Premise: Who is the current mayor?

Hypothesis: The Mayor is Jim Kenney, who replaced Michael Nutter, who served two terms from 2009 to January 2016.


Premise: What type of connection does Tri-Band 3G offer its customers?

Hypothesis: The first of its kind in the country, this third generation mobile telecommunications technology offers users a faster and more secure connection.


Premise: What did the foundation announce in 2011

Hypothesis: In mid 2011, the Foundation announced in its new "Water, Sanitation, Hygiene Strategy Overview" that its funding now focuses primarily on sanitation, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, because access to improved sanitation is lowest in those regions.


Premise: What was the population of Alsace in 1790?

Hypothesis: They financed about a third of the mortgages in Alsace.


Premise: Why were they striking?

Hypothesis: But during the winter of 1978–79 there were widespread strikes among lorry drivers, railway workers, car workers and local government and hospital workers in favour of higher pay-rises that caused significant disruption to everyday life.


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

Hypothesis: After his journey, John XXIII gave him a private audience on his trip which lasted for several hours.


Premise: Atomically, glass is similar to what?

Hypothesis: Although the atomic structure of glass shares characteristics of the structure in a supercooled liquid, glass tends to behave as a solid below its glass transition temperature.


Premise: Who commanded the soldiers sent by Camillo di Cavour?

Hypothesis: Camillo di Cavour, under orders of Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont-Sardinia, sent an expeditionary corps of 15,000 soldiers, commanded by General Alfonso La Marmora, to side with French and British forces during the war.:111–12 This was an attempt at gaining the favour of the French, especially when the issue of uniting Italy would become an important matter.


Premise: What is the protection of information systems?

Hypothesis: Computer security, also known as cybersecurity or IT security, is the protection of information systems from theft or damage to the hardware, the software, and to the information on them, as well as from disruption or misdirection of the services they provide.


Premise: What are three problems of the immune system studied by clinical immunology?

Hypothesis: Clinical immunology is the study of diseases caused by disorders of the immune system (failure, aberrant action, and malignant growth of the cellular elements of the system).


Premise: What type of synthesis occurs in the 5'→3' direction?

Hypothesis: Nucleic acid synthesis, including DNA replication and transcription occurs in the 5'→3' direction, because new nucleotides are added via a dehydration reaction that uses the exposed 3' hydroxyl as a nucleophile.:27.2


Premise: What is the Foothills east of?

Hypothesis: The Foothills area is generally defined as north of River Road, east of Oracle Road, and west of Sabino Creek.


Premise: People with dogs do what more than people who have cats or no pets?

Hypothesis: The results provide evidence that keeping pets may have positive effects on human health and behaviour, and that for guardians of dogs these effects are relatively long-term.


Premise: With which artist does Kanye tie with for reaching the top of the annual Pazz & Jop Critic Poll?

Hypothesis: As of 2013, West has won a total of 21 Grammy Awards, making him one of the most awarded artists of all-time.


Premise: Who spoke against Victoria at the rally in Trafalgar Square?

Hypothesis: Mother and son attended a public parade through London and a grand service of thanksgiving in St Paul's Cathedral on 27 February 1872, and republican feeling subsided.


Premise: Who developed Transformator in 1958?

Hypothesis: It was a research project and the system was never deployed by either the military or consumer broadcasting.


Premise: What is the second thing that caused many of the birds of Norfolk Island to become extinct?

Hypothesis: Many of the endemic species and subspecies have become extinct as a result of massive clearance of the island's native vegetation of subtropical rainforest for agriculture, hunting and persecution as agricultural pests.


Premise: At what point in its existence was the Lutheran manuscript destroyed?

Hypothesis: In 1525 the first book published in the Estonian language was printed.


Premise: Whose scholarship on the concept of proof in the Quran does Guessoum cite?

Hypothesis: Guessoum cites Ghaleb Hasan on the definition of "proof" according the Quran being "clear and strong... convincing evidence or argument."


Premise: Who remarked about Alexander Pope playing Homer on a flageolet?

Hypothesis: The translator's role as a bridge for "carrying across" values between cultures has been discussed at least since Terence, the 2nd-century-BCE Roman adapter of Greek comedies.


Premise: How many crew were with Kerry?

Hypothesis: As the men fled, Kerry and his crew opened fire on the sampans and destroyed them, then rapidly left.


Premise: How does Alaska's per capita personal income rank against other states?

Hypothesis: Its per capita personal income for 2007 was $40,042, ranking 15th in the nation.


Premise: Who filed the lawsuits against the Universities?

Hypothesis: Both universities requested the court to halt the lawsuits until the U.S. Supreme Court provides clarification of relevant law by ruling in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin for the second time.


Premise: What movie was made about Avicenna's younger years?

Hypothesis: Noah Gordon tells the story of a young English medical apprentice who disguises himself as a Jew to travel from England to Persia and learn from Avicenna, the great master of his time.


Premise: Where did some of the other early forms of calendars originate?

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


Premise: Did Ferdinand permanently occupy France?

Hypothesis: Despite Ferdinand's victory over the French at the Battle of Krefeld and the brief occupation of Düsseldorf, he was compelled by the successful manoeuvering of larger French forces to withdraw across the Rhine.


Premise: What are two of the top spiritual destination that Myanmar offers ?

Hypothesis: The most popular available tourist destinations in Myanmar include big cities such as Yangon and Mandalay; religious sites in Mon State, Pindaya, Bago and Hpa-An; nature trails in Inle Lake, Kengtung, Putao, Pyin Oo Lwin; ancient cities such as Bagan and Mrauk-U; as well as beaches in Nabule, Ngapali, Ngwe-Saung, Mergui.


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

Hypothesis: As of 2011, 62,908 Czech citizens spoke Moravian as their first language and 45,561 were diglossal (speaking Moravian and standard Czech as first languages).


Premise: How does the 2009 Human Development Report refer to countries that rank "very high"?

Hypothesis: The top countries by HDI were grouped in a new category called "very high human development".


Premise: What were the two scales defined as?

Hypothesis: From at least the late nineteenth century in Europe, there was speculation that the range of human sexual response looked more like a continuum than two or three discrete categories.


Premise: What was Schwarzenegger's mother's maiden name?

Hypothesis: His parents were Gustav Schwarzenegger (August 17, 1907 – December 13, 1972), and Aurelia Schwarzenegger (née Jadrny; July 29, 1922 – August 2, 1998).


Premise: What the nation's canonical folk songs known as?

Hypothesis: The nation's canonical folk songs, known as "Songs of the Land of Israel," deal with the experiences of the pioneers in building the Jewish homeland.


Premise: Where is First Place located?

Hypothesis: Marble Hill is also within the borough of Manhattan, so the highest street number in the borough is 228th Street.


Premise: What was a full chest armor called?

Hypothesis: A series of strips of kozane were then laced together with silk or leather lace and formed into a complete chest armor (dou or dō).


Premise: Where are the provinces of Lleida and Tarragona?

Hypothesis: The various forms of Catalan and Valencian are mutually intelligible (ranging from 90% to 95%)


Premise: What principle did John's predecessors use?

Hypothesis: There was as yet no model for what should happen if a king refused to do so.


Premise: What is the history of arts and humanities called?

Hypothesis: (The history of the arts and humanities is termed as the history of scholarship.)


Premise: Who was one of the few female Hollywood directors in this era?

Hypothesis: Directors included Jack Conway, John Ford, Rex Ingram, Robert Z. Leonard, George Marshall and Lois Weber, one of the few women directing films in Hollywood.:13


Premise: What did Glencore admit to with regards to child labor?

Hypothesis: Glencore mentioned being aware of child miners who were part of a group of artisanal miners who had without authorisation raided the concession awarded to the company since 2010; Glencore has been pleading with the government to remove the artisanal miners from the concession.


Premise: Who assumed ownership of the Cubs after Hulbert died?

Hypothesis: After back-to-back pennants in 1880 and 1881, Hulbert died, and Spalding, who had retired to start Spalding sporting goods, assumed ownership of the club.


Premise: What state's law requires that capital punishment occur "within the walls" of a penitentiary?

Hypothesis: 54–100 requires death sentences to be conducted in an "enclosure" which "shall be so constructed as to exclude public view.


Premise: How is the circuit of the third rail divided?

Hypothesis: Since each energized segment is completely covered by the lengthy articulated cars, and goes dead before being "uncovered" by the passage of the vehicle, there is no danger to pedestrians.


Premise: What occurs between the second and third parts of the education process prescribed by the Royal Institute?

Hypothesis: A further year out must be taken before the RIBA Part III professional exams can be taken.


Premise: Where did Hume say people's ideas come from?

Hypothesis: All of people's "ideas", in turn, are derived from their "impressions".


Premise: Russian victories against which countries increased British fears?

Hypothesis: In 1839, Britain moved to pre-empt this by invading Afghanistan, but the First Anglo-Afghan War was a disaster for Britain.


Premise: What year was Watchman completed?

Hypothesis: This draft, which was completed in 1957, is set 20 years after the time period depicted in To Kill a Mockingbird but is not a continuation of the narrative.


Premise: Who was Maria's mother?

Hypothesis: He had made the acquaintance of their daughter Maria in Poland five years earlier, when she was eleven.


Premise: What aerospace companies exist in Portugal?

Hypothesis: Industry is diversified, ranging from automotive (Volkswagen Autoeuropa and Peugeot Citroen), aerospace (Embraer and OGMA), electronics and textiles, to food, chemicals, cement and wood pulp.


Premise: Who believed Britain was following a strategy when trying to destroy Russian Navy?

Hypothesis: This view of 'diplomatic drift' as the cause of the war was first popularised by A. W, Kinglake, who portrayed the British as victims of newspaper sensationalism and duplicitous French and Ottoman diplomacy.


Premise: What does the term gemmule describe?

Hypothesis: Charles Darwin developed a theory of inheritance he termed pangenesis, which used the term gemmule to describe hypothetical particles that would mix during reproduction.


Premise: Which offshoot had little in common with Cubism?

Hypothesis: Early Futurist paintings hold in common with Cubism the fusing of the past and the present, the representation of different views of the subject pictured at the same time, also called multiple perspective, simultaneity or multiplicity, while Constructivism was influenced by Picasso's technique of constructing sculpture from separate elements.


