Premise: Where was the Foxconn plant located?

Hypothesis: Foxconn, Apple's manufacturer, initially denied the abuses, but when an auditing team from Apple found that workers had been working longer hours than were allowed under Chinese law, they promised to prevent workers working more hours than the code allowed.


Premise: From what company does Seattle get its nickname Jet City?

Hypothesis: Seattle's current official nickname is the "Emerald City", the result of a contest held in 1981; the reference is to the lush evergreen forests of the area.


Premise: Which ancient text provides an example of the humanist way of thinking?

Hypothesis: Another instance of ancient humanism as an organised system of thought is found in the Gathas of Zarathustra, composed between 1,000 BCE – 600 BCE in Greater Iran.


Premise: Who chaired the committee created by Executive Order 10925?

Hypothesis: At Johnson's inaugural ball in Texas, he met with a young black lawyer, Hobart Taylor Jr., and gave him the task to co-author the executive order.


Premise: When did Celcil Woodham-Smith also write a well recieved biography about Victoria?

Hypothesis: Biographies of Victoria written before much of the primary material became available, such as Lytton Strachey's Queen Victoria of 1921, are now considered out of date.


Premise: Who compared Napoleon to Hitler in 1947?

Hypothesis: Adolf Hitler left nothing but destruction."


Premise: Who was the outreach director of HRTR?

Hypothesis: Trying to avoid the scenes that marred the relay in the UK, France and the US, the city government designed a complex security operative to protect the torch relay, involving 1200 police officers and 3000 other people, including public employees and volunteers.


Premise: How many types of trees are in Crotona Park?

Hypothesis: lake, 28 species of trees, and a large swimming pool.


Premise: What grade did Yale get on their Sustainable Endowments Institute's College Sustainability Report Card 2008?

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


Premise: How many large casinos are located in Atlantic City?

Hypothesis: They are regulated by the New Jersey Casino Control Commission and the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement.


Premise: What is Oklahoma's rank among states producing crude oil?

Hypothesis: Oklahoma is the nation's third-largest producer of natural gas, fifth-largest producer of crude oil, and has the second-greatest number of active drilling rigs, and ranks fifth in crude oil reserves.


Premise: When did Madonna released her second clothing line?

Hypothesis: Madonna released the Material Girl clothing line, which she designed with her daughter, Lourdes.


Premise: Which amendment contains the Equal Protection Clause?

Hypothesis: Each borough president had a powerful administrative role derived from having a vote on the New York City Board of Estimate, which was responsible for creating and approving the city's budget and proposals for land use.


Premise: What labels did RCA disband in 2011?

Hypothesis: The RCA Music Group closed down Arista, J Records and Jive Records in October 2011, with the artists from those labels being moved to RCA Records.


Premise: Dell lagged behind Hewlett Packard and Oracle in delivering what kind of solutions?

Hypothesis: Dell had done well with a horizontal organization that focused on PCs when the computing industry moved to horizontal mix-and-match layers in the 1980s, but by the mid-2000 the industry shifted to vertically integrated stacks to deliver complete IT solutions and Dell lagged far behind competitors like Hewlett Packard and Oracle.


Premise: What was the name applied to the trade of dealing with labor hunters?

Hypothesis: While some islanders were voluntary recruits the "blackbirders" were notorious for enticing islanders on to ships with tricks, such as pretending to be Christian missionaries, as well as kidnapping islanders at gun point.


Premise: What festival was celebrated in the 1950s in recognition of the city's Mexican and Spanish past?

Hypothesis: In the 2010s there was a proposal for a large-scale celebration of the 100th anniversary of Balboa Park, but the plans were abandoned when the organization tasked with putting on the celebration went out of business.


Premise: Who did the network of fortifications on the island favor?

Hypothesis: From early 1944 until the days leading up to the invasion, Kuribayashi transformed the island into a massive network of bunkers, hidden guns, and 11 mi (18 km) of underground tunnels.


Premise: What's one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world?

Hypothesis: With over 120 million visitors a year tourism is integral to the Alpine economy with much it coming from winter sports although summer visitors are an important component of the tourism industry.


Premise: In 1998, the deal was renewed for what amount over four years?

Hypothesis: The 1988 negotiations were the first signs of a breakaway league; ten clubs threatened to leave and form a "super league", but were eventually persuaded to stay.


Premise: Beside rare types of meteorites, what other types of meteorites have been found in Antarctica?

Hypothesis: This large collection of meteorites allows a better understanding of the abundance of meteorite types in the solar system and how meteorites relate to asteroids and comets.


Premise: Which dog is not able to mount a female dog?

Hypothesis: For many dogs of this breed, the female must be artificially inseminated in order to reproduce.


Premise: Who separated from white congregations and associations after the war?

Hypothesis: Not only did blacks set up some independent congregations in the South before the American Civil War, freedmen quickly separated from white congregations and associations after the war.


Premise: Who helped Beyoncé overcome her depression during the years following the Destiny's Child split?

Hypothesis: Beyoncé stated that she struggled to speak about her depression because Destiny's Child had just won their first Grammy Award and she feared no one would take her seriously.


Premise: What is the purpose of electronic warfare?

Hypothesis: The purpose of electronic warfare is to deny the opponent an advantage in the EMS and ensure friendly, unimpeded access to the EM spectrum portion of the information environment.


Premise: What broke away from the Armenian Evangelical Church?

Hypothesis: These include the Armenian Catholic Church (which follows its own liturgy but recognizes the Roman Catholic Pope), the Armenian Evangelical Church, which started as a reformation in the Mother church but later broke away, and the Armenian Brotherhood Church, which was born in the Armenian Evangelical Church, but later broke apart from it.


Premise: What line used the overhead wire system first Victoria to Crystal Palace or Peckham Rye to West Noorwood?

Hypothesis: In the UK, the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway pioneered overhead electrification of its suburban lines in London, London Bridge to Victoria being opened to traffic on 1 December 1909.


Premise: Dominican mysticism also spread to what European country?

Hypothesis: It assumed remarkable proportions in the congregations of Lombardy and the Netherlands, and in the reforms of Savonarola in Florence.


Premise: Of what nationality was Perrin?

Hypothesis: In 1972, the French physicist Francis Perrin discovered fifteen ancient and no longer active natural nuclear fission reactors in three separate ore deposits at the Oklo mine in Gabon, West Africa, collectively known as the Oklo Fossil Reactors.


Premise: What does FOB stand for?

Hypothesis: Furthermore, most of these tents are set up and operated through the support of Natick Soldier Systems Center.


Premise: The Saxon Palace was taken over for military use in what year?

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


Premise: What is often identified as the reason for less than ideal working conditions for garment workers?

Hypothesis: Globalization is often quoted as the single most contributing factor to the poor working conditions of garment workers.


Premise: According to Heidegger, what can we do, in our thoughts?

Hypothesis: We are able to remember the past and project into the future—we have a kind of random access to our representation of temporal existence; we can, in our thoughts, step out of (ecstasis) sequential time.


Premise: What political group attracted voters displeased with Democrats?

Hypothesis: In 1896 a biracial, Populist-Republican Fusionist coalition gained the governor's office.


Premise: Hypersexual behavior in male dogs is diminished by what?

Hypothesis: Neutering reduces problems caused by hypersexuality, especially in male dogs.


Premise: What pigment was used for male skin tone in ancient wall art?

Hypothesis: Red ochre was widely used as a pigment for wall paintings, particularly as the skin color of men.


Premise: In 1991 what money issue of the Queen was a feature of public criticism?

Hypothesis: The involvement of the younger royals in the charity game show It's a Royal Knockout was ridiculed and the Queen was the target of satire.


Premise: What notable artist and Royal Academician was born in Plympton?

Hypothesis: William Cookworthy born in Kingsbridge set up his successful porcelain business in the city and was a close friend of John Smeaton designer of the Eddystone Lighthouse.


Premise: Who bailed out financial institutions?

Hypothesis: Prior to the crisis, financial institutions became highly leveraged, increasing their appetite for risky investments and reducing their resilience in case of losses.


Premise: What happened to the scope of France's colonies as a result of the war?

Hypothesis: France was deprived of many of its colonies and had saddled itself with heavy war debts that its inefficient financial system could barely handle.


Premise: Why was barbiturates and amphetamines restricted?

Hypothesis: Today, amphetamine is largely restricted to use in the treatment of attention deficit disorder and phenobarbital in the treatment of epilepsy.


Premise: With whom did Europeans attempt to sign treaties in order to legitimize their sovereignty during colonization?

Hypothesis: In most cases these treaties were in extremely disadvantageous terms to the native people, who often did not appreciate the implications of what they were signing.


Premise: What do reflector cookers require to function?

Hypothesis: These cookers reach temperatures of 315 °C (599 °F) and above but require direct light to function properly and must be repositioned to track the Sun.


Premise: What is SASO causing discussion and debate about?

Hypothesis: The Sell Assessment of Sexual Orientation (SASO) was developed to address the major concerns with the Kinsey Scale and Klein Sexual Orientation Grid and as such, measures sexual orientation on a continuum, considers various dimensions of sexual orientation, and considers homosexuality and heterosexuality separately.


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

Hypothesis: However, belief in the existence of a Terra Australis—a vast continent in the far south of the globe to "balance" the northern lands of Europe, Asia and North Africa—had existed since the times of Ptolemy (1st century AD), who suggested the idea to preserve the symmetry of all known landmasses in the world.


Premise: This group wanted accountability for what 1989 event?

Hypothesis: Political activist and Legislative Council member Leung Kwok-hung (Longhair) also joined the protest, saying "I'm very proud that in Hong Kong we still have people brave enough to speak out.


Premise: How did al-Mahdi maintain contact during his Occultation?

Hypothesis: Whenever the believers faced a problem, they would write their concerns and send them to his deputy.


Premise: How many helicopters can simultaneously land on Japan's largest military ship?

Hypothesis: The ship is able to carry up to 14 helicopters; however, only seven ASW helicopters and two SAR helicopters were planned for the initial aircraft complement.


Premise: What food can be traced back to ancient Greece?

Hypothesis: Some dishes can be traced back to ancient Greece like skordalia (a thick purée of walnuts, almonds, crushed garlic and olive oil), lentil soup, retsina (white or rosé wine sealed with pine resin) and pasteli (candy bar with sesame seeds baked with honey).


