Premise: What is the total of school children killed?

Hypothesis: According to the state-run Xinhua news agency, the earthquake killed 5,335 students and left another 546 children disabled.


Premise: What country is the worst violator

Hypothesis: India has also become a focus country for the foundation's sanitation activities which has become evident since the "Reinvent the Toilet Fair" in Delhi, India in March 2014.


Premise: In 2006, which Northwestern linebacker became the youngest Division/FBS coach at the time?

Hypothesis: At one time, Northwestern had the longest losing streak in Division I-A, losing 34 consecutive games between 1979 and 1982.


Premise: What year did The New York Times start?

Hypothesis: The Times is the first newspaper to have borne that name, lending it to numerous other papers around the world, including The Times of India (founded in 1838), The Straits Times (Singapore) (1845), The New York Times (1851), The Irish Times (1859), Le Temps (France) (1861-1942), the Cape Times (South Africa) (1872), the Los Angeles Times (1881), The Seattle Times (1891), The Manila Times (1898), The Daily Times (Malawi) (1900), El Tiempo (Colombia) (1911), The Canberra Times (1926), and The Times (Malta) (1935).


Premise: At what street address is the Lord Mayor's residence located?

Hypothesis: Once a home of Waldorf and Nancy Astor, it was given by Lady Astor to the City of Plymouth as an official residence for future Lord Mayors and is also used today for civic hospitality, as lodgings for visiting dignitaries and High Court judges and it is also available to hire for private events.


Premise: What earthquake happened in southern Sichuan?

Hypothesis: (The Ms 6.1 earthquake on August 30, 2008 in southern Sichuan was not part of this series because it was caused by a different fault.


Premise: When did season three premiere?

Hypothesis: His exposure on Idol landed him a record deal and surprisingly he became the third best-selling singer from that season.


Premise: Who was Alais?

Hypothesis: Alais made the trip over the Alps and joined Henry II's court, but she died before marrying John, which left the prince once again without an inheritance.


Premise: Along with leather, what industry uses uranium in dyes and stains?

Hypothesis: Uranium salts are mordants of silk or wool.


Premise: What popular property in Monopoly was actually a misspelling?

Hypothesis: It was not until 1995 that Parker Brothers acknowledged this mistake and formally apologized to the residents of Marven Gardens for the misspelling although the spelling error was not corrected.


Premise: How many representatives did the Premier League have in the European Club Association during the 2012-13 season?

Hypothesis: For the 2012–13 season the Premier League has 10 representatives in the Association:


Premise: How long is the Lenten period of the Liturgical calendar?

Hypothesis: The Lenten period of the Liturgical calendar, the six weeks directly before Easter, was originally marked by fasting and other pious or penitential practices.


Premise: Besides personal flags,what other types of flags does Elizabeth have?

Hypothesis: The Queen also possesses royal standards and personal flags for use in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, and elsewhere.


Premise: What was the main benefit of the creation of new forms of partnerships during the commercial revolution?

Hypothesis: Among the innovations of the period were new forms of partnership and the issuing of insurance, both of which contributed to reducing the risk of commercial ventures; the bill of exchange and other forms of credit that circumvented the canonical laws for gentiles against usury, and eliminated the dangers of carrying bullion; and new forms of accounting, in particular double-entry bookkeeping, which allowed for better oversight and accuracy.


Premise: How many clubs have won the fa cup as part of a league cup double?

Hypothesis: Seven clubs have won the FA Cup as part of a League and Cup double, namely Preston North End (1889), Aston Villa (1897), Tottenham Hotspur (1961), Arsenal (1971, 1998, 2002), Liverpool (1986), Manchester United (1994, 1996, 1999) and Chelsea (2010).


Premise: What was the title of the his 1960 book's second chapter?

Hypothesis: Hayek was disappointed that the book did not receive the same enthusiastic general reception as The Road to Serfdom had sixteen years before.


Premise: Who is famous for Cathedral Eger and Esztergom?

Hypothesis: Hild is famous for his designs for the Cathedral of Eger and Esztergom.


Premise: Along with a public house's address, licensee, and the licensee's misdemeanors, what information was kept in licensing records?

Hypothesis: Many of these records survive and can be viewed, for example, at the London Metropolitan Archives centre.


Premise: What specifically prompted this merger?

Hypothesis: The new command, created as a response to the cost-cutting measures in the 2012 federal budget, combines the resources, roles and responsibilities of the three former commands under a single headquarters.


Premise: The Monument, located in the City of London, was erected to commemorate what event?

Hypothesis: The Monument in the City of London provides views of the surrounding area while commemorating the Great Fire of London, which originated nearby.


Premise: What is the focus of the Nauru Agreement?

Hypothesis: Tuvalu is also a member of the Nauru Agreement which addresses the management of tuna purse seine fishing in the tropical western Pacific.


Premise: In what year did Emperor Constantius die?

Hypothesis: An obscure presbyter of the name of Pistus was immediately chosen by the Arians to succeed him, when fresh news arrived that filled the orthodox party with hope.


Premise: What other religions might one find depictions of God, or Prophets forbidden?

Hypothesis: No Islamic visual images or depictions of God are meant to exist because it is believed that such artistic depictions may lead to idolatry.


Premise: What is one kind of therapy that may be used when a patience has an infection, but it has not been identified?

Hypothesis: In empirical therapy, a patient has proven or suspected infection, but the responsible microorganism is not yet unidentified.


Premise: Who selects National parks?

Hypothesis: National parks are usually owned and managed by national or state governments.


Premise: What did the second Famicom controller have as a unique feature?

Hypothesis: The second controller lacked the START and SELECT buttons, but featured a small microphone.


Premise: When was the Taj Mahal constructed?

Hypothesis: And as late as the 19th century, Islamic domes had been incorporated into European architecture.


Premise: In what year did the new government enter the Arab League?

Hypothesis: That same year, Barre also served as chairman of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), the predecessor of the African Union (AU).


Premise: How is the proportional nature of the Planck constant explained?

Hypothesis: Classical physics cannot explain this fact.


Premise: What are the Upanishads called in Hinduism?

Hypothesis: Upanishads form the theoretical basis of classical Hinduism and are known as Vedanta (conclusion of the Vedas).


Premise: To what does congress attempt to limit executive officials?

Hypothesis: Congress often writes legislation to restrain executive officials to the performance of their duties, as laid out by the laws Congress passes.


Premise: Because of the number of tech companies, the city is a hub for what?

Hypothesis: Boston receives the highest absolute amount of annual funding from the National Institutes of Health of all cities in the United States.


Premise: What does varmint hunting achieve?

Hypothesis: Varmint hunting is an American phrase for the selective killing of non-game animals seen as pests.


Premise: Who is Midna?

Hypothesis: He also carries Midna, a small imp-like creature who gives him hints, uses an energy field to attack enemies, helps him jump long distances, and eventually allows Link to "warp" to any of several preset locations throughout the overworld.[j]


Premise: How many education professionals were working at KU in the fall of 2012?

Hypothesis: The university overall employed 2,663 faculty members in fall 2012.


Premise: Are the majority of CDPs connected or disconnected from the North American road network?

Hypothesis: The majority of these communities are located in the rural expanse of Alaska known as "The Bush" and are unconnected to the contiguous North American road network.


Premise: What happens during Hybrid Boot mode?

Hypothesis: Windows 8 also adds native support for USB 3.0 devices, which allow for faster data transfers and improved power management with compatible devices, and hard disk 4KB Advanced Format support, as well as support for near field communication to facilitate sharing and communication between devices.


Premise: How many insects use parthenogenesis?

Hypothesis: Other insects produced by parthenogenesis are bees, wasps and ants, in which they spawn males.


Premise: How old was Victoria when she died?

Hypothesis: She died on Tuesday, 22 January 1901, at half past six in the evening, at the age of 81.


Premise: What must Africans who recently immigrated do?

Hypothesis: They say recent ethnic African immigrants need to recognize their own unique ancestral backgrounds.


Premise: How much data did youtube have to hand over to Viacom as a result of the lawsuit?

Hypothesis: During the same court battle, Viacom won a court ruling requiring YouTube to hand over 12 terabytes of data detailing the viewing habits of every user who has watched videos on the site.


Premise: Where are loading jetties found on Norfolk Island?

Hypothesis: Loading jetties are located at Kingston and Cascade, but ships cannot get close to either of them.


Premise: In what year did the Crimean campaign open?

Hypothesis: The Crimean campaign opened in September 1854.


Premise: Who starred in True Grit?

Hypothesis: In October 2015, TCM announced the launch of the TCM Wineclub, in which they teamed up with Laithwaite to provide a line of mail-order wines from famous vineyards such as famed writer-director-producer Francis Ford Coppola's winery.


Premise: What writing system combined phonetic symbols and logograms?

Hypothesis: The Maya writing system (often called hieroglyphs from a superficial resemblance to the Ancient Egyptian writing) was a combination of phonetic symbols and logograms.


Premise: What morphological features do forensic anthropologists draw on?

Hypothesis: He asked, "If races don't exist, why are forensic anthropologists so good at identifying them?"


Premise: What was the name of the Pirate on board the Fancy who later teamed up with five other pirate captiains to attack the Indian Fleet?

Hypothesis: The Mughal convoy included the treasure-laden Ganj-i-Sawai, reported to be the greatest in the Mughal fleet and the largest ship operational in the Indian Ocean, and its escort, the Fateh Muhammed.


Premise: What percent of Finns speak Russian?

Hypothesis: Russian is spoken by 1.4% of the population of Finland according to a 2014 estimate from the World Factbook.


Premise: Who was elected president in the 2000 election?

Hypothesis: The first multi-party elections were held in 1994.


Premise: What treaty tries to set standards for worker safety and rights?

Hypothesis: Although many countries recognize treaties like the International Labor Organization, which attempt to set standards for worker safety and rights, many countries have made exceptions to certain parts of the treaties or failed to thoroughly enforce them.


Premise: Along with cough, weight loss, and night sweats, what's the fourth classic symptom of the disease?

Hypothesis: Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but can also affect other parts of the body.


Premise: What were the roots of the modern Pentecostal movement?

Hypothesis: A noteworthy development in 20th-century Protestant Christianity was the rise of the modern Pentecostal movement.


Premise: What was the City of Boston's name before it was the City of Boston?