Premise: What is Norbulingka?

Hypothesis: It is divided between the outer White Palace, which serves as the administrative quarters, and the inner Red Quarters, which houses the assembly hall of the Lamas, chapels, 10,000 shrines, and a vast library of Buddhist scriptures.


Premise: What is the most popular variety of bariis?

Hypothesis: Qado or lunch is often elaborate.


Premise: What Realist novel did Ahmed Midhat Efendi write in 1881?

Hypothesis: In a similar vein, the novelist Ahmed Midhat Efendi wrote important novels in each of the major movements: Romanticism (Hasan Mellâh yâhud Sırr İçinde Esrâr, 1873; "Hasan the Sailor, or The Mystery Within the Mystery"), Realism (Henüz On Yedi Yaşında, 1881; "Just Seventeen Years Old"), and Naturalism (Müşâhedât, 1891; "Observations").


Premise: When did human rights for Aboriginal people begin to improve?

Hypothesis: The second half of the 20th century to the present has seen a gradual shift towards improved human rights for Aboriginal people.


Premise: Who succeeded Newt Gingrich as Speaker?

Hypothesis: Since 1995, the only Majority Leader to become Speaker is John Boehner, though indirectly as his party lost control in the 2006 midterms elections.


Premise: When did the attack on Pearl Harbor occur?

Hypothesis: On December 7, 1941, Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor, bringing it too into the war on the Allied side.


Premise: What officer rotation doctrine was developed under Root's guidance?

Hypothesis: He also devised the principle of rotating officers from staff to line.


Premise: What table-based version of soccer is an increasingly popular pub game?

Hypothesis: In recent decades the game of pool (both the British and American versions) has increased in popularity as well as other table based games such as snooker or Table Football becoming common.


Premise: Where did the Nazi and Russian leaders meet to discuss what to do with Poland?

Hypothesis: A joint German–Soviet parade was held in Lvov and Brest-Litovsk, while the countries commanders met in the latter location.


Premise: What was the name of the Chickamauga leader's cousin who helped settlers escape his raids?

Hypothesis: The frontier fort on the banks of the Watauga River later served as a 1780 staging area for the Overmountain Men in preparation to trek over the Appalachian Mountains, to engage, and to later defeat the British Army at the Battle of Kings Mountain in South Carolina.


Premise: How has the media perceive most of these changes to the Downtown area?

Hypothesis: In particular, the area surrounding the New Haven Green has experienced an influx of apartments and condominiums.


Premise: What was the name of the Marshall Islands ship seized by Iran?

Hypothesis: The ship was reported to be under the control of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard according to the Pentagon.


Premise: What did a priest do to Tito as a child when he had difficulty removing the priest's vestments?

Hypothesis: As an adult, he frequently declared that he was an atheist.


Premise: What exemption was removed from Windows 8.1?

Hypothesis: Retail distribution of Windows 8 has since been discontinued in favor of Windows 8.1.


Premise: In modern times, from which year have children attended school in Galician?

Hypothesis: Spanish was nonetheless the only official language in Galicia for more than four centuries.


Premise: What was an example of a battle that might lend itself to a pub name?

Hypothesis: For example, a pub in Crowborough, East Sussex called The Crow and Gate has an image of a crow with gates as wings.


Premise: Who is the director of the curator of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum?

Hypothesis: Howard Kramer, curatorial director of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, asserted that "Madonna and the career she carved out for herself made possible virtually every other female pop singer to follow ...


Premise: Where did the first federal council of Rus take place in 1097?

Hypothesis: On the initiative of Vladimir II Monomakh in 1097 the first federal council of Kievan Rus took place near Chernihiv]in


Premise: What country underwent a political coup that made it part of the Third Reich?

Hypothesis: Austria underwent a political coup that made it part of the Third Reich; France had been invaded and Italy was a fascist regime.


Premise: What are the two major variants of Serbo-Croatian?

Hypothesis: English and Serbo-Croatian each have two major variants (British and American English, and Serbian and Croatian, respectively), along with numerous other varieties.


Premise: What was the revival of Georgian style in twentieth century United States called?

Hypothesis: In the early decades of the twentieth century when there was a growing nostalgia for its sense of order, the style was revived and adapted and in the United States came to be known as the Colonial Revival.


Premise: What year was Guinea-Bissau declared independent?

Hypothesis: Guinea-Bissau has a history of political instability since independence, and no elected president has successfully served a full five-year term.


Premise: Which measurement did Al-Battani improve upon?

Hypothesis: Al-Battani also improved the precision of the measurement of the precession of the Earth's axis.


Premise: What mountains does that region include?

Hypothesis: This includes the Catskill Mountains of southeastern New York, the Poconos in Pennsylvania, and the Allegheny Plateau of southwestern New York, western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio and northern West Virginia.


Premise: Which part of the brain does short-term memory seem to rely on?

Hypothesis: The hippocampus is essential (for learning new information) to the consolidation of information from short-term to long-term memory, although it does not seem to store information itself.


Premise: What is the legislative branch of Bermuda modeled after?

Hypothesis: The Senate is the upper house, consisting of 11 members appointed by the governor on the advice of the premier and the leader of the opposition.


Premise: When did Pioneer release the LD-700?

Hypothesis: It was also the first LD player to load from the front and not the top.


Premise: What character in Czech only exists in loanwords?

Hypothesis: The character ó exists only in loanwords and onomatopoeia.


Premise: What else has led to the Chamorro find it hard to keep their culture that involves it's children?

Hypothesis: The increasing numbers of Chamorros, especially Chamorro youth, relocating to the U.S. Mainland has further complicated both definition and preservation of Chamorro identity.[citation needed]


Premise: What navigator discovered the island?

Hypothesis: Most historical accounts state that the island was discovered on 21 May 1502 by the Galician navigator João da Nova sailing at the service of Portugal, and that he named it "Santa Helena" after Helena of Constantinople.


Premise: Has any club won both in a same season?

Hypothesis: In 1993, Arsenal became the first side to win both the FA Cup and the League Cup in the same season when they beat Sheffield Wednesday 2–1 in both finals.


Premise: What city in Montana has over 100,000 people?

Hypothesis: Montana has 56 counties with the United States Census Bureau stating Montana's contains 364 "places", broken down into 129 incorporated places and 235 census-designated places.


Premise: Along with Germany and Austria, where was Deutsche Universal-Film AG at one time based?

Hypothesis: This unit produced three to four films per year until 1936, migrating to Hungary and then Austria in the face of Hitler's increasing domination of central Europe.


Premise: Who designed the Gehry Tower?

Hypothesis: Some other popular sights are the Waterloo Column, the Laves House, the Wangenheim Palace, the Lower Saxony State Archives, the Hanover Playhouse, the Kröpcke Clock, the Anzeiger Tower Block, the Administration Building of the NORD/LB, the Cupola Hall of the Congress Centre, the Lower Saxony Stock, the Ministry of Finance, the Garten Church, the Luther Church, the Gehry Tower (designed by the American architect Frank O. Gehry), the specially designed Bus Stops, the Opera House, the Central Station, the Maschsee lake and the city forest Eilenriede, which is one of the largest of its kind in Europe.


Premise: How do birds store energy?

Hypothesis: Birds need to alter their metabolism in order to meet the demands of migration.


Premise: At what time in the middle of the night was the diplomat summoned?

Hypothesis: The Indian media responded angrily to the news that the ambassador, a distinguished lady diplomat, was summoned to the Foreign Ministry at 2 am local time; the news was later denied by anonymous sources in Delhi.


Premise: What term does Popper use that roughly means verisimilitude?

Hypothesis: And, in this way, one theory can be evaluated as more or less true than another on a quantitative basis which, Popper emphasises forcefully, has nothing to do with "subjective probabilities" or other merely "epistemic" considerations.


Premise: How do polytheistic religions view sex by God or gods?

Hypothesis: Polytheistic religions commonly attribute to each of the gods a gender, allowing each to interact with any of the others, and perhaps with humans, sexually.


Premise: When did the Delhi Sultanate decline in its rule of northern India?

Hypothesis: The Delhi Sultanate ruled the major part of northern India in the early 14th century, but declined in the late 14th century when several powerful Hindu states such as the Vijayanagara Empire, Gajapati Kingdom, Ahom Kingdom, as well as Rajput dynasties and states, such as Mewar dynasty, emerged.


Premise: Where did British-French warships enter on May 12th 1855?

Hypothesis: On 12 May 1855, British-French warships entered the Kerch Strait and destroyed the coast battery of the Kamishevaya Bay.


Premise: What is most often triggered by temperature changes?

Hypothesis: Altitudinal migration is a form of short distance migration in which birds spend the breeding season at higher altitudes elevations and move to lower ones during suboptimal conditions.


Premise: What term describes the overall US strategy in the Pacific in WWII?

Hypothesis: In the Pacific, the U.S. experienced much success in naval campaigns during 1944, but bloody battles at Iwo Jima and Okinawa in 1945 led the U.S. to look for a way to end the war with minimal loss of American lives.


Premise: On what material did the phonautograph operate?

Hypothesis: While working that summer in Brantford, Bell experimented with a "phonautograph", a pen-like machine that could draw shapes of sound waves on smoked glass by tracing their vibrations.


Premise: What are the names of two researchers who divided neolithic chronology into five periods?

Hypothesis: They also advanced the idea of a transitional stage between the PPNA and PPNB between 8,800 and 8,600 BC at sites like Jerf el Ahmar and Tell Aswad.


Premise: What is a common opinion about men wearing women's clothing?

Hypothesis: In Western societies, skirts, dresses and high-heeled shoes are usually seen as women's clothing, while neckties are usually seen as men's clothing.


Premise: What city did the Sea Wolves move to?

Hypothesis: While some teams have enjoyed considerable on-field and even financial success, many teams in the history of the league have enjoyed little success either on or off of the field of play.


Premise: What ruler was dissolved after the Indian Rebellion in 1857?

Hypothesis: After the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the British East India Company, which had ruled much of India, was dissolved, and Britain's possessions and protectorates on the Indian subcontinent were formally incorporated into the British Empire.


Premise: In addition to printed graphic novels in stores, what became popular online?

Hypothesis: The graphic novel—book-length comics—began to gain attention after Will Eisner popularized the term with his book A Contract with God (1978).


