Answer: Alfred Drury

Context: Prince Albert appears within the main arch above the twin entrances, Queen Victoria above the frame around the arches and entrance, sculpted by Alfred Drury. These façades surround four levels of galleries. Other areas designed by Webb include the Entrance Hall and Rotunda, the East and West Halls, the areas occupied by the shop and Asian Galleries as well as the Costume Gallery. The interior makes much use of marble in the entrance hall and flanking staircases, although the galleries as originally designed were white with restrained classical detail and mouldings, very much in contrast to the elaborate decoration of the Victorian galleries, although much of this decoration was removed in the early 20th century.

Question: Who sculpted the representations of Prince Albert and Queen Victoria found in the main entrance?


Answer: four

Question: How many levels of galleries do the façades surround?


Answer: Alfred Drury

Question: Who designed the Entrance Hall and Rotunda?


Answer: marble

Question: What building material does the entrance hall and flanking staircases use predominantly?


Answer: Queen Victoria

Question: Which British monarch appears above the frame around the arches and entrance?


Answer: Art Library

Context: In the immediate post-war years there was little money available for other than essential repairs. The 1950s and early 1960s saw little in the way of building work; the first major work was the creation of new storage space for books in the Art Library in 1966 and 1967. This involved flooring over Aston Webb's main hall to form the book stacks, with a new medieval gallery on the ground floor (now the shop, opened in 2006). Then the lower ground-floor galleries in the south-west part of the museum were redesigned, opening in 1978 to form the new galleries covering Continental art 1600–1800 (late Renaissance, Baroque through Rococo and neo-Classical). In 1974 the museum had acquired what is now the Henry Cole wing from the Royal College of Science. In order to adapt the building as galleries, all the Victorian interiors except for the staircase were recast during the remodelling. To link this to the rest of the museum, a new entrance building was constructed on the site of the former boiler house, the intended site of the Spiral, between 1978 and 1982. This building is of concrete and very functional, the only embellishment being the iron gates by Christopher Hay and Douglas Coyne of the Royal College of Art. These are set in the columned screen wall designed by Aston Webb that forms the façade.

Question: Which part of the museum received the first major post-war work?


Answer: Henry Cole wing

Question: What did the museum acquire from the Royal College of Science?


Answer: a new entrance building

Question: What was constructed between 1978 and 1982 to link the Henry Cole wing to the rest of the museum?


Answer: Christopher Hay and Douglas Coyne

Question: Who designed the iron gates that decorate the new entrance building?


Answer: the Spiral

Question: What was intended for the site of the former boiler house?


Answer: main silverware gallery

Context: A few galleries were redesigned in the 1990s including the Indian, Japanese, Chinese, iron work, the main glass galleries and the main silverware gallery which was further enhanced in 2002 when some of the Victorian decoration was recreated. This included two of the ten columns having their ceramic decoration replaced and the elaborate painted designs restored on the ceiling. As part of the 2006 renovation the mosaic floors in the sculpture gallery were restored—most of the Victorian floors were covered in linoleum after the Second World War. After the success of the British Galleries, opened in 2001, it was decided to embark on a major redesign of all the galleries in the museum; this is known as "FuturePlan", and was created in consultation with the exhibition designers and masterplanners Metaphor. The plan is expected to take about ten years and was started in 2002. To date several galleries have been redesigned, notably, in 2002: the main Silver Gallery, Contemporary; in 2003: Photography, the main entrance, The Painting Galleries; in 2004: the tunnel to the subway leading to South Kensington tube station, New signage throughout the museum, architecture, V&A and RIBA reading rooms and stores, metalware, Members' Room, contemporary glass, the Gilbert Bayes sculpture gallery; in 2005: portrait miniatures, prints and drawings, displays in Room 117, the garden, sacred silver and stained glass; in 2006: Central Hall Shop, Islamic Middle East, the new café, sculpture galleries. Several designers and architects have been involved in this work. Eva Jiřičná designed the enhancements to the main entrance and rotunda, the new shop, the tunnel and the sculpture galleries. Gareth Hoskins was responsible for contemporary and architecture, Softroom, Islamic Middle East and the Members' Room, McInnes Usher McKnight Architects (MUMA) were responsible for the new Cafe and designed the new Medieval and Renaissance galleries which opened in 2009.

Question: Which gallery was redesigned in the 1990s and later improved in 2002?


Answer: mosaic floors

Question: What was restored in the sculpture gallery during its renovated in 2006?


Answer: FuturePlan

Question: What was the title given to the major project to redesign all the galleries in the museum?


Answer: South Kensington

Question: A subway tunnel from the museum leads to which tube station?


Answer: McInnes Usher McKnight Architects

Question: Who designed the new Medieval and Renaissance galleries which opened in 2009?


Answer: Kim Wilkie

Context: The central garden was redesigned by Kim Wilkie and opened as the John Madejski Garden, on 5 July 2005. The design is a subtle blend of the traditional and modern, the layout is formal; there is an elliptical water feature lined in stone with steps around the edge which may be drained to use the area for receptions, gatherings or exhibition purposes. This is in front of the bronze doors leading to the refreshment rooms, a central path flanked by lawns leads to the sculpture gallery; the north, east and west sides have herbaceous borders along the museum walls with paths in front which continues along the south façade; in the two corners by the north façade there is planted an American Sweetgum tree; the southern, eastern and western edges of the lawns have glass planters which contain orange and lemon trees in summer, these are replaced by bay trees in winter.

Question: Who redesigned the central garden?


Answer: John Madejski Garden

Question: The redesigned central garden opened in 2005 with what new moniker?


Answer: elliptical

Question: What shape is the water feature in the John Madejski Garden?


Answer: receptions, gatherings or exhibition purposes

Question: The steps around the water feature can be drained for what uses?


Answer: American Sweetgum

Question: Which tree species is planted in the two corners by the north facade?


Answer: 2004

Context: In 2004, the V&A alongside Royal Institute of British Architects opened the first permanent gallery in the UK covering the history of architecture with displays using models, photographs, elements from buildings and original drawings. With the opening of the new gallery, the RIBA Drawings and Archives Collection has been transferred to the museum, joining the already extensive collection held by the V&A. With over 600,000 drawings, over 750,000 papers and paraphernalia, and over 700,000 photographs from around the world, together they form the world's most comprehensive architectural resource.

Question: In which year did the V&A opened the first permanent architectural history gallery in the UK?


Answer: Royal Institute of British Architects

Question: Which institution did the V&A partnered with to open the first permanent architectural history gallery in the UK?


Answer: over 600,000

Question: Approximately how many architectural drawings does the V&A hold in its collection?


Answer: RIBA Drawings and Archives Collection

Question: What collection was transferred to the museum when the new architectural history gallery opened?


Answer: over 700,000

Question: Approximately how many architectural photographs does the V&A hold in its collection?


Answer: Andrea Palladio

Context: Not only are all the major British architects of the last four hundred years represented, but many European (especially Italian) and American architects' drawings are held in the collection. The RIBA's holdings of over 330 drawings by Andrea Palladio are the largest in the world, other Europeans well represented are Jacques Gentilhatre and Antonio Visentini. British architects whose drawings, and in some cases models of their buildings, in the collection, include: Inigo Jones, Sir Christopher Wren, Sir John Vanbrugh, Nicholas Hawksmoor, William Kent, James Gibbs, Robert Adam, Sir William Chambers, James Wyatt, Henry Holland, John Nash, Sir John Soane, Sir Charles Barry, Charles Robert Cockerell, Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, Sir George Gilbert Scott, John Loughborough Pearson, George Edmund Street, Richard Norman Shaw, Alfred Waterhouse, Sir Edwin Lutyens, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Charles Holden, Frank Hoar, Lord Richard Rogers, Lord Norman Foster, Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, Zaha Hadid and Alick Horsnell.

Question: The RIBA's drawing collection of what Italian architect is considered the largest in the world?


Answer: Zaha Hadid

Question: Which lone female architect listed above is represented in the collection?


Answer: over 330

Question: Approximately how many drawings of the Italian architect Andrea Palladio is in the RIBA collection?


Answer: Sir Christopher Wren

Question: Which architect, famous for designing London's St. Paul Cathedral, is represented in the RIBA collection?


Answer: Sir Edwin Lutyens

Question: Which architect, famous for the India Gate in New Delhi, is represented in the RIBA collection?


Answer: Bishopsgate

Context: As well as period rooms, the collection includes parts of buildings, for example the two top stories of the facade of Sir Paul Pindar's house dated c1600 from Bishopsgate with elaborately carved wood work and leaded windows, a rare survivor of the Great Fire of London, there is a brick portal from a London house of the English Restoration period and a fireplace from the gallery of Northumberland house. European examples include a dormer window dated 1523–35 from the chateau of Montal. There are several examples from Italian Renaissance buildings including, portals, fireplaces, balconies and a stone buffet that used to have a built in fountain. The main architecture gallery has a series of pillars from various buildings and different periods, for example a column from the Alhambra. Examples covering Asia are in those galleries concerned with those countries, as well as models and photographs in the main architecture gallery.

Question: Which part of London was Sir Paul Pindar's house, whose façade now resides in the V&A collection, located?


Answer: Great Fire of London

Question: Sir Paul Pindar's house survived which 17th century disaster?


Answer: c1600

Question: When is Sir Pindar's house dated?


Answer: Montal

Question: Included in the V&A collection is dormer window dated 1523-35 from which European chateau?


Answer: Alhambra

Question: A column from which Moorish palace and fortress complex in Granada, Spain, is included in the V&A collection?


Answer: over 19,000

Context: The V&A holds over 19,000 items from the Islamic world, ranging from the early Islamic period (the 7th century) to the early 20th century. The Jameel Gallery of Islamic Art, opened in 2006, houses a representative display of 400 objects with the highlight being the Ardabil Carpet, the centrepiece of the gallery. The displays in this gallery cover objects from Spain, North Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia and Afghanistan. A masterpiece of Islamic art is a 10th-century Rock crystal ewer. Many examples of Qur'āns with exquisite calligraphy dating from various periods are on display. A 15th-century minbar from a Cairo mosque with ivory forming complex geometrical patterns inlaid in wood is one of the larger objects on display. Extensive examples of ceramics especially Iznik pottery, glasswork including 14th-century lamps from mosques and metalwork are on display. The collection of Middle Eastern and Persian rugs and carpets is amongst the finest in the world, many were part of the Salting Bequest of 1909. Examples of tile work from various buildings including a fireplace dated 1731 from Istanbul made of intricately decorated blue and white tiles and turquoise tiles from the exterior of buildings from Samarkand are also displayed.

