huutuan/long_squad_v2 huggingface dataset:
Question: When was Swansea City's home match played against Wigan Athletic?
Answer: Swansea City's home match at the Liberty Stadium against Wigan Athletic on 20 August 2011.
Question: Did Swansea qualify for the Europa Leaque in 2012-13?
Answer: In 2012–13, Swansea qualified for the Europa League
Question: How did Swansea qualify for the Europa League?
Answer: Swansea qualified for the Europa League by winning the League Cup.
Question: In 2013-14, how much did the Premier League's Welsh clubs increase by?
Answer: The number of Welsh clubs in the Premier League increased to two for the first time in 2013–14,
Question: Which team gained promotion then but was relegated after its first season?
Answer: in 2013–14, as Cardiff City gained promotion, but Cardiff City was relegated after its maiden season.
Question: In which year did a Welsh club participate in the Premier League for the first time?
Answer: 2011
Question: Which team was promoted to the Premier League in 2011?
Answer: Swansea City
Question: In which stadium was the first Premier League match played outside of England?
Answer: Liberty Stadium
Question: On which date did Swansea City play its first Premier League game?
Answer: 20 August 2011
Question: Against which team did Swansea City play its first Premier League game?
Answer: Wigan Athletic
Question: After Europa City gained promotion, which club participated in the Premier League for the first time?
Question: In which year did a Europa city gain promotion and a Welsh club join the league?
Question: After which city gained promotion did a Europa club join the Premier League?
Question: Which city gained promotion in August 2011?
Question: Who qualified for the league by being the winner of Wigan Athletic?
Question: Are there any clubs Scotland or Ireland in the Premier League?
Answer: Participation in the Premier League by some Scottish or Irish clubs has sometimes been discussed, but without result.
Question: Which team received permission to move to Dublin, Ireland in 1998?
Answer: in 1998, when Wimbledon received Premier League approval to relocate to Dublin, Ireland,
Question: Why didn't they move to Dublin?
Answer: the move was blocked by the Football Association of Ireland.
Question: What are Scotland's two largest teams?
Answer: Scotland's two biggest teams, Celtic and Rangers,
Question: Which team received Premier League approval to relocate to Dublin?
Answer: Wimbledon
Question: In which year did a Premier League team consider relocating to Ireland?
Answer: 1998
Question: Who occasionally discusses a Scottish team joining the Premier League?
Answer: the media
Question: Discussion about which clubs has led to them joining the Premier League?
Question: What is the names of Scotland's two smallest teams?
Question: The Celtic and Rangers are the two smallest teams of which country?
Question: In which year did the Rangers get Premier League approval to relocate?
Question: In which year did Wimbledon  get Premier League approval to relocate to Scotland?
Question: Who received broadcasting rights to the Premier League in 1992?
Answer: The League's decision to assign broadcasting rights to BSkyB in 1992
Question: Why was this a unique decision?
Answer: pay television was an almost untested proposition in the UK market,
Question: What happened to the Premier League's televsion rights after this decision?
Answer: the value of the Premier League's TV rights soar.
Question: What was the cause of this?
Answer: a combination of Sky's strategy, the quality of Premier League football and the public's appetite for the game
Question: In which year did the Premier League decide to give BSkyB broadcasting rights?
Answer: 1992
Question: What sort of television was BSkyB that made it such a radical broadcaster to choose for the Premier League?
Answer: pay television
Question: In which league has television played a minor role?
Question: In which year did BSkyB assign broadcasting rights to the League?
Question: In which year did The Premier League give the UK market broadcasting rights?
Question: What has played a minor role in the history of the Premier League?
Question: What has played a major role in BSkyB?
Question: Do European Leagues sell their television rights per a collective level?
Answer: other European Leagues, including La Liga, in which each club sells its rights individually
Question: What happens when European Leagues sell their televsion rights individually?
Answer: a much higher share of the total income going to the top few clubs
Question: How is the teleivsion revenue distributed in the Premier League?
Answer: The money is divided into three parts:
Question: How is half of the money distributed?
Answer: half is divided equally between the clubs
Question: How is the final quarter of the money distributed?
Answer: the final quarter is paid out as facilities fees for games that are shown on television, with the top clubs generally receiving the largest shares of this.
Question: On what sort of basis does the Premier League sell its television rights?
Answer: collective basis
Question: How does La Liga sell its broadcasting rights?
Answer: individually
Question: Which clubs get the greatest share of broadcasting income when rights are sold individually?
Answer: the top few clubs
Question: What percentage of broadcasting revenue is divided equally by all La Liga clubs?
Answer: half
Question: What percentage of broadcasting revenue is awarded on a merit basis according to ranking at the end of the season?
Answer: one quarter
Question: On what kind of basis do the twenty clubs sell their rights?
Question: La Liga sells its rights collectively while the Premier League sells how?
Question: How is the income from domestic rights divided between the twenty clubs?
Question: How is the revenue from overseas rights divided between the 40 clubs?
Question: The revenue from overseas rights is divided unequally between how many clubs?
Question: How much was the amount of first five seasons of the Sky television rights?
Answer: The first Sky television rights agreement was worth £304 million over five seasons.
Question: How much many did the Premier League make from selling its internation rights during 2004-07?