Premise: Where were the Winter Olympics held in 1936?

Hypothesis: In the first half of the 20th century the Olympic Winter Games were held three times in Alpine venues: the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France; the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland; and the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.


Premise: What kind of service is Tidal?

Hypothesis: On March 30, 2015, it was announced that Beyoncé is a co-owner, with various other music artists, in the music streaming service Tidal.


Premise: Which French station has refused to adopt a 24 hour schedule?

Hypothesis: On October 9, 2006 at 6:00 a.m., the network switched to a 24-hour schedule, becoming one of the last major English-language broadcasters to transition to such a schedule.


Premise: Who occupied Korea south of the 38th parallel?

Hypothesis: U.S. forces subsequently occupied the south and Japan surrendered.


Premise: What current affects the environment of Saint Helena?

Hypothesis: The climate of Saint Helena is tropical, marine and mild, tempered by the Benguela Current and trade winds that blow almost continuously.


Premise: What does Primark produce?

Hypothesis: The programme asks consumers to ask themselves, "Why am I only paying £4 for a hand embroidered top?


Premise: How much money did Comcast offer for this company?

Hypothesis: The main reason for the buyout attempt was so that Comcast could acquire Disney's 80 percent stake in ESPN, which a Comcast executive called "the most important and valuable asset" that Disney owned.


Premise: What percentage of New Haven's population is comprised by individuals identifying as White?

Hypothesis: The racial makeup of the city is 42.6% White, 35.4% African American, 0.5% Native American, 4.6% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 12.9% from other races, and 3.9% from two or more races.


Premise: What day is he celebrated in the Eastern Orthodox Church?

Hypothesis: Athanasius is venerated as a Christian saint, whose feast day is 2 May in Western Christianity, 15 May in the Coptic Orthodox Church, and 18 January in the other Eastern Orthodox Churches.


Premise: What empire did Justinian preside over?

Hypothesis: Roman civil law as codified in the Corpus Juris Civilis during the reign of Justinian I of the Byzantine Empire has a reputation as significant literature.


Premise: What new territory was aquired in 1814?

Hypothesis: Bern was occupied by French troops in 1798 during the French Revolutionary Wars, when it was stripped of parts of its territories.


Premise: What was the benefit of being a Vestal?

Hypothesis: A girl chosen to be a Vestal achieved unique religious distinction, public status and privileges, and could exercise considerable political influence.


Premise: What have Western corporations penetrated?

Hypothesis: The process of cultural dissemination has perpetuated over the centuries as Western media corporations have penetrated markets throughout the world, spreading Western culture and styles.


Premise: What is the kitab al-Shifa?

Hypothesis: The third work (The Book of Minerals) is agreed to be Avicenna's writing, adapted from the Kitab al-Shifa (Book of the Remedy).


Premise: How many counties are part of Nashville's metropolitan area?

Hypothesis: Nashville's 13-county metropolitan area has been the state's largest since c. 1990.


Premise: Where did Eisenhower claim he would end the war?

Hypothesis: Just two weeks prior to the election, Eisenhower vowed to go to Korea and end the war there.


Premise: When did Darwin's concept of evolution become widely believed and central to the modern theory of evolution?

Hypothesis: With the development of the modern evolutionary synthesis in the 1930s and 1940s, Darwin's concept of evolutionary adaptation through natural selection became central to modern evolutionary theory, and it has now become the unifying concept of the life sciences.


Premise: What was the aim of the City and Guilds College when it was founded?

Hypothesis: City and Guilds College was founded in 1876 from a meeting of 16 of the City of London's livery companies for the Advancement of Technical Education (CGLI), which aimed to improve the training of craftsmen, technicians, technologists, and engineers.


Premise: What group was notably persecuted after the Roman Empire converted to Christianity?

Hypothesis: Although there had been Jewish communities in many Roman cities, the Jews suffered periods of persecution after the conversion of the empire to Christianity.


Premise: What nickname did George H.W. Bush give to Schwarzenegger?

Hypothesis: He was nominated by George H. W. Bush, who dubbed him "Conan the Republican".


Premise: The three gospels speak of the presence of which priests?

Hypothesis: The Gospel of Matthew describes many women at the crucifixion, some of whom are named in the Gospels.


Premise: When was Aavik's dictionary published?

Hypothesis: Consider roim ‘crime’ versus English crime or taunima ‘to condemn, disapprove’ versus Finnish tuomita ‘to condemn, to judge’ (these Aavikisms appear in Aavik’s 1921 dictionary).


Premise: What was the specialty of great Pietho and what is famous for ?

Hypothesis: However, it was the combination of Orthodox Christianity with a specifically Greek identity that shaped the Greeks' notion of themselves in the empire's twilight years.


Premise: What type of aircraft is used to deliver troops and weapons to military operations?

Hypothesis: Cargo and transport aircraft are typically used to deliver troops, weapons and other military equipment by a variety of methods to any area of military operations around the world, usually outside of the commercial flight routes in uncontrolled airspace.


Premise: When did formal colonization of the Congo River delta begin?

Hypothesis: The Portuguese explorer Diogo Cão reached the mouth of the Congo in 1484.


Premise: When a person shapes a dog to conform to his expectations of behavior, it is called what?

Hypothesis: The second has been the broadening of the concept of the family and the home to include dogs-as-dogs within everyday routines and practices.


Premise: What does Tablados mean?

Hypothesis: Tablados" or popular scenes, both fixed and movable, are erected in the whole city.


Premise: What Arab State lied between the Sinai Peninsula and the Arabian Peninsula?

Hypothesis: They also slowly adopted Greek as a language of commerce along with Aramaic and Arabic.


Premise: Most entities do not have what?

Hypothesis: As a human being's actions cannot always be predicted, the same can be said of where a tree's roots will grow, or how an electron will move, or whether it will rain tomorrow.


Premise: What aroused the indignation of the entire Christian world?

Hypothesis: In the United States the now aging Julia Ward Howe, author of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, leaped into the war of words and joined the Red Cross.


Premise: Before 1919 what were the German states called?

Hypothesis: There is little continuity between the current states and their predecessors of the Weimar Republic with the exception of the three free states, and the two city-states of Hamburg and Bremen.


Premise: What did the claims of officials imply about the nature of the individuals?

Hypothesis: Under the principate, such opportunities were limited by law; priestly and political power were consolidated in the person of the princeps ("first citizen").


Premise: When DNA has different markers, how it that presented in plants?

Hypothesis: Gene expression can also be controlled by repressor proteins that attach to silencer regions of the DNA and prevent that region of the DNA code from being expressed.


Premise: What book is considered to be the source of many Orthodox beliefs regarding Mary?

Hypothesis: The Protoevangelium of James, an extra-canonical book, has been the source of many Orthodox beliefs on Mary.


Premise: When does Seattle get it lowest levels of precipitation?

Hypothesis: Conversely, the city receives some of the lowest precipitation amounts of any large city from June to September.


Premise: What were the names of the three buildings constructed after Busch Hall?

Hypothesis: The delay allowed the university to construct ten buildings instead of the seven originally planned.


Premise: Who was Claude R Kirk

Hypothesis: In 1968 Edward J. Gurney, also a white conservative, was elected as the state's first post-reconstruction Republican US Senator.


Premise: what does CANSOFCOM stand for?

Hypothesis: The Canadian Special Operations Forces Command (CANSOFCOM) is a formation capable of operating independently but primarily focused on generating special operations forces (SOF) elements to support CJOC.


Premise: The term "modern" was derived from what Latin adverb?

Hypothesis: The term "modern" was coined in the 16th century to indicate present or recent times (ultimately derived from the Latin adverb modo, meaning "just now).


Premise: Who established Lane Crawford?

Hypothesis: In 1900, the first ethnic-Chinese owned Sincere Department Store was opened by Ma Ying Piu, who returned from Australia and inspired by David Jones.


Premise: What did the Eder-Hecht device measure?

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: Insects use sound and what other means for communication?

Hypothesis: In addition to the use of sound for communication, a wide range of insects have evolved chemical means for communication.


Premise: What early philosopher proposed Dvaitadvaita?

Hypothesis: According to this philosophy there are three categories of existence: Brahman, soul, and matter.


Premise: What was the name of Sand's book where the main characters can be interpreted as Sand and Chopin?

Hypothesis: As the composer's illness progressed, Sand had become less of a lover and more of a nurse to Chopin, whom she called her "third child".


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

Hypothesis: However, Salibi is a modern term; historically, Muslim writers described European Christian Crusaders as al-Faranj or Alfranj (الفرنج) and Firinjīyah (الفرنجيّة) in Arabic" This word comes from the Franks and can be seen in the Arab history text Al-Kamil fi al-Tarikh by Ali ibn al-Athir.


Premise: What type of crop was rice considered to be during this period?

Hypothesis: Domesticated animals that were also eaten included chickens, Mandarin ducks, geese, cows, sheep, pigs, camels and dogs (various types were bred specifically for food, while most were used as pets).


Premise: When did the Larsen-B ice shelf collapse?

Hypothesis: According to NASA, the most widespread Antarctic surface melting of the past 30 years occurred in 2005, when an area of ice comparable in size to California briefly melted and refroze; this may have resulted from temperatures rising to as high as 5 °C (41 °F).


Premise: What is the maximum for floor events?

Hypothesis: In the past, the floor exercise event was executed on the bare floor or mats such as wrestling mats.


Premise: During what years did the Serbian Revolution occur?

Hypothesis: The Serbian revolution (1804–1815) marked the beginning of an era of national awakening in the Balkans during the Eastern Question.


Premise: A DBMS consists of what?

Hypothesis: Formally, a "database" refers to a set of related data and the way it is organized.


Premise: What was the horizontal slippage in the Beichuan Fault at the epicenter?

Hypothesis: In the epicentral area, the average slip in Beichuan Fault was about 3.5 metres (11 ft) vertical, 3.5 metres (11 ft) horizontal-parallel to the fault, and 4.8 metres (16 ft) horizontal-perpendicular to the fault.


Premise: How many Armenians speak Russian actively?

Hypothesis: In Armenia Russian has no official status, but it's recognised as a minority language under the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities.


Premise: Before 20th century, what was the form of public transportation in the city?

Hypothesis: Horse-drawn steetcars began operating in New Haven in the 1860s, and by the mid-1890s all the lines had become electric.