Hypothesis: In 1822, the citizens of Boston voted to change the official name from "the Town of Boston" to "the City of Boston", and on March 4, 1822, the people of Boston accepted the charter incorporating the City.


Premise: Downtown New Haven contributes approximately what amount of the overall tax base for the area?

Hypothesis: The downtown area provides about half of the city's jobs and half of its tax base and in recent years has become filled with dozens of new upscale restaurants, several of which have garnered national praise (such as Ibiza, recognized by Esquire and Wine Spectator magazines as well as the New York Times as the best Spanish food in the country), in addition to shops and thousands of apartments and condominium units which subsequently help overall growth of the city.


Premise: Who was the deputy head of Haining's environmental protection bureau at the time?

Hypothesis: Chen Hongming, a deputy head of Haining's environmental protection bureau, said the factory's waste disposal had failed pollution tests since April.


Premise: In which work did he refer to Constantius as a precursor of the Antichrist?

Hypothesis: During this period, Athanasius completed his work Four Orations against the Arians and defended his own recent conduct in the Apology to Constantius and Apology for His Flight.


Premise: How many people were expelled??

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: In what year was HMNB Davenport established?

Hypothesis: In 1712 there were 318 men employed and by 1733 it had grown to a population of 3,000 people.


Premise: Napoleon is viewed by some as a founder of what modern nation?

Hypothesis: Napoleon could be considered one of the founders of modern Germany.


Premise: While Anson led the Chicago cubs how many National League pennants did they win?

Hypothesis: In all, the Anson-led Chicago Base Ball Club won six National League pennants between 1876 and 1886.


Premise: When was the brasserie made popular?

Hypothesis: Beginning with the Paris Exposition of 1867; it became a popular kind of restaurant which featured beer and other beverages served by young women in the national costume associated with the beverage, particular German costumes for beer.


Premise: What was the range of the mitrailleuse?

Hypothesis: The French also had an early machine-gun type weapon, the mitrailleuse, which could fire its thirty-seven barrels at a range of around 1,200 yd (1,100 m).


Premise: When Rurik past away, who took over?

Hypothesis: In 880-82, Oleg led a military force south along the Dnieper river, capturing Smolensk and Lyubech before reaching Kiev, where he deposed and killed Askold and Dir, proclaimed himself prince, and declared Kiev the "mother of Rus' cities."


Premise: What period is referred to as a "golden age"?

Hypothesis: The term "classical music" did not appear until the early 19th century, in an attempt to distinctly canonize the period from Johann Sebastian Bach to Beethoven as a golden age.


Premise: What is the nickname for a Barcelona supporter?

Hypothesis: Throughout Europe, Barcelona is the favourite second-choice club.


Premise: Under what condition can ferrous hydroxide be oxidized?

Hypothesis: This process is described by the Schikorr reaction:


Premise: What are Nanjing's main water sources?

Hypothesis: Nanjing also possesses abundant water resources, both from the Yangtze River and groundwater.


Premise: What was Schwarzenegger's dad's job in their town?

Hypothesis: According to Schwarzenegger, both of his parents were very strict: "Back then in Austria it was a very different world, if we did something bad or we disobeyed our parents, the rod was not spared."


Premise: Who won the election in June 2009?

Hypothesis: National Assembly Speaker Raimundo Pereira was appointed as an interim president until a nationwide election on 28 June 2009.


Premise: Who was Kerry saying was stuck in Iraq?

Hypothesis: In Kerry's prepared remarks, which he released during the ensuing media frenzy, the corresponding line was "... you end up getting us stuck in a war in Iraq.


Premise: When was the narthex designed?

Hypothesis: Images of the abbey prior to the construction of the towers are scarce, though the abbey's official website states that the building was without towers following Yevele's renovation, with just the lower segments beneath the roof level of the Nave completed.


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

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


Premise: What type of analysis did the scientists use to examine hairs from the 2 baboon mummies formerly preserved in the British Museum?

Hypothesis: Led by a research team from the Egyptian Museum and the University of California, the scientists used oxygen isotope analysis to examine hairs from two baboon mummies that had been preserved in the British Museum.


Premise: Which calendars were among the first to appear?

Hypothesis: The numbers twelve and thirteen came to feature prominently in many cultures, at least partly due to this relationship of months to years.


Premise: What are the two mapping methods that Unicode defines?

Hypothesis: Unicode defines two mapping methods: the Unicode Transformation Format (UTF) encodings, and the Universal Coded Character Set (UCS) encodings.


Premise: For the first quarter of 2009, what was the annualized rate of decline in GDP in Mexico?

Hypothesis: For the first quarter of 2009, the annualized rate of decline in GDP was 14.4% in Germany, 15.2% in Japan, 7.4% in the UK, 18% in Latvia, 9.8% in the Euro area and 21.5% for Mexico.


Premise: What is a narrow ridge formed by two cirques eroding back to back called?

Hypothesis: Two glacial cirques may form back to back and erode their backwalls until only a narrow ridge, called an arête is left.


Premise: Who committed the Oklahoma City Bombing?

Hypothesis: The two men were convicted of the bombing: McVeigh was sentenced to death and executed by the federal government on June 11, 2001; his partner Nichols is serving a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.


Premise: Who starred in the film Three Smart Girls?

Hypothesis: The success of the film led Universal to offer her a contract, which for the first five years of her career produced her most successful pictures.


Premise: Who was behind the death off Emperor Aurangzeb?

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


Premise: What type of subjects did the universities of northern Europe focus on?

Hypothesis: The university culture developed differently in northern Europe than it did in the south, although the northern (primarily Germany, France and Great Britain) and southern universities (primarily Italy) did have many elements in common.


Premise: Where did Victoria usually spend Christmases?

Hypothesis: Her favourite pet Pomeranian, Turri, was laid upon her deathbed as a last request.


Premise: In what century did Paris become largely into fashion?

Hypothesis: Paris has been an international capital of high fashion since the 19th century, particularly in the domain of haute couture, clothing hand-made to order for private clients.


Premise: Half of Charleston's annual rainfall occurs in what form?

Hypothesis: Measurable snow (≥0.1 in or 0.25 cm) only occurs several times per decade at the most, with the last such event occurring December 26, 2010.


Premise: What new library illustrates the traditional style of neoclassicism?

Hypothesis: In Britain a number of architects are active in the neoclassical style.


Premise: Tasmania was formerly known as what?

Hypothesis: Batman selected a site on the northern bank of the Yarra River, declaring that "this will be the place for a village".


Premise: The autumn storms of what sea forced the return of yet more French ships?

Hypothesis: The rest of the navy retired to ports along the English Channel and remained in port for the rest of the war.


Premise: What does copper and zinc form to make?

Hypothesis: In the Middle East, people began alloying copper with zinc to form brass.


Premise: What was the horizontal slippage perpendicular to the fault?

Hypothesis: This earthquake ruptured at least two imbricate structures in Longmen Shan Fault System, i.e. the Beichuan Fault and the Guanxian–Anxian Fault.


Premise: For what reason are the City of London and Greater London considered to be counties?

Hypothesis: Within London, both the City of London and the City of Westminster have city status and both the City of London and the remainder of Greater London are counties for the purposes of lieutenancies.


Premise: As of 2000, how many people lived in the Plano Piloto?

Hypothesis: The satellite cities served are more populated in total than the Plano Piloto itself (the census of 2000 indicated that Ceilândia had 344,039 inhabitants, Taguatinga had 243,575, whereas the Plano Piloto had approximately 400,000 inhabitants), and most residents of the satellite cities depend on public transportation.


Premise: On what date was the sale finally completed?

Hypothesis: The sale was completed on January 28, 2011.


Premise: What organization has Brazil tried to use to curb US cotton subsidies?

Hypothesis: The four introduced a "Sectoral Initiative in Favour of Cotton", presented by Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaoré during the Trade Negotiations Committee on 10 June 2003.


Premise: What path is described as being built upon the motivation to liberate all living beings?

Hypothesis: That path is explained as being built upon the motivation to liberate all living beings from unhappiness.


Premise: What replaced many of the modest boarding houses?

Hypothesis: In the early part of the 20th century, Atlantic City went through a radical building boom.


Premise: What do the treaties defend against?

Hypothesis: In the last three of these, international treaties (the Antarctic Treaty, the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, and the Outer Space Treaty respectively) prevent colonization and potential statehood of any of these uninhabited (and, given current technology, not permanently inhabitable) territories.


Premise: Who administered the longest running MP3 patent in the United States?

Hypothesis: If the longest-running patent mentioned in the aforementioned references is taken as a measure, then the MP3 technology will be patent-free in the United States on 30 December 2017 when U.S. Patent 5,703,999, held by the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft and administered by Technicolor, expires.


Premise: What is the average elevation in the west Piedmont region?

Hypothesis: The Piedmont ranges from about 300 to 400 feet (91 to 122 m) in elevation in the east to over 1,000 feet (300 m) in the west.


Premise: On what website can many a capella groups' music be listened to?

Hypothesis: In 2009, Toyota commissioned Haden to perform three songs for television commercials for the third-generation Toyota Prius, including an a cappella version of The Bellamy Brothers' 1970s song "Let Your Love Flow".[citation needed]


Premise: Whose theory of truth did Popper read with intense interest in 1935?

Hypothesis: Popper writes of learning in 1935 of the consequences of Tarski's theory, to his intense joy.


Premise: What is the title of the film where a man becomes permanently grounded in an airport terminal?

Hypothesis: They are also one of the major elements in movies such as The V.I.P.s, Airplane!


Premise: How many Ukrainians speak Russian actively as of 2004?

Hypothesis: In Ukraine, Russian is seen as a language of inter-ethnic communication, and a minority language, under the 1996 Constitution of Ukraine.


Premise: How much did the first primate weigh?

Hypothesis: This tiny primate weighed 20–30 grams (0.7–1.1 ounce) and could fit within a human palm.


Premise: Which church is affiliated with the Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Malawi?

Hypothesis: Part of the Presbyterian Church in Malawi and Zambia is known as CCAP, Church of Central Africa-Presbyterian.


Premise: Why weren't swaps registered as debts by Eurostat at the time?

Hypothesis: According to Der Spiegel, credits given to European governments were disguised as "swaps" and consequently did not get registered as debt because Eurostat at the time ignored statistics involving financial derivatives.


Premise: True aspirated consonants are considered what?

Hypothesis: They have been documented in Kelabit Taa, and the Kx'a languages.


