praj-17/QA-MCQ-Open-ended huggingface dataset:
Title: Pub
Context: Traditional games are played in pubs, ranging from the well-known darts, skittles, dominoes, cards and bar billiards, to the more obscure Aunt Sally, Nine Men's Morris and ringing the bull. In the UK betting is legally limited to certain games such as cribbage or dominoes, played for small stakes. In recent decades the game of pool (both the British and American versions) has increased in popularity as well as other table based games such as snooker or Table Football becoming common.

question: What game played in both Britain and America has become increasingly popular in pubs? 

answer: pool

question: Along with Aunt Sally and ringing the bull, what is one of the obscure traditional games played in pubs? 

answer: Nine Men's Morris

question: Along with darts, skittles, dominoes and bar billiards, what is a well-known pub game? 

answer: cards

question: Along with dominoes, on what pub game can you legally bet in the United Kingdom? 

answer: cribbage

question: What table-based version of soccer is an increasingly popular pub game? 

answer: Table Football
Title: Pub
Context: Increasingly, more modern games such as video games and slot machines are provided. Pubs hold special events, from tournaments of the aforementioned games to karaoke nights to pub quizzes. Some play pop music and hip-hop (dance bar), or show football and rugby union on big screen televisions (sports bar). Shove ha'penny and Bat and trap were also popular in pubs south of London.

question: Along with slot machines, what is a modern game that is increasingly present in pubs? 

answer: video games

question: What is a pub that plays pop and hip-hop music called? 

answer: dance bar

question: At what sort of pub can you watch rugby union on television? 

answer: sports bar

question: Along with Bat and trap, what game is popular in south London pubs? 

answer: Shove ha'penny
Title: Pub
Context: Some pubs in the UK also have football teams composed of regular customers. Many of these teams are in leagues that play matches on Sundays, hence the term "Sunday League Football". Bowling is found in association with pubs in some parts of the country and the local team will play matches against teams invited from elsewhere on the pub's bowling green.

question: What is the term for pub-based football that is often played on Sundays? 

answer: Sunday League Football

question: What sport is played on a pub's bowling green? 

answer: Bowling
Title: Pub
Context: Pubs may be venues for pub songs and live music. During the 1970s pubs provided an outlet for a number of bands, such as Kilburn and the High Roads, Dr. Feelgood and The Kursaal Flyers, who formed a musical genre called Pub rock that was a precursor to Punk music.

question: Dr. Feelgood and the Kursaal Flyers are examples of bands from what genre of music? 

answer: Pub rock

question: What genre of music was influenced by pub rock? 

answer: Punk music

question: In what decade was Pub rock popular? 

answer: the 1970s
Title: Pub
Context: Many pubs were drinking establishments, and little emphasis was placed on the serving of food, other than sandwiches and "bar snacks", such as pork scratchings, pickled eggs, salted crisps and peanuts which helped to increase beer sales. In South East England (especially London) it was common until recent times for vendors selling cockles, whelks, mussels, and other shellfish to sell to customers during the evening and at closing time. Many mobile shellfish stalls would set up near pubs, a practice that continues in London's East End. Otherwise, pickled cockles and mussels may be offered by the pub in jars or packets.

question: Pork scratchings, pickled eggs and salted crisps are examples of what type of food? 

answer: bar snacks

question: In London, what food vendors could often be found near pubs? 

answer: mobile shellfish stalls

question: In what section of London can mobile shellfish stalls still be found today? 

answer: East End

question: What seafood can often be purchased in jars at pubs? 

answer: pickled cockles and mussels
Title: Pub
Context: In the 1950s some British pubs would offer "a pie and a pint", with hot individual steak and ale pies made easily on the premises by the proprietor's wife during the lunchtime opening hours. The ploughman's lunch became popular in the late 1960s. In the late 1960s "chicken in a basket", a portion of roast chicken with chips, served on a napkin, in a wicker basket became popular due to its convenience.

question: During what decade did some British pubs provide "a pie and a pint"? 

answer: 1950s

question: In what decade was the ploughman's lunch often consumed in pubs? 

answer: 1960s

question: What decade saw the popularity of "chicken in a basket"? 

answer: 1960s

question: What was "chicken in a basket" served in? 

answer: a wicker basket

question: Along with chicken, what food was included in "chicken in a basket"? 

