huutuan/long_squad_v2 huggingface dataset:
Question: What religion alleged Freemasons as unnatural and irrational? 
Answer: Catholic
Question: Who was controversial among Freemasons?
Answer: Albert Pike
Question: Who has spoke for all Freemasons?
Answer: No one
Question: Albert Pike's opinions were grounded in what?
Answer: late 19th century Southern Freemasonry of the USA
Question: What are some Protestant rewards to Freemasonry?
Question: Who is always accepted as the voice of Freemasonry?
Question: Who do the Protestant anti-Masons believe is the worst authority on the use of mysticism, Satanism and occultism in Freemasonry?
Question: What was Albert Pike actually more of an amateur in?
Question: What religion alleged Freemasons as omniscient?
Question: What did the Unlawful Socities Act ban?
Answer: meetings of groups that required their members to take an oath or obligation
Question: When was the Unlawful Socities Act implemented?
Answer: 1799
Question: What was each private lodge required to provide to the Clerk of Peace every year?
Answer: a list of the members of his lodge
Question: Who did the Grand Masters call upon to explain that Freemasonry was not an unlawful society?
Answer: Prime Minister William Pitt
Question: English Freemasonry almost came to a halt in what year?
Answer: 1799
Question: Why did English Freemasonry almost come to a halt in 1799?
Answer: Parliamentary proclamation
Question: What act was made in 1799 banning any meeting of groups that had to take an oath or obligation?
Answer: the Unlawful Societies Act 1799
Question: Who gave the Freemasons an exemption of the Act of 1799?
Answer: Prime Minister William Pitt
Question: What year did parliament rescind the exemption of 1799 given to the Freemasons?
Answer: 1967
Question: What put Canadian Freemasonry at risk?
Question: What did the Unlawful Societies Act encourage?
Question: When was the Unlawful Societies Act forgotten?
Question: What was each private lodge required to provide to the Clerk of Peace every week?
Question: Why did English Freemasonry almost come to a halt in 1699?
Question: What are two things that anit-masonry usually associated with?
Answer: antisemitism and anti-Zionism
Question: What year did the Ba'ath Party make Freemasonry a felony?
Answer: 1980
Question: Who wrote that it was not suprising that the blame for 9/11 was trying to be blamed on a masonic world order?
Answer: Professor Andrew Prescott
Question: According to  Professor Andrew Prescott, how long has antisemitism gone together with anti-masonry?
Answer: Since at least the time of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Question: In some countries, anti-Masonry is related to what?
Answer: antisemitism and anti-Zionism
Question: Who change the Iraqi legal and penal code in 1980?
Answer: Saddam Hussein's ruling Ba'ath Party
Question: Who suggested the September 11 attacks on the United States were inspired by a masonic world order?
Answer: Professor Andrew Prescott
Question: What are two things that anti-masonry is always associated with?
Question: What year did the Ba'ath Party make Freemasonry a holiday?
Question: Who wrote that it was shocking that the blame for 9/11 was trying to be blamed on a masonic world order?
Question: Who changed the Iraqi legal and penal code in 1780?
Question: How long has antisemitism been against anti-masonry according to Professor Andrew Prescott?
Question: What is the first degree of Masonry?
Answer: Entered Apprentice
Question: What is the second degree of Masonry?
Answer: Fellowcraft
Question: What is the final degree of Masonry?
Answer: Master Mason
Question: What things come with each new degree in Freemasonry?
Answer: passwords, signs and grips
Question: The bulk of Masonic rituals consist of what?
Answer: degree ceremonies
Question: What is the first of degree ceremonies?
Answer: the degree of Entered Apprentice
Question: What comes after the degree of Entered Apprentice?
Answer: the degree of Fellowcraft
Question: What is the final degree in the Freemasons?
Answer: the degree of Master Mason
Question: What annual ceremony do Freemasons have?
Answer: the annual installation of the Master and officers of the Lodge
Question: What do no masonic rituals consist of?
Question: What is the ninth degree of Masonry?
Question: What is the eighth degree of Masonry?
Question: What is no longer the final degree of Masonry?
Question: What quarterly ceremony do Freemasons have?
Question: When did English Freemasonry arrive in France?
Answer: the 1720s
Question: Who were the first English Freemasons in France?
Answer: lodges of expatriates and exiled Jacobites
Question: When did Freemasonry begin to spread to continental Europe?
Answer: 18th century
Question: Who formed the Grand Loge de France?
Answer: Duke of Clermont
Question: Who was the successor to the Duke of Clermont?
Answer: Duke of Orléans
Question: When did English Freemasonry spread to France?
Answer: the 1720s
Question: When did Freemasonry spread to most of the Continental Europe?
Answer: the 18th century
Question: The Grand Loge de France formed under who?
Answer: the Grand Mastership of the Duke of Clermont
Question: Who was the successor to the Grand Mastership of The Duke of Clermont?
Answer: the Duke of Orléans
Question: When was the central body of the Grand Orient de France reconstituted?
Answer: 1773
Question: When did English Freemasonry end in France?
Question: Who were the only English Freemasons in France?
Question: When did Freemasonry begin to spread to continental Antarctica?
Question: Who destroyed the Grand Loge de France?
Question: When was the central body of the Grand Orient de France lost?
Question: Why was the Centre de Liasion et d'information des Puissances maconniques signataires de l'Appel de Strasbourg set up?
Answer: provides a forum for most of these Grand Lodges and Grand Orients worldwide
Question: When was CLIPSAS set up?
Answer: 1961
Question: What are two major sections of Freemasonry?
Answer: Anglo-American and Continental
Question: What is the Continental Strand consideres to be by most of Freemasonry?
Answer: Irregular
Question: What strand is considered to be irregular by the majority of Freemasons?