Answer: The league brought in £320 million from the sale of its international rights for the three-year period from 2004–05 to 2006–07
Question: What happened to Sky's agreement in 2006.
Answer: Sky's monopoly was broken from August 2006 when Setanta Sports was awarded rights to show two out of the six packages of matches available.
Question: Why did this happen?
Answer: This occurred following an insistence by the European Commission that exclusive rights should not be sold to one television company.
Question: What was the average income from media from 2007-2010 for the Premier League?
Answer: giving Premier League clubs an average media income from league games of around £40 million-a-year from 2007 to 2010.
Question: How many seasons did the first television rights contract award to Sky?
Answer: five
Question: How much was the first television rights contract awarded to Sky worth?
Answer: £304 million
Question: How much was the second television rights contract awarded to Sky worth?
Answer: £670 million
Question: How much was the third television rights contract awarded to Sky worth?
Answer: £1.024 billion
Question: By being awarded television rights, which other network broke Sky's monopoly on Premier League coverage?
Answer: Setanta Sports
Question: The first Sky television rights agreement was worth how much money over a six year period?
Question: The first Sky television rights agreement was worth 105 million over what time period?
Question: The second contract began in the 1996 season and was worth how much?
Question: How much was the second contract worth over a three season period?
Question: How much was the third contract worth over a four season period?
Question: Why has there been a several court cases against Sky and Premier League?
Answer: The TV rights agreement between the Premier League and Sky has faced accusations of being a cartel
Question: What did the Office of Fair Trading decide regarding the claim that Sky abuses their position in 2002.
Answer: Office of Fair Trading in 2002 found BSkyB to be dominant within the pay TV sports market, but concluded that there were insufficient grounds for the claim
Question: Who investigated the Premier League's collective selling rights in 1999?
Answer: In July 1999 the Premier League's method of selling rights collectively for all member clubs was investigated by the UK Restrictive Practices Court,
Question: What did they decide about the collective selling issue?
Answer: the UK Restrictive Practices Court, who concluded that the agreement was not contrary to the public interest.
Question: What has the agreement between the Premier League and Sky been accused of being?
Answer: a cartel
Question: Who investigated the agreement between the Premier League and Sky in 2002?
Answer: the Office of Fair Trading
Question: Who investigated how the Premier League sold television rights in 1999?
Answer: the UK Restrictive Practices Court
Question: Agreements between UK Restrictive Practices Court and the Premier League have been accused of being what?
Question: What has arisen as a result of TV rights agreements between the Premier League and the Office of Fair Trading?
Question: In which year did the UK Restrictive Practices Court find BSkyB to be dominant in the pay TV sports market?
Question: In which year did the Office of Fair Trading find sufficient grounds to claim BSkyB abused its dominant position within the pay TV sports market?
Question: How much money did Premier League earn regarding television rights in 2010-13?
Answer: Television rights alone for the period 2010 to 2013 have been purchased for £1.782 billion.
Question: How many games did BT show in 2013-16?
Answer: BT had been awarded 38 games a season for the 2013–14 through 2015–16 seasons at £246 million-a-year.
Question: Who will show 116 games for that same time period?
Answer: The remaining 116 games were retained by Sky who paid £760 million-a-year.
Question: How much have the domestic televsion rights increased from 2010-12 to 2012-13?
Answer: The total domestic rights have raised £3.018 billion, an increase of 70.2% over the 2010–11 to 2012–13 rights.
Question: How much did BT and Sky pay for their rights up to the 2018-19 season?
Answer: Sky and BT paid a total of £5.136 billion to renew their contracts with the Premier League for another three years up to the 2018–19 season.
Question: When will the BBC's weekend highlights package run out?
Answer: 2016
Question: How much were Premier League television rights from 2010 to 2013 purchased for?
Answer: £1.782 billion
Question: When did Setanta Sports fail to meet their payments deadline?
Answer: 22 June 2009
Question: When Setanta Sports could not pay their bill to the league, which network took over broadcast rights from them?
Answer: ESPN
Question: On which date was it announced that BT was awarded a broadcasting contract?
Answer: 13 June 2012
Question: For how much did Sky retain the remaining 23 matches?
Question: Which channel's package on Monday nights  will run until 2016?
Question: Which package on Saturday and Sunday nights will run through 2009?
Question: For how long will the Premier League highlights package run?
Question: What country is the Premier League the most distributed televised sports broadcast?
Answer: The Premier League is particularly popular in Asia, where it is the most widely distributed sports programme
Question: Who broadcasts the Premier League's games in India?
Answer: In India, the matches are broadcast live on STAR Sports. In China
Question: Who broadcasts the Premier League's games in China?
Answer: In China, the broadcast rights were awarded to Super Sports in a six-year agreement that began in the 2013–14 season.
Question: Who broadcasts the Premier League's games in Canada?
Answer: As of the 2013–14 season, Canadian broadcast rights to the Premier League are jointly owned by Sportsnet and TSN
Question: How many games does each of them broadcast?
Answer: both rival networks holding rights to 190 matches per season.
Question: On which continent other than Europe is the Premier League especially popular?
Answer: Asia
Question: Which network is the main live broadcaster of Premier League in Australia?
Answer: Fox Sports
Question: Which network in Australia offers viewers the choice of which Saturday afternoon match they watch?
