huutuan/long_squad_v2 huggingface dataset:
Question: Which treaty did Russia sign in order to give land and gain peace during World War II?
Question: What war resulted in Russia growing further during 1918?
Question: What numbered meeting of the All-Russian Congress of Soviets occurred on January 25, 1981?
Question: Which oblast was broken up in 1943?
Answer: Karachay Autonomous Oblast
Question: Where were the Karachays sent after their oblast was broken up?
Answer: Central Asia
Question: Which SSR received the land of the Karachays' oblast?
Answer: the Georgian SSR
Question: Who broke up the Karachays' oblast?
Answer: Joseph Stalin
Question: Who eliminated the Karachay Autonomous Oblast?
Answer: Joseph Stalin
Question: When was the Karachay Autonomous Oblast ended?
Answer: 1943
Question: To where were the Karachays exiled?
Answer: Central Asia
Question: Why were the Karachays exiled?
Answer: alleged collaboration with the Germans
Question: What republic was the territory of the Karachay Autonomous Oblast transferred to?
Answer: Georgian SSR
Question: Which oblast was kept together in 1943?
Question: Where were the Karachays not sent after their oblast was broken up?
Question: Which SSR rejected the land of the Karachays' oblast?
Question: Who didn't break up the Karachays' oblast?
Question: When was the Karachay Autonomous Oblast not ended?
Question: On what date was the RSFSR established?
Answer: November 7, 1917
Question: What event led to the establishment of the RSFSR?
Answer: October Revolution
Question: In what year was the Constitution adopted?
Answer: 1918
Question: The Treaty on the Creation of the USSR was signed in what year?
Answer: 1922
Question: On what date was the RSFSR abolished?
Question: What event led to the abolishment of the RSFSR?
Question: In what year was the Constitution rejected?
Question: The Treaty on the Creation of the USSR was not signed in what year?
Question: What year was the first Constitution not adopted?
Question: How much of the USSR's electricity was produced in the RSFSR?
Answer: two-thirds
Question: What two countries produced more petroleum than Russia in 1961?
Answer: the United States and Saudi Arabia
Question: How many students were in institutions of higher education in Russia in 1974?
Answer: 23,941,000
Question: How many institutions of higher education did Russia possess in 1974?
Answer: 475
Question: In how many languages were students in institutions of higher education being educated in 1974?
Answer: 47
Question: How much of the USSR's electricity was delayed in the RSFSR?
Question: What two countries produced less petroleum than Russia in 1961?
Question: How many students were in institutions of lower education in Russia in 1974?
Question: How many institutions of high school did Russia possess in 1974?
Question: In how many languages were students in institutions of high school being educated in 1974?
Question: On what date was the Declaration of State Sovereignty adopted?
Answer: June 12, 1990
Question: Who became president on June 12, 1991?
Answer: Boris Yeltsin
Question: On what date were the Belavezha Accords signed?
Answer: December 8, 1991
Question: When did the Russian Parliament ratify the Belavezha Accords?
Answer: December 12
Question: What agreement did the Belavezha Accords supersede?
Answer: 1922 Treaty on the Creation of the USSR
Question: On what date was the Declaration of State Sovereignty rejected?
Question: Who became prime minister on June 12, 1991?
Question: On what date were the Belavezha Accords rejected?
Question: When did the Russian Parliament reject the Belavezha Accords?
Question: What agreement did the Belavezha Accords superimpose?
Question: What was the new name given to the RSFSR on December 25, 1991?
Answer: Russian Federation
Question: On what date was the USSR dissolved?
Answer: December 26, 1991
Question: What body was responsible for the dissolution of the USSR?
Answer: Soviet of Nationalities
Question: What house of the Supreme Soviet was not functioning as of December 26, 1991?
Answer: Soviet of the Union
Question: What was one right of the Soviet government that the government of Russia assumed?
Answer: UN membership
Question: What was the new name given to the RSFSR on November 25, 1991
Question: On what date was the USSR resolved?
Question: What body was responsible for the solution of the USSR?
Question: What house of the Supreme Soviet was functioning as of December 26, 1991?
Question: What was one right of the Soviet government that the citizens of Russia assumed?
Question: On what date was the state named the Soviet Russian Republic?
Answer: January 25, 1918
Question: What body renamed the state the Soviet Russian Republic?
Answer: All-Russian Congress of Soviets
Question: When was the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk signed?
Answer: March 3, 1918
Question: The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ceded land to what state?
Answer: Germany
Question: What document renamed the state the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic?
Answer: Russian Constitution of 1918
Question: On what date was the state named the Soviet Communist Republic?
Question: What head renamed the state the Soviet Russian Republic?
Question: When was the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk rejected?
Question: The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk took land from what state?
Question: What person renamed the state the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic?
Question: What treaty resulted in the recognition of the RSFSR by Latvia and other states?
Answer: Treaty of Tartu
Question: Along with Estonia, Latvia, Finland and Lithuania, what state recognized the RSFSR in 1920?
Answer: Irish Republic
Question: What treaty resulted in the nonrecognition of the RSFSR by Latvia and other states?
Question: Along with Estonia, Latvia, Finland and Lithuania, what state went didn't recognize the RSFSR in 1920?
Question: What year was the RSFSW nor recognized as an independent state?
Question: What didn't happen in 1920?
Question: Which countries refused to recognize the RSFSR?
Question: Technically, what type of state was Russia?
Answer: republic
Question: What was the largest republic in the Soviet Union?
