Premise: What language loanwords are found in both Spanish and Catalan?

Hypothesis: The same happens with Arabic loanwords.


Premise: What musical piece had a Larghetto dedicated to the female singing student Chopin was infatuated with?

Hypothesis: In letters to Woyciechowski, he indicated which of his works, and even which of their passages, were influenced by his fascination with her; his letter of 15 May 1830 revealed that the slow movement (Larghetto) of his Piano Concerto No. 1 (in E minor) was secretly dedicated to her – "It should be like dreaming in beautiful springtime – by moonlight."


Premise: What is the largest Atlantic Province city?

Hypothesis: The city of St. John's is located at a distance by air of 3,636 kilometres (2,259 mi) from Lorient, France which lies on a nearly precisely identical latitude across the Atlantic on the French western coast.


Premise: What was the court seeking, in using Jefferson's letter?

Hypothesis: Writing for the majority, Justice Stephen Johnson Field cited Jefferson's Letter to the Danbury Baptists to state that "Congress was deprived of all legislative power over mere opinion, but was left free to reach actions which were in violation of social duties or subversive of good order."


Premise: The superior colliculus is related to what sensual control of vertebrates?

Hypothesis: The cerebellum of mammals contains a large portion (the neocerebellum) dedicated to supporting the cerebral cortex, which has no counterpart in other vertebrates.


Premise: The Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis holds the largest what?

Hypothesis: A modern example of mosaic is the Museum of Natural History station of the New York City Subway (there are many such works of art scattered throughout the New York City subway system, though many IND stations are usually designed with bland mosaics.)


Premise: Do people oppose of using the new Webly Stadium?

Hypothesis: A fan poll by The Guardian in 2013 found 86% opposition to Wembley semi-finals.


Premise: What part of the populace does not  identify with conformists religious  majority?

Hypothesis: According to Pew Research, 7% of the population identifies as Christian; 4% as Muslim; 1% follows traditional animistic beliefs; and 2% follow other religions, including Mahayana Buddhism, Hinduism, and East Asian religions.


Premise: What is the name of the sub-chiefs in Tuvalu?

Hypothesis: The community council is the Falekaupule (the traditional assembly of elders) or te sina o fenua (literally: "grey-hairs of the land").


Premise: Which network was used to exchange goods with Rome?

Hypothesis: Even before Han's expansion into Central Asia, diplomat Zhang Qian's travels from 139 to 125 BC had established Chinese contacts with many surrounding civilizations.


Premise: To how many homes is the Premier League broadcast to?

Hypothesis: The Premier League is the most-watched football league in the world, broadcast in 212 territories to 643 million homes and a potential TV audience of 4.7 billion people.


Premise: When did Kerry join the Naval Reserve?

Hypothesis: On February 18, 1966, Kerry enlisted in the Naval Reserve.


Premise: In what year was the École Polytechnique founded?

Hypothesis: Another exception is the École Polytechnique, which has educated French élites since its foundation in 1794.


Premise: What do students also need occasionally before putting blame on teachers?

Hypothesis: Gratitude for all these resources and the determination to develop oneself would be more productive than criticism and blame because the resources are readily available and because, if you blame others, there is no need for you to do something different tomorrow or for you to change and improve.


Premise: In what era did cross-border policing increase?

Hypothesis: The interests of public police agencies in cross-border co-operation in the control of political radicalism and ordinary law crime were primarily initiated in Europe, which eventually led to the establishment of Interpol before the Second World War.


Premise: Why did Laemmle change his position on "unclean pictures"?

Hypothesis: However, by April 1927, Carl Laemmle considered this to be a mistake as "unclean pictures" from other studios were generating more profit while Universal was losing money.


Premise: What was the official language of the Ottoman Empire?

Hypothesis: In the last two centuries, usage of these became limited, though, and specific: Persian served mainly as a literary language for the educated, while Arabic was used for religious rites.


Premise: what is one type of technology used to connect to the internet?

Hypothesis: ISPs provide Internet access, employing a range of technologies to connect users to their network.


Premise: What do the German Swiss call Switzerland?

Hypothesis: Due to its linguistic diversity, Switzerland is known by a variety of native names: Schweiz [ˈʃvaɪts]


Premise: How many buildings located in NYC are at least 330 feet in height?

Hypothesis: As of 2011, New York City had 5,937 high-rise buildings, of which 550 completed structures were at least 330 feet (100 m) high, both second in the world after Hong Kong, with over 50 completed skyscrapers taller than 656 feet (200 m).


Premise: What phrase have some Latter-day Saints used in reference to BYU's mission as ambassador to the world for the LDS Church?

Hypothesis: This phrase is used in reference to the school's mission as an "ambassador" to the world for the LDS Church and thus, for Jesus Christ.


Premise: How are capacitors used for for power factor correction prepared?

Hypothesis: In electric power distribution, capacitors are used for power factor correction.


Premise: What amendment did the administration believe the UNFPA funding violated?

Hypothesis: From 2002 through 2008, the Bush Administration denied funding to UNFPA that had already been allocated by the US Congress, partly on the refuted claims that the UNFPA supported Chinese government programs which include forced abortions and coercive sterilizations.


Premise: How much of the market did iPod claim as of January 2007?

Hypothesis: Since October 2004, the iPod line has dominated digital music player sales in the United States, with over 90% of the market for hard drive-based players and over 70% of the market for all types of players.


Premise: Who were the three prominent families during the rise of the warrior classes?

Hypothesis: In time, large regional military families formed around members of the court aristocracy who had become prominent provincial figures.


Premise: What can too much exposure lead to?

Hypothesis: The factor √2 indicates that there is half a stop of headroom to deal with specular reflections that would appear brighter than a 100% reflecting white surface.


Premise: What methods used by the Russian army made it hard for the French to find food?

Hypothesis: Owing to the Russian army's scorched earth tactics, the French found it increasingly difficult to forage food for themselves and their horses.


Premise: What two fields began to grow apart?

Hypothesis: There was also the rise of the "gentleman architect" who usually dealt with wealthy clients and concentrated predominantly on visual qualities derived usually from historical prototypes, typified by the many country houses of Great Britain that were created in the Neo Gothic or Scottish Baronial styles.


Premise: When did the BBC start creating its own programming?

Hypothesis: BBC Television is a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation.


Premise: Who co - authored the executive order?

Hypothesis: At Johnson's inaugural ball in Texas, he met with a young black lawyer, Hobart Taylor Jr., and gave him the task to co-author the executive order.


Premise: How long after a published notice of the listing may a public hearing regarding the listing be requested?

Hypothesis: "The purpose of the notice and comment requirement is to provide for meaningful public participation in the rulemaking process.


Premise: Since 2008, at least how many times has Microsoft released fixes for the RealTimeIsUniversal feature?

Hypothesis: In 2008 Microsoft hinted that future versions of Windows will partially support a Windows registry entry RealTimeIsUniversal that had been introduced many years earlier, when Windows NT supported RISC machines with UTC clocks, but had not been maintained.


Premise: Who did a study in 2007 regarding the five countries with the highest rates of software piracy?

Hypothesis: According to the study's results, the five countries with the lowest piracy rates were: 1.


Premise: What composer continued the counterpoint and fugue?

Hypothesis: For example, the use of counterpoint and fugue, which is considered characteristic of the Baroque era (or period), was continued by Haydn, who is classified as typical of the Classical era.


Premise: Does botany only study plants?

Hypothesis: Botany, also called plant science(s) or plant biology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology.


Premise: Sir Richard Blackmore committed what system to verse in Creation?

Hypothesis: James Thomson (1700–1748) penned his "Poem to the Memory of Newton," which mourned the loss of Newton, but also praised his science and legacy.


Premise: What time period was the early Heian era?

Hypothesis: Despite the decline of the Taika-Taihō reforms, imperial government was vigorous during the early Heian period.


Premise: What did Greece sign to apply to join the eurozone?

Hypothesis: After signing the Maastricht Treaty, Greece applied to join the eurozone.


Premise: Who did Le Corbusier open his Paris studio with in 1922?

Hypothesis: In 1922, Le Corbusier and his cousin Jeanneret opened a studio in Paris at 35 rue de Sèvres.


Premise: In what year did Nasser and Chehab agree to end the Lebanon crisis?

Hypothesis: By moving the latter two, who were Ba'athists, to Cairo, he neutralized important political figures who had their own ideas about how Syria should be run.


Premise: In Germany, Poland and Austria Romanesque architecture is defined by its massive size and what other design element?

Hypothesis: This is expressed in the Gothic architecture of Central Europe in the huge size of the towers and spires, often projected, but not always completed.


Premise: When were the powers of the municipalities of Mexico City first reduced?

Hypothesis: While the Federal District was ruled by the federal government through an appointed governor, the municipalities within it were autonomous, and this duality of powers created tension between the municipalities and the federal government for more than a century.


Premise: What type of diode was used to help discover near-infrared light emission?

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


Premise: What tennis Grand Slam event is held at the National Tennis Center?

Hypothesis: The annual United States Open Tennis Championships is one of the world's four Grand Slam tennis tournaments and is held at the National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens.


Premise: Where is Yale University located.

Hypothesis: New Haven is also home to Southern Connecticut State University, part of the Connecticut State University System, and Albertus Magnus College, a private institution.


Premise: The first road that connected Atlantic City to the mainland was completed in what year?

Hypothesis: The first road connecting the city to the mainland at Pleasantville was completed in 1870 and charged a 30-cent toll.


Premise: Who can prohibit hunting to the clerics?

Hypothesis: Nevertheless, although a distinction between lawful and unlawful hunting is undoubtedly permissible, it is certain that a bishop can absolutely prohibit all hunting to the clerics of his diocese, as was done by synods at Milan, Avignon, Liège, Cologne, and elsewhere.


Premise: What styles of music did post-punk pave the way for?

Hypothesis: Post-punk was an eclectic genre which resulted in a wide variety of musical innovations and helped merge white and black musical styles.


Premise: What insect has been studied concerning the inheritability of rhythms?

Hypothesis: It has therefore been suggested that circadian rhythms put organisms at a selective advantage in evolutionary terms.


Premise: Which part of the body releases testosterone in males?

