huutuan/long_squad_v2 huggingface dataset:
Question: Who says the bond of blood between mother and son is more meaningfu than the bond of marriage?
Answer: Erinyes
Question: Who holds that the bond of marriage is sacred?
Answer: Apollo
Question: Who was accused of matricide?
Answer: Orestes
Question: Who was a faithful follower of Pan?
Answer: Midas
Question: Who was the mountain-god?
Answer: Tmolus
Question: Who was chosen as umpire of the trial of skill?
Answer: Tmolus
Question: What instrument did Marsyas know how to play?
Answer: flute
Question: Who could not sing at the same time he played the flute?
Answer: Marsyas
Question: What is said to have turned into the river Marsyas?
Answer: Marsyas' blood
Question: When was the Second Punic war?
Answer: 212 BCE
Question: What is another name for the Ludi Apollinares?
Answer: Apollonian Games
Question: When was the height of colonization?
Answer: 750–550 BCE
Question: What does Lykegenes mean?
Answer: born in Lycia
Question: In literary contexts, who represents harmony, order and reason?
Answer: Apollo
Question: Where did Apollo go in winter?
Answer: Hyperborea
Question: Whose masterpieces are a mixture of naturallism with stylization?
Answer: Praxiteles
Question: In whose depictions can the evolution of Greek sculpture be observed?
Answer: Praxiteles
Question: Who seems to be released from any art and religious conformities?
Answer: Praxiteles
Question: Who asserted that a divine reason gave order to the seeds of the universe?
Answer: Anaxagoras
Question: Who extended the Greek beilef of idea forms to his metaphysical theory of forms?
Answer: Plato
Question: What is one Greek word that has the same root as the word idea?
Answer: eidos
Question: What is the modern term given to those representations of stnding male youths that first appear in the archaic period in Greece?
Answer: Kouros
Question: What is another word for male youth?
Answer: Kouros
Question: Who was the immortal god of ideal balance?
Answer: Apollo
Question: The period between 640-580 BC was known as what?
Answer: early archaic period
Question: What was the name of the Dipylon master?
Answer: Daedalus
Question: Who created the New York kouros?
Answer: Daedalus
Question: Who is said to be the builder of the labyrinth?
Answer: Daedalus
Question: During what period was art's main theme the representation of motion in a specific movement?
Answer: Minoan period
Question: These free-standing statues were sometimes rendered from immestone, bronze, ivory and terracotta but were usually made from what material?
Answer: marble
Question: What was the harbour of Athens?
Answer: Piraeus
Question: What did Piraeus Apollo hold in his left hand?
Answer: the bow
Question: What did Piraeus Apollo hold in his right hand?
Answer: a cup of pouring libation
Question: Who wrote that beauty consists in the proportion not of the elements?
Answer: Polykleitos
Question: In what type of art does the god hold the cithara in his left arm?
Answer: Apollo Citharoedus statue type
Question: What type of art is modeled after a supposed Greek bronze original made in the second quarter of the 5th Century BCE.
Answer: neo-Attic Imperial Roman copies of the late 1st or early 2nd century
Question: Representations of illusive imaginative reality had deep roots in what period?
Answer: Minoan
Question: What people saw the mountains, forests, sea and rivers as inhabited by concrete beings?
Answer: Greeks
Question: What rely on presenting scenes directly to the eye for their own visibe sake?
Answer: These representations
Question: While each scene has its own character and completeness, it must fit into what?
Answer: the general sequence to which it belongs
Question: Who is often depicted with a kithara or bow in his hand?
Answer: Apollo
Question: What is the name of a marble sculpture that was rediscovered in the late 15th century?
Answer: The Apollo Belvedere
Question: Who made the Apollo Belvedere?
Answer: Leochares
Question: When did Leochares make The Apollo Belvedere?
Answer: between 350 and 325 BCE
Question: Which candidate, in the 2004 election, had the majority of the popular vote?
Answer: Bush
Question: Which state switched sides and embraced the Democratic party after previously choosing the Republican party?
Answer: New Hampshire
Question: How many votes did Kerry receive, in the Electoral College?
Answer: 252
Question: How large of a gap was there between Bush's and Kerry's votes? 
Answer: the smallest ever
Question: What two states did George Bush campaign the hardest in?
Question: What was the first state Bush's father campaigned in?
Question: What margin of victory did Bush's father have in 2004?
Question: How many votes did Bush Sr. receive in the Electoral Collage 16 years before?
Question: What state was John Kerry originally from?
Question: What even occured during Bush's presidency that made him become a wartime president?
Answer: terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001
Question: How long into Bush's presidency did tragedy occur on American soil?
Answer: eight months
Question: Did Bush become disfavorable during the time of the 9/11 attacks?
Answer: surged to near 90%
Question: How long did it take for the US military to respond by infiltrating Afghanistan?
Answer: Within a month
Question: By which month, were the Taliban no longer controlling Kabul?
Answer: December
Question: How long had Osama Bin Laden been planning the Sept. 11th attack?
Question: How successful was the coalition in its mission in Afghanistan?
Question: How long did it take to capture Osama Bin Laden?
Question: What city had been ruled by Osama Bin Laden?
Question: What happened in New York after the Sept. 11th terrorist attack?
Question: Who did Bush feel was important to remove from power, after removing the Taliban from Kabul?
Answer: Saddam Hussein
Question: What does WMD stand for?
