praj-17/QA-MCQ-Open-ended huggingface dataset:
Title: Montevideo
Context: The Rambla is an avenue that goes along the entire coastline of Montevideo. The literal meaning of the Spanish word rambla is "avenue" or "watercourse", but in the Americas it is mostly used as "coastal avenue", and since all the southern departments of Uruguay border either the Río de la Plata or the Atlantic Ocean, they all have ramblas as well. As an integral part of Montevidean identity, the Rambla has been included by Uruguay in the Indicative List of World Heritage sites, though it has not received this status. Previously, the entire Rambla was called Rambla Naciones Unidas ("United Nations"), but in recent times different names have been given to specific parts of it.

question: What avenue goes along the entire coastline of Montevideo? 

answer: The Rambla

question: Avenue or Watercourse is the literal meaning of what Spanish word? 

answer: rambla

question: In the Americas rambla is mostly used to refer to what? 

answer: "coastal avenue"
Title: Montevideo
Context: The largest cemetery is the Cementerio del Norte, located in the northern-central part of the city. The Central Cemetery (Spanish: Cementerio central), located in Barrio Sur in the southern area of the city, is one of Uruguay's main cemeteries. It was one of the first cemeteries (in contrast to church graveyards) in the country, founded in 1835 in a time where burials were still carried out by the Catholic Church. It is the burial place of many of the most famous Uruguayans, such as Eduardo Acevedo, Delmira Agustini, Luis Batlle Berres, José Batlle y Ordóñez, Juan Manuel Blanes, François Ducasse, father of Comte de Lautréamont (Isidore Ducasse), Luis Alberto de Herrera, Benito Nardone, José Enrique Rodó, and Juan Zorrilla de San Martín.

question: What is the largest cemetery? 

answer: Cementerio del Norte

question: Where is the Central Cemetery located? 

answer: Barrio Sur

question: What year was the Central Cemetery founded? 

answer: 1835
Title: Montevideo
Context: The other large cemeteries are the Cementerio del Buceo, Cementerio del Cerro, and Cementerio Paso Molino. The British Cemetery Montevideo (Cementerio Británico) is another of the oldest cemeteries in Uruguay, located in the Buceo neighborhood. Many noblemen and eminent persons are buried there. The cemetery originated when the Englishman Mr. Thomas Samuel Hood purchased a plot of land in the name of the English residents in 1828. However, in 1884 the government compensated the British by moving the cemetery to Buceo to accommodate city growth. A section of the cemetery, known as British Cemetery Montevideo Soldiers and Sailors, contains the graves of quite a number of sailors of different nationalities, although the majority are of British descent. One United States Marine, Henry de Costa, is buried here.

question: Where is the British Cemetery Montevideo located? 

answer: Buceo neighborhood

question: Who purchased a plot of land in the name of the English residents? 

answer: Mr. Thomas Samuel Hood

question: When did Mr. Thomas Samuel Hood purchase a plot of land at the British Cemetery Montevideo?  

answer: 1828

question: When did the government compensate the British by moving the cemetery to Buceo? 

answer: 1884
Title: Montevideo
Context: Montevideo has a very rich architectural heritage and an impressive number of writers, artists, and musicians. Uruguayan tango is a unique form of dance that originated in the neighbourhoods of Montevideo towards the end of the 1800s. Tango, candombe and murga are the three main styles of music in this city. The city is also the centre of the cinema of Uruguay, which includes commercial, documentary and experimental films. There are two movie theatre companies running seven cinemas, around ten independent ones and four art film cinemas in the city. The theatre of Uruguay is admired inside and outside Uruguayan borders. The Solís Theatre is the most prominent theatre in Uruguay and the oldest in South America. There are several notable theatrical companies and thousands of professional actors and amateurs. Montevideo playwrights produce dozens of works each year; of major note are Mauricio Rosencof, Ana Magnabosco and Ricardo Prieto.

question: What unique form of dance originated in the neighbourhods of Montevideo? 

answer: Uruguayan tango

question: Tango, candombe and murga are three main styles of what? 

answer: music

question: How many movie theater companies are there in Montevideo? 

answer: two

question: What is the most prominent theater in Uruguay? 

