Premise: What could be impeded without police interference?

Hypothesis: To ensure that the police would not interfere in the regular competencies of the courts of law, some police acts require that the police may only interfere in such cases where protection from courts cannot be obtained in time, and where, without interference of the police, the realization of the private right would be impeded.


Premise: What is important for a student in education?

Hypothesis: Intelligence is an important factor in how the individual responds to education.


Premise: What variation of house music was produced by artists such as Madonna and Kylie Minogue?

Hypothesis: House music proved to be a commercially successful genre and a more mainstream pop-based variation grew increasingly popular.


Premise: What is the UK's equivalent to the CIA?

Hypothesis: The role and functions of the CIA are roughly equivalent to those of the United Kingdom's Secret Intelligence Service (the SIS or MI6), the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS), the Egyptian General Intelligence Service, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki) (SVR), the Indian Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), the French foreign intelligence service Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure (DGSE) and Israel's Mossad.


Premise: What religious groups are primarily targeted by this war?

Hypothesis: It has been adopted primarily as a response to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.


Premise: What input did the Greeks have on artistry of the world ?

Hypothesis: Well into the 19th century, the classical tradition derived from Greece played an important role in the art of the western world.


Premise: What is another term for rustication?

Hypothesis: The most serious misdeeds may result in expulsion, or rustication (suspension).


Premise: The Golden Boot is made of sterling silver, silver gilt and which semi-precious stone?

Hypothesis: The plinth has a silver band around its circumference, upon which the names of the title-winning clubs are listed.


Premise: Iran lost territory in the Caucasus during what wars in the early 1800s?

Hypothesis: In 1795, following the disobedience of the Georgian subjects and their alliance with the Russians, the Qajars captured Tblisi by the Battle of Krtsanisi, and drove the Russians out of the entire Caucasus, reestablishing a short-lived Iranian suzerainty over the region.


Premise: How many regional health administrations exist in Portugal?

Hypothesis: Five regional health administrations are in charge of implementing the national health policy objectives, developing guidelines and protocols and supervising health care delivery.


Premise: What kind of cup did the woman on the scarlet horned beast have?

Hypothesis: "So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. "


Premise: What company manufactured Elixir Sulfanilamide?

Hypothesis: In 1937 over 100 people died after ingesting "Elixir Sulfanilamide" manufactured by S.E. Massengill Company of Tennessee.


Premise: How much does the Cyber Security Cooperation Program cost?

Hypothesis: Public Safety Canada aims to begin an evaluation of Canada's Cyber Security Strategy in early 2015.


Premise: When is the emission at maximized recieved signal?

Hypothesis: If the emission is polarized vertically, the two fields (direct and reflected) add and there is maximum of received signal.


Premise: What property of heartwood that has nothing to do with how important it is to trees got it its name?

Hypothesis: The term heartwood derives solely from its position and not from any vital importance to the tree.


Premise: When does infection begin?

Hypothesis: While a few organisms can grow at the initial site of entry, many migrate and cause systemic infection in different organs.


Premise: What do some large broad-winged birds rely on to help them soar?

Hypothesis: Migratory species in these groups have great difficulty crossing large bodies of water, since thermals only form over land, and these birds cannot maintain active flight for long distances.


Premise: Who directed The Day of the Jackal?

Hypothesis: In the early 1970s, the unit was incorporated into the French Cinema International Corporation arm.


Premise: What happened at the same time as the crash, which may have contributed to the government downplaying it?

Hypothesis: In March 2012, the newspaper El Mundo published a story according to which FGV had instructed employees who were to testify at the crash commission investigation, providing a set of possible questions and guidelines to prepare the answers.


Premise: The Rashtrapati Bhavan was formerly known by what name?

Hypothesis: The Parliament House, designed by Herbert Baker, is located at the Sansad Marg, which runs parallel to the Rajpath.


Premise: How many autonomous republics make up the RSFSR?

Hypothesis: The Republic comprised sixteen autonomous republics, five autonomous oblasts, ten autonomous okrugs, six krais, and forty oblasts.


Premise: What was Iran known as to the west?

Hypothesis: In 1900 Thomas Edward Gordon published an article, The Problem of the Middle East, which began:


Premise: How many French soldiers occupied Hanover?

Hypothesis: This resulted in a great number of soldiers from Hanover eventually emigrating to Great Britain, where the King's German Legion was formed.


Premise: What does research indicate may affect risk-taking behavior throughout the lifespan?

Hypothesis: Research also indicates that baseline sensation seeking may affect risk-taking behavior throughout the lifespan.


Premise: What is the term for Russian-speaking people?

Hypothesis: Although most colonists left after the United States bought the land in 1867, a handful stayed and preserved the Russian language in this region to this day, although only a few elderly speakers of this unique dialect are left.


Premise: What year is considered the transition between the classical period and the Middle Ages?

Hypothesis: The attacks of the Germanic peoples of northern Europe led to the Fall of the Western Roman Empire in AD 476, a date which traditionally marks the end of the classical period and the start of the Middle Ages.


Premise: What does bandes dessinées mean?

Hypothesis: In the 1960s, the term bandes dessinées ("drawn strips") came into wide use in French to denote the medium.


Premise: What was being built that resulted in the discovery of the African Burial Ground?

Hypothesis: New York grew in importance as a trading port while under British rule in the early 1700s.


Premise: Where did New Haven pizza style originated from?

Hypothesis: A white clam pie is a well-known specialty of the restaurants on Wooster Street in the Little Italy section of New Haven, including Pepe's and Sally's Apizza (which opened in 1938).


Premise: Which two of the six most populous Tennessee cities are nearest the Great Smoky Mountains?

Hypothesis: Chattanooga and Knoxville, both in the eastern part of the state near the Great Smoky Mountains, each has approximately one-third of the population of Memphis or Nashville.


Premise: What name do the bays in Southampton and Morgan's Point share?

Hypothesis: Despite the small land mass, place names are repeated; there are, for example, two islands named Long Island, three bays named Long Bay (on Somerset, Main, and Cooper's islands), two Horseshoe Bays (one in Southampton, on the Main Island, the other at Morgan's Point, formerly Tucker's Island), there are two roads through cuttings called Khyber Pass (one in Warwick, the other in St. George's Parish), and St George's Town is located on St George's Island within St George's Parish (each known as St George's).


Premise: What did the United States do in response to the reform changes of the 2010 Burma elections ?

Hypothesis: Though the country's foreign relations, particularly with Western nations, have been strained, relations have thawed since the reforms following the 2010 elections.


Premise: How many PVA soldiers fought in this battle and lost?

Hypothesis: Surrounded on all sides, the U.S. 2nd Infantry Division Warrior Division's 23rd Regimental Combat Team with an attached French Battalion was hemmed in by more than 25,000 Chinese Communist forces.


Premise: What kind of stamp is required to hunt migratory waterfowl?

Hypothesis: In cases where there are more prospective hunters than the quota for that species, tags are usually assigned by lottery.


Premise: How many members did the WVS have at the end of 1941?

Hypothesis: The WVS (Women's Voluntary Services for Civil Defence) was set up under the direction of Samuel Hoare, Home Secretary in 1938 specifically in the event of air raids.


Premise: What was triggered by the radio broadcast of the deaths?

Hypothesis: This local vote in a small, remote part of the Soviet Union made headlines around the world; it was an unprecedented defiance of republic and national authorities.


Premise: When were the Arab Invasions?

Hypothesis: Others are descendants of the historical Trans-Saharan trade in peoples and/or, and after the Arab invasions of North Africa in the 7th century, descendants of slaves from the Arab Slave Trade in North Africa.


Premise: Which writer's festival is home to Melbourne?

Hypothesis: Melbourne's rich and diverse literary history was recognised in 2008 when it became the second UNESCO City of Literature.


Premise: The Achaemenid Empire was the known enemy of what nation's histories during its existence?

Hypothesis: The empire at its peak ruled over 44% of the world's population, the highest such figure for any empire in history.


Premise: How many standards did Napoleon's army capture in the Italian campaign?

Hypothesis: In this Italian campaign, Bonaparte's army captured 150,000 prisoners, 540 cannons, and 170 standards.


Premise: Who held the original trademark for the iPod name?

Hypothesis: Joseph N. Grasso of New Jersey had originally listed an "iPod" trademark with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in July 2000 for Internet kiosks.


Premise: What caused a setback in naive set theory at the beginning of 20th century?

Hypothesis: At the beginning of the 20th century, efforts to base mathematics on naive set theory suffered a setback due to Russell's paradox (on the set of all sets that do not belong to themselves).


Premise: What is the most common cause of diarrhea?

Hypothesis: The short duration watery diarrhea may be due to an infection by cholera, although this is rare in the developed world.


Premise: What kind of processor was in the Xbox 360?

Hypothesis: The Xbox 360 contains a PowerPC tri-core processor, which was designed and produced by IBM in less than 24 months.


Premise: What did the expiation of a prodigy impose?

Hypothesis: In 207 BC, during one of the Punic Wars' worst crises, the Senate dealt with an unprecedented number of confirmed prodigies whose expiation would have involved "at least twenty days" of dedicated rites.


Premise: What is the name of the mountaneous region along the Atlantic cost.

Hypothesis: Additionally, the southeastern section has undergone an elevation resulting in the advance of the land upon the sea.


Premise: What is the definition of radiant luminous efficacy?

Hypothesis: Not all wavelengths of visible electromagnetic energy are equally effective at stimulating the human eye; the luminous efficacy of radiant energy (LER) is a measure of how well the distribution of energy matches the perception of the eye.


Premise: What does CCI stand for?

Hypothesis: The two most familiar are the Cultural Center of India (CCI) located off of Iron Bridge Road in Chesterfield County and the Hindu Center of Virginia in Henrico County which has garnered national fame and awards for being the first LEED certified religious facility in the commonwealth.


Premise: Which doctrines allow limited use of copyrighted works?

Hypothesis: Examples of such doctrines are the fair use and fair dealing doctrine.


Premise: Some cardinals are bishop in name only, what are they called?

Hypothesis: Cardinal bishops (cardinals of the episcopal order) are among the most senior prelates of the Catholic Church.


Premise: In which document did the term "affirmative action" first appear?