Answer: the Liberal (Continental) strand
Question: The CLIPSAS Organization was formed in what year?
Answer: 1961
Question: How many Grand Lodges and Grand Orients are listed in the CLIPSAS list?
Answer: 70
Question: Does the United Grand Lodge of England communicate with any of the 70 lodges on the CLIPSAS list?
Answer: does not communicate
Question: Why was the Centre de Liasion et d'information des Puissances maconniques signataires de l'Appel de Strasbourg removed?
Question: When was CLIPSAS forbidden?
Question: What is the only major section of Freemasonry?
Question: What is the Continental Strand considered to be by all of Freemasonry?
Question: How many Grand Lodges and Grand Orients are unlisted in the CLIPSAS list?
Question: Whao has always opposed Freemasonry?
Answer: the Roman Catholic Church
Question: Why does the Catholic Church oppose the Freemasons so strongly?
Answer: teaches a naturalistic deistic religion
Question: Who issued the first Papal prounouncement against Freemasonry?
Answer: Pope Clement XII
Question: When was the first Papal prounouncement against Freemasonry made?
Answer: 28 April 1738
Question: What was the most recent Papal prounouncement agasnst Freemasonry?
Answer: Pope Leo XIII's Ab apostolici, 15 October 1890
Question: Who has the longest history of objection to Freemasonry?
Answer: the Roman Catholic Church
Question: What law banned books favoring Freemasonry?
Answer: The 1917 Code of Canon Law
Question: The Roman Catholic Church objection to Freemasons are based on what?
Answer: Masonry teaches a naturalistic deistic religion
Question: What pope first issued Papal pronouncements against Freemasons?
Answer: Pope Clement XII
Question: What pope most recently issued Papal pronouncements against Freemasons?
Answer: Pope Leo XIII
Question: Who can never oppose Freemasonry?
Question: Why does the Catholic Church approve of the Freemasons so strongly?
Question: Who issued the only Papal pronouncement against Freemasonry?
Question: Who has the shortest history of objection to Freemasonry?
Question: What law required books favoring Freemasonry?
Question: What action is forbid by the Orthodox Greek Church to Freemasons?
Answer: cannot partake of the Eucharist
Question: What is the official stance on Freemasonry by the Greek Orthodox Church?
Answer: cannot be at all compatible with Christianity
Question: What would happen if someone in the Greek Orthodox Church became a Freemason?
Answer: constitutes an act of apostasy
Question: When did the Orthodox Church of Greece proclaim being a Freemason was an act of apostacy?
Answer: 1933
Question: Which other major religions hold the same beliefs, on Freemasonry, as the Orthodox Church of Greece?
Answer: Roman Catholic and Protestant
Question: In what year did the Orthodox Church of Greece declare that being a Freemason constituted an act of apostasy?
Answer: 1933
Question: Freemasonry cannot be compatible with what according to the Orthodox Church?
Answer: Christianity
Question: Freemason cannot partake in what until they repent according to the Orthodox Church of Greece?
Answer: the Eucharist
Question: What action is mandatory by the Orthodox Greek Church to Freemasons?
Question: What is the unofficial stance on Freemasonry by the Greek Orthodox Church?
Question: What would happen if someone in the Greek Orthodox Church saw a Freemason?
Question: What is the only religion that holds the same beliefs, on Freemasonry, as the Orthodox Church of Greece?
Question: What year did the Orthodox Church of Greece declare that not being a Freemason constituted an act of apostasy?
Question: What belief is required of a candidate by the Grand Lodge?
Answer: belief in a Supreme Being
Question: Are candadites required to express belief in a specific religion?
Answer: few cases
Question: Which branch of Freemasonry does not require a belief in a supreme being?
Answer: Continental Freemasonry
Question: Which branch of Freemasonry accepts atheists?
Answer: "Liberal" or Continental
Question: Which branch of Freemasonry only accepts Christians?
Answer: Swedish Rite
Question: Most Grand Lodges require a candidate to declare a belief in what?
Answer: a Supreme Being
Question: Freemasons most common in Scandinavia only accept who as members?
Answer: Christians
Question: What Freemason group accept atheists?
Answer: the Grand Orient de France
Question: The Grand Orient de France is considered what type of Freemasonry?
Answer: Liberal" or Continental Freemasonry
Question: What belief is optional of a candidate by the Grand Lodge?
Question: Which branch of Freemasonry does not allow a belief in a supreme being?
Question: Which branch of Freemasonry executes atheists?
Question: Which branch of Freemasonry only accepts children?
Question: What is Exclusive Jurisdiction?
Answer: only one Grand Lodge will be recognised in any geographical area
Question: What happens if two Grand Lodges try to establish themselves in the same area?
Answer: the other Grand Lodges will have to choose between them
Question: What can happen if two over-lapping Grand Lodges are in Amity and decide to share jurisdiction?
Answer: Exclusive Jurisdiction can be waived
Question: If two over-lapping Grand Lodges are in Amity and decide to waive Exclusive Jurisdiction, who must the other Grand Lodges recognize?
Answer: recognise both
Question: What must other Grand Lodges do if two over-lapping Grand Lodges cannot agree to share the territory?
Answer: choose between them
Question: What concept only recognizes one Grand Lodge in a given geographical area?
Answer: Exclusive Jurisdiction
Question: In what year did the Grand Lodge of New York Split into two separate rival factions?
Answer: 1849
Question: When can Exclusive Jurisdiction be waived?
Answer: when the two over-lapping Grand Lodges are themselves in Amity and agree to share jurisdiction
Question: What is Excluded Jurisdiction?
Question: What happens if no Grand Lodges try to establish themselves in the same area?