Question: Approximately how many items from the Islamic world are held in the V&A collection?


Answer: 2006

Question: In which year did the Jameel Gallery of Islamic Art opened?


Answer: Ardabil Carpet

Question: What is considered the centerpiece of the Jameel Gallery of Islamic Art?


Answer: Spain

Question: Some of the objects held in the Jameel Gallery of Islamic Art come from which European country?


Answer: 1909

Question: In which year was the Salting Bequest?


Answer: nearly 60,000

Context: The Museum's collections of South and South-East Asian art are the most comprehensive and important in the West comprising nearly 60,000 objects, including about 10,000 textiles and 6000 paintings, the range of the collection is immense. The Jawaharlal Nehru gallery of Indian art, opened in 1991, contains art from about 500 BC to the 19th century. There is an extensive collection of sculpture, mainly of a religious nature, Hindu, Buddhist and Jain. The gallery is richly endowed with art of the Mughal Empire and the Marathas, including fine portraits of the emperors and other paintings and drawings, jade wine cups and gold spoons inset with emeralds, diamonds and rubies, also from this period are parts of buildings such as a jaali and pillars. India was a large producer of textiles, from dyed cotton chintz, muslin to rich embroidery work using gold and silver thread, coloured sequins and beads is displayed, as are carpets from Agra and Lahore. Examples of clothing are also displayed.

Question: Approximately how many objects comprise the museum's collections of South and South-East Asian art?


Answer: about 10,000

Question: Approximately how many textiles comprise the museum's collections of South and South-East Asian art?


Answer: 6000

Question: Approximately how many paintings comprise the museum's collections of South and South-East Asian art?


Answer: 1991

Question: In which year did the gallery of Indian art open?


Answer: Jawaharlal Nehru

Question: Who is the gallery of Indian art named after?


Answer: more than 70,000

Context: The Far Eastern collections include more than 70,000 works of art from the countries of East Asia: China, Japan and Korea. The T. T. Tsui Gallery of Chinese art opened in 1991, displaying a representative collection of the V&As approximately 16,000 objects from China, dating from the 4th millennium BC to the present day. Though the majority of art works on display date from the Ming and Qing dynasties, there are exquisite examples of objects dating from the Tang dynasty and earlier periods. Notably, a metre-high bronze head of the Buddha dated to c.750 AD and one of the oldest items a 2,000-year-old jade horse head from a burial, other sculptures include life-size tomb guardians. Classic examples of Chinese manufacturing are displayed that include lacquer, silk, porcelain, jade and cloisonné enamel. Two large ancestor portraits of a husband and wife painted in watercolour on silk date from the 18th century. There is a unique Chinese lacquerware table, made in the imperial workshops during the reign of the Xuande Emperor in the Ming dynasty. Examples of clothing are also displayed. One of the largest objects is a bed from the mid-17th century. The work of contemporary Chinese designers is also displayed.

Question: Approximately how many works of art are included in the Far Eastern collections?


Answer: China, Japan and Korea

Question: Which countries are represented in the Far Eastern collections?


Answer: The T. T. Tsui Gallery

Question: What is the name of the gallery devoted to Chinese art?


Answer: 1991

Question: In which year did the gallery devoted to Chinese art open?


Answer: Ming and Qing

Question: Most of the Chinese works of art in the Far Eastern collections date from which two dynasties?


Answer: Toshiba

Context: The Toshiba gallery of Japanese art opened in December 1986. The majority of exhibits date from 1550 to 1900, but one of the oldest pieces displayed is the 13th-century sculpture of Amida Nyorai. Examples of classic Japanese armour from the mid-19th century, steel sword blades (Katana), Inrō, lacquerware including the Mazarin Chest dated c1640 is one of the finest surviving pieces from Kyoto, porcelain including Imari, Netsuke, woodblock prints including the work of Ando Hiroshige, graphic works include printed books, as well as a few paintings, scrolls and screens, textiles and dress including kimonos are some of the objects on display. One of the finest objects displayed is Suzuki Chokichi's bronze incense burner (koro) dated 1875, standing at over 2.25 metres high and 1.25 metres in diameter it is also one of the largest examples made. The museum also holds some cloisonné pieces from the Japanese art production company, Ando Cloisonné.

Question: Which company is the gallery of Japanese art named after?


Answer: 1986

Question: In which year did the gallery of Japanese art open?


Answer: 13th

Question: The sculpture of Amida Nyorai that is included in the V&A's Japanese art collection is dated to which century?


Answer: from 1550 to 1900

Question: Most of the objects in the Japanese art collection is dated to which time period?


Answer: bronze

Question: Suzuki Chokichi's incense burner dated 1875 is made of what from material?


Answer: from the 14th to the 19th century

Context: The smaller galleries cover Korea, the Himalayan kingdoms and South East Asia. Korean displays include green-glazed ceramics, silk embroideries from officials' robes and gleaming boxes inlaid with mother-of-pearl made between 500 AD and 2000. Himalayan items include important early Nepalese bronze sculptures, repoussé work and embroidery. Tibetan art from the 14th to the 19th century is represented by notable 14th- and 15th-century religious images in wood and bronze, scroll paintings and ritual objects. Art from Thailand, Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia and Sri Lanka in gold, silver, bronze, stone, terracotta and ivory represents these rich and complex cultures, the displays span the 6th to 19th centuries. Refined Hindu and Buddhist sculptures reflect the influence of India; items on show include betel-nut cutters, ivory combs and bronze palanquin hooks.

Question: Tibetan art from which period is represented in the V&A collection?


Answer: Sri Lanka

Question: Which South Asian island nation is represented in the V&A collection?


Answer: Hindu and Buddhist sculptures

Question: The influence of India can be seen in which religious art objects from Thailand, Burma and Cambodia?


Answer: mother-of-pearl

Question: Some of the museum's collection of Korean boxes are inlaid with what objects?


Answer: ivory

Question: Some of the combs in the V&A collection of South East Asian art is made of what material?


Answer: Leonardo da Vinci

Context: One of the great treasures in the library is the Codex Forster, some of Leonardo da Vinci's note books. The Codex consists of three parchment-bound manuscripts, Forster I, Forster II, and Forster III, quite small in size, dated between 1490 and 1505. Their contents include a large collection of sketches and references to the equestrian sculpture commissioned by the Duke of Milan Ludovico Sforza to commemorate his father Francesco Sforza. These were bequeathed with over 18,000 books to the museum in 1876 by John Forster. The Reverend Alexander Dyce was another benefactor of the library, leaving over 14,000 books to the museum in 1869. Amongst the books he collected are early editions in Greek and Latin of the poets and playwrights Aeschylus, Aristotle, Homer, Livy, Ovid, Pindar, Sophocles and Virgil. More recent authors include Giovanni Boccaccio, Dante, Racine, Rabelais and Molière.

Question: The Codex Forster is a collection of notebooks by which famous Italian Renaissance polymath?


Answer: Forster I, Forster II, and Forster III

Question: What are the three parchment-bound manuscripts of the Codex Forster called?


Answer: over 14,000

Question: Approximately how books did Alexander Dyce bequeathed to the museum?


Answer: 1869

Question: In which year did Alexander Dyce bequeathed his books to the museum?


Answer: 1876

Question: In which year did John Forster bequeathed his large collection of books to the museum?


Answer: Charles Dickens

Context: Writers whose papers are in the library are as diverse as Charles Dickens and Beatrix Potter. Illuminated manuscripts in the library dating from the 12th to 16th centuries include: the Eadwine Psalter[citation needed], Canterbury; Pocket Book of Hours, Reims; Missal from the Royal Abbey of Saint Denis, Paris; the Simon Marmion Book of Hours, Bruges; 1524 Charter illuminated by Lucas Horenbout, London; the Armagnac manuscript of the trial and rehabilitation of Joan of Arc, Rouen. also the Victorian period is represented by William Morris.

Question: The papers of which famous English Victorian author are collected in the library?


Answer: Beatrix Potter

Question: The papers of which famous English writer of children's books such as The Tale of Peter Rabbit are collected in the museum?


Answer: from the 12th to 16th

Question: The V&A library's collection of illuminated manuscripts are dated to which centuries?


Answer: the trial and rehabilitation of Joan of Arc

Question: What does the Armagnac manuscript in the V&A library archive depict?


Answer: Lucas Horenbout

Question: Who produced the illumination for the 1524 Charter that is in the V&A library archive?


Answer: Word and Image Department

Context: The National Art Library (also called Word and Image Department) at the Victoria and Albert Museum collection catalog used to be kept in different formats including printed exhibit catalogs, and card catalogs. A computer system called MODES cataloging system was used from the 1980s to the 1990s, but those electronic files were not available to the library users. All of the archival material at the National Art Library is using Encoded Archival Description (EAD). The Victoria and Albert Museum has a computer system but most of the items in the collection, unless those were newly accessioned into the collection, probably do not show up in the computer system. There is a feature on the Victoria and Albert Museum web-site called "Search the Collections," but not everything is listed there.

Question: The National Art Library at the V&A is known by what other name?


Answer: MODES

Question: What cataloging system was used by the National Art Library from the 1980s to the 1990s?


Answer: Encoded Archival Description

Question: What archival system is used for all material at the National Art Library?


Answer: newly accessioned into the collection

Question: What type of item is the mostly likely to show in the V&A computer system?


Answer: Search the Collections

Question: What is the search feature on the V&A website called?


Answer: 2007

Context: The Victoria and Albert Museum’s Word and Image Department was under the same pressure being felt in archives around the world, to digitize their collection. A large scale digitization project began in 2007 in that department. That project was entitled the Factory Project to reference Andy Warhol and to create a factory to completely digitize the collection. The first step of the Factory Project was to take photographs utilizing digital cameras. The Word and Image Department had a collection of old photos but they were in black and white and in variant conditions, so new photos were shot. Those new photographs will be accessible to researchers to the Victoria and Albert Museum web-site. 15,000 images were taken during the first year of the Factory Project, including drawings, watercolors, computer-generated art, photographs, posters, and woodcuts. The second step of the Factory Project is to catalog everything. The third step of the Factory Project is to audit the collection. All of those items which were photographed and cataloged, must be audited to make sure everything listed as being in the collection was physically found during the creation of the Factory Project. The fourth goal of the Factory Project is conservation, which means performing some basic preventable procedures to those items in the department. There is a "Search the Collections" feature on the Victoria and Albert web-site. The main impetus behind the large-scale digitization project called the Factory Project was to list more items in the collections in those computer databases.

