praj-17/QA-MCQ-Open-ended huggingface dataset:
Title: Chicago_Cubs
Context: Before signing a developmental agreement with the Kane County Cougars in 2012, the Cubs had a Class A minor league affiliation on two occasions with the Peoria Chiefs (1985–1995 and 2004–2012). Ryne Sandberg managed the Chiefs from 2006 to 2010. In the period between those associations with the Chiefs the club had affiliations with the Dayton Dragons and Lansing Lugnuts. The Lugnuts were often affectionately referred to by Chip Caray as "Steve Stone's favorite team." The 2007 developmental contract with the Tennessee Smokies was preceded by Double A affiliations with the Orlando Cubs and West Tenn Diamond Jaxx. On September 16, 2014 the Cubs announced a move of their top Class A affiliate from Daytona in the Florida State League to Myrtle Beach in the Carolina League for the 2015 season. Two days later, on the 18th, the Cubs signed a 4-year player development contract with the South Bend Silver Hawks of the Midwest League, ending their brief relationship with the Kane County Cougars and shortly thereafter renaming the Silver Hawks the South Bend Cubs.

question: When did the Cubs sign a developmental agreement with the Kane County Cougars? 

answer: 2012

question: The Cubs had a Class A minor league affiliation on two occasions with who? 

answer: Peoria Chiefs

question: When did the Cubs announce a move of their top class A affiliate from Daytona to Myrtle Beach? 

answer: September 16, 2014
Title: Chicago_Cubs
Context: The Chicago White Stockings, (today's Chicago Cubs), began spring training in Hot Springs, Arkansas in 1886. President Albert Spalding (founder of Spalding Sporting Goods) and player/manager Cap Anson brought their players to Hot Springs and played at the Hot Springs Baseball Grounds. The concept was for the players to have training and fitness before the start of the regular season. After the White Stockings had a successful season in 1886, winning the National League Pennant, other teams began bringing their players to "spring training".  The Chicago Cubs, St. Louis Browns, New York Yankees, St. Louis Cardinals, Cleveland Spiders, Detroit Tigers, Pittsburgh Pirates, Cincinnati Reds, New York Highlanders, Brooklyn Dodgers and Boston Red Sox were among the early squads to arrive. Whittington Park (1894) and later Majestic Park (1909) and Fogel Field (1912) were all built in Hot Springs specifically to host Major League teams.

question: Who began spring training in Hot Springs, Arkansas in 1886? 

answer: Chicago White Stockings

question: Who is the founder of Spalding Sporting Goods? 

answer: Albert Spalding

question: Whittington Park, Majestic Park, and Fogel Field were all built where? 

answer: Hot Springs, Arkansas
Title: Chicago_Cubs
Context: The Cubs' current spring training facility is located in Sloan Park in |Mesa, Arizona, where they play in the Cactus League. The park seats 15,000, making it Major League baseball's largest spring training facility by capacity. The Cubs annually sell out most of their games both at home and on the road. Before Sloan Park opened in 2014, the team played games at HoHoKam Park - Dwight Patterson Field from 1979. "HoHoKam" is literally translated from Native American as "those who vanished." The North Siders have called Mesa their spring home for most seasons since 1952.

question: Where is the Cubs' current spring  training facility located? 

answer: Sloan Park

question: How many seats are in the Cubs' Sloan Park training facility? 

answer: 15,000

question: When did Sloan Park open? 

answer: 2014
Title: Chicago_Cubs
Context: In addition to Mesa, the club has held spring training in Hot Springs, Arkansas (1886, 1896–1900), (1909–1910) New Orleans (1870, 1907, 1911–1912); Champaign, Illinois (1901–02, 1906); Los Angeles (1903–04, 1948–1949), Santa Monica, California (1905); French Lick, Indiana (1908, 1943–1945); Tampa, Florida (1913–1916); Pasadena, California (1917–1921); Santa Catalina Island, California (1922–1942, 1946–1947, 1950–1951); Rendezvous Park in Mesa (1952–1965); Blair Field in Long Beach, California (1966); and Scottsdale, Arizona (1967–1978).

question: Where is Rendezvous Park? 

answer: Mesa

question: Where is Blair Field? 

answer: Long Beach, California

question: Between what years did the club hold spring training in Scottsdale, Arizona? 

