Premise: When did the Classical learning revival begin?

Hypothesis: There was still no dividing line between artist, architect and engineer, or any of the related vocations, and the appellation was often one of regional preference.


Premise: What are two events in Minkowski spacetime separated by?

Hypothesis: Different observers may calculate different distances and different time intervals between two events, but the invariant interval between the events is independent of the observer (and his velocity).


Premise: What are some of the equipment used by both men and women?

Hypothesis: The women's uniform is similar in design to the men's uniform, but conforms to the female figure, and is functional and practical.


Premise: What related attraction was at the same site before the Urban Wildlife Centre?

Hypothesis: It has a number of parks and green spaces, the largest being the 148 hectare Southampton Common, parts of which are used to host the annual summer festivals, circuses and fun fairs.


Premise: In what year did Screened Out appear?

Hypothesis: An occasional month-long series, Race and Hollywood, showcases films by and about people of non-white races, featuring discussions of how these pictures influenced white people's image of said races, as well as how people of those races viewed themselves.


Premise: How much did the population grow during the 18th century?

Hypothesis: The most significant fact of early and mid-Qing social history was population growth.


Premise: What part of the iPod Nano was the cause of the overheating issue?

Hypothesis: This is due to a flawed battery used by Apple from a single battery manufacturer.


Premise: Who brought Chinese arts to Japan?

Hypothesis: Zen monks introduced them to Japan and they were allowed to flourish due to the interest of powerful warrior elites.


Premise: In what geographical area did Eisenhower promise to end desegregation in his State of the Union address?

Hypothesis: Eisenhower made clear his stance in his first State of the Union address in February 1953, saying "I propose to use whatever authority exists in the office of the President to end segregation in the District of Columbia, including the Federal Government, and any segregation in the Armed Forces".


Premise: Who argued that the Quran inspired the first practitioners of the scientific method we use today?

Hypothesis: Ziauddin Sardar built a case for Muslims having developed the foundations of modern science, by highlighting the repeated calls of the Quran to observe and reflect upon natural phenomenon.


Premise: What happened to some expressions in Pushkin's writing?

Hypothesis: In fact, many expressions used by Russian writers of the early 19th century, in particular Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov (Михаи́л Ле́рмонтов), Nikolai Gogol (Никола́й Го́голь), Aleksander Griboyedov (Алекса́ндр Грибое́дов), became proverbs or sayings which can be frequently found even in modern Russian colloquial speech.


Premise: When did Boko Haram become active in Nigeria?

Hypothesis: Since 2002, the North East of the country has seen sectarian violence by Boko Haram, an Islamist movement that seeks to abolish the secular system of government and establish Sharia law.


Premise: When was Mavericks introduced?

Hypothesis: It is free of charge to everyone running Snow Leopard or later and is compatible with most Macs from 2007 and later.


Premise: How many times was the torch put out in France die to security concerns?

Hypothesis: Widespread pro-Tibet protests, including an attempt by more than one demonstrator to extinguish the flame with water or fire extinguishers, prompted relay authorities to put out the flame five times (according to the police authorities in Paris) and load the torch onto a bus, at the demand of Chinese officials.


Premise: What did Oskar Morgenstern feel about von Neumann's beliefs?

Hypothesis: Some of von Neumann's friends (such as Abraham Pais and Oskar Morgenstern) said they had always believed him to be "completely agnostic."


Premise: What facet of a foreign people did Rome add to itself to promote order?

Hypothesis: As the Romans extended their dominance throughout the Mediterranean world, their policy in general was to absorb the deities and cults of other peoples rather than try to eradicate them, since they believed that preserving tradition promoted social stability.


Premise: When did the first wave of Humanism reach Europe?

Hypothesis: Paul Johnson agrees that Petrarch was "the first to put into words the notion that the centuries between the fall of Rome and the present had been the age of Darkness".


Premise: What was the approximate population of London children aged 0 to 15 years at the time of the 2011 census?

Hypothesis: In January 2005, a survey of London's ethnic and religious diversity claimed that there were more than 300 languages spoken in London and more than 50 non-indigenous communities with a population of more than 10,000.


Premise: What gives another symmetry function?

Hypothesis: Composing two of these symmetry functions gives another symmetry function.


Premise: How were the Ghaznavids different from the original Turkics that migrated into Iran?

Hypothesis: The Seljuks subsequently gave rise to the Sultanate of Rum in Anatolia, while taking their thoroughly Persianized identity with them.


Premise: What has begun pressuring department stores in more recent years?

Hypothesis: Since 2010, they have come under even heavier pressure from online stores such as Amazon.


Premise: Who discovered Triton?

Hypothesis: Triton was discovered by William Lassell just 17 days after the discovery of Neptune itself.


Premise: Where do brushes get their power?

Hypothesis: Current flows through one or more pairs of brushes that bear on the commutator; the brushes connect an external source of electric power to the rotating armature.


Premise: In what year did Montini travel to visit Africa as a cardinal?

Hypothesis: As a Cardinal, Montini journeyed to Africa (1962), where he visited Ghana, Sudan, Kenya, Congo, Rhodesia, South Africa, and Nigeria.


Premise: In what kind of area did forest gardening start?

Hypothesis: Forest gardening was also being used as a food production system in various parts of the world over this period.


Premise: What is it referred to when more and more of energy becomes trapped in irreversible states?

Hypothesis: As the universe evolves in time, more and more of its energy becomes trapped in irreversible states (i.e., as heat or other kinds of increases in disorder).


Premise: What did a universitas have in common with similar guilds?

Hypothesis: The original Latin word "universitas" refers in general to "a number of persons associated into one body, a society, company, community, guild, corporation, etc."


Premise: Who had now been appointed as a military advisor to the emperor of Seleucid?

Hypothesis: The situation was made worse by the fact that Hannibal was now a chief military advisor to the Seleucid emperor, and the two were believed to be planning an outright conquest not just of Greece, but of Rome itself.


Premise: How can Educational psychology in part be understood?

Hypothesis: Educational psychology can in part be understood through its relationship with other disciplines.


Premise: What NASA program benefited from the use of decision science applications?

Hypothesis: The program provided the foundation for decision science applications supporting NASA Project Apollo Command Capsule Recovery Operations.


Premise: In which century can the term "buck" be traced back to?

Hypothesis: This term, dating to the 18th century, may have originated with the colonial leather trade.


Premise: What category of trees show this difference greatly?

Hypothesis: Since the latewood of a growth ring is usually darker in color than the earlywood, this fact may be used in judging the density, and therefore the hardness and strength of the material.


Premise: Electronic theft of data is causing more loss than what?

Hypothesis: The primary obstacle to effective eradication of cyber crime could be traced to excessive reliance on firewalls and other automated "detection" systems.


Premise: What language do the Yi people speak?

Hypothesis: The Qiang speak Qiangic languages and often Tibetic languages as well.


Premise: What might Neptune's rings consist of?

Hypothesis: Neptune has a planetary ring system, though one much less substantial than that of Saturn.


Premise: Why were the shelters soon abandoned in 1940?

Hypothesis: Much civil-defence preparation in the form of shelters was left in the hands of local authorities, and many areas such as Birmingham, Coventry, Belfast and the East End of London did not have enough shelters.


Premise: Along with Grimm's law, what's the other rule for Germanic-sounding speech called?

Hypothesis: All Germanic languages are united by subjection to the sound shifts of Grimm's law and Verner's law which originated in the Proto-Germanic language and define the basic differentiating features from other Indo-European languages.


Premise: Which bridge in NYC is the busiest in the world?

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


Premise: What is Portugal the world's leading producer of?

Hypothesis: Consequently, business services have overtaken more traditional industries such as textiles, clothing, footwear and cork (Portugal is the world's leading cork producer), wood products and beverages.


Premise: What is the population of Jews in the United Kingdom?

Hypothesis: The United Kingdom has a Jewish community of 292,000.


Premise: What is it called when an animal is altered to prevent procreation?

Hypothesis: Neutering refers to the sterilization of animals, usually by removal of the male's testicles or the female's ovaries and uterus, in order to eliminate the ability to procreate and reduce sex drive.


Premise: What do fatty acid monomers that are bound to glycerol backbones make up?

Hypothesis: The fundamental components of protein are nitrogen-containing amino acids, some of which are essential in the sense that humans cannot make them internally.


Premise: What type of project has been started to rebuild the reefs at Tuvalu?

Hypothesis: A reef restoration project has investigated reef restoration techniques; and researchers from Japan have investigated rebuilding the coral reefs through the introduction of foraminifera.


Premise: What two dialects does Western Catalan include?

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


Premise: How many Fortune 500 companies are based in Oklahoma?

Hypothesis: Oklahoma is an important producer of natural gas, aircraft, and food.


Premise: On which street is the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center located?

Hypothesis: 35th Street runs from FDR Drive to Eleventh Avenue.


Premise: What act finally broke the power of the aristocracy?

Hypothesis: This was the final stroke that broke the power of the aristocracy.


Premise: How long have humans used domsticated poultry ?

Hypothesis: Domesticated chickens may have been used for cockfighting at first and quail kept for their songs, but soon it was realised how useful it was having a captive-bred source of food.


Premise: Who is a god of plague?

Hypothesis: The role of Apollo as god of plague is evident in the invocation of Apollo Smintheus ("mouse Apollo") by Chryses, the Trojan priest of Apollo, with the purpose of sending a plague against the Greeks (the reasoning behind a god of the plague becoming a god of healing is of course apotropaic, meaning that the god responsible for bringing the plague must be appeased in order to remove the plague).


Premise: What apartment store in Paris was closed in 2005?

Hypothesis: The first department store in France, Le Bon Marché in Paris, was founded in 1852 and is now owned by the luxury goods conglomerate LVMH.


Premise: What is used as a warning against intermarriage between Jews and Canaanites?

Hypothesis: Leviticus 24:10 says that the son in a marriage between a Hebrew woman and an Egyptian man is "of the community of Israel.


Premise: What is common apparel in lucha libre?

Hypothesis: Some can be unrealistic and cartoon-like (such as Doink the Clown), while others carry more verisimilitude and can be seen as exaggerated versions of the performer's real life personality (such as Chris Jericho, The Rock, John Cena, Stone Cold Steve Austin, and CM Punk).


Premise: Who was the head of MCA in 1990?