Question: In which year did the V&A's Word and Image Department began a large scale digitization project?


Answer: Factory Project

Question: What was the digitization project called?


Answer: Andy Warhol

Question: The title of the digitization project was a reference to which artist?


Answer: 15,000

Question: Approximately how many images were digitized during the first year of the digitization project?


Answer: to catalog everything

Question: What is the second phase of the digitization project?


Answer: British patrons

Context: Not only the work of British artists and craftspeople is on display, but also work produced by European artists that was purchased or commissioned by British patrons, as well as imports from Asia, including porcelain, cloth and wallpaper. Designers and artists whose work is on display in the galleries include Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Grinling Gibbons, Daniel Marot, Louis Laguerre, Antonio Verrio, Sir James Thornhill, William Kent, Robert Adam, Josiah Wedgwood, Matthew Boulton, Canova, Thomas Chippendale, Pugin, William Morris. Patrons who have influenced taste are also represented by works of art from their collections, these include: Horace Walpole (a major influence on the Gothic Revival), William Thomas Beckford and Thomas Hope.

Question: Who purchased or commissioned the works of European artists included the British galleries of the V&A?


Answer: Asia

Question: Some non-British works in the British galleries were imported from which continent?


Answer: Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Question: Which Italian that is credited with the creating the Baroque style of sculpture is represented in the V&A's British galleries?


Answer: Horace Walpole

Question: Which artist who had a major influence on the Gothic Revival is represented in the V&A's British galleries?


Answer: porcelain, cloth and wallpaper

Question: What type of works from Asia are included in the V&A's British galleries?


Answer: increase in tea drinking

Context: The galleries also link design to wider trends in British culture. For instance, design in the Tudor period was influenced by the spread of printed books and the work of European artists and craftsmen employed in Britain. In the Stuart period, increasing trade, especially with Asia, enabled wider access to luxuries like carpets, lacquered furniture, silks and porcelain. In the Georgian age there was increasing emphasis on entertainment and leisure. For example, the increase in tea drinking led to the production of tea paraphernalia such as china and caddies. European styles seen on the Grand Tour also influenced taste. As the Industrial Revolution took hold, the growth of mass production produced entrepreneurs such as Josiah Wedgwood, Matthew Boulton and Eleanor Coade. In the Victorian era new technology and machinery had a significant effect on manufacturing, and for the first time since the reformation, the Anglican and Roman Catholic Churches had a major effect on art and design such as the Gothic Revival. There is a large display on the Great Exhibition which, among other things, led to the founding of the V&A. In the later 19th century, the increasing backlash against industrialization, led by John Ruskin, contributed to the Arts and Crafts movement.

Question: What led to the production of tea paraphernalia such as china and caddies during the Georgian period?


Answer: increasing emphasis on entertainment and leisure

Question: What British cultural trend during the Georgian is linked to design during the same period?


Answer: John Ruskin

Question: Who is considered the leading figure in the Arts and Crafts movement?


Answer: the growth of mass production

Question: The entrepreneurs Josiah Wedgwood, Matthew Boulton and Eleanor Coade were influenced by what manufacturing process developed during the Industrial Revolution?


Answer: Arts and Crafts

Question: A reaction against industrialiazation contributed to the development of what artistic movement in the late 19th centurY


Answer: Trajan's Column

Context: One of the most dramatic parts of the museum is the Cast Courts in the sculpture wing, comprising two large, skylighted rooms two storeys high housing hundreds of plaster casts of sculptures, friezes and tombs. One of these is dominated by a full-scale replica of Trajan's Column, cut in half in order to fit under the ceiling. The other includes reproductions of various works of Italian Renaissance sculpture and architecture, including a full-size replica of Michelangelo's David. Replicas of two earlier Davids by Donatello's David and Verrocchio's David, are also included, although for conservation reasons the Verrocchio replica is displayed in a glass case.

Question: Which Ancient Roman monument is replicated in full-scale in the Cast Courts?


Answer: cut in half

Question: What was done to the Trajan's Column replica to fit it under the ceiling?


Answer: David

Question: Which sculpture by Michelangelo has a full-size replica in the Cast Courts?


Answer: sculptures, friezes and tombs

Question: The Cast Courts display plaster casts of what objects?


Answer: in a glass case

Question: How is the plaster replica of Verrocchio's David displayed in the Cast Courts?


Answer: 1731

Context: Well represented in the collection is Meissen porcelain, from the first factory in Europe to discover the Chinese method of making porcelain. Among the finest examples are the Meissen Vulture from 1731 and the Möllendorff Dinner Service, designed in 1762 by Frederick II the Great. Ceramics from the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres are extensive, especially from the 18th and 19th centuries. The collection of 18th-century British porcelain is the largest and finest in the world. Examples from every factory are represented, the collections of Chelsea porcelain and Worcester Porcelain being especially fine. All the major 19th-century British factories are also represented. A major boost to the collections was the Salting Bequest made in 1909, which enriched the museum's stock of Chinese and Japanese ceramics. This bequest forms part of the finest collection of East Asian pottery and porcelain in the world, including Kakiemon ware.

Question: In which year are the Meissen Vulture in the V&A collection dated?


Answer: Frederick II the Great

Question: Who designed the Möllendorff Dinner Service?


Answer: 1762

Question: In which year was Möllendorff Dinner Service designed?


Answer: 1909

Question: In which year was the Salting Bequest made?


Answer: Chinese and Japanese ceramics

Question: Which part of the V&A collection did the Salting Bequest enhanced?


Answer: Josiah Wedgwood, William De Morgan and Bernard Leach

Context: Many famous potters, such as Josiah Wedgwood, William De Morgan and Bernard Leach as well as Mintons & Royal Doulton are represented in the collection. There is an extensive collection of Delftware produced in both Britain and Holland, which includes a circa 1695 flower pyramid over a metre in height. Bernard Palissy has several examples of his work in the collection including dishes, jugs and candlesticks. The largest objects in the collection are a series of elaborately ornamented ceramic stoves from the 16th and 17th centuries, made in Germany and Switzerland. There is an unrivalled collection of Italian maiolica and lustreware from Spain. The collection of Iznik pottery from Turkey is the largest in the world.

Question: Which three famous British potters are represented the the V&A ceramics collection?


Answer: Britain and Holland

Question: From which countries were the V&A's collection of Delftware produced?


Answer: ceramic stoves

Question: What are the largest objects in the V&A ceramics and glass collection?


Answer: from the 16th and 17th centuries

Question: The largest objects in the V&A ceramics and glass collection were produced during which time period?


Answer: Germany and Switzerland

Question: The largest objects in the V&A ceramics and glass collection were produced in which countries?


Answer: 4000

Context: The glass collection covers 4000 years of glass making, and has over 6000 items from Africa, Britain, Europe, America and Asia. The earliest glassware on display comes from Ancient Egypt and continues through the Ancient Roman, Medieval, Renaissance covering areas such as Venetian glass and Bohemian glass and more recent periods, including Art Nouveau glass by Louis Comfort Tiffany and Émile Gallé, the Art Deco style is represented by several examples by René Lalique. There are many examples of crystal chandeliers both English, displayed in the British galleries and foreign for example Venetian (attributed to Giuseppe Briati) dated c1750 are in the collection. The stained glass collection is possibly the finest in the world, covering the medieval to modern periods, and covering Europe as well as Britain. Several examples of English 16th-century heraldic glass is displayed in the British Galleries. Many well-known designers of stained glass are represented in the collection including, from the 19th century: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris. There is also an example of Frank Lloyd Wright's work in the collection. 20th-century designers include Harry Clarke, John Piper, Patrick Reyntiens, Veronica Whall and Brian Clarke.

Question: How many years does the V&A glass collection cover?


Answer: over 6000

Question: Approximately how many items are in the glass collection of the V&A?


Answer: Ancient Egypt

Question: Where did the earliest item in the V&A glass collection come from?


Answer: René Lalique

Question: The Art Deco style of glassware is represented by which artist?


Answer: Louis Comfort Tiffany and Émile Gallé

Question: The Art Noveau style of glassware is represented by which two artists?


Answer: 1994

Context: The main gallery was redesigned in 1994, the glass balustrade on the staircase and mezzanine are the work of Danny Lane, the gallery covering contemporary glass opened in 2004 and the sacred silver and stained-glass gallery in 2005. In this latter gallery stained glass is displayed alongside silverware starting in the 12th century and continuing to the present. Some of the most outstanding stained glass, dated 1243–48 comes from the Sainte-Chapelle, is displayed along with other examples in the new Medieval & Renaissance galleries. The important 13th-century glass beaker known as the Luck of Edenhall is also displayed in these galleries. Examples of British stained glass are displayed in the British Galleries. One of the most spectacular items in the collection is the chandelier by Dale Chihuly in the rotunda at the Museum's main entrance.

Question: When was the main gallery of the V&A's ceramics and glass collection redesigned?


Answer: Danny Lane

Question: Who was responsible for the glass balustrade on the staircase and mezzanine in the main gallery?


Answer: 2004

Question: When was the main gallery for the V&A's contemporary glass collection opened?


Answer: Dale Chihuly

Question: Whose chandelier grace the rotunda at the V&A's main entrance?


Answer: 13th

Question: To which century is the glass beaker called Luck of Edenhall dated?


Answer: over 10,000

Context: The collection of drawings includes over 10,000 British and 2,000 old master works, including works by: Dürer, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Bernardo Buontalenti, Rembrandt, Antonio Verrio, Paul Sandby, John Russell, Angelica Kauffman, John Flaxman, Hugh Douglas Hamilton, Thomas Rowlandson, William Kilburn, Thomas Girtin, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, David Wilkie, John Martin, Samuel Palmer, Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, Lord Frederic Leighton, Sir Samuel Luke Fildes and Aubrey Beardsley. Modern British artists represented in the collection include: Paul Nash, Percy Wyndham Lewis, Eric Gill, Stanley Spencer, John Piper, Graham Sutherland, Lucian Freud and David Hockney.