answer: The Solís Theatre
Title: Montevideo
Context: The first public library in Montevideo was formed by the initial donation of the private library of Father José Manuel Pérez Castellano, who died in 1815. Its promoter, director and organizer was Father Dámaso Antonio Larrañaga, who also made a considerable donation along with donations from José Raimundo Guerra, as well as others from the Convent of San Francisco in Salta. In 1816 its stock was 5,000 volumes.[citation needed] The current building of the National Library of Uruguay (Biblioteca Pública de Uruguay) was designed by Luis Crespi in the Neoclassical style and occupies an area of 4,000 square metres (43,000 sq ft). Construction began in 1926 and it was finally inaugurated in 1964. Its current collection amounts to roughly 900,000 volumes.

question: Who gave the initial donation of the private library? 

answer: Father José Manuel Pérez Castellano

question: When did Father Jose Manuel Perez Castellano die? 

answer: 1815

question: Who was the promoter, director and organizer of the first public library in Montevideo? 

answer: Father Dámaso Antonio Larrañaga
Title: Montevideo
Context: In Montevideo, as throughout the Rio de Plata region, the most popular forms of music are tango, milonga and vals criollo. Many notable songs originated in Montevideo including "El Tango supremo", La Cumparsita", La Milonga", "La Puñalada" and "Desde el Alma", composed by notable Montevideo musicians such as Gerardo Matos Rodríguez, Pintín Castellanos and Rosita Melo. Tango is deeply ingrained in the cultural life of the city and is the theme for many of the bars and restaurants in the city. Fun Fun' Bar, established in 1935, is one of the most important places for tango in Uruguay as is El Farolito, located in the old part of the city and Joventango, Café Las Musas, Garufa and Vieja Viola. The city is also home to the Montevideo Jazz Festival and has the Bancaria Jazz Club bar catering for jazz enthusiasts.

question: Tango, milonga and vals criollo are the most popular forms of music in what region? 

answer: Rio de Plata region

question: When was Fun Fun Bar established? 

answer: 1935

question: Where is El Farolito located? 

answer: the old part of the city
Title: Montevideo
Context: In the early 1970s (1973, to be particular) when the military junta took over power in Uruguay, art suffered in Montevideo. The art studios went into protest mode, with Rimer Cardillo, one of the country's leading artists, making the National Institute of Fine Arts, Montevideo a "hotbed of resistance". This resulted in the military junta coming down heavily on artists by closing the Fine Art Institute and carting away all the presses and other studio equipment. Consequently, the learning of fine arts was only in private studios run by people who had been let out of jail, in works of printing and on paper and also painting and sculpture. It resumed much later.

question: What suffered when the military junta took over power in Uruguay? 

answer: art

question: Rimer Cardillo was one of the country's leading what? 

answer: artists

question: Who made the National Institute of Fine Arts? 

answer: Rimer Cardillo
Title: Montevideo
Context: The Montevideo Cabildo was the seat of government during the colonial times of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata. It is located in front of Constitution Square, in Ciudad Vieja. Built between 1804 and 1869 in Neoclassical style, with a series of Doric and Ionic columns, it became a National Heritage Site in 1975. In 1958, the Municipal Historic Museum and Archive was inaugurated here. It features three permanent city museum exhibitions, as well as temporary art exhibitions, cultural events, seminars, symposiums and forums.

question: What was the seat of government during the colonial times of the Viceroyalty of the Rio de la Plata? 

answer: The Montevideo Cabildo

question: Where is the Montevideo Cabildo located? 

answer: front of Constitution Square

question: Between what years was the Montevideo Cabildo built? 

answer: between 1804 and 1869

question: What style was the Montevideo Cabildo? 

answer: Neoclassical style

question: When did the Montevideo Cabildo become a National Heritage Site? 