Hypothesis: Anxious to expand the company's broadcast and cable presence, longtime MCA head Lew Wasserman sought a rich partner.


Premise: What was the pass into the capital known as?

Hypothesis: About 20 miles (32 km) north of the capital where two mountain ranges join from east to west is the only pass into the capital; known as Sacramento Pass, this point is now part of present-day Chihuahua City.


Premise: When was a rival foothold  attempted at Bolama?

Hypothesis: But by the 19th century the Portuguese were sufficiently secure in Bissau to regard the neighbouring coastline as their own special territory, also up north in part of present South Senegal.


Premise: Which congregations joined the Second Great Awakening the most after 1820?

Hypothesis: After 1820, membership rose rapidly among Baptist and Methodist congregations, whose preachers led the movement.


Premise: What did Russia do between 1864-1885?

Hypothesis: Between 1864 and 1885 Russia gradually took control of the entire territory of Russian Turkestan, the Tajikistan portion of which had been controlled by the Emirate of Bukhara and Khanate of Kokand.


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

Hypothesis: However, this was put on hold so she could concentrate on recording Destiny Fulfilled, the final studio album by Destiny's Child.


Premise: Which entity runs Nigeria's bone marrow donation program?

Hypothesis: Nigeria became the second African country to have successfully carried out this surgery.


Premise: Which individuals usually approved charters for universitas?

Hypothesis: Like other guilds, they were self-regulating and determined the qualifications of their members.


Premise: In 2009, what percentage of the population was Hispanic?

Hypothesis: The estimated city population in 2009 was 1,306,300.


Premise: What individuals founded Internet Archive?

Hypothesis: It was set up by Brewster Kahle and Bruce Gilliat, and is maintained with content from Alexa Internet.


Premise: When did Route 66 begin?

Hypothesis: In 1927, Oklahoman businessman Cyrus Avery, known as the "Father of Route 66", began the campaign to create U.S. Route 66.


Premise: Which musical style did ars nova replace in the 14th century?

Hypothesis: Prominent reformer of Orthodox Church music from the first half of 14th century was John Kukuzelis; he also introduced a system of notation widely used in the Balkans in the following centuries.


Premise: What is the format for co-education for women in madaris?

Hypothesis: Madaris may enroll female students; however, they study separately from the men.[citation needed]


Premise: What form are Chopin's mazurkas and waltzes in?

Hypothesis: The mazurkas often show more folk features than many of his other works, sometimes including modal scales and harmonies and the use of drone basses.


Premise: What as a drawback of previous connectors?

Hypothesis: Because USB is hot-pluggable, the connectors would be used more frequently, and perhaps with less care, than other connectors.


Premise: What was going on at Harvard University during the 2003 - 04 academic year?

Hypothesis: One Harvard student, born in the South Bronx to a black family whose ancestors have been in the United States for multiple generations, said that there were so few Harvard students from the historic African American community that they took to calling themselves "the descendants" (i.e., descendants of American slaves).


Premise: In what legislation was the term "eagle" used?

Hypothesis: The term eagle was used in the Coinage Act of 1792 for the denomination of ten dollars, and subsequently was used in naming gold coins.


Premise: What animal was found, through DNA testing, to pre-date the arrival of humans to the archipelago?

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


Premise: How did Darwin change the grouping pioneered by Linnaeus?

Hypothesis: Modern taxonomy is rooted in the work of Carl Linnaeus, who grouped species according to shared physical characteristics.


Premise: What is the predominant religion of Switzerland?

Hypothesis: There has been a recent rise in Evangelicalism.


Premise: What are groupings of similar plants?

Hypothesis: Plants depend on certain edaphic (soil) and climatic factors in their environment but can modify these factors too.


Premise: What had caused Victoria to be lame?

Hypothesis: Rheumatism in her legs had rendered her lame, and her eyesight was clouded by cataracts.


Premise: Which denomination of Christianity is more common in the eastern part of Mediterranean Europe?

Hypothesis: , Greece, Macedonia — are generally Greek Orthodox.


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

Hypothesis: , "Kansas Song", "Sunflower Song", "Crimson and the Blue", "Red and Blue", the "Rock Chalk, Jayhawk" chant", "Home on the Range" and "Stand Up and Cheer."


Premise: What is found by dividing size of repetitive DNA by length of total genome?

Hypothesis: There are two categories of repetitive DNA in genome: tandem repeats and interspersed repeats.


Premise: What allows a person to direct their browser to a resource?

Hypothesis: Hyperlinks present in resources enable users easily to navigate their browsers to related resources.


Premise: Portugese and British troops fought against the invasion of which country?

Hypothesis: However, the King of Portugal remained in Brazil until the Liberal Revolution of 1820, which started in Porto, demanded his return to Lisbon in 1821.


Premise: What blockade against Japan  was to be improved on?

Hypothesis: The goal was to get close to Japan itself, then launch massive strategic air attacks, improve the submarine blockade, and finally (only if necessary) execute an invasion.


Premise: What resolution did Microsoft come to in their certificiation guidelines?

Hypothesis: Microsoft's philosophy is to provide customers with the best experience first, and allow them to make decisions themselves.


Premise: In the Bermuda land mass, how many islands are named "Long Island"?

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


Premise: By the 18th century which languages was Vasaris book translated in?

Hypothesis: Leon Battista Alberti, who elaborates on the ideas of Vitruvius in his treatise, De Re Aedificatoria, saw beauty primarily as a matter of proportion, although ornament also played a part.


Premise: What is the process of making a novel device look like a familiar device?

Hypothesis: It has also been extended to support a wide variety of novel devices as many systems can be controlled with the familiar metaphor of file manipulation within directories.


Premise: When were Israelis evacuated from Gaza Strip?

Hypothesis: In 2011, there were 250,000 Jews living in East Jerusalem.


Premise: What did she also work as for other established artists?

Hypothesis: Madonna later commented that "the episode was a taste of my weakness, it showed me that I still could not save myself in spite of all the strong-girl show.


Premise: Approximately how many active TB cases were there in 2012?

Hypothesis: In 2010, 8.8 million new cases of TB were diagnosed, and 1.20–1.45 million deaths occurred, most of these occurring in developing countries.


Premise: How was Draza executed?

Hypothesis: Yugoslav intelligence was charged with imprisoning and bringing to trial large numbers of Nazi collaborators; controversially, this included Catholic clergymen due to the widespread involvement of Croatian Catholic clergy with the Ustaša regime.


Premise: What does the French constitution state for the language in Aslace?

Hypothesis: The constitution of the Fifth Republic states that French alone is the official language of the Republic.


Premise: What fares do most pubs offer?

Hypothesis: Historically, pubs have been socially and culturally distinct from cafés, bars and German beer halls.


Premise: Reforms to what system increased the power of the house fo commons?

Hypothesis: Reforms of the voting system increased the power of the House of Commons at the expense of the House of Lords and the monarch.


Premise: When was Morrisania created?

Hypothesis: In 1846, a new town, West Farms, was created by division of Westchester; in turn, in 1855, the town of Morrisania was created from West Farms.


Premise: Do adolescents perform significantly better on IQ tests than other age groups?

Hypothesis: Thus, it is during the adolescence-adulthood transition that individuals acquire the type of wisdom that is associated with age.


Premise: What year did the U.S. go to war, leading to wider acceptance of daylight savings?

Hypothesis: After Germany led the way with starting DST (German: Sommerzeit) during World War I on 30 April 1916 together with its allies to alleviate hardships from wartime coal shortages and air raid blackouts, the political equation changed in other countries; the United Kingdom used DST first on 21 May 1916.


Premise: Children under what age often cannot comprehend sarcasm?

Hypothesis: For example, adolescents find it easier than children to comprehend the sorts of higher-order abstract logic inherent in puns, proverbs, metaphors, and analogies.


Premise: Where did the National Sports Museum reopen in 2008?

Hypothesis: It reopened in 2008 in the Olympic Stand.


Premise: When was the political relationship between England and Scotland disputed?

Hypothesis: In the late 12th and early 13th centuries the border and political relationship between England and Scotland was disputed, with the kings of Scotland claiming parts of what is now northern England.


Premise: Who relied on night fighters?

Hypothesis: Dowding had to rely on night fighters.


Premise: How did Edison achieve a higher vacuum than other inventors?

Hypothesis: In addressing the question of who invented the incandescent lamp, historians Robert Friedel and Paul Israel list 22 inventors of incandescent lamps prior to Joseph Swan and Thomas Edison.


Premise: Where did she announce her pregnancy?

Hypothesis: At the end of the performance, she dropped her microphone, unbuttoned her blazer and rubbed her stomach, confirming her pregnancy she had alluded to earlier in the evening.


Premise: Where is the National Museum of Anthropology located?

Hypothesis: Another piece of architecture is the Fine Arts Palace, a white marble theatre/museum whose weight is such that it has gradually been sinking into the soft ground below.


Premise: What job did Schwarzenegger's father want him to pursue?

Hypothesis: My father had wanted me to be a police officer like he was.


Premise: WHen did the Canal de l'Ourcq start providing Paris with water?

Hypothesis: Paris in its early history had only the Seine and Bièvre rivers for water.


Premise: What describes habitat destruction, overkill, introduced species, and secondary extinctions?

Hypothesis: Edward O. Wilson prefers the acronym HIPPO, standing for Habitat destruction, Invasive species, Pollution, human over-Population, and Over-harvesting.


Premise: What instrument fell out of use after the 1760s?

Hypothesis: Brass instruments included the buccin, the ophicleide (a serpent replacement which was the precursor of tuba) and the natural horn.


Premise: Why is Captain Fritz Joubert Duquesne famous?

Hypothesis: In 1942, Col. Duquesne was arrested by the FBI for leading the Duquesne Spy Ring, which still to this day the largest espionage case in the history of the United States.


Premise: How many reported murders were there in 2008?

Hypothesis: In 2008, there were 62 reported homicides.


Premise: By what percent is Yale committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions below 1990 levels by the year 2020?

Hypothesis: Yale is committed to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions 10% below 1990 levels by the year 2020.


Premise: What year were the lacquer doors brought from Brighton?

Hypothesis: This is a Chinese-style saloon enhanced by Queen Mary, who, working with the designer Sir Charles Allom, created a more "binding" Chinese theme in the late 1920s, although the lacquer doors were brought from Brighton in 1873.