Answer: Foxtel
Question: Which network broadcasts Premier League live in India?
Answer: STAR Sports
Question: Which Chinese broadcaster has Premier League rights?
Answer: Super Sports
Question: Where is the Premier League particularly unpopular?
Question: Where is the Premier League the least widely distributed sports program?
Question: What does Fox Sports broadcast in Asia?
Question: In what year where the broadcast rights in China given to Sportsnet?
Question: Who jointly owns Sportsnet and TSN?
Question: Who broadcasts the Premier League's games in the United States?
Answer: The Premier League is broadcast in the United States through NBC Sports.
Question: What was the average viewership in the United States during the 2014-15 season?
Answer: with NBC and NBCSN averaging a record 479,000 viewers in the 2014–15 season
Question: How many years did NBC Sports receive an extension for with the Premier League in 2015?
Answer: NBC Sports reached a six-year extension with the Premier League in 2015
Question: What was the value of this extension?
Answer: in a deal valued at $1 billion (£640 million).
Question: When will this extension end?
Answer: through the 2021–22 season
Question: Which American broadcaster shows the Premier League currently?
Answer: NBC Sports
Question: By what percentage has viewership in the US risen from 2012 to 2015?
Answer: 118%
Question: How many viewers on average watched the Premier League 2014-15 season in the US?
Answer: 479,000
Question: In which year did NBC Sports secure an extension of six years with the Premier League?
Answer: 2015
Question: How much was the NBC broadcasting deal with the Premier League worth in 2015?
Answer: $1 billion
Question: Through which channel is the Fox Sports league broadcast in the US?
Question: In what year did Fox Sports and the Premier League come to a six year extension?
Question: How much was the seven year deal between NBC Sports and the Premier League valued at?
Question: In which country is the Premier League broadcast through ESPN Sports?
Question: For how many years was the extension between ESPN and Fox Soccer?
Question: Why has their been distance between the Premier League and the Football League?
Answer: in large part to the disparity in revenue from television rights between the leagues,
Question: Did many new teams in the Premier League have any difficulties in their initial season?
Answer: many newly promoted teams have found it difficult to avoid relegation in their first season in the Premier League.
Question: Was it unusual for a new team to go back to the Football League after their first season in the Premier League?
Answer: In every season except 2001–02 and 2011–12, at least one Premier League newcomer has been relegated back to the Football League.
Question: In the 1997-98 season how many new teams had to go back to the Football League?
Answer: In 1997–98 all three promoted clubs were relegated at the end of the season.
Question: Due to the disparity in television rights revenue between leagues, who struggles to avoid relegation in their Premier League first season?
Answer: newly promoted teams
Question: In every season but 2001-02 and 2011-12, at least how many Premier League teams have been relegated?
Answer: one
Question: How many newly promoted clubs were relegated from the Premier League in 1997-98?
Answer: three
Question: Between which leagues has there been a decreasing gulf?
Question: The Premier League and which other league have been noticing a decreasing gulf?
Question: From which league did the television split from?
Question: When in 1997-98 were the four promoted clubs relegated?
Question: In which season has there been at least one Football League newcomer relegated back to the Premier League?
Question: If a team is relegated in the Premier League what type of tv payment do they receive?
Answer: The Premier League distributes a portion of its television revenue to clubs that are relegated from the league in the form of "parachute payments".
Question: What do critics have to say about this payment?
Answer: critics maintain that the payments actually widen the gap between teams that have reached the Premier League and those that have not,
Question: What has happened to some of the clubs who weren't able to get back into the Premier League right away?
Answer: financial problems
Question: How much does a Football League club receive on average for their television revenues?
Answer: the average Football League Championship club receives £2 million
Question: How does this compare an average Premier League team?
Answer: the average Premier League team receives £55 million
Question: To which type of team are parachute payments distributed to in the Premier League?
Answer: relegated
Question: Starting in the 2013-14 season, parachute payments are in excess of what amount of revenue?
Answer: £60 million
Question: What is said to widen between clubs who reach the Premier League and those who do not thanks to parachute payments?
Answer: the gap
Question: What does the Football League Championship club do with a portion of TV revenue?
Question: What do supporters say about the parachute payments?
Question: To what type of team does the Football League Championship club distribute parachute payments?
Question: How much to the "bouncing back" payments exceed?
Question: What did the Taylor Report recommend at the the Hillsborough disaster in 1989?
Answer: a recommendation that standing terraces should be abolished
Question: What was the result of their recommendation?
Answer: as a result all stadiums in the Premier League are all-seater
Question: How many stadiums have been closed down since Premier League started?
Answer: Nine stadiums that have seen Premier League football have now been demolished.
Question: What was the total seating capacity of stadiums in the Premier League in the 2010-11 season.
Answer: The combined total capacity of the Premier League in the 2010–11 season is 770,477 with an average capacity of 38,523.
Question: In how many stadiums had Premier League been played as of the 2015-16 season?
Answer: 53
Question: What did the Taylor Report recommend to abolish from all stadiums?
Answer: standing terraces
Question: How many stadiums in which the Premier League has been played have been demolished as of 2016?
Answer: Nine
Question: What is the capacity of Bloomfield Road stadium?
Answer: 16,220
Question: What is the combined total capacity of all stadiums in the Premier League as of 2011?
