Premise: When could GameCube owners purchase Twilight Princess?

Hypothesis: Originally planned for release on the GameCube in November 2005, Twilight Princess was delayed by Nintendo to allow its developers to refine the game, add more content, and port it to the Wii.


Premise: The Rodo Park and the Estadio Gran Parque Central serves as poles of what?

Hypothesis: The Rodó Park and the Estadio Gran Parque Central were also established, which served as poles of urban development.


Premise: What notable vow was sworn by the mendicant orders?

Hypothesis: In the 13th century mendicant orders—the Franciscans and the Dominicans—who swore vows of poverty and earned their living by begging, were approved by the papacy.


Premise: What institute is located near the Oklahoma City National Memorial?

Hypothesis: The Oklahoma City National Memorial in the northern part of Oklahoma City's downtown was created as the inscription on its eastern gate of the Memorial reads, "to honor the victims, survivors, rescuers, and all who were changed forever on April 19, 1995"; the memorial was built on the land formerly occupied by the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building complex prior to its 1995 bombing.


Premise: What aspect of the Enlightenment did Robert Darnton and Jurgen Habermas focus on within the Enlightenment?

Hypothesis: While the public sphere is generally an integral component of the social study of the Enlightenment, other historians have questioned whether the public sphere had these characteristics.


Premise: What happens when a lot of repo notes come due?

Hypothesis: An increase in the quantity of notes offered at auction allows an increase in liquidity in the economy.


Premise: Who was initially named prime minister by the GNC?

Hypothesis: Following his defeat in the civil war, Gaddafi's system of governance was dismantled and replaced under the interim government of the NTC, who legalised trade unions and freedom of the press.


Premise: After his move to the Committee of Public Safety, where did Napoleon unsuccessfully attempt to be transferred to?

Hypothesis: On 15 September, Bonaparte was removed from the list of generals in regular service for his refusal to serve in the Vendée campaign.


Premise: What does an optoisolator do?

Hypothesis: An optoisolator also allows information to be transferred between circuits not sharing a common ground potential.


Premise: The studies indicated that there was a lack of information in the area about what kind of choice?

Hypothesis: These statistics point to the complexities surrounding the lack of health/nutrition literacy and reveal the degree to which they are embedded in the social structure and interconnected with other problems.


Premise: In what year did Lange die?

Hypothesis: In the late 19th century, the most influential theorists were William James (1842–1910) and Carl Lange (1834–1900).


Premise: What gun was the French Brocq system used with?

Hypothesis: The French Brocq system was electrical, the operator entered the target range and had displays at guns; it was used with their 75 mm.


Premise: For whom did Paul VI work for from 1922 to 1954?

Hypothesis: Pope Paul VI knew the Roman Curia well, having worked there for a generation from 1922 to 1954.


Premise: What is often made of wood that provides shelter to people?

Hypothesis: The year-to-year variation in tree-ring widths and isotopic abundances gives clues to the prevailing climate at that time.


Premise: What races are considered to be the of the the national races in Burma ?

Hypothesis: The Burmese regime has attempted to forcibly expel Rohingya and bring in non-Rohingyas to replace them—this policy has resulted in the expulsion of approximately half of the 800,000 Rohingya from Burma, while the Rohingya people have been described as "among the world's least wanted" and "one of the world's most persecuted minorities."


Premise: In his farewell speech, what complex did Eisenhower warn the American people of?

Hypothesis: In his farewell speech, Eisenhower raised the issue of the Cold War and role of the U.S. armed forces.


Premise: Who was Cyprus settled by in 2nd millennium BC?

Hypothesis: Cyprus was settled by Mycenaean Greeks in two waves in the 2nd millennium BC.


Premise: What was a known issue of using shellac to make records?

Hypothesis: A sequence where a school teacher's collection of 78 rpm jazz records is smashed by a group of rebellious students is a key moment in the film Blackboard Jungle.


Premise: Who had formed the club that contained much of the colonial administration?

Hypothesis: If not the first use of the terms, the letter to the Times was certainly one of the earliest presentations of this vocabulary to the general public.


Premise: What language does Armenias resemble most?

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


Premise: What happened to Mutaguchi's troops?

Hypothesis: This represented the worst defeat suffered by the Japanese Army to that date.[citation needed]


Premise: What are a few pioneer universities in the state?

Hypothesis: The Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Himachal Pradesh University Shimla, Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology (IHBT, CSIR Lab), Palampur, the National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Una the Central University Dharamshala, AP Goyal (Alakh Prakash Goyal)


Premise: What is the armed conflict form 1775 to 1783 is known as?

Hypothesis: The Second Continental Congress then joined together against the British to defend that self-governance in the armed conflict from 1775 to 1783 known as the American Revolutionary War (also called American War of Independence).


Premise: In what century was the first dialectal Russian dictionary published?

Hypothesis: Among the first to study Russian dialects was Lomonosov in the 18th century.


Premise: What methods are used to remove non-audible components of audio signals?

Hypothesis: In lossy audio compression, methods of psychoacoustics are used to remove non-audible (or less audible) components of the audio signal.


Premise: What did kef help do?

Hypothesis: This style preserved the folk songs and dances of Western Armenia, and many artists also played the contemporary popular songs of Turkey and other Middle Eastern countries from which the Armenians emigrated.


Premise: Where is the mined bitumen taken for refining?

Hypothesis: Bituminous sands are mined using enormous (100 ton capacity) power shovels and loaded into even larger (400 ton capacity) dump trucks for movement to an upgrading facility.


Premise: Who was Roger Williams?

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: When was the Regius Poem written?

Hypothesis: Since the middle of the 19th century, Masonic historians have sought the origins of the movement in a series of similar documents known as the Old Charges, dating from the Regius Poem in about 1425 to the beginning of the 18th century.


Premise: In terms of teaching and research, what is the world's foremost institute of social science?

Hypothesis: The London Business School is considered one of the world's leading business schools and in 2015 its MBA programme was ranked second best in the world by the Financial Times.


Premise: Is Southampton's higher education sector weak or strong?

Hypothesis: The University of Southampton and Southampton Solent University together have a student population of over 40,000.


Premise: Who wrote An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations?

Hypothesis: The basis for classical economics forms Adam Smith's An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, published in 1776.


Premise: What kind of garden is The Great Garden?

Hypothesis: The Great Garden consists of several parts.


Premise: Madonna signed a contract with Callaway Arts and Entertainment to be a writer of what type of books?

Hypothesis: Madonna also signed a contract with Callaway Arts & Entertainment to be the author of five children's books.


Premise: Where is Westminster Abbey located?

Hypothesis: The building itself is the original abbey church.


Premise: What did Musharraf say his ban wasn't influenced by?

Hypothesis: He stated that his government was committed to rooting out extremism and made it clear that the banned militant organizations would not be allowed to resurface under any new name.


Premise: Which English philosopher wrote Leviathan in 1651?

Hypothesis: The English philosopher Thomas Hobbes ushered in this new debate with his work Leviathan in 1651.


Premise: How did the Taira clan expand power?

Hypothesis: However, the Taira clan was still very conservative when compared to its eventual successor, the Minamoto, and instead of expanding or strengthening its military might, the clan had its women marry Emperors and exercise control through the Emperor.


Premise: What did John do when Richard did not return from his crusade?

Hypothesis: When Richard still did not return from the crusade, John began to assert that his brother was dead or otherwise permanently lost.


Premise: what area radio was house music generally played on?

Hypothesis: By 1985, although the exact origins of the term are debated, "house music" encompassed these locally produced recordings.


Premise: Napoleon's naval plan came apart after British triumph at which Battle?

Hypothesis: Napoleon knew that the French fleet could not defeat the Royal Navy in a head-to-head battle, so he planned to lure it away from the English Channel through diversionary tactics.


Premise: Identity refers to the capacity for self-reflection and awareness in what scientific study?

Hypothesis: In cognitive psychology, the term "identity" refers to the capacity for self-reflection and the awareness of self.(Leary & Tangney 2003, p. 3)


Premise: West Buddhism is often seen as exotic and what?

Hypothesis: While in the West Buddhism is often seen as exotic and progressive, in the East it is regarded as familiar and traditional.


Premise: What absurd number of substitutions had some international teams been making in friendlies before 2004?

Hypothesis: In 2004, FIFA ruled that substitutions by a team be limited to six per match in international friendlies, in response to criticism that such matches were becoming increasingly farcical with managers making as many as 11 substitutions per match.


Premise: What has the NRA always maintained that being in the field with your firearm is?

Hypothesis: When Internet hunting was introduced in 2005, allowing people to hunt over the Internet using remotely controlled guns, the practice was widely criticised by hunters as violating the principles of fair chase.


Premise: What was built to help Bern grow bigger than the peninula?

Hypothesis: The city was originally built on a hilly peninsula surrounded by the River Aare, but outgrew natural boundaries by the 19th century.


Premise: Nearly all gasoline sold in the U.S. is mixed with what percentage of ethanol?

Hypothesis: The challenge is to expand the market for biofuels beyond the farm states where they have been most popular to date.


Premise: How old was Amanda Todd when she took her own life because of bullying?

Hypothesis: My story: Struggling, bullying, suicide, self-harm", legislative action was undertaken almost immediately after her suicide to study the prevalence of bullying and form a national anti-bullying strategy.


Premise: When was the Berlin Society of Anthropology founded by Rudolph Virchow?

Hypothesis: One notable exception was the Berlin Society of Anthropology (1869) founded by Rudolph Virchow, known for his vituperative attacks on the evolutionists.


Premise: In which branch of Buddhism is it believed that there can be no divine salvation or forgiveness for karma?

Hypothesis: The Japanese Pure Land teacher Genshin taught that Amitābha has the power to destroy the karma that would otherwise bind one in saṃsāra.


Premise: What is Berns most famous site?

Hypothesis: Perhaps its most famous sight is the Zytglogge (Bernese German for "Time Bell"), an elaborate medieval clock tower with moving puppets.


Premise: Which Apple device has the ability to sync with iTunes via the phone network?

Hypothesis: This service allows users to access the Music Store from either an iPhone or an iPod Touch and download songs directly to the device that can be synced to the user's iTunes Library over a WiFi connection, or, in the case of an iPhone, the telephone network.