Premise: What is the square mile area of Houston?

Hypothesis: According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 656.3 square miles (1,700 km2); this comprises 634.0 square miles (1,642 km2) of land and 22.3 square miles (58 km2) of water.


Premise: What do some non-single-sex polychaetes do?

Hypothesis: In a few species the rear of the body splits off and becomes a separate individual that lives just long enough to swim to a suitable environment, usually near the surface, and spawn.


Premise: What is the easternmost river in Punjab?

Hypothesis: From west to east, these are: the Indus, Jhelum, Beas, Chenab, Ravi and Sutlej.


Premise: While light, the Bofors 40mm were powerful enough to take down what size aircraft?

Hypothesis: These had the power to knock down aircraft of any size, yet were light enough to be mobile and easily swung.


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

Hypothesis: " The 2013 study estimated that 80 percent of Ashkenazi maternal ancestry comes from women indigenous to Europe, and only 8 percent from the Near East, while the origin of the remainder is undetermined.


Premise: What prompted the FBI increase in counter-terrorism?

Hypothesis: Between 1993 and 1996, the FBI increased its counter-terrorism role in the wake of the first 1993 World Trade Center bombing in New York City, New York; the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; and the arrest of the Unabomber in 1996.


Premise: Did the original chieftains maintain power political power?

Hypothesis: The Restored Toungoo kings created a legal and political framework whose basic features would continue well into the 19th century.


Premise: How do conversion factors compare in "low-field" and "high-field" methods of measuring the gyromagnetic ratio?

Hypothesis: In addition, there are two methods of measuring the value, a "low-field" method and a "high-field" method, and the conversion factors are different in the two cases.


Premise: What is another name for Ingvaeonic?

Hypothesis: Old English is a West Germanic language, developing out of Ingvaeonic (also known as North Sea Germanic)


Premise: What was the romance genre of Divan poetry known as?

Hypothesis: There were, however, other common genres, most particularly the mesnevî, a kind of verse romance and thus a variety of narrative poetry; the two most notable examples of this form are the Leyli and Majnun of Fuzûlî and the Hüsn ü


Premise: Is Spain apart of federalism?

Hypothesis: However, strictly speaking Spain is not a federalism, but a decentralized administrative organization of the state.


Premise: The oldest brain found in a cave was from what gender of human?

Hypothesis: The brain, estimated to be over 5,000 years old, was found in the skull of a 12 to 14-year-old girl.


Premise: What was the military rank of Salaad Gabeyre Kediye?

Hypothesis: The SRC subsequently renamed the country the Somali Democratic Republic, dissolved the parliament and the Supreme Court, and suspended the constitution.


Premise: Why may the dominant reading may be the weaker reading?

Hypothesis: A plausible reading that occurs less often may, nevertheless, be the correct one.


Premise: Would the new top division have commerical independence from the Football Association as well as the Football League?

Hypothesis: The argument given at the time was that the extra income would allow English clubs to compete with teams across Europe.


Premise: In what decade did Damásio and LeDoux do notable work?

Hypothesis: Current research[citation needed] suggests that emotion is an essential part of any human decision-making and planning, and the famous distinction made between reason and emotion is not as clear as it seems.


Premise: Electromagnetic fields obey what laws?

Hypothesis: If the object is black, meaning it absorbs all the light that hits it, then its thermal light emission is maximized.


Premise: The hacker re-wrote which element of the program?

Hypothesis: The hacker then reverse-engineered the software, wrote a new user interface, and redistributed it for free, naming it "thank you Fraunhofer"".


Premise: When did the Pregones' new theater open?

Hypothesis: The Bronx is home to several Off-Off-Broadway theaters, many staging new works by immigrant playwrights from Latin America and Africa.


Premise: On what date did John Francis try to shoot Queen Victoria?

Hypothesis: On 3 July, two days after Francis's death sentence was commuted to transportation for life, John William Bean also tried to fire a pistol at the Queen, but it was loaded only with paper and tobacco and had too little charge.


Premise: How did Popper feel about Marxism after only a short time associating with other Marxists?

Hypothesis: Although he quickly became disillusioned with the views expounded by Marxism, his flirtation with the ideology led him to distance himself from those who believed that spilling blood for the sake of a revolution was necessary.


Premise: The British government detained who in Saint Helena?

Hypothesis: He was taken to the island in October 1815.


Premise: Whas was Nasser's position at the military academy in 1943?

Hypothesis: Nasser returned to Sudan in September 1942 after a brief stay in Egypt, then secured a position as an instructor in the Cairo Royal Military Academy in May 1943.


Premise: Where are the Athabasca oil sands located?

Hypothesis: Two smaller but still very large formations occur in the Peace River oil sands and the Cold Lake oil sands, to the west and southeast of the Athabasca oil sands, respectively.


Premise: What popular sport was first played in Namibia in 1995?

Hypothesis: Inline hockey was first played in 1995 and has also become more and more popular in the last years.


Premise: What eliminated comparability?

Hypothesis: Still, it remained difficult for manufactures to reliably determine film speeds, often only by comparing with competing products, so that an increasing number of modified semi-Scheiner-based systems started to spread, which no longer followed Scheiner's original procedures and thereby defeated the idea of comparability.


Premise: What person influenced Feynman to think deeply?

Hypothesis: The young Feynman was heavily influenced by his father, who encouraged him to ask questions to challenge orthodox thinking, and who was always ready to teach Feynman something new.


Premise: What was the main cause of death of the Japanese troops?

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


Premise: What actually happened whenever USB 3.0 was updated?

Hypothesis: A January 2013 press release from the USB group revealed plans to update USB 3.0 to 10 Gbit/s.


Premise: When will organomagnesium halide formation fail?

Hypothesis: In presence of just about any water the formation of the organomagnesium halide will fail, whereas the Barbier reaction can even take place in water.


Premise: Are cell walls of bacteria similar to cell walls of plants and fungi?

Hypothesis: Bacterial cell walls are different from the cell walls of plants and fungi, which are made of cellulose and chitin, respectively.


Premise: What did German officials seize from SanDisk on September 2006?

Hypothesis: The injunction was later reversed by a Berlin judge, but that reversal was in turn blocked the same day by another judge from the same court, "bringing the Patent Wild West to Germany" in the words of one commentator.


Premise: In which year did Whitehead relocate to America?

Hypothesis: In 1918 Whitehead's academic responsibilities began to seriously expand as he accepted a number of high administrative positions within the University of London system, of which Imperial College London was a member at the time.


Premise: What actor performed the role of Archie Bunker?

Hypothesis: The traditional New York area accent is characterized as non-rhotic, so that the sound [ɹ] does not appear at the end of a syllable or immediately before a consonant; hence the pronunciation of the city name as "New Yawk.


Premise: Who wrote the script for 'Someone's in the Kitchen'?

Hypothesis: He has been giving thanks to his games of his division DreamWorks Interactive most notable as Someone's in the Kitchen with script written by Animaniacs' Paul Rugg, Goosebumps: Escape from HorrorLand, The Neverhood (all in 1996), Skullmonkeys, Dilbert's Desktop Games, Goosebumps: Attack of the Mutant (all 1997), Boombots (1999), T'ai Fu: Wrath of the Tiger (1999), and Clive Barker's Undying (2001).


Premise: What kind of disease is AIDS?

Hypothesis: T cells, dendritic cells and macrophages by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).


Premise: Neoplatonism describes divinity as what?

Hypothesis: The writings of many[quantify] of these theologians indicate a clear influence of Greek metaphysical philosophies such as Neoplatonism, which characterized divinity as an utterly simple, immaterial, formless, substance/essence (ousia) that transcended all that was physical.


Premise: What is sheftalia?

Hypothesis: Pourgouri (bulgur, cracked wheat) is the traditional source of carbohydrate other than bread, and is used to make the delicacy koubes.


Premise: Who is the head of government?

Hypothesis: The president is the head of state and the prime minister is the head of government.


Premise: Aside from Walpole, who else denied that there was no such thing as the prime minister?

Hypothesis: Walpole always denied that he was "prime minister", and throughout the 18th century parliamentarians and legal scholars continued to deny that any such position was known to the Constitution.


Premise: What did BBC Television get absorbed into?

Hypothesis: The new group was part of larger restructuring within the BBC with the onset of new media outlets and technology.


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

Hypothesis: Each of the aforementioned nations and tribes participated in the ethnogenesis of the Armenian people.


Premise: When did Stalin pass away?

Hypothesis: The church, which suffered greatly under Stalin, was revived when Catholicos Vazgen I assumed the duties of his office in 1955.


Premise: British librarians in 2006 ranked the book ahead of what famous volume?

Hypothesis: In 2006, British librarians ranked the book ahead of the Bible as one "every adult should read before they die".


Premise: What Prime Minister did Paul VI attempt to interact with in order to help Catholics in Communist countries?

Hypothesis: To foster common bonds with all persons of good will, he decreed an annual peace day to be celebrated on January first of every year.


Premise: In what month and year was it decided to suspend the 2009 Arena Football League season?

Hypothesis: In doing so, the AFL became the second sports league to cancel an entire season, after the National Hockey League cancelled the 2004-05 season because of a lockout.


Premise: What is the usual penalty when the rules of play are violated?

Hypothesis: Infractions of the rules are punished with penalties, typically a loss of yardage of 5, 10 or 15 yards against the penalized team.


Premise: Where is the Walhalla temple located?

Hypothesis: The Walhalla temple for "laudable and distinguished Germans", features a number of scientists, and is located east of Regensburg, in Bavaria.


Premise: Who was the President of the United States in 1967?

Hypothesis: Governor George W. Romney ordered the Michigan National Guard into Detroit, and President Johnson sent in U.S. Army troops.


Premise: What are geneticists looking for?

Hypothesis: In addition, not all Native Americans have been tested, so scientists do not know for sure that Native Americans have only the genetic markers they have identified.


Premise: Libraries that are established for other presidents are operated by private foundations, historical societies, and what government entities?

Hypothesis: Libraries and museums have been established for other presidents, but they are not part of the NARA presidential library system, and are operated by private foundations, historical societies, or state governments, including the Abraham Lincoln, Rutherford B. Hayes, William McKinley, Woodrow Wilson and Calvin Coolidge libraries.


