database.json

	{"category": "sports",
	 "questions": [
	 		{"question":"Which NHL Team are nicknamed the 'Coyotes'?", "answers": ["Calgary", "Vancouver", "Ottawa", "Arizona"], "correctAnswer": "Arizona"},
	 		{"question":"Which U.S. golfer stands second in the all-time list of major winners with thirteen titles?", "answers": ["Tiger Woods", "Tony Jacklin", "Bobby Jones", "Arnold Palmer"], "correctAnswer": "Bobby Jones"},
	 		{"question":"Chukkas is the term given to periods played in what sport?", "answers": ["Polo", "Ice Hockey", "Hockey", "Curling"], "correctAnswer": "Polo"},
	 		{"question":"How many goose feathers does it take to make a shuttlecock?", "answers": ["16", "60", "21", "32"], "correctAnswer": "16"},
	 		{"question":"In Olympic Archery, how far is the competitor from the target?", "answers": ["50m", "120m", "70m", "100m"], "correctAnswer": "70m"},
	 		{"question":"Terry Griffiths and Mark Williams are former Snooker World Champions. What nationality are they?", "answers": ["Welsh", "Scottish", "Australian", "English"], "correctAnswer": "Welsh"},
	 		{"question":"Who won the 2013 National Basketball Association (NBA) title?", "answers": ["LA Lakers", "Miami Heat", "Chicago Bulls", "San Antonio Spurs"], "correctAnswer": "Miami Heat"},
	 		{"question":"Which nation's Rugby Union team are known as the All Blacks?", "answers": ["Australia", "South Africa", "France", "New Zealand"], "correctAnswer": "New Zealand"},
	 		{"question":"The rider wearing the Red Polka Jersey in the Tour De France is called the 'King of the...'?", "answers": ["Tour", "France", "Race", "Mountain"], "correctAnswer": "Mountain"},
	 		{"question":"The brown ball is worth how many points in snooker?", "answers": ["2", "1", "4", "3"], "correctAnswer": "4"},
	 		{"question":"Maria Mednyanszky is a 5-time world champion in what sport?", "answers": ["Volleyball", "Table Tennis", "Tennis", "Ice Hockey"], "correctAnswer": "Table Tennis"},
	 		{"question":"In what year did Roger Bannister become the first man to run the mile in under 4 minutes?", "answers": ["1974", "1954", "1944", "1964"], "correctAnswer": "1954"},
	 		{"question":"In Greyhound racing, what number trap wears the black and white striped jacket?", "answers": ["6", "4", "5", "3"], "correctAnswer": "6"},
	 		{"question":"In which city do the Steelers compete in the NFL?", "answers": ["Denver", "Buffalo", "Washington", "Pittsburgh"], "correctAnswer": "Pittsburgh"},
	 		{"question":"What position does NHL hockey great Zdeno Chara play?", "answers": ["Goalie", "Defence", "Left Wing", "Center"], "correctAnswer": "Defence"},
	 		{"question":"In what sport would you use a sloop or a cutter?", "answers": ["Sailing", "Snooker", "Bob sledding", "Skiing"], "correctAnswer": "Sailing"},
	 		{"question":"Which famous person is credited with the term 'Caddie'?", "answers": ["John Ball", "Mary Queen of Scots", "Jim Barnes", "Ben Hogan"], "correctAnswer": "Mary Queen of Scots"},
	 		{"question":"When was the first baseball game televised?", "answers": ["1952", "1963", "1939", "1946"], "correctAnswer": "1939"},
	 		{"question":"Who won the men's gold medal in figure skating at the 2006 Olympic Games?", "answers": ["Alexei Kulik", "Evgeni Plushenko", "Elvis Stojko", "Victor Petrenko"], "correctAnswer": "Evgeni Plushenko"},
	 		{"question":"In which sport would you hear the terms basket, edge and crud?", "answers": ["Archery", "Swimming", "NASCAR", "Skiing"], "correctAnswer": "Skiing"},
	 		{"question":"Which football great was nicknamed 'The Gunslinger'?", "answers": ["Jay Cutler", "John Elway", "Jake Plummer", "Brett Farve"], "correctAnswer": "Brett Farve"},
	 		{"question":"In which sport would you use the terms bull calf, high ton, hot toddy and oche?", "answers": ["table tennis", "Skating", "Darts", "Bowling"], "correctAnswer": "Darts"},
	 		{"question":"Which sport awards the Podoloff Cup?", "answers": ["Golf", "Baseball", "Tennis", "Basketball"], "correctAnswer": "Basketball"},
	 		{"question":"In the national football league, how many balls is the home team required to provide?", "answers": ["12", "24", "36", "18"], "correctAnswer": "24"},
	 		{"question":"Which sport would you play at Wimbledon?", "answers": ["Golf", "Horse Racing", "Archery", "Tennis"], "correctAnswer": "Tennis"},
	 		{"question":"O. J. Simpson played which sport?", "answers": ["Football", "Boxing", "Hockey", "Baseball"], "correctAnswer": "Football"},
	 		{"question":"If you were watching Nadia Comaneci, which sport would you be watching?", "answers": ["Tennis", "Skiing", "Gymnastics", "Skating"], "correctAnswer": "Gymnastics"},
	 		{"question":"What is Edson Arantes do Nascimento better known as?", "answers": ["Mugsy", "Pele", "Ocho", "Cinco"], "correctAnswer": "Pele"},
	 		{"question":"In 1949, at the world hockey championship, Denmark was beaten 47 to 0. Who were they playing?", "answers": ["Canada", "America", "Russia", "Iceland"], "correctAnswer": "Canada"},
