Premise: What is the primary function of the USAF fighter aircraft?

Hypothesis: The F-16 is currently used by the USAF Air Demonstration squadron, the Thunderbirds, while a small number of both man-rated and non-man-rated F-4 Phantom II are retained as QF-4 aircraft for use as Full Scale Aerial Targets (FSAT) or as part of the USAF Heritage Flight program.


Premise: At which age did Popper first attend university?

Hypothesis: Popper left school at the age of 16 and attended lectures in mathematics, physics, philosophy, psychology and the history of music as a guest student at the University of Vienna.


Premise: Who was the Notre Dame men's basketball coach in 2014?

Hypothesis: The men's basketball team has over 1,600 wins, one of only 12 schools who have reached that mark, and have appeared in 28 NCAA tournaments.


Premise: When were green and red standardized as the colors of international railroad signs?

Hypothesis: Green and red were standardized as the colors of international railroad signals in the 19th century.


Premise: Who was the last guy to be sent home on season 12 of American Idol?

Hypothesis: The top 10 contestants started with five males and five females, however, the males were eliminated consecutively in the first five weeks, with Lazaro Arbos the last male to be eliminated.


Premise: What event led to larger crop yields in the High Middle Ages?

Hypothesis: During the High Middle Ages, which began after 1000, the population of Europe increased greatly as technological and agricultural innovations allowed trade to flourish and the Medieval Warm Period climate change allowed crop yields to increase.


Premise: What is the action of food being moved into the stomach?

Hypothesis: Food is formed into a bolus by the mechanical mastication and swallowed into the esophagus from where it enters the stomach through the action of peristalsis.


Premise: The setting the mandolin was used in until the 1930's was?

Hypothesis: The instrument was primarily used in an ensemble setting well into the 1930s, and although the fad died out at the beginning of the 1930s, the instruments that were developed for the orchestra found a new home in bluegrass.


Premise: What did the Province of West Jersey specify there would not be for those running for an office, in 1681?

Hypothesis: An oath had also been imposed on the militia during the French and Indian War requiring them to abjure the pretensions of the Pope, which may or may not have been applied during the Revolution.


Premise: Which footballer was verbally attacked in Liverpool?

Hypothesis: It was a terrible, insensitive, horrible article, with a dreadful headline; but what we'd also say is: we have apologised for it, and the entire senior team here now is completely different from the team that put the paper out in 1989."


Premise: What are the DNA sequences from which ribozymes are transcribed known as?

Hypothesis: Some RNAs known as ribozymes are capable of enzymatic function, and microRNA has a regulatory role.


Premise: What is a way to reduce the high temperatures created in urban heat islands?

Hypothesis: The higher temperatures are a result of increased absorption of the Solar light by urban materials such as asphalt and concrete, which have lower albedos and higher heat capacities than those in the natural environment.


Premise: What country once only allowed their emperor to wear yellow?

Hypothesis: In China, before establishment of the republic, only the emperor could wear yellow.


Premise: Who was appointed interim president?

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


Premise: What division of Yale University is credited with nurturing the architectural component of New Havens economy?

Hypothesis: New Haven has many architectural landmarks dating from every important time period and architectural style in American history.


Premise: Arabian nights was originally based upon what Persian work?

Hypothesis: The original concept is derived from a pre-Islamic Persian prototype Hezār Afsān (Thousand Fables) that relied on particular Indian elements.


Premise: What word supplement  can be put on an already existing word base?

Hypothesis: Many times, several affixes are appended to a preexisting lexeme, and some sound alternations can occur, for example elèctric [əˈlɛktrik] ("electrical") vs. electricitat [ələktrisiˈtat].


Premise: What year was Uruguay consolidated as an independent state?

Hypothesis: Urban expansion, however, moved very slowly because of the events that followed.


Premise: What does BSoD stand for?

Hypothesis: It was also probably the first appearance of the Metro-style font, and its wallpaper had the text shhh... let's not leak our hard work.


Premise: From how many nations does the WCAA boast members from?

Hypothesis: This meagre statistic expanded in the 20th century to comprise anthropology departments in the majority of the world's higher educational institutions, many thousands in number.


Premise: What did the French armies decide on to protect against every possible attack point?

Hypothesis: Therefore, the armies of France would take up a defensive position that would protect against every possible attack point, but also left the armies unable to support each other.


Premise: What were the hunger strikers hoping to draw attention to?

Hypothesis: From mid-May to September 1989, Ukrainian Greek-Catholic hunger strikers staged protests on Moscow's Arbat to call attention to the plight of their Church.


Premise: What did the Metropolitan Police Act say police were a subset of?

Hypothesis: The 1829 Metropolitan Police Act created a modern police force by limiting the purview of the force and its powers, and envisioning it as merely an organ of the judicial system.


Premise: What's the most frequently used test configuration procedure for ICs?

Hypothesis: Boundary scan testing requires that all the ICs to be tested use a standard test configuration procedure, the most common one being the Joint Test Action Group (JTAG) standard.


Premise: What branch of the US government established the National Archives?

Hypothesis: The Archivist served as a subordinate official to the GSA Administrator until the National Archives and Records Administration became an independent agency on April 1, 1985.


Premise: Who originally built Mexico City?

Hypothesis: The city was originally built on an island of Lake Texcoco by the Aztecs in 1325 as Tenochtitlan, which was almost completely destroyed in the 1521 siege of Tenochtitlan, and subsequently redesigned and rebuilt in accordance with the Spanish urban standards.


Premise: When did the popularity of a German identity arise?

Hypothesis: The popularity of German identity arose in the aftermath of the French Revolution.


Premise: What does SWS stand for?

Hypothesis: System consolidation takes place during slow-wave sleep (SWS).


Premise: Frontiersmen from the Carolinas moved west into what area that is now known as Tennessee?

Hypothesis: Many Carolinian frontiersmen had moved west over the mountains, into the Washington District (later known as Tennessee), but in 1789, following the Revolution, the state was persuaded to relinquish its claim to the western lands.


Premise: ISA stands for what?

Hypothesis: How should one describe the identity of another, in ways which encompass both their idiosyncratic qualities and their group memberships or identifications, both of which can shift according to circumstance?


Premise: Where is the data from input devices sent to after being processed?

Hypothesis: When unprocessed data is sent to the computer with the help of input devices, the data is processed and sent to output devices.


Premise: The first transistorised computer was operational in what year?

Hypothesis: Their first transistorised computer and the first in the world, was operational by 1953, and a second version was completed there in April 1955.


Premise: Which artists were influential in post-punk?

Hypothesis: Many post-punk artists maintained an anti-corporatist approach to recording and instead seized on alternate means of producing and releasing music.


Premise: What weather condition increased?

Hypothesis: Temperatures continued to increase and began to stabilize.


Premise: What does Mardi Gras translate to in French?

Hypothesis: Carnival celebrations, usually referred to as Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday in French), were first celebrated in the Gulf Coast area, but now occur in many states.


Premise: What gun size was relined to take 13-pounder shells?

Hypothesis: It remained in service throughout the war but 18-pdr guns were lined down to take the 13-pdr shell with a larger cartridge producing the 13-pr QF 9 cwt and these proved much more satisfactory.


Premise: What two exports has the Congo begun producing recently?

Hypothesis: Natural gas and diamonds are also recent major Congolese exports, although Congo was excluded from the Kimberley Process in 2004 amid allegations that most of its diamond exports were in fact being smuggled out of the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo; it was re-admitted to the group in 2007.


Premise: The EU outlawed the export of products that could be used in what activity?

Hypothesis: Another alternative, pentobarbital, is also only manufactured in the European Union, which has caused the Danish producer to restrict distribution to U.S. government customers.


Premise: What is the name of the rugby union in Paris?

Hypothesis: Paris is home to the association football club Paris Saint-Germain and the rugby union club Stade Français.


Premise: What are some thrash metal bands?

Hypothesis: The creation of thrash metal, which mixed heavy metal with elements of hardcore punk from about 1982, particularly by Metallica, Anthrax, Megadeth and Slayer, helped to create extreme metal and further remove the style from hard rock, although a number of these bands or their members would continue to record some songs closer to a hard rock sound.


Premise: What were used to make vinyl pressings?

Hypothesis: Radio transcription producers such as World Broadcasting System and Associated Music Publishers (AMP) were the dominant licensees of the Western Electric wide range system and towards the end of the 1930s were responsible for two-thirds of the total radio transcription business.


Premise: What is a noted hotel brand throughout North America?

Hypothesis: In North America, the lodging aspect of the word "inn" lives on in hotel brand names like Holiday Inn, and in some state laws that refer to lodging operators as innkeepers.


Premise: Where did Kerry earn a Silver Star?

Hypothesis: Their mission on the Duong Keo River included bringing an underwater demolition team and dozens of South Vietnamese Marines to destroy enemy sampans, structures and bunkers as described in the story The Death Of PCF 43.


Premise: Pilote cartoonists were upset with censorship and what?

Hypothesis: Frustration with censorship and editorial interference led to a group of Pilote cartoonists to found the adults-only L'Écho des savanes in 1972.


Premise: When was Grand Bassa founded?

Hypothesis: Gbarpolu is the newest county, created in 2001.


Premise: More people belong to what religion than any other in the Western world?

Hypothesis: A 2011 Pew Research Center survey found that 76.2% of Europeans, 73.3% in Oceania, and about 86.0% in the Americas (90% in Latin America and 77.4% in North America) described themselves as Christians.


Premise: What controversial religious group did Nigeria join?

Hypothesis: He set 1990 as the official deadline for a return to democratic governance.


Premise: Oxford Dictionary added which word from the 2000s dedicated to Beyonce?

Hypothesis: In 2006, it was added to the Oxford English Dictionary.


Premise: Why was that?

Hypothesis: The final is normally held the Saturday after the Premier League season finishes in May.


Premise: What year did Nasser die?

Hypothesis: He suffered two major heart attacks (in 1966 and 1969), and was on bed rest for six weeks after the second episode.


Premise: What is the downside to a :destination operating panel"?

Hypothesis: Although travel time is reduced, passenger waiting times may be longer as they will not necessarily be allocated the next car to depart.


Premise: How many bird species have been observed in San Diego?