Hypothesis: The first appearance of the term 'affirmative action' was in the National Labor Relations Act, better known as the Wagner Act, of 1935.:15 Proposed and championed by U.S. Senator Robert F. Wagner of New York, the Wagner Act was in line with President Roosevelt's goal of providing economic security to workers and other low-income groups.


Premise: The Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis holds the largest what?

Hypothesis: Another modern mosaic of note is the world's largest mosaic installation located at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis, located in St. Louis, Missouri.


Premise: What is the name of the trail that runs from to New Haven all the way to Eastern Massachusetts?

Hypothesis: The Farmington Canal Trail is a rail trail that will eventually run continuously from downtown New Haven to Northampton, Massachusetts.


Premise: Nowadays, only the short title and what else are read?

Hypothesis: This was reduced in 1895 to the titles and a memorandum of the object and purport of the act, and, since 1988, only the short title and a summary of the long title have been read.


Premise: What defines "blackness"?

Hypothesis: To a certain extent, this concept is not so much about race but more about political orientation, culture and behavior.


Premise: What reserves are abundant in Southeast Asia?

Hypothesis: The rest of Southeast Asia is still heavily dependent on agriculture, but Vietnam is notably making steady progress in developing its industrial sectors.


Premise: What years dictate the Baroque period?

Hypothesis: The major time divisions of classical music up to 1900 are the early music period, which includes Medieval (500–1400) and Renaissance (1400–1600) eras, and the Common practice period, which includes the Baroque (1600–1750), Classical (1750–1830) and Romantic (1804–1910) eras.


Premise: What markets were built in the Art Nouveau style?

Hypothesis: Among the most architecturally successful buildings of the era were those designed in the Art Nouveau style, such as the North Station (Gare du Nord) and the Central and Columbus markets.


Premise: Couts of commonwealth nations are often influenced by who's rulings?

Hypothesis: The reason is that although the courts of the various Commonwealth nations are often influenced by each other's rulings, American courts rarely follow post-Revolution Commonwealth rulings unless there is no American ruling on point, the facts and law at issue are nearly identical, and the reasoning is strongly persuasive.


Premise: What is typical solid setting?

Hypothesis: Growth in stirred liquid media occurs as an even cell suspension, making the cultures easy to divide and transfer, although isolating single bacteria from liquid media is difficult.


Premise: What is Kinect?

Hypothesis: Five years after the Xbox 360's original debut, the well-received Kinect motion capture camera was released, which became the fastest selling consumer electronic device in history, and extended the life of the console.


Premise: Despite the reduced bandwith, HDTV format still had to be distributed how?

Hypothesis: Despite efforts made to reduce analog HDTV to about twice the bandwidth of SDTV, these television formats were still distributable only by satellite.


Premise: In what cities did protests against westerners flare up in 1967?

Hypothesis: Although claims have been made that they knew of Gaddafi's Free Officers Movement, they have since claimed ignorance, stating that they were monitoring Abdul Aziz Shalhi's Black Boots revolutionary group.


Premise: What kind of microscope shows that q-glass grows as separate particles?

Hypothesis: Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) images show that the q-glass nucleates from the melt as discrete particles, which grow spherically with a uniform growth rate in all directions.


Premise: What is the backbone of a DNA double helix made of?

Hypothesis: The two strands in a double helix must therefore be complementary, with their sequence of bases matching such that the adenines of one strand are paired with the thymines of the other strand, and so on.:4.1


Premise: What is the percent of whites?

Hypothesis: In comparison, the 2010 Census Redistricting Data indicated that the racial makeup of the city was 661,839 (43.4%)


Premise: Where is the hanes Mall located?

Hypothesis: Other major malls throughout the state include Hanes Mall in Winston-Salem; Crabtree Valley Mall, North Hills Mall, and Triangle Town Center in Raleigh; Friendly Center and Four Seasons Town Centre in Greensboro; Oak Hollow Mall in High Point; Concord Mills in Concord; Valley Hills Mall in Hickory; and The Streets at Southpoint and Northgate Mall in Durham and Independence Mall in Wilmington, NC, and Tanger Outlets in Charlotte, Nags Head, Blowing Rock, and Mebane, NC.


Premise: What Samoan Head of State might have worshiped at the Bahá'í House of Worship?

Hypothesis: Samoa hosts one of seven Bahá'í Houses of Worship in the world; completed in 1984 and dedicated by the Head of State, it is located in Tiapapata, 8 km (5 mi) from Apia.


Premise: In 1893 Greece announced what?

Hypothesis: Another political issue in 19th-century Greece was uniquely Greek: the language question.


Premise: What is the main use of the parish system nowadays?

Hypothesis: Nevertheless, traditional parishes still exist in various capacities, mainly as public service districts.


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

Hypothesis: Apart from small and well-studied groups like amphibians, birds, fish, mammals and reptiles, the many of those numbers are likely to increase as further species are recorded from Egypt.


Premise: The new Iranian government following the Shah's downfall dealt with the Kurdish rebellion in what year?

Hypothesis: Over the next several years, these uprisings were subdued in a violent manner by the new Islamic government.


Premise: In what year were the first performances of Diagheliv's Ballet Russes?

Hypothesis: Another musical landmark is the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, where the first performances of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes took place in 1913.


Premise: In the Estonian language how is the letter A pronounced?

Hypothesis: Unlike in standard German but like Finnish and Swedish (when followed by 'r'), Ä is pronounced [æ], as in English mat.


Premise: Which museum houses the USS Midway aircraft carrier?

Hypothesis: The Columbia district downtown is home to historic ship exhibits belonging to the San Diego Maritime Museum, headlined by the Star of India, as well as the unrelated San Diego Aircraft Carrier Museum featuring the USS Midway aircraft carrier.


Premise: Which format used in DVDs has built-in error correction?

Hypothesis: In contrast, the digital MPEG-2 format information used on DVDs has built-in error correction which ensures that the signal from a damaged disc will remain identical to that from a perfect disc right up until the point at which damage to the disc surface is so substantial that it prevents the laser from being able to identify usable data.


Premise: What are two examples of independent Portuguese unilateral military operations conducted abroad?

Hypothesis: In the 20th century, Portugal engaged in two major conflicts: World War I and the Portuguese Colonial War (1961–1974).


Premise: On what date was Napoleon contacted by the 5th Regiment?

Hypothesis: The 5th Regiment was sent to intercept him and made contact just south of Grenoble on March 7, 1815.


Premise: When was Napoleon Bonaparte born?

Hypothesis: Napoléon Bonaparte (/nəˈpoʊliən, -ˈpoʊljən/; French: [napɔleɔ̃ bɔnapaʁt], born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821) was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the Revolutionary Wars.


Premise: What organization's definition is widely used?

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


Premise: What do they want to impliment in 2016?

Hypothesis: Most, but not all, universities were established during the Soviet Era.


Premise: What pop singer did a duet with Beyoncé on Beautiful Liar?

Hypothesis: In it, she starred opposite Jennifer Hudson, Jamie Foxx, and Eddie Murphy playing a pop singer based on Diana Ross.


Premise: What kind of policy did The Times express reservation for when concerning the political stances of Barack Obama?

Hypothesis: The Times occasionally makes endorsements for foreign elections.


Premise: In what year were the Pashtuns defeated and driven out of Iran?

Hypothesis: He subsequently took back the annexed Caucasian territories which were divided among the Ottoman and Russian authorities by the ongoing chaos in Iran.


Premise: When were independent states as Czechoslovakia, the Second Polish Republic, and the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs established?

Hypothesis: During World War I, representatives of the Czechs, Slovaks, Poles, Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes set up organizations in the Allied countries to gain sympathy and recognition.


Premise: What is considered to be a problem with the Kinsey scale?

Hypothesis: When compared on the same scale, they act as tradeoffs such, whereby to be more feminine one had to be less masculine and vice versa.


Premise: What year was the agreement signed?

Hypothesis: And in 2012, the presidents of Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and Iran signed an agreement to construct roads and railways as well as oil, gas, and water pipelines to connect the three countries.


Premise: The Mahasanghikas argued that the Sthaviras were trying to expand what?

Hypothesis: The Mahāsāṅghikas argued that the Sthaviras were trying to expand the vinaya and may also have challenged what they perceived were excessive claims or inhumanly high criteria for arhatship.


Premise: What animal has held the title of Bermuda's only native land vertabrate?

Hypothesis: As this species spends most of its time in brackish ponds, some question whether it should be classified as a land vertebrate to compete with the skink's unique status.


Premise: How many published reports of American volumes existed in 1910?

Hypothesis: The number of published volumes of American reports soared from eighteen in 1810 to over 8,000 by 1910.


Premise: What is Australia's busiest seaport for containerised and general cargo?

Hypothesis: the Port of Melbourne is Australia's busiest seaport for containerised and general cargo.


Premise: What was Nasser known for in regard to ordinary citizens?

Hypothesis: His availability to the public, despite assassination attempts against him, was unparalleled among his successors.


Premise: What is linked to downtown Charleston by the bridge?

Hypothesis: The Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge across the Cooper River opened on July 16, 2005, and was the second-longest cable-stayed bridge in the Americas at the time of its construction.[citation needed]


Premise: In 2000 roughly how much of the population had access to sanitation services?

Hypothesis: In 2001, the general government expenditures on health totalled about US$4 per capita at an average exchange rate.


Premise: How much later on average do males experience their growth spurt?

Hypothesis: Males experience their growth spurt about two years later, on average, than females.


Premise: How many tourists visited the Smoky Mountains and Blue Ridge parkway in 2013?

Hypothesis: Every year the Appalachian Mountains attract several million tourists to the Western part of the state, including the historic Biltmore Estate.


Premise: What year did the emir Null II recover from his illness?

Hypothesis: When the library was destroyed by fire not long after, the enemies of Ibn Sina accused him of burning it, in order for ever to conceal the sources of his knowledge.


Premise: When did the denouncing of many nobles take place?

Hypothesis: Many nobles were, in actuality, really usurpers, being commoners, who moved into another part of the country and falsely pretended to noble status.


Premise: How tall, in feet, is Mount Everest?

Hypothesis: Mount Everest, located on the border with Nepal, is, at 8,848 metres (29,029 ft), the highest mountain on earth.


Premise: What type of annelids are tube-dwelling?

Hypothesis: The gut is generally an almost straight tube supported by the mesenteries (vertical partitions within segments), and ends with the anus on the underside of the pygidium.


Premise: What article, section, and clause of the Constitution requires U.S. presidents to be natural-born citizens?

