Premise: What does a successful treatment using antibiotics entail?

Hypothesis: The successful outcome of antimicrobial therapy with antibacterial compounds depends on several factors.


Premise: What could have cause loss of power via the use of the term biracial and multiracial?

Hypothesis: Some African-American organizations, and African-American political leaders, such as Congresswoman Diane Watson and Congressman Augustus Hawkins, were particularly vocal in their rejection of the category, as they feared the loss of political and economic power if African Americans reduced their numbers by self-identification.


Premise: How much of Brasilia's GDP is from Services?

Hypothesis: The major roles of construction and of services (government, communications, banking and finance, food production, entertainment, and legal services) in Brasília's economy reflect the city's status as a governmental rather than an industrial center.


Premise: What word described the early attempts to understand the work of Aristotle?

Hypothesis: The rediscovery of Aristotle's works–more than 3000 pages of it would eventually be translated –fuelled a spirit of inquiry into natural processes that had already begun to emerge in the 12th century.


Premise: What are restaurants and food manufacturers required to follow in order to assist consumers looking to follow dietary guidelines?

Hypothesis: In the US, dietitians are registered (RD) or licensed (LD) with the Commission for Dietetic Registration and the American Dietetic Association, and are only able to use the title "dietitian," as described by the business and professions codes of each respective state, when they have met specific educational and experiential prerequisites and passed a national registration or licensure examination, respectively.


Premise: A possible rebuttal to Gray's argument appears in Popper's reply to which philosopher?

Hypothesis: Gray does not, however, give any indication of what available evidence these theories were at odds with, and his appeal to "crucial support" illustrates the very inductivist approach to science that Popper sought to show was logically illegitimate.


Premise: What was the new colony of Italia Eritrea a colony of?

Hypothesis: Uccialli) signed the same year, King Menelik of Shewa, a southern Ethiopian kingdom, recognized the Italian occupation of his rivals' lands of Bogos, Hamasien, Akkele Guzay, and Serae in exchange for guarantees of financial assistance and continuing access to European arms and ammunition.


Premise: What are examples of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease?

Hypothesis: Unlike these diseases, the airway obstruction in asthma is usually reversible; however, if left untreated, the chronic inflammation from asthma can lead the lungs to become irreversibly obstructed due to airway remodeling.


Premise: What is the name of a traditional American song that is associated with KU?

Hypothesis: Notable among a number of songs commonly played and sung at various events such as commencement and convocation, and athletic games are: "I’m a Jayhawk", "Fighting Jayhawk"


Premise: What entity governed Portugal until 1976?

Hypothesis: The country continued to be governed by a Junta de Salvação Nacional until the Portuguese legislative election of 1976.


Premise: What was the original plan for the Xiang Army?

Hypothesis: Zeng Guofan's original intention for the Xiang Army was simply to eradicate the Taiping rebels.


Premise: Followers what religion were the rulers of the Punjabi Kingdom?

Hypothesis: This was among the last areas of the subcontinent to be conquered by the British.


Premise: Which US armed force uses red as the main color of its flag?

Hypothesis: Red is one of the most common colors used on national flags.


Premise: Who wrote the book Khubilai Khan?

Hypothesis: Founded by Kublai Khan, who adopted the Chinese dynastic name of Yüan in 1271.


Premise: In what year was The Times' travel magazine first sold?

Hypothesis: The first issue of The Sunday Times Travel Magazine was in 2003, and it includes news, features and insider guides.


Premise: What has happened to some who refuse to agree to not protest?

Hypothesis: Furthermore, officials used other methods of silencing: riot police officers broke up protests by parents; the authorities set up cordons around the schools; and officials ordered the Chinese news media to stop reporting on school collapses.


Premise: The US Constitution says what to amendments?

Hypothesis: The US constitution provides that no state may be deprived of equal representation in the senate without its consent.


Premise: What was another term for easy listening stations?

Hypothesis: Whereas most easy listening music was instrumental, created by relatively unknown artists, and rarely purchased, AC was an attempt to create a similar "lite" format by choosing certain tracks (both hit singles and album cuts) of popular artists.


Premise: What sect did the Tsangpa Dynasty of Shigatse favor?

Hypothesis: However, internal strife within the dynasty and the strong localism of the various fiefs and political-religious factions led to a long series of internal conflicts.


Premise: Which three areas are high in Irish and Polish?

Hypothesis: The Kensington section, Port Richmond, and Fishtown have historically been heavily Irish and Polish.


Premise: When did 'Into the West' air?

Hypothesis: He was an executive producer on the critically acclaimed 2005 TV miniseries Into the West which won two Emmy awards, including one for Geoff Zanelli's score.


Premise: What dictated that when a parent could not contract a legal marriage, offspring would follow the mother?

Hypothesis: Second, the Tannaim may have been influenced by Roman law, which dictated that when a parent could not contract a legal marriage, offspring would follow the mother.


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

Hypothesis: The persistent drought around 850 AD coincided with the collapse of Classic Maya civilization, and the famine of One Rabbit (AD 1454) was a major catastrophe in Mexico.


Premise: When did a district court order the FDA to stop approving antibiotics in animals?

Hypothesis: In March 2012, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, ruling in an action brought by the Natural Resources Defense Council and others, ordered the FDA to revoke approvals for the use of antibiotics in livestock, which violated FDA regulations.


Premise: What are the dominate plant species on Earth now?

Hypothesis: The dominant land plant species of the time were gymnosperms, which are vascular, cone-bearing, non-flowering plants such as conifers that produce seeds without a coating.


Premise: Are all CFLs suitable for dimming?

Hypothesis: Compact fluorescent lamps (aka 'CFLs') use less power to supply the same amount of light as an incandescent lamp, however they contain mercury which is a dispose hazard.


Premise: What date did Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders leave Earth on the Apollo 8 mission?

Hypothesis: On December 21, 1968, Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders became the first humans to ride the Saturn V rocket into space on Apollo 8.


Premise: What building style was the Hanseatic League connected with in Germany and Scandinavia?

Hypothesis: The resultant style, Brick Gothic, is called "Backsteingotik" in Germany and Scandinavia and is associated with the Hanseatic League.


Premise: In what year did Foxconn workers first unionize?

Hypothesis: On December 31, 2006, workers at the Foxconn factory in Longhua, Shenzhen formed a union affiliated with the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, the Chinese government-approved union umbrella organization.


Premise: What did Tawfiq al-Hakim call Nasser?

Hypothesis: Liberal writer Tawfiq al-Hakim described Nasser as a "confused Sultan" who employed stirring rhetoric, but had no actual plan to achieve his stated goals.


Premise: If identity is a virtual site, what do boundaries supply to the virtual site?

Hypothesis: If identity is a kind of virtual site in which the dynamic processes and markers used for identification are made apparent, boundaries provide the framework on which this virtual site is built.


Premise: What shape of emblam signified members of the royal family?

Hypothesis: From the early Qing, the central government was characterized by a system of dual appointments by which each position in the central government had a Manchu and a Han Chinese assigned to it.


Premise: Who is the German Federal Environment Minister?

Hypothesis: In 2007, German Federal Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel cited estimates that up to 30% of all species will be extinct by 2050.


Premise: Who founded the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater and the Clearwater Festival to bring attention to the pollution caused by GE?

Hypothesis: This pollution caused a range of harmful effects to wildlife and people who eat fish from the river or drink the water.


Premise: Where in the United States are pubs located?

Hypothesis: In many places, especially in villages, a pub can be the focal point of the community.


Premise: How many parts does the trophy come in?

Hypothesis: The trophy comes in three parts - the cup itself, plus a lid and a base.


Premise: Why does inert gas reduce efficiency?

Hypothesis: Xenon gas improves efficiency because of its high molecular weight, but is also more expensive, so its use is limited to smaller lamps.


Premise: In what city are the headquarters of the MoD?

Hypothesis: This structure is neoclassical in style and was originally built between 1938 and 1959 to designs by Vincent Harris to house the Air Ministry and the Board of Trade.


Premise: Aside from the Ottoman Empire, which other empire did the Serb and Croat lands in the mid 19th century belong to?

Hypothesis: Croatian linguist Dalibor Brozović advocated the term Serbo-Croatian as late as 1988, claiming that in an analogy with Indo-European, Serbo-Croatian does not only name the two components of the same language, but simply charts the limits of the region in which it is spoken and includes everything between the limits (‘Bosnian’ and ‘Montenegrin’).


Premise: What file is utilized to exercise the rights promoted by the Robots Exclusion Standard?

Hypothesis: Robots.txt is used as part of the Robots Exclusion Standard, a voluntary protocol the Internet Archive respects that disallows bots from indexing certain pages delineated by its creator as off-limits.


Premise: How long was the duration of the Securities Markets Programme to last?

Hypothesis: The duration of the previous SMP was temporary, while the Outright Monetary Transactions (OMT) programme has no ex-ante time or size limit.


Premise: Unemployment rate in 2014?

Hypothesis: Philadelphia's an annualized unemployment rate was 7.8% in 2014, down from 10.0%the previous year.


Premise: IN 1791 how much did the szalchta comprimise the total population?

Hypothesis: By contrast, the nobilities of other European countries, except for Spain, amounted to a mere 1–3%, however the era of sovereign rules of Polish nobility ended earlier than in other countries (excluding France) yet in 1795 (see: Partitions of Poland), since then their legitimation and future fate depended on legislature and procedures of Russian Empire, Kingdom of Prussia or Habsburg Monarchy.


Premise: What is the name of the Rabbi mentioned in relation to the Genesis Rabbah?

Hypothesis: In the Midrash compilation, Genesis Rabbah, Rabbi Berechiah mentions Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah as German tribes or as German lands.


Premise: The founding of which city was the first to be ever recorded?

Hypothesis: A large cuneiform lapidary inscription found in Yerevan established that the modern capital of Armenia was founded in the summer of 782 BC by King Argishti I. Yerevan is the world's oldest city to have documented the exact date of its foundation.


Premise: How much of Brasilia's GDP is from Public Administration?

Hypothesis: The major roles of construction and of services (government, communications, banking and finance, food production, entertainment, and legal services) in Brasília's economy reflect the city's status as a governmental rather than an industrial center.