Premise: What dance was created at the Moulin Rouge?

Hypothesis: The Moulin Rouge was opened in 1889.


Premise: What could be caused by a 0.80% Blood alcohol content in a human?

Hypothesis: Different concentrations of alcohol in the human body have different effects on a person.


Premise: What do religions share across their belief structures?

Hypothesis: For example, attributes of God in Christianity, attributes of God in Islam, and the Thirteen Attributes of Mercy in Judaism share certain similarities arising from their common roots.


Premise: In 2008, Melbourne overtook what city with the amount of money that domestic tourists spent in the city?

Hypothesis: In addition, tourism also plays an important role in Melbourne's economy, with about 7.6 million domestic visitors and 1.88 million international visitors in 2004.


Premise: In 1860, approximately how many people of Irish extraction were in New York?

Hypothesis: There was also extensive immigration from the German provinces, where revolutions had disrupted societies, and Germans comprised another 25% of New York's population by 1860.


Premise: What specific historical event caused a group of religious and verbal differences in South Slavic dialect?

Hypothesis: Bosniaks, Croats and Serbs differ in religion and were historically often part of different cultural circles, although a large part of the nations have lived side by side under foreign overlords.


Premise: In what year did the shift in gold standard occur?

Hypothesis: Many historians[who?] erroneously assume gold was standardized at a fixed rate in parity with silver; however, there is no evidence of Congress making this law.


Premise: What famous person is mentioned as having the surname Ashkenazi?

Hypothesis: Ashkenazi would be formally adopted as the family surname having started off as a nickname imposed by their adopted communities.


Premise: How many years of study would it take to obtain a degree from a polytechnic in Singapore?

Hypothesis: There are 5 polytechnics in Singapore.


Premise: What country promised aid to Mysore to fight the British?

Hypothesis: Under their rule, Mysore fought a series of wars sometimes against the combined forces of the British and Marathas, but mostly against the British, with Mysore receiving some aid or promise of aid from the French.


Premise: In what year did Francesco Mario Pagano publish Saggi Politici?

Hypothesis: Another prominent intellectual was Francesco Mario Pagano, who wrote important studies such as Saggi Politici (Political Essays, 1783), one of the major works of the Enlightenment in Naples, and Considerazioni sul processo criminale (Considerations on the criminal trial, 1787), which established him as an international authority on criminal law.


Premise: How many elevators had China installed since 1949?

Hypothesis: In Brazil, it is estimated that there are approximately 300,000 elevators currently in operation.


Premise: What is the SCN considered to be in comparison to the peripheral oscillators?

Hypothesis: More-or-less independent circadian rhythms are found in many organs and cells in the body outside the suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN), the "master clock".


Premise: How many preseason games do NBA teams play?

Hypothesis: Today, NBA teams almost always play each other in the preseason, but mainly at neutral sites within their market areas in order to allow those who can't usually make a trip to a home team's arena during the regular season to see a game close to home; for instance the Minnesota Timberwolves will play games in arenas in North Dakota and South Dakota, while the Phoenix Suns schedule one exhibition game outdoors at Indian Wells Tennis Garden in Indian Wells, California yearly, the only such instance an NBA game takes place in an outdoor venue.


Premise: What is the only film to have a higher ticket sale in Paris than Spectre?

Hypothesis: It topped the German-speaking Switzerland box office for four weeks and in the Netherlands, it has held the No. 1 spot for seven weeks straight where it has topped Minions to become the top movie of the year.


Premise: When did the decolonization of Africa and the Caribbean accelerate?

Hypothesis: As Britain's ties to its former empire weakened, the British government sought entry to the European Community, a goal it achieved in 1973.


Premise: Which Roman consul defeated the Greeks at Corinth?

Hypothesis: Victorious, the Romans abolished the Macedonian kingdom, replacing it with four puppet republics; these lasted a further twenty years before Macedon was formally annexed as a Roman province (146 BC) after yet another rebellion under Andriscus.


Premise: Ṣalībī comes from the word ṣalīb, which means what?

Hypothesis: Another Arabic word sometimes used for Christians, particularly in a political context, is Ṣalībī (صليبي "Crusader") from ṣalīb (صليب "cross") which refers to Crusaders and has negative connotations.


Premise: What new capital was founded in 1650, lower Egypt?

Hypothesis: The Hyksos invaders took over much of Lower Egypt around 1650 BC and founded a new capital at Avaris.


Premise: What was the former name of the Turnbull Government?

Hypothesis: Now the Turnbull Government, the party had been elected at the 2013 federal election as the Abbott Government which took office on 18 September 2013.


Premise: Who shattered the fragments of a grand Mithraeum?

Hypothesis: It is supposed that this was the first seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Strasbourg.


Premise: How many Egyptian soldiers did the Israeli army capture?

Hypothesis: Despite the commanded withdrawal of Egyptian troops, about 2,000 Egyptian soldiers were killed during engagement with Israeli forces, and some 5,000 Egyptian soldiers were captured by the Israeli Army.


Premise: What has the concept of workplace diversity caused employers to do?

Hypothesis: Workplace diversity has become a business management concept in which employers actively seek to promote an inclusive workplace.


Premise: What is the name of the group that won The Sing-Off?

Hypothesis: The show featured eight a cappella groups from the United States and Puerto Rico vying for the prize of $100,000 and a recording contract with Epic Records/Sony Music.


Premise: What percentage of unit sale increase did Apple see from 2005 to 2006?

Hypothesis: Figures from December 2006, showing a market share around 6 percent (IDC) and 6.1 percent (Gartner) are based on a more than 30 percent increase in unit sale from 2005 to 2006.


Premise: Which bands were on the forefront of industrial music?

Hypothesis: A variety of groups that predated punk, such as Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle, experimented with crude production techniques and electronic instruments in tandem with performance art methods and influence from transgressive literature, ultimately helping to pioneer industrial music.


Premise: What color was the special U2 iPod model?

Hypothesis: In 2006 Apple presented a special edition for iPod 5G of Irish rock band U2.


Premise: When was the AFL's China project announced?

Hypothesis: The plans were to establish a six-team league that would play a 10-week schedule that was slated to start in October 2014.


Premise: What did the Cypriot government find was the Greek population on Cyprus?

Hypothesis: One year later, in 1974, the Cypriot government's Department of Statistics and Research estimated the total population of Cyprus at 641,000; of whom 506,000 (78.9%) were Greeks, and 118,000 (18.4%) Turkish.


Premise: When did construction of the fortress finish?

Hypothesis: An observation post at this location was first built by the Spanish in the late 18th century.


Premise: How many Czechs spoke Moravian as their first language as of 2011?

Hypothesis: Of the Czech dialects, only Moravian is distinguished in nationwide surveys by the Czech Statistical Office.


Premise: What category of goods that are used in outdoor activities benefit from the extra hour of daylight from DST?

Hypothesis: A 1999 study estimated that DST increases the revenue of the European Union's leisure sector by about 3%.


Premise: What Spielberg franchise was filmed in New Haven in 2008?

Hypothesis: In Everybody's Fine (2009), Robert De Niro has a close encounter in what is supposed to be the Denver train station; the scene was filmed in New Haven's Union Station.


Premise: How many survivors were there from Yingxiu?

Hypothesis: One rescue team reported only 2,300 survivors from the town of Yingxiu in Wenchuan County, out of a total population of about 9,000.


Premise: In the 2006 gubernatorial election, who did Schwarzenegger run against?

Hypothesis: Schwarzenegger ran for re-election against Democrat Phil Angelides, the California State Treasurer, in the 2006 elections, held on November 7, 2006.


Premise: What victory strengthened John's position?

Hypothesis: De Roches was a powerful Anjou noble, but John largely ignored him, causing considerable offence, whilst the king kept the rebel leaders in such bad conditions that twenty-two of them died.


Premise: How long have ducks possibly been in domesticated domicile with humans?

Hypothesis: Lucius Columella, writing in the first century BC, advised those who sought to rear ducks to collect wildfowl eggs and put them under a broody hen, because when raised in this way, the ducks "lay aside their wild nature and without hesitation breed when shut up in the bird pen".


Premise: Which countries were the focus of Huizinga's research?

Hypothesis: To Huizinga, whose research focused on France and the Low Countries rather than Italy, despair and decline were the main themes, not rebirth.


Premise: What is the name of the cathedral in Sicily that first displayed the use of the pointed arch?

Hypothesis: But while pointed arch is so strongly associated with the Gothic style, it was first used in Western architecture in buildings that were in other ways clearly Romanesque, notably Durham Cathedral in the north of England, Monreale Cathedral and Cathedral of Cefalù in Sicily, Autun Cathedral in France.


Premise: When was the 15th year anniversary held for Digimon?

Hypothesis: A new Digimon series was announced 30 months after the end of Digimon Fusion at a 15th anniversary concert and theater event for the franchise in August 2014.


Premise: Did they need parental consent?

Hypothesis: This practice has continued in the Russian Federation, where up to 21 days of the summer holidays is sometimes set aside for school works.


Premise: Which device uses the flow of sand to measure time?

Hypothesis: The hourglass uses the flow of sand to measure the flow of time.


Premise: At around what RMP do weed trimmer motors operate?

Hypothesis: Whereas SCIMs cannot turn a shaft faster than allowed by the power line frequency, universal motors can run at much higher speeds.


Premise: What year was Jeremy Corbyn elected?

Hypothesis: Labour runs a minority government in the Welsh Assembly under Carwyn Jones, is the largest opposition party in the Scottish Parliament and has twenty MEPs in the European Parliament, sitting in the Socialists and Democrats Group.


Premise: What is an important benefit to using copper as an architectural material?

Hypothesis: Some of copper's other important benefits as an architectural material include its low thermal movement, light weight, lightning protection, and its recyclability.


Premise: Where did Alexander the Great conquer in 10 days?

Hypothesis: Having conquered Drangiana, Arachosia, Gedrosia and Seistan in ten days, Alexander crossed the Hindu Kush and was thus fully informed of the magnificence of the country and its riches in gold, gems and pearls.


Premise: To what ancient philosopher did Darwin trace some of his evolutionary ideas?

Hypothesis: In later editions of the book, Darwin traced evolutionary ideas as far back as Aristotle; the text he cites is a summary by Aristotle of the ideas of the earlier Greek philosopher Empedocles.


Premise: The bulk of Masonic rituals consist of what?