Hypothesis: The former California governor would face a constitutional hurdle; Article II, Section I, Clause V nominally prevents individuals who are not natural-born citizens of the United States from assuming the office.


Premise: What is the name of the main library at Notre Dame?

Hypothesis: The main building is the 14-story Theodore M. Hesburgh Library, completed in 1963, which is the third building to house the main collection of books.


Premise: What is "Clean Mud"?

Hypothesis: "Clean Mud" (clay mud), oil paint and body paint are familiar during J'ouvert.


Premise: What are inflected for number in Czech?

Hypothesis: Nouns are also inflected for number, distinguishing between singular and plural.


Premise: What is the name of the process under development at the Weizmann Institute?

Hypothesis: The Solzinc process under development at the Weizmann Institute uses a 1 MW solar furnace to decompose zinc oxide (ZnO) at temperatures above 1,200 °C (2,200 °F).


Premise: What amount of the student body of Notre Dame identifies as Catholic?

Hypothesis: While religious affiliation is not a criterion for admission, more than 93% of students identify as Christian, with over 80% of the total being Catholic.


Premise: How did the Ashkenazim view north African Sepharadim and Berber Jews?

Hypothesis: North African Sepharadim and Berber Jews were often looked upon by Ashkenazim as second-class citizens during the first decade after the creation of Israel.


Premise: Who reported the complete decoding of the “I” signals components?

Hypothesis: The knowledge of the codes allowed a group of engineers at Septentrio to build the COMPASS receiver and report tracking and multipath characteristics of the “


Premise: What von Neumann work preceded the axiomatiztion of quatum mechanics?

Hypothesis: After having completed the axiomatization of set theory, he began to confront the axiomatization of quantum mechanics.


Premise: According to T3, what was the main differentiator between the "fat" PS3 and the Super Slim?

Hypothesis: Technology magazine T3 gave the Super Slim model a positive review, stating the console is almost "nostalgic" in the design similarities to the original "fat" model, "While we don’t know whether it will play PS3 games or Blu-ray discs any differently yet, the look and feel of the new PS3 Slim is an obvious homage to the original PS3, minus the considerable excess weight.


Premise: What important part of daily life might be disturbed because of DST changing what time you go to bed?

Hypothesis: DST clock shifts sometimes complicate timekeeping and can disrupt travel, billing, record keeping, medical devices, heavy equipment, and sleep patterns.


Premise: What PBS documentary covered the Bronx's music history?

Hypothesis: The Bronx's evolution from a hot bed of Latin jazz to an incubator of hip hop was the subject of an award-winning documentary, produced by City Lore and broadcast on PBS in 2006, "From Mambo to Hip Hop: A South Bronx Tale".


Premise: What was the name of the anti-Semitic article that The Time's Chief Editor published in 1914?

Hypothesis: In the leader entitled "The Jewish Peril, a Disturbing Pamphlet: Call for Inquiry", Steed wrote about The Protocols of the Elders of Zion:


Premise: What is the market percentage held by the country that controls the biggest share of the global market for goose and guinea fowl meat

Hypothesis: World production of duck meat was about 4.2 million tonnes in 2011 with China producing two thirds of the total, some 1.7 billion birds.


Premise: What was Edward Oxford charged with after his assassination attempt?

Hypothesis: During Victoria's first pregnancy in 1840, in the first few months of the marriage, 18-year-old Edward Oxford attempted to assassinate her while she was riding in a carriage with Prince Albert on her way to visit her mother.


Premise: How many rail lines are there on New York City's commuter rail network?

Hypothesis: The combined systems converge at Grand Central Terminal and Pennsylvania Station and contain more than 250 stations and 20 rail lines.


Premise: Laypersons can perform good actions, producing what?

Hypothesis: Theravadin Buddhists believe that personal effort is required to realize rebirth.


Premise: To what does Cuarenta Casas translate in English?

Hypothesis: Between AD 300 and 1300 in the northern part of the state along the wide, fertile valley on the San Miguel River the Casas Grandes (Big Houses) culture developed into an advanced civilization.


Premise: Who argues that Napoleon's triumphs at Austerlitz and Jena increased his self-grandiosity?

Hypothesis: By the Russian campaign in 1812, however, Napoleon seems to have lost his verve.


Premise: Which 1980 movie contained song contributions from Queen?

Hypothesis: Queen contributed music directly to the films Flash Gordon (1980), with "Flash" as the theme song, and Highlander (the original 1986 film), with "A Kind of Magic", "One Year of Love", "Who Wants to Live Forever", "Hammer to Fall", and the theme "Princes of the Universe", which was also used as the theme of the Highlander TV series (1992–1998).


Premise: What size ships can move through Southampton Water more easily because of the double high tide?

Hypothesis: Southampton Water has the benefit of a double high tide, with two high tide peaks, making the movement of large ships easier.


Premise: Where are the Deccan Traps?

Hypothesis: In the area that is now India, massive lava beds called the Deccan Traps were laid down in the very late Cretaceous and early Paleocene.


Premise: Who requested that Dominic travel to Denmark?

Hypothesis: At that time the south of France was the stronghold of the Cathar or Albigensian heresy, named after the Duke of Albi, a Cathar sympathiser and opponent to the subsequent Albigensian Crusade (1209–1229).


Premise: What did ski-jump ramps allow STOVL aircraft to do that they couldn't do with a flat deck??

Hypothesis: This was first developed to help launch STOVL aircraft take off at far higher weights than is possible with a vertical or rolling takeoff on flat decks.


Premise: When were the first greenhouses used?

Hypothesis: Primitive greenhouses were first used during Roman times to produce cucumbers year-round for the Roman emperor Tiberius.


Premise: Who became editor of the Sun in 1981?

Hypothesis: The Daily Star had been launched in 1978 by Express Newspaper, and by 1981 had begun to affect sales of The Sun.


Premise: What is at the front of most modern Chinese dictionaries?

Hypothesis: To find a character with unknown sound using one of these dictionaries, the reader finds the radical and stroke number of the character, as before, and locates the character in the radical index.


Premise: After what time did the Abbot of Monte Cassino send for Byzantine mosaicists?

Hypothesis: "The abbot in his wisdom decided that great number of young monks in the monastery should be thoroughly initiated in these arts" – says the chronicler about the role of the Greeks in the revival of mosaic art in medieval Italy.


Premise: Mont, pic, dent and aiguille are words used in what regions?

Hypothesis: An alp refers to a high mountain pasture where cows are taken to be grazed during the summer months and where hay barns can be found, and the term "the Alps", referring to the mountains, is a misnomer.


Premise: What did renaissance humanism reference?

Hypothesis: Renaissance humanism took a close study of the Latin and Greek classical texts, and was antagonistic to the values of scholasticism with its emphasis on the accumulated commentaries; and humanists were involved in the sciences, philosophies, arts and poetry of classical antiquity.


Premise: In every season but 2001-02 and 2011-12, at least how many Premier League teams have been relegated?

Hypothesis: In every season except 2001–02 and 2011–12, at least one Premier League newcomer has been relegated back to the Football League.


Premise: Bribery is an example of corruption that involves what type of gain?

Hypothesis: A similar problem of corruption arises in any institution that depends on financial support from people who have interests that may conflict with the primary purpose of the institution.


Premise: Peter J. Wallison believes that the one of the roots of the financial crisis can be traced to affordable housing policies by which agency in the 1990s?

Hypothesis: Later, based upon information in the SEC's December 2011 securities fraud case against 6 ex-executives of Fannie and Freddie, Peter Wallison and Edward Pinto estimated that, in 2008, Fannie and Freddie held 13 million substandard loans totaling over $2 trillion.


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

Hypothesis: The Spartan king Cleomenes III (235–222 BCE) staged a military coup against the conservative ephors and pushed through radical social and land reforms in order to increase the size of the shrinking Spartan citizenry able to provide military service and restore Spartan power.


Premise: When did President Goodluck Jonathan advocate limiting childbirth?

Hypothesis: On June 2012, President Goodluck Jonathan said that Nigerians should limit their number of children.


Premise: Who was in charge of counties that had fewer than 10,000 people in them?

Hypothesis: The head of a large county of about 10,000 households was called a Prefect, while the heads of smaller counties were called Chiefs, and both could be referred to as Magistrates.


Premise: Is conjugation a common bacterial adaptation?

Hypothesis: It is seldom that a conjugative plasmid integrates into the host bacterial chromosome, and subsequently transfers part of the host bacterial DNA to another bacterium.


Premise: What system deemed non-Muslims subjects of the empire but unbound by Muslim law?

Hypothesis: Under the millet system, non-Muslim people were considered subjects of the Empire, but were not subject to the Muslim faith or Muslim law.


Premise: Other than gumbe, what are two popular music genres?

Hypothesis: Tina and tinga are other popular genres, while extent folk traditions include ceremonial music used in funerals, initiations and other rituals, as well as Balanta brosca and kussundé, Mandinga djambadon, and the kundere sound of the Bissagos Islands.


Premise: What limitations were put on Adobe flash to begin with?

Hypothesis: Initially, Adobe Flash would only work on sites included on a "Compatibility View" whitelist; however, after feedback from users and additional compatibility tests, an update in March 2013 changed this behavior to use a smaller blacklist of sites with known compatibility issues instead, allowing Flash to be used on most sites by default.


Premise: What does airplone mode do?

Hypothesis: Carriers can also offer account management systems through Windows Store apps, which can be automatically installed as a part of the connection process and offer usage statistics on their respective tile.


Premise: What does 65Zn produce?

Hypothesis: 64Zn, the most abundant isotope of zinc, is very susceptible to neutron activation, being transmuted into the highly radioactive 65Zn, which has a half-life of 244 days and produces intense gamma radiation.


Premise: Where did Chopin create most of his works?

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


Premise: How many seats did PAIGC win in the election?

Hypothesis: In November 2008, President Vieira's official residence was attacked by members of the armed forces, killing a guard but leaving the president unharmed.


Premise: How did the streets of downtown Boston grow?

Hypothesis: The elevated portion of the Central Artery, which carried most of the through traffic in downtown Boston, was replaced with the O'Neill Tunnel during the Big Dig, substantially completed in early 2006.


Premise: The Belgian Suite is located at the foot of which staircase?