answer: 1975.
Title: Montevideo
Context: The Palacio Taranco is located in front of the Plaza Zabala, in the heart of Ciudad Vieja. It was erected in the early 20th century as the residence of the Ortiz Taranco brothers on the ruins of Montevideo's first theatre (of 1793), during a period in which the architectural style was influenced by French architecture. The palace was designed by French architects Charles Louis Girault and Jules Chifflot León who also designed the Petit Palais and the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. It passed to the city from the heirs of the Tarancos in 1943, along with its precious collection of Uruguayan furniture and draperies and was deemed by the city as an ideal place for a museum; in 1972 it became the Museum of Decorative Arts of Montevideo and in 1975 it became a National Heritage Site. The Decorative Arts Museum has an important collection of European paintings and decorative arts, ancient Greek and Roman art and Islamic ceramics of the 10th–18th century from the area of present-day Iran. The palace is often used as a meeting place by the Uruguayan government.

question: Where is the Palacio Taranco located? 

answer: the heart of Ciudad Vieja

question: When was the Palacio Taranco erected? 

answer: early 20th century

question: The Palacio Taranco was erected to be the residence for whom? 

answer: Ortiz Taranco brothers

question: Who designed the Palacio Taranco? 

answer: French architects Charles Louis Girault and Jules Chifflot León
Title: Montevideo
Context: The National History Museum of Montevideo is located in the historical residence of General Fructuoso Rivera. It exhibits artifacts related to the history of Uruguay. In a process begun in 1998, the National Museum of Natural History (1837) and the National Museum of Anthropology (1981), merged in 2001, becoming the National Museum of Natural History and Anthropology. In July 2009, the two institutions again became independent. The Historical Museum has annexed eight historical houses in the city, five of which are located in the Ciudad Vieja. One of them, on the same block with the main building, is the historic residence of Antonio Montero, which houses the Museo Romantico.

question: The National History Museum of Montevideo is located where? 

answer: the historical residence of General Fructuoso Rivera

question: What houses the Museo Romantico? 

answer: Antonio Montero

question: How many houses has the Historical Museum annexed? 

answer: eight
Title: Montevideo
Context: The Museo Torres García is located in the Old Town, and exhibits Joaquín Torres García's unusual portraits of historical icons and cubist paintings akin to those of Picasso and Braque. The museum was established by Manolita Piña Torres, the widow of Torres Garcia, after his death in 1949. She also set up the García Torres Foundation, a private non-profit organization that organizes the paintings, drawings, original writings, archives, objects and furniture designed by the painter as well as the photographs, magazines and publications related to him.

question: The Museo Torres Garcia is located where? 

answer: the Old Town

question: The Museo Torres Garcia exhibits whose unusual portraits?  

answer: Joaquín Torres García

question: Who established The Museo Torres Garcia? 

answer: Manolita Piña Torres

question: Manolita Pina Torres was the widow of who? 

answer: Torres Garcia
Title: Montevideo
Context: There are several other important art museums in Montevideo. The National Museum of Visual Arts in Parque Rodó has Uruguay's largest collection of paintings. The Juan Manuel Blanes Museum was founded in 1930, the 100th anniversary of the first Constitution of Uruguay, significant with regard to the fact that Juan Manuel Blanes painted Uruguayan patriotic themes. In back of the museum is a beautiful Japanese Garden with a pond where there are over a hundred carp. The Museo de Historia del Arte, located in the Palacio Municipal, features replicas of ancient monuments and exhibits a varied collection of artifacts from Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, Greece, Rome and Native American cultures including local finds of the pre-Columbian period. The Museo Municipal Precolombino y Colonial, in the Ciudad Vieja, has preserved collections of the archaeological finds from excavations carried out by Uruguayan archaeologist Antonio Taddei. These antiquaries are exhibits of pre-Columbian art of Latin America, painting and sculpture from the 17th and 18th century mostly from Mexico, Peru and Brazil. The Museo de Arte Contempo has small but impressive exhibits of modern Uruguayan painting and sculpture.

question: Where is the National Museum of Visual Arts located? 

answer: Parque Rodó

question: What does the National Museum of Visual Arts have the largest collection of in Uruguay? 

answer: paintings

question: When was the Juan Manuel Blanes Museum founded? 

answer: 1930

question: Who painted Uruguayan patriotic themes? 

answer: Juan Manuel Blanes

question: Where is the Museo de Historia del Arte located? 

