The_Times

context: The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register and became The Times on 1 January 1788. The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times (founded in 1821) are published by Times Newspapers, since 1981 a subsidiary of News UK, itself wholly owned by the News Corp group headed by Rupert Murdoch. The Times and The Sunday Times do not share editorial staff, were founded independently and have only had common ownership since 1967.
qas: answers: text: London
question: The Times is based in what major British city?

answers: text: 1785
question: What year did the initial incarnation of The Times start?

answers: text: The Daily Universal Register
question: What was the original name of The Times before changing its name?

answers: text: Times Newspapers
question: The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by what company?

answers: text: News Corp group
question: The Times, owned by News UK, is itself owned by what major corporation?

answers: text: Times Newspapers
question: The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by what company?

answers: text: 1788
question: What year did The Times change its name from The Daily Universal Register?

answers: text: 1785
question: What year did The Daily Universal Register initially start?

context: The Times is the first newspaper to have borne that name, lending it to numerous other papers around the world, including The Times of India (founded in 1838), The Straits Times (Singapore) (1845), The New York Times (1851), The Irish Times (1859), Le Temps (France) (1861-1942), the Cape Times (South Africa) (1872), the Los Angeles Times (1881), The Seattle Times (1891), The Manila Times (1898), The Daily Times (Malawi) (1900), El Tiempo (Colombia) (1911), The Canberra Times (1926), and The Times (Malta) (1935). In these countries, the newspaper is often referred to as The London Times or The Times of London.
qas: answers: text: 1838
question: What year did The Times of India start?

answers: text: 1845
question: What year did The Strait Times (Singapore) start?

answers: text: 1851
question: What year did The New York Times start?

answers: text: 1859
question: What year did the Irish Times start?

answers: text: 1872
question: What year did the Cape Times (South Africa) start?

context: The Times is the originator of the widely used Times Roman typeface, originally developed by Stanley Morison of The Times in collaboration with the Monotype Corporation for its legibility in low-tech printing. In November 2006 The Times began printing headlines in a new font, Times Modern. The Times was printed in broadsheet format for 219 years, but switched to compact size in 2004 in an attempt to appeal more to younger readers and commuters using public transport. The Sunday Times remains a broadsheet.
qas: answers: text: Times Roman
question: What major typeface font was started by The Times?

answers: text: Stanley Morison
question: Who was the creator of typeface font used by The Times?

answers: text: Times Modern
question: In November 2006, The Times changed its font to what new font typeface?

answers: text: 219 years
question: How long was The Times printed in broadsheet format?

answers: text: 2004
question: In what year did The Times change its broadsheet format to a compact size?

context: Though traditionally a moderate newspaper and sometimes a supporter of the Conservative Party, it supported the Labour Party in the 2001 and 2005 general elections. In 2004, according to MORI, the voting intentions of its readership were 40% for the Conservative Party, 29% for the Liberal Democrats, and 26% for Labour. The Times had an average daily circulation of 394,448 in March 2014; in the same period, The Sunday Times had an average daily circulation of 839,077. An American edition of The Times has been published since 6 June 2006. It has been heavily used by scholars and researchers because of its widespread availability in libraries and its detailed index. A complete historical file of the digitized paper is online from Gage Cengage publisher.
qas: answers: text: moderate
question: Traditionally, what political spectrum did The Times support?

answers: text: Labour Party
question: What party did The Times support in 2001 and 2005 general elections?

answers: text: 394,448
question: In March 2014, The Times had an average daily circulation of how many people?

answers: text: Gage Cengage
question: The complete historical file of the digitized paper of The Times is online and published by what publisher?

answers: text: Conservative Party
question: What political party has the highest readership of The Times?

context: The Times was founded by publisher John Walter on 1 January 1785 as The Daily Universal Register, with Walter in the role of editor. Walter had lost his job by the end of 1784 after the insurance company where he was working went bankrupt because of the complaints of a Jamaican hurricane. Being unemployed, Walter decided to set a new business up. It was in that time when Henry Johnson invented the logography, a new typography that was faster and more precise (three years later, it was proved that it was not as efficient as had been said). Walter bought the logography's patent and to use it, he decided to open a printing house, where he would daily produce an advertising sheet. The first publication of the newspaper The Daily Universal Register in Great Britain was 1 January 1785. Unhappy because people always omitted the word Universal, Ellias changed the title after 940 editions on 1 January 1788 to The Times. In 1803, Walter handed ownership and editorship to his son of the same name. Walter Sr had spent sixteen months in Newgate Prison for libel printed in The Times, but his pioneering efforts to obtain Continental news, especially from France, helped build the paper's reputation among policy makers and financiers.
qas: answers: text: John Walter
question: The Times was founded by what publisher who also was the editor?

answers: text: The Daily Universal Register
question: The Times was known as what name before it became The Times?

answers: text: 1785
question: What year was the very first publication of The Times?

answers: text: libel
question: The first publisher and editor of The Times when to prison for what crime when printed in his newspaper?