Premise: Did the FBI investigate Martin Luther King Jr.?

Hypothesis: The FBI frequently investigated Martin Luther King, Jr.


Premise: Along with August, what is typically the hottest month in Plymouth?

Hypothesis: July and August are the warmest months with mean daily maxima over 19 °C (66 °F).


Premise: Dr. Rowan Williams was also Bishop of what?

Hypothesis: In 2003 he felt it necessary to apologise to British Freemasons after he said that their beliefs were incompatible with Christianity and that he had barred the appointment of Freemasons to senior posts in his diocese when he was Bishop of Monmouth.


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

Hypothesis: It is best known for Les Comparses (held on Sunday), a tumultuous dance in which 12,000 or more dancers organized into rival groups throw 75 tons of hard candies at one other.


Premise: What does the Marshall Islands receive from the United States?

Hypothesis: With few natural resources, the islands' wealth is based on a service economy, as well as some fishing and agriculture; aid from the United States represents a large percentage of the islands' gross domestic product.


Premise: What countries other than Brazil was Brazil's no wave music exported to?

Hypothesis: In Germany, groups such as Einstürzende Neubauten developed a unique style of industrial music, utilizing avant-garde noise, homemade instruments and found objects.


Premise: What is the strongest research body that executes fundamental and applied research?

Hypothesis: The strongest public non-profit research institute that carries out fundamental and applied research is the National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (NICPB; Estonian KBFI).


Premise: Along with the Shafi'i, to what sect of Islam do most Somalis belong?

Hypothesis: With very few exceptions, Somalis are entirely Muslims, the majority belonging to the Sunni branch of Islam and the Shafi`i school of Islamic jurisprudence, although a few are also adherents of the Shia Muslim denomination.


Premise: How much of Antarctica is covered by ice?

Hypothesis: About 98% of Antarctica is covered by the Antarctic ice sheet, a sheet of ice averaging at least 1.6 km (1.0 mi) thick.


Premise: What were some of the multi-ethnic confederacies of Eurasia?

Hypothesis: According to eastern homeland theory, prior to becoming known to the Roman world, Slavic-speaking tribes were part of the many multi-ethnic confederacies of Eurasia – such as the Sarmatian, Hun and Gothic empires.


Premise: When did the Theatre Royal burn?

Hypothesis: The English circus proprietor Pablo Fanque rebuilt an amphitheatre on the spot in 1850, which was subsequently transformed into a theatre and then into the present General Post Office in 1877.


Premise: What color is zinc?

Hypothesis: Zinc is a fair conductor of electricity.


Premise: In what films did Spielberg address war?

Hypothesis: Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as archetypes of modern Hollywood blockbuster filmmaking.


Premise: Who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird?

Hypothesis: To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960.


Premise: How much money is involved in bribery in the world each year?

Hypothesis: For instance, some political funding practices that are legal in one place may be illegal in another.


Premise: Is USB cheaper or more expensive than PoE?

Hypothesis: However, USB is cheaper than PoE provided that the distance is short, and power demand is low.


Premise: When did the French take control of the region to the north of the Congo River?

Hypothesis: The methods were often brutal: construction of the Congo–Ocean Railroad following World War I has been estimated to have cost at least 14,000 lives.


Premise: Grave site excavations near where Roman garrisons were established attest to the presence of Jews after what centuries?

Hypothesis: After Pannonia was ceded to the Huns in 433, the garrison populations were withdrawn to Italy, and only a few, enigmatic traces remain of a possible Jewish presence in the area some centuries later.


Premise: When did glassworkers begin to consider their products fine art?

Hypothesis: From the 19th century, there was a revival in many ancient glass-making techniques including cameo glass, achieved for the first time since the Roman Empire and initially mostly used for pieces in a neo-classical style.


Premise: How long did it take for the US military to respond by infiltrating Afghanistan?

Hypothesis: By December, the Taliban had been removed as rulers of Kabul, although a long and ongoing reconstruction would follow, severely hampered by ongoing turmoil and violence within the country.


Premise: How many households were recorded in the 2010 census

Hypothesis: There were 256,930 housing units at an average density of 375.9 per square mile (145.1/km²).


Premise: Why is a BeiDou-1 ground terminal so expensive?

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


Premise: In what century were negative numbers more commonly accepted in Europe?

Hypothesis: Negative numbers are used in the Bakhshali manuscript of ancient India, but its exact date of compilation is unknown.


Premise: What was the altitude range in feet of the stratosphere gun?

Hypothesis: Also available to the Americans at the start of the war was the 120 mm M1 gun stratosphere gun, which was the most powerful AA gun with an impressive 60,000 ft (18 km) altitude capability.


Premise: Name one of the individuals considered the founding fathers of modern Cypriot art.

Hypothesis: In many ways these two artists set the template for subsequent Cypriot art and both their artistic styles and the patterns of their education remain influential to this day.


Premise: Beyoncé used words from which Nigerian author in her song, Flawless?

Hypothesis: She would later align herself more publicly with the movement, sampling "We should all be feminists", a speech delivered by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie at a TEDxEuston conference in April 2013, in her song "Flawless", released later that year.


Premise: Which city is the only one with a larger population than Miami in the southeastern United States?

Hypothesis: According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Miami's metro area is the eighth-most populous and fourth-largest urban area in the United States, with a population of around 5.5 million.


Premise: What was another regional leader involved in the origins of szlachta?

Hypothesis: Other fanciful theories included its foundation by Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great:207 or regional leaders who had not mixed their bloodlines with those of 'slaves, prisoners, and aliens'.:208


Premise: Only a few of Chopin's pieces involve more than the piano, including piano concertos, songs and what?

Hypothesis: All his known works involve the piano, and only a few range beyond solo piano music, as either piano concertos, songs or chamber music.


Premise: What television network does Ron Jaworski work for?

Hypothesis: The AFL coaches and trainers will travel to China to help teach the rules of the sport to squads made up of Chinese and American players with the goal of starting an official Chinese arena league.


Premise: What was the intentional burning of vegetation intended to mimic?

Hypothesis: Technology had advanced to the point that pottery was becoming common and the small-scale felling of trees had become feasible.


Premise: What do POTS do?

Hypothesis: The use of audio modems in the transmission line allow for the use of POTS, or the Plain Old Telephone System, in some low-speed applications, such as videotelephony, because they convert the digital pulses to/from analog waves in the audio spectrum range.


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

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: What percentage of the population of Atlantic City was under the age of 18?

Hypothesis: The median age was 35 years.


Premise: EIC reached out to parliament for help with finances. this lead to which Act?

Hypothesis: This was the background to the Charter Act of 1813 which, among other things:


Premise: Why would one use hydrogen mixed with nitrogen?

Hypothesis: Hydrogen is an authorized food additive (E 949) that allows food package leak testing among other anti-oxidizing properties.


Premise: What long held tradition helped make Boston a wealthy port?

Hypothesis: After the Revolution, Boston's long seafaring tradition helped make it one of the world's wealthiest international ports, with rum, fish, salt, and tobacco being particularly important.


Premise: How many self-identified LGB people live in the New York metropolitan area?

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


Premise: What was Martin Luther's response when challenged to recant his heresy?

Hypothesis: Luther was challenged to recant his heresy at the Diet of Worms in 1521.


Premise: How much cargo does the Port of London handle annually?

Hypothesis: London is a major retail centre and in 2010 had the highest non-food retail sales of any city in the world, with a total spend of around £64.2 billion.


Premise: How was migration developed?

Hypothesis: Migration in birds is highly labile and is believed to have developed independently in many avian lineages.


Premise: What is the estimated cost to build the Tusker Tunnel?

Hypothesis: Either tunnel, at 50 mi (80 km), would be by far the longest in the world, and would cost an estimated £15 billion or €20 billion.


Premise: What are literary and colloquial readings called?

Hypothesis: Literary readings are more similar to the pronunciations of the Tang standard of Middle Chinese than their colloquial equivalents.


Premise: What date did Virgil die?

Hypothesis: After crossing to Italy by ship, weakened with disease, Virgil died in Brundisium harbor on September 21, 19 BC.


Premise: What did the ruling in Hopwood v Texas set a precedent for in terms of admission policies?

Hypothesis: The class rank rule has the same consequence as traditional affirmative action: opening schools to students who would otherwise not be admitted had the given school used a holistic, merit-based approach.


Premise: Who issues requirement for hunting migratory waterfowl?

Hypothesis: Hunting migratory waterfowl requires a duck stamp from the Fish and Wildlife Service in addition to the appropriate state hunting license.


Premise: What organization has produced annual masquerade balls in Oslo since 1988?

Hypothesis: Since 1988, the student organization Tårnseilerne has produced annual masquerade balls in Oslo, with masks, costumes and processions after attending an opera performance.


Premise: Who donated the large sum of money to help aid the establishement of the Biochemistry Department?

Hypothesis: Imperial acquired Silwood Park in 1947, to provide a site for research and teaching in those aspects of biology not well suited for the main London campus.


Premise: What percentage of the RSFSR was made up of plains?

Hypothesis: The area is rich in mineral resources, including petroleum, natural gas, and iron ore.


Premise: John did not regard the loss of Duchy as a permanent shift in what?

Hypothesis: The available evidence suggests that John did not regard the loss of the Duchy as a permanent shift in Capetian power.


Premise: What happened to Muslims during Holy Roman rule?

Hypothesis: Sicily fell under the control of the Holy Roman Empire in 1194.


Premise: What code had been active for 900 years in the Byzantine empire?

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: What dynasty conquered southern India and parts of southeast Asia?

Hypothesis: The Chola dynasty conquered southern India and successfully invaded parts of Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, Maldives and Bengal in the 11th century.


Premise: What was the Soviet response to the Nazi-Soviet Relations publication

Hypothesis: That version persisted, without exception, in historical studies, official accounts, memoirs and textbooks published in the Soviet Union until the Soviet Union's dissolution.


Premise: In what year did the rail route from Southampton to London open?

Hypothesis: The route to London was opened in 1840 by what was to become the London and South Western Railway Company.


Premise: Along with lemon yellow, what color is produced in uranium glass?

Hypothesis: Uranium is used as a colorant in uranium glass producing orange-red to lemon yellow hues.


