progressively connected?

Hypothesis: These occasions of experience are logically distinct, but are progressively connected in what Whitehead calls a "society" of events.


Premise: Vegetarian restaurants come from which Rajasthani region?

Hypothesis: Rajasthani cooking was influenced by both the war-like lifestyles of its inhabitants and the availability of ingredients in this arid region.


Premise: Besides a solid-state laser, what else was unique about the LD-700?

Hypothesis: It was also the first LD player to load from the front and not the top.


Premise: What did Nasser call King Hussein?

Hypothesis: Relations between Nasser and King Hussein deteriorated in April when Hussein implicated Nasser in two coup attempts against him—although Nasser's involvement was never established—and dissolved al-Nabulsi's cabinet.


Premise: What is a discrete transistor?

Hypothesis: Discrete transistors are individually packaged transistors.


Premise: Well-fed animals in captivity can become friends with prey animals due to what motivation?

Hypothesis: It has been observed that well-fed predator animals in a lax captivity (for instance, pet or farm animals) will usually differentiate between putative prey animals who are familiar co-inhabitants in the same human area from wild ones outside the area.


Premise: When did the US start bombing Hanoi?

Hypothesis: The most controversial Army commander was William Westmoreland whose strategy involved systematic defeat of all enemy forces in the field, despite heavy American casualties that alienated public opinion back home.


Premise: What political party established Ireland's assembly?

Hypothesis: Northern Ireland, consisting of six of the 32 Irish counties which had been established as a devolved region under the 1920 Government of Ireland Act, immediately exercised its option under the treaty to retain its existing status within the United Kingdom.


Premise: What year did King George VI visit the island?

Hypothesis: King George VI is the only reigning monarch to have visited the island.


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

Hypothesis: In 1773, Isaac Backus, a prominent Baptist minister in New England, wrote against a state sanctioned religion, saying: "Now who can hear Christ declare, that his kingdom is, not of this world, and yet believe that this blending of church and state together can be pleasing to him?"


Premise: What rank was Eisenhower promoted to in 1936?

Hypothesis: He also learned to fly, making a solo flight over the Philippines in 1937 and obtained his private pilot's license in 1939 at Fort Lewis.


Premise: The algorithm defining artificial viscosity is a fundamental contribution to what area?

Hypothesis: Von Neumann made fundamental contributions in exploration of problems in numerical hydrodynamics.


Premise: What is the new name for the part of the North Canadian River that resides within the city limits?

Hypothesis: The city is roughly bisected by the North Canadian River (recently renamed the Oklahoma River inside city limits).


Premise: Who makes up the cast of the annual play based on the book performed in Monroeville?

Hypothesis: The play runs every May on the county courthouse grounds and townspeople make up the cast.


Premise: What is known to sometimes result in injury or death?

Hypothesis: A dearth of field observations limit our knowledge, but intraspecific conflicts are known to sometimes result in injury or death.


Premise: How many foreign banks operate in Houston?

Hypothesis: Forty foreign governments maintain trade and commercial offices here and 23 active foreign chambers of commerce and trade associations.


Premise: How much revenue did beer bring in in 2006?

Hypothesis: The history of breweries has been one of absorbing smaller breweries in order to ensure economy of scale.


Premise: When did Madrid get it's own anthropological society?

Hypothesis: Not religious himself, he insisted that Darwin's conclusions lacked empirical foundation.


Premise: Why did the Chinese goverment denounce the accord?

Hypothesis: After the Xinhai Revolution (1911–12) toppled the Qing dynasty and the last Qing troops were escorted out of Tibet, the new Republic of China apologized for the actions of the Qing and offered to restore the Dalai Lama's title.


Premise: What river borders Plymouth on the west?

Hypothesis: west-south-west of London, between the mouths of the rivers Plym to the east and Tamar to the west where they join Plymouth Sound to form the boundary with Cornwall.


Premise: What percent of the Seleucid empire were comprised of native elites?