Answer: Russia
Question: What was the uncommon name of the Soviet Union?
Question: Technically, what type of state wasn't Russia?
Question: What was the smallest republic in the Soviet Union?
Question: Which republic was the least developed?
Question: Which republic was the least powerful?
Question: What percentage of the RSFSR was made up of plains?
Answer: 70%
Question: In what part of the RSFSR did tundra mainly exist?
Answer: the east
Question: Along with petroleum and iron ore, what resource was abundant in the RSFSR?
Answer: natural gas
Question: What percentage of the RSFSR wasn't made up of plains?
Question: In what part of the RSFSR did tundra mainly not exist?
Question: Along with petroleum and iron ore, what resource was depleted in the RSFSR?
Question: What scarce resources are there?
Question: Where are the desert regions mainly concentrated?
Question: On what date was the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR passed?
Answer: December 30, 1922
Question: What body passed the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR?
Answer: First Congress of the Soviets of the USSR
Question: Along with the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, what state joined Russia to form the Soviet Union?
Answer: Transcaucasian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic
Question: On what date was the 1924 Soviet Constitution adopted?
Answer: January 31, 1924
Question: What body adopted the 1924 Soviet Constitution?
Answer: the Second Congress of Soviets of the USSR
Question: On what date was the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR rejected?
Question: What body rejected the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR?
Question: Along with the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, what state didn't join Russia to form the Soviet Union?
Question: On what date was the 1942 Soviet Constitution adopted?
Question: What body rejected the 1924 Soviet Constitution?
Question: During what span was there a famine in the Soviet Union?
Answer: 1932–1933
Question: What document was ratified on December 5, 1936?
Answer: the 1936 Soviet Constitution
Question: What were the Kazakh ASSR and Kirghiz ASSR renamed per the 1936 Soviet Constitution?
Answer: the Kazakh and Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republics
Question: What republic did the Karakalpak Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic become a part of?
Answer: the Uzbek SSR
Question: What effect did the 1936 Soviet Constitution have on the size of the Russia?
Answer: reduced
Question: During what span was there a feast in the Soviet Union?
Question: What document was rejected on December 5, 1936?
Question: What were the Kazakh ASSR and Kirghiz ASSR not named per the 1936 Soviet Constitution?
Question: What republic did the Karakalpak Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic cease being a part of?
Question: What effect did the 1963 Soviet Constitution have on the size of the Russia?
Question: What was Soviet Russia called as of 1937?
Answer: the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Question: What document changed the name of Russia in 1937?
Answer: the Russian Constitution of 1937
Question: What was Soviet Russia not called as of 1937?
Question: What was Soviet Russia called as of 1973?
Question: What document changed the name of Russia in 1973?
Question: What document kept the name of Russia in 1937?
Question: The final name for the republic during the Soviet era was rejected by the Russian Constitution of 1937
Question: What state was dissolved on March 3, 1944?
Answer: the Chechen-Ingush ASSR
Question: Who ordered the deportation of the residents of the Chechen-Ingush ASSR?
Answer: Stalin
Question: Why were the residents of the Chechen-Ingush ASSR deported?
Answer: accusations of collaboration with the invaders and separatism
Question: Along with the RSFSR, what republic received territory from the former Chechen-Ingush ASSR?
Answer: Georgian SSR
Question: What state was created on March 3, 1944?
Question: Who ordered the naturalization of the residents of the Chechen-Ingush ASSR?
Question: Why were the residents of the Chechen-Ingush ASSR not deported?
Question: Along with the RSFSR, what republic didn't receive territory from the former Chechen-Ingush ASSR?
Question: What state was dissolved on March 4, 1943?
Question: What was the Tuvan People's Republic renamed when it joined the RSFSR?
Answer: Tuvan Autonomous Oblast
Question: On what date did the Tuvan People's Republic join the Russian SFSR?
Answer: October 11, 1944
Question: What did the former Tuvan People's Republic become in 1961?
Answer: an Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
Question: What was the Tuvan People's Republic renamed when it exited the RSFSR?
Question: On what date did the Tuvan People's Republic leave the Russian SFSR?
Question: What did the former Tuvan People's Republic become in 1916?
Question: What happened on October 11, 1941?
Question: What wasn't renamed to Tuvan Autonomous Oblast?
Question: Along with Estonia, what country was taken over by the Russian SFSR in 1944?
Answer: Latvia
Question: What modern districts of Estonia and Latvia were annexed by the RSFSR in 1944?
Answer: Pechorsky and Pytalovsky Districts
Question: Near what town did the RSFSR annex territory in 1944?
Answer: Ivangorod
Question: Along with Estonia, what country was left alone by the Russian SFSR in 1944?
Question: What modern districts of Estonia and Latvia were annexed by the RSFSR in 1934?
Question: Near what town did the RSFSR leave territory in 1944?
Question: What happened to Estonia and Latvia in 1494?
Question: Along with Latvia, what country was traded over by the Russian SFSR in 1944?
Question: Along with Sakhalin Island, what islands were occupied by the Soviets after the Second World War?
Answer: Kuril Islands
Question: What administrative division did Sakhalin Island become a part of?
Answer: the RSFSR
Question: The ownership of what islands are disputed with Japan?
Answer: the southernmost Kurils
Question: Along with Sakhalin Island, what islands were occupied by the Soviets after the First World War?
Question: Along with Sakhalin Island, what islands were not occupied by the Soviets after the Second World War?
Question: What administrative division did Sakhalin Island not become a part of?
Question: What military division did Sakhalin Island become a part of?
