praj-17/QA-MCQ-Open-ended huggingface dataset:
Title: The_Sun_(United_Kingdom)
Context: The Sun, during the Miners' strike of 1984–85, supported the police and the Thatcher government against the striking NUM miners, and in particular the union's president, Arthur Scargill. On 23 May 1984, The Sun prepared a front page with the headline "Mine Führer" and a photograph of Scargill with his arm in the air, a pose which made him look as though he was giving a Nazi salute. The print workers at The Sun refused to print it. The Sun strongly supported the April 1986 bombing of Libya by the US, which was launched from British bases. Several civilians were killed during the bombing. Their leader was "Right Ron, Right Maggie". That year, Labour MP Clare Short attempted in vain to persuade Parliament to outlaw the pictures on Page Three and gained opprobrium from the newspaper for her stand.

question: Who did The Sun support in the 1984-85 Miners' strike? 

answer: the police and the Thatcher government

question: Who was president of the Miners' union? 

answer: Arthur Scargill

question: What did a picture of Scargill have him appear to be doing? 

answer: giving a Nazi salute

question: How did The Sun feel about the American bombing of Libya in 1986? 

answer: strongly supported the April 1986 bombing

question: Who was Labour M.P. in 1986? 

answer: Clare Short
Title: The_Sun_(United_Kingdom)
Context: Murdoch has responded to some of the arguments against the newspaper by saying that critics are "snobs" who want to "impose their tastes on everyone else", while MacKenzie claims the same critics are people who, if they ever had a "popular idea", would have to "go and lie down in a dark room for half an hour". Both have pointed to the huge commercial success of the Sun in this period and its establishment as Britain's top-selling newspaper, claiming that they are "giving the public what they want". This conclusion is disputed by critics. John Pilger has said that a late-1970s edition of the Daily Mirror, which replaced the usual celebrity and domestic political news items with an entire issue devoted to his own front-line reporting of the genocide in Pol Pot's Cambodia, not only outsold The Sun on the day it was issued but became the only edition of the Daily Mirror to ever sell every single copy issued throughout the country, something never achieved by The Sun.

question: How did Murdoch describe critics of his newspaper? 

answer: "snobs" who want to "impose their tastes on everyone else"

question: What did Murdoch and Mackenzie say in defense of The Sun? 

answer: they are "giving the public what they want"

question: Who is one critic of The Sun? 

answer: John Pilger

question: What was the focus of Pilger's reporting in one issue of The Daily Mirror? 

answer: the genocide in Pol Pot's Cambodia

question: What distinction does one single edition of The Daily Mirror hold? 

answer: the only edition of the Daily Mirror to ever sell every single copy issued throughout the country
Title: The_Sun_(United_Kingdom)
Context: According to Max Clifford: Read All About It, written by Clifford and Angela Levin, La Salle invented the story out of frustration with Starr who had been working on a book with McCaffrey. She contacted an acquaintance who worked for The Sun in Manchester. The story reportedly delighted MacKenzie, who was keen to run it, and Max Clifford, who had been Starr's public relations agent. Starr had to be persuaded that the apparent revelation would not damage him; the attention helped to revive his career. In his 2001 autobiography Unwrapped, Starr wrote that the incident was a complete fabrication: "I have never eaten or even nibbled a live hamster, gerbil, guinea pig, mouse, shrew, vole or any other small mammal."

question: Who wrote Max Clifford: Read All About It? 

answer: Clifford and Angela Levin

question: Who was writing a book with McCaffrey? 

answer: Starr

question: Who was previously Starr's public relations agent? 

answer: Max Clifford

question: How did attention from the story impact Starr's career? 

answer: the attention helped to revive his career

question: What was the name of Starr's autobiography? 