Premise: Gladstone resigned after what was defeted?

Hypothesis: She thought his government was "the worst I have ever had", and blamed him for the death of General Gordon at Khartoum.


Premise: When was the BYU Jerusalem Center reopened for students following it's closure in 2000?

Hypothesis: The BYU Jerusalem Center, which was closed in 2000 due to student security concerns related to the Second Intifada and, more recently, the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict, was reopened to students in the Winter 2007 semester.


Premise: Along with the early modern and ancient, during what period did Somali architecture exist?

Hypothesis: Somali architecture is a rich and diverse tradition of engineering and designing.


Premise: What do Russian carriers include for launching lightly loaded conventional fighters?

Hypothesis: Russian, Chinese, and future Indian carriers include a ski-jump ramp for launching lightly loaded conventional fighter aircraft but recover using traditional carrier arresting cables and a tailhook on their aircraft.


Premise: Who is the Labour and Social Welfare Minister?

Hypothesis: Labour and Social Welfare Minister Immanuel Ngatjizeko praised the 2008 study as "by far superior in scope and quality to any that has been available previously", but its methodology has also received criticism.


Premise: Who were the people that were power political and economic force in Victoria in 1845?

Hypothesis: By 1845, fewer than 240 wealthy Europeans held all the pastoral licences then issued in Victoria and became a powerful political and economic force in Victoria for generations to come.


Premise: Who is usually included in stories?

Hypothesis: Professional wrestling in the U.S. tends to have a heavy focus on story building and the establishment of characters (and their personalities).


Premise: In 2011, what school was built on Roosevelt Island?

Hypothesis: On December 19, 2011, then Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced his choice of Cornell University and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology to build a US$2 billion graduate school of applied sciences called Cornell Tech on Roosevelt Island with the goal of transforming New York City into the world's premier technology capital.


Premise: Where is Mount Tangjia?

Hypothesis: Five tons of fuel to operate the machinery was airlifted to the site, where a sluice was constructed to allow the safe discharge of the bottlenecked water.


Premise: What far-reaching result do scientists think has come about from symbiosis with bacteria?

Hypothesis: In fact, the evolution of all eukaryotes (plants, animals, fungi, and protists) is believed under the endosymbiotic theory to have resulted from a symbiosis between various sorts of bacteria.


Premise: Who is sometimes considered the first funcioning "Minority Leader?"

Hypothesis: Some scholars suggest that Representative James Madison of Virginia informally functioned as the first "minority leader" because in the First Congress he led the opposition to Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton's fiscal policies.


Premise: What causes the timing of migration?

Hypothesis: The timing of migration seems to be controlled primarily by changes in day length.


Premise: How many hours of real-time battery life did the 5th-generation iPod test at, compared to its advertised 14 hours?

Hypothesis: An MP3.com report stated that this was virtually unachievable under real-life usage conditions, with a writer for MP3.com getting on average less than 8 hours from an iPod.


Premise: What does USAAC stand for?

Hypothesis: This thinking was prevalent in both the RAF and what was then known as the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) between the two world wars.


Premise: Where did the White Stockings play their home games?

Hypothesis: The Cubs began play as the Chicago White Stockings, joining the National League (NL) as a charter member.


Premise: What started with the Industrial Revolution?

Hypothesis: Aesthetics became a criterion for the middle class as ornamented products, once within the province of expensive craftsmanship, became cheaper under machine production.


Premise: What was positivism called after it was revived?

Hypothesis: Is it enough to say that we did not really mean what we meant?"


Premise: For what was "Evangel from Reims" named?

Hypothesis: The luxurious and ornate representative texts of Serbo-Croatian Church Slavonic belong to the later era, when they coexisted with the Serbo-Croatian vernacular literature.


Premise: Who ultimately defeated Seleucid Anatolia?

Hypothesis: Pergamum broke away under Eumenes I who defeated a Seleucid army sent against him.


Premise: When did Sudan receive independence?

Hypothesis: Sudan was granted independence on 1 January 1956.


Premise: What was one of the defining ideological movements of the Twentieth Century?

Hypothesis: The Marxist critique of capitalism — developed with Friedrich Engels —


Premise: Who manages the water storage and supply for Melbourne?

Hypothesis: Water is stored in a series of reservoirs located within and outside the Greater Melbourne area.


Premise: How did styles disseminate before Georgian architecture?

Hypothesis: This contrasted with earlier styles, which were primarily disseminated among craftsmen through the direct experience of the apprenticeship system.


Premise: Who joined the finalists, making it a Top 25?

Hypothesis: On February 23, it was announced that one more finalist would join the Top 24 making it the Top 25, and that was Jermaine Jones.


Premise: Around what time did Lobund of Notre Dame become independent?

Hypothesis: In the 1940s Lobund achieved independent status as a purely research organization and in 1950 was raised to the status of an Institute.


Premise: What was the typical range that Prussian guns could fire?

Hypothesis: The Prussian guns typically opened fire at a range of 2–3 kilometres (1.2–1.9 mi), beyond the range of French artillery or the Chassepot rifle.


Premise: Where does the name opisthokonts come from?

Hypothesis: Their closest known living relatives are the choanoflagellates, collared flagellates that have a morphology similar to the choanocytes of certain sponges.


Premise: How many Tibetan troops died at the Massacre of Chumik Shenko?

Hypothesis: In 1904, a British expedition to Tibet, spurred in part by a fear that Russia was extending its power into Tibet as part of The Great Game, invaded the country, hoping that negotiations with the 13th Dalai Lama would be more effective than with Chinese representatives.


Premise: What does the of toxin Clostridium tetani releases do?

Hypothesis: For example, Clostridium tetani releases a toxin that paralyzes muscles, and staphylococcus releases toxins that produce shock and sepsis.


Premise: What event made war planning difficult in this period?

Hypothesis: His primary duty was planning for the next war, which proved most difficult in the midst of the Great Depression.


Premise: Who had the fewest number of troops in Korea?

Hypothesis: The UN forces, once prepared, counterattacked and broke out of the Pusan Perimeter.


Premise: From where does the phrase humanist originate?

Hypothesis: The Age of Enlightenment is a time in Western philosophy and cultural life centered upon the 18th century in which reason was advocated as the primary source and legitimacy for authority.


Premise: When did many alpine countries develop heavy protection to prevent new invasion?

Hypothesis: Thus, Savoy built a series of fortifications in the Maurienne valley in order to protect the major alpine passes, such as the col du Mont-Cenis that was even crossed by, Charlemagne and his father to defeat the Lombarts.


Premise: What is the definition of a Personnel Recovery mission?

Hypothesis: It is the ability of the US government and its international partners to effect the recovery of isolated personnel across the ROMO and return those personnel to duty.


Premise: What did the movements in Bengal serve to awaken in Indians?

Hypothesis: It played an important role in reawakening Indian minds and intellect across the sub-continent.


Premise: What was Admiral Flota Sovetskovo Soyuza Kuznetsov renamed?

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


Premise: What 3 US organizations have called for the banning of antibiotics in the production of food animals?

Hypothesis: The emergence of antibiotic resistance has prompted restrictions on their use in the UK in 1970 (Swann report 1969), and the EU has banned the use of antibiotics as growth-promotional agents since 2003.


Premise: In April 1795, what military organization was Napoleon assigned to?

Hypothesis: As an infantry command, it was a demotion from artillery general—for which the army already had a full quota—and he pleaded poor health to avoid the posting.


Premise: Whio was Equerry Frederick Ponsonby's father?

Hypothesis: Abdul Karim remained in her service until he returned to India with a pension on her death.


Premise: What did some Mozni regard themselves with?

Hypothesis: These możni (Magnates) constantly sought to undermine princely authority.:75, 76 In Gall Anonym's chronicle, there is noted the nobility's alarm when the Palatine Sieciech "elevated those of a lower class over those who were noble born" entrusting them with state offices.


Premise: What two women were said to be obsessed by "mania?"

Hypothesis: Frenzied women like Sibyls from whose lips the god speaks are recorded in the Near East as Mari in the second millennium BC.


Premise: When did the Estonian Independent Signal Battalion face off against the Soviets?

Hypothesis: Only the Estonian Independent Signal Battalion showed resistance to Red Army and Communist militia "People's Self-Defence" units in front of the XXI Grammar School in Tallinn on 21 June.


Premise: After resigning where did Stratford Canning sail off to?

Hypothesis: Lord Stratford then turned around and sailed back to Constantinople, arriving there on 5 April 1853.


Premise: Why did Gladstone resign in 1885?

Hypothesis: Salisbury's government only lasted a few months, however, and Victoria was forced to recall Gladstone, whom she referred to as a "half crazy & really in many ways ridiculous old man".


Premise: What is the highest of the most important passes of the Alps?

Hypothesis: The most important passes are the Col de l'Iseran (the highest), the Brenner Pass, the Mont-Cenis, the Great St. Bernard Pass, the Col de Tende, the Gotthard Pass, the Semmering Pass, and the Stelvio Pass.


Premise: Are early or late maturing girls more exposed to alcohol and drug abuse?

Hypothesis: In addition, girls may have to deal with sexual advances from older boys before they are emotionally and mentally mature.


Premise: How many contestants from this season reached platinum album status?

Hypothesis: This is the first season in which the winner failed to achieve gold album status, and none from that season achieved platinum album status in the U.S.[citation needed]


Premise: What does the Indian word "shikaris" mean in English?

Hypothesis: During the feudal and colonial times in British India, hunting was regarded as a regal sport in the numerous princely states, as many maharajas and nawabs, as well as British officers, maintained a whole corps of shikaris (big-game hunters), who were native professional hunters.


Premise: Which people arrived in the British Isles when the Roman Empire's power was diminishing?

Hypothesis: Anglo-Saxons arrived as Roman power waned in the 5th century AD.


Premise: What was the profession of most of the settlers in the Province of Carolina?

Hypothesis: Originally settled by small farmers, sometimes having a few slaves, who were oriented toward subsistence agriculture, the colony lacked cities or towns.


Premise: How many plant species does Brazil's Atlantic Forest contain?

Hypothesis: About 10% of the species of the Earth can be found in Colombia, including over 1,900 species of bird, more than in Europe and North America combined, Colombia has 10% of the world’s mammals species, 14% of the amphibian species, and 18% of the bird species of the world.