Premise: How many Grammy awards did "Crazy in Love" win?

Hypothesis: Destiny Child's "Say My Name" and discussed his relationship with women.


Premise: In what year did the UNDP respond to the criticism of its report?

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


Premise: How does Czech mark subject nouns?

Hypothesis: A nominative–accusative language, Czech marks subject nouns with nominative case and object nouns with accusative case.


Premise: What is one of the famous movies Greek composers has scored?

Hypothesis: Greek American composers known for their film scores include Yanni and Basil Poledouris.


Premise: What did it help do to?

Hypothesis: But 23 years later in 1989 the Convention on the Rights of Children was adopted and helped to reduce the exploitation of children and demanded safe working environments.


Premise: What were Protestant Christians fleeing from?

Hypothesis: Many early immigrant groups traveled to America to worship freely, particularly after the English Civil War and religious conflict in France and Germany.


Premise: What percent of people in Kazakhstan use Russian as their main language?

Hypothesis: In Kazakhstan Russian is not a state language, but according to article 7 of the Constitution of Kazakhstan its usage enjoys equal status to that of the Kazakh language in state and local administration.


Premise: How many people are estimated to live in Tajikistan?

Hypothesis: It is bordered by Afghanistan to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and China to the east.


Premise: Who wrote 'The World In Grey'?

Hypothesis: Published in 2008, The World In Grey: Dom Bosco's Prophecy, by author Ryan J. Lucero, tells an apocalypticle story based on the famous prophecy from the late 19th century by the Italian saint Don Bosco.


Premise: Where did the US defeat occupying Spanish forces prior to the Philippine American War?

Hypothesis: The Philippine–American War (1899–1902) was an armed conflict between a group of Filipino revolutionaries and the American forces following the ceding of the Philippines to the United States after the defeat of Spanish forces in the Battle of Manila.


Premise: Prey that can regrow leaves or arms have learned to deal with what?

Hypothesis: Grazing livestock may pull some grass out at the roots, but most is simply grazed upon, allowing the plant to regrow once again.


Premise: When did Israel and Turkey's relations take a downturn?

Hypothesis: Relations between Turkey and Israel took a downturn after the 2008–09 Gaza War and Israel's raid of the Gaza flotilla.


Premise: How does the manufacturing process differ between heavyweight and normal vinyl?

Hypothesis: Many collectors prefer to have heavyweight vinyl albums, which have been reported to have better sound than normal vinyl because of their higher tolerance against deformation caused by normal play.


Premise: Why was the English order of the Dominicans so successful in England?

Hypothesis: Its direct supervisors were from England, and the members of the English Province dwelt and labored in English cities, towns, villages, and roadways.


Premise: WHat strategy was found out to be more cost effective?

Hypothesis: Dietary deficiencies in developing countries can be combated by promoting better eating practices.


Premise: How far is Raleigh from Atlantic Beach?

Hypothesis: Its central Piedmont location situates Raleigh about two hours west of Atlantic Beach, North Carolina, by car and four hours east of the Great Smoky Mountains.


Premise: What is the hispanic make-up of the population?

Hypothesis: Hispanic or Latino of any race were 187,611 persons (12.3%); 8.0% of Philadelphia is Puerto Rican, 1.0% Dominican, 1.0% Mexican, 0.3% Cuban, and 0.3% Colombian.


Premise: What did Whitehead believe about an entity's relation to other entities?

Hypothesis: It must be emphasized, however, that an entity is not merely a sum of its relations, but also a valuation of them and reaction to them.


Premise: What type of formations is it possible Sumerians invented?

Hypothesis: They may have invented military formations and introduced the basic divisions between infantry, cavalry, and archers.


Premise: Where was Otzi the Iceman discovered?

Hypothesis: His clothing and gear indicate that he lived in an alpine farming community, while the location and manner of his death - an arrowhead was discovered in his shoulder - suggests he was travelling from one place to another.


Premise: When did the FBI increase it's counter-terrorism role?

Hypothesis: Between 1993 and 1996, the FBI increased its counter-terrorism role in the wake of the first 1993 World Trade Center bombing in New York City, New York; the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; and the arrest of the Unabomber in 1996.


Premise: The leader of what organization was imprisoned by Nasser?

Hypothesis: That same year, Nasser had the Muslim Brotherhood chief ideologue Sayyed Qutb imprisoned.


Premise: How was wax used to improve recordings?

Hypothesis: Wax masters were made by flowing heated wax over a hot metal disc thus avoiding the microscopic irregularities of cast blocks of wax and the necessity of planing and polishing.


Premise: What did Comcast pay for this subsidiary?

Hypothesis: In 2001, Comcast announced it would acquire the assets of the largest cable television operator at the time, AT&T Broadband, for US$44.5 billion.


Premise: Who does the Goddard Space Flight Center belong to?

Hypothesis: In 1994, over a hundred intrusions were made by unidentified crackers into the Rome Laboratory, the US Air Force's main command and research facility.


Premise: What is the color of U4+?

Hypothesis: The most common ionic forms are U3+ (brown-red), U4+ (green), UO+_2 (unstable), and UO2+_2 (yellow), for U(III), U(IV), U(V), and U(VI), respectively.


Premise: Where were the game pad controllers copied from?

Hypothesis: The game pad controllers were more-or-less copied directly from the Game & Watch machines, although the Famicom design team originally wanted to use arcade-style joysticks, even taking apart ones from American game consoles to see how they worked.


Premise: What percent of votes did el-Sisi get?

Hypothesis: Official figures showed a turnout of 25,578,233 or 47.5%, with Abdel Fattah el-Sisi winning with 23.78 million votes, or 96.91% compared to 757,511 (3.09%) for Hamdeen Sabahi.


Premise: What wooden utensil could you stir a pot of soup with?

Hypothesis: Wood has always been used extensively for furniture, such as chairs and beds.


Premise: In what country did Dominic experience a great famine?

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


Premise: What brigade is headquartered at Fort Hamilton?

Hypothesis: It also houses the 1179th Transportation Brigade, the 722nd Aeromedical Staging Squadron, and a military entrance processing station.


Premise: What was so important to English mystics?

Hypothesis: It is important to understand, however, that for these mystics it was possible to pursue mystical life without the visions and voices that are usually associated with such a relationship with God.


Premise: What area depends on agriculture in Guinea-Bissau?

Hypothesis: Guinea-Bissau's GDP per capita is one of the lowest in the world, and its Human Development Index is one of the lowest on earth.


Premise: What is day-to-day, operational law considered?

Hypothesis: However, the scope of federal preemption is limited because the scope of federal power is not universal.


Premise: How many years did the AFL title sponsorship deal last?

Hypothesis: The title sponsorship agreement ended in 2014 after a two-year partnership.


Premise: What is the name of the activist who promised peaceful protests?

Hypothesis: "I want to announce that we will not put out the Olympic torch," said pro-Tibet activist Jorge Carcavallo.


Premise: According to Southern Living, what are the three best restaurants in Richmond?

Hypothesis: Richmond is also fast-becoming known for its food scene, with several restaurants in the Fan, Church Hill, Jackson Ward and elsewhere around the city generating regional and national attention for their fare.


Premise: Is sapwood the younger or older wood in a tree?

Hypothesis: All wood in a tree is first formed as sapwood.


Premise: What city in Maryland does Megabus travel to?

Hypothesis: Direct service is available to Washington, D.C., Hampton Roads, Charlotte, Raleigh, Baltimore, and Philadelphia.


Premise: How did Whitehead refer to the combination of a person's separate experiences?

Hypothesis: These occasions of experience are logically distinct, but are progressively connected in what Whitehead calls a "society" of events.


Premise: What are other incentives that NPO emplotees can be offered instead of higher wages?

Hypothesis: It has been mentioned that most nonprofits will never be able to match the pay of the private sector and therefore should focus their attention on benefits packages, incentives and implementing pleasurable work environments.


Premise: There was a nationwide strike being held that was called les envenements and also named what?

Hypothesis: Barricades as well as roadblocks were erected and Traoré declared a state of emergency and imposed a nightly curfew.


Premise: Who was Kerry's 2nd wife's previous husband?

Hypothesis: Kerry and his second wife, Mozambican-born businesswoman and philanthropist Maria Teresa Thierstein Simões Ferreira (known as Teresa), the widow of Kerry's late Pennsylvania Republican Senate colleague Henry John Heinz III, were introduced to each other by Heinz at an Earth Day rally in 1990.


Premise: In what year did Montini visit the United States?

Hypothesis: In fifteen other trips he visited Brazil (1960) and the USA (1960), including New York City, Washington, DC, Chicago, the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, Boston, Philadelphia, and Baltimore.


Premise: What Arab nationalist thinker was influential with the RCC?

Hypothesis: In December 1969, Libya founded the Arab Revolutionary Front with Egypt and Sudan as a step towards political unification, and in 1970 Syria stated its intention to join.


Premise: What was the latest version of iTunes as of mid-2015?

Hypothesis: Belgian website Belgium iPhone originally found the images when plugging in an iPod for the first time, and subsequent leaked photos were found by Pierre Dandumont.


Premise: What body of water is Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge adjacent to?

Hypothesis: Gateway National Recreation Area contains over 26,000 acres (10,521.83 ha) in total, most of it surrounded by New York City, including the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in Brooklyn and Queens, over 9,000 acres (36 km2) of salt marsh, islands, and water, including most of Jamaica Bay.


Premise: Where were the inspirations for the new phase of neoclassicism centered?

Hypothesis: A new phase in neoclassical design was inaugurated by Robert and James Adam, who travelled in Italy and Dalmatia in the 1750s, observing the ruins of the classical world.


Premise: At its zenith, the imperialist forces controlled all but how many states in Mexico?

Hypothesis: Maximilian was deeply dissatisfied with General Bazaine's decision to abandon the state capital of Chihuahua and immediately ordered Agustín B. Billaut to recapture the city.


Premise: How many planes did Japan lose?

Hypothesis: Overall, the U.S. lost 130 planes and 76 aircrew; however, Japan lost 450 planes, three carriers, and 445 aircrew.


Premise: What was Baden Powell's opinion of On the Origin of Species?

Hypothesis: In America, Asa Gray argued that evolution is the secondary effect, or modus operandi, of the first cause, design, and published a pamphlet defending the book in terms of theistic evolution, Natural Selection is not inconsistent with Natural Theology.