answer: Unwrapped
Title: The_Sun_(United_Kingdom)
Context: Eventually resulting in 17 libel writs in total, The Sun ran a series of false stories about the pop musician Elton John from 25 February 1987. They began with an invented account of the singer having sexual relationships with rent boys. The singer-songwriter was abroad on the day indicated in the story, as former Sun journalist John Blake, recently poached by the Daily Mirror, soon discovered. After further stories, in September 1987, The Sun accused John of having his Rottweiler guard dogs voice boxes surgically removed. In November, the Daily Mirror found their rival's only source for the rent boy story and he admitted it was a totally fictitious concoction created for money. The inaccurate story about his dogs, actually Alsatians, put pressure on The Sun, and John received £1 million in an out of court settlement, then the largest damages payment in British history. The Sun ran a front-page apology on 12 December 1988, under the banner headline "SORRY, ELTON". In May 1987 gay men were offered free one-way airline tickets to Norway to leave Britain for good: "Fly Away Gays - And We Will Pay" was the paper's headline. Gay Church of England clergymen were described in one headline in November 1987 as "Pulpit poofs".

question: How many libel writs did The Sun get for their coverage of Elton John? 

answer: 17

question: Who did The Sun allege that Elton John had sex with? 

answer: rent boys

question: What journalist did The Daily Mirror wrest from The Sun? 

answer: John Blake

question: What breed of dog did The Sun mistakenly report that Elton John owned? 

answer: Rottweiler

question: Where did The Sun offer to fly gay men in 1987? 

answer: Norway
Title: The_Sun_(United_Kingdom)
Context: Television personality Piers Morgan, a former editor of the Daily Mirror and of The Sun's Bizarre pop column, has said that during the late 1980s, at Kelvin MacKenzie's behest, he was ordered to speculate on the sexuality of male pop stars for a feature headlined "The Poofs of Pop". He also recalls MacKenzie headlining a January 1989 story about the first same-sex kiss on the BBC television soap opera EastEnders "EastBenders", describing the kiss between Colin Russell and Guido Smith as "a homosexual love scene between yuppie poofs ... when millions of children were watching".

question: What did Piers Morgan offer opinions about in a late 1980s column? 

answer: the sexuality of male pop stars

question: Which papers did Morgan serve as editor of? 

answer: Daily Mirror and of The Sun

question: Which BBC show's homosexual kiss did The Sun report on? 

answer: EastEnders

question: Who shared the first homosexual kiss on EastEnders? 

answer: Colin Russell and Guido Smith

question: Which column did Piers Morgan edit at The Sun? 

answer: Bizarre pop column
Title: The_Sun_(United_Kingdom)
Context: On 17 November 1989, The Sun headlined a page 2 news story titled "STRAIGHT SEX CANNOT GIVE YOU AIDS – OFFICIAL." The Sun favourably cited the opinions of Lord Kilbracken, a member of the All Parliamentary Group on AIDS. Lord Kilbracken said that only one person out of the 2,372 individuals with HIV/AIDS mentioned in a specific Department of Health report was not a member of a "high risk group", such as homosexuals and recreational drug users. The Sun also ran an editorial further arguing that "At last the truth can be told... the risk of catching AIDS if you are heterosexual is "statistically invisible". In other words, impossible. So now we know – everything else is homosexual propaganda." Although many other British press services covered Lord Kilbracken's public comments, none of them made the argument that the Sun did in its editorial and none of them presented Lord Kilbracken's ideas without context or criticism.

question: What was the headline for a page 2 Sun story on 17 November 1989? 

answer: "STRAIGHT SEX CANNOT GIVE YOU AIDS – OFFICIAL."

question: Whose opinion did The Sun trust in their AIDS reporting? 

answer: Lord Kilbracken

question: Which groups were classified as being at a high risk for AIDS? 

answer: homosexuals and recreational drug users

question: With which group was Lord Kilbracken associated? 

answer: All Parliamentary Group on AIDS

question: How did other news outlets report on Lord Kilbracken's words? 

answer: none of them presented Lord Kilbracken's ideas without context or criticism
Title: The_Sun_(United_Kingdom)
Context: Critics stated that both The Sun and Lord Kilbracken cherry-picked the results from one specific study while ignoring other data reports on HIV infection and not just AIDS infection, which the critics viewed as unethical politicisation of a medical issue. Lord Kilbracken himself criticised The Sun's editorial and the headline of its news story; he stated that while he thought that gay people were more at risk of developing AIDS it was still wrong to imply that no one else could catch the disease. The Press Council condemned The Sun for committing what it called a "gross distortion". The Sun later ran an apology, which they ran on Page 28. Journalist David Randall argued in the textbook The Universal Journalist that The Sun's story was one of the worst cases of journalistic malpractice in recent history, putting its own readers in harm's way.

