Premise: What famous form of wrestling is native to Mexico?

Hypothesis: Lucha libre is a Mexican style of wrestling, and is one of the more popular sports throughout the country.


Premise: Which Soviet leader formed doctrine aimed at keeping socialist satellite nations in line?

Hypothesis: Ideologically, the Soviet Union arrogated the right to define socialism and communism and act as the leader of the global socialist movement.


Premise: In what year did Cyclone Pam strike Tuvalu?

Hypothesis: In March 2015, the winds and storm surge created by Cyclone Pam resulted in waves of 3 metres (9.8 ft) to 5 metres (16 ft) breaking over the reef of the outer islands caused damage to houses, crops and infrastructure.


Premise: Who asked why is music composed by women so marginal to the standard 'classical' repertoire?

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


Premise: What will an editor do in the case where an author's work was not wiped out?

Hypothesis: For works where an author's manuscript survived – a case Greg had not considered –


Premise: What power can help someone overcome sin?

Hypothesis: This idea contains the four main doctrines on the Bible: that its teaching is needed for salvation (necessity); that all the doctrine necessary for salvation comes from the Bible alone (sufficiency); that everything taught in the Bible is correct (inerrancy); and that, by the Holy Spirit overcoming sin, believers may read and understand truth from the Bible itself, though understanding is difficult, so the means used to guide individual believers to the true teaching is often mutual discussion within the church (clarity).


Premise: What needs to be used to reflect light that would otherwise be wasted?

Hypothesis: The sapphire apparatus must be coupled with a mirror-like collector to reflect light that would otherwise be wasted.


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

Hypothesis: The higher level relationship of the Hexapoda is unclear.


Premise: Where do the Red Wings play?

Hypothesis: There are three active major sports venues within the city: Comerica Park (home of the Major League Baseball team Detroit Tigers), Ford Field (home of the NFL's Detroit Lions), and Joe Louis Arena (home of the NHL's Detroit Red Wings).


Premise: What were the main components of the Release preview?

Hypothesis: Major items in the Release Preview included the addition of Sports, Travel, and News apps, along with an integrated version of Adobe Flash Player in Internet Explorer.


Premise: How many major hardware revisions has the 360 had?

Hypothesis: In addition to its revised aesthetics, Xbox 360 E also has one fewer USB port and no longer supports S/PDIF.


Premise: What season did Barcelona win La Liga and Supercopa de Espana?

Hypothesis: After the disappointment of the Gaspart era, the combination of a new young president, Joan Laporta, and a young new manager, former Dutch and Milan star Frank Rijkaard, saw the club bounce back.


Premise: What Roman poet attempted to develop science in their poetry?

Hypothesis: Some of the earliest works we possess are of historical epics telling the early military history of Rome.


Premise: Who crowned Napoleon Emperor?

Hypothesis: Napoleon was crowned Emperor Napoleon I on 2 December 1804 at Notre Dame de Paris by Pope Pius VII.


Premise: What nations were outraged by the nationalization scheme?

Hypothesis: France and the UK, the largest shareholders in the Suez Canal Company, saw its nationalization as yet another hostile measure aimed at them by the Egyptian government.


Premise: What does file history make possible?

Hypothesis: File operation dialog boxes have been updated to provide more detailed statistics, the ability to pause file transfers, and improvements in the ability to manage conflicts when copying files.


Premise: How many grains of silver did the Mint Act define the dollar as?

Hypothesis: From 1792, when the Mint Act was passed, the dollar was defined as 371.25 grains (24.056 g) of silver.


Premise: What percentage write it?

Hypothesis: According to a 2001 census, 99.16 percent of the populace of Galicia understand the language, 91.04 percent speak it, 68.65 percent read it and 57.64 percent write it.


Premise: How many British prime ministers attended Eton?

Hypothesis: David Cameron is the 19th British prime minister to have attended the school, and has recommended that Eton set up a school in the state sector to help drive up standards.


Premise: Anne Freud and Edward Glover said London civilians did not suffer from what?

Hypothesis: Ingersoll added that, according to Anna Freud and Edward Glover, London civilians surprisingly did not suffer from widespread shell shock, unlike the soldiers in the Dunkirk evacuation.:114,117–118


Premise: What was Yeltsin doing on the tank?

Hypothesis: The organizers tried but ultimately failed to arrest Yeltsin, who rallied opposition to the coup with speech-making atop a tank.


Premise: Whose work habits and environment prevents them from maintaining a regular sleep pattern?

Hypothesis: and has conducted several research studies in order to find methods of combating fatigue in pilots.


Premise: What happened on the final day of the month of love that was of significance was authorized by the Holy Roman Church leader ?

Hypothesis: On 4 September 1483, referring to the feast as that of "the Conception of Immaculate Mary ever Virgin", he condemned both those who called it mortally sinful and heretical to hold that the "glorious and immaculate mother of God was conceived without the stain of original sin" and those who called it mortally sinful and heretical to hold that "the glorious Virgin Mary was conceived with original sin", since, he said, "up to this time there has been no decision made by the Roman Church and the Apostolic See.


Premise: What unit is named after Bell?

Hypothesis: Since 1976 the IEEE's Alexander Graham Bell Medal has been awarded to honor outstanding contributions in the field of telecommunications.


Premise: Who was the Buddha's personal attendant?

Hypothesis: The goal of the council was to record the Buddha's teachings.


Premise: What does the anaerobic corrosion of iron lead to?

Hypothesis: Under anaerobic conditions, iron and steel alloys are slowly oxidized by the protons of water concomitantly reduced in molecular hydrogen (H_2).


Premise: What Hindu philosophy is about naturalism?

Hypothesis: Hindu philosophy also includes several sub-schools of theistic philosophies that integrate ideas from two or more of the six orthodox philosophies, such as the realism of the Nyāya, the naturalism of the Vaiśeṣika, the dualism of the Sāṅkhya, the monism and knowledge of Self as essential to liberation of Advaita, the self-discipline of yoga and the asceticism and elements of theistic ideas.


Premise: In what years did Gaddafi visit the Soviet Union?

Hypothesis: In 1981, the new US President Ronald Reagan pursued a hard line approach to Libya, erroneously considering it a puppet regime of the Soviet Union.


Premise: Where is the Australian Football League headquartered?

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


Premise: What type of department stores are Myer and David Jones?

Hypothesis: Both, Myer and David Jones, are up-market chains, offering a wide variety of products from mid-range names to luxury brands.


Premise: How would the marriage of a man and woman on the ship serve as a fertility ritual?

Hypothesis: Aboard the ship would the marriage of a man and woman be consummated as a fertility ritual.


Premise: How did Victoria feel about all of the trips?

Hypothesis: Victoria disliked the trips; the constant round of public appearances made her tired and ill, and there was little time for her to rest.


Premise: Which is the largest ethnic community in Hyderabad?

Hypothesis: Hyderabad is home to a unique dialect of Urdu called Hyderabadi Urdu, which is a type of Dakhini, and is the mother tongue of most Hyderabadi Muslims, a unique community who owe much of their history, language, cuisine, and culture to Hyderabad, and the various dynasties who previously ruled.


Premise: What is the name of the surviving monastic building in England?

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


Premise: How does modern font technology address the issue of depicting a Han character in alternate glyph representations?

Hypothesis: Modern font technology provides a means to address the practical issue of needing to depict a unified Han character in terms of a collection of alternative glyph representations, in the form of Unicode variation sequences.


Premise: In what year was this genome sequenced?

Hypothesis: Arabidopsis was the first plant to have its genome sequenced, in 2000.


Premise: Where is Estonia located in Northern Europe?

Hypothesis: Estonia (i/ɛˈstoʊniə/; Estonian: Eesti [ˈeːsti]), officially the Republic of Estonia (Estonian: Eesti Vabariik), is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe.


Premise: In what region was the Amritsar Massacre?

Hypothesis: This led to tension, particularly in the Punjab region, where repressive measures culminated in the Amritsar Massacre.


Premise: Which record company turned Kanye down after many meetings?

Hypothesis: Though he had developed his rapping long before he began producing, it was often a challenge for West to be accepted as a rapper, and he struggled to attain a record deal.


Premise: What was the result for Admiral Byng?

Hypothesis: The British Prime Minister, the Duke of Newcastle, was optimistic that the new series of alliances could prevent war from breaking out in Europe.


Premise: What rare breed of deer is protected at the Deer Sanctuary at Theydon Bois?

Hypothesis: A rare population of melanistic, black fallow deer is also maintained at the Deer Sanctuary near Theydon Bois.


Premise: What is a successful landing?

Hypothesis: A successful landing in gymnastics is classified as soft, meaning the knee and hip joints are at greater than 63 degrees of flexion.


Premise: Who was on the committee that found a new site for Washington University?

Hypothesis: A committee of Robert S. Brookings, Henry Ware Eliot, and William Huse found a site of 103 acres (41.7 ha) just beyond Forest Park, located west of the city limits in St. Louis County.


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

Hypothesis: The government planned to voluntarily evacuate four million people—mostly women and children—from urban areas, including 1.4 million from London.


Premise: What is one of the oldest libraries in the US?

Hypothesis: The Boston Athenaeum (one of the oldest independent libraries in the United States), Boston Children's Museum, Bull & Finch Pub (whose building is known from the television show Cheers), Museum of Science, and the New England Aquarium are within the city.


Premise: What's the name for the measurement of a laminate's change in thickness as its temperature changes?

Hypothesis: Important characteristics are the level to which the laminate is fire retardant, the dielectric constant (er), the loss factor (tδ), the tensile strength, the shear strength, the glass transition temperature (Tg), and the Z-axis expansion coefficient (how much the thickness changes with temperature).


Premise: What is notable about cellulose in humans?

Hypothesis: The list of nutrients that people are known to require is, in the words of Marion Nestle, "almost certainly incomplete".


Premise: What is the name of the US-based firm in a production-sharing agreement with Cyprus?

Hypothesis: However, Turkey's offshore drilling companies have accessed both natural gas and oil resources since 2013.


Premise: What is the  transfer of genetic material through a mechanism other than reproduction known as?

Hypothesis: Horizontal gene transfer refers to the transfer of genetic material through a mechanism other than reproduction.


Premise: What are the greatest influences to Bermudian culture?

Hypothesis: There are strong British influences, together with Afro-Caribbean ones.


Premise: What device uses infrared LEDs to measure oxygen saturation?