Answer: 770,477
Question: Since the leagues beginnings in 2015, how many stadiums have there been games in?
Question: The Premier league has played in 75,957 stadiums since which year?
Question: In which year was the Taylor Report disaster?
Question: Since which leagues creation have football grounds in Old Trafford seen steady improvements?
Question: What has happened to ten stadiums that have hosted Premier League football?
Question: Are attendance remittances that important to the Premier League?
Answer: Stadium attendances are a significant source of regular income for Premier League clubs.
Question: What was the Premier Leagues standard attendance in the 2007-08 season?
Answer: The Premier League's record average attendance of 36,144 was set during the 2007–08 season.
Question: What was the league's first year attendance average?
Answer: the average attendance of 21,126 recorded in the league's first season (1992–93).
Question: Attendance for the 2013-14 season set a new record of how much?
Answer: in the 2013–14 season recording an average attendance of 36,695 with a total attendance of just under 14 million,
Question: What was the average attendance for all Premier League clubs during the 2009-10 season?
Answer: 34,215
Question: What was the total attendance of all Premier League games during the 2009-10 season?
Answer: 13,001,616
Question: By how many attendees did the average Premier League attendance increase between 1992 and 2009?
Answer: 13,089
Question: For when did the Taylor Report set the deadline for replacing terraces with seats in stadiums?
Answer: 1994–95
Question: During which season did the Premier League set a record average attendance of over 36,000 people?
Answer: 2007–08
Question: What is a significant source of revenue for the Taylor Report?
Question: Stadium attendances provide what for the Taylor Report clubs?
Question: With a total aggregate attendance of 34,215, how much was the average attendance across clubs for the 2009-10 season?
Question: In which year was the record beaten when average attendance was recorded at just under 14 million?
Question: What is the highest total in England's top flight since 1992?
Question: What are some of the every day tasks that a manager of a team has to deal with?
Answer: Managers in the Premier League are involved in the day-to-day running of the team, including the training, team selection, and player acquisition.
Question: What type of licence does a manager need?
Answer: Managers are required to have a UEFA Pro Licence
Question: Is this licence required on a permanent basis?
Answer: The UEFA Pro Licence is required by every person who wishes to manage a club in the Premier League on a permanent basis
Question: What is a caretaker manager?
Answer: Caretaker appointments are managers that fill the gap between a managerial departure and a new appointment.
Question: Give an example of someone who was a caretaker manager?
Answer: examples include Paul Hart at Portsmouth and David Pleat at Tottenham Hotspur.
Question: What license are managers in the Premier League required to hold?
Answer: UEFA Pro Licence
Question: Which licence follows completion of both the UEFA B and A licences?
Answer: UEFA Pro Licence
Question: For how long at most is an unlicenced caretaker manager allowed to control a Premier League team for?
Answer: 12 weeks
Question: Which caretaker manager was later promoted to permanent manager at Portsmouth?
Answer: Paul Hart
Question: Which caretaker manager was later promoted to permanent manager at Tottenham Hotspur?
Answer: David Pleat
Question: What is a manager appointment?
Question: What have numerous fans gone on to secure after doing well as a caretaker?
Question: Who is an example of a fan who went on to secure a permanent managerial post after doing well as a caretaker?
Question: At the beginning of the Premier League how many foreign players were there for the first  round of games?
Answer: At the inception of the Premier League in 1992–93, just eleven players named in the starting line-ups for the first round of matches
Question: By the 2000-1 season what was the percentage of foreign players?
Answer: By 2000–01, the number of foreign players participating in the Premier League was 36 per cent of the total.
Question: Which team in 1999 had a line-up for starting that was consisted of all foreign players?
Answer: On 26 December 1999, Chelsea became the first Premier League side to field an entirely foreign starting line-up,
Question: Which team in 2005 had all-foreign team players?
Answer: on 14 February 2005 Arsenal were the first to name a completely foreign 16-man squad for a match
Question: In 2009, what percent of the players were English in the Premier League?
Answer: By 2009, under 40% of the players in the Premier League were English.
Question: How many of the original Premier League players in the 1992-93 season hailed from outside the UK or Ireland?
Answer: eleven
Question: By 2000-01, what percentage of players in the Premier League were from outside the UK and Ireland?
Answer: 36
Question: By 2004-05, what percentage of players in the Premier League were from outside the UK and Ireland?
Answer: 45
Question: On which date did Chelsea host an entirely foreign starting line-up and therefore become the first team to do so?
Answer: 26 December 1999
Question: On which date did Arsenal name a fully foreign 16-man squad for a match?
Answer: 14 February 2005
Question: How many players were from the UK or Ireland when the Premier League was created?
Question: How many players were from outside the UK or Ireland when the Premier League was created in 2004?
Question: By what year was the number of domestic players in the league equal to 36 percent?
Question: Who became the first team to field an all domestic starting line up?
Question: By what year were over 40% of players in the league English?
Question: Why did the Home Office change it rules regardin work permits in 1999?
Answer: In response to concerns that clubs were increasingly passing over young English players in favour of foreign players
Question: What was one of their changes?
Answer: A non-EU player applying for the permit must have played for his country in at least 75 per cent of its competitive 'A' team matches
Question: What was another requirement of foreign players?