answers: text: 940
question: Before the newspaper changed its name to The Times, how many editions were printed?

context: The Times used contributions from significant figures in the fields of politics, science, literature, and the arts to build its reputation. For much of its early life, the profits of The Times were very large and the competition minimal, so it could pay far better than its rivals for information or writers. Beginning in 1814, the paper was printed on the new steam-driven cylinder press developed by Friedrich Koenig. In 1815, The Times had a circulation of 5,000.
qas: answers: text: 5,000
question: In 1815, The Times had a circulation of how many people?

answers: text: steam-driven cylinder press
question: Beginning in 1814, The Times was printed using what new kind of press?

answers: text: reputation
question: The Times used contributions from significant figures to build what?

answers: text: Friedrich Koenig
question: Who developed the new press type in 1814 for The Times?

context: Thomas Barnes was appointed general editor in 1817. In the same year, the paper's printer James Lawson, died and passed the business onto his son John Joseph Lawson(1802–1852). Under the editorship of Barnes and his successor in 1841, John Thadeus Delane, the influence of The Times rose to great heights, especially in politics and amongst the City of London. Peter Fraser and Edward Sterling were two noted journalists, and gained for The Times the pompous/satirical nickname 'The Thunderer' (from "We thundered out the other day an article on social and political reform."). The increased circulation and influence of the paper was based in part to its early adoption of the steam-driven rotary printing press. Distribution via steam trains to rapidly growing concentrations of urban populations helped ensure the profitability of the paper and its growing influence.
qas: answers: text: Thomas Barnes
question: Who was appointed general editor for The Times in 1817?

answers: text: his son
question: In 1817, The Times paper's printer James Lawson passed his business to which family member?

answers: text: The Thunderer
question: Peter Fraser and Edward Sterling, two noted The Times journalists, gained what nickname for themselves?

answers: text: steam-driven rotary printing press
question: What kind of printing press helped increase the circulation and influence of The Times back in 1817?

answers: text: John Thadeus Delane
question: Who succeeded Thomas Barnes as editor of The Times in 1841?

context: The Times was the first newspaper to send war correspondents to cover particular conflicts. W. H. Russell, the paper's correspondent with the army in the Crimean War, was immensely influential with his dispatches back to England.
qas: answers: text: war
question: The Times was the first newspaper to send correspondents to what kind of event?

answers: text: W. H. Russell
question: Who was The Times first correspondent with an army?

answers: text: Crimean War
question: Which war did The Times first cover using correspondents?

context: In other events of the nineteenth century, The Times opposed the repeal of the Corn Laws until the number of demonstrations convinced the editorial board otherwise, and only reluctantly supported aid to victims of the Irish Potato Famine. It enthusiastically supported the Great Reform Bill of 1832, which reduced corruption and increased the electorate from 400,000 people to 800,000 people (still a small minority of the population). During the American Civil War, The Times represented the view of the wealthy classes, favouring the secessionists, but it was not a supporter of slavery.
qas: answers: text: Irish Potato Famine
question: What major event did The Times reluctantly support in the nineteenth century despite being initially opposed?

answers: text: Great Reform Bill of 1832
question: The Times greatly supported what bill in 1832 which reduced corruption and increased the electorate?

answers: text: Corn Laws
question: Many demonstrations in the nineteenth century convinced The Times editorial board to finally support the repeal of what laws?

answers: text: wealthy classes
question: During the American Civil War, what classes of people did The Times support?

answers: text: the secessionists
question: The Times favoured which political side of the American Civil War?

context: The third John Walter, the founder's grandson, succeeded his father in 1847. The paper continued as more or less independent, but from the 1850s The Times was beginning to suffer from the rise in competition from the penny press, notably The Daily Telegraph and The Morning Post.
qas: answers: text: 1847
question: What year did the founder's grandson succeed his father as editor of The Times?

answers: text: John Walter
question: What is the name of the The Times founder's grandson who succeeded his father as editor?

answers: text: the penny press
question: In the 1850s, the Times was beginning to suffer from the rise in competition from what kind of press?

context: During the 19th century, it was not infrequent for the Foreign Office to approach The Times and ask for continental intelligence, which was often superior to that conveyed by official sources.[citation needed]
qas: answers: text: the Foreign Office
question: Which agency often used The Times for continental intelligence?

answers: text: 19th century
question: Which century was The Times first often relied upon for continental intelligence?

answers: text: official sources
question: Continental intelligence conveyed by The Times was often superior to what?

context: The Times faced financial extinction in 1890 under Arthur Fraser Walter, but it was rescued by an energetic editor, Charles Frederic Moberly Bell. During his tenure (1890–1911), The Times became associated with selling the Encyclopædia Britannica using aggressive American marketing methods introduced by Horace Everett Hooper and his advertising executive, Henry Haxton. Due to legal fights between the Britannica's two owners, Hooper and Walter Montgomery Jackson, The Times severed its connection in 1908 and was bought by pioneering newspaper magnate, Alfred Harmsworth, later Lord Northcliffe.
qas: answers: text: Arthur Fraser Walter
question: Which editor nearly ruined The Times in 1890?