Hypothesis: Some flatbed scanners use arrays of RGB LEDs rather than the typical cold-cathode fluorescent lamp as the light source.


Premise: What is something that the necessary does not have?

Hypothesis: Avicenna adds that the 'Necessary-Existent-due-to-Itself' has no genus (jins), nor a definition (hadd), nor a counterpart (nadd), nor an opposite (did), and is detached (bari) from matter (madda), quality (kayf), quantity (kam), place (ayn), situation (wad), and time (waqt).


Premise: Who were Wang Jiawei and Nyima Gyaincain?

Hypothesis: But most scholars outside China, such as Turrell V. Wylie, Melvin C. Goldstein, and Helmut Hoffman, say that the relationship was one of suzerainty, that Ming titles were only nominal, that Tibet remained an independent region outside Ming control, and that it simply paid tribute until the Jiajing Emperor (1521–1566), who ceased relations with Tibet.


Premise: If bodhi is attained what do you become?

Hypothesis: Therefore, according to Mahayana Buddhism, the arahant has attained only nirvana, thus still being subject to delusion, while the bodhisattva not only achieves nirvana but full liberation from delusion as well.


Premise: Where are you able to watch the new series when it is released?

Hypothesis: The films are being streamed in episodic format outside Japan by Crunchyroll and Hulu from the same day they premiere on Japanese theaters.


Premise: Who invaded and destroyed the first major settlement of Roman London in 61 AD?

Hypothesis: Although there is evidence of scattered Brythonic settlements in the area, the first major settlement was founded by the Romans after the invasion of 43 AD.


Premise: When did the FAA become more involved with the environmental aspects of aviation?

Hypothesis: The hijacking epidemic of the 1960s had already brought the agency into the field of civil aviation security.


Premise: What programs are offered at Northwestern's Quatar campus?

Hypothesis: The university's law, medical, and professional schools are located on a 25-acre (10 ha) campus in Chicago's Streeterville neighborhood.


Premise: Who invented the first electrolytic capacitor?

Hypothesis: " Solid electrolyte tantalum capacitors were invented by Bell Laboratories in the early 1950s as a miniaturized and more reliable low-voltage support capacitor to complement their newly invented transistor.


Premise: The Min River is a major tributary of what river?

Hypothesis: This innovative hydraulic system was composed of movable weirs which could be adjusted for high or low water flow according to the season, to either provide irrigation or prevent floods.


Premise: What hapend in the 2000 election

Hypothesis: Out of more than 5.8 million votes for the two main contenders Bush and Al Gore, around 500 votes separated the two candidates for the all-decisive Florida electoral votes that landed Bush the election win.


Premise: What structure was built at Toompea Hill?

Hypothesis: The Danes built the fortress of Castrum Danorum at Toompea Hill.


Premise: When did the Federal District receive more power?

Hypothesis: In response to the demands, in 1987 the Federal District received a greater degree of autonomy, with the elaboration the first Statute of Government (Estatuto de Gobierno), and the creation of an Assembly of Representatives.[citation needed]


Premise: Conversely the scholars who did view the Serbs' acts as constituting genocide, were backed up by what Tribunal?

Hypothesis: The ECHR also noted that in the 21st century "Amongst scholars, the majority have taken the view that ethnic cleansing, in the way in which it was carried out by the Serb forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina in order to expel Muslims and Croats from their homes, did not constitute genocide.


Premise: What were the tesserae usually set in for miniature mosaic icons?

Hypothesis: In these icons the small tesserae (with sides of 1 mm or less) were set on wax or resin on a wooden panel.


Premise: Who won this season of Idol?

Hypothesis: Johnson released "As Long as You Love Me" as his coronation single while Irene released "We Are One".


Premise: What year did Lilienfeld file his patent?

Hypothesis: Physicist Julius Edgar Lilienfeld filed a patent for a field-effect transistor (FET) in Canada in 1925, which was intended to be a solid-state replacement for the triode.


Premise: In what year were Jews kicked out of Spain?

Hypothesis: Although some were allowed back into France, most were not, and many Jews emigrated eastwards, settling in Poland and Hungary.


Premise: where was producer mr. fingers' from?

Hypothesis: According to author Richie Unterberger, it moved house music away from its "posthuman tendencies back towards the lush" soulful sound of early disco music.


Premise: What is the Japan Broadcasting Corporation called?

Hypothesis: The Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK, the Japan Broadcasting Corporation) began conducting research to "unlock the fundamental mechanism of video and sound interactions with the five human senses" in 1964, after the Tokyo Olympics.


Premise: How warm does it get at the height of summer along the in the delta and coastal regions of Burma?

Hypothesis: Coastal and delta regions have an average maximum temperature of 32 °C (89.6 °F).


Premise: What happened in Portugal that contributed to Guinea-Bissau's independence?

Hypothesis: After the country became independent from Portugal in 1974 due to the Portuguese Colonial War and the Carnation Revolution, the rapid exodus of the Portuguese civilian, military, and political authorities resulted in considerable damage to the country's economic infrastructure, social order, and standard of living.


Premise: Who wrote, "In other words, AC stations are where pop songs go to die a very long death. Or, to optimists, to get a second life"?

Hypothesis: An article on MTV's website by Corey Moss describes this trend: "In other words, AC stations are where pop songs go to die a very long death.


Premise: Canadian governor generals can give their assent in person or by which other method?

Hypothesis: In other nations, such as Australia, the governor-general merely signs the bill.


Premise: What day is he celebrated in the Eastern Orthodox Church?

Hypothesis: In the Eastern Orthodox Church, he is labeled the "Father of Orthodoxy".


Premise: When was Pope Paul VI elected as Pope?

Hypothesis: Pope Paul VI (Latin: Paulus VI; Italian: Paolo VI), born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini (Italian pronunciation: [dʒioˈvani baˈtista enˈriko anˈtonjo marˈija monˈtini]; 26 September 1897 – 6 August 1978), reigned as Pope from 21 June 1963 to his death in 1978.


Premise: What is there a large population of in the Chota Valley?

Hypothesis: Recently a celebration has gained prominence in the northern part of the Sierra in the Chota Valley in Imbabura which is a zone of a strong afro-Ecuadorian population and so the Carnival is celebrated with bomba del chota music.


Premise: What date did the explorer reach Santa Monica?

Hypothesis: Santa Monica was called Kecheek in the Tongva language.


Premise: Who was Zeus's sister?

Hypothesis: The most important of all ancient Greek gods was Zeus, the king of the gods, who was married to Hera, who was also Zeus's sister.


Premise: Who adjusted the song?

Hypothesis: Brandenburg adopted the song for testing purposes, listening to it again and again each time refining the scheme, making sure it did not adversely affect the subtlety of Vega's voice.


Premise: Who led Israel in the 1990s?

Hypothesis: At the end of the 1990s, Israel, under the leadership of Benjamin Netanyahu, withdrew from Hebron, and signed the Wye River Memorandum, giving greater control to the Palestinian National Authority.


Premise: In Mahayana Buddhism, what are some Mahayana sutras that are believed to remove negative karma just by the hearing of the texts?

Hypothesis: Some forms of Buddhism (for example, Vajrayana) regard the recitation of mantras as a means for cutting off of previous negative karma.


Premise: Who helped the Tibetan?

Hypothesis: As of 1751, Albert Kolb writes that "Chinese claims to suzerainty over Tibet date from this time."


Premise: How many game-tying home runs did Sandberg get against the Cardinals at the Sandber Game?

Hypothesis: With the nation watching and Wrigley Field packed, Sandberg emerged as a superstar with not one, but two game-tying home runs against Cardinals closer Bruce Sutter.


Premise: What was the name of the boarding school for Christians during the Ottoman Caliphate?

Hypothesis: The Imperial Harem was one of the most important powers of the Ottoman court.


Premise: Buddhist concept of dependent origination has been compared to what modern thought?

Hypothesis: In addition, the Buddhist concept of dependent origination has been compared to modern scientific thought, as well as Western metaphysics.


Premise: What reason did the Swiss government give for ending its use of nuclear energy?

Hypothesis: "The government has voted for a phaseout because we want to ensure a secure and autonomous supply of energy", Energy Minister Doris Leuthard said that day at a press conference in Bern. "


Premise: After publishing anti-Semitic editorials in 1920, what did The Times refer to Jews as being?

Hypothesis: In editorials published on 29 and 31 July 1914, Wickham Steed, the Times's Chief Editor, argued that the British Empire should enter World War I.


Premise: What keeps the cultivator from rebirth in the four realms of existance?

Hypothesis: According to the Law of Karma, keeping the precepts is meritorious and it acts as causes that would bring about peaceful and happy effects.


Premise: What preventative measures always work to prevent asthma?

Hypothesis: Dietary restrictions during pregnancy or when breast feeding have not been found to be effective and thus are not recommended.


Premise: When did Suzanne Shell's suit against Internet Archive come to an end?

Hypothesis: On April 25, 2007, Internet Archive and Suzanne Shell jointly announced the settlement of their lawsuit.


Premise: With what does Popper say Tarski's theory replaces the predicate "is true?"

Hypothesis: So, for example, the sentence "Snow is white" is true if and only if snow is white.


Premise: What tennis event has Valencia hosted?

Hypothesis: In its long history, Valencia has acquired many local traditions and festivals, among them the Falles, which were declared Celebrations of International Touristic Interest (Fiestas de Interés Turístico Internacional) on 25 January 1965, and the Water Tribunal of Valencia (Tribunal de las Aguas de Valencia), which was declared an intangible cultural heritage of humanity (Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial de la Humanidad) in 2009.


Premise: where are aircraft manufactured

Hypothesis: AgustaWestland manufactures helicopters in Yeovil, and Normalair Garratt, builder of aircraft oxygen systems, is also based in the town.


Premise: What type of government is now established in Myanmar?

Hypothesis: In 2011, the military junta was officially dissolved following a 2010 general election, and a nominally civilian government was installed.


Premise: Who were the big four?

Hypothesis: During the Paris Peace Conference, the "Big Four"—France, Italy, United Kingdom and the United States—held noticeably more power and influence on the proceedings and outcome of the treaties than Japan.


Premise: What year did IBM open its first office in Bahrain?

Hypothesis: In 1947, IBM opened its first office in Bahrain, as well as an office in Saudi Arabia to service the needs of the Arabian-American Oil Company that would grow to become Saudi Business Machines (SBM).


Premise: What was in the center of each Roman camp?