answer: the Palacio Municipal
Title: Montevideo
Context: There are also other types of museums in the city. The Museo del Gaucho y de la Moneda, located in the Centro, has distinctive displays of the historical culture of Uruguay's gauchos, their horse gear, silver work and mate (tea), gourds, and bombillas (drinking straws) in odd designs. The Museo Naval, is located on the eastern waterfront in Buceo and offers exhibits depicting the maritime history of Uruguay. The Museo del Automóvil, belonging to the Automobile Club of Uruguay, has a rich collection of vintage cars which includes a 1910 Hupmobile. The Museo y Parque Fernando García in Carrasco, a transport and automobile museum, includes old horse carriages and some early automobiles. The Castillo Pittamiglio, with an unusual façade, highlights the eccentric legacy of Humberto Pittamiglio, local alchemist and architect.

question: Where is the Museo de Guacho y de la Moneda located? 

answer: the Centro

question: What are bombillas? 

answer: (drinking straws

question: Where is the Museo Naval located? 

answer: the eastern waterfront in Buceo

question: Where is the Museo y Parque Fernando Garcia located? 

answer: Carrasco
Title: Montevideo
Context: The center of traditional Uruguayan food and beverage in Montevideo is the Mercado del Puerto ("Port Market"). A torta frita is a pan-fried cake consumed in Montevideo and throughout Uruguay. It is generally circular, with a small cut in the centre for cooking, and is made from wheat flour, yeast, water and sugar or salt. Beef is very important in Uruguayan cuisine and an essential part of many dishes. Montevideo has a variety of restaurants, from traditional Uruguayan cuisine to Japanese cuisine such as sushi. Notable restaurants in Montevideo include Arcadia atop the Plaza Victoria, widely regarded to be the finest restaurant in the city. Arcadia is set in a classic Italian-inspired dining room and serves lavish dishes such as terrine of pheasant marinated in cognac, grilled lamb glazed with mint and garlic, and duck confit on thin strudel pastry with red cabbage. El Fogon is more popular with the late-night diners of the city. Its interior is brightly lit and the walls covered with big mirrors. Officially a barbecue and seafood restaurant, it serves grilled meat dishes, as well as salmon, shrimp and calamari. Also of note is the Cru. Numerous restaurants are located along the Rambla of Montevideo. There is an Irish pub in the eastern part of the Old District named Shannon Irish pub, another testament to the European heritage of the city.

question: What is the center of traditional Uruguayan food and beverage in Montevideo? 

answer: the Mercado del Puerto

question: What is a torta frita? 

answer: a pan-fried cake

question: Where is Arcadia located? 

answer: atop the Plaza Victoria

question: Where is Shannon Irish pub located? 

answer: the eastern part of the Old District
Title: Montevideo
Context: As the capital of Uruguay, Montevideo is home to a number of festivals and carnivals including a Gaucho festival when people ride through the streets on horseback in traditional gaucho gear. The major annual festival is the annual Montevideo Carnaval which is part of the national festival of Carnival Week, celebrated throughout Uruguay, with central activities in the capital, Montevideo. Officially, the public holiday lasts for two days on Carnival Monday and Shrove Tuesday preceding Ash Wednesday, but due to the prominence of the festival, most shops and businesses close for the entire week. During carnival there are many open-air stage performances and competitions and the streets and houses are vibrantly decorated. "Tablados" or popular scenes, both fixed and movable, are erected in the whole city. Notable displays include "Desfile de las Llamadas" ("Parade of the Calls"), which is a grand united parade held on the south part of downtown, where it used to be a common ritual back in the early 20th century. Due to the scale of the festival, preparation begins as early as December with an election of the "zonal beauty queens" to appear in the carnival.

question: What is the major annual festival in Montevideo? 

answer: the annual Montevideo Carnaval

question: What is the annual Montevideo Carnaval part of? 

answer: the national festival of Carnival Week

question: What does Tablados mean? 

answer: popular scenes

question: What does Desfile de las Llamadas mean? 