	 		{"question":"If you were watching Elvis Stojko compete, what sport would you be watching?", "answers": ["Figure Skating", "Tennis", "Golf", "Boxing"], "correctAnswer": "Figure Skating"},
	 		{"question":"How long is a tennis court?", "answers": ["102", "78", "50", "80"], "correctAnswer": "78"},
	 		{"question":"How many throwing events are there at the Olympic Games?", "answers": ["7", "2", "4", "8"], "correctAnswer": "4"},
	 		{"question":"How many points is a field goal worth in American football?", "answers": ["3", "4", "7", "6"], "correctAnswer": "3"},
	 		{"question":"Which of these events is one where men and women compete against each other at the Olympics?", "answers": ["Sailing", "Rowing", "Archery", "Tennis"], "correctAnswer": "Sailing"},
	 		{"question":"In a game of basketball how many players are on each side?", "answers": ["3", "5", "7", "6"], "correctAnswer": "5"},
	 		{"question":"In which sport would you see a scrum?", "answers": ["Soccer", "Rugby", "Cricket", "Rowing"], "correctAnswer": "Rugby"},
	 		{"question":"Yelena Isinbayeva has won five world championships. What sport does she compete in?", "answers": ["Pole Vault", "Gymnastics", "Long Jump", "High Jump"], "correctAnswer": "Pole Vault"},
	 		{"question":"Who won the women's team gymnastics at the 2012 Olympic Games?", "answers": ["Japan", "USA", "China", "Russia"], "correctAnswer": "USA"},
	 		{"question":"Who scored a perfect ten in gymnastics at the Olympic Games in Montreal?", "answers": ["Marta Egervari", "Nadia Comaneci", "Olga Korbut", "Debra Wilcox"], "correctAnswer": "Nadia Comaneci"},
	 		{"question":"Which country did runner Usian Bolt represent during 2012 Olympics?", "answers": ["America", "Bermuda", "Jamaica", "Kenya"], "correctAnswer": "Jamaica"},
	 		{"question":"Which throwing event provides athletes with a runway?", "answers": ["Discuss", "Javelin", "Hammer", "Shot Put"], "correctAnswer": "Javelin"},
	 		{"question":"What is the name of the NHL franchise in Calgary?", "answers": ["The Flames", "The Braves", "The Canadians", "The Canucks"], "correctAnswer": "The Flames"},
	 		{"question":"How old was golfer Morgan Pressel when she turned professional?", "answers": ["17", "24", "28", "14"], "correctAnswer": "17"},
	 		{"question":"In what year did Sarah Hughes win the gold medal in women's figure skating?", "answers": ["2002", "1980", "1994", "1988"], "correctAnswer": "2002"}	 			 			 			 	
		]
	}

	{"category": "history",
	 "questions": [
	 		{"question":"Conducted through the state of Georgia in 1864, who lead the 'March to the Sea'?", "answers": ["Sherman", "Jackson", "MacArther", "Custer"], "correctAnswer": "Sherman"},
	 		{"question":"Who was President of the United States during the war of 1812?", "answers": ["Polk", "Taft", "Jefferson", "Madison"], "correctAnswer": "Madison"},
	 		{"question":"Who was responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995?", "answers": ["Timothy McVeigh", "Eric Robert Rudolph", "Luke Helder", "Theodore Kaczynski"], "correctAnswer": "Timothy McVeigh"},
	 		{"question":"Which U.S. state was granted statehood on December 14th, 1819?", "answers": ["Alabama", "Georgia", "Kansas", "Ohio"], "correctAnswer": "Alabama"},
	 		{"question":"Which commoner became the head of England for 264 days?", "answers": ["Lord Mountbatten", "George Monck", "Guy Fawkes", "Richard Cromwell"], "correctAnswer": "Richard Cromwell"},
	 		{"question":"Where was the first skyscraper built in the United States?", "answers": ["New York", "Detroit", "Boston", "Chicago"], "correctAnswer": "Chicago"},
	 		{"question":"Who performed the first adult human heart transplant in 1967?", "answers": ["Dr. Christiaan Barnard", "Dr. Frederick Banting", "Dr. Alfred Blalock", "Dr. Charles Best"], "correctAnswer": "Dr. Christiaan Barnard"},
	 		{"question":"Which of the following codenames represents a research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs during World War II?", "answers": ["The Philadelphia Experiment", "Barbarossa", "Operation Sea Lion", "The Manhatten Project"], "correctAnswer": "The Manhatten Project"},
	 		{"question":"Killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew members aboard, where did Pan Am Flight 103 explode?", "answers": ["Over the Pacific", "Over China", "The Alps", "Over Scotland"], "correctAnswer": "Over Scotland"},
	 		{"question":"Famous for defecting to the United States from Russia in 1967, who was Lana Peters?", "answers": ["Georgy Malenkov's daughter", "Stalin's daughter", "Vladimir Lenin's daughter", "Vasily Zaitsev's daughter"], "correctAnswer": "Stalin's daughter"},
	 		{"question":"In what year did WWI begin?", "answers": ["1867", "1914", "1812", "1939"], "correctAnswer": "1914"},