question: What did critics believe about The Sun and Lord Kilbracken's ideas on AIDS? 

answer: The Sun and Lord Kilbracken cherry-picked the results from one specific study while ignoring other data reports on HIV infection and not just AIDS infection

question: What did Lord Kilbracken think of The Sun's editorial? 

answer: Lord Kilbracken himself criticised The Sun's editorial and the headline of its news story

question: Who criticized The Sun for its reporting on AIDS and HIV? 

answer: The Press Council

question: What did David Randall say about the Sun's AIDS story? 

answer: The Sun's story was one of the worst cases of journalistic malpractice in recent history

question: In what textbook did David Randall write his opinion? 

answer: The Universal Journalist
Title: The_Sun_(United_Kingdom)
Context: Under a front page headline "The Truth", the paper printed allegations provided to them that some fans picked the pockets of crushed victims, that others urinated on members of the emergency services as they tried to help and that some even assaulted a police constable "whilst he was administering the kiss of life to a patient." Despite the headline, written by Kelvin MacKenzie, the story was based on allegations either by unnamed and unattributable sources, or hearsay accounts of what named individuals had said – a fact made clear to MacKenzie by Harry Arnold, the reporter who wrote the story.

question: What did the paper report that some fans did? 

answer: picked the pockets of crushed victims

question: Who was reported to have been assaulted while trying to help a patient? 

answer: a police constable

question: Who wrote the headline "The Truth"? 

answer: Kelvin MacKenzie

question: Who wrote the actual story? 

answer: Harry Arnold

question: What was the story based on? 

answer: allegations either by unnamed and unattributable sources, or hearsay accounts of what named individuals had said
Title: The_Sun_(United_Kingdom)
Context: The front page caused outrage in Liverpool, where the paper lost more than three-quarters of its estimated 55,000 daily sales and still sells poorly in the city more than 25 years later (around 12,000). It is unavailable in many parts of the city, as many newsagents refuse to stock it. It was revealed in a documentary called Alexei Sayle's Liverpool, aired in September 2008, that many Liverpudlians will not even take the newspaper for free, and those who do may simply burn or tear it up. Liverpudlians refer to the paper as 'The Scum' with campaigners believing it handicapped their fight for justice.

question: Where did The sun lose a large portion of its daily sales as a result of the front page? 

answer: Liverpool

question: What were the estimated daily sales in Liverpool 25 years later? 

answer: around 12,000

question: What documentary aired in 2008? 

answer: Alexei Sayle's Liverpool

question: What do many Liverpool residents do with the paper even if given to them free? 

answer: simply burn or tear it up

question: What name have Liverpool residents given to The Sun? 

answer: The Scum'
Title: The_Sun_(United_Kingdom)
Context: On 7 July 2004, in response to verbal attacks in Liverpool on Wayne Rooney, just before his transfer from Everton to Manchester United, who had sold his life story to The Sun, the paper devoted a full-page editorial to an apology for the "awful error" of its Hillsborough coverage and argued that Rooney (who was still only three years old at the time of Hillsborough) should not be punished for its "past sins". In January 2005, The Sun's managing editor Graham Dudman admitting the Hillsborough coverage was "the worst mistake in our history", added: "What we did was a terrible mistake. It was a terrible, insensitive, horrible article, with a dreadful headline; but what we'd also say is: we have apologised for it, and the entire senior team here now is completely different from the team that put the paper out in 1989."

question: Which footballer was verbally attacked in Liverpool?  

answer: Wayne Rooney

question: What team did Rooney transfer to? 

answer: Manchester United

question: What was Rooney's age at the time of the Hillsborough disaster? 

answer: three years old

question: Who was managing editor of The Sun in 2005? 

answer: Graham Dudman

question: How did Dudman describe The Sun's Hillsborough coverage? 