Hypothesis: The commander's headquarters stood at the centre; he took the auspices on a dais in front.


Premise: Which part of the Auto-Sembly manufacturing process is the most costly?

Hypothesis: However, the wires and holes are wasteful since drilling holes is expensive and the protruding wires are merely cut off.


Premise: What type of baptism do Baptists conduct?

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


Premise: When the Soviet Union ended in 1991, what was the RSFSR government called?

Hypothesis: The Government was known officially as the Council of People's Commissars (1917–1946), Council of Ministers (1946–1978) and Council of Ministers–Government (1978–1991).


Premise: What did Jack Brickhouse do when he approached his retirement age?

Hypothesis: His trademark call "Hey Hey!" always followed a home run.


Premise: Who wrote Seven Lamps of Architecture?

Hypothesis: Architecture was the "art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by men ... that the sight of them" contributes "to his mental health, power, and pleasure".


Premise: What was the name of the Luftwaffe's bombing raids?

Hypothesis: Contrary to popular belief, the Luftwaffe did not have a systematic policy of what became known as "terror bombing".


Premise: What type of soil does Alpenrose prefer?

Hypothesis: Although the Alpenrose prefers acidic soil, the plants are found throughout the region.


Premise: Who was the aunt of Otto Robert Frisch?

Hypothesis: The experiments leading to the discovery of uranium's ability to fission (break apart) into lighter elements and release binding energy were conducted by Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann in Hahn's laboratory in Berlin.


Premise: Where did the 1st Infantry deploy from?

Hypothesis: On 6 July, he ordered Major General Hobart R. Gay, Commander, 1st Cavalry Division, to plan the division's amphibious landing at Incheon; on 12–14 July, the 1st Cavalry Division embarked from Yokohama, Japan to reinforce the 24th Infantry Division inside the Pusan Perimeter.


Premise: Which government sought to rapidly accelerate the modernisation of Melbourne?

Hypothesis: The Bolte government sought to rapidly accelerate the modernisation of Melbourne.


Premise: How many analogue terrestrial UHF channels does Sure South Atlantic LTD have?

Hypothesis: Sure South Atlantic Ltd ("Sure") offers television for the island via 17 analogue terrestrial UHF channels, offering a mix of British, US, and South African programming.


Premise: In what time period did the genocide of Greeks take place?

Hypothesis: In the aftermath of the First World War, Greece attempted further expansion into Asia Minor, a region with a large native Greek population at the time, but was defeated in the Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922, contributing to a massive flight of Asia Minor Greeks.


Premise: What specifically did his son work on?

Hypothesis: In the late 1980s, according to "Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine", Feynman played a crucial role in developing the first massively parallel computer, and in finding innovative uses for it in numerical computations, in building neural networks, as well as physical simulations using cellular automata (such as turbulent fluid flow), working with Stephen Wolfram at Caltech.


Premise: What gives the federal government responsibility for national defense?

Hypothesis: In 2006, a further CAD$5.3 billion over five years was provided to allow for 13,000 more regular force members, and 10,000 more primary reserve personnel, as well as CAD$17.1 billion for the purchase of new trucks for the Canadian Army, transport aircraft and helicopters for the Royal Canadian Air Force, and joint support ships for the Royal Canadian Navy.


Premise: What happens to a molecule if an oscillation results in a dipole being changed?

Hypothesis: If an oscillation leads to a change in dipole in the molecule then it will absorb a photon that has the same frequency.


Premise: What was the location that was suggested the population be moved too?

Hypothesis: Ecological problems, including deforestation, soil erosion, vermin and drought, led Governor Isaac Pyke to suggest in 1715 that the population be moved to Mauritius, but this was not acted upon and the company continued to subsidise the community because of the island's strategic location.


Premise: Who were the first inhabitants of Southeast Asia?

Hypothesis: The Negritos are believed to be the first inhabitants of Southeast Asia.


Premise: When was the first World Gymnaestrada held?

Hypothesis: In 1984 Gymnastics for All was officially recognized first as a Sport Program by the FIG (International Gymnastic Federation), and subsequently by national gymnastic federations worldwide with participants that now number 30 million.


Premise: During which period was Vigil a poet?

Hypothesis: Publius Vergilius Maro (Classical Latin: [ˈpuː.blɪ.ʊs wɛrˈɡɪ.lɪ.ʊs ˈma.roː]; October 15, 70 BC – September 21, 19 BC), usually called Virgil or Vergil /ˈvɜːrdʒᵻl/ in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period.


Premise: How is a membership organization run?

Hypothesis: A membership organization elects the board and has regular meetings and the power to amend the bylaws.


Premise: How far are Leibniz's universes situated apart?

Hypothesis: The only discernible difference between them is that the latter is positioned five feet to the left of the first.


Premise: Who proposed an evolutionary concept of the gene as a unit of natural selection?

Hypothesis: Evolutionary biologists subsequently refined this concept, such as George C. Williams' gene-centric view of evolution.


Premise: On what date did AF1 announce that it would be called the Arena Football League?

Hypothesis: On February 17, 2010, AF1 announced it would use the "Arena Football League" name.


Premise: What is living law mostly made up of?

Hypothesis: In the dual-sovereign system of American federalism (actually tripartite because of the presence of Indian reservations), states are the plenary sovereigns, each with their own constitution, while the federal sovereign possesses only the limited supreme authority enumerated in the Constitution.


Premise: What does the decree of the Council of Trent imply?

Hypothesis: The decree of the Council of Trent is worded more mildly: "Let clerics abstain from illicit hunting and hawking" (Sess.


Premise: What keeps bacteria at bay in human body?

Hypothesis: There are approximately ten times as many bacterial cells in the human flora as there are human cells in the body, with the largest number of the human flora being in the gut flora, and a large number on the skin.


Premise: Which family member came to Paris in June 1849?

Hypothesis: After 15 October, when his condition took a marked turn for the worse, only a handful of his closest friends remained with him, although Viardot remarked sardonically that "all the grand Parisian ladies considered it de rigueur to faint in his room."


Premise: How did Eisenhower describe his political views?

Hypothesis: Throughout his presidency, Eisenhower adhered to a political philosophy of dynamic conservatism.


Premise: What character did Stephanie Sigma portray?

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


Premise: Where are the ribosome binding site, terminator and start and stop codons located on transcribed pre-mRNA?

Hypothesis: The transcribed pre-mRNA contains untranslated regions at both ends which contain a ribosome binding site, terminator and start and stop codons.


Premise: What was the underlying cause of the failure on IndyMac?

Hypothesis: This “run” on the thrift followed the public release of a letter from Senator Charles Schumer to the FDIC and OTS.


Premise: On what types of ideas did the Condemnation of 1277 place restrictions?

Hypothesis: An alternative was presented by William of Ockham, who insisted that the world of reason and the world of faith had to be kept apart.


Premise: What years was the Treaty of Wuchale formally binding?

Hypothesis: In the Treaty of Wuchale (It.


Premise: Who's fugues achieve a remarkable marriage of boldly distinctive melodic lines?

Hypothesis: The written quality of the music has enabled a high level of complexity within them: J.S. Bach's fugues, for instance, achieve a remarkable marriage of boldly distinctive melodic lines weaving in counterpoint yet creating a coherent harmonic logic that would be impossible in the heat of live improvisation.


Premise: What type of lanterns are used outside elevators as well as inside most cabs?

Hypothesis: In addition to the call buttons, elevators usually have floor indicators (often illuminated by LED) and direction lanterns.


Premise: In addition to extracting components from wood, what might scientist do by adding components, for example, to make innovative products?

Hypothesis: As scientists and engineers further learn and develop new techniques to extract various components from wood, or alternatively to modify wood, for example by adding components to wood, new more advanced products will appear on the marketplace.


Premise: How many blacks lived in Detroit in 1930?

Hypothesis: In 1910, fewer than 6,000 blacks called the city home; in 1930 more than 120,000 blacks lived in Detroit.


Premise: Adrenalize followed what 1987 Def Leppard record?

Hypothesis: Ozzy Osbourne's No More Tears (1991), and Van Halen's For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge (1991) showcased this popularity.


Premise: In what year did the Puritans survey New Haven Harbor?

Hypothesis: In 1637 a small party of Puritans reconnoitered the New Haven harbor area and wintered over.


Premise: What estuary east of Plymouth is part of the River Plym?

Hypothesis: In the Sound is Drake's Island which is seen from Plymouth Hoe, a flat public area on top of limestone cliffs.


Premise: How many people would be in the orchestra Kondo imagined using for the soundtrack?

Hypothesis: He originally envisioned a full 50-person orchestra for action sequences and a string quartet for more "lyrical moments", though the final product used sequenced music instead.


Premise: What was Guerrilla fighter José Castro Veiga's nickname?

Hypothesis: General Francisco Franco — himself a Galician from Ferrol — ruled as dictator from the civil war until his death in 1975.


Premise: What sport of hunting is in Africa?

Hypothesis: The safari method of hunting was a development of sport hunting that saw elaborate travel in Africa, India and other places in pursuit of trophies.


Premise: Who took over the territory and made it part of their empire?

Hypothesis: After the region's conquest by Alexander the Great it became part of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, a successor state of Alexander's empire.


Premise: With what Belorussian city does Kathmandu have a relationship?

Hypothesis: KMC's constant endeavor is to enhance its interaction with SAARC countries, other International agencies and many other major cities of the world to achieve better urban management and developmental programs for Kathmandu.


Premise: In what historical period was a large portion of the population illiterate?

Hypothesis: For this reason there was often no reason to write the establishment's name on the sign and inns opened without a formal written name, the name being derived later from the illustration on the pub's sign.


Premise: What are two examples of metaphoric architecture?

Hypothesis: While it is considered by some to be merely an aspect of postmodernism, others consider it to be a school in its own right and a later development of expressionist architecture.


Premise: Which train station is close to the northern end of campus?

Hypothesis: The Foster and Davis stations are within walking distance of the southern end of the campus, while the Noyes station is close to the northern end of the campus.


Premise: What did the treaty give to the Russians?

Hypothesis: A team made up entirely of Manchus drew up the Treaty of Kyakhta (1727) to solidify the diplomatic understanding with Russia.


Premise: What birthday did Beyonce's album B'Day celebrate?

Hypothesis: Beyoncé's second solo album B'Day was released on September 5, 2006, in the US, to coincide with her twenty-fifth birthday.


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

Hypothesis: In literature, alternative terms for great power are often world power or major power, but these terms can also be interchangeable with superpower.