	 		{"question":"Where was the Fuhrer of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler born?", "answers": ["Germany", "Russia", "France", "Austria"], "correctAnswer": "Austria"},
	 		{"question":"In which city was John F. Kennedy assassinated?", "answers": ["Dallas", "Chicago", "Washington DC", "Houston"], "correctAnswer": "Dallas"},
	 		{"question":"During which decade was the United States involved in the Korean War? ", "answers": ["1950s", "1980s", "1970s", "1960s"], "correctAnswer": "1950s"},
	 		{"question":"Taking place from 431 to 404 BC, who fought in the Peloponnesian wars?", "answers": ["Rome and Sparta", "Sparta and Athens", "Pisa and Rome", "Gaul and Athens"], "correctAnswer": "Sparta and Athens"},
	 		{"question":"Approximately, what percentage of the world's 1939 population was killed during World War II?", "answers": ["3%", "10%", "7%", "12%"], "correctAnswer": "3%"},
	 		{"question":"Code-named Operation Just Cause, which country did the United States invade in December of 1989?", "answers": ["Libya", "Costa Rica", "Iraq", "Panama"], "correctAnswer": "Panama"},
	 		{"question":"Which explorer was killed in Hawaii during his third exploratory voyage in 1779?", "answers": ["Ferdinand Magellan", "Marco Polo", "Christopher Columbus", "James Cook"], "correctAnswer": "James Cook"},
	 		{"question":"Taking place in 1951 during the Korean War, who became the first U.S. jet air ace in history?", "answers": ["John C. Meyer", "George Davis, Jr.", "James Jabara", "Joseph McConnell, Jr."], "correctAnswer": "James Jabara"},
	 		{"question":"Which King was taken prisoner by the Yorkists at the Battle of St. Albans during the War of the Roses in 1455?", "answers": ["King Henry VI", "King Henry VII", "King Henry IV", "King Henry V"], "correctAnswer": "King Henry VI"},
	 		{"question":"Historic Battles - Which of these battles occurred first?", "answers": ["Battle of Champion Hill", "Battle of Cross Keys", "Battle of Waterloo", "Battle of Solferino"], "correctAnswer": "Battle of Waterloo"},
	 		{"question":"British Prime Ministers - Which of the following Prime Ministers reigned the earliest?", "answers": ["Tony Blair", "David Cameron", "Gordon Brown", "John Major"], "correctAnswer": "John Major"},
	 		{"question":"Communication History - Which communication invention made its appearance first?", "answers": ["Telex Machines", "Telstar", "Video Recorder", "TV"], "correctAnswer": "TV"},
	 		{"question":"Which of the Ancient Wonders was destroyed by a fire in about 356 BC?", "answers": ["The Temple of Artemis", "The Temple of Artemis", "The Great Pyramid", "The Hanging Gardens of Babylon"], "correctAnswer": "The Temple of Artemis"},
	 		{"question":"William Pitt the Younger was Prime Minister during which of these events?", "answers": ["The French Revolution", "The Second World War", "The Hundred Year War", "The First World War"], "correctAnswer": "The French Revolution"},
	 		{"question":"Which country was once referred to as the Batavian Republic?", "answers": ["Austria", "Denmark", "Sweden", "The Netherlands"], "correctAnswer": "The Netherlands"},
	 		{"question":"Whom did Charles Guiteau assassinate in 1881?", "answers": ["John F. Kennedy", "Anwar Sadat", "James Garfield", "Louis Mountbatten"], "correctAnswer": "James Garfield"},
	 		{"question":"Fezzan, Cyrenaica and Tripolitania make up which modern country?", "answers": ["Angola", "Argentina", "Libya", "Sudan"], "correctAnswer": "Libya"},
	 		{"question":"Taking place from late November 2004 to January 2005, the Orange Revolution occurred in which nation?", "answers": ["Spain", "Ukraine", "Peru", "Hungary"], "correctAnswer": "Peru"},
	 		{"question":"What was President Ronald Reagan's codename while in office?", "answers": ["First Man", "The Eagle", "Rawhide", "Little Boy"], "correctAnswer": "Rawhide"},
	 		{"question":"Historical Trials - Which of these historical trials happened first?", "answers": ["Alfred Dreyfus", "Nicola Sacco", "OJ Simpson", "Nuremburg"], "correctAnswer": "Alfred Dreyfus"},
	 		{"question":"Who shot and killed Billy the Kid on July 14th, 1881?", "answers": ["Wild Bill Hickok", "Bat Masterson", "Wyatt Earp", "Pat Garrett"], "correctAnswer": "Pat Garrett"},
	 		{"question":"Which of these people won a Noble Peace Prize in 1978?", "answers": ["Margret Thatcher", "Jimmy Carter", "Anwar Sadat", "Pierre Trudeau"], "correctAnswer": "Anwar Sadat"},
	 		{"question":"Who was the mother of Queen Elizabeth I?", "answers": ["Mary I", "Catherine of Aragon", "Anne Boleyn", "Catherine the Great"], "correctAnswer": "Anne Boleyn"},
	 		{"question":"Who wrote a firsthand account of the Gallic Wars entitled 'Commentarii de Bello Gallico'?", "answers": ["Edgar Allen Poe", "Julius Caesar", "Jules Verne", "Mark Twain"], "correctAnswer": "Julius Caesar"},
	 		{"question":"Which ancient people were the first to use ships with sails?", "answers": ["Aztecs", "Incans", "Egyptians", "Vikings"], "correctAnswer": "Egyptians"},
