Premise: Who did the Hungarian nobility elect as King of Hungary?

Hypothesis: In an extremely unusual event for the Middle Ages, Hunyadi's son, Matthias, was elected as King of Hungary by the nobility.


Premise: Which general opened the battle with artillery from the 25th Infantry Division?

Hypothesis: By 14:30, General Steinmetz, the commander of the First Army, unilaterally launched his VIII Corps across the Mance Ravine in which the Prussian infantry were soon pinned down by murderous rifle and mitrailleuse fire from the French positions.


Premise: When was Phase II of the Miami Center Station supposed to enter service?

Hypothesis: Completion of the Miami Intermodal Center is expected to be completed by winter 2011, and will serve over 150,000 commuters and travelers in the Miami area.


Premise: What period ran from 520-485 BC?

Hypothesis: It probably comes from north-eastern Peloponnesus.


Premise: What is Susan Prager communication director of?

Hypothesis: Congressman Tom Lanto's wife and Ambassador Mark Palmer of NED.


Premise: What was the topic of Von Neuman's thesis?

Hypothesis: This was not something that von Neumann had much knowledge of, so it was arranged for him to take a two-year non-degree course in chemistry at the University of Berlin, after which he sat the entrance exam to the prestigious ETH Zurich, which he passed in September 1923.


Premise: What Wikipedia project makes use of the Old English language?

Hypothesis: Like other historical languages, Old English has been used by scholars and enthusiasts of later periods to create texts either imitating Anglo-Saxon literature or deliberately transferring it to a different cultural context.


Premise: What department did Montini oversee when he worked with the Secretariat of State?

Hypothesis: As did several popes before him, he delegated the secretarial functions to the State Secretariat.


Premise: Which European nationality first explored the Tennessee region?

Hypothesis: The first recorded European excursions into what is now called Tennessee were three expeditions led by Spanish explorers, namely Hernando de Soto in 1540, Tristan de Luna in 1559, and Juan Pardo in 1567.


Premise: What is the split in the state Senate controller by the Republicans?

Hypothesis: The Legislative branch had split party control between the house and senate most years between 2004 and 2010, when the mid-term elections returned both branches to Republican control.


Premise: Who was Jan Potocki?

Hypothesis: Portions of the original French-language manuscript were subsequently lost; however, the missing fragments survived in a Polish translation that was made by Edmund Chojecki in 1847 from a complete French copy, now lost.


Premise: What is another name for smooth rotation?

Hypothesis: This mode of operation is often called microstepping.


Premise: What made power distribution economically viable in Edison's lamp?

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


Premise: What is the most prominent theater in Uruguay?

Hypothesis: The Solís Theatre is the most prominent theatre in Uruguay and the oldest in South America.


Premise: What is Punjab's biggest city?

Hypothesis: Punjab (Urdu, Punjabi: پنجاب, panj-āb, "five waters":  listen (help·info)), also spelled Panjab, is the most populous of the four provinces of Pakistan.


Premise: What job did the Clerk of the Parliaments have during assention notifications?

Hypothesis: The Clerk of the Parliaments presented the bills awaiting assent to the monarch, save that supply bills were traditionally brought up by the speaker.


Premise: Post World War II, in what role did Von Neumann work?

Hypothesis: During World War II he worked on the Manhattan Project with J. Robert Oppenheimer and Edward Teller, developing the mathematical models behind the explosive lenses used in the implosion-type nuclear weapon.


Premise: What Chinese Province had the largest population until 1997?

Hypothesis: From 1955 until 1997 Sichuan had been China's most populous province, hitting 100 million mark shortly after the 1982 census figure of 99,730,000.


Premise: Who offers post-secondary education in Cork?

Hypothesis: Other 3rd level institutions include Griffith College Cork, a private institution, and various other colleges.


Premise: What country allied with Prussia?

Hypothesis: Because of Prussia's alliance with Britain, Austria formed an alliance with France, seeing an opportunity to recapture Silesia, which had been lost in a previous war.


Premise: The term immunology is derived from a Latin word that means what?

Hypothesis: Prior to the designation of immunity from the etymological root immunis, which is Latin for "exempt"; early physicians characterized organs that would later be proven as essential components of the immune system.


Premise: When did Chopin debut at Salle Pleyel ?

Hypothesis: After this concert, Chopin realized that his essentially intimate keyboard technique was not optimal for large concert spaces.


Premise: What is the name of the empire for which Delhi served as the political and financial capital from 1649 to 1857?

Hypothesis: However, Delhi had served as the political and financial centre of several empires of ancient India and the Delhi Sultanate, most notably of the Mughal Empire from 1649 to 1857.


Premise: Where do Manx shearwaters migrate?

Hypothesis: Shorter migrations are common, including altitudinal migrations on mountains such as the Andes and Himalayas.


Premise: Elena Pinchuk has what kind of a foundation?

Hypothesis: Brian May commented, "It's a worthy challenge for us, and I'm sure Adam would meet with Freddie's approval."


Premise: How many native Armenians are in Armenia today?

Hypothesis: Today, with a population of 3.5 million, they not only constitute an overwhelming majority in Armenia, but also in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh.


Premise: Who earned the fewest individual contributions as of the April 15th filing date?

Hypothesis: As of the April 15 filing, LaRouche had 7834 individual contributions, of those who have given cumulatively, $200 or more, as compared to 6257 for John Kerry, 5582 for John Edwards, 4090 for Howard Dean, and 2744 for Gephardt.


Premise: What are two large Roman sites that still exist today in Portugal?

Hypothesis: Numerous Roman sites are scattered around present-day Portugal, some urban remains are quite large, like Conímbriga and Mirobriga.


Premise: How much was the median income for males according to the American Community Survey?

Hypothesis: Males had a median income of $32,207 (+/-


Premise: Who first recorded a territorial name in the region that resembles its current name Tennessee?

Hypothesis: The earliest variant of the name that became Tennessee was recorded by Captain Juan Pardo, the Spanish explorer, when he and his men passed through an American Indian village named "Tanasqui" in 1567 while traveling inland from South Carolina.


Premise: Who is Bermuda's most popular Cricket player?

Hypothesis: Their most famous player is a 130 kilograms (290 lb) police officer named Dwayne Leverock.


Premise: What was the profession of the man who wrote De Materia Medica?

Hypothesis: Another work from Ancient Greece that made an early impact on botany is De Materia Medica, a five-volume encyclopedia about herbal medicine written in the middle of the first century by Greek physician and pharmacologist Pedanius Dioscorides.


Premise: What is commonly preferred by DJs vinyl or CD?

Hypothesis: Many electronic dance music and hip hop releases today are still preferred on vinyl; however, digital copies are still widely available.


Premise: What were both Serbian and Croation standards based on?

Hypothesis: Since the breakup of Yugoslavia, Bosnian has likewise been established as an official standard in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and there is an ongoing movement to codify a separate Montenegrin standard.


Premise: What clause are both elected officials and appointed ones covered by?

Hypothesis: Seven states, however, have language included in their Bill of Rights, Declaration of Rights, or in the body of their constitutions that require state office-holders to have particular religious beliefs, though some of these have been successfully challenged in court.


Premise: Who can receive the Costa Book Award?

Hypothesis: The Man Booker Prize is awarded to authors from the Commonwealth of Nations and Ireland.


Premise: How long of a running time did the Number 199 fuse have?

Hypothesis: In 1928 3.7-inch became the preferred solution, but it took 6 years to gain funding.


Premise: The bombing of Buckingham Palace showed what to the public?

Hypothesis: During World War II, the palace was bombed nine times, the most serious and publicised of which resulted in the destruction of the palace chapel in 1940.


Premise: Who led the Thomson-Houston Electric Company when GE was formed?

Hypothesis: At about the same time, Charles Coffin, leading the Thomson-Houston Electric Company, acquired a number of competitors and gained access to their key patents.


Premise: When was the Communist Manifesto first created?

Hypothesis: Karl Marx published the Communist Manifesto in February 1848, with little attention.


Premise: When did conservative churches start to increase?

Hypothesis: In the post–World War II era, the trend began to swing back towards the conservative camp in America's seminaries and church structures.


Premise: Whose offer to buy the paper was turned down?

Hypothesis: IPC, under pressure from the unions, rejected Maxwell's offer, and Murdoch bought the paper for £800,000, to be paid in instalments.


Premise: For whom was the Uptown District water park in Houston named?

Hypothesis: The Gerald D. Hines Waterwall Park—located in the Uptown District of the city—serves as a popular tourist attraction, weddings, and various celebrations.


Premise: Along with Margaret Sullavan, what notable film talent left Universal after the Standard Capital takeover?

Hypothesis: Because the Laemmles personally oversaw production, Show Boat was released (despite the takeover) with Carl Laemmle and Carl Laemmle Jr.'s names on the credits and in the advertising campaign of the film.


Premise: Which parts of speech aren't normally case-specific in Dutch?

Hypothesis: In the spoken language cases and case inflections had already gradually disappeared from a much earlier date on (probably the 15th century) as in many continental West Germanic dialects.


Premise: What did the Prussian Army hold in Paris on 17 February?

Hypothesis: Bismarck honoured the armistice, by allowing train loads of food into Paris and withdrawing Prussian forces to the east of the city, prior to a full withdrawal once France agreed to pay a five billion franc war indemnity.


Premise: What is the most authoritative classification in use today?

Hypothesis: The most authoritative classification in use today is IUCN's Classification of Direct Threats which has been adopted by major international conservation organizations such as the US Nature Conservancy, the World Wildlife Fund, Conservation International, and BirdLife International.


Premise: What famous Elizabethan playwright spent much of his life in London?

Hypothesis: Modern writers pervasively influenced by the city include Peter Ackroyd, author of a "biography" of London, and Iain Sinclair, who writes in the genre of psychogeography.


Premise: When did Metrobus begin services?

Hypothesis: As the microbuses were removed from its route, it was hoped that the Metrobús could reduce pollution and decrease transit time for passengers.


Premise: What does federal law come from?

Hypothesis: Federal law originates with the Constitution, which gives Congress the power to enact statutes for certain limited purposes like regulating interstate commerce.


Premise: What were the Allied powers referred to before 1917?

