huutuan/long_squad_v2 huggingface dataset:
Question: What is the French name for Gabon?
Question: What is the Central African Republic also known as?
Question: When did the Congo gain its independence from colonial rule?
Answer: 1960
Question: Who is the ruler of the Congo?
Answer: Denis Sassou Nguesso
Question: What title does Nguesso hold?
Answer: President
Question: What language dominated Equatorial Africa?
Question: When did the Congo lose its independence from colonial rule?
Question: What year was President Denis Sassou Nguesso ousted?
Question: What conflict removed President Denis Sassou Nguesso from power?
Question: How many years did President Denis Sassou Nguesso rule the democratically elected government?
Question: What is the Congo's rank among other oil generating nations in the Gulf of Guinea?
Answer: fourth
Question: What income is subject to uneven distribution in the Congo?
Answer: oil revenues
Question: What factors led to the Republic of Congo being the third largest oil producer in the Gulf of Guinea?
Question: What is the Congo's rank among all the oil generating nations of the world?
Question: What income is evenly distributed in the Congo?
Question: What economic status did oil revenue fail to provide for the Congo?
Question: What kind of services in the Congo are in good shape?
Question: What group of people were living in the area that would become the Congo prior to the arrival of Bantu tribes?
Answer: Pygmy
Question: When did Bantu tribes arrive in the area formerly populated by the Pygmy people?
Answer: 1500 BC
Question: The Bakongo were a group derived from which tribes?
Answer: Bantu
Question: What language did the Pygmy people speak?
Question: When did the Pygmy people displace the Bantu?
Question: What did the Pygmy people form a basis for?
Question: What Bantu kingdom never traded with the Congo River basin?
Question: What Pygmy kingdom built trade links with the Congo River basin?
Question: Whose expedition arrived at the mouth of the Congo River in 1484?
Answer: Diogo Cão
Question: What was Diogo Cao's nationality?
Answer: Portuguese
Question: What did European traders exchange with Bantu people?
Answer: commodities, manufactured goods, and people
Question: When did formal colonization of the Congo River delta begin?
Answer: late 19th century
Question: Colonization reduced the power of what groups in the Congo River basin?
Answer: Bantu societies
Question: What Bantu explorer reached the mouth of the Congo in 1484?
Question: What is an example of something that was not traded between the Bantu and European merchants?
Question: What was responsible for the power of Bantu societies growing in the late 19th century?
Question: What area did the Bantu colonize in the late 19th century?
Question: Colonization increased the power of what group in the Congo River basin?
Question: When did the French take control of the region to the north of the Congo River?
Answer: 1880
Question: Who brokered a traty with the Makoko people?
Answer: Pierre de Brazza
Question: What was the French Congo's name changed to in 1903?
Answer: Middle Congo
Question: What group of French colonies was created in 1908?
Answer: French Equatorial Africa
Question: How many people are estimated to have died as a result of the creation of the Congo-Ocean Railroad?
Answer: 14,000
Question: When did the area south of the Congo River come under French sovereignty?
Question: When did Middle Congo become known as French Congo?
Question: What did the Bateke designate as the federal capital?
Question: What did economic development during the first 50 years of colonial rule ignore?
Question: How many lives were lost building the Congo-Ocean Railroad before World War I?
Question: What served as the capital of France in spirit during the Occupation?
Answer: Brazzaville
Question: What meeting brought about changes in France's policy towards its colonies?
Answer: Brazzaville Conference of 1944
Question: When did Brazzaville get its own local government?
Answer: 1946
Question: What did the 1946 constitution establish Brazzaville as?
Answer: the Fourth Republic
Question: What served as the symbolic capital of France during World War I?
Question: When was Brazzaville established as the Third Republic?
Question: What was the symbolic capital of the Nazis from 1940 to 1943?
Question: What stopped Congo from benefiting from the postwar expansion of colonial administrative and infrastructure spending?
Question: What kind of legislature did Brazzaville receive prior to 1946?
Question: What was disbanded in 1958?
Answer: the AEF
Question: In 1958, what did the Middle Congo change its name to?
Answer: the Republic of the Congo
Question: When did the Congo establish its first constitution?
Answer: 1959
Question: When was the Second Republic established?
Question: What established the Third Republic?
Question: When did the Republic of the Congo become known as Middle Congo?
Question: Where did the Mbochis subdue a riot?
Question: Who subdued a series of riots in 1959?
Question: On what date was the Congo made fully independent from colonial rule?
Answer: August 15, 1960
Question: Who was the first leader of the independent Congo?
Answer: Fulbert Youlou
Question: Who replaced Youlou?
Answer: Alphonse Massamba-Débat
Question: Who were responsible for the revolts that ended with Youlou's removal?
Answer: labour elements and rival political parties
Question: Who took control of the company during the transition from Youlou to Debat?
Answer: Congolese military
Question: When did the Congo lose independence from colonial rule?
Question: What ousted Alphonse Massamba-Débat from power?
Question: Who installed Fulbert Youlou as head of the civilian provisional government?
Question: What took charge of the country for a long time?
Question: When did France receive independence from the Republic of Congo?
Question: Who became president of the Congo in 1963?