answer: (1967–1978)
Title: Chicago_Cubs
Context: The curious location on Catalina Island stemmed from Cubs owner William Wrigley Jr.'s then-majority interest in the island in 1919. Wrigley constructed a ballpark on the island to house the Cubs in spring training: it was built to the same dimensions as Wrigley Field. (The ballpark is long gone, but a clubhouse built by Wrigley to house the Cubs exists as the Catalina County Club.) However, by 1951 the team chose to leave Catalina Island and spring training was shifted to Mesa, Arizona. The Cubs' 30-year association with Catalina is chronicled in the book, The Cubs on Catalina, by Jim Vitti . . . which was named International 'Book of the Year' by The Sporting News.

question: Who had a majority interest in Cataline island  in 1919? 

answer: William Wrigley Jr

question: What did Wrigley construct on the island to house the Cubs in Spring training? 

answer: a ballpark

question: When did the Cubs choose to leave Catalina Island? 

answer: 1951
Title: Chicago_Cubs
Context: The former location in Mesa is actually the second HoHoKam Park; the first was built in 1976 as the spring-training home of the Oakland Athletics who left the park in 1979. Apart from HoHoKam Park and Sloan Park the Cubs also have another Mesa training facility called Fitch Park, this complex provides 25,000 square feet (2,300 m2) of team facilities, including major league clubhouse, four practice fields, one practice infield, enclosed batting tunnels, batting cages, a maintenance facility, and administrative offices for the Cubs.

question: Where was the former location in Mesa? 

answer: the second HoHoKam Park

question: How many square feet does Fitch Park provide? 

answer: 25,000 square feet

question: When was the spring training home of the Oakland Athletics built? 

answer: 1976
Title: Chicago_Cubs
Context: Jack Brickhouse manned the Cubs radio and especially the TV booth for parts of five decades, the 34-season span from 1948 to 1981. He covered the games with a level of enthusiasm that often seemed unjustified by the team's poor performance on the field for many of those years. His trademark call "Hey Hey!" always followed a home run. That expression is spelled out in large letters vertically on both foul pole screens at Wrigley Field. "Whoo-boy!" and "Wheeee!" and "Oh, brother!" were among his other pet expressions. When he approached retirement age, he personally recommended his successor.

question: Who manned the Cubs radio and TV booth for parts of five decades? 

answer: Jack Brickhouse

question: What was Jack Brickhouse's trademark call? 

answer: Hey Hey!

question: What did Jack Brickhouse do when he approached his retirement age? 

answer: he personally recommended his successor
Title: Chicago_Cubs
Context: Harry Caray's stamp on the team is perhaps even deeper than that of Brickhouse, although his 17-year tenure, from 1982 to 1997, was half as long. First, Caray had already become a well-known Chicago figure by broadcasting White Sox games for a decade, after having been a St Louis Cardinals icon for 25 years. Caray also had the benefit of being in the booth during the NL East title run in 1984, which was widely seen due to WGN's status as a cable-TV superstation. His trademark call of "Holy Cow!" and his enthusiastic singing of "Take me out to the ballgame" during the 7th inning stretch (as he had done with the White Sox) made Caray a fan favorite both locally and nationally.

question: How long was Harry Caray's tenure  with the Cubs? 

answer: 17-year

question: How did Caray become a well-known Chicago figure? 

answer: by broadcasting White Sox games for a decade

question: How long had Caray been a St Louis Cardinals icon? 

answer: 25 years
Title: Chicago_Cubs
Context: Caray had lively discussions with commentator Steve Stone, who was hand-picked by Harry himself, and producer Arne Harris. Caray often playfully quarreled with Stone over Stone's cigar and why Stone was single, while Stone would counter with poking fun at Harry being "under the influence." Stone disclosed in his book "Where's Harry" that most of this "arguing" was staged, and usually a ploy developed by Harry himself to add flavor to the broadcast. The Cubs still have a "guest conductor", usually a celebrity, lead the crowd in singing "Take me out to the ballgame" during the 7th inning stretch to honor Caray's memory.

question: Who did Harry hand-pick himself? 

answer: Steve Stone

question: Who did Caray often playfully quarrel with? 

answer: Stone

question: Why did Caray often playfully quarrel with Stone? 

answer: over Stone's cigar

question: What does the crowd sing during the 7th inning to honor Caray's memory? 

answer: Take me out to the ballgame
Title: Chicago_Cubs
Context: In 1981, after 6 decades under the Wrigley family, the Cubs were purchased by Tribune Company for $20,500,000. Tribune, owners of the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, WGN Television, WGN Radio and many other media outlets, controlled the club until December 2007, when Sam Zell completed his purchase of the entire Tribune organization and announced his intention to sell the baseball team. After a nearly two-year process which involved potential buyers such as Mark Cuban and a group led by Hank Aaron, a family trust of TD Ameritrade founder Joe Ricketts won the bidding process as the 2009 season came to a close. Ultimately, the sale was unanimously approved by MLB owners and the Ricketts family took control on October 27, 2009.