Premise: What is the purpose of the new overview

Hypothesis: In mid 2011, the Foundation announced in its new "Water, Sanitation, Hygiene Strategy Overview" that its funding now focuses primarily on sanitation, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, because access to improved sanitation is lowest in those regions.


Premise: Until what century was Catalan used as the official language in Sardinia?

Hypothesis: Catalan was widely used as an official language in Sicily until the 15th century, and in Sardinia until the 17th.


Premise: What metals were alloyed with tin to make it stronger?

Hypothesis: To make jewelry, forks and spoons, or other objects from tin, it was usually alloyed with other metals to increase its strength and hardness.


Premise: What did General-in-Chief He petition Empress He for?

Hypothesis: There, in a written petition to Empress He, they demanded the eunuchs' execution.


Premise: What investor bought Iscar?

Hypothesis: In July 2007, American business magnate and investor Warren Buffett's holding company Berkshire Hathaway bought an Israeli company, Iscar, its first non-U.S. acquisition, for $4 billion.


Premise: What concept did Tarski introduce to discuss the conditions for the truth of statements?

Hypothesis: According to this theory, the conditions for the truth of a sentence as well as the sentences themselves are part of a metalanguage.


Premise: Under what period were the 4th century churches built?

Hypothesis: With the building of Christian basilicas in the late 4th century, wall and ceiling mosaics were adopted for Christian uses.


Premise: The facade of Saint Denis combines round arches with what other style arch?

Hypothesis: He designed the façade of Saint-Denis to be an echo of the Roman Arch of Constantine with its three-part division and three large portals to ease the problem of congestion.


Premise: Which people became extinct after the Homosapiens arrived?

Hypothesis: Homo sapiens reached the region by around 45,000 years ago, having moved eastwards from the Indian subcontinent.


Premise: To what area's language is Tuvaluan closely related?

Hypothesis: It is most closely related to the languages spoken on the Polynesian outliers in Micronesia and northern and central Melanesia.


Premise: Where did Philip V want to extend his control to?

Hypothesis: The First Macedonian War saw the Romans involved directly in only limited land operations, but they ultimately achieved their objective of pre-occupying Philip and preventing him from aiding Hannibal.


Premise: How many Bf 109s were lost?

Hypothesis: The day's fighting cost Kesselring and Luftflotte 2 (Air Fleet 2) 24 aircraft, including 13 Bf 109s.


Premise: The mosaic found in 1966 depicts who as the central figure?

Hypothesis: In 1966 remains of a synagogue were found in the ancient harbour area.


Premise: What genre of music was influenced by pub rock?

Hypothesis: During the 1970s pubs provided an outlet for a number of bands, such as Kilburn and the High Roads, Dr. Feelgood and The Kursaal Flyers, who formed a musical genre called Pub rock that was a precursor to Punk music.


Premise: Who are some of the famous Irish Mandolinists?

Hypothesis: Noteworthy Irish mandolinists include Andy Irvine (who, like Johnny Moynihan, almost always tunes the top E down to D, to achieve an open tuning of GDAD), Paul Brady, Mick Moloney, Paul Kelly and Claudine Langille.


Premise: What is considered contrary to idealist beliefs in regards to space?

Hypothesis: But contrary to Leibniz's account, this warped space-time is as integral a part of an object as are its other defining characteristics, such as volume and mass.


Premise: HDTV handles what aspect ratio without using letterboxing or anamorphic stretching?

Hypothesis: The technical standards for broadcasting HDTV also handle the 16:9 aspect ratio images without using letterboxing or anamorphic stretching, thus increasing the effective image resolution.


Premise: What did a former member of the Hellenic Statistical Authority say the deficit had been inflated to justify?

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: Who were controversial among those brought to trial for Nazi collaboration?

Hypothesis: Draža Mihailović was found guilty of collaboration, high treason and war crimes and was subsequently executed by firing squad in July 1946.


Premise: Which magazine publication carried a statement from the Human Development Report Office in January, 2011?

Hypothesis: In a comment to The Economist in early January 2011, the Human Development Report Office responded to a January 6, 2011 article in the magazine which discusses the Wolff et al. paper.


Premise: What year did the Black Death arrive in England for the first time?

Hypothesis: Surviving remains of 12th century merchants' houses such as King John's House and Canute's Palace are evidence of the wealth that existed in the town at this time.


Premise: Where was most of the CIA's intelligence coming from before 1950?

Hypothesis: Intelligence primarily came from the Office of Reports and Estimates, which drew its reports from a daily take of State Department telegrams, military dispatches, and other public documents.


Premise: When was copper first known to have been used?

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


Premise: In what district did A. Carl Prince win election to the city council?

Hypothesis: In 1990 religion and politics intersected to impact the outcome of the Eighth District election in South Richmond.


Premise: What is the average temperature of the coldest  part of Burma and where is it located ?

Hypothesis: The Northern regions of Myanmar are the coolest, with average temperatures of 21 °C (70 °F).


Premise: Who do these laws prohibit from banning the installation of antennas?

Hypothesis: Laws about antennas were updated before the change to digital terrestrial broadcasts.


Premise: In which year did the Carnation Revolution take place?

Hypothesis: A report released in January 2011 by the Diário de Notícias and published in Portugal by Gradiva, had demonstrated that in the period between the Carnation Revolution in 1974 and 2010, the democratic Portuguese Republic governments encouraged over-expenditure and investment bubbles through unclear Public–private partnerships and funding of numerous ineffective and unnecessary external consultancy and advisory of committees and firms.


Premise: How many vets participated in the protest?

Hypothesis: For more than two hours, almost 1000 angry veterans tossed their medals, ribbons, hats, jackets, and military papers over the fence.


Premise: Who created the automaton Bell saw?

Hypothesis: Bell was fascinated by the machine and after he obtained a copy of von Kempelen's book, published in German, and had laboriously translated it, he and his older brother Melville built their own automaton head.


Premise: Who focuses on things such as evading payment of federal income tax, mail theft, or physical attacks on federal officials, as well as interstate crimes like drug trafficking and wire fraud?

Hypothesis: Federal criminal law focuses on areas specifically relevant to the federal government like evading payment of federal income tax, mail theft, or physical attacks on federal officials, as well as interstate crimes like drug trafficking and wire fraud.


Premise: How many people marched in Jerusalem?

Hypothesis: The general Arab reaction was one of mourning, with thousands of people pouring onto the streets of major cities throughout the Arab world.


Premise: Carnival was also a result of what area's folk culture?

Hypothesis: While christian festivals such as corpus christi were church-sanctioned celebrations, Carnival was also a manifestation of European folk culture.


Premise: At what age did Gautama come to pass?

Hypothesis: Now, as the Buddha, he spent the rest of his life teaching the path of awakening he had discovered, traveling throughout the northeastern part of the Indian subcontinent, and died at the age of 80 (483 BCE) in Kushinagar, India.


Premise: What was the original headline on 22 September 2003?

Hypothesis: On 22 September 2003 the newspaper appeared to misjudge the public mood surrounding mental health, as well as its affection for former world heavyweight champion boxer Frank Bruno, who had been admitted to hospital, when the headline "Bonkers Bruno Locked Up" appeared on the front page of early editions.


Premise: What is higher pathogen load associated with?

Hypothesis: Higher pathogen load is also associated with more restricted sexual behavior, which may reduce pathogen transmission.


Premise: How long ago was the BeiDou Satellite System first launched?

Hypothesis: According to China daily.


Premise: What group was defeated at the Battle of Lechfeld?

Hypothesis: The breakup of the Abbasid dynasty meant that the Islamic world fragmented into smaller political states, some of which began expanding into Italy and Sicily, as well as over the Pyrenees into the southern parts of the Frankish kingdoms.


Premise: What is the name of the musician that was a part of the roots and was also a blues guitarist?

Hypothesis: Some famous Malian influences in music are kora virtuoso musician Toumani Diabaté, the late roots and blues guitarist Ali Farka Touré, the Tuareg band Tinariwen, and several Afro-pop artists such as Salif Keita, the duo Amadou et Mariam, Oumou Sangare, and Habib Koité.


Premise: What is the goal of the Kanye West Foundation?

Hypothesis: In 2007, the West and the Foundation partnered with Strong American Schools as part of their "Ed in '08" campaign.


Premise: How many lumens can some high-power LEDs emit?

Hypothesis: Some can emit over a thousand lumens.


Premise: How many people were estimated to be killed in the revolutions?

Hypothesis: Although most of the revolutions were quickly put down, there was a significant amount of violence in many areas, with tens of thousands of people tortured and killed.


Premise: Who believe that the Ming dynasty did not exercise any direct political control over Tibet?

Hypothesis: Josef Kolmaš writes that the Ming dynasty did not exercise any direct political control over Tibet, content with their tribute relations that were "almost entirely of a religious character."


Premise: What's the point of ironing clothing?

Hypothesis: Much contemporary casual clothing is made of knit materials that do not readily wrinkle, and do not require ironing.


Premise: How long before Peirce did Hume write?

Hypothesis: Among Peirce's major contributions was to place inductive reasoning and deductive reasoning in a complementary rather than competitive mode, the latter of which had been the primary trend among the educated since David Hume wrote a century before.


Premise: When was the Berne Convention?

Hypothesis: When the administrative secretariats established by the Paris Convention (1883) and the Berne Convention (1886) merged in 1893, they located in Berne, and also adopted the term intellectual property in their new combined title, the United International Bureaux for the Protection of Intellectual Property.


Premise: What is the main distinction of side lobes?

Hypothesis: The other lobes usually represent unwanted radiation and are called "sidelobes".


Premise: How much data space can an SNES cartridge use?

Hypothesis: While the SNES can address 128 Mbit,[f] only 117.75 Mbit are actually available for cartridge use.


Premise: What senator did Kerry investigate in 1978?

Hypothesis: It was in this role in 1978 that Kerry announced an investigation into possible criminal charges against then Senator Edward Brooke, regarding "misstatements" in his first divorce trial.


Premise: What will be established in 2023?

Hypothesis: United States government assistance is the mainstay of the economy.


Premise: Which engineers came up with the first mechanical clocks?

Hypothesis: In the 11th century, Chinese inventors and engineers invented the first mechanical clocks driven by an escapement mechanism.


Premise: When were computers first used to coordinate information between many locations?

Hypothesis: Computers have been used to coordinate information between multiple locations since the 1950s.