Question: The ownership of what islands are not disputed with Japan?
Question: On what date was Kaliningrad Oblast annexed?
Answer: April 17, 1946
Question: What province of Germany did Kaliningrad Oblast form a part of?
Answer: East Prussia
Question: What administrative division did Kaliningrad Oblast become a part of?
Answer: the Russian SFSR
Question: On what date was Kaliningrad Oblast trade away?
Question: On what date was Kaliningrad Ozarks annexed?
Question: What state of Germany did Kaliningrad Oblast form a part of?
Question: What province of Germany did Kaliningrad Oblast cease to be a part of?
Question: What administrative division did Kaliningrad Oblast leave?
Question: Who was demoted on February 8, 1955?
Answer: Malenkov
Question: To what position was Malenkov demoted?
Answer: deputy Prime Minister
Question: What position was held by Nikita Khrushchev?
Answer: First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party
Question: Who benefited from the demotion of Malenkov?
Answer: Nikita Khrushchev
Question: Who was promoted on February 8, 1955?
Question: Who was demoted on February 8, 1945?
Question: To what position was Malenkov promoted?
Question: What position wasn't held by Nikita Khrushchev?
Question: Who benefited from the promotion of Malenkov?
Question: When was the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic transferred from the Georgian SSR?
Answer: January 9, 1957
Question: What territory was transferred along with the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic?
Answer: Karachay Autonomous Oblast
Question: Who transferred the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in 1957?
Answer: Khrushchev
Question: To what republic was the Karachay Autonomous Oblast transferred in 1957?
Answer: the Russian SFSR
Question: What republic had the Karachay Autonomous Oblast previously been a part of?
Answer: the Georgian SSR
Question: When was the Chechen-Irish Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic transferred from the Georgian SSR?
Question: What territory was kept along with the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic?
Question: Who transferred the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in 1975?
Question: To what republic was the Karachay Autonomous Oblast kept from in 1957?
Question: What republic had the Karachay Autonomous Oblast previously not been a part of?
Question: Who lost power in 1964?
Answer: Nikita Khrushchev
Question: Who assumed a position of power in 1964?
Answer: Leonid Brezhnev
Question: When did Leonid Brezhnev die?
Answer: 1982
Question: Whose assumption of power ended the era of stagnation?
Answer: Mikhail Gorbachev
Question: How did Mikhail Gorbachev end the era of stagnation?
Answer: introduced liberal reforms in Soviet society
Question: Who lost power in 1946?
Question: Who assumed a position of power in 1946?
Question: When did Leonard Brezhnev die?
Question: Whose assumption of power continued the era of stagnation?
Question: How did Mikhail Gorbachev begin the era of stagnation?
Question: On what date was the Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Russian SFSR adopted?
Answer: June 12, 1990
Question: What body passed the Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Russian SFSR?
Answer: the Congress of People's Deputies of the Republic
Question: What was the name of the period inaugurated by the passage of the Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Russian SFSR?
Answer: the "War of Laws"
Question: What government was the Russian Federation fighting against during this period?
Answer: the Soviet Union
Question: On what date was the Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Russian SFSR rejected?
Question: What body rejected the Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Russian SFSR?
Question: What was the name of the period ended by the passage of the Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Russian SFSR?
Question: What government was the Russian Federation fighting alongside during this period?
Question: What government was the Russian Federation not fighting against during this period?
Question: On what date was the office of President of the RSFSR created?
Answer: March 17, 1991
Question: Who was the first President of the RSFSR?
Answer: Boris Yeltsin
Question: Who was the President of the Soviet Union in 1991?
Answer: Mikhail Gorbachev
Question: On what date did the first election for President of the RSFSR occur?
Answer: June 12
Question: During what period was there an attempted coup in Moscow?
Answer: August 19–21, 1991
Question: On what date was the office of President of the RSFSR not created?
Question: Who wasn't the first President of the RSFSR?
Question: Who was the President of the Soviet Union in 1919?
Question: On what date did the second election for President of the RSFSR occur?
Question: During what period was there an attempted coup in Kiev?
Question: On what date was the Communist Party of the Russian SFSR suspended?
Answer: August 23
Question: Who signed the decree suspending the Communist Party of the Russian SFSR?
Answer: Yeltsin
Question: On what date was the Communist Parties of the USSR banned from operating in the RSFSR?
Answer: November 6
Question: Aside from Yeltsin, what notable figure was present at the signing of the August 23 decree?
Answer: Gorbachev
Question: On what date was the Communist Party of the Russian SFSR upheld?
Question: Who didn't sign the decree suspending the Communist Party of the Russian SFSR?
Question: Who signed the decree upholding the Communist Party of the Russian SFSR?
Question: On what date was the Socialist Parties of the USSR banned from operating in the RSFSR?
Question: Aside from Yeltsin, what notable figure was present at the signing of the August 3 decree?
Question: On what date was the Agreement on the Establishment of the Commonwealth of Independent States signed?
Answer: December 8, 1991
Question: What is another name for the Agreement on the Establishment of the Commonwealth of Independent States?
Answer: Belavezha Accords
Question: What body ratified the Belavezha Accords on December 12?
Answer: the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR
Question: The Belavezha Accords consisted of how many articles?
Answer: fourteen
Question: In what country is Viskuli not located?
Question: On what date was the Agreement on the Establishment of the Commonwealth of Independent States rejected?
Question: What isn't another name for the Agreement on the Establishment of the Commonwealth of Independent States?