Answer: weapons of mass destruction
Question: When did Iraq agree to allow UN inspectors into the country to check for weapons of mass destruction?
Answer: November 2002
Question: Did Bush have the support of the UN, when he decided to infiltrate Iraq on March 20, 2003?
Answer: without UN authorization
Question: After the Iraqi government and it's forces were defeated, were investigators able to locate the WMD?
Answer: they failed to find the predicted WMD stockpiles
Question: What did Saddam Hussein believe the Bush administration had acquired?
Question: What had Russia not properly accounted for in 2002?
Question: What narrative was pushed by Russia from the beginning about China posessing?
Question: What did the US refuse to allow to pass for the use of force on China?
Question: When did France invade Germany to look for WMD?
Question: By what date did Bush obtain the number of votes required to become the 2004 Republican nominee?
Answer: March 10, 2004
Question: When did Bush accept the Republican nomination?
Answer: September 2, 2004
Question: Whom did Bush want to stand beside him as Vice President?
Answer: Dick Cheney
Question: Which two topics did Bush remain steadfast on, during his campaign?
Answer: terrorism and building an ownership society
Question: In New York State, which party was the Bush/Cheney duo candidates of?
Answer: Conservative Party
Question: When did Dick Cheney get enough delegates to be nominated at the RNC?
Question: When did Cheney accept the nomination?
Question: In what city was Cheney nominated at the RNC in 2004?
Question: What two themes did Cheney speak about often during his campaign?
Question: What was one idea endorsed by Cheney in his 2004 speech?
Question: Dean's admiration for internet campaigning accredited his strength as what?
Answer: a fund raiser
Question: What did Dean's backers become known as?
Answer: Deaniacs
Question: What government position has Howard Dean previously held?
Answer: governor
Question: Which of Bush's policies did Dean criticize most notably?
Answer: the 2003 invasion of Iraq
Question: What status had Senator Lieberman gained in 2003?
Question: How well did Senator Lieberman perform in the polls in 2003?
Question: What did Senator Lieberman have that helped him further his campaign?
Question: What method did Senator Lieberman use that helped him successfully raise funds?
Question: Where did most of Senator Lieberman's donations come from?
Question: Which Democratic nominee declared his intention to enter into the presidential race, in the fall of 2003?
Answer: Wesley Clark
Question: What did Wesley Clark's initial campaign ads depend upon?
Answer: biography
Question: What were Wesley Clarks's core issues?
Answer: leadership and patriotism
Question: What shortcoming was noticeable, from the start, for Wesley Clark?
Answer: few detailed policy proposals
Question: Was Wesley Clark influential in gathering the Democratic backing?
Answer: did not flock to support his campaign
Question: In what year did Wesley Clark retire?
Question: What rank did Wesley Clark obtain in September 2003?
Question: What two topics were used in the biography that came out about the DNC in 2003?
Question: What was the DNC lacking to draw more support from donors?
Question: What is one thing that the DNC didn't want to take a position on?
Question: Which state was expected to show the least amount of support for Kerry going into the caucuses, before Iowa?
Answer: New Hampshire
Question: What act showed that Kerry's fight for the White House was in trouble?
Answer: he fired campaign manager Jim Jordan
Question: Who took over for Jim Jordon, when he was fired?
Answer: Mary Beth Cahill
Question: What regulation did Kerry not follow to try to save his campaign?
Answer: mortgaging his own home to lend the money to his campaign
Question: What did Ted Kennedy have fewer of than Kerry in 2004?
Question: What was Ted Kennedy's position in the superdelegate race in 2004?
Question: What states did Ted Kennedy lead in in 2004?
Question: What was one area that Kennedy was seen as being weak in?
Question: What position was held by Jim Jordan when he was fired by Bill Bradley?
Question: Who, at the start of the primaries, had the most single campaign contributors?
Answer: Lyndon LaRouche
Question: Who had the highest amount of single campaign contributors, at the final quarter of the primaries?
Answer: John Kerry
Question: Who earned the fewest individual contributions as of the April 15th filing date?
Answer: Gephardt
Question: What agency provided statistical information regarding the Presidential Candidates' individual contributors?
Answer: Federal Election Commission
Question: What did Gephardt have more of than any other candidate in 2004?
Question: When did John Edwards surpass Gephardt in individual contributors for his campaign?
Question: What profession did Gephardt have before 2004?
Question: When did the FEC start collecting presidential campaign funding statistics?
Question: What is the minimum amount that an individual contributor can donate to a campaign according to the FEC?
Question: How many candidates remained by the end of the Iowa caucuses, in January 2004?
Answer: nine
Question: Which two candidates had surprising results despite Howard Dean being the strong front-runner?
Answer: John Kerry, who earned 38% of the state's delegates and John Edwards
Question: Which candidate slipped into third place, following the Iowa caucuses?
Answer: Dean
Question: Preceding the Iowa caucuses, which candidates used naysaying tactics in their campaigning?
Answer: Dean and Gephardt
Question: Which candidate dropped out of the race, leaving the field to nine candidates?
Answer: Bob Graham
Question: What percentage of the state's delegates had Bob Graham taken as the front-runner?
Question: What did Graham and Kerry take part in leading up to the Iowa vote?
Question: How many ads were run by Graham in Iowa before the vote?
Question: How much of the vote did Bob Graham have in Iowa after the election?
Question: When was Bob Graham performing his best in the race?