Hypothesis: The Allied powers before 1917 are referred to as the Triple Entente, and the Central Powers are referred to as the Triple Alliance.


Premise: What does GBAD stand for?

Hypothesis: Other terms from the late 20th century include GBAD (Ground Based AD) with related terms


Premise: What is the name of the Chilean team that has ties to the Everton FC?

Hypothesis: On 4 August 2010, the two Evertons played each other in a friendly named the Copa Hermandad at Goodison Park to mark the centenary of the Chilean team, an occasion organised by The Ruleteros Society, a society founded to promote connections between the two clubs.


Premise: What corporation bought The Times in 1981?

Hypothesis: In 1981, The Times and The Sunday Times were bought from Thomson by Rupert Murdoch's News International.


Premise: What led to a reduction in the power of the peers?

Hypothesis: Conflict between the two Houses of Parliament over the People's Budget led to a reduction in the power of the peers in 1910.


Premise: Where do western sandpiper Calidris migrate from?

Hypothesis: Many species, such as dunlin Calidris alpina and western sandpiper Calidris mauri, undertake long movements from their Arctic breeding grounds to warmer locations in the same hemisphere, but others such as semipalmated sandpiper C. pusilla travel longer distances to the tropics in the Southern Hemisphere.


Premise: What professional soccer organization is headquartered in New York?

Hypothesis: New York City is home to the headquarters of the National Football League, Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, the National Hockey League, and Major League Soccer.


Premise: In what borough is Stickball Boulevard located?

Hypothesis: Many sports are associated with New York's immigrant communities.


Premise: What was the governing position limited to?

Hypothesis: Later, when safety required power to be consolidated, an elected prince was chosen to govern.


Premise: When did Fox announce that Season 15 would be the final season?

Hypothesis: Ryan Seacrest returns as host, with Harry Connick Jr., Keith Urban, and Jennifer Lopez all returning for their respective third, fourth, and fifth seasons as judges.


Premise: What plateau is Oklahoma near?

Hypothesis: Oklahoma is between the Great Plains and the Ozark Plateau in the Gulf of Mexico watershed, generally sloping from the high plains of its western boundary to the low wetlands of its southeastern boundary.


Premise: who were the european electronica artists that inspired detroit techno?

Hypothesis: Detroit techno is an offshoot of Chicago house music.


Premise: Who was the head of the OPC?

Hypothesis: To this end, the Office of Policy Coordination was created inside the new CIA.


Premise: what was the  highest rank an Indian could be in the EIC army

Hypothesis: The highest rank to which an Indian soldier could aspire was Subadar-Major (or Rissaldar-Major in cavalry units), effectively a senior subaltern equivalent.


Premise: Who discovered Mevastatin?

Hypothesis: Animal trials showed very good inhibitory effect as in clinical trials, however a long term study in dogs found toxic effects at higher doses and as a result mevastatin was believed to be too toxic for human use.


Premise: Where were the Winter Olympics held in 1936?

Hypothesis: In 1930 the Lauberhorn Rennen (Lauberhorn Race), was run for the first time on the Lauberhorn above Wengen; the equally demanding Hahnenkamm was first run in the same year in Kitzbühl, Austria.


Premise: What politician did Nasser admire?

Hypothesis: He was especially influenced by Egyptian writer Tawfiq al-Hakim's novel Return of the Spirit, in which al-Hakim wrote that the Egyptian people were only in need of a "man in whom all their feelings and desires will be represented, and who will be for them a symbol of their objective".


Premise: What are the years after the war commonly known as?

Hypothesis: During the First World War, Paris sometimes found itself on the front line; 600 to 1,000 Paris taxis played a small but highly important symbolic role in transporting 6,000 soldiers to the front line at the First Battle of the Marne.


Premise: What might a state do in response to another state's withdrawal from a treaty?

Hypothesis: The question of whether this is permitted is really a question of how other states will react to the withdrawal; for instance, another state might impose sanctions or go to war over a treaty violation.


Premise: Who told the emperor that the situation in Dbus and Gtsang were under control?

Hypothesis: According to Chen, the Ming officer of Hezhou (modern day Linxia) informed the Hongwu Emperor that the general situation in Dbus and Gtsang "was under control," and so he suggested to the emperor that he offer the second Phagmodru ruler, Jamyang Shakya Gyaltsen, an official title.


Premise: How many feet tall was the proposed statue of Schwarzenegger?

Hypothesis: In tribute to Schwarzenegger in 2002, Forum Stadtpark, a local cultural association, proposed plans to build a 25-meter (82 ft) tall Terminator statue in a park in central Graz.


Premise: When did the US buy Alaska?

Hypothesis: The language was first introduced in North America when Russian explorers voyaged into Alaska and claimed it for Russia during the 1700s.


Premise: In what are of architecture is neoclassical currently classed?

Hypothesis: As of the first decade of the 21st century, contemporary neoclassical architecture is usually classed under the umbrella term of New Classical Architecture.


Premise: Particularly what part of the weather has been studied?

Hypothesis: The severe weather in the Alps has been studied since the 18th century; particularly the weather patterns such as the seasonal foehn wind.


Premise: Who described outreach events at Eton as "unfair and indefensible?"

Hypothesis: In April 2011 the Labour MP David Lammy described as unfair and 'indefensible' the fact that Oxford University had organised nine 'outreach events' at Eton in 2010, although he admitted that it had, in fact, held fewer such events for Eton than for another independent school, Wellington College.


Premise: How many people on average watched the American Idol finale in its first season?

Hypothesis: The audience steadily grew, and by finale night, the audience had averaged 23 million, with more than 40 million watching some part of that show.


Premise: At the time of her birth, what was the rank of Elizabeth's parents?

Hypothesis: Elizabeth was born in London to the Duke and Duchess of York, later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, and was the elder of their two daughters.


Premise: Who made predictions in 1601?

Hypothesis: By 635 Chinese astronomers had observed that the tails of comets always point away from the sun.


Premise: How much did Barcelona pay for Luis Saurez?

Hypothesis: Following Enrique's arrival, Barcelona broke their transfer record when they paid Liverpool F.C. between €81 to €94 million for striker Luis Suárez, who was serving a four-month ban from all football-related activity imposed by the FIFA Disciplinary Committee after biting Italian defender Giorgio Chiellini during his appearance for Uruguay in a World Cup group stage match.


Premise: What does the growth, development, and reproduction of organisms rely on?

Hypothesis: The process of DNA replication is semiconservative; that is, the copy of the genome inherited by each daughter cell contains one original and one newly synthesized strand of DNA.:5.2


Premise: What two groups were excluded from the South Korean political process?

Hypothesis: President Rhee's régime excluded communists and leftists from southern politics.


Premise: How many times did Bohemian waxwings come to Britain in the nineteeth century?

Hypothesis: Sometimes circumstances such as a good breeding season followed by a food source failure the following year lead to irruptions in which large numbers of a species move far beyond the normal range.


Premise: How much did advertisers spend for a 30 second ad spot during American Idol in its seventh season?

Hypothesis: American Idol became the most expensive series on broadcast networks for advertisers starting season four, and by the next season, it had broken the record in advertising rate for a regularly scheduled prime-time network series, selling over $700,000 for a 30-seconds slot, and reaching up to $1.3 million for the finale.


Premise: Who is commissioner of the Arena Football League?

Hypothesis: On February 3, 2016, it was announced that the franchise will start from scratch and no longer be called the "Thunder" as the name and trademarks belong to former franchise owner Terry Emmert (similar to the Jerry Jones move with the Desperados).


Premise: For what did Forbes rank Seattle the most expensive?

Hypothesis: In 2013, however, the magazine ranked Seattle No. 9 on its list of the Best Places for Business and Careers.


Premise: The military colonies replaced what as population centers?

Hypothesis: The new military colonies were to replace the presidios as population centers to prevent future invasions by indigenous tribes; these policies remained prominent in the state until 1883.


Premise: What property of T cells caused modification of CST?

Hypothesis: The theory was later modified to reflect new discoveries regarding histocompatibility or the complex "two-signal" activation of T cells.


Premise: For what battle was Sam Houston known as commander?

Hypothesis: The city was named after former General Sam Houston, who was president of the Republic of Texas and had commanded and won at the Battle of San Jacinto 25 miles (40 km) east of where the city was established.


Premise: What was the population of Salonica in 1800?

Hypothesis: Some regions conversely had population falls – Belgrade saw its population drop from 25,000 to 8,000 mainly due to political strife.


Premise: How many Judeans did Zerubabel return to Judah?

Hypothesis: According to the Hebrew Bible 50,000 Judeans, led by Zerubabel, returned to Judah and rebuilt the temple.


Premise: What is a proctodaeum?

Hypothesis: In the hindgut (element 16 in numbered diagram), or proctodaeum, undigested food particles are joined by uric acid to form fecal pellets.


Premise: What other components of the immune systems are included?

Hypothesis: There may also be involvement of other components of the immune system including: cytokines, chemokines, histamine, and leukotrienes among others.


Premise: Who was the viceregal Sakya regime overthrown by?

Hypothesis: Wylie asserts that this type of censorship of the History of Ming distorts the true picture of the history of Sino-Tibetan relations, while the Ming court granted titles to various lamas regardless of their sectarian affiliations in an ongoing civil war in Tibet between competing Buddhist factions.


Premise: What caused the start of the Korean War?

Hypothesis: The Korean War (in South Korean Hangul: 한국전쟁, Hanja: 韓國戰爭, Hanguk Jeonjaeng, "Korean War"; in North Korean Chosungul: 조국해방전쟁, Joguk Haebang Jeonjaeng, "Fatherland Liberation War"; 25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953)[a] was started when North Korea invaded South Korea.


Premise: What is a common Attic-based dialect?

Hypothesis: Those new cities were composed of Greek colonists who came from different parts of the Greek world, and not, as before, from a specific "mother city".


Premise: What area was known as the Slave Coast?

Hypothesis: Previously slaves had been traded by Arabs north to the northern part of Africa and into the Middle East.


Premise: Who replaced Lord Rosenbery after only a year of government?

Hypothesis: His government was weak, and the following year Lord Salisbury replaced him.


Premise: What do some polychaetes eat that has been causing problems?