Hypothesis: They are allocated a large suite of rooms known as the Belgian Suite, situated at the foot of the Minister's Staircase, on the ground floor of the north-facing Garden Wing.


Premise: How tall is the cathedral's tower?

Hypothesis: It is situated in the centre of the ancient Roman city where some believe the temple of Diana stood.


Premise: What did the Pangaean supercontinent consisted of what during the Paleozoic Era?

Hypothesis: In the Paleozoic Era the Pangaean supercontinent consisted of a single tectonic plate; it broke into separate plates during the Mesozoic Era and the Tethys sea developed between Laurasia and Gondwana during the Jurassic Period.


Premise: What is the name of a notable green office building in New York?

Hypothesis: Mayor Bill de Blasio has committed to an 80% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions between 2014 and 2050 to reduce the city's contributions to climate change, beginning with a comprehensive "Green Buildings" plan.


Premise: What does the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Greece conduct?

Hypothesis: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey also does not use the term Near East.


Premise: What do the districts also serve as?

Hypothesis: The districts also serve as statistical subdivisions.


Premise: Does a persons memory capacity increase with age?

Hypothesis: Furthermore, research has revealed that as infants grow older they can store information for longer periods of time; 6-month-olds can recall information after a 24-hour period, 9-month-olds after up to five weeks, and 20-month-olds after as long as twelve months.


Premise: When was the sequencing of D genome of G.  raimondii mostly completed?

Hypothesis: These later types of reads will be instrumental in assembling an initial draft of the D genome.


Premise: Are there rail services to Germany

Hypothesis: International InterCityExpress (ICE) services to Germany (and further) through Arnhem call at Utrecht Centraal.


Premise: What does successful migration depend on for some waders?

Hypothesis: This gives the migrants an opportunity to refuel for the next leg of the voyage.


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

Hypothesis: This means that the system does not require a large constellation of satellites, but it also limits the coverage to areas on Earth where the satellites are visible.


Premise: Which philosophy branch is concerned with issues surrounding ontology?

Hypothesis: Philosophy of space and time is the branch of philosophy concerned with the issues surrounding the ontology, epistemology, and character of space and time.


Premise: What is the rate of interreligious marriage in Mexico?

Hypothesis: Rates of interreligious marriage vary widely: In the United States, it is just under 50%, in the United Kingdom, around 53%; in France; around 30%, and in Australia and Mexico, as low as 10%.


Premise: What were the two proto-political parties?

Hypothesis: Although the Founding Fathers of the United States did not originally intend for American politics to be partisan, early political controversies in the 1790s over the extent of federal government powers saw the emergence of two proto-political parties-


Premise: When is a newborn boy's hair first cut?

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


Premise: When did Chopin receive his first major endorsement from Robert Schumann?

Hypothesis: By the end of 1832 Chopin had established himself among the Parisian musical elite, and had earned the respect of his peers such as Hiller, Liszt, and Berlioz.


Premise: Who were two 20th century writers who blurred the lines between journalism and literature?

Hypothesis: Genre fiction also showed it could question reality in its 20th century forms, in spite of its fixed formulas, through the enquiries of the skeptical detective and the alternative realities of science fiction.


Premise: Who's Christology focuses on the death and Resurrection?

Hypothesis: Paul's Christology has a specific focus on the death and resurrection of Jesus.


Premise: In what year was the first commercial hotel built in Atlantic City?

Hypothesis: Because of its location in South Jersey, hugging the Atlantic Ocean between marshlands and islands, Atlantic City was viewed by developers as prime real estate and a potential resort town.


Premise: Where is Seymour johnson air force base located?

Hypothesis: Located in Goldsboro, Seymour Johnson Air Force Base is home of the 4th Fighter Wing and 916th Air Refueling Wing.


Premise: Who made reductions in the taxes that landowner-cultivators were forced to pay?

Hypothesis: The Han government enacted reforms in order to keep small landowner-cultivators out of debt and on their own farms.


Premise: What happened to home equity when housing prices decreased?

Hypothesis: When housing prices decreased, homeowners in ARMs then had little incentive to pay their monthly payments, since their home equity had disappeared.


Premise: What was involved in the original digimon virtual pet gameplay?

Hypothesis: The Digimon pet had several evolution capabilities and abilities too, so many owners had different Digimon.


Premise: Where does Dr. Carlos Moore work?

Hypothesis: He claims that black-looking Arabs, much like black-looking Latin Americans, consider themselves white because they have some distant white ancestry.


Premise: In the past have relations between Ashkenazim and Sephardim tended to be warm or cold?

Hypothesis: Relations between Ashkenazim and Sephardim have not always been warm.


Premise: Which game publication does Jeff Gerstmann work for?

Hypothesis: Regarding the Wii version, GameSpot's Jeff Gerstmann said the Wii controls felt "tacked-on", although 1UP.com said the remote-swinging sword attacks were "the most impressive in the entire series".


Premise: What position did Lamb formerly hold at the Mirror?

Hypothesis: He was scathing in his opinion of the Mirror, where he had recently been employed as a senior sub-editor, and shared Murdoch's view that a paper's quality was best measured by its sales, and he regarded the Mirror as overstaffed, and primarily aimed at an ageing readership.


Premise: When did Mr. Thomas Samuel Hood purchase a plot of land at the British Cemetery Montevideo?

Hypothesis: The cemetery originated when the Englishman Mr. Thomas Samuel Hood purchased a plot of land in the name of the English residents in 1828.


Premise: What type of design is the bridge?

Hypothesis: Begun in 1960 and opened to traffic in 1968, the bridge is a two-tiered road and rail design spanning 4,600 metres on the upper deck, with approximately 1,580 metres spanning the river itself.


Premise: What percentage of biodiversity has the planet lost since 1970

Hypothesis: In absolute terms, the planet has lost 52% of its biodiversity since 1970 according to a 2014 study by the World Wildlife Fund.


Premise: What did Victoria and her mother disagree on?

Hypothesis: She showed interest in Albert's education for the future role he would have to play as her husband, but she resisted attempts to rush her into wedlock.


Premise: Who was at the top of the power pyramid in Sumerian society?

Hypothesis: The Code of Ur-Nammu, the oldest such codification yet discovered, dating to the Ur-III "Sumerian Renaissance", reveals a glimpse at societal structure in late Sumerian law.


Premise: How long did Avicenna study philosophy?

Hypothesis: For the next year and a half, he studied philosophy, in which he encountered greater obstacles.


Premise: What weapon did Sir Colin Campbell troops use during the Battle of Alma?

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


Premise: Where did Spielberg's paternal grandparents immigrate from?

Hypothesis: Spielberg was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, to an Orthodox Jewish family.


Premise: What are the 67th, 69th, and 70th floors of the GE Building at Rockerfeller Center nicknamed?

Hypothesis: However, once the cab begins moving, the interior lights turn off and a special blue light above the cab turns on.


Premise: Where is the Central African Republic located?

Hypothesis: It is bordered by Chad to the north, Sudan to the northeast, South Sudan to the east, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo to the south and Cameroon to the west.


Premise: What blocks the Siboglinidae's gut?

Hypothesis: The gut is generally an almost straight tube supported by the mesenteries (vertical partitions within segments), and ends with the anus on the underside of the pygidium.


Premise: What did children roll in a factory?

Hypothesis: This included children who rolled cigarettes, engaged in factory work, worked as bobbin doffers in textile mills, worked in coal mines and were employed in canneries.


Premise: How many Judeans did Zerubabel return to Judah?

Hypothesis: A second group of 5,000, led by Ezra and Nehemiah, returned to Judah in 456 BCE although non-Jews wrote to Cyrus to try to prevent their return.


Premise: How many pins did the Lightning connector have?

Hypothesis: Apple introduced a new 8-pin dock connector, named Lightning, on September 12, 2012 with their announcement of the iPhone 5, the fifth generation iPod Touch, and the seventh generation iPod Nano, which all feature it.


Premise: What type of project would call for more than one element used together?

Hypothesis: In roles where higher performance is needed, designers often use multiple elements combined together.


Premise: What was a major reason and justification for the Europian wars of religion?

Hypothesis: Heresy was a major justification for the Inquisition (Inquisitio Haereticae Pravitatis, Inquiry on Heretical Perversity) and for the European wars of religion associated with the Protestant Reformation.


Premise: Why do scholars say the times are different depending on the gospel it's written in?

Hypothesis: Several notable scholars have argued that the modern precision of marking the time of day should not be read back into the gospel accounts, written at a time when no standardization of timepieces, or exact recording of hours and minutes was available, and time was often approximated to the closest three-hour period.


Premise: Who could invest in the U.S. housing market through MBS and CDO?

Hypothesis: Such financial innovation enabled institutions and investors around the world to invest in the U.S. housing market.


Premise: What was Nasser's reaction to the questions he was asked?

Hypothesis: Soon after his return, he was summoned and interrogated by Prime Minister Ibrahim Abdel Hadi regarding suspicions that he was forming a secret group of dissenting officers.


Premise: When was multi-party governance established?

Hypothesis: Multi-party governance was not established until mid-1991.


Premise: How were AA defenses improved?

Hypothesis: AA defences improved by better use of radar and searchlights.


Premise: What languages share a similar situation?

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


Premise: What is the mean height of the Alp's peak?

Hypothesis: The mean height of the mountain peaks is 2.5 km (1.6 mi).


Premise: What did Nasser do to Sarraj to try and help the political situation?

Hypothesis: He also dismissed Sarraj in September to curb the growing political crisis.


Premise: How many science disciplines were taught at madaris in the Ottoman Empire?

Hypothesis: Although early madaris were founded primarily to gain "knowledge of God" they also taught subjects such as mathematics and poetry.


Premise: In what game was the Curse of the Billy Goat allegedly laid upon the Cubs?

Hypothesis: In Game 4 of the Series, the Curse of the Billy Goat was allegedly laid upon the Cubs when P.K. Wrigley ejected Billy Sianis, who had come to Game 4 with two box seat tickets, one for him and one for his goat.


Premise: After a trip to what city did Carl Laemmle leave the dry goods business?

Hypothesis: Within weeks of his Chicago trip, Laemmle gave up dry goods to buy the first several nickelodeons.


Premise: Where can people who speak Catalan be found?

Hypothesis: Other common romance languages include: Romanian, which is spoken in Romania and Moldova; Portuguese, which is spoken in Portugal; Catalan, which is spoken in eastern Spain; and Galician, which is spoken in northwestern Spain.