answers: text: Charles Frederic Moberly Bell
question: Which energetic editor rescued The Times from financial collapse in 1890?

answers: text: Britannica
question: Which encyclopedia was The Times aggressively selling to American markets?

answers: text: Horace Everett Hooper
question: Who was the creator of the encyclopedia that The Times was known for selling to America?

answers: text: Alfred Harmsworth
question: Who later bought the well-known encyclopedia from The Times in 1908?

context: In editorials published on 29 and 31 July 1914, Wickham Steed, the Times's Chief Editor, argued that the British Empire should enter World War I. On 8 May 1920, also under the editorship of Steed, The Times in an editorial endorsed the anti-Semitic fabrication The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion as a genuine document, and called Jews the world's greatest danger. In the leader entitled "The Jewish Peril, a Disturbing Pamphlet: Call for Inquiry", Steed wrote about The Protocols of the Elders of Zion:
qas: answers: text: Wickham Steed
question: Who was The Times' Chief Editor in 1914?

answers: text: World War I
question: The Chief Editor of The Times in 1914 argued that the British Empire should enter what war?

answers: text: The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion
question: What anti-Semitic fabrication did The Times endorse in 1920?

answers: text: the world's greatest danger
question: After publishing anti-Semitic editorials in 1920, what did The Times refer to Jews as being?

answers: text: The Jewish Peril, a Disturbing Pamphlet: Call for Inquiry
question: What was the name of the anti-Semitic article that The Time's Chief Editor published in 1914?

context: The following year, when Philip Graves, the Constantinople (modern Istanbul) correspondent of The Times, exposed The Protocols as a forgery, The Times retracted the editorial of the previous year.
qas: answers: text: The Protocols
question: A Constantinople correspondent of The Times exposed what anti-Semitic document as a forgery?

answers: text: Philip Graves
question: Who was the name of the The Times Constantinople correspondent who exposed the anti-Semitic document as a forgery?

answers: text: retracted the editorial
question: How did The Times respond to the exposing of anti-Semitic documents as forgery?

context: In 1922, John Jacob Astor, son of the 1st Viscount Astor, bought The Times from the Northcliffe estate. The paper gained a measure of notoriety in the 1930s with its advocacy of German appeasement; then-editor Geoffrey Dawson was closely allied with those in the government who practised appeasement, most notably Neville Chamberlain.
qas: answers: text: John Jacob Astor
question: In 1922, who bought The Times?

answers: text: Northcliffe estate
question: In 1922, which estate sold The Times?

answers: text: German appeasement
question: The Times gained much notoriety in the 1930s because of its advocacy of what?

answers: text: Geoffrey Dawson
question: Which The Times editor was closely allied with the government who practised German appeasement?

answers: text: Neville Chamberlain
question: Which notable government official did The Times ally with in the 1930s whom practised German appeasement?

context: Kim Philby, a Soviet double agent, was a correspondent for the newspaper in Spain during the Spanish Civil War of the late 1930s. Philby was admired for his courage in obtaining high-quality reporting from the front lines of the bloody conflict. He later joined MI6 during World War II, was promoted into senior positions after the war ended, then eventually defected to the Soviet Union in 1963.
qas: answers: text: Kim Philby
question: Who was the name of the Soviet double agent who was the correspondent for The Times in Spain in the late 1930s?

answers: text: Spanish Civil War
question: A Soviet double agent working for The Times in Spain was a war correspondent during what war in the late 1930s?

answers: text: MI6
question: During World War II, the Soviet double agent who was corresponding for The Times in Spain in the 1930s later joined what agency?

answers: text: Soviet Union
question: In 1963, a notable double agent providing valuable and high-quality reporting for The Times during a war in the late 1930s eventually defected to which country?

context: Between 1941 and 1946, the left-wing British historian E.H. Carr was Assistant Editor. Carr was well known for the strongly pro-Soviet tone of his editorials. In December 1944, when fighting broke out in Athens between the Greek Communist ELAS and the British Army, Carr in a Times editorial sided with the Communists, leading Winston Churchill to condemn him and that leader in a speech to the House of Commons. As a result of Carr's editorial, The Times became popularly known during that stage of World War II as the threepenny Daily Worker (the price of the Daily Worker being one penny).
qas: answers: text: E.H. Carr
question: Between 1941 and 1946, which left-wing British historian was Assistant Editor for The Times?

answers: text: pro-Soviet
question: The Assistant Editor of The Times in 1941-1946 strongly supported what stance?

answers: text: Communists
question: Which side did The Times support in the fighting that broke out in Athens in 1944?

answers: text: Winston Churchill
question: Which major political figure condemned The Times in 1944 for not supporting the British Army?

answers: text: the threepenny Daily Worker
question: During World War II, The Times was nicknamed what in 1944?