	 		{"question":"Which nation was the first to grant women the right to vote?", "answers": ["Great Britian", "New Zealand", "America", "Canada"], "correctAnswer": "New Zealand"},
	 		{"question":"In 1918, Wilhelm II abdicated from which country?", "answers": ["Cuba", "Spain", "Mexico", "Germany"], "correctAnswer": "Germany"},
	 		{"question":"The Peloponnesian War was a battle between whom?", "answers": ["Sparta and Athens", "China and Nepal", "Argentina and Peru", "Spain and Portugal"], "correctAnswer": "Spain and Athens"}	 			 		
		]
	}	

	{"category": "entertainment",
	 "questions": [
	 		{"question":"How many pieces are on the board at the start of a game of chess?", "answers": ["28", "32", "36", "40"], "correctAnswer": "32"},
	 		{"question":"How many presidents of France had there been as at 2010?", "answers": ["7", "12", "23", "35"], "correctAnswer": "23"},
	 		{"question":"How many Horsemen of the Apocalypse feature in the Bible's Book of Revelation?", "answers": ["3", "4", "5", "500"], "correctAnswer": "4"},
	 		{"question":"New York City comprises how many boroughs?", "answers": ["5", "6", "7", "12"], "correctAnswer": "5"},
	 		{"question":"Which 19th century poet and novelist, when age twenty-six, married his thirteen year old cousin?", "answers": ["Edgar Allen Poe", "Oscar Wilde", "Victor Hugo", "William Shakespeare"], "correctAnswer": "Edgar Allen Poe"},
	 		{"question":"Which American city invented plastic vomit?", "answers": ["Chicago", "Detroit", "Columbus", "Baltimore"], "correctAnswer": "Chicago"},
	 		{"question":"In 'Ben Hur', which moderl thing can be seen during the chariot scene?", "answers": ["a telephone", "a car", "a streetlamp", "a waitress"], "correctAnswer": "a car"},
	 		{"question":"What was Karl Marx's favorite color", "answers": ["Brown", "Blue", "Red", "Purple"], "correctAnswer": "Red"},
	 		{"question":"Of the following, which was NOT the name of a Spice Girl?", "answers": ["Cutie", "Scary", "Sporty", "Baby"], "correctAnswer": "Cutie"},
	 		{"question":"The second best-selling album of the entire decade of 90s was a movie soundtrack. What was the movie?", "answers": ["Forrest Gump", "The Bodyguard", "Titanic", "The Lion King"], "correctAnswer": "The Bodyguard"},
	 		{"question":"Which of the following band/artists has put out 3 of the top 10 best-selling albums of the 90s?", "answers": ["Backstreet Boys", "Metallica", "Garth Brooks", "Celine Dion"], "correctAnswer": "Garth Brooks"},
	 		{"question":"Who asked the musical question What if God was One of Us?", "answers": ["Sarah Mclachlan", "Sheryl Crow", "Joan Osborne", "Madonna"], "correctAnswer": "Joan Osborne"},
	 		{"question":"After Mother Love Bone's singer died of an overdose, 2 of it's member's formed which of the 90s most popular bands?", "answers": ["Red Hot Chili Peppers", "Nirvana", "Smashing Pumpkins", "Pearl Jam"], "correctAnswer": "Pearl Jam"},
	 		{"question":"Released New Year's Eve of 1991, what was the name of Live's first album?", "answers": ["Live", "Throwing Copper", "Mental Jewelry", "Cerebral Ornament"], "correctAnswer": "Mental Jewelry"},
	 		{"question":"Which band had their biggest hit with a cover of an old Louis Prima swing hit?", "answers": ["Big Bad Voodoo Daddy", "Mighty Mighty Bosstones", "Royal Crown Revue", "Royal Crown Revue"], "correctAnswer": "Royal Crown Revue"},
	 		{"question":"Puffy Daddy and The Family's hit song I'll Be Missing You is a tribute to which late rapper?", "answers": ["Notorious B.I.G.", "Tupac Shakur", "Ol' Dirty Bastard", "Eazy-E"], "correctAnswer": "Notorious B.I.G."},
	 		{"question":"Which female singer-songwriter is from Alaska?", "answers": ["Sheryl Crow", "Jewel", "Sarah McLachlan", "Alanis Morissette"], "correctAnswer": "Jewel"},
	 		{"question":"Sinead O'Connor had a hit with a cover version of Nothing Compares 2 U. Who sang it originally?", "answers": ["Prince", "Michael Jackson", "Michael Stipe", "Madonna"], "correctAnswer": "Prince"},
	 		{"question":"When you think of grunge, what city comes to mind?", "answers": ["San Diego", "Chicago", "Seattle", "New York"], "correctAnswer": "Seattle"},
	 		{"question":"Who had a one-hit wonder with the song Life is a Highway?", "answers": ["Crash Test Dummies", "Tom Cochrane", "The Verve Pipe", "Edwyn Collins"], "correctAnswer": "Tom Cochrane"},
	 		{"question":"Which of the following is NOT a Dave Matthews Band song?", "answers": ["Ants Marching", "#41", "1979", "Tripping Billies"], "correctAnswer": "1979"},
	 		{"question":"Which of the following is NOT the name of a Celine Dion album from the 90s?", "answers": ["The Color of My Love", "Tuesday Night Music Club", "Let's Talk About Love", "Falling into You"], "correctAnswer": "Tuesday Night Music Club"},
	 		{"question":"Charles Dickens did not write which one of the following books?", "answers": ["Barchester Towers", "Dombey and Son", "Great Expectations", "Hard Times"], "correctAnswer": "Barchester Towers"},