question: What company purchased the  Cubs in 1981? 

answer: Tribune Company

question: How much did Tribune Company purchase the Cubs for? 

answer: $20,500,000

question: How long were the Cubs ran under the Wrigley family? 

answer: 6 decades
Title: Chicago_Cubs
Context: "Baseball's Sad Lexicon," also known as "Tinker to Evers to Chance" after its refrain, is a 1910 baseball poem by Franklin Pierce Adams. The poem is presented as a single, rueful stanza from the point of view of a New York Giants fan seeing the talented Chicago Cubs infield of shortstop Joe Tinker, second baseman Johnny Evers, and first baseman Frank Chance complete a double play. The trio began playing together with the Cubs in 1902, and formed a double play combination that lasted through April 1912. The Cubs won the pennant four times between 1906 and 1910, often defeating the Giants en route to the World Series.

question: What was "Baseball's Sad Lexicon" also known as? 

answer: "Tinker to Evers to Chance"

question: Who wrote "Baseball's Sad Lexicon"? 

answer: Franklin Pierce Adams

question: What poem did Franklin Pierce Adams write?  

answer: "Baseball's Sad Lexicon,
Title: Chicago_Cubs
Context: The official Cubs team mascot is a young bear cub, named Clark, described by the team's press release as a young and friendly Cub. Clark made his debut at Advocate Health Care on January 13, 2014, the same day as the press release announcing his installation as the club's first ever official physical mascot. The bear cub itself was used in the clubs since the early 1900s and was the inspiration of the Chicago Staleys changing their team's name to the Chicago Bears, due to the Cubs allowing the football team to play at Wrigley Field in the 1930s.

question: What is the official Cubs team mascot? 

answer: a young bear cub

question: What is the official Cubs team mascot's name? 

answer: Clark

question: When did Clark make his debut? 

answer: January 13, 2014
Title: Chicago_Cubs
Context: The Cubs had no official physical mascot prior to Clark, though a man in a 'polar bear' looking outfit, called "The Bear-man" (or Beeman), which was mildly popular with the fans, paraded the stands briefly in the early 1990s. There is no record of whether or not he was just a fan in a costume or employed by the club. Through the 2013 season, there were "Cubbie-bear" mascots outside of Wrigley on game day, but none are employed by the team. They pose for pictures with fans for tips. The most notable of these was "Billy Cub" who worked outside of the stadium until for over 6 years until July 2013, when the club asked him to stop. Billy Cub, who is played by fan John Paul Weier, had unsuccessfully petitioned the team to become the official mascot.

question: What did "The Bear-man" wear as an outfit? 

answer: 'polar bear' looking outfit

question: During what season were "cubbie-bear" mascots outside of Wrigley on game day? 

answer: 2013 season

question: Who played Billy Cub? 

answer: John Paul Weier
Title: Chicago_Cubs
Context: Another unofficial but much more well-known mascot is Ronnie "Woo Woo" Wickers who is a longtime fan and local celebrity in the Chicago area. He is known to Wrigley Field visitors for his idiosyncratic cheers at baseball games, generally punctuated with an exclamatory "Woo!" (e.g., "Cubs, woo! Cubs, woo! Big-Z, woo! Zambrano, woo! Cubs, woo!") Longtime Cubs announcer Harry Caray dubbed Wickers "Leather Lungs" for his ability to shout for hours at a time. He is not employed by the team, although the club has on two separate occasions allowed him into the broadcast booth and allow him some degree of freedom once he purchases or is given a ticket by fans to get into the games. He is largely allowed to roam the park and interact with fans by Wrigley Field security.

question: What is another unofficial well-known mascot? 

answer: Ronnie "Woo Woo" Wickers

question: What is Ronnie known for to Wrigley Field visitors? 

answer: idiosyncratic cheers at baseball games

question: What did Harry Caray dub Wickers? 