Premise: What two locations in Florida were renamed after Kennedy by President Johnson?

Hypothesis: As President, Johnson steadfastly pursued the Gemini and Apollo programs, promoting them as Kennedy's legacy to the American public.


Premise: What thrived after the NES was discontinued?

Hypothesis: These unauthorized clones have been helped by the invention of the so-called NES-on-a-chip.


Premise: What group did the men accused of high treason, including Henry Scrope and Sir Thomas Grey, lead?

Hypothesis: They were found guilty and summarily executed outside the Bargate.


Premise: What is another name for phonemic tones?

Hypothesis: According to the traditional Chinese system, however, there are 7 to 9 "tones",[citation needed] more correctly termed tone classes since two of them are non-phonemic "entering tones" (see the discussion on Chinese tone).


Premise: Who led the Soviet rocket engineers

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


Premise: When was England again able to ship to the Netherlands?

Hypothesis: Upon the re-opening of the Netherlands to English shipping in January 1565, there ensued a strong outburst of commercial activity.


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

Hypothesis: At the outset of the Korean War the CIA still only had a few thousand employees, a thousand of whom worked in analysis.


Premise: How many school buildings collapsed in the province?

Hypothesis: In terms of school casualties, thousands of school children died due to shoddy construction.


Premise: Who translated German chorales into English?

Hypothesis: A rudimentary example of translating poetry for singing is church hymns, such as the German chorales translated into English by Catherine Winkworth.


Premise: What was Shibell's job?

Hypothesis: They found Stilwell lying in wait for Virgil in the Tucson station and killed him on the tracks.


Premise: What is the larger count for numbers of dogs considered to populate the planet?

Hypothesis: The global dog population is estimated at 525 million:225 based on a transparent methodology, as opposed to other estimates where the methodology has not been made available –


Premise: When did Max Weinrich write "A shprakh iz a dialekt mit an armey un flot"?

Hypothesis: The Yiddish linguist Max Weinreich published the expression, A shprakh iz a dialekt mit an armey un flot ("אַ שפּראַך איז אַ דיאַלעקט מיט אַן אַרמײ און פֿלאָט":


Premise: How did the case against Tulisa fare?

Hypothesis: At her subsequent trial, the case against Tulisa collapsed at Southwark Crown Court in July 2014, with the judge commenting that there were "strong grounds" to believe that Mahmood had lied at a pre-trial hearing and tried to manipulate evidence against the co-defendant Tulisa.


Premise: What some of the Museums in Bath

Hypothesis: The county has several museums; those at Bath include the American Museum in Britain, the Museum of Bath Architecture, the Herschel Museum of Astronomy, the Jane Austen Centre, and the Roman Baths.


Premise: What contestant came in fourth on season two of American Idol?

Hypothesis: Both finalists found success after the show, but Aiken out-performed Studdard's coronation song "Flying Without Wings" with his single release from the show "


Premise: How did the French guard respond to the attack on the prisoners?

Hypothesis: French naval deployments in 1757 also successfully defended the key Fortress of Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island, securing the seaward approaches to Quebec.


Premise: What well-known musician was once part of the college a capella group The Counterparts?

Hypothesis: Co-ed groups have produced many up-and-coming and major artists, including John Legend, an alumnus of the Counterparts at the University of Pennsylvania, and Sara Bareilles, an alumna of Awaken A Cappella at University of California, Los Angeles.


Premise: Where does the fungus Geotrichum candidum originate from?

Hypothesis: The fungus Geotrichum candidum, found in Belize, has been found to consume the polycarbonate plastic and aluminium found in CDs.


Premise: Who played Severine in the previous Bond film?

Hypothesis: After casting Bérénice Lim Marlohe, a relative newcomer, as Sévérine in Skyfall, Mendes consciously sought out a more experienced actor for the role of Madeleine Swann, ultimately casting Léa Seydoux in the role.


Premise: How many kilometers was the planned route that was cancelled?

Hypothesis: The original 20 km relay through Jakarta was cancelled due to "security worries", at the request of the Chinese embassy, and the torch was instead carried round the city main's stadium, as it had been in Islamabad.


Premise: Who designed Chopin's tombstone?

Hypothesis: Chopin's tombstone, featuring the muse of music, Euterpe, weeping over a broken lyre, was designed and sculpted by Clésinger.


Premise: Why don't Jehovah Witnesses celebrate the usual holidays and customs?

Hypothesis: They consider use of the name Jehovah vital for proper worship.


Premise: What conflict resulted from death of Jan Hus?

Hypothesis: The teachings of the Czech priest Jan Hus were based on those of John Wycliffe, yet his followers, the Hussites, were to have a much greater political impact than the Lollards.


Premise: What states assisting Japan was Thailand a part of?

Hypothesis: The Axis states which assisted Japan included the authoritarian government of Thailand in World War II, which quickly formed a temporary alliance with the Japanese in 1941, as the Japanese forces were already invading the peninsula of southern Thailand.


Premise: What does the MoD defend?

Hypothesis: With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, the MoD does not foresee any short-term conventional military threat; rather, it has identified weapons of mass destruction, international terrorism, and failed and failing states as the overriding threats to Britain's interests.


Premise: When did Pantages open his movie houses?

Hypothesis: The theaters he built for Pantages in Seattle have been either demolished or converted to other uses, but many other theaters survive in other cities of the U.S., often retaining the Pantages name; Seattle's surviving Paramount Theatre, on which he collaborated, was not a Pantages theater.


Premise: What actor attended a torch celebration in China?

Hypothesis: China: The torch returned to China for the first time since April.


Premise: What containers are used for melting?

Hypothesis: Usually, the melts are carried out in platinum crucibles to reduce contamination from the crucible material.


Premise: What perspective does development anthropology view development from?

Hypothesis: The kind of issues addressed and implications for the approach simply involve pondering why, if a key development goal is to alleviate poverty, is poverty increasing?


Premise: Are the changes then presented, permanent?

Hypothesis: Epigenetic marks may be added or removed from the DNA during programmed stages of development of the plant, and are responsible, for example, for the differences between anthers, petals and normal leaves, despite the fact that they all have the same underlying genetic code.


Premise: Is precipitation varied or uniform in Western Alaska?

Hypothesis: This region has a tremendous amount of variety in precipitation.


Premise: Where is the semiconductor laser found in a CD player?

Hypothesis: In order to accommodate the spiral pattern of data, the semiconductor laser is placed on a swing arm within the disc tray of any CD player.


Premise: What are Stromatolites?

Hypothesis: There are also some algae that originated from even later endosymbiotic events.


Premise: When was the drug taken off shelves in Germany?

Hypothesis: Though the drug was never approved in the USA, the firm distributed Kevadon to over 1,000 physicians there under the guise of investigational use.


Premise: What do the mas bands eventually converge on?

Hypothesis: The street parade and band costume competition take place.


Premise: Who was skeptical of Stalin’s policies?

Hypothesis: Claims by Suvorov that Stalin planned to invade Germany in 1941 are debated by historians with, for example, David Glantz opposing such claims, while Mikhail Meltyukhov supports them.[citation needed]


Premise: In what year was the final Greek resistance?

Hypothesis: The final Greek resistance came in 88 BC, when King Mithridates of Pontus rebelled against Rome, captured Roman held Anatolia, and massacred up to 100,000 Romans and Roman allies across Asia Minor.


Premise: What is the layout of the neighbourhoods called?

Hypothesis: It means that the network adaptations favour active transportation and, selectively, "filter out" the car by reducing the number of streets that run through the centre.


Premise: Along with sociology and behavioral sciences, what discipline informs the field of criminology?

Hypothesis: In economics, the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services, emotions are analyzed in some sub-fields of microeconomics, in order to assess the role of emotions on purchase decision-making and risk perception.


Premise: Which Metzinger piece was hung in La Maison Cubiste?

Hypothesis: —the Salon Bourgeois, where paintings by Marcel Duchamp, Metzinger (Woman with a Fan), Gleizes, Laurencin and Léger were hung—and a bedroom.


Premise: At what prison did extrajudicial executions occur according to HRW?

Hypothesis: Opponents were critical of Libya's human rights abuses; according to Human Rights Watch (HRW) and others, hundreds of arrested political opponents often failed to receive a fair trial, and were sometimes subjected to torture or extrajudicial execution, most notably in the Abu Salim prison, including an alleged massacre on 29 June 1996 in which HRW estimated that 1,270 prisoners were massacred.


Premise: What percentage of the student body of BYU has some proficiency in a second language?

Hypothesis: Over three quarters of the student body has some proficiency in a second language (numbering 107 languages in total).


Premise: What is a common method of misuse?

Hypothesis: Widespread usage of antibiotics in hospitals has also been associated with increases in bacterial strains and species that no longer respond to treatment with the most common antibiotics.


Premise: To which dynasty did the king who commissioned the first translation of Quranic texts belong?

Hypothesis: The Samanid king, Mansur I (961-976), ordered a group of scholars from Khorasan to translate the Tafsir al-Tabari, originally in Arabic, into Persian.


Premise: Reservations are generally permitted so long as they are not what?

Hypothesis: However, in the interest of encouraging the largest number of states to join treaties, a more permissive rule regarding reservations has emerged.


Premise: What does EAL stand for?

Hypothesis: Many common operating systems meet the EAL4 standard of being "Methodically Designed, Tested and Reviewed", but the formal verification required for the highest levels means that they are uncommon.


Premise: What type of musicians besides classical have experimented with electronic instruments?

Hypothesis: Electric instruments such as the electric guitar, the electric bass and the ondes Martenot appear occasionally in the classical music of the 20th and 21st centuries.


Premise: On what date did ITV Westcountry cease to operate?

Hypothesis: The main local newspapers serving Plymouth are The Herald and Western Morning News with Radio Plymouth , BBC Radio Devon, Heart South West , and Pirate FM being the main local radio stations.


Premise: How many crystal modifications of uranium hydride are extant?

Hypothesis: Two crystal modifications of uranium hydride exist: an α form that is obtained at low temperatures and a β form that is created when the formation temperature is above 250 °C.


Premise: What year did Ray Holmes die?

