Question: Circa 2000, what was the latest pubs in Wales could be open until on every day but Sunday?
Answer: 11 pm

Question: What was the latest legal closing time on Sundays in English pubs as of 2000?
Answer: 10:30 pm

Question: How many hours per day were pubs located near Billingsgate fish market allowed to remain open?
Answer: 24

Question: In 2000, what was the earliest Welsh and English pubs could open on Sundays?
Answer: 12 noon

Question: In 2000, what was the earliest Welsh and English pubs could open on any day but Sunday?
Answer: 11 am

Question: When were wartime licensing laws ended in Scotland?
Answer: 1976

Question: What constituent countries of the United Kingdom's licensing laws were notably flexible?
Answer: Scotland's and Northern Ireland's

Question: When did the Licensing Act 2003 come into effect?
Answer: 24 November 2005

Question: After the Licensing Act 2003, who determined the operating hours of pubs?
Answer: the local council

Question: Due to the traditional closing hours, when was there often violence outside of pubs?
Answer: 11.30 pm

Question: How many alcohol involved hospital admissions were there in 2006/7?
Answer: 207,800

Question: How many pubs applied to be allowed to sell alcohol 24 hours a day?
Answer: 1,121

Question: What is it called when the owner of a pub allows patrons to remain when the pub should have closed?
Answer: "lock-in"

Question: What law allows pubs to apply to extend their closing hours after 11pm?
Answer: Licensing Act 2003

Question: A law of what year prompted the existence of the "lock-in"?
Answer: 1915

Question: What action by a pub owner can result in his prosecution?
Answer: allowing smoking

Question: In what month and year was smoking banned in public places in Scotland?
Answer: March 2006

Question: When did Wales outlaw smoking in public?
Answer: April 2007

Question: What was the month and year when England banned public smoking?
Answer: July 2007

Question: What company took over Scottish & Newcastle's pubs?
Answer: Carlsberg and Heineken

Question: What chain of pubs reported favorable profits in June 2009?
Answer: Wetherspoon

Question: What street in Islington was named for a pub run by Mr Ball?
Answer: Balls Pond Road

Question: On what street was the Grecian Saloon located?
Answer: City Road

Question: What pub was the home of the Grecian Saloon?
Answer: The Eagle

Question: What is rhyming slang for 'coat'?
Answer: weasel

Question: In what century did saloons become established?
Answer: 18th

Question: Along with cabaret, striptease, bands and drama, what is a type of stage performance that can be found in pubs?
Answer: stand-up comedy

Question: Along with karaoke, what type of prerecorded music is often found in pubs?
Answer: juke boxes

Question: What socioeconomic class was associated with the lounge bar in the 20th century?
Answer: middle-class

Question: What economic class was most likely to be found in the tap room?
Answer: working class

Question: In pence, what did the cheapest beer cost in the four-ale bar?
Answer: 4

Question: What was the tap room sawdust meant to absorb spills and spit called?
Answer: spit and sawdust

Question: What is another name for the lounge bar?
Answer: saloon

Question: In what decades did class distinctions break down in Britain?
Answer: the 1960s and 1970s

Question: What was a common way of removing the division between the saloon and bar?
Answer: removal of the dividing wall or partition

Question: What is another name for the smoke room?
Answer: snug

Question: What was the relationship between the price of beer in the smoke room versus the rest of the bar?
Answer: higher

Question: Along with the local police, what profession is given as an example of someone who might use the snug?
Answer: the parish priest

Question: What were the windows in the snug made out of?
Answer: frosted glass

Question: How many pubs were part of the CAMRA survey?
Answer: 50,000

Question: According to CAMRA, how many pubs in Britain possess classic snugs?
Answer: very few

Question: In Germany, what do servers do to serve beer in beer gardens?
Answer: bring the beer out to the table

Question: Before the pub, where did beer establishments keep their casks of ale?
Answer: taproom

Question: What establishments inspired pubs to set up serving bars?
Answer: gin houses

Question: In what settlement is the pub known as The Vine located?
Answer: Brierley Hill

Question: What do the locals call The Vine?
Answer: The Bull and Bladder

Question: Who pioneered the circular bar?
Answer: Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Question: At what establishment was the circular bar introduced?
Answer: Swindon station pub

Question: What was Isambard Brunel's occuption?
Answer: engineer and railway builder

Question: What was Isambard Brunel's nationality?
Answer: British

Question: What is a "beer engine"?
Answer: a device for pumping beer

Question: What is the function of a "beer engine"?
Answer: to dispense beer from a cask or container in a pub's basement or cellar

Question: Who invented the beer pump in England?
Answer: John Lofting

Question: In what city was the beer pump invented?
Answer: London

Question: In what country was John Lofting born?
Answer: Netherlands

Question: What was the death year of John Lofting?
Answer: 1742

Question: When was John Lofting born?
Answer: 1659

Question: In what newspaper did John Lofting mention his beer pump?
Answer: London Gazette

Question: On what day was Lofting's fire engine patent published?
Answer: 17 March 1691

Question: How many barrels did Lofting promise his beer pump would deliver hourly?
Answer: 20 to 30

Question: What location did John Lofting live near?
Answer: St Thomas Apostle London

Question: In what London borough did Nicholas Wall reside?
Answer: Islington

Question: What was William Tillcar's profession?
Answer: Turner

Question: What tavern did William Tillcar live adjacent to?
Answer: Sun Tavern

Question: What is a common name for a beer pump powered by hand?
Answer: handpump

Question: Along with electricity, what sometimes powers beer pumps that aren't operated by hand?
Answer: gas

Question: What was the name for a pub that could sell beer from more than one brewery?
Answer: a Free house

Question: In what century did the habit arise of pubs selling beer from only one brewery?
Answer: 18th

Question: What was the name of the private individual who rented out a pub owned by a brewery?
Answer: landlord

Question: What is a notable brewery in Kent that owns hundreds of pubs?
Answer: Shepherd Neame

Question: What London breweries each own many pubs?
Answer: Young's and Fuller's

Question: What is an example of a brewer that owns pubs throughout Britain?
Answer: Greene King

Question: What law required that a pub offer at least one beer from a brewery it wasn't tied to?
Answer: The Beer Orders

Question: In what year were the Beer Orders passed?
Answer: 1989

Question: Along with Punch Taverns and Weatherspoons, what was an organization formed as a result of the Beer Orders?
Answer: O'Neill's

Question: What is the name of a company that retails but does not manufacture drinks?
Answer: PubCo

Question: Along with breweries, what type of company may run a pub chain?
Answer: PubCo

Question: In what country was Punch Taverns established?
Answer: the UK

Question: When a pub is bought by a new owner, what often happens to them?
Answer: renamed

Question: What often happens to regional breweries after they sell their pubs?
Answer: closed down

Question: What is the closest outlet for a brewery's beers called?
Answer: A brewery tap

Question: If the brewery tap is not located in the brewery, where is it usually located?
Answer: the nearest pub

Question: What is the term for a pub that brews and sells its own beer?
Answer: brewpub

Question: What is another name for a rural public house?
Answer: country pub