Premise: Who revised the Julian calendar?

Hypothesis: Although a recommendation of the First Council of Nicaea in 325 specified that all Christians should celebrate Easter on the same day, it took almost five centuries before virtually all Christians achieved that objective by adopting the rules of the Church of Alexandria (see Easter for the issues which arose).


Premise: what year was the Treaty of Paris agreed on?

Hypothesis: Elsewhere in India, the French were to remain a military threat, particularly during the War of American Independence, and up to the capture of Pondichéry in 1793 at the outset of the French Revolutionary Wars without any military presence.


Premise: What are the three most populist provinces in China?

Hypothesis: Sichuan was China's most populous province before Chongqing became a directly-controlled municipality; it is currently the fourth most populous, after Guangdong, Shandong and Henan.


Premise: In Syria and Egypt, other than early Christians, who influenced their mosaic work?

Hypothesis: In Syria and Egypt the Arabs were influenced by the great tradition of Roman and Early Christian mosaic art.


Premise: What are community serving NPOs focused on?

Hypothesis: The nonprofit landscape is highly varied, although many people have come to associate NPOs with charitable organizations.


Premise: What method did Avicenna criticize as not leading to absolute certainty?

Hypothesis: He explains that the ideal situation is when one grasps that a "relation holds between the terms, which would allow for absolute, universal certainty.


Premise: What do Hydrogen detonation parameters depend on?

Hypothesis: Many physical and chemical properties of hydrogen depend on the parahydrogen/orthohydrogen ratio (it often takes days or weeks at a given temperature to reach the equilibrium ratio, for which the data is usually given).


Premise: Where did the last battle for Plymouth during the English Civil War end?

Hypothesis: During the English Civil War Plymouth sided with the Parliamentarians and was besieged for almost four years by the Royalists.


Premise: Which of Darwin's written works has more in depth information about sexual selection?

Hypothesis: He analysed sexual selection more fully in The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (1871).


Premise: How many gardens and parks are in Miami?

Hypothesis: The largest and most popular parks are Bayfront Park and Bicentennial Park (located in the heart of Downtown and the location of the American Airlines Arena and Bayside Marketplace), Tropical Park, Peacock Park, Morningside Park, Virginia Key, and Watson Island.


Premise: When did the Indus Valley Civilization cover parts of India and Pakistan?

Hypothesis: Between 2000 and 1000 BC cotton became widespread across much of India.


Premise: The Biscayne Aquifer stretches from Palm Beach County to where?

Hypothesis: Most of the Miami metropolitan area obtains its drinking water from this aquifer.


Premise: What was the House of Lords Select Committee on Communications investigating in 2007?

Hypothesis: Rupert Murdoch, head of The Sun's parent company News Corporation, speaking at a 2007 meeting with the House of Lords Select Committee on Communications, which was investigating media ownership and the news, said that he acts as a "traditional proprietor".


Premise: In early 20th century glass production, the glass was thickest at what part of the sheet?

Hypothesis: The resulting glass is thicker at the location of the pour, located at the center of the large sheet.


Premise: Where do the Negritos reside currently?

Hypothesis: Once inhabiting Taiwan, Vietnam, and various other parts of Asia, they are now confined primarily to Thailand, the Malay Archipelago, and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.


Premise: In Army XXI, how many are active in periodic army training?

Hypothesis: Of those, 120,000 are active in periodic Army training and 80,000 are non-training reserves.


Premise: What makes up the smallest portion of the defence estate?

Hypothesis: The defence estate is divided as training areas & ranges (84.0%), research & development (5.4%), airfields (3.4%), barracks & camps (2.5%), storage & supply depots (1.6%), and other (3.0%).


Premise: Where was Victor Emmanuel II from?

Hypothesis: The deployment of Italian troops to the Crimea, and the gallantry shown by them in the Battle of the Chernaya (16 August 1855) and in the siege of Sevastopol, allowed the Kingdom of Sardinia to be among the participants at the peace conference at the end of the war, where it could address the issue of the Risorgimento to other European powers.


Premise: In which of Einstein's two theories do time and space merge into spacetime?

Hypothesis: Time has historically been closely related with space, the two together merging into spacetime in Einstein's special relativity and general relativity.


Premise: Along with their family, who typically taught a child letters and numbers?

Hypothesis: Commercial secondary schools spread, and some Italian towns had more than one such enterprise.


Premise: Who defeated Babur's son in 1540?

Hypothesis: Akbar's forces defeated and killed Hemu in the Second Battle of Panipat on 6 November 1556.


Premise: Who laid claim to Eritrea and Italian Somaliland in a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt?

Hypothesis: He laid claim to both territories in a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt at the Paris Peace Conference and at the First Session of the United Nations.


Premise: What was the population of China in 2 AD?

Hypothesis: In China's first known nationwide census taken in 2 AD, the population was registered as having 57,671,400 individuals in 12,366,470 households.


Premise: Which centuries are considered to be part of the Late Middle Ages?

Hypothesis: It is now (generally) acknowledged that conditions were vastly different north and south of the Alps, and "Late Middle Ages" is often avoided entirely within Italian historiography.


Premise: When did CAR become independent?

Hypothesis: After gaining independence from France in 1960, the Central African Republic was ruled by a series of autocratic leaders; by the 1990s, calls for democracy led to the first multi-party democratic elections in 1993.


Premise: Where did Chopin's father get a teaching position?

Hypothesis: The father played the flute and violin; the mother played the piano and gave lessons to boys in the boarding house that the Chopins kept.


Premise: What was left mostly unharmed?

Hypothesis: Not all of the Luftwaffe's effort was made against inland cities.


Premise: How many more text votes were there in season eight of American Idol over season seven?

Hypothesis: The mechanism of voting had also aroused considerable criticisms, most notably in season two when Ruben Studdard beat Clay Aiken in a close vote, and in season eight, when the massive increase in text votes (100 million more text votes than season 7) fueled the texting controversy.


Premise: What else was included in the 1967 referendum?

Hypothesis: In a 1967 referendum over 90% of the Australian population voted to end constitutional discrimination and to include Aborigines in the national census.


Premise: How can anaerobes adjust to the surrounding environment?

Hypothesis: Facultative anaerobes can switch between fermentation and different terminal electron acceptors depending on the environmental conditions in which they find themselves.


Premise: The chemicals used by insects to communicate are called what?

Hypothesis: While some chemicals are targeted at individuals of the same species, others are used for communication across species.


Premise: When did the First Macedonian War begin?

Hypothesis: The end of Antigonid Macedon came when Philip V's son, Perseus, was defeated and captured by the Romans in the Third Macedonian War (171–168 BCE).


Premise: How much land was held by the peasants?

Hypothesis: By 1864 80% of szlachta were déclassé, 1/4 petty nobles were worse off than the average serf, 48.9% of land in Russian Poland was in peasant hands, nobles still held 46%.


Premise: Victoria Park is located in what London district?

Hypothesis: Close to Richmond Park is Kew Gardens which has the world's largest collection of living plants.


Premise: What is one thing that helped to improve condition of forests, rivers and air?

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


Premise: Neal Purvis and Robert Wade have worked on how many Bond films?

Hypothesis: The writer Jez Butterworth also worked on the script, alongside Mendes and Craig.


Premise: When did the FBI abandon Carnivore?

Hypothesis: After prolonged negative coverage in the press, the FBI changed the name of its system from "Carnivore" to "DCS1000."


Premise: What form are most of Chopin's études in?

Hypothesis: Chopin's études are largely in straightforward ternary form.


Premise: How many published volumes of American reports were released in 1810?

Hypothesis: The number of published volumes of American reports soared from eighteen in 1810 to over 8,000 by 1910.


Premise: When Greece entered World War I, on whose side did they fight?

Hypothesis: In the following years, the struggle between King Constantine I and charismatic Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos over the country's foreign policy on the eve of World War I dominated the country's political scene, and divided the country into two opposing groups.


Premise: How many people were estimated by authorities to have attended the riots?

Hypothesis: Reports from Kazakh SSR authorities estimated that the riots drew 3,000 people.


Premise: What encouraged borrowing from 2000 to 2003?

Hypothesis: Lower interest rates encouraged borrowing.


Premise: How often did the General People's Congress occur?

Hypothesis: Officially, the Jamahiriya was a direct democracy in which the people ruled themselves through the 187 Basic People's Congresses, where all adult Libyans participated and voted on national decisions.


Premise: When did the Satellaview end operation?

Hypothesis: Satellaview signals were broadcast from April 23, 1995 through June 30, 2000.


Premise: What percentage of world uranium oxide production is produced by Argentina?

Hypothesis: In 2005, seventeen countries produced concentrated uranium oxides, with Canada (27.9% of world production) and Australia (22.8%) being the largest producers and Kazakhstan (10.5%), Russia (8.0%), Namibia (7.5%), Niger (7.4%), Uzbekistan (5.5%), the United States (2.5%), Argentina (2.1%), Ukraine (1.9%) and China (1.7%) also producing significant amounts.


Premise: What birding event does the Audubon Society host every year?

Hypothesis: San Diego always scores very high in the number of bird species observed in the annual Christmas Bird Count, sponsored by the Audubon Society, and it is known as one of the "birdiest" areas in the United States.


Premise: What was the occupation of Yvonne Fletcher?

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


Premise: How old was Roncalli when elected pope?

Hypothesis: Pope John XXIII surprised those who expected him to be a caretaker pope by calling the historic Second Vatican Council (1962–65), the first session opening on 11 October 1962.


Premise: What was the forum suspicious of?

Hypothesis: The forum also expressed solidarity with the Morales and his economic and social changes in the interest of historically marginalized majorities.


Premise: How many students were in the Imperial University by the second century?

Hypothesis: He abolished all academic chairs or erudites (bóshì 博士) not dealing with the Confucian Five Classics in 136 BC and encouraged nominees for office to receive a Confucian-based education at the Imperial University that he established in 124 BC.


Premise: What are two other ingredients in the dog meat recipe in Korea?

Hypothesis: A 19th century version of gaejang-guk explains that the dish is prepared by boiling dog meat with scallions and chili powder.


Premise: During what conflict did the US occupy the Marshall Islands?

Hypothesis: In World War II, the United States, during the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, invaded and occupied the islands in 1944, destroying or isolating the Japanese garrisons.