Answer: Massamba-Débat
Question: What was a term that could describe the political philosophy of the Congo under Massamba-Debat?
Answer: scientific socialism
Question: Soldiers from which country were brought to the Congo?
Answer: Cuban
Question: When did Massamba-Debat lose power in the Congo?
Answer: September 1968
Question: What was the country's ideology before Massamba-Débat's term in office?
Question: When did the Soviet Union establish relations with North Korea?
Question: Who was elected president for a 10 year term?
Question: How many Chinese troops were invited into the Congo?
Question: When was there a coup led by paratroopers loyal to Massamba-Débat?
Question: Who became president of the Congo in 1968?
Answer: Marien Ngouabi
Question: What did the Congo's name become under Ngouabi?
Answer: People's Republic of the Congo
Question: What did the National Revolutionary Movement's name become?
Answer: Congolese Labour Party
Question: In what year was a coup attempted against Ngouabi?
Answer: 1972
Question: On what date was Ngouabi assassinated?
Answer: March 16, 1977
Question: Who left the presidency on December 31, 1968?
Question: Who became president after Denis Sassou Nguesso?
Question: What did the Congo's name change to under Denis Sassou Nguesso?
Question: When did Denis Sassou Nguesso survive a coup?
Question: When was Joachim Yhombi-Opango assassinated?
Question: Which group of nations did Nguesso side the Congo with?
Answer: Eastern Bloc
Question: Which Eastern Bloc nation did Nguesso sign a pact with?
Answer: the Soviet Union
Question: What is a word that can be used to describe Sassou's type of government?
Answer: dictatorship
Question: What was an important tool of the Sassou government?
Answer: political repression
Question: Who aligned the country with the Western Bloc?
Question: Who relied more on patronage to maintain his dictatorship?
Question: What was the least important tool of the Sassou government?
Question: What did Sassou sign a ten year friendship pact with?
Question: How long was the friendship pact Sassou signed with the Eastern Bloc?
Question: Who was elected president of the Congo in 1992?
Answer: Pascal Lissouba
Question: Who supported the measures of liberalisation Lissouba tried to employ to reform the economy?
Answer: IMF
Question: What interrupted the renewal of the IMF agreement with the Congo?
Answer: civil war
Question: What does ESAF stand for?
Answer: enhanced structural adjustment facility
Question: Who was Congo's last elected president?
Question: What year did the IMF turn down  a three-year SDR69.5m (US$100m) enhanced structural adjustment facility?
Question: When did civil war end in Congo?
Question: Who was president during the period of single party democracy?
Question: Which two figures clashed over leadership of the Congo in 1997?
Answer: Lissouba and Sassou
Question: What is the name of Sassou's personal army?
Answer: Cobras
Question: What nationality were the forces that invaded the Congo to assist Sassou in taking control of the country?
Answer: Angolan
Question: In what month did Sassou regain the presidency?
Answer: October
Question: When did Congo's democratic progress get back on track?
Question: When did the tensions between the Lissouba and Sassou camps start to dissipate?
Question: When did government forces surround Lissouba's compound?
Question: Where was Lissouba's compound located?
Question: What were members of Lissouba's militia called?
Question: Which politican left the presidential race after supporting a boycott by voters?
Answer: Milongo
Question: How long did the presidential term become under the new constitution?
Answer: seven years
Question: When was the new constitution ratified?
Answer: January 2002
Question: When was an end brought to the fighting between the government and Ntumi's rebels?
Answer: April 2003
Question: Who won more than 90% of the vote?
Question: When did Bernard Kolelas win the election?
Question: What did Lissouba advise his supporters to do?
Question: What did international observers see no problem with?
Question: What reduced the president's term to seven years?
Question: Which group provided oversight for the electoral process in 2009?
Answer: Congolese Observatory of Human Rights
Question: What kind of turnout did the Congolese Observatory of Human Rights experience in the 2009 elections?
Answer: very low
Question: What election did Sassou lose?
Question: What year did Sassou lose re-election?
Question: Who said the election was marked by very high turnout?
Question: What governmental organization commented on the election?
Question: What month did Sassou lose an election in?
Question: What kind of political system has existed in Congo-Brazzaville since the '90s?
Answer: multi-party
Question: Which party does Sassou belong to?
Answer: Congolese Labour Party
Question: What is the French term for Sassou's political party?
Answer: Parti Congolais du Travail
Question: Since when has Congo-Brazzaville has a single party political system?
Question: Who has serious competition in the presidential elections?
Question: What is the Congolese Labour Party called in German?
Question: What party does not back Sassou?
Question: What is not dominated by Sassou?
Question: What country found bank accounts and real estate owned by the Sassou regime?
Answer: France
Question: What did Sassou's regime not attempt to censor?
Question: What has Sassou's regime been hit by nationally?
Question: What did one German investigation find?
Question: What did France denounce embezzlement investigations as?
Question: What country were no lavish properties found in?
Question: When did Sassou reveal that there would be a vote to alter the 2002 constitution?
Answer: March 27, 2015
Question: Which term did the new constitution allow Sassou to pursue?
Answer: third
Question: When did Sassou announce that his government would not change the 2002 constitution?