Question: Approximately how many British drawings are included in the V&A collection?


Answer: 2,000

Question: Approximately how many old masters works are included in the V&A collection?


Answer: Dürer

Question: Which famous Germain Renaissance painter and printmaker is represented in the drawings collection of the V&A?


Answer: Rembrandt

Question: Which famous Dutch artist who painted The Night Watch is represented in the drawings collection of the V&A?


Answer: Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Question: Which famous French artist who painted the Grande Odalisque of 1814 is represented in the drawings collection of the V&A?


Answer: over 14,000

Context: The costume collection is the most comprehensive in Britain, containing over 14,000 outfits plus accessories, mainly dating from 1600 to the present. Costume sketches, design notebooks, and other works on paper are typically held by the Word and Image department. Because everyday clothing from previous eras has not generally survived, the collection is dominated by fashionable clothes made for special occasions. One of the first significant gifts of costume came in 1913 when the V&A received the Talbot Hughes collection containing 1,442 costumes and items as a gift from Harrods following its display at the nearby department store.

Question: Approximately how many items are in the costume collection of the V&A?


Answer: Word and Image department

Question: Which department houses the works on paper of the costume collection?


Answer: Because everyday clothing from previous eras has not generally survived

Question: Why is the collection dominated by fashionable clothes made for special occasions?


Answer: 1913

Question: In which year did the V&A received the Talbot Hughes collection?


Answer: Harrods

Question: The Talbot Hughes collection was a gift from which company?


Answer: 2002

Context: In 2002, the Museum acquired the Costiff collection of 178 Vivienne Westwood costumes. Other famous designers with work in the collection include Coco Chanel, Hubert de Givenchy, Christian Dior, Cristóbal Balenciaga, Yves Saint Laurent, Guy Laroche, Irene Galitzine, Mila Schön, Valentino Garavani, Norman Norell, Norman Hartnell, Zandra Rhodes, Hardy Amies, Mary Quant, Christian Lacroix, Jean Muir and Pierre Cardin. The museum continues to acquire examples of modern fashion to add to the collection.

Question: When did the V&A acquired the Costiff collection?


Answer: Vivienne Westwood

Question: The Costiff collection comprised costumes designed by which British fashion icon?


Answer: 178

Question: How many costumes were in the Costiff collection?


Answer: Costiff

Question: What costumes collection did the V&A acquired in 2002?


Answer: modern

Question: Which examples of fashion does the museum continue to acquire for its collection?


Answer: Italian and French Renaissance

Context: The Soulages collection of Italian and French Renaissance objects was acquired between 1859 and 1865, and includes several cassone. The John Jones Collection of French 18th-century art and furnishings was left to the museum in 1882, then valued at £250,000. One of the most important pieces in this collection is a marquetry commode by the ébéniste Jean Henri Riesener dated c1780. Other signed pieces of furniture in the collection include a bureau by Jean-François Oeben, a pair of pedestals with inlaid brass work by André Charles Boulle, a commode by Bernard Vanrisamburgh and a work-table by Martin Carlin. Other 18th-century ébénistes represented in the Museum collection include Adam Weisweiler, David Roentgen, Gilles Joubert & Pierre Langlois. In 1901, Sir George Donaldson donated several pieces of art Nouveau furniture to the museum, which he had acquired the previous year at the Paris Exposition Universelle. This was criticized at the time, with the result that the museum ceased to collect contemporary items and did not do so again until the 1960s. In 1986 the Lady Abingdon collection of French Empire furniture was bequeathed by Mrs T. R. P. Hole.

Question: From which period did the objects in the Soulages collection come from?


Answer: between 1859 and 1865

Question: When was the Soulages collection acquired?


Answer: French 18th-century art and furnishings

Question: What items comprise the John Jones Collection?


Answer: 1882

Question: In which year was the John Jones Collection left to the museum?


Answer: £250,000

Question: What was the value of the John Jones Collection when it was left to the museum?


Answer: 1580

Context: There are a set of beautiful inlaid doors, dated 1580 from Antwerp City Hall, attributed to Hans Vredeman de Vries. One of the finest pieces of continental furniture in the collection is the Rococo Augustus Rex Bureau Cabinet dated c1750 from Germany, with especially fine marquetry and ormolu mounts. One of the grandest pieces of 19th-century furniture is the highly elaborate French Cabinet dated 1861–1867 made by M. Fourdinois, made from ebony inlaid with box, lime, holly, pear, walnut and mahogany woods as well as marble with gilded carvings. Furniture designed by Ernest Gimson, Edward William Godwin, Charles Voysey, Adolf Loos and Otto Wagner are among the late 19th-century and early 20th-century examples in the collection. The work of modernists in the collection include Le Corbusier, Marcel Breuer, Charles and Ray Eames, and Giò Ponti.

Question: To which year has the Antwerp City Hall doors in the V&A collection been dated?


Answer: Hans Vredeman de Vries

Question: To whom has the Antwerp City Hall doors in the V&A collection been attributed?


Answer: c1750

Question: To which year has the Rococo Augustus Rex Bureau Cabinet been dated?


Answer: Germany

Question: From which country did the Rococo Augustus Rex Bureau Cabinet come from?


Answer: Charles and Ray Eames

Question: Which husband and wife modern furniture design team are represented in the V&A furniture collection?


Answer: over 6000

Context: The jewellery collection, containing over 6000 items is one of the finest and most comprehensive collections of jewellery in the world and includes works dating from Ancient Egypt to the present day, as well as jewellery designs on paper. The museum owns pieces by renowned jewelers Cartier, Jean Schlumberger, Peter Carl Fabergé, Hemmerle and Lalique. Other items in the collection include diamond dress ornaments made for Catherine the Great, bracelet clasps once belonging to Marie Antoinette, and the Beauharnais emerald necklace presented by Napoleon to his adopted daughter Hortense de Beauharnais in 1806. The museum also collects international modern jewellery by designers such as Gijs Bakker, Onno Boekhoudt, Peter Chang, Gerda Flockinger, Lucy Sarneel, Dorothea Prühl and Wendy Ramshaw, and African and Asian traditional jewellery. Major bequests include Reverend Chauncy Hare Townshend's collection of 154 gems bequeathed in 1869, Lady Cory's 1951 gift of major diamond jewellery from the 18th and 19th centuries, and jewellery scholar Dame Joan Evans' 1977 gift of more than 800 jewels dating from the Middle Ages to the early 19th century. A new jewellery gallery, funded by William and Judith Bollinger, opened on 24 May 2008.

Question: Approximately how many items comprise the jewelry collection of the V&A?


Answer: Ancient Egypt

Question: The earliest items in the jewelry collection come from which ancient civilization?


Answer: 1869

Question: In which year was Reverend Chauncy Hare Townshend's collection of gems was bequeathed to the museum?


Answer: 154

Question: Approximately how many gems in Reverend Chauncy Hare Townshend's collection was given to the museum?


Answer: William and Judith Bollinger

Question: Who funded the new jewelry gallery that opened in 2008?


Answer: secular and sacred

Context: There are over 10,000 objects made from silver or gold in the collection, the display (about 15% of the collection) is divided into secular and sacred covering both Christian (Roman Catholic, Anglican and Greek Orthodox) and Jewish liturgical vessels and items. The main silver gallery is divided into these areas: British silver pre-1800; British silver 1800 to 1900; modernist to contemporary silver; European silver. The collection includes the earliest known piece of English silver with a dated hallmark, a silver gilt beaker dated 1496–97. Silversmiths' whose work is represented in the collection include Paul de Lamerie and Paul Storr whose Castlereagh Inkstand dated 1817–19 is one of his finest works. The main iron work gallery covers European wrought and cast iron from the mediaeval period to the early 20th century. The master of wrought ironwork Jean Tijou is represented by both examples of his work and designs on paper. One of the largest items is the Hereford Screen, weighing nearly 8 tonnes, 10.5 metres high and 11 metres wide, designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott in 1862 for the chancel in Hereford Cathedral, from which it was removed in 1967. It was made by Skidmore & Company. Its structure of timber and cast iron is embellished with wrought iron, burnished brass and copper. Much of the copper and ironwork is painted in a wide range of colours. The arches and columns are decorated with polished quartz and panels of mosaic.

Question: The silver and gold collection of the V&A is divided into which categories?


Answer: 1496–97

Question: To which year is the earliest known piece of English silver with a dated hallmark is dated?


Answer: 8

Question: How many tons does the Hereford Screen weigh?


Answer: Sir George Gilbert Scott

Question: Who designed the Hereford Screen?


Answer: over 10,000

Question: Approximately how many silver and gold objects does the V&A have it its collection?


Answer: c1110

Context: One of the rarest items in the collection is the 58 cm high Gloucester Candlestick, dated to c1110, made from gilt bronze; with highly elaborate and intricate intertwining branches containing small figures and inscriptions, it is a tour de force of bronze casting. Also of importance is the Becket Casket dated c1180 to contain relics of St Thomas Becket, made from gilt copper, with enamelled scenes of the saint's martyrdom. Another highlight is the 1351 Reichenau Crozier. The Burghley Nef, a salt-cellar, French, dated 1527–28, uses a nautilus shell to form the hull of a vessel, which rests on the tail of a parcelgilt mermaid, who rests on a hexagonal gilt plinth on six claw-and-ball feet. Both masts have main and top-sails, and battlemented fighting-tops are made from gold. These items are displayed in the new Medieval & Renaissance galleries.

Question: To which year is the Gloucester Candlestick dated?


Answer: gilt bronze

Question: Which material is the Gloucester Candlestick made from?


Answer: St Thomas Becket

Question: Whose relics reside in the Becket Casket?


Answer: c1180

Question: To which year is the Becket Casket dated?


Answer: gilt copper

Question: Which material is the Becket Casket made from?


Answer: over 5,100

Context: The Musical Instruments gallery closed 25 February 2010, a decision which was highly controversial. An online petition of over 5,100 names on the Parliamentary website led to Chris Smith asking Parliament about the future of the collection. The answer, from Bryan Davies was that the museum intended to preserve and care for the collection and keep it available to the public, with items being redistributed to the British Galleries, the Medieval & Renaissance Galleries, and the planned new galleries for Furniture and Europe 1600–1800, and that the Horniman Museum and other institutions were possible candidates for loans of material to ensure that the instruments remained publicly viewable. The Horniman went on to host a joint exhibition with the V&A of musical instruments, and has the loan of 35 instruments from the museum.

