praj-17/QA-MCQ-Open-ended huggingface dataset:
Title: New_York_City
Context: The Battle of Long Island, the largest battle of the American Revolutionary War, was fought in August 1776 entirely within the modern-day borough of Brooklyn. After the battle, in which the Americans were defeated, leaving subsequent smaller armed engagements following in its wake, the city became the British military and political base of operations in North America. The city was a haven for Loyalist refugees, as well as escaped slaves who joined the British lines for freedom newly promised by the Crown for all fighters. As many as 10,000 escaped slaves crowded into the city during the British occupation. When the British forces evacuated at the close of the war in 1783, they transported 3,000 freedmen for resettlement in Nova Scotia. They resettled other freedmen in England and the Caribbean.

question: What was the biggest battle of the American Revolution? 

answer: Battle of Long Island

question: In what borough did the Battle of Long Island occur? 

answer: Brooklyn

question: In what month and year was the Battle of Long Island fought? 

answer: August 1776

question: About how many escaped slaves were in New York during the time the British occupied it? 

answer: 10,000

question: In what year did the American Revolutionary War end? 

answer: 1783

question: Which battle was the largest battle of the American Revolutionary war? 

answer: The Battle of Long Island

question: Which borough of New York was the Battle of Long Island fought? 

answer: Brooklyn

question: When did the English army start to retreat and evacuate NYC during the Battle of Long Island? 

answer: 1783
Title: New_York_City
Context: The only attempt at a peaceful solution to the war took place at the Conference House on Staten Island between American delegates, including Benjamin Franklin, and British general Lord Howe on September 11, 1776. Shortly after the British occupation began, the Great Fire of New York occurred, a large conflagration on the West Side of Lower Manhattan, which destroyed about a quarter of the buildings in the city, including Trinity Church.

question: On what date did the peace conference on Staten Island occur? 

answer: September 11, 1776

question: Who was the British representative at the Conference House meeting? 

answer: Lord Howe

question: What notable catastrophe took place under the British occupation? 

answer: Great Fire of New York

question: In what modern-day borough did the Great Fire happen? 

answer: Manhattan

question: What noted religious building was destroyed in the Great Fire? 

answer: Trinity Church

question: Who was the English general who met with Benjamin Franklin on Septermber 11, 1776? 

answer: Lord Howe

question: Which natural disaster happened after English occupation of Lower Manhattan? 

answer: the Great Fire of New York
Title: New_York_City
Context: In 1785, the assembly of the Congress of the Confederation made New York the national capital shortly after the war. New York was the last capital of the U.S. under the Articles of Confederation and the first capital under the Constitution of the United States. In 1789, the first President of the United States, George Washington, was inaugurated; the first United States Congress and the Supreme Court of the United States each assembled for the first time, and the United States Bill of Rights was drafted, all at Federal Hall on Wall Street. By 1790, New York had surpassed Philadelphia as the largest city in the United States.

question: In what year did New York become the United States capital? 

answer: 1785

question: Who was the United States' first President? 

answer: George Washington

question: In what building did the Supreme Court of the United States first sit? 

answer: Federal Hall

question: On what street did the writing of the Bill of Rights occur? 

answer: Wall Street

question: What was the second largest city in the United States in 1790? 

answer: Philadelphia

question: Which organization made New York the national capital in 1785? 

answer: Congress of the Confederation

question: New York City became the first what under the new Constitution of the United States? 

answer: capital

question: The first president, George Washington, took office in what year? 

answer: 1789

question: By which year, did New York City become the largest city in the United States? 

answer: 1790
Title: New_York_City
Context: Under New York State's gradual abolition act of 1799, children of slave mothers were born to be eventually liberated but were held in indentured servitude until their mid-to-late twenties. Together with slaves freed by their masters after the Revolutionary War and escaped slaves, a significant free-black population gradually developed in Manhattan. Under such influential United States founders as Alexander Hamilton and John Jay, the New York Manumission Society worked for abolition and established the African Free School to educate black children. It was not until 1827 that slavery was completely abolished in the state, and free blacks struggled afterward with discrimination. New York interracial abolitionist activism continued; among its leaders were graduates of the African Free School. The city's black population reached more than 16,000 in 1840.

question: In what year did the state of New York pass a law to free the slaves? 

answer: 1799

question: What borough was home to a notable population of free African-Americans? 

answer: Manhattan

question: Along with John Jay, who founded the New York Manumission Society? 

answer: Alexander Hamilton

question: In what year did the state of New York eliminate slavery? 

answer: 1827

question: In 1840, about how many African-Americans lived in New York City? 