Hypothesis: Because of its diversity of habitat and its position on the Pacific Flyway, San Diego County has recorded the presence of 492 bird species, more than any other region in the country.


Premise: In Italy, the eastern projection beyond the transept often contains what?

Hypothesis: While German churches are often similar to those of France, in Italy, the eastern projection beyond the transept is usually just a shallow apsidal chapel containing the sanctuary, as at Florence Cathedral.


Premise: What ISO sizing system does Europe use?

Hypothesis: In Europe, and other regions using the ISO 216 paper sizing system, the weight is expressed in grammes per square metre (g/m2 or usually just g) of the paper.


Premise: How many movements are symphonies written in the Classical period usually divided into?

Hypothesis: For instance, symphonies written during the Classical period are usually divided into four movements: (1) an opening Allegro in sonata form, (2) a slow movement, (3) a minuet or scherzo, and (4) a final Allegro.


Premise: How were record album covers intended to be stored?

Hypothesis: By about 1910,[note 1] bound collections of empty sleeves with a paperboard or leather cover, similar to a photograph album, were sold as record albums that customers could use to store their records (the term "record album" was printed on some covers).


Premise: By what means did these two writers create and emergent convergence of literature and journalism?

Hypothesis: William Burroughs, in his early works, and Hunter S. Thompson expanded documentary reporting into strong subjective statements after the second World War, and post-modern critics have disparaged the idea of objective realism in general.


Premise: Where was the second debate for presidency held?

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


Premise: When did Flinders write his book of discovery?

Hypothesis: Integral to the story of the origin of the name "Antarctica" is how it was not named Terra Australis—this name was given to Australia instead, and it was because of a mistake made by people who decided that a significant landmass would not be found farther south than Australia.


Premise: Who published a Cyborg Manifesto?

Hypothesis: Donna Haraway's 1985 Cyborg Manifesto could be considered the founding document of cyborg anthropology by first exploring the philosophical and sociological ramifications of the term.


Premise: How many rowing clubs are in Cork?

Hypothesis: There are five rowing clubs training on the river Lee, including Shandon BC, UCC RC, Pres RC, Lee RC, and Cork BC.


Premise: The use of the pointed arch for bringing transverse vaults to the same height diagonal ones, is in disagreement with what theory?

Hypothesis: Pointed arches also occur extensively in Romanesque decorative blind arcading, where semi-circular arches overlap each other in a simple decorative pattern, and the points are accidental to the design.


Premise: When did Nigeria's economy become larger than South Africa's?

Hypothesis: Nigeria is considered to be an emerging market by the World Bank; It has been identified as a regional power on the African continent, a middle power in international affairs, and has also been identified as an emerging global power.


Premise: Where does Blofeld get arrested?

Hypothesis: Bond shoots down Blofeld's helicopter, which crashes onto Westminster Bridge.


Premise: When did the second terminal open at the Mexico City Airport?

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


Premise: What was the warning signal called that warned the sender that there was impending overflow?

Hypothesis: When a Teletype 33 ASR equipped with the automatic paper tape reader received a Control-S (XOFF, an abbreviation for transmit off), it caused the tape reader to stop; receiving Control-Q (XON, "transmit on") caused the tape reader to resume.


Premise: What was the rank of the pilot of the downed U-2?

Hypothesis: It speculated that the pilot might have fallen unconscious while the autopilot was still engaged, and falsely claimed that "the pilot reported over the emergency frequency that he was experiencing oxygen difficulties."


Premise: If only the pronunciation differs from the standard language, what term is sometimes used?

Hypothesis: A dialect is distinguished by its vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation (phonology, including prosody).


Premise: What global period was Positive Neutralism meant to deal with?

Hypothesis: Nasser was welcomed by large crowds of people lining the streets of Cairo on his return to Egypt on 2 May and was widely heralded in the press for his achievements and leadership in the conference.


Premise: Low grade metamorphic rocks are composed of what, generally?

Hypothesis: The high-grade rocks were derived from volcanic island arcs, while the low-grade metamorphic rocks represent deep-sea sediments eroded from the neighboring island frogs and deposited in a forearc basin.


Premise: Who must approve presidential appointees to the Supreme Court?

Hypothesis: The judges must be appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, hold office during good behavior and receive compensations that may not be diminished during their continuance in office.


Premise: In 2007, which president awarded Lee the Presidential Medal of Freedom?

Hypothesis: During the ceremony, the students and audience gave Lee a standing ovation, and the entire graduating class held up copies of To Kill a Mockingbird to honor her.[note 5] Lee was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on November 5, 2007 by President George W. Bush.


Premise: What radical political changes occurred during the 19th century ?

Hypothesis: In 1976, however, the Hellenic Parliament voted to make the spoken Dimotiki the official language, making Katharevousa obsolete.


Premise: From where did most non-citizen residents come?

Hypothesis: The majority come from Eastern European countries: Albania (56%), Bulgaria (5%) and Romania (3%), while migrants from the former Soviet Union (Georgia, Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, etc.)


Premise: What results from  sequencing of DNA pairs?

Hypothesis: The genome or hereditary information contained in the genes of this species is encoded by about 135 million base pairs of DNA, forming one of the smallest genomes among flowering plants.


Premise: What is another name for multi-zone metering?

Hypothesis: This is the only technique available under the standard for output formats that are not in the sRGB color space.


Premise: is the Fa cup sponsered?

Hypothesis: Since the start of the 1994–95 season, the FA Cup has been sponsored.


Premise: What was put in the temple of Vesta?

Hypothesis: In Vergil's Aeneid, Aeneas brought the Trojan cult of the lares and penates from Troy, along with the Palladium which was later installed in the temple of Vesta.


Premise: What are roofs traditionally constructed from?

Hypothesis: In the lower areas where the forests are widespread, wooden tiles are traditionally used.


Premise: What did Autosegmental phonology morph into?

Hypothesis: Phonological phenomena are no longer seen as operating on one linear sequence of segments, called phonemes or feature combinations, but rather as involving some parallel sequences of features which reside on multiple tiers.


Premise: Who populated the area between the Baltic Sea and the Black sea before Kievan Rus?

Hypothesis: Prior to the emergence of Kievan Rus' in the 9th century AD, the lands between the Baltic Sea and Black Sea were primarily populated by eastern Slavic tribes.


Premise: What do brewing companies sometimes use to give more alcohol content to their beer?

Hypothesis: Since then, some brewers have used champagne yeasts to increase the alcohol content of their beers.


Premise: Which sedimentary beds were created in the dry areas of Euramerica in the Devonian period?

Hypothesis: In these near-deserts, the Old Red Sandstone sedimentary beds formed, made red by the oxidized iron (hematite) characteristic of drought conditions.


Premise: As well as representing the original text, a critical text must also do what?

Hypothesis: At the same time, the critical text should document variant readings, so the relation of extant witnesses to the reconstructed original is apparent to a reader of the critical edition.


Premise: Mali signed agreements with what to parties that began their economic changes?

Hypothesis: Mali underwent economic reform, beginning in 1988 by signing agreements with the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.


Premise: What was AJ Ayer an important member of?

Hypothesis: Logical empiricism (also logical positivism or neopositivism) was an early 20th-century attempt to synthesize the essential ideas of British empiricism (e.g. a strong emphasis on sensory experience as the basis for knowledge) with certain insights from mathematical logic that had been developed by Gottlob Frege and Ludwig Wittgenstein.


Premise: What was Isambard Brunel's nationality?

Hypothesis: These island bars became popular as they also allowed staff to serve customers in several different rooms surrounding the bar.


Premise: What is Beyonce's net worth in 2015?

Hypothesis: As of May 2015, her net worth is estimated to be $250 million.


Premise: What famous disaster happened in Boston in 1872?

Hypothesis: The largest reclamation efforts took place during the 19th century; beginning in 1807, the crown of Beacon Hill was used to fill in a 50-acre (20 ha) mill pond that later became the Haymarket Square area.


Premise: Chopin's performances were known for what?

Hypothesis: Influences on his compositional style include Polish folk music, the classical tradition of J. S. Bach, Mozart and Schubert, the music of all of whom he admired, as well as the Paris salons where he was a frequent guest.


Premise: What else is disqualification called?

Hypothesis: A no disqualification match can still end by countout (although this is rare); typically, a match must be declared a "no holds barred" match, a "street fight" or some other term, in order for both disqualifications and countouts to be waived.[citation needed]


Premise: What department does the Computer Emergency Readiness Team belong to?

Hypothesis: The Internet is a potential attack vector for such machines if connected, but the Stuxnet worm demonstrated that even equipment controlled by computers not connected to the Internet can be vulnerable to physical damage caused by malicious commands sent to industrial equipment (in that case uranium enrichment centrifuges) which are infected via removable media.


Premise: In a fatal four-way, who can make tags?

Hypothesis: The other two are positioned in the corner, and tags can be made between any two wrestlers.


Premise: What is the special protocol during a USB 2.0 device reset called?

Hypothesis: USB 2.0 devices use a special protocol during reset, called chirping, to negotiate the high bandwidth mode with the host/hub.


Premise: According to some when is is possible for a Sanctified Mary to have emerged ?

Hypothesis: The spread of the feast, by now with the adjective "Immaculate" attached to its title, met opposition on the part of some, on the grounds that sanctification was possible only after conception.


Premise: What happened to nobility at expense of the king?

Hypothesis: The most important difference was that, while in most European countries the nobility lost power as the ruler strove for absolute monarchy, in Poland the reverse process occurred: the nobility actually gained power at the expense of the king, and the political system evolved into an oligarchy.


Premise: What music group was in Kanye's first release off of Graduation?

Hypothesis: Ben Detrick of XXL cited the outcome of the sales competition between 50 Cent's Curtis and West's Graduation as being responsible for altering the direction of hip-hop and paving the way for new rappers who didn't follow the hardcore-gangster mold, writing, "If there was ever a watershed moment to indicate hip-hop's changing direction, it may have come when 50 Cent competed with Kanye in 2007 to see whose album would claim superior sales."


Premise: What was the time after WWII heralded as?

Hypothesis: After the trauma of the Second World War, it was a time of hope, a period of progress and achievement heralding a "new Elizabethan age".