Question: What changed the 2015 constitution?
Question: What percentage of people did the government claim opposed the proposal?
Question: What percentage of people did the government claim did not vote?
Question: What allowed Sassou to run for a second term?
Question: How many government TV stations exist?
Answer: one
Question: How many smaller stations exist that are not government-run?
Answer: 10
Question: When was the main media not owned by the government?
Question: When were many privately run forms of media being destroyed?
Question: How many large private television channels were there?
Question: How many government owned radio stations were there?
Question: How many privately owned radio stations were running?
Question: Who is considered to own members of the Pygmies?
Answer: Bantus
Question: The treatment of Pygmies has been compared to the treatment of what?
Answer: pets
Question: When did the government of the Congo pass a law to assist indigenous people?
Answer: December 30, 2010
Question: Who do many Bantus belong to?
Question: When did the Congolese parliament strike down a law to protect indigenous people?
Question: What is the last of its kind in Africa?
Question: What does the Congolese Human Rights Observatory say Bantus are treated as?
Question: What does no one refer to as slavery?
Question: Between which two lines of latitude is the Congo located?
Answer: 4°N and 5°S
Question: Between which two lines of longitude is the Congo located?
Answer: 11° and 19°E
Question: What ocean connects to the Congo?
Answer: Atlantic Ocean
Question: Which country lies southwest of the Congo?
Answer: Cabinda
Question: What is another name for Cabinda?
Answer: Angola
Question: What is located in the northern part of sub-Saharan Africa?
Question: What is outside of latitudes 4°N and 5°S?
Question: What is to the west of Gabon?
Question: What is to the north of Cameroon?
Question: What has a long coast on the Atlantic Ocean?
Question: On what river can Brazzaville be found?
Answer: Congo River
Question: What lies directly across the Congo River from Brazzaville?
Answer: Kinshasa
Question: What country does Kinshasa serve as capital of?
Answer: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Question: Where is Kinshasa located?
Question: What is located in the north of the Congo?
Question: What is located in the south of the Republic of the Congo?
Question: What city is not located on the Congo River?
Question: What city is located far away from Brazzaville?
Question: What kind of terrain is found in the southwest part of the Congo?
Answer: coastal plain
Question: Which river serves as drainage for the southwest plain of the Congo?
Answer: Kouilou-Niari River
Question: The middle of the country features what kind of geography?
Answer: plateau
Question: What areas are facing pressure to be used for commercial gain?
Answer: Forests
Question: What is not under increasing exploitation pressure?
Question: What river is the source of drainage for the interior of the country?
Question: What kind of geography does the northeast of the country have?
Question: How many basins are located outside of the country?
Question: What do forests in the Congo not have to face?
Question: What is the average temperature in the Congo when the sun is up?
Answer: 24 °C (75 °F)
Question: What is the average temperature range in the Congo during the night time?
Answer: 16 °C (61 °F) and 21 °C (70 °F)
Question: When does the Congo experience dry season?
Answer: June to August
Question: Why does the country's climate vary year-round?
Question: What is the temperature on an unusual day?
Question: What is the yearly rainfall in the north of the country?
Question: How many rainfall maxima does the minority of the country have?
Question: What is not located on the Equator?
Question: What region is home to the gorillas studied by the Wildlife Conservation Society?
Answer: Sangha Region
Question: What was responsible for maintaining the separation between the gorillas and humans?
Answer: inhospitable swamps
Question: When did researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society study chimps?
Question: Where did researchers study chimps in heavily forested regions?
Question: How many chimpanzees live in the area?
Question: What has kept the chimps isolated from humans?
Question: In what kind of regions did researchers not find any gorillas?
Question: What are two issues in the Congolese government?
Answer: budget problems and overstaffing
Question: What did petroleum production replace as the focus of the economy?
Answer: forestry
Question: What percentage of the Congo's gross domestic product did petroleum account for in 2008?
Answer: 65%
Question: What percentage of exported goods did oil account for in 2008?
Answer: 92%
Question: What is not a part of Congo's economy?
Question: What is the smallest part of the industrial sector?
Question: What is characterized by under staffing?
Question: What percent of the GDP did forestry account for in 2008?
Question: What percent of exports in 2008 were handicrafts?
Question: What did income from petroleum allow the government to fund in the early '80s?
Answer: large-scale development projects
Question: What was the Congo's annual increase in gross domestic product in the early '80s?
Answer: 5%
Question: By how much were Franc Zone currencies devalued in January of 1994?
Answer: 50%
Question: How much inflation did the Congo experience as a result of the devaluation of the Franc?
Answer: 46%
Question: When did oil revenues rapidly decline?
Question: What enabled the government to finance small development projects?
Question: What was financed by rising forestry revenues?
Question: What contributed to an excess of revenues?
Question: What year was inflation at its lowest point?
Question: What are two reasons why the economy was not able to progress following the civil war?
Answer: slumping oil prices and the resumption of armed conflict
Question: When did military conflict resume in the Congo?
Answer: December 1998
Question: What organization never supported economic reform efforts?
Question: When did the reform program start?
Question: When did Sassou leave power?
Question: What was helped by slumping oil prices?