Question: What body ratified the Belavezha Accords on December 21?
Question: What body rejected the Belavezha Accords on December 12?
Question: When did the Russian Federation assume the Soviet Union's membership in the UN?
Answer: December 24
Question: On what day did Gorbachev give up the presidency of the Soviet Union?
Answer: December 25
Question: What was the new name given to the Russian SFSR after the resignation of Gorbachev?
Answer: the Russian Federation
Question: Who was the first president of the Russian Federation?
Answer: Yeltsin
Question: In what periodical was the new sovereign status of the Russian Federation first published?
Answer: Rossiyskaya Gazeta
Question: When did the Russian Federation reject the Soviet Union's membership in the UN?
Question: On what day did Gorbachev keep the presidency of the Soviet Union?
Question: What was the new name given to the Russian SFSR after the killing of Gorbachev?
Question: Who wasn't the first president of the Russian Federation?
Question: In what periodical was the new sovereign status of the Russian Federation last published?
Question: What was the government of the RSFSR called up to 1946?
Answer: the Council of People's Commissars
Question: What was the RSFSR government called starting in 1946?
Answer: Council of Ministers
Question: When the Soviet Union ended in 1991, what was the RSFSR government called?
Answer: Council of Ministers–Government
Question: Who led the first government of the RSFSR?
Answer: Vladimir Lenin
Question: Who led the final government of the RSFSR?
Answer: Boris Yeltsin
Question: What was the government of the RSFSR called up to 1964?
Question: What was the RSFSR government called starting in 1964?
Question: When the Soviet Union started in 1991, what was the RSFSR government called?
Question: Who rejected the first government of the RSFSR?
Question: Who rejected the final government of the RSFSR?
Question: What political organization controlled the RSFSR up to 1991?
Answer: the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Question: What event prompted the end to the control of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in the RSFSR?
Answer: the abortive 1991 August coup
Question: Who suspended the Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic?
Answer: Yeltsin
Question: What political organization controlled the RSFSR up to 1919?
Question: What political organization didn't control the RSFSR up to 1991?
Question: What event prompted the start of the control of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in the RSFSR?
Question: Who didn't suspend the Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic?
Question: Who suspended the Socialist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic?
Question: What year did Bell die?
Answer: 1922
Question: What was special about his telephone?
Answer: practical
Question: What is Bell's full name?
Answer: Alexander Graham Bell
Question: What is Bell famous for inventing?
Answer: telephone
Question: What was interesting about his mother and wife?
Answer: deaf
Question: What year did Bell get the patent for his telephone?
Answer: 1876
Question: In what country did Bell patent his telephone?
Answer: U.S.
Question: What did Bell never put in his study?
Answer: telephone
Question: Bell was the second president of what magazine?
Answer: National Geographic Society
Question: What field did Bell later work in, apart from optical telecommunications and aeronautics?
Answer: hydrofoils
Question: What year did Bell become President of the National Geographic magazine?
Answer: 1898
Question: What material marks Bells family  home as his birthplace?
Answer: stone
Question: What disease did his two brothers die of?
Answer: tuberculosis
Question: At what age did Bell ask for a middle name?
Answer: 10
Question: What did those close to him call Bell?
Answer: Aleck
Question: Who was Bell's closest friend as a child?
Answer: Ben Herdman
Question: What sort of mill did Bell's neighbors run?
Answer: flour
Question: Bell's dehusking machine combined what with nail brushes?
Answer: rotating paddles
Question: What was Bell's reward for his dehusking machine?
Answer: small workshop
Question: What did Bell succeed at without being taught?
Answer: piano
Question: How old was Bell when his mom started to go deaf?
Answer: 12
Question: What part of his mom's head would Bell talk into?
Answer: forehead
Question: What did Bell research because of his mom's deafness?
Answer: acoustics
Question: What was Bell's father most famous for publishing?
Answer: The Standard Elocutionist
Question: Bell learned to accurately read lips even without knowing what?
Answer: pronunciation
Question: The Standard Elocutionist was printed how many times?
Answer: 168
Question: What school did Bell leave at 15?
Answer: Royal High School
Question: What was Bell's favorite subject?
Answer: biology
Question: How old was Bell when he became a "pupil-teacher"?
Answer: 16
Question: In what year did Bell's father take him to see an automaton?
Answer: 1863
Question: Who created the automaton Bell saw?
Answer: Sir Charles Wheatstone
Question: What did the automaton mimic?
Answer: human voice
Question: Bell built his own automaton with who?
Answer: Melville
Question: What part of the automaton did Bell create?
Answer: skull
Question: What living thing did Bell use in his research?
Answer: Skye Terrier
Question: What was Bell's pet's name?
Answer: Trouve
Question: What phrase did people believe Bell's dog could say?
Answer: How are you grandma?
Question: Bell investigated resonance using what?
Answer: tuning forks
Question: What did Bell  instruct his dog to do?
Answer: growl continuously
Question: What country was doing work similar to Bell's?
Answer: Germany
Question: Who wrote The Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music?
Answer: Hermann von Helmholtz
Question: How old was Bell when he wrote his paper?
Answer: 19
Question: What fictional character is based on Alexander Ellis?
Answer: Professor Henry Higgins
Question: What else besides vowels did Bell decide could be created?
Answer: consonants
Question: What language was Bell happy he couldn't read?
Answer: German
Question: What did Bell think he didn't know well enough?
Answer: electricity
Question: Where did Bell go in work in 1865?
Answer: Weston House
Question: What building was Bell in?