Hypothesis: Some marine polychaetes' predation on molluscs causes serious losses to fishery and aquaculture operations.


Premise: What property of copper increases the efficiency of electrical motors?

Hypothesis: Increasing the mass and cross section of copper in a coil increases the electrical energy efficiency of the motor.


Premise: What state operates the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library?

Hypothesis: For example, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum is owned and operated by the state of Illinois.


Premise: What is the second tallest building in Houston?

Hypothesis: It is the tallest structure in Texas, 15th tallest building in the United States, and the 85th tallest skyscraper in the world, based on highest architectural feature.


Premise: What merger was proposed and rejected in 1933?

Hypothesis: In 1933, a proposal to merge Northwestern with the University of Chicago was considered but rejected.


Premise: What is the most typical staining technique used to identify acid-fast bacteria?

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


Premise: What location is a Canadian airforce base located whose name is also a dog breed?

Hypothesis: Major air bases are located in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland and Labrador, while administrative and command and control facilities are located in Winnipeg and North Bay.


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

Hypothesis: Nintendo staff members reported that demo users complained about the difficulty of the control scheme.


Premise: What is the average percentage of uranium oxide contained in the ores mined in the Athabasca Basin?

Hypothesis: High-grade ores found in Athabasca Basin deposits in Saskatchewan, Canada can contain up to 23% uranium oxides on average.


Premise: What does the term Stimulus diffusion mean?

Hypothesis: In diffusion, the form of something (though not necessarily its meaning) moves from one culture to another.


Premise: What does BYU's high rate of enrollment by LDS members result in regarding LDS cultural norms?

Hypothesis: The high rate of enrollment at the university by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (more than 98 percent) results in an amplification of LDS cultural norms; BYU was ranked by The Princeton Review in 2008 as 14th in the nation for having the happiest students and highest quality of life.


Premise: How many households were the offices of Wanhu in charge of?

Hypothesis: The official posts that the Ming court established in Tibet, such as senior and junior commanders, offices of Qianhu (in charge of 1,000 households), and offices of Wanhu (in charge of 10,000 households), were all hereditary positions according to Chen, but he asserts that "the succession of some important posts still had to be approved by the emperor," while old imperial mandates had to be returned to the Ming court for renewal.


Premise: Why did the USAF change its training methods on UAVs in 2014?

Hypothesis: Cultural and career issues in the U.S. Air Force have been cited as one of the reasons for the shortfall in needed UAV operators.


Premise: What decade was significant to Iranian film?

Hypothesis: The 1960s was a significant decade for Iranian cinema, with 25 commercial films produced annually on average throughout the early 60s, increasing to 65 by the end of the decade.


Premise: USB 2.0 High-Speed Inter-Chip (HSIC) is a what?

Hypothesis: USB 2.0 High-Speed Inter-Chip (HSIC) is a chip-to-chip variant of USB 2.0 that eliminates the conventional analog transceivers found in normal USB.


Premise: When are these useful?

Hypothesis: Hydrogen is highly soluble in many rare earth and transition metals and is soluble in both nanocrystalline and amorphous metals.


Premise: Describe Gaddafi's early childhood.

Hypothesis: Muammar Gaddafi was born in a tent near Qasr Abu Hadi, a rural area outside the town of Sirte in the deserts of western Libya.


Premise: What did the Prussians want Germany to unify under?

Hypothesis: The Prussians however wanted to unify Germany as Little Germany primarily by the Kingdom of Prussia, whilst excluding Austria.


Premise: What is the advantage of using inert gas in a light bulb?

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


Premise: While he was in secondary school, what sort of activism did Gaddafi support?

Hypothesis: Maintaining his interest in Arab nationalist activism, he refused to join any of the banned political parties active in the city – including the Arab Nationalist Movement, the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, and the Muslim Brotherhood – claiming he rejected factionalism.


Premise: How many square miles was the city in 1822?

Hypothesis: At the time Boston was chartered as a city, the population was about 46,226, while the area of the city was only 4.7 square miles (12 km2).


Premise: What is the name for the concerts held on New Haven Green throughout the month of July?

Hypothesis: These have included the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, the July Free Concerts on the Green in July, and the New Haven Jazz Festival in August.


Premise: What race did the Omaha view a multiracial child with a white father to be?

Hypothesis: Among the matrilineal tribes of the Southeast, the mixed-race children generally were accepted as and identified as Indian, as they gained their social status from their mother's clans and tribes, and often grew up with their mothers and their male relatives.


Premise: Gautama encountered an old man, a sick man, a holy man, and a what?

Hypothesis: Śuddhodana was determined to see his son become a king, so he prevented him from leaving the palace grounds.


Premise: Who reorganised London's defences?

Hypothesis: From 1940 to 1941, the most successful night-fighter was the Boulton Paul Defiant; its four squadrons shot down more enemy aircraft than any other type.


Premise: In what century did Nimbarka live?

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


Premise: What type of weather changes did areas outside of the tropics experience?

Hypothesis: As this was continuing, it is thought that a large meteor smashed into earth, creating the Chicxulub Crater in an event known as the K-T Extinction, the fifth and most recent mass extinction event, in which 75% of life on earth went extinct, including all non-avian dinosaurs.


Premise: General Robert E. Lee controlled what sect of the confederacy?

Hypothesis: Its soldiers, especially those in the East under the command of General Robert E. Lee proved highly resourceful until they finally were overwhelmed by Generals Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman in 1864–65, The Reconstruction Era (1863–77) began with the Emancipation proclamation in 1863, and included freedom, full citizenship and the vote for the Southern blacks.


Premise: What happened to the Sands Atlantic City a year after it closed?

Hypothesis: The biggest disappointment was when MGM Resorts International announced that it would pull out of all development for Atlantic City, effectively ending their plans for the MGM Grand Atlantic City.


Premise: What other writer showed a transition to the Renaissance?

Hypothesis: The first book produced with movable type in the Iberian Peninsula was printed in Catalan.


Premise: What are the most common rocks found in West Antarctica?

Hypothesis: The only anomalous area of West Antarctica is the Ellsworth Mountains region, where the stratigraphy is more similar to East Antarctica.


Premise: What is the other newspaper that serves Houston?

Hypothesis: Houston is served by the Houston Chronicle, its only major daily newspaper with wide distribution.


Premise: To whom was Eclogue 4 addressed to?

Hypothesis: While some readers have identified the poet himself with various characters and their vicissitudes, whether gratitude by an old rustic to a new god (Ecl. 1), frustrated love by a rustic singer for a distant boy (his master's pet, Ecl. 2), or a master singer's claim to have composed several eclogues (Ecl. 5), modern scholars largely reject such efforts to garner biographical details from works of fiction, preferring to interpret an author's characters and themes as illustrations of contemporary life and thought.


Premise: What year was the island evacuated due to an eruption?

Hypothesis: The following year a Royal Society expedition went to the islands to assess the damage, and reported that the settlement of Edinburgh of the Seven Seas had been only marginally affected.


Premise: In 1678 what was  the new name of the Northern part of New Haven?

Hypothesis: The settlement became the headquarters of the New Haven Colony.


Premise: What created a primordial atmosphere on earth?

Hypothesis: Outgassing and volcanic activity produced the primordial atmosphere.


Premise: In what year did Baden, Württemberg-Baden, and Württemberg-Hohenzollern merge?

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


Premise: What does spandex soak up?

Hypothesis: Spandex is also preferable for active sports that require form fitting garments, such as volleyball, wrestling, track & field, dance, gymnastics and swimming.


Premise: What percentage of  the countries's farm-able land is used for the major farming production crop in Burma?

Hypothesis: Through collaboration with the International Rice Research Institute 52 modern rice varieties were released in the country between 1966 and 1997, helping increase national rice production to 14 million tons in 1987 and to 19 million tons in 1996.


Premise: What is the official regulating body of  Valencian?

Hypothesis: The official regulating body of the language of the Valencian Community, the Valencian Academy of Language (Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua, AVL) declares the linguistic unity between Valencian and Catalan varieties.


Premise: What happened to Apple's market share with the release of Windows 95?

Hypothesis: Apple's market share further struggled due to the release of the Windows 95 operating system, which unified Microsoft's formerly separate MS-DOS and Windows products.


Premise: What kind of buildings were built by the settlers?

Hypothesis: They imported livestock, fruit trees and vegetables, and built a chapel and one or two houses.


Premise: Where was the Agucadoura Wave Farm located?

Hypothesis: Since the turn of the 21st century, there has been a trend towards the development of a renewable resource industry and reduction of both consumption and use of fossil fuel resources.


Premise: What river is on the border of France and Germany?

Hypothesis: This border is formed by the River Rhine, which also forms the eastern border of the modern city, facing across the river to the German town Kehl.


Premise: What type of bean is used to make chocolate?

Hypothesis: Chief among these is maize or "corn", arguably the most important crop in the world.


Premise: Was Brazil on the list?

Hypothesis: Maplecroft Child Labour Index 2012 survey reports 76 countries pose extreme child labour complicity risks for companies operating worldwide.


Premise: What has been argued about high rates in education?

Hypothesis: Empirical analyses tend to support the theoretical prediction that poor countries should grow faster than rich countries because they can adopt cutting edge technologies already tried and tested by rich countries.


Premise: When did political subgroups begin to appear in Estonia?

Hypothesis: Nearly all provinces had at least one fortress.


Premise: When did the UN recommend the Partition Plan?

Hypothesis: This UN plan specified borders for new Arab and Jewish states and also specified an area of Jerusalem and its environs which was to be administered by the UN under an international regime.


Premise: What club is Barcelona's long time rival?

Hypothesis: The club has a long-standing rivalry with Real Madrid; matches between the two teams are referred to as El Clásico.


Premise: Where did the New York times report say towers with guns should go?

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


Premise: The "american colonization society" consisted mostly of whom"

Hypothesis: The American Colonization Society was founded in 1816 in Washington, DC for this purpose, by a group of prominent politicians and slaveholders.


Premise: What notable theater is present in Overtown?

Hypothesis: The northern side of Miami also has notable African American and Caribbean immigrant communities such as Little Haiti, Overtown (home of the Lyric Theater), and Liberty City.