Question: Who did not express interest in economic reforms?
Question: What are two economic issues faced by the Congolese government?
Answer: stimulating recovery and reducing poverty
Question: What two exports has the Congo begun producing recently?
Answer: Natural gas and diamonds
Question: When was the Congo allowed back into the Kimberley Process?
Answer: 2007
Question: Who presides over a stable peace?
Question: When were oil prices at a record low?
Question: What country allegedly smuggled diamonds out of the Congo?
Question: What is not a Congolese export?
Question: When was the Democratic Republic of Congo excluded from the Kimberly process?
Question: What precious metals and minerals have yet to be utilized in the Republic of the Congo?
Answer: base metal, gold, iron and phosphate
Question: What business organization is the Congo a member of?
Answer: Organization for the Harmonization of Business Law in Africa
Question: How much land did the Congolese government agree to lease to South Africans in 2009?
Answer: 200,000 hectares
Question: What country doesn't have many metal deposits?
Question: When did the South African government sign an agreement to lease land to Congolese farmers?
Question: What country did the South African government lease land to?
Question: How much land did South Africa lease to the Congo?
Question: Why did South Africa lease land to the Democratic Republic of Congo?
Question: When was the Congo's train system built?
Answer: 1930s
Question: What is a common destination outside of Africa for Congolese airlines?
Answer: Paris
Question: On what ocean is a major port located?
Answer: Atlantic Ocean
Question: What method of transport is not available in the Republic of the Congo?
Question: When did the country's rail system get taken out of operation?
Question: How many kilometers of unpaved roads are in the Congo?
Question: How many domestic airports are located in the Republic of the Congo?
Question: Which ocean does the Congo have no ports on?
Question: In what part of the country can most of the Congo's citizens be found?
Answer: southwest
Question: How long is the track connecting Brazzaville and Pointe-Noire?
Answer: 534-kilometre (332 mi)
Question: What percent of the population of the Congo lives outside urban areas?
Question: What is one of the small cities in the Congo?
Question: How long is the road that connects the largest cities?
Question: Where has commercial activity increased rapidly?
Question: What are urban economies dependent on the government for?
Question: What is the most populous ethnicity in the Congo?
Answer: Kongo
Question: How much of the population is constituted by Pygmies?
Answer: 2%
Question: What percentage of the population of the Congo is Boulangui?
Answer: 12%
Question: What country has a narrow range of languages?
Question: How many languages are spoken outside of the Congo?
Question: What amount of the Kongo are Laari?
Question: What group lives on the Pacific coast?
Question: How many groups can the Teke be categorized into?
Question: Prior to the civil war in '97, how many non-Africans lived in the Republic of the Congo?
Answer: about 9,000
Question: What was the dominant nationality among Europeans living in the Congo prior to the civil war?
Answer: French
Question: How many Americans live in the Congo?
Answer: Around 300
Question: How many Americans lived in the Congo before 1997?
Question: How many French expatriates reside in the Congo?
Question: How many Congolese expatriates live in America?
Question: Where did 9000 Europeans and other non-Africans live after the 1997 war?
Question: What percentage of Congolese citizens identify as Awakening Lutherans?
Answer: 22.3%
Question: What portion of the Congolese population is Protestant?
Answer: 19.9%
Question: What is the percentage of Muslims living in the Congo?
Answer: 1.6%
Question: Who form the majority of Islamic residents of the Congo?
Answer: foreign workers
Question: What religion is notable due to an influx of foreign workers in the rural areas?
Question: What percentage of Congolese are atheist?
Question: What is the most popular religion in South Africa, according to the CIA World Factbook?
Question: What religion is not found in the Congo?
Question: What is the percentage of Protestants in South Africa?
Question: How much of the gross domestic product was spent on public health in 2004?
Answer: 8.9%
Question: What was the overall incidence of HIV or AIDS throughout the 15 to 49 year old population?
Answer: 2.8%
Question: How much was spent per capita on health in 2004 as measured in US dollars?
Answer: $30
Question: For every 100,000 people, how many phyisicians were there in the Congo in the early '00s?
Answer: 20
Question: What percentage of the GDP was public expenditure health after 2004?
Question: What was the prevalence of HIV/AIDS in people over 49?
Question: How much was spent on health per capita after 2004?
Question: What is happening to only a small portion of the population?
Question: How many physicians per 100,000 people were there in the late 2000s?
Question: As measured in 2010, how many deaths occurred for every 100,000 live births in the Congo?
Answer: 560
Question: What does FGM stand for?
Answer: Female genital mutilation
Question: How many infants die for every 1,000 live births?
Answer: 59.34
Question: What was the maternal mortality rate of the Congo in the year 2000?
Question: What was the infant mortality rate of the Congo in 1990?
Question: What procedure is common in the country?
Question: Where is female genital mutilation not found in the Congo?
Question: What is the infant mortality rate in South Africa?
Question: What was the school enrollment rate in 2005?
Answer: 44%
Question: What do students who finish 13 years of schooling receive?
Answer: baccalaureate
Question: What language is used in Congolese schools?
Answer: French
Question: What was higher in 2002 than in 1991?