Hypothesis: Throughout the Hellenistic world, these Greco-Macedonian colonists considered themselves by and large superior to the native "barbarians" and excluded most non-Greeks from the upper echelons of courtly and government life.


Premise: What percentage of sea immigrants asked for asylum in Greece?

Hypothesis: Greece, together with Italy and Spain, is a major entry point for illegal immigrants trying to enter the EU.


Premise: How many Empires did the war cause destruction to?

Hypothesis: The Allied powers before 1917 are referred to as the Triple Entente, and the Central Powers are referred to as the Triple Alliance.


Premise: What professor at the University in Hawaii at Manoa wrote about the relationships between hip hop, dance, and traditional Samoan culture?

Hypothesis: According to Katerina Martina Teaiwa, PhD from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, "Hip hop culture in particular is popular amongst Samoan youth.


Premise: In what year did Lothar past away?

Hypothesis: Alsace formed part of the Middle Francia, which was ruled by the youngest grandson Lothar I. Lothar died early in 855 and his realm was divided into three parts.


Premise: Where on the Olympic Peninsula does the rainfall average 142 inches a year?

Hypothesis: Sixty miles to the south of Seattle, the state capital Olympia, which is out of the Olympic Mountains' rain shadow, receives an annual average precipitation of 50 in (1,270 mm).


Premise: Who designed gardens for some of Brasilia's major buildings?

Hypothesis: Between the federal and civic buildings on the Monumental Axis is the city's cathedral, considered by many to be Niemeyer's finest achievement (see photographs of the interior).


Premise: Who composed the first printed constitutions for Freemasonry?

Hypothesis: As Freemasonry spread, continental masons began to include their ladies in Lodges of Adoption, which worked three degrees with the same names as the men's but different content.


Premise: The other newspaper, New Haven Advocate is run by which company?

Hypothesis: The city is also served by several student-run papers, including the Yale Daily News, the weekly Yale Herald and a humor tabloid, Rumpus Magazine.


Premise: The government planned to evacuate 1.4 million from which city?

Hypothesis: The relocation of the government and the civil service was also planned, but would only have occurred if necessary so as not to damage civilian morale.:33


Premise: How did the gridlock between Whitlam and Fraser end?

Hypothesis: The deadlock came to an end when the Whitlam government was dismissed by the Governor-General, Sir John Kerr on 11 November 1975 and Fraser was installed as caretaker Prime Minister, pending an election.


Premise: What is the highest object of meditation called?

Hypothesis: The above are further subdivided into 31 planes of existence.[web 4] Rebirths in some of the higher heavens, known as the Śuddhāvāsa Worlds or Pure Abodes, can be attained only by skilled Buddhist practitioners known as anāgāmis (non-returners).


Premise: What clubs competed in the match?

Hypothesis: When ITV was formed in 1955 they shared final coverage with the BBC in one of the only club matches shown live on television, during the 1970s and 1980s coverage became more elaborate with BBC and ITV trying to steal viewers from the others by starting coverage earlier and earlier some starting as early as 9 a.m. which was six hours before kick off.


Premise: What metaphysical concepts were included in the Vedanta school?

Hypothesis: This included metaphysical concepts such as ātman and Brahman, and emphasized meditation, self-discipline, self-knowledge and abstract spirituality, rather than ritualism.


Premise: How many pounds does one of Schwarzenegger's Hummers weigh?

Hypothesis: During the gubernatorial recall campaign he announced that he would convert one of his Hummers to burn hydrogen.


Premise: Who is famous for Cathedral Eger and Esztergom?

Hypothesis: The two principal architect of Neoclassicism in Hungary was Mihály Pollack and József Hild.


Premise: What are written with a single character?

Hypothesis: They are usually written with a pair of phono-semantic compound characters sharing a common radical.


Premise: What kind of infringement resulted from sharing MP3s?

Hypothesis: Major record companies argued that this free sharing of music reduced sales, and called it "music piracy".


Premise: What city is Stewart International Airport located close to?