Premise: Who was defeated and forced to abdicate at the end of the Iranian constitutional movement?

Hypothesis: The struggle related to the constitutional movement continued until 1911, when Mohammad Ali Shah was defeated and forced to abdicate.


Premise: What does the American Physocological Association say that sexual orientation refers to?

Hypothesis: According to psychologists, sexual orientation also refers to a person’s choice of sexual partners, who may be homosexual, heterosexual, or bisexual.


Premise: What does the Sahara have little to none of?

Hypothesis: The central part of the Sahara is hyperarid, with little to no vegetation.


Premise: Was there conflict of faith and beliefs at the end of von NEumann's life?

Hypothesis: "Of this deathbed conversion, Morgenstern told Heims, "He was of course completely agnostic all his life, and then he suddenly turned Catholic—it doesn't agree with anything whatsoever in his attitude, outlook and thinking when he was healthy."


Premise: Who released a guideline that recommends that people follow a whole plant food diet?

Hypothesis: A National Geographic cover article from November 2005, entitled The Secrets of Living Longer, also recommends a whole plant food diet.


Premise: What is Israel's Basic Law?

Hypothesis: Israel's legal system combines three legal traditions: English common law, civil law, and Jewish law.


Premise: Do Cubans speak Spanish in America?

Hypothesis: The deposition of Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship and the ascension of Fidel Castro's government in 1959 increased Cuban immigration to the United States, hence there are some one million Cubans in the United States, most settled in southern and central Florida, while other Cubans live in the Northeastern United States; most are fluent in Spanish.


Premise: When did the US census start to allow residents to mark more than one ethno-racial identity on the census form?

Hypothesis: Because more Americans have insisted on being allowed to acknowledge their mixed racial origins, the 2000 census for the first time allowed residents to check more than one ethno-racial identity and thereby identify as multiracial.


Premise: What did the earthquake allow?

Hypothesis: The earthquake also provided opportunities for researchers to retrofit data in order to model future earthquake predictions.


Premise: What was Giovanni's mother descended from?

Hypothesis: His mother was Giudetta Alghisi, from a family of rural nobility.


Premise: What type of snakes are common in Gash Barka?

Hypothesis: Puff adder and red spitting cobra are widespread and can be found even in the highlands.


Premise: Who was anonymously paying for Chopin's apartment?

Hypothesis: He passed the winter in unremitting illness, but gave occasional lessons and was visited by friends, including Delacroix and Franchomme.


Premise: Which edge of the Hoddle Grid fronts onto the Yarra River?

Hypothesis: The city centre has a reputation for its historic and prominent lanes and arcades (most notably Block Place and Royal Arcade) which contain a variety of shops and cafés and are a byproduct of the city's layout.


Premise: What is the name of the woman who lit the torch for the new games?

Hypothesis: The actress Maria Nafpliotou, in the role of a High Priestess, ignited the torch of the first torchbearer, a silver medalist of the 2004 Summer Olympics in taekwondo Alexandros Nikolaidis from Greece, who handed the flame over to the second torchbearer, Olympic champion in women's breaststroke Luo Xuejuan from China.


Premise: Who was president of Yale during the rebellion?

Hypothesis: President Arthur Hadley of Yale, A. Lawrence Lowell of Harvard, and Woodrow Wilson of Princeton worked to develop moderate changes to reduce injuries.


Premise: What drink was never rationed?

Hypothesis: Some people even told government surveyors that they enjoyed air raids if they occurred occasionally, perhaps once a week.


Premise: Which ancient Greek philosophers wrote essays on the concept of time?

Hypothesis: Ancient Greek philosophers, including Parmenides and Heraclitus, wrote essays on the nature of time.


Premise: Who wrote the music for Twilight Princess?

Hypothesis: Kondo's piece was later chosen as music for the E3 2005 trailer and for the demo movie after the game's title screen.


Premise: In what year did Planck receive the Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of energy quanta?

Hypothesis: The very first Solvay Conference in 1911 was devoted to "the theory of radiation and quanta".


Premise: The Mycenaean civilization deteriorated in what time period?

Hypothesis: Greece is home to the first advanced civilizations in Europe and is considered the birthplace of Western civilization,[citation clutter] beginning with the Cycladic civilization on the islands of the Aegean Sea at around 3200 BC, the Minoan civilization in Crete (2700–1500 BC), and then the Mycenaean civilization on the mainland (1900–1100 BC).


Premise: What kind of service is Tidal?

Hypothesis: "The challenge is to get everyone to respect music again, to recognize its value", stated Jay-Z on the release of Tidal.


Premise: What is the refraction index of typical glass?

Hypothesis: These high-index glasses (inaccurately known as "crystal" when used in glass vessels) cause more chromatic dispersion of light, and are prized for their diamond-like optical properties.


Premise: Which organizations list Hirudo medicinalis as endangered?

Hypothesis: More recently leeches have been used to assist in microsurgery, and their saliva has provided anti-inflammatory compounds and several important anticoagulants, one of which also prevents tumors from spreading.


Premise: Which English city had a population greater than 40,000 in 1500?

Hypothesis: Twenty-two other cities were larger than 40,000; most of these were in Italy and the Iberian peninsula, but there were also some in France, the Empire, the Low Countries, plus London in England.


Premise: In addition to being carbon neutral, what other adjective describes wood that makes it compelling as a renewable energy source?

Hypothesis: Dominant uses were for furniture and building construction.


Premise: What did the extra data John Couch Adams received produce?

Hypothesis: Adams continued to work in 1845–46 and produced several different estimates of a new planet.


Premise: From whom did Chopin receive his first big endorsement?

Hypothesis: He no longer depended financially upon his father, and in the winter of 1832 he began earning a handsome income from publishing his works and teaching piano to affluent students from all over Europe.


Premise: Reader's Digest included To Kill a Mockingbird in what program of theirs?

Hypothesis: The book went through numerous subsequent printings and became widely available through its inclusion in the Book of the Month Club and editions released by Reader's Digest Condensed Books.


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

Hypothesis: The basic learning of the letters and numbers remained the province of the family or a village priest, but the secondary subjects of the trivium—grammar, rhetoric, logic—were studied in cathedral schools or in schools provided by cities.


Premise: What is an element of Peruvian's Carnival not found in any other country's celebrations?

Hypothesis: As of 2010, it had become so violent that the government imposed penalties of up to eight years in prison for violence during the games (the games themselves are not forbidden, but using violence during the games or coercing others to participate is).


Premise: Where was Bedi retired from?

Hypothesis: The noted Indian social activist and a retired Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Kiran Bedi refused to participate saying "she doesn’t want to run in the event as ‘caged woman’.


Premise: What does Houston have the most of compared to other large US cities?

Hypothesis: Of the 10 most populous U.S. cities, Houston has the most total area of parks and green space, 56,405 acres (228 km2).


Premise: What social pressure was pressing down the people?

Hypothesis: The Orthodox nobles' rights were nominally equal to those enjoyed by Polish and Lithuanian nobility, but there was a cultural pressure to convert to Catholicism, that was greatly eased in 1596 by the Union of Brest.


Premise: What League was Polybius a statesman?

Hypothesis: The earliest and most credible surviving source for the Hellenistic period is Polybius of Megalopolis (c. 200-118), a statesman of the Achaean League until 168 BCE when he was forced to go to Rome as a hostage.


Premise: Who asked why is music composed by women so marginal to the standard 'classical' repertoire?

Hypothesis: Musicologist Marcia Citron has asked "[w]hy is music composed by women so marginal to the standard 'classical' repertoire?


Premise: What is jo compro changed to ?

Hypothesis: Other divergences include the use of ⟨tl⟩ (AVL) in some words instead of ⟨tll⟩ like in ametla/ametlla ('almond'), espatla/espatlla ('back'), the use of elided demonstratives (este 'this', eixe 'that') in the same level as reinforced ones (aquest, aqueix) or the use of many verbal forms common in Valencian, and some of these common in the rest of Western Catalan too, like subjunctive mood or inchoative conjugation in -ix- at the same level as -eix- or the priority use of -e morpheme in 1st person singular in present indicative (-ar verbs): jo compre instead of jo compro ('I buy').


Premise: On what date was the first federal parliament convened?

Hypothesis: The first federal parliament was convened on 9 May 1901 in the Royal Exhibition Building, subsequently moving to the Victorian Parliament House where it was located until 1927, when it was moved to Canberra.


Premise: What regional planning agency offers graphs and tables of census information for San Diego?

Hypothesis: Millennials (ages 18 through 34) constitute 27.1% of San Diego's population, the second-highest percentage in a major U.S. city.


Premise: When was Diaz Jr. elected?

Hypothesis: Until March 1, 2009, the Borough President of the Bronx was Adolfo Carrión Jr., elected as a Democrat in 2001 and 2005 before retiring early to direct the White House Office of Urban Affairs Policy.


Premise: What kind of school did Thatcher end the compulsion for existing schools to convert to?

Hypothesis: She ended the compulsion on local authorities to convert, however, many local authorities were so far down the path that it would have been prohibitively expensive to attempt to reverse the process, and more comprehensive schools were established under Mrs Thatcher than any other education secretary.


Premise: What was the title of the front page story on Contostavlos?

Hypothesis: On Sunday's undercover reporter Mahzer Mahmood, who had previously worked for the News of the World.


Premise: What book by Andreas Vesalius was published in 1543?

Hypothesis: The period culminated with the publication of the Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica in 1687 by Isaac Newton, representative of the unprecedented growth of scientific publications throughout Europe.


Premise: How many satellites provide the link to the internet?

Hypothesis: Serving a population of more than 4,000, this single satellite link is considered inadequate in terms of bandwidth.


Premise: Who form the majority of Islamic residents of the Congo?

Hypothesis: Followers of Islam make up 1.6%, and this is primarily due to an influx of foreign workers into the urban centers.


Premise: Who did William the Conqueror give the site of the palace to?

Hypothesis: Ownership of the site changed hands many times; owners included Edward the Confessor and his queen consort Edith of Wessex in late Saxon times, and, after the Norman Conquest, William the Conqueror.


Premise: With Jay Z what were her new themes?