Hypothesis: On 15 September 1940, known as the Battle of Britain Day, an RAF pilot, Ray Holmes of No. 504 Squadron RAF rammed a German bomber he believed was going to bomb the Palace.


Premise: Why does the FBI operate LEGAT offices?

Hypothesis: These overseas offices exist primarily for the purpose of coordination with foreign security services and do not usually conduct unilateral operations in the host countries.


Premise: Where in France is Paris located?

Hypothesis: Paris is located in northern central France.


Premise: What is subjective idealism closely related to?

Hypothesis: Most of Hume's followers have disagreed with his conclusion that belief in an external world is rationally unjustifiable, contending that Hume's own principles implicitly contained the rational justification for such a belief, that is, beyond being content to let the issue rest on human instinct, custom and habit.


Premise: What is another for which  organisms have been modified for?

Hypothesis: For example, genes are easily added to bacteria and lineages of knockout mice with a specific gene's function disrupted are used to investigate that gene's function.


Premise: How much space is World Trade Center 4 projected to have?

Hypothesis: The Towers Square, is an area of remarkable aesthetic design, intended to be a platform for the development of business activities, art exhibitions, dance and music performances and social place.


Premise: What was the winning party?

Hypothesis: Patassé's party, the Mouvement pour la Libération du Peuple Centrafricain (MLPC) or Movement for the Liberation of the Central African People, gained a simple but not an absolute majority of seats in parliament, which meant Patassé's party required coalition partners.[citation needed]


Premise: What rank does Boston hold as far as being an economically powerful city in the world?

Hypothesis: Encompassing $363 billion, the Greater Boston metropolitan area has the sixth-largest economy in the country and 12th-largest in the world.


Premise: What was the value of the deal reported to be at the time?

Hypothesis: On February 12, 2014, the Los Angeles Times reported that Comcast sought to acquire Time Warner Cable in a deal valued at $45.2 billion.


Premise: Anti-aircraft defenses became better after what?

Hypothesis: It was to be some months before an effective night fighter force would be ready, and anti-aircraft defences only became adequate after the Blitz was over, so ruses were created to lure German bombers away from their targets.


Premise: Why was Media Transfer Protocol designed?

Hypothesis: Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) was designed by Microsoft to give higher-level access to a device's filesystem than USB mass storage, at the level of files rather than disk blocks.


Premise: Between which two lines of longitude is the Congo located?

Hypothesis: Congo is located in the central-western part of sub-Saharan Africa, along the Equator, lying between latitudes 4°N and 5°S, and longitudes 11° and 19°E.


Premise: What type of animal belonging to Queen Elizabeth II was killed by an intruding fox on the Buckingham Palace grounds?

Hypothesis: Foxes have even sneaked into the Houses of Parliament, where one was found asleep on a filing cabinet.


Premise: How many genders does standard Dutch use for both natural and grammatical gender?

Hypothesis: This gender system is similar to those of most Continental Scandinavian languages.


Premise: Other than in osteomalacia, what is there no evidence of a relationship between pain and?

Hypothesis: An analysis of the 13 highest quality studies of pain treatment with acupuncture, published in January 2009, concluded there is little difference in the effect of real, sham and no acupuncture.


Premise: An imbalance in sex hormones, tissue responsiveness, or obesity can cause what in boys?

Hypothesis: Puberty occurs through a long process and begins with a surge in hormone production, which in turn causes a number of physical changes.


Premise: Who believes "the outline of the life must be true" in reference to Buddha?

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


Premise: What synthetic product is produced by upgraders?

Hypothesis: A sixth upgrader, under construction in 2015 near Redwater, Alberta, will upgrade half of its crude bitumen directly to diesel fuel, with the remainder of the output being sold as feedstock to nearby oil refineries and petrochemical plants.


Premise: What does UEFA Stand for?

Hypothesis: This is generally regarded as a warm-up tournament for the upcoming FIFA World Cup and does not carry the same prestige as the World Cup itself.


Premise: What percent of copper is recyclable?

Hypothesis: It is estimated that 80% of the copper ever mined is still in use today.


Premise: What is Somerset an important supplier of

Hypothesis: It has been announced twice, in 2006 and 2007, that manufacturing is to end at Thales Optics' Taunton site, but the trade unions and Taunton Deane District Council are working to reverse or mitigate these decisions.


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

Hypothesis: Baird Television Ltd. made Britain's first television broadcast, on 30 September 1929 from its studio in Long Acre, London, via the BBC's London transmitter, using the electromechanical system pioneered by John Logie Baird.


Premise: What suggests that Kathmandu is as old as it is?

Hypothesis: The city has a rich history, spanning nearly 2000 years, as inferred from inscriptions found in the valley.


Premise: What is comparison and analogy in the Prabhakara school?

Hypothesis: The Prābhākara subschool of Mīmāṃsā considered five epistemically reliable means to gaining knowledge: pratyakṣa (perception), anumāṇa (inference), upamāṇa (comparison and analogy), arthāpatti (postulation, derivation from circumstances), and śabda (word, testimony of past or present reliable experts).


Premise: Which professor sent the first wireless message in the USA?

Hypothesis: Around 1899, Professor Jerome Green became the first American to send a wireless message.


Premise: How many candidates was typical in early fields for speaker?

Hypothesis: The Democratic minority from 1861 to 1875 was so completely disorganized that they did not "nominate a candidate for Speaker in two of these seven Congresses and nominated no man more than once in the other five.


Premise: Why are certain larger transformations not permitted?

Hypothesis: However, some energy transformations can be quite efficient.


Premise: What is the name of the riot in Detroit in 1967?

Hypothesis: Longstanding tensions in Detroit culminated in the Twelfth Street riot in July 1967.


Premise: What is the name of the executive order that transferred Guam over to the U.S?

Hypothesis: 108-A. Guam came to serve as a station for American ships traveling to and from the Philippines, while the Northern Mariana Islands passed to Germany, and then to Japan.


Premise: Why did the government refuse to allow the London Underground stations to be used as shelters?

Hypothesis: Underground officials were ordered to lock station entrances during raids; but by the second week of heavy bombing the government relented and ordered the stations to be opened.


Premise: Which videos are often available for download straight from youtube?

Hypothesis: A small number of videos, such as the weekly addresses by President Barack Obama, can be downloaded as MP4 files.


Premise: What is not allowed to confine and bind oneself?

Hypothesis: Thinking and thought must therefore not be allowed to confine and bind one.


Premise: What application lets PS3 users view and organize photographs?

Hypothesis: Photo Gallery is an optional application to view, create and group photos from PS3, which is installed separately from the system software at 105 MB.


Premise: What is corporal punishment used as retribution for?

Hypothesis: In various contexts, the deliberate infliction of pain in the form of corporal punishment is used as retribution for an offence, or for the purpose of disciplining or reforming a wrongdoer, or to deter attitudes or behaviour deemed unacceptable.


Premise: What is the average temperature range in the Congo during the night time?

Hypothesis: The dry season is from June to August while in the majority of the country the wet season has two rainfall maxima: one in March–May and another in September–November.


Premise: When did Cassander die?

Hypothesis: After Cassander's death in 298 BCE, however, Demetrius, who still maintained a sizable loyal army and fleet, invaded Macedon, seized the Macedonian throne (294) and conquered Thessaly and most of central Greece (293-291).


Premise: Who heads the Newfrontiers movement?

Hypothesis: Generally, however, Reformed charismatics distance themselves from renewal movements with tendencies which could be perceived as overemotional, such as Word of Faith, Toronto Blessing, Brownsville Revival and Lakeland Revival.


Premise: Why did Chopin request being cut open after his death?

Hypothesis: Later that morning, Solange's husband Clésinger made Chopin's death mask and a cast of his left hand.


Premise: What can use words from different dialects?

Hypothesis: Literary Catalan allows the use of words from different dialects, except those of very restricted use.


Premise: How many terms can a mayor serve?

Hypothesis: Kenney, as all Philadelphia mayors have been since 1952, is a member of the Democratic Party, which tends to dominate local politics so thoroughly that the Democratic Mayoral primary is often more widely covered than the general election.


Premise: Who founded Northwestern University?

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


Premise: What do devout Muslims believe is the reason for the overlap of events and characters in the Bible and Quran?

Hypothesis: Muslims believe the common elements or resemblances between the Bible and other Jewish and Christian writings and Islamic dispensations is due to their common divine source,[citation needed] and that the original Christian or Jewish texts were authentic divine revelations given to prophets.


Premise: What is necessary to stabilize the low oxidation state of zinc(l) compounds?

Hypothesis: Zinc(I) compounds are rare, and require bulky ligands to stabilize the low oxidation state.


Premise: When were dinosaur tracks found in Emosson?

Hypothesis: In Emosson in Valais, Switzerland, dinosaur tracks were found in the 1970s, dating probably from the Triassic Period.


Premise: What two types of organisms have remarkable differences in their genomic composition?

Hypothesis: When talking about genome composition, one should distinguish between prokaryotes and eukaryotes as the big differences on contents structure they have.


Premise: Which individuals usually approved charters for universitas?

Hypothesis: At the time of the emergence of urban town life and medieval guilds, specialised "associations of students and teachers with collective legal rights usually guaranteed by charters issued by princes, prelates, or the towns in which they were located" came to be denominated by this general term.


Premise: Who previously held the keys to the Church of the Nativity?

Hypothesis: Thus, France's show of force presented a real threat, and when combined with aggressive diplomacy and money, induced the Ottoman Sultan Abdülmecid I to accept a new treaty, confirming France and the Roman Catholic Church as the supreme Christian authority with control over the Roman Catholic holy places and possession of the keys to the Church of the Nativity, previously held by the Greek Orthodox Church.:20


Premise: Nagarjuna's main contribution was the exposition of the concept of what?

Hypothesis: In the eyes of Nagarjuna the Buddha was not merely a forerunner, but the very founder of the Mādhyamaka system.


Premise: Who is the leader of Estonia's government?

Hypothesis: The current Estonian Prime Minister is Taavi Rõivas, who is the former Minister of Social Affairs and the head of the Estonian Reform Party.


Premise: The windward side of St. Barts is popular for what type of activity?

Hypothesis: The beach of St Jean is suitable for water sports and facilities have been created for that purpose.