Hypothesis: The three busiest airports in the New York metropolitan area include John F. Kennedy International Airport, Newark Liberty International Airport, and LaGuardia Airport; 109 million travelers used these three airports in 2012, and the city's airspace is the busiest in the nation.


Premise: Who said the Baptism of Jesus was Univeral Assent?

Hypothesis: James Dunn states that these "two facts in the life of Jesus command almost universal assent" and "rank so high on the 'almost impossible to doubt or deny' scale of historical facts" that they are often the starting points for the study of the historical Jesus.


Premise: Where did missionaries live as of 1857?

Hypothesis: Similarly, in 1845 the schooner Naiad punished a native for stealing with such violence that the natives attacked the ship.


Premise: Where did Pope Francis commemorate his death on 4 June?

Hypothesis: The Roman Catholic Church celebrates his feast day not on the date of his death, June 3, as is usual, nor even on the day of his papal inauguration (as is sometimes done with Popes who are Saints, such as with John Paul II) but


Premise: What is the term that describes a blood-borne infection, like TB when it travels through the blood to the kidneys or brain?

Hypothesis: All parts of the body can be affected by the disease, though for unknown reasons it rarely affects the heart, skeletal muscles, pancreas, or thyroid.


Premise: What notable theater is present in Overtown?

Hypothesis: The wealthier residents usually live in the northeastern part, in Midtown, the Design District, and the Upper East Side, with many sought after 1920s homes and home of the MiMo Historic District, a style of architecture originated in Miami in the 1950s.


Premise: In what year did the Italian occupation of Somalia end?

Hypothesis: This occupation lasted till 1941 and was replaced by a British military administration.


Premise: How many new carriers per year did the House Armed Services Seapower subcommittee recommend in 7/24/07?

Hypothesis: The first of this class, USS America, is now in active service with another, USS Tripoli, under construction and 9 more are planned.


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

Hypothesis: On 24 August 1572, Paris was the site of the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, when thousands of French Protestants were killed.


Premise: When was the Compass-M1 satellite launced?

Hypothesis: A total of 16 satellites were launched during this phase.


Premise: Under whos reign did the lute become popular?

Hypothesis: A group of Parisian aristocrats, known as Trouvères, became known for their poetry and songs.


Premise: When was the Bronx added to?

Hypothesis: The name for this region, apparently after the Bronx River, first appeared in the Annexed District of the Bronx created in 1874 out of part of Westchester County and was continued in the Borough of the Bronx, which included a larger annexation from Westchester County in 1898.


Premise: What was the dominant plant species of the Mesozoic?

Hypothesis: This is opposed to the earth's current flora, in which the dominant land plants in terms of number of species are angiosperms.


Premise: For how much did Tottenham Hotspur sell Gareth Bale to Real Madrid for in 2013?

Hypothesis: The three highest transfer in the sport's history had a Premier League club on the selling end, with Tottenham Hotspur selling Gareth Bale to Real Madrid for £85 million in 2013, Manchester United's sale of Cristiano Ronaldo to Real Madrid for £80 million in 2009, and Liverpool selling Luis Suárez to Barcelona for £75 million in 2014.


Premise: Who is the only one who ever knows the full meaning of Quranic verses in the esoteric view?

Hypothesis: Commentators with an esoteric slant believe that the ultimate meaning of the Quran is known only to God.


Premise: How many noble truths are there?

Hypothesis: Buddhists believe that this is accomplished through the direct understanding and perception of dependent origination and the Four Noble Truths.


Premise: What was the first explorers name that came in contact with the natives?

Hypothesis: The first non-indigenous group to set foot in the area was the party of explorer Gaspar de Portolà, who camped near the present day intersection of Barrington and Ohio Avenues on August 3, 1769.


Premise: How many soldiers were lost by the Japanese in Burma during WWII ?

Hypothesis: By March 1942, within months after they entered the war, Japanese troops had advanced on Rangoon and the British administration had collapsed.


Premise: Which encoding contains both progressive and interlaced content?