Premise: Who released the Internet Explorer browser?

Hypothesis: Bundled with Windows, Internet Explorer gained dominance in the web browser market; Internet Explorer usage share peaked at over 95% by 2002.


Premise: What states comprise of the southern Appalachian mountains?

Hypothesis: The term Appalachian refers to several different regions associated with the mountain range.


Premise: What do many residents combine with Islamic and Christian practices?

Hypothesis: Approximately 10% of the country's population belong to the Christian community, and 40% continue to hold Indigenous beliefs.


Premise: Which Democratic candidate was the first to win 40% of the vote in Alaska since 1964?

Hypothesis: In 2008, Republican John McCain defeated Democrat Barack Obama in Alaska, 59.49% to 37.83%.


Premise: Who was responsible for the adminstration of civil laws?

Hypothesis: Aediles were officers elected to conduct domestic affairs in Rome, such as managing public games and shows.


Premise: What is it considered to be?

Hypothesis: It is an academic health science centre and manages five hospitals: Charing Cross Hospital, Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital, Hammersmith Hospital, St Mary's Hospital, and Western Eye Hospital.


Premise: What was Androids market share in 2013?

Hypothesis: Windows 8's tablet market share has also been growing steadily, with 7.4% of tablets running Windows in Q1 2013 according to Strategy Analytics, up from nothing just a year before.


Premise: Who attacked Cangas in 1617?

Hypothesis: The most famous assaults were upon the city of Vigo by Sir Francis Drake in 1585 and 1589, and the siege of A Coruña in 1589 by the English Armada.


Premise: By 1212, John had successfully concluded alliances  with who?

Hypothesis: John had successfully concluded alliances with his nephew Otto IV, a contender for the crown of Holy Roman Emperor in Germany, as well as with the counts Renaud of Boulogne and Ferdinand of Flanders.


Premise: Who wrote the music for Twilight Princess?

Hypothesis: The game's score was composed by Toru Minegishi and Asuka Ohta, with series regular Koji Kondo serving as the sound supervisor.


Premise: How many years is the deal with Legendary Pictures intended to run?

Hypothesis: Universal's multi-year film financing deal with Elliott Management expired in 2013.


Premise: In what era of music did Chopin compose?

Hypothesis: Frédéric François Chopin (/ˈʃoʊpæn/; French pronunciation: [fʁe.de.ʁik fʁɑ̃.swa ʃɔ.pɛ̃]; 22 February or 1 March 1810 – 17 October 1849), born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin,[n 1] was a Polish and French (by citizenship and birth of father) composer and a virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era, who wrote primarily for the solo piano.


Premise: Who was the Holy Roman Church leader that authorized the change ?

Hypothesis: On 28 February 1476, Pope Sixtus IV, authorized those dioceses that wished to introduce the feast to do so, and introduced it to his own diocese of Rome in 1477, with a specially composed Mass and Office of the feast.


Premise: What is the author of the letter assumed to be?

Hypothesis: Some scholars see little doubt that the reference to the execution of the "king of the Jews" is about the crucifixion of Jesus, while others place less value in the letter, given the possible ambiguity in the reference.


Premise: WHat are some festivals or events of note in Cork?

Hypothesis: Highlights include: Corcadorca Theatre Company, of which Cillian Murphy was a troupe member prior to Hollywood fame; the Institute for Choreography and Dance, a national contemporary dance resource;[citation needed] the Triskel Arts Centre (capacity c.90), which includes the Triskel Christchurch independent cinema; dance venue the Firkin Crane (capacity c.240); the Cork Academy of Dramatic Art (CADA) and Graffiti Theatre Company; and the Cork Jazz Festival, Cork Film Festival, and Live at the Marquee events.


Premise: Who directed the first feature film in Guinea-Bissau?

Hypothesis: (The first feature film was N’tturudu, by director Umban u’Kest in 1987.)


Premise: What was the Torah im Dereche Eretz aslo known as?

Hypothesis: His approach was termed the Torah


Premise: what does CANSOFCOM stand for?

Hypothesis: The command includes Joint Task Force 2 (JTF2), the Canadian Joint Incident Response Unit (CJIRU) based at CFB Trenton, as well as the Canadian Special Operations Regiment (CSOR) and 427 Special Operations Aviation Squadron (SOAS) based at CFB Petawawa.


Premise: Storyboards are not considered what?

Hypothesis: Some consider storyboards and wordless novels to be comics.


Premise: What word that means "hero" would a West Fleming speaker probably pronounce the same as "geld"?

Hypothesis: As a result, when West Flemish try to talk Standard Dutch, they're often unable to pronounce the g-sound, and pronounce it similar to the h-sound.


Premise: When was Fun Fun Bar established?

Hypothesis: The city is also home to the Montevideo Jazz Festival and has the Bancaria Jazz Club bar catering for jazz enthusiasts.


Premise: Who is one of the most successful teams in the Greek Super League?

Hypothesis: The most successful are Olympiacos, Panathinaikos, AEK Athens and PAOK.


Premise: When was Go Set a Watchman introduced to the public?

Hypothesis: Set a Watchman, was controversially released on July 14, 2015.


Premise: How many Oklahomans speak German?

Hypothesis: In addition to Cherokee, more than 25 Native American languages are spoken in Oklahoma, second only to California (though, it should be noted that only Cherokee exhibits language vitality at present).


Premise: What was Maclean's occupation?

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


Premise: Where was the UCR created?

Hypothesis: Created in the 1920s, the UCR system has not proven to be as uniform as its name implies.


Premise: Which company was organized first, Electro-Dynamic Light Company or United States Electric Lighting Company?

Hypothesis: Weeks later the United States Electric Lighting Company was organized.


Premise: Which group did David Attenborough join while on sabbatical?

Hypothesis: David Attenborough was later granted sabbatical leave from his job as Controller to work with the BBC Natural History Unit which had existed since the 1950s.


Premise: How did the Portuguese government encourage rooftop solar panels?

Hypothesis: Instead of just delivering electricity, it draws electricity from even the smallest generators, like rooftop solar panels.


Premise: What fields of study in the COT are included in this area of the USAF?

Hypothesis: Originally viewed as a "knife and fork school" that covered little beyond basic wear of the uniform, COT in recent years has been fully integrated into the OTS program and today encompasses extensive coursework as well as field exercises in leadership, confidence, fitness, and deployed-environment operations.


Premise: Arsphenamine became the first treatment for what previously incurable disease?

Hypothesis: Arsphenamine was prepared as part of a campaign to synthesize a series of such compounds, and found to exhibit partially selective toxicity.


Premise: It is believed that parasitoids account for what percentage of the total insect population?

Hypothesis: Though limited mainly to the insect order Hymenoptera, Diptera and Coleoptera parasitoids make up as much as 10% of all insect species.


Premise: What is one example of horizontal gene transfer in eukaryotes?

Hypothesis: This mechanism is a common source of new genes in prokaryotes, sometimes thought to contribute more to genetic variation than gene duplication.


Premise: What former presidential candidate teaches a seminar at Yale?

Hypothesis: As of 2009, former presidential candidate and DNC chair Howard Dean teaches a residential college seminar, "Understanding Politics and Politicians."


Premise: Who controlled Iraq before the Arabs?

Hypothesis: But after Muhammad's passing, the old tribal differences between the Arabs started to resurface.


Premise: What city was Louis Armstrong from?

Hypothesis: William "Cat" Anderson, Jabbo Smith, and Freddie Green are but a few of the alumni from the Jenkins Orphanage band who became professional musicians in some of the best bands of the day.


Premise: The war was one of the first to be documented in what two ways?

Hypothesis: As the legend of the "Charge of the Light Brigade" demonstrates, the war quickly became an iconic symbol of logistical, medical and tactical failures and mismanagement.


Premise: Who did the Sun support in 1974?

Hypothesis: It supported the Labour Party led by Harold Wilson in the 1970 General Election, with the headline "Why It Must Be Labour" but by February 1974 it was calling for a vote for the Conservative Party led by Edward Heath while suggesting that it might support a Labour Party led by James Callaghan or Roy Jenkins.


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

Hypothesis: Fifteen years after the satellite system was launched, it is now generating $31.5 billion for major companies such as China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp, AutoNavi Holdings Ltd, and China North Industries Group Corp.


Premise: I Love New York was established as advertising in what year?

Hypothesis: The trademarked logo, owned by New York State Empire State Development, appears in souvenir shops and brochures throughout the city and state, some licensed, many not.


Premise: Iran's climate along its Capsian coast and northen forests is?

Hypothesis: Iran's climate ranges from arid or semiarid, to subtropical along the Caspian coast and the northern forests.


Premise: On what date was the Magna Carta Universitatum signed?

Hypothesis: The number of universities signing the Magna Charta Universitatum continues to grow, drawing from all parts of the world.


Premise: During 1979-2015, Legislative Assembly terms lasted no longer than how many years?

Hypothesis: From 1979 to 2015, a Legislative Assembly was elected by popular vote for terms of not more than three years, although legislation passed by the Australian Parliament could extend its laws to the territory at will, including the power to override any laws made by the assembly.


Premise: For what audience were the books of the Bibliotheque Bleue written?

Hypothesis: Intended for a largely rural and semi-literate audience these books included almanacs, retellings of medieval romances and condensed versions of popular novels, among other things.


Premise: In square miles, how much of the city's total area is land?

Hypothesis: The highest point in the city is Todt Hill on Staten Island, which, at 409.8 feet (124.9 m) above sea level, is the highest point on the Eastern Seaboard south of Maine.


Premise: Who scaled back some reforms from Yeltsin?

Hypothesis: Some of the reforms under Yeltsin were scaled back by Vladimir Putin.


Premise: What is the name of China's oldest stage art?

Hypothesis: It is considered a conservative and traditional troupe.


Premise: What did Egyptians use to better organize their farmland?

Hypothesis: Their development of geometry was a necessary outgrowth of surveying to preserve the layout and ownership of farmland, which was flooded annually by the Nile river.


Premise: How many Pillar industries were there from the 1960s to the 1980s?

Hypothesis: From 1960s to 1980s there were Five Pillar Industries, namely, electronics, cars, petrochemical, iron and steel, and power, each with big state-owned firms.


Premise: What do researchers think transposable elements are key factors in when considering higher eukaryotes?