Hypothesis: Her early songs were personally driven and female-empowerment themed compositions like "Independent Women" and "Survivor", but after the start of her relationship with Jay Z she transitioned to more man-tending anthems such as "Cater 2 U".


Premise: How many vacuum tubes did the Colossus Mark I contain?

Hypothesis: It had paper-tape input and was capable of being configured to perform a variety of boolean logical operations on its data, but it was not Turing-complete.


Premise: How many hosts are recognized by an iPod the first time they're used?

Hypothesis: During installation, an iPod is associated with one host computer.


Premise: How many adult males were able to vote in Rome?

Hypothesis: Approximately half Rome's population were slave or free non-citizens.


Premise: From which issue did claims that The Sun was racist stem?

Hypothesis: The paper rebutted the claim, believing that it was not racist to suggest that a "tide" of unchecked illegal immigrants was increasing the risk of terrorist attacks and infectious diseases.


Premise: What is Laird's job title?

Hypothesis: The novel claim of this theory is that conceptually-based cognition is unnecessary for such meaning.


Premise: How many miles is Tuscon from the U.S.- Mexico border?

Hypothesis: Tucson is the second-largest populated city in Arizona behind Phoenix, both of which anchor the Arizona Sun Corridor.


Premise: What war occurred from 1877 to 1878?

Hypothesis: The Ottoman bashi-bazouks brutally suppressed the Bulgarian uprising of 1876, massacring up to 100,000 people in the process.


Premise: What has been investigated as a means of rebuilding the reefs at Tuvalu?

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


Premise: Why were dogs initially selected?

Hypothesis: In 2016, a study found that there were only 11 fixed genes that showed variation between wolves and dogs.


Premise: When did the clearing of the swamp land and forest begain to rapidly increase?

Hypothesis: Clearing began around 6000 BC and accelerated in medieval times.


Premise: What is hightened during migration?

Hypothesis: The higher concentrations of migrating birds at stopover sites make them prone to parasites and pathogens, which require a heightened immune response.


Premise: Where did further protests take place?

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


Premise: If the hippocampus doesn't store information what does it do?

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: On what date did Frédéric begin his journey into Western Europe?

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


Premise: Who has split I2a2 into two clades?

Hypothesis: According to original studies, Hg I2a2 was believed to have arisen in the west Balkans sometime after the LGM, subsequently spreading from the Balkans through Central Russian Plain.


Premise: Along with water vapor, what atmospheric substance primarily absorbs the infrared emitted by the Earth?

Hypothesis: Earth's surface and the clouds absorb visible and invisible radiation from the sun and re-emit much of the energy as infrared back to atmosphere.


Premise: What organization's policies regarding acceptance of professional qualifications prompted thoughts of revamping ARCUK?

Hypothesis: The change of name to "Architects Registration Board" was one of the proposals which was later enacted in the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 and reenacted as the Architects Act 1997; another was the abolition of the ARCUK Board of Architectural Education.


Premise: What is Titograd now called?

Hypothesis: With the exception of Titograd, the cities were renamed simply by the addition of the adjective "Tito's" ("Titov").


Premise: New restrictions on New Delhi's transportation system were enacted by the Supreme Court to accomplish what goal?

Hypothesis: On December 16, 2015, the Supreme Court of India mandated several restrictions on Delhi's transportation system to curb pollution.


Premise: How many registered fan clubs does Barcelona have worldwide?

Hypothesis: The fan clubs promote Barcelona in their locality and receive beneficial offers when visiting Barcelona.


Premise: What was the annual rate of decrease for the output of goods and services produced by labor and property in 4Q 2008 and 1Q 2009?

Hypothesis: With the decline of gross domestic product came the decline in innovation.


Premise: When was "Russian language at the turn of the 20th-21st centuries" published?

Hypothesis: In 2012, A. L. Arefyev published a new study "Russian language at the turn of the 20th-21st centuries", in which he confirmed his conclusion about the trend of further weakening of the Russian language in all regions of the world (findings published in 2013 in the journal "Demoskop Weekly").


Premise: What is the large island park in Detroit?

Hypothesis: It extends from Hart Plaza to the MacArthur Bridge accessing Belle Isle Park (the largest island park in a U.S. city).


Premise: When was the Tientsin Massacre?

Hypothesis: The period of cooperation between the reformers and the European powers ended with the Tientsin Massacre of 1870, which was incited by the murder of French nuns set off by the belligerence of local French diplomats.


Premise: How are the games broadcast now?

Hypothesis: As a result of Setanta going out of business ITV showed the competition exclusively in the 2009–10 season with between three and four matches per round, all quarter finals, semi-finals and final live as the FA could not find a pay TV broadcaster in time.


Premise: In what year was Wayman v. Southard tried by the U.S. Supreme Court?

Hypothesis: 1, 42 (1825).


Premise: Why couldn't the French and English take control of the field?

Hypothesis: The English and French forces at this time were unable to take the field for lack of equipment.:415


Premise: Who operates the public libraries in Paris?

Hypothesis: There are three public libraries in the 4th arrondissement.


Premise: How long did the Sea Wolves stay in Hartford?

Hypothesis: There are a number of franchises which existed in the form of a number of largely-unrelated teams under numerous management groups until they folded (an example is the New York CityHawks whose owners transferred the team from New York to Hartford to become the New England Sea Wolves after two seasons, then after another two seasons were sold and became the Toronto Phantoms, who lasted another two seasons until folding).


Premise: Where was Popper's academic appointment in New Zealand?

Hypothesis: Three years later, in 1949, he was appointed professor of logic and scientific method at the University of London.


Premise: What was always in question from the beginning of the Ottoman Empire?

Hypothesis: The borders did expand and contract but they were always dynamic and always in "question" right from the beginning.


Premise: What is the name of a fine art institution on the campus of KU?

Hypothesis: The university is host to several museums including the University of Kansas Natural History Museum and the Spencer Museum of Art.


Premise: How many commercial films were produced yearly on average in the early 1960s in Iran?

Hypothesis: With the screening of the films Kaiser and The Cow, directed by Masoud Kimiai and Dariush Mehrjui respectively in 1969, alternative films established their status in the film industry.


Premise: What other colony was taken by the British from Spain?

Hypothesis: In the Philippines, the British were confined to Manila until their agreed upon withdrawal at the war's end.


Premise: What year was the Hammond-Harwood House built?

Hypothesis: Unlike the Baroque style that it replaced, which was mostly used for palaces and churches, and had little representation in the British colonies, simpler Georgian styles were widely used by the upper and middle classes.


Premise: Which lobes of the lungs are more often affected by TB?

Hypothesis: The upper lung lobes are more frequently affected by tuberculosis than the lower ones.


Premise: How many component of education did Ibn Sina describe in their teachings?

Hypothesis: He wrote that children can learn better if taught in classes instead of individual tuition from private tutors, and he gave a number of reasons for why this is the case, citing the value of competition and emulation among pupils, as well as the usefulness of group discussions and debates.


Premise: The state's economy was largely defined by these two industries.

Hypothesis: The state economy was largely defined by ranching and mining.


Premise: What was the name of the engineer involved in the construction of the Eddystone Lighthouse?

Hypothesis: Local chemist William Cookworthy established his somewhat short-lived Plymouth Porcelain venture in 1768 to exploit the recently discovered deposits of local China Clay - an industry which continues to make up a portion of the city income.


Premise: What did the math of artificial viscosity do?

Hypothesis: For example, with Robert D. Richtmyer he developed an algorithm defining artificial viscosity that improved the understanding of shock waves.


Premise: Where is the Krispy kreme headquarters located?

Hypothesis: The internationally acclaimed North Carolina Zoo in Asheboro attracts visitors to its animals, plants, and a 57-piece art collection along five miles of shaded pathways in the world's largest-land-area natural-habitat park.


Premise: How much does Vanguard plan to invest in DMC?

Hypothesis: Vanguard has agreed to invest nearly $1.5 B in the Detroit Medical Center complex which will include $417 M to retire debts, at least $350 M in capital expenditures and an additional $500 M for new capital investment.


Premise: What is the German word for living space?

Hypothesis: The Nazi Hunger Plan and Generalplan Ost would have led to the starvation of 80 million people in the Soviet Union.


Premise: What is another Hebrew term for Nazarenes?

Hypothesis: The Hebrew equivalent of "Nazarenes", Notzrim, occurs in the Babylonian Talmud, and is still the modern Israeli Hebrew term for Christian.


Premise: What are the two types of digestion?

Hypothesis: There is a fundamental distinction between internal and external digestion.


Premise: What manager was appointed to lead Arsenal in 1925?

Hypothesis: In addition, Chapman was behind the 1932 renaming of the local London Underground station from "Gillespie Road" to "Arsenal", making it the only Tube station to be named specifically after a football club.


Premise: The first Permanent Colony in Florida is Now known as

Hypothesis: A large number of British colonists who were "energetic and of good character" moved to Florida, mostly coming from South Carolina, Georgia and England though there was also a group of settlers who came from the colony of Bermuda.


Premise: Where was "Reflections on Affective Events Theory" published?

Hypothesis: This theoretical frame also emphasizes time in that human beings experience what they call emotion episodes— a "series of emotional states extended over time and organized around an underlying theme.


Premise: Which areas in Antartica are considered polar deserts?

Hypothesis: Even during glacial periods of the Quaternary, Manchuria, lowland Siberia, and central and northern Alaska, though extraordinarily cold, had such light snowfall that glaciers could not form.


Premise: Who produced 'From Mambo To Hip Hop'?

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


Premise: What is the ancestry of the Chinese population in Guinea-Bissau?

Hypothesis: After Guinea-Bissau gained independence, most of the Portuguese nationals left the country.


Premise: What is one reason the Federal Reserve lowered the federal funds rate target to 1.0% in 2003?

Hypothesis: This was done to soften the effects of the collapse of the dot-com bubble and the September 2001 terrorist attacks, as well as to combat a perceived risk of deflation.


Premise: When hydrogen oxidates, what is it removing?

Hypothesis: That is why H+ is often called a proton.


Premise: What did Wesley Clark's initial campaign ads depend upon?

Hypothesis: Nevertheless, the Democrats did not flock to support his campaign.


Premise: What power plant was damaged by the earthquake?

Hypothesis: In total, 391 dams, most of them small, were reported damaged by the quake.