Hypothesis: Initially the existing 5:3 aspect ratio had been the main candidate but, due to the influence of widescreen cinema, the aspect ratio 16:9 (1.78) eventually emerged as being a reasonable compromise between 5:3 (1.67) and the common 1.85 widescreen cinema format.


Premise: What right was lost by the citizen of the islands due to the act?

Hypothesis: The islanders lost their right of abode in Britain.


Premise: What do some call the effect that they say caused a one-day loss for stock exchanges of approximately $31 billion in the year 2000?

Hypothesis: For example, a 2007 North American rule change cost an estimated $500 million to $1 billion, and Utah State University economist William F. Shughart II has estimated the lost opportunity cost at around $1.7 billion USD.


Premise: What state were Johnson and Rayburn from?

Hypothesis: Joe Martin, the Republican Speaker from 1947 to 1949 and again from 1953 to 1955, wrote that Eisenhower "never surrounded himself with assistants who could solve political problems with professional skill.


Premise: Self-psychology is compelled to investigate how personal self relates to what?

Hypothesis: At a general level, self-psychology is compelled to investigate the question of how the personal self relates to the social environment.


Premise: Who was the executive producer of American Idols tenth season?

Hypothesis: Jimmy Iovine, chairman of the Interscope Geffen A&M label group, the new partner of American Idol, acted as the in-house mentor in place of weekly guest mentors, although in later episodes special guest mentors such as Beyoncé, will.i.am and Lady Gaga were brought in.


Premise: Are aluminum and glass considered to be environmentally friendly or environmentally harmful?

Hypothesis: Chief designer Jonathan Ive continues to guide products towards a minimalist and simple feel, including eliminating of replaceable batteries in notebooks.


Premise: What is the primary constraint on the physical growth of an insect?

Hypothesis: Insect growth is constrained by the inelastic exoskeleton and development involves a series of molts.


Premise: In what year did an important trial take place which situated New Haven among the forefront of the growing anti-slavery movement?

Hypothesis: New Haven was home to one of the important early events in the burgeoning anti-slavery movement when, in 1839, the trial of mutineering Mende tribesmen being transported as slaves on the Spanish slaveship Amistad was held in New Haven's United States District Court.


Premise: What effect occurs when the signal is reflected back into the antenna?

Hypothesis: The antenna and transmission line no longer have the same impedance, and the signal will be reflected back into the antenna, reducing output.


Premise: What areas benefit especially from videoconferencing?

Hypothesis: Videoconferencing is a highly useful technology for real-time telemedicine and telenursing applications, such as diagnosis, consulting, transmission of medical images, etc...


Premise: When did the US begin to experience a growing multiracial identity movement?

Hypothesis: Since the 1980s, the United States has had a growing multiracial identity movement (cf.


Premise: How many pages long was Burke's history of England contracted to be?

Hypothesis: On 25 February 1757, Burke signed a contract with Robert Dodsley to write a "history of England from the time of Julius Caesar to the end of the reign of Queen Anne", its length being eighty quarto sheets (640 pages), nearly 400,000 words.


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

Hypothesis: In January 2013 it was proposed that the Executive Council would be led by a "Chief Councillor" who would be elected by the members of the Legislative Council and would nominate the other members of the Executive Council.


Premise: The moving of which continent contributed to the decrease in size of the Paleo-Tethys?

Hypothesis: The Cimmeria continent rifted away from Gondwana and drifted north to Laurasia, causing the Paleo-Tethys to shrink.


Premise: What the the goal of the operation that followed Operation Roundup?

Hypothesis: It was a full-scale, battlefront-length attack staged for maximum exploitation of firepower to kill as many KPA and PVA troops as possible.


Premise: What city is home to The Crown Liquor Saloon?

Hypothesis: CAMRA maintains a "National Inventory" of historical notability and of architecturally and decoratively notable pubs.


Premise: In what month and year did Rogers Cable add TCM to its analog broadcasts?

Hypothesis: In Canada, TCM began to be carried on Shaw Cable and satellite provider Shaw Direct in 2005.


Premise: What songs from the 1940s and 1950s would adult contemporary stations play?