Hypothesis: The testes primarily release testosterone, and the ovaries predominantly dispense estrogen.


Premise: When did yeovil achieve promotion to the champion league

Hypothesis: The county gained its first Football League club in 2003, when Yeovil Town won promotion to Division Three as Football Conference champions.


Premise: Along with All-4-One, Boyz II Men, Rob Thomas, Christina Aguilera and Backstreet Boys, what 90s artists were notable in the pop/R&B genre?

Hypothesis: Unlike the majority of 1980s mainstream singers, the 1990s mainstream pop/R&B singers such as All-4-One, Boyz II Men, Rob Thomas, Christina Aguilera, Backstreet Boys and Savage Garden generally crossed over to the AC charts.


Premise: Does the typical duration of relationships increase or decrease throughout the teenage years?

Hypothesis: The typical duration of relationships increases throughout the teenage years as well.


Premise: What are the largest minorities of western Sichuan?

Hypothesis: Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture and Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in western Sichuan are populated by Tibetans and Qiang people.


Premise: In what year did San Diego officially become a city?

Hypothesis: That same year San Diego was designated the seat of the newly established San Diego County and was incorporated as a city.


Premise: Which airport is the second busiest in all of Australia?

Hypothesis: Melbourne Airport, at Tullamarine, is the city's main international and domestic gateway and second busiest in Australia.


Premise: For the existence of what did the Visistadvaita philosophy argue?

Hypothesis: However, the individual's sense of self was not a complete illusion since it was derived from the universal beingness that is Brahman.


Premise: Which publication praised iPods for revolutionizing the industry?

Hypothesis: iPods have won several awards ranging from engineering excellence,[not in citation given] to most innovative audio product, to fourth best computer product of 2006.


Premise: What is the code for separating paragraphs?

Hypothesis: In other words, the text system can correctly treat the character as a newline, regardless of the input's actual encoding.


Premise: What is the frequency of the BeiDou-1 system?

Hypothesis: The area that can be serviced is from longitude 70°E to 140°E and from latitude 5°N to 55°N. A frequency of the system is 2491.75 MHz.


Premise: What command prepared offensives into Burma after the Allied setbacks in 1943?

Hypothesis: After the Allied setbacks in 1943, the South East Asia command prepared to launch offensives into Burma on several fronts.


Premise: How long have Alpine crystals been studied and collected?

Hypothesis: David Friedrich Wiser amassed a collection of 8000 crystals that he studied and documented.


Premise: When was Medina eliminated from the competition?

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


Premise: What assumption is made with colors being transmitted over the internet?

Hypothesis: When transmitted directly through the Internet, the colors are typically pre-converted to 8-bit RGB channels for additional storage savings with the assumption that it will only be viewed only on a (sRGB) computer screen.


Premise: What are the 2016 estimates for child labour in regards to cotton picking?

Hypothesis: In September, when school normally starts, the classes are suspended and children are sent to cotton fields for work, where they are assigned daily quotas of 20 to 60 kg of raw cotton they have to collect.


Premise: Who took over the package from Sentana?

Hypothesis: ESPN took over the package Setanta held for the FA Cup from the 2010–11 season.


Premise: Who led the team of lawyers and scientists who crafted the Endangered Species Act of 1973?

Hypothesis: Dr. Russell E. Train.


Premise: Prior to what year was the Patterson-Schutte House built?

Hypothesis: It is estimated that 25% of all buildings in Richmond were destroyed during this fire.


Premise: How many seats does the Estadio Centenario have?

Hypothesis: The stadium has 70,000 seats.


Premise: What has contributed to high food prices in Switzerland?

Hypothesis: Agricultural protectionism—a rare exception to Switzerland's free trade policies—has contributed to high food prices.


Premise: Along with Downtown, in what neighborhood of Miami does Bike Miami take place?

Hypothesis: Every month, the city hosts "Bike Miami", where major streets in Downtown and Brickell are closed to automobiles, but left open for pedestrians and bicyclists.


Premise: When was the Cultural Revolution?

Hypothesis: After the People's Republic of China took control of Mainland China in 1949, the Republic of China government based in Taiwan continued to control the Dachen Islands off the coast of Zhejiang until 1955, even establishing a rival Zhejiang provincial government there, creating a situation similar to Fujian province today.


Premise: What was Operation Serval's goal?

Hypothesis: They launched Operation Serval on 11 January 2013, with the hopes of dislodging the al-Qaeda affiliated groups from northern Mali.


Premise: What is the name for a layer of p-type semiconductor set between two n-type semiconductors?

Hypothesis: This construction produces two p–n junctions: a base–emitter junction and a base–collector junction, separated by a thin region of semiconductor known as the base region (two junction diodes wired together without sharing an intervening semiconducting region will not make a transistor).


Premise: In what years did the Washington University men's basketball teams win division championships?

Hypothesis: Washington University's sports teams are called the Bears.


Premise: Who was the assailant who shot at Queen Elizabeth?

Hypothesis: During the 1981 Trooping the Colour ceremony and only six weeks before the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer, six shots were fired at the Queen from close range as she rode down The Mall on her horse, Burmese.


Premise: What did the Endangered Species Conservation Act add to the wildlife definition of the Lacey Act?

Hypothesis: The Endangered Species Conservation Act (P. L. 91-135), passed in December, 1969, amended the original law to provide additional protection to species in danger of "worldwide extinction" by prohibiting their importation and subsequent sale in the United States.


Premise: Where did Pliny the Elder repeat Aristotle's observations?

Hypothesis: Pliny the Elder, in his Historia Naturalis, repeats Aristotle's observations.


Premise: What language is Hokkien closely related to?

Hypothesis: Besides Hokkien, there are also other Min and Hakka dialects in Fujian province, most of which are not mutually intelligible with Hokkien.


Premise: How many ways did the Vedantins have of gaining knowledge?

Hypothesis: The epistemology of the Vedantins included, depending on the sub-school, five or six methods as proper and reliable means of gaining any form of knowledge: pratyakṣa (perception), anumāṇa (inference), upamāṇa (comparison and analogy), arthāpatti (postulation, derivation from circumstances), anupalabdi (non-perception, negative/cognitive proof) and śabda (word, testimony of past or present reliable experts).


Premise: What are the most visited places in the country?

Hypothesis: According to a 2005 Transparency International survey, Himachal Pradesh is ranked the second-least corrupt state in the country after Kerala.


Premise: the neo-orthodox movement holds that who's views are not accurately followed by the mordern orthodoxy?

Hypothesis: While most Jews consider Modern Orthodoxy traditional today, some (the hareidi and hasidic groups) within the Orthodox community consider some elements to be of questionable validity.


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

Hypothesis: In February 2016, Northwestern reached an agreement with the Qatar Foundation to extend the operations of the NU-Q branch for an additional decade, through the 2027-2028 academic year.


Premise: In these studies when was the gender-noncomformity experienced?

Hypothesis: However, this understanding of homosexuality as sexual inversion was disputed at the time, and, through the second half of the twentieth century, gender identity came to be increasingly seen as a phenomenon distinct from sexual orientation.


Premise: What do many Islamic and anti-Masonic argue about Freemasonry?

Hypothesis: Many Islamic anti-Masonic arguments are closely tied to both antisemitism and Anti-Zionism, though other criticisms are made such as linking Freemasonry to al-Masih ad-Dajjal (the false Messiah).


Premise: What is the central bank of Liberia responsible for?

Hypothesis: The Central Bank of Liberia is responsible for printing and maintaining the Liberian dollar, which is the primary form of currency in Liberia.


Premise: What era did this discrimination take place?

Hypothesis: But, they had limited rights and overall had slightly better socioeconomic conditions than those classed as "Black".


Premise: What did Nasser pursue for Palestinians?

Hypothesis: At Bandung Nasser sought a proclamation for the avoidance of international defense alliances, support for the independence of Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco from French rule, support for the Palestinian right of return, and the implementation of UN resolutions regarding the Arab–Israeli conflict.


Premise: What killed about 2500 people in the 17th century?

Hypothesis: Sometimes a piece of glacier will detach or break resulting in flooding, property damage and loss of life.


Premise: How many Catholic dogmas are there regarding Mary?

Hypothesis: The four Catholic dogmas regarding Mary are: Mother of God, Perpetual virginity of Mary, Immaculate Conception (of Mary) and Assumption of Mary.


Premise: Which of CBC's channels were required to be relocated or reduced in power?

Hypothesis: The requirement remains for all of CBC's full-power transmitters occupying channels 52 to 69 to either relocate to channels 2 to 51 or become low-power transmitters.


Premise: What are some of the schemes used to defraud the health care system?

Hypothesis: There are several different schemes used to defraud the health care system which are particular to the pharmaceutical industry.


Premise: What invention included an inverted pendulum?

Hypothesis: Zhang also invented a seismometer (Houfeng didong yi 候风地动仪) in 132 AD to detect the exact cardinal or ordinal direction of earthquakes from hundreds of kilometers away.


Premise: pʰ represents what?

Hypothesis: In the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), aspirated consonants are written using the symbols for voiceless consonants followed by the aspiration modifier letter ⟨◌ʰ⟩, a superscript form of the symbol for the voiceless glottal fricative ⟨h⟩.


Premise: What event did Kanye headline in 2011?

Hypothesis: Following a headlining set at Coachella 2011 that was described by The Hollywood Reporter as "one of greatest hip-hop sets of all time", West released the collaborative album Watch the Throne with Jay-Z.


Premise: Which broadcast do affiliates generally carry?

Hypothesis: However, they may opt out of some CBC programming in order to air locally produced programs, syndicated series or programs purchased from other broadcasters, such as CTV Two, which do not have a broadcast outlet in the same market.


Premise: What a capella competition is hosted at UC Berkeley?

Hypothesis: Also, Dil se, another co-ed a cappella from UC Berkeley, hosts the "Anahat" competition at the University of California, Berkeley annually.


Premise: To what period does the laurissilva forest date back to?

Hypothesis: Despite the fact that humans have occupied the territory of Portugal for thousands of years, something still remains of the original vegetation.


Premise: On what date was the 12 GB version of the Super Slim released in the UK?

Hypothesis: The white colored Super Slim model was released in the United States on January 27, 2013 as part of the Instant Game Collection Bundle.