Premise: What was Sweden's motivation to join the war?

Hypothesis: Because of Prussia's alliance with Britain, Austria formed an alliance with France, seeing an opportunity to recapture Silesia, which had been lost in a previous war.


Premise: Which side of the civil war did Nasser side with?

Hypothesis: Al-Badr and his tribal partisans began receiving increasing support from Saudi Arabia to help reinstate the kingdom, while Nasser subsequently accepted a request by Sallal to militarily aid the new government on 30 September.


Premise: Where is the Neostokavian-Ijekavian language predominantely spoken?

Hypothesis: Bosniak nationalists claim that both Croats and Serbs have "appropriated" the Bosnian language, since Ljudevit Gaj and Vuk Karadžić preferred the Neoštokavian-Ijekavian dialect, widely spoken in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as the basis for language standardization, whereas the nationalists among the Serbs claim either that any divergence in the language is artificial, or claim that the Štokavian dialect is theirs and the Čakavian Croats'— in more extreme formulations Croats have "taken" or "stolen" their language from the Serbs.[citation needed]


Premise: In the photophone, light carried sound and what?

Hypothesis: Both men later became full associates in the Volta Laboratory Association.


Premise: What was the term used to describe military governors?

Hypothesis: With Yoritomo firmly established, the bakufu system that would govern Japan for the next seven centuries was in place.


Premise: Which part in particular became urbanised in the 20th century?

Hypothesis: The borders around the Manchester area were particularly complicated, with narrow protrusions of the administrative county between the county boroughs – Lees urban district formed a detached part of the administrative county, between Oldham county borough and the West Riding of Yorkshire.


Premise: How many square miles of Richmond is water?

Hypothesis: The city is located in the Piedmont region of Virginia, at the highest navigable point of the James River.


Premise: Has violent crime rate fallen or risen in the last 10 years?

Hypothesis: In the past three years, the number of reported major crimes fell 11 percent to a total of 68,815.


Premise: What does Slovak have slightly more of than Czech?

Hypothesis: One study showed that Czech and Slovak lexicons differed by 80 percent, but this high percentage was found to stem primarily from differing orthographies and slight inconsistencies in morphological formation; Slovak morphology is more regular (when changing from the nominative to the locative case, Praha becomes Praze in Czech and Prahe in Slovak).


Premise: What text rejects the Ashkenazi prohibition against kitniyot?

Hypothesis: Jewish historians also note that certain customs of today's Orthodox are not continuations of past practice, but instead represent innovations that would have been unknown to prior generations.


Premise: What actor portrayed Franz Oberhauser?

Hypothesis: Despite being an original story, Spectre draws on Ian Fleming's source material, most notably in the character of Franz Oberhauser, played by Christoph Waltz.


Premise: How were adapters used to get around PAL region restrictions?

Hypothesis: This can be overcome through the use of adapters, typically by inserting the imported cartridge in one slot and a cartridge with the correct region chip in a second slot.


Premise: What basic difference is there between the teams of Barcelona and Real Madrid?

Hypothesis: There is often a fierce rivalry between the two strongest teams in a national league, and this is particularly the case in La Liga, where the game between Barcelona and Real Madrid is known as El Clásico.


Premise: Somerset House was designed by whom?

Hypothesis: Somerset House in London, designed by Sir William Chambers in 1776 for government offices, was as magnificent as any country house, though never quite finished, as funds ran out.


Premise: What kind of tourism attracts tourists yearly?

Hypothesis: Water tourism inside the city proper attracts hundreds of thousands of tourists yearly.


Premise: Who was the president of alternative programming at Fox?

Hypothesis: Much early attention on the show was therefore focused on the widowhood of Danny Gokey.[citation needed]


Premise: What did women acknowledge who considered themselves as lesbian or bisexual?

Hypothesis: Therefore, individuals classified as homosexual in one study might not be identified the same way in another depending on which components are assessed and when the assessment is made making it difficult to pin point who is homosexual and who is not and what the overall prevalence within a population may be.


Premise: When were the first multi-party elections held?

Hypothesis: The country was controlled by a revolutionary council until 1984.


Premise: How are the conductive plates often made for larger value capacitors?

Hypothesis: To reduce the series resistance and inductance for long plates, the plates and dielectric are staggered so that connection is made at the common edge of the rolled-up plates, not at the ends of the foil or metalized film strips that comprise the plates.


Premise: Where did the first semi-permanent residents of the Antarctic area live?

Hypothesis: The first semi-permanent inhabitants of regions near Antarctica (areas situated south of the Antarctic Convergence) were British and American sealers who used to spend a year or more on South Georgia, from 1786 onward.


Premise: Who attacked the protest?

Hypothesis: On October 10, Ivano-Frankivsk was the site of a pre-election protest attended by 30,000 people.


Premise: How many people were said to have died in the Great Famine?

Hypothesis: The Third Plague Pandemic in the mid-19th century killed 10 million people in India.


Premise: The Commission felt that bundling the browser with Windows computers harmed what?

Hypothesis: In January 2009, the European Commission announced it would investigate the bundling of Internet Explorer with Windows operating systems from Microsoft, saying "Microsoft's tying of Internet Explorer to the Windows operating system harms competition between web browsers, undermines product innovation and ultimately reduces consumer choice."


Premise: How much of Apple's revenue was generated by iPod purchases in Q2 of 2007?

Hypothesis: On April 9, 2007, it was announced that Apple had sold its one-hundred millionth iPod, making it the biggest selling digital music player of all time.


Premise: The difference in responses in infant immune systems is the cause of what?

Hypothesis: This can be the reason for distinct time frames found in vaccination schedules.


Premise: Why do the constraints of constructing a flight deck affect the role of a carrier?

Hypothesis: The constraints of constructing a flight deck affect the role of a given carrier strongly, as they influence the weight, type, and configuration of the aircraft that may be launched.


Premise: In 2007 what percentage of street vendors in Hyderabad borrowed money to finance their operations?

Hypothesis: Among the street vendors, 84% are male and 16% female,:12 and four fifths are "stationary vendors" operating from a fixed pitch, often with their own stall.:15–16 Most are financed through personal savings; only 8% borrow from moneylenders.:19 Vendor earnings vary from ₹50 (74¢ US) to ₹800 (US$12)


Premise: When did the most catastrophic earthquakes occur?

Hypothesis: Destructive earthquakes leading to serious loss of life strike about every 80 years.


Premise: What historic landmark is located on the Pier?

Hypothesis: The Santa Monica Looff Hippodrome (carousel) is a National Historic Landmark.


Premise: By what were the later kings of the Rastrakuta Empire influenced?

Hypothesis: but the later kings were strongly influenced by Jainism.


Premise: Who was responsible for ideological tasks of the written records?

Hypothesis: RSHA Amt VII (Written Records) was overseen by Professor Franz Six and was responsible for "ideological" tasks, by which was meant the creation of antisemitic and anti-Masonic propaganda.


Premise: What treaty was used by Stockton and Kearny on January 1, 1847?

Hypothesis: As a result of the Mexican–American War of 1846–48, the territory of Alta California, including San Diego, was ceded to the United States by Mexico, under the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848.


Premise: What are Special Operations?

Hypothesis: Special Operations are "operations conducted in hostile, denied, or politically sensitive environments to achieve military, diplomatic, informational, and/or economic objectives employing military capabilities for which there is no broad conventional force requirement.


Premise: Who was allowed to teach a liberal Bible interpretation?

Hypothesis: He appreciated the advantages of democracy: "It is an invaluable gift, if God allows a people to freely elect its own authorities and overlords."


Premise: What is the purpose of the BeiDou-1 system using stallites in geostationary orbit?

Hypothesis: Unlike the American GPS, Russian GLONASS, and European Galileo systems, which use medium Earth orbit satellites, BeiDou-1 uses satellites in geostationary orbit.


Premise: Where did Arminianism take hold?

Hypothesis: In 1534, King Henry VIII put an end to all papal jurisdiction in England[s] after the Pope failed to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon; this opened the door to reformational ideas, notably during the following reign of Edward VI, through Thomas Cranmer, Richard Hooker, Matthew Parker and other theologians.


Premise: What did Kerry throw over a fence?

Hypothesis: Kerry threw some of his own decorations and awards as well as some given to him by other veterans to throw.


Premise: What was Tucson's population in 1910?

Hypothesis: The population increased gradually to 13,913 in 1910.


Premise: What other genres of music are enjoyed in Cyprus?

Hypothesis: Popular music in Cyprus is generally influenced by the Greek Laïka scene; artists who play in this genre include international platinum star Anna Vissi, Evridiki, and Sarbel.


Premise: Who designed rooms 128 and 128a at the V&A Museum?

Hypothesis: Both spaces were designed by Gareth Hoskins Architects.


Premise: What rule did George III and George IV believe a Catholic emancipation bill would violate?

Hypothesis: The first Hanoverian monarch, George I, relied on his ministers to a greater extent than did previous monarchs.


Premise: How did Dominic inspire his followers?

Hypothesis: At the same time, Dominic inspired the members of his order to develop a "mixed" spirituality.


Premise: Which US state also donated territory to Washington, D.C., but had it returned?

Hypothesis: (Virginia had also donated land, but it was returned in 1849.)


Premise: Does this article cover east-west or north-south streets?

Hypothesis: This article covers numbered east-west streets in Manhattan, New York City.


Premise: What type of content is delivered at madaris?

Hypothesis: This is similar to the Western world, in which universities began as institutions of the Catholic church.


Premise: The use of bold fonts and capilization in titles falls under which unusual grammatical distinction?

Hypothesis: The rules for which words to capitalise are not based on any grammatically inherent correct/incorrect distinction and are not universally standardized; they are arbitrary and differ between style guides, although in most styles they tend to follow a few strong conventions, as follows:


Premise: At what cool temperature is a beers flavor reduced?

Hypothesis: Beer served unchilled—either cool or at room temperature, reveal more of their flavours.


Premise: What was Prince Albert's nickname?

Hypothesis: As a great-grandson of Queen Victoria, he was known formally as His Highness Prince Albert of York from birth.


Premise: What city is Dell's Minnesota facility in?

Hypothesis: Dell facilities in the United States are located in Austin, Texas; Plano, Texas; Nashua, New Hampshire; Nashville, Tennessee; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Peoria, Illinois; Hillsboro, Oregon (Portland area); Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Eden Prairie, Minnesota (Dell Compellent); Bowling Green, Kentucky; Lincoln, Nebraska; and Miami, Florida.