Premise: Where is the the Umayyad Mosque located?

Hypothesis: It is thought that the mosque used to have the largest gold mosaic in the world, at over 4 m2.


Premise: What group popularized early Protestant teachings about separation of church and state?

Hypothesis: These Lockean ideas were fundamental to the United States Declaration of Independence, which also deduced human rights from the biblical belief in creation: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."


Premise: What was Tucson's population in 1900?

Hypothesis: In 2006 the population of Pima County, in which Tucson is located, passed one million while the City of Tucson's population was 535,000.


Premise: What kind of speaker data does studying a language phonologically involve examining?

Hypothesis: Part of the phonological study of a language therefore involves looking at data (phonetic transcriptions of the speech of native speakers) and trying to deduce what the underlying phonemes are and what the sound inventory of the language is.


Premise: What percentage of the Tennessee population was African-American in 1900?

Hypothesis: In the early 1900s, the state legislature approved a form of commission government for cities based on at-large voting for a few positions on a Board of Commission; several adopted this as another means to limit African-American political participation.


Premise: Where is Bern located?

Hypothesis: The site of the old observatory in Bern is the point of origin of the CH1903 coordinate system at 46°57′08.66″N


Premise: What kind of lasers are crystals of zinc suflde used in?

Hypothesis: Zinc sulfide (ZnS) is used in luminescent pigments such as on the hands of clocks, X-ray and television screens, and luminous paints.


Premise: Why has production automation become popular?

Hypothesis: Rather than being assembled by hand, mosaics designed using computer aided design (CAD) software can be assembled by a robot.


Premise: How many phase are in the growth of bacteria?

Hypothesis: The first phase of growth is the lag phase, a period of slow growth when the cells are adapting to the high-nutrient environment and preparing for fast growth.


Premise: What was the amount of funding for UNFPA's core resources?

Hypothesis: The amount includes $477 million to the organization’s core resources and $529 million earmarked for specific programs and initiatives.


Premise: Which African coast did many slaves that were sold in Charles Town come from?

Hypothesis: Ethnic groups transported here included especially Wolof, Yoruba, Fulani, Igbo, Malinke, and other people of the Windward Coast.


Premise: What museum exhibits the Millennium clock tower?

Hypothesis: It has been used to make sculptures and carvings for millennia.


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

Hypothesis: Launched in 1985 as Tbilisi, renamed and operational from 1995.


Premise: Who disproved Sherrel's hypothesis?

Hypothesis: They noted there is popular belief in a high rate of Native American admixture that is not supported by the data that has been collected.


Premise: Aside from being the home of the monarchy and a tourist attraction, what else is Buckingham Palace known for?

Hypothesis: Thus, Buckingham Palace is a symbol and home of the British monarchy, an art gallery and a tourist attraction.


Premise: What royal symbol appears on the club's crest?

Hypothesis: The club's original crest was a quartered diamond-shaped crest topped by the Crown of Aragon and the bat of King James, and surrounded by two branches, one of a laurel tree and the other a palm.


Premise: What does the word botany mean?

Hypothesis: The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek word βοτάνη (botanē) meaning "pasture", "grass", or "fodder"; βοτάνη is in turn derived from βόσκειν (boskein), "to feed" or "to graze".


Premise: About what time did the big tech boom in Seattle fizzle?

Hypothesis: As prosperity began to return in the 1980s, the city was stunned by the Wah Mee massacre in 1983, when 13 people were killed in an illegal gambling club in the International District, Seattle's Chinatown.


Premise: Respiration for insects happens without what?

Hypothesis: Instead, the insect respiratory system uses a system of internal tubes and sacs through which gases either diffuse or are actively pumped, delivering oxygen directly to tissues that need it via their trachea (element 8 in numbered diagram).


Premise: What was the cause of the fire that killed everyone on the first Apollo mission before launch?

Hypothesis: On January 27, 1967, the same day the US and USSR signed the Outer Space Treaty, the crew of the first manned Apollo mission, Command Pilot Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Senior Pilot Edward H. White, and Pilot Roger Chaffee, were killed in a fire that swept through their spacecraft cabin during a ground test, less than a month before the planned February 21 launch.


Premise: What is the formal name for a CD?

Hypothesis: The logical format of an audio CD (officially Compact Disc Digital Audio or CD-DA) is described in a document produced in 1980 by the format's joint creators, Sony and Philips.


Premise: When was the German Empire founded?

Hypothesis: It created the German Empire in 1871 as a German nation-state, effectively excluding the multi-ethnic Austrian Habsburg monarchy and Liechtenstein.


Premise: How many years after the extinction did animal recovery begin?

Hypothesis: Recent research indicates that the specialized animals that formed complex ecosystems, with high biodiversity, complex food webs and a variety of niches, took much longer to reestablish, recovery did not begin until the start of the mid-Triassic, 4M to 6M years after the extinction and was not complete until 30M years after the Permian–Triassic extinction event.


Premise: How many Toxocara infection cases are reported annually in the US?

Hypothesis: In Great Britain, 24% of soil samples taken from public parks contained T. canis eggs.


Premise: In CST, what triggers a destructive immune response?

Hypothesis: On the basis of CST, Burnet developed a theory of how an immune response is triggered according to the self/nonself distinction: "self" constituents (constituents of the body) do not trigger destructive immune responses, while "nonself" entities (e.g., pathogens, an allograft) trigger a destructive immune response.


Premise: How many tenants are expected to set up shop in the Mall of San Juan?

Hypothesis: Retailers Nordstrom and Saks Fifth Avenue also have plans to come to the Mall of San Juan, a new high-end retail project with over 100 tenants.


Premise: Which two fields of study are associated with immunology?

Hypothesis: Classical immunology ties in with the fields of epidemiology and medicine.


Premise: By what year had the Maratha Empire covered most of the subcontinent?

Hypothesis: By 1760, the domain of the Marathas stretched across practically the entire subcontinent.


Premise: What was the per capita income for the city?

Hypothesis: The per capita income for the city was $15,402.


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

Hypothesis: IBM also provided the microprocessor that serves as the heart of Nintendo's new Wii U system, which debuted in 2012.


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

Hypothesis: Daniel I. Linzer, provost since September 2007, serves under the president as the chief academic officer of the university to whom the deans of every academic school, leaders of cross-disciplinary units, and chairs of the standing faculty committee report.


Premise: On what date was the Apollo 16 successful on landing on the Moon?

Hypothesis: It resumed with four successful landings on Apollo 14 (February 1971), Apollo 15 (July 1971), Apollo 16 (April 1972), and Apollo 17 (December 1972).


Premise: What did dell sell for $19 in Taiwan?

Hypothesis: In the first instance, Dell offered a 19" LCD panel for $15.


Premise: How can a bacteria in the soil affect a plant?

Hypothesis: Agrobacterium tumefaciens, a soil rhizosphere bacterium, can attach to plant cells and infect them with a callus-inducing Ti plasmid by horizontal gene transfer, causing a callus infection called crown gall disease.


Premise: How did the The Columbia Encyclopedia describe the Yuan dynasty?

Hypothesis: The Metropolitan Museum of Art writes that the Mongol rulers of the Yuan dynasty "adopted Chinese political and cultural models; ruling from their capitals in Dadu, they assumed the role of Chinese emperors," although Tibetologist Thomas Laird dismissed the Yuan dynasty as a non-Chinese polity and plays down its Chinese characteristics.


Premise: The thalamus and hypothalamus comprise what region of the brain?

Hypothesis: Neuroanatomists usually divide the vertebrate brain into six main regions: the telencephalon (cerebral hemispheres), diencephalon (thalamus and hypothalamus), mesencephalon (midbrain), cerebellum, pons, and medulla oblongata.


Premise: What method was introduced in December 2015 to reduce New Delhi's air pollution?

Hypothesis: The driving restriction scheme is planned to be implemented as a trial from January 1, 2016 for an initial period of 15 days.


Premise: When was To Kill a Mockingbird made into a movie?

Hypothesis: It was adapted into an Oscar-winning film in 1962 by director Robert Mulligan, with a screenplay by Horton Foote.


Premise: What is the administration of the state of Isreal seen as?

Hypothesis: Politically, Orthodox Jews, given their variety of movements and affiliations, tend not to conform easily to the standard left-right political spectrum, with one of the key differences between the movements stemming from the groups' attitudes to Zionism.


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

Hypothesis: GDP is divided in Public Administration 54.8%, Services 28.7%, Industry 10.2%, Commerce 6.1%, Agribusiness 0.2%.


Premise: Which symphony of Anton Bruckner's does the Wagner tuba have a prominent role in?

Hypothesis: The Wagner tuba, a modified member of the horn family, appears in Richard Wagner's cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen and several other works by Strauss, Béla Bartók, and others; it has a prominent role in Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 7 in E Major.


Premise: What is the Duchy of Lancaster?

Hypothesis: The Duchy of Lancaster is one of two royal duchies in England.


Premise: What other discipline was combined with phonology by the generativists?

Hypothesis: Furthermore, the generativists folded morphophonology into phonology, which both solved and created problems.


Premise: Since the ECB doesn't buy bonds outright, how are they used?

Hypothesis: The normal procedure used by the ECB for manipulating the money supply has been via the so-called refinancing facilities.


Premise: What was the first plant to have its genome sequenced?

Hypothesis: A considerable amount of new knowledge about plant function comes from studies of the molecular genetics of model plants such as the Thale cress, Arabidopsis thaliana, a weedy species in the mustard family (Brassicaceae).


Premise: What profession is more likely to want to repeal DST: farmers or shopkeepers?

Hypothesis: Farmers have tended to oppose DST.


Premise: A dog scratch can lead to what medical condition?

Hypothesis: Sharp claws with powerful muscles behind them can lacerate flesh in a scratch that can lead to serious infections.


Premise: Who forbid the use of the word slekta?

Hypothesis: After the Union of Horodło the Lithuanian nobility acquired equal status with the Polish szlachta, and over time began to become more and more polonized, although they did preserve their national consciousness, and in most cases recognition of their Lithuanian family roots.


Premise: What type of case saw Cicero testify against Clodius?

Hypothesis: Clodius was a bitter opponent of Cicero because Cicero had testified against him in a sacrilege case.