Premise: What were Picasso's 1907 paintings usually characterized by?

Hypothesis: Picasso's paintings of 1907 have been characterized as Protocubism, as notably seen in Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, the antecedent of Cubism.


Premise: What type of terrestrial animals are found from the Triassic period?

Hypothesis: Thus Triassic stratigraphy is mostly based on organisms living in lagoons and hypersaline environments, such as Estheria crustaceans and terrestrial vertebrates.


Premise: The Sangzao school is one of the biggest in what county?

Hypothesis: Ye Zhiping, the principal of Sangzao Middle School in Sangzao, one of the largest in An County, has been credited with proactive action that spared the lives of all 2,323 pupils in attendance when the earthquake happened.


Premise: What is any sign which is capable of distinguishing one business's product from another business's?

Hypothesis: Pursuant to TRIPs, any sign which is "capable of distinguishing" the products or services of one business from the products or services of another business is capable of constituting a trademark.


Premise: How did the European Union rank Switzerland's economy?

Hypothesis: Switzerland also has one of the world's largest account balances as a percentage of GDP.


Premise: What is SNR?

Hypothesis: For example, CCIR Rep. 258-3 indicates man-made noise in a residential setting at 40 MHz is about 28 dB above the thermal noise floor.


Premise: How did Peel organize police?

Hypothesis: Peel decided to standardise the police force as an official paid profession, to organise it in a civilian fashion, and to make it answerable to the public.


Premise: Who was the Carthaginian general?

Hypothesis: During the Second Punic War in 218 BC, the Carthaginian general Hannibal probably crossed the Alps with an army numbering 38,000 infantry, 8,000 cavalry, and 37 war elephants.


Premise: What other characteristic is variable for these groups?

Hypothesis: Other characteristics Lee and DeVore proposed were flux in territorial boundaries as well as in demographic composition.


Premise: How many race categories were respondents able to select in the Census 2000?

Hypothesis: Most significantly, respondents were given the option of selecting one or more race categories to indicate racial identities.


Premise: What Venetian spent most of his career in England?

Hypothesis: The architect James Gibbs was a transitional figure, his earlier buildings are Baroque, reflecting the time he spent in Rome in the early 18th century, but he adjusted his style after 1720.


Premise: A patent issue much later than normally expected can be referred to as what?

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


Premise: What theory was developed by Arnold?

Hypothesis: They include Magda B. Arnold (1903–2002), an American psychologist who developed the appraisal theory of emotions; Richard Lazarus (1922–2002), an American psychologist who specialized in emotion and stress, especially in relation to cognition; Herbert A. Simon (1916–2001), who included emotions into decision making and artificial intelligence; Robert Plutchik (1928–2006), an American psychologist who developed a psychoevolutionary theory of emotion; Robert Zajonc (1923–2008) a Polish–American social psychologist who specialized in social and cognitive processes such as social facilitation; Robert C. Solomon (1942–2007), an American philosopher who contributed to the theories on the philosophy of emotions with books such as What Is An Emotion?


Premise: IndyMac offered this type of questionable loans to borrowers?

Hypothesis: As an Alt-A lender, IndyMac’s business model was to offer loan products to fit the borrower’s needs, using an extensive array of risky option-adjustable-rate-mortgages (option ARMs), subprime loans, 80/20 loans, and other nontraditional products.


Premise: What was the foundation for spirituality and church ?

Hypothesis: According to some scholars, the foundational event was the Olympic Games in 776 BC, when the idea of a common Hellenism among the Greek tribes was first translated into a shared cultural experience and Hellenism was primarily a matter of common culture.


Premise: What did the populace do in response to the loss ?

Hypothesis: Following the Fall of Constantinople on 29 May 1453, many Greeks sought better employment and education opportunities by leaving for the West, particularly Italy, Central Europe, Germany and Russia.


Premise: The west end of these streets is Third Avenue and where?

Hypothesis: Great Jones Street connects East 3rd to West 3rd.


Premise: Over what span were the Baby Sandy films made?

Hypothesis: By the early 1940s, the company was concentrating on lower-budget productions that were the company's main staple: westerns, melodramas, serials and sequels to the studio's horror pictures, the latter now solely B pictures.


Premise: What did the Tuvalu government assess after Cyclone Pam?

Hypothesis: The Tuvalu Government carried out assessments of the damage caused by Cyclone Pam to the islands and has provided medical aid, food as well as assistance for the cleaning-up of storm debris.


Premise: What percentage of Estonians died after deporation?

Hypothesis: The activities of Soviet forces in 1940–41 and after reoccupation sparked a guerrilla war against Soviet authorities in Estonia by the Forest Brothers, who consisted mostly of Estonian veterans of the German and Finnish armies and some civilians.


Premise: Under the Peace of Westphalia, who finally recognized Switzerland's neutrality?

Hypothesis: It was not until more than one hundred years after these internal wars that, in 1648, under the Peace of Westphalia, European countries recognized Switzerland's independence from the Holy Roman Empire and its neutrality.


Premise: The Mamas members included which 3 musicians?

Hypothesis: In 2006, Beyoncé introduced her all-female tour band Suga Mama (also the name of a song in B'Day) which includes bassists, drummers, guitarists, horn players, keyboardists and percussionists.


Premise: Is precipitation varied or uniform in Western Alaska?

Hypothesis: The climate of Western Alaska is determined in large part by the Bering Sea and the Gulf of Alaska.


Premise: How many people in different migrant communities speak Estonian?

Hypothesis: It belongs to the Finnic branch of the Uralic language family.


Premise: Who was the president of Notre Dame in 1934?

Hypothesis: He wrote, "Notre Dame football is a spiritual service because it is played for the honor and glory of God and of his Blessed Mother.


Premise: What does dharmas mean?

Hypothesis: For Nagarjuna, it is not merely sentient beings that are empty of ātman; all phenomena (dharmas) are without any svabhava (literally "own-nature" or "self-nature"), and thus without any underlying essence; they are "empty" of being independent; thus the heterodox theories of svabhava circulating at the time were refuted on the basis of the doctrines of early Buddhism.


Premise: When was 'The World In Grey' published?

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


Premise: The rule that adjust the curve at different temperatures is known as what?

Hypothesis: At each different temperature, the curve is moved over by Wien's displacement law (1893).


Premise: The Act of Union unified Canada into a territory by what name?

Hypothesis: With the passage of the British North America Act, 1867 by the British Parliament, Upper and Lower Canada, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia were formed into the Dominion of Canada, a confederation enjoying full self-government with the exception of international relations.


Premise: Who was Ibn Sina's first appontment?

Hypothesis: Ibn Sina's first appointment was that of physician to the emir, Nuh II, who owed him his recovery from a dangerous illness (997).


Premise: What was the budget for 'Robopocalypse'?

Hypothesis: Spielberg was scheduled to shoot a $200 million adaptation of Daniel H. Wilson's novel Robopocalypse, adapted for the screen by Drew Goddard.


Premise: What type of homes were built in the Neolithic era?

Hypothesis: The shelter of the early people changed dramatically from the paleolithic to the neolithic era.


Premise: What company first created the full aperture can for beer?

Hypothesis: Cans were initially viewed as a technological breakthrough for maintaining the quality of a beer, then became commonly associated with less expensive, mass-produced beers, even though the quality of storage in cans is much like bottles.


Premise: Why was the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company created?

Hypothesis: In February 1907, the Royal Dutch Shell Group was created through the amalgamation of two rival companies: the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company of the Netherlands and the "Shell" Transport and Trading Company Ltd of the United Kingdom.


Premise: In what year did the American Law Institute create a death penalty framework for the Model Penal Code?

Hypothesis: A study commissioned by the institute had said that experience had proved that the goal of individualized decisions about who should be executed and the goal of systemic fairness for minorities and others could not be reconciled.


Premise: What phrase has been called a misnomer?

Hypothesis: Criticism of the War on Terror addresses the issues, morality, efficiency, economics, and other questions surrounding the War on Terror and made against the phrase itself, calling it a misnomer.


Premise: What process replaces tissue damaged by TB?

Hypothesis: Affected tissue is replaced by scarring and cavities filled with caseous necrotic material.


Premise: What does DIA stand for?

Hypothesis: This Directorate was created in an attempt to end years of rivalry over influence, philosophy and budget between the United States Department of Defense (DOD) and the CIA.


Premise: How many counties does Oklahoma have?

Hypothesis: Oklahoma's judicial branch consists of the Oklahoma Supreme Court, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals, and 77 District Courts that each serves one county.


Premise: How much faster is automated creation over handmade?

Hypothesis: With robotic production, colored tiles are loaded into buffers, and then the robot picks and places tiles individually according to a command file from the design software.


Premise: Who's writing were very influential on the design of the United States Constitution?

Hypothesis: Montesquieu was one of the foremost supporters of separating the legislature, the executive, and the judiciary.


Premise: When was the Calendar act enacted?

Hypothesis: They can indicate that the start of the Julian year has been adjusted to start on 1 January (NS) even though contemporary documents use a different start of year (OS); or to indicate that a date conforms to the Julian calendar (OS), formerly in use in many countries, rather than the Gregorian calendar (NS).


Premise: Who published a book with unnecessarily long title, "Exploring the City: Inquires Toward an Urban Anthropology"?

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


Premise: Who was the Governor of Michigan in 1967?

Hypothesis: In June 1963, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave a major speech in Detroit that foreshadowed his "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington, D.C. two months later.


Premise: Immigrants from what country were primarily hired by the fishing fleets that supported the canneries??

Hypothesis: San Diego's first tuna cannery was founded in 1911, and by the mid-1930s the canneries employed more than 1,000 people.


Premise: Which Croatian linguist agrees with Igor Mandic and feels that Serbo-Croatian language is pluricentric?

Hypothesis: However, Croatian linguist Snježana Kordić has been leading an academic discussion on that issue in the Croatian journal Književna republika from 2001 to 2010.


Premise: What was considered the true portrait of the no wave movement?

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


Premise: Which group regulates the Galician language?

Hypothesis: In the 13th century, with the written emergence of the Galician language, Galiza became the most usual written form of the name of the country, being replaced during the 15th and 16th centuries by the current form, Galicia, which coincides with the Castilian Spanish name.