Question: Which candidate, after dropping out, went on to endorse Kerry?
Answer: Gephardt
Question: Which troubled candidate did Carol Moseley Braun end up endorsing, after she dropped out?
Answer: Howard Dean
Question: The continual playing of Dean's post-rally speech by the media stirred what type of controversy?
Answer: whether Dean was the victim of media bias
Question: What tag did the media attach to Dean's post-rally speech?
Answer: "Dean Scream"
Question: Did those in attendance at Dean's speech know about the "Dean Scream"?
Answer: they were not aware
Question: Where did Carol Moseley Braun give a speech that hurt her campaign?
Question: What was Braun thought to be a victim of by the media?
Question: How many times were their news reports that focused on negative events in Braun's campaign?
Question: What place in the race was Braun?
Question: What was filtering the crowd noise when Braun was giving a speech?
Question: Which candidate won the Oklahoma primary?
Answer: Clark
Question: Which candidate dropped out of the race, following losing the Oklahoma primary?
Answer: Lieberman
Question: Which candidate received heighted support after winning caucuses and primaries in many states?
Answer: Kerry
Question: After Clark and Dean dropped out, which candidate was considered to be the only real contender against Kerry?
Answer: Edwards
Question: What primary was won by Sharpton?
Question: What did Sharpton do the next day after losing in Nevada?
Question: How long did Sharpton finish strong in the race?
Question: What caused Sharpton to have increasing support by voters?
Question: What other candidate was the only threat to Sharpton's campaign?
Question: Which candidate was the fore-runner after definitively winning in the primaries and Minnesota caucuses?
Answer: Kerry
Question: Which candidate won his state primary, despite having already dropped out of his race?
Answer: Dean
Question: Which candidate finished in second place in the Georgia primary?
Answer: Edwards
Question: Besides Georgia, what other state primary did Edwards win?
Answer: South Carolina
Question: Which candidate dropped out of the race, next after Edwards?
Answer: Sharpton
Question: What is Sharpton's home state?
Question: What is the only state taken by Sharpton?
Question: In what month did Kerry officially leave the race?
Question: When did Kuninch win victories in California, Connecticut and Georgia?
Question: What caucuses did Kuninch also win in on Super Tuesday?
Question: Who did John Kerry choose to be by his side as the potential Vice President?
Answer: John Edwards
Question: How many candidates did John Kerry name as potential prospects to be his running mate?
Answer: three
Question: What was the Kerry/Edwards slogan that was released prior to the start of the convention in Boston?
Answer: "stronger at home and more respected in the world."
Question: Which part of Kerry's Boston speech made reference to his military experience?
Answer: "I'm John Kerry and I'm reporting for duty."
Question: Which famous line from Kerry's speech was later featured in one of his later television ad campaigns?
Answer: "the future doesn't belong to fear, it belongs to freedom"
Question: On what date did Tom Vilsack choose John Edwards as his running mate?
Question: In what city did Tom Vilsack speak at the DNC?
Question: What other two candidates did Tom Vilsack have on his list for possible running mates?
Question: What was the slogan for Vilsack/Edwards at the DNC?
Question: What did Vilsack mention that the future belonged to in his famous quote?
Question: How did Bush try to convey that he was the stronger, tougher candidate?
Answer: presenting himself as a decisive leader and contrasted Kerry as a "flip-flopper."
Question: What phrase did Kerry use to try to express that he was more concerned for America?
Answer: "Stronger at home, respected in the world."
Question: What does Kerry feel Bush aliented the American people with?
Answer: his foreign policy
Question: The stategy that Bush used against Kerry was compared to what other similar strategy in the past?
Answer: just as his father did with Dukakis in the 1988 election
Question: What did Dukakis focus his campaign on?
Question: What kind of leader did Dukakis want to be seen as?
Question: How was Bush portrayed as when compared to Dukakis?
Question: What attitude did Dukakis have on terrorism?
Question: What perception made Bush appear weaker than Dukakis?
Question: Who was accused on not fulfilling their military service, during the fall of 2004?
Answer: Bush
Question: What shifted attention away from the coverage regarding Bush's controvery regarding his required service?
Answer: a segment on 60 Minutes
Question: Which news agency came under review resulting in the firing of their producer?
Answer: CBS News
Question: Which time period came into the spotlight, during the fall of 2004?
Answer: the late 1960s and early 1970s
Question: What did the documents that were aired during the 60 Minutes segment come to be known as?
Answer: Killian documents
Question: What was Killian accused of not doing in 2004?
Question: What did the Texas Air National Guard focus on in September 2004?
Question: What news agency did a staffing change in 1970?
Question: When was the news producer hired at CBS?
Question: Who was fired after working for Bush in the 1970's?
Question: Where did the first debate, between Kerry and Bush take place?
Answer: University of Miami
Question: Who was considered to have been the winner of the debate?
Answer: Kerry
Question: Who was the moderator of the first debate between Kerry and Bush?
Answer: Jim Lehrer
Question: What was thought to be the main focal point of the debate?
Answer: foreign policy
Question: How did the opinion regarding Kerry change, after being delared the winner of the debate?
Answer: strengthening what had come to be seen as a weak and troubled campaign
Question: Where did the first debate between Lehrer and Kerry take place?
Question: What did Lehrer accuse Kerry of not doing in 2003?
Question: What was Lehrer's reply to Kerry in the debate?