Premise: In what films did Spielberg address war?

Hypothesis: In later years, his films began addressing humanistic issues such as the Holocaust (in Schindler's List), the transatlantic slave trade (in Amistad), war (in Empire of the Sun, Saving Private Ryan, War Horse and Bridge of Spies) and terrorism (in Munich).


Premise: What had long faded prior to the first European and African arrivals?

Hypothesis: However, the European colonists of the time worked to eliminate non-Christian beliefs, and Christian pyres destroyed many pre-Columbian written records.


Premise: What state notably had electric chair malfunctions?

Hypothesis: Electric chairs have commonly been nicknamed Old Sparky; however, Alabama's electric chair became known as the "Yellow Mama" due to its unique color.


Premise: Which two states do Shtokavian verbs have?

Hypothesis: In addition, like most Slavic languages, the Shtokavian verb also has one of two aspects: perfective or imperfective.


Premise: Following the Ems telegram, what reaction did the French foreign minister report that he felt?

Hypothesis: Gramont, the French foreign minister, declared that he felt "he had just received a slap".


Premise: What kind of eggs to all birds lay?

Hypothesis: All birds lay amniotic eggs with hard shells made mostly of calcium carbonate.


Premise: What are the benefits of USB 3.0?

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


Premise: Which subject was only studied by boys with sufficient ability?

Hypothesis: From the latter part of the 19th century this curriculum has changed and broadened: for example, there are now more than 100 students of Chinese, which is a non-curriculum course.


Premise: What phenomenon of Dutch pronunciation was brought about by the attitudes of the elite in the 16th century?

Hypothesis: Instead, he argues, this development has been artificially frozen in an "intermediate" state by the standardisation of Dutch pronunciation in the 16th century, where lowered diphthongs found in rural dialects were perceived as ugly by the educated classes and accordingly declared substandard.


Premise: What was designed with frequent charging of portable devices in mind?

Hypothesis: The standard and mini connectors were designed for less than daily connections, with a design lifetime of 1,500 insertion-removal cycles.


Premise: Where is the British Cemetery Montevideo located?

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


Premise: The Roman Karamagara Bridge is an example of what type of structure?

Hypothesis: The pointed arch and its precursors had been employed in Late Roman and Sassanian architecture; within the Roman context, evidenced in early church building in Syria and occasional secular structures, like the Roman Karamagara Bridge; in Sassanid architecture, in the parabolic and pointed arches employed in palace and sacred construction.


Premise: Which civil war did the Iraq branch of Al Qaeda begin fighting in?

Hypothesis: Many analysts[who?] believe that because of this schism, Al Qaeda and ISIL are now in a competition to retain the title of the world's most powerful terrorist organization.


Premise: What is the geographical feature New Delhi lies on that is responsible for frequent earthquakes?

Hypothesis: New Delhi lies on several fault lines and thus experiences frequent earthquakes, most of them of mild intensity.


Premise: The University of Southampton has more than what number of students attending?

Hypothesis: The University of Southampton, which was founded in 1862 and received its Royal Charter as a university in 1952, has over 22,000 students.


Premise: Where was Yeltsin during the coup?

Hypothesis: Thousands of Muscovites came out to defend the White House (the Russian Federation's parliament and Yeltsin's office), the symbolic seat of Russian sovereignty at the time.


Premise: Besides porcelain, paper and mica, what other non conductive material was used as an insulator?

Hypothesis: Paper capacitors made by sandwiching a strip of impregnated paper between strips of metal, and rolling the result into a cylinder were commonly used in the late 19century; their manufacture started in 1876, and they were used from the early 20th century as decoupling capacitors in telecommunications (telephony).


Premise: What has pleased western historians?

Hypothesis: It has pleased western historians to write of a decline of the Ottoman Empire as though a stable and uncontested polity of that name once existed.


Premise: What are the two standard antenna types?

Hypothesis: For instance, a phased array consists of two or more simple antennas which are connected together through an electrical network.


Premise: Whose duties are defined as "support on Middle Eastern and North African countries?"

Hypothesis: The Directorate of Intelligence, one of four directorates into which the CIA is divided, includes the Office of Near Eastern and South Asian Analysis (NESA).


Premise: How is trademark infringement addressed in a few jurisdictions?

Hypothesis: In many countries, a trademark receives protection without registration, but registering a trademark provides legal advantages for enforcement.


Premise: In what country is Kampala Mosque located?

Hypothesis: Raised within the Sunni branch of Islam, Gaddafi called for the implementation of sharia within Libya.


Premise: Who confessed that wrestling was not competition?

Hypothesis: Despite the public admission of the theatrical nature of professional wrestling, many U.S. states still regulate professional wrestling as they do other professional competitive sports.


Premise: How many murders were in Raleigh in 2010?

Hypothesis: Of the violent crimes reported, 14 were murders, 99 were forcible rapes and 643 were robberies.


Premise: Who painted the Night Cafe?

Hypothesis: These studies were avidly followed by artists such as Vincent van Gogh.


Premise: What are two low-energy compounds?

Hypothesis: Sunlight is also captured by plants as chemical potential energy in photosynthesis, when carbon dioxide and water (two low-energy compounds) are converted into the high-energy compounds carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins.


Premise: What was used to get the torch across the Shing Mun River?

Hypothesis: The torch relay then traveled through Nathan Road, Lantau Link, Sha Tin (crossed Shing Mun River via a dragon boat, which had been never used before in the history of Olympic torch relays), Victoria Harbour (crossed by Tin Hau, a VIP vessel managed by the Marine Department) before ending in Golden Bauhinia Square in Wan Chai.


Premise: How many independent labels did the Merlin Network represent?

Hypothesis: In May 2014, prior to the launch of YouTube's subscription-based Music Key service, the independent music trade organization Worldwide Independent Network alleged that YouTube was using non-negotiable contracts with independent labels that were "undervalued" in comparison to other streaming services, and that YouTube would block all music content from labels who do not reach a deal to be included on the paid service.


Premise: What is another word for rock composition?

Hypothesis: The Alps are subdivided by different lithology (rock composition) and nappe structure according to the orogenic events that affected them.


Premise: What other use did paper capacitors serve in the telecommunications industry?


Premise: What year did the Nintendo Wii U, partly developed by IBM, debut?

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


Premise: When did a committee oppose the FBI's organized crime informant program?

Hypothesis: In 2003 a congressional committee called the FBI's organized crime informant program "one of the greatest failures in the history of federal law enforcement.


Premise: Which disease did Arline succumb to?

Hypothesis: While pursuing his PhD at Princeton, Feynman married his high school sweetheart, Arline Greenbaum (often misspelled "Arlene"), despite the knowledge that she was seriously ill with tuberculosis—an incurable disease at the time.


Premise: In what era did The Presbyterian Church in Taiwan experience a large growth in members?

Hypothesis: One of the few churches permitted to operate in Taiwan through the era of Japanese rule (1895–1945), the PCT experienced rapid growth during the era of Guomindang-imposed martial law (1949–1987), in part due to its support for democracy, human rights, and Taiwan independence.


Premise: What philosophical term corresponds to the type of interpretation in ta'wil?

Hypothesis: In Tabatabaei's view, what has been rightly called ta'wil, or hermeneutic interpretation of the Quran, is not concerned simply with the denotation of words.


Premise: What is the most popular current affairs magazine in Namibia?

Hypothesis: Current affairs magazines include Insight Namibia, Vision2030


Premise: What is the basic characteristis of Muhammad and the prophets?

Hypothesis: And that is maybe why the basic characteristic of Muhammad and other prophets was their nobility.[original research?]


Premise: what type of island group are the islands?

Hypothesis: It is the most remote inhabited archipelago in the world, lying 2,000 kilometres (1,200 mi) from the nearest inhabited land, Saint Helena, 2,400 kilometres (1,500 mi) from the nearest continental land, South Africa, and 3,360 kilometres (2,090 mi) from South America.


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

Hypothesis: Direct democracy and federalism are hallmarks of the Swiss political system.


Premise: How did Ibn Sina escape from Hamadan?

Hypothesis: The new emir of Hamadan, hearing of this correspondence and discovering where Ibn Sina was hiding, incarcerated him in a fortress.


Premise: What type of language is French considered to be?

Hypothesis: Rome's expansion spread Latin throughout Europe, and over time Vulgar Latin evolved and dialectised in different locations, gradually shifting into a number of distinct Romance languages.


Premise: The ring-necked pheasant has been introduced as what kind of bird?

Hypothesis: Others have been accidental, such as the establishment of wild monk parakeets in several North American cities after their escape from captivity.


Premise: What area of London does the Metropolitan Police Service cover?

Hypothesis: Policing in Greater London, with the exception of the City of London, is provided by the Metropolitan Police Service, overseen by the Mayor through the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC).


Premise: With what broadcasting company does KU have a contract?

Hypothesis: Sheahon Zenger was introduced as KU's new athletic director in January 2011.


Premise: Where were the two major surrenders of British forces in the war?

Hypothesis: As the war ended, Washington watched proudly as the final British army quietly sailed out of New York City in November 1783, taking the Loyalist leadership with them.


Premise: When was the administrative county abolished?

Hypothesis: On 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, the administrative county was abolished, as were the county boroughs.


Premise: Where did Legislative power rest?

Hypothesis: The 1960 Constitution provided for a presidential system of government with independent executive, legislative and judicial branches as well as a complex system of checks and balances including a weighted power-sharing ratio designed to protect the interests of the Turkish Cypriots.


Premise: When did Tito implement a self-management system that differentiated Yugoslavia from other socialist coutnries?

Hypothesis: In 1951 he implemented a self-management system that differentiated Yugoslavia from other socialist countries.


Premise: Which system used a pair of trackers?

Hypothesis: The French Brocq system was electrical, the operator entered the target range and had displays at guns; it was used with their 75 mm.


Premise: Assuming access has been gained to the car's internal controller area network, what is it possible to do?

Hypothesis: Researchers in 2011 were even able to use a malicious compact disc in a car's stereo system as a successful attack vector, and cars with built-in voice recognition or remote assistance features have onboard microphones which could be used for eavesdropping.


Premise: How can SNES yellowing sometimes be reversed?