Hypothesis: In other jurisdictions, the grade is not recognised, and no inner ceremony conveys new secrets during the installation of a new Master of the Lodge.


Premise: how many ships sailed Torbay?

Hypothesis: The permission was granted, and despite the defeat of the English Armada in 1589, on 10 April 1591 three ships sailed from Torbay around the Cape of Good Hope to the Arabian Sea on one of the earliest English overseas Indian expeditions.


Premise: What percentage of copper do the deposits have that are extracted?

Hypothesis: Most copper is mined or extracted as copper sulfides from large open pit mines in porphyry copper deposits that contain 0.4 to 1.0% copper.


Premise: How much money did Libya receive to stem the flow of African migrants into Europe?

Hypothesis: That month he also addressed the United Nations General Assembly in New York for the first time, using it to condemn "western aggression".


Premise: PIccolo, contrabassoon, and trombones add to the triumphal finales of what piece by Beethoven?

Hypothesis: Piccolo, contrabassoon, and trombones add to the triumphal finale of his Symphony No. 5.


Premise: Which historian argues that traditionalism in a university system hindered attempts to form new views on knowledge and nature?

Hypothesis: Although the connection between humanism and the scientific discovery may very well have begun within the confines of the university, the connection has been commonly perceived as having been severed by the changing nature of science during the scientific revolution.


Premise: What school of thought saw emotion as an impediment to virtue?

Hypothesis: Aristotle believed that emotions were an essential component of virtue.


Premise: What were the names of the temples that Kiyomori destroyed?

Hypothesis: Taira Kiyomori emerged as the real power in Japan following the Minamoto's destruction, and he would remain in command for the next 20 years.


Premise: What was the two-byte precursor to UTF-16?

Hypothesis: (the fixed-width two-byte precursor to UTF-16) and later moved to UTF-16 (the variable-width current standard), as this was the least disruptive way to add support for non-BMP characters.


Premise: What was the budget of the city in 2013

Hypothesis: The main source of income for the city is direct taxes (35 percent), supplemented by a 13-percent real estate tax; 19 percent of the budget comes in a transfer from the national government.


Premise: When did Stratonice marry Ariarathes III?

Hypothesis: Under Ariarathes IV, Cappadocia came into relations with Rome, first as a foe espousing the cause of Antiochus the Great, then as an ally against Perseus of Macedon and finally in a war against the Seleucids.


Premise: Who worked with the natives to help solve their dietary issues?

Hypothesis: In 1897, Christiaan Eijkman worked with natives of Java, who also suffered from beriberi.


Premise: How many Vestals were there in Rome?

Hypothesis: In archaic Roman society, these priestesses were the only women not required to be under the legal guardianship of a man, instead answering directly to the Pontifex Maximus.


Premise: What is used to make thwon?

Hypothesis: Drinking and driving is illegal, and authorities have a zero tolerance policy.


Premise: What book first contained the term biological diversity?

Hypothesis: Until then the term "natural diversity" was common, introduced by The Science Division of The Nature Conservancy in an important 1975 study, "The Preservation of Natural Diversity."


Premise: What ship design contained a flat-bottomed hull?

Hypothesis: Junks featured a square-ended bow and stern, a flat-bottomed hull or carvel-shaped hull with no keel or sternpost, and solid transverse bulkheads in the place of structural ribs found in Western vessels.


Premise: Which pope authored Munifentissimus Deus?

Hypothesis: The Roman Catholic Church has dogmaically defined the doctrine of the Assumption, which was done in 1950 by Pope Pius XII in Munificentissimus Deus.


Premise: What movement occurred during the 1970s?

Hypothesis: The history of ecology in the 20th century is closely tied to that of environmentalism; the Gaia hypothesis, first formulated in the 1960s, and spreading in the 1970s, and more recently the scientific-religious movement of Deep Ecology have brought the two closer together.


Premise: What material doesn't easily wrinkle?

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


Premise: How much did the monetar base value increase to in 2013?

Hypothesis: Conversely, it will sell securities to the banks in exchange for dollars, to take dollars out of circulation.


Premise: The insect orders include both of what?

Hypothesis: The lack of flying vertebrates could have been another factor.


Premise: What forces were sent out in support of peacekeeping?

Hypothesis: They have been deployed in Afghanistan until 2011, under the NATO-led United Nations International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), at the request of the Government of Afghanistan.


Premise: Which theater is known for hosting a variety of musicals and plays?

Hypothesis: Both the Old Globe Theatre and the La Jolla Playhouse have produced the world premieres of plays and musicals that have gone on to win Tony Awards or nominations on Broadway.


Premise: In Old English, noun endings vary on what basis?

Hypothesis: The only remnants of this system in Modern English are in the forms of a few pronouns (such as I/me/mine, she/her, who/whom/whose) and in the possessive ending -'s, which derives from the old (masculine and neuter) genitive ending -es.


Premise: Which doctor from Pakistan served until 2000?

Hypothesis: Executive Directors and Under-Secretaries General of the UN_2011–present Dr Babatunde Osotimehin (Nigeria)


Premise: New Haven is also known for a very notable architecture institution, it's name?

Hypothesis: Cass Gilbert, of the Beaux-Arts school, designed New Haven's Union Station and the New Haven Free Public Library and was also commissioned for a City Beautiful plan in 1919.


Premise: With the NES at its end, which competing consoles with less strict licensing terms were supported?

Hypothesis: In the longer run, however, with the NES near its end of its life many third-party publishers such as Electronic Arts supported upstart competing consoles with less strict licensing terms such as the Sega Genesis and then the PlayStation, which eroded and then took over Nintendo's dominance in the home console market, respectively.


Premise: Beyonce was coached for her Spanish songs by which American?

Hypothesis: To record these, Beyoncé was coached phonetically by American record producer Rudy Perez.


Premise: Where did the 1st Infantry deploy from?

Hypothesis: Against the rested and re-armed Pusan Perimeter defenders and their reinforcements, the KPA were undermanned and poorly supplied; unlike the UN Command, they lacked naval and air support.


Premise: What was the name of the liner that left Southampton on its final journey on November 11, 2008?

Hypothesis: The Duchess of Cornwall in December 2007, and the Queen named Queen Elizabeth in the city during October 2011.


Premise: How long was the state of the Soviet regime unrecognized by other countries?

Hypothesis: The Soviet regime first came to power on November 7, 1917, immediately after the Russian Provisional Government, which governed the Russian Republic, was overthrown in the October Revolution.


Premise: How is behavioral autonomy defined?

Hypothesis: Behavioral autonomy encompasses an adolescent's developing ability to regulate his or her own behavior, to act on personal decisions, and to self-govern.


Premise: What happens as the scope of economically viable applications increases?

Hypothesis: As the cost of renewable power falls, the scope of economically viable applications increases.


Premise: Israel has a history of providing what?

Hypothesis: Israel's humanitarian efforts officially began in 1958, with the establishment of MASHAV, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs Agency for International Development Cooperation.


Premise: When was the British East Company given the right to collect revenue?

Hypothesis: The development of New Imperialism saw the conquest of nearly all eastern hemisphere territories by colonial powers.


Premise: What agreement was reached a the Council of Nicaea ?

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


Premise: What year was tritium discovered?

Hypothesis: Deuterium was discovered in December 1931 by Harold Urey, and tritium was prepared in 1934 by Ernest Rutherford, Mark Oliphant, and Paul Harteck.


Premise: How are stage lifts powered?

Hypothesis: For example, Radio City Music Hall has four such elevators: an orchestra lift that covers a large area of the stage, and three smaller lifts near the rear of the stage.


Premise: In which year were these allegations raised?

Hypothesis: In 2003, it was reported that one third of female academics "believe that discrimination or bullying by managers has held back their careers".


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

Hypothesis: At a minimum, HDTV has twice the linear resolution of standard-definition television (SDTV), thus showing greater detail than either analog television or regular DVD.


Premise: What did Hameidi do during the coup?

Hypothesis: Gaddafi's Free Officers recognized this as their chance to overthrow the monarchy, initiating "Operation Jerusalem".


Premise: What is the range of average elevation in the Sichuan Basin?

Hypothesis: Average elevation ranges from 2,000 to 3,500 meters; average temperatures range from 0 to 15 °C.


Premise: Where did Sonam Gyatso die?

Hypothesis: Although not recorded in any official Chinese records, Sonam Gyatso's biography states that Wanli again conferred titles on Sonam Gyatso in 1588, and invited him to Beijing for a second time, but Sonam Gyatso was unable to visit China as he died the same year in Mongolia working with Altan Khan's son to further the spread of Buddhism.


Premise: For every 100 females, how many males were there?

Hypothesis: For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 94.4 males.


Premise: Who removed Chan from the protest?

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


Premise: What football playing character in The Great Gatsby played for Yale?

Hypothesis: The narrator, Nick Carraway, wrote a series of editorials for the Yale News, and Tom Buchanan was "one of the most powerful ends that ever played football" for Yale.


Premise: Who believes that the North Koreans only appeared to fail to effective execute their withdrawal plan?

Hypothesis: Historian Bruce Cumings argues, however, the KPA's rapid withdrawal was strategic, with troops melting into the mountains from where they could launch guerrilla raids on the UN forces spread out on the coasts.


Premise: A scientific study of dog genetics has shown only how many  types of dogs being determinably distinct?

Hypothesis: Systematic analyses of the dog genome has revealed only four major types of dogs that can be said to be statistically distinct.


Premise: The Financial Times rated what school's MBA program 2nd-best in the world in 2015?

Hypothesis: A number of world-leading education institutions are based in London.


Premise: What was the name of the French general who led the forces that attempted to regain control of Sainte-Domingue?

Hypothesis: Napoleon sent an expedition under General Leclerc designed to reassert control over Sainte-Domingue.


Premise: What undergraduate satirical magazine was founded in 2009?

Hypothesis: North by Northwestern is an online undergraduate magazine, having been established in September 2006 by students at the Medill School of Journalism.


Premise: What rises in cost have effected Tuvalu's domestic growth?

Hypothesis: The IMF 2014 Country Report noted that real GDP growth in Tuvalu had been volatile averaging only 1 percent in the past decade.


Premise: When was the first Code produced for Eastern Churches?

Hypothesis: The first Code of Canon Law, 1917, was mostly for the Roman Rite, with limited application to the Eastern Churches.