Question: What was the deciding opinion about Lehrer's performance in the debate?
Question: What did the media air to show Lehrer's annoyance with Kerry?
Question: Where was the second debate for presidency held?
Answer: Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri
Question: Was the second debate held in a rigid, formalistic manner?
Answer: town meeting format, less formal
Question: Was there a specific topic as the main focus for the second debate?
Answer: taking questions on a variety of subjects from a local audience
Question: Who was the moderator of the second debate, held at the Washington University?
Answer: Charles Gibson
Question: How did Bush try to make light of himself after being made fun of for his demeanor during the first debate?
Answer: joking at one point about one of Kerry's remarks, "That answer made me want to scowl."
Question: When was Charles Gibson first hired at ABC?
Question: What style did Charles Gibson usually use when hosting a news broadcast?
Question: Who usually watches Charles Gibson when he is on ABC news?
Question: What kind of comments does Charles Gibson use when in a difficult interview?
Question: What was Charles Gibson's comment about Bush's answer to his first question?
Question: Where was the final debate, between Kerry and Bush held?
Answer: Arizona State University
Question: What was the next biggest competitor for television viewers, next to the debate?
Answer: Major League Baseball playoffs broadcast simultaneously
Question: Who did Kerry publicize as a lesbian while discussing gay rights, some time after the debate?
Answer: Vice President Cheney's daughter
Question: What did Cheney refer to him as, after hearing Kerry's comments about his daughter?
Answer: "a pretty angry father"
Question: How many people in the US support gay rights?
Question: What was Bob Schieffer scolded by Cheney for using to further himself politically?
Question: When did Cheney's daughter come out as a lesbian?
Question: What college did Cheney's daughter graduate from?
Question: What did Bob Schieffer call himself when his children were featured in a CBS news story?
Question: Who received a certified ballot from the Electoral College, despite his name being spelled incorrectly on the ballot?
Answer: John Edwards
Question: Had there ever been a time where an elector voted for the same candidate to be both president and vice president?
Answer: This was the first time in U.S. history
Question: Which candidate won the unanimous vote for vice presidency?
Answer: All ten electors in the state cast ballots for John Edwards for vice president
Question: What is different in comparison between the 1800 electoral system and the system in place in 2004?
Answer: under that electoral system only votes for the president's position were cast, with the runner-up in the Electoral College becoming vice president
Question: In the 1800 election, why did Thomas Jefferson get the second vote?
Answer: it violated Electoral College rules
Question: What did the Electoral College do when John Kerry's name was wrong on the ballot?
Question: How many states voted for John Edwards for president in the election?
Question: How many times had Aaron Burr run for office in the past?
Question: Who voted for John Edwards for president and had his vote discounted because it violated the rules?
Question: What state was Aaron Burr originally from?
Question: Why was there tension the day after the election?
Answer: It was clear that the result in Ohio, along with two other states who had still not declared (New Mexico and Iowa), would decide the winner
Question: Despite an apparent lead by Bush early on, what was thought to be a concern?
Answer: provisional ballots that had yet to be counted, initially reported to number as high as 200,000
Question: How would it be determined who would win, in the event of an electoral tie?
Answer: The result of an electoral tie would cause the election to be decided in the House of Representatives with each state casting one vote, regardless of population
Question: Which state became the most important to secure Bush's presidential election?
Answer: the outcome of the election hinged solely on the result in Ohio
Question: Who did Bush lose the popular vote to in the 2000 election for presidency?
Answer: Al Gore
Question: What lead did Kerry have initially?
Question: What was Ken Blackwell waiting for that hadn't been counted yet?
Question: What preliminary leads did Kerry have in four states?
Question: Which state became the most important for Al Gore to win the election?
Question: What did Al Gore announce was impossible for the Democrats to do to win in 2000?
Question: Was there any debate about the voting process in Ohio?
Answer: a motion was made contesting Ohio's electoral votes
Question: What was the decision regarding the motion to re-count the votes, after each House finalized their debates?
Answer: During the debate, no Senator argued that the outcome of the election should be changed by either court challenge or revote
Question: Who was the lone supporter of the motion, from the Senate?
Answer: Senator Boxer
Question: Why did Senator Boxer say she voted the way she did?
Answer: Senator Boxer claimed that she had made the motion not to challenge the outcome, but to "shed the light of truth on these irregularities."
Question: How many people from the House of Representatives did not vote?
Answer: Not voting were 52 Republicans and 80 Democrats
Question: When was Boxer elected to office?
Question: Why did Republicans say they made the motion to contest Boxer?
Question: What did the four house officials who hadn't take office yet argue about the election?
Question: What happened before four senators took office in Ohio?
Question: What did the 31 Democrats in the House say they had not made the motion for?
Question: What did Kerry say affected the ability to know if the results of the Ohio vote was unbiased?
Answer: "the widespread irregularities make it impossible to know for certain that the [Ohio] outcome reflected the will of the voters."
Question: Which Democratic official supported Kerry's theory about the Ohio votes?
Answer: Howard Dean
Question: What was said about the devices used to collect the votes, in Ohio?
Answer: the machines were not reliable
Question: Who was targeted for defrauding the electoral process, in Ohio?
Answer: the Republicans are willing to do things that are unethical to manipulate elections
Question: What did Kerry think the state of voter machines was?
Question: Who did Kerry think was unethical in the election?