answer: "Leather Lungs
Title: Chicago_Cubs
Context: Located in Chicago's Lake View neighborhood, Wrigley Field sits on an irregular block bounded by Clark and Addison Streets and Waveland and Sheffield Avenues. The area surrounding the ballpark is typically referred to as Wrigleyville. There is a dense collection of sports bars and restaurants in the area, most with baseball inspired themes, including Sluggers, Murphy's Bleachers and The Cubby Bear. Many of the apartment buildings surrounding Wrigley Field on Waveland and Sheffield Avenues have built bleachers on their rooftops for fans to view games and other sell space for advertisement. One building on Sheffield Avenue has a sign atop its roof which says "Eamus Catuli!" which is Latin for "Let's Go Cubs!" and another chronicles the time since the last Division title, pennant, and World Series championship. The 02 denotes two years since the 2008 NL Central title, 65 years since the 1945 pennant and 102 years since the 1908 World Series championship. On game days, many residents rent out their yards and driveways to people looking for parking spots. The uniqueness of the neighborhood itself has ingrained itself into the culture of the Chicago Cubs as well as the Wrigleyville neighborhood, and has led to being used for concerts and other sporting events, such as the 2010 NHL Winter Classic between the Chicago Blackhawks and Detroit Red Wings, as well as a 2010 NCAA men's football game between the Northwestern Wildcats and Illinois Fighting Illini.

question: Where is Wrigley Field located? 

answer: Chicago's Lake View neighborhood

question: What is the area surrounding the ballpark typically referred to? 

answer: Wrigleyville

question: What have many apartment buildings  surrounding Wrigley Field built on their rooftops? 

answer: bleachers
Title: Chicago_Cubs
Context: In 2013, Tom Ricketts and team president Crane Kenney unveiled plans for a five-year, $575 million privately funded renovation of Wrigley Field. Called the 1060 Project, the proposed plans included vast improvements to the stadium's facade, infrastructure, restrooms, concourses, suites, press box, bullpens, and clubhouses, as well as a 6,000-square foot jumbotron to be added in the left field bleachers, batting tunnels, a 3,000-square-foot video board in right field, and, eventually, an adjacent hotel, plaza, and office-retail complex. In previously years mostly all efforts to conduct any large-scale renovations to the field had been opposed by the city, former mayor Richard M. Daley (a staunch White Sox fan), and especially the rooftop owners.

question: When did Tom Ricketts and Crane Kenney unveil plans for a five-year funded renovation of Wrigley Field? 

answer: 2013

question: How much money has been funded to the renovation of Wrigley Field? 

answer: $575 million

question: How big is the jumbotron going to be? 

answer: 6,000-square foot
Title: Chicago_Cubs
Context: The "Bleacher Bums" is a name given to fans, many of whom spend much of the day heckling, who sit in the bleacher section at Wrigley Field. Initially, the group was called "bums" because it referred to a group of fans who were at most games, and since those games were all day games, it was assumed they did not work. Many of those fans were, and are still, students at Chicago area colleges, such as DePaul University, Loyola, Northwestern University, and Illinois-Chicago. A Broadway play, starring Joe Mantegna, Dennis Farina, Dennis Franz, and James Belushi ran for years and was based on a group of Cub fans who frequented the club's games. The group was started in 1967 by dedicated fans Ron Grousl, Tom Nall and "mad bugler" Mike Murphy, who was a sports radio host during mid days on Chicago-based WSCR AM 670 "The Score". Murphy alleges that Grousl started the Wrigley tradition of throwing back opposing teams' home run balls. The current group is headed by Derek Schaul (Derek the Five Dollar Kid). Prior to the 2006 season, they were updated, with new shops and private bar (The Batter's Eye) being added, and Bud Light bought naming rights to the bleacher section, dubbing them the Bud Light Bleachers. Bleachers at Wrigley are general admission, except during the playoffs. The bleachers have been referred to as the "World's Largest Beer Garden." A popular T-shirt (sold inside the park and licensed by the club) which says "Wrigley Bleachers" on the front and the phrase "Shut Up and Drink Your Beer" on the reverse fuels this stereotype.

question: What nickname has been given to the fans who sit in the bleacher section at Wrigley Field? 

answer: Bleacher Bums

question: Who heads the current group? 

answer: Derek Schaul

question: What did Bud Light dub the bleacher section? 

answer: the Bud Light Bleachers
Title: Chicago_Cubs
Context: In 1975, a group of Chicago Cubs fans based in Washington, D.C. formed the Emil Verban Society. The society is a select club of high profile Cub fans, currently headed by Illinois Senator Dick Durbin which is named for Emil Verban, who in three seasons with the Cubs in the 1940s batted .280 with 39 runs batted in and one home run. Verban was picked as the epitome of a Cub player, explains columnist George Will, because "He exemplified mediocrity under pressure, he was competent but obscure and typifying of the work ethics." Verban initially believed he was being ridiculed, but his ill feeling disappeared several years later when he was flown to Washington to meet President Ronald Reagan, also a society member, at the White House. Hillary Clinton, Jim Belushi, Joe Mantegna, Rahm Emanuel, Dick Cheney and many others have been included among its membership.