Premise: What term expresses the idea of law derived from Aquinas as interpreted by the Catechism?

Hypothesis: While the term "law" is never explicitly defined in the Code, the Catechism of the Catholic Church cites Aquinas in defining law as "...an ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the one who is in charge of the community" and reformulates it as "...a rule of conduct enacted by competent authority for the sake of the common good."


Premise: What was the SAT score, on average, at Notre Dame when Edward Malloy became president?

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


Premise: In what year did Bell open his own school?

Hypothesis: Teaching his father's system, in October 1872, Alexander Bell opened his "School of Vocal Physiology and Mechanics of Speech" in Boston, which attracted a large number of deaf pupils, with his first class numbering 30 students.


Premise: What is another name for canon law?

Hypothesis: Canon law was also studied, and around 1140 a monk named Gratian (fl. 12th century), a teacher at Bologna, wrote what became the standard text of canon law—the Decretum.


Premise: What publication ranked New York first in the 2013 American Cities of the Future rankings?

Hypothesis: This ability to attract foreign investment helped New York City top the FDi Magazine American Cities of the Future ranking for 2013.


Premise: Who vanished from the population of the Balkans?

Hypothesis: The Thracians and Illyrians vanished from the population during this period – although the modern Albanian nation claims descent from the Illyrians.


Premise: What family recorded an old-time music in 1924-1926?

Hypothesis: When Cowan Powers and his family recorded their old-time music from 1924-1926, his daughter Orpha Powers was one of the earliest known southern-music artists to record with the mandolin.


Premise: In what country did the US maintain air forces and garrisons?

Hypothesis: In contrast, the ROK Army defenders were relatively unprepared and ill-equipped.


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

Hypothesis: YouTube does not usually offer a download link for its videos, and intends for them to be viewed through its website interface.


Premise: What was the birth year of King Mahendra?

Hypothesis: It has a variety of pieces including his personal belongings, letters and papers, memorabilia related to events he was involved in and a rare collection of photos and paintings of Royal family members.


Premise: Who beat out Beyonce for Best Female Video ?

Hypothesis: pop singer Taylor Swift's "You Belong with Me", led to Kanye West interrupting the ceremony and Beyoncé improvising a re-presentation of Swift's award during her own acceptance speech.


Premise: How many ahzab are in a juz'?

Hypothesis: The 30 juz' (plural ajzāʼ) can be used to read through the entire Quran in a month.


Premise: Beyonce gave her entire salary from Cadillac Records to which organization?

Hypothesis: Beyoncé donated her entire salary from the film to Phoenix House, an organization of rehabilitation centers for heroin addicts around the country.


Premise: What is the strongest form of discipline the Jehovah Witnesses' judicial committee can render?

Hypothesis: Disfellowshipping, a form of shunning, is the strongest form of discipline, administered to an offender deemed unrepentant.


Premise: What was the ultimate view of Content ID's performance after a 2009 test?

Hypothesis: An independent test in 2009 uploaded multiple versions of the same song to YouTube, and concluded that while the system was "surprisingly resilient" in finding copyright violations in the audio tracks of videos, it was not infallible.


Premise: Where did we find proof of his existence?

Hypothesis: It was either a small republic, in which case his father was an elected chieftain, or an oligarchy, in which case his father was an oligarch.


Premise: On what radio station did Kanye West deem himself "the biggest rockstar on the planet"?

Hypothesis: ran a sketch on September 25 involving two children re-enacting West's recent interview with Zane Lowe for BBC Radio 1 in which he calls himself the biggest rock star on the planet.


Premise: When was the US Embassy in Iran seized?

Hypothesis: On Jimmy Carter's final day in office, the last hostages were finally set free as a result of the Algiers Accords.


Premise: What music comes from those commonly trained by oral tradition?

Hypothesis: Composers of classical music have often made use of folk music (music created by musicians who are commonly not classically trained, often from a purely oral tradition).


Premise: In what arena were the Gladiators playing the Bruisers on July 23, 1989?

Hypothesis: The game was played between the two teams in Sacramento's Arco Arena, as part of the AFL's 'Barnstorming America' tour.


Premise: Where was the album released?

Hypothesis: On December 13, 2013, Beyoncé unexpectedly released her eponymous fifth studio album on the iTunes Store without any prior announcement or promotion.


Premise: When do recessive alleles give rise to their corresponding phenotype?

Hypothesis: For example, if the allele specifying tall stems in pea plants is dominant over the allele specifying short stems, then pea plants that inherit one tall allele from one parent and one short allele from the other parent will also have tall stems.


Premise: Are these agencies a requirement in the countries where they exist?

Hypothesis: The former seeks to implement procedures for ensuring that prior informed consent exists between countries buying and selling pesticides, while the latter seeks to create uniform standards for maximum levels of pesticide residues among participating countries.


Premise: What modified AV protocol does the 360 utilize?

Hypothesis: As the Xbox 360 uses a modified version of the UPnP AV protocol, some alternative UPnP servers such as uShare (part of the GeeXboX project) and MythTV can also stream media to the Xbox 360, allowing for similar functionality from non-Windows servers.


Premise: What is Kahuta an important location for?

Hypothesis: Since the 1990s Punjab hosted several key sites of Pakistan's nuclear program such as Kahuta.


Premise: Which year did the Italian American Professors make their request?

Hypothesis: Italian Americans are usually considered white in the US and would not be covered under affirmative action policies, but the professors believed they were underrepresented.


Premise: What can the discomfort of MI feel like?

Hypothesis: Often it is in the center or left side of the chest and lasts for more than a few minutes.


Premise: in 1720 what % of  import goods were from India?

Hypothesis: By 1720, 15% of British imports were from India, almost all passing through the company, which reasserted the influence of the company lobby.


Premise: From the 1990s to 2010s who was the primary consumer of vinyl records?

Hypothesis: By the late 1980s, digital media, in the form of the compact disc, had gained a larger market share, and the vinyl record left the mainstream in 1991.


Premise: What bachelor's degree is offered at NU-Q through the School of Communication?

Hypothesis: Through the Medill School of Journalism and School of Communication, NU-Q offers bachelor's degrees in journalism and communication respectively.


Premise: Where was the Qin dynasty based?

Hypothesis: Since the Yangtze flows through the basin and then through the perilous Yangzi Gorges to eastern and southern China, Sichuan was a staging area for amphibious military forces and a refuge for political refugees.[citation needed]


Premise: What is undoubtedly a cause of the increase in obesity related diseases that are becoming prevalent?

Hypothesis: There is little doubt that the increasingly widespread application of some modern food processing technologies has contributed to this development.


Premise: What did Apple begin offering as standard features meant for playing DVD's?

Hypothesis: Apple would later introduce an update to its iTunes music player software that enabled it to burn CDs, along with a controversial "Rip, Mix, Burn" advertising campaign that some felt encouraged media piracy.


Premise: What is the former SNET building in New Haven currently being converted for in the effort of attracting new medical or biotechnology firms?

Hypothesis: As of late 2009, a Pfizer drug-testing clinic, a medical laboratory building serving Yale – New Haven Hospital, and a mixed-use structure containing parking, housing and office space, have been constructed on this corridor.


Premise: Where did North Korea predict that MacArthur would enter Korea?

Hypothesis: After conferring with Mao that this would be MacArthur's most likely strategy, Zhou briefed Soviet and North Korean advisers of Lei's findings, and issued orders to Chinese army commanders deployed on the Korean border to prepare for American naval activity in the Korea Strait.


Premise: When was Saint Helena first settled?

Hypothesis: Eventually the planters felt there were too many slaves and no more were imported after 1792.


Premise: What does the anaerobic corrosion of iron lead to?

Hypothesis: The anaerobic corrosion of iron leads first to the formation of ferrous hydroxide (green rust) and can be described by the following reaction:


Premise: What indoor sporting complex in New Haven was constructed by the DeStefano administration in 1998?

Hypothesis: The NHAC, built adjacent to Hillhouse High School, is used for New Haven public schools athletics, as well as large-scale area and state sporting events; it is the largest high school indoor sports complex in the state.


Premise: Who created the idea of the differential analyzer in 1876?

Hypothesis: The differential analyser, a mechanical analog computer designed to solve differential equations by integration using wheel-and-disc mechanisms, was conceptualized in 1876 by James Thomson, the brother of the more famous Lord Kelvin.


Premise: What does "Jamahiriya" mean?

Hypothesis: Officially adopting a symbolic role in governance, he retained power as military commander-in-chief and head of the Revolutionary Committees responsible for policing and suppressing opponents.


Premise: Which native did O'Brien marry?

Hypothesis: He married Salai, the daughter of the paramount chief of Funafuti.


Premise: Who were two of Chopin's contemporaries?

Hypothesis: He also notes that Chopin was fortunate to arrive in Paris in 1831—"the artistic environment, the publishers who were willing to print his music, the wealthy and aristocratic who paid what Chopin asked for their lessons"—and these factors, as well as his musical genius, also fuelled his contemporary and later reputation.


Premise: What was the number of people in Nanjing in 1400?

Hypothesis: Nanjing remained the capital of the Ming Empire until 1421, when the third emperor of the Ming dynasty, the Yongle Emperor, relocated the capital to Beijing.


Premise: Eyak and Tlingit are some of the peoples who are collectively called what?

Hypothesis: Indigenous peoples in what is now the contiguous United States, including their descendants, are commonly called "American Indians", or simply "Indians" domestically, or "Native Americans" by the USCB.


Premise: Why were italian bonds purchased by the ECB?

Hypothesis: Purchases of Italian bonds by the central bank, for example, were intended to dampen international speculation and strengthen portfolios in the private sector and also the central bank.


Premise: What group operation is taken by the set from the original group?

Hypothesis: This definition is motivated by the idea (itself an instance of general structural considerations outlined above) that the map G → G / N that associates to any element g its coset gN be a group homomorphism, or by general abstract considerations called universal properties.


Premise: Statistically, what is a Jehovah's Witnesses likely not to care about at all?

Hypothesis: A sociological comparative study by the Pew Research Center found that Jehovah's Witnesses in the United States ranked highest in statistics for getting no further than high school graduation, belief in God, importance of religion in one's life, frequency of religious attendance, frequency of prayers, frequency of Bible reading outside of religious services, belief their prayers are answered, belief that their religion can only be interpreted one way, belief that theirs is the only one true faith leading to eternal life, opposition to abortion, and opposition to homosexuality.