Premise: The Supreme Court of the Netherlands cannot interpret what?

Hypothesis: In the Netherlands, the Supreme Court of the Netherlands is the highest.


Premise: What journal was founded in 2008 that features articles by professors and law students?

Hypothesis: Founded in 2008, the journal features articles by professors, law students, practitioners, and undergraduates.


Premise: What nationality is the Flying Fathers team?

Hypothesis: Another prominent exhibition hockey team is the Buffalo Sabres Alumni Hockey Team, which is composed almost entirely of retired NHL players, the majority of whom (as the name suggests) played at least a portion of their career for the Buffalo Sabres.


Premise: What is the definition of paramanu in Hindu philosophy?

Hypothesis: It postulated that all objects in the physical universe are reducible to paramāṇu (atoms), and one's experiences are derived from the interplay of substance (a function of atoms, their number and their spatial arrangements), quality, activity, commonness, particularity and inherence.


Premise: How many cricket squares does Eton have?

Hypothesis: In 1995 the National Lottery granted money for a £4.6m sports complex, to add to Eton's existing facilities of two swimming pools, 30 cricket squares, 24 football, rugby and hockey pitches and a gym.


Premise: What prominent business professor has been heavily influenced by Whitehead?

Hypothesis: Whitehead has had some influence on philosophy of business administration and organizational theory.


Premise: What family was funding the development of former Chelsea Barracks?

Hypothesis: Writing to the Qatari Royal family (who were funding the development through the property development company Qatari Diar) he condemned the accepted modernist plans, instead advocating a classical approach.


Premise: What was the North American megafauna extinction coincidental with?

Hypothesis: However, in other locations such as Australia, humans are thought to have played a very significant role in the extinction of the Australian megafauna that was widespread prior to human occupation.


Premise: What historian commented that the events involving Frédéric's friend in Poland contributed to his maturing?

Hypothesis: Chopin's successes as a composer and performer opened the door to western Europe for him, and on 2 November 1830, he set out, in the words of Zdzisław Jachimecki, "into the wide world, with no very clearly defined aim, forever."


Premise: How many air force wings are located across Canada?

Hypothesis: 2 Canadian Air Division operations are carried out at two wings.


Premise: When did US ground forces attack Iraqi positions?

Hypothesis: The Iraqi air force was destroyed within a few days, with some planes fleeing to Iran, where they were interned for the duration of the conflict.


Premise: What is human flourishing?

Hypothesis: The ultimate goal is human flourishing; making life better for all humans, and as the most conscious species, also promoting concern for the welfare of other sentient beings and the planet as a whole.


Premise: What year  was the  Victor Orthophonic Victrola released?

Hypothesis: In 1925, the Victor company introduced the Victor Orthophonic Victrola, an acoustical record player that was specifically designed to play electrically recorded discs, as part of a line that also included electrically reproducing Electrolas.


Premise: What is the second longest show at the Dominion Theatre?

Hypothesis: You has become the longest running musical ever to run at this prime London theatre, overtaking the previous record holder, the Grease musical.


Premise: When does the majority of the rain fall in Mexico City?

Hypothesis: The rainy season runs from June to October when winds bring in tropical moisture from the sea.


Premise: Vehicle accidents with resulting injuries that involve dogs are more common with what type of vehicle?

Hypothesis: It has been estimated around 2% of dog-related injuries treated in UK hospitals are domestic accidents.


Premise: What does NATO ascribe naval air defence as?

Hypothesis: Missile defence is an extension of air defence as are initiatives to adapt air defence to the task of intercepting any projectile in flight.


Premise: What are some major contributors to states output

Hypothesis: The major contributors to the state's gross output in 2007 were general services, financial services, trade, transportation and public utilities, manufacturing and construction respectively.


Premise: What product is bitumen used in manufacturing as a sealant?

Hypothesis: Asphalt/bitumen is used to make Japan black, a lacquer known especially for its use on iron and steel, and it is also used in paint and marker inks by some graffiti supply companies to increase the weather resistance and permanence of the paint or ink, and to make the color much darker.[citation needed] Asphalt/bitumen is also used to seal some alkaline batteries during the manufacturing process.


Premise: What metal is made by combining tin and copper?

Hypothesis: Carbon steel can be made by varying only the carbon content, producing soft alloys like mild steel or hard alloys like spring steel.


Premise: What was the disability described by Bernard Lewis as "most degrading?"

Hypothesis: The one described by Bernard Lewis as "most degrading" was the requirement of distinctive clothing, not found in the Quran or hadith but invented in early medieval Baghdad; its enforcement was highly erratic.


Premise: After WWII how many states initially remained in Germany?

Hypothesis: Initially, only seven of the pre-War states remained: Baden (in part), Bavaria (reduced in size), Bremen, Hamburg, Hesse (enlarged), Saxony, and Thuringia.


Premise: If Siddhartha lived in a small republic, his father would have been a what?

Hypothesis: The evidence of the early texts suggests that Siddhārtha Gautama was born in a community that was on the periphery, both geographically and culturally, of the northeastern Indian subcontinent in the fifth century BCE.


Premise: Who called the crusades against the Hussites?

Hypothesis: Hussites defeated five continuous crusades proclaimed against them by the Pope.


Premise: What was the name of the attack the Japanese had planned against San Diego?

Hypothesis: During the final months of the war, the Japanese had a plan to target multiple U.S. cities for biological attack, starting with San Diego.


Premise: Large amounts of sulfur dioxide and cadmium vapor are produced due to what?

Hypothesis: Smelter slag and other residues of process also contain significant amounts of heavy metals.


Premise: In 1984, what was Margaret Thatcher's position within the British government?

Hypothesis: In 1984, he was appointed as a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom on the advice of the British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher for his "services to the study of economics".


Premise: Which American city did Mexico City defeat to host the 1968 olympics?

Hypothesis: Mexico City remains the only Latin American city to host the Olympic Games, having held the Summer Olympics in 1968, winning bids against Buenos Aires, Lyon and Detroit.


Premise: What is the name of the multi-stage international cycling event held throughout Eritrea?

Hypothesis: The Tour of Eritrea, a multi-stage international cycling event, is held annually throughout the country.


Premise: What does schlachtan mean in german?

Hypothesis: Early Polish historians thought the term may have derived from the name of the legendary proto-Polish chief, Lech, mentioned in Polish and Czech writings.


Premise: What conclusions were race anthropologists pressured to revise?

Hypothesis: Race anthropologists were pressured to acknowledge findings coming from studies of culture and population genetics, and to revise their conclusions about the sources of phenotypic variation.


Premise: Which of the Great Lakes is entirely located in US territory?

Hypothesis: The five Great Lakes are located in the north-central portion of the country, four of them forming part of the border with Canada, only Lake Michigan situated entirely within United States.


Premise: What type of Art fairs are held at Ann Arbor?

Hypothesis: One such event is the Ann Arbor Art Fairs, a set of four concurrent juried fairs held on downtown streets.


Premise: Who began the revolution of Greek influenced architecture in Britain?

Hypothesis: From the middle of the 18th century, exploration and publication changed the course of British architecture towards a purer vision of the Ancient Greco-Roman ideal.


Premise: What pieces of equipment for shooting arrows used to be wooden?

Hypothesis: One noteworthy example of this trend is the golf club commonly known as the wood, the head of which was traditionally made of persimmon wood in the early days of the game of golf, but is now generally made of synthetic materials.


Premise: In who's honor was the city named Kaliningrad from  Konigsberg?

Hypothesis: In July of that year, the historic city of Königsberg was renamed Kaliningrad to honour Mikhail Kalinin and the area named the Kaliningrad Oblast.


Premise: When was China Galileo Industries (CGI) founded?

Hypothesis: However, the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post reported in January 2008 that China was unsatisfied with its role in the Galileo project and was to compete with Galileo in the Asian market.


Premise: How much did Rebel Heart Tour grossed?

Hypothesis: The dispute started when Rocco decided to continue living at England with Ritchie when the Rebel Heart Tour had visited there, while Madonna wanted him to return with her.


Premise: When did Beyoncé give birth to her daughter?

Hypothesis: On January 7, 2012, Beyoncé gave birth to a daughter, Blue Ivy Carter, at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York under heavy security.


Premise: Who has argued that emotions are discrete?

Hypothesis: For more than 40 years, Paul Ekman has supported the view that emotions are discrete, measurable, and physiologically distinct.


Premise: What was Albert ill with?

Hypothesis: To relieve his wife during her intense and deep grief, Albert took on most of her duties, despite being ill himself with chronic stomach trouble.


Premise: Which countries did Gorton maintain close relationships with?

Hypothesis: In a vote on the leadership the Liberal Party split 50/50, and although this was insufficient to remove him as the leader, Gorton decided this was also insufficient support for him, and he resigned.


Premise: What do abusive drugs effect in the circadian system?

Hypothesis: It is possible that genetic and/or environmental disturbances to the normal sleep and wake cycle can increase the susceptibility to addiction.


Premise: How would one describe the future participation of Hanover?

Hypothesis: Frederick sent urgent requests to Britain for more substantial assistance, as he was now without any outside military support for his forces in Germany.


Premise: What does Mizrach mean in Hebrew?

Hypothesis: The more common term in Israel for many of those broadly called Sephardim, is Mizrahim (lit. "


Premise: When does the temperature of morning type young adults reach its lowest?

Hypothesis: Baehr et al. found that, in young adults, the daily body temperature minimum occurred at about 04:00 (4 a.m.) for morning types but at about 06:00 (6 a.m.) for evening types.


Premise: For what constituency was Nancy Astor elected?

Hypothesis: Taking over office from her husband Waldorf Astor, Lady Astor was a vibrantly active campaigner for her resident constituents .


Premise: What do Jehovah Witnesses believe Jesus died on rather than a traditional cross?

Hypothesis: Jehovah's Witnesses believe that Jesus is God's only direct creation, that everything else was created by means of Christ, and that the initial unassisted act of creation uniquely identifies Jesus as God's "only-begotten Son".


Premise: Who came up with 'instrumentalism'?

Hypothesis: Thus, ideas in Dewey's system retain their empiricist flavour in that they are only known a posteriori.


Premise: What nationality was de Courtenay?