Premise: What event was blamed for the injuries to Barcelona stars?

Hypothesis: A pre-season US tour was later blamed for a string of injuries to key players, including leading scorer Eto'o and rising star Lionel Messi.


Premise: What sort of considerations does architectural design take into account?

Hypothesis: Architecture has to do with planning and designing form, space and ambience to reflect functional, technical, social, environmental and aesthetic considerations.


Premise: What did Simon mayer produce?

Hypothesis: Hey What Can I Do, and Black Country Woman.


Premise: When was the King David Hotel bombing?

Hypothesis: In 1947, the British government announced it would withdraw from Mandatory Palestine, stating it was unable to arrive at a solution acceptable to both Arabs and Jews.


Premise: Who won season two of American Idol?

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


Premise: What else is a risk factor for asthma?

Hypothesis: Family history is a risk factor for asthma, with many different genes being implicated.


Premise: How many restaurants can be accessed within a two block radius of New Haven Green?

Hypothesis: More than 120 restaurants are located within two blocks of the New Haven Green.


Premise: A coreless DC motor is distinguished by what?

Hypothesis: Optimized for rapid acceleration, these motors have a rotor that is constructed without any iron core.


Premise: Who did Christoph Waltz portray in Spectre?

Hypothesis: Christoph Waltz was cast in the role of Franz Oberhauser, though he refused to comment on the nature of the part.


Premise: What four topics are required in an Endangered Species Recovery Plan?

Hypothesis: The FWS has a policy specifying completion within three years of the species being listed, but the average time to completion is approximately six years.


Premise: Yale and New Haven are conjointly attempting to build the area into a research hub for what two industries?

Hypothesis: Currently, sections of the site are large-scale parking lots or abandoned structures, but there is also a large remodeled and functioning area of buildings (leased primarily by a private developer) with numerous Yale employees, financial service and biotech companies.


Premise: Which show did Abrams miss because he was in the hospital?

Hypothesis: The judges used their one save on Abrams on the Top 11, and as a result this was the first season that 11 finalists went on tour instead of 10.


Premise: The two inventors of the first practical diode were employed by what famous company?

Hypothesis: On August 8, 1962, Biard and Pittman filed a patent titled "Semiconductor Radiant Diode" based on their findings, which described a zinc diffused p–n junction LED with a spaced cathode contact to allow for efficient emission of infrared light under forward bias.


Premise: When did General Wavell resign as commander of the Allied forces of Southeastern Asia?

Hypothesis: After being driven out of Malaya, Allied forces in Singapore attempted to resist the Japanese during the Battle of Singapore but surrendered to the Japanese on 15 February 1942; about 130,000 Indian, British, Australian and Dutch personnel became prisoners of war.


Premise: What are the Neapolitan mandolin made of?

Hypothesis: European roundbacks commonly use a 13-inch scale instead of the 13.876 common on archtop Mandolins.


Premise: What percentage of Devon's GVA does Plymouth comprise in 2013?

Hypothesis: Plymouth's unemployment rate was 7.0% in 2014 which was 2.0 points higher than the South West average and 0.8 points higher than the average for Great Britain (England, Wales and Scotland).


Premise: What year was the Treaty of Paris signed?

Hypothesis: Peace negotiations at the Congress of Paris resulted in the signing of the Treaty of Paris on 30 March 1856.


Premise: How many hospitals does it manage?

Hypothesis: The Trust is currently the largest in the UK and has an annual turnover of £800 million, treating more than a million patients a year.[citation needed]


Premise: On what date did the Japanese leave the League of Nations?

Hypothesis: On March 27, 1933, Japan handed in its notice at the League of Nations, but continued to manage the islands, and in the late 1930s began building air bases on several atolls.


Premise: What percent of the Brooklyn population has a high school diploma, as of 2000?

Hypothesis: These percentages were lower than those for New York's other boroughs, which ranged from 68.8% (Brooklyn) to 82.6% (Staten Island) for high school graduates over 24, and from 21.8% (Brooklyn) to 49.4% (Manhattan) for college graduates.


Premise: What is Islamic religion traditionally considered as far as theology is concerned?

Hypothesis: The term "Islamic education" means education in the light of Islam itself, which is rooted in the teachings of the Quran - holy book of Muslims.


Premise: Who became president on June 12, 1991?

Hypothesis: On June 12, 1991, Boris Yeltsin was elected the first President.


Premise: How many Mayanga people are in Nicaragua?

Hypothesis: Many are Christians.


Premise: What was the effort called to upgrade the Canadian Forces?

Hypothesis: The poll found that nearly two thirds of Canadians agreed with the country's participation in the invasion of Afghanistan, and that the military should be stronger, but also that the purpose of the forces should be different, such as more focused on responding to natural disasters.


Premise: What nickname prompted a return to the canon on the club crest?

Hypothesis: These can sometimes be mistaken for chimneys, but the presence of a carved lion's head and a cascabel on each are clear indicators that they are cannon.


Premise: Where is tritium produced?

Hypothesis: Tritium (hydrogen-3), produced in nuclear reactors, is used in the production of hydrogen bombs, as an isotopic label in the biosciences, and as a radiation source in luminous paints.


Premise: How long does it take for a chicken raised in a less intensive envionment to reach optimal broiler size?

Hypothesis: Mortality rates at 1% are much higher than for less-intensively reared laying birds which take 18 weeks to reach similar weights.


Premise: Where is the World Trade Center?

Hypothesis: Along Avenida Insurgentes from Paseo de la Reforma, near the center, south past the World Trade Center and UNAM university towards the Periférico ring road, is another important corridor of corporate office space.


Premise: Where did activists want dogs kept out of neighborhoods because it violated religious freedom?

Hypothesis: Islamic activists in Lérida, Spain, lobbied for dogs to be kept out of Muslim neighborhoods, saying their presence violated Muslims' religious freedom.


Premise: Setting research in the North Atlantic region allows looking at connections between locations rather than being limited to what?

Hypothesis: There has also been a related shift toward broadening the focus beyond the daily life of ordinary people; increasingly, research is set in settings such as scientific laboratories, social movements, governmental and nongovernmental organizations and businesses.


Premise: Aristotle defined time as "number of movement in respect of the before and after" in which book?

Hypothesis: Plato, in the Timaeus, identified time with the period of motion of the heavenly bodies.


Premise: Well-fed animals in captivity can become friends with prey animals due to what motivation?

Hypothesis: This interaction can range from peaceful coexistence to close companionship; motivation to ignore the predatory instinct may result from mutual advantage or fear of reprisal from human masters who have made clear that harming co-inhabitants will not be tolerated.


Premise: Who is the current mayor of Houston?

Hypothesis: The current mayor of Houston is Sylvester Turner, a Democrat elected on a nonpartisan ballot.


Premise: Which city did Baden, Württemberg-Baden, and Württemberg-Hohenzollern merge into?

Hypothesis: German reunification in 1990, in which the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) ascended into the Federal Republic, resulted in the addition of the re-established eastern states of Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-West Pomerania (in German Mecklenburg-Vorpommern), Saxony (Sachsen), Saxony-Anhalt (Sachsen-Anhalt), and Thuringia (Thüringen), as well as the reunification of West and East Berlin into Berlin and its establishment as a full and equal state.


Premise: What is an example of an occupational field position in the USAF?

Hypothesis: There are additional occupational fields such as computer specialties, mechanic specialties, enlisted aircrew, communication systems, cyberspace operations, avionics technicians, medical specialties, civil engineering, public affairs, hospitality, law, drug counseling, mail operations, security forces, and search and rescue specialties.


Premise: Most experts can at least agree that the earliest pre-modern human migration took place when?

Hypothesis: According to the oral histories of many of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, they have been living there since their genesis, described by a wide range of creation myths.


Premise: For what department does the north campus location of Washington University provide off-site storage?

Hypothesis: The North Campus location also provides off-site storage space for the Performing Arts Department.


Premise: What was the impact of incorporating the sharia into the legal system?

Hypothesis: In September 1971, Gaddafi resigned, claiming to be dissatisfied with the pace of reform, but returned to his position within a month.


Premise: On what date in 1920 was the Communist party outlawed in Yugoslavia?

Hypothesis: Broz himself explains:


Premise: What were the Moors who converted to Catholicism known as?

Hypothesis: A considerable number of Moors and Jews, nevertheless, stayed in Portugal, under the condition that they converted to Catholicism, and afterwards they were known as Mouriscos (former Muslims) and Cristãos Novos (New Christians or former Jews) some of whom may have continued to observe rabbinic Judaism in secret, as in the case of the secret Jews of Belmonte, who now observe the Jewish faith openly.


Premise: What aspect of Vaishnava was unpalatable for the Pasupatas?

Hypothesis: Pashupatas disapproved of Vaishnava theology, known for its doctrine servitude of souls to the Supreme Being, on the grounds that dependence upon anything could not be the means of cessation of pain and other desired ends.


Premise: Does ease of reading correlate to accuracy in relation to the original text?

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 language did 12th century scholars studying Aristotle speak in?

Hypothesis: After Aristotle re-emerged, a community of scholars, primarily communicating in Latin, accelerated the process and practice of attempting to reconcile the thoughts of Greek antiquity, and especially ideas related to understanding the natural world, with those of the church.


Premise: What combines elements of ballet, gymnastics, dance, and apparatus manipulation?

Hypothesis: This is a sport that combines elements of ballet, gymnastics, dance, and apparatus manipulation.


Premise: What was the amount of additional money requested by Cyprus?

Hypothesis: Fitch said Cyprus would need an additional €4 billion to support its banks and the downgrade was mainly due to the exposure of Bank of Cyprus, Cyprus Popular Bank and Hellenic Bank, Cyprus's three largest banks, to the Greek financial crisis.


Premise: How much does Eton College charge per term?

Hypothesis: Following the public school tradition, Eton is a full boarding school, which means all pupils live at the school, and it is one of four such remaining single-sex boys' public schools in the United Kingdom (the others being Harrow, Radley, and Winchester) to continue this practice.


Premise: How many national parks does Hyderabad have?

Hypothesis: Hyderabad has three national parks (Mrugavani National Park, Mahavir Harina Vanasthali National Park and Kasu Brahmananda Reddy National Park), and the Manjira Wildlife Sanctuary is about 50 km (31 mi) from the city.


Premise: Which republic did not sign the Alma-Ata Protocol?