Question: Approximately how many names were signed on an online petition on the Parliamentary website in response to the closing of the Musical Instruments gallery?


Answer: Bryan Davies

Question: Which Member of Parliament explained how the museum would preserve the collection and keep it available to the public?


Answer: Horniman Museum

Question: Which museum would receive items on loans from the Musical Instruments gallery?


Answer: 35

Question: Approximately how many musical instruments were loaned to the Horniman Museum?


Answer: 2010

Question: In which year was the Musical Instruments gallery closed?


Answer: 1130

Context: The collection includes about 1130 British and 650 European oil paintings, 6800 British watercolours, pastels and 2000 miniatures, for which the museum holds the national collection. Also on loan to the museum, from Her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth II, are the Raphael Cartoons: the seven surviving (there were ten) full scale designs for tapestries in the Sistine Chapel, of the lives of Peter and Paul from the Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles. There is also on display a fresco by Pietro Perugino dated 1522 from the church of Castello at Fontignano (Perugia) and is amongst the painter's last works. One of the largest objects in the collection is the Spanish tempera on wood, 670 x 486 cm, retable of St George, c. 1400, consisting of numerous scenes and painted by Andrés Marzal De Sax in Valencia.

Question: Approximately how many British oil paintings does the museum have?


Answer: 650

Question: Approximately how many European oil paintings does the museum have?


Answer: 6800

Question: Approximately how many British watercolours are in the V&A collection?


Answer: Queen Elizabeth II

Question: Who has loaned the Raphael Cartoons to the museum?


Answer: Andrés Marzal De Sax

Question: Who painted the retable of St. George that is in the V&A collection?


Answer: 1857

Context: In 1857 John Sheepshanks donated 233 paintings, mainly by contemporary British artists, and a similar number of drawings to the museum with the intention of forming a 'A National Gallery of British Art', a role since taken on by Tate Britain; artists represented are William Blake, James Barry, Henry Fuseli, Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, Sir David Wilkie, William Mulready, William Powell Frith, Millais and Hippolyte Delaroche. Although some of Constable's works came to the museum with the Sheepshanks bequest, the majority of the artist's works were donated by his daughter Isabel in 1888, including the large number of sketches in oil, the most significant being the 1821 full size oil sketch for The Hay Wain. Other artists with works in the collection include: Bernardino Fungai, Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, Domenico di Pace Beccafumi, Fioravante Ferramola, Jan Brueghel the Elder, Anthony van Dyck, Ludovico Carracci, Antonio Verrio, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Domenico Tiepolo, Canaletto, Francis Hayman, Pompeo Batoni, Benjamin West, Paul Sandby, Richard Wilson, William Etty, Henry Fuseli, Sir Thomas Lawrence, James Barry, Francis Danby, Richard Parkes Bonington and Alphonse Legros.

Question: In which year did John Sheepshanks donated a large collection of paintings?


Answer: 233

Question: How many paintings did John Sheeshanks give to the museum?


Answer: forming a 'A National Gallery of British Art'

Question: What was the goal of John Sheepshanks considerable bequest to the museum?


Answer: The Hay Wain

Question: An 1821 full size oil sketch of which famous British painting was donated by John Sheepshank's daughter in 1888?


Answer: British

Question: The paintings donated by John Sheepshanks were by artists of which nationality?


Answer: continental art 1600–1800

Context: Several French paintings entered the collection as part of the 260 paintings and miniatures (not all the works were French, for example Carlo Crivelli's Virgin and Child) that formed part of the Jones bequest of 1882 and as such are displayed in the galleries of continental art 1600–1800, including the portrait of François, Duc d'Alençon by François Clouet, Gaspard Dughet and works by François Boucher including his portrait of Madame de Pompadour dated 1758, Jean François de Troy, Jean-Baptiste Pater and their contemporaries.

Question: In which galleries are the French paintings donated by Jones displayed?


Answer: Madame de Pompadour

Question: Whose 1758 portrait by François Boucher was part of Jones bequest?


Answer: Carlo Crivelli's Virgin and Child

Question: What was one example of a non-French painting was included in the Jones bequest of 1882?


Answer: François, Duc d'Alençon

Question: Whose portrait by François Clouet was included in the Jones bequest of 1882?


Answer: Eadweard Muybridge

Context: One of the more unusual collections is that of Eadweard Muybridge's photographs of Animal Locomotion of 1887, this consists of 781 plates. These sequences of photographs taken a fraction of a second apart capture images of different animals and humans performimg various actions. There are several of John Thomson's 1876-7 images of Street Life in London in the collection. The museum also holds James Lafayette's society portraits, a collection of more than 600 photographs dating from the late 19th to early 20th centuries and portraying a wide range of society figures of the period, including bishops, generals, society ladies, Indian maharajas, Ethiopian rulers and other foreign leaders, actresses, people posing in their motor cars and a sequence of photographs recording the guests at the famous fancy-dress ball held at Devonshire House in 1897 to celebrate Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee.

Question: Who created the photographic series titled Animal Locomotion?


Answer: 1887

Question: In which year was the Animal Locomotion collection created?


Answer: 781

Question: How many photographic plates comprise the Animal Locomotion collection?


Answer: animals and humans performimg various actions

Question: What do the Animal Locomotion photographs capture?


Answer: James Lafayette

Question: Whose society portraits from the late 19th to early 20th centuries does the V&A hold?


Answer: post-classical European

Context: The sculpture collection at the V&A is the most comprehensive holding of post-classical European sculpture in the world. There are approximately 22,000 objects in the collection that cover the period from about 400 AD to 1914. This covers among other periods Byzantine and Anglo Saxon ivory sculptures, British, French and Spanish medieval statues and carvings, the Renaissance, Baroque, Neo-Classical, Victorian and Art Nouveau periods. All uses of sculpture are represented, from tomb and memorial, to portrait, allegorical, religious, mythical, statues for gardens including fountains, as well as architectural decorations. Materials used include, marble, alabaster, stone, terracotta, wood (history of wood carving), ivory, gesso, plaster, bronze, lead and ceramics.

Question: The V&A has the world's most comprehensive collection of sculptures from which period?


Answer: 22,000

Question: Approximately how many objects are in the V&A sculpture collection?


Answer: from about 400 AD to 1914

Question: Which time period does the sculpture collection cover?


Answer: All

Question: Which uses of sculpture are represented in the collection?


Answer: National Galleries of Scotland

Context: The collection of Italian, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque and Neoclassical sculpture (both original and in cast form) is unequalled outside of Italy. It includes Canova's The Three Graces, which the museum jointly owns with National Galleries of Scotland. Italian sculptors whose work is held by the museum include: Bartolomeo Bon, Bartolomeo Bellano, Luca della Robbia, Giovanni Pisano, Donatello, Agostino di Duccio, Andrea Riccio, Antonio Rossellino, Andrea del Verrocchio, Antonio Lombardo, Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi, Andrea della Robbia, Michelozzo di Bartolomeo, Michelangelo (represented by a freehand wax model and casts of his most famous sculptures), Jacopo Sansovino, Alessandro Algardi, Antonio Calcagni, Benvenuto Cellini (Medusa's head dated c. 1547), Agostino Busti, Bartolomeo Ammannati, Giacomo della Porta, Giambologna (Samson Slaying a Philistine (Giambologna) c. 1562, his finest work outside Italy), Bernini (Neptune and Triton c. 1622–3), Giovanni Battista Foggini, Vincenzo Foggini (Samson and the Philistines), Massimiliano Soldani Benzi, Antonio Corradini, Andrea Brustolon, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Innocenzo Spinazzi, Canova, Carlo Marochetti and Raffaelle Monti. An unusual sculpture is the ancient Roman statue of Narcissus restored by Valerio Cioli c1564 with plaster. There are several small scale bronzes by Donatello, Alessandro Vittoria, Tiziano Aspetti and Francesco Fanelli in the collection. The largest item from Italy is the Chancel Chapel from Santa Chiara Florence dated 1493–1500, designed by Giuliano da Sangallo it is 11.1 metres in height by 5.4 metres square, it includes a grand sculpted tabernacle by Antonio Rossellino and coloured terracotta decoration.

Question: With which museum does the V&A co-owns Canova's The Three Graces?


Answer: Neptune and Triton

Question: Which c1622-23 sculpture by Bernini are included in the sculpture collection?


Answer: Chancel Chapel

Question: What is the largest item from Italy that is part of the sculpture collection?


Answer: Giuliano da Sangallo

Question: Who designed the largest item from Italy that is part of the V&A sculpture collection?


Answer: 1493–1500

Question: To which period is the largest item from Italy that is included in the sculpture collection dated?


Answer: more than 20

Context: Rodin is represented by more than 20 works in the museum collection, making it one of the largest collections of the sculptor's work outside France; these were given to the museum by the sculptor in 1914, as acknowledgement of Britain's support of France in World War I, although the statue of St John the Baptist had been purchased in 1902 by public subscription. Other French sculptors with work in the collection are Hubert Le Sueur, François Girardon, Michel Clodion, Jean-Antoine Houdon, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux and Jules Dalou.

Question: Approximately how many works by Rodin are part of the museum collection?


Answer: the sculptor

Question: Who donated Rodin's works to the V&A?


Answer: 1914

Question: In which year were Rodin's works given to the V&A?


Answer: World War I

Question: Britain's support of France in which war led to Rodin donating many of his sculptures to the V&A?


Answer: St John the Baptist

Question: Which sculpture by Rodin was not donated by the artist?


Answer: George Frampton

Context: Sculptors both British and Europeans who were based in Britain and whose work is in the collection include Nicholas Stone, Caius Gabriel Cibber, Grinling Gibbons, John Michael Rysbrack, Louis-François Roubiliac, Peter Scheemakers, Sir Henry Cheere, Agostino Carlini, Thomas Banks, Joseph Nollekens, Joseph Wilton, John Flaxman, Sir Francis Chantrey, John Gibson, Edward Hodges Baily, Lord Leighton, Alfred Stevens, Thomas Brock, Alfred Gilbert, George Frampton, and Eric Gill. A sample of some of these sculptors' work is on display in the British Galleries.

Question: Which British sculptor and a leading member of the New Sculpture movement is represented in the the V&A collection?


Answer: Thomas Brock

Question: Which British sculptor whose work include the Queen Victoria memorial in front of Buckingham Palace is included in the V&A collection?