Premise: What resembles an actual person's handwriting?

Hypothesis: Most typefaces in the Song dynasty were regular script typefaces which resembled a particular person's handwriting (e.g. the handwriting of Ouyang Xun, Yan Zhenqing, or Liu Gongquan), while most modern regular script typefaces tend toward anonymity and regularity.


Premise: Which city is known for its sand dunes?

Hypothesis: In the far eastern part of the state the Chihuahuan Desert dominates due to low precipitation and extremely high temperatures; some areas of the eastern part of the state are so dry no vegetation is found like the Sand Dunes of Samalayuca.


Premise: What abbreviation would the IPC use for an assembled circuit board?

Hypothesis: The IPC preferred term for assembled boards is circuit card assembly (CCA), and for assembled backplanes it is backplane assemblies.


Premise: When was the Economic Society of Friends created?

Hypothesis: In this atmosphere of the exaltation of ideas the Economic Society of Friends of the Country


Premise: What is the name of the region which is home to Dungarpur?

Hypothesis: North of Hadoti and Mewar lies the Dhundhar region, home to the state capital of Jaipur.


Premise: What make up the oracle during testing?

Hypothesis: These oracles may include (but are not limited to) specifications, contracts, comparable products, past versions of the same product, inferences about intended or expected purpose, user or customer expectations, relevant standards, applicable laws, or other criteria.


Premise: What does KSOG stand for?

Hypothesis: Introduced in Klein's book The Bisexual Option, the KSOG uses a 7-point scale to assess seven different dimensions of sexuality at three different points in an individual's life: past (from early adolescence up to one year ago), present (within the last 12 months), and ideal (what would you choose if it were completely your choice).


Premise: When was the interest in solar energy restored?

Hypothesis: In 1916 Shuman was quoted in the media advocating solar energy's utilization, saying:


Premise: How far are the people from Taiwan ,but not actually citizens of Taiwan, allowed to venture into the Myanmar territory ?

Hypothesis: Those in Thailand on a visa run can cross to Kawthaung but cannot venture farther into Myanmar."


Premise: What causes osmotic diarrhea?

Hypothesis: In healthy individuals, too much magnesium or vitamin C or undigested lactose can produce osmotic diarrhea and distention of the bowel.


Premise: When were Victoria and Prince Albert married?

Hypothesis: After Albert's death in 1861, Victoria plunged into deep mourning and avoided public appearances.


Premise: What eventually resulted in the pioneering of industrial music?

Hypothesis: The innovative production techniques devised by post-punk producers such as Martin Hannett and Dennis Bovell during this period would become an important element of the emerging music, with studio experimentation taking a central role.


Premise: What was the first Sport Program recongized by FIG?

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: As a child Chopin was invited to play with the son of whom?

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


Premise: Who published the Twilight Princess comic book series?

Hypothesis: The series is available solely via publisher Shogakukan's MangaOne mobile application.


Premise: What can electromagnetic radiation interfere with?

Hypothesis: DC avoids the electromagnetic radiation inherent with AC, and on a railway this also reduces interference with signalling and communications and mitigates hypothetical EMF risks.


Premise: Along with William James, who was an influential 19th century theorist?

Hypothesis: In the late 19th century, the most influential theorists were William James (1842–1910) and Carl Lange (1834–1900).


Premise: When did Mawson retire after leading several expeditions?

Hypothesis: Douglas Mawson, who assumed the leadership of the Magnetic Pole party on their perilous return, went on to lead several expeditions until retiring in 1931.


Premise: What year did season 12 of American Idol first air?

Hypothesis: This was the first season since season nine to have four judges on the panel.


Premise: Where was the Atlantic Monthly first published?

Hypothesis: Some consider the Old Corner Bookstore, where these writers met and where The Atlantic Monthly was first published, to be "cradle of American literature.


Premise: When did the OKL switch to night raids?

Hypothesis: In the last days of the battle, the bombers became lures in an attempt to draw the RAF into combat with German fighters.


Premise: When did the English begin their intentional settlement of Bermuda?

Hypothesis: In 1612, the English began intentional settlement of Bermuda with the arrival of the ship Plough.


Premise: What UK firm approves pharmaceutical drugs?

Hypothesis: Normally an approval in the UK and other European countries comes later than one in the USA.


Premise: Who besides African Americans were victims of Tennessee's late-19th century electoral reform?

Hypothesis: In 1889 the General Assembly passed four laws described as electoral reform, with the cumulative effect of essentially disfranchising most African Americans in rural areas and small towns, as well as many poor Whites.


Premise: What does the Empress give to Christ as depicted by the mosaic?

Hypothesis: Justinian I is offering the model of the church to Mary while Constantine is holding a model of the city in his hand.


Premise: UNFPA has  been accused of supporting what type of abortion?

Hypothesis: Controversies regarding these claims have resulted in a sometimes shaky relationship between the organization and three presidential administrations, that of Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, withholding funding from the UNFPA.


Premise: How many species of animals were recorded in Egypt?

Hypothesis: The plan stated that the following numbers of species of different groups had been recorded from Egypt: algae (1483 species), animals (about 15,000 species of which more than 10,000 were insects), fungi (more than 627 species), monera (319 species), plants (2426 species), protozoans (371 species).


Premise: Why did Dominic sell his books?

Hypothesis: As an adolescent, he had a particular love of theology and the Scriptures became the foundation of his spirituality.


Premise: What is the broad operational definition of a gene?

Hypothesis: A broad operational definition is sometimes used to encompass the complexity of these diverse phenomena, where a gene is defined as a union of genomic sequences encoding a coherent set of potentially overlapping functional products.


Premise: How many lichen forming fungi have been recorded on the island?

Hypothesis: To date, very little is known about these, although more than 200 lichen-forming fungi have been recorded, including 9 endemics, suggesting that many significant discoveries remain to be made.


Premise: An adult eusocial insect does not contact it's what?

Hypothesis: The adult does not contact the growing offspring, but it nonetheless does provide food.


Premise: When was Vesey's plan for a slave revolt revealed?

Hypothesis: When a massive slave revolt planned by Denmark Vesey, a free black, was revealed in May 1822, whites reacted with intense fear, as they were well aware of the violent retribution of slaves against whites during the Haitian Revolution.


Premise: USB connections come in what?

Hypothesis: USB connections also come in five data transfer modes, in ascending order: Low Speed (1.0), Full Speed (1.0), High Speed (2.0), SuperSpeed (3.0), and SuperSpeed+ (3.1).


Premise: Ethiopia and Qing Dynasty China were both able to prevent European powers from doing what to their agreements?

Hypothesis: In some rare cases, such as with Ethiopia and Qing Dynasty China, the local governments were able to use the treaties to at least mitigate the impact of European colonization.


Premise: What was Schwarzenegger's older brother's name?

Hypothesis: Schwarzenegger has said his father had "no patience for listening or understanding your problems.


Premise: When was Op. 74 published?

Hypothesis: The last opus number that Chopin himself used was 65, allocated to the Cello Sonata in G minor.


Premise: When did the Great Migration occur?

Hypothesis: By 1770, it was the fourth-largest port in the colonies, after Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, with a population of 11,000—slightly more than half of them slaves.


Premise: WHat was the privileges of jedlnia based mostly off of?

Hypothesis: King Władysław's quid pro quo for this boon was the nobles' guarantee that his throne would be inherited by one of his sons (who would be bound to honour the privileges theretofore granted to the nobility).


Premise: What is the largest venue in the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts?

Hypothesis: The newest addition to the Miami arts scene is the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, the second-largest performing arts center in the United States after the Lincoln Center in New York City, and is the home of the Florida Grand Opera.


Premise: Which former Idol star made an appearance for Cowell's tribute?

Hypothesis: Many figures from the show's past, including Paula Abdul, made an appearance.


Premise: After the quake what kind of international team was sent to the area?

Hypothesis: In the days following the disaster, an international reconnaissance team of engineers was dispatched to the region to make a detailed preliminary survey of damaged buildings.


Premise: What often has low latencies?

Hypothesis: Time domain algorithms such as LPC also often have low latencies, hence their popularity in speech coding for telephony.


Premise: Which art museum does Notre Dame administer?

Hypothesis: Notre Dame's graduate program has more than 50 master's, doctoral and professional degree programs offered by the five schools, with the addition of the Notre Dame Law School and a MD-PhD program offered in combination with IU medical School.


Premise: Who works closely with the definition of the Near East?

Hypothesis: As its Near East is not different from the State Department's it does not appear in the table.


Premise: When was construction finished on the United Nations Headquarters?

Hypothesis: The United Nations Headquarters was completed in 1952, solidifying New York's global geopolitical influence, and the rise of abstract expressionism in the city precipitated New York's displacement of Paris as the center of the art world.


Premise: The throax has how many sections?

Hypothesis: The middle segment is the mesothorax, with the major features being the second pair of legs and the anterior wings.


Premise: What would the antenna you are using take advantage of to allow it to work in multiple locations?

Hypothesis: The difference in the above factors for the case of θ=0 is the reason that most broadcasting (transmissions intended for the public) uses vertical polarization.


Premise: What does Gill attribute the lack of presenting the perspective as a possibility to?

Hypothesis: This is not surprising since the selective forces of climate are probably the primary forces of nature that have shaped human races with regard not only to skin color and hair form but also the underlying bony structures of the nose, cheekbones, etc.


Premise: What particular aspect of the artists voice was he trying to preserve?

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: What pigment was made by soaking copper plates in fermenting wine?

Hypothesis: By the Second Century AD, the Romans were using green in paintings, mosaics and glass, and there were ten different words in Latin for varieties of green.


Premise: When was 'True Love' released?

Hypothesis: The show starred Ted Danson as Dr. John Becker, a doctor who operated a small practice and was constantly annoyed by his patients, co-workers, friends, and practically everything and everybody else in his world.


Premise: Who was Kerry's commander?

Hypothesis: Kerry's commanding officer, Lieutenant Commander George Elliott, stated to Douglas Brinkley in 2003 that he did not know whether to court-martial Kerry for beaching the boat without orders or give him a medal for saving the crew.


Premise: What are agreements between states within the United States called?