Question: What is theoretically free for people over 16?
Question: When is education not compulsory?
Question: What is the country's only private university?
Question: What courses are not offered at Marien Ngouabi University?
Question: What group is the prime minister usually in charge of?
Answer: cabinet
Question: In some political models like semi-presidential systems, what does the prime minister manage?
Answer: civil service
Question: Who is the senior minister of the judicial branch?
Question: What group oversees the Prime Minister?
Question: Who selects the Prime Minister?
Question: In what type of system is the prime minister the head of state?
Question: What kind of role is the head of state in Westminster-based parliamentary governments?
Answer: ceremonial
Question: In wich parlimentry system is the monarch the head of state?
Question: In what system does the prime minister have reserve powers?
Question: What is it called when a monarch has a share of executive powers?
Answer: royal prerogative
Question: Using royal prerogative does not require the consent of which body?
Answer: parliament
Question: Who has no reponsibility for passing bills with the rest of the cabinet?
Question: What is it called when the monarch has all the executive powers?
Question: Who must consent to the use of royal perogative?
Question: What are two other job titles of the Prime Minister of the  UK?
Answer: First Lord of the Treasury and Minister for the Civil Service
Question: In addition to being Prime Minister, what other role did Winston Churchill serve during World War II?
Answer: Minister of Defence
Question: What are former titles once held by the Prime Minister of the UK?
Question: What role did Winton Churchhill serve in during World War II rather than Prime Minister?
Question: What roles did Benjamin Netanyahu serve in prior to serving on the cabinet of Israel?
Question: Who coined the term prime minister?
Answer: Cardinal Richelieu
Question: What country did Richelieu serve as prime minister for?
Answer: France
Question: Who started a tradition of naming the head ministers something other than prime minister?
Answer: Louis XIV
Question: What term was first used in the 16th century?
Question: Who used the term Prme Minister in the 16th century?
Question: Who was named head of the royal council in the 16th century
Question: Who avoided giving the title of Prime Minister to their chief ministers?
Question: When did the modern usage of prime minister come into being?
Answer: 18th century
Question: Who was referenced as prime minister in a negative manner when the term was first used in its modern sense?
Answer: Sir Robert Walpole
Question: What came into use in the 1800's?
Question: Who was the first person to be called Prime Minister?
Question: What title is no longer honorific?
Question: What term was used negatively in the 1800's?
Question: Who occupied the role that would later become prime minister under Henry VIII?
Answer: Thomas Cromwell
Question: Who held the equivalent of the post of prime minister under Queen Anne?
Answer: Godolphin
Question: Who served as the head minister under Charles II?
Answer: Clarendon
Question: Who did the monarchs of England and the United Kingdom not trust?
Question: What position did Thomas Cromwell hold under Queen Anne?
Question: Who was responsible for naming people to serve in the cabinet?
Answer: the monarch
Question: What majority was the prime minister dependent on?
Question: What body did the monarch have no control over?
Question: What body had life long membership?
Question: Who are the two ministers used by Queen Anne simultaneously?
Answer: Harley and St John
Question: Who was exiled when he lost the favor of the monarch?
Answer: Clarendon
Question: What two ministers fought for power uner Anne?
Question: Who exiled the monarch?
Question: Who did the monarch refuse to have executed?
Question: What 1688 event helped the parliament solidy its power against the monarch?
Answer: Glorious Revolution
Question: What 1689 law contributed to parliament's growing power?
Answer: Bill of Rights
Question: What body was incorporated into the government as a result of the Bill of Rights?
Answer: House of Commons
Question: What war took place in the 1700's?
Question: What war strenthened the monarchs position?
Question: What Revolution took place in the 17th century?
Question: What bill was passed in the 17th century?
Question: What bill gave the monarch the power to establish law and impose taxes?
Question: The reign of which king was a turning point in the growth of the position of prime minister?
Answer: George I
Question: In what year did Queen Anne die?
Answer: 1714
Question: Where was George I's home?
Answer: Hanover
Question: When did George I die?
Question: What language did George speak?
Question: Who did George appoint head of the government?
Question: For how long did Robert Walpole serve as prime minister?
Answer: twenty-one years
Question: What party did Walpole belong to?
Answer: Whig
Question: What concept took shape during Walpole's tenure as prime minister?
Answer: doctrine of cabinet solidarity
Question: What would a minister have to do if he did not publicly support a cabinet policy?
Answer: resign
Question: Who is another prime minister who reiterated the principles of cabinet solidarity?
Answer: Lord Melbourne
Question: Who was the prime minister in the 17th century?
Question: Who waited 21 years to become Prime minister?
Question: Who's opponents packed the House of Commons?
Question: Who did the monarch declare could see him in private?
Question: Aside from Walpole, who else denied that there was no such thing as the prime minister?
Answer: parliamentarians and legal scholars
Question: Which kings tried to get power back to the monarchy?
Answer: George II and George III
Question: During whose government did prime minister first see use on official state documents?
Answer: Benjamin Disraeli
Question: When was the position of prime minister finally formalized?
Answer: 1905
Question: Who tried to prove the exitence of the Prime Minister?
Question: What monarch gave more power to the prime minister?