Premise: Which city became the launching place for expeditions into New Mexico?

Hypothesis: Santa Bárbara became the launching place for expeditions into New Mexico by Spanish conquistadors like: Antonio de Espejo, Gaspar Castaño, Antonio Gutiérrez de Umaña, Francisco Leyba de Bonilla, and Vicente de Zaldívar.


Premise: Who compiled the Kobylańska Catalogue?

Hypothesis: Works published since 1857 have received alternative catalogue designations instead of opus numbers.


Premise: When did Massalia side with Pompey?

Hypothesis: A staunch ally of Rome, Massalia retained its independence until it sided with Pompey in 49 BCE and was then taken by Caesar's forces.


Premise: What is the major difference between the two blocks?

Hypothesis: There are a few other differences in pronunciation, verbal morphology, and vocabulary.


Premise: The construction of Connaught Place was completed in what year?

Hypothesis: As construction of the Viceroy's House (the present Rashtrapati Bhavan), Central Secretariat, Parliament House, and All-India War Memorial (India Gate) was winding down, the building of a shopping district and a new plaza, Connaught Place, began in 1929, and was completed by 1933.


Premise: How many fleet carriers were lost by the Japanese in the Battle of Midway?

Hypothesis: With his carriers lost and the Americans withdrawn out of range of his powerful battleships, Yamamoto was forced to call off the operation, leaving Midway in American hands.


Premise: Which group inherited the "revolutionary spirit" once displayed by the philosophes, according to Darnton?

Hypothesis: More importantly, according to Darnton, the Grub Street hacks inherited the "revolutionary spirit" once displayed by the philosophes, and paved the way for the French Revolution by desacralizing figures of political, moral and religious authority in France.


Premise: Where did the Detroit Drive play their home games?

Hypothesis: One of the league's early success stories was the Detroit Drive.


Premise: Who was the pope who headed the Ecumencial Council of Trent in that year?

Hypothesis: According to this historic council "nothing is more necessary to the Church of God than that the holy Roman pontiff apply that solicitude which by the duty of his office he owes the universal Church in a very special way by associating with himself as cardinals the most select persons only, and appoint to each church most eminently upright and competent shepherds; and this the more so, because our Lord Jesus Christ will require at his hands the blood of the sheep of Christ that perish through the evil government of shepherds who are negligent and forgetful of their office."


Premise: When did Boston stop being known for it's garment production and leather goods?

Hypothesis: Although foreign trade returned after these hostilities, Boston's merchants had found alternatives for their capital investments in the interim.


Premise: What year's were Cezannes painting's displayed at Salon d'Automne? Not including the retrospectives.

Hypothesis: A primary influence that led to Cubism was the representation of three-dimensional form in the late works of Paul Cézanne.


Premise: What is the Judaeo-Spanish language developed by Sephardic Jews who migrated to the Iberian peninsula?

Hypothesis: Yiddish is the Judæo-German language developed by Ashkenazi Jews who migrated to Central Europe.


Premise: What was the world's first feature film?

Hypothesis: The Story of the Kelly Gang, the world's first feature film, was shot in Melbourne in 1906.


Premise: Being excluded from doing what, made it so that black people could not serve on juries or in public office?

Hypothesis: Exclusion from voting had wide effects: it meant that black Americans could not serve on juries or in any local office.


Premise: When did Madonna adopt David Banda?

Hypothesis: While there, she decided to adopt a boy named David Banda in October 2006.


Premise: What kind of referendum can the lower house of parliament take against the government?

Hypothesis: In parliamentary systems, governments are generally required to have the confidence of the lower house of parliament (though a small minority of parliaments, by giving a right to block supply to upper houses, in effect make the cabinet responsible to both houses, though in reality upper houses, even when they have the power, rarely exercise it).


Premise: How many shootings were there in that year?

Hypothesis: Shooting incidents peaked in 2006 when 1,857 shootings were recorded.


Premise: Who consolidated the Maratha kingdom?

Hypothesis: There is no doubt that the single most important power to emerge in the long twilight of the Mughal dynasty was the Maratha confederacy.


Premise: What infrastructure project was part of the National Charter?

Hypothesis: The charter called for universal health care, affordable housing, vocational schools, greater women's rights and a family planning program, as well as widening the Suez Canal.


Premise: Most African descent in Brazil came from what sort of congress?

Hypothesis: From the last decades of the Empire until the 1950s, the proportion of the white population increased significantly while Brazil welcomed 5.5 million immigrants between 1821 and 1932, not much behind its neighbor Argentina with 6.4 million, and it received more European immigrants in its colonial history than the United States.


Premise: When did season three premiere?

Hypothesis: Season three premiered on January 19, 2004.


Premise: Who are othe rwell know players?

Hypothesis: Some well-known players include Marty Stuart, Vince Gill, and Ricky Skaggs.


Premise: Which professionals bore the brunt of the effort to upgrade systems affected by time changes?

Hypothesis: For example, the 2007 change to DST rules in North America required many computer systems to be upgraded, with the greatest impact on email and calendaring programs; the upgrades consumed a significant effort by corporate information technologists.


Premise: Who were the Duke and Duchess of York's children?

Hypothesis: The Duke and Duchess of York had two children: Elizabeth (called "Lilibet" by the family), and Margaret.


Premise: When was the edict written?

Hypothesis: Zhengtong had the following message delivered to the Great Treasure Prince of Dharma, the Karmapa:


Premise: The rifting in the Cretaceous had what result on the oceans?

Hypothesis: As the Atlantic Ocean widened, the convergent-margin orogenies that had begun during the Jurassic continued in the North American Cordillera, as the Nevadan orogeny was followed by the Sevier and Laramide orogenies.


Premise: What year did the foundation end its run?

Hypothesis: The foundation ceased operations in 2011.


Premise: What parts of Frédéric's personal life influenced his legacy as a leading symbol of the era?

Hypothesis: His works remain popular, and he has been the subject of numerous films and biographies of varying degrees of historical accuracy.


Premise: What is Persis known as today?

Hypothesis: The settlement was then shifted to the southern end of the Zagros Mountains, and is today defined as Fars Province.


Premise: Magna Graecia is Latin for what term?

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


Premise: What year did Melbourne cease in serving as the nations interim seat of government?

Hypothesis: During the Victorian gold rush of the 1850s, it was transformed into one of the world's largest and wealthiest cities.


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

Hypothesis: This hematogenous transmission can also spread infection to more distant sites, such as peripheral lymph nodes, the kidneys, the brain, and the bones.


Premise: What are some Spielberg films that included kids?

Hypothesis: In the cases when his films include children (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Empire of the Sun, Jurassic Park, etc.), this type of shot is more apparent, but it is also used in films like Munich, Saving Private Ryan, The Terminal, Minority Report, and Amistad.


Premise: The National Pet Owner Survey reported how many people had pet dogs in America between 2009 and 2010?

Hypothesis: Yet, although several programs are undergoing to promote pet adoption, less than a fifth of the owned dogs come from a shelter.


Premise: When did the centre of Bern become the UNESCO World Heritage Site?

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


Premise: What would some people in Spain go out disguised as?

Hypothesis: Also in Spain, San Isidoro de Sevilla is written complaint in the seventh century that people coming out into the streets disguised in many cases the opposite gender.


Premise: During which months do glacial earthquakes peak in Greenland?

Hypothesis: The number of glacial earthquakes in Greenland peaks every year in July, August and September and is increasing over time.


Premise: What Dominican founded the Revue Thomiste?

Hypothesis: In addition to the reviews above are the Revue Thomiste, founded by Père Thomas Coconnier (d. 1908), and the Analecta Ordinis Prædicatorum (1893).


Premise: What was the name of the first oral contraceptive?

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


Premise: Besides census records and passenger lists, what NARA documents are particularly useful to genealogists?

Hypothesis: This includes census records from 1790 to 1930, ships' passenger lists, and naturalization records.


Premise: Where is the Canadian component of the NATO located?

Hypothesis: Major air bases are located in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland and Labrador, while administrative and command and control facilities are located in Winnipeg and North Bay.


Premise: Who did Nasser's group try to assassinate?

Hypothesis: According to Sadat, Nasser decided to wage "a large scale assassination campaign".


Premise: What group wanted to stop reforms?

Hypothesis: Even so, the cautious Soviet intelligentsia took almost a year to begin pushing the boundaries to see if he meant what he said.


Premise: Which Houses in the UK must approve a bill before it is assented?

Hypothesis: It may be granted in parliament or outside parliament; in the latter case, each house must be separately notified before the bill takes effect.


Premise: Parts of which towns became part of the Bronx?

Hypothesis: The territory now contained within Bronx County was originally part of Westchester County, one of the 12 original counties of the English Province of New York.


Premise: How did City Council decide to paint the A?

Hypothesis: This was followed by a paint scuffle where the "A" was painted various colors until the city council intervened.


Premise: How many nominations did Beyoncé receive at the 52nd Grammy Awards ceremony?

Hypothesis: She tied with Lauryn Hill for most Grammy nominations in a single year by a female artist.


Premise: What was the favorite slogan of Thomas J. Watson Sr.?

Hypothesis: Thomas J. Watson, Sr., fired from the National Cash Register Company by John Henry Patterson, called on Flint and, in 1914, was offered CTR.


Premise: In terms of finance, when being ruled by the English, where did Burma stand ?

Hypothesis: Under British administration, Myanmar was the second-wealthiest country in South-East Asia.


Premise: What was Henry Brown's nickname?

Hypothesis: The resistance to the slave trade was growing by the mid-nineteenth century; in one famous case in 1848, Henry "Box" Brown made history by having himself nailed into a small box and shipped from Richmond to abolitionists in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, escaping slavery.


Premise: To what are Menzies' "Forgotten People" radio talks compared to?

Hypothesis: Menzies called a conference of conservative parties and other groups opposed to the ruling Australian Labor Party, which met in Canberra on 13 October 1944 and again in Albury, New South Wales in December 1944.


Premise: Who co-written and co-produced the song, Like A Prayer?

Hypothesis: The song was included on Madonna's fourth studio album, Like a Prayer, which was co-written and co-produced by Patrick Leonard and Stephen Bray.