Premise: In comparison to Massachusetts what where settlers hoping to establish in New Haven Harbor?

Hypothesis: The Quinnipiacs, who were under attack by neighboring Pequots, sold their land to the settlers in return for protection.


Premise: Are basic antennas expensive?

Hypothesis: The dipole antenna, which is the basis for most antenna designs, is a balanced component, with equal but opposite voltages and currents applied at its two terminals through a balanced transmission line (or to a coaxial transmission line through a so-called balun).


Premise: Who wrote the fictionalized "Chopin?"

Hypothesis: Chopin was written by Giacomo Orefice and produced in Milan in 1901.


Premise: What do Westerners believe it means to belong to the Greek heritage ?

Hypothesis: By Western standards, the term Greeks has traditionally referred to any native speakers of the Greek language, whether Mycenaean, Byzantine or modern Greek.


Premise: How is the traditional desktop evironment opened?

Hypothesis: Aside from the removal of the Start button and the replacement of the Aero Glass theme with a flatter and solid-colored design, the desktop interface on Windows 8 is similar to that of Windows 7.


Premise: Through who did the masses have access to the divine?

Hypothesis: Religious officials, who often held positions of power, were the spiritual intermediaries to the common person.


Premise: Which Iranian director won the Palm d'Or at Cannes in 1997?

Hypothesis: After the Revolution of 1979, as the new government imposed new laws and standards, a new age in Iranian cinema emerged, starting with Viva... by Khosrow Sinai and followed by many other directors, such as Abbas Kiarostami and Jafar Panahi.


Premise: Which actress from America was initially held and then gave a speech about China and Sudan?

Hypothesis: Hollywood actress Mia Farrow was also briefly questioned at the Hong Kong airport though officials allowed her to enter.


Premise: What kind of races does Rillito Downs hold?

Hypothesis: The Moltacqua racetrack, was another historic horse racetrack located on what is now Sabino Canyon Road and Vactor Ranch Trail, but it no longer exists.


Premise: What was the plate used for anti-aircraft proximity fuses in World War II made out of?

Hypothesis: The Centralab Division of Globe Union submitted a proposal which met the requirements: a ceramic plate would be screenprinted with metallic paint for conductors and carbon material for resistors, with ceramic disc capacitors and subminiature vacuum tubes soldered in place.


Premise: What is an example of an article +stressed forms?

Hypothesis: Central Catalan has abandoned almost completely unstressed possessives (mon, etc.)


Premise: What limits the size of a trophic pyramid?

Hypothesis: Because only a fraction of energy is passed on to the next level, this hierarchy of predation must end somewhere, and very seldom goes higher than five or six levels, and may go only as high as three trophic levels (for example, a lion that preys upon large herbivores such as wildebeest, which in turn eat grasses).


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

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


Premise: What are two main groups prokaryotes can be divided into?

Hypothesis: These evolutionary domains are called Bacteria and Archaea.


Premise: Who bought the Fort Lowell sanitarium in 1928?

Hypothesis: In 1900, three of the officer buildings were purchased for use as a sanitarium.


Premise: How many ahzab are in a juz'?

Hypothesis: A juz' is sometimes further divided into two ḥizb (plural aḥzāb), and each hizb subdivided into four rubʻ al-ahzab.


Premise: What is the name of the lifestyle column of The Times?

Hypothesis: There was a column by Marcus du Sautoy each Wednesday, for example.


Premise: What did Northwestern sell to raise funds for it's first building?

Hypothesis: To raise funds for its construction, Northwestern sold $100 "perpetual scholarships" entitling the purchaser and his heirs to free tuition.


Premise: What did Alexis Bouvard study?

Hypothesis: In 1821, Alexis Bouvard published astronomical tables of the orbit of Neptune's neighbour Uranus.


Premise: What type of yacht did Kerry buy?

Hypothesis: According to the Boston Herald, dated July 23, 2010, Kerry commissioned construction on a new $7 million yacht (a Friendship 75) in New Zealand and moored it in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, where the Friendship yacht company is based.


Premise: What percentage of energy does a standard light bulb actually convert to visible light?

Hypothesis: Incandescent bulbs are much less efficient than most other types of electric lighting; incandescent bulbs convert less than 5% of the energy they use into visible light, with standard light bulbs averaging about 2.2%.


Premise: What is there little coherent relationships between?

Hypothesis: Though sexual attraction, behavior, and identity are all components of sexual orientation, if a person defined by one of these dimensions were congruent with those defined by another dimension it would not matter which was used in assessing orientation, but this is not the case.


Premise: The Heian period is named after what city?

Hypothesis: The Heian period (平安時代, Heian jidai?) is the last division of classical Japanese history, running from 794 to 1185.


Premise: What is more common in birds than any other vertebrate class?

Hypothesis: In birds, however, it is quite common—more so than in any other vertebrate class.


Premise: According to The American Library Association, what rank did the book have among the most frequently challenged books from 2000 to 2009?

Hypothesis: The American Library Association reported that To Kill a Mockingbird was number 21 of the 100 most frequently challenged books of 2000–2009.


Premise: Who was the only female sultana to be enthroned in a Indo-Islamic empire?

Hypothesis: It is surmised that the language of Urdu (literally meaning "horde" or "camp" in various Turkic dialects) was born during the Delhi Sultanate period as a result of the intermingling of the local speakers of Sanskritic Prakrits with immigrants speaking Persian, Turkic, and Arabic under the Muslim rulers.


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

Hypothesis: Ajahn Sucitto describes the path as "a mandala of interconnected factors that support and moderate each other."


Premise: Why is table sugar produced?

Hypothesis: Starch is the characteristic energy store of most land plants and algae, while inulin, a polymer of fructose is used for the same purpose in the sunflower family Asteraceae.


Premise: How many Imax screens showed Spectre on its opening weekend in the US and Canada?

Hypothesis: IMAX generated $9.1 million for Spectre at 374 screens, premium large format made $8 million from 429 cinemas, reaping 11% of the film's opening, which means that Spectre earned $17.1 million (23%) of its opening weekend total in large-format venues.


Premise: What colors are the official ones used by Notre Dame in sport competition?

Hypothesis: There are many theories behind the adoption of the athletics moniker but it is known that the Fighting Irish name was used in the early 1920s with respect to the football team and was popularized by alumnus Francis Wallace in his New York Daily News columns.


Premise: What is one exception to the central dogma of molecular biology?

Hypothesis: This dogma has since been shown to have exceptions, such as reverse transcription in retroviruses.


Premise: What did the shramana movements challenge?

Hypothesis: Increasing urbanisation of India in 7th and 6th centuries BCE led to the rise of new ascetic or shramana movements which challenged the orthodoxy of rituals.


Premise: In 2007 how many street vendors did Hyderabad have?

Hypothesis: Like the rest of India, Hyderabad has a large informal economy that employs 30% of the labour force.:71


Premise: Which African-American woman before Beyonce had posed for SI Swimsuit issue?

Hypothesis: Her mother co-wrote a book, published in 2002, titled Destiny's Style an account of how fashion had an impact on the trio's success.


Premise: The condition of being disturbed is what?

Hypothesis: Although the term is often translated as "suffering", its philosophical meaning is more analogous to "disquietude" as in the condition of being disturbed.


Premise: What is the culture in Strasbourg?

Hypothesis: Strasbourg's historic city centre, the Grande Île (Grand Island), was classified a World Heritage site by UNESCO in 1988, the first time such an honour was placed on an entire city centre.


Premise: Who credit 12 heterodox economists with predicting the crisis in his research credits?

Hypothesis: A number of heterodox economists predicted the crisis, with varying arguments.


Premise: How many vacuum tubes did the Atanasoff-Berry computer use?

Hypothesis: This design was also all-electronic and used about 300 vacuum tubes, with capacitors fixed in a mechanically rotating drum for memory.


Premise: What decision did he make that influenced the culture in an attempt to make things more homogeneous ?

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


Premise: What specific institution did Barnes indicate could not be a rival of the Royal Institute?

Hypothesis: Barnes commented that the Act's purpose was not protecting the architectural profession, and that the legitimate interests of the profession were best served by the (then) architectural associations in which some 80 per cent of those practising architecture were to be found.


Premise: When was the Golf Club of Punta Carretas founded?

Hypothesis: Montevideo is also a centre of rugby; equestrianism, which regained importance in Montevideo after the Maroñas Racecourse reopened; golf, with the Club de Punta Carretas; and yachting, with the Puerto del Buceo, an ideal place to moor yachts.


Premise: What color are conch shells?

Hypothesis: The marine aquafauna is rich in conch, which has pearly-pink shells.


Premise: What channel did Marvel buy to self-distribute its own comics in the 1990s?

Hypothesis: In late 1994, Marvel acquired the comic book distributor Heroes World Distribution to use as its own exclusive distributor.


Premise: Who stated Humanism creates of people placeholder?

Hypothesis: "Humanism fabricates the human as much as it fabricates the nonhuman animal", suggests Timothy Laurie, turning the human into what he calls "a placeholder for a range of attributes that have been considered most virtuous among humans (e.g. rationality, altruism), rather than most commonplace (e.g. hunger, anger)".


Premise: When were the thuringii first mentioned?

Hypothesis: An older theory claimed that they were successors of the Hermunduri, but later research rejected the idea.


Premise: What did Victoria suffer from after he pregnancies?

Hypothesis: Victoria may have suffered from post-natal depression after many of her pregnancies.


Premise: Israel's legislative body is called what?

Hypothesis: Le'Zedek בית משפט גבוה לצדק; also known by its initials as Bagatz בג"ץ), the Supreme Court rules as a court of first instance, primarily in matters regarding the legality of decisions of State authorities: Government decisions, those of local authorities and other bodies and persons performing public functions under the law, and direct challenges to the constitutionality of laws enacted by the Knesset.


Premise: What generates output streams from each endpoint?

Hypothesis: This component negotiates parameters with every endpoint in the network and controls conferencing resources.


Premise: Who Broke Lou Gehrig's MLB record of 176 RBI?

Hypothesis: was Manny Ramirez's 165 RBI in 1999.


Premise: How did Eisenhower describe his political views?