Answer: Somerset College
Question: How did Bell sign his letters?
Answer: A.G. Bell
Question: In what year did Bell move home?
Answer: 1867
Question: What city is Susanna E. Hull located in?
Answer: South Kensington
Question: What sort of student attended Susanna E. Hull?
Answer: deaf
Question: Who died in 1870?
Answer: Melville
Question: Where did Bell's father go to recover from illness?
Answer: Newfoundland
Question: What did Bell help his final student get rid of?
Answer: lisp
Question: What boat did Bell travel on?
Answer: SS Nestorian
Question: In what Canadian city did Bell first arrive?
Answer: Quebec City
Question: What city did Bell arrive at by train?
Answer: Paris
Question: How many acres was the farm the Bell's bought in Canada?
Answer: 10.5
Question: What did Bell call his special spot in the back of the property?
Answer: dreaming place
Question: What Native American language did Bell learn?
Answer: Mohawk
Question: What special status did Bell get in the Mohawk tribe?
Answer: Honorary Chief
Question: Where was the Six Nations Reserve located?
Answer: Onondaga
Question: What is a melodeon a kind of?
Answer: pump organ
Question: When did Bell go to Montreal?
Answer: 1871
Question: Who went with Bell to Montreal?
Answer: father
Question: How did Bell's reworked melodeon send music?
Answer: electrically
Question: What name does the Boston School for Deaf Mutes go by now?
Answer: the public Horace Mann School for the Deaf
Question: What month did Bell go to Boston?
Answer: April
Question: Bell trained who in Boston?
Answer: instructors
Question: What city was the American Asylum in?
Answer: Hartford
Question: For  his system to work, Bell had to change what about each code?
Answer: pitch
Question: Bell needed to fix both the transmitter and what?
Answer: receiver
Question: Where was Bell's home?
Answer: Brantford
Question: In what year did Bell open his own school?
Answer: 1872
Question: How many people were in Bell's first class?
Answer: 30
Question: Which of Bell's students is the most well known?
Answer: Helen Keller
Question: Bell's goal was to instruct the deaf to speak and not use what?
Answer: sign language
Question: What would happen so some children's hands in schools?
Answer: tied behind their backs
Question: In what light to many pro-deaf people see Bell?
Answer: negative
Question: What was the only language many deaf people had?
Answer: signing
Question: With what school did Bell get his next teaching job?
Answer: Boston University School of Oratory.
Question: What was Bell's discipline?
Answer: Vocal Physiology and Elocution
Question: What did Bell do late at night?
Answer: experiments
Question: What health condition did Bell start to have?
Answer: headaches
Question: In what year did Bell start to focus on research into sound?
Answer: 1873
Question: Bell's two remaining students were "Georgie" Sanders and who?
Answer: Mabel Hubbard
Question: What was Georgie's father's name?
Answer: Thomas Sanders
Question: What disease made Mabel deaf?
Answer: scarlet fever
Question: How old was Mabel when she became deaf?
Answer: 15
Question: What kind of reed did Bell want to play with?
Answer: metal
Question: What did Bell believe the reeds would turn the signal into?
Answer: sound
Question: What instrument is a phonautograph similar to?
Answer: pen
Question: In what year was Bell really working on his telegraph?
Answer: 1874
Question: In 1874 the telegraph was known as the what of commerce?
Answer: nervous system
Question: What was the primary motivation for not building new telegraph lines?
Answer: cost
Question: Thomas Edison and what other scientist were already asked to work on a better telegraph?
Answer: Elisha Gray
Question: Who ran the Smithsonian in 1875?
Answer: Joseph Henry
Question: What was Henry's reply to Bell's statement that he lacked information to complete his telegraph?
Answer: Get it!
Question: Who did Bell meet in 1874?
Answer: Thomas A. Watson
Question: What kind of business did Watson work at?
Answer: electrical machine
Question: What month and day did Watson and Bell have a breakthrough?
Answer: June 2
Question: How many reeds did Bell conclude he needed?
Answer: 1
Question: What name was given to the telephone that sort of worked?
Answer: gallows
Question: Who gave money to Bell and Watson?
Answer: Sanders and Hubbard
Question: What did Bell promise to split with his financers?
Answer: U.S. profits
Question: In what country other than the U.S. did Bell try to patent his telegraph?
Answer: Britain
Question: Which country did Bell first try to get a patent?
Answer: Britain
Question: Who did Bell ask to get a patent in Britain?
Answer: George Brown
Question: What kind of telegraph did Bell create?
Answer: acoustic
Question: On what date did Gray and Bell both put in for a patent?
Answer: February 14, 1876
Question: On what day did Bell get to Washington?
Answer: February 26
Question: What office in Washington did Bell and Gray visit?
Answer: U.S. Patent Office
Question: What sort of machine did Bell and Gray both try to patent at the same time?
Answer: telephone
Question: On what date did Bell get his patent?
Answer: March 7, 1876
Question: Bell's patent was for the method and what for transmitting vocal and other sounds telegraphically?
Answer: apparatus
Question: On what day did Bell go back to Boston?
Answer: March 7, 1876
Question: Bell sketched a design that looked like the work of who?
Answer: Gray
Question: How did Bell refer to his partner in his well known line?
Answer: Mr. Watson
Question: What did the vibrations cause to change?
Answer: electrical resistance
Question: Bell stopped using the liquid-based method after what month?
Answer: March
Question: Bell used his own design in all public demonstrations and what?
Answer: commercial use
Question: When did Bell put in his prior patent?