Hypothesis: Some stations would also occasionally play earlier big band-era recordings from the 1940s and early 1950s.


Premise: How many quarters are undergraduates required to complete on campus to graduate?

Hypothesis: Undergraduates typically take four courses each quarter and twelve courses in an academic year and are required to complete at least twelve quarters on campus to graduate.


Premise: What is the name of the movement of rural blacks in the early 20th century called?

Hypothesis: The Great Migration brought rural blacks from the South; they were outnumbered by southern whites who also migrated to the city.


Premise: Why did the Greeks name Palermo Panormos?

Hypothesis: Palermo came into contact with the Ancient Greeks between the 6th and the 5th centuries BC which preceded the Sicilian Wars, a conflict fought between the Greeks of Syracuse and the Phoenicians of Carthage for control over the island of Sicily.


Premise: When did the process of funding the country's public university begin?

Hypothesis: The process of founding the country's public university began on 11 June 1833 with the passage of a law proposed by Senator Dámaso Antonio Larrañaga.


Premise: Which language was used in lectures in early European universities?

Hypothesis: The university culture developed differently in northern Europe than it did in the south, although the northern (primarily Germany, France and Great Britain) and southern universities (primarily Italy) did have many elements in common.


Premise: One of the causes of the financial crisis was easier access to loans by this type borrower?

Hypothesis: The financial crisis was triggered by a complex interplay of policies that encouraged home ownership, providing easier access to loans for subprime borrowers, overvaluation of bundled subprime mortgages based on the theory that housing prices would continue to escalate, questionable trading practices on behalf of both buyers and sellers, compensation structures that prioritize short-term deal flow over long-term value creation, and a lack of adequate capital holdings from banks and insurance companies to back the financial commitments they were making.


Premise: Which president created a policy of non-discrimination for defense contractors?

Hypothesis: Due to the boom in defense jobs, thousands of new workers migrated to the city, both blacks and whites competing for the higher-paying jobs.


Premise: What types of Christianity do Quakers belong to?

Hypothesis: Unlike many other groups that emerged within Christianity, the Religious Society of Friends has actively tried to avoid creeds and hierarchical structures.


Premise: What kind of articles were published to help this plan?

Hypothesis: Work is being done under this action plan, including publishing awareness-raising articles in local newspapers, providing support for members of the public with human rights queries, and extending several UN Conventions on human rights to St. Helena.


Premise: Which Alaskan way of transport is more for sport than for transportation?

Hypothesis: In modern times (that is, any time after the mid-late 1920s), dog mushing is more of a sport than a true means of transportation.


Premise: Where was Hayek buried in relation to his home town of Vienna?

Hypothesis: Hayek died on 23 March 1992 in Freiburg, Germany, and was buried on 4 April in the Neustift am Walde cemetery in the northern outskirts of Vienna according to the Catholic rite.


Premise: What is Setwin otherwise known as?

Hypothesis: Complementing these government services are minibus routes operated by Setwin (Society for Employment Promotion & Training in Twin Cities).


Premise: The numbered articles of a treaty may be grouped by chapter heading in what kind of treaty?

Hypothesis: After the preamble comes numbered articles, which contain the substance of the parties' actual agreement.


Premise: Orontid Armenia was given to Alexander the Great after he took control of what area?

Hypothesis: The kingdoms became so independent from Seleucid control that Antiochus III the Great waged war on them during his reign and replaced their rulers.


Premise: What do Muslims believe of the form of God?

Hypothesis: Instead, Muslims describe God by the names and attributes that, according to Islam, he revealed to his creation.


Premise: Which companies are some of WWE's competition?

Hypothesis: Other prominent professional wrestling companies worldwide include the US-based Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) and Ring of Honor (ROH), Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) and Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) in Mexico, and the Japanese New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW), All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW), and Pro Wrestling


Premise: How high is Mt. Mitchell?

Hypothesis: The Black Mountains are the highest in the eastern United States, and culminate in Mount Mitchell at 6,684 feet (2,037 m) the highest point east of the Mississippi River.