context: On 3 May 1966 it resumed printing news on the front page - previously the front page featured small advertisements, usually of interest to the moneyed classes in British society. In 1967, members of the Astor family sold the paper to Canadian publishing magnate Roy Thomson. His Thomson Corporation brought it under the same ownership as The Sunday Times to form Times Newspapers Limited.
qas: answers: text: 1966
question: In what year did The Times resume printing news on the front page instead of small advertisements?

answers: text: Astor family
question: In 1967, what well-known family sold The Times to a Canadian publishing magnate?

answers: text: Roy Thomson
question: In 1967, which Canadian publishing magnate bought The Times?

answers: text: Thomson Corporation
question: What is the name of the corporation that bought The Times in 1967?

answers: text: The Sunday Times
question: Which other newspaper was brought under the same ownership as The Times in 1967 to form Times Newspapers Limited?

context: The Thomson Corporation management were struggling to run the business due to the 1979 Energy Crisis and union demands. Management were left with no choice but to find a buyer who was in a position to guarantee the survival of both titles, and also one who had the resources and was committed to funding the introduction of modern printing methods.
qas: answers: text: Thomson Corporation
question: In 1979, which corporation was struggling to run The Times?

answers: text: 1979 Energy Crisis
question: What crisis in 1979 caused near ruin to The Times?

answers: text: union demands
question: What kind of demands were causing ruin to The Times in 1979?

context: Several suitors appeared, including Robert Maxwell, Tiny Rowland and Lord Rothermere; however, only one buyer was in a position to meet the full Thomson remit, Australian media magnate Rupert Murdoch. Robert Holmes à Court, another Australian magnate had previously tried to buy The Times in 1980.
qas: answers: text: Australian
question: A media magnate from which country bought The Times in the 1980s?

answers: text: Rupert Murdoch
question: What is the name of the media magnate that bought The Times in the 1980s?

answers: text: Thomson
question: Who did a media magnate in the 1980s buy The Times from?

context: In 1981, The Times and The Sunday Times were bought from Thomson by Rupert Murdoch's News International. The acquisition followed three weeks of intensive bargaining with the unions by company negotiators, John Collier and Bill O'Neill.
qas: answers: text: News International
question: What corporation bought The Times in 1981?

answers: text: Rupert Murdoch
question: Who owned the major corporation that bought The Times in 1981?

answers: text: the unions
question: During the acquisition of The Times in 1981, John Collier and Bill O'Neill were part of what group that did three weeks of intensive bargaining?

context: After 14 years as editor, William Rees-Mogg resigned the post upon completion of the change of ownership. Murdoch began to make his mark on the paper by appointing Harold Evans as his replacement. One of his most important changes was the introduction of new technology and efficiency measures. In March–May 1982, following agreement with print unions, the hot-metal Linotype printing process used to print The Times since the 19th century was phased out and replaced by computer input and photo-composition. This allowed print room staff at The Times and The Sunday Times to be reduced by half. However, direct input of text by journalists ("single stroke" input) was still not achieved, and this was to remain an interim measure until the Wapping dispute of 1986, when The Times moved from New Printing House Square in Gray's Inn Road (near Fleet Street) to new offices in Wapping.
qas: answers: text: William Rees-Mogg
question: When The Times was bought in 1982, who resigned as editor?

answers: text: 14 years
question: How many years as an editor was editor who resigned from The Times in 1982?

answers: text: Harold Evans
question: In 1982, what is the name of the editor who replaced the previous editor of The Times?

answers: text: hot-metal Linotype printing process
question: What printing process for The Times was replaced by computers in 1982?

answers: text: half
question: In 1982, the allowed print room staff at The Times and The Sunday Times was reduced by how much?

context: Robert Fisk, seven times British International Journalist of the Year, resigned as foreign correspondent in 1988 over what he saw as "political censorship" of his article on the shooting-down of Iran Air Flight 655 in July 1988. He wrote in detail about his reasons for resigning from the paper due to meddling with his stories, and the paper's pro-Israel stance.
qas: answers: text: Robert Fisk
question: Which major journalist resigned as foreign correspondent of the Times in 1988?

answers: text: seven
question: The foreign correspondent who resigned from The Times in 1988 won how many major journalism awards?

answers: text: political censorship
question: The foreign correspondent for The Times who resigned in 1988, resigned for what reason?

answers: text: Iran Air Flight 655
question: What airplane was shot down in July 1988 that a famous foreign correspondent from The Times wrote an article about that later lead to his resignation?

answers: text: pro-Israel stance
question: What stance did The Times take that cause a famous foreign correspondent to resign in 1988?

context: In June 1990, The Times ceased its policy of using courtesy titles ("Mr", "Mrs", or "Miss" prefixes) for living persons before full names on first reference, but it continues to use them before surnames on subsequent references. The more formal style is now confined to the "Court and Social" page, though "Ms" is now acceptable in that section, as well as before surnames in news sections.
qas: answers: text: 1990
question: In what year did The Times ceased its policy of using courtesy titles for living persons before full names on first reference?