	 		{"question":"Which author wrote the poem that begins with 'When I was one-and-twenty/I heard a wise man say'?", "answers": ["Robert Browning", "Lewis Carroll", "A. E. Housman", "Rudyard Kipling"], "correctAnswer": "A. E. Housman"},
	 		{"question":"Of these four poets, which one was male?", "answers": ["Emily Dickinson", "Joyce Kilmer", "Amy Lowell", "Alice Duer Miller"], "correctAnswer": "Joyce Kilmer"},
	 		{"question":"According to the poem The Iliad, who or what was inside the Trojan Horse?", "answers": ["Greek Soldiers", "Trojan Soldiers", "Horses", "Nothing"], "correctAnswer": "Greek Soldiers"},
	 		{"question":"Where did the original Jezebel (shameless hussy) first appear?", "answers": ["the Bible", "a Charles Dickens story", "a Shakespearean play", "a silent film"], "correctAnswer": "the Bible"},
	 		{"question":"Who was the author of the 1978 bestseller The Ends of Power?", "answers": ["John Deal", "John Ehrlichman", "H. R. Haldeman", "Gordon Liddy"], "correctAnswer": "Gordon Liddy"},
	 		{"question":"Robert Herrick dedicated his poem that begins, 'Gather ye rosebuds while ye may', to whom?", "answers": ["farmers", "his wife", "virgins", "the king of England"], "correctAnswer": "virgins"},
	 		{"question":"Who was Hannibal Hamlin?", "answers": ["a character in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", "a character on the TV series The A Team", "a vice president under Abraham Lincoln", "the Pied Piper of a children's story "], "correctAnswer": "the Pied Piper of a children's story "},
	 		{"question":"Which of these titles were not a book written by Dr. Seuss?", "answers": ["the Cat in the Hat", "the Frog in the Bog", "Hop on Pop", "Hunches and Bunches"], "correctAnswer": "the Frog in the Bog"},
	 		{"question":"'Life is real! Life is earnest!' was the beginning of a poem written by whom?", "answers": ["Henry Wadsworth Longfellow", "Walt Whitman", "William Wordsworth", "Edgar Allen Poe"], "correctAnswer": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"},
	 		{"question":"Which of the following books would introduce you to the crafty pirate Long John Silver", "answers": ["Captains Courageous", "Kidnapped", "Treasure Island", "Robinson Caruso"], "correctAnswer": "Treasure Island"},
	 		{"question":"'All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds' is a line from what?", "answers": ["Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice", "Beckett's Waiting for Godot", "Voltaire's Candide", "none of the above"], "correctAnswer": "Voltaire's Candide"},
	 		{"question":"On which continent is the 1994 Disney film, 'The Lion King,' set? ", "answers": ["Asia", "Africa", "North America", "Europe"], "correctAnswer": "Africa"},
	 		{"question":"'The King of Thieves' was a straight-to-video follow up to which 1992 Disney movie? ", "answers": ["Mulan", "Pocahontas", "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", "Aladdin"], "correctAnswer": "Aladdin"},
	 		{"question":"What kind of creature is Shere Khan in the film, 'The Jungle Book'?", "answers": ["Panther", "Tiger", "Ape", "Lion"], "correctAnswer": "Tiger"},
	 		{"question":"Which 2008 Disney film tells the story of a waste robot cleaning up Earth based far in the future?", "answers": ["Ice Age", "Wall-E", "Despicable Me", "Cars"], "correctAnswer": "Wall-E"},
	 		{"question":"Which 2003 comedy film stars Queen Latifah and Steve Martin? ", "answers": ["Maid In Manhatten", "Cheaper By the Dozen", "Bringing Down the House", "Twins"], "correctAnswer": "Bringing Down the House"},
	 		{"question":"What is the occupation of C. D. Wales in the 1987 movie 'Roxanne'?", "answers": ["Politician", "Fireman", "Gangster", "Lawyer"], "correctAnswer": "Fireman"},
	 		{"question":"Which country music singer stars in the movie '9 to 5'? ", "answers": ["Reba McEntire", "Dolly Parton", "Patty Loveless", "Wynonna Judd"], "correctAnswer": "Dolly Parton"},
	 		{"question":"Select the Tom Cruise movie that was released BEFORE the others", "answers": ["The Color of Money", "Born on the Fourth of July", "Rain Man", "Cocktail"], "correctAnswer": "The Color of Money"},
	 		{"question":"What color is the lightsaber used by Yoda?", "answers": ["Yellow", "Red", "Blue", "Green"], "correctAnswer": "Green"},
	 		{"question":"What is the name of the icy planet on which the rebels have made their base in 'The Empire Strikes Back'? ", "answers": ["Loth", "Hoth", "Toth", "Goth"], "correctAnswer": "Hoth"},
	 		{"question":"Which of the following movies from 2014 was based on a 2009 James Dashner novel?", "answers": ["The Maze Runner", "The Theory of Everything", "The Equalizer", "Divergent"], "correctAnswer": "The Maze Runner"},
	 		{"question":"Complete Buzz Lightyear's catchphrase 'To Infinity and...'?", "answers": ["Away", "Fly", "Zoom", "Beyond"], "correctAnswer": "Beyond"},