Premise: Which direction from Tucson is Picture Rocks?

Hypothesis: The expansive area northwest of the city limits is diverse, ranging from the rural communities of Catalina and parts of the town of Marana, the small suburb of Picture Rocks, the affluent town of Oro Valley in the western foothills of the Santa Catalina Mountains, and residential areas in the northeastern foothills of the Tucson Mountains.


Premise: When was the southern tip of Africa colonized?

Hypothesis: The Dutch East India Company had founded the Cape Colony on the southern tip of Africa in 1652 as a way station for its ships travelling to and from its colonies in the East Indies.


Premise: What does AlGaN stand for?

Hypothesis: Aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) of varying Al/Ga fraction can be used to manufacture the cladding and quantum


Premise: How many additional actors were needed for the shoot in Mexico City?

Hypothesis: With filming completed in Rome, production moved to Mexico City in late March to shoot the film's opening sequence, with scenes to include the Day of the Dead festival filmed in and around the Zócalo and the Centro Histórico district.


Premise: What is a common offensive move to break a pin attack?

Hypothesis: The most common attacks for breaking pins are a stomp to the back and an elbow to the back of the head, as they are simple to pull off in the spur of the moment.


Premise: The ideals of Hellenistic art are sensuality and what?

Hypothesis: The dominant ideals of Hellenistic art were those of sensuality and passion.


Premise: How much is a fall deduction?

Hypothesis: A fall, on or off the event, is a 1.00 deduction, in elite level gymnastics.


Premise: What is the usual form for Neiserria bacteria?

Hypothesis: Bacteria can also be elongated to form filaments, for example the Actinobacteria.


Premise: When did Chopin and Sand become lovers?

Hypothesis: On his return to Paris, his association with Sand began in earnest, and by the end of June 1838 they had become lovers.


Premise: What does Olympic Air hold a silver ERA award for?

Hypothesis: Both Aegean Airlines and Olympic Air have won awards for their services; in 2009 and 2011, Aegean Airlines was awarded the "Best regional airline in Europe" award by Skytrax, and also has two gold and one silver awards by the ERA, while Olympic Air holds one silver ERA award for "Airline of the Year" as well as a "Condé Nast Traveller 2011


Premise: What was the title of the first book Madonna penned?

Hypothesis: The book debuted at the top of The New York Times Best Seller list and became the fastest-selling children's picture book of all time.


Premise: In what year was a group created to work with the World Council of Churches to increase dialogue between Catholic Christians and other Christian denominations?

Hypothesis: In 1965, Paul VI decided on the creation of a joint working group with the World Council of Churches to map all possible avenues of dialogue and cooperation.


Premise: What is the name of Chopin's eldest sister?

Hypothesis: His eighteen-year-old godfather, for whom he was named, was Fryderyk Skarbek, a pupil of Nicolas Chopin.


Premise: His work at Cornell helped contribute to his what?

Hypothesis: During a temporary depression following the destruction of Hiroshima by the bomb produced by the Manhattan Project, he focused on complex physics problems, not for utility, but for self-satisfaction.


Premise: Who controled Indochina in 1940?

Hypothesis: In September 1940, Japan decided to cut China's only land line to the outside world by seizing Indochina, which was controlled at the time by Vichy France.


Premise: Attic Greek lenited to what?

Hypothesis: Later, during the Koine Greek period, the aspirated and voiceless stops /tʰ


Premise: Who wanted to be free from white submission?

Hypothesis: They wanted to be free of white supervision.


Premise: What work of Aristotle's does Avicenna focus on?

Hypothesis: He discusses Aristotle's Posterior Analytics and significantly diverged from it on several points.


Premise: What is a variation of black-box testing?

Hypothesis: Component interface testing is a variation of black-box testing, with the focus on the data values beyond just the related actions of a subsystem component.


Premise: From what country do most domesticated  quails today descend from ?

Hypothesis: It migrated across Egypt in vast flocks and the birds could sometimes be picked up off the ground by hand.


Premise: Who vetoed Omar Pasha from landing in Georgia?

Hypothesis: The Russians did nothing and he evacuated to Batum in February of the following year.


Premise: In 2012-2013, public expenditure was what?

Hypothesis: Public expenditure rose from £10 million in 2001-02 to £12 million in 2005-06 to £28m in 2012-13.


Premise: When did the First Macedonian War end?

Hypothesis: The end of Antigonid Macedon came when Philip V's son, Perseus, was defeated and captured by the Romans in the Third Macedonian War (171–168 BCE).


Premise: With the introduction of a non native snake in the area of Guam what impact did it have the island?

Hypothesis: Believed to be a stowaway on a U.S. military transport near the end of World War II, the brown tree snake (Boiga irregularis) was accidentally introduced to Guam, that previously had no native species of snake.


Premise: What is one reason a draw can result?

Hypothesis: A draw occurs if both opponents are simultaneously disqualified (as via countout or if the referee loses complete control of the match and both opponents attack each other with no regard to being in a match, like Brock Lesnar vs. Undertaker at Unforgiven in 2002), neither opponent is able to answer a ten-count, or both opponents simultaneously win the match.


Premise: When was the Kangxi Dictionary published?

Hypothesis: The Qianlong Emperor sponsored the largest collection of writings in Chinese history, the Siku Quanshu, completed in 1782.


Premise: What is the total area of Boston?

Hypothesis: Boston has an area of 89.6 square miles (232.1 km2)—48.4 square miles (125.4 km2) (54.0%) of land and 41.2 square miles (106.7 km2) (46.0%) of water.


Premise: What does every stpe of digestion require?

Hypothesis: Each step in digestion requires energy, and thus imposes an "overhead charge" on the energy made available from absorbed substances.


Premise: How are icebergs formed?

Hypothesis: Tidewater glaciers undergo centuries-long cycles of advance and retreat that are much less affected by the climate change than those of other glaciers.


Premise: Where is the Coutt of Cassation located?

Hypothesis: The Constitutional Council, an advisory body with ultimate authority on the constitutionality of laws and government decrees, also meets in the Montpensier wing of the Palais Royal.


Premise: The US had captured what type of missiles during Operation Paperclip?

Hypothesis: The United States also acquired a large number of complete V2 rockets.


Premise: What is used to offer a balance in guarantees?

Hypothesis: A distributed system can satisfy any two of these guarantees at the same time, but not all three.


Premise: Which metal important to the ancients is the hardest one?

Hypothesis: Copper was the hardest of these metals, and the most widely distributed.


Premise: How many pilots did Fighter Command lose?

Hypothesis: Its round-the-clock bombing of London was an immediate attempt to force the British government to capitulate, but it was also striking at Britain's vital sea communications to achieve a victory through siege.


Premise: What has led to many tragic instances of events like slavery and genocide?

Hypothesis: Racism has led to many instances of tragedy, including slavery and genocide.


Premise: What year was the Presidential Proclamation lifted?

Hypothesis: After that, the leading part of the war became the Chinese army.


Premise: Who invented the first browser?

Hypothesis: The first web browser was invented in 1990 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee.


Premise: Who owns 19 Recordings?

Hypothesis: 19 originally partnered with Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG) to promote and distribute the recordings through its labels RCA Records, Arista Records, J Records, Jive Records.


Premise: How many countries were the institutions teaching anthropology located in?

Hypothesis: They supported the gradual osmosis of anthropology curricula into the major institutions of higher learning.


Premise: What dialects of the northern group are spoken on the saarte murre?

Hypothesis: dialect of Saaremaa and Hiiumaa and the idamurre or eastern dialect on the northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.


Premise: How does the determination between Patois and Creole French usually determined?

Hypothesis: The St. Barthélemy French patois is spoken by some 500–700 people in the leeward portion of the island and is superficially related to Quebec French, whereas Créole French is limited to the windward side.


Premise: When was the Taika Reform?

Hypothesis: no Ōe (Emperor Tenji) in 646 AD.


Premise: When did Gaddafi decide to stage his coup?

Hypothesis: In mid-1969, Idris travelled abroad to spend the summer in Turkey and Greece.


Premise: Which party was Sir Robert Peel a part of?

Hypothesis: The Queen commissioned a Tory, Sir Robert Peel, to form a new ministry.


Premise: What two centres of Mamluk power was the country located?

Hypothesis: In 1266 the Mamluk Sultan Baybars converted the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron into an exclusive Islamic sanctuary and banned Christians and Jews from entering, which previously would be able to enter it for a fee.


Premise: What is the second most populas city in Australia?

Hypothesis: Melbourne (/ˈmɛlbərn/, AU i/ˈmɛlbən/) is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia and Oceania.


Premise: In Samuel Johnson's writing, who appeared to a Whig?

Hypothesis: Among the reasons this speech was so greatly admired was its passage on Lord Bathurst (1684–1775); Burke describes an angel in 1704 prophesying to Bathurst the future greatness of England and also of America: "Young man, There is America – which at this day serves little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men, and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, shew itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world".


Premise: Who announced over the Radio that the president had been arrested?

Hypothesis: That afternoon, Lieutenant Colonel Amadou Toumani Touré announced on the radio that he had arrested the dictatorial president, Moussa Traoré.


Premise: Why was green chosen for a number of new European political parties in the 1980s?

Hypothesis: In the 1980s green became the color of a number of new European political parties organized around an agenda of environmentalism.


Premise: How many seats of the uninominal elections did the PRD get in the 2006 elections?

Hypothesis: Even though proportionality is confined to the proportional seats to prevent a part from being overrepresented, several restrictions apply in the assignation of the seats; namely, that no party can have more than 63% of all seats, both uninominal and plurinominal.


Premise: What language was created during the Delhi Sultanate?

Hypothesis: The Delhi Sultanate is the only Indo-Islamic empire to enthrone one of the few female rulers in India, Razia Sultana (1236–1240).


Premise: Who founded Stoicism?

Hypothesis: Stoicism, founded by Zeno of Citium, taught that virtue was sufficient for eudaimonia as it would allow one to live in accordance with Nature or Logos.


Premise: In spite of these wars, which exports did Galicia's Atlantic trade consist of?