Premise: Where did Cerón's expedition begin?

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


Premise: What type of remains were found in the Narmada Valley?

Hypothesis: Tools crafted by proto-humans that have been dated back two million years have been discovered in the northwestern part of the subcontinent.


Premise: What percentage of the population speaks Crioulo?

Hypothesis: Almost half the population (44%) speaks Crioulo, a Portuguese-based creole language, and the remainder speak a variety of native African languages.


Premise: What was the literacy rate in Liberia in 2010?

Hypothesis: In 2010, the literacy rate of Liberia was estimated at 60.8% (64.8% for males and 56.8% for females).


Premise: What river was the Mercian region south of?

Hypothesis: The Kentish region, settled by the Jutes from Jutland, has the scantiest literary remains.


Premise: Who attempted to assassinate Napoleon?

Hypothesis: Victoria and Albert attended the opening of a new basin at the French military port of Cherbourg on 5 August 1858, in an attempt by Napoleon III to reassure Britain that his military preparations were directed elsewhere.


Premise: In what year was Octavian first allowed to use the names Augustus and Princeps?

Hypothesis: In 27 BC Octavian was granted the use of the names "Augustus" and "Princeps", indicating his primary status above all other Romans, and he adopted the title "Imperator Caesar" making him the first Roman Emperor.


Premise: What was Unicode published as?

Hypothesis: As of June 2015[update], the most recent version is Unicode 8.0.


Premise: To what did the journals shift attention of the cultivated public away from and towards novelty and innovation?

Hypothesis: They also advanced Christian enlightenment that upheld "the legitimacy of God-ordained authority"—the Bible—in which there had to be agreement between the biblical and natural theories.


Premise: What is Charleston's oldest community theater group?

Hypothesis: A variety of performing arts venues includes the historic Dock Street Theatre.


Premise: Why did Feynman decide to turn down an offer from the Institute of Advanced Study?

Hypothesis: Because of this, the Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University jointly offered him a package whereby he could teach at the university and also be at the institute.[citation needed]


Premise: What is the Shia Islam doctrine of religious, spiritual and political leadership of the Ummah?

Hypothesis: Imamah (Arabic: إمامة) is the Shia Islam doctrine (belief) of religious, spiritual and political leadership of the Ummah.


Premise: Which Queen member retired in 1997?

Hypothesis: In January 1997, Queen performed "The Show Must Go On" live with Elton John and the Béjart Ballet in Paris on a night Mercury was remembered, and it marked the last performance and public appearance of John Deacon, who chose to retire.


Premise: Where was an indoor ceremony held since the outdoor relay was cancelled?

Hypothesis: Security was high, for what one newspaper called the "most sensitive leg" of the torch's Olympic journey.


Premise: What did Plato study?

Hypothesis: Later, Plato analyzed political systems, abstracted their analysis from more literary- and history- oriented studies and applied an approach we would understand as closer to philosophy.


Premise: The Air Defense Artillery is a branch of what?

Hypothesis: Since the Militia Act of 1903 all National Guard soldiers have held dual status: as National Guardsmen under the authority of the governor of their state or territory and, when activated, as a reserve of the U.S. Army under the authority of the President.


Premise: To what political party is Mayor Turner aligned?

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


Premise: How many years did it take Switzerland to go from a largely urban country to a rural one?

Hypothesis: Since 1935 urban development has claimed as much of the Swiss landscape as it did during the previous 2,000 years.


Premise: When did the British withdraw from Walcheren?

Hypothesis: Emperor Francis wanted to wait and see how the British performed in their theater before entering into negotiations with Napoleon.


Premise: The number of territories was greatly reduced during what?

Hypothesis: These states were gradually de facto abolished and reduced to provinces under the Nazi regime via the Gleichschaltung process, as the states administratively were largely superseded by the Nazi Gau system.


Premise: Which levels of Xbox Live membership may access the Marketplace?

Hypothesis: These features are available to both Free and Gold members on Xbox Live.


Premise: On what channel did Afro Samurai air?

Hypothesis: In 2007 the animated series debuted on American cable television on the Spike TV channel (Denison, 2010).


Premise: By what factor did direct foreign investment in Libya increase between 2003 and 2004?

Hypothesis: In 2003, the oil industry was largely sold to private corporations, and by 2004, there was $40 billion of direct foreign investment in Libya, a sixfold rise over 2003.


Premise: What style of grammar does Catalan have?

Hypothesis: In terms of pronunciation, Catalan has many words ending in a wide variety of consonants and some consonant clusters, in contrast with many other Romance languages.


Premise: What emerging economies did the U.S. borrow money from between 1996 and 2004 to finance its imports?

Hypothesis: Financing these deficits required the country to borrow large sums from abroad, much of it from countries running trade surpluses.


Premise: How long in meters is the crossbar of a Canadian football goal?

Hypothesis: At each goal line is a set of 40-foot-high (12 m) goalposts, which consist of two uprights joined by an 18 1⁄2-foot-long (5.6 m) crossbar which is 10 feet (3 m) above the goal line.


Premise: Which cant is often used by Irish Travellers?

Hypothesis: A cant, called Shelta, is spoken by Irish Travellers, often as a means to conceal meaning from those outside the group.


Premise: Which president signed the Act into law?

Hypothesis: The ESA was signed into law by President Richard Nixon on December 28, 1973, it was designed to protect critically imperiled species from extinction as a "consequence of economic growth and development untempered by adequate concern and conservation.


Premise: During what war Did the EIC get letter of marque for its vessels

Hypothesis: During the period of the Napoleonic Wars, the East India Company arranged for letters of marque for its vessels such as the Lord Nelson.


Premise: Are there any more changes coming to the map

Hypothesis: On December 2, 2015, a 5-2 majority of the Court accepted a new map of congressional districts, some of which was drawn by challengers.


Premise: Who negotiated an apology from The Sun for its misreporting of this story?

Hypothesis: The Sun published a small correction on 28 December, admitting "that while cast and crew were subject to full body searches, there was no specific threat from Al-Qaeda as we reported.


Premise: Harper Lee has stated that To Kill a Mockingbird is not what genre of book?

Hypothesis: As in the novel, a black housekeeper came daily to care for the Lee house and family.


Premise: Where is Mount Tangjia?

Hypothesis: The most precarious of these quake-lakes was the one located in the extremely difficult terrain at Mount Tangjia in Beichuan County, Sichuan, accessible only by foot or air; an Mi-26T heavy lift helicopter belonging to the China Flying Dragon Special Aviation Company was used to bring heavy earthmoving tractors to the affected location.


Premise: What's the equivalent of Universities of Technology in French-speaking areas?

Hypothesis: In addition to universities of technology, some universities, e.g. University of Oulu and Åbo Akademi University, are allowed to grant the B.Sc.


Premise: What terrorist attack did the United States claim Libya supported?

Hypothesis: After the U.S. accused Libya of orchestrating the 1986 Berlin discotheque bombing, in which two American soldiers died, Reagan decided to retaliate militarily.


Premise: In which year was the first motorway opened in Portugal?

Hypothesis: But, although a few other tracts were created (around 1960 and 1970), it was only after the beginning of the 1980s that large-scale motorway construction was implemented.


Premise: What is the country's largest university?

Hypothesis: The University of the Republic is the country's largest and most important university, with a student body of 81,774, according to the census of 2007.


Premise: Where were native earthworms killed by glaciers?

Hypothesis: In the glaciated areas of North America, for example, almost all native earthworms are thought to have been killed by the glaciers and the worms currently found in those areas are all introduced from other areas, primarily from Europe, and, more recently, from Asia.


Premise: Popper was present for which notable Mont Pelerin Society event?

Hypothesis: In a letter to Hayek in 1944, Popper stated, "I think I have learnt more from you than from any other living thinker, except perhaps Alfred Tarski."


Premise: In what era were many works designed for basso continuo accompaniment?

Hypothesis: The performer and/or the conductor have a range of options for musical expression and interpretation of a scored piece, including the phrasing of melodies, the time taken during fermatas (held notes) or pauses, and the use (or choice not to use) of effects such as vibrato or glissando (these effects are possible on various stringed, brass and woodwind instruments and with the human voice).


Premise: What was the nickname given to the Dutch Admiral in charge of the East Indies?

Hypothesis: At the outbreak of the war in the Pacific the Dutch Admiral in charge of the naval defense of the East Indies, Conrad Helfrich, gave instructions to wage war aggressively.


Premise: What is the name of the oldest a cappella group at Washington University?

Hypothesis: Washington University has a large number of student-run musical groups on campus, including 12 official a cappella groups.


Premise: When was Toynbee's report put together?

Hypothesis: This figure, however, accounts for solely the first year of the Genocide and does not take into account those who died or were killed after the report was compiled on the 24th May 1916.


Premise: How did Victoria realize that her mother deeply loved her?

Hypothesis: She blamed her husband's death on worry over the Prince of Wales's philandering.


Premise: Along with the local police, what profession is given as an example of someone who might use the snug?

Hypothesis: The snug was for patrons who preferred not to be seen in the public bar.


Premise: Who was the mayor that proclaimed independence from the German Empire for  Alsace-Lorraine?

Hypothesis: Although U.S. President Woodrow Wilson had insisted that the région was self-ruling by legal status, as its constitution had stated it was bound to the sole authority of the Kaiser and not to the German state, France tolerated no plebiscite, as granted by the League of Nations to some eastern German territories at this time, because Alsatians were considered by the French public as fellow Frenchmen liberated from German rule.


Premise: What did Adam Smith's work cover?

Hypothesis: The basis for classical economics forms Adam Smith's An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, published in 1776.


Premise: Were the results of the 2010 elections accepted by the United Nations?

Hypothesis: As part of the referendum process, the name of the country was changed from the "Union of Myanmar" to the "Republic of the Union of Myanmar", and general elections were held under the new constitution in 2010.


Premise: What year was Mercado del Puerto inaugurated?

Hypothesis: In 1868, the horse-drawn tram company Compañía de Tranvías al Paso del


Premise: The Nipponzan Myohoji decided to build a Peace Pagoda in new Delhi in what year?

Hypothesis: It was inaugurated by the current Dalai Lama.


Premise: When was this deciding battle fought?