answer: "the worst mistake in our history"
Title: The_Sun_(United_Kingdom)
Context: The Sun remained loyal to Thatcher right up to her resignation in November 1990, despite the party's fall in popularity over the previous year following the introduction of the Poll tax (officially known as the Community Charge). This change to the way local government is funded was vociferously supported by the newspaper, despite widespread opposition, (some from Conservative MPs), which is seen as having contributed to Thatcher's own downfall. The tax was quickly repealed by her successor John Major, whom The Sun initially supported enthusiastically, believing he was a radical Thatcherite – despite the economy having entered recession at this time.

question: When did Margaret Thatcher leave office? 

answer: November 1990

question: What is another name for the Community Charge? 

answer: Poll tax

question: Who took over for Thatcher? 

answer: John Major

question: Who opposed the poll tax? 

answer: Conservative MPs

question: How did The Sun feel about the Poll tax? 

answer: was vociferously supported by the newspaper
Title: The_Sun_(United_Kingdom)
Context: Despite its initial opposition to the closures, until 1997, the newspaper repeatedly called for the implementation of further Thatcherite policies, such as Royal Mail privatisation,[verification needed] and social security cutbacks, with leaders such as "Peter Lilley is right, we can't carry on like this",[verification needed] The paper showed hostility to the EU and approval of public spending cuts, tax cuts, and promotion of right-wing ministers to the cabinet, with leaders such as "More of the Redwood, not Deadwood".

question: What types of policies did The Sun support? 

answer: Thatcherite policies

question: What is an example of a Thatcherite policy? 

answer: Royal Mail privatisation

question: What was The Sun's stance toward the EU? 

answer: The paper showed hostility

question: What's another thing the paper showed hostility to? 

answer: promotion of right-wing ministers to the cabinet

question: What was The Sun's initial stance toward the closures? 

answer: opposition
Title: The_Sun_(United_Kingdom)
Context: The Sun switched support to the Labour party on 18 March 1997, six weeks before the General Election victory which saw the New Labour leader Tony Blair become Prime Minister with a large parliamentary majority, despite the paper having attacked Blair and New Labour up to a month earlier. Its front page headline read THE SUN BACKS BLAIR and its front page editorial made clear that while it still opposed some New Labour policies, such as the Minimum Wage and Devolution, it believed Blair to be "the breath of fresh air this great country needs". John Major's Conservatives, it said, were "tired, divided and rudderless". Blair, who had radically altered his party's image and policies, noting the influence the paper could have over its readers' political thinking, had courted it (and Murdoch) for some time by granting exclusive interviews and writing columns.

question: Who did The Sun declare political endorsement of in 1997? 

answer: Labour party

question: Who became Prime Minister in 1997? 

answer: Tony Blair

question: Which New Labour policies did The Sun oppose? 

answer: Minimum Wage and Devolution

question: How did The Sun describe John Major's Conservatives? 

answer: "tired, divided and rudderless"

question: Who greatly changed the image of the Labour party? 

answer: Blair
Title: The_Sun_(United_Kingdom)
Context: In exchange for Rupert Murdoch's support, Blair agreed not to join the European Exchange Rate Mechanism – which John Major had withdrawn the country from in September 1992 after barely two years. Cabinet Minister Peter Mandelson was "outed" by Matthew Parris (a former Sun columnist) on BBC TV's Newsnight in November 1998. Misjudging public response, The Sun's editor David Yelland demanded to know in a front page editorial whether Britain was governed by a "gay mafia" of a "closed world of men with a mutual self-interest". Three days later the paper apologised in another editorial which said The Sun would never again reveal a person's sexuality unless it could be defended on the grounds of "overwhelming public interest".

question: What did Blair agree to in order to get the support of Rupert Murdoch? 

answer: not to join the European Exchange Rate Mechanism

question: Who was Cabinet Minister in 1998? 

answer: Peter Mandelson

question: What happened on BBC's Newsnight in 1998? 

answer: Peter Mandelson was "outed" by Matthew Parris

question: Who was editor of The Sun in 1998? 

answer: David Yelland

question: What did The Sun say its policy about revealing an individual's sexuality would be moving forward? 