answer: Parade of the Calls
Title: Montevideo
Context: Church and state are officially separated since 1916 in Uruguay. The religion with most followers in Montevideo is Roman Catholicism and has been so since the foundation of the city. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Montevideo was created as the Apostolic Vicariate of Montevideo in 1830. The vicariate was promoted to the Diocese of Montevideo on 13 July 1878. Pope Leo XIII elevated it to the rank of a metropolitan archdiocese on 14 April 1897. The new archdiocese became the Metropolitan of the suffragan sees of Canelones, Florida, Maldonado–Punta del Este, Melo, Mercedes, Minas, Salto, San José de Mayo, Tacuarembó.

question: Church and state have been officially separated in Uruguay since what year? 

answer: 1916

question: What religion has the most followers in Montevideo? 

answer: Roman Catholicism

question: When was the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Montevideo created? 

answer: 1830
Title: Montevideo
Context: Nuestra Señora del Sagrado Corazón ("Our Lady of the Sacred Heart"), also known as Iglesia Punta Carretas ("Punta Carretas Church"), was built between 1917 and 1927 in the Romanesque Revival style. The church was originally part of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, but is presently in the parish of the Ecclesiastic Curia. Its location is at the corner of Solano García and José Ellauri. It has a nave and aisles. The roof has many vaults. During the construction of the Punta Carretas Shopping complex, major cracks developed in the structure of the church as a result of differential foundation settlement.

question: What does Nuestra Senora del Sagrado Corazon mean? 

answer: Our Lady of the Sacred Heart

question: What does Iglesia Punta Carretas mean? 

answer: Punta Carretas Church

question: Between what years was the Iglesia Punta Carretas built? 

answer: between 1917 and 1927

question: What stle was the Iglesia Punta Carretas built in? 

answer: Romanesque Revival style
Title: Montevideo
Context: The University of the Republic is the country's largest and most important university, with a student body of 81,774, according to the census of 2007. It was founded on 18 July 1849 in Montevideo, where most of its buildings and facilities are still located. Its current Rector is Dr. Rodrigo Arocena. The university houses 14 faculties (departments) and various institutes and schools. Many eminent Uruguayans have graduated from this university, including Carlos Vaz Ferreira, José Luis Massera, Gabriel Paternain, Mario Wschebor, Roman Fresnedo Siri, Carlos Ott and Eladio Dieste

question: What is the country's largest university?  

answer: The University of the Republic

question: In 2007 the University of the Republic had a student body of how many people? 

answer: 81,774

question: When was the University of the Republic founded? 

answer: 18 July 1849

question: Who is the current rector of The University of the Republic? 

answer: Dr. Rodrigo Arocena
Title: Montevideo
Context: The process of founding the country's public university began on 11 June 1833 with the passage of a law proposed by Senator Dámaso Antonio Larrañaga. It called for the creation of nine academic departments; the President of the Republic would pass a decree formally creating the departments once the majority of them were in operation. In 1836, the House of General Studies was formed, housing the departments of Latin, philosophy, mathematics, theology and jurisprudence. On 27 May 1838, Manuel Oribe passed a decree establishing the Greater University of the Republic. That decree had few practical effects, given the institutional instability of the Oriental Republic of the Uruguay at that time.

question: When did the process of funding the country's public university begin? 

answer: 11 June 1833

question: Who proposed the law that began the process of funding the country's public university? 

answer: Senator Dámaso Antonio Larrañaga

question: When was the House of General Studies formed? 

answer: 1836

question: When did Manuel Oribe pass a decree establishing the Greater University of the Republic? 

answer: 27 May 1838
Title: Montevideo
Context: The largest private university in Uruguay, is also located in Montevideo. ORT Uruguay was first established as a non-profit organization in 1942, and was officially certified as a private university in September 1996, becoming the second private educational institution in the country to achieve that status.[citation needed] It is a member of World ORT, an international educational network founded in 1880 by the Jewish community in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The university has about 8,000 students, distributed among 5 faculties and institutes, mainly geared towards the sciences and technology/engineering. Its current rector as of 2010[update] is Dr. Jorge A. Grünberg.

question: What is the largest private university in Uruguay? 

answer: ORT Uruguay

question: When was ORT Uruguay established? 

answer: 1942

question: When was ORT Uruguay officially certified as a private university? 

answer: September 1996

question: How many students does the ORT Uruguay university have? 

answer: about 8,000