Hypothesis: He also worked on the theory of phonetic alternations (what is now called allophony and morphophonology), and had a significant influence on the work of Ferdinand de Saussure.


Premise: What percentage of the Florida population in 2010 was Hispanic

Hypothesis: Florida has the second largest Puerto Rican population after New York, as well as the fastest-growing in the nation.


Premise: How many people lived in Stillwater in 2010?

Hypothesis: Of the state's ten largest cities, three are outside the metropolitan areas of Oklahoma City and Tulsa, and only Lawton has a metropolitan statistical area of its own as designated by the United States Census Bureau, though the metropolitan statistical area of Fort Smith, Arkansas extends into the state.


Premise: Along with growth, what kind of factors determine the density of wood?

Hypothesis: (Elliott 1970).


Premise: Who did samurai write for?

Hypothesis: Samurai were many of the early exchange students, not directly because they were samurai, but because many samurai were literate and well-educated scholars.


Premise: What was the price tag for the private jet Schwarzenegger bought in 1997?

Hypothesis: After separating from his wife, Maria Shriver, in 2011, it has been estimated that his net worth has been approximately $400 million, and even as high as $800 million, based on tax returns he filed in 2006.


Premise: Who describes the path as "a mandala of interconnected factor that support and moderate each other"?

Hypothesis: Rather, they are understood as eight significant dimensions of one's behaviour—mental, spoken, and bodily—that operate in dependence on one another; taken together, they define a complete path, or way of living.


Premise: In what year did the US impose an arms embargo on Turkey?

Hypothesis: International pressure led to a ceasefire, and by then 37% of the island had been taken over by the Turks and 180,000 Greek Cypriots had been evicted from their homes in the north.


Premise: When did the Christianization of Kievan begin?

Hypothesis: But at Constantinople, they were so astounded by the beauty of the cathedral of Hagia Sophia and the liturgical service held there that they made up their minds there and then about the faith they would like to follow.


Premise: What country did Nigeria beat to win a Summer Olympics gold medal?

Hypothesis: In April 1994, the Super Eagles ranked 5th in the FIFA World Rankings, the highest ranking achieved by an African football team.


Premise: What percentage of Imperial's staff was classified as world leading in 2008?

Hypothesis: The 2008 Research Assessment Exercise also showed five subjects – Pure Mathematics, Epidemiology and Public Health, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, and Mechanical, Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering – were assessed to be the best[clarification needed] in terms of the proportion of internationally recognised research quality.


Premise: A 2001 study by Nebel et al. showed that which two populations share the same overall paternal Near Eastern ancestries?

Hypothesis: A later 2005 study by Nebel et al., found a similar level of 11.5% of male Ashkenazim belonging to R1a1a (M17+), the dominant Y-chromosome haplogroup in Central and Eastern Europeans.


Premise: Who won the the Rugby Canada Super League championship in 2005?

Hypothesis: The city hosted a Rugby World Cup qualifying match between Canada and the USA on 12 August 2006, where the Canadians heavily defeated the USA 56–7 to qualify for the 2007 Rugby World Cup finals in France.


Premise: Who was the author of the letter sent to the Times?

Hypothesis: In 1855 a reprint of a letter earlier sent to The Times appeared in Littel's Living Age.


Premise: What daylight event was not celebrated after the dark sacrifice?

Hypothesis: Demigods and heroes, who belonged to the heavens and the underworld, were sometimes given black-and-white victims.


Premise: From whom was Marwan descended?

Hypothesis: Two factions developed within Syria: the Confederation of Qays, who supported Ibn al-Zubayr, and the Quda'a, who supported Marwan, a descendant of Umayya via Wa'il ibn Umayyah.


Premise: Pope Paul VI had no cap on what?

Hypothesis: At the start of 1971, Pope Paul VI set the number of cardinal electors at a maximum of 120, but set no limit on the number of cardinals generally.


Premise: What was the expression of Nasser's reforms on the street?

Hypothesis: With these measures came more domestic repression, as thousands of Islamists were imprisoned, including dozens of military officers.


Premise: What can the disrupted circadian system cause?

Hypothesis: It is possible that genetic and/or environmental disturbances to the normal sleep and wake cycle can increase the susceptibility to addiction.


Premise: Where on Neptune does weather not occur?

Hypothesis: Weather does not occur in the higher stratosphere or thermosphere.


Premise: What was on the forehead of the woman on the scarlet horned beast?

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: In what Province did Bell die?

Hypothesis: By way of reply, Bell traced the sign for "no" in the air


Premise: Who electrified Detroit?

Hypothesis: Most notable among them was the David Whitney House located at 4421 Woodward Avenue, which became a prime location for mansions.


Premise: What was typically worn after the loss of a loved one in the Roman Republic?

Hypothesis: The toga pulla was worn when in mourning.[citation needed]


Premise: What could you also call Rome's Campus Maritus?

Hypothesis: The city of Rome had a place called the Campus Martius ("Field of Mars"), which was a sort of drill ground for Roman soldiers.


Premise: Which New Haven interstate is less congested throughout times designated as peak travel?

Hypothesis: New Haven lies at the intersection of Interstate 95 on the coast—which provides access southwards and/or westwards to the western coast of Connecticut and to New York City, and eastwards to the eastern Connecticut shoreline, Rhode Island, and eastern Massachusetts—and Interstate 91, which leads northward to the interior of Massachusetts and Vermont and the Canadian border.


Premise: What are some examples of Ages in Egypt?

Hypothesis: It has been in contact with many other civilisations and nations and has been through so many eras, starting from prehistoric age to the modern age, passing through so many ages such as; Pharonic, Roman, Greek, Islamic and many other ages.


Premise: In February of 2014, what did Swiss voters narrowly approve to restrict?

Hypothesis: Some news commentators claim that this proposal de facto contradicts the bilateral agreements on the free movement of persons from these respective countries.


Premise: What are Gentians named after?

Hypothesis: Writing about the gentians in Switzerland D. H. Lawrence described them as "darkening the day-time, torch-like with the smoking blueness of Pluto's gloom."


Premise: What do the terms andophilia and gynephilia help prevent?

Hypothesis: These newer terms also do not carry the social weight of the former ones."


Premise: What is the style called of putting tessere on a backing paper?

Hypothesis: Mosaic murals, benches and tabletops are some of the items usually made using the indirect method, as it results in a smoother and more even surface.


Premise: When did the Byzantine Kingdom come under the impact of the Greeks.

Hypothesis: The Eastern Roman Empire – today conventionally named the Byzantine Empire, a name not in use during its own time – became increasingly influenced by Greek culture after the 7th century, when Emperor Heraclius (AD 575 - 641) decided to make Greek the empire's official language.


Premise: Who designed the JK Bridge?

Hypothesis: It was designed by architect Alexandre Chan and structural engineer Mário Vila Verde.


Premise: A section of 155th Street connects Harlem River Drive and what Avenue?

Hypothesis: A separate, unconnected section of 155th Street runs under the viaduct, connecting Bradhurst Avenue and the Harlem River Drive.


Premise: Where does Punjab have major military bases?

Hypothesis: It also hosts major military bases such as at Sargodha and Rawalpindi.


Premise: What is the opposite of inductive reactance?

Hypothesis: This physically large inductor at the base of the antenna has an inductive reactance which is the opposite of the capacitative reactance that such a vertical antenna has at the desired operating frequency.


Premise: Why was "An Act for Liberty to Erect a Collegiate School" proposed?

Hypothesis: The Act was an effort to create an institution to train ministers and lay leadership for Connecticut.


Premise: Who was elected pope in 1958?

Hypothesis: When the pope raised Montini to the cardinalate on 15 December 1958, he became Cardinal-Priest of Ss.


Premise: Who erected a number of large stelae in pre-Christian times?

Hypothesis: One of these granite columns, the obelisk of Aksum, is the largest such structure in the world, standing at 90 feet.


Premise: Which University offers conventional degrees?

Hypothesis: Many open universities are working to have the ability to offer students standardized testing and traditional degrees and credentials.


Premise: When was the book The Bloody Tenent of Persecution published?

Hypothesis: The phrase "[A] hedge or wall of separation between the garden of the church and the wilderness of the world" was first used by Baptist theologian Roger Williams, the founder of the colony of Rhode Island, in his 1644 book The Bloody Tenent of Persecution.


Premise: What problem can be caused by a player becoming out of alignment?

Hypothesis: The issue can arise when the laser optical pickup assembly within the player is out of alignment or because the disc is damaged or excessively warped, but it could also occur even with a properly functioning player and a factory-new disc, depending on electrical and mechanical alignment problems.


Premise: How much of Nigeria's population is Animist and other religions?

Hypothesis: Adherents of Animism and other religions collectively represent 1.4% of the population.


Premise: What should chronic pain be considered in its own right?

Hypothesis: The International Association for the Study of Pain advocates that the relief of pain should be recognized as a human right, that chronic pain should be considered a disease in its own right, and that pain medicine should have the full status of a specialty.


Premise: In what writing did he recount his time in exiles?

Hypothesis: However, upon Constans's death in 350, another civil war broke out, which left pro-Arian Constantius as sole emperor.


Premise: The genome-wide genetic study carried out in 2010 by Behar et al. examined the genetic relationships among which Jewish groups?


Premise: Who is the main character in the Aeneid?

Hypothesis: His Aeneid has been considered the national epic of ancient Rome from the time of its composition to the present day.


Premise: Why overhead wires are not being widely used?

Hypothesis: Disadvantages of electric traction include high capital costs that may be uneconomic on lightly trafficked routes; a relative lack of flexibility since electric trains need electrified tracks or onboard supercapacitors and charging infrastructure at stations; and a vulnerability to power interruptions.


Premise: What was the date of the Abbey's coronation?

Hypothesis: His successor, Harold II, was probably crowned in the abbey, although the first documented coronation is that of William the Conqueror later the same year.


Premise: Beginning in 1814, The Times was printed using what new kind of press?

Hypothesis: For much of its early life, the profits of The Times were very large and the competition minimal, so it could pay far better than its rivals for information or writers.


Premise: In what year did Drake battle the Spanish Armada?

Hypothesis: In 1620 the Pilgrim Fathers set sail for the New World from Plymouth, establishing Plymouth Colony – the second English colony in what is now the United States of America.