answer: chips
Title: Pub
Context: Quality dropped but variety increased with the introduction of microwave ovens and freezer food. "Pub grub" expanded to include British food items such as steak and ale pie, shepherd's pie, fish and chips, bangers and mash, Sunday roast, ploughman's lunch, and pasties. In addition, dishes such as burgers, chicken wings, lasagne and chilli con carne are often served. Some pubs offer elaborate hot and cold snacks free to customers at Sunday lunchtimes, to prevent them getting hungry and leaving for their lunch at home.

question: What are foods like fish and chips and chicken wings called when they're served at a pub? 

answer: Pub grub

question: On what day do pubs sometimes offer free snacks? 

answer: Sunday

question: What culture's cuisine is ploughman's lunch a part of? 

answer: British
Title: Pub
Context: Since the 1990s food has become a more important part of a pub's trade, and today most pubs serve lunches and dinners at the table in addition to (or instead of) snacks consumed at the bar. They may have a separate dining room. Some pubs serve meals to a higher standard, to match good restaurant standards; these are sometimes termed gastropubs.

question: During what decade did food become an important aspect of a pub's business? 

answer: the 1990s

question: Along with dinners, what meals do modern pubs often serve? 

answer: lunches

question: What is a term for pubs that serve restaurant-quality food? 

answer: gastropubs

question: Other than the bar, in what room might patrons of a pub eat? 

answer: dining room
Title: Pub
Context: A gastropub concentrates on quality food. The name is a portmanteau of pub and gastronomy and was coined in 1991 when David Eyre and Mike Belben took over The Eagle pub in Clerkenwell, London. The concept of a restaurant in a pub reinvigorated both pub culture and British dining, though has occasionally attracted criticism for potentially removing the character of traditional pubs.

question: What two words is 'gastropub' a portanteau of? 

answer: pub and gastronomy

question: In what year was the term gastropub invented? 

answer: 1991

question: Along with David Eyre, who took over the Eagle pub? 

answer: Mike Belben

question: In what city is the Eagle pub located? 

answer: London

question: In what area of London is the Eagle pub located? 

answer: Clerkenwell
Title: Pub
Context: CAMRA maintains a "National Inventory" of historical notability and of architecturally and decoratively notable pubs. The National Trust owns thirty-six public houses of historic interest including the George Inn, Southwark, London and The Crown Liquor Saloon, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

question: How many pubs does the National Trust own? 

answer: thirty-six

question: In what city is the George Inn located? 

answer: London

question: What city is home to The Crown Liquor Saloon? 

answer: Belfast

question: What part of the United Kingdom is Belfast located in? 

answer: Northern Ireland

question: What body maintains a National Inventory of notable pubs? 

answer: CAMRA
Title: Pub
Context: The highest pub in the United Kingdom is the Tan Hill Inn, Yorkshire, at 1,732 feet (528 m) above sea level. The remotest pub on the British mainland is The Old Forge in the village of Inverie, Lochaber, Scotland. There is no road access and it may only be reached by an 18-mile (29 km) walk over mountains, or a 7-mile (11 km) sea crossing. Likewise, The Berney Arms in Norfolk has no road access. It may be reached by foot or by boat, and by train as it is served by the nearby Berney Arms railway station, which likewise has no road access and serves no other settlement.

question: What pub in England is the highest above sea level? 

answer: the Tan Hill Inn

question: In what county is the Tan Hill Inn located? 

answer: Yorkshire

question: How many meters above sea level is the Tan Hill Inn? 

answer: 528

question: In what settlement is the pub known as The Old Forge located? 

answer: Inverie

question: In what country of the United Kingdom is the Old Forge pub located? 

answer: Scotland
Title: Pub
Context: A number of pubs claim to be the oldest surviving establishment in the United Kingdom, although in several cases original buildings have been demolished and replaced on the same site. Others are ancient buildings that saw uses other than as a pub during their history. Ye Olde Fighting Cocks in St Albans, Hertfordshire, holds the Guinness World Record for the oldest pub in England, as it is an 11th-century structure on an 8th-century site. Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem in Nottingham is claimed to be the "oldest inn in England". It has a claimed date of 1189, based on the fact it is constructed on the site of the Nottingham Castle brewhouse; the present building dates from around 1650. Likewise, The Nags Head in Burntwood, Staffordshire only dates back to the 16th century, but there has been a pub on the site since at least 1086, as it is mentioned in the Domesday Book.