Premise: What major interstate provides access between New Haven and New York City?

Hypothesis: I-95 is infamous for traffic jams increasing with proximity to New York City; on the east side of New Haven it passes over the Quinnipiac River via the Pearl Harbor Memorial, or "Q Bridge", which often presents a major bottleneck to traffic. I-91, however, is relatively less congested, except at the intersection with I-95 during peak travel times.


Premise: When was the last major attack London saw?

Hypothesis: This raid was significant, as 63 German fighters were sent with the bombers, indicating the growing effectiveness of RAF night fighter defences.


Premise: What is the extracellular matrix surrounding eukaryotic cells made of?

Hypothesis: All animals have eukaryotic cells, surrounded by a characteristic extracellular matrix composed of collagen and elastic glycoproteins.


Premise: In what year did the nation of George get a new national flag?

Hypothesis: The flags of the Czech Republic and Poland use red for historic heraldic reasons (see Coat of arms of Poland and Coat of arms of the Czech Republic) & not due to Pan-Slavic connotations.


Premise: Who was a tutelary god of Wilusa?

Hypothesis: The god seems to be related to Appaliunas, a tutelary god of Wilusa (Troy) in Asia Minor, but the word is not complete.


Premise: Which cultures architecture showed a lot of diversity?

Hypothesis: Buddhist architecture, in particular, showed great regional diversity.


Premise: In a realistic model of a capacitor, where else besides between the dielectric between the conductors might an electric field be found?

Hypothesis: In addition, these equations assume that the electric field is entirely concentrated in the dielectric between the plates.


Premise: What major conflict occurred in Europe during the Crisis of the Late Middle Ages?

Hypothesis: Collectively these events are sometimes called the Crisis of the Late Middle Ages.


Premise: How did Irving describe Spielberg's house?

Hypothesis: Spielberg first met actress Amy Irving in 1976 at the suggestion of director Brian De Palma, who knew he was looking for an actress to play in Close Encounters.


Premise: Where are the Maritime Forces Atlantic located?

Hypothesis: The Royal Canadian Navy (RCN), headed by the Commander of the Royal Canadian Navy, includes 33 warships and submarines deployed in two fleets: Maritime Forces Pacific (MARPAC) at CFB Esquimalt on the west coast, and Maritime Forces Atlantic (MARLANT) at Her Majesty's Canadian Dockyard in Halifax on the east coast, as well as one formation: the Naval Reserve Headquarters (NAVRESHQ) at Quebec City, Quebec.


Premise: When did the polish-lithuanian commonwealth thrive?

Hypothesis: In 1413, following a series of tentative personal unions between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Crown Kingdom of Poland, the existing Lithuanian nobility formally joined this class.:211


Premise: What geographical location in Eritrea has largely shaped the culture of Eritrea?

Hypothesis: The culture of Eritrea has been largely shaped by the country's location on the Red Sea coast.


Premise: Along with crossbows, what was plate armor designed to defend against?

Hypothesis: The English also employed longbowmen, but other countries were unable to create similar forces with the same success.


Premise: What did the schools elect to contribute money towards, in light of their allegations?

Hypothesis: She wrote to John Vickers, the OFT director-general, saying, "They are not a group of businessmen meeting behind closed doors to fix the price of their products to the disadvantage of the consumer.


Premise: Who did Princess Margaret marry in 1960?

Hypothesis: Amid preparations for the coronation, Princess Margaret informed her sister that she wished to marry Peter Townsend, a divorcé‚ 16 years Margaret's senior, with two sons from his previous marriage.


Premise: What is the smallest data capacity for an iPod product?

Hypothesis: Storage capacity varies by model, ranging from 2 GB for the iPod Shuffle to 128 GB for the iPod Touch (previously 160 GB for the iPod Classic, which is now discontinued).


Premise: What components of glass for networks?

Hypothesis: There are three classes of components for oxide glasses: network formers, intermediates, and modifiers.


Premise: Athletes wearing what kind of flag at any Olympic venue faced the possibility of expulsion from the Olympics?

Hypothesis: The outcome of the relay influenced the IOC's decision to scrap global relays in future editions of the games.


Premise: When did a suicide bomber successfully attack the marine barracks in Lebanon?

Hypothesis: Subsequently the US Navy engaged in bombing of militia positions inside Lebanon.


Premise: What Tennessee recording company first promoted Elvis Presley?

Hypothesis: The 1927 Victor recording sessions in Bristol generally mark the beginning of the country music genre and the rise of the Grand Ole Opry in the 1930s helped make Nashville the center of the country music recording industry.[not verified in body]


Premise: Absence of what make bacteria belong to prokaryotes?

Hypothesis: They lack a true nucleus, mitochondria, chloroplasts and the other organelles present in eukaryotic cells.


Premise: From what countries were European settlers in Alaska?

Hypothesis: European immigrants from Norway and Sweden also settled in southeast Alaska, where they entered the fishing and logging industries.


Premise: Along with the Marianas, where do typhoons that begin in the Marshalls sometimes terminate?

Hypothesis: Many Pacific typhoons begin as tropical storms in the Marshall Islands region, and grow stronger as they move west toward the Mariana Islands and the Philippines.


Premise: What is an example of a copper alloy dollar?

Hypothesis: The Sacagawea dollar is one example of the copper alloy dollar.


Premise: What does a "tag" entail?

Hypothesis: Two wrestlers must make physical contact (typically palm-to-palm) in order to transfer this legal status.


Premise: What did heknow his readers were already familiar with from Vestiges?

Hypothesis: He knew that his readers were already familiar with the concept of transmutation of species from Vestiges, and his introduction ridicules that work as failing to provide a viable mechanism.


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

Hypothesis: The advantage of the coiled coil is that evaporation of the tungsten filament is at the rate of a tungsten cylinder having a diameter equal to that of the coiled coil.


Premise: How much is the Gordie Howe International Bridge expected to cost?

Hypothesis: Canada had already planned to pay for 95 per cent of the bridge, which will cost $2.1 billion, and is expected to open in 2020.


Premise: When was Easter Sunday celebrated after the equinox?

Hypothesis: By the 10th century all churches (except some on the eastern border of the Byzantine Empire) had adopted the Alexandrian Easter, which still placed the vernal equinox on 21 March, although Bede had already noted its drift in 725—it had drifted even further by the 16th century.


Premise: How is the USB data transmitted?

Hypothesis: USB data is transmitted by toggling the data lines between the J state and the opposite K state.


Premise: Which river drains the Mesaoria plain?

Hypothesis: The Mesaoria plain is drained by the Pedieos River, the longest on the island.


Premise: In 1919 what school opened in Weimar, Germany?

Hypothesis: Following this lead, the Bauhaus school, founded in Weimar, Germany in 1919, redefined the architectural bounds prior set throughout history, viewing the creation of a building as the ultimate synthesis—the apex—of art, craft, and technology.


Premise: What was the downed U-2 gathering intelligence in advance of?

Hypothesis: Four days after Powers disappeared, the Eisenhower Administration had NASA issue a very detailed press release noting that an aircraft had "gone missing" north of Turkey.


Premise: What new form of accounting was created during the late 13th and early 14th centuries?

Hypothesis: In the late 13th and early 14th centuries, a process took place – primarily in Italy but partly also in the Empire – that historians have termed a 'commercial revolution'.


Premise: Prussian military officers were trained to exude what type thinking?

Hypothesis: In addition, the Prussian military education system was superior to the French model; Prussian staff officers were trained to exhibit initiative and independent thinking.


Premise: Which state became the most important to secure Bush's presidential election?

Hypothesis: The result of an electoral tie would cause the election to be decided in the House of Representatives with each state casting one vote, regardless of population.


Premise: What did Paul want to reform as a newly elected pope?

Hypothesis: After his election as Bishop of Rome, Paul VI first met with the priests in his new dioceses.


Premise: Who connsidered post-punk "harsh urban scrapings [,] controlled white noise" and "massively accented drumming"?

Hypothesis: Writer Jon Savage described some of these early developments as exploring "harsh urban scrapings [,] controlled white noise" and "massively accented drumming".


Premise: The East Front contains what famous feature?

Hypothesis: The large East Front, facing The Mall, is today the "public face" of Buckingham Palace, and contains the balcony from which the royal family acknowledge the crowds on momentous occasions and after the annual Trooping the Colour.


Premise: How large is the metro system of Mexico City?

Hypothesis: Mexico City is served by the Sistema de Transporte Colectivo, a 225.9 km (140 mi) metro system, which is the largest in Latin America.


Premise: How much many did the Premier League make from selling its internation rights during 2004-07?

Hypothesis: The league brought in £320 million from the sale of its international rights for the three-year period from 2004–05 to 2006–07.


Premise: Melbourne is home to a research and development hub for which auto manufacturer?

Hypothesis: The city also boasts a research and development hub for Ford Australia, as well as a global design studio and technical centre for General Motors and Toyota respectively.


Premise: Name UK influences on the Charismatic movement.

Hypothesis: In the United Kingdom, Colin Urquhart, Michael Harper, David Watson and others were in the vanguard of similar developments.


Premise: All boroughs except for Milpa Alta were in what ranking of HDI score?

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


Premise: How many employees work for Tinker Air Force Base?

Hypothesis: While not in Oklahoma City proper, other large employers within the MSA region include:


Premise: What did Apple's "Lemmings" ad, which introduced Macintosh Office, do that made the ad unsuccessful?

Hypothesis: Infamous for insulting its own potential customers, the ad was not successful.


Premise: How many people in the world have German heritage?

Hypothesis: People of German origin are found in various places around the globe.


Premise: How many number one singles did Queen release?

Hypothesis: In 2009, "We Will Rock You" and "We Are the Champions" were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, and the latter was voted the world's favourite song in a global music poll.


Premise: What inspired Chopin for his preludes?

Hypothesis: Inspired by J.S. Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, Chopin's preludes move up the circle of fifths (rather than Bach's chromatic scale sequence) to create a prelude in each major and minor tonality.


Premise: Were Hellenistic armies smaller or larger than traditional Greek armies?

Hypothesis: Some ethnic groups were known for their martial skill in a particular mode of combat and were highly sought after, including Tarantine cavalry, Cretan archers, Rhodian slingers and Thracian peltasts.