Premise: Who produced the contents of World Three?

Hypothesis: The influence of World Three, in his view, on the individual human mind (World Two) is at least as strong as the influence of World One.


Premise: Which famed professional baseball player is known to have visited at Lighthouse Point Park in New Haven during the 1920's?

Hypothesis: Lighthouse Point Park, a public beach run by the city, was a popular tourist destination during the Roaring Twenties, attracting luminaries of the period such as Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb.


Premise: How many tons of toxic chemicals does GE release into the atmosphere each year?

Hypothesis: GE has a history of some of its activities giving rise to large-scale air and water pollution.


Premise: What building has ceeiling painting dedicated to the lutenists?

Hypothesis: There were singer-lutenists at the court in Palermo following the Norman conquest of the island from the Muslims, and the lute is depicted extensively in the ceiling paintings in the Palermo’s royal Cappella Palatina, dedicated by the Norman King Roger II of Sicily in 1140.


Premise: Who used William's phrase as a description of the First Amendment and its restriction on the legislative branch?

Hypothesis: The phrase was later used by Thomas Jefferson as a description of the First Amendment and its restriction on the legislative branch of the federal government, in an 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptists (a religious minority concerned about the dominant position of the Congregationalist church in Connecticut):


Premise: In what year was the store destroyed?

Hypothesis: The word department store had not been invented at that time and thus it was called the "Monster House".


Premise: How high does the Palacio Salvo stand?

Hypothesis: Palacio Salvo was originally intended to function as a hotel but is now a mixture of offices and private residences.


Premise: Along with the British, who occupied Libya at the end of the Second World War?

Hypothesis: At World War II's end in 1945, Libya was occupied by British and French forces.


Premise: How long did it take for Jacobi's first world record to be broken?

Hypothesis: His motor set a world record which was improved only four years later in September 1838 by Jacobi himself.


Premise: What does abv stand for?

Hypothesis: Beer ranges from less than 3% alcohol by volume (abv) to around 14% abv, though this strength can be increased to around 20% by re-pitching with champagne yeast, and to 55% abv by the freeze-distilling process.


Premise: Why did the mistranslation of szlachta come about?

Hypothesis: In the past, a certain misconception sometimes led to the mistranslation of "szlachta" as "gentry" rather than "nobility".:206 :xvi


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

Hypothesis: Although a foundation in the liberal arts and sciences is required in all majors, there is no required common core curriculum; individual degree requirements are set by the faculty of each school.


Premise: What is Diethylene Glycol commonly used for now?

Hypothesis: Under the laws extant at that time, prosecution of the manufacturer was possible only under the technicality that the product had been called an "elixir", which literally implied a solution in ethanol.


Premise: After the war, Sergei Korolev was known under what title?

Hypothesis: After the war, he became the USSR's chief rocket and spacecraft engineer, essentially the Soviet counterpart to von Braun.


Premise: What is the only conviction that can lead to the death penalty?

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


Premise: What type of films are Ilford Delta 3200 and Kodak T-MAX P3200?

Hypothesis: Kodak and Fuji also marketed E6 films designed for pushing (hence the "P" prefix), such as Ektachrome P800/1600 and Fujichrome P1600, both with a base speed of ISO 400.


Premise: Poland was affected by trade connections with what League?

Hypothesis: Norway came under the influence of England, while the other Scandinavian countries and Poland were influenced by trading contacts with the Hanseatic League.


Premise: What fungi can grow in copper metalliferous soils?

Hypothesis: The ericoid mycorrhizal fungi associated with Calluna, Erica and Vaccinium can grow in copper metalliferous soils.


Premise: What was the tap room sawdust meant to absorb spills and spit called?

Hypothesis: By the 20th century, the saloon, or lounge bar, had become a middle-class room[citation needed]—carpets on the floor, cushions on the seats, and a penny or two on the prices,[citation needed] while the public bar, or tap room, remained working class with bare boards, sometimes with sawdust to absorb the spitting and spillages (known as "spit and sawdust"), hard bench seats, and cheap beer[citation needed].


Premise: Where was there greater numbers of Latinos and Asian residents?

Hypothesis: Anti-miscegenation laws were passed in most states during the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries, but this did not prevent white slaveholders, their sons, or other powerful white men from taking slave women as concubines and having multiracial children with them.


Premise: What Christian denomination did Eisenhower belong to?

Hypothesis: The following day his body was moved to the Washington National Cathedral's Bethlehem Chapel, where he lay in repose for 28 hours.


Premise: What act was repulsive to Romans?

Hypothesis: Human sacrifice in ancient Rome was rare but documented.


Premise: What is Virgil's full name?

Hypothesis: Publius Vergilius Maro (Classical Latin: [ˈpuː.blɪ.ʊs wɛrˈɡɪ.lɪ.ʊs ˈma.roː]; October 15, 70 BC – September 21, 19 BC), usually called Virgil or Vergil /ˈvɜːrdʒᵻl/ in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period.


Premise: What do Jehovah Witnesses feel all the traditional holidays reflect?

Hypothesis: Their position is that these traditional holidays reflect Satan's control over the world.


Premise: What are the two languages of the Babylonian Talmud?

Hypothesis: Hebrew is the liturgical language of Judaism (termed lashon ha-kodesh, "the holy tongue"), the language in which most of the Hebrew scriptures (Tanakh) were composed, and the daily speech of the Jewish people for centuries.


Premise: What did Xenophon say Armenian language sounded like?

Hypothesis: He relates that the people spoke a language that to his ear sounded like the language of the Persians.


Premise: Who wrote that the book forces readers to question issues without resolving them?

Hypothesis: Ajayi states that the book forces readers to question issues about race, class, and society, but that it was not written to resolve them.


Premise: Who was at one time Laemmle's personal secretary?

Hypothesis: During this period Laemmle entrusted most of the production policy decisions to Irving Thalberg.


Premise: Which country has Nigerians sending the most money home?

Hypothesis: According to the International Organization for Migration, Nigeria witnessed a dramatic increase in remittances sent home from overseas Nigerians, going from USD 2.3 billion in 2004 to 17.9 billion in 2007.


Premise: What is 16-bit support intended for?

Hypothesis: The 32-bit version runs on CPUs compatible with x86 architecture 3rd generation (known as IA-32) or newer, and can run 32-bit and 16-bit applications, although 16-bit support must be enabled first.


Premise: How should consumers of the research approach these findings?

Hypothesis: Savin Williams (2006) discusses this issue and notes that by basing findings regarding sexual orientation on a single component, researchers may not actually capture the intended population.


Premise: When did Comcast acquire the cable assets of AT&T Broadband?

Hypothesis: In 2001, Comcast announced it would acquire the assets of the largest cable television operator at the time, AT&T Broadband, for US$44.5 billion.


Premise: What Industry did the bishop hurt

Hypothesis: The bishop, for example dammed the Kromme Rijn at Wijk bij Duurstede to protect his estates from flooding.


Premise: When did Doordarshan begin broadcasting in Hyderabad?

Hypothesis: Private satellite channels started in July 1992 with the launch of Star TV.


Premise: What important networks is it the function of Cyberspace support to protect?

Hypothesis: Inherent in this mission is the ability to establish, extend, secure, protect, and defend in order to sustain assigned networks and missions.


Premise: Why were the residents of the Chechen-Ingush ASSR deported?

Hypothesis: The territory of the ASSR was divided between other administrative unit of Russian SFSR and the Georgian SSR.


Premise: Who elects the Chief Minister?

Hypothesis: The current Chief Minister is Shahbaz Sharif, who became the Chief Minister of Punjab as being restored after Governor's rule starting from 25 February 2009 to 30 March 2009.


Premise: What is the resonance of Neptune trojans?

Hypothesis: The first and so far only object identified as associated with Neptune's trailing L5 Lagrangian point is 2008 LC18.


Premise: What was the name of Chopin's doctor?

Hypothesis: Chopin's disease and the cause of his death have since been a matter of discussion.


Premise: When did Japan begin building the Hakata Bay barrier?

Hypothesis: The Mongols attempted to settle matters in a diplomatic way from 1275 to 1279, but every envoy sent to Japan was executed.


Premise: What can extant architectural works be used to identify?

Hypothesis: Historical civilizations are often identified with their surviving architectural achievements.


Premise: What varies widely from state to state?

Hypothesis: Hunting is primarily regulated by state law; additional regulations are imposed through United States environmental law in the case of migratory birds and endangered species.


Premise: What is the earliest example of Greek architecture in France?

Hypothesis: What little there was, started with Charles de Wailly's crypt in the church of St Leu-St Gilles (1773–80), and Claude Nicolas Ledoux's Barriere des Bonshommes (1785–89).


Premise: How many blacks served in the Ottoman Army during the Austro-Turkish War of 1716-18?

Hypothesis: As a consequence of the slave trade and privateer activity, it is told how until 1878 in Ulcinj 100 black people lived.


Premise: What is an Etsudiantinas?

Hypothesis: In the early 20th century several mandolin orchestras (Estudiantinas) were active in Belgium.


Premise: Who is a notable exponent of pluralistic idealism?

Hypothesis: Pluralistic idealism such as that of Gottfried Leibniz takes the view that there are many individual minds that together underlie the existence of the observed world and make possible the existence of the physical universe.


Premise: What's the title of Schwarzenegger's autobiography?

Hypothesis: Schwarzenegger's autobiography, Total Recall, was released in October 2012.


Premise: What is Anthrozoology also known as?

Hypothesis: A major focus of anthrozoologic research is the quantifying of the positive effects of human-animal relationships on either party and the study of their interactions.


Premise: Who held the balance of power in the 1910 election?

Hypothesis: Conflict between the two Houses of Parliament over the People's Budget led to a reduction in the power of the peers in 1910.


Premise: What does ASI stand for?

Hypothesis: Following their basic and advanced training at the individual-level, soldiers may choose to continue their training and apply for an "additional skill identifier" (ASI).


Premise: Which Australian series has CBC taken interest in?

Hypothesis: More recently, the network has also begun picking up Canadian rights to some Australian series, including the drama series Janet King and Love Child, and the comedy-drama series Please Like Me.


Premise: What were the first conflicts of the American Revolution?

Hypothesis: Ongoing political tensions between Great Britain and the thirteen colonies reached a crisis in 1774 when the British placed the province of Massachusetts under martial law after the Patriots protested taxes they regarded as a violation of their constitutional rights as Englishmen.