Hypothesis: This provoked a war in the Northwest Territory in which the U.S. forces performed poorly; the Battle of the Wabash in 1791 was the most severe defeat ever suffered by the United States at the hands of American Indians.


Premise: What was Rome's policy towards government?

Hypothesis: Colonial and later Imperial provincial dedications to Rome's Capitoline Triad were a logical choice, not a centralised legal requirement.


Premise: What did the label of  Hellenes come to stand for during the Common Era of Greece ?

Hypothesis: From the early centuries of the Common Era, the Greeks identified as Romaioi ("Romans"), by that time the name ‘Hellenes’ denoted pagans.


Premise: What was the major break through for the study of genetics?

Hypothesis: Mendel's laws provided the beginnings of the study of genetics, which became a major field of research for both scientific and industrial research.


Premise: What are the expressed powers?

Hypothesis: Other powers—the reserved powers—are reserved to the people or the states.


Premise: Where is the main branch of the University of Kansas located?

Hypothesis: The University of Kansas (KU) is a public research university and the largest in the U.S. state of Kansas.


Premise: When were intergender singles bouts fought on a national scale?

Hypothesis: Intergender singles bouts were first fought on a national level in the 1990s.


Premise: How many people witnessed Timothy McVeigh's execution?

Hypothesis: The execution of Timothy McVeigh on June 11, 2001 was witnessed by some 300 people, some by closed-circuit television.


Premise: What historian wrote that banks were the single greatest threat to mid-east independence?

Hypothesis: Indeed, as the historian Eugene Rogan has written, "the single greatest threat to the independence of the Middle East" in the nineteenth century "was not the armies of Europe but its banks."


Premise: What do Tucson's hard freeze temperatures dip to?

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


Premise: In what year was the island hit by an extratropical cyclone?

Hypothesis: A number of structures were severely damaged and a large number of cattle were killed, prompting emergency aid, provided by the British government.


Premise: When was 'Fuga dal Bronx' released?

Hypothesis: Rumble in the Bronx was a 1995 Jackie Chan kung-fu film, another which popularised the Bronx to international audiences.


Premise: How many surnames does everyone in Spain have?

Hypothesis: In Spain, every person officially has two surnames, one of which is the father's first surname and the other is the mother's first surname.


Premise: By improving what processes does the use of circadian rhythms serve to benefit the individual?

Hypothesis: However, rhythmicity appears to be as important in regulating and coordinating internal metabolic processes, as in coordinating with the environment.


Premise: In relation to the shelf the small letters were located, where were the capital letters?

Hypothesis: These terms originated from the common layouts of the shallow drawers called type cases used to hold the movable type for letterpress printing.


Premise: Who led the armies of the French Republic in Vendee and Westermann?

Hypothesis: The year 1789 brought the French Revolution and with it the first division of Alsace into the départements of Haut-


Premise: What type of government does Burma operate under ?

Hypothesis: According to some reports, the military's presence continues as the label 'disciplined democracy' suggests.


Premise: How did Time Magazine recognize Spielberg?

Hypothesis: Time listed him as one of the 100 Most Important People of the Century.


Premise: What normally followed the delivery of a child by a woman in Mary time period ?

Hypothesis: Therefore, being always free from original sin, the doctrine teaches that from her conception Mary received the sanctifying grace that would normally come with baptism after birth.


Premise: What region of the Philippines has a large Muslim population?

Hypothesis: In countries where Islam is not the majority or state religion, Islamic schools are found in regions such as southern Thailand (near the Thai-Malaysian border) and the southern Philippines in Mindanao, where a significant Muslim population can be found.


Premise: What has been enacted between European immigrants and First Nations across Canada?

Hypothesis: Various laws, treaties, and legislation have been enacted between European immigrants and First Nations across Canada.


Premise: Why did Whitehead view the existence of God as a necessity for his metaphysical system?

Hypothesis: Rather than springing primarily from religious faith, Whitehead saw God as necessary for his metaphysical system.


Premise: Only women compete in rhythmic gymnastics according to what rules?

Hypothesis: According to FIG rules, only women compete in rhythmic gymnastics.


Premise: What principle did the restrictions on the right of kings, as detailed in Deuteronomy, influence later opposition?

Hypothesis: " The Deuteronomic social vision may have influenced opponents of the divine right of kings, including Bishop John Ponet in sixteenth-century England.


Premise: What did Justice Jackson argue there were no grounds upon which to support what?

Hypothesis: Rutledge, on behalf of the four dissenting justices, took the position that the majority had indeed permitted a violation of the wall of separation in this case: "Neither so high nor so impregnable today as yesterday is the wall raised between church and state by Virginia's great statute of religious freedom and the First Amendment, now made applicable to all the states by the Fourteenth."


Premise: What is Iran ranked in the world in proved gas reserves?

Hypothesis: It also ranks fourth in oil reserves with an estimated 153,600,000,000 barrels.


Premise: what is the Zionist administrartion of the state of Israel seen as according to the judaic way of life?

Hypothesis: Generally speaking, of the three key strands of Orthodox Judaism, Haredi Orthodox and Hasidic Orthodox Jews are at best ambivalent towards the ideology of Zionism and the creation of the State of Israel, and there are many groups and organisations who are outspokenly anti-Zionistic, seeing the ideology of Zionism as diametrically opposed to the teaching of the Torah, and the Zionist administration of the State of Israel, with its emphasis on militarism and nationalism, as destructive of the Judaic way of life.


Premise: In 1963, a notable double agent providing valuable and high-quality reporting for The Times during a war in the late 1930s eventually defected to which country?

Hypothesis: Philby was admired for his courage in obtaining high-quality reporting from the front lines of the bloody conflict.


Premise: What was the main reason the Luftwaffe was not able to cause extensive damage with their missions?

Hypothesis: Its aircraft—Dornier Do 17, Junkers Ju 88, and Heinkel He 111s—were capable of carrying out strategic missions, but were incapable of doing greater damage because of bomb-load limitations.


Premise: How long did it actually take Whitehead and Russell to complete Principia Mathematica?

Hypothesis: Despite the initial loss, today there is likely no major academic library in the world which does not hold a copy of Principia Mathematica.


Premise: What did astronomers during this area believe to be the center of the universe?

Hypothesis: Han-era astronomers adopted a geocentric model of the universe, theorizing that it was shaped like a sphere surrounding the earth in the center.


Premise: Where did post-punk ram its appropriation of ideas into?

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 does this site serve primarily as?

Hypothesis: It serves primarily as a site for acid hydrolysis of microbial and dietary protein, preparing these protein sources for further digestion and absorption in the small intestine.


Premise: What governmental style of monarch is Elizabeth?

Hypothesis: Aside from her official religious role as Supreme Governor of the established Church of England, she is personally a member of that church and the national Church of Scotland.


Premise: What is the universal agent?

Hypothesis: Sensation prepares the soul to receive rational concepts from the universal Agent Intellect.


Premise: What was too small to keep Nasser in power?

Hypothesis: Nasser's street following was still too small to sustain his plans for reform and to secure him in office.


Premise: Which area of the brain is important for controlling impulses and planning ahead?

Hypothesis: Specifically, developments in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex are important for controlling impulses and planning ahead, while development in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex is important for decision making.


Premise: What year was the North Carolina Symphony founded?

Hypothesis: The North Carolina Symphony, founded the same year, performed in its new home.


Premise: What was also utilized to control ground targets?

Hypothesis: AAA battalions were also used to help suppress ground targets.


Premise: What did the BBC program make their viewers question?

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


Premise: What was Rome's policy towards government?

Hypothesis: Autonomy and concord were official policy, but new foundations by Roman citizens or their Romanised allies were likely to follow Roman cultic models.


Premise: Who makes party policy?

Hypothesis: The Liberal Party's organisation is dominated by the six state divisions, reflecting the party's original commitment to a federalised system of government (a commitment which was strongly maintained by all Liberal governments until 1983, but was to a large extent abandoned by the Howard Government, which showed strong centralising tendencies).


Premise: Why are Avian hearts larger than mammalian hearts when compared to body mass?

Hypothesis: Avian hearts are generally larger than mammalian hearts when compared to body mass.


Premise: What percentage of Swiss voters voted to join the Schengen treaty?

Hypothesis: On 5 June 2005, Swiss voters agreed by a 55% majority to join the Schengen treaty, a result that was regarded by EU commentators as a sign of support by Switzerland, a country that is traditionally perceived as independent and reluctant to enter supranational bodies.


Premise: What does REF stand for?

Hypothesis: In rankings produced by Times Higher Education based upon the REF results Imperial was ranked 2nd overall for GPA and 8th for "research power" (compared to 6th and 7th respectively in the equivalent rankings for the RAE 2008).


Premise: Why are there multiple variations of texts before the advent of the printing press?

Hypothesis: Before mechanical printing, literature was copied by hand, and many variations were introduced by copyists.


Premise: According to the data from 2001 to 2006 what percent of female genitalia are mutilated?

Hypothesis: An estimated 1.9 percent of the adult and children population was afflicted with HIV/AIDS that year, among the lowest rates in Sub-Saharan Africa.


Premise: What was launched in 1965 by the business school at KU?

Hypothesis: KU's School of Business launched interdisciplinary management science graduate studies in operations research during Fall Semester 1965.


Premise: Where does the brain usually get most of its energy from inside the body?

Hypothesis: The brain typically gets most of its energy from oxygen-dependent metabolism of glucose (i.e., blood sugar), but ketones provide a major alternative source, together with contributions from medium chain fatty acids (caprylic and heptanoic acids), lactate, acetate, and possibly amino acids.


Premise: For how long are the other members of the Executive Board appointed?

Hypothesis: They are all appointed for non-renewable terms of eight years.


Premise: How were the British-French hostilities concluded?

Hypothesis: The Anglo-French hostilities were ended in 1763 by the Treaty of Paris, which involved a complex series of land exchanges, the most important being France's cession to Spain of Louisiana, and to Great Britain the rest of New France except for the islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon.


Premise: Where was the first #G surface game played?

Hypothesis: This followed approval two years previously for their use in the qualifying rounds only - if a team with a 3G pitch progressed to the competition proper, they had to switch their tie to the ground of another eligible entrant with a natural grass pitch.