question: What pub holds the Guinness World Record as the oldest in England? 

answer: Ye Olde Fighting Cocks

question: In what century was the building occupied by Ye Olde Fighting Cocks built? 

answer: 11th

question: Where is Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem located? 

answer: Nottingham

question: When does Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem claim to have been founded? 

answer: 1189

question: When was a pub documented as existing on the current site of the Nags Head? 

answer: 1086
Title: Pub
Context: There is archaeological evidence that parts of the foundations of The Old Ferryboat Inn in Holywell may date to AD 460, and there is evidence of ale being served as early as AD 560.

question: Where is The Old Ferryboat Inn located? 

answer: Holywell

question: How far back does the foundation of The Old Ferryboat Inn date? 

answer: 460

question: When was ale first served at the site of The Old Ferryboat Inn? 

answer: 560
Title: Pub
Context: The Bingley Arms, Bardsey, Yorkshire, is claimed to date to 905 AD. Ye Olde Salutation Inn in Nottingham dates from 1240, although the building served as a tannery and a private residence before becoming an inn sometime before the English Civil War. The Adam and Eve in Norwich was first recorded in 1249, when it was an alehouse for the workers constructing nearby Norwich Cathedral. Ye Olde Man & Scythe in Bolton, Lancashire, is mentioned by name in a charter of 1251, but the current building is dated 1631. Its cellars are the only surviving part of the older structure.

question: When does The Bingley Arms claim to have been founded? 

answer: 905

question: In what county is the Bingley Arms located? 

answer: Yorkshire

question: When does the building housing Ye Olde Salutation Inn date back to? 

answer: 1240

question: Where is Ye Olde Salutation Inn located? 

answer: Nottingham

question: When does the building housing Ye Olde Man & Scythe date from? 

answer: 1631
Title: Pub
Context: The town of Stalybridge in Cheshire is thought to have the pubs with both the longest and shortest names in the United Kingdom — The Old 13th Cheshire Rifleman Corps Inn and the Q Inn.

question: What town is the Q Inn located in? 

answer: Stalybridge

question: What county is home to The Old 13th Cheshire Rifleman Corps Inn? 

answer: Cheshire

question: What pub has the shortest name in the United Kingdom? 

answer: the Q Inn

question: What is the pub with the longest name in the UK? 

answer: The Old 13th Cheshire Rifleman Corps Inn

question: What county is Stalybridge in? 

answer: Cheshire
Title: Pub
Context: The number of pubs in the UK has declined year on year, at least since 1982. Various reasons are put forward for this, such as the failure of some establishments to keep up with customer requirements. Others claim the smoking ban of 2007, intense competition from gastro-pubs, the availability of cheap alcohol in supermarkets or the general economic climate are either to blame, or are factors in the decline. Changes in demographics may be an additional factor.

question: When was a smoking ban passed in the United Kingdom? 

answer: 2007

question: In what year did the number of United Kingdom pubs generally start to decline? 

answer: 1982

question: Competition from what new form of establishment is sometimes blamed for the decline of pubs? 

answer: gastro-pubs

question: What business that sells cheap alcohol has sometimes been held to have resulted in the decline of pubs? 

answer: supermarkets
Title: Pub
Context: The Lost Pubs Project listed 28,095 closed pubs on 21 April 2015, with photographs of many. In 2015 the rate of pub closures came under the scrutiny of Parliament in the UK, with a promise of legislation to improve relations between owners and tenants.

question: How many closed pubs did The Lost Pubs Project catalog? 

answer: 28,095

question: In what year did Parliament inquire into the frequency of pub closures? 

answer: 2015

question: What did Parliament promise to pass as a result of increased pub closures? 