Answer: Sir Francis Chantrey

Question: Which English sculptor who became the leading portrait sculptor in Regency era Britain is represented in the V&A collection?


Answer: Europeans who were based in Britain

Question: What sort of continental sculptors are represented in the British Galleries of the V&A?


Answer: Dorothy and Michael Hintze

Context: With the opening of the Dorothy and Michael Hintze sculpture galleries in 2006 it was decided to extend the chronology of the works on display up to 1950; this has involved loans by other museums, including Tate Britain, so works by Henry Moore and Jacob Epstein along with other of their contemporaries are now on view. These galleries concentrate on works dated 1600 to 1950 by British sculptors, works by continental sculptors who worked in Britain, and works bought by British patrons from the continental sculptors, such as Canova's Theseus and the Minotaur. The galleries overlooking the garden are arranged by theme, tomb sculpture, portraiture, garden sculpture and mythology. Then there is a section that covers late 19th-century and early 20th-century sculpture, this includes work by Rodin and other French sculptors such as Dalou who spent several years in Britain where he taught sculpture.

Question: Who were the sculpture galleries that opened in 2006 named after?


Answer: 1950

Question: To which year does the new sculpture galleries now encompass?


Answer: by theme

Question: How are the galleries overlooking the garden arranged?


Answer: Henry Moore and Jacob Epstein

Question: Which two British sculptors are now represented with the opening of the new galleries?


Answer: Tate Britain

Question: Which museum was among those that loaned more modern works for the new sculpture galleries?


Answer: more than 53,000

Context: The collection of textiles consists of more than 53,000 examples, mainly western European though all populated continents are represented, dating from the 1st century AD to the present, this is the largest such collection in the world. Techniques represented include weaving, printing, quilting embroidery, lace, tapestry and carpets. These are classified by technique, countries of origin and date of production. The collections are well represented in these areas: early silks from the Near East, lace, European tapestries and English medieval church embroidery.

Question: Approximately how many items are in the V&A's textiles collection?


Answer: all populated continents

Question: Which continents are represented in the V&A's textiles collection?


Answer: from the 1st century AD to the present

Question: What is the time period represented in the museum's textiles collection?


Answer: western Europe

Question: Which region is represented the most in the textiles collection?


Answer: by technique

Question: Besides countries of origin and date of production, how are the textiles classified?


Answer: Cloth of St Gereon

Context: The tapestry collection includes a fragment of the Cloth of St Gereon, the oldest known surviving European tapestry. A highlight of the collection is the four Devonshire Hunting Tapestries, very rare 15th-century tapestries, woven in the Netherlands, depicting the hunting of various animals; not just their age but their size make these unique. Both of the major English centres of tapestry weaving of the 16th and 17th centuries respectively, Sheldon & Mortlake are represented in the collection by several examples. Also included are tapestries from John Vanderbank's workshop which was the leading English tapestry manufactory in the late 17th century and early 18th century. Some of the finest tapestries are examples from the Gobelins workshop, including a set of 'Jason and the Argonauts' dating from the 1750s. Other continental centres of tapestry weaving with work in the collection include Brussels, Tournai, Beauvais, Strasbourg and Florence.

Question: What is the oldest surviving European tapestry in the V&A collection?


Answer: 15th

Question: In which century were the four Devonshire Hunting Tapestries woven?


Answer: the Netherlands

Question: Where were the Devonshire Hunting Tapestries made?


Answer: hunting of various animals

Question: What do the Devonshire Hunting Tapestries depict?


Answer: John Vanderbank's workshop

Question: Which leading English tapestry workshop in the late 17th century and early 18th century is represented in the V&A collection?


Answer: late 14th-century

Context: One of the earliest surviving examples of European quilting, the late 14th-century Sicilian Tristan Quilt, is also held by the collection. The collection has numerous examples of various types of textiles designed by William Morris, including, embroidery, woven fabrics, tapestries (Including 'The Forest' tapestry of 1887), rugs and carpets, as well as pattern books and paper designs. The art deco period is covered by rugs and fabrics designed by Marion Dorn. From the same period there is a rug designed by Serge Chermayeff.

Question: When is the Sicilian Tristan Quilt dated?


Answer: William Morris

Question: Who designed The Forest tapestry in the V&A collection?


Answer: 1887

Question: In which year was the The Forest tapestry created?


Answer: Marion Dorn

Question: The Art Deco period of textiles works is represented by which American artist?


Answer: Serge Chermayeff

Question: A rug by which Russian-born British designer is included in the V&A collection?


Answer: Theatre Museum

Context: The V&A Theatre & Performance galleries, formerly the Theatre Museum, opened in March 2009. The collections are stored by the V&A, and are available for research, exhibitions and other shows. They hold the UK's biggest national collection of material about live performance in the UK since Shakespeare's day, covering drama, dance, musical theatre, circus, music hall, rock and pop, and most other forms of live entertainment. Types of items displayed include costumes, set models, wigs, prompt books, and posters.

Question: What is the former name of the V&A Theatre & Performance galleries?


Answer: 2009

Question: In which year did the V&A Theatre & Performance galleries open?


Answer: material about live performance

Question: What collection does the V&A Theatre & Performance galleries hold?


Answer: Shakespeare

Question: The theatre collection starts from the time of which famous Elizabethan playwright?


Answer: research, exhibitions and other shows

Question: The material in the V&A theatre collection is available for which use?


Answer: Conservation

Context: Conservation is responsible for the long-term preservation of the collections, and covers all the collections held by the V&A and the V&A Museum of Childhood. The conservators specialise in particular areas of conservation. Areas covered by conservator's work include "preventive" conservation this includes: performing surveys, assessments and providing advice on the handling of items, correct packaging, mounting and handling procedures during movement and display to reduce risk of damaging objects. Activities include controlling the museum environment (for example, temperature and light) and preventing pests (primarily insects) from damaging artefacts. The other major category is "interventive" conservation, this includes: cleaning and reintegration to strengthen fragile objects, reveal original surface decoration, and restore shape. Interventive treatment makes an object more stable, but also more attractive and comprehensible to the viewer. It is usually undertaken on items that are to go on public display.

Question: Which area is responsible for the long-term preservation of the V&A collections?


Answer: temperature and light

Question: What two environmental conditions are controlled in the museum?


Answer: interventive

Question: What major category of conservation result in an object that is more attractive and more comprehensible to the viewer?


Answer: V&A Museum of Childhood

Question: Besides the V&A's, whose collections are under the responsibility of conservators at the V&A?


Answer: preventive

Question: What type of conservation include providing advice on the handling of items?


Answer: The Walt Disney Company

Context: The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) (stylized in its logo as abc since 1957) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is owned by the Disney–ABC Television Group, a subsidiary of Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company. The network is part of the Big Three television networks. The network is headquartered on Columbus Avenue and West 66th Street in Manhattan, with additional major offices and production facilities in New York City, Los Angeles and Burbank, California.

Question: What company owns the American Broadcasting Company?


Answer: 1957

Question: In what year did ABC stylize it's logo as abc?


Answer: Manhattan

Question: In what borough of New York City is ABC headquartered?


Answer: Columbus Avenue and West 66th Street

Question: On what streets is the ABC headquarters located


Answer: Disney Media Networks

Question: Disney-ABC Television Group is a subsidiary of what division of the Walt Disney Company?


Answer: October 12, 1943

Context: ABC originally launched on October 12, 1943 as a radio network, separated from and serving as the successor to the NBC Blue Network, which had been purchased by Edward J. Noble. It extended its operations to television in 1948, following in the footsteps of established broadcast networks CBS and NBC. In the mid-1950s, ABC merged with United Paramount Theatres, a chain of movie theaters that formerly operated as a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures. Leonard Goldenson, who had been the head of UPT, made the new television network profitable by helping develop and greenlight many successful series. In the 1980s, after purchasing an 80% interest in cable sports channel ESPN, the network's parent merged with Capital Cities Communications, owner of several print publications, and television and radio stations. In 1996, most of Capital Cities/ABC's assets were purchased by The Walt Disney Company.

Question: When did ABC first start?


Answer: radio network

Question: What kind of network was ABC when it first began?


Answer: 1948

Question: When did ABC first get in to television broadcasts?


Answer: ESPN

Question: In the 1980s, what cable sports channel did ABC purchase?


Answer: Capital Cities Communications

Question: What company did the ABC network's parent company merge with in the 1980s?


Answer: 232

Context: The television network has eight owned-and-operated and over 232 affiliated television stations throughout the United States and its territories. Most Canadians have access to at least one U.S.-based ABC affiliate, either over-the-air (in areas located within proximity to the Canada–United States border) or through a cable, satellite or IPTV provider, although most ABC programs are subject to simultaneous substitution regulations imposed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission that allow pay television providers to replace an American station's signal with the feed of a Canadian broadcaster to protect domestic programming rights and advertising revenue. ABC News provides news and features content for select radio stations owned by Citadel Broadcasting, which purchased the ABC Radio properties in 2007.

Question: How many affiliated stations does ABC currently have?


Answer: Citadel Broadcasting

Question: In 2007, what company purchased ABC Radio properties?


Answer: eight

Question: How many of the network's stations are owned-and-operated?


Answer: Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission

Question: What entity in Canada handles substitution regulations for television shows?


Answer: Citadel Broadcasting

Question: ABC news provides content for radio stations owned by what company?


Answer: Radio Corporation of America

Context: In the 1930s, radio in the United States was dominated by three companies: the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), the Mutual Broadcasting System and the National Broadcasting Company (NBC). The last was owned by electronics manufacturer Radio Corporation of America (RCA), which owned two radio networks that each ran different varieties of programming, NBC Blue and NBC Red. The NBC Blue Network was created in 1927 for the primary purpose of testing new programs on markets of lesser importance than those served by NBC Red, which served the major cities, and to test drama series.

Question: What company owned NBC in the 1930s?


Answer: NBC Blue and NBC Red

Question: What two radio networks did RCA own?


Answer: major cities

Question: What kind of markets did NBC Red serve?


Answer: drama series

Question: What kind of programs did NBC Red test?


Answer: NBC Blue

Question: Which NBC radio network was tasked with testing new programs?