Premise: What percent of the Chilean population were indigenous according to the 2002 census?

Hypothesis: According to the 2002 Census, 4.6% of the Chilean population, including the Rapanui (a Polynesian people) of Easter Island, was indigenous, although most show varying degrees of mixed heritage.


Premise: Who led the defense of Chongqing in November 1949?

Hypothesis: Chiang Kai-Shek himself flew to Chongqing from Taiwan in November 1949 to lead the defense.


Premise: Who came in second on season six of American Idol?

Hypothesis: Sparks has had some success as a recording artist post-Idol.


Premise: When did the population of the island start to steadily decline?

Hypothesis: In the past emigration was characterised by young unaccompanied persons leaving to work on long-term contracts on Ascension and the Falkland Islands, but since "Saints" were re-awarded UK citizenship in 2002, emigration to the UK by a wider range of wage-earners has accelerated due to the prospect of higher wages and better progression prospects.


Premise: What is Richard Dawkins belief about the existence of God?

Hypothesis: Carl Sagan argued that the doctrine of a Creator of the Universe was difficult to prove or disprove and that the only conceivable scientific discovery that could disprove the existence of a Creator would be the discovery that the universe is infinitely old.


Premise: What is the standard pronunciation of Catalan?

Hypothesis: For the differences in pronunciation of the different dialects, see the section pronunciation of dialects in this article.


Premise: What year did Palmerston die?

Hypothesis: Victoria found Gladstone's demeanour far less appealing; he spoke to her, she is thought to have complained, as though she were "a public meeting rather than a woman".


Premise: Which political party did the majority of conservative Tennessee voters support in the early 20th century?

Hypothesis: In January 2007, Ron Ramsey became the first Republican elected as Speaker of the State Senate since Reconstruction, as a result of the realignment of the Democratic and Republican parties in the South since the late 20th century, with Republicans now elected by conservative voters, who previously had supported Democrats.


Premise: What style architecture is the Westminster Abbey considered?

Hypothesis: Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, is a large, mainly Gothic abbey church in the City of Westminster, London, located just to the west of the Palace of Westminster.


Premise: Designers' Way occurs on East 58th Street between Lexington and which other Avenue?

Hypothesis: A section of East 58th Street 40°45′40.3″N 73°57′56.9″W / 40.761194°N 73.965806°


Premise: When did Armenia gain its independence?

Hypothesis: The modern Republic of Armenia became independent in 1991 during the dissolution of the Soviet Union.


Premise: How many of the 900 students buried in a Dujiangyan school collapse survived?

Hypothesis: The Juyuan Middle School, where many teenagers were buried, was excavated by civilians and cranes.


Premise: What endosymbionts live in coral?

Hypothesis: Examples include diverse microbiomes, rhizobia, nitrogen-fixing bacteria that live in root nodules on legume roots; actinomycete nitrogen-fixing bacteria called Frankia, which live in alder tree root nodules; single-celled algae inside reef-building corals; and bacterial endosymbionts that provide essential nutrients to about 10%–15% of insects.


Premise: The pitch of complex tones can be?

Hypothesis: The pitch of complex tones can be ambiguous, meaning that two or more different pitches can be perceived, depending upon the observer.


Premise: Bilingual computer processing uses what characters?

Hypothesis: Many traditional character encodings share a common problem in that they allow bilingual computer processing (usually using Latin characters and the local script), but not multilingual computer processing (computer processing of arbitrary scripts mixed with each other).


Premise: Even though Li did not get accepted, what was done instead of a straight rejection?

Hypothesis: She said that Li was not admitted because "many others had far better qualifications."


Premise: What is the root word from which Catalonia comes?

Hypothesis: The word Catalan derives from the territory of Catalonia, itself of disputed etymology.


Premise: Approximately how many French men and horses froze to death on the night of 8/9 November?

Hypothesis: His army walked through snow up to their knees and nearly 10,000 men and horses froze to death on the night of 8/9 November alone.


Premise: Courts in commonwealth nations are often influenced by what?

Hypothesis: However, it is important to understand that despite the presence of reception statutes, much of contemporary American common law has diverged significantly from English common law.


Premise: Visitors to what region's beaches often stop at Plymouth?

Hypothesis: Kingsand, Cawsand and Whitsand Bay are popular.


Premise: What group can be the quotient of the free group over the generators of the group?

Hypothesis: The dihedral group D4, for example, can be generated by two elements r and f (for example, r = r1, the right rotation and f = fv the vertical (or any other) reflection), which means that every symmetry of the square is a finite composition of these two symmetries or their inverses.


Premise: What was installed on the front of the console so the joystick could be used?

Hypothesis: However, it was eventually decided that children might step on joysticks left on the floor and their durability was also questioned.


Premise: What type of bacteria usually takes rod-shaped form?

Hypothesis: coccus, from Greek kókkos, grain, seed), or rod-shaped, called bacilli (sing. bacillus, from Latin baculus, stick).


Premise: Which writers helped to influence the post-punk movement?

Hypothesis: Among major influences on a variety of post-punk artists were writers such as William S. Burroughs and J.G. Ballard, avant-garde political scenes such as Situationism and Dada, and intellectual movements such as postmodernism.


Premise: How old was Victoria when she was introduced to Albert?

Hypothesis: However at 17, Victoria, though interested in Albert, was not yet ready to marry.


Premise: How much of a drop was there in manufacturing jobs between 1990 and 2010?

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


Premise: What is Mary Parker Follett known for?

Hypothesis: Stout and Staton see both Whitehead and Follett as sharing an ontology that "understands becoming as a relational process; difference as being related, yet unique; and the purpose of becoming as harmonizing difference.


Premise: Charleston was the state capital of South Carolina until what year?

Hypothesis: Although the city lost the status of state capital to Columbia in 1786, Charleston became even more prosperous in the plantation-dominated economy of the post-Revolutionary years.


Premise: What US court dismissed the Puerto Rican case for information crucial to their own investigation of Filiberto Ojeda Ríos's killing?

Hypothesis: The Puerto Rico Justice Department filed suit in federal court against the FBI and the US Attorney General, demanding information crucial to the Commonwealth's own investigation of the incident.


Premise: What is the main example of a DC power source?

Hypothesis: Found in applications as diverse as industrial fans, blowers and pumps, machine tools, household appliances, power tools, and disk drives, electric motors can be powered by direct current (DC) sources, such as from batteries, motor vehicles or rectifiers, or by alternating current (AC) sources, such as from the power grid, inverters or generators.


Premise: Which works by Shakespeare is believed to be inspired by The Moors?

Hypothesis: Some of their works featured Moorish characters, such as Peele's The Battle of Alcazar and Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, Titus Andronicus and Othello, which featured a Moorish Othello as its title character.


Premise: How was the removal of the Germans in East Prussia usually handled by the Russians?

Hypothesis: The city centre of Kaliningrad was completely rebuilt, as British bombs in 1944 and the Soviet siege in 1945 had left it in nothing but ruins.


Premise: What conflict overseen by President Polk might be the source of Tennessee's nickname?

Hypothesis: Other sources differ on the origin of the state nickname; according to the Columbia Encyclopedia, the name refers to volunteers for the Mexican–American War.


Premise: Why is Bermuda considered an offshore financial center?

Hypothesis: Bermuda is an offshore financial centre, which results from its minimal standards of business regulation/laws and direct taxation on personal or corporate income.


Premise: Who was concerned with Russia  capturing Constantinople?

Hypothesis: Britain was concerned about Russian activity and Sir John Burgoyne senior advisor to Lord Aberdeen urged that the Dardanelles should be occupied and throw up works of sufficient strength to block any Russian move to capture Constantinople and gain access to the Mediterranean Sea.


Premise: What is Melbourne's Koppen climate classification?

Hypothesis: This is mainly due to Melbourne's location situated on the boundary of the very hot inland areas and the cool southern ocean.


Premise: How many floors does the Alvorada have?

Hypothesis: The building has an area of 7,000 m2 with three floors consisting of the basement, landing, and second floor.


Premise: Who possibly created the earliest system of writing?

Hypothesis: The Vinča culture may have created the earliest system of writing, the Vinča signs, though archaeologist Shan Winn believes they most likely represented pictograms and ideograms rather than a truly developed form of writing.


Premise: When did the Hayasa-Azzi rule?

Hypothesis: In the Bronze Age, several states flourished in the area of Greater Armenia, including the Hittite Empire (at the height of its power), Mitanni (South-Western historical Armenia), and Hayasa-Azzi (1600–1200 BC).


Premise: In what year did a Golden Bull make the king of Bohemia first among the imperial electors?

Hypothesis: Bohemia prospered in the 14th century, and the Golden Bull of 1356 made the king of Bohemia first among the imperial electors, but the Hussite revolution threw the country into crisis.


Premise: What influenced Nicki Minaj to join the Pepsi global campaign?

Hypothesis: Nicki Minaj has stated that seeing Beyoncé's Pepsi commercial influenced her decision to appear in the company's 2012 global campaign.


Premise: What year did Joseph Dobrovský release a German-language grammar of Old Czech?

Hypothesis: Dobrovský had intended his book to be descriptive, and did not think Czech had a realistic chance of returning as a major language.


Premise: Who was the brother who later took control for himself?

Hypothesis: Nevertheless, in his Kingdom of Galicia the Galician language was the only language spoken, and the most used in government and legal uses, as well as in literature.


Premise: Who also along with Dunn recommended other teaching studies?

Hypothesis: Dunn and Dunn focused on identifying relevant stimuli that may influence learning and manipulating the school environment, at about the same time as Joseph Renzulli recommended varying teaching strategies.


Premise: Nanjing is one of three "Furnacelike" cities. What are the other two cities?

Hypothesis: Along with Chongqing and Wuhan, Nanjing is traditionally referred to as one of the "Three Furnacelike Cities" along the Yangtze River (长江流域三大火炉) for the perennially high temperatures in the summertime.


Premise: What have pieces published after 1857 been given rather than opus numbers?

Hypothesis: Works published since 1857 have received alternative catalogue designations instead of opus numbers.


Premise: What is the white meat of chicken actually used for by the animal ?