Answer: his country must have averaged at least 70th place in the official FIFA world rankings over the previous two years.
Question: Could a club appeal a requirement?
Answer: If a player does not meet those criteria, the club wishing to sign him may appeal.
Question: In which year did the Home Office tighten rules on granting work permits to foreign football players?
Answer: 1999
Question: For what percent must a player play of the competitive A team matches for which he was available for selection in the previous two years to get a work permit from the Home OFfice?
Answer: 75
Question: Over the last two years, what rank must a player's team average at least in order for them to receive a work permit from the Home Office?
Answer: 70th place
Question: What can a club do if a player they wish to sign does not meet the Home Office's work permit requirements?
Answer: appeal
Question: Which entity loosened its rules in response to concerns about the clubs passing over English players?
Question: Which entity tightened its rules in response to concerns about the clubs passing over British players?
Question: In what year did the Home Office loosen rules for granting work permits?
Question: What did the Home Office loosen its rules for in 1999?
Question: In what year did the Home Office tighten its rules for clubs wishing to sign players?
Question: When can a player be transferred?
Answer: Players may only be transferred during transfer windows that are set by the Football Association.
Question: When are the transfer windows?
Answer: The two transfer windows run from the last day of the season to 31 August and from 31 December to 31 January.
Question: Can players be transferred under an emergency outside the transfer windows?
Answer: Player registrations cannot be exchanged outside these windows except under specific licence from the FA, usually on an emergency basis.
Question: What new rule was put into practice during the 2010-11 season?
Answer: As of the 2010–11 season, the Premier League introduced new rules mandating that each club must register a maximum 25-man squad of players aged over 21,
Question: Why was this new rule put into effect?
Answer: This was to enable the 'home grown' rule to be enacted,
Question: During which time can a player be transferred from one European football league to another?
Answer: transfer windows
Question: How many transfer windows are available each year from the Football Association?
Answer: two
Question: On which basis are transfers outside of transfer windows licenced?
Answer: emergency
Question: What is the maximum number of players able to be registered to a Premier League team?
Answer: 25
Question: How many of a 25-member Premier League squad must be from the UK or Ireland?
Answer: 8
Question: Who sets the transfer windows in which fans are transferred?
Question: How many transfer windows does the Premier League run?
Question: From when do t he transfer players run?
Question: In which season was it mandated that each club must have a maximum 21-man squad of players over 25?
Question: Which rule stated that at least 21 of the 25 men must be "home grown players"?
Question: Have transfer fees been increasing over the past years?
Answer: The record transfer fee for a Premier League player has risen steadily over the lifetime of the competition.
Question: What was the record breaking transfer fee in 1996?
Answer: Alan Shearer made a record breaking £15 million move to Newcastle United in 1996.
Question: What was the transfer fee for Gareth Bale in 2013.
Answer: Tottenham Hotspur selling Gareth Bale to Real Madrid for £85 million in 2013,
Question: In 2009, what was the transfer fee for Cristiano Ronaldo?
Answer: Manchester United's sale of Cristiano Ronaldo to Real Madrid for £80 million in 2009,
Question: What was Luis Suarez's transfer fee in 2014?
Answer: Liverpool selling Luis Suárez to Barcelona for £75 million in 2014.
Question: Who was the first British player in the Premier League to receive a transfer fee greater than £3 million?
Answer: Alan Shearer
Question: Who was the first British player in the Premier League to receive a transfer fee greater than £15 million?
Answer: Alan Shearer
Question: Who paid £15 million to transfer Alan Shearer to their club?
Answer: Newcastle United
Question: In which year did Newcastle United pay £15 million to transfer Alan Shearer to their club?
Answer: 1996
Question: For how much did Tottenham Hotspur sell Gareth Bale to Real Madrid for in 2013?
Answer: £85 million
Question: For how long has the record transfer fee steadily declined?
Question: Who was the first Manchester player to command a transfer fee greater than 3 million?
Question: Who made a record breaking move to Tottenham Hotspur in 1996?
Question: For how much was the move between Alan Shearer and Manchester United worth in 1996?
Question: Alan Shearer became the fifth British player to do what?
Question: Who is the Golden Boot award given to each season?
Answer: The Golden Boot is awarded to the top Premier League scorer at the end of each season.
Question: Who has the record for most goals in the Premier League?
Answer: Newcastle United striker Alan Shearer holds the record for most Premier League goals with 260
Question: How many players have achieved 100 goals?
Answer: Twenty-four players have reached the 100-goal mark
Question: How many different players have won the top scorer title?
Answer: 14 different players from 10 different clubs have won or shared the top scorers title.
Question: Who has the record for scoring the most goals in single season?
Answer: Andrew Cole and Alan Shearer hold the record for most goals in a season (34) – for Newcastle and Blackburn respectively.
Question: To whom is the Golden Boot award given to?
Answer: the top Premier League scorer
Question: Who holds the record for the most goals in the Premier League?
Answer: 260
Question: How many players have 100 goals or more in the Premier League?
Answer: Twenty-four
Question: How many different players have won or shared the top scorer title in the Premier League?
Answer: 14
Question: Who had scored four overall scoring titles as of the 2006 season?
Answer: Thierry Henry
Question: Which award is given to the lowest Premier League scorer each year?