Answer: Mutual

Context: In 1934, Mutual filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regarding its difficulties in establishing new stations, in a radio market that was already being saturated by NBC and CBS. In 1938, the FCC began a series of investigations into the practices of radio networks and published its report on the broadcasting of network radio programs in 1940. The report recommended that RCA give up control of either NBC Red or NBC Blue. At that time, the NBC Red Network was the principal radio network in the United States and, according to the FCC, RCA was using NBC Blue to eliminate any hint of competition. Having no power over the networks themselves, the FCC established a regulation forbidding licenses to be issued for radio stations if they were affiliated with a network which already owned multiple networks that provided content of public interest.

Question: What company filed a complaint with the FCC in 1934 concerning problems establishing new stations?


Answer: 1938

Question: In what year did the FCC begin an investigation in to the operation of radio networks in America


Answer: 1940

Question: In what year did the FCC publish it's report?


Answer: NBC Red Network

Question: What was the main radio network in the 1940s in America?


Answer: NBC Blue

Question: What radio network was RCA using to eliminate competition in 1940?


Answer: Mark Woods

Context: Once Mutual's appeals against the FCC were rejected, RCA decided to sell NBC Blue in 1941, and gave the mandate to do so to Mark Woods. RCA converted the NBC Blue Network into an independent subsidiary, formally divorcing the operations of NBC Red and NBC Blue on January 8, 1942, with the Blue Network being referred to on-air as either "Blue" or "Blue Network". The newly separated NBC Red and NBC Blue divided their respective corporate assets. Between 1942 and 1943, Woods offered to sell the entire NBC Blue Network, a package that included leases on landlines, three pending television licenses (WJZ-TV in New York City, KGO-TV in San Francisco and WENR-TV in Chicago), 60 affiliates, four operations facilities (in New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and Washington D.C.), contracts with actors, and the brand associated with the Blue Network. Investment firm Dillon, Read & Co. (which was later acquired by the Swiss Bank Corporation in 1997) offered $7.5 million to purchase the network, but the offer was rejected by Woods and RCA president David Sarnoff.

Question: To whom did RCA mandate the sale of NBC blue to in 1941?


Answer: NBC Blue Network

Question: What network was converted into an independent subsidiary by RCA in 1942?


Answer: Dillon, Read & Co.

Question: What investment firm offered to buy the NBC Blue network from Mark Woods?


Answer: David Sarnoff

Question: Who was RCA president in 1942?


Answer: $7.5 million

Question: How much money did Dillon, Read & Co offer Mark Woods for NBC Blue?


Answer: Life Savers candy

Context: Edward John Noble, the owner of Life Savers candy, drugstore chain Rexall and New York City radio station WMCA, purchased the network for $8 million. Due to FCC ownership rules, the transaction, which was to include the purchase of three RCA stations by Noble, would require him to resell his station with the FCC's approval. The Commission authorized the transaction on October 12, 1943. Soon afterward, the Blue Network was purchased by the new company Noble founded, the American Broadcasting System. Noble subsequently acquired the rights to the "American Broadcasting Company" name from George B. Storer in 1944; its parent company adopted the corporate name American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. Woods retained his position as president and CEO of ABC until December 1949, and was subsequently promoted to vice-chairman of the board before leaving ABC altogether on June 30, 1951.

Question: What candy company did Edward John Noble own?


Answer: October 12, 1943

Question: When was the sale of NBC Blue to Edward John Noble authorized?


Answer: George B. Storer

Question: Who did Noble acquire the rights to the American Broadcasting Company name from?


Answer: president and CEO

Question: What position did Mark Woods take on at the new American Broadcasting Company?


Answer: June 30, 1951

Question: When did Mark Woods leave ABC?


Answer: Magnetophon tape recorder

Context: ABC became an aggressive competitor to NBC and CBS when, continuing NBC Blue's traditions of public service, it aired symphony performances conducted by Paul Whiteman, performances from the Metropolitan Opera, and jazz concerts aired as part of its broadcast of The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street announced by Milton Cross. The network also became known for such suspenseful dramas as Sherlock Holmes, Gang Busters and Counterspy, as well as several mid-afternoon youth-oriented programs. However, ABC made a name for itself by utilizing the practice of counterprogramming, with which it often placed shows of its own against the offerings of NBC and CBS, adopting the use of the Magnetophon tape recorder, brought to the U.S. from Nazi Germany after its conquest, to pre-record its programming. With the help of the Magnetophon, ABC was able to provide its stars with greater freedom in terms of time, and also attract several big names, such as Bing Crosby at a time when NBC and CBS did not allow pre-taped shows.

Question: What new technology allowed ABC to pre-record its shows?


Answer: Paul Whiteman

Question: ABC aired symphony performances by what conductor?


Answer: ABC

Question: What network was known for dramas such as Sherlock Holmes?


Answer: Bing Crosby

Question: Who was a big star that ABC was able to attract because of Magnetophon technology?


Answer: public service

Question: ABC continued NBC Blue's tradition of what?


Answer: $155 million

Context: A second period of international expansion is linked to that of the ESPN network in the 1990s, and policies enacted in the 2000s by Disney Media Networks (which included the expansion of several of the company's U.S.-based cable networks including Disney Channel and its spinoffs Toon Disney, Playhouse Disney and Jetix; although Disney also sold its 33% stake in European sports channel Eurosport for $155 million in June 2000). In contrast to Disney's other channels, ABC is broadcast in the United States, although the network's programming is syndicated in many countries. The policy regarding wholly owned international networks was revived in 2004 when on September 27 of that year, ABC announced the launch of ABC1, a free-to-air channel in the United Kingdom owned by the ABC Group. However, on September 8, 2007, Disney announced that it would discontinue ABC1 citing to the channel's inability to attain sustainable viewership. With ABC1's shutdown that October, the company's attempt to develop ABC International were discontinued.

Question: How much did Disney sell it's stake in Eurosport for in 2000?


Answer: ABC1

Question: What network was launched by ABC in 2004?


Answer: September 8, 2007

Question: When was ABC1 discontinued because of low viewership?


Answer: ABC International

Question: What developmental network was discontinued after the shutdown of ABC1?


Answer: United States

Question: What country is ABC broadcast in, in contrast to Disney's other channels?


Answer: 1959

Context: The idea was to create a network of wholly and partially owned channels, and affiliates to rebroadcast the network's programs. In 1959, this rerun activity was completed with program syndication, with ABC Films selling programs to networks not owned by ABC. The arrival of satellite television ended the need for ABC to hold interests in other countries; many governments also wanted to increase their independence and strengthen legislation to limit foreign ownership of broadcasting properties. As a result, ABC was forced to sell all of its interests in international networks, mainly in Japan and Latin America, in the 1970s.

Question: When did ABC Films begin selling programs to other networks?


Answer: satellite television

Question: What ended the need for ABC to maintain interests in other countries?


Answer: Japan and Latin America

Question: Where were ABC's international networks mainly situated in the 1970s?


Answer: legislation to limit foreign ownership of broadcasting properties

Question: Why was ABC forced to sell its interests in international networks in the 70s?


Answer: coronation of Queen Elizabeth II

Context: The first attempts to internationalize the ABC television network date back to the 1950s, after Leonard Goldenson, following the United Paramount Theatres model, tried to use on ABC the same strategies he had made in expanding UPT's theater operation to the international market. Leonard Goldenson said that ABC's first international activity was broadcasting the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in June 1953; CBS and NBC were unable to cover the coronation live due to respective issues with technical problems and flight delays. NBC's plane landed in Latin America[where?], leading ABC to learn of subsidiaries in that region. Goldenson tried international investing, having ABC invest in the Latin American market, acquiring a 51% interest in a network covering Central America. Goldenson also cited interest in Japan in the early 1950s, acquiring a 5% stake in two new domestic networks, the Mainichi Broadcasting System in 1951 and Nihon Educational Television in 1957. Goldenson also invested in broadcasting properties in Beirut in the mid-1960s.

Question: What was the first international event broadcast by ABC?


Answer: Beirut

Question: What country did ABC expand in to in the mid-1960s?


Answer: Mainichi Broadcasting System

Question: What Japanese network did ABC purchase a stake in in 1951?


Answer: flight delays

Question: Why was NBC unable to broadcast the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II?


Answer: technical problems

Question: Why was CBS unable to broadcast the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II?


Answer: Peanuts

Context: ABC currently holds the broadcast rights to the Academy Awards, Emmy Awards (which are rotated across all four major networks on a year-to-year basis), American Music Awards, Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade, Tournament of Roses Parade, Country Music Association Awards and the CMA Music Festival. Since 2000, ABC has also owned the television rights to most of the Peanuts television specials, having acquired the broadcast rights from CBS, which originated the specials in 1965 with the debut of A Charlie Brown Christmas (other Peanuts specials broadcast annually by ABC, including A Charlie Brown Christmas, include It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown and A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving).

Question: What television specials did ABC acquire the rights to in 2000?


Answer: Emmy Awards

Question: Which awards show has its rights rotated among the four major networks on a yearly basis?


Answer: 1965

Question: When did a Charlie Brown Christmas debut?


Answer: the Academy Awards

Question: What movie awards show does ABC currently hold the rights to?


Answer: It's the Great Pumpkin

Question: What Peanuts special is Halloween-themed?


Answer: 1974

Context: Since 1974, ABC has generally aired Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve on New Year's Eve (hosted first by its creator Dick Clark, and later by his successor Ryan Seacrest); the only exception was in 1999, when ABC put it on a one-year hiatus to provide coverage of the international millennium festivities, though Clark's traditional countdown from Times Square was still featured within the coverage. ABC has also aired the Miss America pageant from 1954 to 1956, 1997 to 2005 (with the television rights being assumed by cable channel TLC in 2006, when the pageant moved from its longtime homebase in Atlantic City to Las Vegas, before returning to Atlantic City in 2013) and since 2011. Under its current contract with the Miss America Organization, ABC will continue to broadcast the pageant through 2016.

Question: When did ABC begin airing Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve?


Answer: Ryan Seacrest

Question: Who succeeded Dick Clark on ABC's New Year's broadcasts?


Answer: 1954

Question: When did ABC begin broadcasting the Miss America Pageant?


Answer: Times Square

Question: Where was New Year's Rockin' Eve hosted?


Answer: TLC

Question: What network assumed the rights to the Miss America Pageant in 2006?