question: What year did a group of Chicago Cubs fans form the Emil Verban Society? 

answer: 1975

question: Where were the Emil Verban Society founders based in? 

answer: Washington, D.C

question: Who currently heads the Emil Verban Society? 

answer: Illinois Senator Dick Durbin
Title: Chicago_Cubs
Context: During the summer of 1969, a Chicago studio group produced a single record called "Hey Hey! Holy Mackerel! (The Cubs Song)" whose title and lyrics incorporated the catch-phrases of the respective TV and radio announcers for the Cubs, Jack Brickhouse and Vince Lloyd. Several members of the Cubs recorded an album called Cub Power which contained a cover of the song. The song received a good deal of local airplay that summer, associating it very strongly with that bittersweet season. It was played much less frequently thereafter, although it remained an unofficial Cubs theme song for some years after.

question: What year was the single "Hey Hey! Holy Mackerel! (The Cubs Song)" produced?  

answer: 1969

question: What was the name of the album several members of the cubs recorded? 

answer: Cub Power

question: What did The Cubs Song incorporate? 

answer: the catch-phrases of the respective TV and radio announcers
Title: Chicago_Cubs
Context: An album entitled Take Me Out to a Cubs Game was released in 2008. It is a collection of 17 songs and other recordings related to the team, including Harry Caray's final performance of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" on September 21, 1997, the Steve Goodman song mentioned above, and a newly recorded rendition of "Talkin' Baseball" (subtitled "Baseball and the Cubs") by Terry Cashman. The album was produced in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Cubs' 1908 World Series victory and contains sounds and songs of the Cubs and Wrigley Field.

question: When was Take Me Out to a Cubs game released?  

answer: 2008

question: How many songs are on the Take Me Out to a Cubs Game album? 

answer: 17 songs

question: When was Harry Caray's final performance of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game"? 

answer: September 21, 1997
Title: Chicago_Cubs
Context: The 1989 film Back to the Future Part II depicts the Chicago Cubs defeating a baseball team from Miami in the 2015 World Series, ending the longest championship drought in all four of the major North American professional sports leagues. In 2015, the Miami Marlins failed to make the playoffs and were able to make it to the 2015 National League Wild Card round and move on to the 2015 National League Championship Series by October 21, 2015, the date where protagonist Marty McFly traveled to the future in the film. However, it was on October 21 that the Cubs were swept by the New York Mets in the NLCS.

question: What film depicts the Chicago Cubs defeating a baseball team from Miami in the 2015 World Series? 

answer: Back to the Future Part II

question: What team failed to make it to the playoffs in 2015? 

answer: Miami Marlins

question: What day were the Cubs swept by the New York Mets in the NLCS? 

answer: October 21
Title: States_of_Germany
Context: Germany is a federal republic consisting of sixteen federal states (German: Bundesland, or Land).[a] Since today's Germany was formed from an earlier collection of several states, it has a federal constitution, and the constituent states retain a measure of sovereignty. With an emphasis on geographical conditions, Berlin and Hamburg are frequently called Stadtstaaten (city-states), as is the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, which in fact includes the cities of Bremen and Bremerhaven. The remaining 13 states are called Flächenländer (literally: area states).

question: How many federal states does Germany have? 

answer: sixteen

question: What are Hamburg and Berlin called? 

answer: Stadtstaaten (city-states)

question: The Free Hanseatic City of Bremen includes which two cities? 

answer: Bremen and Bremerhaven

question: How many federal states does Germany have? 

answer: sixteen federal states

question: What do constituent states still have? 

answer: measure of sovereignty

question: What are the two major city-states? 

answer: Berlin and Hamburg

question: What is the name of the city-state that contains Bremen and Bremerhaven? 

answer: Free Hanseatic City of Bremen

question: What do Germans call the other 13 states? 

answer: Flächenländer

question: How many states are in Germany? 

answer: sixteen

question: Which cities are called Stadtstaaten, other than Bremen? 

answer: Berlin and Hamburg

question: What is the German terms for states? 

answer: Bundesland, or Land

question: How many states are called "Flächenländer"? 

answer: 13

question: The Free Hanseatic City of Bremen includes which cities? 

answer: Bremen and Bremerhaven