Hypothesis: The color can sometimes be restored with UV light and a hydrogen peroxide solution.


Premise: What type of clothing does the British partnership with Beyoncé sell?

Hypothesis: In October 2014, Beyoncé signed a deal to launch an activewear line of clothing with British fashion retailer Topshop.


Premise: What three internationally acclaimed musicians were born in Israel?

Hypothesis: Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman and Ofra Haza are among the internationally acclaimed musicians born in Israel.[citation needed]


Premise: Which Queen members were appearing on American Idol in the late 2000s?

Hypothesis: On 25 and 26 April, May and Taylor appeared on the eleventh series of American Idol at the Nokia Theatre, Los Angeles, performing a Queen medley with the six finalists on the first show, and the following day performed "Somebody to Love" with the 'Queen Extravaganza' band.


Premise: In what countries have the Portuguese Armed Forces participated in peacekeeping missions?

Hypothesis: After the end of the Portuguese Empire in 1975, the Portuguese Armed Forces have participated in peacekeeping missions in East Timor, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Somalia, Iraq (Nasiriyah) and Lebanon.


Premise: How many days did Nasser attend classes in his senior year?

Hypothesis: Nonetheless, political unrest in Egypt declined significantly and Nasser resumed his studies at al-Nahda, where he received his leaving certificate later that year.


Premise: What light bulbs use lamp filaments containing uranium?

Hypothesis: Uranium salts are mordants of silk or wool.


Premise: What is another nature of Dukkha?

Hypothesis: The first truth explains the nature of dukkha.


Premise: Which Late Middle Age English kings kept their own troupes of professional actors?

Hypothesis: Richard III and Henry VII both maintained small companies of professional actors.


Premise: Which Greek historian made that notation?

Hypothesis: Thucydides noted that people who had recovered from a previous bout of the disease could nurse the sick without contracting the illness a second time.


Premise: In which year was the FA given an official coat of arms by the College of Arms?

Hypothesis: Initially topped by a crown, this was removed in 1949 when the FA was given an official coat of arms by the College of Arms; this introduced ten Tudor roses, one for each of the regional branches of the FA.


Premise: What was the name of the aircraft that crashed into the World Trade Center's North Tower on September 11, 2001?

Hypothesis: The World Trade Center PATH station, which opened on July 19, 1909 as the Hudson Terminal, was also destroyed in the attack.


Premise: How is the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System written in traditional Chinese?

Hypothesis: The BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS, simplified Chinese: 北斗卫星导航系统; traditional Chinese: 北斗衛星導航系統; pinyin: Běidǒu wèixīng dǎoháng xìtǒng) is a Chinese satellite navigation system.


Premise: What region do some scholars see as the source for Egypt's start in agriculture?

Hypothesis: Other scholars argue that the primary stimulus for agriculture and domesticated animals (as well as mud-brick architecture and other Neolithic cultural features) in Egypt was from the Middle East.


Premise: How far do glaciers generally move per day?

Hypothesis: Mean speeds vary greatly, but is typically around 1 m (3 ft) per day.


Premise: What was the result of the German attacks?

Hypothesis: However, as with the attacks in the south, the Germans failed to prevent maritime movements or cripple industry in the regions.


Premise: Why is the term saturation named as such?

Hypothesis: This is called saturation because current is flowing from collector to emitter freely.


Premise: Where did the Lenape go after being pushed out of the Philidelphia area?

Hypothesis: Before Europeans arrived, the Philadelphia area was home to the Lenape (Delaware) Indians in the village of Shackamaxon.


Premise: In what year did Napoleon and Czar Alexander first meet?

Hypothesis: The leaders had a friendly personal relationship after their first meeting at Tilsit in 1807.


Premise: What is the oldest way to study migration?

Hypothesis: Bird migration routes have been studied by a variety of techniques including the oldest, marking.


Premise: How many airports are affiliated with London and incorporate the word London in their names?

Hypothesis: London Heathrow Airport, in Hillingdon, West London, is the busiest airport in the world for international traffic, and is the major hub of the nation's flag carrier, British Airways.


Premise: What university is Arno Tausch from?

Hypothesis: In a factor analysis of the latest wave of World Values Survey data, Arno Tausch (Corvinus University of Budapest) found that Protestantism emerges to be very close to combining religion and the traditions of liberalism.


Premise: How long did "Like a Virgin" stayed on the Billboard 100?

Hypothesis: The title track, "Like a Virgin", topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart for six consecutive weeks.


Premise: What was the other name for the Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory?

Hypothesis: Hoover was substantially involved in most major cases and projects that the FBI handled during his tenure.


Premise: Who were the leading composers of the trecento period?

Hypothesis: In Italy, where the Provençal troubadours had also found refuge, the corresponding period goes under the name of trecento, and the leading composers were Giovanni da Cascia, Jacopo da Bologna and Francesco Landini.


Premise: The GDP peaked in 1980 at what amount?

Hypothesis: In 2011, the country's nominal GDP was US$1.154 billion, while nominal GDP per capita stood at US$297, the third-lowest in the world.


Premise: What is typical in Czech as other Latin European languages?

Hypothesis: Czech typographical features not associated with phonetics generally resemble those of most Latin European languages, including English.


Premise: Who based their research on Enrlich's stains works?

Hypothesis: Ehrlich had been awarded a 1908 Nobel Prize for his work on immunology, and pioneered the use of stains to detect and identify bacteria, with his work being the basis of the Gram stain and the Ziehl–Neelsen stain.


Premise: What are the insolation levels of most populated areas?

Hypothesis: The spectrum of solar light at the Earth's surface is mostly spread across the visible and near-infrared ranges with a small part in the near-ultraviolet.


Premise: what is the acronym for the East india company?

Hypothesis: The company, fresh from a colossal victory, and with the backing of its own private well-disciplined and experienced army, was able to assert its interests in the Carnatic region from its base at Madras and in Bengal from Calcutta, without facing any further obstacles from other colonial powers.


Premise: Why did propsals about making the European sovereign debt assets more like the US Treasury?

Hypothesis: In response to the crisis of 2010, some proposals have surfaced for a collective European bond issue that would allow the central bank to purchase a European version of US Treasury bills.


Premise: How was the Burma framework affected by WWII ?

Hypothesis: Myanmar was bombed extensively by both sides.


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

Hypothesis: This was particularly evident on 11 November 2008 when the Cunard liner RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 departed the city for the final time amid a spectacular fireworks display after a full day of celebrations.


Premise: How much did Barcelona pay to sign  David Villa?

Hypothesis: In August 2011, La Masia graduate Cesc Fàbregas was bought from Arsenal and he would help Barcelona defend the Spanish Supercup against Real Madrid.


Premise: The Crete ecoregion is known as what?

Hypothesis: Phytogeographically, Greece belongs to the Boreal Kingdom and is shared between the East Mediterranean province of the Mediterranean Region and the Illyrian province of the Circumboreal Region.


Premise: How much did the Confessions Tour make?

Hypothesis: Madonna embarked on the Confessions Tour in May 2006, which had a global audience of 1.2 million and grossed over $193.7 million, becoming the highest-grossing tour to that date for a female artist.


Premise: What is Sri-Lakshmi a deity of?

Hypothesis: Bhavani, Durga, Gaja-Lakshmi, Hariti-Sitala, Mahsishamardini, Saptamatrika (seven mother goddesses), and Sri-Lakshmi(wealth-goddess).


Premise: Who penned a poem called "Poem to the Memory of Newton" to mourn the loss and praise the legacy of Newton?

Hypothesis: After Newton's death in 1727, poems were composed in his honour for decades.


Premise: What desires were expected to be suppressed during the fasting period?

Hypothesis: Traditionally the feast also applied to sexual desires, which were supposed to be suppressed during the following fasting.


Premise: Until which century was the Virgin birth of Jesus held almost universally among Christians?

Hypothesis: It is included in the two most widely used Christian creeds, which state that Jesus "was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary" (the Nicene Creed in what is now its familiar form) and the Apostles' Creed.


Premise: The Saronic gulf is near what city?

Hypothesis: The Greek islands are traditionally grouped into the following clusters:


Premise: What did the Canadians do to children that did not wish to work?

Hypothesis: The Dutch East India Company officials rationalised their child labour abuses with, "it is a way to save these children from a worse fate.


Premise: What was most significant in architecture according to Ruskin?

Hypothesis: His work goes on to state that a building is not truly a work of architecture unless it is in some way "adorned".


Premise: According to a report in 2011, by what year could solar energy provide a third of the world's energy?

Hypothesis: In 2011, a report by the International Energy Agency found that solar energy technologies such as photovoltaics, solar hot water and concentrated solar power could provide a third of the world’s energy by 2060 if politicians commit to limiting climate change.


Premise: Who served as the head minister under Charles II?

Hypothesis: Examples were Thomas Cromwell under Henry VIII; William Cecil, Lord Burghley under Elizabeth I; Clarendon under Charles II and Godolphin under Queen Anne.


Premise: What is another term for phonological system?

Hypothesis: The word phonology (as in the phonology of English) can also refer to the phonological system (sound system) of a given language.


Premise: What is the name of earliest man made place of worship?

Hypothesis: A temple area in southeastern Turkey at Göbekli Tepe dated around 9,500 BC may be regarded as the beginning of the period.


Premise: What are the Indus River's tributaries?

Hypothesis: Punjab's geography mostly consists of the alluvial plain of the Indus River and its four major tributaries in Pakistan, the Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, and Sutlej rivers.


Premise: How many appearances has Northwestern's football team made in the top 10 AP poll since 1936?

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


Premise: What besides viscosity is a drawback of fused quartz?

Hypothesis: However, its high melting-temperature (1723 °C) and viscosity make it difficult to work with.


Premise: When was the soundtrack of Spectre first available for purchase in the UK?

Hypothesis: The soundtrack album was released on 23 October 2015 in the UK and 6 November 2015 in the USA on the Decca Records label.


Premise: What was the official name of Libya between 1969 and 1977?

Hypothesis: Initially ideologically committed to Arab nationalism and Arab socialism, he came to rule according to his own Third International Theory before embracing Pan-Africanism and serving as Chairperson of the African Union from 2009 to 2010.