Question: Who holds the record for least Premier League goals with 260?
Question: Who holds the record for most Premier League goals with 27?
Question: How many goals did Thierry Henry score when he won his fifth scoring title?
Question: Along with Theirry Henry, who else holds the record for most goals in a season?
Question: What is the Premier League Championship trophy based on?
Answer: The design of the trophy is based on the heraldry of Three Lions that is associated with English football.
Question: Where on the trophy can two of the lions be seen?
Answer: Two of the lions are found above the handles on either side of the trophy
Question: Where can the third lion be seen?
Answer: the third is symbolised by the captain of the title winning team as he raises the trophy, and its gold crown, above his head at the end of the season
Question: What do the ribbons on the trophy mean?
Answer: The ribbons that drape the handles are presented in the team colours of the league champions that year.
Question: The Golden Boot is made of sterling silver, silver gilt and which semi-precious stone?
Answer: malachite
Question: On what type of metal band are the title-winning clubs listed on the Golden Boot?
Answer: silver
Question: What does the green colour of Malachite on the Golden Boot represent?
Answer: the green field of play
Question: How many lions are found on the Golden Boot?
Answer: Two
Question: Who symbolizes the third lion not found on the Golden Boot trophy?
Answer: the captain of the title winning team
Question: The trophy is based on Four Lions associated with what?
Question: The ribbons draped upon the gold crown are presented how?
Question: How is the second ribbon symbolised?
Question: What has a golden band around its circumference?
Question: What is made of solid gold and silver gilt?
Question: When did the Roman Republic end?
Answer: 27 BC
Question: What marked the beginning of the Roman Republic?
Answer: the overthrow of the Roman Kingdom
Question: When was Cleopatra defeated at the Battle of Actium?
Answer: 31 BC
Question: What do most consider to be the event that ended the Roman Republic?
Answer: Roman Senate's grant of extraordinary powers to Octavian
Question: Who eventually became full members of the aristocracy?
Answer: leading plebeian families
Question: What were Rome's legislative structures eventually turned into?
Answer: the Justinian Code
Question: What was the senate that advised consuls in the Roman government comprised of?
Answer: appointed magistrates
Question: What went hand and hand with military success?
Answer: political success
Question: What factor is considered by some to be the main driving force behind the expansion of Rome?
Answer: inter-state factors
Question: What type of policy is considered by some to be responsible for Rome's many military conflicts?
Answer: imperialism
Question: What was a common conclusion to wars in the early days of republican Rome?
Answer: restoration of the way things were
Question: What type of alliance was created between the various Roman city-states?
Answer: mutual self-protection
Question: What did Roman settlers commonly seek out?
Answer: land
Question: After what war did the alliances start to solidify?
Answer: Second Punic War
Question: What helped Rome move closer to a confrontation with several other major powers in the area?
Answer: This growing coalition
Question: What towns had chosen Hannibal's side?
Answer: southern Italian
Question: What did city-states hope to gain from the Roman confederacy?
Answer: membership (and protection)
Question: What effect did the weakening of Ptolemaic Egypt have on nearby areas?
Answer: destabilisation
Question: Who attempted to find out how Rome dominated the Greek east?
Answer: Polybius
Question: Why was Rome involved in matters in the Greek east?
Answer: alliance-seeking
Question: Which countries citie-states attempted to gain the protection of Rome?
Answer: Greek
Question: At what point was the entire Roman world joined together under Roman control?
Answer: the time of the Roman Empire
Question: What was not seen as an influence of Rome's influence in the west?
Answer: intentional empire-building
Question: What type of city-states were involved with the Roman Republic?
Answer: independent
Question: In what battle did Rome claim victory over several Latin cities in?
Answer: the Battle of Lake Regillus
Question: What year did the Battle of Lake Regillus take place?
Answer: 496 BC
Question: In what year did Rome claim victory against the city of Veii?
Answer: 477 BC
Question: What Roman battle took place in the year 446 BC?
Answer: the Battle of Corbione
Question: Who initially had control over the Sabines?
Answer: Etruscan control
Question: When did the Battle of Allia River approximately end?
Answer: 387 BC
Question: How many of the Roman military were involved in the Battle of Allia River?
Answer: 15,000 troops
Question: Where did the Romans attempt to escape to after their loss against the Gauls?
Answer: Rome
Question: What is the name of the chieftan who led his army to victory in the Battle of Allia River?
Answer: Brennus
Question: Who asked Rome for assistance after being overburdened by their enemies?
Answer: two Etruscan towns
Question: What country did the Romans continue to expand to after Rome was sacked?
Answer: Italy
Question: How many battles were conducted by Rome before they were forced to flee in The First Samnite War?
Answer: two battles
Question: What caused the Romans early withdrawl in The First Samnite War?
Answer: revolt of several of their Latin allies
Question: When did The First Samnite War end?
Answer: 341 BC
Question: Who did Rome claim victory against in The Battle of Vesuvius?
Answer: Latins
Question: Who suffered a great amount of losses battling the Roman army?
Answer: Pyrrhus
Question: What did Rome refuse to do in their relations with Pyrrhus?
Answer: negotiate
Question: What military leader does the term Pyrrhic victory come from?
Answer: Pyrrhus
Question: What ultimately caused Pyrrhus to vacate completely from the country of Italy?
