[ { "id": "q-00001", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "7-Eleven stores were temporarily converted into Kwik E-marts to promote the release of what movie?", "correct_answer": "THE SIMPSONS MOVIE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Casablanca", "Jaws", "Titanic" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00002", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "A 2010 Billboard hit,”Dog Days are Over” is a song by the British band “Florence and the” what?", "correct_answer": "MACHINE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Pink Floyd", "U2", "Fleetwood Mac" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00003", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "A 2010 study by dating Web site Badoo.com found which of these nation’s women to be most flirtatious online?", "correct_answer": "SPAIN", "incorrect_answers": [ "France", "China", "Russia" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00004", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "A 2011 box set celebrates the 13-film collaboration between composer Danny Elfman and what film director?", "correct_answer": "TIM BURTON", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jaws", "Star Wars", "Titanic" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00005", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "A book about fashion and gay culture “Don We Now Our Gay Apparel” takes its title from what Christmas carol?", "correct_answer": "DECK THE HALLS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Charles Dickens", "George Orwell", "F. Scott Fitzgerald" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00006", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "A Boston native,what late night host’s sister made her film debut as one of the Eklund sisters in “The Fighter”?", "correct_answer": "CONAN O’ BRIEN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Star Wars", "Titanic", "The Godfather" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00007", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "A caramel candy brand since 1903,Werther’s Original is named after a town in the Westphalia region of what country?", "correct_answer": "GERMANY", "incorrect_answers": [ "United States", "Russia", "Brazil" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00008", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "A child starting kindergarten in September 2010 will ordinarily graduate from high school in what year?", "correct_answer": "2023", "incorrect_answers": [ "2028", "2025", "2022" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00009", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "A child starting kindergarten in September of 2010 will ordinarily graduate from high school in what year?", "correct_answer": "2023", "incorrect_answers": [ "2028", "2022", "2025" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00010", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "A clarsach–a traditional Irish musical instrument–is a kind of what?", "correct_answer": "HARP", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Beatles", "U2", "Led Zeppelin" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00011", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "A classic 1976 song by Blue Oyster Cult features the advice “Don’t Fear The” what?", "correct_answer": "REAPER", "incorrect_answers": [ "Pink Floyd", "U2", "Fleetwood Mac" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00012", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "A close friend of her Greek actor father,Telly Savalas was the godfather of which of these movie stars?", "correct_answer": "JENNIFER ANISTON", "incorrect_answers": [ "Meryl Streep", "Morgan Freeman", "Al Pacino" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00013", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "A common palindrome begins “A man,a plan,a canal” and ends with what country’s name?", "correct_answer": "PANAMA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Brazil", "Russia", "Mexico" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00014", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "A contestant on the 2012 season of “Celebrity Apprentice,” Dee Snider won fame as frontman for what ’80s band?", "correct_answer": "TWISTED SISTER", "incorrect_answers": [ "Nirvana", "The Eagles", "U2" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00015", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "A contestant on “Celebrity Apprentice” in 2011, NeNe Leakes is an outspoken “Real Housewife” from what city?", "correct_answer": "ATLANTA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Chicago", "Moscow", "Rome" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00016", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "A criminal who has “cooked the books” has engaged in what kind of illegal behavior?", "correct_answer": "ACCOUNTING FRAUD", "incorrect_answers": [ "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "Charles Dickens", "Ernest Hemingway" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00017", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "A crowd of people are running away from a bull on the cover of the 2008 Fodor’s guide to what country?", "correct_answer": "SPAIN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Japan", "Canada", "Mexico" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00018", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "A disorder where objects appear shrunken,Lilliputian hallucinations derives its name from what novel?", "correct_answer": "GULLIVER’S TRAVELS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Germany", "India", "United Kingdom" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00019", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "A false urban myth claims that a combination of pop rocks and soda proved fatal for “Mikey,” the boy in what cereal’s ’70s ads?", "correct_answer": "LIFE", "incorrect_answers": [ "India", "United States", "Brazil" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00020", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "A famous series of silent movies features a gang of slapstick comedians called the “Keystone” what?", "correct_answer": "KOPS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Titanic", "Avatar", "Jurassic Park" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00021", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "A favorite at weddings, “The Chicken Dance” song is one of the most widely known tunes of what music genre?", "correct_answer": "POLKA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Nirvana", "Led Zeppelin", "U2" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00022", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "A few notes of the French national anthem, “La Marseillaise,” play at the start of what Beatles song?", "correct_answer": "ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Japan", "China", "United States" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00023", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "A historic site since 1982,the Barbizon Hotel was once a residence for young single women in what U.S. city?", "correct_answer": "NEW YORK", "incorrect_answers": [ "Paris", "Moscow", "Madrid" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00024", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "A hot dog topped with chili sauce,raw onions and mustard is named after what famous New York City neighborhood?", "correct_answer": "CONEY ISLAND", "incorrect_answers": [ "Toronto", "Tokyo", "Sydney" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00025", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "A key figure in the 2008 presidential election, Ohio native Joe Wurzelbacher is better known as what?", "correct_answer": "JOE THE PLUMBER", "incorrect_answers": [ "Abraham Lincoln", "Barack Obama", "George Washington" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00026", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "A kilowatt is a unit of power equal to how many watts?", "correct_answer": "1000", "incorrect_answers": [ "995", "998", "1002" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00027", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "A major airport serving what U.S. city is named in honor of mayors William Berry Hartsfield and Maynard Jackson?", "correct_answer": "ATLANTA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Tokyo", "Chicago", "Sydney" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00028", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "A movie genre characterized by dark lighting and bleak settings,”film noir” literally translates to what?", "correct_answer": "BLACK FILM", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jurassic Park", "E.T.", "Titanic" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00029", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "A musician can play notes on which of these instruments while inhaling?", "correct_answer": "HARMONICA", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Eagles", "Pink Floyd", "Metallica" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00030", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "A national dish of Thailand, Pad Thai is traditionally made with all but which of these ingredients?", "correct_answer": "COCONUT MILK", "incorrect_answers": [ "Brazil", "United States", "France" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00031", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "A paper clip in France is called what since it resembles that of a musical instrument in shape?", "correct_answer": "TROMBONE", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Rolling Stones", "Nirvana", "U2" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00032", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "A perennial dance favorite,a popular song by C&C Music Factory describes “Things That Make You Go” what?", "correct_answer": "HMMMM", "incorrect_answers": [ "Fleetwood Mac", "The Eagles", "Led Zeppelin" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00033", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "A person who works full-time and gets paid biweekly would receive how many paychecks in one year?", "correct_answer": "26", "incorrect_answers": [ "28", "27", "16" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00034", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "A popular breed of poultry, Cornish hen takes its name from a region of what country?", "correct_answer": "ENGLAND", "incorrect_answers": [ "Spain", "Canada", "France" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00035", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "A popular maker of parenting accessories, the Babybjorn company is headquartered in what country?", "correct_answer": "SWEDEN", "incorrect_answers": [ "United States", "India", "Canada" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00036", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "A popular song at sports events, the Ramones’ “Blitzkreig Bop”begins with what chorus?", "correct_answer": "HEY HO LET”S GO", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Beatles", "The Rolling Stones", "Led Zeppelin" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00037", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "A popular style of music,the blues takes its name from a shortened form of what phrase?", "correct_answer": "BLUE DEVILS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Metallica", "Led Zeppelin", "The Eagles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00038", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "A popular tourist destination in Europe, Prague is the capital of what country?", "correct_answer": "CZECH REPUBLIC", "incorrect_answers": [ "Russia", "Spain", "Canada" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00039", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "A popular vacation spot,the Maldives is an island nation off the coast of which of these countries?", "correct_answer": "INDIA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Japan", "Germany", "China" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00040", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "A raucous road trip featured in the 1996 movie “Swingers” is said to have popularized what catchphrase?", "correct_answer": "VEGAS,BABY,VEGAS!", "incorrect_answers": [ "Pulp Fiction", "Casablanca", "Jurassic Park" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00041", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "A recurring character by funnyman Russell Brand,Aldous Snow is the lead singer of what fictional band?", "correct_answer": "INFANT SORROW", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Eagles", "The Beatles", "Queen" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00042", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "A renowned musical group, “Pershing’s Own” is the official band of what branch of the U.S. armed forces?", "correct_answer": "ARMY", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Eagles", "Fleetwood Mac", "Metallica" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00043", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "A rival to Amazon’s Kindle,what is the name of the e-book reader sold by Barnes & Noble?", "correct_answer": "NOOK", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jane Austen", "George Orwell", "J.K. Rowling" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00044", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "A simple image of a beam of light being refracted is depicted on the cover of what iconic 1973 album?", "correct_answer": "THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Beatles", "Pink Floyd", "Fleetwood Mac" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00045", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "A site of historic peace negotiations,the presidential retreat Camp David is located in what U.S. state?", "correct_answer": "MARYLAND", "incorrect_answers": [ "George Washington", "Abraham Lincoln", "Theodore Roosevelt" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00046", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "A sort of prequel to “Sex and The City,” “The Carrie Diaries” is a 2010 novel by what author?", "correct_answer": "CANDACE BUSHNELL", "incorrect_answers": [ "Toronto", "Rome", "Madrid" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00047", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "A Spanish-speaking person refers to what national holiday as “Dia de Trabajo”?", "correct_answer": "LABOR DAY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Spain", "Canada", "Mexico" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00048", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "A standard yardstick is approximately how many centimeters long?", "correct_answer": "91", "incorrect_answers": [ "93", "92", "101" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00049", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "A staple in mob movie meals,”gabagool” is one pronunciation of capicola,a type of Italian what?", "correct_answer": "CURED MEAT", "incorrect_answers": [ "Avatar", "The Shawshank Redemption", "E.T." ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00050", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "A statue of what movie character stands near the base of the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art?", "correct_answer": "ROCKY BALBOA", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Shawshank Redemption", "The Godfather", "E.T." ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00051", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "A substance,such as rubber,that conducts electricity very poorly is called a what?", "correct_answer": "INSULATOR", "incorrect_answers": [ "Sydney", "London", "Rome" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00052", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "A tattoo with the message “Remember Sammy Jankis” figures prominently in what film?", "correct_answer": "MEMENTO", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jurassic Park", "Jaws", "Titanic" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00053", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "A toilet plunger’s rubber head is an effective “mute” for which of these musical instruments?", "correct_answer": "TRUMPET", "incorrect_answers": [ "Led Zeppelin", "The Beatles", "Queen" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00054", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "A traditional “Hawaiian” pizza is topped with an unusual combination of pineapple and what?", "correct_answer": "HAM", "incorrect_answers": [ "Canada", "Spain", "Japan" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00055", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "A tune or song that becomes stuck in one’s head is slangily known as a what?", "correct_answer": "EARWORM", "incorrect_answers": [ "Led Zeppelin", "U2", "Fleetwood Mac" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00056", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "A type of molecule,cubane gets its name because its structure resembles a shape with how many sides?", "correct_answer": "6", "incorrect_answers": [ "5", "8", "4" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00057", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "A US President and an actress from the TV Series “Golden Girls” share what surname?", "correct_answer": "ARTHUR", "incorrect_answers": [ "Thomas Jefferson", "Barack Obama", "Abraham Lincoln" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00058", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "A Web site that no longer exists will often prompt the phrase “Not Found” and what code number?", "correct_answer": "404", "incorrect_answers": [ "405", "403", "402" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00059", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "A well-known term for a husband whose wife cheats on him is derived from which of these bird names?", "correct_answer": "CUCKOO", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Eagles", "The Beatles", "Fleetwood Mac" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00060", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "A year is approximately equal to how many fortnights?", "correct_answer": "26", "incorrect_answers": [ "36", "16", "27" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00061", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Able to rotate 360 degrees,SkyCity is a restaurant at the top of what U.S. landmark?", "correct_answer": "SPACE NEEDLE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Sydney", "Tokyo", "Moscow" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00062", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "About 30 seconds long,”Think Music” is the name of the familiar theme heard during the final round of what game show?", "correct_answer": "JEOPARDY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Led Zeppelin", "The Rolling Stones", "U2" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00063", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "About sharecroppers in Georgia, what novel’s title is also a noun meaning “a poverty-stricken area”?", "correct_answer": "TOBACCO ROAD", "incorrect_answers": [ "J.K. Rowling", "Mark Twain", "Charles Dickens" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00064", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "About “boys, drama, and best friends” in 2010 what reality star announced her upcoming novel, “A Shore Thing?”", "correct_answer": "NICOLE “SNOOKIE” POLIZZI", "incorrect_answers": [ "Mark Twain", "J.K. Rowling", "William Shakespeare" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00065", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "According to a 1974 Barry Manilow song, who “came and gave…without taking?”", "correct_answer": "MANDY", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Beatles", "Fleetwood Mac", "Queen" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00066", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "According to a 2011 report by Forbes, what country counts 115 billionaires among its citizens, second only to the U.S.?", "correct_answer": "CHINA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Australia", "Russia", "Germany" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00067", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "According to a 2012 report by Forbes,what country counts 96 billionaires among its citizens,second only to the U.S.?", "correct_answer": "RUSSIA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Canada", "United States", "Mexico" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00068", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "According to a classic American railroad song, “Someone’s in the kitchen with Dina” doing what?", "correct_answer": "STRUMMIN ON THE OLD BANJO", "incorrect_answers": [ "Pink Floyd", "Led Zeppelin", "Metallica" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00069", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "According to a classic theme song, you’ll have a “yabba-dabba-doo time” watching what TV series?", "correct_answer": "THE FLINTSTONES", "incorrect_answers": [ "Fleetwood Mac", "U2", "Pink Floyd" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00070", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "According to a data-based book called “The Top Ten,” which Shakespeare play is one of the ten best books of all-time?", "correct_answer": "HAMLET", "incorrect_answers": [ "Ernest Hemingway", "William Shakespeare", "Charles Dickens" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00071", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "According to a key song from “The Sound of Music,” what musical note is “a long, long way to run”?", "correct_answer": "FAT", "incorrect_answers": [ "Nirvana", "Queen", "The Rolling Stones" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00072", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "According to a TV Land sitcom starring Betty White,it is “Hot In” what U.S. city?", "correct_answer": "CLEVELAND", "incorrect_answers": [ "Toronto", "Sydney", "Paris" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00073", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "According to a well-known children’s song “The bear went over the mountain” to do what?", "correct_answer": "SEE WHAT HE COULD SEE", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Eagles", "The Rolling Stones", "Queen" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00074", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "According to his TV theme song,who was “born on a mountaintop in Tennessee”?", "correct_answer": "DAVY CROCKETT", "incorrect_answers": [ "Pink Floyd", "Metallica", "The Rolling Stones" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00075", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "According to its author, which of these books was written to promote kindness toward horses?", "correct_answer": "BLACK BEAUTY", "incorrect_answers": [ "William Shakespeare", "Ernest Hemingway", "George Orwell" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00076", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "According to its name,New York City’s MoMA specializes in what kind of art?", "correct_answer": "MODERN", "incorrect_answers": [ "New York", "Los Angeles", "Tokyo" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00077", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "According to legend, what frigid country was given a “warmer” name to trick people into settling there?", "correct_answer": "GREENLAND", "incorrect_answers": [ "China", "Brazil", "Australia" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00078", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "According to legend,country club employee Buddy Mulligan inspired a term often used in what sport?", "correct_answer": "GOLF", "incorrect_answers": [ "Italy", "Brazil", "Japan" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00079", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "According to McDonald’s, how many calories does its signature Big Mac sandwich have?", "correct_answer": "540", "incorrect_answers": [ "538", "550", "530" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00080", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "According to myth,what country’s capital was founded by the twins Romulus and Remus?", "correct_answer": "ITALY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Russia", "Germany", "Spain" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00081", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "According to the 1993 book, “The Left-Hander Syndrome,” roughly what percentage of the world is left-handed?", "correct_answer": "0.1", "incorrect_answers": [ "George Orwell", "Mark Twain", "Jane Austen" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00082", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "According to the 2011 Forbes list, how many billionaires are there in the world?", "correct_answer": "1140", "incorrect_answers": [ "1138", "1139", "1145" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00083", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "According to the book of Exodus,which of these was not one of the ten plagues God inflicted on ancient Egypt?", "correct_answer": "TEMPLES TURNED TO SAND", "incorrect_answers": [ "Mark Twain", "William Shakespeare", "F. Scott Fitzgerald" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00084", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "According to the Constitution, the U.S. vice president also serves as the what?", "correct_answer": "PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE", "incorrect_answers": [ "John F. Kennedy", "Abraham Lincoln", "Ronald Reagan" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00085", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "According to the Constitution,a U.S. senator elected in 2010 will be up for reelection in what year?", "correct_answer": "2016", "incorrect_answers": [ "2018", "2017", "2021" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00086", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "According to the lyrics of a 1964 song,the girl from Ipanema is “tall and thin and young and” what?", "correct_answer": "LOVELY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Metallica", "Led Zeppelin", "Queen" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00087", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "According to the lyrics of his 1973 hit song,Jim Croce wishes he “could save” what “in a bottle”?", "correct_answer": "TIME", "incorrect_answers": [ "Led Zeppelin", "Queen", "The Eagles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00088", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "According to the National Severe Storms Laboratory,about how wide across is a cloud-to-ground lightning bolt?", "correct_answer": "ONE INCH", "incorrect_answers": [ "India", "China", "Spain" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00089", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "According to the title of a cable sitcom featuring Danny DeVito, “It’s Always Sunny In” what U.S. city?", "correct_answer": "PHILADELPHIA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Los Angeles", "Madrid", "Chicago" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00090", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "According to the title of a popular folk song, what animal is “in the Straw”?", "correct_answer": "TURKEY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Nirvana", "The Eagles", "U2" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00091", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Acting legend Meryl Streep made her film debut in 1977 in what Oscar-nominated film?", "correct_answer": "JULIA", "incorrect_answers": [ "E.T.", "Casablanca", "Pulp Fiction" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00092", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Actors who gain weight for roles are often compared to Robert De Niro,who packed on 60 pounds for what Scorsese film?", "correct_answer": "RAGING BULL", "incorrect_answers": [ "Leonardo DiCaprio", "Johnny Depp", "Al Pacino" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00093", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Actress Mackenzie Phillips is the daughter of John Phillips,a singer from what popular music group?", "correct_answer": "THE MAMAS & THE PAPAS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Fleetwood Mac", "Pink Floyd", "Led Zeppelin" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00094", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Actually a combination of three tunnels,the so-called “Chunnel” runs underwater from England to what country?", "correct_answer": "FRANCE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Canada", "Japan", "Australia" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00095", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen, and Jonah Hill star in a 2009 movie aptly titled what?", "correct_answer": "FUNNY PEOPLE", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Godfather", "E.T.", "Star Wars" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00096", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Adapted from a children’s book,Jim Carrey plays a businessman who inherits pets in the movie “Mr.Popper’s” what?", "correct_answer": "PENGUINS", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Shawshank Redemption", "Star Wars", "E.T." ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00097", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Adding an “a” to the end of what president’s surname gives the name of a wildly popular 19th-century dance?", "correct_answer": "JAMES K.POLK", "incorrect_answers": [ "Ronald Reagan", "Abraham Lincoln", "Thomas Jefferson" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00098", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Administrative Professionals Day, once called National Secretaries Day, is observed during what month?", "correct_answer": "APRIL", "incorrect_answers": [ "China", "United Kingdom", "Russia" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00099", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Aesop,the 6th-cetntury Greek author,is primarily known for writing what type of fiction?", "correct_answer": "FABLES", "incorrect_answers": [ "Mark Twain", "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "George Orwell" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00100", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Afrikaans and Zulu are just two of the eleven official languages used by what multilingual nation?", "correct_answer": "SOUTH AFRICA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Germany", "China", "Japan" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00101", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "After adopting her son there,what actress helped rebuild a school in her newly adopted city of New Orleans?", "correct_answer": "SANDRA BULLOCK", "incorrect_answers": [ "Tokyo", "New York", "Madrid" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00102", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "After directing the pro-Dalai Lama 1997 film “Kundun,” what director found himself banned from China?", "correct_answer": "MARTIN SCORSESE", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Shawshank Redemption", "Titanic", "Jaws" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00103", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "After his departure from CBS in 2011,Charlie Sheen embarked on a nationwide tour called “My Violent Torpedo of” what?", "correct_answer": "TRUTH", "incorrect_answers": [ "Australia", "France", "United Kingdom" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00104", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "After nearly 70 days underground,33 men were dramatically rescued in 2010 from a mine in what country?", "correct_answer": "CHILE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Australia", "Italy", "Germany" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00105", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "After picking his running mate for vice president,who wrote in his diary,”It was my decision,and I blew it”?", "correct_answer": "GEORGE H.W. BUSH", "incorrect_answers": [ "Thomas Jefferson", "Barack Obama", "John F. Kennedy" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00106", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "After Russia, what is the largest country in the world by land area?", "correct_answer": "CANADA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Brazil", "Australia", "United States" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00107", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "After the passing of his father in 2011,Kim Jong-Un became the de facto leader of what nation?", "correct_answer": "NORTH KOREA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Brazil", "Japan", "Canada" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00108", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "After the U.S. and Russia,what is the only country to have launched a person into space aboard its own rocket?", "correct_answer": "CHINA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Brazil", "Spain", "United States" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00109", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Aimed at worn-out parents,the title of a best-selling 2011 kids’ book parody profanely urges kids to do what?", "correct_answer": "GO TO SLEEP", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jane Austen", "William Shakespeare", "Mark Twain" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00110", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Albany and New York City are two major ports on what river?", "correct_answer": "HUDSON", "incorrect_answers": [ "Berlin", "Los Angeles", "Toronto" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00111", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "All three of the popular “CSI” TV dramas feature theme songs performed by what rock band?", "correct_answer": "THE WHO", "incorrect_answers": [ "Pink Floyd", "The Beatles", "Led Zeppelin" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00112", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Also called a “Whammy bar” a “tremolo arm” is used to affect the pitch of which of these musical instruments?", "correct_answer": "GUITAR", "incorrect_answers": [ "Nirvana", "Fleetwood Mac", "The Beatles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00113", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Although the movie “Fargo” mostly takes place in Minnesota,its title refers to a city in what state?", "correct_answer": "NORTH DAKOTA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Los Angeles", "Paris", "Sydney" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00114", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "American Idol reject William Hung became an instant celebrity due to his mangled version of what pop song?", "correct_answer": "SHE BANGS", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Eagles", "Led Zeppelin", "Fleetwood Mac" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00115", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "An Al Pacino movie and a Metallica album both share what title,borrowed from the Pledge of Allegiance?", "correct_answer": "…AND JUSTICE FOR ALL", "incorrect_answers": [ "Titanic", "Casablanca", "Pulp Fiction" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00116", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "An alternative to the SAT, the ACT is a standardized college entrance exam in which scores range from 1 to what number?", "correct_answer": "36", "incorrect_answers": [ "35", "37", "26" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00117", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "An aviation fanatic,what film star is a licensed commercial pilot and flies his own Boeing 707 jet?", "correct_answer": "JOHN TRAVOLTA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Casablanca", "Jaws", "Star Wars" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00118", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "An avid art collector himself,what comedian penned the novel “An Object of Beauty,” about an ambitious young art dealer?", "correct_answer": "STEVE MARTIN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Ernest Hemingway", "Jane Austen", "J.K. Rowling" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00119", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "An epigraph to what classic novel features the quotation, “You are all a lost generation”?", "correct_answer": "THE SUN ALSO RISES", "incorrect_answers": [ "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "George Orwell", "Charles Dickens" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00120", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "An essential component in tango music, the bandoneon is a musical instrument that closely resembles a what?", "correct_answer": "ACCORDION", "incorrect_answers": [ "Pink Floyd", "Led Zeppelin", "Fleetwood Mac" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00121", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "An ironic allusion to a famous legislator, “The Volstead” in New York City is a cheekily-named what?", "correct_answer": "BAR", "incorrect_answers": [ "Moscow", "London", "New York" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00122", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "An ode to the president,what R&B group remade an old hit with the 2009 single “Solid(As Barack)”?", "correct_answer": "ASHFORD & SAMPSON", "incorrect_answers": [ "George Washington", "Thomas Jefferson", "John F. Kennedy" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00123", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "An organization for bald men,Bald R Us celebrates its International Bald Holiday on the birthday of what Oscar winner?", "correct_answer": "YUL BRYNNER", "incorrect_answers": [ "France", "Italy", "Germany" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00124", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Angry over their government’s finance policies,in 2011 protestors in what country started hurling yogurt at police?", "correct_answer": "GREECE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Germany", "Japan", "Mexico" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00125", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Appearing at the end of many country names, the suffix “-stan” originates from what language?", "correct_answer": "PERSIAN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Spain", "Canada", "Germany" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00126", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Armbands are popular accessories for which of these tech gadgets?", "correct_answer": "iPOD", "incorrect_answers": [ "Metallica", "Queen", "Fleetwood Mac" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00127", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "As a handy rhyme tells us, how many months have 31 days?", "correct_answer": "7", "incorrect_answers": [ "8", "5", "9" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00128", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "As a token of goodwill,in 1909 the city of Tokyo donated to the United States 2,000 what?", "correct_answer": "CHERRY TREES", "incorrect_answers": [ "Chicago", "Toronto", "Los Angeles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00129", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "As any avid Twitterer knows, the maximum number of characters allowed for a single “tweet” is what?", "correct_answer": "140", "incorrect_answers": [ "130", "139", "141" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00130", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "As depicted in the “Iron Man” movies,which of these is one of Iron Man’s superpowers?", "correct_answer": "FLIGHT", "incorrect_answers": [ "Casablanca", "The Godfather", "Jurassic Park" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00131", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "As its name implies, the Guinness World Book of Records was initially published by what kind of business?", "correct_answer": "BREWERY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Ernest Hemingway", "George Orwell", "F. Scott Fitzgerald" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00132", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "As its name implies,Bowfire is a music show featuring several performers who are virtuosos on the what?", "correct_answer": "FIDDLE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Metallica", "Fleetwood Mac", "Nirvana" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00133", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "As its name suggests, Wookieepedia is an online source of information about what sci-fi movie series?", "correct_answer": "STAR WARS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Casablanca", "Pulp Fiction", "Jurassic Park" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00134", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "As its title hints at,the 2012 movie “Joyful Noise” features what type of musical acts?", "correct_answer": "GOSPEL CHOIRS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Casablanca", "Jurassic Park", "Avatar" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00135", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "As music legend Prince must surely know,which of these colors is often associated with royalty?", "correct_answer": "PURPLE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Fleetwood Mac", "Pink Floyd", "Metallica" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00136", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "As of 2010, which of these movie franchises has not released a film in 3D?", "correct_answer": "BATMAN", "incorrect_answers": [ "E.T.", "Pulp Fiction", "Jurassic Park" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00137", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "As of 2010,which of these Bravo “Real Housewives” has not released a music single?", "correct_answer": "MICHAELE SALAHI", "incorrect_answers": [ "Metallica", "Pink Floyd", "The Beatles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00138", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "As of 2011,how much does it cost to buy a single issue of the newspaper “USA Today”?", "correct_answer": "1", "incorrect_answers": [ "2", "3", "5" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00139", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "As of 2011,what is the earliest age at which a person in the U.S. can collect their Social Security retirement benefits?", "correct_answer": "62", "incorrect_answers": [ "72", "64", "60" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00140", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "As of 2011,which of these movie stars has not yet reached the unofficial “retirement age” of 65?", "correct_answer": "BILL MURRAY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jurassic Park", "The Shawshank