answers: text: formal style
question: What kind of style is now confined to the "Court and Social" page of The Times when referring to the use of courtesy titles?

answers: text: surnames
question: When The Times ceased its policy of using courtesy titles, it continued to use them for what kind of name on references after the first?

context: In November 2003, News International began producing the newspaper in both broadsheet and tabloid sizes. On 13 September 2004, the weekday broadsheet was withdrawn from sale in Northern Ireland. Since 1 November 2004, the paper has been printed solely in tabloid format.
qas: answers: text: 2003
question: In what year did News International begin producing The Times in both broadsheet in tabloid sizes?

answers: text: Northern Ireland
question: When The Times began producing its newpaper in both broadsheet and tabloid sizes, which region did The Times withdraw its broadsheet from sale?

answers: text: tabloid format
question: The Times is printed solely in what format since 2004?

context: On 6 June 2005, The Times redesigned its Letters page, dropping the practice of printing correspondents' full postal addresses. Published letters were long regarded as one of the paper's key constituents. Author/solicitor David Green of Castle Morris Pembrokeshire has had more letters published on the main letters page than any other known contributor – 158 by 31 January 2008. According to its leading article, "From Our Own Correspondents", removal of full postal addresses was in order to fit more letters onto the page.
qas: answers: text: Letters page
question: On 6 June 2005, The Times redesigned what page of its newspaper?

answers: text: full postal addresses
question: In 2005, The Times dropped the practice of printing what kind of feature of its correspondents?

answers: text: David Green of Castle Morris Pembrokeshire
question: Which author and solicitor has had more letters published on the main letters page of The Times than any other known contributor?

answers: text: 158
question: The leading author and solicitor of the letters page in The Times had how many articles published?

answers: text: From Our Own Correspondents
question: What is the name of the leading article that referenced the removal of a major feature in The Times in 2005?

context: In a 2007 meeting with the House of Lords Select Committee on Communications, which was investigating media ownership and the news, Murdoch stated that the law and the independent board prevented him from exercising editorial control.
qas: answers: text: 2007
question: In what year was the meeting of the House of Lords Select Committee on Communications that was investigating media ownership and the news?

answers: text: exercising editorial control
question: In the 2007 meeting with the government, Rupert Murdoch, owner of The Times, stated that the law and the independent board prevented him from doing what?

answers: text: House of Lords Select Committee on Communications
question: What government committee was investigating Rupert Murdoch and The Times in 2007?

context: In May 2008 printing of The Times switched from Wapping to new plants at Broxbourne on the outskirts of London, and Merseyside and Glasgow, enabling the paper to be produced with full colour on every page for the first time.
qas: answers: text: Wapping
question: In May 2008, The Times switched from what plant to new plants in Broxbourne, Merseyside, and Glasgow?

answers: text: London
question: In 2008, The Times switched to a new plant in Broxbourne, which is on the outskirts of what city?

answers: text: full colour
question: In May 2008, The Times switched to new plants which allowed for what kind of feature to be printed on every page for the first time?

context: On 26 July 2012, to coincide with the official start of the London 2012 Olympics and the issuing of a series of souvenir front covers, The Times added the suffix "of London" to its masthead.
qas: answers: text: London 2012 Olympics
question: What major event took place in London in 2012?

answers: text: souvenir
question: What kind of front cover did The Times issue on 26 July 2012?

answers: text: of London
question: In 2012, The Times added what suffix to its masthead?

context: The Times features news for the first half of the paper, the Opinion/Comment section begins after the first news section with world news normally following this. The business pages begin on the centre spread, and are followed by The Register, containing obituaries, Court & Social section, and related material. The sport section is at the end of the main paper. The Times current prices are £1.20 for the daily edition and £1.50 for the Saturday edition.
qas: answers: text: news
question: The Times features what in the first half of its newspaper?

answers: text: Opinion/Comment section
question: What section begins after the first half of The Times newspaper?

answers: text: £1.20
question: What is The Times current price for the daily edition?

answers: text: business pages
question: What feature begins on the centre spread of The Times?

answers: text: sport section
question: What section is featured at the end of the main paper of The Times?

context: The Times's main supplement, every day, is the times2, featuring various lifestyle columns. It was discontinued on 1 March 2010 but reintroduced on 11 October 2010 after negative feedback. Its regular features include a puzzles section called Mind Games. Its previous incarnation began on 5 September 2005, before which it was called T2 and previously Times 2. Regular features include columns by a different columnist each weekday. There was a column by Marcus du Sautoy each Wednesday, for example. The back pages are devoted to puzzles and contain sudoku, "Killer Sudoku", "KenKen", word polygon puzzles, and a crossword simpler and more concise than the main "Times Crossword".
qas: answers: text: times2
question: What is the name of the lifestyle column of The Times?

answers: text: Mind Games
question: The Times features a puzzles section called what?

answers: text: Killer Sudoku
question: What is the name of the sudoku game in The Times?