Hypothesis: However, on December 21, 1991, representatives of 11 of the 12 former republics – all except Georgia – signed the Alma-Ata Protocol, which confirmed the dissolution of the Union and formally established the CIS.


Premise: Bombing of civilian's was believed to cause what?

Hypothesis: It was also thought the bombing of residential centres would cause a collapse of civilian will, which might have led to the collapse of production and civil life.


Premise: Who discovered the process of refining kerosene from coal?

Hypothesis: The modern petroleum industry started in 1846 with the discovery of the process of refining kerosene from coal by Nova Scotian Abraham Pineo Gesner.


Premise: What new stations were added to the Glounthaune to Midleton line?

Hypothesis: In July 2009 the Glounthaune to Midleton line was reopened, with new stations at Carrigtwohill and Midleton (with future stations planned for Kilbarry, Monard, Carrigtwohill West and Blarney).


Premise: Who were the rioters?

Hypothesis: In Kazakhstan on June 19, 1989, young men carrying guns, firebombs, iron bars and stones rioted in Zhanaozen, causing a number of deaths.


Premise: What was the first year the Alexander Graham Bell Medal was given out?

Hypothesis: The bel (B) and the smaller decibel (dB) are units of measurement of sound intensity invented by Bell Labs and named after him.


Premise: What happens in a chennel transupport system?

Hypothesis: In a channel transupport system, several proteins form a contiguous channel traversing the inner and outer membranes of the bacteria.


Premise: In addition to Bachelor's degrees, what other kind of degree can one earn from a Fachhochschule?

Hypothesis: They grant bachelor's degrees and master's degrees, and focus more on teaching than research and more on specific professions than on science.


Premise: How did Bush try to make light of himself after being made fun of for his demeanor during the first debate?

Hypothesis: Conducted in a town meeting format, less formal than the first presidential debate, this debate saw Bush and Kerry taking questions on a variety of subjects from a local audience.


Premise: What did Charles Stewart Parnell change his parties name to in 1882?

Hypothesis: In 1882, he changed his party's name to the Irish Parliamentary Party and created a well-organized grass roots structure, introducing membership to replace "ad hoc" informal groupings.


Premise: What was the geologic event that followed the Mardi Gras Riots in2001?

Hypothesis: Seattle in this period attracted widespread attention as home to these many companies, but also by hosting the 1990 Goodwill Games and the APEC leaders conference in 1993, as well as through the worldwide popularity of grunge, a sound that had developed in Seattle's independent music scene.


Premise: What kind of biographies did Nasser read?

Hypothesis: He read the Qur'an, the sayings of Muhammad, the lives of the Sahaba (Muhammad's companions), and the biographies of nationalist leaders Napoleon, Ataturk, Otto von Bismarck, and Garibaldi and the autobiography of Winston Churchill.


Premise: Which person in the Joint Forces Command supports the Chief of the Defence Staff?

Hypothesis: The current Chief of the Defence Staff, the professional head of the British Armed Forces, is General Sir Nicholas Houghton, late Green Howards.


Premise: During which conflict was I-94 built?

Hypothesis: A portion was known as the Willow Run Expressway.


Premise: Where is the dining room table placed?

Hypothesis: Some meals are communal, such as fondue, where a pot is set in the middle of the table for each person to dip into.


Premise: What are three aspects of the environment of southern Europe that can be used to distinguish the region?

Hypothesis: Different methods can be used to define southern Europe, including its political, economic, and cultural attributes.


Premise: When is the railgun expected to be ready?

Hypothesis: It is expected to be ready in 2020 to 2025.[verification needed]


Premise: Where is Pentecostalism currently growing the most?

Hypothesis: There are over 279 million Pentecostals worldwide, and the movement is growing in many parts of the world, especially the global South.


Premise: In 1838, who was not pleased of their lack of power in Syria?

Hypothesis: In 1838 the situation was slightly the same as in 1831.


Premise: Which religious belief is most prevelant in Swaziland?

Hypothesis: Anglican, Protestant and indigenous African churches, including African Zionist, constitute the majority of the Christians (40%), followed by Roman Catholicism at 20% of the population.


Premise: Furniture and fittings were brought over from which house?

Hypothesis: The original early 19th-century interior designs, many of which survive, include widespread use of brightly coloured scagliola and blue and pink lapis, on the advice of Sir Charles Long.


Premise: Governments grant permission to market drugs after how many years?

Hypothesis: However, only after rigorous study and testing, which takes 10 to 15 years on average, will governmental authorities grant permission for the company to market and sell the drug.


Premise: How do some locomotives function in order to be more flexible in operation?

Hypothesis: Selection of an electrification system is based on economics of energy supply, maintenance, and capital cost compared to the revenue obtained for freight and passenger traffic.


Premise: Low insect sounds are made by the insect's what?

Hypothesis: Through microscopic stridulatory structures located on the insect's muscles and joints, the normal sounds of the insect moving are amplified and can be used to warn or communicate with other insects.


Premise: What other divisions can be made of dialects?

Hypothesis: Each dialect can be further subdivided in several subdialects.


Premise: What side is a phonetic indicator located on?

Hypothesis: In this case it can be seen that the pronunciation of the character is slightly different from that of its phonetic indicator; the process of historical phonetic change means that the composition of such characters can sometimes seem arbitrary today.


Premise: What is notable about the moon Proteus?

Hypothesis: Because Neptune was the Roman god of the sea, Neptune's moons have been named after lesser sea gods.


Premise: What is the origin of the word "orange"?

Hypothesis: Thus, the Thai word เขียว besides meaning "green" also means "rank" and "smelly" and holds other unpleasant associations.


Premise: What was the first BeiDou system called?

Hypothesis: It has been offering navigation services, mainly for customers in China and neighboring regions, since 2000.


Premise: How many vets participated in the protest?

Hypothesis: The day after this testimony, Kerry participated in a demonstration with thousands of other veterans in which he and other Vietnam War veterans threw their medals and service ribbons over a fence erected at the front steps of the United States Capitol building to dramatize their opposition to the war.


Premise: What is available in Shimla and district headquarters?

Hypothesis: All major English daily newspapers are available in Shimla and district headquarters.


Premise: How far from the center of London is London Heathrow Airport?

Hypothesis: The effect of this can be seen below when comparing London Heathrow, 15 miles west of London, with the London Weather Centre, in the city centre.


Premise: How much a  Myanmar's boundaries are encompassed by beachfront lands?

Hypothesis: One-third of Myanmar's total perimeter of 1,930 km (1,200 miles) forms an uninterrupted coastline along the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea.


Premise: Who wrote Anarchy, State, and Utopia?

Hypothesis: In Anglo-American academic political philosophy, the publication of John Rawls's A Theory of Justice in 1971 is considered a milestone.


Premise: Before the code change was enacted what was the only permitted hydraulic cylinder type?

Hypothesis: The code previously permitted only single-bottom hydraulic cylinders.


Premise: For what area are a new boathouse and dock being planned?

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: What began replacing hunting-gathering at the end of the Mesolithic period?

Hypothesis: It remained the only mode of subsistence until the end of the Mesolithic period some 10,000 years ago, and after this was replaced only gradually with the spread of the Neolithic Revolution.


Premise: What is the time of lowest temperature for evening type young adults?

Hypothesis: This minimum occurred at approximately the middle of the eight hour sleep period for morning types, but closer to waking in evening types.


Premise: What city was FIFA formed?

Hypothesis: The Board was formed in 1886 after a meeting in Manchester of The Football Association, the Scottish Football Association, the Football Association of Wales, and the Irish Football Association.


Premise: When did Nigeria launch a bone marrow donation program?

Hypothesis: In 2012, a new bone marrow donor program was launched by the University of Nigeria to help people with leukaemia, lymphoma, or sickle cell disease to find a compatible donor for a life-saving bone marrow transplant, which cures them of their conditions.


Premise: All supernatural aspects were removed from which Thomas Paine work?

Hypothesis: Attempts to reconcile science and religion resulted in a widespread rejection of prophecy, miracle and revealed religion in preference for Deism – especially by Thomas Paine in The Age of Reason and by Thomas Jefferson in his short Jefferson Bible – from which all supernatural aspects were removed.


Premise: A 2013 study estimates that what percentage of Ashkenazi maternal ancestry comes from women from the Near East?

Hypothesis: According to the study these findings "point to a significant role for the conversion of women in the formation of Ashkenazi communities."


Premise: How many photographs are in BYU's Museum of Peoples and Cultures?

Hypothesis: Home to more than 40,000 artifacts and 50,000 photographs, it documents BYU's archaeological research.


Premise: How many seats did Labour win in 2010?

Hypothesis: The Conservatives with 36.5% of the vote won the largest number of seats (307), but no party had an overall majority, meaning that Labour could still remain in power if they managed to form a coalition with at least one smaller party.


Premise: What type of engine did GE bring to market as part of its Ecoimagination project?

Hypothesis: GE has said that it will invest $1.4 billion in clean technology research and development in 2008 as part of its Ecomagination initiative.


Premise: The Greek national basketball team held what world ranking in 2012?

Hypothesis: As of 2012, it ranked 4th in the world and 2nd in Europe.


Premise: Cells that detect and transmit pain are called what?

Hypothesis: Although nociception has been demonstrated in insects, there is no consensus that insects feel pain consciously


Premise: What idea did Sigmund Freud bring to the table?

Hypothesis: Innate bisexuality is an idea introduced by Sigmund Freud.


Premise: Which member of the Han Empire was sent to Daqin in AD 97?

Hypothesis: In addition to tributary relations with the Kushans, the Han Empire received gifts from the Parthian Empire, from a king in modern Burma, from a ruler in Japan, and initiated an unsuccessful mission to Daqin (Rome) in AD 97 with Gan Ying as emissary.


Premise: What are bacteria doing that makes them not work as well?

Hypothesis: However, some bacteria are developing antibiotic resistance, particularly Shigella.


Premise: What New York street is associated with fashion?

Hypothesis: Several of the city's streets and avenues, like Broadway, Wall Street, Madison Avenue, and Seventh Avenue are also used as metonyms for national industries there: the theater, finance, advertising, and fashion organizations, respectively.


Premise: An area of 187th Street serves as the main shopping district for which neighborhood?

Hypothesis: The street is interrupted by a long set of stairs east of Fort Washington Avenue leading to the Broadway valley.