Premise: Detroit Medical Center has become a part of what Health System?

Hypothesis: Detroit Medical Center formally became a part of Vanguard Health Systems on December 30, 2010, as a for profit corporation.


Premise: The evacuation of the Gulf coast before Hurricane Rita was what type of evacuation?

Hypothesis: This was the largest urban evacuation in the history of the United States.


Premise: Beyoncé was a featured artist on which singer's hit, Telephone?

Hypothesis: In 2010, Beyoncé was featured on Lady Gaga's single "Telephone" and its music video.


Premise: Extremely bright lights used to deter crime are called?

Hypothesis: Sometimes security lighting can be used along roadways in urban areas, or behind homes or commercial facilities.


Premise: When Malloy reached the end of his time as president how much annuals funding for research did Notre Dame have?

Hypothesis: He increased the faculty by more than 500 professors; the academic quality of the student body has improved dramatically, with the average SAT score rising from 1240 to 1360; the number of minority students more than doubled; the endowment grew from $350 million to more than $3 billion; the annual operating budget rose from $177 million to more than $650 million; and annual research funding improved from $15 million to more than $70 million.


Premise: What is the range of green wavelengths available when using DPSS technology?

Hypothesis: Lasers emitting in the green part of the spectrum are widely available to the general public in a wide range of output powers.


Premise: Who co-founded Comcast?

Hypothesis: Legal expert Susan P. Crawford has said this gives him "effective control over its [Comcast's] every step".


Premise: What large internet company has partnered with NARA to digitize records?

Hypothesis: A joint venture with Google will digitize and offer NARA video online.


Premise: How much does the ECB have as capital?

Hypothesis: Although the ECB is governed by European law directly and thus not by corporate law applying to private law companies, its set-up resembles that of a corporation in the sense that the ECB has shareholders and stock capital.


Premise: What is the Triangle?

Hypothesis: The "Triangle" nickname originated after the 1959 creation of the Research Triangle Park, located in Durham & Wake Counties partway between the three cities and their universities.


Premise: What is the shape of Southside Speedway?

Hypothesis: oval short-track has become known as the "Toughest Track in the South" and "The Action Track", and features weekly stock car racing on Friday nights.


Premise: Daniel Roche claims that Masonry promoted what idea by only attracting men of similar social background?

Hypothesis: He argues that the lodges only attracted men of similar social backgrounds.


Premise: What body ruled the Eisenhower was not a professional writer?

Hypothesis: The assignment was described as not being a good fit in either direction.


Premise: Which three Canadian football unions resisted the Burnside Rules?

Hypothesis: The CIRFU, QRFU and CRU refused to adopt the new rules at first.


Premise: How much money has been funded to the renovation of Wrigley Field?

Hypothesis: In previously years mostly all efforts to conduct any large-scale renovations to the field had been opposed by the city, former mayor Richard M. Daley (a staunch White Sox fan), and especially the rooftop owners.


Premise: How many economists were cited as pointing out data errors in the HDI?

Hypothesis: The authors suggest that the United Nations should discontinue the practice of classifying countries into development bins because - they claim - the cut-off values seem arbitrary, can provide incentives for strategic behavior in reporting official statistics, and have the potential to misguide politicians, investors, charity donors and the public who use the HDI at large.[citation needed]


Premise: Somalia was one of the last countries on what continent to get connected tothe internet?

Hypothesis: Somalia established its first ISP in 1999, one of the last countries in Africa to get connected to the Internet.


Premise: What did Eisenhower have in common with presidents Taylor, Grant, Taft and Hoover?

Hypothesis: Eisenhower was the last president born in the 19th century, and at age 62, was the oldest man elected President since James Buchanan in 1856 (President Truman stood at 64 in 1948 as the incumbent president at the time of his election four years earlier).


Premise: What is regarded as the greatest literary work in Old English?

Hypothesis: As such, it is not typical of Old English prose.


Premise: What is Doordarshan?

Hypothesis: Television broadcasting in Hyderabad began in 1974 with the launch of Doordarshan, the Government of India's public service broadcaster, which transmits two free-to-air terrestrial television channels and one satellite channel.


Premise: What college did BYU separate from to become its own entity?

Hypothesis: The school broke off from the University of Deseret and became Brigham Young Academy, with classes commencing on January 3, 1876.


Premise: When did Bernard of Clairvaux die?

Hypothesis: The latter especially expanded rapidly in their early years under the guidance of Bernard of Clairvaux (d. 1153).


Premise: Where did Queen record their 1982 album?

Hypothesis: Most of the album was recorded in Munich during the most turbulent period in the band's history, and Taylor and May lamented the new sound, with both being very critical of the influence Mercury's personal manager Paul Prenter had on the singer.


Premise: What were the recording standards based off from?

Hypothesis: It eventually became the technical predecessor to the RIAA curve.


Premise: The speech by Kennedy, "Special Message on Urgent National Needs" was delivered on what date?

Hypothesis: Full text


Premise: What happens outside the 1/1000 second to 1/second exposure range?

Hypothesis: In practice, reciprocity works reasonably well for normal photographic films for the range of exposures between 1/1000 second to 1/2 second.


Premise: What was the change in the status of Prussia because of the war?

Hypothesis: This power dynamic is important to the future and the latter conflicts of the empire.


Premise: When was the Communist Manifesto first created?

Hypothesis: The new government called in the French Army to put down the uprising, the first of many such confrontations between the army and the new worker's movements in Europe.


Premise: Lack of school and this are the primary causes of child labour

Hypothesis: Poverty and lack of schools are considered as the primary cause of child labour.


Premise: When did a mediation process begin between Filner and a city representative?

Hypothesis: On August 19 Filner and city representatives entered a mediation process, as a result of which Filner agreed to resign, effective August 30, 2013, while the city agreed to limit his legal and financial exposure.


Premise: What are the highest hills in Hyderabad?

Hypothesis: It lies on the banks of the Musi River, in the northern part of the Deccan Plateau.


Premise: What was the population of Plymouth unitary authority circa 2011?

Hypothesis: From the 2011 Census, the Office for National Statistics published that Plymouth's unitary authority area population was 256,384; 15,664 more people than that of the last census from 2001, which indicated that Plymouth had a population of 240,720.


Premise: What contraption is used to carry the paper to the web printing presses?

Hypothesis: The paper is then fed onto reels if it is to be used on web printing presses, or cut into sheets for other printing processes or other purposes.


Premise: Which two philosophers contrasted "culture" with the state of nature?

Hypothesis: According to Hobbes and Rousseau, the Native Americans who were being conquered by Europeans from the 16th centuries on were living in a state of nature; this opposition was expressed through the contrast between "civilized" and "uncivilized."


Premise: What big cat has a tendency to attack dogs?

Hypothesis: Coyotes and big cats have also been known to attack dogs.


Premise: Since when have Indigenous Australians been referred to as black?

Hypothesis: Indigenous Australians have been referred to as "black people" in Australia since the early days of European settlement.


Premise: How many identical columns are used in the Cathedral of Brasília?

Hypothesis: These columns, having hyperbolic section and weighing 90 t, represent two hands moving upwards to heaven.


Premise: The Rise of the Samurai expansion for Total War: Shogun 2 depicts which war during the Heian period?

Hypothesis: The game Total War: Shogun 2 has the Rise of the Samurai expansion pack as downloadable campaign.


Premise: Who did the New York Times report was investigating the school collapses?

Hypothesis: The New York Times reported that "government officials in Beijing and Sichuan have said they are investigating the collapses.


Premise: Who refused to lower the profit margins on Mac computers in 1989?

Hypothesis: In 1989, Jean-Louis Gassée had steadfastly refused to lower the profit margins on Mac computers, then there was a component shortage that rocked the exponentially-expanding PC industry that year, forcing Apple USA head Allan Loren to cut prices which dropped Apple's margins.


Premise: What is the main reason for children today to be in the work force?

Hypothesis: Children work because they have nothing better to do.


Premise: Led Zeppelin's first two albums both came out in what year?

Hypothesis: By the end of the decade a distinct genre of hard rock was emerging with bands like Led Zeppelin, who mixed the music of early rock bands with a more hard-edged form of blues rock and acid rock on their first two albums


Premise: These types of corruption can harm what?

Hypothesis: These various manifestations of corruption can ultimately present a danger for the public health; they can discredit specific, essential institutions or social relationships.


Premise: What year did the founder's grandson succeed his father as editor of The Times?

Hypothesis: The Times was beginning to suffer from the rise in competition from the penny press, notably The Daily Telegraph and The Morning Post.


Premise: What was the sender in the initial model?

Hypothesis: The first major model for communication was introduced by Claude Shannon and Warren Weaver for Bell Laboratories in 1949 The original model was designed to mirror the functioning of radio and telephone technologies.


Premise: What percentage of the City of Boston's residents are over 65?

Hypothesis: 37.1% of all households were made up of individuals and 9.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.


Premise: What made Hoover stop serving as the FBI Director?

Hypothesis: They must be confirmed by the United States Senate and serve a term of office of five years, with a maximum of ten years, if reappointed, unless they resign or are fired by the President before their term ends.


Premise: Slaveholders were prevented from being appointed as what?

Hypothesis: The Methodist Episcopal Church, South had recently separated over the issue of slavery, and southern Presbyterians would do so shortly thereafter.


Premise: What did Goring do because of his fear of Hitler?

Hypothesis: When Göring decided against continuing Wever's original heavy bomber programme in 1937, the Reichsmarschall's own explanation was that Hitler wanted to know only how many bombers there were, not how many engines each had.


Premise: Where was the Eiffel Tower revealed?

Hypothesis: Paris became the laboratory of Naturalism (Émile Zola) and Symbolism (Charles Baudelaire and Paul Verlaine), and of Impressionism in art (Courbet, Manet, Monet, Renoir.)


Premise: Which bird has the longest migration?

Hypothesis: Some bar-tailed godwits Limosa lapponica have the longest known non-stop flight of any migrant, flying 11,000 km from Alaska to their New Zealand non-breeding areas.


Premise: The University of Swaziland, Southern Nazarene University, offer higher learning in Swaziland, what is one other University?

Hypothesis: The University of Swaziland, Southern African Nazarene University, Swaziland Christian University are the institutions that offer university education in the country.