Premise: How often is the Young Composers Film Competition?

Hypothesis: As of 2006, films that have been rescored include the 1921 Rudolph Valentino film Camille, two Lon Chaney films: 1921's The Ace of Hearts and 1928's Laugh, Clown, Laugh, and Greta Garbo's 1926 film The Temptress.


Premise: Who eradicated the Sakya viceregal regime?

Hypothesis: In 1358, the Sakya viceregal regime installed by the Mongols in Tibet was overthrown in a rebellion by the Phagmodru myriarch Tai Situ Changchub Gyaltsen (1302–1364).


Premise: What are two reasons why the economy was not able to progress following the civil war?

Hypothesis: When Sassou Nguesso returned to power at the end of the war in October 1997, he publicly expressed interest in moving forward on economic reforms and privatization and in renewing cooperation with international financial institutions.


Premise: what is the Ganj-i-Sawai know for?

Hypothesis: Ganj-i-Sawai carried enormous wealth and, according to contemporary East India Company sources, was carrying a relative of the Grand Mughal, though there is no evidence to suggest that it was his daughter and her retinue.


Premise: A moth that has markings resembling an owl's eyes is an example of what phenomenon?

Hypothesis: Another example of batesian mimicry is the io moth, (Automeris io), which has markings on its wings that resemble an owl's eyes.


Premise: What has help the most with the continuous growth within the area?

Hypothesis: Downtown New Haven, occupied by nearly 7,000 residents, has a more residential character than most downtowns.


Premise: What are the most common type of housing outside inner city Melbourne?

Hypothesis: Residential architecture is not defined by a single architectural style, but rather an eclectic mix of houses, townhouses, condominiums, and apartment buildings in the metropolitan area (particularly in areas of urban sprawl).


Premise: Who fought over the movie rights for Thunderball?

Hypothesis: The ownership of the Spectre organisation—originally stylised "SPECTRE" as an acronym of SPecial Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion—and its characters, had been at the centre of long-standing litigation starting in 1961 between Ian Fleming and Kevin McClory over the film rights to the novel Thunderball.


Premise: What year did Armenia begin competiting in the Olympics seperate from the USSR?

Hypothesis: Prior to 1992, Armenians would participate in the Olympics representing the USSR.


Premise: Who killed innocent civilians in the Nanking Massacre?

Hypothesis: Their troops occupied Nanjing in December and carried out the systematic and brutal Nanking Massacre (the "Rape of Nanking").


Premise: Who starred in the first movie Schwarzenegger remembers seeing?

Hypothesis: The first real movie I saw, that I distinctly remember, was a John Wayne movie."


Premise: Who created the mosaics in the Great Mosque in Corduba?

Hypothesis: The mosaics were purported to evoke the glamour of the Great Mosque in Damascus, which was lost for the Umayyad family.


Premise: Since Gay marriage became legal, how many days did people have to wait to marry?

Hypothesis: Same-sex marriages in New York were legalized on June 24, 2011 and were authorized to take place beginning 30 days thereafter.


Premise: In what year did the Tito-Stalin split occur?

Hypothesis: Tito's reputation as one of the Allied leaders of World War II, along with his diplomatic position as the founder of the Non-Aligned Movement, was primarily the cause of the favorable international recognition.


Premise: Which contestants did the judges save on season ten of American Idol?

Hypothesis: The judges used their one save on Abrams on the Top 11, and as a result this was the first season that 11 finalists went on tour instead of 10.


Premise: When was Elizabeth's Silver Jubilee?

Hypothesis: Discontent with the monarchy reached its peak on the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, though Elizabeth's personal popularity and support for the monarchy rebounded after her live television broadcast to the world five days after Diana's death.


Premise: What is pantheism?

Hypothesis: In pantheism, God is the universe itself.


Premise: What vitamin does sunlight help the human body absorb?

Hypothesis: DST may help in depression by causing individuals to rise earlier, but some argue the reverse.


Premise: What popular type combines more that one antenna?