Question: What did the DNC say wasn't possible to know for certain?
Question: What kind of suppression was there in Ohio according to Kerry?
Question: What did the DNC say Kerry was guilty of in the election?
Question: Who was called in to watch over the presidential election in 2004?
Answer: the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) sent a team of observers to monitor the presidential elections in 2004
Question: Was this the only occasion the OSCE was invited to preside over a presidential election?
Answer: It was the first time the OSCE had sent observers to a U.S. presidential election, although they had been invited in the past.
Question: What were the findings of the OSCE team?
Answer: mostly met the OSCE commitments included in the 1990 Copenhagen Document
Question: What type of values did the OSCE determine were adhered to during the election process?
Answer: long-standing democratic tradition
Question: What group was invited to the US by the public in 1990?
Question: Why did OSCE come to the US in 1990?
Question: Who did the OSCE send to the US in 1990?
Question: How many times had the OSCE been to the US before 1990?
Question: What was issued by the OSCE in 1990 on the election?
Question: What finance act affected the 2004 election?
Answer: the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002
Question: Where did the moniker McCain-Feingold Bill come from?
Answer: its sponsors in the United States Senate
Question: How did the 527 groups come up with their title?
Answer: Named for a section of the Internal Revenue Code
Question: What stipulation enabled the 527 groups to campaign for funds?
Answer: as long as they do not coordinate their activities with political campaigns
Question: What is one of the named 527 groups from the 2004 election?
Answer: MoveOn.org
Question: What act was passed during the 2000 campaign?
Question: What reforms took place during the 2000 campaign?
Question: How many campaign finance groups were there in 2000?
Question: In what year did McCain run for President of the US?
Question: What group supported McCain in the 2000 election?
Question: How were viewers able to determine who endorsed political campaign ads, they saw in advertisements??
Answer: required to include a verbal disclaimer identifying the organization responsible for the advertisement
Question: What was disallowed in advertising during the two months prior to the general election?
Answer: 60 days before the general election), such organizations' ads were prohibited from mentioning any candidate by name
Question: Official advertisements generally contained what phrase?
Answer: "I'm [candidate's name], and I approve this message."
Question: Independent advertisements generally contained what phrase?
Answer: "[Organization name] is responsible for the content of this advertisement"
Question: What was the tag line requirement before?
Answer: Previously, television advertisements only required a written "paid for by" disclaimer on the screen.
Question: What were candidates required to identify when speaking at a supporters business?
Question: What did supporters have to refer to 60 days before an election?
Question: What does not mentioning candidates names before an election help the public differentiate between?
Question: What method was used to disclose candidate funding when a candidate gave a speech in the past?
Question: What were required to include who was involved in choosing a candidate for office?
Question: What action suggested by a state, would have affecting the outcome of the electoral votes?
Answer: ballot initiative in Colorado, known as Amendment 36
Question: What unique change to the electoral voting process did Colorado suggest should happen?
Answer: under the amendment Colorado would have assigned presidential electors proportionally to the statewide vote count, which would be a unique system
Question: Which two states designated their assigned votes based on their districts?
Answer: Nebraska and Maine assign electoral votes based on vote totals within each congressional district)
Question: Did everyone agree that Amendment 36 was a good idea?
Answer: Detractors claimed that this splitting would diminish Colorado's influence in the Electoral College
Question: Did Amendment 36 get passed?
Answer: the amendment ultimately failed
Question: What was the name of the amendment passed in Nebraska?
Question: What did Amendment 36 change in Nebraska?
Question: How was Amendment 36 described when it was on the ballot in Nebraska?
Question: Where would Nebraska's influence be diminished under the 36th Amendment?
Question: What percentage of the population in Nebraska didn't like the amendment?
Question: Does the Liberal Party of Australia consider itself socialist or anti-socialist?
Answer: anti-socialist
Question: Who was the Liberal Party of Australia's longest-serving leader?
Answer: Robert Menzies
Question: Who founded Australia's liberal party?
Answer: Robert Menzies
Question: What is communism also referred to?
Question: Does the Liberal Party of Australia consider itself liberal or anti-socialist?
Question: Who was the Liberal Party of Australia's longest-serving socialist?
Question: Who founded communism in Australia?
Question: What has Australia's middle class now support more of?
Question: In what year were the Australian Democrats founded?
Answer: 1977
Question: Which former liberal founded the Australian Democrats in 1977?
Answer: Don Chipp
Question: Whom are referred to as voters?
Question: In what year was the Liberal Party founded?
Question: Which former liberal founded the Liberal Party in 1977?
Question: Who are 16 of 20 of the middle class electorates held by?
Question: When did a left wing federal electorate emerge that no longer voted liberal?
Question: Did Mezies and Malcom Fraser raise, mainain, or lower tariff levels?
Answer: generally maintain
Question: Which group is currently known as the "National Party"?
Answer: the Country Party
Question: What is the "New Right"?
Answer: a conservative liberal group who advocated market deregulation, privatisation of public utilities, reductions in the size of government programs and tax cuts
Question: Were utilities publically or privately owned in Menzie's economy?
Answer: publicly
Question: Did Mezies and Malcom Fraser raise, maintain, or lower market levels?
Question: Which group is currently known as the Australia party?
Question: Were tariffs publicly or privately owned in Menzie's economy?
Question: When did the Malcolm Fraser come to be influenced by the New Right?