Hypothesis: As a result, from 1480 to 1520 the Kingdom of Galicia contributed more than 10% of the total earnings of the Crown of Castille, including the Americas, well over its economic relevance.


Premise: What was introduced during the first Digimon anime?

Hypothesis: The first Digimon anime introduced the Digimon life cycle: They age in a similar fashion to real organisms, but do not die under normal circumstances because they are made of reconfigurable data, which can be seen throughout the show.


Premise: How did Matthew Arnold view "Culture" with?

Hypothesis: According to Hobbes and Rousseau, the Native Americans who were being conquered by Europeans from the 16th centuries on were living in a state of nature; this opposition was expressed through the contrast between "civilized" and "uncivilized."


Premise: How have the bars changed over the years?

Hypothesis: In the past, bars were made of wood, but the bars were prone to breaking, providing an incentive to switch to newer technologies.


Premise: What islands were the site of the State Summer Residence from 1949 on?

Hypothesis: The Brijuni islands were the site of the State Summer Residence from 1949 on.


Premise: What was the offering for the Emperor in Pompeii?

Hypothesis: In Pompeii, the Genius of the living emperor was offered a bull: presumably a standard practise in Imperial cult, though minor offerings (incense and wine) were also made.


Premise: What was von Hornigk's career?

Hypothesis: The German Polizeiwissenschaft (Science of Police) first theorized by Philipp von Hörnigk a 17th-century Austrian Political economist and civil servant and much more famously by Johann Heinrich Gottlob Justi who produced an important theoretical work known as Cameral science on the formulation of police.


Premise: Which newspaper is the sister company of Saint FM radio?

Hypothesis: Saint FM provided a local radio service for the island which was also available on internet radio and relayed in Ascension Island.


Premise: Who originated the saying 'esse est percipi'?

Hypothesis: Though far from a complete refutation, this was the first strong statement by analytic philosophy against its idealist predecessors, or at any rate against the type of idealism represented by Berkeley.


Premise: Where did the word Tajik come from?

Hypothesis: According to the Library of Congress's 1997 Country Study of Tajikistan, it is difficult to definitively state the origins of the word "Tajik" because the term is "embroiled in twentieth-century political disputes about whether Turkic or Iranian peoples were the original inhabitants of Central Asia."


Premise: Besides headlines, what is sentence-style capitalization often applied to?

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 is primarily a recreational activity except in extremely underdeveloped areas?

Hypothesis: Bird hunting is primarily a recreational activity except in extremely undeveloped areas.


Premise: Who granted the act Act of "Nihil novi nisi commune consensu"?

Hypothesis: On 3 May 1505 King Alexander I Jagiellon granted the Act of "Nihil novi nisi commune consensu" (Latin: "I accept nothing new except by common consent").


Premise: who were the chicago radio jocks that played dance music in the early 1980s?

Hypothesis: In the early 1980s, Chicago radio jocks The Hot Mix 5, and club DJs Ron Hardy and Frankie Knuckles played various styles of dance music, including older disco records (mostly Philly disco and Salsoul tracks), electro funk tracks by artists such as Afrika Bambaataa, newer Italo disco, B-Boy hip hop music by Man Parrish, Jellybean Benitez, Arthur Baker, and John Robie, and electronic pop music by Kraftwerk and Yellow Magic Orchestra.


Premise: England became a possession of which country when it became conquered after the first millennium?

Hypothesis: This title was granted to his younger son but when Henry's heir unexpectedly died the title of King of England and Lord of Ireland became entwined in one person.


Premise: What kind of theory is the doctrine of the Living Constitution?

Hypothesis: Other debates center on the principle of the law of the land in America being defined not just by the Constitution's Supremacy Clause, but also by legal precedence, making an accurate reading of the Constitution subject to the mores and values of a given era, and rendering the concept of historical revisionism irrelevant when discussing the Constitution.


Premise: What dialect did Alfred's government use?

Hypothesis: Alfred advocated education in English alongside Latin, and had many works translated into the English language; some of them, such as Pope Gregory I's treatise Pastoral Care, appear to have been translated by Alfred himself.


Premise: What did the melting of ice on Gondwana add to?

Hypothesis: During the Silurian, Gondwana continued a slow southward drift to high southern latitudes, but there is evidence that the Silurian ice caps were less extensive than those of the late Ordovician glaciation.


Premise: How many investment and commercial banks were included in Clayton Holdings' analysis of January 2006 to June 2007 loans?

Hypothesis: In separate testimony to Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, officers of Clayton Holdings—the largest residential loan due diligence and securitization surveillance company in the United States and Europe—testified that Clayton's review of over 900,000 mortgages issued from January 2006 to June 2007 revealed that scarcely 54% of the loans met their originators’ underwriting standards.


Premise: When did the Legislative Assembly of Norfolk Island vote regarding the proposed Australian reforms?

Hypothesis: The Norfolk Island Chief Minister, Lisle Snell, said that "the referendum results blow a hole in Canberra's assertion that the reforms introduced before the Australian Parliament that propose abolishing the Legislative Assembly and Norfolk Island Parliament were overwhelmingly supported by the people of Norfolk Island".


Premise: What animals did Paul VI consider to be "the most beautiful animals God ever created"?

Hypothesis: Although he was sick, he agreed to see the new Italian President Sandro Pertini for over two hours.


Premise: Which company sued Apple for breach of a "music jukebox" patent in 2005?

Hypothesis: In 2005, Apple faced two lawsuits claiming patent infringement by the iPod line and its associated technologies: Advanced Audio Devices claimed the iPod line breached its patent on a "music jukebox", while a Hong Kong-based IP portfolio company called Pat-rights filed a suit claiming that Apple's FairPlay technology breached a patent issued to inventor Ho Keung Tse.


Premise: Who from Times magazine gave an excellent critique of the film Evita?

Hypothesis: Biographer Mary Cross writes that although Madonna was often ill during the filming and worried that her pregnancy would harm the film, she reached some important personal goals: "Now 38 years old, Madonna had at last triumphed on screen and achieved her dream of having a child, both in the same year.


Premise: What has the population of Tibet primarily consisted of?

Hypothesis: According to tradition the original ancestors of the Tibetan people, as represented by the six red bands in the Tibetan flag, are: the Se, Mu, Dong, Tong, Dru and Ra.


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

Hypothesis: Unless these instruments are played by members doubling on another instrument (for example, a trombone player changing to euphonium for a certain passage), orchestras will use freelance musicians to augment their regular rosters.


Premise: When did the Italian Unification occur?

Hypothesis: Italian unification was the political and social movement that annexed different states of the Italian peninsula into the single state of Italy in the 19th century.


Premise: What defense does a zebra have against predators?

Hypothesis: Many non-predatory prey animals, such as a zebra, can give a strong kick that can maim or kill, while others charge with tusks or horns.


Premise: What only sends the differences within those pixels and blocks?

Hypothesis: These pixel groups or blocks of pixels are compared from one frame to the next, and the video compression codec sends only the differences within those blocks.


Premise: After what event did the Prince of Wales' health begin to improve?

Hypothesis: As the tenth anniversary of her husband's death approached, her son's condition grew no better, and Victoria's distress continued.


Premise: Who put the Nazi-Soviet Relations publication together?

Hypothesis: It was also part of an official State Department publication, Nazi–Soviet Relations 1939–1941, edited by Raymond J. Sontag and James S. Beddie in January 1948.


Premise: Who was the author of the letter sent to the Times?

Hypothesis: Its author, an "official Chinese interpreter of 10 years' active service" and a member of the Oriental Club, Thomas Taylor Meadows, was replying to the suggestion by another interpreter that the British Empire was wasting its resources on a false threat from Russia against China.


Premise: How many public lakes are in Raleigh?

Hypothesis: The J. C. Raulston Arboretum, an 8-acre (32,000 m²) arboretum and botanical garden in west Raleigh administered by North Carolina State University, maintains a year-round collection that is open daily to the public without charge.


Premise: When was the second satellite for the BeiDou-1 system launched?

Hypothesis: The second satellite, BeiDou-1B, was successfully launched on December 21, 2000.


Premise: When does Oklahoma city sever weather season end?

Hypothesis: The Oklahoma City metropolitan area is one of the most tornado-prone major cities in the world, with about 150 tornadoes striking within the city limits since 1890.


Premise: Who founded Motown records?

Hypothesis: The Andantes and The Funk Brothers, the Motown house band that was featured in Paul Justman's 2002 documentary film Standing in the Shadows of Motown, based on Allan Slutsky's book of the same name.


Premise: The US-buils ENIAC stands for what?

Hypothesis: The US-built ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was the first electronic programmable computer built in the US.


Premise: Greece's climate is affected by what range?

Hypothesis: This climate occurs at all coastal locations, including Athens, the Cyclades, the Dodecanese, Crete, the Peloponnese, the Ionian Islands and parts of the Central Continental Greece region.


Premise: The ECHR found most states to have largely undefined definitions of group destruction, despite what factor?

Hypothesis: It noted that International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Court of Justice had agreed with the narrow interpretation, that biological-physical destruction was necessary for an act to qualify as genocide.


Premise: Which battle led to Tibet's incorporation into the People's Republic of China?

Hypothesis: Later, Lhasa took control of the western part of Xikang, China.


Premise: By what year had national football leagues been formed in nearly every country?

Hypothesis: By the year 2000, national leagues were established in almost every country throughout the world, as well as local or regional leagues for lower level teams, thus the significance of friendlies has seriously declined since the 19th century.


Premise: What sect did the Tsangpa Dynasty of Shigatse favor?

Hypothesis: In 1565 they were overthrown by the Tsangpa Dynasty of Shigatse which expanded its power in different directions of Tibet in the following decades and favoured the Karma Kagyu sect.


Premise: How do asset prices generally move in relation to interest rates?

Hypothesis: This contributed to an increase in 1-year and 5-year adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM) rates, making ARM interest rate resets more expensive for homeowners.


Premise: What movie studios did Comcast and their partner buy?

Hypothesis: In December 2005, Comcast announced the creation of Comcast Interactive Media, a new division focused on online media.


Premise: Which tribe named the settlement as kaw-goosh-kaw-nick?

Hypothesis: The local Ojibwa named the settlement kaw-goosh-kaw-nick, after the sound of Allen's sawmill.