Hypothesis: For example, within the United States, agreements between states are compacts and agreements between states and the federal government or between agencies of the government are memoranda of understanding.


Premise: When did the Portuguese first set up trading posts in Guinea-Bissau?

Hypothesis: Although the rivers and coast of this area were among the first places colonized by the Portuguese, who set up trading posts in the 16th century, they did not explore the interior until the 19th century.


Premise: Who built the art museum of the Louis Vuitton Foundation?

Hypothesis: Striking examples of 20th century architecture include the Centre Georges Pompidou by Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano


Premise: What is the oldest female a cappella group at Washington University?

Hypothesis: The Greenleafs, an all-female group is the oldest (and only) female group on campus.


Premise: What Emperor elevated Von Neumann's father to nobility?

Hypothesis: In 1913, his father was elevated to the nobility for his service to the Austro-Hungarian Empire by Emperor Franz Joseph.


Premise: Why was Albert the heir presumptive to the throne?

Hypothesis: As Edward was unmarried and had no children, Albert was the heir presumptive to the throne.


Premise: What is specifically produced for collectors?

Hypothesis: The United States Mint produces Proof Sets specifically for collectors and speculators.


Premise: Who held 10 records at once?

Hypothesis: A wrestler's championship accomplishments can be central to their career, becoming a measure of their performance ability and drawing power.


Premise: What was a recent case involving the application of the principle of the establishment clause against states?

Hypothesis: The incorporation of the First Amendment establishment clause in the landmark case of Everson v. Board of Education has impacted the subsequent interpretation of the separation of church and state in regard to the state governments.


Premise: What is marked by a line of red bricks in the ground?

Hypothesis: Many are found along the Freedom Trail, which is marked by a red line of bricks embedded in the ground.


Premise: The 360 Pro's original storage was replaced by a hard drive of what size in 2008?

Hypothesis: The original shipment of the Xbox 360 version included a cut-down version of the Media Remote as a promotion.


Premise: What was key factor did the Prussian General Staff study?

Hypothesis: This was in large part due to the fact that the Prussian General Staff was created to study previous Prussian operations and learn to avoid mistakes.


Premise: How many records has she sold with Destiny's Child?

Hypothesis: As a solo artist she has sold over 15 million albums in the US, and over 118 million records worldwide (a further 60 million additionally with Destiny's Child), making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time.


Premise: What event in 850 AD coincided with the collapse of Mayan civilization?

Hypothesis: According to George Raudzens, "It is clear that in pre-Columbian times some groups struggled to survive and often suffered food shortages and famines, while others enjoyed a varied and substantial diet."


Premise: What is the most used language in Catalonia?

Hypothesis: The Generalitat of Catalunya spends part of its annual budget on the promotion of the use of Catalan in Catalonia and in other territories.


Premise: A good deal of technical and financial direction for the upstream came from what entity?

Hypothesis: The upstream tended to be far more centralised with much of the technical and financial direction coming from the central offices in The Hague.


Premise: What did Beatrice do to her mothers diaries after her death?

Hypothesis: Beatrice transcribed and edited the diaries covering Victoria's accession onwards, and burned the originals in the process.


Premise: How many employees work for Norman Regional Hospital?

Hypothesis: Tinker Air Force Base (27,000); University of Oklahoma (11,900); University of Central Oklahoma (2,900); and Norman Regional Hospital (2,800).


Premise: What decade did herbicides become common?

Hypothesis: Since before 2000 BC, humans have utilized pesticides to protect their crops.


Premise: How many kilometers west of Charlottesville is Richmond?

Hypothesis: Major suburbs include Midlothian to the southwest, Glen Allen to the north and west, Short Pump to the west and Mechanicsville to the northeast.


Premise: How many employees are there in San Diego for every 137 residents?

Hypothesis: As of 2011[update], the city had one employee for every 137 residents, with a payroll greater than $733 million.


Premise: What percentage of Kathmandu residents are Chettris?

Hypothesis: More recently, other hill ethnic groups and Caste groups from Terai have come to represent a substantial proportion of the city's population.


Premise: Bach was influenced by a popular A cappella composer heavily for what composition?

Hypothesis: Such is seen in the life of Palestrina becoming a major influence on Bach, most notably in the aforementioned Mass in B Minor.


Premise: What is the term for how the church as a whole works?

Hypothesis: The most contentious idea at the time though was the notion that anyone could simply pick up the Bible and learn enough to gain salvation.


Premise: What leader sponsored the expedition that discovered Cape Verde?

Hypothesis: (d. 1460) sent expeditions that discovered the Canary Islands, the Azores, and Cape Verde during his lifetime.


Premise: When was the British North America Act passed?

Hypothesis: Responsible government was first granted to Nova Scotia in 1848, and was soon extended to the other British North American colonies.


Premise: In what year did Liverpool announce that they would build their own Stanley Park Stadium?

Hypothesis: On 11 January 2005, Liverpool announced that ground-sharing was not a possibility, proceeding to plan their own Stanley Park Stadium.


Premise: What can be used as a intrinsic component of landscape projects?

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


Premise: When did the Six Dynasties end?

Hypothesis: Zhejiang, as the heartland of the Jiangnan (Yangtze River Delta), remained the wealthiest area during the Six Dynasties (220 or 222–589), Sui, and Tang.


Premise: One other measure involved the molar volume of what element?

Hypothesis: The CODATA value quoted here is based on three watt-balance measurements of KJ2RK and one inter-laboratory determination of the molar volume of silicon, but is mostly determined by a 2007 watt-balance measurement made at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).


Premise: How was Luoyang destroyed?

Hypothesis: He escorted them safely back to the capital and was made Minister of Works, taking control of Luoyang and forcing Yuan Shao to flee.


Premise: Who wrote a book about Motown?

Hypothesis: Berry Gordy, Jr. founded Motown Records which rose to prominence during the 1960s and early 1970s with acts such as Stevie Wonder, The Temptations, The Four Tops, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Diana Ross & The Supremes, the Jackson 5, Martha and the Vandellas, The Spinners, Gladys Knight & the Pips, The Marvelettes, The Elgins, The Monitors, The Velvelettes and Marvin Gaye.


Premise: How many people died in the April 9 attack?

Hypothesis: On April 9, 1989, troops attacked the demonstrators; some 20 people were killed and more than 200 wounded.


Premise: The CCU holds, in addition to a music theater, what?

Hypothesis: The CCU also houses the National Library, the interactive Universum, Museo de las Ciencias, the Sala Nezahualcóyotl concert hall, several theatres and cinemas, and the new University Museum of Contemporary Art (MUAC).


Premise: how much of the population have the rural plains lost since 1920?

Hypothesis: The continuing population loss has led some to suggest that the current use of the drier parts of the Great Plains is not sustainable, and there has been a proposal - the "Buffalo Commons" - to return approximately 139,000 square miles (360,000 km2) of these drier parts to native prairie land.


Premise: What did the Dutch call Juan Rodriguez?

Hypothesis: The first non-Native American inhabitant of what would eventually become New York City was Dominican trader Juan Rodriguez (transliterated to Dutch as Jan Rodrigues).


Premise: What are the basic types of agricultural groups?

Hypothesis: Following the invention of agriculture, hunter-gatherers have been displaced or conquered by farming or pastoralist groups in most parts of the world.


Premise: What people did the rycerstwo class represent?

Hypothesis: A Polish nobleman living at the time prior to the 15th century was referred to as a "rycerz", very roughly equivalent to the English "knight," the critical difference being the status of "rycerz" was almost strictly hereditary; the class of all such individuals was known as the "rycerstwo".


Premise: When was Gaddafi born, and when did he die?

Hypothesis: معمر محمد أبو منيار القذافي Arabic pronunciation: [muʕamar al.qaðaːfiː]; /ˈmoʊ.əmɑːr ɡəˈdɑːfi/;  audio (help·info); c. 1942 – 20 October 2011), commonly known as Colonel Gaddafi,[b] was a Libyan revolutionary, politician, and political theorist.


Premise: Which former liberal founded the Australian Democrats in 1977?

Hypothesis: One effect of this was the success of a breakaway party, the Australian Democrats, founded in 1977 by former Liberal minister Don Chipp and members of minor liberal parties; other members of the left-leaning section of the middle-class became Labor supporters.[citation needed]


Premise: What did the Patriot Act make it easier for law enforcement to search?

Hypothesis: The USA PATRIOT Act of October 2001 dramatically reduces restrictions on law enforcement agencies' ability to search telephone, e-mail communications, medical, financial, and other records; eases restrictions on foreign intelligence gathering within the United States; expands the Secretary of the Treasury's authority to regulate financial transactions, particularly those involving foreign individuals and entities; and broadens the discretion of law enforcement and immigration authorities in detaining and deporting immigrants suspected of terrorism-related acts.


Premise: Who published A Theory of Justice?

Hypothesis: From the end of World War II until 1971, when John Rawls published A Theory of Justice, political philosophy declined in the Anglo-American academic world, as analytic philosophers expressed skepticism about the possibility that normative judgments had cognitive content, and political science turned toward statistical methods and behavioralism.


Premise: What color silk covered Bell's kites?

Hypothesis: Some of Bell's kites are on display at the Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site.


Premise: What group decided to keep the "African" in their name?

Hypothesis: In 1835, black leaders called upon Black Americans to remove the title of "African" from their institutions and replace it with "Negro" or "Colored American".


Premise: What nickname has the city  been given as a result of its extensive craft beer industry?

Hypothesis: San Diego's Spanish and Mexican heritage is reflected in the many historic sites across the city, such as Mission San Diego de Alcala and Old Town San Diego State Historic Park.


Premise: The head of the Dominican Order is known as what?

Hypothesis: The Dominican Order is headed by the Master of the Order, who is currently Bruno Cadoré.


Premise: On average, when did children born in the City of London die?

Hypothesis: During the 18th century, London was dogged by crime, and the Bow Street Runners were established in 1750 as a professional police force.


Premise: Where does the Consiel d'Etat meet?

Hypothesis: The Court of Cassation, the highest court in the judicial order, which reviews criminal and civil cases, is located in the Palais de Justice on the Île de la Cité, while the Conseil d'État, which provides legal advice to the executive and acts as the highest court in the administrative order, judging litigation against public bodies, is located in the Palais-Royal in the 1st arrondissement.