context: The Game is included in the newspaper on Mondays, and details all the weekend's football activity (Premier League and Football League Championship, League One and League Two.) The Scottish edition of The Game also includes results and analysis from Scottish Premier League games.
qas: answers: text: football
question: What sports activity is featured in The Times on Mondays?

answers: text: Scottish Premier League
question: What kind of football game is featured in the Scottish edition of The Times?

answers: text: The Game
question: What is the name of the section that features football on Mondays in The Times?

context: The Saturday edition of The Times contains a variety of supplements. These supplements were relaunched in January 2009 as: Sport, Weekend (including travel and lifestyle features), Saturday Review (arts, books, and ideas), The Times Magazine (columns on various topics), and Playlist (an entertainment listings guide).
qas: answers: text: Weekend
question: What is the name of the section of the Saturday edition of The Times that features travel and lifestyle?

answers: text: Saturday Review
question: Arts, books, and ideas are featured in what section in the Saturday edition of The Times?

answers: text: Playlist
question: An entertainment listings guide in the Saturday edition of The Times is called what?

context: The Times Magazine features columns touching on various subjects such as celebrities, fashion and beauty, food and drink, homes and gardens or simply writers' anecdotes. Notable contributors include Giles Coren, Food and Drink Writer of the Year in 2005 and Nadiya Hussain, winner of BBC's The Great British Bake Off.
qas: answers: text: Giles Coren
question: What is the name of the notable contributor to The Times Magazine columns that became the Food and Drink Writer of the Year in 2005?

answers: text: Nadiya Hussain
question: What is the name of the winner of BBC's The Great British Bake Off who is also a column writer in The Times Magazine section?

answers: text: 2005
question: In what year did notable Times Magazine contributor, Gile Coren, become Food and Drink Writer of the Year?

answers: text: The Great British Bake Off
question: Nadiya Hussain, a Times Magazine column writer, is known for being the winner of what BBC contest?

answers: text: The Times Magazine
question: What is the name of the section that features columns touching on subjects such as celebrities, fashion and beauty, food and drink, homes and garden or simply writers' anecdotes?

context: The Times and The Sunday Times have had an online presence since March 1999, originally at the-times.co.uk and sunday-times.co.uk, and later at timesonline.co.uk. There are now two websites: thetimes.co.uk is aimed at daily readers, and the thesundaytimes.co.uk site at providing weekly magazine-like content. There are also iPad and Android editions of both newspapers. Since July 2010, News UK has required readers who do not subscribe to the print edition to pay £2 per week to read The Times and The Sunday Times online.
qas: answers: text: 1999
question: Since what year has The Times and The Sunday Times had an online presense?

answers: text: timesonline.co.uk
question: What is the URL of online website for The Times?

answers: text: daily readers
question: The website, thetimes.co.uk, is aimed at what kind of reader?

answers: text: weekly magazine-like content
question: The website, thesundaytimes.co.uk, provides what kind of content?

answers: text: £2 per week
question: How much does a non-subscriber of The Times need to pay to read the online versions?

context: The Times Digital Archive (1785–2008) is freely accessible via Gale databases to readers affiliated with subscribing academic, public, and school libraries.
qas: answers: text: The Times Digital Archive
question: What is the name of the digital archive that holds The Times historical archive?

answers: text: Gale databases
question: The Times historical archive is freely accessible online from what database?

answers: text: academic
question: What kind of reader can subscribe to the digital archive of The Times?

context: Visits to the websites have decreased by 87% since the paywall was introduced, from 21 million unique users per month to 2.7 million. In April 2009, the timesonline site had a readership of 750,000 readers per day. As of October 2011, there were around 111,000 subscribers to The Times' digital products.
qas: answers: text: 87%
question: Visits to The Times website have decreased by how much since October 2011?

answers: text: paywall
question: What is the reason for the dramatic drop in visits to The Times website?

answers: text: 750,000
question: In April 2009, how many readers did the timesonline website have per day?

answers: text: 111,000
question: As of October 2011, how many subscribers does The Times' digital product currently have?

context: At the time of Harold Evans' appointment as editor in 1981, The Times had an average daily sale of 282,000 copies in comparison to the 1.4 million daily sales of its traditional rival The Daily Telegraph. By November 2005 The Times sold an average of 691,283 copies per day, the second-highest of any British "quality" newspaper (after The Daily Telegraph, which had a circulation of 903,405 copies in the period), and the highest in terms of full-rate sales. By March 2014, average daily circulation of The Times had fallen to 394,448 copies, compared to The Daily Telegraph's 523,048, with the two retaining respectively the second-highest and highest circulations among British "quality" newspapers. In contrast The Sun, the highest-selling "tabloid" daily newspaper in the United Kingdom, sold an average of 2,069,809 copies in March 2014, and the Daily Mail, the highest-selling "middle market" British daily newspaper, sold an average of 1,708,006 copies in the period.
qas: answers: text: 1981
question: What year was Harold Evans appointed to editor of The Times?