Premise: Where did Victoria spend the Christmas of 1900?

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


Premise: Who was the president of Sudan in 1975?

Hypothesis: Gaddafi become openly hostile to Egypt's leader, calling for Sadat's overthrow, and when Sudanese President Gaafar Nimeiry took Sadat's side, Gaddafi by 1975 sponsored the Sudan People's Liberation Army to overthrow Nimeiry.


Premise: The state of Chihuahua is primarily identified with what type of landscape?

Hypothesis: Although Chihuahua is primarily identified with the Chihuahuan Desert for namesake, it has more forests than any other state in Mexico, with the exception of Durango.


Premise: When was the University of Kansas School of Business established?

Hypothesis: The University of Kansas School of Business is a public business school located on the main campus of the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas.


Premise: By 1874, how many passengers were coming to Atlantic City by rail each year?

Hypothesis: The city was incorporated in 1854, the same year in which the Camden and Atlantic Railroad train service began.


Premise: What did James Glimm have to say about von Nuemann?

Hypothesis: "I have sometimes wondered whether a brain like von Neumann's does not indicate a species superior to that of man", said Nobel Laureate Hans Bethe of Cornell University.


Premise: What is the percentage of intelligibility between Catalan and Valencian?

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


Premise: Whose message convinced much of the military to stay loyal?

Hypothesis: On the night of 23 February 1981, shortly after Antonio Tejero had stormed Congress, the Captain General of the Third Military Region, Jaime Milans del Bosch, rose up in Valencia, put tanks on the streets, declared a state of emergency and tried to convince other senior military figures to support the coup.


Premise: When did Russia invade the Turkish Balkans?

Hypothesis: The situation remained unresolved in Central Asia for two more decades, with Britain annexing Baluchistan in 1876 and Russia annexing Kirghizia, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan.


Premise: What is an alloy of copper and zinc?

Hypothesis: Brass, an alloy of copper and zinc, is of much more recent origin.


Premise: In what year did the English Peasants' Revolt occur?

Hypothesis: These efforts resulted in nothing more than fostering resentment among the peasantry, leading to rebellions such as the French Jacquerie in 1358 and the English Peasants' Revolt in 1381.


Premise: Who was the target of the record companies?

Hypothesis: Major record companies argued that this free sharing of music reduced sales, and called it "music piracy".


Premise: Where does Guinea-Bissau get its hot dry winds from?

Hypothesis: Its monsoon-like rainy season alternates with periods of hot, dry harmattan winds blowing from the Sahara.


Premise: What Greek dialect had three-way stop distinction like Eastern Armenian?

Hypothesis: Some forms of Greek before the Koine Greek period are reconstructed as having aspirated stops.


Premise: How many species of Mosses are there in Antarctica?

Hypothesis: The climate of Antarctica does not allow extensive vegetation to form.


Premise: When was he beatified?

Hypothesis: In addition to being named Venerable on 20 December 1999, he was beatified on 3 September 2000 by Pope John Paul II alongside Pope Pius IX and three others.


Premise: What did the Commonwealth want to replace the Norfolk Island government with?

Hypothesis: It meant that residents would have to start paying Australian income tax, but they would also be covered by Australian welfare schemes such as Centrelink and Medicare.


Premise: Projects to renew the city were put into place by what?

Hypothesis: By the early and mid-20th century, the city was in decline as factories became old and obsolete, and businesses moved out of the region for cheaper labor elsewhere.


Premise: Where did the next settlement of people on Norfolk Island settle from?

Hypothesis: They resettled from the Pitcairn Islands, which had become too small for their growing population.


Premise: The covariance group of the general theory of relativity is the covariance group of how many theories?

Hypothesis: The symmetry group of the general theory of relativity includes all differentiable transformations, i.e., all properties of an object are dynamical, in other words there are no absolute objects.


Premise: Why did merchants prefer that their daughters not marry samurai?

Hypothesis: Even though the woman would not be a legal wife, a situation normally considered a demotion, many wealthy merchants believed that being the concubine of a samurai was superior to being the legal wife of a commoner.


Premise: Who was Montini's mentor that eventually became a Cardinal?

Hypothesis: In 1931, Pacelli appointed him to teach history at the Papal Academy for Diplomats In 1937, after his mentor Giuseppe Pizzardo was named a cardinal and was succeeded by Domenico Tardini, Montini was named Substitute for Ordinary Affairs under Cardinal Pacelli, the Secretary of State under Pope Pius XI.


Premise: What do Type-b receptacles do on target devices?

Hypothesis: This prevents users from accidentally connecting two USB power supplies to each other, which could lead to short circuits and dangerously high currents, circuit failures, or even fire.


Premise: Why did the constitution didn't have to explain federalism?

Hypothesis: Because the states were preexisting political entities, the U.S. Constitution did not need to define or explain federalism in any one section but it often mentions the rights and responsibilities of state governments and state officials in relation to the federal government.


Premise: What are resistant bacteria called in the media?

Hypothesis: The CDC will monitor the use of antibiotics and the emerging resistance, and publish the data.


Premise: In what year did Susan Hockfield become President of MIT?

Hypothesis: In 1977 Hanna Holborn Gray was appointed acting President of Yale from this position, and went on to become President of the University of Chicago, the first woman to be full president of a major university.


Premise: How did these politicians voice their concerns?

Hypothesis: Former White House director of Hispanic media stated, "Now it is time for Congress to act and the administration will work with them on that effort, so that the people of Puerto Rico can determine their own future."


Premise: How much does hand washing reduce the chances of disease?

Hypothesis: The implementation of hand washing using soap and water, for example, has been experimentally shown to reduce the incidence of disease by approximately 42–48%.


Premise: What was the name of the native people that lived in the southern parts of the British Isles during the Roman Empire occupation?

Hypothesis: The Romans expanded their civilisation to control southern Great Britain but were impeded in advancing any further, building Hadrian's Wall to mark the northern frontier of their empire in 122 AD.


Premise: What type of highways let commuters get to cities fast?

Hypothesis: Express highways such as Hu–Ning, Ning–


Premise: What were the core epics of the Vedas?

Hypothesis: In addition to the Vedas, the principal texts of Hinduism, the core themes of the Sanskrit epics Ramayana and Mahabharata are said to have their ultimate origins during this period.


Premise: What was the period of European empires competing to control Africa called?

Hypothesis: With French, Belgian and Portuguese activity in the lower Congo River region undermining orderly incursion of tropical Africa, the Berlin Conference of 1884–85 was held to regulate the competition between the European powers in what was called the "Scramble for Africa" by defining "effective occupation" as the criterion for international recognition of territorial claims.


Premise: How many Ju 87 Stuka dive-bombers and Jabos were used?

Hypothesis: Some 50 Junkers Ju 87 Stuka dive-bombers and Jabos (fighter-bombers) were used, officially classed as Leichte Kampfflugzeuge ("light bombers") and sometimes called Leichte Kesselringe ("Light Kesselrings").


Premise: What is one of the things that Cyberspace defense highly dependent on?

Hypothesis: This is the passive, active, and dynamic employment of capabilities to respond to imminent or on-going actions against Air Force or Air Force-protected networks, the Air Force's portion of the Global Information Grid, or expeditionary communications assigned to the Air Force.


Premise: Who discovered bacteria?

Hypothesis: Bacteria were first observed by the Dutch microscopist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek in 1676, using a single-lens microscope of his own design.


Premise: What political position did Samuel Johnson say would soon poison America?

Hypothesis: Among the reasons this speech was so greatly admired was its passage on Lord Bathurst (1684–1775); Burke describes an angel in 1704 prophesying to Bathurst the future greatness of England and also of America: "Young man, There is America – which at this day serves little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men, and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, shew itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world".


Premise: The precise way this temporal structure helps code for pitch at higher levels is based on what?

Hypothesis: At least one model shows that a temporal delay is unnecessary to produce an autocorrelation model of pitch perception, appealing to phase shifts between cochlear filters; however, earlier work has shown that certain sounds with a prominent peak in their autocorrelation function do not elicit a corresponding pitch percept, and that certain sounds without a peak in their autocorrelation function nevertheless elicit a pitch.


Premise: What did Cerón name the islands from which people threw rocks at his vessel?

Hypothesis: He stood off a group of islands from which local inhabitants hurled stones at his ship.


Premise: The earliest uses of brass has been attributed to what ancient location?

Hypothesis: Brass, which is an alloy of copper and zinc, has been used since at least the 10th century BC in Judea and by the 7th century BC in Ancient Greece.


Premise: Churches filled up with monuments to what?

Hypothesis: Decoration inside was very limited, but churches filled up with monuments to the prosperous.


Premise: The mean snowfall between 1981 and 2010 in NYC has been how many inches?

Hypothesis: Hurricanes and tropical storms are rare in the New York area, but are not unheard of and always have the potential to strike the area.


Premise: What is another way to refer to an antennas gain?

Hypothesis: The antenna gain, or power gain of an antenna is defined as the ratio of the intensity (power per unit surface area)  radiated by the antenna in the direction of its maximum output, at an arbitrary distance, divided by the intensity  radiated at the same distance by a hypothetical isotropic antenna which radiates equal power in all directions.


Premise: Are students taught Spanish in american schools?

Hypothesis: More than 1.4 million university students were enrolled in language courses in autumn of 2002 and Spanish is the most widely taught language in American colleges and universities with 53 percent of the total number of people enrolled, followed by French (14.4%), German (7.1%), Italian (4.5%), American Sign language (4.3%), Japanese (3.7%), and Chinese (2.4%) although the totals remain relatively small in relation to the total U.S population.


Premise: SURE provides what kind of service to the territory?

Hypothesis: In August 2011 the first fibre-optic link has been installed on the island, which connects the television receive antennas at Bryant's Beacon to the Cable & Wireless Technical Centre in the Briars.


Premise: What was unique about Odeon's 1909 release of the Nutcracker Suite?

Hypothesis: However, Deutsche Grammophon had produced an album for its complete recording of the opera Carmen in the previous year.


Premise: What position was Napoleon granted in Article 1 of the new French constitution?

Hypothesis: In a new plebiscite during the spring of 1802, the French public came out in huge numbers to approve a constitution that made the Consulate permanent, essentially elevating Napoleon to dictator for life.


