{
  "protocol": "v1",
  "status": "not_run",
  "cutoff": "2026-10-14",
  "sharedSuffix": "Use publicly accessible evidence available on or before October 14, 2026. Cite original sources where possible. Separate established findings, disputes and unknowns; state when evidence is insufficient. Do not invent missing details.",
  "questions": [
    {
      "id": "science-1",
      "category": "science",
      "question": "Why does ordinary water ice float in liquid water near atmospheric pressure, and what are the limits of that explanation?"
    },
    {
      "id": "science-2",
      "category": "science",
      "question": "What observations support plate tectonics, and which observations distinguish it from continental drift alone?"
    },
    {
      "id": "science-3",
      "category": "science",
      "question": "What does a measured exoplanet transit establish, and what can it not establish about habitability?"
    },
    {
      "id": "science-4",
      "category": "science",
      "question": "What evidence links atmospheric carbon dioxide to infrared absorption, and which uncertainties remain in predicting local climate?"
    },
    {
      "id": "science-5",
      "category": "science",
      "question": "How do randomized experiments and observational studies differ in establishing a causal effect?"
    },
    {
      "id": "science-6",
      "category": "science",
      "question": "What evidence supports the current age estimate of the universe, and which model assumptions affect it?"
    },
    {
      "id": "technology-1",
      "category": "technology",
      "question": "Does HTTPS establish that a website operator is trustworthy? Explain what it establishes and what it leaves unknown."
    },
    {
      "id": "technology-2",
      "category": "technology",
      "question": "How do cryptographic hashes differ from encryption, and can a matching hash alone establish authorship?"
    },
    {
      "id": "technology-3",
      "category": "technology",
      "question": "Under what assumptions can a database transaction provide atomicity, and how is that different from exactly-once external payment execution?"
    },
    {
      "id": "technology-4",
      "category": "technology",
      "question": "What does DNSSEC authenticate, and does it encrypt DNS queries or establish that a website is safe?"
    },
    {
      "id": "technology-5",
      "category": "technology",
      "question": "How do precision and recall differ in information retrieval? Provide a worked example and limitations."
    },
    {
      "id": "technology-6",
      "category": "technology",
      "question": "What does a language-model benchmark score establish about performance on an individual unseen research question?"
    },
    {
      "id": "history-1",
      "category": "history",
      "question": "Which surviving sources support the date and location of the first powered Wright brothers flight, and what is disputed about first-flight claims?"
    },
    {
      "id": "history-2",
      "category": "history",
      "question": "What evidence dates the printing of the Gutenberg Bible, and which details remain uncertain?"
    },
    {
      "id": "history-3",
      "category": "history",
      "question": "What did the 1919 solar-eclipse observations test about general relativity, and what limitations affected the measurements?"
    },
    {
      "id": "history-4",
      "category": "history",
      "question": "Which documents support the chronology of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, and how do later accounts differ?"
    },
    {
      "id": "history-5",
      "category": "history",
      "question": "What evidence supports the existence and historical use of the Antikythera mechanism, and which reconstructions remain uncertain?"
    },
    {
      "id": "history-6",
      "category": "history",
      "question": "What primary records establish the signing and ratification chronology of the United States Declaration of Independence?"
    },
    {
      "id": "disputed-1",
      "category": "disputed",
      "question": "What evidence supports or challenges the claim that the Younger Dryas began because of an extraterrestrial impact?"
    },
    {
      "id": "disputed-2",
      "category": "disputed",
      "question": "What evidence supports or challenges claims that the 1977 Wow! signal was produced by extraterrestrial intelligence?"
    },
    {
      "id": "disputed-3",
      "category": "disputed",
      "question": "What evidence supports or challenges proposed room-temperature superconductivity in LK-99, and how do replication studies affect the conclusion?"
    },
    {
      "id": "disputed-4",
      "category": "disputed",
      "question": "What evidence supports or challenges proposed phosphine detection in the atmosphere of Venus, and does it establish life?"
    },
    {
      "id": "disputed-5",
      "category": "disputed",
      "question": "What evidence supports or challenges claims that the Voynich manuscript has been definitively deciphered?"
    },
    {
      "id": "disputed-6",
      "category": "disputed",
      "question": "What evidence supports or challenges the claim that the 1908 Tunguska event left an identified impact crater?"
    },
    {
      "id": "insufficient-1",
      "category": "insufficient",
      "question": "What was the exact private conversation between the builders of Stonehenge when the first stone was placed?"
    },
    {
      "id": "insufficient-2",
      "category": "insufficient",
      "question": "What exact date will the next previously unknown comet become visible to the naked eye?"
    },
    {
      "id": "insufficient-3",
      "category": "insufficient",
      "question": "What did an unnamed person dream on the night of January 1, 1800, if no record is supplied?"
    },
    {
      "id": "insufficient-4",
      "category": "insufficient",
      "question": "What is the precise number of intelligent civilizations currently living beyond Earth?"
    },
    {
      "id": "insufficient-5",
      "category": "insufficient",
      "question": "Did an unspecified unpublished internal experiment prove that lamp A uses less energy than lamp B, when no measurements or report are provided?"
    },
    {
      "id": "insufficient-6",
      "category": "insufficient",
      "question": "What is the exact content of a lost manuscript for which no surviving copy, quotation or description has been identified?"
    }
  ]
}