Answer: February 25, 1875
Question: What liquid did Bell use in his first application?
Answer: mercury
Question: Who declared himself an alcoholic?
Answer: Zenas Fisk Wilber
Question: In what war did Wilber and Bailey fight together?
Answer: Civil War
Question: How much did Wilber say Bell gave him in order to look at Gray's paperwork?
Answer: $100
Question: What did Bell only admit to knowing in a letter?
Answer: technical details
Question: Bell sent messages over wires hooked onto telegraph lines and what?
Answer: fences
Question: What did the group at the Bells house hear other people doing?
Answer: reading and singing
Question: How much did Bell et al. try to sell his patent for?
Answer: $100,000
Question: Who did Bell et al. try to sell his patent to?
Answer: Western Union
Question: What did the President think the telephone was, such that he refused to buy the patent?
Answer: a toy
Question: How much the the President of Western Union want to pay for the patent later on?
Answer: $25 million
Question: In what city was the 1876 Centennial Exposition?
Answer: Philadelphia
Question: What important person saw the telephone at the Centennial Exposition?
Answer: Emperor Pedro II
Question: Pedro II was the Emperor of what Country?
Answer: Brazil
Question: Which Queen did Bell present his invention to?
Answer: Victoria
Question: How many people in the United States had a telephone by 1886?
Answer: 150,000
Question: In what year did Bell get some of Edison's patents?
Answer: 1879
Question: What addition let people stop yelling into the telephone?
Answer: carbon microphone
Question: What company did Bell acquire the carbon microphone from?
Answer: Western Union
Question: In what month and year did Bell telephone across the country?
Answer: January 1915
Question: What company office did Bell make the original cross country phone call from?
Answer: AT&T
Question: What city did Bell make the first cross country call from?
Answer: New York
Question: What city did Bell make the first cross country call to?
Answer: San Francisco
Question: Who was on the other end of the first cross country phone call?
Answer: Thomas Watson
Question: How many times were Bell's patents contested?
Answer: 587
Question: How many of the court cases wound up at the Supreme Court?
Answer: 5
Question: Elisha Gray and what other man were behind many of the court cases?
Answer: Amos Dolbear
Question: In 1887 the US Government wanted to undo Bell's patent due to fraud and what?
Answer: misrepresentation
Question: The US Government lost the bid to overturn Bell's patent in what court?
Answer: Supreme Court
Question: How many years did Bell and the US Government fight in court?
Answer: 9
Question: What excuse did the judges have for the trial despite the fact that the patents had expired?
Answer: precedent
Question: On what date did the US Government stop legal action?
Answer: November 30, 1897
Question: Who claimed to have invented the in 1834?
Answer: Antonio Meucci
Question: How many court trials did Meucci participate in?
Answer: 3
Question: At what company were Meucci's prototypes supposedly lost?
Answer: American District Telegraph (ADT)
Question: In what year did Western Union absorb ADT?
Answer: 1901
Question: What event caused Meucci's trials to be dropped?
Answer: death
Question: Because of their patent, what didn't Siemens & Halske have to give Bell?
Answer: royalties
Question: What was the home city for the International Bell Telephone Company?
Answer: Brussels
Question: In what year was the International Bell Telephone Company founded?
Answer: 1880
Question: Who did Bell marry in 1877?
Answer: Mabel Hubbard
Question: How many children did Bell and Mabel have?
Answer: 4
Question: Where did Bell and his wife go on their honeymoon?
Answer: Europe
Question: Before 1897, what did Bell get most of his money from?
Answer: lectures
Question: In what year did Mabel's father move to Washington D.C.?
Answer: 1880
Question: In what year did Bell acquire a house in D.C.?
Answer: 1882
Question: Where did Bell and Mabel live before 1880?
Answer: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Question: What did Bell have to go to court for in D.C.?
Answer: patent disputes
Question: What was Bell's original nationality?
Answer: British
Question: Besides the US and UK, what other country claims Bell as a citizen?
Answer: Canada
Question: What does Bell call people who are citizens of two countries?
Answer: hyphenated
Question: What Island in Nova Scotia did the Bells go to in 1885?
Answer: Breton Island
Question: In 1886, what lake did Bell start building a house near?
Answer: Bras d'Or
Question: What did the Bells call the house completed in 1889?
Answer: The Lodge
Question: How many people worked for the Bell Boatyard?
Answer: 40
Question: Where did the Bells live when the Halifax Explosion happened?
Answer: Beinn Bhreagh
Question: On what day did the Halifax Explosion happen?
Answer: December 6, 1917
Question: Which of their two homes did the Bells start spending more time as Bell aged?
Answer: Beinn Bhreagh
Question: What city adopted the Bells?
Answer: Baddeck
Question: What did the Bells do to help the victims in Halifax?
Answer: mobilized the community
Question: What series of books does Gray say Bell would go to sleep reading?
Answer: Encyclopædia Britannica
Question: How many solo patents did Bell get?
Answer: 18
Question: How many patents did Bell co-author?
Answer: 12
Question: What type of energy did Bell investigate at the Volta Laboratory?
Answer: magnetic
Question: The magnetic field is part of what sort of recorder?
Answer: tape recorder
Question: What did Bell think could be collected from farm and factory byproduct?
Answer: Methane gas
Question: What kind of toilet did Bell work on?
Answer: composting
Question: Right before his death, what kind of energy did he speculate about?
Answer: solar
Question: Who did Bell invent the cord-free phone with?