Question: Who was loyal to the Commons?
Question: What prime minster was mentally ill?
Question: In the U.S. and governments modeled on it, who holds executive power?
Answer: president
Question: What did most countries have by the late 2000's?
Question: Where in the Amaricas has the British system been adopted?
Question: Which non-elected official has held the longest term as prime minister?
Answer: Sheikh Khalifah bin Sulman Al Khalifah
Question: When did Khalifa first take the post of prime minister?
Answer: 1970
Question: What country does Khalifah serve for as prime minister?
Answer: Bahrain
Question: who is the longest serving elected prime minister?
Question: Greece, Finland, Romania and Turkey use what kind of government?
Answer: parliamentary republics
Question: In whic type of government is the leader elected?
Answer: parliamentary republics
Question: What other country besides Greece is a constitutional monarch?
Question: Who is elected in a constitutional monarch?
Question: What is the term for the head of China's government?
Answer: Premier of the State Council
Question: What is another name for the Republic of China?
Answer: Taiwan
Question: Whose consent is not required for the Taiwanese premier to take office?
Answer: legislature
Question: Who is both head of state and the head of government in France?
Question: Who is appointed by the president and approved by the legislature in Taiwan?
Question: What is the term for a situation in which the president and prime minister come from different political parties?
Answer: cohabitation
Question: What can the French parliament cause in order to oust the prime minister?
Answer: resignation of the government
Question: What french official must be approved by the parliment?
Question: what can the prime minister force in order to oust the government in France?
Question: What is it called when the president and and legislature are controlled by the same party
Question: What other considerations are included in the constitution of Bangladesh as regards the prime minister?
Answer: the process of his/her appointment and dismissal
Question: What contry only vaugly outlines the role of prime minister?
Question: What is directly above the premier in the People's Republic of China?
Answer: the National People's Congress
Question: What is the pinyin form of premier?
Answer: Zŏnglĭ
Question: Who is directly below the premier in the People's Republic of China?
Question: When was the Constitution Act passed?
Answer: 1982
Question: The Constitution Act mentions the prime minister in the context of which kinds of other ministers?
Answer: federal and provincial first ministers
Question: What country has completly uncodified constitution?
Question: What document in Canada has allowed for a prime minister since it was drafted?
Question: What act was passed in the 18th century?
Question: What document details the role and abilities given to the prime minister of the Czech Republic?
Answer: constitution
Question: Who's constitution is not clear on how a prime minster should be removed?
Question: When was prime minister first mentioned in a government document in the UK?
Answer: first decade of the twentieth century
Question: Who was the last prime minister to serve simultaneously as Chancellor of the Exchequer?
Answer: Balfour
Question: When did Balfour last hold the titles of prime minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer?
Answer: 1905
Question: Who's constitution is well codefied?
Question: What office did not exist in any form in the UK until the early twentieth century?
Question: Who was the forst prime minister to also be Chancellor of the Exchequer?
Question: When did Balfour leave the offeice of Chancellor of the Exchequer to become Prime Minisater?
Question: When was Thatcher appointed prime minister?
Answer: 1979
Question: When did Thatcher last hold power?
Answer: 1990
Question: What did Margaret Thatcher reconfigure following each general election?
Answer: cabinet
Question: What leader of the cabinet has a limeted term?
Question: What Prime Minister was appointed multiple times?
Question: What is the name of the prime ministerial position in Ireland?
Answer: Taoiseach
Question: From where is the Irish prime minister usually selected?
Answer: the political party that commands majority of seats in the lower house of parliament
Question: When is the Irish Taoiseach renominated?
Answer: after every general election
Question: Who is chosen from the party that hold a minority of seats in the lower hhouse of parliment?
Question: Who is the Taoiseach in the UK?
Question: When is the Taoiseach reelected?
Question: Most parliamentary governments need to have the support of what governmental body?
Answer: lower house of parliament
Question: Which political division does not often utilize its power, if it has any?
Answer: upper houses
Question: What kind of referendum can the lower house of parliament take against the government?
Answer: vote of confidence
Question: What needs the support of the upper house of parliment?
Question: What does the lower house seldom use?
Question: What kind of referendum can the lower house take against the upper house of parliment?
Question: Who can put a stop the parliamentary attempts at dissovling itself in some areas?
Answer: head of state
Question: If the head of state prevents the dissolution of parliament, what needs to happen?
Answer: resignation of the prime minister and his or her government
Question: In contemporary parliamentary governments, which official is usually in charge of asking parliament to dissolve?
Answer: prime minister
Question: who has the power to disolve parliment?
Question: Who can the prime minister damand a resignation from?
Question: what kind of dissalution can parliment request?
Question: When was the convention of prime ministers initiating the dissolution of parliament started?
Answer: 1918
Question: In Ireland, when was the power to dissolve parliament assigned to the prime minister?
Answer: 1937
Question: The 1922 Irish Free State Constitution previously gave what body the power to dissolve parliament?
Answer: the Executive Council
Question: What was the Executive Council an alternate name for?
Answer: cabinet
Question: Who lost the power to request a dissolution of parliment in 1918?
Question: since when has the power to request a dissalution belonged to the whole government?