answer: 16,000

question: The gradual abolition act in New York was formed in what year? 

answer: 1799

question: When was slavery completely outlawed in the state of New York? 

answer: 1827
Title: New_York_City
Context: In the 19th century, the city was transformed by development relating to its status as a trading center, as well as by European immigration. The city adopted the Commissioners' Plan of 1811, which expanded the city street grid to encompass all of Manhattan. The 1825 completion of the Erie Canal through central New York connected the Atlantic port to the agricultural markets and commodities of the North American interior via the Hudson River and the Great Lakes. Local politics became dominated by Tammany Hall, a political machine supported by Irish and German immigrants.

question: What plan of 1811 spread a grid of streets across Manhattan? 

answer: Commissioners' Plan

question: In what year did the Erie Canal finish building? 

answer: 1825

question: What political machine controlled New York politics in this era? 

answer: Tammany Hall

question: Along with German immigrants, immigrants of what nationality supported Tammany Hall? 

answer: Irish

question: The Erie Canal was finished being built in what year? 

answer: 1825
Title: New_York_City
Context: Several prominent American literary figures lived in New York during the 1830s and 1840s, including William Cullen Bryant, Washington Irving, Herman Melville, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, John Keese, Nathaniel Parker Willis, and Edgar Allan Poe. Public-minded members of the contemporaneous business elite lobbied for the establishment of Central Park, which in 1857 became the first landscaped park in an American city.

question: What was the name of the first urban landscaped park in the United States? 

answer: Central Park

question: In what year was Central Park founded? 

answer: 1857

question: Central park, in 1857, became the first park in America to become what? 

answer: first landscaped
Title: New_York_City
Context: The Great Irish Famine brought a large influx of Irish immigrants. Over 200,000 were living in New York by 1860, upwards of a quarter of the city's population. There was also extensive immigration from the German provinces, where revolutions had disrupted societies, and Germans comprised another 25% of New York's population by 1860.

question: What event brought many Irish immigrants to the United States? 

answer: Great Irish Famine

question: In 1860, approximately how many people of Irish extraction were in New York? 

answer: 200,000

question: In 1860, what fraction of the city population was composed of Irish immigrants? 

answer: a quarter

question: In 1860, what percentage of the city population was composed of German immigrants? 

answer: 25%

question: What events provoked the immigration of people from Germany? 

answer: revolutions

question: Which event brought upon a lot of Irish immigrants to NYC? 

answer: Great Irish Famine

question: How many immigrants that were Irish were living in New York in 1860? 

answer: Over 200,000
Title: New_York_City
Context: Democratic Party candidates were consistently elected to local office, increasing the city's ties to the South and its dominant party. In 1861, Mayor Fernando Wood called on the aldermen to declare independence from Albany and the United States after the South seceded, but his proposal was not acted on. Anger at new military conscription laws during the American Civil War (1861–1865), which spared wealthier men who could afford to pay a $300 (equivalent to $5,766 in 2016) commutation fee to hire a substitute, led to the Draft Riots of 1863, whose most visible participants were ethnic Irish working class. The situation deteriorated into attacks on New York's elite, followed by attacks on black New Yorkers and their property after fierce competition for a decade between Irish immigrants and blacks for work. Rioters burned the Colored Orphan Asylum to the ground, but more than 200 children escaped harm due to efforts of the New York City Police Department, which was mainly made up of Irish immigrants. According to historian James M. McPherson (2001), at least 120 people were killed. In all, eleven black men were lynched over five days, and the riots forced hundreds of blacks to flee the city for Williamsburg, Brooklyn, as well as New Jersey; the black population in Manhattan fell below 10,000 by 1865, which it had last been in 1820. The white working class had established dominance. Violence by longshoremen against black men was especially fierce in the docks area. It was one of the worst incidents of civil unrest in American history.

question: Who was the mayor of New York City in 1861?  

answer: Fernando Wood

question: What was the commutation fee to avoid being conscripted during the American Civil War? 

answer: $300

question: People of what ethnicity most visibly participated in the Draft Riots of 1863? 

answer: Irish

question: About how many people died during the Draft Riots of 1863? 

answer: 120

question: What was the approximate African-American population of New York City in 1865? 

answer: 10,000

question: The Draft Riots caused which building to burn down in 1863? 

answer: Colored Orphan Asylum
Title: New_York_City
Context: In 1898, the modern City of New York was formed with the consolidation of Brooklyn (until then a separate city), the County of New York (which then included parts of the Bronx), the County of Richmond, and the western portion of the County of Queens. The opening of the subway in 1904, first built as separate private systems, helped bind the new city together. Throughout the first half of the 20th century, the city became a world center for industry, commerce, and communication.