	 		{"question":"What is the name of Aladdin's mischievous monkey friend?", "answers": ["Abu", "Rafiki", "Curious George", "Kong"], "correctAnswer": "Abu"}		 			 		
		]
	}

{
    "category": "science",
    "questions": [
        {
            "question": "What was the average life expectancy of white males born in the U.S. just before the Civil War?",
            "answers": [
                "40 years",
                "50 years",
                "60 years",
                "70 years"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "40 years"
        },
        {
            "question": "What is a shaddock?",
            "answers": [
                "a fish, the offspring of a male shad and a female haddock",
                "a crystal, such as quartz, that sticks out from a mineral vein",
                "a plant that is a member of the nightshade family",
                "a grapefruit"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "a grapefruit"
        },
        {
            "question": "Which one of the following instruments is used to measure humidity?",
            "answers": [
                "anemometer",
                "ammeter",
                "hygrometer",
                "barometer"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "hygrometer"
        },
        {
            "question": "Which two planets are most similar in size diameter wise?",
            "answers": [
                "Mars and Mercury",
                "Venus and Earth",
                "Uranus and Neptune",
                "Jupiter and Saturn"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "Venus and Earth"
        },
        {
            "question": "If a hertz is equal to one cylce per second, how manyh cycles per second does a megahertz  equal?",
            "answers": [
                "1/1,000",
                "1,000",
                "1,000,000",
                "1,000,000,000"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "1,000,000"
        },
        {
            "question": "What principle explains why cold food warms up and hot food cools off when stored at room temperature?",
            "answers": [
                "entropy",
                "chemical equilibrium",
                "momentum",
                "relativity"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "entropy"
        },
        {
            "question": "Which color is not considered to be one of the primary colors of light?",
            "answers": [
                "Red",
                "yellow",
                "green",
                "blue"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "yellow"
        },
        {
            "question": "What causes the disease toxoplasmosis??",
            "answers": [
                "a bacterium",
                "a protozoan",
                "a virus",
                "a prion"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "a protozoan"
        },
        {
            "question": "What is the slowest wind speed a hurricane can have according to the Saffir-Simpson scale??",
            "answers": [
                "50 m.p.h.",
                "74 m.p.h.",
                "96 m.p.h.",
                "110 m.p.h."
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "74 m.p.h."
        },
        {
            "question": "Which of the following heavenly bodies have never had a spacecraft landed on it?",
            "answers": [
                "Venus",
                "Mars",
                "the moon",
                "Jupiter"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "Jupiter"
        },
        {
            "question": "Meat should be kept frozen at what temperature in degrees Fahrenheit?",
            "answers": [
                "0 degrees or below",
                "between 10 and 20 degrees",
                "between 20 and 30 degrees",
                "just below 32 degrees"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "0 degrees or below"
        },
        {
            "question": "Many scientists think that some of the dinosaurs did not go extinct, but rather evolved into what kind of creature?",
            "answers": [
                "amphibians",
                "reptiles",
                "birds",
                "mammals"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "birds"
        },
        {
            "answers": [
                "up to 250",
                "up to 25,000",
                "up to 2,500,000",
                "up to 250,000,000"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "up to 250,000,000",    
            "question": "In 1989, scientists from Norway discovered that there are far more viruses in oceans, lakes, and streams than previously believed.  How many viruses did they find that a milliliter of natural water might contain?"