Premise: The Parthian Empire worshipped Greek Gods and what other cultures deities?

Hypothesis: The Parthians continued worhipping Greek gods syncretized together with Iranian deities.


Premise: What cities saw an increase in foreign trade of more than 40% in 2008?

Hypothesis: Chengdu, Suining, Nanchong, Dazhou, Ya'an, Abazhou, and Liangshan all saw an increase of more than 40 percent while Leshan, Neijiang, Luzhou, Meishan, Ziyang, and Yibin saw an increase of more than 20 percent.


Premise: How did the French assist against the rebels?

Hypothesis: Though the initially public details of the agreement pertained to logistics and intelligence, the French assistance eventually included strikes by Mirage jets against rebel positions.


Premise: What is the rope made out of that the gymnists uses in their routine?

Hypothesis: One or two knots at each end are for keeping hold of the rope while doing the routine.


Premise: What was the official launch date for the youtube website?

Hypothesis: Following a $3.5 million investment from Sequoia Capital in November, the site launched officially on December 15, 2005, by which time the site was receiving 8 million views a day.


Premise: What posses some challenges for the Chamorros who find it hard to keep their culture?

Hypothesis: While only a few masters exist to continue traditional art forms, the resurgence of interest among the Chamorros to preserve the language and culture has resulted in a growing number of young Chamorros who seek to continue the ancient ways of the Chamorro people.


Premise: Where was the Maratha Empire centralized?

Hypothesis: In 1761, the Maratha army lost the Third Battle of Panipat which halted imperial expansion and the empire was then divided into a confederacy of Maratha states.


Premise: What would be the reduction in deisease incedence if there was better water and sanitation?

Hypothesis: Similarly, a meta-analysis of numerous studies on improving water supply and sanitation shows a 22–27% reduction in disease incidence, and a 21–30% reduction in mortality rate associated with diarrheal disease.


Premise: What factor forced the French to retreat to Metz?

Hypothesis: With the defeat of Marshal Bazaine's Army of the Rhine at Gravelotte, the French were forced to retire to Metz, where they were besieged by over 150,000 Prussian troops of the First and Second Armies.


Premise: North carolina state law allowed a jump in alcohol volume from 6% to what percent?

Hypothesis: Over the last decade, North Carolina has become a cultural epicenter and haven for internationally prize-winning wine (Noni Bacca Winery), internationally prized cheeses (Ashe County), "L'institut International aux Arts Gastronomiques: Conquerront Les Yanks les Truffes, January 15, 2010" international hub for truffles (Garland Truffles), and beer making, as tobacco land has been converted to grape orchards while state laws regulating alcohol content in beer allowed a jump in ABV from 6% to 15%.


Premise: which crops were brought to europe from the Muslim World?

Hypothesis: There was also a dense network of trade routes in the Mediterranean, along which Muslim countries traded with each other and with European powers such as Venice, Genoa and Catalonia.


Premise: Who executed a massive offensive and succeeded in breaking through German lines?

Hypothesis: With their strategic right flank secured by the Allied advance, the Partisans prepared and executed a massive general offensive which succeeded in breaking through German lines and forcing a retreat beyond Yugoslav borders.


Premise: Who wrote and provided art for a Twilight Princess comic book series?

Hypothesis: A Japan-exclusive manga series based on Twilight Princess, penned and illustrated by Akira Himekawa, was first released on February 8, 2016.


Premise: What political ideology did Nasser wholeheartedly back in 1961?

Hypothesis: In order to organize and solidify his popular base with Egypt's citizens and counter the army's influence, Nasser introduced the National Charter in 1962 and a new constitution.


Premise: How many kilometers of Greece's railway is electrified?

Hypothesis: A total of 764 km of rail are electrified.


Premise: Under what conditions are ogives called wave or band ogives?

Hypothesis: Sometimes ogives consist only of undulations or color bands and are described as wave ogives or band ogives.


Premise: How spread out were the Allied forces in Southeastern Asia?

Hypothesis: Following the Declaration by United Nations (the first official use of the term United Nations) on 1 January 1942, the Allied governments appointed the British General Sir Archibald Wavell to the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command (ABDACOM), a supreme command for Allied forces in Southeast Asia.


Premise: Who, it was rumored,  did Margaret Thatcher say the Queen would vote for?

Hypothesis: Newspaper editor Donald Trelford wrote in The Observer of 21 September 1986: "The royal soap opera has now reached such a pitch of public interest that the boundary between fact and fiction has been lost sight of ... it is not just that some papers don't check their facts or accept denials: they don't care if the stories are true or not.


Premise: Parts of a computer that are not material objects are collectively known as what?

Hypothesis: When software is stored in hardware that cannot easily be modified (such as BIOS ROM in an IBM PC compatible), it is sometimes called "firmware".


Premise: What did von Neumann use the Haar theorem to solve in a 1936 paper?

Hypothesis: In a number of von Neumann's papers, the methods of argument he employed are considered even more significant than the results.


Premise: Where was Petersburg located in relation to Ford Stedman?

Hypothesis: On March 25, Confederate General John B. Gordon's desperate attack on Fort Stedman east of Petersburg failed.


Premise: When did Johan Cruyff join Barcelona?

Hypothesis: Already an established player with Ajax, Cruyff quickly won over the Barcelona fans when he told the European press that he chose Barcelona over Real Madrid because he could not play for a club associated with Francisco Franco.


Premise: What was the original user interface for the 360 called?

Hypothesis: A simplified version of it was also accessible at any time via the Xbox Guide button on the gamepad.


Premise: What title was the fourth Dalai Lama granted?

Hypothesis: Chen states that the fourth Dalai Lama Yonten Gyatso was granted the title "Master of Vajradhara" and an official seal by the Wanli Emperor in 1616.


Premise: How many million years ago is the Permian period believed to have begun?

Hypothesis: Many of the early groups became extinct during the Permian-Triassic extinction event, the largest mass extinction in the history of the Earth, around 252 million years ago.


Premise: What odd color of sand draws tourists to Bermuda's beaches?

Hypothesis: In addition to its beaches, there are a number of sightseeing attractions.


Premise: What did  Athanasius do to protect himself?

Hypothesis: But the saint seems to have divined what was preparing in secret against him.


Premise: What came to be valued over previous convolutions?

Hypothesis: It had come to include virtually any intellectual production anywhere in the world.


Premise: What kind of woods have pores that are uniformly sized?

Hypothesis: In diffuse-porous woods the pores are evenly sized so that the water conducting capability is scattered throughout the growth ring instead of being collected in a band or row.


Premise: Why did Deraismes resign from Freemasonry?

Hypothesis: Maria Deraismes was initiated into Freemasonry in 1882, then resigned to allow her lodge to rejoin their Grand Lodge.


Premise: The diagrams have been made from lines into what 3 dimensional shape?

Hypothesis: The world-lines of the diagrams have developed to become tubes to allow better modeling of more complicated objects such as strings and membranes.


Premise: What are free ISPs?

Hypothesis: Other free ISPs, sometimes called freenets, are run on a nonprofit basis, usually with volunteer staff.[citation needed]


Premise: In what way is red used in contemporary fashion?

Hypothesis: People wearing red seem to be closer than those dressed in other colors, even if they are actually the same distance away.


Premise: Which university is said to have started faculty governance?

Hypothesis: Control of universities still tended to be independent, although university leadership was increasingly appointed by the state.


Premise: What did the fans used to be called?

Hypothesis: The name Bey Hive derives from the word beehive, purposely misspelled to resemble her first name, and was penned by fans after petitions on the online social networking service Twitter and online news reports during competitions.


Premise: What is the term for insight knowledge?

Hypothesis: In Buddhist practice, it is said that while samatha meditation can calm the mind, only vipassanā meditation can reveal how the mind was disturbed to start with, which is what leads to insight knowledge (jñāna; Pāli ñāṇa) and understanding (prajñā Pāli paññā), and thus can lead to nirvāṇa (Pāli nibbāna).


Premise: Who produced the film Three Smart Girls?

Hypothesis: Meanwhile, producer Joe Pasternak, who had been successfully producing light musicals with young sopranos for Universal's German subsidiary, repeated his formula in America.


Premise: How many swift boats did Kerry command?

Hypothesis: While the boat's gunner opened fire, wounding the VC in the leg, and while the other boats approached and offered cover fire, Kerry jumped from the boat to pursue the VC insurgent, subsequently killing him and capturing his loaded rocket launcher.


Premise: What brand of cruise ships has a special importance to Southampton?

Hypothesis: This was particularly evident on 11 November 2008 when the Cunard liner RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 departed the city for the final time amid a spectacular fireworks display after a full day of celebrations.


Premise: What marine facility is attached to the University of Plymouth?

Hypothesis: Together with the National Marine Aquarium, the Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Sciences, Plymouth University's Marine Institute and the Diving Diseases Research Centre, these marine-related organisations form the Plymouth Marine Sciences Partnership.


Premise: Which desert is encroaching into northeastern Nigeria?

Hypothesis: In the dry north-east corner of the country lies Lake Chad, which Nigeria shares with Niger, Chad and Cameroon.


Premise: I2a1b1 is found being highest where?

Hypothesis: On the other hand, I2a1b1 (P41.2) is typical of the South Slavic populations, being highest in Bosnia-Herzegovina (>50%).


Premise: What was the name of the largest battle fought in North Carolina?

Hypothesis: The largest battle fought in North Carolina was at Bentonville, which was a futile attempt by Confederate General Joseph Johnston to slow Union General William Tecumseh Sherman's advance through the Carolinas in the spring of 1865.


Premise: Along with dopamine, noradrenaline, serotonin, cortisol and oxytocin, what neurotransmitter or hormone influences emotion?

Hypothesis: The numerous theories that attempt to explain the origin, neurobiology, experience, and function of emotions have only fostered more intense research on this topic.


Premise: What reputation does machine translations have?

Hypothesis: Web-based human translation is generally favored by companies and individuals that wish to secure more accurate translations.


Premise: Where was the concept of parallel creation found?

Hypothesis: The main ground seems to be the concept of parallel creation found in critics such as Cicero.