Redemption", "Avatar" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00141", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "As seen in countless movie plots,what government agency oversees the Witness Protection Program?", "correct_answer": "U.S. MARSHALS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jurassic Park", "Star Wars", "Pulp Fiction" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00142", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "As suggested by its quirky style, the 2010 film “Scott Pilgrim vs. The World” is based on an original what?", "correct_answer": "GRAPHIC NOVEL", "incorrect_answers": [ "Titanic", "Pulp Fiction", "Avatar" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00143", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "As the “Fresh Prince” theme music tells us,Will Smith was born and raised where?", "correct_answer": "WEST PHILADELPHIA", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Eagles", "The Rolling Stones", "Nirvana" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00144", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "At a 2007 charity auction,the winner paid $64,800 for a saxophone belonging to what former U.S. president?", "correct_answer": "BILL CLINTON", "incorrect_answers": [ "Ronald Reagan", "George Washington", "Theodore Roosevelt" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00145", "category": "Sports", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "At the 1936 Olympics, Jesse Owens shocked the host nation by winning 4 golds in what event?", "correct_answer": "TRACK AND FIELD", "incorrect_answers": [ "France", "Australia", "Germany" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00146", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "At the 2011 North American International auto show, what automaker unveiled a new, roomier midsize Passat?", "correct_answer": "VOLKSWAGEN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Brazil", "Japan", "France" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00147", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "At the end of the 1953 movie “Shane,” what does the little boy famously yell as Shane rides off into the sunset?", "correct_answer": "COME BACK!", "incorrect_answers": [ "Titanic", "Star Wars", "Jurassic Park" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00148", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "At the National Spelling Bee,official “pronouncers” may provide all but which of the following to the spellers?", "correct_answer": "SYNONYMS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Russia", "Spain", "China" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00149", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "At the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery,whose portrait depicts him holding a computer disk?", "correct_answer": "BILL GATES", "incorrect_answers": [ "France", "Spain", "China" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00150", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "At the State of the Union address,who usually sits with the vice president right behind the U.S. president?", "correct_answer": "SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Barack Obama", "John F. Kennedy", "Thomas Jefferson" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00151", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "At which of these places would a person most likely find a book called a hymnal?", "correct_answer": "CHURCH", "incorrect_answers": [ "Mark Twain", "George Orwell", "William Shakespeare" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00152", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "At whose Presidential library may visitors listen to a copy of the infamous “Smoking Gun” tape?", "correct_answer": "RICHARD NIXON", "incorrect_answers": [ "Ronald Reagan", "Theodore Roosevelt", "Thomas Jefferson" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00153", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Attempting to liken the phone to a newborn baby,the engineer who sent the first text message in the U.S. wrote what?", "correct_answer": "BURP", "incorrect_answers": [ "Mark Twain", "William Shakespeare", "Ernest Hemingway" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00154", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Audiences sang the lyrics “summer fling,don’t mean a thing” at a 2010 “Sing-A-Long” re-release of what movie musical?", "correct_answer": "GREASE", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Shawshank Redemption", "Casablanca", "Avatar" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00155", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Author and etiquette guru Judith Martin writes a newspaper column under the pen name “Miss” what?", "correct_answer": "MANNERS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Charles Dickens", "Ernest Hemingway", "J.K. Rowling" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00156", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Author Gabriel Garcia Marquez is best known for his masterpiece “One Hundred Years of” what?", "correct_answer": "SOLITUDE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Mark Twain", "Ernest Hemingway", "George Orwell" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00157", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Ballerina Sarah Lane made headlines by claiming that Natalie Portman only did 5 percent of the dancing in what film?", "correct_answer": "BLACK SWAN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Casablanca", "Avatar", "Jurassic Park" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00158", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Based on a true story, the 2010 film “127 Hours” stars James Franco as Aron Ralston, a courageous what?", "correct_answer": "MOUNTAIN CLIMBER", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jurassic Park", "E.T.", "Avatar" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00159", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Based on events of the 1976 Soweto riots, the Broadway musical “Sarafina!” is set in what country?", "correct_answer": "SOUTH AFRICA", "incorrect_answers": [ "France", "Mexico", "Japan" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00160", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Based on the childrens’ books, the main characters of the Nick Jr TV show “Olivia” are what animals?", "correct_answer": "PIGS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Charles Dickens", "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "Mark Twain" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00161", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Based on the foreign film “8 1/2,” the Broadway musical “Nine” features what aptly-titled song?", "correct_answer": "BE ITALIAN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Casablanca", "Star Wars", "Jurassic Park" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00162", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Basra is the chief port of which Persian Gulf country?", "correct_answer": "IRAQ", "incorrect_answers": [ "Russia", "Spain", "Australia" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00163", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Because he produced over 350 low-budget films,what filmmaker is known as the “King of the B-Movies”?", "correct_answer": "ROGER CORMAN", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Godfather", "Casablanca", "Jaws" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00164", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Because it can only play one note at a time,which of the following is a monophonic musical instrument?", "correct_answer": "TRUMPET", "incorrect_answers": [ "Pink Floyd", "Fleetwood Mac", "The Beatles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00165", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Because it consists of seven installments,which of these popular book series is considered a “heptalogy”?", "correct_answer": "HARRY POTTER", "incorrect_answers": [ "William Shakespeare", "J.K. Rowling", "George Orwell" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00166", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Because it featured many of its core “members,” which of these ’80s movies is considered a “Brat Pack” film?", "correct_answer": "ST.ELMO’S FIRE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jaws", "Jurassic Park", "Casablanca" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00167", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Because it focuses on the relationship of its two male stars, which of these films is called a “bromance”?", "correct_answer": "I LOVE YOU MAN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Casablanca", "Star Wars", "Pulp Fiction" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00168", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Because it is a fictionalized account of the author’s real life, which of these novels is considered a “roman a clef”?", "correct_answer": "THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Ernest Hemingway", "Jane Austen", "J.K. Rowling" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00169", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Because it is a fictionalized account of the author’s real life,which of these novels is considered a “roman a la clef”?", "correct_answer": "THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA", "incorrect_answers": [ "George Orwell", "William Shakespeare", "Mark Twain" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00170", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Because it is considered disrespectful to the monarchy,what movie musical is reportedly banned in Thailand?", "correct_answer": "THE KING AND I", "incorrect_answers": [ "E.T.", "Jaws", "The Shawshank Redemption" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00171", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Because it was the highest point on the Ohio & Erie Canal,what city’s name derives from the Greek word for “high place”?", "correct_answer": "AKRON", "incorrect_answers": [ "Berlin", "Chicago", "Los Angeles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00172", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Because its members are all related to a man named Leon, a rock band formed in 2000 has what name", "correct_answer": "KINGS OF LEON", "incorrect_answers": [ "Metallica", "U2", "The Eagles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00173", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Because its presidential namesake had no middle initial, a Utah grade school goofed by giving itself what name?", "correct_answer": "JAMES A. MADISON", "incorrect_answers": [ "Theodore Roosevelt", "George Washington", "John F. Kennedy" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00174", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Because of a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, what name has come to mean “a seductive young girl”?", "correct_answer": "LOLITA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jane Austen", "J.K. Rowling", "George Orwell" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00175", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Because of its abundance of bright lights, what New York city landmark is called “The Great White Way”?", "correct_answer": "BROADWAY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Sydney", "Chicago", "Paris" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00176", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Because the American “r” sound is rarely pronounced, in what country is Ronald McDonald called “Donald McDonald?”", "correct_answer": "JAPAN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Russia", "Spain", "Mexico" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00177", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Because the country is at such high altitude,Tibet is known by what “homey” nickname?", "correct_answer": "THE ROOF OF THE WORLD", "incorrect_answers": [ "United States", "France", "Spain" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00178", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Before Barack Obama,who was the last sitting U.S. senator to become president?", "correct_answer": "JOHN F. KENNEDY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "Thomas Jefferson", "Theodore Roosevelt" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00179", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Before Barbara Bush, what First Lady’s husband and son both served as U.S. president?", "correct_answer": "ABIGAIL ADAMS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Ronald Reagan", "Theodore Roosevelt", "Abraham Lincoln" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00180", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Before becoming a successful film director, Rob Reiner played Michael Stivic on what classic sitcom?", "correct_answer": "ALL IN THE FAMILY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Pulp Fiction", "E.T.", "The Shawshank Redemption" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00181", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Before becoming vice president, Joe Biden served as what state’s U.S. senator for 36 years?", "correct_answer": "DELAWARE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Thomas Jefferson", "John F. Kennedy", "Theodore Roosevelt" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00182", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Before beginning her solo career, Aimee Mann was the lead singer of what 1980s pop band?", "correct_answer": "TIL TUESDAY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Led Zeppelin", "The Beatles", "U2" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00183", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Before creating his successful TV series “The West Wing,” Aaron Sorkin wrote what famous line in film?", "correct_answer": "YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH!", "incorrect_answers": [ "Pulp Fiction", "Jurassic Park", "E.T." ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00184", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Before he hit it big, what singer composed the famous ad jingle, “I’m stuck on BandAid”?", "correct_answer": "BARRY MANILOW", "incorrect_answers": [ "Pink Floyd", "Nirvana", "Led Zeppelin" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00185", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Before he went solo,British singer Morrissey was frontman for which of these ’80s bands?", "correct_answer": "THE SMITHS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Fleetwood Mac", "Nirvana", "The Beatles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00186", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Before its country suffered a 15-year civil war, what city was known as “The Paris of the Middle East”?", "correct_answer": "BEIRUT", "incorrect_answers": [ "Australia", "Spain", "Japan" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00187", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Before playing a cheerleading coach on “Glee,” Jane Lynch played the manager of Smart Tech in what comedy film?", "correct_answer": "THE 40-YEAR OLD VIRGIN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Pulp Fiction", "E.T.", "The Godfather" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00188", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Before starring in the 1999 film,who was dubbed a real-life “runaway bride” after leaving her fiance,Kiefer Sutherland?", "correct_answer": "JULIA ROBERTS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Casablanca", "The Godfather", "Jaws" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00189", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Before they hit it big, the Beatles replaced band member Pete Best with whom?", "correct_answer": "RINGO STARR", "incorrect_answers": [ "Led Zeppelin", "Nirvana", "The Eagles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00190", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Before “Sex and the City,” “Sex and the Single Girl” was a 1962 groundbreaking advice book by whom?", "correct_answer": "HELEN GURLEY BROWN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Los Angeles", "Sydney", "Berlin" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00191", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Besides “Righteous Kill,”what other film features scenes between acting greats Al Pacino and Robert De Niro?", "correct_answer": "HEAT", "incorrect_answers": [ "Avatar", "Jaws", "E.T." ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00192", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Best known for her political website “The Huffington Post,” Arianna Huffington hails from what country?", "correct_answer": "GREECE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Spain", "China", "United Kingdom" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00193", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Best known for their hazelnut-filled Baci chocolates, Perugina is a confectionery based in what country?", "correct_answer": "ITALY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Spain", "Australia", "Russia" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00194", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Better known as the “Barefoot Contessa,” author and TV host Ina Garten is a guru in what field?", "correct_answer": "COOKING", "incorrect_answers": [ "Mark Twain", "J.K. Rowling", "William Shakespeare" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00195", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Between the ages of 6 and 10,President Obama resided primarily in what country?", "correct_answer": "INDONESIA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Barack Obama", "Thomas Jefferson", "George Washington" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00196", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Beverly Cleary is the author of a series of children’s books about the Quimby sisters,Beezus and whom?", "correct_answer": "RAMONA", "incorrect_answers": [ "William Shakespeare", "Mark Twain", "Jane Austen" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00197", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Born in 1905, Eugene Fodor was a pioneer of what book genre?", "correct_answer": "TRAVEL GUIDES", "incorrect_answers": [ "Charles Dickens", "George Orwell", "William Shakespeare" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00198", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Born in 1992,Frances Bean Cobain is the daughter of two musicians who were lead singers in what bands?", "correct_answer": "NIRVANA AND HOLE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Fleetwood Mac", "Queen", "Metallica" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00199", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Born in England, musician Saul Hudson is better known by what stage name?", "correct_answer": "SLASH", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Beatles", "Queen", "Pink Floyd" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00200", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Bosco chocolate syrup was used to simulate blood in which of these classic horror films?", "correct_answer": "PSYCHO", "incorrect_answers": [ "Star Wars", "E.T.", "Jurassic Park" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00201", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Both Katharine Ross and Nicole Kidman have played Joanna Eberhart, the main character from what novel?", "correct_answer": "THE STEPFORD WIVES", "incorrect_answers": [ "Mark Twain", "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "J.K. Rowling" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00202", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Brewer Anheuser-Busch is the nation’s largest purchaser of which of these crops?", "correct_answer": "RICE", "incorrect_answers": [ "United Kingdom", "Spain", "Brazil" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00203", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Bruce Springsteen’s album “The Ghost of Tom Joad” references the main character of what classic novel?", "correct_answer": "THE GRAPES OF WRATH", "incorrect_answers": [ "Pink Floyd", "Led Zeppelin", "The Rolling Stones" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00204", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Built to mark the 2,500th anniversary of the Persian Empire,the Azadi Tower is a landmark in what capital city?", "correct_answer": "TEHRAN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Chicago", "Toronto", "Berlin" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00205", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "By definition, someone who is “skirling” is playing what type of musical instrument?", "correct_answer": "BAGPIPES", "incorrect_answers": [ "Queen", "Fleetwood Mac", "Metallica" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00206", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "By definition,a kibbutz is a communal farm or settlement in what country?", "correct_answer": "ISRAEL", "incorrect_answers": [ "Japan", "Germany", "China" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00207", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "By definition,the speed at which music is performed is known as what?", "correct_answer": "TEMPO", "incorrect_answers": [ "Fleetwood Mac", "Metallica", "Pink Floyd" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00208", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Cafe Central is one of many historic coffeehouses in what European city,known for its coffeehouse culture?", "correct_answer": "VIENNA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Sydney", "Rome", "New York" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00209", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Capri pants are named for a picturesque resort island located off the coast of what country?", "correct_answer": "ITALY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Canada", "Japan", "Brazil" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00210", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward’s book “All the President’s Men” details what event in U.S. history?", "correct_answer": "WATERGATE SCANDAL", "incorrect_answers": [ "George Washington", "Thomas Jefferson", "Franklin D. Roosevelt" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00211", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Carson Daly,the host of the NBC singing contest “The Voice,” was also the host of what MTV music show?", "correct_answer": "TOTAL REQUEST LIVE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Metallica", "Nirvana", "Fleetwood Mac" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00212", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Castanets are musical instruments traditionally played while attached to what part of the body?", "correct_answer": "THUMB", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Eagles", "Queen", "Metallica" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00213", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Caught by the FBI in 2011, Boston mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger inspired a character in what gangster movie?", "correct_answer": "THE DEPARTED", "incorrect_answers": [ "Pulp Fiction", "E.T.", "Star Wars" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00214", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "CC Bloom’s,a hotel in the tropics of Thailand,is named after a character from what 1980s movie?", "correct_answer": "BEACHES", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Godfather", "Casablanca", "The Shawshank Redemption" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00215", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Characterized as conformist and workaholic,the term “salaryman” refers to a white-collar employee in what country?", "correct_answer": "JAPAN", "incorrect_answers": [ "United States", "Italy", "Russia" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00216", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Charles de Gaulle once quipped about how difficult it is to govern a country with 246 different what?", "correct_answer": "VARIETIES OF CHEESE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Germany", "Brazil", "France" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00217", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Charlie Sheen and Martin Sheen have both starred in critically-acclaimed films set during what U.S. conflict?", "correct_answer": "VIETNAM WAR", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Godfather", "Avatar", "Jaws" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00218", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Christina Aguilera fumbled the lyrics of the national anthem at Super Bowl XLV when she belted out what phrase?", "correct_answer": "WHAT SO PROUDLY WE WATCHED", "incorrect_answers": [ "Australia", "Germany", "Italy" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00219", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Colorado is nicknamed The Centennial State because it joined the Union in what year?", "correct_answer": "1876", "incorrect_answers": [ "1878", "1874", "1875" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00220", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Comic book hero Green Lantern uses what mystical accessory to unleash his otherworldly powers?", "correct_answer": "RING", "incorrect_answers": [ "William Shakespeare", "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "Jane Austen" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00221", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Composed by a Mexican songwriter in 1941,the classic song “Besame Mucho” translates to what in English?", "correct_answer": "KISS ME A LOT", "incorrect_answers": [ "Nirvana", "The Eagles", "U2" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00222", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "ConocoPhillips belongs to a group of multinational corporations often referrred to as “Big” what?", "correct_answer": "OIL", "incorrect_answers": [ "China", "United States", "Mexico" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00223", "category": "Sports", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Considered one of the world’s greatest soccer players, Cristiano Ronaldo hails from what country?", "correct_answer": "PORTUGAL", "incorrect_answers": [ "Spain", "Mexico", "Japan" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00224", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Considered “too fat” for a single seat, what film director was bumped from a Southwest Airlines flight in 2010?", "correct_answer": "KEVIN SMITH", "incorrect_answers": [ "Casablanca", "Jurassic Park", "Titanic" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00225", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Consisting of food served in a specialized box, “bento” is a popular type of meal native to what country?", "correct_answer": "JAPAN", "incorrect_answers": [ "France", "India", "Russia" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00226", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Contestants for the Scripps National Spelling Bee may not have passed beyond what grade?", "correct_answer": "EIGHTH", "incorrect_answers": [ "United States", "United Kingdom", "Germany" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00227", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Contestants on the reality show “Scream Queens” compete for a role in a movie that is part of what film franchise?", "correct_answer": "SAW", "incorrect_answers": [ "Avatar", "Casablanca", "E.T." ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00228", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Courting worldwide controversy, in 2010 what country banned wearing full-face Islamic veils in public?", "correct_answer": "FRANCE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Spain", "Brazil", "Australia" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00229", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Cowboy Sketch and “A View to Kill” are two listings in a book titled what?", "correct_answer": "CHRISTOPHER WALKEN A TO Z", "incorrect_answers": [ "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "Ernest Hemingway", "William Shakespeare" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00230", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Craigslist is a popular online message board that was created in 1995 to serve what U.S. city?", "correct_answer": "SAN FRANCISCO", "incorrect_answers": [ "London", "Sydney", "Berlin" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00231", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Created by J.J. Abrahms,the 2012 crime drama “Alcatraz” is set in and around what U.S. city?", "correct_answer": "SAN FRANCISCO", "incorrect_answers": [ "Los Angeles", "Toronto", "Madrid" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00232", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Dampers,pieces of felt used to mute the strings,are often inside which of these musical instruments?", "correct_answer": "PIANO", "incorrect_answers": [ "Led Zeppelin", "Queen", "Pink Floyd" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00233", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Daniel Handler writes the kids’ book series “A Series of Unfortunate Events” under what pen name?", "correct_answer": "LEMONY SNICKET", "incorrect_answers": [ "William Shakespeare", "George Orwell", "Charles Dickens" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00234", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Dashiell Hammett’s Sam Spade mysteries are set in the seamy underside of what U.S. city?", "correct_answer": "SAN FRANCISCO", "incorrect_answers": [ "New York", "Berlin", "Moscow" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00235", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Dave Berry once wrote that there was no way to kill what plant “that does not involve nuclear weapons”?", "correct_answer": "CRABGRASS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Mark Twain", "George Orwell", "Jane Austen" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00236", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "David Evans,the lead guitarist for the rock band U2,performs under what stage name?", "correct_answer": "THE EDGE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Fleetwood Mac", "Nirvana", "Led Zeppelin" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00237", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Deadly Nadders, Hideous Zipplebacks and Gronckles are feared creatures in what 2010 movie?", "correct_answer": "HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Godfather", "The Shawshank Redemption", "Titanic" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00238", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Depicted in a 2002 Scorsese film, Five Points was a notoriously dangerous slum located in what U.S. city?", "correct_answer": "NEW YORK", "incorrect_answers": [ "Paris", "Toronto", "Tokyo" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00239", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Derived from its Greek name, areology is the scientific study of what planet?", "correct_answer": "MARS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Mercury", "Venus", "Earth" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00240", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Despite being a surprisingly good golfer,President Taft weighed roughly how much when he left office?", "correct_answer": "340 POUNDS", "incorrect_answers": [ "George Washington", "John F. Kennedy", "Theodore Roosevelt" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00241", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Despite being only 10 sentences long, what children’s book was adapted into a 94-minute film in 2009?", "correct_answer": "WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jaws", "Jurassic Park", "Star Wars" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00242", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Despite being “the epicenter of prep style,” what city did GQ dub “America’s Worst-Dressed” in 2011?", "correct_answer": "BOSTON", "incorrect_answers": [ "Sydney", "Chicago", "New York" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00243", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Despite how its spelled,what state’s capital name is properly pronounced “PEER”?", "correct_answer": "SOUTH DAKOTA", "incorrect_answers": [ "London", "Los Angeles", "Madrid" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00244", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Despite its international sounding name, which of these foods was actually invented in the U.S?", "correct_answer": "GERMAN CHOCOLATE CAKE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Russia", "United States", "Italy" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00245", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Despite publishing under a male pseudonym,which of these classic authors was actually a woman?", "correct_answer": "GEORGE ELIOT", "incorrect_answers": [ "Ernest Hemingway", "Jane Austen", "J.K. Rowling" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00246", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Despite spanning nearly four million square miles, what country has had only one time zone since 1949?", "correct_answer": "CHINA", "incorrect_answers": [ "India", "France", "Japan" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00247", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Directed by Jack Nicholson,”The Two Jakes” is the critically-panned sequel to what acclaimed film?", "correct_answer": "CHINATOWN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jaws", "Titanic", "The Shawshank Redemption" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00248", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Dolittle,Strangelove and Zhivago are surnames of classic movie characters who share what distinguished title?", "correct_answer": "DOCTOR", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jurassic Park", "E.T.", "The Shawshank Redemption" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00249", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Donning a sizeable gray-ribboned hat, who performed “My Country Tis of Thee” at Barack Obama’s inaugeration?", "correct_answer": "ARETHA FRANKLIN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Canada", "United Kingdom", "Spain" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00250", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Drawing 3 million visitors over 24 days,what U.S. state reportedly hosts the most attended state fair in the country?", "correct_answer": "TEXAS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Russia", "United States", "United Kingdom" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00251", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Due in part to the city of Hershey,what U.S. state is the country’s leading producer of chocolate?", "correct_answer": "PENNSYLVANIA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Italy", "Australia", "China" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00252", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Due to his real-life first initial, the actor known for playing Mini-Me in the Austin Powers films has what nickname?", "correct_answer": "MINI-V", "incorrect_answers": [ "Robert De Niro", "Al Pacino", "Tom Hanks" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00253", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "During Kabbalah study,what music star prefers to go by her Hebrew name “Esther”?", "correct_answer": "MADONNA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Led Zeppelin", "The Rolling Stones", "Nirvana" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00254", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "During the Depression.impoverished people built tent cities and shantytowns known by what “presidential” nickname?", "correct_answer": "HOOVERVILLES", "incorrect_answers": [ "Abraham Lincoln", "Ronald Reagan", "Barack Obama" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00255", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "During World War I,what country introduced a fleet of submarines known as “U-boats”?", "correct_answer": "GERMANY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Spain", "United States", "Russia" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00256", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Dwight Eisenhower renamed the presidential retreat “Camp David” in honor of who?", "correct_answer": "HIS GRANDSON", "incorrect_answers": [ "John F. Kennedy", "Thomas Jefferson", "Barack Obama" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00257", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Each May, what European country observes National Windmill and Pumping Station Day?", "correct_answer": "THE NETHERLANDS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Spain", "Canada", "Japan" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00258", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Each of these 2010 films is primarily set in the state of Massachusetts, except for which?", "correct_answer": "UNSTOPPABLE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Titanic", "E.T.", "The Godfather" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00259", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Each year, the South Pole experiences how many months of total darkness?", "correct_answer": "6", "incorrect_answers": [ "5", "7", "8" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00260", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Earning its lead actor an Oscar, the 1968 drama “Charly” is based on what science fiction novel?", "correct_answer": "FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON", "incorrect_answers": [ "J.K. Rowling", "Jane Austen", "Charles Dickens" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00261", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Editor-in-chief of Men’s Health magazine,David Zinczenko is the best-selling author of what diet book?", "correct_answer": "EAT THIS,NOT THAT", "incorrect_answers": [ "Mark Twain", "J.K. Rowling", "Ernest Hemingway" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00262", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Emirates Airlines, the largest carrier in the Middle East, is headquartered in what city?", "correct_answer": "DUBAI", "incorrect_answers": [ "Los Angeles", "London", "Madrid" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00263", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Entertainment Weekly’s 2008 list of “Horrible Movie Accents” included Tom Cruise’s Irish brogue in what film?", "correct_answer": "FAR AND AWAY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jaws", "Pulp Fiction", "Casablanca" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00264", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Eric Clapton wrote the classic hit “Layla” as a love song to what rock star’s wife?", "correct_answer": "GEORGE HARRISON", "incorrect_answers": [ "Metallica", "Led Zeppelin", "The Rolling Stones" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00265", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Established in 1954, what Rhode Island city hosts a well-known jazz music festival every summer?", "correct_answer": "NEWPORT", "incorrect_answers": [ "Los Angeles", "Chicago", "New York" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00266", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Every January,college football’s Sugar Bowl takes place in what U.S. city?", "correct_answer": "NEW ORLEANS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Berlin", "Tokyo", "New York" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00267", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Familiar to film buffs,Sunset Boulevard borders which of these prominent college campuses?", "correct_answer": "UCLA", "incorrect_answers": [ "E.T.", "Titanic", "The Godfather" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00268", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Famous for his attempts to predict the future,16th-century physician Nostradamus hailed from what country?", "correct_answer": "FRANCE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Mexico", "Italy", "India" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00269", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Famous for its 18th-century architecture,the historic neighborhood “Society Hill” lies in what city?", "correct_answer": "PHILADELPHIA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Los Angeles", "Paris", "Moscow" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00270", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Famous for playing sneering villains,which of these British actors appeared in his first-ever film role at the age of 42?", "correct_answer": "ALAN RICKMAN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Denzel Washington", "Leonardo DiCaprio", "Meryl Streep" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00271", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Featured in a 1990s Beck song,what is the translation of the Spanish lyric “Soy un perdedor”?", "correct_answer": "I’M A LOSER", "incorrect_answers": [ "Fleetwood Mac", "The Beatles", "U2" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00272", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Featuring an emotional scene set a potter’s wheel,a musical based on what movie opened in London in 2011?", "correct_answer": "GHOST", "incorrect_answers": [ "E.T.", "The Shawshank Redemption", "Avatar" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00273", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Featuring men who agree to murder to help one another,the 2011 comedy “Horrible Bosses” echoes what Hitchcock film?", "correct_answer": "STRANGERS ON A TRAIN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Titanic", "E.T.", "Pulp Fiction" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00274", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Fela kuti is credited with creating what genre of “world music”?", "correct_answer": "AFROBEAT", "incorrect_answers": [ "Queen", "The Rolling Stones", "Pink Floyd" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00275", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Films like “Avatar” use what technology,where sensors are placed on an actor’s body to record their movements digitally?", "correct_answer": "PERFORMANCE CAPTURE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Robert De Niro", "Al Pacino", "Brad Pitt" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00276", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "First Lady of France Carla Bruni-Sarkozy plays a museum tour guide in whose 2011 film “Midnight in Paris”?", "correct_answer": "WOODY ALLEN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Titanic", "Jurassic Park", "E.T." ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00277", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Fitting for a devout Baptist and Sunday school teacher,”Deacon” was the Secret Service code name for what president?", "correct_answer": "JIMMY CARTER", "incorrect_answers": [ "Abraham Lincoln", "Thomas Jefferson", "Ronald Reagan" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00278", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Fittingly, the World Potato Congress was held in the U.S. for the first time in 2006 in what U.S. state capital?", "correct_answer": "BOISE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Berlin", "Toronto", "London" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00279", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Fittingly, “Georgia On My Mind” is the theme song to which of these classic TV shows?", "correct_answer": "DESIGNING WOMEN", "incorrect_answers": [ "U2", "Metallica", "Pink Floyd" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00280", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Fittingly,the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library displays the typewriter used to write what classic novel?", "correct_answer": "GONE WITH THE WIND", "incorrect_answers": [ "Ernest Hemingway", "William Shakespeare", "Mark Twain" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00281", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Fittingly,the first Filene’s Basement was located below a store called Filene’s in what big city?", "correct_answer": "BOSTON", "incorrect_answers": [ "New York", "Madrid", "Los Angeles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00282", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Fittingly,which of these popular 20th century authors is buried in Tarzana,California?", "correct_answer": "EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jane Austen", "Ernest Hemingway", "J.K. Rowling" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00283", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Five different yellow Volkswagen buses were used in the filming of which of these road trip movies?", "correct_answer": "LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Casablanca", "Pulp Fiction", "Titanic" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00284", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Fluent in French, what actress often dubs her own lines for the French language versions of her films?", "correct_answer": "JODIE FOSTER", "incorrect_answers": [ "Robert De Niro", "Al Pacino", "Leonardo DiCaprio" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00285", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Following China,India and the United States,what country has the world’s fourth largest population?", "correct_answer": "INDONESIA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Mexico", "Italy", "Japan" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00286", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Following up on the lives of Rick and Ilsa, the 1998 novel “As Time Goes By” is a controversial sequel to what film?", "correct_answer": "CASABLANCA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jaws", "The Godfather", "The Shawshank Redemption" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00287", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "For a 1967 “Ed Sullivan Show” stint,The Doors were asked to change an indecent lyric in what song?", "correct_answer": "LIGHT MY FIRE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Nirvana", "U2", "Pink Floyd" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00288", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "For half a century,Mister Softee trucks have driven America’s streets playing music and peddling what?", "correct_answer": "ICE CREAM", "incorrect_answers": [ "Metallica", "The Eagles", "Nirvana" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00289", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "For his significant contribution to the genre, author Zane Grey is often called the “father of the” what?", "correct_answer": "WESTERN NOVEL", "incorrect_answers": [ "J.K. Rowling", "Ernest Hemingway", "Charles Dickens" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00290", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "For his skill at playing his instrument of choice,legendary bandleader Artie Shaw was dubbed the “King of the” what?", "correct_answer": "CLARINET", "incorrect_answers": [ "Fleetwood Mac", "Pink Floyd", "Queen" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00291", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "For most of his 40-year run as the Today show’s film critic,Gene Shalit sported which of these looks?", "correct_answer": "BOW TIE, BUSHY MUSTACHE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Star Wars", "Avatar", "Jaws" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00292", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "For most of the 1988 movie “Working Girl,” Melanie Griffith’s character had what occupation?", "correct_answer": "SECRETARY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jurassic Park", "The Shawshank Redemption", "The Godfather" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00293", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "For over a century,the New Year’s Day Tournament of Roses Parade has taken place in what U.S. city?", "correct_answer": "PASADENA, CA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Berlin", "Los Angeles", "Chicago" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00294", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "For years,what long-running TV show used a theme song aptly titled “Johnny’s Theme”?", "correct_answer": "THE TONIGHT SHOW", "incorrect_answers": [ "Nirvana", "Pink Floyd", "The Beatles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00295", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Formed in 1998, 30 Seconds to Mars is a Los-Angeles based rock band led by what actor?", "correct_answer": "JARED LETO", "incorrect_answers": [ "Fleetwood Mac", "Pink Floyd", "U2" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00296", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Former House speaker Newt Gingrich once stated in an interview that he thought what actor should play him in a movie?", "correct_answer": "BRAD PITT", "incorrect_answers": [ "Denzel Washington", "Johnny Depp", "Tom Hanks" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00297", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was born in what country?", "correct_answer": "GERMANY", "incorrect_answers": [ "France", "Japan", "Canada" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00298", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Founded in 1963, the letters in the national drugstore chain CVS stand for what?", "correct_answer": "Corrective Vaccine Salves", "incorrect_answers": [ "Canada", "France", "United Kingdom" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00299", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Founded in Jamaica, the Rastafari religion was popularized by what famous iconic musician?", "correct_answer": "BOB MARLEY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Queen", "U2", "Nirvana" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00300", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "From 1856 until 1939, the country of Thailand was officially known as what?", "correct_answer": "SIAM", "incorrect_answers": [ "United Kingdom", "Russia", "Australia" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00301", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "From 1883 until the 1950s what country claimed Vietnam as a country?", "correct_answer": "FRANCE", "incorrect_answers": [ "United States", "Australia", "India" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00302", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "From 1898 to 1901, what country experienced a popular uprising known as the Boxer Rebellion?", "correct_answer": "CHINA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Mexico", "India", "Brazil" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00303", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "From 1916 to 2001,the Boeing aircraft company was headquartered in what city?", "correct_answer": "SEATTLE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Los Angeles", "New York", "Paris" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00304", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "From what country’s controversial court case did the phrase “a dingo’s got my baby” originate?", "correct_answer": "AUSTRALIA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Japan", "United Kingdom", "Russia" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00305", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "George A. Romero’s classic “Night of the Living Dead” series popularized what movie monsters?", "correct_answer": "ZOMBIES", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jurassic Park", "Star Wars", "Pulp Fiction" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00306", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "George H.W. Bush’s presidential library is located on the campus of what Texas university?", "correct_answer": "TEXAS A&M", "incorrect_answers": [ "Abraham Lincoln", "John F. Kennedy", "George Washington" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00307", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "George Orwell’s autobiographical 1938 book “Homage to Catalonia” opens with Orwell in what European city?", "correct_answer": "BARCELONA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Los Angeles", "Toronto", "New York" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00308", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Golden-voiced Julie Andrews won her only Oscar for her work in what movie musical?", "correct_answer": "MARY POPPINS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Pulp Fiction", "Jaws", "Jurassic Park" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00309", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Grammy-winning country music star Judith Newton rose to fame in the ’80s with what nickname?", "correct_answer": "JUICE NEWTON", "incorrect_answers": [ "United States", "Mexico", "Canada" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00310", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Greater New York City is often called the “Tri-state area,” a term that refers to New York,New Jersey and what third state?", "correct_answer": "CONNECTICUT", "incorrect_answers": [ "Tokyo", "London", "Chicago" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00311", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Gregory Maguire’s 2003 novel “Mirror Mirror” is a revisionist version of what classic fairy tale?", "correct_answer": "SNOW WHITE", "incorrect_answers": [ "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "George Orwell", "Charles Dickens" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00312", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Harpo,Oprah’s production company,shares its name with a character from a novel by what author?", "correct_answer": "ALICE WALKER", "incorrect_answers": [ "Charles Dickens", "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "Ernest Hemingway" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00313", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "he 2010 film “The Last Play at Shea” examines the history of a stadium and former home of what team?", "correct_answer": "NY METS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Avatar", "Pulp Fiction", "Casablanca" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00314", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Held in New York, “Night of a Thousand Stevies” is a fan festival honoring what band’s former lead singer?", "correct_answer": "FLEETWOOD MAC", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Rolling Stones", "Pink Floyd", "Queen" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00315", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Helping campus-bound kids since 1996,which bit of numerical jargon is a tax-friendly college savings plan?", "correct_answer": "529", "incorrect_answers": [ "519", "530", "539" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00316", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Henry Ford built a replica of Thomas Edison’s famous Menlo Park labaratory in what Midwestern city?", "correct_answer": "DEARBORN, MI", "incorrect_answers": [ "Chicago", "New York", "Tokyo" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00317", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Hidden in the word “mosquito” is the name of the capital city of what South American country?", "correct_answer": "ECUADOR", "incorrect_answers": [ "Italy", "Mexico", "France" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00318", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Home to a 5,000-year-old stone circle,the Hebrides islands are located off the coast of what country?", "correct_answer": "SCOTLAND", "incorrect_answers": [ "Mexico", "China", "Germany" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00319", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Home to a large global banking industry, Zurich is the most populated city of what country?", "correct_answer": "SWITZERLAND", "incorrect_answers": [ "Australia", "France", "United States" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00320", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Home to the National Christmas Tree,the park area directly south of the White House is known as what?", "correct_answer": "THE ELLIPSE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Italy", "United States", "France" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00321", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Honolulu,the capital city of Hawaii,is located on which of its islands?", "correct_answer": "OAHU", "incorrect_answers": [ "Los Angeles", "New York", "Madrid" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00322", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Honored by the Kennedy Center in 2003, Itzhak Perlman is a world-renowned player of what musical instrument?", "correct_answer": "VIOLIN", "incorrect_answers": [ "U2", "Fleetwood Mac", "Queen" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00323", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "How many emirates, or territories, comprise the Middle Eastern territory known as United Arab Emirates?", "correct_answer": "7", "incorrect_answers": [ "5", "8", "9" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00324", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "How many episodes of the “real-time” TV series “24” would it take to depict the events of a single week?", "correct_answer": "168", "incorrect_answers": [ "169", "158", "166" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00325", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "How many fluid ounces are in a pint?", "correct_answer": "16", "incorrect_answers": [ "14", "17", "26" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00326", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "How many issues would a subscriber to both USA TODAY and Texas Weekly get in one calendar year?", "correct_answer": "64", "incorrect_answers": [ "62", "66", "63" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00327", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "How many numbers between ten and twenty have names that end with the suffix “-teen?”", "correct_answer": "7", "incorrect_answers": [ "9", "6", "8" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00328", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "How many seconds are in one hour?", "correct_answer": "3600", "incorrect_answers": [ "3599", "3605", "3598" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00329", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "How many total ribs are there in the human rib cage?", "correct_answer": "25", "incorrect_answers": [ "15", "26", "27" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00330", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "How many U.S. presidents have had sons who also served as U.S. president?", "correct_answer": "2", "incorrect_answers": [ "4", "3", "0" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00331", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "How many workers sit on a steel beam hundreds of feet in the air in the iconic 1932 photo “Lunch Atop a Skyscraper”?", "correct_answer": "11", "incorrect_answers": [ "9", "12", "1" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00332", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "How many years after the Civil War did WWII end?", "correct_answer": "80", "incorrect_answers": [ "81", "70", "78" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00333", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "How many years transpired between the publication of George Orwell’s “1984” and the year 1984?", "correct_answer": "35", "incorrect_answers": [ "34", "36", "37" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00334", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "If a woman making 50,000 dollars a year gets a 20% raise, what is her new annual salary?", "correct_answer": "60000", "incorrect_answers": [ "59998", "60001", "59990" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00335", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "If a woman walks 10,000 feet,how many more feet does she have to walk to go a distance of two miles?", "correct_answer": "560", "incorrect_answers": [ "558", "570", "561" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00336", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "If every U.S. Senator had the floor for 3 minutes, how many total hours of speaking would ensue?", "correct_answer": "5", "incorrect_answers": [ "7", "6", "3" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00337", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "If the countries were represented by their national flowers, what would be the 2010 World Cup final match up?", "correct_answer": "RED CARNATIONS VS. TULIPS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Australia", "Brazil", "Italy" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00338", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "If the Gettysburg Address were delivered today in 2011, “Four score and seven years ago” would refer to what year?", "correct_answer": "1924", "incorrect_answers": [ "1929", "1923", "1919" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00339", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "If you rearrange the letters in Meg Ryan’s name,you can form the name of a European country that has what capital?", "correct_answer": "BERLIN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Mexico", "Japan", "Italy" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00340", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Immortalized by The Beatles, Abbey Road is a famous street in what European city?", "correct_answer": "LONDON", "incorrect_answers": [ "Los Angeles", "Madrid", "Berlin" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00341", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "In 1844,the independent candidate Joseph Smith,Jr. became the first what to run for president?", "correct_answer": "MORMON", "incorrect_answers": [ "Abraham Lincoln", "Theodore Roosevelt", "Ronald Reagan" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00342", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In 1849,mounting debt forced what French author to sell his famed castle,the Chateau de Monte-Cristo?", "correct_answer": "ALEXANDRE DUMAS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Charles Dickens", "Mark Twain", "Ernest Hemingway" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00343", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "In 1872,an act of Congress established what as America’s first official national park?", "correct_answer": "YELLOWSTONE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Brazil", "Japan", "Australia" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00344", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In 1881,the infamous Gunfight at the O.K. Corral took place in a city that is now part of what state?", "correct_answer": "ARIZONA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Madrid", "Moscow", "New York" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00345", "category": "Sports", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In 1903,the International Brotherhood of Teamsters was formed to help persons who did what?", "correct_answer": "HAULED LOADS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Germany", "Canada", "Mexico" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00346", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In 1909, who became the first President to be depicted on a circulating U.S. monetary coin?", "correct_answer": "ABRAHAM LINCOLN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Thomas Jefferson", "Ronald Reagan", "Franklin D. Roosevelt" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00347", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In 1928, anthropologist Margaret Mead published her landmark study titled “Coming of Age in” what country?", "correct_answer": "SAMOA", "incorrect_answers": [ "France", "China", "United Kingdom" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00348", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In 1950,Senator Joe McCarthy became the central figure in a national crusade known as the what?", "correct_answer": "RED SCARE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Japan", "Italy", "United Kingdom" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00349", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "In 1955,Rosa Parks made history when she refused to give up her seat on a public bus in what city?", "correct_answer": "MONTGOMERY,ALABAMA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Moscow", "Los Angeles", "Madrid" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00350", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In 1955,the novel “The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant” was turned into a Broadway musical with what title?", "correct_answer": "DAMN YANKEES", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Beatles", "The Rolling Stones", "Fleetwood Mac" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00351", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In 1968, what star of “Planet of the Apes” turned heads with what’s billed as the first ever himan-ape movie kiss?", "correct_answer": "CHARLTON HESTON", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jurassic Park", "Star Wars", "The Shawshank Redemption" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00352", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In 1978, an all-male rock band released an album titled “Q: Are We Not Men? “A: We Are” who?", "correct_answer": "DEVO", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Rolling Stones", "The Beatles", "The Eagles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00353", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In 1983,February 11th was declared “National Inventors’ Day,” fittingly the birthday of what great American?", "correct_answer": "THOMAS EDISON", "incorrect_answers": [ "France", "Canada", "Spain" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00354", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In 1984,Huey Lewis sued Ray Parker,Jr.,claiming his theme song for “Ghostbusters” was a rip-off of which hit?", "correct_answer": "I WANT A NEW DRUG", "incorrect_answers": [ "Nirvana", "Queen", "The Rolling Stones" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00355", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In 1986, what media mogul caused a stir when he released a list of over 100 films he planned to colorize?", "correct_answer": "TED TURNER", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jurassic Park", "Casablanca", "Titanic" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00356", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In 1987,what Beatles song was banned by the BBC because of its lyric “I’d love to turn you on”?", "correct_answer": "A DAY IN THE LIFE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Metallica", "Fleetwood Mac", "U2" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00357", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "In 1989,a 7.1 magnitude earthquake shook what World Series host city just before Game 3?", "correct_answer": "SAN FRANCISCO", "incorrect_answers": [ "Rome", "Toronto", "London" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00358", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "In 1990, George H.W. Bush signed the U.S. Interstate System after what President?", "correct_answer": "DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER", "incorrect_answers": [ "Abraham Lincoln", "Barack Obama", "Ronald Reagan" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00359", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In 1994,the author of the sci-fi collection “I Robot” had a posthumous memoir released,titled what?", "correct_answer": "I. ASIMOV", "incorrect_answers": [ "Charles Dickens", "Ernest Hemingway", "Mark Twain" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00360", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In 1994,what country singer adapted her hit song “Coat of Many Colors” into a children’s book?", "correct_answer": "DOLLY PARTON", "incorrect_answers": [ "Germany", "Mexico", "Japan" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00361", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In 1995, what country created the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to examine its past?", "correct_answer": "SOUTH AFRICA", "incorrect_answers": [ "United Kingdom", "Germany", "France" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00362", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In 1999,the RIAA created what award to recognize albums that have sold more than 10 million copies?", "correct_answer": "DIAMOND", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Eagles", "Queen", "Fleetwood Mac" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00363", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In 2000,a former member of what family band gave his newborn son the punny name “Jermajesty”?", "correct_answer": "THE JACKSON FIVE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Fleetwood Mac", "The Beatles", "U2" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00364", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In 2001, which of these people was named Honorary Sergeant, Regular Army by President Clinton?", "correct_answer": "SACAGAWEA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Barack Obama", "Ronald Reagan", "Franklin D. Roosevelt" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00365", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In 2001,what author of “The CORRECTions” created controversy when he snubbed Oprah’s Book Club?", "correct_answer": "JONATHAN FRANZEN", "incorrect_answers": [ "J.K. Rowling", "Ernest Hemingway", "F. Scott Fitzgerald" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00366", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "In 2003,what country became the third,after the U.S. and Russia,to launch a person into space aboard its own rocket?", "correct_answer": "CHINA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Germany", "Mexico", "Italy" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00367", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "In 2006,the International Astronomical Union downgraded Pluto from planet to what lesser celestial body?", "correct_answer": "DWARF PLANET", "incorrect_answers": [ "United States", "Germany", "France" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00368", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "In 2007, Forest Whitaker won the Oscar for portraying Idi Amin, the former dictator of what country?", "correct_answer": "UGANDA", "incorrect_answers": [ "United States", "Japan", "Canada" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00369", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "In 2007, John Denver’s “Rocky Mountain High” became an official state song of what U.S. state?", "correct_answer": "COLORADO", "incorrect_answers": [ "U2", "The Beatles", "Queen" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00370", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In 2007, the Moldy Peaches hit it big after its ballad “Anyone Else But You” was featured in what film?", "correct_answer": "JUNO", "incorrect_answers": [ "Titanic", "E.T.", "Casablanca" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00371", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In 2007,the Plain White T’s scored a #1 hit with an infectious love song titled “Hey There” what?", "correct_answer": "DELILAH", "incorrect_answers": [ "U2", "The Beatles", "Queen" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00372", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In 2007,what singer revealed that Caroline Kennedy was the inspiration for one of his 1969 hit songs?", "correct_answer": "NEIL DIAMOND", "incorrect_answers": [ "U2", "Queen", "Fleetwood Mac" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00373", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In 2008, who became the first rock musician ever to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize?", "correct_answer": "BOB DYLAN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Nirvana", "Queen", "Pink Floyd" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00374", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In 2009, China surpassed what country to become the world’s leading consumer of energy?", "correct_answer": "UNITED STATES", "incorrect_answers": [ "Australia", "United Kingdom", "Spain" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00375", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In 2009, disgraced financier Bernie Madoff was sentenced to how many years in prison?", "correct_answer": "150", "incorrect_answers": [ "148", "160", "140" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00376", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In 2009, Scotland allowed convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset to return to what home country?", "correct_answer": "LIBYA", "incorrect_answers": [ "United States", "Italy", "Japan" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00377", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In 2009, the Fiesta of San Fermin in Pamplona, Spain, held its first look-alike contest honoring what author?", "correct_answer": "ERNEST HEMINGWAY", "incorrect_answers": [ "George Orwell", "Jane Austen", "J.K. Rowling" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00378", "category": "Sports", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In 2009, the International Olympic Committee named what city as the host of the 2016 games?", "correct_answer": "RIO DE JANEIRO", "incorrect_answers": [ "Spain", "Brazil", "Germany" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00379", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In 2009, the U.S. Navy rescued Captain Richard Phillips from pirates off the coast of what nation?", "correct_answer": "SOMALIA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Japan", "Germany", "United Kingdom" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00380", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In 2009, what country’s runaway inflation led their reserve bank to issue 100 trillion dollar bills?", "correct_answer": "ZIMBABWE", "incorrect_answers": [ "France", "Mexico", "Russia" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00381", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "In 2009,astronomers discovered a “supersized” ring around what planet,much further away than its other known rings?", "correct_answer": "SATURN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Neptune", "Venus", "Uranus" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00382", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In 2009,Crystal Renn released her book “Hungry,” which chronicles her experiences as a what?", "correct_answer": "PLUS-SIZE MODEL", "incorrect_answers": [ "Charles Dickens", "Jane Austen", "Mark Twain" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00383", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In 2009,what rapper beat Elvis Presley’s record for most No.1 albums on the Billboard charts by a solo artist?", "correct_answer": "JAY-Z", "incorrect_answers": [ "Queen", "The Beatles", "Fleetwood Mac" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00384", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In 2009,what U.S. president was on hand as an 11-foot statue honoring him was unveiled in Kosovo?", "correct_answer": "BILL CLINTON", "incorrect_answers": [ "George Washington", "Barack Obama", "Abraham Lincoln" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00385", "category": "Sports", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In 2010 President Obama and a former NBA athlete played what fitting version of the game H-O-R-S-E?", "correct_answer": "P-O-T-U-S", "incorrect_answers": [ "John F. Kennedy", "Ronald Reagan", "Abraham Lincoln" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00386", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In 2010 who became the first living person to acquire more than 10 million fans on Facebook?", "correct_answer": "LADY GAGA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Ernest Hemingway", "George Orwell", "F. Scott Fitzgerald" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00387", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In 2010, Louise Brown, the world’s first “test tube baby” turned what age?", "correct_answer": "32", "incorrect_answers": [ "33", "42", "30" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00388", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In 2010, Russell Brand and Katy Perry were quietly married near what country’s Rathambore tiger sanctuary?", "correct_answer": "INDIA", "incorrect_answers": [ "United Kingdom", "Italy", "China" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00389", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In 2010, Target recalled a T-shirt featuring the now-banned flag of what country’s Francoist regime?", "correct_answer": "SPAIN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Japan", "China", "Australia" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00390", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "In 2010, the Pentagon estimated that which poor nation is home to $1 trillion in untapped precious minerals?", "correct_answer": "AFGHANISTAN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Russia", "Japan", "China" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00391", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In 2010, what author revealed that he was writing his memoir about his years living under a “fatwa” death sentence?", "correct_answer": "SALMAN RUSHDIE", "incorrect_answers": [ "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "Jane Austen", "Mark Twain" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00392", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In 2010, what comedienne became the first woman in 16 years to host MTV’s Video Music Awards?", "correct_answer": "CHELSEA HANDLER", "incorrect_answers": [ "Nirvana", "The Rolling Stones", "The Beatles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00393", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "In 2010, what country’s cultural minister banned mullets and ponytails for men as being “decadent”?", "correct_answer": "IRAN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Brazil", "Japan", "Canada" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00394", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In 2010, what “reality” show finale revealed that its last scene was actually filmed on a Hollywood set?", "correct_answer": "THE HILLS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jaws", "Avatar", "The Godfather" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00395", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "In 2010,country star Kenny Chesney’s 40-acre home was all wet when floods washed over what city?", "correct_answer": "NASHVILLE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Spain", "Russia", "Italy" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00396", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In 2010,Rhonda Byrne released “The Power,” a follow-up to what controversial 2006 self-help book?", "correct_answer": "THE SECRET", "incorrect_answers": [ "Charles Dickens", "Ernest Hemingway", "William Shakespeare" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00397", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In 2010,the media reported “World War I Officially Ends” after what country paid off its $33 billion war debt?", "correct_answer": "GERMANY", "incorrect_answers": [ "France", "Australia", "Brazil" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00398", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In 2010,what comic’s live talk about his novel “An Object of Beauty” was deemed so boring guests were offered refunds?", "correct_answer": "STEVE MARTIN", "incorrect_answers": [ "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "George Orwell", "Ernest Hemingway" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00399", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "In 2010,what country saw its first official state visit by a pope since breaking with the Vatican in 1534?", "correct_answer": "ENGLAND", "incorrect_answers": [ "France", "Russia", "United States" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00400", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "In 2010,what nation began a “convictourism” program to attract foreigners descended from long-ago prisoners?", "correct_answer": "AUTRALIA", "incorrect_answers": [ "United States", "France", "Japan" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00401", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In 2010,what singer released an album featuring a philharmonic orchestra,aptly titled “Symphonicities”?", "correct_answer": "STING", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Eagles", "Nirvana", "Led Zeppelin" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00402", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In 2010,what teen pop star’s fragrance line “My World”,debuted on scented wristbands at Walmart?", "correct_answer": "JUSTIN BIEBER", "incorrect_answers": [ "Led Zeppelin", "Nirvana", "The Beatles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00403", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In 2011, Newsweek artificially “aged” a photo of Princess Diana to suggest what she might have looked like at what age?", "correct_answer": "50", "incorrect_answers": [ "40", "49", "48" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00404", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In 2011, Rolling Stone named “Tubthumping,” “Barbie Girl” and “I’m Too Sexy” among the “Worst Songs of” what decade?", "correct_answer": "THE NINETIES", "incorrect_answers": [ "U2", "Nirvana", "Metallica" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00405", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "In 2011, the child of what U.S. president released a timely memoir called “My Father at 100”?", "correct_answer": "RONALD REAGAN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Theodore Roosevelt", "Abraham Lincoln", "Barack Obama" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00406", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In 2011, Time Magazine named what movie’s Jack Torrance as the “Worst Fictional Father” of all time?", "correct_answer": "THE SHINING", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jaws", "Casablanca", "Titanic" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00407", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "In 2011, what country elected its first ever female prime minister, Yingluck Shinawatra?", "correct_answer": "THAILAND", "incorrect_answers": [ "Brazil", "France", "Russia" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00408", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In 2011,a national poll found that only 51 percent of Republicans knew that GOP stands for what?", "correct_answer": "GRAND OLD PARTY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Germany", "Russia", "United States" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00409", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In 2011,an actress identified only as “Jane Doe” sued the movie website IMDB.com for revealing her what?", "correct_answer": "AGE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Denzel Washington", "Leonardo DiCaprio", "Brad Pitt" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00410", "category": "Sports", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In 2011,Derek Jeter became just the 28th player in the history of baseball to reach what number of career “hits”?", "correct_answer": "3000", "incorrect_answers": [ "2998", "3005", "2995" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00411", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In 2011,Google’s home page logo featured an interactive six-string electric guitar in honor of what music legend?", "correct_answer": "LES PAUL", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Eagles", "Fleetwood Mac", "Led Zeppelin" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00412", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In 2011,Italian cops caught the mob boss of the Sicilian town of Corleone,the namesake of the crime family in what film?", "correct_answer": "THE GODFATHER", "incorrect_answers": [ "Avatar", "Jaws", "Star Wars" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00413", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In 2011,Jay Carney replaced Robert Gibbs as President Obama’s what?", "correct_answer": "PRESS SECRETARY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Theodore Roosevelt", "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "George Washington" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00414", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In 2011,Keithroy Yearwood revealed that he was the baby on the cover of what rapper’s 1994 album “Ready to Die”?", "correct_answer": "NOTORIOUS B.I.G.", "incorrect_answers": [ "Metallica", "Led Zeppelin", "Fleetwood Mac" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00415", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In 2011,Rolling Stone named “Tubthumping,” “Barbie Girl” and “I’m Too Sexy” among the “Worst Songs of” what decade?", "correct_answer": "THE NINETIES", "incorrect_answers": [ "Pink Floyd", "The Eagles", "Queen" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00416", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In 2011,Seth Rogen and Ryan Reynolds both played movie superheroes with what colorful word in their name?", "correct_answer": "GREEN", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Shawshank Redemption", "Star