Premise: When did the Russian Parliament ratify the Belavezha Accords?

Hypothesis: On December 12, the agreement was ratified by the Russian Parliament, therefore Russian SFSR denounced the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR and de facto declared Russia's independence from the USSR.


Premise: Modern dog breeds are what type of classification which is maintained by modern kennel clubs?

Hypothesis: Modern dog breeds are non-scientific classifications of dogs kept by modern kennel clubs.


Premise: A440 in linear pitch are what size?

Hypothesis: The system is flexible enough to include "microtones" not found on standard piano keyboards.


Premise: What year did Newell show up at Sony's EC3 press conference to take back what he said about PS3?

Hypothesis: At Sony's E3 2010 press conference, Newell made a live appearance to recant his previous statements, citing Sony's move to make the system more developer friendly, and to announce that Valve would be developing Portal 2 for the system.


Premise: Which Orthodox leaders are free to adapt canon as required?

Hypothesis: Some Orthodox canon scholars point out that, had the Ecumenical Councils (which deliberated in Greek) meant for the canons to be used as laws, they would have called them nómoi/νόμοι (laws) rather than kanónes/κανόνες (rules), but almost all Orthodox conform to them.


Premise: In terms of economy and geographic landscape what is the used for the two trop rocks ridges north nearby the city?

Hypothesis: New Haven's best-known geographic features are its large deep harbor, and two reddish basalt trap rock ridges which rise to the northeast and northwest of the city core.


Premise: Who is TrainOSE a subsidiary of?

Hypothesis: Most of the country's network is standard gauge (1,565 km), while the country also has 983 km of narrow gauge.


Premise: The largest sector of Greece's economy is what?

Hypothesis: Important Greek industries include tourism (with 14.9 million international tourists in 2009, it is ranked as the 7th most visited country in the European Union and 16th in the world by the United Nations World Tourism Organization) and merchant shipping (at 16.2% of the world's total capacity, the Greek merchant marine is the largest in the world), while the country is also a considerable agricultural producer (including fisheries) within the union.


Premise: Who was the leader of Egypt at the time of the Suez Crisis?

Hypothesis: In November 1956, Eisenhower forced an end to the combined British, French and Israeli invasion of Egypt in response to the Suez Crisis, receiving praise from Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser.


Premise: Through what time period did the Vietnam war last?

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


Premise: What law did Obama cite on Sep 9, 2014?

Hypothesis: On 9 September 2014 President Obama said that he had the authority he needed to take action to destroy the militant group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, citing the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists, and thus did not require additional approval from Congress.


Premise: Opera began to differentiate itself from earlier forms as what?

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


Premise: Who was in conflict with the prince bishopric

Hypothesis: When the Frankish rulers established the system of feudalism, the Bishops of Utrecht came to exercise worldly power as prince-bishops.


Premise: A secretive army installation began in Kummersdorf-West in what year?

Hypothesis: Wernher von Braun, a young engineering prodigy, was recruited by Becker and Dornberger to join their secret army program at Kummersdorf-West in 1932.


Premise: What school in London shares the rank of 2nd best in the world with the famous University of Cambridge in the 2014-2015 World University Rankings?

Hypothesis: In the 2014/15 QS World University Rankings, Imperial College London is ranked joint 2nd in the world (alongside The University of Cambridge), University College London (UCL) is ranked 5th, and King's College London (KCL) is ranked 16th.


Premise: Cleopatra, Arsinoe or Berenice were common names for whom?

Hypothesis: The most famous member of the line was the last queen, Cleopatra VII, known for her role in the Roman political battles between Julius Caesar and Pompey, and later between Octavian and Mark Antony.


Premise: Between what two years did Picasso paint La Famille de Saltimbanques and Les Demoiselles d'Avignon?

Hypothesis: Picasso, living in Montmartre, painted his famous La Famille de Saltimbanques and Les Demoiselles d'Avignon between 1905 and 1907.


Premise: What climate classification does the Sichuan Basin hold?

Hypothesis: Due to great differences in terrain, the climate of the province is highly variable.


Premise: What is the cause of lock grooves on vinyl records?

Hypothesis: In extreme cases, they can cause the needle to skip over a series of grooves, or worse yet, cause the needle to skip backwards, creating a "locked groove" that repeats over and over.


Premise: What island is the borough of Brooklyn located on?

Hypothesis: This situation of boroughs separated by water led to the development of an extensive infrastructure of bridges and tunnels.


Premise: Do lifestyle changes definitely have an affect on long term memory?

Hypothesis: A UCLA research study published in the June 2006 issue of the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry found that people can improve cognitive function and brain efficiency through simple lifestyle changes such as incorporating memory exercises, healthy eating, physical fitness and stress reduction into their daily lives.


Premise: Who were Frankie Knuckles and ron hardy?

Hypothesis: Marshall Jefferson, who would later appear with the Chicago house classic


Premise: When were the militias in Bermuda disbanded?

Hypothesis: Once the Royal Navy established a base and dockyard defended by regular soldiers, however, the militias were disbanded following the War of 1812.


Premise: In what structure did Lee surrender to Grant?

Hypothesis: General Lee continued to reject General Grant's surrender suggestion until Sheridan's infantry and cavalry appeared in front of his retreating army on April 8.


Premise: What biographer said Queen Victoria wrote an average of 2500 words a day in her journals?

Hypothesis: From July 1832 until just before her death, she kept a detailed journal, which eventually encompassed 122 volumes.


Premise: What is an example of a videophone call program?

Hypothesis: Both videophone calls and videoconferencing are also now commonly referred to as a video link.


Premise: In addition to co-writing credits, Beyoncé also got what credits for most of her albums?

Hypothesis: Beyoncé has also received co-producing credits for most of the records in which she has been involved, especially during her solo efforts.


Premise: How long is Portugal's total road network?

Hypothesis: Today, the country has a 68,732 km (42,708 mi) road network, of which almost 3,000 km (1,864 mi) are part of system of 44 motorways.


Premise: Along with red and blue, what is the third visible color channel?

Hypothesis: The infrared channel, in combination with the other channels, is used to detect the location of scratches and dust.


Premise: What company owns TCM and Warner Bros.?

Hypothesis: Turner Classic Movies is a dedicated film channel and is available in United States, United Kingdom, France (TCM Cinéma), Spain (TCM España), Nordic countries, Middle East and Africa.


Premise: What is the archaeological period of the Mauryan Empire?

Hypothesis: Archaeologically, this period falls into the era of Northern Black Polished Ware (NBPW).


Premise: What were these embargoes called by the Japanese media?

Hypothesis: In Japan, the government and nationalists viewed these embargos as acts of aggression; imported oil made up about 80% of domestic consumption, without which Japan's economy, let alone its military, would grind to a halt.


Premise: Under whom did the Secunderabad Club and the Nizam Club form?

Hypothesis: In more recent times, motorsports has become popular with the Andhra Pradesh Motor Sports Club organising popular events such as the Deccan ¼ Mile Drag, TSD Rallies and 4x4 off-road rallying.


Premise: What is the natural gas condensate used to dilute bitumen?

Hypothesis: Because of the difficulty of moving crude bitumen through pipelines, non-upgraded bitumen is usually diluted with natural-gas condensate in a form called dilbit or with synthetic crude oil, called synbit.


Premise: What architectural style was the 1919 Broad Street Union Station constructed in?

Hypothesis: On Boulevard proper are the Virginia Historical Society and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, lending their name to what is sometimes called the Museum District.


Premise: When did Obama launch airstrikes on ISIS?

Hypothesis: On 9 September 2014 President Obama said that he had the authority he needed to take action to destroy the militant group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, citing the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists, and thus did not require additional approval from Congress.


Premise: Around 70 BC, Arachosia and what other region where taken over by tribal invasion?

Hypothesis: Around 70 BC, the western regions of Arachosia and Paropamisadae were lost to tribal invasions, presumably by those tribes responsible for the end of the Bactrian kingdom.


Premise: How did troops react to the missile?

Hypothesis: The paper explained that it was 'sponsoring' the missile by contributing to the eventual victory party on HMS Invincible when the war ended.


Premise: How many of the main Mexican airlines are based in Mexico City?

Hypothesis: In the Mexico City airport, the government engaged in an extensive restructuring program that includes the addition of a new second terminal, which began operations in 2007, and the enlargement of four other airports (at the nearby cities of Toluca, Querétaro, Puebla and Cuernavaca) that, along with Mexico City's airport, comprise the Grupo Aeroportuario del Valle de México, distributing traffic to different regions in Mexico.


Premise: What was once an indicator of the devices creator?

Hypothesis: 2N2222A in a plastic case (but a PN108 is a plastic version of a BC108, not a 2N108, while the PN100 is unrelated to other xx100 devices).


Premise: What is Brasilia's GDP per capita in US dollars?

Hypothesis: Among major Latin American cities, Brasília has the highest GDP per capita at R$61,915 (US$36,175).


Premise: Today, Mexico accounts for what percentage of Mennonites in Latin America?

Hypothesis: Today, Mexico accounts for about 42% of all Mennonites in Latin America.


Premise: What alcohol was regarded as evil when compared to beer?

Hypothesis: The freely available beer was thus intended to wean the drinkers off the evils of gin, or so the thinking went.


Premise: When was the airport expected to be fully functional?

Hypothesis: Expected to be fully operational early 2016, it is expected to help the island towards self-sufficiency and encourage economic development, reducing dependence on British government aid.


Premise: Which Turkish Cypriot writer has been nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature twice?

Hypothesis: Dimitris Lipertis, Vasilis Michaelides and Pavlos Liasides are folk poets who wrote poems mainly in the Cypriot-Greek dialect.


Premise: Up to what wavelength does the human eye perceive IR LED sources as red?

Hypothesis: However, particularly intense near-IR light (e.g., from IR lasers, IR LED sources, or from bright daylight with the visible light removed by colored gels) can be detected up to approximately 780 nm, and will be perceived as red light.


Premise: Where did the Reading operate out of?

Hypothesis: The two systems today, for the most part still intact but now connected, operate as a single system under the control of the SEPTA, the regional transit authority.


Premise: During the 19th century was there any advocates for the working children?

Hypothesis: Lord Shaftesbury was an outspoken advocate of regulating child labour.


Premise: What did Macintosh clones succeed in increasing for Macintosh?