question: In what year was the modern City of New York founded? 

answer: 1898

question: In what year did the subway begin operation? 

answer: 1904

question: Portions of what modern-day borough were included in the County of New York? 

answer: the Bronx

question: The subway of New York was first available in what year? 

answer: 1904
Title: New_York_City
Context: In 1904, the steamship General Slocum caught fire in the East River, killing 1,021 people on board. In 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, the city's worst industrial disaster, took the lives of 146 garment workers and spurred the growth of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union and major improvements in factory safety standards.

question: In what year did the General Slocum disaster occur? 

answer: 1904

question: How many people died on the General Slocum? 

answer: 1,021

question: In what building did the city's deadliest industrial disaster occur? 

answer: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory

question: How many people died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire? 

answer: 146

question: The growth of what organization was prompted by the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire? 

answer: International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union

question: A catastrophe in 1911 that killed 146 workers was called what? 

answer: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
Title: New_York_City
Context: New York's non-white population was 36,620 in 1890. New York City was a prime destination in the early twentieth century for African Americans during the Great Migration from the American South, and by 1916, New York City was home to the largest urban African diaspora in North America. The Harlem Renaissance of literary and cultural life flourished during the era of Prohibition. The larger economic boom generated construction of skyscrapers competing in height and creating an identifiable skyline.

question: How many non-white people lived in New York in 1890? 

answer: 36,620

question: What was the name of the Prohibition-era African-American cultural flourishing in New York? 

answer: Harlem Renaissance

question: What was the population of people in New York that were not Caucasian in 1890? 

answer: 36,620
Title: New_York_City
Context: New York became the most populous urbanized area in the world in the early 1920s, overtaking London. The metropolitan area surpassed the 10 million mark in the early 1930s, becoming the first megacity in human history. The difficult years of the Great Depression saw the election of reformer Fiorello La Guardia as mayor and the fall of Tammany Hall after eighty years of political dominance.

question: In the early 1920s, what was the second most highly populated city in the world? 

answer: London

question: What is the term for a city with a population of over 10 million? 

answer: megacity

question: Who was mayor of New York during the Great Depression? 

answer: Fiorello La Guardia

question: For about how many years did Tammany Hall control New York political life? 

answer: eighty

question: In the 1930s, New York City had more than 10 million people becoming the first what in history? 

answer: megacity
Title: New_York_City
Context: Returning World War II veterans created a post-war economic boom and the development of large housing tracts in eastern Queens. New York emerged from the war unscathed as the leading city of the world, with Wall Street leading America's place as the world's dominant economic power. The United Nations Headquarters was completed in 1952, solidifying New York's global geopolitical influence, and the rise of abstract expressionism in the city precipitated New York's displacement of Paris as the center of the art world.

question: When was construction finished on the United Nations Headquarters? 

answer: 1952

question: Prior to New York, what city was the center of the world of art? 

answer: Paris

question: What artistic movement caused New York to overtake Paris as the global art center? 

answer: abstract expressionism

question: The headquarters what organization was done being build in 1952 in New York? 

answer: United Nations
Title: New_York_City
Context: The Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the gay community against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan. They are widely considered to constitute the single most important event leading to the gay liberation movement and the modern fight for LGBT rights in the United States.

question: The Stonewall riots are named after what building? 

answer: the Stonewall Inn

question: In what neighborhood did the Stonewall riots occur? 

answer: Greenwich Village

question: On what date did the Stonewall riots take place? 

answer: June 28, 1969

question: In what borough did the Stonewall riots happen? 

answer: Manhattan

question: What event provoked the Stonewall riots? 

answer: a police raid

question: Where did the Stonewall riots happen? 

answer: Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan
Title: New_York_City
Context: In the 1970s, job losses due to industrial restructuring caused New York City to suffer from economic problems and rising crime rates. While a resurgence in the financial industry greatly improved the city's economic health in the 1980s, New York's crime rate continued to increase through that decade and into the beginning of the 1990s. By the mid 1990s, crime rates started to drop dramatically due to revised police strategies, improving economic opportunities, gentrification, and new residents, both American transplants and new immigrants from Asia and Latin America. Important new sectors, such as Silicon Alley, emerged in the city's economy. New York's population reached all-time highs in the 2000 Census and then again in the 2010 Census.

question: In what year did the population of New York first reach an all-time high in this period? 