Question: Where did Fraser preside over a fairly regulated economy?
Question: Which group was predecessor to the Liberals?
Answer: United Australia Party (UAP)
Question: From where did the ideology of the Liberals stem?
Answer: anti-Labor groupings in the first Commonwealth parliaments
Question: What did the Commonwealth Liberal Party merge to form?
Answer: Nationalist Party of Australia
Question: In what year was the Nationalist Party of Australia formed?
Answer: 1917
Question: Which group was predecessor to the Free Trade Party?
Question: from where did the prominence of the Liberals stem?
Question: What did the UAP merge to form?
Question: In what year was the prime minister party formed?
Question: When did Billy Hughes fuse the Free Trade Party and the Protectionist Party?
Question: How many consecutive elections did the Lyons Government win?
Answer: three
Question: What event caused Robert Menzies to become Prime Minister?
Answer: Lyons' death in 1939
Question: What years did Robert Menzies serve as Prime Minister?
Answer: 1939 to 1941
Question: What economic event influenced the 1943 election?
Question: How many conservative elections did Robert Menzies win?
Question: What event caused Billy Hughes to become Prime Minister?
Question: What years did Billy Hughes serve as Prime Minister?
Question: What was used to bring the UAP out of the Depression?
Question: To what are Menzies' "Forgotten People" radio talks compared to?
Answer: Franklin D. Roosevelt's "fireside chats"
Question: How did Roosevelt refer to the middle class?
Answer: "backbone of Australia"
Question: Was the meeting at Canberra a group of people supporting or opposed to the Australian Labor Party?
Answer: opposed
Question: Where was the second anti-Labor Party held in 1944?
Answer: Albury, New South Wales
Question: To what are Menzies' "Forgotten People" political parties compared to?
Question: Was the meeting at Canberra a group of people supporting or opposed to Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Question: Where was the second fireside chat held in 1944?
Question: How did Roosevelt refer to political parties?
Question: From when did Roosevelt maintain his public profile with "The Forgotten People"?
Question: Where did the name "Liberal" come from?
Answer: in honour of the old Commonwealth Liberal Party
Question: What was the name of the Liberal Party's youth division?
Answer: Young Liberals
Question: How many members were in the Young Liberals by Sept 1945?
Answer: more than 90,000
Question: Where was the formation of the UAP party officially announced?
Question: Where did the name "Young Nationalists" come from?
Question: What was the name of the Liberal Party's conservative division?
Question: How many members were in the UAP by Sept 1945?
Question: What was a powerful liberal women's organization?
Question: How many years did the Liberals stay in office after the 1949 election?
Answer: a record 23 years
Question: What promises did Menzies make in the 1949 election?
Answer: end rationing of butter, tea and petrol and provided a five-shilling endowment for first-born children
Question: During what period did Australia experience long-term economic growth?
Answer: the post-war boom period of the Menzies Government (1949–1966)
Question: How many years did the Liberals stay in office after the 1966 election?
Question: What promises did Menzies make in the 1966 election?
Question: During what period did Australia experience long-term legal reforms regarding children?
Question: Who was an ashamed anglophile?
Question: Who fulfilled his promised at the 1966 election?
Question: What was a key political topic in the 1950s and 1960s?
Answer: Anti-communism
Question: What actions showed Menzies' anti-Communist beliefs?
Answer: committed troops to the Korean War and attempted to ban the Communist Party of Australia in an unsuccessful referendum during the course of that war
Question: Over what did the Labor party divide?
Answer: concerns about the influence of the Communist Party over the Trade Union movement,
Question: What was a key political topic of the Democratic Labor Party?
Question: What actions showed Stalin anti-Communist beliefs?
Question: Over what did the Soviet Union divide?
Question: Who committed troops to the Communist War?
Question: Why did the Soviet Union lead a coal strike?
Question: Which treaty was Australia's first military alliance outside of the British Commonwealth?
Answer: ANZUS Treaty
Question: Which areas were involved in the ANZUS Treaty?
Answer: Australia, New Zealand and the United States
Question: Where was the signing of the ANZUS Treaty held in 1951?
Answer: San Francisco
Question: What does the acronym SEATO stand for?
Answer: South East Asia Collective Defence Treaty
Question: Which group is a counterpart to NATO?
Answer: the South East Asia Collective Defence Treaty (SEATO)
Question: Which treaty was Austrialia's first military alliance outside of NATO?
Question: Which areas were involved with the NATO Treaty?
Question: Where was the signing of the NATO Treaty held in 1951?
Question: What does the acronym did Percy Spender sign?
Question: Which group is a counterpart to External Affairs?
Question: Which ruling allowed indigenous Australians the right to vote?
Answer: Menzies' Commonwealth Electoral Act
Question: Who was the first women to serve on the Australian Cabinet?
Answer: Dame Enid Lyons
Question: Which of Holt's stances received some public opposition?
Answer: commitment to the growing War in Vietnam
Question: Which Referendum allowed Indigenous Australians to be counted in the Census?
Answer: 1967 Referendum
Question: What overhelming percent of Australians voted for the 1967 Referendum?
Answer: 90%
Question: Government under whom experienced the conversion to the referendum?
Question: Which of Holt's stances received popular support?
Question: Which Referendum allowed Vietnam to be counted in the Census?
Question: What overwhelming percent of Aboriginal Australians voted for the 1967 Referendum?
Question: What did the the Migration Act 1966 expand?