Premise: Which year did Beyonce and her father part business ways?

Hypothesis: Beyoncé announced a hiatus from her music career in January 2010, heeding her mother's advice, "to live life, to be inspired by things again".


Premise: How far did the Arctic tern chick travel?

Hypothesis: One Arctic tern, ringed (banded) as a chick on the Farne Islands off the British east coast, reached Melbourne, Australia in just three months from fledging, a sea journey of over 22,000 km (14,000 mi).


Premise: How many former consuls in Rome were executed as a result of a conspiracy?

Hypothesis: As a result, the top conspirators in Rome (including at least one former consul) were executed by authorisation (of dubious constitutionality) of the senate, and the planned uprising was disrupted.


Premise: What did the first model for communication consist of?

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


Premise: What were the major advantages of the tantalum light filament?

Hypothesis: Metal filaments had the property of breaking and re-welding, though this would usually decrease resistance and shorten the life of the filament.


Premise: The first US satellite was launched on what date?

Hypothesis: On April 2, 1958, President Eisenhower reacted to the Soviet space lead in launching the first satellite, by recommending to the US Congress that a civilian agency be established to direct nonmilitary space activities.


Premise: What was the name of Kanye's first child with Kim Kardashian?

Hypothesis: In June 2013, West and television personality Kim Kardashian announced the birth of their first child, North.


Premise: How many commercial films were produced yearly on average by the end of the 1960s in Iran?

Hypothesis: The 1960s was a significant decade for Iranian cinema, with 25 commercial films produced annually on average throughout the early 60s, increasing to 65 by the end of the decade.


Premise: What color silk was used in Bell's coffin?

Hypothesis: To help celebrate his life, his wife asked guests not to wear black (the traditional funeral color) while attending his service, during which soloist Jean MacDonald sang a verse of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Requiem":


Premise: When did the commercially successful post-punk bands begin to hit the scene?

Hypothesis: At the turn of the 21st century, a post-punk revival developed in British and American alternative and indie rock, which soon started appearing in other countries, as well.


Premise: Who did the Russians attack at the beginning off the Battle of Balaclava?

Hypothesis: Campbell had seen the effectiveness of the new Minie rifles, with which his troops were armed, at the Battle of the Alma a month before, and was confident his men could beat back the Russians.


Premise: Greater magadha stretched from Sravasti in the north-west to what area in the south-east?

Hypothesis: Buddhism arose in Greater Magadha, which stretched from Sravasti, the capital of Kosala in the north-west, to Rajagrha in the south east.


Premise: Who did Albert Magnus introduce to Dominican Order students?

Hypothesis: Under the auspices of Humbert of Romans, Albert molded the curriculum of studies for all Dominican students, introduced Aristotle to the classroom and probed the work of Neoplatonists, such as Plotinus.


Premise: Along with the Balkans, in what geographical location did a war take place where the UK used depleted uranium munitions?

Hypothesis: The use of depleted uranium became politically and environmentally contentious after the use of such munitions by the US, UK and other countries during wars in the Persian Gulf and the Balkans raised questions concerning uranium compounds left in the soil (see Gulf War Syndrome).


Premise: What type of a cappella music is specific to American culture?

Hypothesis: Barbershop music is one of several uniquely American art forms.


Premise: Who wrote Kitab al-Tasrif?

Hypothesis: Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi (also known as Abulcasis) contributed to the discipline of medical surgery with his Kitab al-Tasrif ("Book of Concessions"), a medical encyclopedia which was later translated to Latin and used in European and Muslim medical schools for centuries.


Premise: Where is Big Pun from?

Hypothesis: Newer hip hop artists from the Bronx include Big Pun, Lord Toriq and Peter Gunz, Camp Lo, Swizz Beatz, Drag-On, Fat Joe, Terror Squad and Corey Gunz.


Premise: What is the main source of interspersed repeats?

Hypothesis: Transposable elements are able to integrate into the genome at another site within the cell.


Premise: What percentage of Americans drive cars to work?

Hypothesis: Due to their high usage of mass transit, New Yorkers spend less of their household income on transportation than the national average, saving $19 billion annually on transportation compared to other urban Americans.


Premise: Written Hokkein is based on what?

Hypothesis: However, the written script was and remains adapted to the literary form, which is based on classical Chinese, not the vernacular and spoken form.


Premise: The first and second wave of migrants were mainly who?

Hypothesis: Both the first and second waves of migrants were mainly Orthodox Jews, although the Second Aliyah included socialist groups who established the kibbutz movement.


Premise: What species of hardwood are hickory and mulberry trees?

Hypothesis: In ring-porous species, such as ash, black locust, catalpa, chestnut, elm, hickory, mulberry, and oak, the larger vessels or pores (as cross sections of vessels are called) are localised in the part of the growth ring formed in spring, thus forming a region of more or less open and porous tissue.


Premise: Where does the sun get its energy from?

Hypothesis: The Sun's energy comes from nuclear fusion of hydrogen, but this process is difficult to achieve controllably on Earth.


Premise: Which new state capital was founded in 1709?

Hypothesis: Parral remained an important economic and cultural center for the next 300 years.


Premise: A treaty may be politicized due to disagreements within a party because the division between a self-executing treaty and a non-self-executing treaty can often be described as what?

Hypothesis: The division between the two is often not clear and is often politicized in disagreements within a government over a treaty, since a non-self-executing treaty cannot be acted on without the proper change in domestic law.


Premise: In what part of India is Delhi located?

Hypothesis: Unlike Calcutta, which was located on the eastern coast of India, Delhi was at the centre of northern India and the Government of British India felt that it would be logistically easier to administer India from the latter rather than the former.


Premise: What are parapodia?

Hypothesis: Nearly all polychaetes have parapodia that function as limbs, while other major annelid groups lack them.


Premise: What kind of insect can detect ultraviolet wavelengths?

Hypothesis: Some insects such as bees can perceive ultraviolet wavelengths, or detect polarized light, while the antennae of male moths can detect the pheromones of female moths over distances of many kilometers.


Premise: What dynastie was from Austria and Slovenia?

Hypothesis: In 1291 to protect themselves from incursions by the Habsburgs, four cantons in the middle of Switzerland drew up a charter that is considered to be a declaration of independence from neighboring kingdoms.


Premise: What policies did a State Department official accuse UNFPA of helping China carry out?

Hypothesis: However, according to then-Secretary of State Colin Powell, the UNFPA contributed vehicles and computers to the Chinese to carry out their population control policies.


Premise: Functioning as holder a light fixture can provide directed light and avoid?

Hypothesis: Nearly any material can be used, so long as it can tolerate the excess heat and is in keeping with safety codes.


Premise: What additional ideas did von Neumann contribute to Atomic bomb?

Hypothesis: He also eventually came up with the idea of using more powerful shaped charges and less fissionable material to greatly increase the speed of "assembly".


Premise: Who is essentially considered the commander in chief of the Prussian army?

Hypothesis: The Chief of the General Staff, effectively the commander in chief of the Prussian army, was independent of the minister of war and answered only to the monarch.


Premise: Something that is found at high frequency in Europe could be what elsewhere?

Hypothesis: (2009) found "a selected allele that strongly differentiates the French from both the Yoruba and Han could be strongly clinal across Europe, or at high frequency in Europe and absent elsewhere, or follow any other distribution according to the geographic nature of the selective pressure.


Premise: Who was defeated and forced to abdicate at the end of the Iranian constitutional movement?

Hypothesis: On the pretext of restoring order, the Russians occupied Northern Iran in 1911, and maintained a military presence in the region for years to come.


Premise: How did U.S. housing and financial assets react to the housing bubble burst?

Hypothesis: U.S. housing and financial assets dramatically declined in value after the housing bubble burst.


Premise: What rules did Ottoman prose have to follow?

Hypothesis: Until the 19th century, Ottoman prose did not develop to the extent that contemporary Divan poetry did.


Premise: What is the average day temperature on the coast during summer?

Hypothesis: Inland temperatures are more extreme, with colder winters and hotter summers compared with the coast of the island.


Premise: What are the origins of the word madrasa?

Hypothesis: Madrasa (Arabic: مدرسة, madrasah, pl. مدارس, madāris, Turkish: Medrese) is the Arabic word for any type of educational institution, whether secular or religious (of any religion).


Premise: Who met the British army as they moved north?

Hypothesis: Following General Daniel Morgan's victory over the British Cavalry Commander Banastre Tarleton at the Battle of Cowpens on January 17, 1781, southern commander Nathanael Greene led British Lord Charles Cornwallis across the heartland of North Carolina, and away from the latter's base of supply in Charleston, South Carolina.


Premise: What percentage of homelessness in France does Paris house?

Hypothesis: Fifty-six percent of the homeless were born outside France, the largest number coming from Africa and Eastern Europe.


Premise: What station first introduced the tagline "everyone at work can agree on"?

Hypothesis: The format can be seen as a more contemporary successor to and combination of the middle of the road (MOR), beautiful music, easy listening and soft rock formats.


Premise: According to the OECD, what is Switzerland lagging behind many EU countries in?

Hypothesis: Apart from agriculture, economic and trade barriers between the European Union and Switzerland are minimal and Switzerland has free trade agreements worldwide.


Premise: What was the date of the relay in the United States?

Hypothesis: Newsom, on the other hand, said he felt it was in "everyone's best interest" and that he believed people had been "afforded the right to protest and support the torch" despite the route changes.


Premise: What year did Parliamentary co-operation between the Baltic Assembly and Nordic Council start?

Hypothesis: Since the early 1990s, Estonia is involved in active trilateral Baltic states co-operation with Latvia and Lithuania, and Nordic-Baltic co-operation with the Nordic countries.


Premise: What was the occupation of the African-American man killed by Quigg?

Hypothesis: Miami's chief of police, H. Leslie Quigg, did not hide the fact that he, like many other white Miami police officers, was a member of the Ku Klux Klan.


Premise: What is one disadvantage of using the H.323 technique?

Hypothesis: The advantages of this technique are that the video and audio will generally be of higher quality because they don't have to be relayed through a central point.


Premise: While many, the perceptions of Christianity can sometimes what?

Hypothesis: However, "Whatever else they might disagree about, Christians are at least united in believing that Jesus has a unique significance.