Hypothesis: Interspersed repeats mainly come from transposable elements (TEs), but they also include some protein coding gene families and pseudogenes.


Premise: What did Bloomberg name Namibia?

Hypothesis: In 2013, global business and financial news provider, Bloomberg, named Namibia the top emerging market economy in Africa and the 13th best in the world.


Premise: What is the name of the scholarly legal publication at Northwestern School of Law?

Hypothesis: The Northwestern University Law Review is a scholarly legal publication and student organization at Northwestern University School of Law.


Premise: When did Destiny's Child get their star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame?

Hypothesis: 's on October 25, 2005, in the US and accepted a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in March 2006.


Premise: What may servo motors be used for?

Hypothesis: Servomotors are used in applications such as machine tools, pen plotters, and other process systems.


Premise: Chopin's chord progressions are similar in style to what other composer?

Hypothesis: Chopin's harmonic innovations may have arisen partly from his keyboard improvisation technique.


Premise: What do you have to agree to with Netflix before you can use their service on PlayStation 3?

Hypothesis: A paid Netflix subscription was required for the service.


Premise: What do the Four Noble Truths explain?

Hypothesis: These four truths explain the nature of dukkha (suffering, anxiety, unsatisfactoriness), its causes, and how it can be overcome.


Premise: What did pilots have to do to avoid the barrage balloons?

Hypothesis: Secondly, to avoid the balloons, bombers had to fly at a higher altitude, which was more favorable for the guns.


Premise: Where is the Guilford Courthouse National Military Park?

Hypothesis: National Forests include Uwharrie National Forest in central North Carolina, Croatan National Forest in Eastern North Carolina, Pisgah National Forest in the northern mountains, and Nantahala National Forest in the southwestern part of the state.


Premise: What country was Burma at war with with until 1855 ?

Hypothesis: It was the second-largest empire in Burmese history but also one with a long ill-defined border with British India.


Premise: In this type of federation each country had its own what?

Hypothesis: In this Federation, each State had a "President" of its own that controlled almost every issue, even the creation of "State Armies," while the Federal Army was required to obtain presidential permission to enter any given state.


Premise: What magazine named Beyoncé as the most powerful female musician for 2015?

Hypothesis: In 2009, Billboard named her the Top Radio Songs Artist of the Decade, the Top Female Artist of the 2000s and their Artist of the Millennium in 2011.


Premise: How did Marie-Antoinette react to Burke's writing about her?

Hypothesis: Burke was informed by an Englishman who had talked with the Duchesse de Biron, that when Marie-Antoinette was reading the passage, she burst into tears and took considerable time to finish reading it.


Premise: Which organization offers versions of the Quran in 50 languages?

Hypothesis: Robert of Ketton's 1143 translation of the Quran for Peter the Venerable, Lex Mahumet pseudoprophete, was the first into a Western language (Latin).


Premise: Where did the bushi live?

Hypothesis: The bushi class was developed mainly in the north of Japan.


Premise: Who was sent home the week after the judges saved Matt Giraud?

Hypothesis: A new feature introduced was the "Judges' Save", and Matt Giraud was saved from elimination at the top seven by the judges when he received the fewest votes.


Premise: How much more energy does Neptune radiate than it receives?

Hypothesis: As with Uranus, the source of this heating is unknown, but the discrepancy is larger: Uranus only radiates 1.1 times as much energy as it receives from the Sun; whereas Neptune radiates about 2.61 times as much energy as it receives from the Sun.


Premise: What caused a delay in the production of high quality records?

Hypothesis: It took about eight years of study, except when it was suspended because of World War II.


Premise: What became more common during the Baroque era?

Hypothesis: Opera as a staged musical drama began to differentiate itself from earlier musical and dramatic forms, and vocal forms like the cantata and oratorio became more common.


Premise: What composer has Steven Spielberg been associated with since 1974?

Hypothesis: He has been associated with composer John Williams since 1974, who composed music for all save five of Spielberg's feature films.


Premise: When would American law be more likely to follow English law?

Hypothesis: However, it is important to understand that despite the presence of reception statutes, much of contemporary American common law has diverged significantly from English common law.


Premise: Besides part of Italy, over what areas did Phillip rule?

Hypothesis: Philip II of Spain decreed the change from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar, which affected much of Roman Catholic Europe, as Philip was at the time ruler over Spain and Portugal as well as much of Italy.


Premise: Which phrase was coined by George Augustus Henry Sala during a visit to Melbourne in 1885?

Hypothesis: The establishment of a hydraulic facility in 1887 allowed for the local manufacture of elevators, resulting in the first construction of high-rise buildings; most notably the APA Building, amongst the world's tallest commercial buildings upon completion in 1889.


Premise: What was the Revolution Society commemorating?

Hypothesis: In January 1790, Burke read Dr. Richard Price's sermon of 4 November 1789 entitled, A Discourse on the Love of our Country, to the Revolution Society.


Premise: Why do US troops visit Tajikistan every so often?

Hypothesis: There have been talks with Russia concerning use of the Ayni facility, and Russia continues to maintain a large base on the outskirts of Dushanbe.


Premise: Who did the Hungarian nobility elect as King of Hungary?

Hypothesis: This battle became a real Crusade against the Muslims, as the peasants were motivated by the Franciscan monk Saint John of Capistrano, who came from Italy predicating Holy War.


Premise: Which country used the most varied equalization practices?

Hypothesis: In the US there were more varied practices and a tendency to use higher bass turnover frequencies such as 500 Hz as well as a greater treble rolloff like −8.5 dB and even more to record generally higher modulation levels on the record.


Premise: The 330 North Wabash Building was recognized with what award?

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


Premise: Along with uniting the lekhitic tribes what did poland succeed in?

Hypothesis: Documented proof exists of Mieszko I's successors utilizing such a retinue, as well.


Premise: Where has the Medieval Fair of Norman been held since 2003?

Hypothesis: The Fair was held first on the south oval of the University of Oklahoma campus and in the third year moved to the Duck Pond in Norman until the Fair became too big and moved to Reaves Park in 2003.


Premise: What military unit was charged with intercepting Napoleon?

Hypothesis: The 5th Regiment was sent to intercept him and made contact just south of Grenoble on March 7, 1815.


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

Hypothesis: Some authors have also suggested that in the 7th and 6th century BCE parts of modern Tajikistan, including territories in the Zeravshan valley, formed part of Kambojas before it became part of the Achaemenid Empire.


Premise: What type of independence was introduced in Namibia after independence?

Hypothesis: Since independence Namibia has successfully completed the transition from white minority apartheid rule to parliamentary democracy.


Premise: What kind of parents did Bell state were more prone to having deaf children?

Hypothesis: Organisations such as these advocated passing laws (with success in some states) that established the compulsory sterilization of people deemed to be, as Bell called them, a "defective variety of the human race.


Premise: How is this type of hunting done?

Hypothesis: As a representative of the National Rifle Association (NRA) explained, "The NRA has always maintained that fair chase, being in the field with your firearm or bow, is an important element of hunting tradition.


Premise: What on Neptune are associated with dark spots that are brighter?

Hypothesis: The persistence of companion clouds shows that some former dark spots may continue to exist as cyclones even though they are no longer visible as a dark feature.


Premise: How much does the Tucson Folk Festival cost to get in?

Hypothesis: For the past 25 years, the Tucson Folk Festival has taken place the first Saturday and Sunday of May in downtown Tucson's El Presidio Park.


Premise: What elementary school did Nasser attend?

Hypothesis: In 1928, Nasser went to Alexandria to live with his maternal grandfather and attend the city's Attarin elementary school.


Premise: How did the 1990 release of 78 rpm effect Rhino Records?

Hypothesis: This failure to warn customers gave the Rhino 78 records a bad reputation,[citation needed] as they were destroyed by old juke boxes and old record players but played very well on newer 78-capable turntables with modern lightweight tone arms and jewel needles.


Premise: What is the name given to the Annunciation in the 1662 Book of Common Prayer?

Hypothesis: All the member churches of the Anglican Communion affirm in the historic creeds that Jesus was born of the Virgin Mary, and celebrates the feast days of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple.


Premise: Why did Teletype have the code for "rubout"?

Hypothesis: The original Teletype meaning, and the intent of the standard, was to make it an ignored character, the same as NUL (all zeroes).


Premise: When was the International Chopin Piano Competition established?

Hypothesis: The Fryderyk Chopin Institute of Poland lists on its website over eighty societies world-wide devoted to the composer and his music.


Premise: Sky HD's set-top box, TiVo's Series 3, and Dish Network's VIP 622 are examples of what?

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


Premise: The state has great diversity thanks to the large number of what?

Hypothesis: The state is home to one of the largest variation species of the genus Pinus in the world.


Premise: What is the first step to read the information encoded in a gene's DNA and produce the protein it specifies?

Hypothesis: First, the gene's DNA is transcribed to messenger RNA (mRNA).:6.1 Second, that mRNA is translated to protein.:6.2 RNA-coding genes must still go through the first step, but are not translated into protein.


Premise: What is average for ennoblements between 14th and min 18th century.

Hypothesis: According to heraldic sources total number of legal ennoblements issued between the 14th century and the mid-18th century, is estimated at approximately 800.


Premise: By what group was the Portugal region settled?

Hypothesis: The region was settled by Pre-Celts and Celts, giving origin to peoples like the Gallaeci, Lusitanians, Celtici and Cynetes, visited by Phoenicians and Carthaginians, incorporated in the Roman Republic dominions as Lusitania and part of Gallaecia, after 45 BC until 298 AD, settled again by Suebi, Buri, and Visigoths, and conquered by Moors.


Premise: Who was the French Minister of Marine in 1701?

Hypothesis: On the shores of the strait, in 1701, the French officer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, along with fifty-one French people and French Canadians, founded a settlement called Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit, naming it after Louis Phélypeaux, comte de Pontchartrain, Minister of Marine under Louis XIV.


Premise: What company counts the votes on American Idol?

Hypothesis: The votes are counted and verified by Telescope Inc.


Premise: Where does the saying "Like a broken record" originate?

Hypothesis: This is the origin of the phrase "like a broken record" or "like a scratched record", which is often used to describe a person or thing that continually repeats itself.


Premise: Who has a staff of vice-presidents, directors, and other administrative assistants?

Hypothesis: The president has a staff of vice presidents, directors, and other assistants for administrative, financial, faculty, and student matters.