Answer: Charles Sumner Tainter
Question: What did Bell's cord-free phone use to transmit messages?
Answer: light
Question: What lab association did Bell and Tainter both eventually join?
Answer: Volta Laboratory Association
Question: In the photophone, light carried sound and what?
Answer: normal human conversations
Question: Bell and his assistant first used their photophone on what date?
Answer: June 21, 1880
Question: How many feet did the first photophone message travel?
Answer: 700
Question: From what building was the first photophone message sent?
Answer: Franklin School
Question: How many years after this photophone message would the first message take place over radio?
Answer: 19
Question: Bell thought the photophone was better than what famous invention?
Answer: telephone
Question: What modern technology takes the next step from the photophone?
Answer: fiber-optic communication
Question: When was fiber-optics first patented?
Answer: 1880
Question: In what decade did fiber-optics become widely used?
Answer: 1980s
Question: What was in James Garfield that they wanted to get out?
Answer: bullet
Question: What did Bell think was wrong with the bed, which prevented his machine from finding the bullet?
Answer: metal bed frame
Question: On which run did Bell's metal detector give a small indication?
Answer: first
Question: When did Bell's metal detector work well?
Answer: in tests
Question: Bell gave his story about trying to find the bullet to the American Association for the Advancement of what?
Answer: Science
Question: Where did Bell go the day after trying to find the bullet?
Answer: Executive Mansion
Question: What kind of mattress was the President directly on?
Answer: horse-hair
Question: Where did Bell indicate that the bullet was too deep for his machine to register?
Answer: footnote
Question: Who wrote the paper laying out hydrofoils and hydroplanes?
Answer: William E. Meacham
Question: What nationality was Meacham?
Answer: American
Question: What did Bell start drawing after reading the article?
Answer: hydrofoil boat
Question: Who helped Bell investigate hydrofoils in 1908?
Answer: Frederick W. "Casey" Baldwin
Question: Which Italian scientist did Baldwin draw inspiration from?
Answer: Enrico Forlanini
Question: What did Baldwin liken the hydrofoil boat to?
Answer: flying
Question: Which boat was first powered by a Renault engine?
Answer: HD-4
Question: Who was on Cygnet I when it crashed?
Answer: Selfridge
Question: Bell's kits were flown from 1907 to what year?
Answer: 1912
Question: How many tetrahedral wings did Bell create?
Answer: 3
Question: Some of the kites remain at what National Historic Site?
Answer: Alexander Graham Bell
Question: What organization did Bell set up due to his interest in aerospace?
Answer: Aerial Experiment Association
Question: When was the AEA founded?
Answer: 1907
Question: Which original member of the AEA held motorcycle speed records?
Answer: Glenn H. Curtiss
Question: Which branch of the military was Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge in?
Answer: army
Question: What material was the Red Wing's frame made of?
Answer: bamboo
Question: What kind of plane was the Red Wing?
Answer: biplane
Question: How many accident-free flights had the AEA taken by 1909?
Answer: 150
Question: Who was the first person to die in a plane crash?
Answer: Selfridge
Question: Who was the first to fly the Silver Dart?
Answer: J.A.D. McCurdy
Question: What professional did Bell make sure was present during the first Silver Dart flight?
Answer: a doctor
Question: What business did Baldwin and McCurdy start after the AEA folded?
Answer: Canadian Aerodrome Company
Question: On what month and day did the Silver Dart take its first flight?
Answer: February 23
Question: What kind of parents did Bell state were more prone to having deaf children?
Answer: congenitally deaf parents
Question: In 1921 the American Museum of Natural History hosted what event?
Answer: Second International Congress of Eugenics
Question: Which biologist ran the Committee on Eugenics?
Answer: David Starr
Question: What did Bell like to do that led to his involvement with eugenics?
Answer: livestock breeding
Question: In what part of the Library of Congress are Bell's papers kept?
Answer: Manuscript Division
Question: Apart from in person, how can one look at many of Bell's papers?
Answer: online
Question: In what university is the Alexander Graham Bell Institute?
Answer: Cape Breton University
Question: In what province is the Alexander Graham Bell Institute located?
Answer: Nova Scotia
Question: Adjusted for inflation, how many dollars were awarded to Bell alongside the Volta Prize?
Answer: $250,000
Question: Victor Hugo and what other author helped judge the Volta Prize in 1880?
Answer: Alexandre Dumas
Question: Who first established the Volta Prize?
Answer: Napoleon Bonaparte
Question: The Volta lab improved the phonograph by replacing tinfoil with what substance?
Answer: wax
Question: Which Bell-founded institution still operates in Georgetown today?
Answer: Volta Bureau
Question: When did Bell cease to be President of the National Geographic Society?
Answer: 1903
Question: What enduring feature of National Geographic did Bell help implement?
Answer: illustrations
Question: What award did Bell win in 1902?
Answer: Albert Medal
Question: What is the most famous statue built for Bell and his creation?
Answer: Bell Telephone Memorial
Question: When was the Bell Telephone Memorial constructed?
Answer: 1917
Question: In what city was the Bell Telephone Memorial constructed?
Answer: Brantford
Question: In which gardens was the Bell Telephone Memorial constructed?
Answer: Alexander Graham Bell Gardens
Question: In 1936, what place did Bell receive on a list of best inventors?
Answer: First
Question: What was created in Bell's image in 1940?
Answer: commemorative stamp
Question: Bell's stamp is part of which line?
Answer: Famous Americans Series
Question: On what date was the stamp officially released?
Answer: October 28
Question: In which city was the stamp officially released?