Premise: Why were French troops in Bern?

Hypothesis: At this time, it once again became the largest canton of the confederacy as it stood during the Restoration and until the secession of the canton of Jura in 1979.


Premise: Who developed a series of stabilization wedges?

Hypothesis: Also, Professors S. Pacala and Robert H. Socolow have developed a series of "stabilization wedges" that can allow us to maintain our quality of life while avoiding catastrophic climate change, and "renewable energy sources," in aggregate, constitute the largest number of their "wedges."


Premise: What is it about prehistoric hunter-gatherers that impresses Shultziner?

Hypothesis: Doron Shultziner and others have argued that we can learn a lot about the life-styles of prehistoric hunter-gatherers from studies of contemporary hunter-gatherers—especially their impressive levels of egalitarianism.


Premise: Who was the assailant who shot at Queen Elizabeth?

Hypothesis: The 17-year-old assailant, Marcus Sarjeant, was sentenced to five years in prison and released after three.


Premise: Are any relatives of the first people of  the Grecian world still around ?

Hypothesis: Two thousand years later, there are still communities in Pakistan and Afghanistan, like the Kalash, who claim to be descended from Greek settlers.


Premise: Is the migration to Thuringia steady or fluctuating?

Hypothesis: The international migration is fluctuating heavily.


Premise: Feynman borrowed a car from Klaus Fuchs, who was later found to be a what?

Hypothesis: On several occasions, Feynman drove to Albuquerque to see his ailing wife in a car borrowed from Klaus Fuchs, who was later discovered to be a real spy for the Soviets, transporting nuclear secrets in his car to Santa Fe.


Premise: What year did Bern want to host the Winter Olympics?

Hypothesis: Bern was a candidate to host the 2010 Winter Olympics, but withdrew its bid in September 2002 after a referendum was passed that showed that the bid was not supported by locals.


Premise: Who started the Hussite movement?

Hypothesis: Beginning in first decade of the 15th century, Jan Hus—a Roman Catholic priest, Czech reformist and professor—influenced by John Wycliffe's writings, founded the Hussite movement.


Premise: Which collection of minor poems are sometimes attributed to Virgil?

Hypothesis: He is known for three major works of Latin literature, the Eclogues (or Bucolics), the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid.


Premise: When was Milestone 2 divulged?

Hypothesis: It also had the text Welcome below them, although this was also scrapped.


Premise: When did Japan invade Manchuria?

Hypothesis: It is generally considered that the Pacific War began on 7/8 December 1941, on which date Japan invaded Thailand and attacked the British possessions of Malaya, Singapore, and Hong Kong as well as the United States military bases in Hawaii, Wake Island, Guam and the Philippines.


Premise: What describes the state of the action of the verb at the time specified by its tense?

Hypothesis: This is distinct from past and present tense, and any Czech verb of either aspect can be conjugated into any of its three tenses.


Premise: What Saturday Night Live sketch was Schwarzenegger referencing when he called opposing politicians "girlie men"?

Hypothesis: As soon as Schwarzenegger was elected governor, Willie Brown said he would start a drive to recall the governor.


Premise: Who wrote the "Charleston"?

Hypothesis: The geechee dances that accompanied the music of the dock workers in Charleston followed a rhythm that inspired Eubie Blake's "Charleston Rag" and later James P. Johnson's "The Charleston", as well as the dance craze that defined a nation in the 1920s.


Premise: What did the Doha Declaration do?

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


Premise: What is jo compro changed to ?

Hypothesis: Nevertheless, AVL's standard keeps the grave accent ⟨è⟩, without pronouncing this ⟨e⟩ as /ɛ/, in some words like: què ('what'), or València.


Premise: What languages besides Portuguese are taught in Brasilia's schools?

Hypothesis: English and Spanish are also part of the official curriculum.


Premise: When did the Greater Hamburg Act occur?

Hypothesis: Three changes are of particular note: on January 1, 1934, Mecklenburg-Schwerin was united with the neighbouring Mecklenburg-Strelitz; and, by the Greater Hamburg Act (Groß-Hamburg-Gesetz), from April 1, 1937, the area of the city-state was extended, while Lübeck lost its independence and became part of the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein.


Premise: Only who can handle the ball with his hands?

Hypothesis: This area has a number of functions, the most prominent being to mark where the goalkeeper may handle the ball and where a penalty foul by a member of the defending team becomes punishable by a penalty kick.


Premise: What was ASCII based on?

Hypothesis: The X3.2 subcommittee designed ASCII based on the earlier teleprinter encoding systems.


Premise: When was Kerry's appointment confirmed?

Hypothesis: His confirmation hearing took place on January 24, 2013, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the same panel where he first testified in 1971.


Premise: Where was Saint Denis beheaded?

Hypothesis: When he refused to renounce his faith, he was beheaded on the hill which became known as the "Mountain of Martyrs" (Mons Martyrum), eventually "Montmartre".


Premise: What did the professors predict?

Hypothesis: The same study, however, acknowledges the limitation of earthquake prediction models, and does not mention that the location of the quake could be accurately predicted.


Premise: For best fidelity to the source, what three things should match the source?

Hypothesis: For best fidelity to the source the transmitted field ratio, lines, and frame rate should match those of the source.


Premise: How many animals did Mu Ying capture?

Hypothesis: Langlois notes that by October 1379, Mu Ying had allegedly captured 30,000 Tibetan prisoners and 200,000 domesticated animals.


Premise: When speaking of religion, what does Ummah refer to?

Hypothesis: In a cultural sense, the Muslim Ummah refers to Islamic civilization, exclusive of non-Muslims living in that civilization.


Premise: Which city was captured by the Ottoman Turks, resulting in the fleeing of scholars to Western Europe?

Hypothesis: Following a renewed interest in ancient Greek and Roman texts that took root in the High Middle Ages, the Italian Renaissance began.


Premise: What method did Archimedes employ to determine the area under a parabola?

Hypothesis: Archimedes, considered one of the greatest mathematicians of all time, is credited with using the method of exhaustion to calculate the area under the arc of a parabola with the summation of an infinite series, and gave a remarkably accurate approximation of Pi.


Premise: Where is MI6 based?

Hypothesis: A brief shoot at London's City Hall was filmed on 18 April 2015, while Mendes was on location.


Premise: What was the demonstrators' nationality?

Hypothesis: Police tried to prevent the protest but took no action to stop it once the march was underway.


Premise: For the majority of Dell's existence, what were they a vendor of?

Hypothesis: Dell was a pure hardware vendor for much of its existence, but with the acquisition in 2009 of Perot Systems, Dell entered the market for IT services.


Premise: When did the aftermath of the Southwest Airlines inspection scandal happen?

Hypothesis: The bill also required rotation of principal maintenance inspectors and stipulated that the word "customer" properly applies to the flying public, not those entities regulated by the FAA.


Premise: What other religious groups went to Islamic courts?

Hypothesis: The Ottoman state tended not to interfere with non-Muslim religious law systems, despite legally having a voice to do so through local governors.


Premise: The first Olympic games was recorded in what year?

Hypothesis: Greece is the birthplace of the ancient Olympic Games, first recorded in 776 BC in Olympia, and hosted the modern Olympic Games twice, the inaugural 1896 Summer Olympics and the 2004 Summer Olympics.


Premise: What number president of Egypt was Nasser?

Hypothesis: Following a 1954 attempt on his life by a Muslim Brotherhood member acting on his own, he cracked down on the organization, put President Muhammad Naguib under house arrest, and assumed executive office, officially becoming president in June 1956.


Premise: What has reduced the popularity of numeric LED displays?

Hypothesis: Seven-segment displays handle all numbers and a limited set of letters.


Premise: How much money a month do the parking meters bring in?

Hypothesis: 30 percent of the monthly 16 million-peso (as of October 2013) income from the parking-meter system (named "ecoParq") is earmarked for neighborhood improvements.


Premise: When was the great battle of Raphia?

Hypothesis: He and his successors also fought a series of wars with the Seleucids, known as the Syrian wars, over the region of Coele-Syria.


Premise: When were Borough Presidents created?

Hypothesis: The office of Borough President was created in the consolidation of 1898 to balance centralization with local authority.


Premise: When was the University Musical Society founded?

Hypothesis: Regional and local performing arts groups not associated with the university include the Ann Arbor Civic Theatre, the Arbor Opera Theater, the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra, the Ann Arbor Ballet Theater, the Ann Arbor Civic Ballet (established in 1954 as Michigan's first chartered ballet company), The Ark, and Performance Network Theatre.


Premise: How much did LaserDiscs cost to produce by the end of the 1980s?

Hypothesis: Due to the larger volume of demand, videocassettes quickly became much cheaper to duplicate, costing as little as $1.00 by the beginning of the 1990s.


Premise: How could science discover if there was not a creator?

Hypothesis: Another view, advanced by Richard Dawkins, is that the existence of God is an empirical question, on the grounds that "a universe with a god would be a completely different kind of universe from one without, and it would be a scientific difference."


Premise: What festivals are a social tradition in many beer drinking countries?

Hypothesis: Beer is sold in bottles and cans; it may also be available on draught, particularly in pubs and bars.


Premise: Why did he believe those concepts were inaccurate?

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: Which side of the Cold War was Sadat?

Hypothesis: In 1973, Egypt, along with Syria, launched the October War, a surprise attack to regain part of the Sinai territory Israel had captured 6 years earlier.


Premise: What French Magazine cover did the media criticize?

Hypothesis: In 2011, she appeared on the cover of French fashion magazine L'Officiel, in blackface and tribal makeup that drew criticism from the media.


Premise: Which U.S. government agency keeps a large amount of information on genomes?

Hypothesis: The US National Institutes of Health maintains one of several comprehensive databases of genomic information.


Premise: Due to what concerns is diesel fuel no longer used as a release agent for transporting asphalt?

Hypothesis: The backs of tippers carrying asphalt/bitumen, as well as some handling equipment, are also commonly sprayed with a releasing agent before filling to aid release.


Premise: What plan appropriated $13.7 billion over five years?

Hypothesis: After the Marshall Plan was approved, appropriating $13.7 billion over five years, 5% of those funds or $685 million were made available to the CIA.