Answer: General Hospital

Context: ABC's daytime schedule currently features talk shows The View and The Chew, and the soap opera General Hospital, the latter of which is the longest-running entertainment program in the history of the ABC television network, having aired since 1963. ABC also broadcasts the morning news program Good Morning America and has done so since 1975, though that program is not considered to be part of the ABC Daytime block. In addition to the long-running All My Children (1970–2011) and One Life to Live (1968–2012), notable past soap operas seen on the daytime lineup include Ryan's Hope, Dark Shadows, Loving, The City and Port Charles. ABC also aired the last nine years of the Procter & Gamble-produced soap The Edge of Night, following its cancellation by CBS in 1975. ABC Daytime has also aired a number of game shows, including The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game, Let's Make a Deal, Password, Split Second, The $10,000/$20,000 Pyramid, Family Feud, The Better Sex, Trivia Trap, All-Star Blitz and Hot Streak.

Question: What series is the longest running program in ABC history?


Answer: 1975

Question: When did Good Morning America begin airing?


Answer: The Edge of Night

Question: Which Proctor and Gamble produced soap opera did ABC air?


Answer: The View and The Chew

Question: What are ABC's current daytime talk shows?


Answer: 1963

Question: When did General Hospital begin airing?


Answer: X Games

Context: Sports programming is also provided on some weekend afternoons at any time from 12:00 to 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time (9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Pacific) and, during college football season, during prime time on Saturday nights as part of the Saturday Night Football package. Due to the erratic and (outside of college football season) highly inconsistent scheduling of sports programming on weekend afternoons since ESPN took over responsibilities for ABC's sports division in 2006, ABC carries the ESPN Sports Saturday block on Saturday late afternoons (featuring various ESPN-produced documentaries), and on Sundays either encores of primetime reality series, cancelled series being burned off that had no room on the primetime schedule, occasional theatrical films which were acquired by the network in the early to mid-2000s that no longer have a primetime slot to air in or more recently, figure skating and gymnastics specials supplied by Disson Skating, when no sports telecasts are scheduled, usually airing between 4:00 and 6:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific Time. During the summer, ABC airs ESPN-produced highlight compilation programs for The Open Championship golf and The Wimbledon tennis tournaments to provide some presence for both events on American broadcast television. ABC also carries various X Games weekend events not broadcast by ESPN. ABC airs NBA games on Sundays, normally starting in January as "NBA Sunday Showcase" during the regular season, and shows Christmas Day games, regularly between 2–7 PM ET, and NBA playoff games during the weekends, and exclusive rights to the NBA Finals.

Question: ABC carries weekend events for what extreme sports competition?


Answer: 2006

Question: When did ESPN take over responsibility for ABC's sports division?


Answer: 12:00 to 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time

Question: When is sports programming provided by ABC on Saturday afternoons?


Answer: NBA

Question: For what league does ABC broadcast games on Christmas day?


Answer: The Open Championship golf and The Wimbledon tennis tournaments

Question: During summers, for what tournaments does ABC air highlight programs?


Answer: Frank Marx

Context: While its radio network was undergoing reconstruction, ABC found it difficult to avoid falling behind on the new medium of television. To ensure a space, in 1947, ABC submitted five applications for television station licenses, one for each market where it owned and operated a radio station (New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco and Detroit). These applications all requested for the stations to broadcast on VHF channel 7, as Frank Marx, then ABC's vice-president of engineering, thought that the low-band VHF frequencies (corresponding to channels 2 through 6) would be requisitioned from broadcasting use and reallocated for the U.S. Army.

Question: Who was ABC's vice-president of engineering?


Answer: channels 2 through 6

Question: Which channels did Frank Marx think would be requisitioned by the U.S. Army?


Answer: 1947

Question: In what year did ABC submit licenses for 5 television stations?


Answer: VHF channel 7

Question: Which channel did the 5 applications request for broadcast?


Answer: 108

Context: In the fall of 1949, ABC found itself in the position of an outsider, with less coverage than two of its competing networks, CBS and NBC, even though it was on par with them in some major cities and had a headstart over its third rival at the time, the DuMont Television Network. Before the freeze ended in 1952, there were only 108 existing television stations in the United States; a few major cities (such as Boston) had only two television stations, many other cities (such as Pittsburgh and St. Louis) had only one, and still many others (such as Denver and Portland) did not yet have any television service. The result was a strange period where television flourished in certain areas and network radio remained the main source of broadcast entertainment and news in others.

Question: In 1952, how many television stations were there in the United States?


Answer: two

Question: How many stations did Boston have in 1952?


Answer: DuMont Television Network

Question: Who was ABC's third major rival in 1949?


Answer: CBS and NBC

Question: In 1949, ABC had less coverage than what competing networks?


Answer: U.S. Supreme Court

Context: At the end of 1949, movie theater operator United Paramount Theatres (UPT) was forced by the U.S. Supreme Court to become an independent entity, separating itself from Paramount Pictures. For its part, ABC was on the verge of bankruptcy, with only five owned-and-operated stations and nine full-time affiliates. Its revenues, which were related to advertising and were indexed compared to the number of listeners/viewers, failed to compensate for its heavy investments in purchasing and building stations. In 1951, a rumor even mentioned that the network would be sold to CBS. In 1951, Noble held a 58% ownership stake in ABC, giving him $5 million with which to prevent ABC from going bankrupt; as banks refused further credit, that amount was obtained through a loan from the Prudential Insurance Company of America.

Question: In 1949, UPT was forced to become an independent entity by whom?


Answer: Paramount Pictures

Question: Who was UPT forced to separate themselves from in 1949?


Answer: nine

Question: How many affiliates did ABC have in 1949?


Answer: CBS

Question: In 1951, rumors claimed that ABC might be sold to what network?


Answer: Prudential Insurance Company of America

Question: Noble acquired a loan from what entity to keep ABC solvent in 1951?


Answer: Leonard Goldenson

Context: Leonard Goldenson, the president of UPT (which sought to diversify itself at the time), approached Noble in 1951 on a proposal for UPT to purchase ABC. Noble received other offers, including one from CBS founder William S. Paley; however, a merger with CBS would have forced that network to sell its New York City and Los Angeles stations at the very least. Goldenson and Noble reached a tentative agreement in the late spring of 1951 in which UPT would acquire ABC and turn it into a subsidiary of the company that would retain autonomy in its management. On June 6, 1951, the tentative agreement was approved by UPT's board of directors. However, the transaction had to be approved by the FCC because of the presence of television networks and the recent separation between Paramount and UPT. Insofar as Paramount Pictures was already a shareholder in the DuMont Television Network, the FCC conducted a series of hearings to ensure whether Paramount was truly separated from United Paramount Theatres, and whether it was violating antitrust laws.

Question: Who was the president of UPT in 1951?


Answer: William S. Paley

Question: Who was the founder of CBS?


Answer: June 6, 1951

Question: When was the agreement to acquire ABC approved by UPT's board?


Answer: 1952

Context: In 1952, when the release of the FCC's Sixth Report and Order announced the end of its freeze on new station license applications, among the issues the Commission was slated to address was whether to approve the UPT-ABC merger. One FCC Commissioner saw the possibility of ABC, funded by UPT, becoming a viable and competitive third television network. On February 9, 1953, the FCC approved UPT's purchase of ABC in exchange for $25 million in shares. The merged company, renamed American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres, Inc. and headquartered in the Paramount Building at 1501 Broadway in Manhattan, owned six AM and several FM radio stations, five television stations and 644 cinemas in 300 U.S. cities. To comply with FCC ownership restrictions in effect at the time that barred common ownership of two television stations in the same market, UPT sold its Chicago television station, WBKB-TV, to CBS (which subsequently changed the station's call letters to WBBM-TV) for $6 million, while it kept ABC's existing Chicago station, WENR-TV. The merged company acquired the WBKB call letters for channel 7, which would eventually become WLS-TV. Goldenson began to sell some of the older theaters to help finance the new television network.

Question: When was the FCC's sixth report and order released?


Answer: February 9, 1953

Question: When did the FCC approve UPT's purchase of ABC?


Answer: American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres, Inc

Question: When UPT bough ABC, what was the merged company called?


Answer: the Paramount Building

Question: Where was American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres, Inc headquartered after the merger?


Answer: August 10, 1948

Context: The network's flagship owned-and-operated station, WJZ-TV in New York City (later re-called WABC-TV), signed on the air on August 10, 1948, with its first broadcast running for two hours that evening. ABC's other owned-and-operated stations launched over the course of the next 13 months: WENR-TV in Chicago signed on the air on September 17, while WXYZ-TV in Detroit went on the air on October 9, 1948. In October 1948, as a result of an influx of television station license applications that it had issued as well as a study it undertook on the use of the VHF spectrum for broadcasting purposes, the FCC implemented a freeze on new station applications. However, KGO-TV in San Francisco, which had received its license prior to the freeze, made its debut on May 5, 1949. On May 7, 1949, Billboard revealed that ABC had proposed an investment of $6.25 million, of which it would spend $2.5 million to convert 20 acres (80,937 m2) of land in Hollywood into what would become The Prospect Studios, and construct a transmitter on Mount Wilson, in anticipation of the launch of KECA-TV, which was scheduled to begin operations on August 1 (but would not actually sign on until September 16).

Question: When did WJZ-TV in NYC begin broadcasting?


Answer: October 1948

Question: When did the FCC freeze incoming applications for new stations?


Answer: Mount Wilson

Question: Where did ABC construct it's transmitter for its affiliate station in San Francisco?


Answer: The Prospect Studios

Question: ABC bought 20 acres of land in Hollwood in 1949 that would become what studio?


Answer: September 30, 1960

Context: The 1960s would be marked by the rise of family-oriented series in an attempt by ABC to counterprogram its established competitors, but the decade was also marked by the network's gradual transition to color. On September 30, 1960, ABC premiered The Flintstones, another example of counterprogramming; although the animated series from William Hanna and Joseph Barbera was filmed in color from the beginning, it was initially broadcast in black-and-white, as ABC had not made the necessary technical upgrades to broadcast its programming in color at the time. The Flintstones allowed ABC to present a novelty, that of prime-time animated programming, but it also allowed the network to begin filling the hole opened by the conclusion of the Disney partnership by carrying family-oriented programming from other producers.

Question: When did ABC premier the Flintstones?


Answer: 1960s

Question: What decade marked ABC's transition to color programming?


Answer: William Hanna and Joseph Barbera

Question: Who were the creators of the Flintstones?


Answer: 1960s

Question: When did ABC begin making family-oriented series?