Answer: Seeing little hope for further gains
Question: In what year did the Battle of Beneventum take place?
Answer: 275 BC
Question: What type of engine was invented by the Romans?
Answer: grappling engine
Question: Who did the Carthaginians hire to lead their army after several losses against the Romans?
Answer: Xanthippus
Question: Who claimed victory at the Battle of Aegates Islands?
Answer: The Romans
Question: Who lost access to the Mediterranean after numerous naval losses?
Answer: the Carthaginians
Question: What was the name of Hannibal's family member that wanted to join his army in battle?
Answer: Hasdrubal Barca
Question: At what river was Hasdrubal Barca defeated at?
Answer: Metaurus River
Question: In which battle was Hannibal clearly defeated at?
Answer: the Battle of Zama
Question: Who had led the army that the Romans had sent to Africa?
Answer: Scipio Africanus
Question: Why did the Romans send an army to Africa?
Answer: to threaten the Carthaginian capital
Question: What type of colony was Carthage primarily comprised of?
Answer: punic colonies
Question: What cities flourished after they were conquered by the Romans?
Answer: punic cities
Question: What was the main request of the Romans that Carthage turned down?
Answer: complete surrender
Question: Who did the Numidians form an alliance with?
Answer: Rome
Question: What kingdom sent an ambassador to Italy in an attempt to form an alliance against Rome?
Answer: Macedonia
Question: Where did Philip V want to extend his control to?
Answer: westward
Question: What peninsula was the kingdom of Macedonia able to be found in?
Answer: Greek peninsula
Question: Who did Philip V seek an alliance with?
Answer: Hannibal
Question: At what point did Rome discover that an alliance between Philip V and Hannibal had been achieved?
Answer: Philip's emissaries were captured by a Roman fleet
Question: What was declared by the Romans now that the Philip had been defeated?
Answer: "Peace of the Greeks"
Question: Where did the Romans remove their troops from after Philip's loss?
Answer: Greece
Question: What request of Rome was ignored by Philip V that quickly led to the start of the Second Macedonian War?
Answer: an ultimatum to cease his campaigns against Rome's new Greek allies
Question: In what year did Philip lose the Battle of Cynoscephalae?
Answer: 197 BC
Question: What was Philip forced to return after his loss in the Battle of Cynoscephalae?
Answer: his recent Greek conquests
Question: Who had now been appointed as a military advisor to the emperor of Seleucid?
Answer: Hannibal
Question: What was thought to be the plan of Hannibal and the emperor of Seleucid?
Answer: an outright conquest not just of Greece, but of Rome itself
Question: Which empire currently controlled the majority of the former Persian Empire?
Answer: Seleucids
Question: Who had managed to recreate nearly the entirety of the empire of Alexander the Great?
Answer: Seleucids
Question: Which former enemy wanted an alliance with the Romans?
Answer: Philip
Question: Why was a garrison implented in Italy by the Romans?
Answer: in case the Seleucids ever got to Italy
Question: Who had been defeated in the Battle of Thermopylae?
Answer: the Seleucids
Question: Why did the Romans decide to withdraw their forces from Greece?
Answer: assuming (or hoping) that the lack of a major Greek power would ensure a stable peace
Question: What loss started a decline of the Seleucids Empire?
Answer: Battle of Magnesia
Question: Who was next in line to the throne at the time of Philip's death?
Answer: Perseus
Question: In what year were did the Macedonians lose The Battle of Pydna?
Answer: 168 BC
Question: How did Rome respond to their successive losses against the Macedonians?
Answer: by sending a stronger army
Question: Who had initially begun the Third Macedonian War?
Answer: Rome
Question: How many republics was the Kingdom of Macedonia splintered into?
Answer: four client republics
Question: In what year did the Fourt Macedonian War end?
Answer: 148 BC
Question: Who did Rome fight in the Fourth Macedonian War?
Answer: a Macedonian pretender to the throne
Question: What effect did the establishment of the kingdom of Macedonia have on Greece?
Answer: destabilizing
Question: Who could claim victory at the Second Battle of Pydna?
Answer: The Romans
Question: What war is considered to be the last Roman pacification in Northern Africa?
Answer: The Jugurthine War
Question: What eventually caused Jugurtha to become a captive?
Answer: treachery
Question: When did the Jugurthine War end?
Answer: 104 BC
Question: Who attempted to usurp the throne of Numidia?
Answer: Jugurtha
Question: Who did Jugurtha have to bribe in order for them to accept him as the new leader of Numidia?
Answer: the Romans
Question: In what year did Rome come into contact with a couple Celtic tribes?
Answer: 121 BC
Question: What war began in the year 113 BC?
Answer: The Cimbrian War
Question: Where did the tribes that were almost annihilated in the Battle of Vercellae hail from?
Answer: northern Europe
Question: Who saw increased loyalty from the Roman soldiers?
Answer: their generals
Question: Who was greater in numbers than the Roman slave masters?
Answer: the slaves
Question: Around how many rebellious uprisings and civil wars happened in the 1st century BC?
Answer: twelve
Question: Which individual later became princeps after having challenged the senate?
Answer: Octavian
Question: How many slaves at most were under the command of Spartacus?
