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Passage: The earliest signs were often not painted but consisted, for example, of paraphernalia connected with the brewing process such as bunches of hops or brewing implements, which were suspended above the door of the pub. In some cases local nicknames, farming terms and puns were used. Local events were often commemorated in pub signs. Simple natural or religious symbols such as 'The Sun', 'The Star' and 'The Cross' were incorporated into pub signs, sometimes being adapted to incorporate elements of the heraldry (e.g. the coat of arms) of the local lords who owned the lands upon which the pub stood. Some pubs have Latin inscriptions.

Question: Inscriptions from what language were sometimes present on pub signs?

Question: Along with The Star and The Sun, what was a typical symbol used on a pub sign?

Question: What graphic belonging to the local lord was sometimes incorporated on the pub sign?

Question: What plants were sometimes featured on pub signs?

Question: Local pub nicknames were often related to what profession?
Passage: Other subjects that lent themselves to visual depiction included the name of battles (e.g. Trafalgar), explorers, local notables, discoveries, sporting heroes and members of the royal family. Some pub signs are in the form of a pictorial pun or rebus. For example, a pub in Crowborough, East Sussex called The Crow and Gate has an image of a crow with gates as wings.

Question: What was an example of a battle that might lend itself to a pub name?

Question: What town is The Crow and Gate located in?

Question: What county is home to The Crow and Gate?

Question: Members of what family were sometimes used as pub names?
Passage: Most British pubs still have decorated signs hanging over their doors, and these retain their original function of enabling the identification of the pub. Today's pub signs almost always bear the name of the pub, both in words and in pictorial representation. The more remote country pubs often have stand-alone signs directing potential customers to their door.

Question: What hangs today over most British pub doors?

Question: What piece of information is almost always listed on a pub sign?

Question: What purpose do stand-alone signs serve for country pubs?
Passage: Pub names are used to identify and differentiate each pub. Modern names are sometimes a marketing ploy or attempt to create "brand awareness", frequently using a comic theme thought to be memorable, Slug and Lettuce for a pub chain being an example. Interesting origins are not confined to old or traditional names, however. Names and their origins can be broken up into a relatively small number of categories.

Question: What is an example of a memorable name for a pub chain?

Question: What sort of theme is thought memorable for modern pub names?

Question: What is the purpose of a pub name?
Passage: As many pubs are centuries old, many of their early customers were unable to read, and pictorial signs could be readily recognised when lettering and words could not be read.

Question: What type of pub signs were useful to an illiterate clientele?
Passage: Pubs often have traditional names. A common name is the "Marquis of Granby". These pubs were named after John Manners, Marquess of Granby, who was the son of John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland and a general in the 18th century British Army. He showed a great concern for the welfare of his men, and on their retirement, provided funds for many of them to establish taverns, which were subsequently named after him. All pubs granted their licence in 1780 were called the Royal George[citation needed], after King George III, and the twentieth anniversary of his coronation.

Question: After whom was the Marquis of Granby pub named?

Question: Who was the father of John Manners, Marquess of Granby?

Question: What was the military rank of the 3rd Duke of Rutland?

Question: In what century did the 3rd Duke of Rutland live?

Question: What were pubs licensed in 1780 named?
Passage: Many names for pubs that appear nonsensical may have come from corruptions of old slogans or phrases, such as "The Bag o'Nails" (Bacchanals), "The Goat and Compasses" (God Encompasseth Us), "The Cat and the Fiddle" (Chaton Fidèle: Faithful Kitten) and "The Bull and Bush", which purportedly celebrates the victory of Henry VIII at "Boulogne Bouche" or Boulogne-sur-Mer Harbour.

Question: The pub "The Bag o'Nails" was a corruption of what word?

Question: What phrase was "The Goat and Compasses" a corruption of?

Question: What does Chaton Fidèle mean in English?

Question: What location does Boulogne Bouche refer to?

Question: Who won a victory at Boulogne-sur-Mer Harbour?
Passage: 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Question: In what decade was Pub rock popular?
Passage: 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?

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

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

Question: What seafood can often be purchased in jars at pubs?
Passage: 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"?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Question: In what year was the term gastropub invented?

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

Question: In what city is the Eagle pub located?

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

Question: In what city is the George Inn located?

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

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

Question: What body maintains a National Inventory of notable pubs?
Passage: 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?

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

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

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

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

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

Question: Where is Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem located?

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

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

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

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

Question: In what county is the Bingley Arms located?

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

Question: Where is Ye Olde Salutation Inn located?

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

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

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

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

Question: What county is Stalybridge in?
Passage: 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?

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

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

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

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

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

Question: In what county was the Swan Inn located?

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

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

Question: What publishing house published An Innkeeper's Diary?
Passage: 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Question: Who owned the Punch Bowl with Guy Ritchie?

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

Question: What pub was visited by Freddie Mercury?
Passage: 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?

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

Question: Outside what pub was David Blakely shot?

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

Question: In what year did Joseph Stalin visit London?
Passage: 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?

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

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

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

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

Question: Where is the Eagle and Child located?

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

Question: Where is the Eagle pub located?

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

Question: What pub is featured on EastEnders?

Question: What channel is EastEnders broadcast on?

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

Question: What pub is featured on Emmerdale?