Premise: As of 2009, who is the director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization?

Hypothesis: President Richard Levin noted that Yale has hundreds of other partnerships across the world, but "no existing collaboration matches the scale of the new partnership with UCL".


Premise: What made Tennessee politics more competitive again in the middle of the 20th century?

Hypothesis: This sharply reduced competition in politics in the state until after passage of civil rights legislation in the mid-20th century.


Premise: How many ministers founded Northwestern University?

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


Premise: Which philosopher has criticized Hawking's formulation?

Hypothesis: This less-nuanced, but commonly repeated formulation has received criticisms from philosophers such as Aristotelian philosopher Mortimer J. Adler.


Premise: What did Monsanto and Illumina say they would do with the research?

Hypothesis: This public relations effort gave them some recognition for sequencing the cotton genome.


Premise: What is one way to abbreviate the Solar Hiljri calender?

Hypothesis: The Solar Hijri calendar, also called the Shamsi Hijri calendar, and abbreviated as SH, is the official calendar of Iran and Afghanistan.


Premise: Several reports written by various agencies  concluded that which policy was not the primary cause of the financial crisis?

Hypothesis: Although they concede that governmental policies had some role in causing the crisis, they contend that GSE loans performed better than loans securitized by private investment banks, and performed better than some loans originated by institutions that held loans in their own portfolios.


Premise: What was the name of the settlement founded by the Pilgrim Fathers?

Hypothesis: According to legend, Drake insisted on completing his game of bowls on the Hoe before engaging the Spanish Armada in 1588.


Premise: Daylighting has been proven to have negative effects on people?

Hypothesis: Due to a lack of information that indicate the likely energy savings, daylighting schemes are not yet popular among most buildings.


Premise: How is most financial aid obtained at Yale?

Hypothesis: Most financial aid is in the form of grants and scholarships that do not need to be paid back to the university, and the average need-based aid grant for the Class of 2017 was $46,395.


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

Hypothesis: The phrase "[A] hedge or wall of separation between the garden of the church and the wilderness of the world" was first used by Baptist theologian Roger Williams, the founder of the colony of Rhode Island, in his 1644 book The Bloody Tenent of Persecution.


Premise: The Medieval period begins with the fall of what city?

Hypothesis: Polyphonic (multi-voiced) music developed from monophonic chant throughout the late Middle Ages and into the Renaissance, including the more complex voicings of motets.


Premise: Where was Joseph Bohmann from?

Hypothesis: According to Clarence L. Partee, the first mandolin made in the United States was made in 1883 or 1884 by Joseph Bohmann, who was an established maker of violins in Chicago.


Premise: What indicated the quality of a vacuum?

Hypothesis: This vacuum state is called high vacuum, and the study of fluid flows in this regime is called particle gas dynamics.


Premise: What model described the opposite of approach as moving away?

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


Premise: Since what event did the first time black people decline in living in NYC?

Hypothesis: The city's population in 2010 was 44% white (33.3% non-Hispanic white), 25.5% black (23% non-Hispanic black), 0.7% Native American, and 12.7% Asian.


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

Hypothesis: Author Albert Murray said of the relationship of the town to the novel (and the annual performance): "It becomes part of the town ritual, like the religious underpinning of Mardi Gras.


Premise: As of what year were dial up, wireless , and satellite services available?

Hypothesis: The increase in usage was largely due to innovative policy initiatives adopted by the various Somali telecom operators, including free local in-town calls, a flat rate of $10 per month for unlimited calls, a low charge of $0.005 per minute for Internet connections, and a one-time connection fee of $50.


Premise: In the winter of 1947, the National Museum started with a display of Indian art in what location?

Hypothesis: The National Museum which began with an exhibition of Indian art and artefacts at the Royal Academy in London in the winter of 1947–48 was later at the end was shown at the Rashtrapati Bhawan in 1949.


Premise: Beyond petroleum, what is Alaska's largest export?

Hypothesis: Alaska's main export product (excluding oil and natural gas) is seafood, primarily salmon, cod, Pollock and crab.


Premise: How much did the Higher Education Commission impact the number of PhDs in Pakistan?

Hypothesis: In Pakistan, establishment of the Higher Education Commission in 2002, resulted in a 5-fold increase in the number of PhDs and a 10-fold increase in the number of scientific research papers in 10 years with the total number of universities increasing from 115 in 2001 to over 400 in 2012.[citation needed]


Premise: Who commissioned the Monreale mosaics between 1176 and 1186?

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


Premise: Which two ethnicities made up each position in government?

Hypothesis: During the Qianlong Emperor's reign, for example, members of his family were distinguished by garments with a small circular emblem on the back, whereas Han officials wore clothing with a square emblem.


Premise: Tribes of Slavs were invading what provinces of the Eastern Empire?

Hypothesis: The Slavs under name of the Antes and the Sclaveni make their first appearance in Byzantine records in the early 6th century.


Premise: Who considered Napoleon to be a tyrant and a usurper?

Hypothesis: He was, however, considered a tyrant and usurper by his opponents.


Premise: How long did the Scottish Panama colony survive?

Hypothesis: The Darien scheme was a financial disaster for Scotland—a quarter of Scottish capital was lost in the enterprise—and ended Scottish hopes of establishing its own overseas empire.


Premise: How many of Detroit's housing is unoccupied?

Hypothesis: A 2009 parcel survey found about a quarter of residential lots in the city to be undeveloped or vacant, and about 10% of the city's housing to be unoccupied.


Premise: What happened on BBC's Newsnight in 1998?

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


Premise: What happened in 2007-2008 that had a drop in viewers for all networks?

Hypothesis: The premiere was down 11% among total viewers, and the results show in which Kristy Lee Cook was eliminated delivered its lowest-rated Wednesday show among the 18–34 demo since the first season in 2002.


Premise: What was a typical recording time of a song in 1948?

Hypothesis: In popular music, this time limitation of about 3:30 on a 10-inch 78 rpm record meant that singers usually did not release long pieces on record.


Premise: In what year did Greece win the Eurovision Song Contest?

Hypothesis: In 2005, Greece won with the song "My Number One", performed by Greek-Swedish singer Elena Paparizou.


Premise: What is the name of the largest reservoir in the state?

Hypothesis: The largest reservoir in the state is Fort Peck Reservoir on the Missouri river, which is contained by the second largest earthen dam and largest hydraulically filled dam in the world.


Premise: What is blocked due to local surface low pressure?

Hypothesis: The effects of local surface low pressure are extremely limited because upper-level subsidence still continues to block any form of air ascent.


Premise: Whom did the Nizam ally with in the late 18th century?

Hypothesis: In response to regular threats from Hyder Ali (Dalwai of Mysore), Baji Rao I (Peshwa of the Maratha Empire), and Basalath Jung (Asif Jah II's elder brother, who was supported by the Marquis de Bussy-Castelnau), the Nizam signed a subsidiary alliance with the East India Company in 1798, allowing the British Indian Army to occupy Bolarum (modern Secunderabad) to protect the state's borders, for which the Nizams paid an annual maintenance to the British.


Premise: What is the primary function of the PC Settings app?

Hypothesis: The new user interface is based on Microsoft's Metro design language, and uses a Start screen similar to that of Windows Phone 7 as the primary means of launching applications.


Premise: What Island in Nova Scotia did the Bells go to in 1885?

Hypothesis: That summer, the Bells had a vacation on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, spending time at the small village of Baddeck.


Premise: When did the last Ice Age end in the British Isles?

Hypothesis: All native flora and fauna in Ireland is made up of species that migrated from elsewhere in Europe, and Great Britain in particular.


Premise: What do girls of the village get in comparison the the young male event ?

Hypothesis: A novitiation ceremony called shinbyu is the most important coming of age events for a boy, during which he enters the monastery for a short time.


Premise: What was the focus of English Dominican mysticism?

Hypothesis: Third, English Dominican mysticism focused on an embodied spirituality with a structured love of fellow men at its center.


Premise: How many Nobel Prizes have been won by IBM employees?

Hypothesis: As of 2013[update] the company held the record for most patents generated by a business for 22 consecutive years.


Premise: Who directed the purges of Soviets?

Hypothesis: Two rounds of Soviet purges directed by Moscow (1927–1934 and 1937–1938) resulted in the expulsion of nearly 10,000 people, from all levels of the Communist Party of Tajikistan.


Premise: Which nation formed the nucleus of the Warsaw Pact?

Hypothesis: The Warsaw Pact (formally, the Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation, and Mutual Assistance, sometimes, informally WarPac, akin in format to NATO) was a collective defense treaty among Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War.


Premise: What type of oak tree is colonizing many abandoned areas in Portugal?

Hypothesis: Due to the human population decrease and rural exodus, Pyrenean oak and other local native trees are colonizing many abandoned areas.


Premise: How extent can biofilm be?

Hypothesis: Biofilms are also important in medicine, as these structures are often present during chronic bacterial infections or in infections of implanted medical devices, and bacteria protected within biofilms are much harder to kill than individual isolated bacteria.


Premise: What occured in 1977?

Hypothesis: Even though Sadat's policy was intended to modernise Egypt and assist the middle class, it mainly benefited the higher class, and, because of the elimination of subsidies on basic foodstuffs, led to the 1977 Egyptian Bread Riots.


Premise: What was the main cause of the spread of Shtokavian?

Hypothesis: Due to population migrations, Shtokavian became the most widespread in the western Balkans, intruding westwards into the area previously occupied by Chakavian and Kajkavian (which further blend into Slovenian in the northwest).


Premise: Who claimed these reports as being inaccurate?

Hypothesis: Later the industry acknowledged the working conditions for children were unsatisfactory and children's rights were sometimes violated and acknowledged the claims could not be ignored.


Premise: What dialect is considered a sister language to Dutch?

Hypothesis: (West) Frisian evolved from the same West Germanic branch as Old English and is less akin to Dutch.


Premise: What is the population of Bern?

Hypothesis: Over the 10 years between 2000 and 2010, the population changed at a rate of 0.6%.


Premise: The second truth is?

Hypothesis: The third noble truth is that the complete cessation of dukkha is possible, and the fourth noble truth identifies a path to this cessation.[note 7]


Premise: In what geographic part of Libya is Bani Walid located?