Premise: What happens if the soverign doesn't sign the bill within the six-month time frame?

Hypothesis: If the monarch fails to act within six months of the bill being presented to him, it becomes law without his signature.


Premise: Which movement took place during the 19th century?

Hypothesis: The decline of Romanticism occurred because a new movement, Positivism, began to take hold of the ideals of the intellectuals after 1840 and lasted until about 1880.


Premise: Who was the winner American Idol in 2006?

Hypothesis: Do I Make You Proud" was released as Hicks' first single and McPhee's


Premise: Municipalities were abolished by what?

Hypothesis: However, municipalities were revived under the 1967 Constitution and have operated continuously since that time.


Premise: What percentage of people voted on March 26?

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


Premise: Where do brent geese migrate to?

Hypothesis: Detours avoiding such barriers are observed: for example, brent geese Branta bernicla migrating from the Taymyr Peninsula to the Wadden Sea travel via the White Sea coast and the Baltic Sea rather than directly across the Arctic Ocean and northern Scandinavia.


Premise: What did Lodygin change his name to after moving to the USA?

Hypothesis: He used as a burner two carbon rods of diminished section in a glass receiver, hermetically sealed, and filled with nitrogen, electrically arranged so that the current could be passed to the second carbon when the first had been consumed.


Premise: In 2014, what percentage of the city identified as Christian?

Hypothesis: The same study says that other religions (including Judaism, Buddhism, Islam, and Hinduism) collectively make up about 10% of the population.


Premise: What hardware component did CNET have the biggest problem with, even comparing it to an old credit card reader?

Hypothesis: Tech media website CNET gave new Super Slim 4 out of 5 stars ("Excellent"), saying "The Super Slim PlayStation 3 shrinks a powerful gaming machine into an even tinier package while maintaining the same features as its predecessors: a great gaming library and a strong array of streaming services [...]", whilst also criticising the "cheap" design and disc-loader, stating: "Sometimes [the cover] doesn't catch and you feel like you're using one of those old credit card imprinter machines.


Premise: Who was the last Qing emperor?

Hypothesis: Puyi, the last emperor, abdicated on February 12, 1912.


Premise: Through what time period did the Korean War last?

Hypothesis: In the Cold War era, the Generation of Love and the rise of computers changed society in very different, complex ways, including higher social and local mobility.


Premise: With what company did Turner Broadcasting Systems merge in 1996?

Hypothesis: In March 1999, MGM paid Warner Bros. and gave up the home video rights to the MGM/UA films owned by Turner to Warner Home Video.


Premise: PeeWee the Piccolo was what?

Hypothesis: This format was soon dropped as it became clear that the RCA 45 was the single of choice and


Premise: Which freeway links Melbourne and Sydney?

Hypothesis: Major highways feeding into the city include the Eastern Freeway, Monash Freeway and West Gate Freeway (which spans the large West Gate Bridge), whilst other freeways circumnavigate the city or lead to other major cities, including CityLink (which spans the large Bolte Bridge), Eastlink, the Western Ring Road, Calder Freeway, Tullamarine Freeway (main airport link) and the Hume Freeway which links Melbourne and Sydney.


Premise: When was Diego Maradona signed by Barcelona?

Hypothesis: However, Maradona's time with Barcelona was short-lived and he soon left for Napoli.


Premise: In what year did the fall of the Agri Decumates territory transform today's Switzerland?

Hypothesis: In about 260 AD, the fall of the Agri Decumates territory north of the Rhine transformed today's Switzerland into a frontier land of the Empire.


Premise: If a scientist didn't want to use an acid-fast staining technique, what type of microscopy could they use instead?

Hypothesis: Auramine-rhodamine staining and fluorescence microscopy are also used.


Premise: How many entertainment magazines are published in Mexico City?

Hypothesis: Leading magazines include Expansión, Proceso, Poder, as well as dozens of entertainment publications such as Vanidades, Quién, Chilango, TV Notas, and local editions of Vogue, GQ, and Architectural Digest.


Premise: What countrys assistance helped Radio Mogadishu modernize?

Hypothesis: Established during the colonial period, Radio Mogadishu initially broadcast news items in both Somali and Italian.


Premise: What leads to biodiversity loss is some countries?

Hypothesis: Conversion to "trivial" standardized ecosystems (e.g., monoculture following deforestation) effectively destroys habitat for the more diverse species that preceded the conversion.


Premise: What was the accusation leveled by Ronald Spark against The Daily Mirror, The Guardian, and BBC?

Hypothesis: After HMS Sheffield was wrecked by an Argentinian attack, The Sun was heavily criticised and even mocked for its coverage of the war in The Daily Mirror and The Guardian, and the wider media queried the veracity of official information and worried about the number of casualties, The Sun gave its response.


Premise: How much did Yao Ming donate?

Hypothesis: Houston Rockets center Yao Ming, one of the country's most popular sports icons, gave $214,000 and $71,000 to the Red Cross Society of China.


Premise: What is the name of Madonna's seventh album?

Hypothesis: Madonna's seventh studio album, Ray of Light, (1998) reflected a change in her image.


Premise: In what year did American Idol begin a contest to decide the winners single?

Hypothesis: This season also saw the launch of the American Idol Songwriter contest which allows fans to vote for the "coronation song".


Premise: What system of incorporation was used in 1837 by Houston?

Hypothesis: Locations in Houston are generally classified as either being inside or outside the Interstate 610 Loop.


Premise: 11th Street and 6th Avenue was the home of what tavern from the 1700s?

Hypothesis: East 11th streets runs from Fourth Avenue to Avenue C and runs past Webster Hall.


Premise: Which church still holds on to the original meaning of "cardinal" from the above Latin word?

Hypothesis: The term cardinal at one time applied to any priest permanently assigned or incardinated to a church, or specifically to the senior priest of an important church, based on the Latin cardo (hinge), meaning "principal" or "chief".


Premise: What is the material preference of collectors?

Hypothesis: An exception is the propensity of 200 g pressings to be slightly more prone to non-fill, when the vinyl biscuit does not sufficiently fill a deep groove during pressing (percussion or vocal amplitude changes are the usual locations of these artifacts).


Premise: What was the name of the route that linked Germany,Switzerland , Netherlands, and England

Hypothesis: A stop on the Paris-Vienna-Orient trade route, as well as a port on the Rhine route linking southern Germany and Switzerland to the Netherlands, England and Scandinavia, it became the political and economic center of the region.


Premise: What is the planned area of the Mianyang Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone?

Hypothesis: There are more than 136 high-tech enterprises in the zone and they accounted for more than 90% of the total industrial output.


Premise: In what year did Louis XIV die?

Hypothesis: Some recent historians begin the period in the 1620s, with the start of the scientific revolution.


Premise: Are all algae different from land plants?

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


Premise: What is the fourth and final stomach compartment in ruminants?

Hypothesis: Digesta is finally moved into the small intestine, where the digestion and absorption of nutrients occurs.


Premise: How many competition wins did Barcelona have in 2011?

Hypothesis: In 2011, the club became European champions again and won five trophies.


Premise: What year did Hurrican Hazel hit North Carolina?

Hypothesis: Only Florida and Louisiana are hit by hurricanes more often.


Premise: How many day did filming take

Hypothesis: After wrapping up in England, production travelled to Morocco in June, with filming taking place in Oujda, Tangier and Erfoud, after preliminary work was completed by the production's second unit.


Premise: Where are green eyes most common?

Hypothesis: A study of Icelandic and Dutch adults found green eyes to be much more prevalent in women than in men.


Premise: What causes the temperature to decrease?

Hypothesis: A rise from sea level into the upper regions of the atmosphere causes the temperature to decrease (see adiabatic lapse rate).


Premise: What happened after Kanye made his controversial statement?

Hypothesis: Once it was West's turn to speak again, he said, "George Bush doesn't care about black people.


Premise: What is the role of the neocortex whe it relates to memory?

Hypothesis: The neocortex then reviews and processes memories, which moves them into long-term memory.


Premise: What is the name of the rule that protects the landowner if their conservation efforts fall short?

Hypothesis: The "No Surprises" rule is meant to protect the landowner if "unforeseen circumstances" occur which make the landowner's efforts to prevent or mitigate harm to the species fall short.


Premise: The representative said that inspectors had been show what sort of villages?

Hypothesis: Rep. Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ), criticized the State Department investigation, saying the investigators were shown "Potemkin Villages" where residents had been intimidated into lying about the family-planning program.


Premise: Which team did Barcelona beat to win the UEFA Super Cup?

Hypothesis: The UEFA Super Cup victory also marked another impressive achievement as Josep Guardiola won his 12th trophy out of 15 possible in only three years at the helm of the club, becoming the all-time record holder of most titles won as a coach at FC Barcelona.


Premise: How many bloody noses did Spielberg get in high school?

Hypothesis: Two bloody noses.


Premise: What author paid for the simple bench at Sullivan's Island?

Hypothesis: An estimated 40% of the total 400,000 Africans transported and sold as slaves into North America are estimated to have landed at Sullivan's Island, just off the port of Charles Town; it is described as a "hellish Ellis Island of sorts ....


Premise: UNFPA groups what area in the same geographic region as the Arab States?

Hypothesis: The UNFPA supports programs in more than 150 countries, territories and areas spread across four geographic regions: Arab States and Europe, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, and sub-Saharan Africa.


Premise: Why do Jehovah Witnesses reject inherent immortality of the soul, hellfire and Trinitarianism?

Hypothesis: They reject Trinitarianism, inherent immortality of the soul, and hellfire, which they consider to be unscriptural doctrines.


Premise: What is the street address of The Fitzroy Tavern?

Hypothesis: The Fitzroy Tavern is a pub situated at 16 Charlotte Street in the Fitzrovia district, to which it gives its name.


Premise: A segment of what road crosses portions of Third Avenue, Lexington, and Park and runs in East Harlem?

Hypothesis: E 122nd Street runs four blocks (2,250 feet (690 m))


Premise: What is the role of New Zealand's highest court?

Hypothesis: The High Court of New Zealand was until 1980 known as the Supreme Court.


Premise: What is the name of the first book Hayek released to revise his stances from Prices and Production?

Hypothesis: Lionel Robbins himself, who had embraced the Austrian theory of the business cycle in The Great Depression (1934), later regretted having written the book and accepted many of the Keynesian counter-arguments.