Hypothesis: Dark meat, which avian myologists refer to as "red muscle", is used for sustained activity—chiefly walking, in the case of a chicken.


Premise: How long did liquidation occur?

Hypothesis: The Intelligenzaktion, a plan to eliminate the Polish intelligentsia, Poland's 'leadership class', took place soon after the German invasion of Poland, lasting from fall of 1939 till spring of 1940.


Premise: What type of armor did Japanese wear in the 7th century?

Hypothesis: The first types of Japanese armors identified as samurai armor were known as yoroi.


Premise: Where was the basic power in Rome to be found?

Hypothesis: In the early Republic, as presumably in the regal era, plebeians were excluded from high religious and civil office, and could be punished for offenses against laws of which they had no knowledge.


Premise: What survives from the mosaics of Amalfi's Norman Cathedral?

Hypothesis: Only fragments survived from the original mosaic decoration of Amalfi's Norman Cathedral.


Premise: How many TV movies was Spielberg signed to direct?

Hypothesis: Another TV film (Something Evil) was made and released to capitalize on the popularity of The Exorcist, then a major best-selling book which had not yet been released as a film.


Premise: The entire country was being attack and Glover believe it help people to do what?

Hypothesis: Many civilians found that the best way to retain mental stability was to be with family, and after the first few weeks of bombing avoidance of the evacuation programs grew.:80–81 Glover speculated that the knowledge that the entire country was being attacked, that there was no way to escape the bombs, forced people to accept and deal with the situation.:118


Premise: In what year was  Du "Cubisme" published?

Hypothesis: Two Women (a sculpture now lost), in addition to the highly abstract paintings by Kupka, Amorpha (The National Gallery, Prague), and Picabia, La Source, The Spring (Museum of Modern Art, New York).


Premise: Who was the first computer worm traced back to?

Hypothesis: The software was traced back to 23-year-old Cornell University graduate student Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. who said 'he wanted to count how many machines were connected to the Internet'.


Premise: Wien's spectrum model could not predict accurate at what end of the spectrum?

Hypothesis: Wien also proposed an approximation for the spectrum of the object, which was correct at high frequencies (short wavelength) but not at low frequencies (long wavelength).


Premise: When did Virginia add the one drop rule to their laws?

Hypothesis: Racial discrimination continued to be enacted in new laws in the 20th century, for instance the one-drop rule was enacted in Virginia's 1924 Racial Integrity Law and in other southern states, in part influenced by the popularity of eugenics and ideas of racial purity.


Premise: What are the most popular spectator sports in Israel?

Hypothesis: The Israeli Premier League is the country's premier football league, and the Israeli Basketball Super League is the premier basketball league.


Premise: What does DVB stand for?

Hypothesis: In anticipation of these standards the Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) organisation was formed, an alliance of broadcasters, consumer electronics manufacturers and regulatory bodies.


Premise: What did Locke's 'tabula rasa' concept say happens to the mind?

Hypothesis: Locke is famously attributed with holding the proposition that the human mind is a tabula rasa, a "blank tablet", in Locke's words "white paper", on which the experiences derived from sense impressions as a person's life proceeds are written.


Premise: How many times has the team from the University of Kansas appeared in the Orange Bowl?

Hypothesis: KU football dates from 1890, and has played in the Orange Bowl three times: 1948, 1968, and 2008.


Premise: What information is collected by Centers for Medicine & Medicaid Services?

Hypothesis: In the US, starting in 2013, under the Physician Financial Transparency Reports (part of the Sunshine Act), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has to collect information from applicable manufacturers and group purchasing organizations in order to report information about their financial relationships with physicians and hospitals.


Premise: What percentage of Plymouth residents follow Islam?

Hypothesis: 7.1% did not state their religious belief.


Premise: At the 1945 general election, The Times adopted a stance that was referred to by what name?

Hypothesis: However, the newspaper reverted to the Tories for the next election five years later.


Premise: Who hosted American Idol in its last season?

Hypothesis: Fox announced on May 11, 2015 that the fifteenth season would be the final season of American Idol; as such, the season is expected to have an additional focus on the program's alumni.


Premise: Along with the physiological response, what did Cannon believe was triggered by an emotional event?

Hypothesis: Walter Bradford Cannon agreed that physiological responses played a crucial role in emotions, but did not believe that physiological responses alone could explain subjective emotional experiences.


Premise: What is a complete metamorphosis called?

Hypothesis: Holometabolism, or complete metamorphosis, is where the insect changes in four stages, an egg or embryo, a larva, a pupa and the adult or imago.


Premise: How often do birds molt?

Hypothesis: In addition, the feathers of a bird suffer from wear-and-tear and require to be molted.


Premise: How many people are considered Protestant?

Hypothesis: Collectively encompassing more than 900 million adherents, or nearly forty percent of Christians worldwide, Protestantism is present on all populated continents.[t]


Premise: Who made up the Axis powers?

Hypothesis: These four countries were referred as the "Four Policemen" of the Allies and considered as the primary victors of World War II.


Premise: According to the census survey carried out between 15 June and 31 July 2004, what was Montevideo's population?

Hypothesis: The population had declined since the previous census carried out in 1996, with an average annual growth rate of −1.5 per thousand.


Premise: What do present day Dominican Order associates do?

Hypothesis: Today, there is a growing number of Associates who share the Dominican charism.


Premise: What is the floor space of the palace?

Hypothesis: The palace measures 108 metres (354 ft) by 120 metres (390 ft), is 24 metres (79 ft) high and contains over 77,000 m2 (830,000 sq ft) of floorspace.


Premise: Under which President was the Tenure of Office Act repealed?

Hypothesis: Furthermore, Congress finally repealed the controversial Tenure of Office Act that had been passed during the Johnson Administration.


Premise: Where will the programs made at Univisión Studios be broadcast?

Hypothesis: Univisión Studios is currently headquartered in Miami, and will produce programming for all of Univisión Communications' television networks.


Premise: Which group do humans belong too?

Hypothesis: The next three orders, depending on the biological classification scheme used, are the Primates including the humans; the Cetartiodactyla including the whales and the even-toed hoofed mammals; and the Carnivora, that is, cats, dogs, weasels, bears, seals, and their relatives.


Premise: Who resisted the uniting of people under Hitler?

Hypothesis: The Swiss resisted the idea.


Premise: Researchers from which university challenged the theory of race being only a social construct?

Hypothesis: And there are differences between sex and gender; self-identification may not be correlated with biology perfectly.


Premise: When was the first antibiotic discovered?

Hypothesis: In 1910, Paul Ehrlich developed the first antibiotic, by changing dyes that selectively stained Treponema pallidum — the spirochaete that causes syphilis — into compounds that selectively killed the pathogen.


Premise: How do women in the Muslim communities of the Eritrean lowland dress?

Hypothesis: In Muslim communities in the Eritrean lowland, the women traditionally dress in brightly colored clothes.


Premise: In which year did Madonna move to New York City?

Hypothesis: Born in Bay City, Michigan, Madonna moved to New York City in 1977 to pursue a career in modern dance.


Premise: How many nuclear warheads were stored at the Polaris Missile Facility Atlantic station?

Hypothesis: During this period, the Weapons Station was the Atlantic Fleet's loadout base for all nuclear ballistic missile submarines.


Premise: How much affiliation do these small groups have with historical denominations?

Hypothesis: Often founded by individual pastors, they have little affiliation with historic denominations.


Premise: When was Houston Baptist University founded?

Hypothesis: It was founded in 1960 and is located in the Sharpstown area in Southwest Houston.


Premise: Where did the peace corps evacuate to?

Hypothesis: During this time (1996) the Peace Corps evacuated all its volunteers to neighboring Cameroon.


Premise: How much time does it take most bacteria to divide?

Hypothesis: If a Gram stain is performed, MTB either stains very weakly "Gram-positive" or does not retain dye as a result of the high lipid and mycolic acid content of its cell wall.


Premise: What have locals coined the morning time in May?

Hypothesis: Like other inhabitants of the greater Los Angeles area, residents have a particular terminology for this phenomenon: the "May Gray" and the "June Gloom".


Premise: Instructions that change the program counter are called what?

Hypothesis: Adding 100 to the program counter would cause the next instruction to be read from a place 100 locations further down the program.


Premise: Feynman proposed a integral model in particle physics, what was it?

Hypothesis: Richard Phillips Feynman (/ˈfaɪnmən/; May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American theoretical physicist known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as in particle physics for which he proposed the parton model.


Premise: What group dominated in western and central India at the start of the 13th century?

Hypothesis: For two and a half centuries from the mid 13th, the politics in the Northern India was dominated by the Delhi Sultanate and in the Southern India by the Vijayanagar Empire which originated as a political heir of the erstwhile Hoysala Empire and Pandyan Empire.


Premise: What is yarding in relation to the pultry industry?

Hypothesis: Poultry can also be kept in a barn system, with no access to the open air, but with the ability to move around freely inside the building.


Premise: How does the US employ the global reach capability of airlift?

Hypothesis: The global reach capability of airlift provides the ability to apply US power worldwide by delivering forces to crisis locations.


Premise: In 1903, which two institutions was Brigham Young Univesity replaced with?

Hypothesis: In 1903, Brigham Young Academy was dissolved, and was replaced by two institutions: Brigham Young High School, and Brigham Young University.


Premise: What did John Stuart Mill say matter is?

Hypothesis: Mill's empiricism went a significant step beyond Hume in still another respect: in maintaining that induction is necessary for all meaningful knowledge including mathematics.


Premise: The USSR launched their first space station on what date?

Hypothesis: During 1969 and 1970, they launched six more Soyuz flights after Soyuz 3, then launched the first space station, the Salyut 1 laboratory designed by Kerim Kerimov, on April 19, 1971.


Premise: Which company is directly above Universal Studios?

Hypothesis: Universal Studios Inc. (also known as Universal Pictures) is an American film studio, owned by Comcast through its wholly owned subsidiary NBCUniversal, and is one of Hollywood's "Big Six" film studios.


Premise: What did IBM use to analyze the results from the online discussion?

Hypothesis: Using its Jam technology, it hosted a three-day Internet-based online discussion of key business issues with 50,000 employees.


Premise: Which country did Hitler align Germany with?