answer: legislation to improve relations between owners and tenants
Title: Pub
Context: The highwayman Dick Turpin used the Swan Inn at Woughton-on-the-Green in Buckinghamshire as his base. In the 1920s John Fothergill (1876–1957) was the innkeeper of the Spread Eagle in Thame, Berkshire, and published his autobiography: An Innkeeper's Diary (London: Chatto & Windus, 1931). During his idiosyncratic occupancy many famous people came to stay, such as H. G. Wells. United States president George W. Bush fulfilled his lifetime ambition of visiting a 'genuine British pub' during his November 2003 state visit to the UK when he had lunch and a pint of non-alcoholic lager (Bush being a teetotaler) with British Prime Minister Tony Blair at the Dun Cow pub in Sedgefield, County Durham in Blair's home constituency. There were approximately 53,500 public houses in 2009 in the United Kingdom. This number has been declining every year, so that nearly half of the smaller villages no longer have a local pub.

question: Who was based out of the Swan Inn? 

answer: Dick Turpin

question: In what county was the Swan Inn located? 

answer: Buckinghamshire

question: What was the name of the innkeeper at the Spread Eagle in the 1920s? 

answer: John Fothergill

question: In what year was An Innkeeper's Diary published? 

answer: 1931

question: What publishing house published An Innkeeper's Diary? 

answer: Chatto & Windus
Title: Pub
Context: Many of London's pubs are known to have been used by famous people, but in some cases, such as the association between Samuel Johnson and Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, this is speculative, based on little more than the fact that the person is known to have lived nearby. However, Charles Dickens is known to have visited the Cheshire Cheese, the Prospect of Whitby, Ye Olde Cock Tavern and many others. Samuel Pepys is also associated with the Prospect of Whitby and the Cock Tavern.

question: What pub was associated with Samuel Johnson, perhaps erroneously? 

answer: Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese

question: Along with the Prospect of Whitby, what pub was Samuel Pepys associated with? 

answer: the Cock Tavern

question: What writer was known to visit both the Cheshire Cheese and the Prospect of Whitby? 

answer: Charles Dickens

question: Along with the Prospect of Whitby and the Cheshire Cheese, what pub did Dickens visit? 

answer: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Title: Pub
Context: The Fitzroy Tavern is a pub situated at 16 Charlotte Street in the Fitzrovia district, to which it gives its name. It became famous (or according to others, infamous) during a period spanning the 1920s to the mid-1950s as a meeting place for many of London's artists, intellectuals and bohemians such as Dylan Thomas, Augustus John, and George Orwell. Several establishments in Soho, London, have associations with well-known, post-war literary and artistic figures, including the Pillars of Hercules, The Colony Room and the Coach and Horses. The Canonbury Tavern, Canonbury, was the prototype for Orwell's ideal English pub, The Moon Under Water.

question: What is the street address of The Fitzroy Tavern? 

answer: 16 Charlotte Street

question: In what district of London is The Fitzroy Tavern located? 

answer: Fitzrovia

question: In what district of London is Pillars of Hercules located? 

answer: Soho

question: What real-life pub provided the model for Orwell's The Moon Under Water? 

answer: The Canonbury Tavern

question: In what district of London is The Canonbury Tavern located? 

answer: Canonbury
Title: Pub
Context: The Red Lion in Parliament Square is close to the Palace of Westminster and is consequently used by political journalists and members of parliament. The pub is equipped with a Division bell that summons MPs back to the chamber when they are required to take part in a vote. The Punch Bowl, Mayfair was at one time jointly owned by Madonna and Guy Ritchie. The Coleherne public house in Earls Court was a well-known gay pub from the 1950s. It attracted many well-known patrons, such as Freddie Mercury, Kenny Everett and Rudolph Nureyev. It was used by the serial-killer Colin Ireland to pick up victims.

question: Where is the Red Lion located? 

answer: Parliament Square

question: What notable feature of the Red Lion reflects its parliamentary connection? 

answer: a Division bell

question: Who owned the Punch Bowl with Guy Ritchie? 

answer: Madonna

question: In what district of London was the Punch Bowl located? 

answer: Mayfair

question: What pub was visited by Freddie Mercury? 

answer: The Coleherne
Title: Pub
Context: In 1966 The Blind Beggar in Whitechapel became infamous as the scene of a murder committed by gangster Ronnie Kray. The Ten Bells is associated with several of the victims of Jack the Ripper. In 1955, Ruth Ellis, the last woman executed in the United Kingdom, shot David Blakely as he emerged from The Magdala in South Hill Park, Hampstead, the bullet holes can still be seen in the walls outside. It is said that Vladimir Lenin and a young Joseph Stalin met in the Crown and Anchor pub (now known as The Crown Tavern) on Clerkenwell Green when the latter was visiting London in 1903.