Premise: Where are Slavic speaking groups generally found?

Hypothesis: Their dialects can be linguistically classified as forms of either Macedonian Slavic or Bulgarian.


Premise: What airlines was award the "Best regional airline in Europe" award by Skytrax?

Hypothesis: Readers Choice Awards: Top Domestic Airline" award.


Premise: Who put down the rebellions?

Hypothesis: When the Tongzhi Emperor came to the throne at the age of five in 1861, these officials rallied around him in what was called the Tongzhi Restoration.


Premise: Henry II wanted to secure the southern borders of what?

Hypothesis: For his part in the potential marriage alliance, Henry II transferred the castles of Chinon, Loudun and Mirebeau into John's name; as John was only five years old his father would continue to control them for practical purposes.


Premise: How much value did a Spanish milled dollar have in relation to Spanish units of currency?

Hypothesis: Section 9 of that act authorized the production of various coins, including "DOLLARS OR UNITS—each to be of the value of a Spanish milled dollar as the same is now current, and to contain three hundred and seventy-one grains and four sixteenth parts of a grain of pure, or four hundred and sixteen grains of standard silver".


Premise: What type of worldview did New York's no wave movement tend to have?

Hypothesis: The former four groups were included on the Eno-produced No New York compilation, often considered the quintessential testament to the scene.


Premise: What is another name for solutes?

Hypothesis: Because the percentage of each constituent can be varied, with any mixture the entire range of possible variations is called a system.


Premise: What was the name of the non-subscription Xbox online gaming service?

Hypothesis: A Live Free account does not generally support multiplayer gaming; however, some games that have rather limited online functions already, (such as Viva Piñata) or games that feature their own subscription service (e.g. EA Sports games) can be played with a Free account.


Premise: In what year did Alcuin die?

Hypothesis: By the reign of Charlemagne, the language had so diverged from the classical that it was later called Medieval Latin.


Premise: What is the name of the second largest bank found in Connecticut?

Hypothesis: New Haven-based companies traded on stock exchanges include NewAlliance Bank, the second largest bank in Connecticut and fourth-largest in New England (NYSE: NAL), Higher One Holdings (NYSE: ONE), a financial services firm United Illuminating, the electricity distributor for southern Connecticut (NYSE: UIL), Achillion Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: ACHN), Alexion Pharmaceuticals (NasdaqGS: ALXN), and Transpro Inc.


Premise: How many insititutions comprise the Association of American Universities' membership?

Hypothesis: The university is one of the 62 members of the Association of American Universities.


Premise: What does warren Buffet stipulate his berkshire hathaway  shares be used for in the 10 year period after his death

Hypothesis: In the same announcement it was reiterated that Warren Buffett "... has stipulated that the proceeds from the Berkshire Hathaway shares he still owns at death are to be used for philanthropic purposes within 10 years after his estate has been settled".


Premise: What was the critical lesson Air Staff ignored?

Hypothesis: Targeting German morale, as Bomber Command would do, was no more successful.


Premise: When Andreessen left the company he worked for, what new company did he start?

Hypothesis: Andreessen, the leader of the Mosaic team at National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), soon started his own company, named Netscape, and released the Mosaic-influenced Netscape Navigator in 1994, which quickly became the world's most popular browser, accounting for 90% of all web use at its peak (see usage share of web browsers).


Premise: What subtype of clitellates contains earthworms?

Hypothesis: In 1997 Greg Rouse and Kristian Fauchald attempted a "first heuristic step in terms of bringing polychaete systematics to an acceptable level of rigour", based on anatomical structures, and divided polychaetes into:


Premise: An example of a more specific genocidal crime of which one could be accused was what?

Hypothesis: Nevertheless, the Holocaust is universally recognized to have been a genocide and the term, that had been coined the year before by Raphael Lemkin, appeared in the indictment of the 24 Nazi leaders, Count 3, which stated that all the defendants had "conducted deliberate and systematic genocide—namely, the extermination of racial and national groups..."


Premise: What city did Nasser want to keep the French and British out of?

Hypothesis: Two days later, British and French planes bombarded Egyptian airfields in the canal zone.


Premise: What would customers notice about the sound of the new, improved cooling system?

Hypothesis: Along with the redesigning of the console and logo, the boot screen of all consoles changed from "Sony Computer Entertainment" to "PS3 PlayStation 3", with a new chime and the game start splash screen being dropped.


Premise: What species had evolved after  the extinction and would become the basic predator in the Triassic?

Hypothesis: Temnospondyli evolved during this time and would be the dominant predator for much of the Triassic.


Premise: What risk is assumed when the ECB purchases bonds from weaker states?

Hypothesis: The ECB always could, and through the late summer of 2011 did, purchase bonds issued by the weaker states even though it assumes, in doing so, the risk of a deteriorating balance sheet.


Premise: When did Madonna embark on the Rebel Heart Tour?

Hypothesis: From September 2015, she embarked on the Rebel Heart Tour to promote the album; the tour ended in March 2016 and traveled throughout North America, Europe and Asia and was the singer's first visit to Australia in 23 years, where she also performed a one-off show for her fans.


Premise: Who ended up with the 200 letters from Sand to Chopin?

Hypothesis: The expenses of the funeral and monument, amounting to 5,000 francs, were covered by Jane Stirling, who also paid for the return of the composer's sister Ludwika to Warsaw.


Premise: What was the new name given to the Russian SFSR after the resignation of Gorbachev?

Hypothesis: On December 24, Yeltsin informed the Secretary-General of the United Nations that by agreement of the member states of the CIS Russian Federation would assume the membership of the Soviet Union in all UN organs (including permanent membership in the UN Security Council).


Premise: When was the construction of Wells Cathedral in England begun?

Hypothesis: Wells Cathedral is thus considered the first truly Gothic cathedral.


Premise: What sector of economy was plagued by terrorism attacks?

Hypothesis: In the 1990s an Islamist group, Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, engaged in an extended campaign of violence, from the murders and attempted murders of prominent writers and intellectuals, to the repeated targeting of tourists and foreigners.


Premise: What was the main type of oil painting painted by Eisenhower?

Hypothesis: Eisenhower painted about 260 oils during the last 20 years of his life to relax, mostly landscapes but also portraits of subjects such as Mamie, their grandchildren, General Montgomery, George Washington, and Abraham Lincoln.


Premise: What is it called when multiple different alleles for a gene are present in a species's population?

Hypothesis: A gene's most common allele is called the wild type, and rare alleles are called mutants.


Premise: What type of ship was the liburna?

Hypothesis: The former was a warship, the latter mainly a merchant ship.


Premise: Where are agents sent to become FBI Special Agents?

Hypothesis: It is also where new agents are sent for training to become FBI Special Agents.


Premise: By 2015, how much did Dell slate to reduce its emissions?

Hypothesis: Dell committed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from its global activities by 40% by 2015, with 2008 fiscal year as the baseline year.


Premise: Who were liberators of oppressed Balkan states?

Hypothesis: Having portrayed the Armenians as revolutionaries in the name of freedom with the expectation of being rescued by the intervention of Christian Europe, he states "but her hope was vain.


Premise: What type of powers were granted to Pompey by the senate?

Hypothesis: On 7 January of 49 BC, the senate passed a senatus consultum ultimum, which vested Pompey with dictatorial powers.


Premise: What is probably the reason there are so many unique plants in Karoo?

Hypothesis: The reason behind this high productivity and endemism may be the relatively stable nature of precipitation.


Premise: Where did British-French warships enter on May 12th 1855?

Hypothesis: In spring 1855, the allied British-French commanders decided to send an Anglo-French naval squadron into the Azov Sea to undermine Russian communications and supplies to besieged Sevastopol.


Premise: Who battled in the cold war?

Hypothesis: These two rivals would later face off in the Cold War.


Premise: Why are some parts of the body covered?

Hypothesis: They cover parts of the body that social norms require to be covered, act as a form of adornment, and serve other social purposes.


Premise: What was the concept for 'Interstellar'?

Hypothesis: In June 2006, Steven Spielberg announced he would direct a scientifically accurate film about "a group of explorers who travel through a worm hole and into another dimension", from a treatment by Kip Thorne and producer Lynda Obst.


Premise: Which companies did Nintendo try to get to make a CD add-on for the SNES?

Hypothesis: Ultimately, deals with both Sony and Philips fell through, (although a prototype console was produced by Sony) with Philips gaining the right to release a series of titles based on Nintendo franchises for its CD-i multimedia player and Sony going on to develop its own console based on its initial dealings with Nintendo (the PlayStation).


Premise: What causes Streptococci?

Hypothesis: Compared to arsphenamine, the sulfonamides had a broader spectrum of activity and were far less toxic, rendering them useful for infections caused by pathogens such as streptococci.


Premise: What did people gather to observe on December 10th?

Hypothesis: From November 14–18, 15 Ukrainian activists were among the 100 human-, national- and religious-rights advocates invited to discuss human rights with Soviet officials and a visiting delegation of the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (also known as the Helsinki Commission).


Premise: What is another name for Scout's pink cotton penitentiary?

Hypothesis: For example, she refuses to wear frilly clothes, saying that Aunt Alexandra's "fanatical" attempts to place her in them made her feel "a pink cotton penitentiary closing in on [her]".


Premise: When was the Assumption dogmatically define by the Catholic Church?

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


Premise: Blacks were the majority in South Carolina until what year?

Hypothesis: An elaborate public building, the United States Post Office and Courthouse, was completed by the federal government in 1896 in the heart of the city.


Premise: When was the one-drop rule in effect?

Hypothesis: In their attempt to ensure white supremacy decades after emancipation, in the early 20th century, most southern states created laws based on the one-drop rule, defining as black, persons with any known African ancestry.


Premise: What public area in New Haven was named a National Historic Landmark in 1970?

Hypothesis: It was named a National Historic Landmark in 1970.


Premise: How large are the Bronx Museum of the Arts' galleries?

Hypothesis: Many of its exhibitions are on themes of special interest to the Bronx.


Premise: What was the population of Detroit in 2010?

Hypothesis: Following suburbanization, industrial restructuring, and loss of jobs (as described above), by the 2010 census, the city had less than 40 percent of that number, with just over 700,000 residents.


Premise: What is the meaning behind the Muslim concept of tawhid?