Question: What does the Executive Council have the power to do in Ireland?
Question: What could the Taoiseach due prior to 1922
Question: What process signals the need for the prime minister to resign in Australia?
Answer: spill motion
Question: What motion requires the head of State to step down in Australia?
Question: Who sucefully stopped a spill motion in Australia?
Question: What is the Israeli term for prime minister?
Answer: Rosh HaMemshalah
Question: What is the term used in spain for prime minister?
Answer: President of the Government (Presidente del Gobierno)
Question: What is the Irish term for prime minister?
Answer: Taoiseach
Question: Who is Chairmen of the government in Ireland?
Question: What is another termfor Rosh HaMemshalah in Russia?
Question: What is the Italian term for the prime minister?
Answer: president of the council of ministers
Question: What is the native term for prime minister in Scandinavia?
Answer: statsminister
Question: What does the title Satsminister refer to in Italy?
Question: Who is nown as the prime minister in federations?
Question: Which countries use the term chancellor to denote the head of government?
Answer: Germany and Austria
Question: What is the head of Monaco's government called?
Answer: Minister of State
Question: What is the term for the highest position in government in Vatican City?
Answer: Secretary of State
Question: What is the head of Iran's government called?
Answer: President
Question: What is the secretary of State in Italy?
Question: Who is head of state and government in Iran?
Question: In what kinds of nations can the head of government attain the title of Excellency?
Answer: non-Commonwealth countries
Question: What honorific title can be given to prime ministers in commonwealth nations?
Answer: Right Honourable
Question: What are British prime ministers part of that grants them the title Right Honourable?
Answer: Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council
Question: What is an example of a country where prime ministers can be called Right Honourable solely because of their position?
Answer: Canada
Question: What is the prime minister entitled to in Commonwealth countries?
Question: Who is called Honourable in non Commonwealth countries?
Question: Who can not be part of the privy council?
Question: What are the heads of government in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland called?
Answer: First Minister
Question: What is the Indian term for Prime Minister?
Answer: Pradhan Mantri
Question: What is the term for prime minister in Pakistan?
Answer: Wazir-e-Azam
Question: What does Wazir-e-Azam mean in English?
Answer: Grand Vizier
Question: what is undeveloped in the UK?
Question: What is the head of government's office called in Canada?
Answer: Office of the Prime Minister
Question: What is the head of government's office called in the UK?
Answer: Cabinet Office
Question: What is the Cabinet in Canada?
Question: What never includes the role of Cabinet?
Question: What istitutions were prestiges in the 1900's
Question: What empire expanded in the 1900's?
Question: Who avoided using the the British model o cabinet government?
Question: In what century did the term polytechnic first show up?
Answer: 19th century
Question: What school founded in 1794 first used a form of the word polytechnic in its name?
Answer: École Polytechnique
Question: What language does the French word polytechnique come from?
Answer: Greek
Question: What word means the same thing as "institute of technology"?
Answer: polytechnic
Question: What was the first institute of technology in the world?
Answer: the Berg-Schola
Question: What war led to the increased popularity of institutes of technology and polytechnics?
Answer: World War II
Question: What was the founding name of the Braunschweig University of Technology?
Answer: Collegium Carolinum
Question: In what year was the École Polytechnique founded?
Answer: 1794
Question: What kind of institutions do countries like Germany and Switzerland consider institutes of technology to be?
Answer: institutions of higher education
Question: In what year were polytechnics in the UK given the university designation?
Answer: 1992
Question: What is the name of the Royal Polytechnic Institution now?
Answer: University of Westminster
Question: What street is the University of Westminster on?
Answer: Regent Street
Question: What term was used in some countries to describe select universities that focus on technological education in applied science and engineering?
Answer: polytechnics
Question: What name did some universities switch to in the 1990s for marketing purposes?
Answer: University of Technology
Question: What system were institutes of technology a part of during the seventies, eighties, and early nineties?
Answer: College of Advanced Education system
Question: What's the four-letter abbreviation for technically minded technical and further education institutes?
Answer: TAFE
Question: What is the new name of the Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE?
Answer: Melbourne Polytechnic
Question: TAFE Tasmania started a three-year restructuring in what year?
Answer: 2009
Question: What's the German word for a tertiary education institution?
Answer: Fachhochschule
Question: In addition to Bachelor's degrees, what other kind of degree can one earn from a Fachhochschule?
Answer: master's degrees
Question: What term is used in Belgium and the Netherlands to refer to an institution like a German Fachhochschule?
Answer: hogeschool
Question: What term refers to the process that a hogeschool undergoes before it's able to award Master's degrees?
Answer: academization
Question: How many institutes of technology in the Netherlands have converted into full-fledged universities in the past few decades?
Answer: four
Question: How many Technical Universities are there in the Netherlands today?
Answer: three
Question: What country has Institutes of Technology/Polytechnic Institutes from which students can earn certificates, diplomas, and degrees?
Answer: Cambodia
Question: What are polytechnic divisions of national universities called in Canada?
Answer: Affiliate Schools
Question: In what city is the École Polytechnique de Montréal located?