Premise: What day of the week does DST begin and end in Chile?

Hypothesis: The time difference between the United Kingdom and mainland Chile could therefore be five hours during the Northern summer, three hours during the Southern summer and four hours a few weeks per year because of mismatch of changing dates.


Premise: Who controled Indochina in 1940?

Hypothesis: In practice, there was little coordination between Japan and Germany until 1944, by which time the U.S. was deciphering their secret diplomatic correspondence.


Premise: Where was the differential analyzer built by H.L. Hazen?

Hypothesis: The art of mechanical analog computing reached its zenith with the differential analyzer, built by H. L. Hazen and Vannevar Bush at MIT starting in 1927.


Premise: How did George H. W. Bush describe Yale's reputation?

Hypothesis: During the 1988 presidential election, George H. W. Bush (Yale '48) derided Michael Dukakis for having "foreign-policy views born in Harvard Yard's boutique".


Premise: What area of Southampton holds a Ford assembly plant?

Hypothesis: The area of Swaythling is home to Ford's Southampton Assembly Plant, where the majority of their Transit models are manufactured.


Premise: What is 'Victor Talking Machine now known as?

Hypothesis: Johnson's and Berliner's separate companies reorganized to form the Victor Talking Machine Company, whose products would come to dominate the market for many years.


Premise: How did Nasser respond to economic problems in Syria?

Hypothesis: Aburish states that Nasser was not fully capable of addressing Syrian problems because they were "foreign to him".


Premise: When were the first telephone lines installed?

Hypothesis: The new building of the School of Arts and Trades, as well as Zabala Square in Ciudad Vieja were inaugurated in 1890, followed by the Italian Hospital in 1891.


Premise: Name the renewal movements which could be considered overemotional.

Hypothesis: Generally, however, Reformed charismatics distance themselves from renewal movements with tendencies which could be perceived as overemotional, such as Word of Faith, Toronto Blessing, Brownsville Revival and Lakeland Revival.


Premise: What provision might a treaty include if it's meant to be only temporarily binding?

Hypothesis: Other treaties may self-terminate if the treaty is meant to exist only under certain conditions.[citation needed]


Premise: In what year did New Haven commission the City Beautiful plan?

Hypothesis: The city has been home to a number of architects and architectural firms that have left their mark on the city including Ithiel Town and Henry Austin in the 19th century and Cesar Pelli, Warren Platner, Kevin Roche, Herbert Newman and Barry Svigals in the 20th.


Premise: Where are many of those who provide income to residents earning?

Hypothesis: Public sector workers make up about 65% of those formally employed.


Premise: What river divides Abkhazia from Georgia?

Hypothesis: 1855: Georgian coast: Omar Pasha, the Turkish commander at Crimea had long wanted to land in Georgia, but the western powers vetoed it.


Premise: Why did Bell labs create their new type of capacitor?

Hypothesis: Charles Pollak (born Karol Pollak), the inventor of the first electrolytic capacitors, found out that the oxide layer on an aluminum anode remained stable in a neutral or alkaline electrolyte, even when the power was switched off.


Premise: What is the EC-130H used for by the US Air Force?

Hypothesis: The roles of the aircraft vary greatly among the different variants to include Electronic Warfare/Jamming (EC-130H), Psychological Operations/Communications (EC-130J), Airborne Early Warning and Control (E-3), Airborne Command Post (E-4B), ground targeting radar (E-8C), range control (E-9A), and communications relay (E-11A)


Premise: Who wrote A History of British Birds?

Hypothesis: It was not until the end of the eighteenth century that migration as an explanation for the winter disappearance of birds from northern climes was accepted.


Premise: When was Queen's London production scheduled to end in 2006?

Hypothesis: Brian May stated in 2008 that they were considering writing a sequel to the musical.


Premise: What year did Estonia reclaim their independence?

Hypothesis: With assistance from the European Union, the World Bank and the Nordic Investment Bank, Estonia completed most of its preparations for European Union membership by the end of 2002 and now has one of the strongest economies of the new member states of the European Union.[citation needed]


Premise: What road does First use stops around to leave a terminal available for other buses?

Hypothesis: Uni-link passes West Quay in both directions, and Wilts & Dorset drop passengers off and pick them up there, terminating at a series of bus stands along the road.


Premise: Man in Space Soonest was a program by which organization?

Hypothesis: The US Air Force had been developing a program to launch the first man in space, named Man in Space Soonest.


Premise: Originally, how many clubs did the Premier League have?

Hypothesis: Luton Town, Notts County and West Ham United were the three teams relegated from the old first division at the end of the 1991–92 season, and did not take part in the inaugural Premier League season.


Premise: What did Giovanni da Verrazzano call the area when he staked claim on it?

Hypothesis: The first documented visit by a European was in 1524 by Giovanni da Verrazzano, a Florentine explorer in the service of the French crown, who sailed his ship La Dauphine into New York Harbor.


Premise: What is the French word that "puppy" comes from?

Hypothesis: The process of birth is whelping, from the Old English word hwelp.


Premise: What other Spanish Speaking people come to America?

Hypothesis: Throughout the 1980s with the United States supported Contra War (or Contra-revolutionary war) which continued up until 1988, and the economic collapse of the country many more Nicaraguans migrated to the United States amongst other countries.


Premise: What year was the Chopiniana released?

Hypothesis: Chopin's music was used in the 1909 ballet Chopiniana, choreographed by Michel Fokine and orchestrated by Alexander Glazunov.


Premise: Nasser led which country in 1961?

Hypothesis: In 1961, Tito co-founded the movement with Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, India's Jawaharlal Nehru, Indonesia's Sukarno and Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, in an action called The Initiative of Five (Tito, Nehru, Nasser, Sukarno, Nkrumah), thus establishing strong ties with third world countries.


Premise: How many days of the year in 1991 was the air pollution a serious health risk?

Hypothesis: Fees are kept low to encourage use of the system and during rush hours the crush is so great, that authorities have reserved a special carriage specifically for women.


Premise: Who continued to build on to the religious mounds?

Hypothesis: Succeeding peoples, including those of the ancient Mississippian culture established by 1000 AD in the Piedmont, continued to build or add on to such mounds.


Premise: about how long ago did the climate become favorable?

Hypothesis: However, an examination of mammalian teeth suggests that it is the open, gritty habitat and not the grass itself which is linked to diet changes in mammals, giving rise to the "grit, not grass" hypothesis.


Premise: Hawaii has what type of climate?

Hypothesis: The climate is temperate in most areas, subtropical in the Southern United States, tropical in Hawaii and southern Florida, polar in Alaska, semiarid in the Great Plains west of the 100th meridian, Mediterranean in coastal California and arid in the Great Basin.


Premise: Which event is held on the Fourth of June?

Hypothesis: This day is celebrated with the Procession of Boats, in which the top rowing crews from the top four years row past in vintage wooden rowing boats.


Premise: Who noted this particular fear?

Hypothesis: After the First World War, however, it became apparent that the number of mixed-race people was growing at a faster rate than the white population, and by 1930 fear of the "half-caste menace" undermining the White Australia ideal from within was being taken as a serious concern.


Premise: What notable Second World War commander disparaged Eisenhower for his lack of combat experience?

Hypothesis: In World War II, rivals who had combat service in the first great war (led by Gen. Bernard Montgomery) sought to denigrate Eisenhower for his previous lack of combat duty, despite his stateside experience establishing a camp, completely equipped, for thousands of troops, and developing a full combat training schedule.


Premise: What is the standard amount of RAM included with almost all current Mac models?

Hypothesis: All current Mac models ship with at least 8 GB of RAM as standard other than the 1.4 GHz Mac Mini, MacBook Pro (without Retina Display), and MacBook Air.


Premise: What was the year of Martin Luther's death?

Hypothesis: The Reformation in Europe officially began in 1517 with Martin Luther (1483–1546) and his 95 Theses.


Premise: Who was responsible for landscaping the Manuscript Society building?

Hypothesis: Yale's secret society buildings (some of which are called "tombs") were built both to be private yet unmistakable.


Premise: What feature made Wanamakers different from other stores at the time?

Hypothesis: Subsequent department stores founded in Philadelphia included Strawbridge and Clothier, Gimbels, Lit Brothers, and Snellenbergs.


Premise: Between what years were the first natural gas street lights constructed?

Hypothesis: From 1854 to 1861 the first public sanitation facilities were constructed.


Premise: Who killed Yuan Chonghuan?

Hypothesis: This final victory resulted in the surrender of many of the Ming dynasty's most battle-hardened troops, the death of Yuan Chonghuan at the hands of the Chongzhen Emperor (who thought Yuan had betrayed him), and the complete and permanent withdrawal of the remaining Ming forces north of the Great Wall.


Premise: When did the word Anglican begin?

Hypothesis: As the name suggests, the communion is an association of churches in full communion with the Archbishop of Canterbury.


Premise: How many months did Albert spend in the Mediterranean in 1913?

Hypothesis: He was rated as a midshipman aboard HMS Collingwood on 15 September 1913, and spent three months in the Mediterranean.


Premise: What islet was damaged by Cyclone Meli in 1979?

Hypothesis: Cyclone Bebe in 1972 caused severe damage to Funafuti.


Premise: What traditions does the US Air Force have?

Hypothesis: " The use of "challenge coins" is a recent innovation that was adopted from the U.S. Army while another cultural tradition unique to the Air Force is the "roof stomp", practiced by Air Force members to welcome a new commander or to commemorate another event, such as a retirement.


Premise: How did Egyptians dye fabrics yellow?

Hypothesis: To dye fabrics green, they first colored them yellow with dye made from saffron and then soaked them in blue dye from the roots of the woad plant.


Premise: What countries did the federalist model fail in?

Hypothesis: Tensions between territories can still be found in federalist countries such as Canada and federation as a way to appease and quell military conflict has failed recently in places like Lybia or Iraq, while the formula is simultaneously proposed and dismissed in countries such as Ukraine or Syria.


Premise: What region raised a militia army called the fyrd?

Hypothesis: One exception was Anglo-Saxon England, where the armies were still composed of regional levies, known as the fyrd, which were led by the local elites.


Premise: Who did the cubs play against in the first two games of the NLCS?