Hypothesis: On 20 October, Gaddafi broke out of Sirte's District 2 in a joint civilian-military convoy, hoping to take refuge in the Jarref Valley.


Premise: What work of Aristotle's does Avicenna focus on?

Hypothesis: Avicenna discussed the issue of a proper methodology for scientific inquiry and the question of "How does one acquire the first principles of a science?"


Premise: What song did Caleb Johnson first release after winning American Idol?

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


Premise: How far from Valencia is the Albufera?

Hypothesis: The City Council bought the lake from the Crown of Spain for 1,072,980 pesetas in 1911, and today it forms the main portion of the Parc Natural de l'Albufera


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

Hypothesis: Dell's low spending on R&D relative to its revenue (compared to IBM, Hewlett Packard, and Apple Inc.)—which worked well in the commoditized PC market


Premise: What happened after Sulla returned to the conflict with Mithridates?

Hypothesis: Sulla was so angry at Marius' tribune that he passed a law intended to permanently weaken the tribunate.


Premise: What did the populace do in response to the loss ?

Hypothesis: As a direct consequence of this situation, Greek-speakers came to play a hugely important role in the Ottoman trading and diplomatic establishment, as well as in the church.


Premise: What is the criteria needed to include or dismiss a reading when critiquing texts?

Hypothesis: They proposed nine critical rules, including a version of Bengel's rule, "The reading is less likely to be original that shows a disposition to smooth away difficulties.


Premise: What did Immanuel Kant consider essential to his conception of the public sphere?

Hypothesis: Immanuel Kant considered written communication essential to his conception of the public sphere; once everyone was a part of the "reading public", then society could be said to be enlightened.


Premise: How many Swiss men live in Bern?

Hypothesis: There were 27,573 or 21.4% who were born in the same canton, while 25,818 or 20.1% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 27,812 or 21.6% were born outside of Switzerland.


Premise: What position did Lord Palmerston previously hold before becoming a Prime Minister?

Hypothesis: The veteran former Foreign Secretary Lord Palmerston became prime minister.


Premise: Where was this extension developed?

Hypothesis: MPEG-2.5 was not developed by MPEG and was never approved as an international standard.


Premise: What identifier allows a player to activate a PlayStation 3?

Hypothesis: The NDRM allows users to access the data from up to 2 different PlayStation 3's that have been activated using a user's PlayStation Network ID.


Premise: What is this distinction similar to?

Hypothesis: This feature implies the use of a different set of second person pronouns for formality.


Premise: What did the Science Hall at Notre Dame come to be known as?

Hypothesis: By 1880, a science program was established at the university, and a Science Hall (today LaFortune Student Center) was built in 1883.


Premise: How much money did Syria owe to the Soviets as of 1980?

Hypothesis: In 1979, the U.S. placed Libya on its list of "State Sponsors of Terrorism", while at the end of the year a demonstration torched the U.S. embassy in Tripoli in solidarity with the perpetrators of the Iran hostage crisis.


Premise: How many plants species are found in Succulent Karoo?

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


Premise: The Massey conference eventually led to developing what seminars?

Hypothesis: Other Charismatic movement leaders in New Zealand include Bill Subritzky.


Premise: One of the Special Protection Areas for birds is in which area?

Hypothesis: The animals most often thought of as being "typical" of Galicia are the livestock raised there.


Premise: Who will show 116 games for that same time period?

Hypothesis: On 22 June 2009, due to troubles encountered by Setanta Sports after it failed to meet a final deadline over a £30 million payment to the Premier League, ESPN was awarded two packages of UK rights containing a total of 46 matches that were available for the 2009–10 season as well as a package of 23 matches per season from 2010–11 to 2012–13.


Premise: How many institutions of higher education did Russia possess in 1974?

Hypothesis: In 1974, there were 475 institutes of higher education in the republic providing education in 47 languages to some 23,941,000 students.


Premise: When was Admiral Flota Sovetskovo Soyuza Kuznetsov first launched?

Hypothesis: Without catapults she can launch and recover lightly fueled naval fighters for air defense or anti-ship missions but not heavy conventional bombing strikes.[citation needed] Officially designated an aircraft carrying cruiser, she is unique in carrying a heavy cruiser's complement of defensive weapons and large P-700 Granit offensive missiles.


Premise: When had Tucson last had as much snow as 2013?

Hypothesis: Although rare, snow has been known to fall in Tucson, usually a light dusting that melts within a day.


Premise: Along with valence, what is the other of the two dimensions used to map emotional experiences?

Hypothesis: The emotional experiences are divided into two dimensions known as valence (how negative or positive the experience feels) and arousal (how energized or enervated the experience feels).


Premise: Where was osborne House that Victoria spent christmas at located?

Hypothesis: Following a custom she maintained throughout her widowhood, Victoria spent the Christmas of 1900 at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight.


Premise: What did general relativity do that made it tentatively acceptable when it was proposed?

Hypothesis: Gray does not, however, give any indication of what available evidence these theories were at odds with, and his appeal to "crucial support" illustrates the very inductivist approach to science that Popper sought to show was logically illegitimate.


Premise: The sahwm was an early family member of what instrument?

Hypothesis: Stringed instruments such as the viol had emerged by the 16th century, as had a wider variety of brass and reed instruments.


Premise: As what was the event mistaken by some pagans?

Hypothesis: Some Christian writers considered the possibility that pagan commentators may have mentioned this event, mistaking it for a solar eclipse - although this would have been impossible during the Passover, which takes place at the full moon.


Premise: What other species can be seen close to the shores of Norfolk Island?

Hypothesis: Southern right whales were once regular migrants to the Norfolk hence naming the island as the "Middle ground" by whalers, but had been severely depleted by historical hunts, and further by illegal Soviet and Japan whaling, resulting in none of very few, if remnants still live, right whales in these regions along with Lord Howe Island.


Premise: Who will not reveal full ancestral data to mixed race people?

Hypothesis: Tracing the genealogy of African Americans can be a very difficult process, as censuses did not identify slaves by name before the American Civil War, meaning that most African Americans did not appear by name in those records.


Premise: What group accidentally published the non CIA budget in 1994?

Hypothesis: There have been accidental disclosures; for instance, Mary Margaret Graham, a former CIA official and deputy director of national intelligence for collection in 2005, said that the annual intelligence budget was $44 billion, and in 1994 Congress accidentally published a budget of $43.4 billion (in 2012 dollars) in 1994 for the non-military National Intelligence Program, including $4.8 billion for the CIA.


Premise: Where is Internet Archive headquartered?

Hypothesis: The Wayback Machine is a digital archive of the World Wide Web and other information on the Internet created by the Internet Archive, a nonprofit organization, based in San Francisco, California, United States.


Premise: When did the USAF have several missteps of aircraft procurement projects?

Hypothesis: During the early 2000s, the USAF fumbled several high profile aircraft procurement projects, such as the missteps on the KC-X program.


Premise: The ALU of a computer stands for what?

Hypothesis: These parts are interconnected by buses, often made of groups of wires.


Premise: What percent of polychaetes produce yolk-rich eggs?

Hypothesis: About 14% use a similar external fertilization but produce yolk-rich eggs, which reduce the time the larva needs to spend among the plankton, or eggs from which miniature adults emerge rather than larvae.


Premise: Youtube depends on who to flag inappropriate videos?

Hypothesis: In July 2008, the Culture and Media Committee of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom stated that it was "unimpressed" with YouTube's system for policing its videos, and argued that "proactive review of content should be standard practice for sites hosting user-generated content".


Premise: More than half of the population is what religion?

Hypothesis: A majority of the population (55%) are non-denominational Muslims.


Premise: What is the supposed ancestor of all Slavic languages?

Hypothesis: In the framework of the Kurgan hypothesis, "the Indo-Europeans who remained after the migrations [from the steppe] became speakers of Balto-Slavic".


Premise: When did John Glenn orbit the Earth?

Hypothesis: Almost a year after the Soviet Union put a human into orbit, astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth, on February 20, 1962.


Premise: What buildings were originally rectangle wood structures?

Hypothesis: From the earliest times there were certain rules strictly observed in rectangular peripteral and prostyle buildings.


Premise: What did the law likely lead to?

Hypothesis: Although the line was adjusted several times to take frontier settlements into account and was impossible to enforce as law, it was strongly resented by backcountry settlers throughout the Appalachians.


Premise: The gradual spread of Buddhism exposed it to a variety of influences including what civilization?

Hypothesis: The gradual spread of Buddhism into adjacent areas meant that it came into contact with new ethnical groups.


Premise: In what systems is the political party allowed to legally hold effective power?

Hypothesis: This party may not always be identical to the government, although sometimes positions within the party may in fact be more important than positions within the government.


Premise: What is another name for a Qur'anic school?

Hypothesis: A study from 1993 found, among other things, that "unlike in primary schools where gender disparity is enormous, around 40 per cent of Qur'anic school pupils are girls; but the teaching staff have minimum or no qualification necessary to ensure intellectual development of children."


Premise: Where did Scott Butera work prior to becoming AFL commissioner?

Hypothesis: Former Foxwoods CEO Scott Butera was hired as his successor as commissioner.


Premise: What two scientists published a model of the double stranded DNA molecule?

Hypothesis: Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) was shown to be the molecular repository of genetic information by experiments in the 1940s to 1950s.


Premise: Hyderabad has India's second biggest film production industry, what is it called?

Hypothesis: While Hyderabad is losing its cultural pre-eminence, it is today, due to the Telugu film industry, the country's second-largest producer of motion pictures.


Premise: How many suburban villes nouvelles did Paul Delouvrier constuct?

Hypothesis: Paul Delouvrier promised to resolve the Paris-suburbs mésentente when he became head of the Paris region in 1961: two of his most ambitious projects for the Region were the construction of five suburban villes nouvelles ("new cities") and the RER commuter train network.


Premise: Starting in Manhattan, the George Washington Bridge terminates in what New Jersey county?

Hypothesis: The George Washington Bridge is the world's busiest motor vehicle bridge, connecting Manhattan to Bergen County, New Jersey.


Premise: What type of bridge is replacing the old Q Bridge?