answers: text: The Daily Telegraph
question: The Times has a traditional rival with what other major British newspaper?

answers: text: The Sun
question: What is the name of the highest-selling tabloid daily newspaper in the United Kingdom?

answers: text: Daily Mail
question: What is the name of the highest-selling middle market British daily newspaper?

context: The Sunday Times has a significantly higher circulation than The Times, and sometimes outsells The Sunday Telegraph. As of January 2013, The Times has a circulation of 399,339 and The Sunday Times of 885,612.
qas: answers: text: The Sunday Times
question: Which newspaper has a significantly higher circulation, The Sunday Times or The Times?

answers: text: 399,339
question: As of January 2013, The Times has a circulation of how many people?

answers: text: 885,612
question: As of January 2013, The Sunday Times has a circulation of how many people?

context: In a 2009 national readership survey The Times was found to have the highest number of ABC1 25–44 readers and the largest numbers of readers in London of any of the "quality" papers.
qas: answers: text: The Times
question: In a 2009 national readership survey, what newspaper has the highest number of ABC1 25-44 readers?

answers: text: The Times
question: What newspaper has the highest number of readers in London of any of the "quality" papers?

answers: text: 25–44
question: The Times is found to have the highest number of readers from what age group?

context: The Times commissioned the serif typeface Times New Roman, created by Victor Lardent at the English branch of Monotype, in 1931. It was commissioned after Stanley Morison had written an article criticizing The Times for being badly printed and typographically antiquated. The font was supervised by Morison and drawn by Victor Lardent, an artist from the advertising department of The Times. Morison used an older font named Plantin as the basis for his design, but made revisions for legibility and economy of space. Times New Roman made its debut in the issue of 3 October 1932. After one year, the design was released for commercial sale. The Times stayed with Times New Roman for 40 years, but new production techniques and the format change from broadsheet to tabloid in 2004 have caused the newspaper to switch font five times since 1972. However, all the new fonts have been variants of the original New Roman font:
qas: answers: text: Times New Roman
question: The Times commissioned what serif typeface in 1931?

answers: text: Victor Lardent
question: Who is the creator of the serif typeface created in 1931 for The Times newspaper?

answers: text: Stanley Morison
question: Who commissioned the change of the typeface of The Times in 1931?

answers: text: Plantin
question: What is the name of the typeface that Times New Roman is based on?

answers: text: 40
question: How many years has The Times stayed with Times New Roman?

context: Historically, the paper was not overtly pro-Tory or Whig, but has been a long time bastion of the English Establishment and empire. The Times adopted a stance described as "peculiarly detached" at the 1945 general election; although it was increasingly critical of the Conservative Party's campaign, it did not advocate a vote for any one party. However, the newspaper reverted to the Tories for the next election five years later. It supported the Conservatives for the subsequent three elections, followed by support for both the Conservatives and the Liberal Party for the next five elections, expressly supporting a Con-Lib coalition in 1974. The paper then backed the Conservatives solidly until 1997, when it declined to make any party endorsement but supported individual (primarily Eurosceptic) candidates.
qas: answers: text: peculiarly detached
question: At the 1945 general election, The Times adopted a stance that was referred to by what name?

answers: text: Con-Lib coalition
question: What kind of political coalition did The Times support in 1974?

answers: text: Tory
question: After 1945, The Times supported what party for 5 years afterwards?

answers: text: Conservatives
question: From the 1970s until 1997, The Times supported what political party?

answers: text: Eurosceptic
question: After 1997, The Times declined from making any party endorsements however, they supported individual candidates known by what name?

context: For the 2001 general election The Times declared its support for Tony Blair's Labour government, which was re-elected by a landslide. It supported Labour again in 2005, when Labour achieved a third successive win, though with a reduced majority. For the 2010 general election, however, the newspaper declared its support for the Tories once again; the election ended in the Tories taking the most votes and seats but having to form a coalition with the Liberal Democrats in order to form a government as they had failed to gain an overall majority.
qas: answers: text: Labour
question: In the 2001 general election, The Times declared support for what political party?

answers: text: Tony Blair
question: What is the name of the political party's leader that The Times supported in the 2001 general election?

answers: text: Tories
question: For the 2010 general election, which political party did The Times support?

answers: text: Liberal Democrats
question: What political party did the Tories have to form a coalition with in 2010?

answers: text: Labour
question: What political party was re-elected by a landslide in 2001?

context: This makes it the most varied newspaper in terms of political support in British history. Some columnists in The Times are connected to the Conservative Party such as Daniel Finkelstein, Tim Montgomerie, Matthew Parris and Matt Ridley, but there are also columnists connected to the Labour Party such as David Aaronovitch, Phil Collins, Oliver Kamm and Jenni Russell.
qas: answers: text: The Times
question: What is the name of the newspaper with the most varied political support in British history?

answers: text: Conservative Party
question: Which political party is The Times columnist, Daniel Finkelstein, associated with?