Hypothesis: In the NLCS, the Cubs easily won the first two games at Wrigley Field against the San Diego Padres.


Premise: What does Neptune have more of compared to Uranus?

Hypothesis: There are also high-altitude cloud bands that wrap around the planet at constant latitude.


Premise: What sort of philosopher was Plotinus?

Hypothesis: Similarly, in regard to passages from the Enneads, "The only space or place of the world is the soul" and "Time must not be assumed to exist outside the soul", Ludwig Noiré wrote: "For the first time in Western philosophy we find idealism proper in Plotinus, However, Plotinus does not address whether we know external objects, unlike Schopenhauer and other modern philosophers.


Premise: What is the purpose of symbolic reference?

Hypothesis: In this way symbolic reference is a fusion of pure sense perceptions on the one hand and causal relations on the other, and that it is in fact the causal relationships that dominate the more basic mentality (as the dog illustrates), while it is the sense perceptions which indicate a higher grade mentality (as the artist illustrates).


Premise: The polish believed szlachta derived from the name of who?

Hypothesis: Poles of the 17th century assumed that "szlachta" came from the German "schlachten" ("to slaughter" or "to butcher"); also suggestive is the German "Schlacht" ("battle").


Premise: Who developed the first systems to transmit slow-scan video?

Hypothesis: Attempts at using normal telephony networks to transmit slow-scan video, such as the first systems developed by AT&T Corporation, first researched in the 1950s, failed mostly due to the poor picture quality and the lack of efficient video compression techniques.


Premise: What position of power did Harold L. Ickes hold?

Hypothesis: Ickes prohibited discrimination in hiring for Public Works Administration funded projects and oversaw not only the institution of a quota system, where contractors were required to employ a fixed percentage of Black workers, by Robert C. Weaver and Clark Foreman,:12 but also the equal pay of women proposed by Harry Hopkins.:14FDR's largest contribution to affirmative action, however, lay in his Executive Order 8802 which prohibited discrimination in the defense industry or government.:22


Premise: What is Neptune named after?

Hypothesis: Named after the Roman god of the sea, its astronomical symbol is ♆, a stylised version of the god Neptune's trident.


Premise: After publishing anti-Semitic editorials in 1920, what did The Times refer to Jews as being?

Hypothesis: On 8 May 1920, also under the editorship of Steed, The Times in an editorial endorsed the anti-Semitic fabrication The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion as a genuine document, and called Jews the world's greatest danger.


Premise: What is the term used to describe the attacks on Plymouth during the Second World War?

Hypothesis: The city's naval importance later led to its targeting and partial destruction during World War II, an act known as the Plymouth Blitz.


Premise: What increased pressure forced the Romans to abandon their line of defense concept at the end of the 4th century?

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


Premise: Who doesn't benefit from the predator-prey interaction?

Hypothesis: Sometimes, however, predation has indirect benefits to the prey species, though the individuals preyed upon themselves do not benefit.


Premise: What capacities are passenger elevators availablee in?

Hypothesis: Generally passenger elevators in buildings of eight floors or fewer are hydraulic or electric, which can reach speeds up


Premise: What were a Japanese family who unveiled a Tibetan flag hit with?

Hypothesis: One of the protesting Malaysian was hit in the head.


Premise: Where is ENA located?

Hypothesis: The administrative school such as ENA has been relocated to Strasbourg, the political science school Sciences-Po is still located in Paris' 7th arrondissement and the most prestigious university of economics and finance, Paris-Dauphine, is located in Paris' 16th.


Premise: What is the purpose of the forth rail?

Hypothesis: The London Underground in England is one of the few networks that uses a four-rail system.


Premise: In what location was the capital of the Rashtrakuta Empire?

Hypothesis: At its peak, the Rashtrakutas ruled from the Ganges River and Yamuna River doab in the north to Cape Comorin in the south, a fruitful time of political expansion, architectural achievements and famous literary contributions.[citation needed]


Premise: What city is home to the largest municipal fire department in the world?

Hypothesis: The New York City Fire Department is the largest municipal fire department in the United States and the second largest in the world after the Tokyo Fire Department.


Premise: What did Giovanni da Verrazzano call the area when he staked claim on it?

Hypothesis: He claimed the area for France and named it "Nouvelle Angoulême" (New Angoulême).


Premise: Who is the Dean of the Olin Business School?

Hypothesis: Mahendra R. Gupta is the Dean of the Olin Business School.


Premise: Who also began an inquiry into the question of being?

Hypothesis: Following al-Farabi's lead, Avicenna initiated a full-fledged inquiry into the question of being, in which he distinguished between essence (Mahiat) and existence (Wujud).


Premise: About how many cultural and artistic organizations are in New York City?

Hypothesis: Wealthy business magnates in the 19th century built a network of major cultural institutions, such as the famed Carnegie Hall and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, that would become internationally established.


Premise: What Empire was especially good at translation?

Hypothesis: The Tangut Empire was especially efficient in such efforts; exploiting the then newly invented block printing, and with the full support of the government (contemporary sources describe the Emperor and his mother personally contributing to the translation effort, alongside sages of various nationalities), the Tanguts took mere decades to translate volumes that had taken the Chinese centuries to render.[citation needed]


Premise: Who did Newt Gingrich delegate much authority to?

Hypothesis: In some cases, Majority Leaders have been more influential than the Speaker; notably Tom DeLay who was more prominent than Speaker Dennis Hastert.


Premise: What reviewer called Twilight Princess "One of the greatest games ever created"?

Hypothesis: GameTrailers in their review called it one of the greatest games ever created.


Premise: Along with Egyptians, Algerians and Somalis, what people commonly possess the M1 haplogroup?

Hypothesis: M1 is believed to have originated in Asia, where its parent M clade represents the majority of mtDNA lineages.


Premise: What is the average day emperature of Limassol during winter?

Hypothesis: 17–18 °C (63–64 °F) during the day and 7–8 °C (45–46 °F) at night, in other coastal locations in Cyprus is generally 16–17 °C (61–63 °F) during the day and 6–8 °C (43–46 °F) at night.


Premise: Which transit line out of Union Station provides service to Hartford and Springfield, Massachusetts?

Hypothesis: Union Station is further served by four Amtrak lines: the Northeast Regional and the high-speed Acela Express provide service to New York, Washington, D.C. and Boston, and rank as the first and second busiest routes in the country; the New Haven–Springfield Line provides service to Hartford and Springfield, Massachusetts; and the Vermonter provides service to both Washington, D.C., and Vermont, 15 miles (24 km) from the Canadian border.


Premise: During what historical epoch did Britons begin drinking ale?

Hypothesis: After the departure of Roman authority in the 5th Century and the fall of the Romano-British kingdoms, the Anglo-Saxons established alehouses that grew out of domestic dwellings, the Anglo-Saxon alewife would put a green bush up on a pole to let people know her brew was ready.


Premise: Who supplied the furniture for the restaurant?

Hypothesis: In 2012, architects Panter Hudspith completed refurbishment of the 14th-century food-store originally used by the abbey's monks, converting it into a restaurant with English Oak furniture by Covent Garden-based furniture makers Luke Hughes and Company.


Premise: What year was Osmania University formed?

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


Premise: Where did the two princesses live for most of the war?

Hypothesis: From February to May 1940, they lived at Royal Lodge, Windsor, until moving to Windsor Castle, where they lived for most of the next five years.


Premise: Of what nationality were most of the ministers of the Church of Tuvalu?

Hypothesis: In the later 19th and early 20th centuries the ministers of what became the Church of Tuvalu (Te Ekalesia Kelisiano Tuvalu) were predominantly Samoans, who influenced the development of the Tuvaluan language and the music of Tuvalu.


Premise: Why was Keifer discredited/empty leader?

Hypothesis: Clearly, Keifer was not the Republicans' minority leader.


Premise: At what cross streets, marking the center of the Hospital Green of Yale - New Haven Hospital, do food carts congregate on weekdays?

Hypothesis: The carts cluster at three main points: by Yale – New Haven Hospital in the center of the Hospital Green (Cedar and York streets), by Yale's Trumbull College (Elm and York streets), and on the intersection of Prospect and Sachem streets by the Yale School of Management.


Premise: For how long does facial hair continue to get darker, coarser, and thicker?

Hypothesis: Facial hair continues to get coarser, darker and thicker for another 2–4 years after puberty.


Premise: What did the federal-aid airport program aim to help develop?

Hypothesis: In 1946, meanwhile, Congress gave CAA the added task of administering the federal-aid airport program, the first peacetime program of financial assistance aimed exclusively at promoting development of the nation's civil airports.


Premise: Fachhochschulen first came about in the early years of what decade?

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


Premise: What led to the decline of the Ottoman empire?

Hypothesis: Following a long period of military setbacks against European powers, the Ottoman Empire gradually declined into the late nineteenth century.


Premise: How many of the industrial jobs in the county were based in Mexico City in the late 20th century?

Hypothesis: With no housing available, they took over lands surrounding the city, creating huge shantytowns that extended for many miles.


Premise: Do Haredi Jews tend to have large or small families?

Hypothesis: Moreover, though intermarriage among Jews of Ashkenazi descent has become increasingly common, many Haredi Jews, particularly members of Hasidic or Hareidi sects, continue to marry exclusively fellow Ashkenazi Jews.


Premise: What did early users find hard to use about the game?

Hypothesis: The team did not have enough time before release to rework Link's character model, so they instead flipped the entire game—everything was made a mirror image.[s]


Premise: Who in Valencia was influenced by the age of Enlightenment's ideas?

Hypothesis: The 18th century was the age of the Enlightenment in Europe, and its humanistic ideals influenced such men as Gregory Maians and Perez Bayer in Valencia, who maintained correspondence with the leading French and German thinkers of the time.


Premise: How many movie theaters are in Brasilia's airport?

Hypothesis: The area outside the airport's main gate is lined with taxis as well as several bus line services which connect the airport to Brasília's central district.


Premise: What was the focus of De Revolutionibus by Nicolaus Copernicus?

Hypothesis: The Scientific Revolution is traditionally held by most historians to have begun in 1543, when the books De humani corporis fabrica (On the Workings of the Human Body) by Andreas Vesalius, and also De Revolutionibus, by the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, were first printed.