Premise: I couldn't could up with another question. But i need to fill this space because I can't submit the hit.

Hypothesis: One of the few city states who managed to maintain full independence from the control of any Hellenistic kingdom was Rhodes.


Premise: What can power lines, wind farms and oil rigs affect?

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


Premise: How long is the Portugal-Spain border?

Hypothesis: The Portugal–Spain border is 1,214 km (754 mi) long and considered the longest uninterrupted border within the European Union.


Premise: A wholesale ban on what was denied?

Hypothesis: In response Indian officials said India was a democracy, and "a wholesale ban on protests was out of the question".


Premise: In what decade were more efficient ways of using sign language via video-telephony developed?

Hypothesis: Those factors largely disappeared with the introduction of more efficient video codecs and the advent of lower cost high-speed ISDN data and IP (Internet) services in the 1990s.


Premise: What was one noble thing the poor szlachta did?

Hypothesis: In doing so, however, these szlachta retained all their constitutional prerogatives, as it was not wealth or lifestyle (obtainable by the gentry), but hereditary juridical status, that determined nobility.


Premise: What is Virgil's full name?

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


Premise: What happened to the 2005 deadlines?

Hypothesis: In 2001, a voluntary agreement called the Harkin-Engel Protocol, was accepted by the international cocoa and chocolate industry to eliminate the worst forms of child labour, as defined by ILO's Convention 182, in West Africa.


Premise: In 1740, what fraction of London drinking establishments were gin shops?

Hypothesis: As thousands of gin-shops sprang up all over England, brewers fought back by increasing the number of alehouses.


Premise: What actor portrayed Franz Oberhauser?

Hypothesis: Oberhauser shares his name with Hannes Oberhauser, a background character in the short story "Octopussy" from the Octopussy and The Living Daylights collection, and who is named in the film as having been a temporary legal guardian of a young Bond in 1983.


Premise: In which country were the scenes with Detlef Bothe shot?

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


Premise: How many has "Dangerously in Love" sould worldwide since its debut?

Hypothesis: The album earned Beyoncé a then record-tying five awards at the 46th Annual Grammy Awards; Best Contemporary R&B Album, Best Female R&B Vocal Performance for "Dangerously in Love 2", Best R&B Song and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for "Crazy in Love", and Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals for "The Closer I Get to You" with Luther Vandross.


Premise: How much sales tax did Kerry owe on the yacht?

Hypothesis: The article claimed this allowed him to avoid paying Massachusetts taxes on the property including approximately $437,500 in sales tax and an annual excise tax of about $500.


Premise: How much does Eton College charge per term?

Hypothesis: Charging up to £11,478 per term (there are three terms per academic year) in 2014/15, Eton is the sixth most expensive HMC boarding school in the UK.


Premise: What is the country's premier football league?

Hypothesis: The most popular spectator sports in Israel are association football and basketball.


Premise: In what decade was there a significant decline in industrial jobs?

Hypothesis: While a resurgence in the financial industry greatly improved the city's economic health in the 1980s, New York's crime rate continued to increase through that decade and into the beginning of the 1990s.


Premise: Since when have Indigenous Australians been referred to as black?

Hypothesis: While originally related to skin colour, the term is used to today to indicate Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander ancestry in general and can refer to people of any skin pigmentation.


Premise: What do these lawsuits have in the U.S.?

Hypothesis: When this outsourced litigator appears to have no intention of taking any copyright infringement cases to trial, but rather only takes them just far enough through the legal system to identify and exact settlements from suspected infringers, critics commonly refer to the party as a "copyright troll.


Premise: Which ocean does Portugal border?

Hypothesis: Portugal's colonial history has long since been a cornerstone of its national identity, as has its geographic position at the south-western corner of Europe, looking out into the Atlantic Ocean.


Premise: Who carved the Pulpit in Sant'Andrea?

Hypothesis: Painted or carved wooden relief altarpieces became common, especially as churches created many side-chapels.


Premise: What does Brasilia's metro area consist of?

Hypothesis: The name 'Brasília' is commonly used as a synonym for the Federal District through synecdoche; However, the Federal District is composed of 31 administrative regions, only one of which is Brasília proper, with a population of 209,926 in a 2011 survey; Demographic publications generally do not make this distinction and list the population of Brasília as synonymous with the population of the Federal District, considering the whole of it as its metropolitan area.


Premise: When were most of the Alpine fourthousanders climber?

Hypothesis: While Mont Blanc was first climbed in 1786, most of the Alpine four-thousanders were climbed during the first half of the 19th century; the ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865 marked the end of the golden age of alpinism.


Premise: What was the first NES emulator?

Hypothesis: It was described as being the first NES emulation software that could be used by a non-expert.


Premise: What color is created when the alloys of copper and aluminium are combined?

Hypothesis: The alloy consisting of 90% copper and 10% nickel is remarkable for its resistance to corrosion and is used in various parts that are exposed to seawater.


Premise: What could the mythological association of prey species with divinity be a form of?

Hypothesis: Euripides' tale of Artemis and Actaeon, for example, may be seen as a caution against disrespect of prey or impudent boasting.


Premise: How did Whitehead define the "fallacy of misplaced concreteness"?

Hypothesis: By assuming that enduring objects are the most real and fundamental things in the universe, materialists have mistaken the abstract for the concrete (what Whitehead calls the "fallacy of misplaced concreteness").


Premise: What did Hume think is a circular argument?

Hypothesis: Hume argued that it requires inductive reasoning to arrive at the premises for the principle of inductive reasoning, and therefore the justification for inductive reasoning is a circular argument.


Premise: Which British territory received independence in 1962?

Hypothesis: Most of the UK's Caribbean territories achieved independence after the departure in 1961 and 1962 of Jamaica and Trinidad from the West Indies Federation, established in 1958 in an attempt to unite the British Caribbean colonies under one government, but which collapsed following the loss of its two largest members.


Premise: What episode of South Park dealt with wrestling?

Hypothesis: One of the lead characters on the Disney Channel series Kim Possible was a huge fan of pro wrestling and actually featured it on an episode (with two former WWE wrestlers voicing the two fictitious wrestlers featured in the episode).


Premise: The human circadian system is entrained to how many hours light-dark pattern?

Hypothesis: The human circadian system is entrained to a 24-hour light-dark pattern that mimics the earth’s natural light/dark pattern.


Premise: MundoFox is an example of what?

Hypothesis: The city is also home to PBS station WGBH-TV, a major producer of PBS programs, which also operates WGBX.


Premise: Which party has always elevated minority floor leaders to speakership?

Hypothesis: Mann "had angered many Republicans by objecting to their private bills on the floor;" also he was a protégé of autocratic Speaker Joseph Cannon, R-IL (1903–1911), and many Members "suspected that he would try to re-centralize power in his hands if elected Speaker.


Premise: Liberating insight is attained after mastering what?

Hypothesis: A core problem in the study of early Buddhism is the relation between dhyana and insight.


Premise: What are pubs called by those who regularly visit there?

Hypothesis: Known as "locals" to regulars, pubs are typically chosen for their proximity to home or work, the availability of a particular beer, as a place to smoke (or avoid it), hosting a darts team, having a pool or snooker table, or appealing to friends.


Premise: When uranium isotope is formed from the decay of neptunium-237?

Hypothesis: All three are radioactive, emitting alpha particles, with the exception that all three of these isotopes have small probabilities of undergoing spontaneous fission, rather than alpha emission.


Premise: What were the Spanish wars directly linked to?

Hypothesis: The Spanish American wars of independence were the numerous wars against Spanish rule in Spanish America that took place during the early 19th century, from 1808 until 1829, directly related to the Napoleonic French invasion of Spain.


Premise: What was the currency in the Parthian Empire?

Hypothesis: The Parthians used Greek as well as their own Parthian language (though lesser than Greek) as languages of administration and also used Greek drachmas as coinage.


Premise: Developments in which revolution allowed consumer goods to be produced in greater quantities at lower prices?

Hypothesis: Developments in the Industrial Revolution allowed consumer goods to be produced in greater quantities at lower prices, encouraging the spread of books, pamphlets, newspapers and journals – "media of the transmission of ideas and attitudes".


Premise: Who should accept the annexation of Poland?

Hypothesis: That day, Hitler told the British ambassador to Berlin that the pact with the Soviets prevented Germany from facing a two front war, changing the strategic situation from that in World War I, and that Britain should accept his demands regarding Poland.


Premise: Cognitive science seeks to join what two branches of science with other fields?

Hypothesis: Cognitive science seeks to unify neuroscience and psychology with other fields that concern themselves with the brain, such as computer science (artificial intelligence and similar fields) and philosophy.


Premise: What might the rapid diffusion of coating metal into tin solder leave in the surface coating?

Hypothesis: Tin forms intermetallics such as Cu5Sn6 and Ag3Cu that dissolve into the Tin liquidus or solidus(@50C), stripping surface coating or leaving voids.


Premise: What was the religious affiliation of all 9 founding members of Northwestern?

Hypothesis: The school's nine founders, all of whom were Methodists (three of them ministers), knelt in prayer and worship before launching their first organizational meeting.


Premise: What month and year were two neighboring cities in Minnesota on different time schedules?

Hypothesis: In the mid-1980s, Clorox (parent of Kingsford Charcoal) and 7-Eleven provided the primary funding for the Daylight Saving Time Coalition behind the 1987 extension to US DST, and both Idaho senators voted for it based on the premise that during DST fast-food restaurants sell more French fries, which are made from Idaho potatoes.


Premise: How many of the court cases wound up at the Supreme Court?

Hypothesis: As is sometimes common in scientific discoveries, simultaneous developments can occur, as evidenced by a number of inventors who were at work on the telephone.


Premise: What career path did Jon Savage take in life?

Hypothesis: In January 1978, singer John Lydon (then known as Johnny Rotten) announced the break-up of his pioneering punk band the Sex Pistols, citing his disillusionment with punk's musical predictability and cooption by commercial interests, as well as his desire to explore more diverse interests.


Premise: What were the names of some of the early cultures located in Myanmar?

Hypothesis: Early civilisations in Myanmar included the Tibeto-Burman-speaking Pyu city-states in Upper Burma and the Mon kingdoms in Lower Burma.