Answer: Quebec
Question: In addition to private equity and industry sources, what's a third source of research funding for institutions of higher learning in Canada?
Answer: public funding
Question: What is Canada's national alliance of 11 research-focused schools called?
Answer: Polytechnics Canada
Question: What kind of projects does Polytechnics Canada sponsor that can lead to technology commercialization?
Answer: collaborative institute-industry projects
Question: In what year was the Imperial Tientsin University founded in China?
Answer: 1895
Question: What was the first university to offer courses in liberal arts?
Answer: Capital University
Question: What portion of China's elite universities still have a primary polytechnical focus today?
Answer: half
Question: What year did Croatia pass a law regarding polytechnic education?
Answer: 1997
Question: What institution is in charge of tracking volcanic activity in the Galápagos Islands?
Answer: The Geophysics Institute
Question: What school oversees the Quito Astronomical Observatory?
Answer: National Polytechnic School
Question: When was the Quito Astronomical Observatory founded?
Answer: 1873
Question: EPN's Nuclear Science Department is among how many of its kind in Ecuador?
Answer: one
Question: If the mission is achieved, professionals will apply what they've learned to what goal?
Answer: the country's development
Question: MIT raised money to cover tuition, room and board for what number of students?
Answer: 50
Question: What's the equivalent of Universities of Technology in French-speaking areas?
Answer: Instituts de technologie
Question: How many credits were needed for an M.Sc. (Tech.) degree before the Bologna Process?
Answer: 180
Question: How many credits were needed for an M.Sc. from a traditional university prior to the Bologna Process?
Answer: 160
Question: In what country are polytechnic schools designated uniquely from academic universities?
Answer: Finland
Question: What word means polytechnic school in Finnish?
Answer: ammattikorkeakoulus
Question: What's the Swedish word for a polytechnic school?
Answer: yrkeshögskola
Question: Universities that encompass several engineering schools provide curricula in sciences and what other field?
Answer: technology
Question: What are an institute of technology called in France?
Answer: institut universitaire de technologie
Question: What's the three-letter acronym for institut universitaire de technologie?
Answer: IUT
Question: What's the term in German for what those in French-speaking Switzerland call haute école specialisée?
Answer: Fachhochschule
Question: In Eastern Europe, what is the word for an institute of technology?
Answer: Polytechnicum
Question: What century in France's history included the French École polytechnique that influenced education systems in other countries?
Answer: 18th
Question: What term in Brasil and Spain refers to a polytechnic institute?
Answer: Escola Politécnica
Question: Fachhochschulen first came about in the early years of what decade?
Answer: 1970s
Question: Fachhochschulen favor an education in what, as opposed to research?
Answer: teaching
Question: In addition to technology, Fachhochschulen offer courses in social science, medicine, design, and what other discipline?
Answer: business
Question: What's the abbreviation for a Technische Universität?
Answer: TU
Question: What's the main focus of a Technische Universität?
Answer: research
Question: How many Technische Universitäten make up the TU9 German Institutes of Technology?
Answer: nine
Question: What's the approximate number of students in Germany who are enrolled in a university of technology?
Answer: 290,000
Question: Which German state has the highest ratio of universities of technology to standard universities?
Answer: Saxony
Question: What's the joint project of TU Clausthal, TU Braunschweig, and the University of Hanover called?
Answer: Niedersächsische Technische Hochschule
Question: What's the name of the Act that changed how Greek public institutes of technology were designated?
Answer: Higher Education Reform Act
Question: What was the very first polytechnic school in Hong Kong?
Answer: The Hong Kong Polytechnic
Question: What was the original name of Hong Kong Polytechnic?
Answer: Hong Kong Technical College
Question: In what year was the City Polytechnic of Hong Kong founded?
Answer: 1984
Question: What Hong Kong university was created in 1991?
Answer: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Question: When did the two polytechnic schools in Hong Kong receive status as universities?
Answer: 1994
Question: What kind of mining did the world's first institute of technology prepare students for?
Answer: copper
Question: What's the founding year of the first institute of technology ever?
Answer: 1735
Question: Who established the Berg-Schola?
Answer: Court Chamber of Vienna
Question: How many government-affiliated institutes of technology are there in India?
Answer: 30
Question: What organization oversees India's technical education institutions?
Answer: AICTE
Question: What's the name of the diploma awarded in India for technical or vocational coursework?
Answer: Diploma in Engineering
Question: Rather than four-year Bachelor's degrees, Politeknik offer a diploma after how many years?
Answer: three
Question: What was the original name of Ireland's Institute of Technology system?
Answer: Regional Technical College
Question: What Irish institute of technology evolved independently of the Regional Technical College System?
Answer: Dublin Institute of Technology
Question: What term in higher education refers to technical universities that award engineering degrees?
Answer: Politecnico
Question: Traditionally, how many Politecnici were there?
Answer: two
Question: What city houses the headquarters of the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia?
Answer: Genoa
Question: What college was the forerunner for the engineering faculty at the University of Tokyo?
Answer: Imperial College of Engineering
Question: What area of discipline do Japan's institutes of technology specialize in?
Answer: sciences
Question: What country has operated polytechnic institutes for nearly 44 years?
Answer: Malaysia