Answer: 150,000
Question: When was the beginning of the Social War?
Answer: 91 BC
Question: How many Italians became citizens after the loss of the Social War?
Answer: more than 500,000
Question: How many slave uprisings were there between the years of 135 BC and 71 BC?
Answer: three
Question: Ultimately what started the Social War?
Answer: allies complained that they shared the risk of Rome's military campaigns, but not its rewards
Question: In what year did Marius and Sull begin to clash?
Answer: 88 BC
Question: In what specific section of Rome did the Battle of the Colline Gate take place?
Answer: very door of the city
Question: Who was defeated in the Battle of the Colline Gate?
Answer: an army of the Marius supporters
Question: What can be considered one of the causes that led to the downfall of the Roman Republic?
Answer: the willingness of Roman troops to wage war against one another
Question: Who was the leader of Pontus in the year 85 BC?
Answer: Mithridates the Great
Question: With which individual did Lucius Cornelius have a rivalry?
Answer: Gaius Marius
Question: How did the ruler of Pontus anger Rome?
Answer: by seeking to expand his kingdom
Question: When was the last year of Mithridates the Great's reign?
Answer: 63 BC
Question: How many Romans lived in Mithridate the Great's kingdom in 88 BC?
Answer: 80,000
Question: Who held  a term as praetor in the Iberian Peninsula?
Answer: Julius Caesar
Question: Why did Julius Caesar wish to invade Gaul?
Answer: would give him the dramatic military success he sought
Question: When did Julius Caesar's term as consul end?
Answer: 59 BC
Question: What military leader was Julius Caesar a contemporary of?
Answer: Pompey
Question: What was the reasoning Julius Caesar used to start the Gallic Wars?
Answer: two local tribes began to migrate on a route that would take them near (not into) the Roman province of Transalpine Gaul
Question: When was the invasion of the Parthian Empire begun?
Answer: 53 BC
Question: Who started the invasion of the Parthian Empire?
Answer: Crassus
Question: In what battle did Marcus Licinius Crassus die?
Answer: the Battle of Carrhae
Question: Who was believed to have had a secret allegiance with enemies of Julius Caesar?
Answer: Pompey
Question: What did the senators request of Caesar in order for him to stand for consul?
Answer: turned over control of his armies to the state
Question: During what year did Caesar's armies cross the river Rubicon?
Answer: 49 BC
Question: Who would be seen as having been defeated in the Battle of Pharsalus?
Answer: Pompey
Question: In which year did The Battle of Pharsalus take place?
Answer: 48 BC
Question: In what country did Pompey die in?
Answer: Egypt
Question: Who decided to attack Pompey in Greece?
Answer: Caesar
Question: Which group of people conspired against Caesar in order to have him assassinated?
Answer: senators
Question: When did Julius Caesar die?
Answer: March 44 BC
Question: Which former lieutenant of Caesar was considered a public threat after Caesar was assassinated?
Answer: Mark Antony
Question: Why did the Roman senators wish to have Caesar assassinated?
Answer: the Roman Republic was in danger
Question: What failure caused the the flares of civil war to spark up again?
Answer: Second Triumvirate of Octavian
Question: Who defeated Cleopatra and Mark Antony at the Battle of Actium?
Answer: Octavian
Question: In what year was Octavian first allowed to use the names Augustus and Princeps?
Answer: 27 BC
Question: Who has been designated as the first Emperor of Rome?
Answer: Octavian
Question: Which individual was granted permanent consular powers?
Answer: Octavian
Question: Who was considered to be the last king of the Roman Kingdom?
Answer: Lucius Tarquinius Superbus
Question: When did the last king of the Roman Kingdom lose his seat of power?
Answer: 509 BC
Question: What was the length of a term that a king would be elected for in the Roman Kingdom?
Answer: life term
Question: Who were the joint consulars considered to be an equal of politically?
Answer: old king
Question: In what year was the city in conflict with two nearby tribes?
Answer: 494 BC
Question: Which group of people requested the ability to elect officials?
Answer: The plebeians
Question: Who used the vetoes that they had been given to prevent the appointment of magistrates?
Answer: the tribunes
Question: What were the assistants to the plebeian tribunes named?
Answer: plebeian aediles
Question: During what century were reformed passed that allowed laws passed by the plebeians to have the full force of the law?
Answer: 5th century BC
Question: What year were limits placed upon plebeians that prevented them from holding more than one office concurrently?
Answer: 342 BC
Question: What could no longer be associated with debt after laws were passed preventing it?
Answer: interest
Question: What year saw the election of a plebeian to the office of praetor?
Answer: 337 BC
Question: How did senators attempt to gain the favor of the tribunes?
Answer: gave the tribunes a great deal of power
Question: What was considered a pathway to holding a higher office?
Answer: the tribunate
Question: In what year was the Plebiscitum Ovinium initiative enacted?
Answer: before 312 BCE
Question: Who had already held a large amount of magisterial offices?
Answer: plebeians
Question: Who was allowed to be elected to high office positions?
Answer: only patricians
Question: What initiative provided censors with the abillity to appoint new senators?
Answer: Plebiscitum Ovinium
Question: Who could a newly elected magistrate expect to be appointed by?
Answer: the censor
Question: What was the economic status of your typical plebeian in 287 BC?
Answer: poor