Premise: Which colors lay outside of the nor for those of Greek descent ?

Hypothesis: with significant minorities having black and blonde hair.


Premise: What did Peter I found on the Baltic Sea?

Hypothesis: On the Baltic Sea Peter founded a new capital called Saint Petersburg, later known as Russia's Window to Europe.


Premise: What body was overthrown by the October Revolution?

Hypothesis: Initially, the state did not have an official name and wasn't recognized by neighboring countries for five months.


Premise: How many members of the Swazi House of Assembly are chosen by the king?

Hypothesis: The Swazi bicameral Parliament or Libandla consists of the Senate (30 seats; 10 members appointed by the House of Assembly and 20 appointed by the monarch; to serve five-year terms) and the House of Assembly (65 seats; 10 members appointed by the monarch and 55 elected by popular vote; to serve five-year terms).


Premise: Where was Napoleon when he received news of an Austrian invasion?

Hypothesis: On 13 May, Vienna fell for the second time in four years, although the war continued since most of the Austrian army had survived the initial engagements in Southern Germany.


Premise: Which prize does the Architecture School at Notre Dame give out?

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 developed a electric five-string mandolin?

Hypothesis: Tiny Moore of the Texas Playboys developed an electric five-string mandolin and helped popularize the instrument in Western Swing music.


Premise: What do the instrumental methods of applied anthropology produce?

Hypothesis: Applied Anthropology refers to the application of the method and theory of anthropology to the analysis and solution of practical problems.


Premise: What is Oklahoma's fifth most popular language?

Hypothesis: Fifth is Vietnamese, spoken by 11,330 people, or about 0.4% of the population, many of whom live in the Asia District of Oklahoma City.


Premise: When was a new Constitution adopted in Switzerland?

Hypothesis: A new Constitution was adopted in 1999, but did not introduce notable changes to the federal structure.


Premise: How many Jews were slaughtered in the Holocaust?

Hypothesis: The Holocaust—the state-led systematic persecution and genocide of European Jews (and certain communities of North African Jews in European controlled North Africa) and other minority groups of Europe during World War II by Germany and its collaborators remains the most notable modern-day persecution of Jews.


Premise: What kind of weapon was used against the Mau demonstrators?

Hypothesis: The officers began to fire randomly into the crowd and a Lewis machine gun, mounted in preparation for this demonstration, was used to disperse the demonstrators.


Premise: One form of corruption involves the hiring of family members, which is called what?

Hypothesis: Forms of corruption vary, but include bribery, extortion, cronyism, nepotism, gombeenism, parochialism patronage, influence peddling, graft, and embezzlement.


Premise: What percent of Antartica's land is covered by glaciers?

Hypothesis: Glaciers cover about 10 percent of Earth's land surface.


Premise: One of Napoleon's primary goals was to enforce the Continental System against whom?

Hypothesis: He decided to focus his attention on the Kingdom of Portugal, which consistently violated his trade prohibitions.


Premise: Which theory did the law of conservation of mass disagree with?

Hypothesis: Other important steps included the gravimetric experimental practices of medical chemists like William Cullen, Joseph Black, Torbern Bergman and Pierre Macquer and through the work of Antoine Lavoisier (Father of Modern Chemistry) on oxygen and the law of conservation of mass, which refuted phlogiston theory.


Premise: How many plants are endemic to the Succulent Karoo?

Hypothesis: The Kalahari, while popularly known as a desert, has a variety of localised environments, including some verdant and technically non-desert areas.


Premise: What are the 3 main categories of solar cookers?

Hypothesis: They can be grouped into three broad categories: box cookers, panel cookers and reflector cookers.


Premise: After the president declared a state of emergency, what type of curfew was placed on the country?

Hypothesis: Despite an estimated loss of 300 lives over the course of four days, nonviolent protesters continued to return to Bamako each day demanding the resignation of the dictatorial president and the implementation of democratic policies.


Premise: When was Takeda born?

Hypothesis: The rival of Takeda Shingen (1521–1573) was Uesugi Kenshin (1530–1578), a legendary Sengoku warlord well-versed in the Chinese military classics


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

Hypothesis: While the regulatory aspect of critical habitat does not apply directly to private and other non-federal landowners, large-scale development, logging and mining projects on private and state land typically require a federal permit and thus become subject to critical habitat regulations.


Premise: Cctavianus Augustus Caesar had his coins made out of what alloys?

Hypothesis: Julius Caesar had his own coins made from brass, while Octavianus Augustus Caesar's coins were made from Cu-Pb-Sn alloys.


Premise: How many countries did the group of Greenpeace activists represent?

Hypothesis: On 16 March 2012, 52 Greenpeace activists from five different countries boarded Fennica and Nordica, multipurpose icebreakers chartered to support Shell's drilling rigs near Alaska.


Premise: What is the lowest zone of the Alps called?

Hypothesis: The Alpine zone, extending from tree line to snow line, is followed by the glacial zone, which covers the glaciated areas of the mountain.


Premise: How much did ARV drugs cost patients yearly?

Hypothesis: HIV was and is an epidemic in South Africa, and ARVs at the time cost between 10,000 and 15,000 USD per patient per year.


Premise: What were the scribes of the chancery known as?

Hypothesis: The organization of the treasury and chancery were developed under the Ottoman Empire more than any other Islamic government and, until the 17th century, they were the leading organization among all their contemporaries.


Premise: Self-image, self-esteem, and individuality relate to what?

Hypothesis: A psychological identity relates to self-image (one's mental model of oneself), self-esteem, and individuality.


Premise: How much of an asexual organism's genome is inherited from its parents?

Hypothesis: Sexual organisms have two copies of each chromosome because they inherit one complete set from each parent.:1


Premise: Did the club later regret their choice?

Hypothesis: The club claimed that they did not want to devalue the FA Cup by fielding a weaker side.


Premise: From which area does tourism bring the most income?

Hypothesis: However most of this investment goes to pay migrant workers who do not settle in Tibet and send much of their income home to other provinces.


Premise: What classes in the 16th century sneered at the pronunciation of Dutch by rural people?

Hypothesis: Now, however, in his opinion, the newly affluent and independent women can afford to let that natural development take place in their speech.


Premise: Where did Picassos work until 1912?

Hypothesis: Prior to 1914, Picasso, Braque, Gris and Léger (to a lesser extent) gained the support of a single committed art dealer in Paris, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, who guaranteed them an annual income for the exclusive right to buy their works.


Premise: Who are two examples of the top football players born in Portugal?

Hypothesis: FIFA World Player of the Year winners Luís Figo and Cristiano Ronaldo who won the FIFA Ballon d'Or for 2013 and 2014, are among the numerous examples of other world-class football players born in Portugal and noted worldwide.


Premise: What independent kingdom was formed out of the Maccabean Revolt of Judas Maccabeus?

Hypothesis: In spite of originally being a revolt against Greek overlordship, the Hasmonean kingdom and also the Herodian kingdom which followed gradually became more and more hellenized.


Premise: During what years was the High Victorian Gothic period in Britain?

Hypothesis: In England, partly in response to a philosophy propounded by the Oxford Movement and others associated with the emerging revival of 'high church' or Anglo-Catholic ideas during the second quarter of the 19th century, neo-Gothic began to become promoted by influential establishment figures as the preferred style for ecclesiastical, civic and institutional architecture.


Premise: Where was Napoleon crowned King of Italy?

Hypothesis: Napoleon was also crowned King of Italy, with the Iron Crown of Lombardy, at the Cathedral of Milan on May 26, 1805.


Premise: What is the amount of solar energy absorbed by the earth?

Hypothesis: The amount of solar energy reaching the surface of the planet is so vast that in one year it is about twice as much as will ever be obtained from all of the Earth's non-renewable resources of coal, oil, natural gas, and mined uranium combined,


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

Hypothesis: The Bolsheviks made peace with the German Empire and the Central Powers, as they had promised the Russian people prior to the Revolution.


Premise: Which editor nearly ruined The Times in 1890?

Hypothesis: The Times faced financial extinction in 1890 under Arthur Fraser Walter, but it was rescued by an energetic editor, Charles Frederic Moberly Bell.


Premise: What architects have buildings in the Yale Old Campus?

Hypothesis: Several are associated with members of the Vanderbilt family, including Vanderbilt Hall, Phelps Hall, St. Anthony Hall (a commission for member Frederick William Vanderbilt), the Mason, Sloane and Osborn laboratories, dormitories for the Sheffield Scientific School (the engineering and sciences school at Yale until 1956) and elements of Silliman College, the largest residential college.


Premise: What mechanism cause the bombs to be released?

Hypothesis: The clock's timing mechanism was co-ordinated with the distances of the intersecting beams from the target


Premise: When was the Thomas More Law center established?

Hypothesis: These include Word of God (established in 1967), a charismatic inter-denominational movement; and the Thomas More Law Center (established in 1999), a religious-conservative advocacy group.


Premise: Who addressed the United nations on Myanmar's behalf in the fall 2011 ?

Hypothesis: In an address to the United Nations Security Council on 22 September 2011, Myanmar's Foreign Minister Wunna Maung Lwin confirmed the government's intention to release prisoners in the near future.


Premise: For which industry were elevators first used?

Hypothesis: These steam driven devices were soon being applied to a diverse set of purposes - in 1823, two architects working in London, Burton and Hormer, built and operated a novel tourist attraction, which they called the "ascending room".


Premise: What is one potential issue with drinking alcohol while taking antibiotics?

Hypothesis: Interactions between alcohol and certain antibiotics may occur and may cause side-effects and decreased effectiveness of antibiotic therapy.


Premise: Along with the Mariana Islands, on what island were there more Japanese settlers than indigenous inhabitants?

Hypothesis: The Japanese interests were in land.


Premise: As well as representing the original text, a critical text must also do what?

Hypothesis: The textual critic's task, therefore, is to sort through the variants, eliminating those most likely to be un-original, hence establishing a "critical text", or critical edition, that is intended to best approximate the original.


Premise: Which cities was Ibarra looking for?

Hypothesis: In 1562 Francisco de Ibarra headed a personal expedition in search of the mythical cities of Cibola and Quivira; he traveled through the present-day state of Chihuahua.