Question: What can happen if two over-lapping Grand Lodges are in Amity and decide to not share jurisdiction?
Question: What concept only recognizes several Grand Lodges in a given geographical area?
Question: What year did the Grand Lodge of New York Split into three separate rival factions?
Question: From what centuries are the earliest passwords and rituals of Freemasonry known?
Answer: 17th–18th
Question: What is the oldest Masonic lodge in the world?
Answer: Lodge of Edinburgh (Mary's Chapel) No. 1 in Scotland
Question: What were members who did not practice the physical craft known as?
Answer: accepted or speculative Masons
Question: When compared, how similar are the rituals and passwords from the turn of the 17 - 18 centuries to the ones from the later 18th century?
Answer: show continuity
Question: What is the oldest Masonic Lodge in the world?
Answer: the Lodge of Edinburgh (Mary's Chapel) No. 1
Question: When was the Lodge of Edinburgh started?
Answer: 1598
Question: When did rituals become similar between different Masonic Lodges?
Answer: in the later 18th century
Question: What century is the only one with passwords and rituals of Freemasonry known?
Question: What is the only Masonic lodge in the world?
Question: What were members who practiced the magical craft known as?
Question: When was the Lodge of Edinburgh abandoned?
Question: When did rituals become identical between different Masonic Lodges?
Question: Why was Prince Hall Freemasonry formed?
Answer: refusal of early American lodges to admit African-Americans
Question: When was Prince Hall Freemasonry formed?
Answer: 1775
Question: What happened when the UGLE was formed in 1813?
Answer: U.S.-based Lodges were stricken from their rolls
Question: What did Africian Lodge, Number 459 become after they were removed from the UGLE?
Answer: African Lodge, Number 1
Question: What was Africian Lodge, Number 1 considered after they changed from Africian Lodge, Number 459?
Answer: became a de facto "Grand Lodge"
Question: What exists today because of the refusal of early American lodges to admit African Americans?
Answer: Prince Hall Freemasonry
Question: In what year was Prince Hall admitted into the British military lodge?
Answer: 1775
Question: When was the African Lodge, number 459, formed?
Answer: 1784
Question: When was the UGLE formed?
Answer: 1813
Question: The African Lodge re-titled itself what?
Answer: the African Lodge, Number 1
Question: Why was Prince Hall Freemasonry outlawed?
Question: When was Prince Hall Freemasonry forgotten?
Question: What happened when the UGLE was formed in 1913?
Question: What was African Lodge, Number 3 considered after they changed from African Lodge, Number 456?
Question: What no longer exists today because of the refusal of early American lodges to admit African Americans?
Question: When was Maria Deraismes initiated into Freemasonry?
Answer: 1882
Question: Why did Deraismes resign from Freemasonry?
Answer: allow her lodge to rejoin their Grand Lodge
Question: What led to exclusively female bodies of Freemasons in England?
Answer: Disagreements over ritual
Question: Who, along with Maria Dersaismes, started a mixed gender masonic lodge?
Answer: Georges Martin
Question: Who brought the message of mixed gender, practicing masonic lodges to the English speaking?
Answer: Annie Besant
Question: Who resigned from the Freemasons for their lodge to rejoin their Grand Lodge?
Answer: Maria Deraismes
Question: What year was Maria Deraismes initiated into the Freemasons?
Answer: 1882
Question: Maria Deraismes and who else started a mixed masonic lodge?
Answer: Georges Martin
Question: What year was an all-female masonic lodge created?
Answer: 1901
Question: What year was the all-female masonic lodge cast aside?
Answer: 1935
Question: When was Maria Deraismes assassinated in Freemasonry?
Question: Why did Deraismes dislike Freemasonry?
Question: What led to exclusively transgender bodies of Freemasons in England?
Question: Who, along with Maria Dersaismes, stopped a mixed gender masonic lodge?
Question: What year was an all-animal masonic lodge created?
Question: What do Islamic anti-masonics link Freemasonry to?
Answer: al-Masih ad-Dajjal (the false Messiah
Question: Why do muslim anti-masonics believe that the Freemasons want to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque?
Answer: rebuild the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem
Question: What is another group that anti-masonic muslims link to zionism?
Answer: Rotary
Question: What are most of the arguements by anti-masonic muslims centered on? 
Answer: antisemitism and Anti-Zionism
Question: Who's interests are the muslin anti-masonics afraid that the Freemasons are protecting?
Answer: Jews
Question: What do many Islamic and anti-Masonic argue about Freemasonry?
Answer: linking Freemasonry to al-Masih ad-Dajjal (the false Messiah)
Question: Some Muslims argue that Freemasonry promotes what?
Answer: the interests of the Jews
Question: What article states that Freemasonry work in the interest of Zionism?
Answer: article 28
Question: What do Islamic Masonics link Freemasonry to?
Question: Why do Muslim Masonics believe that the Freemasons want to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque?
Question: What is another group that Masonic Muslims link to Islam?
Question: Who's interests are the muslin anti-masonics afraid that the Freemasons are hurting?
Question: What article states that Freemasonry work in the interest of humanity?
Question: How many Freemasons are believed to have been killed under Hitler's Nazi Regime?
Answer: between 80,000 and 200,000
Question: What kind of prisioner was a Freemason considered to be?
Answer: political prisoners
Question: What identifier did the Nazis make the Freemason prisioners wear?
Answer: inverted red triangle
Question: Who was responsible for creating antisemetic and anti-masonic propaganda?
Answer: Professor Franz Six
Question: Where is most of the informaton about Freemasons persecuted in the Holocaust located?
Answer: The preserved records of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (the Reich Security Main Office)
Question: What is the Relch Security Main Office also called?
Answer: Reichssicherheitshauptamt
Question: Who was responsible for ideological tasks of the written records?