Hypothesis: This succeeded in increasing the Macintosh's market share somewhat, and provided cheaper hardware for consumers, but hurt Apple financially as existing Apple customers began to buy cheaper clones which cannibalized the sales of Apple's higher-margin Macintosh systems, yet Apple still shouldered the burden of developing the Mac OS platform.


Premise: When did Bantu immigrate to Namibia?

Hypothesis: In 1920, the League of Nations mandated the country to South Africa, which imposed its laws and, from 1948, its apartheid policy.


Premise: How many bird species have been driven to extinction in Guam?

Hypothesis: Today the flycatcher is entirely extinct while the Guam rail is extinct in the wild but bred in captivity by the Division of Aquatic and Wildlife Resources.


Premise: When was the National Gallery constructed?

Hypothesis: Wilkins and Robert Smirke went on to build some of the most important buildings of the era, including the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden (1808–09), the General Post Office (1824–29) and the British Museum (1823–48), Wilkins University College London (1826–30) and the National Gallery (1832–38).


Premise: How many people died as a result of the MVD and NAA clash in 1918?

Hypothesis: The violence resulted in the deaths of five Armenians killed in a shootout with the MVD at the railway station.


Premise: What city is Dell's New Hampshire facility in?

Hypothesis: Facilities located abroad include Penang, Malaysia; Xiamen, China; Bracknell, UK; Manila, Philippines Chennai, India; Hyderabad, India; Noida, India; Hortolandia and Porto Alegre, Brazil; Bratislava, Slovakia; Łódź, Poland; Panama City, Panama; Dublin and Limerick, Ireland; and Casablanca, Morocco.


Premise: Mimicry is used to do what to potential enemies?

Hypothesis: Another defense that often uses color or shape to deceive potential enemies is mimicry.


Premise: To what body was Eisenhower assigned after Pearl Harbor was attacked?

Hypothesis: He was appointed Deputy Chief in charge of Pacific Defenses under the Chief of War Plans Division (WPD), General Leonard T. Gerow, and then succeeded Gerow as Chief of the War Plans Division.


Premise: Where are most of the trees located in Mexico City?

Hypothesis: The entire lake bed is now paved over and most of the city's remaining forested areas lie in the southern boroughs of Milpa Alta, Tlalpan and Xochimilco.


Premise: Who is the Brazilian Prime Minister for racial equality?

Hypothesis: The bitter and sometimes violent racial tensions that have divided the US are notably absent in Brazil.


Premise: When was Brussels Town Hall built?

Hypothesis: This kind of expressions of secular and economic power are also found in other late mediaeval commercial cities, including the Llotja de la Seda of Valencia, Spain, a purpose built silk exchange dating from the 15th century, in the partial remains of Westminster Hall in the Houses of Parliament in London, or the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena, Italy, a 13th-century town hall built to host the offices of the then prosperous republic of Siena.


Premise: When was the mosaic at Saint Catherine's Monastery created?

Hypothesis: The mosaic was probably created in 565/6.


Premise: How many people arrived without an invitation?

Hypothesis: Over 3,000 people arrived without invitations, from as far as London, Berlin and Vienna, and were excluded.


Premise: When was Government phonology first seen?

Hypothesis: Government phonology, which originated in the early 1980s as an attempt to unify theoretical notions of syntactic and phonological structures, is based on the notion that all languages necessarily follow a small set of principles and vary according to their selection of certain binary parameters.


Premise: If prisoners use federal habeas corpus to present evidence that they're innocent, what must the evidence be?

Hypothesis: Federal habeas corpus is a species of collateral review, and it is the only way that state prisoners may attack a death sentence in federal court (other than petitions for certiorari to the United States Supreme Court after both direct review and state collateral review).


Premise: Which sister did Frédéric play duets with sometimes while being tutored at this time?

Hypothesis: Fryderyk may have had some piano instruction from his mother, but his first professional music tutor, from 1816 to 1821, was the Czech pianist Wojciech Żywny.


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

Hypothesis: Additionally, foundation and ramp work to widen I-95 to create a new harbor crossing for New Haven, with an extradosed bridge to replace the 1950s-era Q Bridge, has begun.


Premise: Describe the command of Field Marshall James Keith

Hypothesis: Meanwhile, Frederick and Field Marshal Keith would make for Dresden.


Premise: When did Hong Taiji die?

Hypothesis: The leading contenders for power at this time were Hong Taiji's oldest son Hooge and Hong Taiji' half brother Dorgon.


Premise: In what year did the Russians leave Wallachia and Moldavia?

Hypothesis: However, war fever among the public in both the UK and France had been whipped up by the press in both countries to the degree that politicians found it untenable to propose ending the war at this point.


Premise: Which river flows through the Sichuan Basin?

Hypothesis: The Yangtze River and its tributaries flows through the mountains of western Sichuan and the Sichuan Basin; thus, the province is upstream of the great cities that stand along the Yangtze River further to the east, such as Chongqing, Wuhan, Nanjing and Shanghai.


Premise: Who felt Europe would not object to the joining of neighboring Ottoman provinces?

Hypothesis: Now Russia used the Sultan's failure to resolve the issue of the protection of the Christian sites in the Holy Land as a pretext for Russian occupation of these Danubian provinces.


Premise: Where do the majority of FA cup finals take place?

Hypothesis: The other London venues were Stamford Bridge from 1920 to 1922 (the last three finals before the move to Empire Stadium); and Oxford University's Lillie Bridge in Fulham for the second ever final, in 1873.


Premise: This speed holds what record?

Hypothesis: The high-speed observation deck elevators accelerate to a world-record certified speed of 1,010 metres per minute (61 km/h) in 16 seconds, and then it slows down for arrival with subtle air pressure sensations.


Premise: What did historians say that naturalists generally thought about the differences in variations in a species?

Hypothesis: In Chapter II, Darwin specifies that the distinction between species and varieties is arbitrary, with experts disagreeing and changing their decisions when new forms were found.


Premise: Who has executive authority in Saint Helena?

Hypothesis: Executive authority in Saint Helena is vested in Queen Elizabeth II and is exercised on her behalf by the Governor of Saint Helena.


Premise: Beyonce was speaking about whom when she said her gift was "finding the best qualities in every human being."?

Hypothesis: Beyoncé became an ambassador for the 2012 World Humanitarian Day campaign donating her song "I Was Here" and its music video, shot in the UN, to the campaign.


Premise: What is it about the mine that is unusual?

Hypothesis: The rock asphalt is found in the form of veins, filling cracks in a more or less horizontal direction.


Premise: What prize did Von Neuman win at the conclusion of his gymansium formal education?

Hypothesis: Although Max insisted von Neumann attend school at the grade level appropriate to his age, he agreed to hire private tutors to give him advanced instruction in those areas in which he had displayed an aptitude.


Premise: What percentage of TB cases in America are diagnosed in minority groups?

Hypothesis: In 2007, the country with the highest estimated incidence rate of TB was Swaziland, with 1,200 cases per 100,000 people.


Premise: Were other mathematicians amazed by von Neumann?

Hypothesis: Von Neumann's ability to instantaneously perform complex operations in his head stunned other mathematicians.


Premise: Who convinced Paley to buy ARC?

Hypothesis: The Columbia Phonograph Company had international subsidiaries and affiliates such as the Columbia Graphophone Company in the United Kingdom, but they were sold off prior to CBS acquiring American Columbia.


Premise: What country did Kjell Eugenio Laugerud Garcia lead?

Hypothesis: One notable exception to Yugoslavia's neutral stance toward anti-communist countries was Chile under Pinochet; Yugoslavia was one of many countries which severed diplomatic relations with Chile after Salvador Allende was overthrown.


Premise: The higher-level phylogeny is of the what?

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


Premise: From where did Cerón attempt to cross the Pacific Ocean?

Hypothesis: On September 21, 1529, Álvaro de Saavedra Cerón commanded the Spanish ship Florida, on his second attempt to recross the Pacific from the Maluku Islands.


Premise: What languages were Von Neumann and his siblings taught?

Hypothesis: Instead, governesses taught von Neumann, his brothers and his cousins.


Premise: Which interstate directly connects the east with the Arizona Sun Corridor and Imperial County?

Hypothesis: This includes Interstate 5, which runs south to Tijuana and north to Los Angeles; Interstate 8, which runs east to Imperial County and the Arizona Sun Corridor; Interstate 15, which runs northeast through the Inland Empire to Las Vegas and Salt Lake City; and Interstate 805, which splits from I-5 near the Mexican border and rejoins I-5 at Sorrento Valley.


Premise: What languages use the passive voice more than Catalan?

Hypothesis: This allows the placement of almost any nominal term as a sentence topic, without having to use so often the passive voice (as in French or English), or identifying the direct object with a preposition (as in Spanish).


Premise: How much of Pakistan's GDP came from Punjab in 2000?

Hypothesis: Punjab has the largest economy in Pakistan, contributing most to the national GDP.


Premise: Who was threatened by Nationalism?

Hypothesis: Germans, for the most part, had been a loose and disunited people since the Reformation when the Holy Roman Empire was shattered into a patchwork of states.


Premise: What happened to Eannatum's empire after his death?

Hypothesis: His empire collapsed shortly after his death.


Premise: Where could one find a large population of gut flora?

Hypothesis: They are essential to digestion and are also affected by food that is consumed.


Premise: What is one type of adaptive immune system component?

Hypothesis: The immune system has been divided into a more primitive innate immune system and, in vertebrates, an acquired or adaptive immune system.


Premise: What releases sperm from annelids?

Hypothesis: The fertilized eggs develop into trochophore larvae, which live as plankton.


Premise: When was prime minister first mentioned in a government document in the UK?

Hypothesis: Though it had de facto existed for centuries, its first mention in official state documents did not occur until the first decade of the twentieth century.


Premise: In later writings, what did Claudius Ptolemy called the British Isles?

Hypothesis: In his later work, Geography (c. 150 AD), he gave these islands the names Alwion, Iwernia, and Mona (the Isle of Man), suggesting these may have been names of the individual islands not known to him at the time of writing Almagest.


Premise: ARPA is now known as what?

Hypothesis: The technologies that made the Arpanet possible spread and evolved.


Premise: What is the kitab al-Shifa?

Hypothesis: However Anawati argues (following Ruska) that the de Anima is a fake by a Spanish author.


Premise: What is another term for Middle Persian?

Hypothesis: The script used for Middle Persian in this era underwent significant maturity.