Hypothesis: A new boathouse and dock is planned for New Haven Harbor, and the linear park Farmington Canal Trail is set to extend into downtown New Haven within the coming year.


Premise: Other than Jesus, who was one of the wisemen?

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: Who first domesticated the guinea fowl ?

Hypothesis: It is a medium-sized grey or speckled bird with a small naked head with colourful wattles and a knob on top, and was domesticated by the time of the ancient Greeks and Romans.


Premise: In which decade did there start to be a lot of traffic in Southampton?

Hypothesis: Increasing traffic congestion in the 1920s led to partial demolition of medieval walls around the Bargate in 1932 and 1938.


Premise: Which three publications are used to signify royal assent?

Hypothesis: Royal assent is signified by letters patent under the Great Seal of Scotland in the following form which is set out in The Scottish Parliament (Letters Patent and Proclamations)


Premise: Who was the editor of the Independent?

Hypothesis: In response James Murdoch and Rebekah Wade "appeared unannounced and uninvited on the editorial floor" of the Independent, and had an energetic conversation with its editor Simon Kelner.


Premise: Bostons rich history attracts many what each year?

Hypothesis: Upon American independence from Great Britain, the city continued to be an important port and manufacturing hub, as well as a center for education and culture.


Premise: What is 1734 design is considered one of the finest example of Palladian architecture in England, built in Norfolk?

Hypothesis: At the forefront of the new school of design was the aristocratic "architect earl", Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington; in 1729, he and William Kent, designed Chiswick House.


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

Hypothesis: He is commemorated on the date of his death, 3 June, by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and on the following day, 4 June, by the Anglican Church of Canada and the Episcopal Church (United States).


Premise: How can symptoms be prevented?

Hypothesis: There is no cure for asthma.


Premise: In 1982 the first long distance university was opened in India, what is it's name?

Hypothesis: Osmania University, established in 1918, was the first university in Hyderabad and as of 2012[update] is India's second most popular institution for international students.


Premise: What was the verdict?

Hypothesis: Agriprocessors claimed that it was at a loss to understand the allegations.


Premise: What gene needs to be deleted to cause obesity in mice?

Hypothesis: In mice, deletion of the Rev-ErbA alpha clock gene facilitates diet-induced obesity and changes the balance between glucose and lipid utilization predisposing to diabetes.


Premise: What is an honorary synonym for Bodhisattvayana?

Hypothesis: According to Jan Nattier, the term Mahāyāna "Great Vehicle" was originally even an honorary synonym for Bodhisattvayāna "Bodhisattva Vehicle."


Premise: In what year did the Battle of Philippi end?

Hypothesis: Antony was defeated in the naval Battle of Actium in 31 BC, and he committed suicide with his lover, Cleopatra.


Premise: Where is South Raleigh?

Hypothesis: The area is bordered to the west by Cary, to the east by Garner, and to the southwest by Holly Springs.


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

Hypothesis: The third John Walter, the founder's grandson, succeeded his father in 1847.


Premise: On what date did the Stonewall riots take place?

Hypothesis: The Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the gay community against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan.


Premise: Along with the Oriana, what's the other P&O liner with a name that starts with the same letter?

Hypothesis: Adonia, Arcadia, Aurora, Azura, Oceana, Oriana and Ventura all left the city in a procession on 3 July 2012.


Premise: What did Brahms sometimes use in his Academic Festival Overture?

Hypothesis: Classical music has often incorporated elements or material from popular music of the composer's time.


Premise: Who described the Dutch confederacy as exhibiting "Imbecility in the government; discord among the provinces; foreign influence and indignities; a precarious existence in peace, and peculiar calamities from war."

Hypothesis: Such influence appears, however, to have been of a negative nature, as Madison describes the Dutch confederacy as exhibiting "Imbecility in the government; discord among the provinces; foreign influence and indignities; a precarious existence in peace, and peculiar calamities from war."


Premise: Most Grand Lodges require a candidate to declare a belief in what?

Hypothesis: In a few cases, the candidate may be required to be of a specific religion.


Premise: What kind of policing has become common practice?

Hypothesis: Intelligence-led policing is now common practice in most advanced countries (Ratcliffe, 2007) and it is likely that police intelligence sharing and information exchange has a common morphology around the world (Ratcliffe, 2007).


Premise: Where was Nigeria's fourth satellite launched?

Hypothesis: NigComSat-1R was also a DFH-4 satellite, and the replacement for the failed NigComSat-1 was successfully launched into orbit by China in Xichang on December 19, 2011.


Premise: What was the HRF used with to set fuses?

Hypothesis: The HRF was soon joined by the Height/Fuse Indicator (HFI), this was marked with elevation angles and height lines overlaid with fuse length curves, using the height reported by the HRF operator, the necessary fuse length could be read off.


Premise: What is the Islamic term for issuing a legal opinion?

Hypothesis: This scholarly process of "determining orthodoxy began with a question which the Muslim layman, called in that capacity mustaftī, presented to a jurisconsult, called mufti, soliciting from him a response, called fatwa, a legal opinion (the religious law of Islam covers civil as well as religious matters).


Premise: What script was converted to Latin in the 1920s?

Hypothesis: Tajik script was first Latinised in the 1920s under the then Soviet nationality policy.


Premise: Which emperor suspended the Fujiwara clan's power?

Hypothesis: For a time, however, during the reign of Emperor Daigo (897-930), the Fujiwara regency was suspended as he ruled directly.


Premise: What type of town is Swakopmund?

Hypothesis: Sport hunting is also a large, and growing component of the Namibian economy, accounting for 14% of total tourism in the year 2000, or $19.6 million US dollars, with Namibia boasting numerous species sought after by international sport hunters.


Premise: Which dramatic form was created around 1400?

Hypothesis: Morality plays emerged as a distinct dramatic form around 1400 and flourished until 1550.


Premise: Whom found Wente-style condenser microphones helpful?

Hypothesis: Brilliance such as this compensated for dullness in many early magnetic pickups having drooping midrange and treble response.


Premise: What does sparking limit?

Hypothesis: This sparking limits the maximum speed of the machine, as too-rapid sparking will overheat, erode, or even melt the commutator.


Premise: When was the Marais-quarter Agoudas Hakehilos Synagogue built?

Hypothesis: There are currently 83 synagogues in the city; The Marais-quarter Agoudas Hakehilos Synagogue, built in 1913 by architect Hector Guimard, is a Paris landmark.


Premise: Apellon is derived from what Doric month?

Hypothesis: The spelling Ἀπόλλων (pronounced [a.pól.lɔːn] in Classical Attic) had almost superseded all other forms by the beginning of the common era, but the Doric form Apellon (Ἀπέλλων), is more archaic, derived from an earlier *Ἀπέλjων.


Premise: Near what body of water is St. John's located by?

Hypothesis: The city of St. John's is located at a distance by air of 3,636 kilometres (2,259 mi) from Lorient, France which lies on a nearly precisely identical latitude across the Atlantic on the French western coast.


Premise: What did Emperor Wu do to negate the influence of private entrepreneurs?

Hypothesis: In the early Western Han, a wealthy salt or iron industrialist, whether a semi-autonomous king or wealthy merchant, could boast funds that rivaled the imperial treasury and amass a peasant workforce of over a thousand.


Premise: Which 2000 presidential candidate was a former US Senator from Tennessee?

Hypothesis: Democratic presidential nominees from Southern states (such as Lyndon B. Johnson, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton) usually fare better than their Northern counterparts do in Tennessee, especially among split-ticket voters outside the metropolitan areas.


Premise: Who could wear a emblem of two crossed silver oak leaves?

Hypothesis: If recipients of the Order of the British Empire for Gallantry received promotion within the Order, whether for gallantry or otherwise, they continued to wear also the insignia of the lower grade with the oak leaves.


Premise: During the period from 1989 - 1996, what was the total are of the US in miles?

Hypothesis: From 1989 through 1996, the total area of the US was listed as 9,372,610 km2 (3,618,780 sq mi) (land + inland water only).


Premise: What did the protesters do?

Hypothesis: The authorities did not crack down on demonstrators, which encouraged more and larger demonstrations throughout the Baltic States.


Premise: From which people were many facets of Roman culture copied from?

Hypothesis: Roman law laid the foundations for the laws of many European countries and their colonies.[citation needed]


Premise: What is the most prevalent natural isotope of uranium?

Hypothesis: In nature, uranium is found as uranium-238 (99.2742%) and uranium-235 (0.7204%).


Premise: When was the Seven Years' War?

Hypothesis: The British and French struggles in India became but one theatre of the global Seven Years' War (1756–1763) involving France, Britain and the other major European powers.


Premise: When did writers for Sounds first mention "post punk"?

Hypothesis: In late 1977, music writers for Sounds first used the terms "New Musick" and "post punk" to describe British acts such as Siouxsie and the Banshees and Wire, who began experimenting with sounds, lyrics and aesthetics that differed significantly from their punk contemporaries.


Premise: What was hunting in North American in the 19th century used to supplement?

Hypothesis: Hunting in North America in the 19th century was done primarily as a way to supplement food supplies, although it is now undertaken mainly for sport.[citation needed]


Premise: What other parts are there to a uniform?

Hypothesis: With gloves, swords, and medals (No. 1 or 1A), it is suitable for ceremonial occasions and "dressed down"


Premise: What were computer viruses seen as a threat to?

Hypothesis: With these developments, the FBI increased its electronic surveillance in public safety and national security investigations, adapting to the telecommunications advancements that changed the nature of such problems.


Premise: Why were new plants arriving in Europe in the 18th century?

Hypothesis: By the 18th century, new plants for study were arriving in Europe in increasing numbers from newly discovered countries and the European colonies worldwide.


Premise: What was the playing time of program-transcription discs?

Hypothesis: In 1931, RCA Victor launched the first commercially available vinyl long-playing record, marketed as program-transcription discs.


Premise: To what does The Fund advocate that close attention be paid?

Hypothesis: The Fund raises awareness of and supports efforts to meet these needs in developing countries, advocates close attention to population concerns, and helps developing nations formulate policies and strategies in support of sustainable development.


Premise: What kind of element are dietary minerals?