Answer: Professor Franz Six
Question: How many Freemasons were killed under the Nazi regime?
Answer: between 80,000 and 200,000
Question: What did Masonic concentration camp inmates have to wear?
Answer: an inverted red triangle.
Question: How many Freemasons are believed to have been resurrected under Hitler's Nazi Regime?
Question: What kind of deity was a Freemason considered to be?
Question: What identifier did the Nazis make the Freemason prisoners conceal?
Question: What is the Reich Security Main Office required to be called?
Question: Who was responsible for geography tasks of the verbal records?
Question: Where are the origins of Freemasonry?
Answer: local fraternities of stonemasons
Question: What were the fraternaties of stonemasons origionally responsible for?
Answer: regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their interaction with authorities and clients
Question: Where did the degrees of Freemasonry derived from?
Answer: the three grades of medieval craft guilds
Question: What are the degrees of Freemasonry?
Answer: Apprentice, Journeyman or fellow (now called Fellowcraft), and Master Mason
Question: Freemasons trace their origins to what?
Answer: the local fraternities of stonemasons
Question: How many grades are there in medieval craft guilds?
Answer: three grades
Question: Craft Freemasonry is also known as what?
Answer: Blue Lodge
Question: Members of Craft Masonry are called what?
Answer: Freemasons or Masons
Question: Where did Freemasonry end?
Question: What were the fraternities of stonemasons avoiding responsibility for?
Question: What are no longer the degrees of Freemasonry?
Question: How many kings are there in medieval craft guilds?
Question: What is Craft Freemasonry forbidden as being known as?
Question: How are Freemasons invited to join a lodge?
Answer: they are never invited
Question: How does one become a Freemason?
Answer: The onus is on candidates to ask to join
Question: Can women ask to be a member of the Masonic Lodge?
Answer: depending on the Masonic Jurisdiction
Question: How can you find a lodge to ask to be a member of?
Answer: track down a local Lodge through the Internet
Question: Candidates for Freemasonry must do what before being initiated? 
Answer: will have met most active members of the Lodge they are joining
Question: Candidates are normally introduced to the lodge by whom?
Answer: a friend
Question: Now days, many interested people find a Masonic Lodge using what?
Answer: the Internet
Question: Candidates are never what to a Masonic lodge?
Answer: never invited
Question: What usually follows an initial inquiry of a candidate?
Answer: an interview
Question: How are Freemasons asked to leave a lodge?
Question: Why can't anyone become a Freemason?
Question: Can pets ask to be a member of the Masonic Lodge?
Question: What always follows an initial inquiry of a candidate?
Question: How large is the membership of Freemasonry?
Answer: around six million worldwide
Question: What is the largest single jurisdiction of Freemasonry?
Answer: United Grand Lodge of England
Question: How many members does the UGLE have?
Answer: around a quarter million
Question: What are the membership numbers of the United States?
Answer: just under two million
Question: How many members does the Grand Lodge of Scotland and the Grand Lodge of Ireland have, together?
Answer: 150,000
Question: How many members are in Freemasonry?
Answer: around six million worldwide
Question: What lodge has the single largest single jurisdiction of Freemasonry?
Answer: the United Grand Lodge of England
Question: How many members are in the Grand Lodge of England?
Answer: around a quarter million
Question: The Grand Lodges of Scotland and Ireland have how many member?
Answer: approximately 150,000 members
Question: The United States has how many Freemason members?
Answer: just under two million
Question: How many people lost membership of Freemasonry?
Question: What is the only single jurisdiction of Freemasonry?
Question: How many members does the UGLE lose every year?
Question: How many members left the United States?
Question: How many dogs are in the Grand Lodge of England?
Question: Are masons allowed to divulge the secrets of each degree?
Answer: Masons swear at each degree to keep the contents of that degree secret
Question: How are oaths taken?
Answer: on a Volume of Sacred Law
Question: In what branch can books, other than scripture, be used for the purpose of oath taking?
Answer: Progressive continental Freemasonry
Question: What can be considered a Volume of Sacred Law?
Answer: whichever book of divine revelation is appropriate to the religious beliefs of the individual brother
Question: Masons swear to protect their brethren unless they what?
Answer: have broken the law
Question: Most lodges have the oath taken on what?
Answer: Volume of Sacred Law
Question: Mason swear at each degree to do what?
Answer: keep the contents of that degree secret
Question: Why are masons allowed to divulge the secrets of each degree?
Question: How are oaths taken as fake?
Question: What can be considered a Volume of Sacred Math?
Question: What are Masons required to have done in order to be protected?
Question: What branch of Freemasonry requires books other than scripture?
Question: What is the earliest that lodges appeared in America?
Answer: 1715
Question: When was a Provincial Grand Master for North America appointed?
Answer: 1731
Question: Where did other American Lodges obtain their authoriisations from?
Answer: Antient Grand Lodge of England, the Grand Lodge of Scotland, and the Grand Lodge of Ireland
Question: When did the lodges without prior authorisations apply to be recognized?
Answer: after they were confident of their own survival
Question: Where were the earliest lodges in America?
Answer: Pennsylvania
Question: Who was the Collector for the port of Pennsylvania in 1715?
Answer: John Moore
Question: A Provincial Grand Master for North America was first appointed when?
Answer: 1731
Question: The Provincial Grand Master for North America was base where?
Answer: Pennsylvania
Question: Where were the only known American Lodges located?
Question: What is the earliest that lodges exploded in America?
Question: When was a Provincial Grand Master for The World appointed?
Question: When did the lodges without prior authorizations apply to be forgotten?
Question: Who was the Collector for the port of Pennsylvania in 1615?
Question: How long have Masonic Lodges been in Iraq?
