Question: Where is an inn typically located?
Answer: in the country or along a highway

Question: In addition to providing for the needs of travelers what was another typical use for an inn?
Answer: community gathering places

Question: How old are some of the inns in Europe?
Answer: several centuries

Question: Aside from lodging, what amenities are often offered at inns?
Answer: food and drink

Question: What road is an inn often located near?
Answer: highway

Question: How many thousand years ago did the Romans build their road system?
Answer: two

Question: About how old are the oldest inns in Europe?
Answer: several centuries

Question: What role did inns serve other than housing travelers?
Answer: community gathering places

Question: What amenity does an inn offer that pubs, alehouses and taverns usually do not?
Answer: accommodation

Question: In what nation's pubs is food often served?
Answer: the UK

Question: Along with Southwark and The Tabard, what is a notable London inn?
Answer: The George

Question: In what country is "The Welcome Inn" frequently used as a name for pubs?
Answer: Scotland

Question: Aside from human beings, what creature's needs were traditionally seen to at inns?
Answer: horses

Question: What is the main service of an inn, now also attainable in motels, hotels and lodges?
Answer: lodging

Question: What is the main provision that pubs offer?
Answer: alcohol

Question: What are customers seeking when they visit restaurants or taverns?
Answer: food and drink

Question: What is a noted hotel brand throughout North America?
Answer: Holiday Inn

Question: In the United States, what are operators of lodgings sometimes called?
Answer: innkeepers

Question: Along with the Inns of Chancery, in what inns did British lawyers historically conduct business?
Answer: Inns of Court

Question: In what city are the Inns of Chancery located?
Answer: London

Question: Outside England, what other country does the legal system founded around the Inns of Court operate in?
Answer: Wales

Question: What was the one ingredient of traditional English ale?
Answer: fermented malt

Question: What country pioneered the introduction of hops for beer production?
Answer: the Netherlands

Question: In what century was the process of using hops to produce beer introduced to England?
Answer: 15th

Question: In what century did the first independent breweries appear in England?
Answer: 17th

Question: What businesses were the dominant brewers of beer in England by the close of the 17th century?
Answer: commercial breweries

Question: After what political upheaval was gin introduced to England?
Answer: the Glorious Revolution

Question: What people introduced gin to England?
Answer: the Dutch

Question: In what year did the Glorious Revolution occur?
Answer: 1688

Question: How much more gin than beer was made in England in 1740?
Answer: six times

Question: In 1740, what fraction of London drinking establishments were gin shops?
Answer: half

Question: What artist created the engraving Beer Street and Gin Lane?
Answer: William Hogarth

Question: What law imposed a high tax on gin shops and resulted in riots?
Answer: The Gin Act 1736

Question: When were the Gin Act 1736 duties eliminated? 
Answer: 1742

Question: What law placed gin shops under the control of local magistrates?
Answer: The Gin Act 1751

Question: In what century did gin houses proliferate throughout Britain?
Answer: 19th

Question: What book by Dickens described activities in drinking establishments?
Answer: Sketches by Boz

Question: Over what two-year period was Sketches by Boz written?
Answer: 1835–1836

Question: What was another name for gin houses early in the 19th century?
Answer: "Gin Palaces"

Question: In what British city did gin houses first appear?
Answer: London

Question: What law allowed the existence of beer houses?
Answer: Beer Act of 1830

Question: In what way did small beer differ from regular beer?
Answer: low alcohol content

Question: What alcohol was regarded as evil when compared to beer?
Answer: gin

Question: What was the intention behind the passage of the Beer Act of 1830?
Answer: reducing public drunkenness

Question: What is the approximate modern value of two guineas in 1830?
Answer: £168

Question: What did the Beer Act allow a householder to sell from his home?
Answer: beer or cider

Question: On what day were beer houses closed?
Answer: Sundays

Question: Along with barrels, what was beer typically dispensed from?
Answer: jugs

Question: What was forbidden from being sold in beer houses?
Answer: spirits and fortified wines

Question: How many beer houses opened their doors in the inaugural year of the Beer Act?
Answer: 400

Question: How many beer houses existed throughout Britain eight years after the passage of the Beer Act?
Answer: 46,000

Question: In what year were additional licensing laws introduced for beer houses?
Answer: 1869

Question: What establishments did beer houses become after buying an additional license?
Answer: pubs

Question: By the end of what century were most beer houses closed?
Answer: 19th

Question: Where are purpose-built pubs typically located?
Answer: corners or road junctions

Question: What modern brewers often first began as beer houses?
Answer: real ale micro-brewers

Question: Along with The Royal Oak and The Crown, what is a traditional name for a pub?
Answer: The Red Lion

Question: What is an example of a name for a beer house?
Answer: Smith's Beer House

Question: In addition to a license to sell spirits, what did tavern owners require a license to sell?
Answer: ale

Question: In what century did public drinking regulations first exist in England?
Answer: 17th

Question: What party received income from the sale of public drinking house licenses?
Answer: the crown

Question: In what century were the operating hours of drinking establishments first limited?
Answer: 19th

Question: In what decade were the restrictions on public drinking establishment licenses loosened?
Answer: 1960s

Question: What bodies controlled drinking establishment licensing administration as of 2005?
Answer: Local Authorities

Question: What law mandated a license from the local magistrate to sell beer?
Answer: Wine and Beerhouse Act 1869

Question: At what locations were public house licenses granted?
Answer: special Licensing Sessions courts

Question: Retirees from what two professions often sought licenses for pubs?
Answer: ex-servicemen or ex-policemen

Question: What were licenses called that allowed spirits to be served at temporary premises?
Answer: Occasional Licences

Question: Where can historical licensing records be examined?
Answer: London Metropolitan Archives centre

Question: Along with a public house's address, licensee, and the licensee's misdemeanors, what information was kept in licensing records?
Answer: owner

Question: What law further restricted public houses?
Answer: the Defence of the Realm Act

Question: In what month and year was the Defence of the Realm Act passed?
Answer: August 1914

Question: Along with the period 6:30 pm–9:30 pm, what opening hours were acceptable under the Defence of the Realm Act?
Answer: 12 noon–2:30 pm

Question: What is an example of a county where provinces were closed for violating the Defence of the Realm Act?
Answer: Pembrokeshire

Question: What body enforced pubs' closing hours under the Defence of the Realm Act?
Answer: the police

Question: What was the mandated closing time of pubs in Kensington in the 1960s?
Answer: 10:30 pm

Question: What was the mandated closing time of pubs in Knightsbridge in the 1960s?
Answer: 11 pm

Question: What is an example of an English city where breweries were run by the government?
Answer: Carlisle

Question: In what year did the State Management Scheme cease?
Answer: 1973

Question: On what days were Scottish and Welsh pubs often 'dry'?
Answer: Sundays