answers: text: Labour Party
question: Which political party is The Times columnist, David Aaronovitch, associated with?

context: The Times occasionally makes endorsements for foreign elections. In November 2012, it endorsed a second term for Barack Obama although it also expressed reservations about his foreign policy.
qas: answers: text: 2012
question: In what year did The Times make an endorsement for Barack Obama?

answers: text: Barack Obama
question: Who did The Times support in 2012 for the election of the U.S. president?

answers: text: foreign policy
question: What kind of policy did The Times express reservation for when concerning the political stances of Barack Obama?

context: The Times, along with the British Film Institute, sponsors the "The Times" bfi London Film Festival. It also sponsors the Cheltenham Literature Festival and the Asia House Festival of Asian Literature at Asia House, London.
qas: answers: text: London Film Festival
question: What film festival does The Times support that is also supported alongside the British Film Institute?

answers: text: Asia House Festival of Asian Literature
question: What festival is featured at Asia House, London?

answers: text: The Times
question: The Cheltenham Literature Festival is supported by what major newspaper?

context: The Times Literary Supplement (TLS) first appeared in 1902 as a supplement to The Times, becoming a separately paid-for weekly literature and society magazine in 1914. The Times and the TLS have continued to be co-owned, and as of 2012 the TLS is also published by News International and cooperates closely with The Times, with its online version hosted on The Times website, and its editorial offices based in Times House, Pennington Street, London.
qas: answers: text: Times Literary Supplement
question: What is the name of the supplement that first appeared in 1902 as a supplement to The Times?

answers: text: weekly literature
question: In 1914, a separately paid-for supplement for The Times was a magazine that featured what kind of content?

answers: text: Times House, Pennington Street
question: The editorial offices of The Times Literary Supplement is based in what location in London?

answers: text: 2012
question: In what year did The Times Literary Supplement begin publishing online?

context: Times Atlases have been produced since 1895. They are currently produced by the Collins Bartholomew imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. The flagship product is The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World.
qas: answers: text: Atlases
question: The Times began producing what kind of non-newspaper product in 1895?

answers: text: HarperCollins Publishers
question: What publisher prints The Times atlas?

answers: text: The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World
question: What is the name of The Times' atlas?

context: This 164-page monthly magazine is sold separately from the newspaper of record and is Britain's best-selling travel magazine. The first issue of The Sunday Times Travel Magazine was in 2003, and it includes news, features and insider guides.
qas: answers: text: Sunday Times Travel Magazine
question: What is the name of the travel magazine sold by The Times?

answers: text: 2003
question: In what year was The Times' travel magazine first sold?

answers: text: 164
question: How many pages is The Times' travel magazine?

answers: text: Sunday Times Travel Magazine
question: What is the name of Britain's best-selling travel magazine?

context: In the dystopian future world of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Times has been transformed into the organ of the totalitarian ruling party, its editorials—of which several are quoted in the book—reflecting Big Brother's pronouncements.
qas: answers: text: Nineteen Eighty-Four
question: In what novel was The Times featured as an organ of a totalitarian ruling party?

answers: text: George Orwell
question: What is the name of the author of Nineteen Eighty-Four?

answers: text: dystopian
question: What kind of future world did George Orwell create in his novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four?

context: Rex Stout's fictional detective Nero Wolfe is described as fond of solving the London Times' crossword puzzle at his New York home, in preference to those of American papers.
qas: answers: text: Nero Wolfe
question: The author, Rex Stout, created a fictional detection that is fond of solving London Times' crossword puzzles that goes by what name?

answers: text: New York
question: In what part of the world did the fictional detective, Nero Wolfe, live in?

answers: text: London Times
question: The fictional detective, Nero Wolfe, preferred what newspaper to American newspapers?

answers: text: crossword
question: The fictional detective, Nero Wolfe, is described as fond of solving what kind of puzzle in the London Times newspaper?

context: In the James Bond series by Ian Fleming, James Bond, reads The Times. As described by Fleming in From Russia, with Love: "The Times was the only paper that Bond ever read."
qas: answers: text: The Times
question: The author, Ian Fleming, created a fictional character named James Bond who prefers to only read what newspaper?

answers: text: James Bond
question: What is the name of the spy and hero in Ian Fleming's books?

answers: text: From Russia, with Love
question: In what Ian Fleming novel is James Bond described as only reading The Times newspaper?

context: In The Wombles, Uncle Bulgaria read The Times and asked for the other Wombles to bring him any copies that they found amongst the litter. The newspaper played a central role in the episode Very Behind the Times (Series 2, Episode 12).
qas: answers: text: The Wombles
question: In what children TV series is there is a fictional character named Uncle Bulgaria that asks others to bring him copies of The Times found amongst the litter?

answers: text: Very Behind the Times
question: What is the name of the episode where the newspaper, The Times, is featured and plays a central role in an episode of The Wombles?

answers: text: Uncle Bulgaria
question: In the children's TV show, The Wombles, what character asks others to bring him any copies of The Times that they find amongst the litter?