Hypothesis: In Christianity, the doctrine of the Trinity describes God as one God in three persons.


Premise: 50% of tuberculosis-infected people died within 5 years where?

Hypothesis: At the time of its discovery, sanitoriums for the isolation of tuberculosis-infected people were an ubiquitous feature of cities in developed countries, with 50% dying within 5 years of admission.


Premise: What portion of the government was eventually separated from government participation?

Hypothesis: There is, however, continuing criticism of the government's treatment of the Muslim Rohingya minority and its poor response to the religious clashes.


Premise: For what are leaves used?

Hypothesis: Leaves gather sunlight and carry out photosynthesis.


Premise: To the edge of what empire did Osman I push Turkish settlements?

Hypothesis: It is not well understood how the early Ottomans came to dominate their neighbours, as the history of medieval Anatolia is still little known.


Premise: Of the five countries with the greatest use of Czech, which country had the lowest percent of use?

Hypothesis: The five countries with the greatest use of Czech were the Czech Republic (98.77 percent), Slovakia (24.86 percent), Portugal (1.93 percent), Poland (0.98 percent) and Germany (0.47 percent).


Premise: Who tried to assassinate Queen Victoria while she was pregnant with her first child?

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


Premise: What is the second empires?

Hypothesis: The Second Empire was the Imperial Bonapartist regime of Napoleon III from 1852 to 1870, between the Second Republic and the Third Republic, in France.


Premise: Without Whitehead's proposed purpose, life would be what?

Hypothesis: Without such a goal, he sees the rise of life as totally unintelligible.


Premise: When did President Johnson award him?

Hypothesis: In his speech on 6 December 1963, Johnson said: "I have also determined to confer the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously on another noble man whose death we mourned 6 months ago:


Premise: What did Galicians call the Vikings?

Hypothesis: In the 9th century, the rise of the cult of the Apostle James in Santiago de Compostela gave Galicia a particular symbolic importance among Christians, an importance it would hold throughout the Reconquista.


Premise: Queen performed several sold out shows at what US venue?

Hypothesis: After attending a Queen concert in Los Angeles, Michael Jackson suggested to Mercury backstage that "Another One Bites the Dust" be released as a single, and in October 1980 it spent three weeks at number one.


Premise: What is ab example of a gender marked adjective?

Hypothesis: There is a tendency to abandon traditionally gender-invariable adjectives in favour of marked ones, something prevalent in Occitan and French.


Premise: Who discovered the planet Uranus?

Hypothesis: He named the newly discovered element after the planet Uranus, (named after the primordial Greek god of the sky), which had been discovered eight years earlier by William Herschel.


Premise: Poppers notion of verisimilitude leaves no place for which kind of probabilities in the evaluation of scientific hypotheses?

Hypothesis: The intuitive idea behind verisimilitude is that the assertions or hypotheses of scientific theories can be objectively measured with respect to the amount of truth and falsity that they imply.


Premise: What conditions are more likely to cause Exercise-induced bronchoconstriction?

Hypothesis: Exercise can trigger bronchoconstriction both in people with or without asthma.


Premise: Who believed that behind the appearance of things, there was a permanent principle of mathematics?

Hypothesis: The Greeks used standard types, because they believed that the world of objects was a series of typical forms which could be represented in several instances.


Premise: What year did oil price spikes in Iran lead to inflation?

Hypothesis: By 1974, the economy of Iran was experiencing double digit inflation, and despite many large projects to modernize the country, corruption was rampant and caused large amounts of waste.


Premise: What is the process of producing a biologically functional molecule of either RNA or protein called?

Hypothesis: In all organisms, two steps are required to read the information encoded in a gene's DNA and produce the protein it specifies.


Premise: What was Living Black about?

Hypothesis: In 1978 Aboriginal writer Kevin Gilbert received the National Book Council award for his book Living Black: Blacks Talk to Kevin Gilbert, a collection of Aboriginal people's stories, and in 1998 was awarded (but refused to accept) the Human Rights Award for Literature for Inside Black Australia, a poetry anthology and exhibition of Aboriginal photography.


Premise: When did Barcelona become the first Spanish team to win the treble competitions?

Hypothesis: In the 2014–15 season, Barcelona won another historic treble, making them the first club in European football to win the treble twice.


Premise: When was Washington University ranked #1 for quality of life?

Hypothesis: The Olin Business School's undergraduate program is also among the country's most competitive, admitting only 14% of applicants in 2007 and ranking #1 in SAT scores with an average composite of 1492 M+CR according to BusinessWeek.


Premise: When did the Dust Bowl begin?

Hypothesis: During the 1930s, parts of the state began suffering the consequences of poor farming practices, extended drought and high winds.


Premise: When did anthropologists stop looking for cultures far away and instead began to "look across the tracks"?

Hypothesis: Some authors argue that anthropology originated and developed as the study of "other cultures", both in terms of time (past societies) and space (non-European/non-Western societies).


Premise: The plant in what US state still remains in operation?

Hypothesis: The Miami, Florida, facility of its Alienware subsidiary remains in operation, while Dell continues to produce its servers (its most profitable products) in Austin, Texas.


Premise: What are the two former Presbyterian congregations in England?

Hypothesis: Two former Presbyterian congregations, St Columba's, Cambridge (founded in 1879), and St Columba's, Oxford (founded as a chaplaincy by the PCofE and the Church of Scotland in 1908 and as a congregation of the PCofE in 1929), continue as congregations of the URC and university chaplaincies of the Church of Scotland.


Premise: What did the group at the Bells house hear other people doing?

Hypothesis: This time, guests at the household distinctly heard people in Brantford reading and singing.


Premise: The closing of what plant in 20147 caused a major loss to the automobile industry?

Hypothesis: Four hundred automobile industry companies employ another 100,000 workers: many of these are centred in the Yvelines department around the Renault and PSA-Citroen plants (this department alone employs 33,000), but the industry as a whole suffered a major loss with the 2014 closing of a major


Premise: What relies on the idea humans can be divided into biologically distinct races?

Hypothesis: Since all human beings belong to the same species, the ECRI (European Commission against Racism and Intolerance) rejects theories based on the existence of different "races".


Premise: What must an infectious agent do to cause disease?

Hypothesis: First, the catalog of infectious agents has grown to the point that virtually all of the significant infectious agents of the human population have been identified.


Premise: When did Holmes die?

Hypothesis: Its pilot, Feldwebel Robert Zehbe, landed, only to die later of wounds suffered during the attack.


Premise: What is the general consensus of the axioms and inference rules declared in Principia Mathematica?

Hypothesis: It is generally accepted that Kurt Gödel's incompleteness theorem of 1931 definitively demonstrated that for any set of axioms and inference rules proposed to encapsulate mathematics, there would in fact be some truths of mathematics which could not be deduced from them, and hence that Principia Mathematica could never achieve its aims.


Premise: Which company runs NBC Universal?

Hypothesis: Its production studios are at 100 Universal City Plaza Drive in Universal City, California.


Premise: When did the Reconstruction Era end?

Hypothesis: Ideas for affirmative action came as early as the Reconstruction Era (1865-1877) in which a former slave population lacked the skills and resources for sustainable living.


Premise: What infection has a very small prevalence in Guinea-Bissau?

Hypothesis: Only 20% of infected pregnant women receive anti retroviral coverage to prevent transmission to newborns.


Premise: How many of Andrew Johnson's veto's were over turned by Congress

Hypothesis: Some of Jackson's successors made no use of the veto power, while others used it intermittently.


Premise: How big is Carter Finley Stadium?

Hypothesis: The men's baseball team plays at Doak Field.


Premise: Why is New Mexico always an after thought in American -Spanish speaking society?

Hypothesis: In addition, it contains many words from Nahuatl, the language spoken by the ancient Aztecs of Mexico.


Premise: What world event caused the end of Claridge's company?

Hypothesis: However, the First World War impacted financially on the Clarmac Company, which entered into liquidation in 1915.


Premise: In contrast to Gray, which theory did Popper argue was at least equally consistent with Newton's on the available evidence?

Hypothesis: For, according to Popper, Einstein's theory was at least equally as well corroborated as Newton's upon its initial conception; they both equally well accounted for all the hitherto available evidence.


Premise: When did Tajiks start being part of the Soviet Army?

Hypothesis: Tajiks began to be conscripted into the Soviet Army in 1939 and during World War II around 260,000 Tajik citizens fought against Germany, Finland and Japan.


Premise: Where did the French attack in 1762?

Hypothesis: This was the final battle of the war in North America, and it forced the French to surrender to Lieutenant Colonel William Amherst.


Premise: Which weaponry research did Feynman engage in?

Hypothesis: At Princeton, the physicist Robert R. Wilson encouraged Feynman to participate in the Manhattan Project—the wartime U.S. Army project at Los Alamos developing the atomic bomb.


Premise: How many suites does the Sheraton have?

Hypothesis: The Sheraton has 207 guest rooms and 10 suites and is luxuriously furnished with imported furniture.


Premise: Where were hospices established?

Hypothesis: The Alps have been crossed for war and commerce, and by pilgrims, students and tourists.


Premise: Before what year did studies on the Somali language exist?

Hypothesis: Its nearest relatives are the Afar and Saho languages.


Premise: How many hamaynkner does Armenia have?

Hypothesis: The capital, Yerevan, also has the status of a community.


Premise: What is the home ground of the Richmond Kickers?

Hypothesis: Richmond is not home to any major league professional sports teams, but since 2013, the Washington Redskins of the National Football League have held their summer training camp in the city.


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

Hypothesis: An encoding maps (possibly a subset of) the range of Unicode code points to sequences of values in some fixed-size range, termed code values.


Premise: Who used the term anthropology to describe the natural history of man?

Hypothesis: Various short-lived organizations of anthropologists had already been formed.


Premise: How many years old were the Quran fragments discovered in Birmingham in 2015?

Hypothesis: Saudi scholar Saud al-Sarhan has expressed doubt over the age of the fragments as they contain dots and chapter separators that are believed to have originated later.


Premise: On what date was Spectre first shown for general audiences?

Hypothesis: Following the announcement of the start of filming, Paramount Pictures brought forward the release of Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation to avoid competing with Spectre.


Premise: What were the two western towers built from?