Answer: as early as 1917
Question: How many lodges existed in Iraq in the 1950s?
Answer: Nine
Question: What is the greatest penalty that a Freemason in Iraq could face now?
Answer: the death penalty
Question: When were all the lodges in Iraq forced to close?
Answer: 1965
Question: When was a Scottish Lodge formed in Iraq?
Answer: 1923
Question: When did Masonic lodges start in Iraq?
Answer: 1917
Question: Who opened the first Lodge in Iraq?
Answer: the United Grand Lodge of England
Question: When was the first Scottish Masonic lodge opened in Iraq?
Answer: 1923
Question: All Masonic lodges were forced to close in Iraq in what year?
Answer: 1965
Question: Who introduced the death penalty to Freemasons living in Iraq?
Answer: Saddam Hussein
Question: How long have Masonic Lodges been banned in Iraq?
Question: How many lodges existed in Iraq in the 1350s?
Question: What is the greatest reward that a Freemason in Iraq could face now?
Question: When was a Russian Lodge formed in Iraq?
Question: Who opened the only Lodge in Iraq?
Question: The Grand Orient de France and the United Grand Lodge of England continued in amity until when?
Answer: the 1860s and 1870s
Question: What year did the Supreme Council of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Louisiana appear in the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of Louisiana?
Answer: 1868
Question: When was the United Grand Lodge of England demolished?
Question: What year did the Supreme Council of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Louisiana disappear in the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of Louisiana?
Question: What lodge was never in amity with another?
Question: Who did the new Scottish rite body refuse to admit?
Question: In what year was a new code to the Canon Law issued by the church?
Answer: 1983
Question: Who clarified the new code of Canon law of 1983?
Answer: Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger
Question: Do Freemasons allow Catholics into their fraternity?
Answer: Freemasonry has never objected to Catholics joining their fraternity
Question: What year was an old code to the Canon Law issued by the church?
Question: Who clarified the new code of Canon law of 1973?
Question: Why are Catholics not allowed into Freemasonry?
Question: Which lodges are never in amity with UGLE?
Question: Judges and police officers had to disclose their Freemason membership in what years in England?
Answer: from 1999 to 2009
Question: Who ended the English Masonic disclosure policy in 2009?
Answer: Justice Secretary Jack Straw
Question: Justice Secretary Jack Straw ended the Masonic disclosure law on what grounds?
Answer: the rule was considered disproportionate
Question: Who ended the English Masonic disclosure policy in 2004?
Question: Why did Justice Secretary Jack Straw begin the Masonic closure law?
Question: What democracies always view Freemasonry with trust?
Question: Who was required to not be transparent to the public?
Question: What is the basic organizational unit of Freemasonry?
Answer: The Masonic Lodge
Question: Name examples of usual formal business that Freemasons have at their lodge.
Answer: pay bills, organise social and charitable events, elect new members
Question: What usually happens at the conclusion of a lodge meeting?
Answer: a formal dinner
Question: What is the complex organizational unit of Freemasonry?
Question: What always happens at the conclusion of a lodge meeting?
Question: Where do Freemasons meet only on special occasion?
Question: What organization was not allowed to have ceremonies?
Question: When does a candidate swear to fullfil his obligations as a Mason?
Answer: During the ceremony of initiation
Question: What does a candidate swear on?
Answer: usually on a volume of sacred text
Question: How many degrees must a Mason swear to keep the secrets from outsiders?
Answer: three degrees
Question: Are Freemasons free to explore the craft?
Answer: Freemasons are left to explore the craft in the manner they find most satisfying
Question: When does a candidate lose ability to fulfill his obligations as a Mason?
Question: What does a candidate sweat on?
Question: How many degrees must a Mason swear to tell outsiders?
Question: What are Freemasons required to do for their craft?
Question: What concept is based on adherence to Masonic Landmarks, basic membership requirements, and tenets and rituals of the craft?
Answer: Regularity
Question: Is each definition of regularity the same throughout all Masonic Lodges?
Answer: Each Grand Lodge sets its own definition
Question: When can a Grand Lodge declare another lodge as irregular?
Answer: If the differences are significant
Question: What concept is not based on adherence to Masonic Landmarks, basic membership requirements, and tenets and rituals of the craft?
Question: When can a Grand Lodge declare another lodge as regular?
Question: What are never considered "Irregular"?
Question: Why are landmarks for every Grand Lodge the same?
Question: All Freemasons are progressively initiated, passed, and raised in three degrees of what?
Answer: Craft, or Blue Lodge Masonry
Question: The initiations are part allegory and part what?
Answer: lecture
Question: What is the final of the three steps of Freemasonry?
Answer: Master Mason
Question: Who was the chief architect of the Temple of Solomon?
Answer: Hiram Abiff
Question: How many versions of the Hiram myth are there?
Answer: at least two
Question: What are all Freemasons progressively initiated, passed, and raised in six degrees of?
Question: What is the final of the seven steps of Freemasonry?
Question: Who was the worst architect of the Temple of Solomon?
Question: How many versions of the Hiram flag are there?
Question: What is the first step for only some Freemasons?
Question: When was the Grand Lodge of England founded?
Answer: 24 June 1717
Question: The Ancient Grand Lodge of England was formed on what date?
Answer: 17 July 1751
Question: The United Grand Lodge of England was formed on what date?
Answer: 27 December 1813
Question: Lodges that could not endorse the GLE were later called what?
Answer: the Moderns
Question: What can The Grand Lodge of England never be known as?
Question: When did the Grand Lodge of England vanish?
Question: What were lodges that disappeared called?
Question: Which lodges refused to join the new regulatory body?
Question: Which lodges were always in perfect harmony with one another?
Question: When did North American Masonic lodges recognize members of the Prince Hall Lodge?