Hypothesis: Dietary minerals are inorganic chemical elements required by living organisms, other than the four elements carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen that are present in nearly all organic molecules.


Premise: During what period did Mauretania exist?

Hypothesis: The people of the region were noted in Classical literature as Mauri, which was subsequently rendered as Moors in English.


Premise: When was the first software MP3 encoder released?

Hypothesis: With the first real-time software MP3 player WinPlay3 (released 9 September 1995)


Premise: What are 3 other common forms of bad antibiotic practices?

Hypothesis: Common forms of antibiotic misuse include excessive use of prophylactic antibiotics in travelers and failure of medical professionals to prescribe the correct dosage of antibiotics on the basis of the patient's weight and history of prior use.


Premise: What thought process was used in the beginning belief of the existence of vacuums?

Hypothesis: Eventually following Stoic physics in this instance, scholars from the 14th century onward increasingly departed from the Aristotelian perspective in favor of a supernatural void beyond the confines of the cosmos itself, a conclusion widely acknowledged by the 17th century, which helped to segregate natural and theological concerns.


Premise: What work was the first to see McKerrow use his new method?

Hypothesis: He therefore concluded that the correct procedure would be "produced by using the earliest "good" print as copy-text and inserting into it, from the first edition which contains them, such corrections as appear to us to be derived from the author."


Premise: What traits did researchers use to divide the ten periods?

Hypothesis: In 1981 a team of researchers from the Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée, including Jacques Cauvin and Oliver Aurenche divided Near East neolithic chronology into ten periods (0 to 9) based on social, economic and cultural characteristics.


Premise: When did Baird cease showing its programs on BBC?

Hypothesis: Baird broadcasts via the BBC continued until June 1932.


Premise: Which year's election was perceived to be fraudulent?

Hypothesis: Hostilities continued to increase especially after the election of 1871 which was perceived to be fraudulent.


Premise: How ling did it take the It Gets Better Project video to draw such a huge response?

Hypothesis: , that within two months drew video responses from hundreds including U.S. President Barack Obama, Vice President Biden, White House staff, and several cabinet secretaries.


Premise: In what language were most books printed in the middle ages?

Hypothesis: Almost all the books published in Paris in the Middle Ages were in Latin, rather than French.


Premise: As of 2014, what was the life expectancy of male Plymouth residents?

Hypothesis: A 2014 profile by the National Health Service showed Plymouth had higher than average levels of poverty and deprivation (26.2% of population among the poorest 20.4% nationally).


Premise: Writer Geoff Boucher compared DC to what dull 1960s crooner?

Hypothesis: In 2009 writer Geoff Boucher reflected that, "Superman and DC Comics instantly seemed like boring old Pat Boone; Marvel felt like The Beatles and the British Invasion.


Premise: Who wrote about the KGB officer's testimony?

Hypothesis: The writer Mukhtar Shakhanov claimed that a KGB officer testified that 168 protesters were killed, but that figure remains unconfirmed.


Premise: What did the Movement question?

Hypothesis: This movement questioned existing orthodoxies, particularly with respect to women, marriage, the dowry system, the caste system, and religion.


Premise: How many people were residing in Atlantic City during the 2010 United States Census?

Hypothesis: At the 2010 United States Census, there were 39,558 people, 15,504 households, and 8,558 families residing in the city.


Premise: During what part of the week is the time change most often scheduled?

Hypothesis: Twenty-minute and two-hour shifts have been used in the past.


Premise: What model did early work in molecular genetics suggest?

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


Premise: What is New Zealand made up of?

Hypothesis: New Zealand has a strong hunting culture.


Premise: The rejection of the plan by the Saarlanders was interpreted as support for the Saar to do what?

Hypothesis: The rejection of the plan by the Saarlanders was interpreted as support for the Saar to join the Federal Republic of Germany.


Premise: Who announced this would be his final year as a judge?

Hypothesis: Towards the end of the season, Randy Jackson, the last remaining of the original judges, announced that he would no longer serve as a judge to pursue other business ventures.


Premise: How many were killed in the ensuing riots?

Hypothesis: On February 22, 1988, in what became known as the "Askeran clash", two Azerbaijanis were killed by Karabakh police.


Premise: In what year did All Aboard Florida begin?

Hypothesis: By 2014, a private project known as All Aboard Florida by a company of the historic Florida East Coast Railway began construction of a higher-speed rail line in South Florida that is planned to eventually terminate at Orlando International Airport.


Premise: What was the name of the economic system that organized peasants into villages owing labor and rent to nobles?

Hypothesis: Kings became the heads of centralised nation states, reducing crime and violence but making the ideal of a unified Christendom more distant.


Premise: To what period does the laurissilva forest date back to?

Hypothesis: In Gerês both deciduous and coniferous forests can be found, an extremely rare worldwide mature mediterranean forest remain in some parts of the Arrábida mountain and a subtropical laurissilva forest, dating back to the Tertiary period, covers its largest continuous area in the world in the Madeira main island.


Premise: Which parts of the Yang-Mills theories did Feynman help explain?

Hypothesis: The computational device that Feynman discovered then for gravity, "ghosts", which are "particles" in the interior of his diagrams that have the "wrong" connection between spin and statistics, have proved invaluable in explaining the quantum particle behavior of the Yang–Mills theories, for example, QCD and the electro-weak theory.


Premise: When did the Australian government end their review on Norfolk Island?

Hypothesis: Disagreements over the island's relationship with Australia were put in sharper relief by a 2006 review undertaken by the Australian government.


Premise: What other type of 1980s group was Kanye's fourth album compared to other than new wave?

Hypothesis: The album's music features austere production and elements such as dense drums, lengthy strings, droning synthesizers, and somber piano, and drew comparisons to the work of 1980s post-punk and new wave groups, with West himself later confessing an affinity with British post-punk group Joy Division.


Premise: Which two wrote Cultural studies [were] grounded in a pragmatic, liberal-pluralist tradition?

Hypothesis: In the United States, Lindlof and Taylor write, "Cultural studies [were] grounded in a pragmatic, liberal-pluralist tradition".


Premise: Who developed a device that improved on the shortcomings of Scheiner's invention?

Hypothesis: The system was later extended to cover larger ranges and some of its practical shortcomings were addressed by the Austrian scientist Josef Maria Eder (1855–1944) and Flemish-born botanist Walter Hecht (de) (1896–1960), (who, in 1919/1920, jointly developed their Eder–Hecht neutral wedge sensitometer measuring emulsion speeds in Eder–Hecht grades).


Premise: According to Hayek, limited governemnt power through the rule of law does not do what to people?

Hypothesis: Hayek proposed that under the Rule of Law individuals would be able to make wise investments and future plans with some confidence in a successful return on investment when he stated: "under the Rule of Law the government is prevented from stultifying individual efforts by ad hoc action.


Premise: What did Nasser do after the war ended?

Hypothesis: He sent emissaries to forge an alliance with the Muslim Brotherhood in October 1948, but soon concluded that the religious agenda of the Brotherhood was not compatible with his nationalism.


Premise: How many national parks does Portugal have?

Hypothesis: Despite the fact that humans have occupied the territory of Portugal for thousands of years, something still remains of the original vegetation.


Premise: Who was able to determine the circumference of the Earth?

Hypothesis: The level of achievement in Hellenistic astronomy and engineering is impressively shown by the Antikythera mechanism (150-100 BC), an analog computer for calculating the position of planets.


Premise: In what geographic region of Somalia are ancient rock paintings located?

Hypothesis: Somali art is the artistic culture of the Somali people, both historic and contemporary.


Premise: How much money has the traditional Northwestern Dance Marathon raised for children's charities?

Hypothesis: The Rock (originally a fountain donated by the Class of 1902) is a way to advertise, for example, campus organizations, events in Greek life, student groups, and university-wide events.


Premise: When did madaris become more accepted in Mindanao?

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


Premise: What is another name for magister?

Hypothesis: Since the term "magister" also means "teacher", the Magisterial Reformation is also characterized by an emphasis on the authority of a teacher.


Premise: Which model explains why bob has an easier time reading a book, and then discussing it rather than reading two books?

Hypothesis: It is the section of memory where we carry out thought processes and use them to learn and reason about topics.


Premise: IBM acquired digital assets of this company on October 28, 2015.

Hypothesis: The acquisition does not include The Weather Channel itself, which will enter into a long-term licensing agreement with IBM for use of its data.


Premise: What is the popular capitalization structure and standard used by many British publishers and U.S. newspapers?

Hypothesis: Examples of global publishers whose English-language house styles prescribe sentence-case titles and headings include the International Organization for Standardization.


Premise: What is the old Quantum  theory?

Hypothesis: Outside the realm of quantum physics, the various aether theories in classical physics, which supposed a "fifth element" such as the Luminiferous aether, were nullified by the Michelson-Morley experiment—an attempt to detect the motion of earth through the aether.


Premise: Is it better to harvest grain before or after the morning dew evaporates?

Hypothesis: One reason why farmers oppose DST is that grain is best harvested after dew evaporates, so when field hands arrive and leave earlier in summer their labor is less valuable.


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

Hypothesis: The war caused the disintegration of four empires—the Austro-Hungarian, German, Ottoman, and Russian ones—as well as radical change in the European and West Asian maps.


Premise: For what is Tomas Taveira particularly noteworthy for in Portugal?

Hypothesis: In Portugal Tomás Taveira is also noteworthy, particularly for stadium design.


Premise: What is almost as easy as editing uncompressed video?

Hypothesis: Because interframe compression copies data from one frame to another, if the original frame is simply cut out (or lost in transmission), the following frames cannot be reconstructed properly.


Premise: How many qualifiers did England have for the Champions League in 2005?

Hypothesis: UEFA gave special dispensation for Liverpool to enter the Champions League, giving England five qualifiers.


Premise: In what country of the United Kingdom is the Old Forge pub located?

Hypothesis: Likewise, The Berney Arms in Norfolk has no road access.


Premise: When did Menzies resign from Parliament?

Hypothesis: John McEwen replaced Arthur Fadden as leader of the Country Party in March 1958 and the Menzies-McEwen Coalition was returned again at elections in November 1958 – their third victory against Labor's H. V. Evatt.


Premise: How many grams were in the livre metrique?