        },
        {
            "correctAnswer": "Euclidean",
            "question": "In which kind of geometry is the sum of the angles inside a triangle exactly equal to 180 degrees?",
            "answers": [
                "elliptical",
                "Euclidean",
                "hyperbolic",
                "linear"
            ]
        },
        {
            "question": "What is the name of the disease that has been referred to as the disease of kings?",
            "answers": [
                "hemophilia",
                "jaundice",
                "rubella",
                "syphilis"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "hemophilia"
        },
        {
            "question": "What disease causes a buildup of fluid pressure in the eyeball and damages the optic nerve at the back of the eye?",
            "answers": [
                "astigmatism",
                "cataract",
                "glaucoma",
                "retinitis"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "glaucoma"
        },
        {
            "question": "What would be the most likely thing one would do with the compound MgSO4 7H2O?",
            "answers": [
                "power a car",
                "blow up a building",
                "soak ones feet",
                "fertilize a lawn"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "soak ones feet"
        },
        {
            "question": "Amps are a unit of measurement of what?",
            "answers": [
                "electric charge",
                "electric current",
                "electric field strength",
                "electric potential"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "electric current"
        },
        {
            "question": "In which century was the greatest number of chemical elements discovered?",
            "answers": [
                "17th",
                "18th",
                "19th",
                "20th"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "19th"
        },
        {
            "question": "Louis Pasteur developed which vaccine?",
            "answers": [
                "polio",
                "rabies",
                "smallpox",
                "anthrax"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "rabies"
        },
        {
            "question": "How long ago did dinosaurs become extinct?",
            "answers": [
                "10,000 years",
                "600,000 years",
                "6 million years",
                "60 million years"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "60 million years"
        },
        {
            "question": "Which of the following food items have the least calories?",
            "answers": [
                "5 ounces of whole milk",
                "5 ounces of beer",
                "5 teaspoons of sugar",
                "5 ounces of vegetable oil"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "5 ounces of beer"
        },
        {
            "answers": [
                "shoulder blade",
                "knee cap",
                "femur",
                "lower jaw bone"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "shoulder blade",
            "question": "The scapula is more commonly called the what?"
        },
        {
            "correctAnswer": "rance and Switzerland",
            "question": "At the time that the Large Electron-Positron Collider went into operation in 1989 it was the largest scientific instrument ever built with a circumference of over 16 miles. Where is it located?",
            "answers": [
                "California and Nevada",
                "France and Switzerland",
                "Austria and Germany",
                "France and Italy"
            ]
        },
        {
            "question": "If a circle and a square have the same area, then which of the following statements must be true?",
            "answers": [
                "The circle's circumference is greater than the square's perimeter",
                "the circle's circumference is greater than the square's perimeter",
                "the circle's circumference is less than the square's perimeter",
                "None of the above"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "the circle's circumference is less than the square's perimeter"
        },
        {
            "question": "Which of the following are true during a lunar eclipse?",
            "answers": [
                "The sun is between the earth and the moon",
                "the earth is between the sun and the moon",
                "the sun is between the earth and the moon",
                "none of the above"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "the earth is between the sun and the moon"
        },
        {
            "question": "What kinds of quarks form the protons and neutrons in the atoms of matter?",
            "answers": [
                "strange and charmed",
                "top and bottom",
                "up and down",
                "all of the above"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "up and down"
        },
        {
            "question": "What country became the third one to launch a spacecraft to the moon in January 1990?",
            "answers": [
                "China",
                "France",
                "Japan",
                "United Kingdom"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "Japan"
        },
        {
            "question": "Which of the following flowers did not get its name from adding \"ia\" to the surname of the botanist?",
            "answers": [
                "fuchsia",
                "magnolia",
                "zinnia",
                "petunia"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "petunia"
        },
        {
            "question": "What is an imaginary number?",
            "answers": [
                "any irrational number",
                "any complex number",
                "the result of dividing any number by zero",
                "the square root of any negative real number"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "the square root of any negative real number"
        },
        {
            "question": "Prior to 1977 rings were only known to exist around Saturn. Since then, at least one ring has been found around which other planet or planets?",
            "answers": [
                "Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune",
                "Uranus and Neptune",
                "Uranus",
                "Mercury and Neptune"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune"
        },
        {
            "question": "Which of these drugs was discovered first?",
            "answers": [
                "aspirin",
                "cocaine",
                "penicillin",
                "xanax"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "cocaine"
        },
        {
            "question": "The Magellan spacecraft launched in 1989, was sent to map the surface of what planet?",
            "answers": [
                "Mars",
                "Neptune",
                "Venus",
                "Mercury"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "Venus"
        },
        {
            "answers": [
                "100",
                "1,000",
                "8,000",
                "8192"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "8192",
            "question": "In computer software, how many bits are in a kilobyte?"
        },
        {
            "correctAnswer": "the ship would lose mass",
            "question": "In relativity theory, if a spaceship accelerated to near the speed of light, an observer not on the ship might notice all but which of the following?",
            "answers": [
                "clocks on the ship would slow down",
                "the ship would get smaller",
                "the ship would lose mass",
                "the ship would gain mass"
            ]
        },
        {
            "question": "Which of these animals lays eggs?",
            "answers": [
                "kangaroo",
                "koala",
                "platypus",
                "Tasmanian devil"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "platypus"
        },
        {
            "question": "During which decade was the television invented?",
            "answers": [
                "1920s",
                "1930s",
                "1940s",
                "1950s"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "1920s"
        },
        {
            "answers": [
                "0",
                "2",
                "4",
                "6"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "4",
            "question": "How many of the eight planets other than earth are smaller than Earth?"