Premise: Why was the transition to a new union difficult

Hypothesis: The transition from independence to a relatively minor part of a larger union was not easily accepted.


Premise: Which person plotted to overthrew the regime of Empress Dowager Yan?

Hypothesis: When Empress Dowager Deng died, Emperor An (r. 106–125 AD) was convinced by the accusations of the eunuchs


Premise: What does HP stand for?

Hypothesis: In July 2005, HP stopped selling iPods due to unfavorable terms and conditions imposed by Apple.


Premise: When did the Olympic Game begin?

Hypothesis: The end of the Dark Ages is traditionally dated to 776 BC, the year of the first Olympic Games.


Premise: What effect did the Nazi eugenics program have on racial essentialism?

Hypothesis: In the early 20th century, many anthropologists accepted and taught the belief that biologically distinct races were isomorphic with distinct linguistic, cultural, and social groups, while popularly applying that belief to the field of eugenics, in conjunction with a practice that is now called scientific racism.


Premise: What does the ILO stand for?

Hypothesis: The annual meetings of the World Economic Forum in Davos bring together top international business and political leaders from Switzerland and foreign countries to discuss important issues facing the world, including health and the environment.


Premise: What body governed Russia prior to the Soviet government?

Hypothesis: The state it governed, which did not have an official name, would be unrecognized by neighboring countries for another five months.


Premise: How many buildings located in NYC are at least 330 feet in height?

Hypothesis: Manhattan's skyline, with its many skyscrapers, is universally recognized, and the city has been home to several of the tallest buildings in the world.


Premise: What word was added to the Endangered Species Act in 1982?

Hypothesis: The 1982 amendment to the ESA added the word "solely" to prevent any consideration other than the biological status of the species.


Premise: What does the abbreviated electrical characteristics of smaller capacitors consist of?

Hypothesis: Smaller capacitors like ceramics, however, use a shorthand consisting of three numeric digits and a letter, where the digits indicate the capacitance in pF (calculated as XY × 10Z for digits XYZ) and the letter indicates the tolerance (J, K or M for ±5%, ±10% and ±20% respectively).


Premise: What did the use of Old Style and New Style cause?

Hypothesis: "Old Style" (OS) and "New Style" (NS) are sometimes added to dates to identify which system is used in the British Empire and other countries that did not immediately change.


Premise: Where can police shoot fleeing convicts?

Hypothesis: The use of firearms or deadly force is typically a last resort only to be used when necessary to save human life, although some jurisdictions (such as Brazil) allow its use against fleeing felons and escaped convicts.


Premise: Crimson is identified by what sRGB number?

Hypothesis: The sRGB number for crimson is 220, 20, 60, which means that the red is slightly less intense and therefore darker, there is some green, which leans it toward orange; and there is a larger amount of blue,which makes it slightly blue-violet.


Premise: Who are the cellular phone operators available?

Hypothesis: Dial-up access is provided throughout the state by BSNL and other providers.


Premise: Why does a mass spectrometer need to be used with gauge to be accurate at high vacuum gas measurement?

Hypothesis: The composition of gases at high vacuums will usually be unpredictable, so a mass spectrometer must be used in conjunction with the ionization gauge for accurate measurement.


Premise: What natural features compose Bermuda?

Hypothesis: The islands lie due east of Fripp Island, South Carolina, west of Portugal and north of Puerto Rico.


Premise: Who broadcast the 12th season in Italy?

Hypothesis: In Brazil and Israel, the show airs two days after its original broadcast.


Premise: What algae is the ancestor of true plants?

Hypothesis: The algal division Charophyta, sister to the green algal division Chlorophyta, is considered to contain the ancestor of true plants.


Premise: What did William Graham Sumner teach?

Hypothesis: Porter objected to Sumner's use of a textbook by Herbert Spencer that espoused agnostic materialism because it might harm students.


Premise: Which type of pesticides have seen rapid growth in development?

Hypothesis: Plant-derived pesticides, or "botanicals", have been developing quickly.


Premise: What airplane developer was founded in San Diego in 1923?

Hypothesis: The city was home to important airplane developers and manufacturers like Ryan Airlines (later Ryan Aeronautical), founded in 1925, and Consolidated Aircraft (later Convair), founded in 1923.


Premise: What hazardous geologic area does Seattle inhabit?

Hypothesis: The Cascadia subduction zone poses the threat of an earthquake of magnitude 9.0 or greater, capable of seriously damaging the city and collapsing many buildings, especially in zones built on fill.


Premise: Ultimately what forced the senate to abandon Rome and flee to Greece?

Hypothesis: Caesar's rapid advance forced Pompey, the consuls and the senate to abandon Rome for Greece.


Premise: What REM song uses simple mandolin licks?

Hypothesis: The 1991 R.E.M. hit "Losing My Religion


Premise: What did Bell start drawing after reading the article?

Hypothesis: Bell and assistant Frederick W. "Casey" Baldwin began hydrofoil experimentation in the summer of 1908 as a possible aid to airplane takeoff from water.


Premise: What is the name of one of the great hospitals in Mexico City?

Hypothesis: Mexico City is home to some of the best private hospitals in the country; Hospital Ángeles, Hospital ABC and Médica Sur to name a few.


Premise: What kind of school did Thatcher end the compulsion for existing schools to convert to?

Hypothesis: In 1970 Margaret Thatcher became Secretary of State for Education of the new Conservative government.


Premise: At what location did the hearse carrying Napoleon's remains begin its procession?

Hypothesis: The hearse proceeded from the Arc de Triomphe down the Champs-Élysées, across the Place de la Concorde to the Esplanade des Invalides and then to the cupola in St Jérôme's Chapel, where it remained until the tomb designed by Louis Visconti was completed.


Premise: What did Central powers concede in exchange for peace?

Hypothesis: As a condition for peace, the treaty by the Central Powers conceded huge portions of the former Russian Empire to Imperial Germany and the Ottoman Empire, greatly upsetting nationalists and conservatives.


Premise: what is a perfect example of a filled vacuum showing a curvature?

Hypothesis: Vacuum does not mean that the curvature of space-time is necessarily flat: the gravitational field can still produce curvature in a vacuum in the form of tidal forces and gravitational waves (technically, these phenomena are the components of the Weyl tensor).


Premise: What is the largest denomination of the entire Ireland Island?

Hypothesis: An estimated 100,000 Scottish Presbyterians moved to the northern counties of Ireland between 1607 and the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.[citation needed]


Premise: where are aircraft manufactured

Hypothesis: Many towns have encouraged small-scale light industries, such as Crewkerne's Ariel Motor Company, one of the UK's smallest car manufacturers.


Premise: Which transit line out of Union Station provides service between Vermont and Washington D.C.?

Hypothesis: Amtrak also codeshares with United Airlines for travel to any airport serviced by United Airlines, via Newark Airport (EWR) originating from or terminating at Union Station,


Premise: In what year did the most polled American support capital punishment?

Hypothesis: The highest level of support for the death penalty recorded overall was 80 percent in 1994 (16 percent opposed), and the lowest recorded was 42 percent in 1966 (47 percent opposed).


Premise: Which streets demarcate The Hub BID?

Hypothesis: The Hub–Third Avenue Business Improvement District (B.I.D.), in The Hub, is the retail heart of the South Bronx, located where four roads converge: East 149th Street, Willis, Melrose and Third Avenues.


Premise: What symbolism has played an important role in shaping the history of Switzerland?

Hypothesis: Alpine symbolism has played an essential role in shaping the history of the country and the Swiss national identity.


Premise: The midbrain during development is known as what?

Hypothesis: All vertebrate brains share a common underlying form, which appears most clearly during early stages of embryonic development.


Premise: What was the item called that recorded the sounds?

Hypothesis: Contrary to popular belief, if placed properly and prepared-for, drums could be effectively used and heard on even the earliest jazz and military band recordings.


Premise: what treaty  allowed the Eic in to the then kingdom of nepal?

Hypothesis: But the expense of wars leading to the total control of India strained the Company's finances.


Premise: What causes flooding, property damage, and loss of life?

Hypothesis: In the 17th century about 2500 people were killed by an avalanche in a village on the French-Italian border; in the 19th century 120 homes in a village near Zermatt were destroyed by an avalanche.


Premise: Which states had the same stadtholder as Holland?

Hypothesis: However, in practice the princes of Orange of the House of Orange-Nassau, beginning with William the Silent, were always chosen as stadtholders of most of the provinces.


Premise: When was the IFAB's decision on the fixed size of the pitch become implemented?

Hypothesis: The length of the pitch for international adult matches is in the range of 100–110 m (110–120 yd) and the width is in the range of 64–75 m (70–80 yd).


Premise: Rita Ranch also has a planned development called what?

Hypothesis: Close by Rita Ranch and also within the city limits lies Civano, a planned development meant to showcase ecologically sound building practices and lifestyles.


Premise: The invasion of Portugal was the beginning of what six-year conflict?

Hypothesis: This attack was the first step in what would eventually become the Peninsular War, a six-year struggle that significantly sapped French strength.


Premise: Receptacles should be oriented to allow the icon on the plug to what?

Hypothesis: However, the specification does not consider the height of the device compared to the eye level height of the user, so the side of the cable that is "visible" when mated to a computer on a desk can depend on whether the user is standing or kneeling.


Premise: What was the public's literacy rate in leading up to the early 19th century in the empire?

Hypothesis: In villages where two or more populations lived together, the inhabitants would often speak each other's language.


Premise: The words from which the name "Quran" might be described are related to which act?

Hypothesis: An important meaning of the word is the "act of reciting", as reflected in an early Quranic passage: "It is for Us to collect it and to recite it (qurʼānahu)."


Premise: What is a third level of crime that some states have adopted?

Hypothesis: These may result in fines and sometimes the loss of one's driver's license, but no jail time.


Premise: From what period does fossilized pollen suggest an older date for angiosperm origin?

Hypothesis: Fossil angiosperm-like pollen from the Middle Triassic (247.2–242.0 Ma) suggests an older date for their origin.


Premise: When was Phil Skinner awarded an MBE?

Hypothesis: Phil Skinner played a key role in 20th century development of the mandolin movement in Australia, and was awarded an MBE in 1979 for services to music and the community.