Hypothesis: Napoleon ultimately took a retrograde step in 1812 when he passed legislation to introduce the mesures usuelles (traditional units of measurement) for retail trade—a system of measure that resembled the pre-revolutionary units but were based on the kilogram and the metre; for example the livre metrique (metric pound) was 500 g instead of 489.5 g—the value of the livre du roi (the king's pound).


Premise: What is one type of MCU bridge?

Hypothesis: This is a bridge that interconnects calls from several sources (in a similar way to the audio conference call).


Premise: What famous tree species is believed to have evolved during the Mesozoic?

Hypothesis: As well, the extant genus Sequoia is believed to have evolved in the Mesozoic.


Premise: What 1945 film was a fictionalized accounting of the relationship between Chopin and Sand?

Hypothesis: Chopin's life and his relations with George Sand have been fictionalized in numerous films.


Premise: Who wrote the book Contrasts?

Hypothesis: Gothic architecture, Pugin believed, was the only "true Christian form of architecture."


Premise: What is one area where teleconferencing could not be used?

Hypothesis: This technique was very expensive, though, and could not be used for applications such as telemedicine, distance education, and business meetings.


Premise: Another of UNFPA's goals is to make all childbirths what?

Hypothesis: Their work involves the improvement of reproductive health; including creation of national strategies and protocols, and providing supplies and services.


Premise: What year was the first railway line of the company Ferrocarril Central del Uruguay inaugurated?

Hypothesis: In 1869, the first railway line of the company Ferrocarril Central del Uruguay was inaugurated connecting Bella Vista with the town of Las Piedras.


Premise: Finite energy in a QED is called what?

Hypothesis: In QED vacuum, the electric and magnetic fields have zero average values, but their variances are not zero.


Premise: What range do area defence systems have?

Hypothesis: Area air defence, the air defence of a specific area or location, (as opposed to point defence), have historically been operated by both armies (Anti-Aircraft Command in the British Army, for instance) and Air Forces (the United States Air Force's CIM-10 Bomarc).


Premise: What is the literacy rate in Israel?

Hypothesis: Maariv have describe the Christian Arabs sectors as "the most successful in education system", since Christian Arabs fared the best in terms of education in comparison to any other group receiving an education in Israel.


Premise: How many organisms in the insect species are Diptera or Cleoptera parasitoids?

Hypothesis: A well-known example of a parasitoids are the ichneumon wasps, solitary insects living a free life as an adult, then laying eggs on or in another species such as a caterpillar.


Premise: What is one thing that Gregor Mendel was the first to demonstrate?

Hypothesis: Mendel was also the first to demonstrate independent assortment, the distinction between dominant and recessive traits, the distinction between a heterozygote and homozygote, and the phenomenon of discontinuous inheritance.


Premise: What had been Poland's stance towards the US, historically?

Hypothesis: A quote referring to Poland as "the 51st state" has been attributed to James Pavitt, then Central Intelligence Agency Deputy Director for Operations, especially in connection to extraordinary rendition.


Premise: Where was Queen Elizabeth II said to have made critical remarks about the European Union?

Hypothesis: It claimed that in 2011 at Windsor Castle, while having lunch with Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, the monarch criticised the union.


Premise: Who destroyed Fort William in 1696?

Hypothesis: The English government planned to expand these fortifications (Fort William) in around 1689, but actual construction didn't begin until after the French admiral Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville captured and destroyed the town in the Avalon Peninsula Campaign (1696).


Premise: How many wins does the Notre Dame men's basketball team have?

Hypothesis: Although the team has never won the NCAA Tournament, they were named by the Helms Athletic Foundation as national champions twice.


Premise: What founder of pragmatism's collected papers did Charles Hartshorne ans Paul Weiss edit?

Hypothesis: Whitehead himself thought highly of William James and John Dewey, and acknowledged his indebtedness to them in the preface to Process and Reality.


Premise: What is it called when data is being passed?

Hypothesis: One option for interface testing is to keep a separate log file of data items being passed, often with a timestamp logged to allow analysis of thousands of cases of data passed between units for days or weeks.


Premise: Who was the second son of Alfonso III and what did he become king of?

Hypothesis: The second son, Ordoño, reigned in Galicia, while the third, Fruela, received Asturias with Oviedo as his capital.


Premise: Who directed The Terminator?

Hypothesis: In 1984, he made his first appearance as the eponymous character, and what some would say was his acting career's signature role, in James Cameron's science fiction thriller film The Terminator.


Premise: What nation is to the east of Swaziland?

Hypothesis: Swaziland is located at approximately 26°30'S, 31°30'E. Swaziland has a wide variety of landscapes, from the mountains along the Mozambican border to savannas in the east and rain forest in the northwest.


Premise: Which state created a county called Tennessee in 1788?

Hypothesis: When a constitutional convention met in 1796 to organize a new state out of the Southwest Territory, it adopted "Tennessee" as the name of the state.


Premise: What helps Mycobacteria be resistant to decolorization?

Hypothesis: The most common staining technique used to identify acid-fast bacteria is the Ziehl-Neelsen stain or acid-fast stain, in which the acid-fast bacilli are stained bright-red and stand out clearly against a blue background.


Premise: In what year was a statue dedicated to Freddie Mercury unveiled in Montreux?

Hypothesis: Both stages of recording, before and after Mercury's death, were completed at the band's studio in Montreux, Switzerland.


Premise: What do degrees Scheiner indicate?

Hypothesis: Scheiner's system rated the speed of a plate by the least exposure to produce a visible darkening upon development.


Premise: Approximately how many phonograph records were sold in 2014?

Hypothesis: Records retained the largest market share even when new formats such as compact cassette were mass-marketed.


Premise: What blood clotting disease did Victorias youngest son have?

Hypothesis: There is no documentary evidence of a haemophiliac in connection with Victoria's mother, and as male carriers always suffer the disease, even if such a man had existed he would have been seriously ill.


Premise: In how many geographic regions does UNFPA operate?

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

Hypothesis: Furthermore, officials used other methods of silencing: riot police officers broke up protests by parents; the authorities set up cordons around the schools; and officials ordered the Chinese news media to stop reporting on school collapses.


Premise: Where are Vlaji located?

Hypothesis: Note: Besides ethnic groups, Slavs often identify themselves with the local geographical region in which they live.


Premise: When did more people begin to keep dogs as pets?

Hypothesis: However, pet dog populations grew significantly after World War II as suburbanization increased.


Premise: Rather than tie up the high-bandwidth USB bus sending data to a slower USB device, what happens?

Hypothesis: USB 2.0 also added a larger three-byte SPLIT token with a seven-bit hub number, 12 bits of control flags, and a five-bit CRC.


Premise: Which BYU college was founded by former alumnus Harvey Fletcher?

Hypothesis: Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of the electronic television, received his education at BYU, and later returned to do fusion research, receiving an honorary degree from the university.


Premise: What year in the 1990s did an unusual blizzard visit Tennessee?

Hypothesis: Winter storms are an occasional problem, such as the infamous Blizzard of 1993, although ice storms are a more likely occurrence.


Premise: What song did Sanchez release?

Hypothesis: Phillips released "Home" as his coronation song, while Sanchez released "Change Nothing".


Premise: The bombers used what out of desperation?

Hypothesis: Bombers were flown with airborne search lights out of desperation[citation needed], but to little avail.


Premise: Recent systems can record a broadcast HD program in what format?

Hypothesis: This device accepts HD content through component video inputs and stores the content in MPEG-2 format in a .ts file or in a Blu-ray compatible format .m2ts file on the hard drive or DVD burner of a computer connected to the PVR through a USB 2.0 interface.


Premise: Who invented the pressurized balloon?

Hypothesis: Geneva and the nearby French department of Ain co-host the world's largest laboratory, CERN, dedicated to particle physics research.


Premise: How did Nintendo rank submitted games?

Hypothesis: The company continued to carefully review submitted titles, giving them scores using a 40-point scale and allocating Nintendo's marketing resources accordingly.


Premise: For how many years is the Portugal president elected?

Hypothesis: The President, who is elected to a five-year term, has an executive role: the current President is Aníbal Cavaco Silva.


Premise: How many Monument Zones are present in the Kathmandu valley?

Hypothesis: Kathmandu is home to a number of museums and art galleries, including the National Museum of Nepal and the Natural History Museum of Nepal.


Premise: Lee uses which writing styles to express humor in a tragic story?

Hypothesis: Writing about Lee's style and use of humor in a tragic story, scholar Jacqueline Tavernier-Courbin states: "Laughter ...


Premise: How many Jews live in Canada?

Hypothesis: Demographers disagree on whether the United States has a larger Jewish population than Israel, with many maintaining that Israel surpassed the United States in Jewish population during the 2000s, while others maintain that the United States still has the largest Jewish population in the world.


Premise: What railway line is DC being used in Portugal?

Hypothesis: In Slovakia, there are two narrow-gauge lines in the High Tatras (one a cog railway).


Premise: From what period do researchers believe that the oldest known full-body impression of a flying insect originates?

Hypothesis: The higher-level phylogeny of the arthropods continues to be a matter of debate and research.


Premise: The GDP peaked in 1980 at what amount?

Hypothesis: GDP per capita peaked in 1980 at US$496, when it was comparable to Egypt's (at the time).


Premise: How many AA Sections were defending Britain by December 1916?

Hypothesis: German air attacks on the British Isles increased in 1915 and the AA efforts were deemed somewhat ineffective, so a Royal Navy gunnery expert, Admiral Sir Percy Scott, was appointed to make improvements, particularly an integrated AA defence for London.


Premise: Which of the final two had more success with his first album?

Hypothesis: This Is the Night", as well as in their subsequent album releases.


Premise: Name an exemplar of an predator that uses digestion to kill and gain nutrients from it's prey.

Hypothesis: Baleen whales, for example, eat millions of microscopic plankton at once, the prey being broken down well after entering the whale.


Premise: What does FCS stand for?

Hypothesis: In many schools, a Nutrition class will fall within the Family and Consumer Science or Health departments.


Premise: Whose backing did the World Council of Churches require Catholic theologians serving on joint committees to have?

Hypothesis: The World Council of Churches decided on including Catholic theologians in its committees, provided they have the backing of the Vatican.