Hypothesis: Another common design is the folded dipole, which is essentially two dipoles placed side-by-side and connected at their ends to make a single one-wavelength antenna.


Premise: What caused the death of Emperor Auranzeb?

Hypothesis: The Maratha Empire was located in the south west of present-day India and expanded greatly under the rule of the Peshwas, the prime ministers of the Maratha empire.


Premise: What percentage of Estonians claim no religion?

Hypothesis: The Eurobarometer Poll 2005 found that only 16% of Estonians profess a belief in a god, the lowest belief of all countries studied (EU study).


Premise: When did Zipoetes I assume the role of king?

Hypothesis: After Alexander's conquests the region of Bithynia came under the rule of the native king Bas, who defeated Calas, a general of Alexander the Great, and maintained the independence of Bithynia.


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

Hypothesis: They need to be stored on edge, and do best under environmental conditions that most humans would find comfortable.


Premise: Why did San Diego schools close during the Cedar Fire?

Hypothesis: In October 2003, San Diego was the site of the Cedar Fire, which has been called the largest wildfire in California over the past century.


Premise: When did the Parliament vote in favor of an investigation?

Hypothesis: However, the accuracy of the revised figures has also been questioned, and in February 2012 the Hellenic Parliament voted in favor of an official investigation following accusations by a former member of the Hellenic Statistical Authority that the deficit had been artificially inflated in order to justify harsher austerity measures.


Premise: Did Eran Elhaik, from Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health argue for or against Khazar descent?

Hypothesis: In late 2012 Eran Elhaik, a research associate studying genetics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, argued for Khazar descent in his paper


Premise: What kind of pavement was commissioned for in front of the High Altar?

Hypothesis: Henry III also commissioned unique Cosmati pavement in front of the High Altar (the pavement has recently undergone a major cleaning and conservation programme and was re-dedicated by the Dean at a service on 21 May 2010).


Premise: How much did 'Jaws' earn in theaters?

Hypothesis: It also set the domestic record for box office gross, leading to what the press described as "Jawsmania.":248 Jaws made Spielberg a household name and one of America's youngest multi-millionaires, allowing him a great deal of autonomy for his future projects.:250


Premise: The theme of Georgics is instruction in the methods of what?

Hypothesis: Well-known passages include the beloved Laus Italiae of Book 2, the prologue description of the temple in Book 3, and the description of the plague at the end of Book 3.


Premise: How many died in the Nanking Massacre?

Hypothesis: The total death toll, including estimates made by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East and the Nanjing War Crimes Tribunal, was between 300,000 and 350,000.


Premise: Which recent law stresses international harmonization?

Hypothesis: Other recent developments in intellectual property law, such as the America Invents Act, stress international harmonization.


Premise: What year did the Island's flax mills close?

Hypothesis: The decision by the British Post Office to use synthetic fibres for its mailbags was a further blow, contributing to the closure of the island's flax mills in 1965.


Premise: What movie produced in 2000 investigated conspiracy theories surrounding the notorious Skull and Bone Society in New Haven?

Hypothesis: New Haven has been depicted in a number of movies.


Premise: What year does the city plan on having a bicycle infrastructure?

Hypothesis: Other environmentally focused initiatives include curbside recycling, curbside composting bins (in addition to trash, yard-waste, and recycle bins), farmers' markets, community gardens, garden-share, an urban forest initiative, a hazardous materials home-collection service, green business certification, and a municipal bus system which is currently being revamped to integrate with the soon-to-open Expo Line.


Premise: Are adolescents with authoritative parents more or less likely to complete secondary education by age 22?

Hypothesis: A study conducted by Adalbjarnardottir and Blondal (2009) showed that adolescents at the age of 14 who identify their parents as authoritative figures are more likely to complete secondary education by the age of 22—as support and encouragement from an authoritative parent motivates the adolescence to complete schooling to avoid disappointing that parent.


Premise: Who performed the seasonal Christmas plays?

Hypothesis: Also important were Mummers' plays, performed during the Christmas season, and court masques.