Hypothesis: A self-described "progressive conservative," he continued all the major New Deal programs still in operation, especially Social Security.


Premise: What is the significance of poultry in the lives of humans?

Hypothesis: Poultry also includes other birds that are killed for their meat, such as the young of pigeons (known as squabs) but does not include similar wild birds hunted for sport or food and known as game.


Premise: On which date was Mahatma Gandhi killed?

Hypothesis: Gandhi Smriti in New Delhi is the location where Mahatma Gandhi spent the last 144 days of his life and was assassinated on 30 January 1948.


Premise: Fine quality painted pottery is a distinctive style of what period in Sumerian history?

Hypothesis: The Ubaid period is marked by a distinctive style of fine quality painted pottery which spread throughout Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf.


Premise: Precipitation hardening alloys are sometimes also?

Hypothesis: Conversely, most heat-treatable alloys are precipitation hardening alloys, which produce the opposite effects that steel does.


Premise: In the top five largest urban areas in California, where does San Diego rank?

Hypothesis: They, along with the Riverside–San Bernardino, form those metropolitan areas in California larger than the San Diego metropolitan area, with a total population of 3,095,313 at the 2010 census.


Premise: When did the British see the need to add anti-aircraft capability?

Hypothesis: The Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) was given responsibility for AA defence in the field, using motorised two-gun sections.


Premise: What percentage of people in Raleigh are white?

Hypothesis: The racial composition of the city was: 63.31% White, 27.80% Black or African American, 7.01% Hispanic or Latino American, 3.38% Asian American, 0.36% Native American, 0.04% Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, 3.24% some other race, and 1.88% two or more races.


Premise: What body often runs pubs on the campuses of Canadian universities?

Hypothesis: Most universities in Canada have campus pubs which are central to student life, as it would be bad form just to serve alcohol to students without providing some type of basic food.


Premise: What year was Jeannette Rankin vote against war the first time?

Hypothesis: This time she was the only vote against the war, and in the wake of public outcry over her vote, she required police protection for a time.


Premise: What percentage of children age 6-14 attend an institution of education?

Hypothesis: An estimated 93.5% of the population ages 6–14 attend an institution of education.


Premise: What province is Galkayo located in?

Hypothesis: Radio Gaalkacyo, formerly known as Radio Free Somalia, operates from Galkayo in the north-central Mudug province.


Premise: A sequence of events used to describe a sequential path can be referred to as what?

Hypothesis: A sequence of events that includes the time along with place or location information to describe a sequential path may be referred to as a world line.


Premise: In what year was A.L.A. Schechter v. United States tried before the Supreme Court?

Hypothesis: It was not until the 1930s that the Supreme Court held a delegation of authority unconstitutional.


Premise: What is a naming term for asphalt?

Hypothesis: Another archaic term for asphalt/bitumen is "pitch".


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

Hypothesis: In the 18 years under the presidency of Edward Malloy, C.S.C., (1987–2005), there was a rapid growth in the school's reputation, faculty, and resources.


Premise: Who wrote, "The test of a great power is the test of strength for war."?

Hypothesis: Early writings on the subject tended to judge states by the realist criterion, as expressed by the historian A. J. P. Taylor when he noted that "The test of a great power is the test of strength for war."


Premise: When did Yongle Emperor send Yang Sanbao into Tibet?

Hypothesis: However, Van Praag states that Tibetan rulers upheld their own separate relations with the kingdoms of Nepal and Kashmir, and at times "engaged in armed confrontation with them."


Premise: Who was the first indigenous Australian elected to the House?

Hypothesis: A West Australian Liberal, Ken Wyatt, became the first Indigenous Australian elected to the House of Representatives in 2010.


Premise: Who was the last person to direct two James Bond movies in a row before Mendes?

Hypothesis: In March 2013 Mendes said he would not return to direct the next film in the series, then known as Bond 24; he later recanted and announced that he would return, as he found the script and the plans for the long-term future of the franchise appealing.


Premise: When was the last time the area of Bern was measured?

Hypothesis: Of the rest of the land, 23.25 square kilometers (8.98 sq mi) or 45.0% is settled (buildings or roads), 1.06 square kilometers (0.41 sq mi) or 2.1% is either rivers or lakes and 0.16 square kilometers (0.062 sq mi) or 0.3% is unproductive land.


Premise: When was the first game of the 2013 Stanley Cup Finals?

Hypothesis: On June 12, 2013 during game 1 of the 2013 Stanley Cup Finals, Microsoft premiered the first ad in its "Windows Everywhere" campaign, which promoted Windows 8, Windows Phone 8, and the company's suite of online services as an interconnected platform.


Premise: What PC operating system is required to stream content to a 360?

Hypothesis: Music, photos and videos can be played from standard USB mass storage devices, Xbox 360 proprietary storage devices (such as memory cards or Xbox 360 hard drives), and servers or computers with Windows Media Center or Windows XP with Service pack 2 or higher within the local-area network in streaming mode.


Premise: When did the Sands Atlantic City close permanently?

Hypothesis: One of these developers was Pinnacle Entertainment, who purchased the Sands Atlantic City, only to close it permanently November 11, 2006.


Premise: What company has a 40% stake in OTE?

Hypothesis: Since 2011, the company's major shareholder is Deutsche Telekom with a 40% stake, while the Greek state continues to own 10% of the company's shares.


Premise: What other group in America practiced self-rule and separation of powers?

Hypothesis: In North America, Plymouth Colony (Pilgrim Fathers; 1620) and Massachusetts Bay Colony (1628) practised democratic self-rule and separation of powers.


Premise: Rather than four-year Bachelor's degrees, Politeknik offer a diploma after how many years?

Hypothesis: Politeknik provides vocational education and typically offers three-year Diploma degrees, which is similar to associate degrees, instead of full, four-year bachelor's degree and the more advanced Master's and doctoral degrees being offered by an Institut Teknologi.


Premise: Who passed the Osborne judgment?

Hypothesis: By 1913, faced with the opposition of the largest Trades Unions, the Liberal government passed the Trade Disputes Act to allow Trade Unions to fund Labour MPs once more.


Premise: How did the timing of the declaration of war compare to the conflicts in North America between Britain and France?

Hypothesis: War between Britain and France had been formally declared on 18 May nearly two years after fighting had broken out in the Ohio Country.


Premise: What date did the U.S. intervention in New Mexico end?

Hypothesis: The United States joined World War I in 1917 on the side of Britain, France, Russia, Italy and other allies.


Premise: What year did color broadcasts start in the US?

Hypothesis: European standards did not follow until the 1960s, when the PAL and SECAM color systems were added to the monochrome 625 line broadcasts.


Premise: What is the majority religion of Somalis?

Hypothesis: They are predominantly Sunni Muslim.


Premise: When was the Battle of Ipsus?

Hypothesis: The decisive engagement of the war came when Lysimachus invaded and overran much of western Anatolia, but was soon isolated by Antigonus and Demetrius near Ipsus in Phrygia.


Premise: What was an early took used to amplify sounds?

Hypothesis: During the first half of the 1920s, engineers at Western Electric, as well as independent inventors such as Orlando Marsh, developed technology for capturing sound with a microphone, amplifying it with vacuum tubes, then using the amplified signal to drive an electromagnetic recording head.


Premise: Where does most of the Bangladeshi population in Detroit live?

Hypothesis: Many of those residents own small businesses or work in blue collar jobs, and the population in that area is mostly Muslim.


Premise: What is the name of the lone surviving mosaic of the Crusader period?

Hypothesis: Almost nothing of them survived except the "Ascension of Christ" in the Latin Chapel (now confusingly surrounded by many 20th-century mosaics).


Premise: Blue Dragon surpassed this sales figure in Japan?

Hypothesis: Mistwalker's first game, Blue Dragon, was released in 2006 and had a limited-edition bundle which sold out quickly with over 10,000 pre-orders.


Premise: When did The White Album come out?

Hypothesis: Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic has described the "proto-metal roar" of "Helter Skelter," while Ian MacDonald argued that "their attempts at emulating the heavy style were without exception embarrassing."


Premise: What did developments in quadraphonic recordings inspire?

Hypothesis: They proved commercially unsuccessful, but were an important precursor to later surround-sound systems, as seen in SACD and home cinema today.


Premise: What philosophical movement appeared during 800-200 BCE?

Hypothesis: During the time between 800 and 200 BCE the Shramana-movement formed, from which originated Jainism and Buddhism.


Premise: What had Avicenna memorized by the age of 10?

Hypothesis: According to his autobiography, Avicenna had memorised the entire Quran by the age of 10.


Premise: Who briefly replaced Russell as Prime Minister?

Hypothesis: She found particularly offensive the Foreign Secretary, Lord Palmerston, who often acted without consulting the Cabinet, the Prime Minister, or the Queen.


Premise: Where is the site of the original colonial settlement of Kingston, Norfolk Islands, currently located?

Hypothesis: The coastline of Norfolk Island consists, to varying degrees, of cliff faces.


Premise: By what year were there over seventy official scientific societies?

Hypothesis: After 1700, a tremendous number of official academies and societies were founded in Europe, and by 1789 there were over seventy official scientific societies.


Premise: By what year was rice a successful commodity crop for the Lowcountry?

Hypothesis: With the coerced help of African slaves from the Caribbean, Eliza Lucas, daughter of plantation owner George Lucas, learned how to raise and use indigo in the Lowcountry in 1747.


Premise: The decrease in crime in New York is sometimes attributed to the decline of what street drug?

Hypothesis: Another theory cited to explain New York City's falling homicide rate is the inverse correlation between the number of murders and the increasingly wetter climate in the city.


Premise: What theory argues that conceptual cognition is not required for emotional meaning?

Hypothesis: Theories dealing with perception either use one or multiples perceptions in order to find an emotion (Goldie, 2007).A recent hybrid of the somatic and cognitive theories of emotion is the perceptual theory.


Premise: How was the Portuguese bailout implemented?

Hypothesis: After the bailout was announced, the Portuguese government headed by Pedro Passos Coelho managed to implement measures with the intention of improve the State's financial situation, including tax hikes, a freeze of civil service-related lower-wages and cuts of higher-wages by 14.3%, on top of the government's spending cuts.


Premise: What does URL stand for?

Hypothesis: Prefixes that the web browser cannot directly handle are often handed off to another application entirely.