Premise: What was the code name for Gaddafi's coup against the monarchy?

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


Premise: What did Napoleon reorganize to supply the personnel and money required to fight great wars?

Hypothesis: The force of his personality neutralized material difficulties as his soldiers fought with the confidence that with Napoleon in charge they would surely win.


Premise: What does the treaty set Antarctica aside as?

Hypothesis: Antarctica's status is regulated by the 1959 Antarctic Treaty and other related agreements, collectively called the Antarctic Treaty System.


Premise: When did political and religious changes alter the attitude of historians towards John?

Hypothesis: In the 16th century political and religious changes altered the attitude of historians towards John.


Premise: What was the minimum number of countries necessary to form parties?

Hypothesis: At that time however, only two of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council were parties to the treaty: France and the Republic of China.


Premise: What male singer featured on several songs from Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind?

Hypothesis: In 1989, Linda Ronstadt released Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind, described by critics as "the first true Adult Contemporary album of the decade", featuring American soul singer Aaron Neville on several of the twelve tracks.


Premise: When were boxes with "functional" FireWire no longer included in the FCC mandate?

Hypothesis: In the United States, as part of the FCC's plug and play agreement, cable companies are required to provide customers who rent HD set-top boxes with a set-top box with "functional" FireWire (IEEE 1394) on request.


Premise: Beyonce has noted which first lady with saying "She proves you can do it all"?

Hypothesis: Beyoncé has stated that she is personally inspired by US First Lady Michelle Obama, saying "She proves you can do it all" and she has described Oprah Winfrey as "the definition of inspiration and a strong woman".


Premise: What international sports has Armenia done well at?

Hypothesis: A wide array of sports are played in Armenia, the most popular among them being wrestling, weightlifting, judo, association football, chess, and boxing.


Premise: What fraction of Alexander's army was made up of Thracians and Agrianes?

Hypothesis: The Thracians and Agrianes were widely used by Alexander as peltasts and light cavalry, forming about one fifth of his army.


Premise: Worldwide, how many people suffer from asthma?

Hypothesis: Of asthma diagnosed during childhood, half of cases will no longer carry the diagnosis after a decade.


Premise: What percentage of Germans are Roman Catholic?

Hypothesis: According to the latest nationwide census, Roman Catholics constituted 30.8% of the total population of Germany, followed by the Evangelical Protestants at 30.3%.


Premise: A lack of assimilation of Jews in central and eastern Europe is also attributed to males taking part in what type of system?

Hypothesis: Furthermore, Jews lived almost exclusively in shtetls, maintained a strong system of education for males, heeded rabbinic leadership, and scorned the life-style of their neighbors; and all of these tendencies increased with every outbreak of antisemitism.


Premise: On what floor must restaurant customers clear their reservations?

Hypothesis: Tenants of even-numbered floors first take an escalator (or an elevator from the parking garage) to the 2nd level, where they will enter the upper deck and arrive at their floors.


Premise: What vegetable is sometimes used as a grain source for beer in Brazil?

Hypothesis: Less widely used starch sources include millet, sorghum and cassava root in Africa, and potato in Brazil, and agave in Mexico, among others.


Premise: How long does it take, at the least, for a student to be eligible for the title of Chartered?

Hypothesis: Part I which is generally a three-year first degree, a year-out of at least one year work experience in an architectural practice precedes the Part II which is generally a two-year post graduate diploma or masters.


Premise: Which Islamic organisation took responsibility for the attacks?

Hypothesis: On 11 January an estimated 1.5 million people marched in Paris–along with international political leaders–to show solidarity against terrorism and in defence of freedom of speech.


Premise: In 500 BC, Greece was ruled over by who?

Hypothesis: By 500 BC, the Persian Empire controlled the Greek city states in Asia Minor and had made territorial gains in the Balkans and Eastern Europe proper as well.


Premise: What newspaper broke the story about Schwarzenegger's child with another woman?

Hypothesis: In the statement, Schwarzenegger did not mention that he had confessed to his wife only after Shriver had confronted him with the information, which she had done after confirming with the housekeeper what she had suspected about the child.


Premise: What was an important feature of the Premier League in the mid-2000s?

Hypothesis: One significant feature of the Premier League in the mid-2000s was the dominance of the so-called "Big Four" clubs: Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester United.


Premise: Where was the system released to two separate marketing areas?

Hypothesis: In Europe and Australia, the system was released to two separate marketing regions.


Premise: In 1833 at what age was the limit to working in a textile industry factory?

Hypothesis: These acts were largely ineffective and after radical agitation, by for example the "Short Time Committees" in 1831, a Royal Commission recommended in 1833 that children aged 11–18 should work a maximum of 12 hours per day, children aged 9–11 a maximum of eight hours, and children under the age of nine were no longer permitted to work.


Premise: What is a moleben?

Hypothesis: On February 15, 1989, the formation of the Initiative Committee for the Renewal of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church was announced.


Premise: Where did Montini teach history?

Hypothesis: From Pius XI, whom he viewed with awe, he adopted the view, that learning is a life long process, and that history was the magister vitae teacher of life


Premise: Along with Bermuda, what other English colony did many settlers come from?

Hypothesis: The first settlers primarily came from England, its Caribbean colony of Barbados, and its Atlantic colony of Bermuda.


Premise: In what year was mevastatin discovered?

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: Are more rings necessary if they're narrow or wide?

Hypothesis: As the tree gets larger, the sapwood must necessarily become thinner or increase materially in volume.


Premise: What is the name of the actor who received and Oscar nomination for his role as Chopin?

Hypothesis: The 1945 biographical film A Song to Remember earned Cornel Wilde an Academy Award nomination as Best Actor for his portrayal of the composer.


Premise: What caused the transition between the middle ages and early modern times?

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


Premise: How large will the two Queen Elizabeth ships be?

Hypothesis: The British Royal Navy is constructing two new larger STOVL aircraft carriers, the Queen Elizabeth class, to replace the three Invincible-class carriers.


Premise: What other culutres has ruled the area?

Hypothesis: The territory that now constitutes Tajikistan was previously home to several ancient cultures, including the city of Sarazm of the Neolithic and the Bronze Age, and was later home to kingdoms ruled by people of different faiths and cultures, including the Oxus civilization, Andronovo culture, Buddhism, Nestorian Christianity, Zoroastrianism, and Manichaeism.


Premise: When were most churches and monasteries destroyed?

Hypothesis: In Mühlhausen and elsewhere, the Anabaptists found many adherents.


Premise: Which Chetnik leader did Tito hold talks with?

Hypothesis: During this period, Tito held talks with Chetnik leader Draža Mihailović on 19 September and 27 October 1941.


Premise: What types of companies back more large scale, export-oriented agrobusinesses in Portugal?

Hypothesis: However, the sector also includes larger scale intensive farming export-oriented agrobusinesses backed by companies (like Grupo RAR's Vitacress, Sovena, Lactogal, Vale da Rosa, Companhia das Lezírias and Valouro).


Premise: What important neopragmatist was Harthorne's student?

Hypothesis: Noted neopragmatist Richard Rorty was in turn a student of Hartshorne.


Premise: How were the 8 banners recognized?

Hypothesis: The remaining Banners were known as the "Lower Five Banners.


Premise: What method is used to divide asphalt from other materials?

Hypothesis: Vacuum distillation separates it from the other components in crude oil (such as naphtha, gasoline and diesel).


Premise: What word do Dutch speakers use for what we call a "shotgun marriage"?

Hypothesis: In Dutch, the diminutive is not merely restricted to nouns and exist in numerals (met z'n tweetjes, "the two of us"), pronouns (onderonsje, "tête-à-tête"), verbal particles (moetje, "shotgun marriage"), and even prepositions (toetje, "dessert").


Premise: The Romans invaded what is now London and established its first major settlement in what year?

Hypothesis: Although there is evidence of scattered Brythonic settlements in the area, the first major settlement was founded by the Romans after the invasion of 43 AD.


Premise: When did da Vinci die?

Hypothesis: Machiavelli in particular was scornful of writers on politics who judged everything in comparison to mental ideals and demanded that people should study the "effectual truth" instead.


Premise: Who can call congress into emergency session?

Hypothesis: Either house or both houses may be called into emergency session by the president.


Premise: When was John Seller's Atlas Maritima?

Hypothesis: By the time of John Seller's Atlas Maritima of 1670, "India Beyond the Ganges" had become "the East Indies" including China, Korea, southeast Asia and the islands of the Pacific in a map that was every bit as distorted as Ptolemy's, despite the lapse of approximately 1500 years.


Premise: How many charters schools are available in New Haven?

Hypothesis: New Haven is home to a number of other private schools as well as public magnet schools, including Metropolitan Business Academy, High School in the Community, Hill Regional Career High School, Co-op High School, New Haven Academy, ACES Educational Center for the Arts, the Foote School and the Sound School, all of which draw students from New Haven and suburban towns.


Premise: What is another name for lead glass?

Hypothesis: Lead glass or flint glass is more 'brilliant' because the increased refractive index causes noticeably more specular reflection and increased optical dispersion.


Premise: Who was most critical of Nasser's rule?

Hypothesis: According to political scientist Mahmoud Hamad, writing in 2008, "nostalgia for Nasser is easily sensed in Egypt and all Arab countries today".


Premise: Where were the mana'chag located?

Hypothesis: There were also "makåhna" (similar to shamans), skilled in healing and medicine.


Premise: What states did the chain extend over?

Hypothesis: The colossal demonstration marked the 50th anniversary of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact that divided Eastern Europe into spheres of influence and led to the occupation of the Baltic states in 1940.


Premise: What year did Lilienfeld file his patent?

Hypothesis: However, Lilienfeld did not publish any research articles about his devices nor did his patents cite any specific examples of a working prototype.


Premise: What station has an Orthodox church representative?

Hypothesis: An Orthodox church—Trinity Church, opened in 2004 at the Russian Bellingshausen Station—is manned year-round by one or two priests, who are similarly rotated every year.


Premise: In which year was the Immaculate Conception dogmatized?