Premise: Which river separates the main Aravelli ranges?

Hypothesis: The geographic features of Rajasthan are the Thar Desert and the Aravalli Range, which runs through the state from southwest to northeast, almost from one end to the other, for more than 850 kilometres (530 mi).


Premise: How many passengers will the new airport be able to handle?

Hypothesis: Goals are to eventually handle 120 million passengers a year, which would make it the busiest airport in the world.


Premise: What song by Rod Stewart used the mandolin?

Hypothesis: Maggie May by Rod Stewart, which hit No. 1 on both the British charts and the Billboard Hot 100, also featured Jackson's playing.


Premise: The governor of what state commuted four death sentences in January 2015?

Hypothesis: In New Jersey and Illinois, all death row inmates had their sentences commuted to life in prison without parole when the death penalty repeal bills were signed into law.


Premise: What airport has a tram that takes people through the concourses and baggage claim?

Hypothesis: Major airports with more than one terminal offer inter-terminal transportation, such as Mexico City International Airport, where the domestic building of Terminal 1 is connected by Aerotrén to Terminal 2, on the other side of the airport.


Premise: Often the water in wood makes it more pliable and what else?

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


Premise: Is teenage alcohol drug use at al all-time high or low?

Hypothesis: Teenage alcohol drug use is currently at an all-time low.


Premise: The German beacons used what frequency band?

Hypothesis: If the German bomber flew closer to its own beam than the Meacon then the former signal would come through the stronger on the direction finder.


Premise: Have quails ever been used for entertainment purposes ?

Hypothesis: They were originally kept as songbirds, and they are thought to have been regularly used in song contests.


Premise: Who was the head of the American Battle Monuments Commission during this period?

Hypothesis: He was assigned to the American Battle Monuments Commission directed by General Pershing, and with the help of his brother Milton Eisenhower, then a journalist at the Agriculture Department, he produced a guide to American battlefields in Europe.


Premise: What was found under the Basilica of Saint-Quentin?

Hypothesis: The Abbey of Saint-Martial in Limoges, originally an important place of pilgrimage, was totally demolished during the French Revolution except its crypt which was rediscovered in the 1960s.


Premise: Who produced Anne of the Thousand Days?

Hypothesis: The film was only a moderate success.


Premise: Why were outbreaks of measles and smallpox able to so easily decimate the Taínos' population?

Hypothesis: They had no immunity to European diseases, so outbreaks of measles and smallpox ravaged their population.


Premise: How many round-trippers did Rodriguez slug in his first season in Chicago?

Hypothesis: After a down-to-the-wire Wild Card chase with the San Francisco Giants, Chicago and San Francisco ended the regular season tied, and thus squared off in a one-game playoff at Wrigley Field in which third baseman Gary Gaetti hit the eventual game winning homer.


Premise: What are two other dangerous acids?

Hypothesis: H2 reacts with every oxidizing element.


Premise: What does STAT stand for?

Hypothesis: Mice exposed to subtherapeutic antibiotic treatment (STAT)– with either penicillin, vancomycin, penicillin and vancomycin, or chlortetracycline had altered composition of the gut microbiota as well as its metabolic capabilities.


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

Hypothesis: The following year, IBM hosted its first Invention Award Dinner honoring 34 outstanding IBM inventors; and in 1963, the company named the first eight IBM Fellows in a new Fellowship Program that recognizes senior IBM scientists, engineers and other professionals for outstanding technical achievements.


Premise: What was the plate used for anti-aircraft proximity fuses in World War II made out of?

Hypothesis: During World War II, the development of the anti-aircraft proximity fuse required an electronic circuit that could withstand being fired from a gun, and could be produced in quantity.


Premise: In what year did Columbia Phonography Company form?

Hypothesis: In the depths of the Great Depression, the Columbia Phonograph Company (founded in 1888) in the U.S. (including its Okeh Records subsidiary) was acquired by ARC in 1934.


Premise: What is created by contact between parts of the motor?

Hypothesis: This creates friction.