Hypothesis: The countries in Southeastern Europe were dominated by the Soviet Union and became communist states.


Premise: What causes water quality problems in Guam?

Hypothesis: Invasive grass species that rely on fire as part of their natural life cycle grow in many regularly burned areas.


Premise: Why did Coe donate to American studies programs?

Hypothesis: Coe was concerned to celebrate the 'values' of the Western United States in order to meet the "threat of communism."


Premise: Who was the most successful artist from this season?

Hypothesis: Despite being eliminated earlier in the season, Chris Daughtry (as lead of the band Daughtry) became the most successful recording artist from this season.


Premise: Which German scholar argued that human creativity takes diverse forms and is as important as human rationality?

Hypothesis: In reaction to Kant, German scholars such as Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803) argued that human creativity, which necessarily takes unpredictable and highly diverse forms, is as important as human rationality.


Premise: Why is it important to have a high Fair Play ranking?

Hypothesis: If the Premier League has one of the three highest Fair Play rankings in Europe, the highest ranked team in the Premier League Fair Play standings which has not already qualified for Europe will automatically qualify for the UEFA Europa League first qualifying round.


Premise: How many wards make up Cork?

Hypothesis: While local government in Ireland has limited powers in comparison with other countries, the council has responsibility for planning, roads, sanitation, libraries, street lighting, parks, and a number of other important functions.


Premise: How are humans commonly exposed to the byproducts of the bleaching process?

Hypothesis: Over 90% of human exposure is through food, primarily meat, dairy, fish and shellfish, as dioxins accumulate in the food chain in the fatty tissue of animals.


Premise: What was the major hit from Queen's 1976 album?

Hypothesis: The album also featured one of the band's heaviest songs, May's "Tie Your Mother Down", which became a staple of their live shows.


Premise: What percentage of the Earth's stock forest is commercial?

Hypothesis: As an abundant, carbon-neutral renewable resource, woody materials have been of intense interest as a source of renewable energy.


Premise: What is the name of the episode where the newspaper, The Times, is featured and plays a central role in an episode of The Wombles?

Hypothesis: The newspaper played a central role in the episode Very Behind the Times (Series 2, Episode 12).


Premise: Is a child who excercies likely to perform better in school?

Hypothesis: Physical exercise, particularly continuous aerobic exercises such as running, cycling and swimming, has many cognitive benefits and effects on the brain.


Premise: After feeling guilty for helping make an atomic bomb, Feynman went through what mental disorder?

Hypothesis: In the same publication, Feynman also talks about his worries in the atomic bomb age, feeling for some considerable time that there was a high risk that the bomb would be used again soon, so that it was pointless to build for the future.


Premise: Who was threatened by Nationalism?

Hypothesis: Nationalism during the 19th century threatened the old aristocratic regimes.


Premise: Which company originally developed and marketed the RLV?

Hypothesis: It was developed and first marketed by the Optical Disc Corporation (ODC, now ODC Nimbus) in 1984.


Premise: Who created the ten point scale on a persons sexuals desire?

Hypothesis: Berlin sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld published a scheme in 1896 that measured the strength of an individual's sexual desire on two independent 10-point scales, A (homosexual) and B (heterosexual).


Premise: What type of motor can universal motors operate much faster than?

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


Premise: Gustavo Gutierrez is faculty of which institute?

Hypothesis: Father Gustavo Gutierrez, the founder of Liberation Theology is a current faculty member.


Premise: Along with the Miami River, near what body of water are Miami seafood restaurants notably located?

Hypothesis: Today, these are part of the local culture, and can be found throughout the city in window cafés, particularly outside of supermarkets and restaurants.


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

Hypothesis: The convention followed by many British publishers (including scientific publishers, like Nature, magazines, like The Economist and New Scientist, and newspapers, like The Guardian and The Times) and U.S. newspapers is to use sentence-style capitalisation in headlines, where capitalisation follows the same rules that apply for sentences.


Premise: What was built during the modernization?

Hypothesis: While the initial focus was on developing modern hospitals, schools, factories and massive public works, perhaps the most long-lasting effects of the Porfirian modernization were creation of the Colonia Roma area and the development of Reforma Avenue.


Premise: What has been the effect of Yale and New Haven's relationship on Yale?

Hypothesis: Still, the economic power of the university increased dramatically with its financial success amid a decline in the local economy.


Premise: Hogarth makes no mention of what?

Hypothesis: Hogarth gives no evidence of being familiar with the contemporaneous initial concept of the Middle East.


Premise: How was Nanjing's unemployment rate, compared to the nation as a whole?

Hypothesis: The registered urban unemployment rate was 3.02 percent, lower than the national average (4.3 percent).


Premise: What product did the mulberry garden produce?

Hypothesis: mulberry garden for the production of silk.


Premise: What does the oldest know term for Egypt translate to?

Hypothesis: The name is of Semitic origin, directly cognate with other Semitic words for Egypt such as the Hebrew מִצְרַיִם (Mitzráyim).


Premise: What professions normally have the highest risk of problems?

Hypothesis: The employment associated with the highest risk of problems include: those who spray paint, bakers and those who process food, nurses, chemical workers, those who work with animals, welders, hairdressers and timber workers.


Premise: How many Inter-Cities Fairs Cup trophies has Barcelona won?

Hypothesis: In international club football, Barcelona has won five UEFA Champions League titles, a record four UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, a shared record five UEFA Super Cup, a record three Inter-Cities Fairs Cup and a record three FIFA Club World Cup trophies.


Premise: Who is claimed to have been influenced by The Grammar of Science?

Hypothesis: In The Grammar of Science, Preface to the 2nd Edition, 1900, Karl Pearson wrote, "There are many signs that a sound idealism is surely replacing, as a basis for natural philosophy, the crude materialism of the older physicists."


Premise: What sets forth the standards by which the Royal Institute functions?

Hypothesis: The operational framework is provided by the Byelaws, which are more frequently updated than the Charter.


Premise: What would the deputy endorse the concerns with?

Hypothesis: Whenever the believers faced a problem, they would write their concerns and send them to his deputy.


Premise: What does Jehovah Witnesses' literature provide about non-blood medical procedures?

Hypothesis: Jehovah's Witnesses refuse blood transfusions, which they consider a violation of God's law based on their interpretation of Acts 15:28, 29 and other scriptures.


Premise: Houston's geology was formed from river deposits from the erosion of what mountains?

Hypothesis: The region's geology developed from river deposits formed from the erosion of the Rocky Mountains.


Premise: Czechs immigrated from Europe to the U.S. primary from 1848 to when?

Hypothesis: Immigration of Czechs from Europe to the United States occurred primarily from 1848 to 1914.


Premise: What did the scribal bureaucracy become?

Hypothesis: This organization developed a scribal bureaucracy (known as "men of the pen") as a distinct group, partly highly trained ulama, which developed into a professional body.


Premise: Which Sun columnist made controversial remarks about migrants to Britain in April 2015?

Hypothesis: In a statement released on 24 April 2015, High Commissioner Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein stated that Hopkins' used "language very similar to that employed by Rwanda's Kangura newspaper and Radio Mille Collines during the run up to the 1994 genocide", and noted that both media organizations were subsequently convicted by an international tribunal of public incitement to commit genocide.


Premise: What Marvel character was specifically created to appeal to the UK market?

Hypothesis: Captain Britain debuted exclusively in the UK, and later appeared in American comics.


Premise: Who linked De Stijl to Cubist theory?

Hypothesis: De Stijl was also linked by Gino Severini to Cubist theory through the writings of Albert Gleizes.


Premise: Which kingdom acquired some Thuringian territory?

Hypothesis: The 1815 Congress of Vienna confirmed these changes and the Thuringian states' inclusion in the German Confederation; the Kingdom of Prussia also acquired some Thuringian territory and administered it within the Province of Saxony.


Premise: What class was polands nobility?

Hypothesis: Each szlachcic had enormous influence over the country's politics, in some ways even greater than that enjoyed by the citizens of modern democratic countries.


Premise: What is the modern term "culture" based on?

Hypothesis: The modern term "culture" is based on a term used by the Ancient Roman orator Cicero in his Tusculanae Disputationes, where he wrote of a cultivation of the soul or "cultura animi", using an agricultural metaphor for the development of a philosophical soul, understood teleologically as the highest possible ideal for human development.


Premise: What was stopped due to protest interruptions?

Hypothesis: In interviews, Jin Jing said that she was "tugged at, scratched" and "kicked", but that she "did not feel the pain at the time."


Premise: What is the lowest numbered A paper that is commonly used at home?

Hypothesis: Common sizes used in the office and the home are A4 and A3 (A3 is the size of two A4 sheets).


Premise: Near what body of water was the Maersk Tigris seized?

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


Premise: Why were the researchers recognized in 1975?

Hypothesis: This development was associated with a substantial decline in the mortality rate among people with hypertension.


Premise: After Osama Bin Laden's death, what single did Beyonce cover?

Hypothesis: Following the death of Osama bin Laden, Beyoncé released her cover of the Lee Greenwood song "God Bless the USA", as a charity single to help raise funds for the New York Police and Fire Widows' and Children's Benefit Fund.


Premise: How are stops distinguished?

Hypothesis: In some languages, such as English, aspiration is allophonic.


Premise: Who ruled the Emirate of Armenia?

Hypothesis: The principality was ruled by the Prince of Armenia, and recognized by the Caliph and the Byzantine Emperor.


Premise: What are the grounds on which the Ottomans struck at the Armenians?

Hypothesis: Relations of minorities within the Ottoman Empire and the disposition of former Ottoman lands became known as the "Eastern Question," as the Ottomans were on the east of Europe.


Premise: What do the chirigotas sing about?

Hypothesis: The chirigotas are well known witty, satiric popular groups who sing about politics, new times and household topics, wearing the same costume, which they prepare for the whole year.


Premise: What does education increase in a student?

Hypothesis: Intelligence is an important factor in how the individual responds to education.


Premise: Buddha recommended viewing thing by how many marks of existence?

Hypothesis: The concept of liberation (nirvāṇa)—the goal of the Buddhist path—is closely related to overcoming ignorance (avidyā), a fundamental misunderstanding or mis-perception of the nature of reality.