Answer: By the 1980s
Question: Who is the Prince Hall Lodge open to?
Answer: Prince Hall is open to all men
Question: Does the United Grand Lodge of England recognize Prince Hall Lodges?
Answer: The United Grand Lodge of England has no problem with recognising Prince Hall Grand Lodges
Question: When did North American Masonic lodges fire members of the Prince Hall Lodge?
Question: Who is the Prince Hall Lodge hiding?
Question: What lodges are no longer recognized?
Question: What Grand Lodges require members to be black Americans?
Question: When did the French try to create co-masonic lodges?
Answer: the 1890s
Question: When did the United Grand Lodge of England recognize the two female Masonic lodges?
Answer: 1999
Question: What did the french lodges promote to try to get women accepted into the Freemasons?
Answer: the 33rd degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite
Question: Do Anglo-American grand lodges accept women as members today?
Answer: most regular Anglo-American grand lodges remains that women Freemasons are not legitimate Masons
Question: When did Russia try to create co-masonic lodges?
Question: When did the United Grand Lodge of England forget the two female Masonic lodges?
Question: What did the french lodges promote to try to get men accepted into the Freemasons?
Question: Where are women recognized as the ideal Masons?
Question: What former Archbishop of Canterbury has reservations about the Freemasons?
Answer: Dr Rowan Williams
Question: What year did Dr. Rowan Williams apologize to the Freemasons?
Answer: 2003
Question: Dr. Rowan Williams was also Bishop of what?
Answer: Bishop of Monmouth
Question: What Austrian Archbishop was a member of the Freemasons?
Question: What former Archbishop of Canterbury has accolades from the Freemasons?
Question: What year did Dr. Rowan Williams destroy the Freemasons?
Question: What was Dr. Rowan Williams a Cardinal of?
Question: Freemasonry was linked to scandal in Italy due to what?
Answer: Propaganda Due lodge
Question: The Propaganda Due Lodge was chartered by who?
Answer: Grande Oriente d'Italia
Question: When did the Grande Oriente d'italia charter the Propaganda Due Lodge?
Answer: 1877
Question: The Propaganda Due Lodge was also know as what?
Answer: P2
Question: When did the Grand Orient d'italia expel Licio Gelli and revoked the charter of P2?
Answer: 1976
Question: What was Freemasonry linked to scandal in France due to?
Question: Who destroyed the Propaganda Due Lodge?
Question: When did the Grande Oriente d'italia remove the Propaganda Due Lodge?
Question: When did the Grand Orient d'italia reward Licio Gelli and promote the charter of P2?
Question: When did the UN recommend the Partition Plan?
Answer: 29 November 1947
Question: When was the end of the British Mandate set?
Answer: midnight on 14 May 1948
Question: Who was the executive head of the Zionist Organization?
Answer: David Ben-Gurion
Question: Where is Israel located?
Answer: Middle East
Question: What's Israel's financial and technology center?
Answer: Tel Aviv
Question: What was the population of Israel in 2016?
Answer: 8,476,600
Question: How many citizens in Israel are Jewish?
Answer: 6,345,400
Question: How many citizens in Israel are Arab?
Answer: 1,760,400
Question: Where is Israel's economy ranked?
Answer: 35th
Question: Where is Israel's standard of living ranked in Asia?
Answer: fourth
Question: Who led the Israelites back into Canaan during the "Exodus?"
Answer: Moses
Question: What does the word "Israel" refer to?
Answer: Jacob
Question: What is the "Land of Israel" known as in Hebrew?
Answer: Eretz Yisrael
Question: According to the Torah, God promised the land to how many people?
Answer: three
Question: When was the first Kingdom of Israel established?
Answer: early 2nd millennium BCE
Question: When does the first record of the name Israel occurs?
Answer: Merneptah stele
Question: Who did the ancestors of Israelites include?
Answer: Semites
Question: What did Canaanites prohibit?
Answer: intermarriage
Question: What was the name of the destroyed capital?
Answer: Samaria
Question: Who captured Samaria?
Answer: Assyrian king Sargon II
Question: How many Judeans did Zerubabel return to Judah?
Answer: 50,000
Question: How many Judeans did Ezra lead?
Answer: 5,000
Question: When did the conflict between Judeans and Greeks erupt?
Answer: 167 BCE
Question: What was established in the Maccabean Revolt?
Answer: Hasmonean Kingdom
Question: Who dominated the society?
Answer: Judeans
Question: When did the Jewish presence dwindle in the region?
Answer: 132 CE
Question: Who conquered the country in 628?
Answer: Byzantine Empire
Question: What was evolving over Roman paganism?
Answer: Christianity
Question: Who did the Jewish inhabitants fight side by side with?
Answer: Fatimid garrison
Question: How many people were massacred when the city fell?
Answer: 60,000
Question: How many Jews were seeking refuge?
Answer: 6,000
Question: Who issued a call to the Jews to emigrate to the Land of Israel?
Answer: Yehuda Halevi
Question: Who was the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty?
Answer: Sultan Saladin
Question: Who was the 13th-century Spanish rabbi and recognised leader of Jewry?
Answer: Nachmanides
Question: What did Nachmanides write?
Answer: "If the gentiles wish to make peace, we shall make peace and leave them on clear terms
Question: When was control passed to the Mamluk sultans of Egypt?
Answer: 1260
Question: What two centres of Mamluk power was the country located?
Answer: Cairo and Damascus
Question: When did the Mamluk Sultan Baybars convert to the Cave of Patriarchs?
Answer: 1266
Question: Where did some Jewish communities settle after they were expelled from Spain?
Answer: Palestine
Question: Rabbi Yehuda Hachasid led a group of how many Jews into Jerusalem?