Premise: What were soldiers expected to own prior to the year 217 BC?

Hypothesis: As a result, the Roman state was forced to arm its soldiers at the expense of the state, which it had not had to do in the past.


Premise: How many Vietnamese residents are there in Seattle?

Hypothesis: The Seattle-Tacoma area is also home to one of the largest Cambodian communities in the United States, numbering about 19,000 Cambodian Americans, and one of the largest Samoan communities in the mainland U.S., with over 15,000 people having Samoan ancestry.


Premise: Which cemetery in Vienna received Popper's ashes?

Hypothesis: Popper's manuscripts went to the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, partly during his lifetime and partly as supplementary material after his death.


Premise: Which organization oversees several K-8 Parochial Schools?

Hypothesis: The Roman Catholic Diocese of Charleston Office of Education also operates out of the city and oversees several K-8 parochial schools, such as Blessed Sacrament School, Christ Our King School, Charleston Catholic School, Nativity School, and Divine Redeemer School, all of which are "feeder" schools into Bishop England High School, a diocesan high school within the city.


Premise: What three free Slavic states were in the world as of 1878?

Hypothesis: The Slavic peoples who were, for the most part, denied a voice in the affairs of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, were calling for national self-determination.


Premise: How much did Idol earn in ad revenue alone for season 8?

Hypothesis: American Idol became the most expensive series on broadcast networks for advertisers starting season four, and by the next season, it had broken the record in advertising rate for a regularly scheduled prime-time network series, selling over $700,000 for a 30-seconds slot, and reaching up to $1.3 million for the finale.


Premise: What year was Union-Castle Line mailship replaced?

Hypothesis: Curnow Shipping, based in Avonmouth, replaced the Union-Castle Line mailship service in 1977, using the RMS (Royal Mail Ship)


Premise: Can these plants cross breed with the parent population of plants?

Hypothesis: Both autopolyploid and allopolyploid plants can often reproduce normally, but may be unable to cross-breed successfully with the parent population because there is a mismatch in chromosome numbers.


Premise: Which section of the US contains subtropical forests and mangrove wetlands?

Hypothesis: The Ohio and Tennessee Valleys and the Midwest consist largely of rolling hills and productive farmland, stretching south to the Gulf Coast.


Premise: Who told Hayek he should begin reading Hugo de Vries works?

Hypothesis: At his father's suggestion, Hayek, as a teenager, read the genetic and evolutionary works of Hugo de Vries and the philosophical works of Ludwig Feuerbach.


Premise: Why has defining pain been a challenge?

Hypothesis: Because it is a complex, subjective phenomenon, defining pain has been a challenge.


Premise: On what show did Queen announce they would be touring with Adam Lambert?

Hypothesis: On 6 March 2014, the band announced on Good Morning America that Queen + Adam Lambert will tour North America in Summer 2014.


Premise: How many people died?

Hypothesis: China Standard Time at epicenter (06:28:01 UTC) on May 12 in Sichuan province, killed 69,197 people and left 18,222 missing.


Premise: How many barrels of oil equivalent does Shell produce per day?

Hypothesis: Shell was vertically integrated and is active in every area of the oil and gas industry, including exploration and production, refining, distribution and marketing, petrochemicals, power generation and trading.


Premise: What region raised a militia army called the fyrd?

Hypothesis: Another change was the introduction of the stirrup, which increased the effectiveness of cavalry as shock troops.


Premise: What two inventions helped make Chinese literature especially important and portable?

Hypothesis: China, the origin of modern paper making and woodblock printing, produced one of the world's first print cultures.


Premise: Being a non-muslim in the Empire resulted in what as it related to taxes?

Hypothesis: Also, as the largest group of non-Muslim subjects (or zimmi) of the Islamic Ottoman state, the Orthodox millet was granted a number of special privileges in the fields of politics and commerce, and had to pay higher taxes than Muslim subjects.


Premise: Most people with the surname Ashkenazi, hail from which particular community?

Hypothesis: However, most people with this surname hail from within Sephardic communities, particularly from the Syrian Jewish community.


Premise: Was is the earliest phase of buddhism?

Hypothesis: Certain basic teachings appear in many places throughout the early texts, so most scholars conclude that Gautama Buddha must have taught something similar to the Three marks of existence, the Five Aggregates, dependent origination, karma and rebirth, the Four Noble Truths, the Noble Eightfold Path, and nirvana.


Premise: What German word is also suggestive deriving from  szlachta?

Hypothesis: Poles of the 17th century assumed that "szlachta" came from the German "schlachten" ("to slaughter" or "to butcher"); also suggestive is the German "Schlacht" ("battle").


Premise: By 19 how many papers had Von Neumann published?

Hypothesis: Some of von Neumann's instant solutions to the problems in calculus posed by Szegő, sketched out on his father's stationery, are still on display at the von Neumann archive in Budapest.


Premise: What was a common application for this type of bulb?

Hypothesis: A variation of the incandescent lamp did not use a hot wire filament, but instead used an arc struck on a spherical bead electrode to produce heat.


Premise: What type of glass absorbs some light?

Hypothesis: These properties, which give glass its clearness, can be retained even if glass is partially light-absorbing


Premise: Who was the first recorded coronation at the Abbey?

Hypothesis: A week later he was buried in the church, and nine years later his wife Edith was buried alongside him.


Premise: The Community Party of China gained power in China, what year did it happen?

Hypothesis: The Communist Party of China, founded in 1920, adopted the red flag and hammer and sickle emblem of the Soviet Union, which became the national symbols when the Party took power in China in 1949.


Premise: What tool is used to push the trace layers in a multi-layer PCB together?

Hypothesis: This is achieved by laminating a stack of materials in a press by applying pressure and heat for a period of time.


Premise: Which Queen album is the eighth best-selling album in the UK of all time?

Hypothesis: The band's second greatest hits compilation, Greatest Hits II, followed in October 1991, which is the eighth best-selling album of all time in the UK and has sold 16 million copies worldwide.


Premise: What group of elected officials provides checks and balances on the Mayor's executive authority?

Hypothesis: The mayor's statutory planning strategy is published as the London Plan, which was most recently revised in 2011.


Premise: What device is able to change electric powerinto radio waves and also do the reverse?

Hypothesis: In reception, an antenna intercepts some of the power of an electromagnetic wave in order to produce a tiny voltage at its terminals, that is applied to a receiver to be amplified.


Premise: What was the original valuation of the merger?

Hypothesis: The value of VMware stock fell 10% after the announcement, valuing the deal at around $63–64bn rather than the $67bn originally reported.


Premise: What statue is it rumored to be good luck to rub?

Hypothesis: In the second half of the 20th century Bladderball, a campus-wide game played with a large inflatable ball, became a popular tradition but was banned by administration due to safety concerns.


Premise: What were the perceived problems with the new Windows 8 user interface?

Hypothesis: Despite these shortcomings, 60 million Windows 8 licenses have been sold through January 2013, a number which included both upgrades and sales to OEMs for new PCs.


Premise: How many MP3s were offered for free by the website?

Hypothesis: The small size of MP3 files enabled widespread peer-to-peer file sharing of music ripped from CDs, which would have previously been nearly impossible.


Premise: Who committed the Oklahoma City Bombing?

Hypothesis: The Oklahoma City bombing of April 19, 1995, in which Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols detonated an explosive outside of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, killed 168 people, including 19 children.


Premise: What portion of the government was eventually separated from government participation?

Hypothesis: In 2011, the military junta was officially dissolved following a 2010 general election, and a nominally civilian government was installed.


Premise: What kind of programmes do students work on for Project Nepal?

Hypothesis: The Union is given a large subvention by the university, much of which is spent on maintaining around 300 clubs, projects and societies.


Premise: In what year did Sweden break away from the Kalmar Union?

Hypothesis: After the failed union of Sweden and Norway of 1319–1365, the pan-Scandinavian Kalmar Union was instituted in 1397.


Premise: What was the problem with AA gunnery?

Hypothesis: AA gunnery was a difficult business.


Premise: Where did Japan attack the United States?

Hypothesis: On December 7, 1941, Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor, bringing it too into the war on the Allied side.


Premise: What develpment produced the first large fleet ships?

Hypothesis: The development of flattop vessels produced the first large fleet ships.


Premise: Ashkenazi Jews have made up the majority of the American Jewish community since when?

Hypothesis: In the generations after emigration from the west, Jewish communities in places like Poland, Russia, and Belarus enjoyed a comparatively stable socio-political environment.


Premise: What is still a major symbol of Portuguese football history?

Hypothesis: Football is the most popular sport in Portugal.


Premise: Where was Juan Rodriguez born?

Hypothesis: Born in Santo Domingo of Portuguese and African descent, he arrived in Manhattan during the winter of 1613–1614, trapping for pelts and trading with the local population as a representative of the Dutch.


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

Hypothesis: In March 1971, the residential office of an FBI agent in Media, Pennsylvania was burglarized by a group calling itself the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI.


Premise: Why did the Soviet government fear the governments of France and Britain?

Hypothesis: The Soviet Union, which feared Western powers and the possibility of "capitalist encirclements", had little faith either that war could be avoided, or faith in the Polish army, and wanted nothing less than an ironclad military alliance with France and Britain that would provide a guaranteed support for a two-pronged attack on Germany; thus, Stalin's adherence to the collective security line was purely conditional.


Premise: What was different about later elections then first free election?

Hypothesis: (To be sure, some earlier Polish kings had been elected with help from bodies such as that which put Casimir II on the throne, thereby setting a precedent for free elections.)


Premise: What crops was the New Deal Program made for?

Hypothesis: North Carolina was hard hit by the Great Depression, but the New Deal programs of Franklin D. Roosevelt for cotton and tobacco significantly helped the farmers.


Premise: Besides sprectrum of activity and chemical structure, how can antibacterial antibiotics classified?

Hypothesis: Narrow-spectrum" antibacterial antibiotics target specific types of bacteria, such as Gram-negative or Gram-positive bacteria, whereas broad-spectrum antibiotics affect a wide range of bacteria.


Premise: How many new classes of antibacterial antibiotics was introduced in the late 2000's/

Hypothesis: Following a 40-year hiatus in discovering new classes of antibacterial compounds, four new classes of antibacterial antibiotics have been brought into clinical use in the late 2000s and early 2010s: cyclic lipopeptides (such as daptomycin), glycylcyclines (such as tigecycline), oxazolidinones (such as linezolid), and lipiarmycins (such as fidaxomicin).