Hypothesis: Others maintain that Luther in later years changed his position on the Immaculate Conception, which, at that time was undefined in the Church, maintaining however the sinlessness of Mary throughout her life.


Premise: What do Muslims believe of the form of God?

Hypothesis: Moreover, Muslims believe that God is incorporeal, making any two- or three- dimensional depictions impossible.


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

Hypothesis: Though oscillators in the skin respond to light, a systemic influence has not been proven.


Premise: What is the USAF?

Hypothesis: The United States Air Force (USAF) is the aerial warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven American uniformed services.


Premise: How many student brothers were there in the year 2000?

Hypothesis: Statistics for 1876 show 3,748, but 500 of these had been expelled from their convents and were engaged in parochial work.


Premise: What month and year did the U.S. join World War II?

Hypothesis: The United States joined World War II in December 1941 after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.


Premise: Certain dogs are bred to help fishermen with what?

Hypothesis: Dogs have lived and worked with humans in so many roles that they have earned the unique nickname, "man's best friend", a phrase used in other languages as well.


Premise: Who was held responsible for the defeat of North Korean troops?

Hypothesis: During the general retreat only 25,000 to 30,000 soldiers managed to rejoin the Northern KPA lines.


Premise: Which county in Estonia is the most uniform?

Hypothesis: Modern Estonia is a fairly ethnically heterogeneous country, but this heterogeneity is not a feature of much of the country as the non-Estonian population is concentrated in two of Estonia's counties.


Premise: Where is Pune Airport located?

Hypothesis: Some airbases are co-located with civilian airports, sharing the same ATC facilities, runways, taxiways and emergency services, but with separate terminals, parking areas and hangars.


Premise: Who was the second head of government elected?

Hypothesis: In 2000 Andrés Manuel López Obrador was elected, and resigned in 2005 to run in the 2006 presidential elections, Alejandro Encinas being designated by the Legislative Assembly to finish the term.


Premise: What country has the highest retail value of software?

Hypothesis: China continues to have the highest commercial value of such software at $8.9 billion among developing countries and second in the world behind the US at $9.7 billion in 2011.


Premise: What sort of capacitors have traditionally been used in radio tuning circuits?

Hypothesis: However, low capacitance devices are available with a vacuum between their plates, which allows extremely high voltage operation and low losses.


Premise: Which company continued to use gas-lasers in industrial models of LD players although they were no longer used in consumer models?

Hypothesis: After Pioneer released the LD-700, gas lasers were no longer used in consumer players, despite their advantages, although Philips continued to use gas lasers in their industrial units until 1985.


Premise: Antiochus III allied with what king in 203 BC?

Hypothesis: This presented Antiochus III with a pretext to invade Greece and 'liberate' it from Roman influence, thus starting the Roman-Syrian War (192–188 BC).


Premise: What happens during refining?

Hypothesis: Following the glass batch preparation and mixing, the raw materials are transported to the furnace.


Premise: There are three classes, what has been concluded and proven for all classes?

Hypothesis: It has been proved that each class is strictly included into the next.


Premise: When does inflammatory diarrhea occur?

Hypothesis: It can be caused by bacterial infections, viral infections, parasitic infections, or autoimmune problems such as inflammatory bowel diseases.


Premise: Does a person have to show their sexual oreintation in their personal acts?

Hypothesis: " Individuals may or may not express their sexual orientation in their behaviors.


Premise: According to Byzantine historiographers, tribes of Slavs emerged from what areas?

Hypothesis: The Slavs under name of the Antes and the Sclaveni make their first appearance in Byzantine records in the early 6th century.


Premise: Which provinces did Kexi and Jingzhong receive?

Hypothesis: In addition, three surrendered Ming generals were singled out for their contributions to the establishment of the Qing dynasty, ennobled as feudal princes (藩王), and given governorships over vast territories in Southern China.


Premise: What was the Irish Examiner's previous identity?

Hypothesis: Cork is home to one of Ireland's main national newspapers, the Irish Examiner (formerly the Cork Examiner).


Premise: Who established 1 of the first Us settlements in Florida

Hypothesis: In 1559, Don Tristán de Luna y Arellano established a colony at present-day Pensacola, one of the first European settlements in the continental United States, but it was abandoned by 1561.


Premise: In what year did Muhammad bin Tughluq succeed the Delhi sultanate?

Hypothesis: The Kakatiya dynasty was reduced to a vassal of the Khilji dynasty in 1310 after its defeat by Sultan Alauddin Khilji of the Delhi Sultanate.


Premise: Who perform biting social commentaries?

Hypothesis: Calypso tents, also originating in Trinidad, feature cadres of musicians who perform biting social commentaries, political exposés or rousing exhortations to "wuk dah waistline" and "roll dat bumper".


Premise: What is the name of the City of London's police force?

Hypothesis: The City of London has its own police force – the City of London Police.


Premise: Why did the Luftwaffe fail to locate their targets?

Hypothesis: German intelligence suggested Fighter Command was weakening, and an attack on London would force it into a final battle of annihilation while compelling the British Government to surrender.


Premise: How many summits in PA are over 2,500 ft?

Hypothesis: In West Virginia, more than 150 peaks rise above 4,000 ft (1,200 m), including Spruce Knob 4,863 ft (1,482 m), the highest point in the Allegheny Mountains.


Premise: The five boroughs of New York City are named what?

Hypothesis: Situated on one of the world's largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, each of which is a separate county of New York State.


Premise: Science, Technology, energy, and math industries have risen what percent since 2001?

Hypothesis: In 2010 North Carolina's total gross state product was $424.9 billion, while the state debt in November 2012, according to one source, totalled US$2.4bn, while according to another, was in 2012 US$57.8bn.


Premise: what natural disaster is mention when Jesus died?

Hypothesis: Matthew follows Mark, adding an earthquake and the resurrection of saints.


Premise: How much did Apple spend to advertise in a special post-election issue of Newsweek?

Hypothesis: While 200,000 people participated, dealers disliked the promotion, the supply of computers was insufficient for demand, and many were returned in such a bad condition that they could no longer be sold.


Premise: When did republicanism and the capability approach arise?

Hypothesis: Both the capability approach and republicanism treat choice as something which must be resourced.


Premise: Which cultural do multicultural people usually identify with?

Hypothesis: While many Americans may be biologically multiracial, they often do not know it or do not identify so culturally, any more than they maintain all the differing traditions of a variety of national ancestries.


Premise: What does the acronym HMWSSB represent?

Hypothesis: It coordinates the development activities of GHMC and suburban municipalities and manages the administration of bodies such as the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWSSB).


Premise: How many divisions make up Arts & Sciences at Washington University?

Hypothesis: Arts & Sciences at Washington University comprises three divisions: the College of Arts & Sciences, the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, and University College in Arts & Sciences.


Premise: Where can safari hunters go which are uninviting to the less hardcore ecotourist?

Hypothesis: Safari hunters are also more likely to use remote areas, uninviting to the typical ecotourist.


Premise: What is the capital of Eritrea?

Hypothesis: The most significant of these projects was the construction of a coastal highway of more than 500 km connecting Massawa with Asseb, as well as the rehabilitation of the Eritrean Railway.


Premise: When was Yale founded?

Hypothesis: For example, the Puritans who established Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1628 founded Harvard College only eight years later.


Premise: What were the group of Yale professors and ministers attempting to achieve?

Hypothesis: They concentrated on developing a whole man possessed of religious values sufficiently strong to resist temptations from within, yet flexible enough to adjust to the 'isms' (professionalism, materialism, individualism, and consumerism) tempting him from without.


Premise: What are three of the most typical type of tress that can be found in Ireland?

Hypothesis: Natural forests in Ireland are mainly oak, ash, wych elm, birch and pine.


Premise: The initial work was aimed at determining critical ratios and what else?

Hypothesis: In 1959, Richard Ehmer described a complete set of auditory curves regarding this phenomenon.


Premise: Can invertebrate species of animals like insects feel pain and suffering?

Hypothesis: The ability of invertebrate species of animals, such as insects, to feel pain and suffering is also unclear.


Premise: What is the combined international trade in cotton?

Hypothesis: Africa's share of the cotton trade has doubled since 1980.


Premise: The Blood of Saint John was made from an insect, which one?

Hypothesis: For the wealthy, the dye used was Kermes, made from a tiny scale insect which fed on the branches and leaves of the oak tree.


Premise: What's another term for "grounded" in the context of PCBs?

Hypothesis: Traces have become so fine that it's quite possible to blow an etch off the board (or change its characteristics) with a static charge.


Premise: When was the Seven Years' War?

Hypothesis: Along with its victory over France in India, the Seven Years' War therefore left Britain as the world's most powerful maritime power.


Premise: How many copies of the Encyclopedie were estimated to be in circulation throughout France and Europe before the French Revolution?

Hypothesis: Both areas of knowledge were united by philosophy, or the trunk of the tree of knowledge.


Premise: What society is a strong contender for the common culture speaking Indo-Iranian?

Hypothesis: The Andronovo culture is the suggested candidate for the common Indo-Iranian culture ca.


Premise: What percent of undergraduate students live on campus at Washington University?

Hypothesis: Over 50% of undergraduate students live on campus.


Premise: In what year was the patent filed for an electric liquid capacitor?

Hypothesis: In 1896 he filed a patent for an "Electric liquid capacitor with aluminum electrodes.


Premise: What type of imaging was used to study the relationship between humans and dogs?

Hypothesis: This gives dogs the ability to recognize emotional human sounds, making them friendly social pets to humans.


Premise: North Korea is often listed among the worst offenders in the world in what regard?

Hypothesis: The United Nations Organization and its children's agency UNICEF withdrew their staff, saying that it wasn't sure the event would help its mission of raising awareness of conditions for children and amid concerns that the relay would be used as a propaganda stunt.


Premise: What country did Victoria visit instead of France during the Boer War?

Hypothesis: By April 1900, the Boer War was so unpopular in mainland Europe that her annual trip to France seemed inadvisable.


Premise: What's the term in German for what those in French-speaking Switzerland call haute école specialisée?

Hypothesis: (see below).


Premise: Besides power disruption, what caused telecommunications to be suspended?

Hypothesis: China Mobile had more than 2,300 base stations suspended due to power disruption or severe telecommunication traffic congestion.