answer: The Sun would never again reveal a person's sexuality unless it could be defended on the grounds of "overwhelming public interest"
Title: The_Sun_(United_Kingdom)
Context: In 2003 the paper was accused of racism by the Government over its criticisms of what it perceived as the "open door" policy on immigration. The attacks came from the Prime Minister's press spokesman Alastair Campbell and the Home Secretary David Blunkett (later a Sun columnist). The paper rebutted the claim, believing that it was not racist to suggest that a "tide" of unchecked illegal immigrants was increasing the risk of terrorist attacks and infectious diseases. It did not help its argument by publishing a front page story on 4 July 2003, under the headline "Swan Bake", which claimed that asylum seekers were slaughtering and eating swans. It later proved to have no basis in fact. Subsequently The Sun published a follow-up headlined "Now they're after our fish!". Following a Press Complaints Commission adjudication a "clarification" was eventually printed, on page 41. In 2005 The Sun published photographs of Prince Harry sporting a Nazi costume to a fancy dress party. The photographs caused outrage across the world and Clarence House was forced to issue a statement in response apologising for any offence or embarrassment caused.

question: What allegation did the government level against The Sun in 2003? 

answer: racism

question: Who specifically leveled the allegations against The Sun? 

answer: Prime Minister's press spokesman Alastair Campbell and the Home Secretary David Blunkett

question: What did a 4 July 2003 front page story claim? 

answer: asylum seekers were slaughtering and eating swans

question: From which issue did claims that The Sun was racist stem? 

answer: immigration

question: Who did The Sun print pictures of in a Nazi outfit in 2005? 

answer: Prince Harry
Title: The_Sun_(United_Kingdom)
Context: Despite being a persistent critic of some of the government's policies, the paper supported Labour in both subsequent elections the party won. For the 2005 general election, The Sun backed Blair and Labour for a third consecutive election win and vowed to give him "one last chance" to fulfil his promises, despite berating him for several weaknesses including a failure to control immigration. However, it did speak of its hope that the Conservatives (led by Michael Howard) would one day be fit for a return to government. This election (Blair had declared it would be his last as prime minister) resulted in Labour's third successive win but with a much reduced majority.

question: Who did The Sun endorse in the 2005 general election? 

answer: Blair and Labour

question: What is one of the weaknesses The Sun thought Blair possessed? 

answer: failure to control immigration

question: Who was leading the Conservatives at this time? 

answer: Michael Howard

question: What did Blair state about the 2005 election? 

answer: it would be his last as prime minister

question: What was the result of the 2005 election? 

answer: Labour's third successive win
Title: The_Sun_(United_Kingdom)
Context: On 22 September 2003 the newspaper appeared to misjudge the public mood surrounding mental health, as well as its affection for former world heavyweight champion boxer Frank Bruno, who had been admitted to hospital, when the headline "Bonkers Bruno Locked Up" appeared on the front page of early editions. The adverse reaction, once the paper had hit the streets on the evening of 21 September, led to the headline being changed for the paper's second edition to the more sympathetic "Sad Bruno In Mental Home".

question: What was the subject of the front page on 22 September 2003? 

answer: mental health

question: Who was featured in the article on mental health? 

answer: Frank Bruno

question: What was the original headline on 22 September 2003? 

answer: Bonkers Bruno Locked Up

question: What was the headline changed to after public backlash? 

answer: Sad Bruno In Mental Home

question: What had happened to Frank Bruno to spur the publishing of a story about him? 

answer: had been admitted to hospital
Title: The_Sun_(United_Kingdom)
Context: The Sun has been openly antagonistic towards other European nations, particularly the French and Germans. During the 1980s and 1990s, the nationalities were routinely described in copy and headlines as "frogs", "krauts" or "hun". As the paper is opposed to the EU it has referred to foreign leaders who it deemed hostile to the UK in unflattering terms. Former President Jacques Chirac of France, for instance, was branded "le Worm". An unflattering picture of German chancellor Angela Merkel, taken from the rear, bore the headline "I'm Big in the Bumdestag" (17 April 2006).

question: Which two nations has The Sun been very antagonistic towards? 

answer: French and Germans

question: What names were used by The Sun to characterize the French and Germans? 

answer: "frogs", "krauts" or "hun"

question: What is the paper's stance on the EU? 

answer: opposed

question: How was French president Jacques Chirac described by The Sun? 

answer: le Worm

question: Which German chancellor was criticized by The Sun? 

answer: Angela Merkel