        },
        {
            "question": "Which of the following animals have, on the average, the shortest lifespan?",
            "answers": [
                "gray squirrel",
                "grizzly bear",
                "kangaroo",
                "moose"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "kangaroo"
        },
        {
            "question": "Which of the following gasses account for about 78 percent of the earth's atmosphere?",
            "answers": [
                "argon",
                "carbon dioxide",
                "nitrogen",
                "oxygen"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "nitrogen"
        },
        {
            "correctAnswer": "3500 B.C.",
            "question": "Approximately when was the wheel invented?",
            "answers": [
                "5500 B.C.",
                "4500 B.C.",
                "3500 B.C.",
                "1500 B.C."
            ]
        },
        {
            "question": "In chemistry, what element is represented by the symbol C?",
            "answers": [
                "calcium",
                "carbon",
                "chlorine",
                "copper"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "carbon"
        },
        {
            "answers": [
                "10",
                "12",
                "15",
                "20"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "12",
            "question": "How many sides does a dodecagon have?"
        },
        {
            "question": "Which of the following animals usually weighs the least?",
            "answers": [
                "lions",
                "polar bears",
                "tigers",
                "Wildebeest"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "lions"
        },
        {
            "correctAnswer": "sometime in the next 2,000 years",
            "question": "Ice Age patterns of the last half million years indicate that the next Ice Age is due to arrive when?",
            "answers": [
                "sometime between 10,000 to 30,000 years from now",
                "sometime between 50,000 to 100,000 years from now.",
                "sometime in the next 2,000 years",
                "over 100,000 years from now"
            ]
        },
        {
            "question": "Which two different species of animals were successfully bred by the University of California?",
            "answers": [
                "a goat and a sheep producing a new animal called a \"geep\"",
                "a rabbit and a hamster, producing a new animal called a \"ramster\"",
                "a horse and a camel, producing a new animal called a \"hormel\"",
                "a deer and an elk , producing a new animal called a \"Delk\""
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "a goat and a sheep producing a new animal called a \"geep\""
        },
        {
            "question": "What was the name of the space shuttle that place in April, 1981 and was the first manned U.S. space shuttle fight?",
            "answers": [
                "Atlantis",
                "Discovery",
                "Columbia",
                "Challenger"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "Columbia"
        },
        {
            "question": "Room temperature is about 68 degrees Fahrenheit. What is the temperature given in degrees Celsius?",
            "answers": [
                "20",
                "30",
                "40",
                "50"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "20"
        },
        {
            "question": "What was the name of the first U.S. Space Shuttle to take flight in April, 1981?",
            "answers": [
                "Atlantis",
                "Columbia",
                "Challenger",
                "Discovery"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "Columbia"
        },
        {
            "question": "According to a 1980s survey of 40,000 students, approximately what fraction of American school children now have no decay in their permanent teeth?",
            "answers": [
                "one tenth",
                "one quarter",
                "one third",
                "one half "
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "one half"
        },
        {
            "question": "In the manufacturing of pewter what is the main ingredient?",
            "answers": [
                "copper",
                "iron",
                "lead",
                "tin"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "tin"
        },
        {
            "answers": [
                "101",
                "12",
                "15",
                "20"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "12",
            "question": "How many sides does a dodecagon have?"
        },
        {
            "correctAnswer": "62 pounds",
            "question": "Roughly how much does a cubic foot of water weigh?",
            "answers": [
                "10 pounds",
                "37 pounds",
                "62 pounds",
                "75 pounds"
            ]
        },
        {
            "question": "What planet has a day that lasts only 10 hours?",
            "answers": [
                "Mars",
                "Mercury",
                "Jupiter",
                "Venus"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "Jupiter"
        },
        {
            "question": "How long did it take the voyager 2 spacecraft to reach Netpune?",
            "answers": [
                "6 months",
                "3 years",
                "12 years",
                "15 years"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "12 years"
        },
        {
            "question": "Which one of the following laws of heredity are not one of Gregor  Mendel's laws?",
            "answers": [
                "dominance",
                "independent  assortment",
                "integration",
                "segregation"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "integration"
        },
        {
            "question": "From the pit of what fruit does the controversial cancer-treating drug Laetrile come from?",
            "answers": [
                "apricot",
                "cherry",
                "peach",
                "watermelon"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "apricot"
        },
        {
            "answers": [
                "10,000 ",
                "100,000",
                "1,000,000",
                "10,000,000"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "10,000",
            "question": "How many years has the Amazon rain forest existed?"
        },
        {
            "question": "The spaceship Voyager2 found geysers on Triton, a moon of what planet?",
            "answers": [
                "Saturn",
                "Uranus",
                "Neptune",
                "Mars"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "Neptune"
        },
        {
            "correctAnswer": "tests on animals",
            "question": "What are \"pre-clinical trials\" in the process of testing new drugs before they are approved for general use?",
            "answers": [
                "test by computer simulation of molecular interactions",
                "tests on animals",
                "tests on humans",
                "chemical testing"
            ]
        }
    ]
}