Question: Which government established equal pay for men and women?
Answer: The Gorton Government
Question: What year did the Gorton Government stop replacing troups in Vietnam?
Answer: end of 1970
Question: Which government put an emphasis in supporting free film?
Question: Which government established equal school for men and women?
Question: What year did the Gorton Government stop replacing troops in Australia?
Question: Who increased funding for corporations?
Question: How many of the nations poor were provided education scholarships?
Question: Who commented that Gorton was not fit to be Prime Minister?
Answer: Defence Minister Malcolm Fraser
Question: Was Gorton impeached, voted out, or did he resign?
Answer: he resigned
Question: Which countries did Gorton maintain close relationships with?
Answer: United States and Britain
Question: Which continent did state Liberal leaders wish to pursue closer ties with?
Question: Who commented that Gorton was not fit to have voter support?
Question: Which countries did Fraser maintain close relationships with?
Question: When did the Fraser government experience a decline in voter support?
Question: Who saw Fraser's policies as too Centralist?
Question: Who became the first indigenous Austrailian in Parliament?
Answer: Neville Bonner
Question: How long did Bonner serve as a Liberal Senator?
Answer: 12 years
Question: How was Bonner appointed his position?
Answer: chosen by the Liberal Party to fill a Senate vacancy in 1971
Question: Who became the first indigienous liberal in Parliament?
Question: How long did Bonner serve as an independent?
Question: How was McMahon appointed his position?
Question: In what year did McMahon win an election?
Question: Where did McMahon give a boomerang throwing display?
Question: On what day did the 1975 constitutional crisis deadlock end?
Answer: 11 November 1975
Question: How did the gridlock between Whitlam and Fraser end?
Answer: the Whitlam government was dismissed by the Governor-General, Sir John Kerr
Question: Who won the 1975 election by large margin?
Answer: Fraser
Question: After what did Kerr claim that Whitlam delayed passage of money bills?
Question: Who won the 1974 election by large margin?
Question: What did Kerr argue?
Question: When was Kerr installed as caretaker Prime Minister?
Question: When did Whitlam win the election?
Question: Which document allowed Indigenous peoples the right to some traditional lands?
Answer: Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1976
Question: What environmental consequence affected the Australian economy by 1983?
Answer: a severe drought
Question: Which party did Don Chipp seperate to form in 1977?
Answer: Australian Democrats
Question: Who did Frazer eventually lose to in 1983?
Answer: Bob Hawke
Question: Which document allowed for Indigenous peoples the right to Tasmania?
Question: What environmental consequence affected the Australian economy by 1976?
Question: Which party did Neville Bonner separate to form in 1977?
Question: Who did Frazer eventually lose to in 1976?
Question: Who opposed Aboriginal rule in Apartheid South Africa and Rhodesia?
Question: How was Howard different from Paul Keating?
Answer: he supported traditional Australian institutions like the Monarchy in Australia, the commemoration of ANZAC Day and the design of the Australian flag
Question: In what ways was Howard similar to Paul Keating?
Answer: pursued privatisation of public utilities and the introduction of a broad based consumption tax
Question: Which government supported the US's war Afghanistan and Iraq?
Answer: The Howard Government
Question: Under what agreement did the Australian government support the US?
Answer: the ANZUS treaty
Question: How was Howard different from ANZUS?
Question: In what ways was Howard similar to ANZUS?
Question: Which government supported the Australia's war with Afghanistan and Iraq?
Question: Under what agreement did ANZAC support the US?
Question: What did Keating's premiership coincide with?
Question: Which parties merged in Queensland in 2008 to form the new Liberal National Party of Queensland?
Answer: the Liberal and National parties
Question: In March 2012, which party won by an historic landslide?
Answer: the new Liberal National Party of Queensland
Question: Who led the new Liberal National Party of Queensland through the election in March 2012?
Answer: former Brisbane Lord Mayor, Campbell Newman
Question: Which parties merged in Queensland in 2008 to form the New South Wales Liberal-National Coalition?
Question: In March 2011, which party won by an historic landslide?
Question: Who led the new Liberal National Party of Queensland through the election in March 2010?
Question: What parties merged in 2011?
Question: Who led the New South Wales Liberal-National Coalition?
Question: How close was the race betwen Turnbull and Abbott in 2009?
Answer: 42 votes to 41
Question: Who was elected to the Parliamentary Liberal Party after the 2007 Federal Election?
Answer: Dr Brendan Nelson
Question: To whom did Nelson lose the party to in 2008?
Answer: Malcolm Turnbull
Question: How close was the race between Turnbull and Abbott in 2008?
Question: Who was elected to the Parliamentary Liberal Party after the 1940 Federal Election?
Question: To whom did Abbott lose the party to in 2008?
Question: Which election saw an increase in Parliamentary vote?
Question: When did Nelson lose the leadership to Tony Abbott?
Question: Who is the Australian Party's deputy leader?
Answer: Julie Bishop
Question: Who was Turnbull elected to replace?
Answer: Tony Abbott
Question: What was the former name of the Turnbull Government?
Answer: the Abbott Government
Question: Who is the Abbott Party's leader?
Question: Who is the Abbot Party's deputy leader?
Question: Who was Giles elected to replace?
Question: What was the former name of Western Australia?
Question: Who is Chief Minister of the Liberal Party?
Question: In what year was the first indigenous Australian elected to the House of Representatives?