Hypothesis: The abbey's two western towers were built between 1722 and 1745 by Nicholas Hawksmoor, constructed from Portland stone to an early example of a Gothic Revival design.


Premise: What is the portion of something that is reached by the radio transmission called?

Hypothesis: Since the receiving antenna is not equally sensitive to signals received from all directions, the effective area is a function of the direction to the source.


Premise: Besides Aves, what group contains the only living representatives of the reptile clade Archosauria?

Hypothesis: Aves and a sister group, the clade Crocodilia, contain the only living representatives of the reptile clade Archosauria.


Premise: When did the downward trend of the English Football start to turn around?

Hypothesis: UEFA, European football's governing body, lifted the five-year ban on English clubs playing in European competitions in 1990 (resulting in Manchester United lifting the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup in 1991) and the Taylor Report on stadium safety standards, which proposed expensive upgrades to create all-seater stadiums in the aftermath of the Hillsborough disaster, was published in January of that year.


Premise: The volume "Credit Correlation: Life After Copulas" summarizes a 2006 conference held by what firm in London?

Hypothesis: See also the article by Donnelly and Embrechts and the book by Brigo, Pallavicini and Torresetti, that reports relevant warnings and research on CDOs appeared in 2006.


Premise: When did Americans really begin to establish their own laws independent of the English?

Hypothesis: But citations to English decisions gradually disappeared during the 19th century as American courts developed their own principles to resolve the legal problems of the American people.


Premise: How much did China National Petroleum and Sinopec donate?

Hypothesis: China National Petroleum Corp and Sinopec donated 10 million yuan each to the disaster area.


Premise: Which group is more likely to support DST: urban workers or rural farmers?

Hypothesis: Groups that tend to support DST are urban workers, retail businesses, outdoor sports enthusiasts and businesses, tourism operators, and others who benefit from increased light during the evening in summer.


Premise: What is the most efficient means of transportation into and out of Alaska?

Hypothesis: Cities not served by road, sea, or river can be reached only by air, foot, dogsled, or snowmachine, accounting for Alaska's extremely well developed bush air services—an Alaskan novelty.


Premise: What did the CD evolve from?

Hypothesis: The Compact Disc is an evolution of LaserDisc technology, where a focused laser beam is used that enables the high information density required for high-quality digital audio signals.


Premise: What two regions does Sampel cite as examples of the influence of canon law?

Hypothesis: The institutions and practices of canon law paralleled the legal development of much of Europe, and consequently both modern civil law and common law (legal system) bear the influences of canon law.


Premise: In 2011 what was Arsenal's estimated fan base?

Hypothesis: A 2011 report by SPORT+MARKT estimated Arsenal's global fanbase at 113 million.


Premise: In what year did the original 500 Puritan settlers arrive in the New Haven harbor area?

Hypothesis: In April 1638, the main party of five hundred Puritans who left the Massachusetts Bay Colony under the leadership of the Reverend John Davenport and the London merchant Theophilus Eaton sailed into the harbor.


Premise: For how many years was American Idol the top rated show on television?

Hypothesis: For the first time in eight years, American Idol lost the leading position in both the total viewers number and the 18/49 demo, coming in second to NBC Sunday Night Football, although the strengths of Idol in its second year in the Wednesday-Thursday primetime slots helped Fox achieve the longest period of 18-49 demographic victory in the Nielsen ratings, standing at 8 straight years from 2004 to 2012.


Premise: What type financial instruments are off-balance sheet securitization and derivatives?

Hypothesis: Much of this leverage was achieved using complex financial instruments such as off-balance sheet securitization and derivatives, which made it difficult for creditors and regulators to monitor and try to reduce financial institution risk levels.


Premise: What are the two hallmarks of the Swiss political system?

Hypothesis: The 1848 federal constitution defines a system of direct democracy (sometimes called half-direct or representative direct democracy because it is aided by the more commonplace institutions of a representative democracy).


Premise: What is the result of using AC power on a DC motor?

Hypothesis: In this application, the use of AC to power a motor originally designed to run on DC would lead to efficiency losses due to eddy current heating of their magnetic components, particularly the motor field pole-pieces that, for DC, would have used solid (un-laminated) iron and they are now rarely used.


Premise: In the aftermath of the Austro-Prussian war, formed what group?

Hypothesis: The causes of the Franco-Prussian War are deeply rooted in the events surrounding the unification of Germany.


Premise: What type of stimuli do nociceptors response to?

Hypothesis: At the peripheral end of the nociceptor, noxious stimuli generate currents that, above a given threshold, begin to send signals along the nerve fiber to the spinal cord.


Premise: How much did the studen body of BYU increase under the term of Pres. Ernest L. Wilkinson to become the largest private school at the time?

Hypothesis: The university did not have the facilities to handle such a large influx, so he bought part of an Air Force Base in Ogden, Utah and rebuilt it to house some of the students.


Premise: How many seats did MESAN win?

Hypothesis: MESAN continued to exist, but its role was limited.


Premise: How many were killed in the bombing of the Thames Estuary?

Hypothesis: Of this total around 400 were killed.


Premise: What property of wood has a correlation to its density?

Hypothesis: There is a strong relationship between the properties of wood and the properties of the particular tree that yielded it.


Premise: How much of the population left after 1950?

Hypothesis: This has slowed the city's 40-year population decline after it lost nearly one-quarter of its population.


Premise: What diseases can have a major imact on memory?

Hypothesis: Hyperthymesia, or hyperthymesic syndrome, is a disorder that affects an individual's autobiographical memory, essentially meaning that they cannot forget small details that otherwise would not be stored.


Premise: What is an important plural alternation?

Hypothesis: The most important one is the addition of -o- before certain consonant groups, a phonetic phenomenon that does not affect feminine forms: el pols/els polsos ("the pulse"/"the pulses") vs. la pols/les pols ("the dust"/"the dusts").


Premise: Why are annelids' segments like water-balloons?

Hypothesis: However, the septa are often incomplete in annelids that are semi-sessile or that do not move by peristalsis or by movements of parapodia – for example some move by whipping movements of the body, some small marine species move by means of cilia (fine muscle-powered hairs) and some burrowers turn their pharynges (throats) inside out to penetrate the sea-floor and drag themselves into it.


Premise: When did Le Corbusier live and write?

Hypothesis: But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good.


Premise: Where is there a non-religious majority?

Hypothesis: Nowadays there is a non-religious majority in Hamburg and the East German states.


Premise: Recent discoveries in what country demonstrate many small theropod feathered dinosaurs.

Hypothesis: Recent discoveries in the Liaoning Province of northeast China, which demonstrate many small theropod feathered dinosaurs, contribute to this ambiguity.


Premise: How were these stores different than most during that time?

Hypothesis: Like the bourgeois stores, it helped transform consumption from a business transaction into a direct relationship between consumer and sought-after goods.


Premise: The formation of the Triple Entente and the Triple Alliance partly caused what?

Hypothesis: In a few years these alignments became the Triple Entente and the Triple Alliance (already formed in 1882), which were in part a cause of World War I.


Premise: What term was common before biological diversity?

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


Premise: Under the rule of King Dom Carlos I, on what two days was Portugal declared bankrupt?

Hypothesis: Under his rule, Portugal had twice been declared bankrupt – on 14 June 1892, and again on 10 May 1902 – causing social turmoil, economic disturbances, protests, revolts and criticism of the monarchy.


Premise: What time are Chopin's polonaises written in?

Hypothesis: As with the traditional polonaise, Chopin's works are in triple time and typically display a martial rhythm in their melodies, accompaniments and cadences.


Premise: In what neighborhood is Miami City Hall located?

Hypothesis: The commission's regular meetings are held at Miami City Hall, which is located at 3500 Pan American Drive on Dinner Key in the neighborhood of Coconut Grove .


Premise: On what date was the arena football test game played?

Hypothesis: Plans for arena football were put on hold in 1982 as the United States Football League was launched.


Premise: What are the three levels of road classification in Eritrea?

Hypothesis: The three levels of classification are: primary (P), secondary (S), and tertiary (T).


Premise: Is it possible for a bilateral treaty to have more than two parties?

Hypothesis: It is possible, however, for a bilateral treaty to have more than two parties; consider for instance the bilateral treaties between Switzerland and the European Union (EU) following the Swiss rejection of the European Economic Area agreement.


Premise: What was the result of the police officer killing?

Hypothesis: In the 1950s and the 1960s, Paris became one front of the Algerian War for independence; in August 1961, the pro-independence FLN targeted and killed 11 Paris policemen, leading to the imposition of a curfew on Muslims of Algeria (who, at that time, were French citizens).


Premise: Which century signalled the end of the Spanish dollar?

Hypothesis: The sign was the result of a late 18th-century evolution of the scribal abbreviation "ps" for the peso, the common name for the Spanish dollars that were in wide circulation in the New World from the 16th to the 19th centuries.


Premise: What branch of Christianity does the Angican Communion fall under?

Hypothesis: The multiple churches that form the Anglican Communion and the Continuing Anglican movement have different views on Marian doctrines and venerative practices given that there is no single church with universal authority within the Communion and that the mother church (the Church of England) understands itself to be both "catholic" and "Reformed".


Premise: What do Jehovah Witnesses believe is true of their religion and their religion alone?

Hypothesis: They believe that only their religion represents true Christianity, and that other religions fail to meet all the requirements set by God and will soon be destroyed.


Premise: What does the symbol P represent?

Hypothesis: Hydrogen is the only element that has different names for its isotopes in common use today.


Premise: What concept did Tarski introduce to discuss the conditions for the truth of statements?

Hypothesis: He bases this interpretation on the fact that examples such as the one described above refer to two things: assertions and the facts to which they refer.


Premise: What did Mao's assistance allow North Korea to accelerate?

Hypothesis: Once Mao's commitment was secured, preparations for war accelerated.


Premise: How many tons of waste are recycled at Northwestern yearly?

Hypothesis: Annually more than 1,500 tons are recycled at Northwestern, which represents 30% of the waste produced on campus.


Premise: Why shouldn't zinc be given alone to those with several deficiencies?

Hypothesis: However, zinc supplements should not be administered alone, because many in the developing world have several deficiencies, and zinc interacts with other micronutrients.


Premise: What percentage of New York private sector jobs are in the securities industry?