Answer: 1,500
Question: What was the first wave of modern Jewish migration to Ottoman-ruled Palestine known as?
Answer: First Aliyah
Question: When did the First Aliyah begin?
Answer: 1881
Question: Who is credited as founding political Zionism?
Answer: Theodor Herzl
Question: When did the Second Aliyah begin?
Answer: after the Kishinev pogrom
Question: How many Jews settled into Palestine?
Answer: 40,000
Question: The first and second wave of migrants were mainly who?
Answer: Orthodox Jews
Question: When did the League of Nations grant Britain a mandate over Palestine?
Answer: 1922
Question: What does Haganah mean in Hebrew?
Answer: The Defense
Question: How many Jews did the Third and Fourth Aliyahs bring to Palestine?
Answer: 100,000
Question: When did Irgun attack the British administrative headquarters?
Answer: July 22, 1946
Question: What was the Jewish population in Palestine by the end of World War II?
Answer: 33%
Question: When was the King David Hotel bombing?
Answer: 1946
Question: When did the British government announce it would withdraw from Mandatory Palestine?
Answer: 1947
Question: When was the UNSCOP formed?
Answer: 15 May 1947
Question: What was the last to be under an International Trusteeship System?
Answer: City of Jerusalem
Question: What four Arab countries entered British Mandatory Palestine?
Answer: Egypt, Syria, Transjordan and Iraq
Question: When was the Arab-Israeli War launched?
Answer: 1948
Question: What were the invading Arab armies aim?
Answer: slaughter the Jews
Question: The immigration was in accordance to what?
Answer: One Million Plan
Question: When did the Mossad LeAliyah Bet disband?
Answer: 1953
Question: The population of Israel rose from 800,000 to what between 1948 and 1958?
Answer: two million
Question: What ideology did some immigrants believe in?
Answer: Zionist
Question: Between 1948 and 1970, how many Jewish refugees relocated to Israel?
Answer: 1,150,000
Question: How many immigrants lived in these tent cities?
Answer: over 200,000
Question: Who signed a reparations agreement with West Germany?
Answer: Ben-Gurion
Question: Who was Israel frequently attacked by?
Answer: Palestinian fedayeen
Question: What did the war result in?
Answer: significant reduction of Israeli border infiltration
Question: Who refused toe recognize Israel?
Answer: Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser
Question: When did Egypt mass it's army near the border with Israel?
Answer: 1967
Question: What became the administrative boundary between Israel and occupied territories?
Answer: Green Line
Question: Where was the massacre of the Israeli athletes?
Answer: 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich
Question: What was the resolution of the Arab league?
Answer: three nos
Question: What did the ELO commit itself on?
Answer: armed struggle as the only way to liberate the homeland
Question: When did the Egyptian and Syrian armies launch a surprise attack against Israeli forces?
Answer: 6 October 1973
Question: How many lives were lost?
Answer: 10–35,000
Question: Who was forced to resign?
Answer: Prime Minister Golda Meir
Question: What did Sadat and Begin sign?
Answer: Camp David Accords
Question: Israel withdrew from where?
Answer: Sinai Peninsula
Question: When did the Coastal Road Massacre occur?
Answer: 11 March 1978
Question: Who secured southern Lebanon?
Answer: Israel
Question: Where were the PLO bases located?
Answer: south of the Litani River
Question: What is the Capital of Israel?
Answer: Jerusalem
Question: Who provided incentives for Israelis to settle in the occupied West Bank?
Answer: Begin's government
Question: When did the Israeli air force destroy Iraq's sole nuclear reactor?
Answer: 7 June 1981
Question: Why did they destroy the nuclear reactor?
Answer: impede Iraq's nuclear weapons program
Question: What government inquiry held Begin?
Answer: Kahan Commission
Question: How many people were killed in the violence?
Answer: More than a thousand people
Question: PLO supported who during the Gulf War?
Answer: Saddam Hussein
Question: Who became the Prime Minister in 1992?
Answer: Yitzhak Rabin
Question: When was the Israel-Jordan Treaty of Peace signed?
Answer: 1994
Question: When was Yitzhak Rabin assassinated?
Answer: November 1995
Question: What did Benjamin Netanyahu sign?
Answer: Wye River Memorandum
Question: Who was elected Prime Minister in 1999?
Answer: Ehud Barak
Question: When did Ariel Sharon become prime minister?
Answer: 2001
Question: How many Palestinian fatalities were they by 30 April 2008?
Answer: 4,745
Question: When did the Israeli Air Force destroy a nuclear reactor in Syria?
Answer: 6 September 2007
Question: Who announced its own ceasefire? 
Answer: Hamas
Question: How long did the operation in Gaza in November last?
Answer: eight days
Question: What's home to 57% of the nation's population?
Answer: Israeli Coastal Plain
Question: How big is the sovereign territory of Israel?
Answer: 20,770 square kilometers
Question: What is the largest makhtesh in the world?
Answer: Ramon Crater
Question: Israel has the largest number of what per square meter in the basin?
Answer: plant species
Question: What is the result of tectonic movements within the Dead Sea Transform?
Answer: Jordan Rift Valley
Question: What does the tectonic disposition lead to?
Answer: high seismic activity in the region
Question: The deficit can cause an earthquake of what magnitude to occur?
Answer: Mw~7.4.
Question: When did the most catastrophic earthquakes occur?
Answer: 31 BCE, 363, 749, and 1033 CE
Question: How many residential buildings did not meet construction standards?
Answer: 50,000
Question: How often do earthquakes that lead to serious loss of life occur?
Answer: every 80 years
Question: What kind of climate does Arava have?
Answer: desert
Question: What was the highest recorded temperature in Tirat Zvi?