Answer: 2010
Question: In what year was the first Aboriginal Senator elected?
Answer: 1971
Question: Who was the first indigenous liberal elected to the House?
Question: In what year was the first indigenous liberal elected to the House of Representatives?
Question: In what year was the first liberal senator elected?
Question: Who supported Neville Bonner and the arts?
Question: Who was a West Australian artist?
Question: Which politician purposely created strong state divisions to a weaker national party?
Answer: Menzies
Question: Who makes party policy?
Answer: almost entirely by the parliamentary parties, not by the party's rank-and-file members
Question: How many state divisions exist in the Howard Governments organization?
Question: Which politician purposely created strong state divisions and a stronger national party?
Question: Who makes party divisions?
Question: When was a parliamentary government maintained by all Liberal governments until?
Question: What is dominated by party policy divisions?
Question: Was Menzies for or against nationalizing the banking system in Australia?
Answer: strongly against
Question: What helped the Liberals to victory in December 1955?
Answer: the formation of the anti-Communist Democratic Labor Party (DLP) and the consequent split in the Australian Labor Party early in 1955
Question: When did Menzies resign from Parliament?
Answer: 26 January 1966
Question: Was Evatt for or against nationalizing the banking system in Australia?
Question: What helped the Liberals to victory in December 1958?
Question: When did Evatt resign from Parliament?
Question: Who replaced Arthur Fadden as leader of the Senate?
Question: Who refused to pass labor legislation?
Question: Which two title holders fought for political power in the early 1990s?
Answer: former Treasurer John Howard competing with former Foreign Minister Andrew Peacock
Question: What was the Australian unemployment rate in 1992?
Answer: 11.4%
Question: What discussion proved an example of the difficulty of explaining what foods were and were not included in the Goods and Services Tax?
Answer: the infamous birthday cake interview
Question: Which two title holders fought for political power in the GST?
Question: What was the Australian unemployment rate in 1993?
Question: What discussion proved an example of the difficulty of explaining what governments were and were not included in the Goods and Services Tax
Question: When did John Hewson mount a campaign against the Fightback package?
Question: When did Paul Keating launch the Fightback! policy document?
Question: How long was Tom Playford in political power?
Answer: from the 1933 election to the 1965 election
Question: How many consecutive losses has the Liberal party faced since the 2002 election?
Answer: a record five
Question: During what years did the dismantling of the Playmander begin?
Answer: 1968 election to the 1970 election
Question: How long was Dean Brown in power?
Question: How many consecutive losses has David Tonkin faced since the 2002 election?
Question: During what years did the dismantling of the LCL begin?
Question: What Premiers led The Liberals after the 1970 election?
Question: Who was led by Opposition Leaders?
Question: What are samurai usually called in Japanse?
Answer: bushi (武士?, [bu.ɕi]) or buke (武家?)
Question: Where is the first known use of 'samurai'?
Answer: Kokin Wakashū
Question: When is the first known use of 'samurai'?
Answer: 905–914
Question: What were samurai affiliated with?
Answer: a clan
Question: How much of Japan were samurais?
Answer: less than 10%
Question: Where do samurais' teachings live on?
Answer: everyday life and in modern Japanese martial arts
Question: What class were samurais?
Answer: middle and upper echelons of the warrior class
Question: When was the Battle of Hakusukinoe?
Answer: 663 AD
Question: Who was the Battle of Hakusukinoe against?
Answer: Tang China and Silla
Question: What was the effect of the Battle of Hakusukinoe?
Answer: a Japanese retreat from Korean affairs
Question: Who led the Taika Reform?
Answer: Prince Naka no Ōe (Emperor Tenji)
Question: When was the Taika Reform?
Answer: 646 AD
Question: When was the early Heian?
Answer: the late 8th and early 9th centuries
Question: Who did Kammu fail to conquer?
Answer: Emishi
Question: What was the full title for Shogun?
Answer: sei'i-taishōgun
Question: Who introduced the Shogun concept?
Answer: Emperor Kammu
Question: Who was given the right to appoint shugo?
Answer: Minamoto no Yoritomo
Question: What was Minamoto's position?
Answer: clan leader
Question: Who opened the Kamakura Bakufu Shogunate?
Answer: Minamoto no Yoritomo
Question: When did the Kamakura Bakufu Shogunate open?
Answer: 1192
Question: Who fought in the Heiji Rebellion?
Answer: the rival Minamoto and Taira clans
Question: How long were the toryos' terms supposed to be?
Answer: four-year
Question: What clans were most regional clans' chiefs also a member of?
Answer: Fujiwara, Minamoto, or Taira clans
Question: Who was the first warrior to become imperial advisor?
Answer: Taira no Kiyomori
Question: Who established the first samurai-led administration?
Answer: Taira no Kiyomori
Question: What role did the Emperor have in the samurai-controlled government?
Answer: figurehead
Question: Who succeeded the Taira clan?
Answer: the Minamoto
Question: How did the Taira clan expand power?
Answer: had its women marry Emperors
Question: When did the Gempei War end?
Answer: 1185
Question: Which clans fought in the Gempei War?
Answer: The Taira and the Minamoto
Question: What does the Shimonoseki Strait divide?
Answer: Honshu and Kyushu
Question: When was the Kamakura Shogunate established?
Answer: 1192
Question: How many troops did the Yuan send to invade Japan?
Answer: 40,000