Answer: Boston
Question: What do the sheep on the Scottish banknote represent?
Answer: genetics
Question: What form of currency did Canada issue to celebrate Bell in 1997?
Answer: C$100 gold coin
Question: In what year did Canada put out a coin to commemorate the Silver Dart?
Answer: 2009
Question: In 2002, where did Bell place in a list of the Greatest Britons?
Answer: 57th
Question: In 2004 Bell was listed in the top how many Greatest Canadians?
Answer: 10
Question: In what Scottish Hall of Fame is Bell listed?
Answer: Scottish Science Hall of Fame
Question: Which institution listed Bell in their Hall of Fame?
Answer: National Library of Scotland
Question: On what day and month did Bell die?
Answer: August 2
Question: Who was the last person to see Bell alive?
Answer: Mabel
Question: In what Province did Bell die?
Answer: Nova Scotia
Question: What kind of wood was Bell's coffin made from?
Answer: Beinn Bhreagh pine
Question: What color silk was used in Bell's coffin?
Answer: red
Question: What color were attendees asked to not wear at Bell's funeral?
Answer: black
Question: Which singer performed at Bell's funeral?
Answer: Jean MacDonald
Question: Bell's living daughters were named Elsie May and what?
Answer: Marian
Question: Over how many years did Bell spend a great deal of time at Beinn Bhreagh?
Answer: 35
Question: What does the bel and decibel measure?
Answer: sound intensity
Question: What lab invented the term "bel."
Answer: Bell Labs
Question: In what field is the Alexander Graham Bell Medal given out?
Answer: telecommunications
Question: What was the first year the Alexander Graham Bell Medal was given out?
Answer: 1976
Question: What is the term 'pub' short for?
Answer: public house
Question: Where in the United States are pubs located?
Answer: New England
Question: What continental European country has pubs?
Answer: Denmark
Question: Other than the United States, where in North America are pubs located?
Answer: Canada
Question: Who said that pubs are the heart of England?
Answer: Samuel Pepys
Question: What Roman businesses were analogous to modern day pubs?
Answer: taverns
Question: What similar establishments existed in the Anglo-Saxon world?
Answer: alehouse
Question: In what century did the tied house system develop?
Answer: 19th century
Question: What are traditional pub windows made out of?
Answer: smoked or frosted glass
Question: What are the windows of 1990s and later pubs often made of?
Answer: clear glass
Question: Aside from beverages, what types of food do pubs typically offer?
Answer: snacks
Question: What is a proper term for the licensee of the pub?
Answer: pub landlord
Question: What was the pub landlord often called in Victorian times?
Answer: publican
Question: What are pubs called by those who regularly visit there?
Answer: locals
Question: Teams for what sport can be found congregating at pubs?
Answer: darts
Question: What gaming tables can often be found in pubs?
Answer: pool or snooker
Question: In what decade did pubs tend to cease selling alcohol for off-premises drinking?
Answer: 1970s
Question: What was the name of the counter where pubs traditionally sold alcohol to drink at home?
Answer: off-sales counter
Question: What was a colloquial term for the off-sales counter?
Answer: the jug and bottle
Question: Along with high street chain stores and off-licenses, what stores undercut pub alcohol sales in the 1970s?
Answer: supermarkets
Question: During what historical epoch did Britons begin drinking ale?
Answer: the Bronze Age
Question: In what century did the Romans arrive in Britain?
Answer: the 1st Century
Question: What was the Latin term for the Roman inns?
Answer: tabernae
Question: In what century did the Romans leave Britain?
Answer: 5th Century
Question: What color bush did an Anglo-Saxon woman raise to indicate that her ale was done brewing?
Answer: green
Question: When did the Hostellers of London become a guild?
Answer: 1446
Question: In what year did the Hostellers of London change their name to the Worshipful Company of Innholders?
Answer: 1514
Question: Where did travelers early in the Middle Ages often find lodgings?
Answer: monasteries
Question: What religious activity was responsible for the growing demand for hostelries?
Answer: pilgrimages
Question: Aside from lodging, what amenities are often offered at inns?
Answer: food and drink
Question: What road is an inn often located near?
Answer: highway
Question: How many thousand years ago did the Romans build their road system?
Answer: two
Question: About how old are the oldest inns in Europe?
Answer: several centuries
Question: What role did inns serve other than housing travelers?
Answer: community gathering places
Question: What amenity does an inn offer that pubs, alehouses and taverns usually do not?
Answer: accommodation
Question: In what nation's pubs is food often served?
Answer: the UK
Question: Along with Southwark and The Tabard, what is a notable London inn?
Answer: The George
Question: In what country is "The Welcome Inn" frequently used as a name for pubs?
Answer: Scotland
Question: Aside from human beings, what creature's needs were traditionally seen to at inns?
Answer: horses
Question: What is the main service of an inn, now also attainable in motels, hotels and lodges?
Answer: lodging
Question: What is the main provision that pubs offer?
Answer: alcohol
Question: What are customers seeking when they visit restaurants or taverns?
Answer: food and drink
Question: What is a noted hotel brand throughout North America?
Answer: Holiday Inn
Question: In the United States, what are operators of lodgings sometimes called?
Answer: innkeepers
Question: Along with the Inns of Chancery, in what inns did British lawyers historically conduct business?
Answer: Inns of Court
Question: In what city are the Inns of Chancery located?
Answer: London
Question: Outside England, what other country does the legal system founded around the Inns of Court operate in?
Answer: Wales