Answer: 54.0 °C
Question: What does Israelis take advantage of?
Answer: sunlight
Question: Who leads the nation in solar energy use?
Answer: Israel
Question: What was Israel's population in 2016?
Answer: 8,476,600
Question: How many African migrants entered Israel by June 2012?
Answer: 60,000
Question: How many Israelis live in urban areas?
Answer: 92%
Question: How many Israelis lived in Golan Heights settlements?
Answer: 20,000
Question: When were Israelis evacuated from Gaza Strip?
Answer: 2005
Question: Approximately how many Israeli Jews are born in Israel?
Answer: 75%
Question: What percent are Jewish intermarriage rates at?
Answer: 35%
Question: How many Israelis speak French?
Answer: 700,000
Question: How many Russian immigrants arrived in Israel?
Answer: one million
Question: 2% of the population in Israel are what?
Answer: Christian
Question: Druze makes up what percent?
Answer: 1.5%
Question: Where is Rachel's Tomb?
Answer: Bethlehem
Question: Who do not teach their faith to Israelis?
Answer: Bahá'í staff
Question: What did it rank in the number of academic degrees per capita?
Answer: third
Question: Who praised Israel for its high quality education?
Answer: Bill Gates
Question: What is the literacy rate in Israel?
Answer: 97.1%
Question: What is necessary to receive a Bagrut certificate?
Answer: Biblical scripture and civics
Question: How many private colleges does Israel have?
Answer: 49
Question: What is the oldest university in Israel?
Answer: Technion
Question: How many members are in the Knesset?
Answer: 120
Question: Knesset member is based on what?
Answer: proportional representation of political parties
Question: Where is the Supreme Court located?
Answer: Jerusalem
Question: What is the highest tier?
Answer: Supreme Court
Question: What legal traditions does Israel combine?
Answer: English common law, civil law, and Jewish law
Question: What principle is it based on?
Answer: stare decisis
Question: What is Israel's Basic Law?
Answer: Human Dignity
Question: What are these districts known as?
Answer: mehozot
Question: How many sub-districts are there?
Answer: fifteen
Question: What metropolitan area has the largest population?
Answer: Tel Aviv
Question: What is the population of Beer Sheva?
Answer: 559,700
Question: Who declared the annexation of the Golan Heights and East Jerusalem?
Answer: UN Security Council
Question: What was captured by Israel in the Six-Day War?
Answer: Israeli West Bank
Question: Where did Israel withdraw and disband its military forces?
Answer: Gaza Strip
Question: What emphasises the inadmissability of the acquisition of territory by war?
Answer: United Nations Security Council Resolution 242
Question: What is the principle of normalization of relations with Arab states?
Answer: Land for peace
Question: What was the majority of the population in the West Bank?
Answer: Palestinians
Question: What percentage of the barrier will be constructed on the Green Line?
Answer: 13%
Question: The Gaza Strip was occupied by who from 1948 to 1967?
Answer: Egypt
Question: Who occupied the Gaza Strip after 1967?
Answer: Israel
Question: When did Hamas assume it's power in the Gaza Strip?
Answer: June 2007
Question: How many diplomatic missions do they have?
Answer: 107
Question: How many Arab League members have relations with Israel?
Answer: three
Question: Who were the first two countries to recognize the State of Israel?
Answer: United States and the Soviet Union
Question: Who regards Israel as it's most reliable partner in the Middle East?
Answer: The United States
Question: How much did the United States provide in military assistance?
Answer: $68 billion
Question: How much did Germany pay in reparations to the Israeli state?
Answer: 25 billion euros
Question: What prime minister helped relations?
Answer: Tony Blair
Question: What aims at bringing EU and its neighbours closer?
Answer: European Neighbourhood Policy
Question: Who organized the flotilla?
Answer: IHH
Question: When did Israel and Turkey's relations take a downturn?
Answer: after the 2008–09 Gaza War
Question: Who's the most pro-Israel country in the world?
Answer: India
Question: Israel is the second-largest military trading partner of India after who?
Answer: Russian Federation
Question: How much does Israel spend on foreign aid?
Answer: less than 0.1%
Question: When was MASHAV established?
Answer: 1958
Question: Israel has a history of providing what?
Answer: emergency aid
Question: How many delegations of IDF search and rescue units between 1985 and 2015?
Answer: 24
Question: How many doctors did Israel send to Haiti?
Answer: over 200
Question: How many patients did Israeli doctors treat in Japan?
Answer: 200
Question: Who is the head of the IDF?
Answer: Ramatkal
Question: When was the IDF founded?
Answer: 1948
Question: How long do women serve in the military?
Answer: two years
Question: What citizens are exempt from military service?
Answer: Arab citizens
Question: What is one of the most crucial weapons in Israel's military history?
Answer: Python air-to-air missile series
Question: The success of what program has made Israel one of seven countries capable of launching satellites?
Answer: Ofeq
Question: What is armed with nuclear Popeye Turbo missiles?
Answer: Israeli Navy's Dolphin submarines
Question: All homes in Israel are required to have a room called what?
Answer: Merkhav Mugan
Question: What two countries have a higher defense spending to GDP ratio than Israel?
Answer: Oman and Saudi Arabia
Question: What percentage of it's GDP was spent on defense in 1984?
Answer: 24%
Question: What was Israel's Global Peace Index rank in 2015?
Answer: 148th
Question: When did Israel join the OECD?
Answer: 2010
Question: Where does Israel rank in number of startup companies in the world?
Answer: second
Question: Imports to Israel totaled what in 2012?
Answer: $77.59 billion
Question: Israeli exports reached what in 2012?
Answer: $64.74 billion
Question: What are the leading exports in Israel?
Answer: electronics, software, computerized systems