question: At what pub did Ronnie Kray kill someone in 1966? 

answer: The Blind Beggar

question: What pub is associated with some of Jack the Ripper's victims? 

answer: The Ten Bells

question: Outside what pub was David Blakely shot? 

answer: The Magdala

question: What is the present name of the former Crown and Anchor? 

answer: The Crown Tavern

question: In what year did Joseph Stalin visit London? 

answer: 1903
Title: Pub
Context: The Angel, Islington was formerly a coaching inn, the first on the route northwards out of London, where Thomas Paine is believed to have written much of The Rights of Man. It was mentioned by Charles Dickens, became a Lyons Corner House, and is now a Co-operative Bank.

question: At what pub did Thomas Paine write The Rights of Man? 

answer: The Angel

question: In what district of London is The Angel located? 

answer: Islington

question: What writer mentioned The Angel pub in his writings? 

answer: Charles Dickens

question: What is the present status of the Angel pub? 

answer: a Co-operative Bank

question: Prior to becoming a pub, what did the Angel serve as? 

answer: a coaching inn
Title: Pub
Context: The Eagle and Child and the Lamb and Flag, Oxford, were regular meeting places of the Inklings, a writers' group which included J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis. The Eagle in Cambridge is where Francis Crick interrupted patrons' lunchtime on 28 February 1953 to announce that he and James Watson had "discovered the secret of life" after they had come up with their proposal for the structure of DNA. The anecdote is related in Watson's book The Double Helix. and commemorated with a blue plaque on the outside wall.

question: Along with the Eagle and Child, at what pub did the Inklings regularly meet? 

answer: the Lamb and Flag

question: Where is the Eagle and Child located? 

answer: Oxford

question: Along with J. R. R. Tolkien, who was a noted member of the Inklings? 

answer: C. S. Lewis

question: Where is the Eagle pub located? 

answer: Cambridge

question: On what date did Francis Crick announce to an audience of pub-goers that he had discovered DNA? 

answer: 28 February 1953
Title: Pub
Context: The major soap operas on British television each feature a pub, and these pubs have become household names. The Rovers Return is the pub in Coronation Street, the British soap broadcast on ITV. The Queen Vic (short for the Queen Victoria) is the pub in EastEnders, the major soap on BBC One and the Woolpack in ITV's Emmerdale. The sets of each of the three major television soap operas have been visited by some of the members of the royal family, including Queen Elizabeth II. The centrepiece of each visit was a trip into the Rovers, the Queen Vic, or the Woolpack to be offered a drink. The Bull in the BBC Radio 4 soap opera The Archers is an important meeting point.

question: What pub is feature on the British soap opera Coronation Street? 

answer: The Rovers Return

question: What pub is featured on EastEnders? 

answer: The Queen Vic

question: What channel is EastEnders broadcast on? 

answer: BBC One

question: What channel is home to the soap opera Emmerdale? 

answer: ITV

question: What pub is featured on Emmerdale? 

answer: the Woolpack
Title: Pub
Context: Although "British" pubs found outside of Britain and its former colonies are often themed bars owing little to the original British pub, a number of "true" pubs may be found around the world.

question: What would be a more accurate classification for many "British" pubs found outside Britain? 

answer: themed bars
Title: Pub
Context: In Denmark—a country, like Britain, with a long tradition of brewing—a number of pubs have opened which eschew "theming", and which instead focus on the business of providing carefully conditioned beer, often independent of any particular brewery or chain, in an environment which would not be unfamiliar to a British pub-goer. Some import British cask ale, rather than beer in kegs, to provide the full British real ale experience to their customers. This newly established Danish interest in British cask beer and the British pub tradition is reflected by the fact that some 56 British cask beers were available at the 2008 European Beer Festival in Copenhagen, which was attended by more than 20,000 people.

question: What continental European country has pubs that would be familiar to a Briton? 

answer: Denmark

question: How many British cask beers were present at the 2008 European Beer Festival? 

answer: 56

question: In what city did the 2008 European Beer Festival take place? 

answer: Copenhagen

question: About how many people visited the 2008 European Beer Festival? 

answer: 20,000