Context: The Liberals' immediate predecessor was the United Australia Party (UAP). More broadly, the Liberal Party's ideological ancestry stretched back to the anti-Labor groupings in the first Commonwealth parliaments. The Commonwealth Liberal Party was a fusion of the Free Trade Party and the Protectionist Party in 1909 by the second prime minister, Alfred Deakin, in response to Labor's growing electoral prominence. The Commonwealth Liberal Party merged with several Labor dissidents (including Billy Hughes) to form the Nationalist Party of Australia in 1917. That party, in turn, merged with Labor dissidents to form the UAP in 1931.

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?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: from where did the prominence of the Liberals stem?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What did the UAP merge to form?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: In what year was the prime minister party formed?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: When did Billy Hughes fuse the Free Trade Party and the Protectionist Party?
Answer: Unanswerable