answer: 2000

question: In what year did the population of New York reach an all-time high for the second time in this period? 

answer: 2010

question: What was the name of a new sector of the New York economy that appeared in the 1990s? 

answer: Silicon Alley

question: In what decade did the crime rate drop significantly? 

answer: 1990s

question: In what decade was there a significant decline in industrial jobs? 

answer: 1970s

question: Which decade did massive job losses happen in NYC due to industrial issues? 

answer: 1970s
Title: New_York_City
Context: The city and surrounding area suffered the bulk of the economic damage and largest loss of human life in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks when 10 of the 19 terrorists associated with Al-Qaeda piloted American Airlines Flight 11 into the North Tower of the World Trade Center and United Airlines Flight 175 into the South Tower of the World Trade Center, and later destroyed them, killing 2,192 civilians, 343 firefighters, and 71 law enforcement officers who were in the towers and in the surrounding area. The rebuilding of the area, has created a new One World Trade Center, and a 9/11 memorial and museum along with other new buildings and infrastructure. The World Trade Center PATH station, which opened on July 19, 1909 as the Hudson Terminal, was also destroyed in the attack. A temporary station was built and opened on November 23, 2003. A permanent station, the World Trade Center Transportation Hub, is currently under construction. The new One World Trade Center is the tallest skyscraper in the Western Hemisphere and the fourth-tallest building in the world by pinnacle height, with its spire reaching a symbolic 1,776 feet (541.3 m) in reference to the year of American independence.

question: What was the name of the aircraft that crashed into the World Trade Center's North Tower on September 11, 2001? 

answer: American Airlines Flight 11

question: What was the name of the aircraft that crashed into the World Trade Center's South Tower on September 11, 2001? 

answer: United Airlines Flight 175

question: How many firefighters died in the World Trade Center attack? 

answer: 343

question: On what date did the World Trade Center PATH begin operation? 

answer: July 19, 1909

question: How tall is One World Trade Center in meters? 

answer: 541.3

question: The Hudson Terminal which was also demolished was build in what year? 

answer: 1909

question: How many leader terrorists of Al Quada were involved with the 9/11 attacks directly that day? 

answer: 10

question: What was the plane named that crashed into the World Trade Center? 

answer: American Airlines Flight 11
Title: New_York_City
Context: The Occupy Wall Street protests in Zuccotti Park in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan began on September 17, 2011, receiving global attention and spawning the Occupy movement against social and economic inequality worldwide.

question: On what date did the Occupy Wall Street protests commence? 

answer: September 17, 2011

question: In what park did the Occupy Wall Street protests occur? 

answer: Zuccotti Park

question: In what borough did the Occupy Wall Street protests take place? 

answer: Manhattan

question: In what district of Manhattan were the Occupy Wall Street protests? 

answer: Financial District

question: The Occupy Wall Street protests that took place in Zuccotti Park was on which date? 

answer: September 17, 2011
Title: New_York_City
Context: When one Republican presidential candidate for the 2016 election ridiculed the liberalism of "New York values" in January 2016, Donald Trump, leading in the polls, vigorously defended his city. The National Review, a conservative magazine published in the city since its founding by William F. Buckley, Jr. in 1955, commented, "By hearkening back to New York's heart after 9/11, for a moment Trump transcended politics. How easily we forget, but for weeks after the terror attacks, New York was America."

question: What individual established the National Review? 

answer: William F. Buckley, Jr.

question: In what year was the National Review founded? 

answer: 1955

question: What public figure defended New York in January 2016? 

answer: Donald Trump

question: A presidential candidate from what party derided the city for its liberalism? 

answer: Republican
Title: New_York_City
Context: New York City is situated in the Northeastern United States, in southeastern New York State, approximately halfway between Washington, D.C. and Boston. The location at the mouth of the Hudson River, which feeds into a naturally sheltered harbor and then into the Atlantic Ocean, has helped the city grow in significance as a trading port. Most of New York City is built on the three islands of Long Island, Manhattan, and Staten Island.

question: In what geographical region of the United States is New York City located? 

answer: Northeastern

question: In what geographical region of New York state is New York City located? 

answer: southeastern

question: New York City is about half the distance between Washington DC and what city? 

answer: Boston

question: New York City is adjacent to what ocean? 

answer: Atlantic

question: What river is New York City located on? 

answer: Hudson River

question: New York City is at the base of which American river? 

answer: Hudson

question: The Hudson River flows into which body of water? 

answer: Atlantic Ocean

question: The three islands that make up New York city are named what? 

answer: Long Island, Manhattan, and Staten Island.