Hypothesis: Many large financial companies are headquartered in New York City, and the city is also home to a burgeoning number of financial startup companies.


Premise: What borough has the largest population of ethnic Albanians?

Hypothesis: Albanian Americans are most highly concentrated in the Bronx.


Premise: Along with Qatar and France, what nation helped to train the NTC?

Hypothesis: In March, the Security Council declared a no fly zone to protect the civilian population from aerial bombardment, calling on foreign nations to enforce it; it also specifically prohibited foreign occupation.


Premise: During what year did Tito become increasingly ill?

Hypothesis: Tito became increasingly ill over the course of 1979.


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

Hypothesis: As of October 2008, the scheme had resulted in 70 green products being brought to market, ranging from halogen lamps to biogas engines.


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

Hypothesis: The city is home to the National Sports Museum, which until 2003 was located outside the members pavilion at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.


Premise: The Asian Games were most recently held in New Delhi in what year?

Hypothesis: New Delhi was interested  in bidding for the 2019 Asian Games but was turned down by the government on 2 August 2010 amid allegations of corruption in 2010 Commonwealth Games .


Premise: What is the most commonly seen species?

Hypothesis: More characteristic of cooler northern and high elevation habitat is the red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus), whereas the Appalachian northern flying squirrel (Glaucomys sabrinus fuscus), which closely resembles the southern flying squirrel, is confined to northern hardwood and spruce-fir forests.


Premise: What is the illusion given by these effects?

Hypothesis: The "stretching room" on the ride is actually an elevator that travels downwards, giving access to a short underground tunnel which leads to the rest of the attraction.


Premise: Who then succeeded George?

Hypothesis: The Emperor Constantius, who had been the cause of so much trouble, died 4 November, 361 and was succeeded by Julian.


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

Hypothesis: According to Martin Heidegger we do not exist inside time, we are time.


Premise: Napoleon III belived he would win the Astro-Prussian war and win a conflict with what country?

Hypothesis: They also argue that he wanted a war to resolve growing domestic political problems.


Premise: Where do foreign heads of stay usually stay in Buckingham Palace?

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


Premise: Between 1974 and 2010, how did the Portuguese government encourage over-expenditure and investment bubbles?

Hypothesis: A report released in January 2011 by the Diário de Notícias and published in Portugal by Gradiva, had demonstrated that in the period between the Carnation Revolution in 1974 and 2010, the democratic Portuguese Republic governments encouraged over-expenditure and investment bubbles through unclear Public–private partnerships and funding of numerous ineffective and unnecessary external consultancy and advisory of committees and firms.


Premise: What loyalists did Nasser target?

Hypothesis: Thereafter, Nasser began a process of depoliticizing the armed forces, arresting dozens of leading military and intelligence figures loyal to Amer.


Premise: Who is the Judiciary system made up of?

Hypothesis: The judiciary is composed of the Himachal Pradesh High Court and a system of lower courts.


Premise: Interstate 26 begins on what part of Charleston?

Hypothesis: The Mark Clark Expressway, or Interstate 526, is the bypass around the city and begins and ends at U.S. Highway 17.


Premise: What did the Council of Nicaea decide about Arianism?

Hypothesis: They supported the tenets of Origenist thought and theology, but had little else in common.


Premise: A 2013 study estimates that what percentage of Ashkenazi maternal ancestry comes from women of undetermined origins?

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 name may refer both to Balts and Slavs?

Hypothesis: The name may refer both to Balts and Slavs.


Premise: Which airline offers in-state travel with jet-service?

Hypothesis: Regular flights to most villages and towns within the state that are commercially viable are challenging to provide, so they are heavily subsidized by the federal government through the Essential Air Service program.


Premise: What is one of the earliest surviving records that mention the name British Isles?

Hypothesis: The earliest known references to the islands as a group appeared in the writings of sea-farers from the ancient Greek colony of Massalia.


Premise: Rather than cells, in humoral immunology where did the molecules that cause immune response reside?

Hypothesis: In contrast, the humoral theory of immunity, held by Robert Koch and Emil von Behring, among others, stated that the active immune agents were soluble components (molecules) found in the organism’s “humors” rather than its cells.


Premise: Composers and musicians began to construct lives independent of what in the 19th century?

Hypothesis: Increasing interest in music by the growing middle classes throughout western Europe spurred the creation of organizations for the teaching, performance, and preservation of music.


Premise: Were all residents counted together or separately?

Hypothesis: Enumerators were instructed to classify free residents as white or "other.


Premise: Who reigned during the most affluent period of Bourbon rule?

Hypothesis: The Palau de Justícia is an example of the affluence manifested in the most prosperous times of Bourbon rule (1758–1802) during the rule of Charles III.


Premise: Which TV film Spielberg directed played off 'The Exorcist'?

Hypothesis: He fulfilled his contract by directing the TV film-length pilot of a show called Savage, starring Martin Landau.


Premise: Why has Palermo's population declined from 2001 to 2010?

Hypothesis: In the ten years between 2001 and 2010, the population of Palermo declined by 4.5%, while the population of Italy, as a whole, grew by 6.0%.


Premise: How much did SCA pay for CBS Records?

Hypothesis: CBS Inc., now CBS Corporation, retained the rights to the CBS name for music recordings but granted Sony a temporary license to use the CBS name.


Premise: In what form is the information or content sent in a simple model?

Hypothesis: This common conception of communication simply views communication as a means of sending and receiving information.


Premise: Why was King George VI's personal assent in 1939 noteworthy?

Hypothesis: In Canada, the traditional ceremony for granting assent in parliament was regularly used until the 21st century, long after it had been discontinued in the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms.


Premise: Which two title holders fought for political power in the early 1990s?

Hypothesis: A period of division for the Liberals followed, with former Treasurer John Howard competing with former Foreign Minister Andrew Peacock for supremacy.


Premise: The gardens of New Delhi are particularly stunning in which season?

Hypothesis: New Delhi is particularly renowned for its beautifully landscaped gardens that can look quite stunning in spring.


Premise: What technique can be used to produce images of internal abnormalities?

Hypothesis: Other techniques (such as X-rays, CAT scans, PET scans or NMR) are used to produce images of internal abnormalities resulting from the growth of an infectious agent.


Premise: whats is another name for polish landed gentry?

Hypothesis: Note that the Polish landed gentry (ziemianie or ziemiaństwo) was composed of any nobility that owned lands: thus of course the magnates, the middle nobility and that lesser nobility that had at least part of the village.


Premise: What role did Thailand play in the war?

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


Premise: Why did Gaddafi select these men as RCC members?

Hypothesis: All young men from (typically rural) working and middle-class backgrounds, none had university degrees; in this way they were distinct from the wealthy, highly educated conservatives who previously governed the country.


Premise: Who implemented reforms to reduce the Fujiwara's influence on government?

Hypothesis: The Fujiwara controlled the throne until the reign of Emperor Go-Sanjō (1068-1073), the first emperor not born of a Fujiwara mother since the ninth century.


Premise: WHen did Jan Zamoyski. die?

Hypothesis: After his death in 1605, the movement lost its political force.


Premise: What year was the Canal de la Bruche added?

Hypothesis: That canal has since closed, but the subsequent Canal du Rhone au Rhine, Canal de la Marne au Rhin and Grand Canal d'Alsace are still in use, as is the important activity of the Port autonome de Strasbourg.


Premise: Are all of New Haven's smaller stream active through all four seasons?

Hypothesis: Not all of these small streams have continuous flow year-round.


Premise: What is a comon epithet of Apollo as a healer?

Hypothesis: In later writers, the word, usually spelled "Paean", becomes a mere epithet of Apollo in his capacity as a god of healing.


Premise: How many times was the release date for Kanye's first album pushed back?

Hypothesis: Once he had completed the album, it was leaked months before its release date.


Premise: When was Northern Rock taken into public hands?

Hypothesis: One of the first victims was Northern Rock, a medium-sized British bank.


Premise: What did Pliny the Elder observe about diamonds?

Hypothesis: Pliny the Elder produced what is one of the largest encyclopedias of the natural world in 77 AD, and must be regarded as the rightful successor to Theophrastus.


Premise: What is the term for constantly changing physical and mental parts?

Hypothesis: Upon careful examination, one finds that no phenomenon is really "I" or "mine"; these concepts are in fact constructed by the mind.


Premise: What is the large art school in Mexico City?

Hypothesis: Many of the works produced by the students and faculty of that time are now displayed in the Museo Nacional de San Carlos (National Museum of San Carlos).


Premise: In what year could Nepal be said to have been discovered by the outside world?

Hypothesis: Kathmandu valley has had this art treasure for a very long time, but received worldwide recognition only after the country opened to the outside world in 1950.


Premise: What Fred Astaire film depicts the reported history of New Haven theaters as "tryouts" for Broadway?

Hypothesis: New Haven has been depicted in a number of movies.


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

Hypothesis: The two governments were united in 1917, when Greece officially entered the war on the side of the Triple Entente.


Premise: What kind of game is Formula One Championship Edition?

Hypothesis: For example, Formula One Championship Edition, a racing game, was shown at E3 2006 using a PSP as a real-time rear-view mirror.


Premise: Who was his deputy?

Hypothesis: In September 1835 José Urrea a federalist army officer came into power.


Premise: Who is the famous comic strip author of Doonesbury that attended Yale University in New Haven?

Hypothesis: There he met fellow student and later Green Party candidate for Congress Charles Pillsbury, a long-time New Haven resident for whom Trudeau's comic strip is named.


Premise: Who opened some of the first department stores in the Philippines?

Hypothesis: The first department store in the Philippines is the Hoskyn's Department Store of Hoskyn & Co. established in 1877 in Iloilo by the Englishman Henry Hoskyn, nephew of Nicholas Loney, the first British vice-consul in Iloilo.


Premise: During what season does the emperor penguin breed?

Hypothesis: The rockhopper penguin has distinctive feathers around the eyes, giving the appearance of elaborate eyelashes.


Premise: What is the current usually beng put into it or pulled out of?

Hypothesis: The physical arrangement of the two elements places them 180 degrees out of phase, which means that at any given instant one of the elements is driving current into the transmission line while the other is pulling it out.


Premise: Were any of the railways  electrified

Hypothesis: The former main lines of the GWR are still in use today, although many of its branch lines were scrapped under the notorious Beeching Axe.