Premise: When did Eisenhower join Augusta National?

Hypothesis: He had a small, basic golf facility installed at Camp David, and became close friends with the Augusta National Chairman Clifford Roberts, inviting Roberts to stay at the White House on several occasions.


Premise: Children under what age often cannot comprehend sarcasm?

Hypothesis: (Children younger than age nine often cannot comprehend sarcasm at all.)


Premise: When, before Napoleon, had Europe last seen the same level of political consolidation?

Hypothesis: By 1811, Napoleon ruled over 70 million people across an empire that had domination in Europe, which had not witnessed this level of political consolidation since the days of the Roman Empire.


Premise: Which river runs through the university's campus?

Hypothesis: Other popular tourist attractions include the grounds of University College Cork, through which the River Lee flows, the Women's Gaol at Sundays


Premise: Who are the main female role models for Scout during the story?

Hypothesis: By balancing the masculine influences of Atticus and Jem with the feminine influences of Calpurnia and Miss Maudie, one scholar writes, "Lee gradually demonstrates that Scout is becoming a feminist in the South, for with the use of first-person narration, she indicates that Scout/ Jean Louise still maintains the ambivalence about being a Southern lady she possessed as a child."


Premise: How did Whitehead refer to the combination of a person's separate experiences?

Hypothesis: These "classical" concepts fail to adequately account for change, and overlook the active and experiential nature of the most basic elements of the world.


Premise: What is the Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Defence generally known as?

Hypothesis: His or her role is to ensure the MoD operates effectively as a department of the government.


Premise: What model described the opposite of approach as unmoving but with resistance and strength?

Hypothesis: Research that tested the competing hypotheses generated by all four models also supported the Action Tendency Model.


Premise: What was the name of Charles Darwin's grandfather?

Hypothesis: This process was later called Lamarckism.


Premise: About how many billionaires call London home?

Hypothesis: As of 2014[update], London has the largest number of billionaires (British Pound Sterling) in the world, with 72 residing in the city.


Premise: From where were the bishops in attendance at the Council few in number?

Hypothesis: Constantine called all the Christian bishops throughout the Roman Empire to a meeting, and some 318 bishops (very few from the Western Empire) attended the First Council of Nicaea.


Premise: What is the high wind speed on Neptune's cloud tops?

Hypothesis: At the cloud tops, the prevailing winds range in speed from 400 m/s along the equator to 250 m/s at the poles.


Premise: Who did The Sun declare political endorsement of in 1997?

Hypothesis: The Sun switched support to the Labour party on 18 March 1997, six weeks before the General Election victory which saw the New Labour leader Tony Blair become Prime Minister with a large parliamentary majority, despite the paper having attacked Blair and New Labour up to a month earlier.


Premise: During the Migrations period Germans would encounter what groups in the east?

Hypothesis: The arrival of the Huns in Europe resulted in Hun conquest of large parts of Eastern Europe, the Huns initially were allies of the Roman Empire who fought against Germanic tribes, but later the Huns cooperated with the Germanic tribe of the Ostrogoths, and large numbers of Germans lived within the lands of the Hunnic Empire of Attila.


Premise: What was Detroit's population in 1765?

Hypothesis: By 1773, the population of Detroit was 1,400.


Premise: How many policemen does the French government pay for on St. Barts?

Hypothesis: St. Barthélemy became an overseas territory of the European Union on 1 January 2012, but the island's inhabitants remain French citizens with EU status holding EU passports.


Premise: Why would one use hydrogen mixed with nitrogen?

Hypothesis: In more recent applications, hydrogen is used pure or mixed with nitrogen (sometimes called forming gas) as a tracer gas for minute leak detection.


Premise: What does PRISM do?

Hypothesis: Modern ISPs integrate a wide array of surveillance and packet sniffing equipment into their networks, which then feeds the data to law-enforcement/intelligence networks (such as DCSNet in the United States, or SORM in Russia) allowing monitoring of Internet traffic in real time.


Premise: What did Khrushchev want Nasser to remove the ban on?

Hypothesis: Khrushchev was reportedly taken aback and denied he had meant to interfere in the UAR's affairs.


Premise: For what reason did CBC attribute to delayed upgrades?

Hypothesis: On August 6, 2010, the CBC issued a press release stating that due to financial reasons, the CBC and Radio-Canada would only transition 27 transmitters total, one in each market where there was an originating station (i.e. a CBC or Radio-Canada television station located in that market).


Premise: When did the first mosque in Majuro open?

Hypothesis: There is also a small community of Ahmadiyya Muslims based in Majuro, with the first mosque opening in the capital in September 2012.


Premise: Who led the Allied powers?

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 band did Beyonce introduce in 2006?

Hypothesis: The band have supported Beyoncé in most subsequent live performances, including her 2007 concert tour The Beyoncé Experience, 2009–2010 I Am... World Tour and 2013–2014 The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour.


Premise: How many regions in Singapore have widely accepted madaris?

Hypothesis: In 2004, madaris were mainstreamed in 16 Regions nationwide, primarily in Muslim-majority areas in Mindanao under the auspices of the Department of Education (DepEd).


Premise: what other island is included in the territory?

Hypothesis: This includes Saint Helena and equatorial Ascension Island some 3,730 kilometres (2,318 mi) to the north of Tristan.


Premise: What are common applications of HEMT?

Hypothesis: It is for this reason that GaAs is used in high-frequency applications.


Premise: Who currently holds the record for the most league clean sheets during a season?

Hypothesis: During the 2008–09 season, this record was beaten by American goalkeeper Tim Howard (17).


Premise: Who controlled the Asian Sphere during the period between 1600-1868?

Hypothesis: In Asia, various Chinese dynasties and Japanese shogunates controlled the Asian sphere.


Premise: What two specific points of data do systems need to figure out to get local time?

Hypothesis: Many systems in use today base their date/time calculations from data derived from the IANA time zone database also known as zoneinfo.


Premise: When was the movie Final Destination released?

Hypothesis: Die Hard 2, Soul Plane, Jackie Brown, Get Shorty, Home Alone, Liar Liar, Passenger 57, Final Destination (2000), Unaccompanied Minors, Catch Me


Premise: What is the finest border ballad?

Hypothesis: The county was also a common location for folk songs, including "The Lancashire Miller", "Warrington Ale" and "The soldier's farewell to Manchester", while Liverpool, as a major seaport, was the subject of many sea shanties, including "The Leaving of Liverpool" and "Maggie May", beside several local Wassailing songs.


Premise: What are typically regarded as "runways at sea"?

Hypothesis: As "runways at sea", aircraft carriers have a flat-top flight deck, which launches and recovers aircraft.


Premise: What percentage of Iran speaks any type of Iranian language?

Hypothesis: The CIA's World Factbook has estimated that around 79% of the population of Iran are a diverse Indo-European ethno-linguistic group that comprise the speakers of Iranian languages, with Persians constituting 53% of the population, Gilaks and Mazanderanis 7%, Kurds 10%, Lurs 6%, and Balochs 2%.


Premise: Along with aggravating factors, what other factors are considered at the second hearing?

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


Premise: Which America's Cup competitions did Valencia host?

Hypothesis: In its long history, Valencia has acquired many local traditions and festivals, among them the Falles, which were declared Celebrations of International Touristic Interest (Fiestas de Interés Turístico Internacional) on 25 January 1965, and the Water Tribunal of Valencia (Tribunal de las Aguas de Valencia), which was declared an intangible cultural heritage of humanity (Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial de la Humanidad) in 2009.


Premise: What kind of insect can damage architectural structures?

Hypothesis: Insects commonly regarded as pests include those that are parasitic (e.g. lice, bed bugs), transmit diseases (mosquitoes, flies), damage structures (termites), or destroy agricultural goods (locusts, weevils).


Premise: The rapid development of what did British rule cause in India?

Hypothesis: Dissatisfaction with Company rule led to the Indian Rebellion of 1857, after which the British provinces of India were directly administered by the British Crown and witnessed a period of both rapid development of infrastructure and economic stagnation.


Premise: In what providence is Edmonton located?

Hypothesis: The city covers an area of 446.04 square kilometres (172.22 sq mi) and is the most easterly city in North America, excluding Greenland; it is 295 miles (475 km) closer to London, England than it is to Edmonton, Alberta.


Premise: Has the country been able to overcome the problems of government with the previous regime?

Hypothesis: There is, however, continuing criticism of the government's treatment of the Muslim Rohingya minority and its poor response to the religious clashes.


Premise: It was believed that Victorias true father was a hemophiliac and not who?

Hypothesis: The presence of the disease in Victoria's descendants, but not in her ancestors, led to modern speculation that her true father was not the Duke of Kent but a haemophiliac.


Premise: What are the two cycles of the Greek folk song?

Hypothesis: The klephtic cycle came into being between the late Byzantine period and the start of the Greek War of Independence.


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

Hypothesis: The general effect of the water content upon the wood substance is to render it softer and more pliable.


Premise: In what direction did Richmond's borders expand in 1970?

Hypothesis: In 1970, Richmond's borders expanded by an additional 27 square miles (70 km2) on the south.


Premise: What is hunting in the U.S. not associated with?

Hypothesis: Hunting in the United States is not associated with any particular class or culture; a 2006 poll showed seventy-eight percent of Americans supported legal hunting, although relatively few Americans actually hunt.


Premise: Which borough had the highest HDI score?

Hypothesis: The Human Development Index report of 2005  shows that there were three boroughs with a very high Human Development Index, 12 with a high HDI value (9 above .85) and one with a medium HDI value (almost high).


Premise: What finance-related acts are forbidden by the Quran?

Hypothesis: A number of practices, such as usury and gambling, are prohibited.


Premise: What larger group does political science belong to?

Hypothesis: In each historic period and in almost every geographic area, we can find someone studying politics and increasing political understanding.


Premise: What group of kids are in charge of the Digimons?

Hypothesis: The group of children who come in contact with the Digital World changes from series to series.


Premise: What did Güshi Khan present as a gift to the Dalai Lama?

Hypothesis: Van Praag writes that at this point Güshi Khan maintained control over the armed forces, but accepted his inferior status towards the Dalai Lama.


Premise: The New Delhi town plan was influenced by what type of architecture?

Hypothesis: The New Delhi town plan, like its architecture, was chosen with one single chief consideration: to be a symbol of British power and supremacy.