Wars", "Titanic" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00417", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In 2011,the U.S. Army announced that it was abandoning what type of hat as part of its official combat uniform?", "correct_answer": "BERET", "incorrect_answers": [ "Led Zeppelin", "Pink Floyd", "Nirvana" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00418", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In 2011,what animal-centric film released a straight-to-DVD prequel subtitled “The Puppy Years”?", "correct_answer": "MARLEY & ME", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Godfather", "Pulp Fiction", "Jaws" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00419", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "In 2011,what baseball Hall of Famer and Cardinals great was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom?", "correct_answer": "STAN MUSIAL", "incorrect_answers": [ "John F. Kennedy", "Ronald Reagan", "Abraham Lincoln" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00420", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "In 2011,what car-centric city experienced “Carmageddon” when its 405 freeway was shut down for repairs?", "correct_answer": "LOS ANGELES", "incorrect_answers": [ "Tokyo", "Rome", "Madrid" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00421", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In 2011,what classic ’80s movie was adapted into a television series on MTV?", "correct_answer": "TEEN WOLF", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jaws", "E.T.", "Casablanca" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00422", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "In 2011,what country announced plans to close its notorious marijuana-peddling “coffee shops” to tourists?", "correct_answer": "THE NETHERLANDS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Spain", "Russia", "India" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00423", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In 2012,Obama impressed spectators with his smooth vocals when he crooned “I’m so in love with you” from what song?", "correct_answer": "LET’S STAY TOGETHER", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Beatles", "The Rolling Stones", "Led Zeppelin" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00424", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In a 1970 hit song, James Taylor sings, “I’ve seen fire and I’ve seen” what?", "correct_answer": "RAIN", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Beatles", "Led Zeppelin", "Nirvana" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00425", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In a 1970 song by The Partridge Family, David Cassidy croons, “I think I” what?", "correct_answer": "LOVE YOU", "incorrect_answers": [ "Nirvana", "Queen", "Pink Floyd" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00426", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In a 1971 hit song, Tom Jones sings, “Whoa, whoa, whoa!” “She’s a” what?", "correct_answer": "LADY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Led Zeppelin", "Fleetwood Mac", "Metallica" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00427", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In a 1974 Rolling Stones song,Mick Jagger sings, “I know it’s only” what “but I like it”?", "correct_answer": "ROCK ‘N’ ROLL", "incorrect_answers": [ "Metallica", "Nirvana", "Queen" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00428", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In a 2003 bestselling novel, Mitch Albom writes about “The Five People You Meet” where?", "correct_answer": "IN HEAVEN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Ernest Hemingway", "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "J.K. Rowling" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00429", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In a 2006 film,it was revealed that which of these classic children’s book characters is actually named “Ted”?", "correct_answer": "THE MAN IN THE YELLOW HAT", "incorrect_answers": [ "Titanic", "E.T.", "Pulp Fiction" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00430", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In a 2007 movie, Nicholas Cage plays Johnny Blaze, a fiery vigilante who is better known by what name?", "correct_answer": "GHOST RIDER", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jurassic Park", "Casablanca", "Jaws" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00431", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In a 2008 book containing six-word memoirs, what celeb’s six-word memoir is “Brought it to a boil, often”?", "correct_answer": "MARIO BATALLI", "incorrect_answers": [ "Mark Twain", "Ernest Hemingway", "William Shakespeare" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00432", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In a 2009 documentary,comic Chris Rock examines the African-American fascination with what?", "correct_answer": "“GOOD HAIR”", "incorrect_answers": [ "Mexico", "United Kingdom", "Australia" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00433", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In a 2010 performance at the White House,who serenaded the First Lady with his 1965 song “Michelle”?", "correct_answer": "PAUL MCCARTNEY", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Eagles", "U2", "Pink Floyd" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00434", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In a Beverly Cleary book, Ramona Quimby famously misunderstands the instruction to “sit here for the” what?", "correct_answer": "PRESENT", "incorrect_answers": [ "William Shakespeare", "Charles Dickens", "J.K. Rowling" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00435", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In a case of life imitating art,Charlie Sheen admitted he took steroids to enhance his performance in what movie?", "correct_answer": "MAJOR LEAGUE", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Shawshank Redemption", "Star Wars", "Pulp Fiction" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00436", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In a classic Biz Markie hip-hop song from 1989,the rapper sings in the chorus, “But you say he’s” what?", "correct_answer": "JUST A FRIEND", "incorrect_answers": [ "Metallica", "The Eagles", "Led Zeppelin" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00437", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In a cover of the song “Proud Mary,” Tina Turner sings “And we’re rolling,rolling,rolling on the” what?", "correct_answer": "RIVER", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Rolling Stones", "Led Zeppelin", "Queen" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00438", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In a famous opera by Mozart, a young lover is protected by the “magical” powers of what musical instrument?", "correct_answer": "FLUTE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Nirvana", "The Rolling Stones", "Fleetwood Mac" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00439", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In a famous patriotic quote, Nathan Hale reportedly declared, “I only regret that I have but one” what “for my country”?", "correct_answer": "LIFE TO LOSE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Russia", "India", "Japan" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00440", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "In a famous presidential speech,Franklin Roosevelt declared that Americans had a “rendezvous with” what?", "correct_answer": "DESTINY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Barack Obama", "Theodore Roosevelt", "John F. Kennedy" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00441", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In a famous scene from the 1981 film “Mommie Dearest,” Joan Crawford berates her daughter for using what?", "correct_answer": "WIRE HANGERS", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Godfather", "Titanic", "E.T." ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00442", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In a hit song from 1982,Thomas Dolby revealed “She Blinded Me With” what?", "correct_answer": "SCIENCE", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Beatles", "Nirvana", "Queen" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00443", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In a hit song from the 1987 movie “Dirty Dancing,” a man and woman croon “Now I’ve had” what?", "correct_answer": "THE TIME OF MY LIFE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Avatar", "Jurassic Park", "The Godfather" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00444", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In a memorable scene from the 1987 comedy “Spaceballs,” President Skroob gives orders to do what?", "correct_answer": "“COMB THE DESERT!”", "incorrect_answers": [ "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "Theodore Roosevelt", "John F. Kennedy" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00445", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In a nod to his job,New York’s Port Authority Bus Station features an 8-foot-tall statue of what classic TV character?", "correct_answer": "RALPH KRAMDEN", "incorrect_answers": [ "J.K. Rowling", "Jane Austen", "William Shakespeare" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00446", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In a nod to its setting,what TV show’s theme song is performed by a band called the Scrantones?", "correct_answer": "THE OFFICE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Led Zeppelin", "Queen", "Fleetwood Mac" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00447", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In a nod to one of Facebook’s most iconic features, a couple in 2011 gave their newborn daughter what first name?", "correct_answer": "SUBCOASTAL", "incorrect_answers": [ "Charles Dickens", "J.K. Rowling", "Ernest Hemingway" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00448", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In a running joke,Bugs Bunny frequently finds himself in strange locations after taking a wrong turn in what city?", "correct_answer": "ALBUQUERQUE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Moscow", "Los Angeles", "New York" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00449", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In a song title on Michael Jackson’s 1982 “Thriller” album, what do the initials “P.Y.T.” stand for?", "correct_answer": "PRETTY YOUNG THING", "incorrect_answers": [ "U2", "The Eagles", "Fleetwood Mac" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00450", "category": "Sports", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In a standard Sudoku game, how many individual digits are there once the entire grid has been filled?", "correct_answer": "81", "incorrect_answers": [ "80", "83", "82" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00451", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In a typical symphony orchestra,what instrument is played by more musicians than any other?", "correct_answer": "VIOLIN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Nirvana", "Pink Floyd", "Fleetwood Mac" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00452", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In a Youtube hit, the indie band OK Go performs an elaborate dance routine using what unlikely props?", "correct_answer": "TREADMILLS", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Rolling Stones", "Led Zeppelin", "Nirvana" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00453", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "On average, what denomination of U.S. paper currency remains in circulation the longest?", "correct_answer": "100 DOLLAR BILL", "incorrect_answers": [ "Germany", "Brazil", "China" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00454", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "On December 21, 1864, General Sherman’s famous “March to the Sea” concluded with the capture of what Southern city?", "correct_answer": "SAVANNAH", "incorrect_answers": [ "Tokyo", "Berlin", "London" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00455", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "On HBO’s “Entourage,” movie star Vincent Chase stars in all but which of these fictional movies?", "correct_answer": "VALENTINO", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jaws", "Titanic", "The Godfather" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00456", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "On Twitter,a proper “Twaiku” poem consists of 140 characters or fewer and how many syllables?", "correct_answer": "17", "incorrect_answers": [ "19", "27", "18" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00457", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Once ranked #1 for a record 237 weeks,tennis great Roger Federer hails from what country?", "correct_answer": "SWITZERLAND", "incorrect_answers": [ "Brazil", "Mexico", "Canada" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00458", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "One of at least 50 children born to a construction mogul,Osama Bin Laden was,until 1994,a citizen of what country?", "correct_answer": "SAUDI ARABIA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Germany", "France", "United Kingdom" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00459", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "One of Hollywood’s funniest movie quotes,”Well,nobody’s perfect!” is the last line of what classic film?", "correct_answer": "SOME LIKE IT HOT", "incorrect_answers": [ "E.T.", "Jurassic Park", "Pulp Fiction" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00460", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "One of the coaches on the talent show “The Voice,” Adam Levine is best known as the frontman for what rock band?", "correct_answer": "MAROON 5", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Eagles", "The Beatles", "U2" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00461", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "One of the most translated books in the world, Anne Frank’s original diary was published in what language?", "correct_answer": "DUTCH", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jane Austen", "William Shakespeare", "J.K. Rowling" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00462", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "One of the world’s steepest streets in a major city,Filbert Street is located where?", "correct_answer": "SAN FRANCISCO", "incorrect_answers": [ "Moscow", "Toronto", "London" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00463", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Originally sung by Peggy Lee and covered by Madonna, the song “Fever” mentions what famously amorous pair", "correct_answer": "ROMEO AND JULIET", "incorrect_answers": [ "Nirvana", "The Beatles", "U2" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00464", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Over 30 years ago, which of these Presidents signed legislation to immunize Americans from swine flu?", "correct_answer": "GERALD FORD", "incorrect_answers": [ "Barack Obama", "Theodore Roosevelt", "Ronald Reagan" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00465", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "People who generate their own electricity or go without it are said to live how?", "correct_answer": "OFF THE GRID", "incorrect_answers": [ "Toronto", "Berlin", "Chicago" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00466", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Perhaps as a nod to its lead singer,what classic rock band titled one of its albums “Morrison Hotel”?", "correct_answer": "THE DOORS", "incorrect_answers": [ "U2", "The Beatles", "Metallica" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00467", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Perhaps putting her classical music training to use,who composed the music for the 2011 Broadway play “Stick Fly”?", "correct_answer": "ALICIA KEYS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Queen", "The Eagles", "The Rolling Stones" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00468", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Perhaps to the chagrin of his female fans,in which of these movies does Brad Pitt not bare his backside?", "correct_answer": "INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Casablanca", "Avatar", "Jaws" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00469", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Philly locals order their city’s signature cheesesteak sandwich “wit” or “witout” what topping?", "correct_answer": "FRIED ONIONS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Chicago", "Berlin", "Sydney" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00470", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Physicist Stephen Hawking’s bestselling 1988 book on the cosmos is titled “A Brief History of” what?", "correct_answer": "TIME", "incorrect_answers": [ "William Shakespeare", "George Orwell", "Mark Twain" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00471", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Played by Brendan Fraser in a 1999 movie,Dudley Do-Right is a cartoon character with what unusual day job?", "correct_answer": "CANADIAN MOUNTIE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Casablanca", "E.T.", "Jurassic Park" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00472", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Played by Honor Blackman,the provocatively named Pussy Galore is a character in what James Bond film?", "correct_answer": "GOLDFINGER", "incorrect_answers": [ "Avatar", "Star Wars", "E.T." ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00473", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Pope Benedict XVI is the first pope in centuries to come from what country?", "correct_answer": "GERMANY", "incorrect_answers": [ "United States", "France", "Australia" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00474", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Popular in the U.S.,the hip-hop infused music known as “reggaeton” originated in what part of the world?", "correct_answer": "LATIN AMERICA", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Eagles", "The Beatles", "Led Zeppelin" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00475", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Popular with the MTV crowd,which of these rock bands derives its unusual name from “The Simpsons”?", "correct_answer": "FALL OUT BOY", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Eagles", "Fleetwood Mac", "U2" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00476", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Popular with tourists,what U.S. city’s Chinatown features the famous thoroughfare Grant Avenue?", "correct_answer": "SAN FRANCISCO", "incorrect_answers": [ "Toronto", "Paris", "Tokyo" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00477", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Popular with vacationing parents,a novelty souvenir item reads,”My parents went to___ and all I got was this lousy” what?", "correct_answer": "T-SHIRT", "incorrect_answers": [ "Mark Twain", "Ernest Hemingway", "William Shakespeare" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00478", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "President Barack Obama was born during whose presidential administration?", "correct_answer": "LBJ", "incorrect_answers": [ "Barack Obama", "George Washington", "Abraham Lincoln" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00479", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "President Barack Obama’s first name is derived from a Semitic word meaning what?", "correct_answer": "BLESSED", "incorrect_answers": [ "Theodore Roosevelt", "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "Thomas Jefferson" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00480", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "President Bush gave his famous “Mission Accomplished” speech in 2003 aboard what aircraft carrier?", "correct_answer": "ABRAHAM LINCOLN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Thomas Jefferson", "Ronald Reagan", "Franklin D. Roosevelt" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00481", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "President Obama’s speechwriter John Favreau, happens to share his name with the writer of what popular film?", "correct_answer": "SWINGERS", "incorrect_answers": [ "John F. Kennedy", "Theodore Roosevelt", "Barack Obama" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00482", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "President Obama’s speechwriter Jon Favreau happens to share his name with the writer of what popular film?", "correct_answer": "SWINGERS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Thomas Jefferson", "John F. Kennedy", "George Washington" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00483", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Presidents View Resort is a hotel with suites that look out at what national landmark?", "correct_answer": "MOUNT RUSHMORE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "Ronald Reagan", "Abraham Lincoln" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00484", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Prior to 2010’s “Love and Other Drugs,” Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal appeared together in what film?", "correct_answer": "BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jurassic Park", "Jaws", "Titanic" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00485", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Prior to his career as a TV journalist,George Stephanopoulos was a White House adviser to what U.S. president?", "correct_answer": "BILL CLINTON", "incorrect_answers": [ "George Washington", "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "Thomas Jefferson" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00486", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Published in 2010, “Gunn’s Golden Rules” is a life lessons book by a TV personality from what reality show?", "correct_answer": "PROJECT RUNWAY", "incorrect_answers": [ "William Shakespeare", "Charles Dickens", "Mark Twain" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00487", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Published in 2010,the memoir “You Don’t Know Me” was written by the son of what late musician?", "correct_answer": "RAY CHARLES", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Eagles", "Fleetwood Mac", "Metallica" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00488", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Published in 2011,Stephen King’s “11/22/63” is a time travel novel that centers around what event in history?", "correct_answer": "JFK ASSASSINATION", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jane Austen", "J.K. Rowling", "Mark Twain" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00489", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Randy Newman sings “Rollin’ down Imperial Highway” in a 1983 hit song titled “I Love” where?", "correct_answer": "L.A.", "incorrect_answers": [ "Metallica", "Nirvana", "Fleetwood Mac" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00490", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Rapper Pitbull is also known as “Mr.305” because he hails from what U.S. city?", "correct_answer": "MIAMI", "incorrect_answers": [ "Toronto", "Chicago", "Los Angeles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00491", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Rappers Jay-Z,Busta Rhymes and Notorious B.I.G. all once attended what city’s George Westinghouse High School?", "correct_answer": "NEW YORK", "incorrect_answers": [ "Paris", "Tokyo", "London" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00492", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Ratified in 1971,the 26th Amendment to the Constitution lowered the voting age to what?", "correct_answer": "18", "incorrect_answers": [ "16", "19", "28" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00493", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Reflecting on a subject he masters, Garry Kasperov’s 2007 book is titled “How Life Imitates” what?", "correct_answer": "CHESS", "incorrect_answers": [ "William Shakespeare", "Charles Dickens", "Mark Twain" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00494", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Refusing the Secret Service,what First Lady was given her own gun and later wrote, ” I carried it religiously”?", "correct_answer": "ELEANOR ROOSEVELT", "incorrect_answers": [ "Ernest Hemingway", "William Shakespeare", "George Orwell" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00495", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Released posthumously in 2009, Michael Jackson’s single “This Is It” was co-written by what music legend?", "correct_answer": "PAUL ANKA", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Rolling Stones", "Metallica", "Fleetwood Mac" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00496", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Retiring shortly after filming,what Oscar-winning actor’s final legacy is the 2004 comedy “Welcome to Mooseport”?", "correct_answer": "GENE HACKMAN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Will Smith", "Morgan Freeman", "Leonardo DiCaprio" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00497", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Rich Riordan’s best-selling kids book feature Percy Jackson’s adventures with what “fantastic” group", "correct_answer": "THE OLYMPIANS", "incorrect_answers": [ "J.K. Rowling", "Charles Dickens", "Jane Austen" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00498", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Rick Riordan’s bestselling kids’ books feature Percy Jackson’s adventures with what “fantastic” group?", "correct_answer": "THE OLYMPIANS", "incorrect_answers": [ "George Orwell", "Charles Dickens", "Jane Austen" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00499", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Ronald Reagan’s role in the 1940 movie “Knute Rockne: All American” earned him what nickname?", "correct_answer": "THE GIPPER", "incorrect_answers": [ "E.T.", "The Shawshank Redemption", "Casablanca" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00500", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Said to belong to Saint Peter, Vatican City’s official flag depicts two crossed what?", "correct_answer": "KEYS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Rome", "Los Angeles", "Toronto" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00501", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Said to have been ruled by Zeus,Mount Olympus is the highest mountain range in what country?", "correct_answer": "GREECE", "incorrect_answers": [ "United Kingdom", "Japan", "Australia" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00502", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Said to have inspired the song “America The Beautiful,” Pikes Peak is part of what U.S. mountain range?", "correct_answer": "ROCKY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Pink Floyd", "The Eagles", "Nirvana" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00503", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Sampling a 1984 song and flipping the words in its title, Jay-Z had a top 40 hit in 2010 called what?", "correct_answer": "YOUNG FOREVER", "incorrect_answers": [ "Metallica", "Nirvana", "Led Zeppelin" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00504", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Sampling the soul classic “Try a Little Tenderness,” a 2011 song by rappers Jay-Z and Kanye West is named what?", "correct_answer": "OTIS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Pink Floyd", "Nirvana", "Fleetwood Mac" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00505", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Sanskrit for “moon craft,” the Chandraayan I was the first lunar orbiter ever launched by what country?", "correct_answer": "INDIA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Brazil", "China", "Japan" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00506", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Santa Domingo and Port-au-Prince,the capitals of two separate countries,are both located on what island?", "correct_answer": "HISPANIOLA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Madrid", "Berlin", "London" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00507", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Sapparo is a major city of what Asian country?", "correct_answer": "JAPAN", "incorrect_answers": [ "United Kingdom", "Spain", "Russia" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00508", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Sapporo is a major city of what Asian country?", "correct_answer": "JAPAN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Italy", "Australia", "Mexico" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00509", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Sarah Palin’s husband Todd is a four-time winner of the Iron Dog,the world’s longest what?", "correct_answer": "SNOWMOBILE RACE", "incorrect_answers": [ "U2", "Metallica", "Fleetwood Mac" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00510", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Sean Parker,the founding president of Facebook,also helped create what early Internet success?", "correct_answer": "NAPSTER", "incorrect_answers": [ "Theodore Roosevelt", "George Washington", "Franklin D. Roosevelt" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00511", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Seen on certain notorious celebrities,a SCRAM bracelet alerts authorities when the wearer does what?", "correct_answer": "DRINKS ALCOHOL", "incorrect_answers": [ "Mark Twain", "William Shakespeare", "J.K. Rowling" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00512", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Set in an L.A. office building,the 1979 novel “Nothing Lasts Forever,” is the basis for what ’80s action film?", "correct_answer": "DIE HARD", "incorrect_answers": [ "Pulp Fiction", "Casablanca", "The Shawshank Redemption" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00513", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Set in France,what Disney animated film includes a quick cameo of Belle from “Beauty and the Beast”?", "correct_answer": "THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Shawshank Redemption", "Jurassic Park", "Jaws" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00514", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” is set primarily in Verona,a city in what country?", "correct_answer": "ITALY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Japan", "Mexico", "Russia" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00515", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Shel Silverstein spent over 3 years on the bestseller lists with his 1981 book “A Light in the” what?", "correct_answer": "ATTIC", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jane Austen", "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "Charles Dickens" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00516", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Shot in his hometown, Ben Affleck’s 2010 film “The Town” takes place in what U.S. city?", "correct_answer": "BOSTON", "incorrect_answers": [ "Chicago", "Madrid", "Moscow" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00517", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Signed in 1992, NAFTA is a trade agreement among the U.S., Mexico and what third country?", "correct_answer": "CANADA", "incorrect_answers": [ "India", "Russia", "United Kingdom" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00518", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Silent film star Norma Talmadge started a Hollywood tradition after accidentally stepping in wet concrete outside what theater?", "correct_answer": "GRAUMAN’S CHINESE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jaws", "Avatar", "Casablanca" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00519", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Silver amalgam,a combination of silver,mercury,copper and tin,is often used to make what?", "correct_answer": "CAVITY FILLINGS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Japan", "United Kingdom", "Spain" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00520", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Silver-studded outfits and wide-brimmed hats are commonly worn by what type of musical groups?", "correct_answer": "MARIACHI BANDS", "incorrect_answers": [ "U2", "Nirvana", "Metallica" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00521", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Since 1934, the Masters Golf tournament has been held in what U.S. city?", "correct_answer": "AUGUSTA, GA", "incorrect_answers": [ "New York", "Chicago", "Los Angeles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00522", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Since 1950, the College World Series has been played annually in which Midwestern city?", "correct_answer": "OMAHA, NE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Tokyo", "Los Angeles", "Berlin" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00523", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Since 1951,what company has sponsored the popular “Hall of Fame” series of TV movies?", "correct_answer": "HALLMARK", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jaws", "E.T.", "Star Wars" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00524", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Since 1955, what has been the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival?", "correct_answer": "GOLDEN PALM", "incorrect_answers": [ "Casablanca", "Avatar", "Pulp Fiction" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00525", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Since 1980,what award has honored the worst in Hollywood filmmaking?", "correct_answer": "GOLDEN RASPBERRY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Pulp Fiction", "The Godfather", "Avatar" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00526", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Since 1991,high school students have competed in a National Science Bowl sponsored by what U.S. department?", "correct_answer": "ENERGY", "incorrect_answers": [ "China", "United States", "Spain" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00527", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Since 1998,compilation CDs filled with pop music hits have been sold in the U.S. under what emphatic name?", "correct_answer": "NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL MUSIC!", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Rolling Stones", "The Beatles", "The Eagles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00528", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Since 2002, what movie star has been a global spokesperson for cell phone provider T-Mobile?", "correct_answer": "ZETA JONES", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jurassic Park", "Jaws", "Star Wars" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00529", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Since 2003,what company has employed the advertising slogan “Imagination at work”?", "correct_answer": "GENERAL ELECTRIC", "incorrect_answers": [ "Germany", "France", "China" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00530", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Since 2008,”Mustang”,a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a blue horse,has stood beside the terminal of what city’s airport?", "correct_answer": "DENVER", "incorrect_answers": [ "Los Angeles", "Moscow", "Madrid" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00531", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Since the mid 1970s, singer Tom Petty has performed with what musical band?", "correct_answer": "THE HEARTBREAKERS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Queen", "The Beatles", "The Eagles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00532", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Since the show premiered in 2002,”CSI:Miami” has used what song by The Who as its opening theme?", "correct_answer": "WON’T GET FOOLED AGAIN", "incorrect_answers": [ "U2", "The Eagles", "The Rolling Stones" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00533", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Sixth-grader Harriet M. Welsch is the heroine of the classic children’s book “Harriet the” what?", "correct_answer": "SPY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Ernest Hemingway", "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "Mark Twain" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00534", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Someone who is being unrealistically optimistic is said to be “whistling” what song?", "correct_answer": "DIXIE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Queen", "The Eagles", "Led Zeppelin" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00535", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Song parodist Alfred Matthew Yankovic is better known by what nickname?", "correct_answer": "WEIRD AL", "incorrect_answers": [ "U2", "The Eagles", "Queen" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00536", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Specializing in grilled cheese sandwiches,the Arkansas food truck Grillenium Falcon pays homage to what film franchise?", "correct_answer": "STAR WARS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jurassic Park", "Avatar", "Jaws" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00537", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Spider Spud and Optimash Prime are movie-themed updates of what classic toy?", "correct_answer": "MR. POTATO HEAD", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jurassic Park", "The Godfather", "Pulp Fiction" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00538", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Starring Bruce Willis, the 2010 film “RED” features CIA agents who are “Extremely Dangerous” as well as what?", "correct_answer": "RETIRED", "incorrect_answers": [ "Pulp Fiction", "The Shawshank Redemption", "Star Wars" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00539", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Starring Jeff Bridges,the 2010 film “True Grit” is a reworking of a 1969 film that won what actor his only Oscar?", "correct_answer": "JOHN WAYNE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Tom Hanks", "Robert De Niro", "Johnny Depp" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00540", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Starring Rob Lowe,the 2012 Lifetime movie “Drew Peterson: Untouchable” is about a man accused of what heinous crime?", "correct_answer": "MURDERING HIS WIFE", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Godfather", "Casablanca", "Titanic" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00541", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Stephen King’s short story “The Body” was the basis for what popular ’80s movie?", "correct_answer": "STAND BY ME", "incorrect_answers": [ "Titanic", "Star Wars", "Jurassic Park" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00542", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Steve Martin,Chevy Chase and Martin Short don sombreros on the movie poster for what 1986 comedy?", "correct_answer": "THREE AMIGOS!", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jurassic Park", "Jaws", "Titanic" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00543", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Struggling with health issues,what author had the habit of penciling in a daily weight record on his bathroom wall?", "correct_answer": "ERNEST HEMINGWAY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jane Austen", "George Orwell", "J.K. Rowling" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00544", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Substituting basketball for battle,the musical Lysistrata Jones is an adaptation of an ancient Greek play by whom?", "correct_answer": "ARISTOPHANES", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Eagles", "The Beatles", "Fleetwood Mac" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00545", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Sugar magnate Henry Tate is the founder and namesake of a noted art gallery located in what city?", "correct_answer": "LONDON", "incorrect_answers": [ "Tokyo", "Rome", "Sydney" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00546", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Sunni is the largest denomination of what religion?", "correct_answer": "ISLAM", "incorrect_answers": [ "Japan", "France", "Russia" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00547", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Suspense novelist Robert Ludlum created what well-known movie character?", "correct_answer": "JASON BOURNE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jurassic Park", "Avatar", "Titanic" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00548", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Tattooed on Angelina Jolie’s back are the words “Know Your Rights,” the title of a 1982 song by what band?", "correct_answer": "THE CLASH", "incorrect_answers": [ "Pink Floyd", "Led Zeppelin", "Nirvana" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00549", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Teen superstar Miley Cyrus dances in and around a cage in her music video aptly titled “Can’t be” what?", "correct_answer": "TAMED", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Eagles", "Metallica", "Pink Floyd" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00550", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Thanks to the availability of both silk and bamboo, the kite was invented in what country?", "correct_answer": "CHINA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Japan", "France", "Russia" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00551", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The 1557 mile long Ganges River flows through what country/", "correct_answer": "INDIA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Spain", "Brazil", "China" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00552", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "The 1960 Hitchcock masterpiece “Psycho” has the odd distinction of being the first U.S. film to show what onscreen?", "correct_answer": "TOILET BEING FLUSHED", "incorrect_answers": [ "Casablanca", "Avatar", "Jaws" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00553", "category": "Sports", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The 1974 book “Alive” documents the aftermath of a plane crash in the Andes survived by teammates in what sport?", "correct_answer": "RUGBY", "incorrect_answers": [ "George Orwell", "Mark Twain", "William Shakespeare" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00554", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "The 1980 Devo song “Whip It” suggests a person must “whip it” in all but which of these scenarios?", "correct_answer": "WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU A GONG", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Eagles", "Led Zeppelin", "Nirvana" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00555", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "The 1983 holiday film “A Christmas Story” memorably features a kitsch floor lamp in the shape of a what?", "correct_answer": "WOMAN’S LEG", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Godfather", "Pulp Fiction", "Casablanca" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00556", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The 1986 movie “Sid and Nancy” chronicles a brief period in the life of a musician from what rock band?", "correct_answer": "THE SEX PISTOLS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Titanic", "Star Wars", "The Godfather" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00557", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The 1986 Tom Cruise movie “The Color of Money” centers around what high-stakes game?", "correct_answer": "POOL", "incorrect_answers": [ "Casablanca", "Jurassic Park", "E.T." ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00558", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "The 1986 “Weird Al ” Yankovic song “Addicted to Spuds” parodies a hit tune by what pop singer?", "correct_answer": "ROBERT PALMER", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Eagles", "The Beatles", "Queen" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00559", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "The 1990 film that made Julia Roberts a superstar takes its name from the title of what Roy Orbison song?", "correct_answer": "OH,PRETTY WOMAN", "incorrect_answers": [ "E.T.", "Star Wars", "Pulp Fiction" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00560", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "The 1998 animated movie “The Prince of Egypt” tells the story of which of these biblical figures?", "correct_answer": "MOSES", "incorrect_answers": [ "E.T.", "Casablanca", "Star Wars" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00561", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The 2002 film “Windtalkers” details the true story of how U.S. soldiers used what language as a code during World War II?", "correct_answer": "NAVAJO", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Shawshank Redemption", "Pulp Fiction", "Avatar" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00562", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The 2002 music video for The White Stripes’ “Fell in Love With a Girl” solely features what toys?", "correct_answer": "LEGOS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Nirvana", "Pink Floyd", "U2" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00563", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "The 2006 movie “Dreamgirls” stars what pop singer as Deena Jones,the leader of a 1960s soul trio?", "correct_answer": "BEYONCE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Titanic", "Jaws", "Pulp Fiction" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00564", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The 2007 finance book “Grande Expectations,” chronicles what U.S. company’s stock prices?", "correct_answer": "STARBUCKS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jane Austen", "J.K. Rowling", "Mark Twain" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00565", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The 2008 book “The Encyclopedia Shatnerica” is about an actor who starred in what classic TV show?", "correct_answer": "STAR TREK", "incorrect_answers": [ "Mark Twain", "Jane Austen", "J.K. Rowling" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00566", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "The 2009 animated film “Fantastic Mr.Fox” is based on a 1970 children’s book by whom?", "correct_answer": "ROALD DAHL", "incorrect_answers": [ "E.T.", "Jaws", "Star Wars" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00567", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "The 2010 comedy “Vampires Suck” is a movie spoof that pokes fun at which of these film franchises?", "correct_answer": "TWILIGHT", "incorrect_answers": [ "Casablanca", "Titanic", "The Shawshank Redemption" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00568", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "The 2010 documentary “When You’re Strange” features unseen footage of what classic rock band?", "correct_answer": "THE DOORS", "incorrect_answers": [ "U2", "Led Zeppelin", "The Rolling Stones" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00569", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The 2010 movie “The Social Network” tells the real-life story of the young founders of what wildly popular website?", "correct_answer": "FACEBOOK", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Godfather", "Jaws", "Star Wars" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00570", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The 2011 book “Rawhide Down” details the attempted assasination of which U.S. president?", "correct_answer": "RONALD REAGAN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Thomas Jefferson", "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "John F. Kennedy" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00571", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The 2011 film “Conan the Barbarian” reintroduces a character first made famous by what action star in 1982?", "correct_answer": "ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Godfather", "Avatar", "Casablanca" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00572", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The 2011 film “The Descendants” features George Clooney as the head of an old family in what exotic location?", "correct_answer": "HAWAII", "incorrect_answers": [ "Avatar", "The Godfather", "Casablanca" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00573", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The 2012 TV show “Smash” features a TV actor playing a Broadway actor playing what famous movie actor?", "correct_answer": "MARILYN MONROE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Robert De Niro", "Johnny Depp", "Morgan Freeman" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00574", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The A&E Web series “Hammertime” centers on the life and family of a musician best known for what ’90s megahit?", "correct_answer": "U CAN’T TOUCH THIS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Queen", "The Beatles", "The Rolling Stones" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00575", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "The American Film Institute lists what movie’s “Juror #8” as one of the top fifty movie heroes of all time?", "correct_answer": "12 ANGRY MEN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Avatar", "The Shawshank Redemption", "Titanic" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00576", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The anise-flavored liqueur ouzo is a traditional drink of what country?", "correct_answer": "GREECE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Japan", "United Kingdom", "Australia" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00577", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The artist Selena won multiple awards for her performances in which genre of music?", "correct_answer": "TEJANO", "incorrect_answers": [ "U2", "Pink Floyd", "Led Zeppelin" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00578", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand is widely considered the event that triggered what war?", "correct_answer": "WORLD WAR I", "incorrect_answers": [ "Brazil", "Japan", "India" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00579", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The Australian flag features what country’s flag in its upper left-hand corner?", "correct_answer": "UNITED KINGDOM", "incorrect_answers": [ "India", "Germany", "Brazil" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00580", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The author of the 2010 bestseller “Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang” also has which of these jobs?", "correct_answer": "TALK SHOW HOST", "incorrect_answers": [ "J.K. Rowling", "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "William Shakespeare" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00581", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The band Pink Floyd is known for augmenting its concerts with a giant inflatable replica of what animal?", "correct_answer": "PIG", "incorrect_answers": [ "Fleetwood Mac", "The Eagles", "Metallica" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00582", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The birthplace of actress Portia de Rossi, Geelong is a port city located where?", "correct_answer": "AUSTRALIA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Berlin", "Toronto", "London" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00583", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "The Broadway musical “American Idiot” is a stage adaptation of a popular album by what band?", "correct_answer": "GREEN DAY", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Beatles", "Led Zeppelin", "Queen" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00584", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "The Broadway musical “Spamalot” is a stage adaptation of what classic movie comedy?", "correct_answer": "MONTY PYTHON & THE HOLY GRAIL", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Godfather", "E.T.", "The Shawshank Redemption" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00585", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "The Cape Hatteras Lighthouse,the tallest in the nation,lights up the coast of what U.S. state?", "correct_answer": "NORTH CAROLINA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Italy", "Japan", "Russia" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00586", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The capital letter-heavy album “NKOTBSB” features 5 hits from New Kids On The Block and what other band?", "correct_answer": "BACKSTREET BOYS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Madrid", "Moscow", "Toronto" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00587", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "The Caribbean’s Virgin Islands are divided between the U.S. and what European country?", "correct_answer": "UNITED KINGDOM", "incorrect_answers": [ "Brazil", "Japan", "Canada" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00588", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "The championship thoroughbred horse Zenyatta takes its name from the title of what ’80s band’s third album?", "correct_answer": "THE POLICE", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Rolling Stones", "The Eagles", "Queen" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00589", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "The chorus of the song “Home on the Range” mentions what pair of playful animals?", "correct_answer": "DEER AND ANTELOPE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Led Zeppelin", "Nirvana", "The Beatles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00590", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "The city of Karachi is located in what country?", "correct_answer": "PAKISTAN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Brazil", "United States", "Spain" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00591", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The city’s tallest building until 2007,One Liberty Place is a 61-story skyscraper located where?", "correct_answer": "PHILADELPHIA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Rome", "Madrid", "Berlin" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00592", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The Clara Barton National Historic Site was both her home and an early headquarters for what organization?", "correct_answer": "AMERICAN RED CROSS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Germany", "Canada", "Brazil" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00593", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "The classic 1969 movie “Easy Rider” features two men riding cross-country by what?", "correct_answer": "MOTORCYCLE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Mexico", "Spain", "Canada" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00594", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "The classic song “Chattanooga Choo Choo” immortalized a train station located in what Southern state?", "correct_answer": "TENNESSEE", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Eagles", "The Beatles", "Fleetwood Mac" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00595", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "The classic TV series “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” was filmed at the WQED studios located in what U.S. city?", "correct_answer": "PITTSBURGH", "incorrect_answers": [ "Paris", "Rome", "Tokyo" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00596", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "The co-founder of Caterpillar Inc. was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for his work on what?", "correct_answer": "TRACTORS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Russia", "Italy", "India" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00597", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The comic book superhero Wonder Woman is best known for traveling how?", "correct_answer": "IN AN INVISIBLE PLANE", "incorrect_answers": [ "George Orwell", "Ernest Hemingway", "William Shakespeare" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00598", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "The concert films “Delirious” and “Raw” feature memorable stand-up comedy routines by whom?", "correct_answer": "EDDIE MURPHY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jurassic Park", "Titanic", "E.T." ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00599", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "The Conquistadors were 16th-century New World adventurers native to what European country?", "correct_answer": "SPAIN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Brazil", "Australia", "France" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00600", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "The controversial 1915 movie “The Birth of a Nation” depicts what historical event?", "correct_answer": "CIVIL WAR", "incorrect_answers": [ "Italy", "Russia", "Spain" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00601", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "The country name “Argentina” derives from the Latin word for what chemical element?", "correct_answer": "SILVER", "incorrect_answers": [ "Mexico", "Brazil", "United Kingdom" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00602", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "The cover of what band’s debut album appropriately features a picture of the ill-fated Hindenburg?", "correct_answer": "LED ZEPPELIN", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Beatles", "Pink Floyd", "Nirvana" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00603", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The director of what 2010 film has said in interviews that he often gets asked, “Does the top ever stop spinning?”", "correct_answer": "INCEPTION", "incorrect_answers": [ "Star Wars", "Jaws", "Jurassic Park" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00604", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "The double bass is a low-pitched member of what musical instrument family?", "correct_answer": "STRING", "incorrect_answers": [ "U2", "Nirvana", "Fleetwood Mac" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00605", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The expression “Perfect Storm” is widely believed to have been coined by what bestselling author?", "correct_answer": "SEBASTIAN JUNGER", "incorrect_answers": [ "William Shakespeare", "J.K. Rowling", "Charles Dickens" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00606", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "The famous presidential declaration “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself” was in response to what crisis?", "correct_answer": "THE GREAT DEPRESSION", "incorrect_answers": [ "George Washington", "Ronald Reagan", "Abraham Lincoln" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00607", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "The famous unsolved murder of actress Elizabeth Short inspired what 1987 James Ellroy novel?", "correct_answer": "THE BLACK DAHLIA", "incorrect_answers": [ "J.K. Rowling", "George Orwell", "Mark Twain" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00608", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "The famous ’80s quote “Mr.Gorbachev,tear down this wall” referred to a wall in what country?", "correct_answer": "GERMANY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Brazil", "Australia", "Spain" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00609", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The fantastical lands of Gondor,Mordor,and the Shire feature prominently in what author’s fiction?", "correct_answer": "J.R.R. TOLKIEN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jane Austen", "Charles Dickens", "F. Scott Fitzgerald" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00610", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "The female star of the 2010 movie “Date Night” is also the star of what TV show?", "correct_answer": "30 ROCK", "incorrect_answers": [ "Star Wars", "Avatar", "Titanic" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00611", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "The first female to receive the honor, Kathryn Bigelow received a Best Director Oscar in 2010 for what film?", "correct_answer": "THE HURT LOCKER", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Godfather", "Jaws", "Star Wars" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00612", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "The first musical to win a Pulitzer Prize, “Of Thee I Sing” takes its title from a lyric in what patriotic song?", "correct_answer": "MY COUNTRY ‘TIS OF THEE", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Eagles", "Queen", "Nirvana" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00613", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The first U.S. presidential election in which Barack Obama was eligible to vote was won by whom?", "correct_answer": "RONALD REAGAN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Abraham Lincoln", "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "John F. Kennedy" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00614", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The first word of the national anthem of the U.S., “O say, can you see,” is what part of speech?", "correct_answer": "INTERJECTION", "incorrect_answers": [ "Mexico", "China", "Spain" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00615", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The Flemings and the Walloons are the two predominant cultural groups of what country?", "correct_answer": "BELGIUM", "incorrect_answers": [ "Canada", "Italy", "India" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00616", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "The fortune-telling die inside the Magic 8-ball toy is an icosahedron,meaning it has how many sides?", "correct_answer": "20", "incorrect_answers": [ "30", "21", "22" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00617", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "The French phrase “fin de siecle” would most likely refer to the events occurring in which of these years?", "correct_answer": "1899", "incorrect_answers": [ "1900", "1901", "1904" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00618", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The full title of the R.E.M. song “It’s The End of the World As We Know It” contains what parenthetical phrase?", "correct_answer": "(AND I FEEL FINE)", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Eagles", "Pink Floyd", "Nirvana" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00619", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The Golden Gate Bridge is painted a distinctive cover officially known as “international” what?", "correct_answer": "ORANGE", "incorrect_answers": [ "China", "India", "Japan" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00620", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "The gossip Web site wwtdd.com or “What Would Tyler Durden Do?” references a character from what film?", "correct_answer": "FIGHT CLUB", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jurassic Park", "Titanic", "The Shawshank Redemption" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00621", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The gossip Web site wwtdd.com,or “What Would Tyler Durden Do?,” references a character from what film?", "correct_answer": "FIGHT CLUB", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Shawshank Redemption", "The Godfather", "Star Wars" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00622", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The Grammy-winning soundtrack to “O brother, where art thou?” features the music of what genre?", "correct_answer": "BLUEGRASS", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Rolling Stones", "Queen", "Led Zeppelin" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00623", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The hat dance is a popular folk dance of what country?", "correct_answer": "MEXICO", "incorrect_answers": [ "China", "India", "France" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00624", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "The husband and wife duo of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg made headlines in the 1950s as what?", "correct_answer": "SOVIET SPIES", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Eagles", "Queen", "Nirvana" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00625", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The iconic picture of Bruce Spingsteen’s butt that appears on his “Born In The U.S.A.” album was taken by whom?", "correct_answer": "ANNIE LEIBOVITZ", "incorrect_answers": [ "Pink Floyd", "The Beatles", "The Eagles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00626", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "The infamous general Napoleon is mentioned in the opening line of what ABBA song?", "correct_answer": "WATERLOO", "incorrect_answers": [ "U2", "Led Zeppelin", "The Eagles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00627", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "The international runaway bestseller “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo” takes place in what country?", "correct_answer": "SWEDEN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Russia", "Canada", "Spain" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00628", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "The island nation of St Kitts and Nevis is located in what body of water?", "correct_answer": "CARIBBEAN SEA", "incorrect_answers": [ "India", "United Kingdom", "Mexico" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00629", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The jazz style known as Dixieland originated in the early 20th century in what Southern city?", "correct_answer": "NEW ORLEANS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Chicago", "Rome", "Tokyo" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00630", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "The Kathy Bates quip “Every time an Oscar is given out,an agent gets his wings” plays on a famous line from what film?", "correct_answer": "IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jurassic Park", "Casablanca", "Avatar" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00631", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The Labrador Retriever is a dog breed named after an Eastern region of what country?", "correct_answer": "CANADA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Germany", "India", "Italy" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00632", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "The lambada is a spirited ballroom dance originating in what country?", "correct_answer": "BRAZIL", "incorrect_answers": [ "Japan", "Russia", "United Kingdom" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00633", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The Lido deck on a cruise ship takes its name from a historic seaside resort area in what city?", "correct_answer": "VENICE,ITALY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Toronto", "London", "Sydney" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00634", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "The life of Maureen Marder,a construction worker and exotic dancer,inspired what ’80s movie?", "correct_answer": "FLASHDANCE", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Shawshank Redemption", "Titanic", "Jurassic Park" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00635", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The lyrics of the rock song “White Rabbit” make several references to what author’s children’s book?", "correct_answer": "LEWIS CARROLL", "incorrect_answers": [ "U2", "Pink Floyd", "The Eagles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00636", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "The manipulative killer in the “Saw” series of horror movies is known by what nickname?", "correct_answer": "JIGSAW", "incorrect_answers": [ "E.T.", "Avatar", "The Godfather" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00637", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "The military vehicle known as the Humvee first saw U.S. combat action in 1989 in what foreign country?", "correct_answer": "PANAMA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Italy", "Japan", "Spain" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00638", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The Mossad is the secret intelligence service of what country?", "correct_answer": "ISRAEL", "incorrect_answers": [ "Italy", "Russia", "Spain" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00639", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "The movie poster for what Best Picture winner features a man sitting alone on a park bench?", "correct_answer": "FORREST GUMP", "incorrect_answers": [ "Pulp Fiction", "Star Wars", "Avatar" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00640", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The movie “Steel Magnolias” is often credited with a surge in popularity of what type of cake,popular in the South?", "correct_answer": "RED VELVET CAKE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jaws", "The Shawshank Redemption", "The Godfather" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00641", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The movies “Spider-Man” and “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” both feature what cinematic cliche?", "correct_answer": "KISS IN THE RAIN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Avatar", "Star Wars", "Titanic" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00642", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "The MTV reality show “The Challenge” began as a combination of “The Real World” and what other show?", "correct_answer": "ROAD RULES", "incorrect_answers": [ "Canada", "China", "Spain" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00643", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The musical acts that compete on NBC’s reality show “The Sing-Off” all have what defining characteristic?", "correct_answer": "A CAPELLA", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Beatles", "Nirvana", "The Eagles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00644", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The musical duo Sugarland are chart-topping artists in what musical genre?", "correct_answer": "COUNTRY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Queen", "Pink Floyd", "The Rolling Stones" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00645", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The musical scores of the “Charlie Brown” animated TV series notably feature what genre of music?", "correct_answer": "JAZZ", "incorrect_answers": [ "Nirvana", "Fleetwood Mac", "Queen" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00646", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The musical “Camelot,” which debuted on Broadway in 1960,features what legendary figure as the lead role?", "correct_answer": "KING ARTHUR", "incorrect_answers": [ "U2", "The Eagles", "The Beatles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00647", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "The musical “Million Dollar Quartet” depicts a legendary 1956 jam session by all but which of these artists?", "correct_answer": "ROY ORBISON", "incorrect_answers": [ "Queen", "Fleetwood Mac", "Nirvana" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00648", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "The musical “West Side Story” is based on what Shakespearean tragedy?", "correct_answer": "ROMEO AND JULIET", "incorrect_answers": [ "Nirvana", "The Eagles", "Metallica" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00649", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "The name of a famous grocery brand, “Spam” is a combination of “ham” and what word?", "correct_answer": "SPICED", "incorrect_answers": [ "France", "Canada", "China" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00650", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "The name of a song from the popular musical “The Sound of Music,” edelweiss is a type of what?", "correct_answer": "FLOWER", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Eagles", "Fleetwood Mac", "Nirvana" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00651", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "The name of Louisiana’s state capital,Baton Rouge,is a French phrase meaning what?", "correct_answer": "RED STICK", "incorrect_answers": [ "Berlin", "New York", "Toronto" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00652", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The name of Oregon’s capital city can be found embedded within the name of which of these world cities?", "correct_answer": "JERUSALEM", "incorrect_answers": [ "Tokyo", "Madrid", "Rome" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00653", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "The national program of medicare was established during the term of what U.S. president?", "correct_answer": "LYNDON B. JOHNSON", "incorrect_answers": [ "John F. Kennedy", "Barack Obama", "Ronald Reagan" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00654", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "The numbered spaces on a standard roulette wheel fittingly add up to what sinful number?", "correct_answer": "666", "incorrect_answers": [ "676", "665", "668" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00655", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The OPEC Oil cartel includes member nations from all but which of these continents?", "correct_answer": "EUROPE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Japan", "Canada", "United Kingdom" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00656", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The Oscar-winning film “No Country for Old Men” was adapted from a novel by what author?", "correct_answer": "CORMAC MCCARTHY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Spain", "Italy", "United States" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00657", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The phrase “get out of Dodge” is commonly believed to refer to a city in what U.S. state?", "correct_answer": "KANSAS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Tokyo", "Los Angeles", "Berlin" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00658", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The popular lunch meat baloney,sometimes spelled bologna,takes its name from a city in what country?", "correct_answer": "ITALY", "incorrect_answers": [ "United Kingdom", "Germany", "Mexico" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00659", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The punny 1966 Time Magazine headline “Truman’s Compote” combines an author’s name and a type of what?", "correct_answer": "DESSERT", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jane Austen", "Charles Dickens", "Ernest Hemingway" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00660", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "The Queen song “Bohemian Rhapsody” mentions which of these great thinkers in its lyrics?", "correct_answer": "GALILEO", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Eagles", "Led Zeppelin", "Pink Floyd" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00661", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "The Red Cross estimates that how much blood is collected during a typical donation?", "correct_answer": "1 PINT", "incorrect_answers": [ "Canada", "Japan", "Germany" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00662", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The ruins of the ancient city of Pompeii are located in what country?", "correct_answer": "ITALY", "incorrect_answers": [ "United Kingdom", "Germany", "China" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00663", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "THE SEC is a government agency that was established in response to what national event?", "correct_answer": "1929 STOCK MARKET CRASH", "incorrect_answers": [ "France", "Japan", "Germany" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00664", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "The section of New York’s Central Park known as “Strawberry Fields” memorializes a member of what iconic band?", "correct_answer": "THE BEATLES", "incorrect_answers": [ "Fleetwood Mac", "The Rolling Stones", "Queen" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00665", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "The Silver Bullet Band is the longtime backing band of what popular musician?", "correct_answer": "BOB SEGER", "incorrect_answers": [ "Led Zeppelin", "Metallica", "The Beatles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00666", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The sketch comedy series “Portlandia” pokes fun at hipsters residing in what state’s most populous city?", "correct_answer": "OREGON", "incorrect_answers": [ "Los Angeles", "Chicago", "Rome" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00667", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The slang term “El Lay” phonetically spells out the abbreviation for what state’s most populated city?", "correct_answer": "CALIFORNIA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Berlin", "London", "Tokyo" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00668", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "The slogan “This machine kills fascists” often appeared on the guitars of what musician?", "correct_answer": "WOODY GUTHRIE", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Beatles", "Pink Floyd", "Metallica" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00669", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The slogan, “Liberte,Egalite,Fraternite” appears on euro coins minted in what country?", "correct_answer": "FRANCE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Canada", "Mexico", "Germany" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00670", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "The son of a jazz promoter,Billy Crystal was taken to his first movie by what legendary singer?", "correct_answer": "BILLIE HOLIDAY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Pulp Fiction", "Jurassic Park", "Avatar" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00671", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "The song “Do-Re-Mi” in “The Sound of Music” teaches us that all but which of the following are music syllables?", "correct_answer": "LO", "incorrect_answers": [ "Fleetwood Mac", "Queen", "The Eagles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00672", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The song “Over The River and Through The Woods” was originally an 1844 poem about what holiday?", "correct_answer": "THANKSGIVING", "incorrect_answers": [ "Queen", "Metallica", "Led Zeppelin" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00673", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The Spanish-American War began in 1898 as an intervention by the United States on behalf of what country?", "correct_answer": "CUBA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Russia", "China", "Brazil" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00674", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The Sundance Film Festival is held every January in what U.S. state?", "correct_answer": "UTAH", "incorrect_answers": [ "E.T.", "Jaws", "Jurassic Park" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00675", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The T-Birds,the Pink Ladies,and the Scorpions are all high school cliques in what movie musical?", "correct_answer": "GREASE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Avatar", "Star Wars", "E.T." ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00676", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "The talking dog in the 2011 TV series “Wilfred” won comparisons to the imaginary animal in what Jimmy Stewart film?", "correct_answer": "HARVEY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jurassic Park", "The Shawshank Redemption", "The Godfather" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00677", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "The Tea Party movement takes its name from a famous historical event that took place in what city?", "correct_answer": "BOSTON", "incorrect_answers": [ "Paris", "Chicago", "Berlin" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00678", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "The teenage drama “Gossip Girl” is partly set at a fictional New York City prep school called what?", "correct_answer": "CONSTANCE BILLIARD SCHOOL", "incorrect_answers": [ "Tokyo", "Rome", "Sydney" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00679", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The term “paparazzi” comes from the name of an aggressive photographer in what movie?", "correct_answer": "LA DOLCE VITA", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Godfather", "E.T.", "Casablanca" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00680", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The term “Tin Pan Alley” originally referred to a New York City district famously associated with what industry?", "correct_answer": "SONGWRITING", "incorrect_answers": [ "Paris", "Toronto", "Berlin" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00681", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "The theme song for what popular cartoon features the line “robots in disguise”?", "correct_answer": "TRANSFORMERS", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Eagles", "U2", "The Rolling Stones" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00682", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "The theme song for “The Young and Restless,” “Nadia’s Theme” is named for a famous female what?", "correct_answer": "GYMNAST", "incorrect_answers": [ "Fleetwood Mac", "The Rolling Stones", "U2" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00683", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The theme song to what ’80s sitcom begins with the memorable line, “Streaks on the china never mattered before”?", "correct_answer": "MR. BELVEDERE", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Beatles", "Fleetwood Mac", "Metallica" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00684", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "The theme song “Eye of the Tiger” is featured in the third installment of what movie franchise?", "correct_answer": "ROCKY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jurassic Park", "Star Wars", "The Godfather" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00685", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "The title of a 1955 Marilyn Monroe film suggests that spouses “itch” to stray after how many years of marriage?", "correct_answer": "SEVEN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Pulp Fiction", "Jaws", "Titanic" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00686", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The title of a famous show tune from the 1949 musical “South Pacific,” “Bali Ha’i” is a what?", "correct_answer": "ISLAND", "incorrect_answers": [ "Queen", "Fleetwood Mac", "The Eagles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00687", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The title of Stephen Covey’s 1989 self-help book claims that “Highly Effective People” have how many “habits”?", "correct_answer": "SEVEN", "incorrect_answers": [ "J.K. Rowling", "George Orwell", "Charles Dickens" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00688", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The title of the 1927 novel “Treasure of the Sierra Madre” refers to a mountain range in what country/", "correct_answer": "MEXICO", "incorrect_answers": [ "United States", "India", "Canada" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00689", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The title of the 2011 film “Super 8” refers to a largely outdated type of what?", "correct_answer": "FILM STOCK", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Godfather", "The Shawshank Redemption", "Star Wars" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00690", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The title of the classic novel “Wuthering Heights” refers to what place?", "correct_answer": "FAMILY ESTATE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Mark Twain", "Jane Austen", "Charles Dickens" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00691", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "The title of the TV series “Friends” refers to a group of how many total friends?", "correct_answer": "6", "incorrect_answers": [ "8", "7", "4" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00692", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The tradition of indoor Christmas tree decorating began in the 16th century in what country?", "correct_answer": "GERMANY", "incorrect_answers": [ "United States", "Spain", "France" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00693", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The TV shows “Glee,” and “Freaks and Geeks” are both set at high schools named after which U.S. President?", "correct_answer": "WILLIAM MCKINLEY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Theodore Roosevelt", "Barack Obama", "Franklin D. Roosevelt" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00694", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The TV shows “Glee” and “Freaks and Geeks” are both set at high schools named after what U.S. president?", "correct_answer": "WILLIAM MCKINLEY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Theodore Roosevelt", "Ronald Reagan", "Franklin D. Roosevelt" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00695", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "The United Nations flag depicts a map of the world surrounded by what?", "correct_answer": "OLIVE BRANCHES", "incorrect_answers": [ "China", "Canada", "India" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00696", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The University of California,San Diego’s Geisel Library bears the real surname of what author?", "correct_answer": "DR.SEUSS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Ernest Hemingway", "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "Jane Austen" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00697", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The Van Gogh Museum is a popular destination for art lovers visiting what European capital?", "correct_answer": "AMSTERDAM", "incorrect_answers": [ "Brazil", "Canada", "India" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00698", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "The voice actor Don LaFontaine was famous for what signature phrase, often heard in movie trailers?", "correct_answer": "IN A WORLD…", "incorrect_answers": [ "Brad Pitt", "Robert De Niro", "Denzel Washington" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00699", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The Yuko hair straightening treatment is often referred to by its country of origin, which is what?", "correct_answer": "JAPAN", "incorrect_answers": [ "United Kingdom", "Australia", "Spain" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00700", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The “.tv” Internet address,often used for television-related websites,belongs to what country?", "correct_answer": "TUVALU", "incorrect_answers": [ "Australia", "Italy", "United Kingdom" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00701", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The “greaser” look of Shia LaBeouf’s character in “Indiana Jones 4” was modeled after Marlon Brando in what film?", "correct_answer": "THE WILD ONE", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Godfather", "The Shawshank Redemption", "Jurassic Park" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00702", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "The “jerk” method of preparing and cooking meat originated in what country?", "correct_answer": "JAMAICA", "incorrect_answers": [ "France", "Brazil", "India" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00703", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "The “Star Wars” films notably contain music themes for each main character,a practice known by what music term?", "correct_answer": "LEITMOTIF", "incorrect_answers": [ "Avatar", "The Godfather", "The Shawshank Redemption" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00704", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Theodore Roosevelt National Park is located on the former site of the president’s Elkhorn Ranch is what U.S. state?", "correct_answer": "NORTH DAKOTA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Ronald Reagan", "Abraham Lincoln", "John F. Kennedy" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00705", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Though he lives and works in Nashville,which of these country singers is a New Zealand-born Australian?", "correct_answer": "KEITH URBAN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Japan", "China", "Australia" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00706", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Though he now makes his home in Dallas, NBA superstar Dirk Nowitzki hails from what foreign country?", "correct_answer": "GERMANY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Mexico", "Australia", "India" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00707", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Though he was 21 when it all wrapped up, how old was Daniel Radcliffe when the first Harry Potter film came out?", "correct_answer": "12", "incorrect_answers": [ "11", "22", "2" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00708", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Though her recent work is Christian-themed, what novelist announced in 2010 she was leaving Christianity", "correct_answer": "ANNE RICE", "incorrect_answers": [ "William Shakespeare", "Mark Twain", "J.K. Rowling" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00709", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Though his successor removed them, what U.S. President was the first to install solar panels on the White House roof?", "correct_answer": "JIMMY CARTER", "incorrect_answers": [ "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "John F. Kennedy", "Theodore Roosevelt" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00710", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Though it can be traced back to the 1500s, the proverb “Tomorrow is another day” was popularized by what author?", "correct_answer": "MARGARET MITCHELL", "incorrect_answers": [ "Charles Dickens", "Mark Twain", "George Orwell" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00711", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Though it is often quoted,the line “Elementary,my dear Watson” never actually appears in the works of what author?", "correct_answer": "ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE", "incorrect_answers": [ "William Shakespeare", "George Orwell", "Mark Twain" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00712", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Though it sounds like a movie awards category,which of these is the name of a hotel chain?", "correct_answer": "BEST WESTERN", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Shawshank Redemption", "E.T.", "Jaws" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00713", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Though it sounds like it is for a children’s game,which of these websites belongs to a major U.S. book publisher?", "correct_answer": "SIMONSAYS.COM", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jane Austen", "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "Mark Twain" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00714", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Though it’s in the dictionary, which of these words is considered an improper combination of two other words?", "correct_answer": "IRREGARDLESS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Italy", "Mexico", "United Kingdom" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00715", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Though known for her comedy, what actress won an Oscar for her dramatic turn in the 2009 film “Precious”?", "correct_answer": "MONIQUE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Leonardo DiCaprio", "Denzel Washington", "Al Pacino" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00716", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Though not confirmed by the author,Johnny Fontane,the singer in “The Godfather,” is believed to be based on whom?", "correct_answer": "FRANK SINATRA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Mark Twain", "William Shakespeare", "Charles Dickens" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00717", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Though now associated with Mexico,piatas are thought to have originated from what country’s New Year celebrations?", "correct_answer": "CHINA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Mexico", "Brazil", "Canada" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00718", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Though now headquartered in New York,the United Nations drew up its charter in what other U.S. city?", "correct_answer": "SAN FRANCISCO", "incorrect_answers": [ "United Kingdom", "Australia", "Spain" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00719", "category": "Sports", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Though the amount is no longer in U.S. circulation,the classic game of monopoly comes with bills in what denomination?", "correct_answer": "$500", "incorrect_answers": [ "Russia", "United Kingdom", "Germany" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00720", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Thought to be a combination of “simon” and “napoleon,” “simoleon” is an old-fashioned slang term for a what?", "correct_answer": "DOLLAR BILL", "incorrect_answers": [ "Germany", "India", "France" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00721", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Timothy Q.Mouse initially frightens,but then befriends the title character of what classic Disney film?", "correct_answer": "DUMBO", "incorrect_answers": [ "E.T.", "Pulp Fiction", "Jaws" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00722", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "To avoid confusion with a prominent city,what state’s tourism department advertises itself as “The State”?", "correct_answer": "WASHINGTON", "incorrect_answers": [ "Chicago", "London", "Sydney" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00723", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "To enhance its sense of authenticity, which of these TV dramas was shot on location in Austin, TX?", "correct_answer": "FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS", "incorrect_answers": [ "London", "Rome", "New York" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00724", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Tom Hanks received an Oscar nomination for his work in all but which of these films?", "correct_answer": "THE GREEN MILE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Spain", "Germany", "France" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00725", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Tourists intending to visit the capital city of San Jose would receive the best travel advice from what guide book?", "correct_answer": "LET’S GO COSTA RICA", "incorrect_answers": [ "London", "New York", "Sydney" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00726", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Traditionally made with a base of olive oil,Castile soap is named for a region of what country?", "correct_answer": "SPAIN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Canada", "Italy", "Germany" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00727", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Traditionally made with fried seafood,a po’ boy is a sandwich associated with what U.S. city’s cuisine?", "correct_answer": "NEW ORLEANS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Toronto", "London", "Paris" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00728", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Traditionally worn by geishas and sumo wrestlers,geta are wooden footwear from what country?", "correct_answer": "JAPAN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Canada", "Mexico", "Italy" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00729", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Translating to “Fashion Dispatch,” what 80s band took its name from a French fashion magazine?", "correct_answer": "DEPECHE MODE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Pink Floyd", "The Rolling Stones", "Fleetwood Mac" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00730", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Trial lawyers often refer to the false expectation that a witness will confess under cross-examination as what?", "correct_answer": "PERRY MASON SYNDROME", "incorrect_answers": [ "Germany", "India", "Russia" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00731", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "TV and movie character Peewee Herman is known for wearing which of these fashion accessories?", "correct_answer": "RED BOW TIE", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Godfather", "Avatar", "Pulp Fiction" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00732", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "U.N. Lifts Beluga Ban was the headline for a 2010 news story about international restrictions on what luxury item?", "correct_answer": "CAVIAR", "incorrect_answers": [ "Canada", "Mexico", "Spain" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00733", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "U2’s hit song “Vertigo” begins with the line “Uno,dos,tres,catorce,”,spanish for one,two,three” what?", "correct_answer": "FOURTEEN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Fleetwood Mac", "The Eagles", "U2" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00734", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "UGG, a trendy brand that specializes in sheepskin boots, originated in what country?", "correct_answer": "AUSTRALIA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Spain", "Japan", "Italy" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00735", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Under European Law,bottles of “traditional balsamic vinegar” can only be produced in two provinces of what country?", "correct_answer": "ITALY", "incorrect_answers": [ "France", "India", "China" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00736", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Understood by folks familiar with the metric system,what day always falls within “National Metric Week”?", "correct_answer": "OCTOBER 10TH", "incorrect_answers": [ "Spain", "Australia", "Russia" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00737", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Unhappy with the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize award,what country launched its own “Confucius Peace Prize”?", "correct_answer": "CHINA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Germany", "Italy", "United States" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00738", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Used to describe a carefree lifestyle, “bohemian” refers to an area in what modern day country?", "correct_answer": "CZECH REPUBLIC", "incorrect_answers": [ "Japan", "Spain", "Canada" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00739", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Used to gauge stock market performance, the Dow Jones Industrial tracks how many companies?", "correct_answer": "30", "incorrect_answers": [ "31", "28", "40" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00740", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Using its local specialty, in 2009 the city of Portland, Maine created a 61-foot long what?", "correct_answer": "LOBSTER ROLL", "incorrect_answers": [ "Los Angeles", "Rome", "Chicago" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00741", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Usually a male role,Prospero is played by Dame Helen Mirren in the 2010 film of what Shakespeare play?", "correct_answer": "THE TEMPEST", "incorrect_answers": [ "Star Wars", "Titanic", "Casablanca" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00742", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Visible even with the naked eye,which of these planets is brightest in the evening sky?", "correct_answer": "VENUS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Mercury", "Earth", "Neptune" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00743", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Voiced by Johnny Depp, the title character in the 2011 animated movie “Rango” is what kind of desert creature?", "correct_answer": "CHAMELEON", "incorrect_answers": [ "E.T.", "Avatar", "Casablanca" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00744", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Voiced by Johnny Depp,the title character in the 2011 animated movie “Rango” is what kind of desert creature?", "correct_answer": "CHAMELEON", "incorrect_answers": [ "Avatar", "Jurassic Park", "Pulp Fiction" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00745", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What 1960s Raquel Welch film was advertised with the slogan “Mankind’s First Bikini!”?", "correct_answer": "ONE MILLION YEARS B.C.", "incorrect_answers": [ "Star Wars", "Jaws", "Titanic" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00746", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What 2009 hit song heavily samples a 1985 song by the band “Dead or Alive”?", "correct_answer": "RIGHT ROUND", "incorrect_answers": [ "Queen", "Nirvana", "The Rolling Stones" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00747", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What 2010 movie prominently features a mythical beast called a kraken?", "correct_answer": "CLASH OF THE TITANS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Avatar", "The Godfather", "Jurassic Park" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00748", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What 2011 documentary follows a late night comic on a cross country tour after being fired from NBC?", "correct_answer": "CONAN O’BRIEN CAN’T STOP", "incorrect_answers": [ "Spain", "United Kingdom", "Brazil" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00749", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What 2011 superhero movie was marketed in Russia using only its subtitle “The First Avenger”?", "correct_answer": "CAPTAIN AMERICA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Titanic", "Pulp Fiction", "Jaws" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00750", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What 70s song invariably compels dancers to spell out each letter of the song with their bodies?", "correct_answer": "YMCA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Metallica", "Queen", "Fleetwood Mac" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00751", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What actor delivers the oft-misquoted line, That dirty, double-crossing rat” in the 1931 film “Blonde Crazy”?", "correct_answer": "JAMES CAGNEY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Will Smith", "Meryl Streep", "Al Pacino" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00752", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What actor plays the mustachioed slacker “Wooderson” in the 1993 indie film “Dazed and Confused”?", "correct_answer": "MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Denzel Washington", "Al Pacino", "Tom Hanks" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00753", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What actor starred in a film version of Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible,” and then married Miller’s daughter Rebecca?", "correct_answer": "DANIEL DAY-LEWIS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Brad Pitt", "Al Pacino", "Johnny Depp" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00754", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What actor starred in the 1990s movies “Universal Soldier” and “Universal Soldier: The Return”?", "correct_answer": "JEAN CLAUDE-VAN DAMME", "incorrect_answers": [ "Brad Pitt", "Tom Hanks", "Will Smith" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00755", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What actress and international sex symbol was the inspiration for the term “sex kitten”?", "correct_answer": "BRIGITTE BARDOT", "incorrect_answers": [ "Canada", "China", "United States" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00756", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What American author is credited with popularizing the Spanish word “cojones” as a synonym for bravery?", "correct_answer": "ERNEST HEMINGWAY", "incorrect_answers": [ "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "George Orwell", "Mark Twain" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00757", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What animal appears on the national coat of arms of the African nation Cote D’ lvoire,or Ivory Coast?", "correct_answer": "ELEPHANT", "incorrect_answers": [ "India", "France", "Mexico" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00758", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What animalistic sound is sung throughout the 1978 Warren Zevon hit song “Werevolves of London”?", "correct_answer": "AHOOOOOO!", "incorrect_answers": [ "Nirvana", "Fleetwood Mac", "U2" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00759", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What athlete portrays himself in the 1977 movie “The Greatest”?", "correct_answer": "MOHAMMAD ALI", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jurassic Park", "The Godfather", "Avatar" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00760", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What author courted controversy in 2006 when his memoir,”A Million Little Pieces” was proved to be widely exaggerated?", "correct_answer": "JAMES FREY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Mark Twain", "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "George Orwell" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00761", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What author famously defined “guts” as “grace under pressure?”", "correct_answer": "ERNEST HEMINGWAY", "incorrect_answers": [ "William Shakespeare", "Jane Austen", "George Orwell" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00762", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What author is often credited with being the first person to submit a book manuscript written on a typewriter?", "correct_answer": "MARK TWAIN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Ernest Hemingway", "Jane Austen", "Charles Dickens" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00763", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What author of “The Handmaid’s Tale” has argued that her novels are “speculative fiction,” not science fiction?", "correct_answer": "MARGARET ATWOOD", "incorrect_answers": [ "Ernest Hemingway", "George Orwell", "J.K. Rowling" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00764", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What band claims its name was inspired by the initials of a popular brand of motor oil?", "correct_answer": "STONE TEMPLE PILOTS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Queen", "Fleetwood Mac", "U2" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00765", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What band’s lead singer often went by the name “Mr. Mojo Risin,” an anagram of his real name?", "correct_answer": "THE DOORS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Led Zeppelin", "The Rolling Stones", "Fleetwood Mac" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00766", "category": "Sports", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What baseball legend shares his name with a “golden voiced’ homeless man who shot to national fame in 2011?", "correct_answer": "TED WILLIAMS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Spain", "United Kingdom", "India" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00767", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What best-selling novelist copyrights his books under the name “Garp Enterprises Ltd.”?", "correct_answer": "JOHN IRVING", "incorrect_answers": [ "Mark Twain", "J.K. Rowling", "F. Scott Fitzgerald" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00768", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What body part is the final word of the chorus in the folk song “Oh! Susanna”?", "correct_answer": "KNEE", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Rolling Stones", "The Eagles", "Led Zeppelin" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00769", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What book of the Bible derives its name from the Greek word for “creation”?", "correct_answer": "GENESIS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Ernest Hemingway", "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "Mark Twain" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00770", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What British author’s second novel was dedicated “To my mum,Nellie,for not being like Bridget’s”?", "correct_answer": "HELEN FIELDING", "incorrect_answers": [ "George Orwell", "William Shakespeare", "Jane Austen" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00771", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What Broadway musical features the extravagant song-and dance number “Springtime for Hitler”?", "correct_answer": "THE PRODUCERS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Metallica", "The Beatles", "Queen" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00772", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What Broadway musical features the song “Food, Glorious Food”?", "correct_answer": "OLIVER!", "incorrect_answers": [ "U2", "Nirvana", "Fleetwood Mac" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00773", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What Broadway musical is largely set in a seedy nightclub called the Kit Kat Klub?", "correct_answer": "CABARET", "incorrect_answers": [ "Led Zeppelin", "The Beatles", "Pink Floyd" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00774", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What Broadway musical is subtitled “The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical”?", "correct_answer": "HAIR", "incorrect_answers": [ "Led Zeppelin", "Queen", "The Beatles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00775", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What Broadway musical spawned an unsuccessful 1990 sequel titled “Miss Hannigan’s Revenge”?", "correct_answer": "ANNIE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Queen", "U2", "Fleetwood Mac" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00776", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What Canadian city’s streets saw riots after their beloved Canucks lost the 2011 Stanley Cup to the Boston Bruins?", "correct_answer": "VANCOUVER", "incorrect_answers": [ "Paris", "Sydney", "Toronto" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00777", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What candy bar sounds like it was named for the author of the short story “The Gift of the Magi”?", "correct_answer": "O HENRY!", "incorrect_answers": [ "William Shakespeare", "Mark Twain", "Charles Dickens" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00778", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What celebrity postponed his wedding to a Swedish actress for fear it would hurt JFK’s Presidential campaign?", "correct_answer": "SAMMY DAVIS JR.", "incorrect_answers": [ "George Washington", "Thomas Jefferson", "Franklin D. Roosevelt" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00779", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What city’s stock exchange is home to the FTSE 100 index, informally known as the “footsie”?", "correct_answer": "LONDON", "incorrect_answers": [ "Moscow", "Madrid", "Sydney" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00780", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What city’s subway has white-gloved “platform pushers” that cram commuters into crowded trains?", "correct_answer": "TOKYO", "incorrect_answers": [ "Paris", "Sydney", "Berlin" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00781", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What city’s subway system is referred to by locals as “The Tube”?", "correct_answer": "LONDON", "incorrect_answers": [ "Berlin", "Sydney", "Paris" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00782", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What classic Alfred Hitchcock film is set primarily in the seaside town of Bodega Bay, California?", "correct_answer": "THE BIRDS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Titanic", "Pulp Fiction", "E.T." ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00783", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What classic children’s book features the adventures of a boy named Milo and a watchdog named Tock?", "correct_answer": "THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH", "incorrect_answers": [ "J.K. Rowling", "George Orwell", "Jane Austen" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00784", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What classic children’s book is subtitled “How Animals Become Real”?", "correct_answer": "THE VELVETEEN RABBIT", "incorrect_answers": [ "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "Charles Dickens", "Mark Twain" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00785", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What classic comedy film is credited with popularizing toga parties on college campuses?", "correct_answer": "ANIMAL HOUSE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Pulp Fiction", "Avatar", "Titanic" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00786", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What classic Disney film’s soundtrack features the song “Never Smile at a Crocodile”?", "correct_answer": "PETER PAN", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Godfather", "Avatar", "Casablanca" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00787", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What classic movie has a lead female character whose real name is revealed to be Lulamae Barnes?", "correct_answer": "BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S", "incorrect_answers": [ "E.T.", "Casablanca", "The Shawshank Redemption" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00788", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What classic novel is mentioned in a 2002 biography of Shania Twain even though she and the novel’s author are unrelated?", "correct_answer": "THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER", "incorrect_answers": [ "Charles Dickens", "Ernest Hemingway", "George Orwell" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00789", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What classic novel was originally published as a shorter novella titled “The Fireman”?", "correct_answer": "FAHRENHEIT 451", "incorrect_answers": [ "Charles Dickens", "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "Ernest Hemingway" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00790", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What classic rock song asks the unusual question, “Scaramouche, scaramouche, will you do the fandango?”", "correct_answer": "BOHEMIAN RAPSODY", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Rolling Stones", "The Eagles", "Nirvana" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00791", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What classic rock song’s first line urges you to “get your motor runnin, head out on the highway”?", "correct_answer": "BORN TO BE WILD", "incorrect_answers": [ "Fleetwood Mac", "Nirvana", "Metallica" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00792", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What classic song features the distinctive chant, “a-wimoweh, a wimoweh, a-wimoweh?”", "correct_answer": "THE LION SLEEPS TONIGHT", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Beatles", "Fleetwood Mac", "The Eagles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00793", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What classic TV show’s theme song ends with the exclamation “Yee haw!”?", "correct_answer": "THE DUKES OF HAZZARD", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Eagles", "Led Zeppelin", "The Beatles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00794", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What Coen brothers movie gets its title from the fictional film-within-a-film in the 1941 comedy “Sullivan’s Travels”?", "correct_answer": "O BROTHER,WHERE ART THOU?", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Shawshank Redemption", "The Godfather", "Casablanca" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00795", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What comedian’s production is named Happy Madison, a play on the titles of his two films?", "correct_answer": "ADAM SANDLER", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jaws", "Star Wars", "Casablanca" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00796", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What comedy film ends with the lead character staging an elaborate puppet musical about Dracula?", "correct_answer": "FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jaws", "Titanic", "Pulp Fiction" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00797", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What comedy movie once inspired a line of T-shirts bearing the boastful slogan “I am McLovin”?", "correct_answer": "SUPERBAD", "incorrect_answers": [ "Avatar", "The Godfather", "The Shawshank Redemption" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00798", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What comic book hero’s powers are the result of a botched gamma bomb experiment?", "correct_answer": "THE INCREDIBLE HULK", "incorrect_answers": [ "Mark Twain", "Jane Austen", "William Shakespeare" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00799", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What company takes its name from the first mate in the classic novel “Moby Dick?”", "correct_answer": "STARBUCKS", "incorrect_answers": [ "William Shakespeare", "Mark Twain", "Jane Austen" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00800", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What company’s longtime slogan is “You are now free to move about the country”?", "correct_answer": "SOUTHWEST AIRLINES", "incorrect_answers": [ "Mexico", "Canada", "Brazil" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00801", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What country has the oldest written constitution that is still in effect?", "correct_answer": "UNITED STATES", "incorrect_answers": [ "India", "Australia", "China" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00802", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What country hosted the 2010 FIFA World Cup, soccer’s premier international competition?", "correct_answer": "SOUTH AFRICA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Mexico", "France", "United Kingdom" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00803", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What country is famous for the scenic fjords that line its shores?", "correct_answer": "NORWAY", "incorrect_answers": [ "India", "Brazil", "China" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00804", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What country is home to Cape Town International Airport?", "correct_answer": "SOUTH AFRICA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Japan", "Russia", "Australia" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00805", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What country is home to the 2,300-mile-long Volga,Europe’s longest river?", "correct_answer": "RUSSIA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Brazil", "Spain", "Germany" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00806", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What country is said to have cultivated the world’s first orange carrot,in honor of their king William of Orange?", "correct_answer": "HOLLAND", "incorrect_answers": [ "Canada", "India", "Germany" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00807", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What country’s annual film awards are called “The Goyas”,named for its celebrated native artist?", "correct_answer": "SPAIN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Mexico", "Italy", "Germany" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00808", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What country’s cuisine would most likely be served in a taqueria?", "correct_answer": "MEXICO", "incorrect_answers": [ "Germany", "United States", "Japan" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00809", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What country’s current government was established in 1958 and is known as the Fifth Republic?", "correct_answer": "FRANCE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Australia", "United Kingdom", "India" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00810", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What country’s national anthem includes a version in the Inuktitut language for its Inuit population?", "correct_answer": "CANADA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Japan", "India", "Spain" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00811", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What country’s two official languages are French and Creole?", "correct_answer": "HAITI", "incorrect_answers": [ "United Kingdom", "United States", "Mexico" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00812", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What crop does Sting mention repeatedly in his 1993 hit song “Fields Of Gold”?", "correct_answer": "BARLEY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Nirvana", "Pink Floyd", "Fleetwood Mac" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00813", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What deep-pocketed filmmaker spent $100 million of his own money on the 2012 film “Red Tails” about the Tuskegee Airmen?", "correct_answer": "GEORGE LUCAS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Avatar", "E.T.", "The Godfather" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00814", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What director’s 1989 film “Parenthood” was adapted into a TV series twice: once in 1990 and once in 2010?", "correct_answer": "RON HOWARD", "incorrect_answers": [ "Star Wars", "The Godfather", "Titanic" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00815", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What Disney film features the Billboard #1 hit and Oscar-winning song “A Whole New World”?", "correct_answer": "ALADDIN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jaws", "Titanic", "The Shawshank Redemption" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00816", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What European city is home to the famously whimsical architecture of Antonio Gaudi?", "correct_answer": "BARCELONA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Moscow", "Toronto", "Los Angeles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00817", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What European city is home to the International Criminal Court,which tries war criminals from around the world?", "correct_answer": "THE HAGUE", "incorrect_answers": [ "India", "Mexico", "United Kingdom" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00818", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What European city is known as the center of the world’s diamond trade?", "correct_answer": "ANTWERP", "incorrect_answers": [ "New York", "Paris", "Tokyo" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00819", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What event was created in the 1920s to attract tourists to Atlantic City after Labor Day?", "correct_answer": "MISS AMERICA PAGEANT", "incorrect_answers": [ "Madrid", "Los Angeles", "Tokyo" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00820", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What famous American was the first person inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame?", "correct_answer": "THOMAS EDISON", "incorrect_answers": [ "Mexico", "Germany", "China" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00821", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What fictional East Coast resort town is the setting for the 1975 movie “Jaws”?", "correct_answer": "AMITY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Pulp Fiction", "E.T.", "Jaws" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00822", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What film critic gives out Golden Thumb awards to his annual Overlooked Film Festival?", "correct_answer": "ROGER EBERT", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Shawshank Redemption", "Star Wars", "Jaws" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00823", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What filmmaker’s 2009 exhibit at New York’s Museum of Modern Art included a Jack Skellington figure?", "correct_answer": "TIM BURTON", "incorrect_answers": [ "Avatar", "Jaws", "The Shawshank Redemption" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00824", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What filmmaking icon has received the most Academy Awards,with twenty-six?", "correct_answer": "WALT DISNEY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Titanic", "E.T.", "Pulp Fiction" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00825", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What firearm shares its name with a classic Beatles album?", "correct_answer": "REVOLVER", "incorrect_answers": [ "Metallica", "Led Zeppelin", "Nirvana" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00826", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What foreign tourist destination is often reached by visitors traveling on PeruRail?", "correct_answer": "MACHU PICCHU", "incorrect_answers": [ "China", "Russia", "Germany" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00827", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What former president’s initials are “U” and “S”?", "correct_answer": "GRANT", "incorrect_answers": [ "Theodore Roosevelt", "Barack Obama", "Abraham Lincoln" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00828", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What former U.S. president is often referred to by the nickname “Poppy”?", "correct_answer": "GEORGE H.W. BUSH", "incorrect_answers": [ "Abraham Lincoln", "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "George Washington" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00829", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What future “Sex and the City” actress had a small role in the 1984 Oscar-winning film “Amadeus”?", "correct_answer": "CYNTHIA NIXON", "incorrect_answers": [ "Madrid", "Sydney", "Los Angeles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00830", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What game show host’s constant smooching of female contestants won him the nickname “The Kissing Bandit”?", "correct_answer": "RICHARD DAWSON", "incorrect_answers": [ "Metallica", "Led Zeppelin", "Fleetwood Mac" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00831", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What hit 1950s song features the line “A-wop-bop-a-loo-bop-a-lop-bam-boo”?", "correct_answer": "TUTTI-FRUTTI", "incorrect_answers": [ "Led Zeppelin", "U2", "Metallica" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00832", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What hit 1967 song features the lyric “Sock it to me,sock it to me,sock it to me,sock it to me”?", "correct_answer": "RESPECT", "incorrect_answers": [ "Fleetwood Mac", "The Rolling Stones", "Nirvana" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00833", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What hit TV series’ pilot was a two-hour movie titled “Panic at Malibu Pier”?", "correct_answer": "BAYWATCH", "incorrect_answers": [ "Star Wars", "E.T.", "Avatar" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00834", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What icon of the fashion world both directed and financed the 2009 indie film “A Single Man”?", "correct_answer": "TOM FORD", "incorrect_answers": [ "Casablanca", "The Shawshank Redemption", "Star Wars" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00835", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What international city refers to its Chinatown as “Barrio Chino”?", "correct_answer": "MEXICO CITY", "incorrect_answers": [ "France", "Germany", "Japan" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00836", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What is the highest score that a student can earn on an Advanced Placement Test?", "correct_answer": "5", "incorrect_answers": [ "3", "6", "7" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00837", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What is the highest score you can get on the SAT,an exam with three sections each worth 800 points?", "correct_answer": "2400", "incorrect_answers": [ "2402", "2395", "2399" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00838", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What is the most populous city in the world’s most populous country?", "correct_answer": "SHANGHAI", "incorrect_answers": [ "Mexico", "China", "Australia" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00839", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What is the name of a concise feature on Facebook that helps users get a friend’s attention?", "correct_answer": "POKE", "incorrect_answers": [ "William Shakespeare", "Mark Twain", "F. Scott Fitzgerald" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00840", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What is the name of MySpace’s president,who is included as the first “friend” for every new member?", "correct_answer": "TOM ANDERSON", "incorrect_answers": [ "Barack Obama", "Thomas Jefferson", "George Washington" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00841", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What is the name of Robert De Niro’s star-obsessed character in the 1983 film “King of Comedy”?", "correct_answer": "RUPERT PUPKIN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Pulp Fiction", "Jurassic Park", "The Shawshank Redemption" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00842", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What is the name of the fictitious company featured in the 1999 cult film “Office Space”?", "correct_answer": "INITITECH", "incorrect_answers": [ "Casablanca", "Jurassic Park", "Titanic" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00843", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What is the name of the greedy corporation featured predominantly in the animated movie “Wall-E”?", "correct_answer": "BUY N LARGE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jaws", "Titanic", "Star Wars" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00844", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What is the name of the novelty tune used as the theme song to Britain’s long-running “Benny Hill Show”?", "correct_answer": "YAKETY SAX", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Beatles", "Led Zeppelin", "Pink Floyd" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00845", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What is the only U.S. state whose official state song was a #1 hit on the Billboard charts?", "correct_answer": "GEORGIA", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Rolling Stones", "Metallica", "Led Zeppelin" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00846", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What is the primary setting of the 1975 classic film “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest", "correct_answer": "MENTAL HOSPITAL", "incorrect_answers": [ "Titanic", "Casablanca", "Pulp Fiction" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00847", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What is the real first name of movie director Spike Lee?", "correct_answer": "SHELTON", "incorrect_answers": [ "Star Wars", "The Shawshank Redemption", "E.T." ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00848", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What is the title of the classic American song that famously begins, “Way down upon the Swanee River”?", "correct_answer": "OLD FOLKS AT HOME", "incorrect_answers": [ "Led Zeppelin", "Pink Floyd", "Fleetwood Mac" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00849", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What is the total number of Commandments and deadly sins traditionally recognized in Christianity?", "correct_answer": "17", "incorrect_answers": [ "7", "18", "27" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00850", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What is the “Brangelina”-like nickname that tabloids use to refer to the young stars of the “Twilight” films?", "correct_answer": "ROBSTEN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Titanic", "Casablanca", "E.T." ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00851", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What Italian cheese derives its name from the name of Italy’s capital city?", "correct_answer": "ROMANO", "incorrect_answers": [ "New York", "Madrid", "Rome" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00852", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What Jack Nicholson film features the line, “If you wanted to get me on my back, you just had to ask me”?", "correct_answer": "TERMS OF ENDEARMENT", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jaws", "Pulp Fiction", "Jurassic Park" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00853", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What James Bond film gets its title from Bond’s family motto “Orbis non suffit?”", "correct_answer": "THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH", "incorrect_answers": [ "Star Wars", "Avatar", "The Shawshank Redemption" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00854", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What Lady Gaga song features the memorable refrain, “Rah rah ah-ah-ah,Ro-mah ro-mah-mah,Gaga ooh-la-la”?", "correct_answer": "BAD ROMANCE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Pink Floyd", "Nirvana", "U2" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00855", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What legendary musician played Jareth the Goblin King in Jim Henson’s 1986 film “Labyrinth”?", "correct_answer": "DAVID BOWIE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Pulp Fiction", "Jurassic Park", "The Godfather" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00856", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What legendary musician was known for his love of fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches?", "correct_answer": "ELVIS PRESSLEY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Metallica", "Nirvana", "U2" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00857", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What member of the rock band Led Zeppelin shares his name with a famous naval hero of the Revolutionary War?", "correct_answer": "JOHN PAUL JONES", "incorrect_answers": [ "Queen", "The Rolling Stones", "Fleetwood Mac" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00858", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What movie’s famous “counting cards” scene is spoofed in the 2009 comedy “The Hangover”?", "correct_answer": "RAIN MAN", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Godfather", "Star Wars", "Titanic" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00859", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What musical act’s “Livin’ On a Prayer” placed number one on VH1’s “100 Greatest Songs of the ’80s”?", "correct_answer": "BON JOVI", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Eagles", "Queen", "Nirvana" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00860", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What musical artist opened the Hard Candy Fitness gym in 2010,which takes its name from a 2008 album?", "correct_answer": "MADONNA", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Eagles", "Nirvana", "The Beatles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00861", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What musical instrument, when made with a vertical frame and strings, is called an “upright”?", "correct_answer": "PIANO", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Rolling Stones", "Nirvana", "Metallica" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00862", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What musician wrote his song “Walk On The Wild Side” about the unusual people who hung out with Andy Warhol?", "correct_answer": "LOU REED", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Rolling Stones", "U2", "Queen" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00863", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What musician wrote the 1989 bestseller, “Tales from Margaritaville”?", "correct_answer": "JIMMY BUFFETT", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Beatles", "The Rolling Stones", "Queen" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00864", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What national advocacy group uses the trademarked slogan, “We are their voice?”", "correct_answer": "AFL-CIO", "incorrect_answers": [ "France", "Canada", "Australia" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00865", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What nation’s film industry,called “Nollywood,” has in recent years become one of the top movie producers in the world?", "correct_answer": "NIGERIA", "incorrect_answers": [ "China", "Spain", "Germany" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00866", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What natural occurrences are the subjects of the children’s book “Flash,Crash, Rumble and Roll”?", "correct_answer": "THUNDERSTORMS", "incorrect_answers": [ "J.K. Rowling", "George Orwell", "Charles Dickens" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00867", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What novel begins “When he was nearly thirteen,my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow?", "correct_answer": "TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jane Austen", "Charles Dickens", "George Orwell" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00868", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What novel features a character suffering from the fictional genetic disorder “chrono displacement”?", "correct_answer": "THE TIME TRAVELER’S WIFE", "incorrect_answers": [ "William Shakespeare", "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "J.K. Rowling" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00869", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What novelist’s best-known protagonists include Elizabeth Bennet,Emma Woodhouse and Elinor Dashwood?", "correct_answer": "JANE AUSTEN", "incorrect_answers": [ "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "Mark Twain", "Ernest Hemingway" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00870", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What number follows 8 in the Fibonacci sequence 1,1,2,3,5,8?", "correct_answer": "13", "incorrect_answers": [ "12", "15", "23" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00871", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What oil-rich Western nation joined four Middle East nations to found OPEC in 1960?", "correct_answer": "VENEZUELA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Germany", "Australia", "China" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00872", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What old-fashioned exclamation is repeated throughout the 1957 hit song “Great Balls of Fire”?", "correct_answer": "GOODNESS GRACIOUS!", "incorrect_answers": [ "U2", "Metallica", "Queen" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00873", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What part of the world is home to the only country whose name begins with the letter “Q”?", "correct_answer": "MIDDLE EAST", "incorrect_answers": [ "Japan", "Mexico", "Germany" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00874", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What poet is commonly credited with writing the traditional lyrics to the New Year’s Eve Song “Auld Lang Syne”", "correct_answer": "ROBERT BURNS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Metallica", "U2", "Nirvana" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00875", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What pop singer’s videos often feature professional motocross racer Carey Hart,her husband since 2006?", "correct_answer": "PINK", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Rolling Stones", "Nirvana", "Fleetwood Mac" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00876", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What pop star was named an Ambassador for Youth and Culture by her native country of Barbados?", "correct_answer": "RIHANNA", "incorrect_answers": [ "United States", "United Kingdom", "Italy" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00877", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What popular movie was based on a 1976 magazine article about the 2001 Odyssey nightclub?", "correct_answer": "SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Shawshank Redemption", "Jurassic Park", "Avatar" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00878", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What popular toy was created when engineer Scott Stillinger tied together a bunch of rubber bands?", "correct_answer": "KOOSH BALL", "incorrect_answers": [ "Fleetwood Mac", "The Rolling Stones", "The Eagles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00879", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What popular U.S. tourist destination’s exterior consists of 142 stainless-steel equilateral triangles?", "correct_answer": "GATEWAY ARCH", "incorrect_answers": [ "Japan", "United Kingdom", "Italy" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00880", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What presidential appointee is charged with arguing cases on behalf of the U.S. in the Supreme Court?", "correct_answer": "SOLICITOR GENERAL", "incorrect_answers": [ "George Washington", "John F. Kennedy", "Barack Obama" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00881", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What presidential election will be the first in which both Barack Obama’s daughters will be eligible to vote?", "correct_answer": "2020", "incorrect_answers": [ "2015", "2018", "2021" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00882", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What presidential last name can be typed using just the right-hand side of a standard keyboard?", "correct_answer": "POLK", "incorrect_answers": [ "George Washington", "Thomas Jefferson", "Barack Obama" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00883", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What rapper’s song “Dear Mama” was officially preserved in the U.S. Library of Congress in 2010?", "correct_answer": "TUPAC SHAKUR", "incorrect_answers": [ "Fleetwood Mac", "Nirvana", "The Beatles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00884", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What renowned scientist’s lab books were once kept in lead-lined boxes because they were radioactive?", "correct_answer": "MARIE CURIE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Charles Dickens", "Jane Austen", "William Shakespeare" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00885", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What rock band dedicated a 2005 to it’s lead singer’s father-in-law, director Bruce Paltrow?", "correct_answer": "COLDPLAY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Led Zeppelin", "Queen", "The Beatles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00886", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What sci-fi movie depicts an ageist, futuristic world in in which people over 30 are systematically shot?", "correct_answer": "LOGAN’S RUN", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Godfather", "Casablanca", "E.T." ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00887", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What singer plays screen siren Jean Harlow in Martin Scorsese’s 2004 movie “The Aviator”?", "correct_answer": "GWEN STEFANI", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jurassic Park", "Titanic", "Jaws" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00888", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What singer’s 2009 greatest hits albums includes the tracks “Toxic” and “Baby, One More Time”?", "correct_answer": "BRITANNY SPEARS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Pink Floyd", "Fleetwood Mac", "Led Zeppelin" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00889", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What singer’s concerts often include “Hot Patootie,” a song he sang as Eddie in “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”?", "correct_answer": "MEAT LOAF", "incorrect_answers": [ "Fleetwood Mac", "Queen", "The Eagles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00890", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What state’s capital and largest city sits on the shores of Narragansett Bay?", "correct_answer": "RHODE ISLAND", "incorrect_answers": [ "Tokyo", "Berlin", "Paris" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00891", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What supernatural film features a psychic giving a lonely widow the warning, “Molly, you in danger girl”?", "correct_answer": "GHOST", "incorrect_answers": [ "Avatar", "Star Wars", "Pulp Fiction" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00892", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What Tim Burton film was advertised with the tagline “His story will touch you,even though he can’t”?", "correct_answer": "EDWARD SCISSORHANDS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Pulp Fiction", "Avatar", "Casablanca" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00893", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What Tony-winning Broadway musical features a cast of risque, R-rated puppets?", "correct_answer": "AVENUE Q", "incorrect_answers": [ "Fleetwood Mac", "Nirvana", "The Rolling Stones" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00894", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What TV chef released the 2010 book “Savannah Style,” illustrating a full year of Southern living?", "correct_answer": "PAULA DEEN", "incorrect_answers": [ "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "William Shakespeare", "George Orwell" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00895", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What TV drama is based on the popular Sookie Stackhouse novels by Charlaine Harris?", "correct_answer": "TRUE BLOOD", "incorrect_answers": [ "Charles Dickens", "Mark Twain", "Ernest Hemingway" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00896", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What TV sitcom was based on a novel by H.Richard Hornberger,a surgeon and Korean War veteran?", "correct_answer": "M*A*S*H", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jane Austen", "George Orwell", "F. Scott Fitzgerald" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00897", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What type of vehicle “with the fringe on top” is the subject of a classic song from the musical “Oklahoma!”?", "correct_answer": "SURREY", "incorrect_answers": [ "U2", "Queen", "Nirvana" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00898", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What U.S. city has a public transportation system known as MARTA?", "correct_answer": "ATLANTA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Paris", "New York", "London" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00899", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What U.S. city is home to Grant’s tomb, the final resting place of President Ulysses S. Grant?", "correct_answer": "NEW YORK", "incorrect_answers": [ "Thomas Jefferson", "Barack Obama", "Theodore Roosevelt" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00900", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What U.S. city was founded by 11 men,11 women,22 children,and 4 soldiers,collectively known as “Los Pobladores”?", "correct_answer": "LOS ANGELES", "incorrect_answers": [ "Moscow", "Paris", "Toronto" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00901", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What U.S. city’s layout is based on plans by Pierre Charles L’Enfant, who was inspired by the Palace of Versailles?", "correct_answer": "WASHINGTON,D.C.", "incorrect_answers": [ "London", "New York", "Berlin" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00902", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What U.S. institution is nicknamed “The Nation’s Attic”?", "correct_answer": "SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Italy", "Australia", "China" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00903", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What U.S. movie was released in France under the title “La Guerre des Etoiles”?", "correct_answer": "STAR WARS", "incorrect_answers": [ "E.T.", "Jaws", "Casablanca" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00904", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What U.S. president famously declared that he felt as “strong as a bull moose?”", "correct_answer": "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "incorrect_answers": [ "Ronald Reagan", "Barack Obama", "John F. Kennedy" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00905", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What U.S. president is commonly credited with inventing the swivel chair?", "correct_answer": "THOMAS JEFFERSON", "incorrect_answers": [ "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "John F. Kennedy", "Theodore Roosevelt" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00906", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What U.S. president was famous for his involvement with a volunteer cavalry group known as the Rough Riders?", "correct_answer": "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "incorrect_answers": [ "George Washington", "Barack Obama", "Ronald Reagan" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00907", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What U.S. president’s mother was given the rather unusual first name Stanley?", "correct_answer": "BARACK OBAMA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "Abraham Lincoln", "Thomas Jefferson" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00908", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What U.S. state is home to a city that promotes itself with the catchphrase “There’s No Place Like Nome!”?", "correct_answer": "ALASKA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Tokyo", "Toronto", "Los Angeles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00909", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What U.S. state is home to both Boise National Forest and Coeur d’Alene National Forest?", "correct_answer": "IDAHO", "incorrect_answers": [ "United Kingdom", "Mexico", "United States" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00910", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What U.S. state is home to the International Tennis Hall of Fame?", "correct_answer": "RHODE ISLAND", "incorrect_answers": [ "Italy", "Spain", "India" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00911", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What U.S. state’s capital city is named after Revolutionary War hero Francis Nash?", "correct_answer": "TENNESSEE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Madrid", "London", "Sydney" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00912", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What U.S. state’s capital was named after “the Most Holy Sacrament of the Body and blood of Christ”?", "correct_answer": "CALIFORNIA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Los Angeles", "Chicago", "Paris" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00913", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What U.S. state’s largest city is named for Frederick Billings, a president of the Northern Pacific Railway?", "correct_answer": "MONTANA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Theodore Roosevelt", "Abraham Lincoln", "Franklin D. Roosevelt" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00914", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What veteran performer stars alongside Christina Aguilera in the 2010 musical “Burlesque”?", "correct_answer": "CHER", "incorrect_answers": [ "U2", "Nirvana", "The Rolling Stones" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00915", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What was the first James Bond movie to show 007 ordering a martini,”shaken,not stirred”?", "correct_answer": "GOLDFINGER", "incorrect_answers": [ "E.T.", "The Godfather", "Titanic" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00916", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What was the relationship between U.S. Presidents William and Benjamin Harrison?", "correct_answer": "GRANDFATHER & GRANDSON", "incorrect_answers": [ "Ronald Reagan", "John F. Kennedy", "Thomas Jefferson" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00917", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What was the subject of a 1964 decision in which Justice Potter Stewart wrote, “I know it when I see it”?", "correct_answer": "OBSCENITY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Charles Dickens", "Mark Twain", "William Shakespeare" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00918", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What well-known patriotic song features the line “From sea to shining sea”?", "correct_answer": "AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Eagles", "Fleetwood Mac", "The Beatles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00919", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What Will Ferrell movie features several actors who are credited as “Background Sleestak”?", "correct_answer": "LAND OF THE LOST", "incorrect_answers": [ "Meryl Streep", "Tom Hanks", "Robert De Niro" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00920", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What ’70s movie features the oft-quoted line, “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore”?", "correct_answer": "NETWORK", "incorrect_answers": [ "E.T.", "The Shawshank Redemption", "The Godfather" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00921", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What ’70s song invariably compels dancers to spell out each letter of the song’s title using their bodies?", "correct_answer": "Y.M.C.A.", "incorrect_answers": [ "Metallica", "The Rolling Stones", "Pink Floyd" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00922", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What ’80s film is loosely based on events in Elmore City,Oklahoma,where dancing was banned for almost 100 years?", "correct_answer": "FOOTLOOSE", "incorrect_answers": [ "London", "Moscow", "Tokyo" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00923", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What ’80s musical act notoriously demanded M&Ms be provided backstage,but with the brown ones removed?", "correct_answer": "VAN HALEN", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Beatles", "U2", "Metallica" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00924", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What’s the CORRECT spelling of the winning word in the first-ever Scripps National Spelling Bee in 1925?", "correct_answer": "GLADIOLUS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Australia", "Spain", "Brazil" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00925", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "When asked in 2007 if he had ever cried at a movie,what actor jokingly replied “At the premiere of Batman & Robin”?", "correct_answer": "GEORGE CLOONEY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Johnny Depp", "Leonardo DiCaprio", "Robert De Niro" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00926", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "When asked why he titled his movie “Bananas,” what director replied, “Because there are no bananas in it?”", "correct_answer": "WOODY ALLEN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Titanic", "Jurassic Park", "The Shawshank Redemption" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00927", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "When England adopted the new Gregorian calendar in 1752, people complained that they “lost” how many days?", "correct_answer": "11", "incorrect_answers": [ "1", "12", "13" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00928", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "When it premiered,which of these movies had a title that referred to a date in the future and not the past?", "correct_answer": "2001:A SPACE ODYSSEY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Avatar", "The Shawshank Redemption", "Jurassic Park" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00929", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "When its first three letters are removed,what U.S. president’s name becomes that of an ’80s TV icon?", "correct_answer": "LYNDON JOHNSON", "incorrect_answers": [ "Theodore Roosevelt", "Thomas Jefferson", "Abraham Lincoln" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00930", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "When it’s not capitalized,which of these men’s names is also a term used by con men to refer to an intended victim?", "correct_answer": "MARK", "incorrect_answers": [ "Moscow", "New York", "Berlin" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00931", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "When President Garfield was shot in 1881, who invented a type of metal detector to try and find the bullet?", "correct_answer": "ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL", "incorrect_answers": [ "Barack Obama", "Ronald Reagan", "Abraham Lincoln" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00932", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "When repeated three times,which of these words does not become the title of a Top 40 pop song?", "correct_answer": "BAD", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Rolling Stones", "The Beatles", "Metallica" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00933", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "When Robert Frost famously wrote “It finds the thought and the thought finds the words,” he was referring to a what?", "correct_answer": "POEM", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jane Austen", "Charles Dickens", "William Shakespeare" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00934", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "When the number 4 is multiplied by its reciprocal, what is the product?", "correct_answer": "1", "incorrect_answers": [ "2", "3", "4" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00935", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "When translated into English,which Shakira song title can describe someone infected with a serious medical condition?", "correct_answer": "RABIOSA", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Beatles", "Pink Floyd", "Nirvana" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00936", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "When written properly,which of these ’80s pop bands has an exclamation point at the end of its name?", "correct_answer": "WHAM", "incorrect_answers": [ "Metallica", "The Rolling Stones", "The Eagles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00937", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which Baldwin brother wrote “The Unusual Suspect,” an account of becoming an evangelical Christian?", "correct_answer": "STEPHEN", "incorrect_answers": [ "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "J.K. Rowling", "Jane Austen" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00938", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which department of the U.S. federal government has the authority to issue passports?", "correct_answer": "STATE", "incorrect_answers": [ "J.K. Rowling", "Mark Twain", "William Shakespeare" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00939", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which movie title comes from a phrase its screenwriter heard while working as an embedded journalist in Iraq?", "correct_answer": "THE HURT LOCKER", "incorrect_answers": [ "E.T.", "Avatar", "The Godfather" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00940", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which New York City street is best known as the home of the New York Stock Exchange?", "correct_answer": "WALL STREET", "incorrect_answers": [ "Rome", "Berlin", "London" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00941", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Which of the following could be used to introduce both the 29th U.S. president and a Grammy-nominated rapper?", "correct_answer": "WARREN G", "incorrect_answers": [ "Barack Obama", "Ronald Reagan", "Thomas Jefferson" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00942", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of the following films deals with the transportation of illegal drugs?", "correct_answer": "TRAFFIC", "incorrect_answers": [ "E.T.", "Jurassic Park", "Casablanca" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00943", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Which of the following halls is synonymous with the corrupt political group that ran New York City in the late 19th century?", "correct_answer": "TAMMANY HALL", "incorrect_answers": [ "Paris", "Los Angeles", "Rome" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00944", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Which of the following is a 2007 movie featuring Beatles music and not a 60s movie starring The Beatles?", "correct_answer": "ACROSS THE UNIVERSE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Pulp Fiction", "Casablanca", "The Shawshank Redemption" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00945", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of the following is the name of a landlocked country in Africa and not an island in Hawaii?", "correct_answer": "MALAWI", "incorrect_answers": [ "Canada", "United Kingdom", "Australia" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00946", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of the following is the title of a 1963 Marvin Gaye song and not a phrase commonly uttered by courtroom attorneys?", "correct_answer": "CAN I GET A WITNESS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Pink Floyd", "U2", "Queen" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00947", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of the following repetitive titles is not an actual Destiny’s Child song?", "correct_answer": "BABY,BABY,BABY", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Eagles", "The Beatles", "Queen" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00948", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of the following words was spelled backwards in the movie and novel “The Shining”?", "correct_answer": "MURDER", "incorrect_answers": [ "Avatar", "Jurassic Park", "E.T." ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00949", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Which of the following would be the name of Spanish actor Antonio Banderas if it were “translated” into English?", "correct_answer": "ANTHONY FLAGS", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Beatles", "Queen", "Led Zeppelin" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00950", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these 2010 movies held a premiere in Lexington, Kentucky, near where much of it was filmed?", "correct_answer": "SECRETARIAT", "incorrect_answers": [ "Star Wars", "Casablanca", "Avatar" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00951", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these 2011 movies was based in part on a stage play that took the 2011 Tony for Best Play?", "correct_answer": "WAR HORSE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Avatar", "Pulp Fiction", "The Godfather" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00952", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these actors appeared as both a male and a female character in the “Godfather” films?", "correct_answer": "SOFIA COPPOLA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Brad Pitt", "Leonardo DiCaprio", "Meryl Streep" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00953", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In an extended trailer,Alfred Hitchcock says of what film’s main character, “his hobby…was taxidermy”?", "correct_answer": "PSYCHO", "incorrect_answers": [ "Casablanca", "Jaws", "The Godfather" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00954", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In April 2010, which of these country’s erupting volcanoes shut down European air travel for nearly a week?", "correct_answer": "ICELAND", "incorrect_answers": [ "France", "Russia", "Spain" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00955", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In the AAMCO song, when does the double beep occur.", "correct_answer": "AFTER THE DOUBLE A", "incorrect_answers": [ "Nirvana", "The Beatles", "Queen" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00956", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In the act that incited WWI,Serbian Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 in what city?", "correct_answer": "SARAJEVO", "incorrect_answers": [ "Toronto", "Los Angeles", "Rome" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00957", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In the Broadway musical “Cats,” costumed actors romp around a set designed to look like a what?", "correct_answer": "JUNKYARD", "incorrect_answers": [ "Metallica", "The Beatles", "The Rolling Stones" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00958", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "In the cable drama “Boss,” Kelsey Grammar plays a crooked mayor of what U.S. city?", "correct_answer": "CHICAGO", "incorrect_answers": [ "Toronto", "Moscow", "Berlin" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00959", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In the Charles Dickens novel “A Christmas Carol,” what is the last name of the young Tiny Tim?", "correct_answer": "CRATCHIT", "incorrect_answers": [ "William Shakespeare", "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "Mark Twain" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00960", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In the children’s book “The Little Engine That Could”,what is the engine attempting to deliver?", "correct_answer": "TOYS", "incorrect_answers": [ "William Shakespeare", "George Orwell", "Jane Austen" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00961", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In the classic animated movie “The Little Mermaid,” Ariel’s best friend is a fish named what?", "correct_answer": "FLOUNDER", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jurassic Park", "Pulp Fiction", "Jaws" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00962", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In the classic book “The Swiss Family Robinson,” the Robinsons build a makeshift house where?", "correct_answer": "IN A TREE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jane Austen", "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "Ernest Hemingway" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00963", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In the classic folk song “On Top of Old Smoky,” what is “Old Smoky”?", "correct_answer": "Mountain", "incorrect_answers": [ "Nirvana", "U2", "Metallica" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00964", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "In the classic Mark Twain novel,Tom Sawyer lives in a small town located near what river?", "correct_answer": "MISSISSIPPI", "incorrect_answers": [ "William Shakespeare", "Charles Dickens", "J.K. Rowling" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00965", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In the classic Shel Silverstein book “The Giving Tree,” what type of tree gives its fruit to a little boy?", "correct_answer": "APPLE TREE", "incorrect_answers": [ "J.K. Rowling", "Jane Austen", "Mark Twain" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00966", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In the climactic prom scene of the 1976 film “Carrie,” the title character is doused with the blood of what farm animal?", "correct_answer": "PIG", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Shawshank Redemption", "Casablanca", "Pulp Fiction" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00967", "category": "Sports", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In the comedy film “Fever Pitch,” Jimmy Fallon plays a crazed fan of what sports team?", "correct_answer": "BOSTON RED SOX", "incorrect_answers": [ "Casablanca", "Jurassic Park", "The Shawshank Redemption" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00968", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In the cover of the song “Proud Mary,” Tina Turner sings, “And we’re rolling, rolling, rolling on the” what?", "correct_answer": "RIVER", "incorrect_answers": [ "Led Zeppelin", "Metallica", "Nirvana" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00969", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In the film business, what tech-inspired term is often used to refer to “starting over” a popular film franchise?", "correct_answer": "REBOOT", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jurassic Park", "The Shawshank Redemption", "The Godfather" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00970", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In the film “Back To The Future,” Marty McFly performs what song at his parents’ high school dance?", "correct_answer": "JOHNNY B. GOODE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Avatar", "The Shawshank Redemption", "Casablanca" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00971", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In the film “Forrest Gump,” Forrest tells President Kennedy “I gotta pee” after drinking 15 bottles of what?", "correct_answer": "DR.PEPPER", "incorrect_answers": [ "Abraham Lincoln", "John F. Kennedy", "Theodore Roosevelt" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00972", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In the film “Million Dollar Baby,” Maggie wears a robe labeled “Mo Cuishle,” a saying in what language?", "correct_answer": "GAELIC", "incorrect_answers": [ "Casablanca", "The Godfather", "E.T." ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00973", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "In the folk song “She’ll Be Coming ‘Round the Mountain,” what will she “be driving”?", "correct_answer": "SIX WHITE HORSES", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Eagles", "Pink Floyd", "Metallica" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00974", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In the holiday film “A Christmas Story”,the Parkers dine on what dish after their Christmas turkey is ruined?", "correct_answer": "PEKING DUCK", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jurassic Park", "The Shawshank Redemption", "Pulp Fiction" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00975", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In the holiday song “The Twelve Days of Christmas,” how many gifts are received on the 12th day?", "correct_answer": "78", "incorrect_answers": [ "76", "80", "79" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00976", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In the Kurt Vonnegut novel “Breakfast of Champions,” what is referred to as the “breakfast of champions”?", "correct_answer": "MARTINIS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jane Austen", "Charles Dickens", "J.K. Rowling" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00977", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "In the late 1800s, William “Boss” Tweed led a corrupt political machine centered in what U.S. city?", "correct_answer": "NEW YORK", "incorrect_answers": [ "London", "Tokyo", "Madrid" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00978", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In the movie “Arthur,” what does Arthur say to elicit his butler’s famously dry response “I’ll alert the media”?", "correct_answer": "I’M GOING TO TAKE A BATH", "incorrect_answers": [ "Star Wars", "Jurassic Park", "Avatar" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00979", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In the movie “Mean Girls,” a naive teen played by Lindsay Lohan tangles with a popular clique of girls nicknamed what?", "correct_answer": "THE PLASTICS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Avatar", "Pulp Fiction", "Star Wars" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00980", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In the movie “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” how many of the dwarfs’ names do not end in “Y”?", "correct_answer": "2", "incorrect_answers": [ "3", "0", "4" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00981", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In the movie “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King,” the “king” in the title refers to whom?", "correct_answer": "ARAGORN", "incorrect_answers": [ "E.T.", "Titanic", "Jurassic Park" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00982", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In the movie “The Sound of Music,” the Von Trapps escape the Nazis by trekking through what mountain range?", "correct_answer": "ALPS", "incorrect_answers": [ "E.T.", "Jurassic Park", "Star Wars" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00983", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In the name of the famous 1980s British band, what word follows “Psydelic”?", "correct_answer": "FURS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Nirvana", "U2", "Fleetwood Mac" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00984", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In the name of the famous 1980s British band,what word follows “Psychedelic”?", "correct_answer": "FURS", "incorrect_answers": [ "U2", "Fleetwood Mac", "Pink Floyd" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00985", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In the novel “A Tale of Two Cities,” Madame Defarge spends most of her time doing what?", "correct_answer": "KNITTING", "incorrect_answers": [ "Ernest Hemingway", "J.K. Rowling", "George Orwell" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00986", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "In the novel “Twilight,” Edward and Bella attend Forks High School,located in what U.S. state?", "correct_answer": "WASHINGTON", "incorrect_answers": [ "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "William Shakespeare", "Jane Austen" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00987", "category": "Sports", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In the Olympics,a decathlon has how many more events than a triathlon?", "correct_answer": "7", "incorrect_answers": [ "5", "6", "9" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00988", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In the Oscar-nominated 2009 movie “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” who voices Mr. Fox?", "correct_answer": "GEORGE CLOONEY", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Godfather", "E.T.", "Avatar" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00989", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In the Paul Simon song “50 Ways To Leave Your Lover,” which of these is not one of the ways to leave your lover?", "correct_answer": "FILL UP THE TANK,HANK", "incorrect_answers": [ "Fleetwood Mac", "U2", "Led Zeppelin" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00990", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In the Paul Simon song “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover,” which of these names is mentioned first?", "correct_answer": "JACK", "incorrect_answers": [ "Metallica", "Fleetwood Mac", "Queen" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00991", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In the popular children’s song “On Top of Spaghetti,” what causes the singer’s meatball to roll off the table?", "correct_answer": "SOMEBODY SNEEZES", "incorrect_answers": [ "Pink Floyd", "Led Zeppelin", "Queen" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00992", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In the popular diet book “Eat Right 4 Your Type,” what is the “type” the author wants you to “eat right for”?", "correct_answer": "BLOOD TYPE", "incorrect_answers": [ "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "George Orwell", "Ernest Hemingway" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00993", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In the popular “Ice Age” movies,the acorn-obsessed character Scrat is what type of fictional beast?", "correct_answer": "SABER-TOOTHED SQUIRREL", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jaws", "Star Wars", "Pulp Fiction" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00994", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel,”The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay,” who are Kavalier and Clay?", "correct_answer": "COMIC BOOK ARTISTS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Ernest Hemingway", "Mark Twain", "J.K. Rowling" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00995", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In the song “Folsum Prison Blues,” Johnny Cash claims, “I shot a man in Reno” for what callous reason?", "correct_answer": "JUST TO WATCH HIM DIE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Led Zeppelin", "Pink Floyd", "U2" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00996", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In the song “Frosty The Snowman,” what part of Frosty’s face is made of a button?", "correct_answer": "NOSE", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Rolling Stones", "Fleetwood Mac", "Queen" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00997", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In the U.S. a $100 bill is often referred to by what musical nickname?", "correct_answer": "C-NOTE", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Rolling Stones", "Metallica", "U2" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00998", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "In the United States,National African American History Month is celebrated when?", "correct_answer": "FEBRUARY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Japan", "United Kingdom", "Russia" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-00999", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "In the Washington D.C. memorial honoring him,what U.S. president is depicted in a wheelchair?", "correct_answer": "FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT", "incorrect_answers": [ "Ronald Reagan", "Abraham Lincoln", "Franklin D. Roosevelt" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01000", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In the world of DC Comics,Barbara Gordon is better known as what comic book superhero?", "correct_answer": "BATGIRL", "incorrect_answers": [ "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "George Orwell", "Mark Twain" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01001", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In the “Legally Blonde” movies,Elle Woods gets men’s attention using a signature move called what?", "correct_answer": "BEND AND SNAP", "incorrect_answers": [ "Titanic", "Avatar", "Casablanca" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01002", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In the “Lord of the Rings” movies, which of these creatures is usually the shortest?", "correct_answer": "HOBBIT", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Godfather", "Casablanca", "Avatar" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01003", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In total,how many silhouetted faces appear on a 2007 U.S. postage stamp that honors jury duty?", "correct_answer": "12", "incorrect_answers": [ "14", "11", "13" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01004", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In two Peanuts movies in the 80s,future Black Eyed Pea Fergie voiced what blonde-haired sister of Charlie Brown?", "correct_answer": "SALLY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Pulp Fiction", "Star Wars", "Titanic" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01005", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In what classical musical does the main character have a bad-boy best friend named “Kenickie”?", "correct_answer": "GREASE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Fleetwood Mac", "Metallica", "The Beatles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01006", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In what country do government officials wear guayaberas,shirts marked by pleats and four front pockets,to state functions?", "correct_answer": "CUBA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Australia", "Brazil", "Italy" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01007", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "In what country do people normally answer the phone by saying “Moshi, moshi”?", "correct_answer": "JAPAN", "incorrect_answers": [ "China", "Mexico", "Canada" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01008", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In what Denzel Washington movie does he say “We didn’t land on Plymouth Rock. Plymouth Rock landed on us!”?", "correct_answer": "MALCOLM X", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jaws", "The Shawshank Redemption", "Star Wars" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01009", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In what film does John Travolta memorably discuss a foreign McDonald’s burger he calls a “Royale with cheese”?", "correct_answer": "PULP FICTION", "incorrect_answers": [ "Avatar", "Titanic", "Jaws" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01010", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In what film does Robert De Niro play a vindictive criminal named Max Cady, originally played in 1962 by Robert Mitchum?", "correct_answer": "CAPE FEAR", "incorrect_answers": [ "Pulp Fiction", "Jurassic Park", "Jaws" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01011", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In what film does Robert De Niro’s character say “You,you,you’re very good,you”?", "correct_answer": "ANALYZE THIS", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Godfather", "Avatar", "Casablanca" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01012", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In what horror film does a disturbed romance novel enthusiast repeatedly gush, “I am your number one fan”?", "correct_answer": "MISERY", "incorrect_answers": [ "E.T.", "Titanic", "Jaws" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01013", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In what movie do Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock play sisters who also happen to be witches?", "correct_answer": "PRACTICAL MAGIC", "incorrect_answers": [ "E.T.", "Jaws", "The Godfather" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01014", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In what movie does a character quiz his fiancee on the Baltimore Colts before agreeing to marry her?", "correct_answer": "DINER", "incorrect_answers": [ "Casablanca", "Pulp Fiction", "Avatar" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01015", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In what movie does Jack Nicholson repeatedly type “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy”?", "correct_answer": "THE SHINING", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Shawshank Redemption", "The Godfather", "Jurassic Park" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01016", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In what U.S. national do backpackers brave challenging “Rim to Rim” hike?", "correct_answer": "GRAND CANYON", "incorrect_answers": [ "Australia", "Italy", "Mexico" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01017", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In what U.S. state would you find Arches National Park,home to over 2,000 natural sandstone arches?", "correct_answer": "UTAH", "incorrect_answers": [ "Russia", "United States", "United Kingdom" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01018", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In what year did the U.S. celebrate its sesquicentennial?", "correct_answer": "1926", "incorrect_answers": [ "1925", "1928", "1924" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01019", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In what year did thousands of baby boomers converge in San Francisco for the so-called “Summer of Love”?", "correct_answer": "1967", "incorrect_answers": [ "1969", "1962", "1972" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01020", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In what ’90s movie does Winona Ryder fail an impromptu pop quiz about the definition of irony?", "correct_answer": "REALITY BITES", "incorrect_answers": [ "Star Wars", "Jurassic Park", "E.T." ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01021", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In which of these classic musicals does Franklin Delano Roosevelt appear as a character?", "correct_answer": "ANNIE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Pink Floyd", "Led Zeppelin", "Nirvana" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01022", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In which of these films does Harrison Ford play a villain and not a hero?", "correct_answer": "WHAT LIES BENEATH", "incorrect_answers": [ "Pulp Fiction", "Avatar", "E.T." ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01023", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In which of these films is Joaquin Phoenix credited as “Leaf Phoenix,” his self-given childhood moniker?", "correct_answer": "PARENTHOOD", "incorrect_answers": [ "E.T.", "Jurassic Park", "Avatar" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01024", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In which of these films is the director not also the lead actor?", "correct_answer": "MICHAEL CLAYTON", "incorrect_answers": [ "Denzel Washington", "Tom Hanks", "Leonardo DiCaprio" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01025", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In “About a Boy,” Hugh Grant’s character lives off the royalties from what one-hit wonder Christmas song?", "correct_answer": "SANTA’S SUPER SLEIGH", "incorrect_answers": [ "Fleetwood Mac", "Pink Floyd", "The Rolling Stones" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01026", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In “Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure” Pee-Wee memorably interrupts the filming of what metal band’s music video?", "correct_answer": "TWISTED SISTER", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Shawshank Redemption", "Jaws", "Pulp Fiction" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01027", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In “The Matrix” film series, the character Neo was born with what first name?", "correct_answer": "THOMAS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Avatar", "E.T.", "The Godfather" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01028", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Including its main thoroughfare,what southern city has over one hundred streets named Peachtree?", "correct_answer": "ATLANTA", "incorrect_answers": [ "London", "Chicago", "Toronto" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01029", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Including the 2006 film “The Queen,” actor Michael Sheen has portrayed what politician 3 different times?", "correct_answer": "TONY BLAIR", "incorrect_answers": [ "Will Smith", "Denzel Washington", "Brad Pitt" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01030", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Including “Sleepless In Seattle” Meg Ryan has starred in four movies written by whom?", "correct_answer": "NORA EPHRON", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jurassic Park", "Titanic", "E.T." ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01031", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Inspired by her real life,what actress created “Happily Divorced,” a sitcom about a wife who learns her husband is gay?", "correct_answer": "FRAN DRESCHER", "incorrect_answers": [ "Nirvana", "U2", "Queen" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01032", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Inspired by the Scottish flag, the hero of the movie “Braveheart” wears what color paint?", "correct_answer": "BLUE", "incorrect_answers": [ "E.T.", "The Shawshank Redemption", "Avatar" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01033", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Inspiring a 2010 film,the 2005 economics bestseller by Stephen Levitt and Stephen Dubner has what unusual title?", "correct_answer": "FREAKONOMICS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Star Wars", "The Godfather", "Jurassic Park" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01034", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Inspiring a character in a Robert Redford film,Buck Brannaman is known for his ability to “whisper” to what animals?", "correct_answer": "HORSES", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jurassic Park", "E.T.", "Titanic" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01035", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Introduced in 1928, Red Stripe Beer is brewed in what country?", "correct_answer": "JAMAICA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Russia", "India", "Spain" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01036", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Introduced in the ’50s,the first Swanson frozen TV dinners were ready to eat in how many minutes?", "correct_answer": "25", "incorrect_answers": [ "24", "26", "35" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01037", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Involving a tremendous food fight, La Tomatina is a festival held annually in the Bunol village of what country?", "correct_answer": "SPAIN", "incorrect_answers": [ "United Kingdom", "Mexico", "Russia" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01038", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Ironically,the initials of the Miss America Organization form the name of a former leader of what Communist nation?", "correct_answer": "CHINA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Australia", "Brazil", "United States" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01039", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Jeans get their name from the French word for what European city,where the first denim trousers were made?", "correct_answer": "GENOA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Chicago", "Moscow", "Tokyo" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01040", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Joanna Kramer,Karen Silkwood,and Miranda Priestly are all characters portrayed by what film actress?", "correct_answer": "MERYL STREEP", "incorrect_answers": [ "Johnny Depp", "Brad Pitt", "Leonardo DiCaprio" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01041", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Jodhpurs,a style of long pants worn by horseback riders,take their name from a city in what country?", "correct_answer": "INDIA", "incorrect_answers": [ "China", "Italy", "Germany" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01042", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "John Lennon’s 1971 song “Imagine” asks listeners to imagine a world without all but which of these things?", "correct_answer": "POLITICS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Metallica", "Nirvana", "Fleetwood Mac" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01043", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Johnny Depp modeled his Pirates of the Caribbean character in large part after what musician?", "correct_answer": "KEITH RICHARDS", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Rolling Stones", "Queen", "The Beatles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01044", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Jokingly called “Chicken Pizza” by visitors,Chichen Itza is a site of ancient Mayan ruins in what country?", "correct_answer": "MEXICO", "incorrect_answers": [ "Canada", "United States", "India" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01045", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Jon Bon Jovi reportedly wrote “You Give Love A Bad Name” about what actress,whom he once dated briefly?", "correct_answer": "DIANE LANE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Charles Dickens", "William Shakespeare", "George Orwell" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01046", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Jose Canesco’s book “Juiced” primarily addresses what controversial sports topic?", "correct_answer": "STEROID USE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Mark Twain", "J.K. Rowling", "William Shakespeare" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01047", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Jude Law claims he was named after both a Beatles song and the title character of a novel by whom?", "correct_answer": "THOMAS HARDY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Led Zeppelin", "The Beatles", "The Rolling Stones" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01048", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Julia Roberts became the first actress to be paid $20 million for her role in what movie?", "correct_answer": "ERIN BROCKOVICH", "incorrect_answers": [ "Al Pacino", "Brad Pitt", "Johnny Depp" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01049", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "K2,the world’s second highest mountain,lies in a region that is currently controlled by what country?", "correct_answer": "PAKISTAN", "incorrect_answers": [ "France", "Australia", "Mexico" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01050", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Katy Perry’s 2010 hit “California Gurls” borrows a lyric from a similarly titled 1965 song by what classic band?", "correct_answer": "THE BEACH BOYS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Pink Floyd", "The Rolling Stones", "U2" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01051", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Kauai’s Mount Makana is better known as “Bali Ha’ “i” because a scene from what movie was filmed there?", "correct_answer": "SOUTH PACIFIC", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jurassic Park", "Star Wars", "Pulp Fiction" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01052", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to the U.S. Congress, was sworn in on a Koran once owned by what U.S. president?", "correct_answer": "THOMAS JEFFERSON", "incorrect_answers": [ "Theodore Roosevelt", "Ronald Reagan", "Abraham Lincoln" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01053", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling are both depicted in a 2010 musical about what scandalized corporation?", "correct_answer": "ENRON", "incorrect_answers": [ "Metallica", "Pink Floyd", "The Eagles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01054", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Khaled Hosseini’s bestseller “The Kite Runner” is set primarily in what country?", "correct_answer": "AFGHANISTAN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Mexico", "China", "Italy" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01055", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Khaled Hosseini’s novels “The Kite Runner” and “A Thousand Splendid Suns” are both set primarily in what country?", "correct_answer": "AFGHANISTAN", "incorrect_answers": [ "United States", "India", "Japan" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01056", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Khaled Hosseni’s bestseller “The Kite Runner” is primarily set in what country?", "correct_answer": "AFGHANISTAN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Spain", "Italy", "United Kingdom" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01057", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Known as a difficult area to stretch, your IT, or iliotibial band, is located where?", "correct_answer": "ALONG YOUR THIGH", "incorrect_answers": [ "Nirvana", "U2", "The Beatles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01058", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Known as “The Happiest Place On Earth,” Disneyland is located in what California City?", "correct_answer": "ANAHEIM", "incorrect_answers": [ "Moscow", "Paris", "New York" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01059", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Known for her cosmetics line,international supermodel Iman is the wife of what rock legend?", "correct_answer": "DAVID BOWIE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Australia", "India", "Spain" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01060", "category": "Sports", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Known for its memorable drum fill, what Phil Collins song does Steelers coach Mike Tomlin play to amp up his team?", "correct_answer": "IN THE AIR TONIGHT", "incorrect_answers": [ "Led Zeppelin", "The Beatles", "Queen" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01061", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Known for its movie-centric lineup,what TV channel features films “hosted” by historian Robert Osborne?", "correct_answer": "TCM", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jurassic Park", "Pulp Fiction", "The Godfather" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01062", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Known for the hit “Mr.Roboto,” the band Styx shares its name with a famous what in Greek mythology?", "correct_answer": "RIVER", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Beatles", "Pink Floyd", "The Rolling Stones" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01063", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Kurt Cobain and Jimi Hendrix are a part of a “morbid” club of musicians that all died at what all-too-early age?", "correct_answer": "27", "incorrect_answers": [ "25", "37", "26" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01064", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "La Petite Roche, a riverside rock formation once used for navigation, inspired the name of what state’s capital?", "correct_answer": "ARKANSAS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Chicago", "New York", "Rome" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01065", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Launched in 2005,the Girl Detective Super Mystery series stars what beloved children’s book character?", "correct_answer": "NANCY DREW", "incorrect_answers": [ "William Shakespeare", "George Orwell", "Ernest Hemingway" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01066", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Led by saxophonist Cleto Escobedo III,what late night talk show features the house band “Cleto and the Cletones”?", "correct_answer": "JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE!", "incorrect_answers": [ "U2", "The Rolling Stones", "Pink Floyd" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01067", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Legendary Scottish hero William Wallace is the subject of what 1995 Mel Gibson movie?", "correct_answer": "BRAVEHEART", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Shawshank Redemption", "Casablanca", "Pulp Fiction" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01068", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Leonardo da Vinci wrote his famous notebooks mainly using what unusual method?", "correct_answer": "MIRROR WRITING", "incorrect_answers": [ "Ernest Hemingway", "George Orwell", "Jane Austen" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01069", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Like his father was before him, Ziggy Marley is a prolific artist in what music genre?", "correct_answer": "REGGAE", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Beatles", "Metallica", "Queen" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01070", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Like Indiana Jones, which of these action movie heroes is an archaeologist?", "correct_answer": "LARA CROFT", "incorrect_answers": [ "Avatar", "Jurassic Park", "The Godfather" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01071", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Like Ronald Reagan,which of these U.S. presidents had the same first and last name initials?", "correct_answer": "HOOVER", "incorrect_answers": [ "John F. Kennedy", "Ronald Reagan", "Barack Obama" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01072", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Like the Broadway musical,the 2008 movie “Mamma Mia!” showcases the music of what group?", "correct_answer": "ABBA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Avatar", "Pulp Fiction", "Jaws" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01073", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Like TV’s “Lost,” which of these movies features a fictional airline called “Oceanic”?", "correct_answer": "EXECUTIVE DECISION", "incorrect_answers": [ "E.T.", "Avatar", "Casablanca" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01074", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Located in Chiba Prefecture,Narita International Airport is the main airport serving what world capital?", "correct_answer": "TOKYO", "incorrect_answers": [ "India", "Germany", "France" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01075", "category": "Sports", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Located in New York, the National Tennis Center is named in honor of what famous athlete?", "correct_answer": "BILLIE JEAN KING", "incorrect_answers": [ "Japan", "Spain", "United Kingdom" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01076", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Located in Oyster Bay,Long Island,the Sagamore Hill National Historic Site is the former home of what U.S. president?", "correct_answer": "THEODORE ROOSEVELT", "incorrect_answers": [ "John F. Kennedy", "George Washington", "Franklin D. Roosevelt" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01077", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Made famous in the movie “Dracula,” Transylvania is a region of what country?", "correct_answer": "ROMANIA", "incorrect_answers": [ "United States", "Spain", "Canada" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01078", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Made with a beefy patty,an egg and beetroot,the McDonald’s Kiwiburger has only been sold in what country?", "correct_answer": "NEW ZEALAND", "incorrect_answers": [ "India", "France", "Russia" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01079", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Made with coconut milk,potatoes and peanuts, Massaman curry is a popular dish from what country?", "correct_answer": "THAILAND", "incorrect_answers": [ "China", "Mexico", "Australia" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01080", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Made with eggs and lemon juice, avgolemono is a traditional soup from what country?", "correct_answer": "GREECE", "incorrect_answers": [ "France", "Mexico", "Brazil" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01081", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Made with green and red food coloring,”rainbow cookies” are meant to resemble what nation’s flag?", "correct_answer": "ITALY", "incorrect_answers": [ "France", "India", "United States" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01082", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Making a “1600” less impressive,what is the SAT’s highest possible score as of its revamping in 2005?", "correct_answer": "2400", "incorrect_answers": [ "2401", "2399", "2405" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01083", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Mandy Moore voices for what classic fairly tale princess in the 2010 Disney animated film “Tangled”?", "correct_answer": "RAPUNZEL", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jaws", "The Godfather", "E.T." ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01084", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Meaning “idealistic and impractical,” the word “quixotic” comes from a character created by what author?", "correct_answer": "MIGUEL DE CERVANTES", "incorrect_answers": [ "Mark Twain", "Jane Austen", "Ernest Hemingway" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01085", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Members of Gideon International are best known for their distribution of what items in hotel rooms?", "correct_answer": "BIBLES", "incorrect_answers": [ "Italy", "Russia", "France" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01086", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Members of Gideons International are best known for their distribution of what items in hotel rooms?", "correct_answer": "BIBLES", "incorrect_answers": [ "United Kingdom", "Australia", "India" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01087", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Mentioned in the children’s song “The Farmer in the Dell,” a dell is,by definition,a what?", "correct_answer": "WOODED VALLEY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Led Zeppelin", "The Rolling Stones", "Queen" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01088", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Merino wool comes from sheep originally native to what country?", "correct_answer": "SPAIN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Mexico", "France", "Italy" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01089", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Most famous as TV’s June Cleaver,Barbara Billingsley also had what famous line in the 1980 film “Airplane!”?", "correct_answer": "“OH STEWARDESS!I SPEAK JIVE.”", "incorrect_answers": [ "Star Wars", "The Shawshank Redemption", "Casablanca" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01090", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Most famous for his 1955 novel “Lolita,” author Vladimir Nabokov was also an expert in the study of what?", "correct_answer": "BUTTERFLIES", "incorrect_answers": [ "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "J.K. Rowling", "William Shakespeare" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01091", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Mostly covered in desert and prone to droughts,what country does the word for “rain” also mean “blessing”?", "correct_answer": "BOTSWANA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Brazil", "United Kingdom", "India" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01092", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Mount Rushmore National Memorial depicts the faces of how many U.S. presidents?", "correct_answer": "4", "incorrect_answers": [ "6", "2", "3" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01093", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Movie posters for which of these biopics sported the tagline “A life misunderestimated”?", "correct_answer": "W.", "incorrect_answers": [ "Avatar", "E.T.", "Jaws" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01094", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Movie producer Albert “Cubby” Broccoli is best known for his work on what film franchise?", "correct_answer": "JAMES BOND", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jaws", "E.T.", "Pulp Fiction" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01095", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Much like a “Trekkie” loves “Star Trek,” an “otaku” is a big fan of the comics and pop culture of what country?", "correct_answer": "JAPAN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Canada", "Mexico", "Germany" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01096", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Much of the animation of “The Simpsons” and “Family Guy” is outsourced to what foreign country?", "correct_answer": "SOUTH KOREA", "incorrect_answers": [ "United States", "Brazil", "Russia" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01097", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Music fans who identify themselves as “Beliebers” would most likely enjoy which of these hit songs?", "correct_answer": "BABY", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Beatles", "The Eagles", "Metallica" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01098", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Named after her father, what best-selling author was born with the unusual name Howard Allen O’Brien?", "correct_answer": "ANNE RICE", "incorrect_answers": [ "George Orwell", "Mark Twain", "F. Scott Fitzgerald" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01099", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Named after two goddesses of love, Aphrodite Tera and Ishtar Terra are two prominent regions on what planet?", "correct_answer": "VENUS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jupiter", "Mars", "Neptune" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01100", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Named for a city in Poland,what food has been described as “a bagel that’s lost inside a Polish joke”?", "correct_answer": "BIALY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Los Angeles", "Moscow", "New York" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01101", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Named for a famous poet, Pushkin Square is a busy intersection in what world city?", "correct_answer": "MOSCOW", "incorrect_answers": [ "Madrid", "Sydney", "London" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01102", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Named for a line of eighteenth century kings, Georgian architecture originated in what country?", "correct_answer": "ENGLAND", "incorrect_answers": [ "Germany", "Mexico", "Australia" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01103", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Named for a nearby embassy,the renowned Spanish Steps are a tourist attraction not in Spain,but in what city?", "correct_answer": "ROME", "incorrect_answers": [ "Berlin", "Moscow", "Paris" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01104", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Named for the artist’s last name, who released the number-one album “Raymond v. Raymond” in 2010?", "correct_answer": "USHER", "incorrect_answers": [ "Pink Floyd", "The Rolling Stones", "Nirvana" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01105", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Named for the Dutch city where it originated,Gouda is a well-known type of what?", "correct_answer": "CHEESE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Tokyo", "London", "Toronto" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01106", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Named for the physicist who invented it,a Moog is what type of musical instrument?", "correct_answer": "KEYBOARD", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Eagles", "The Beatles", "U2" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01107", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Named for the town’s most famous disc-jockey, “Moondog” is a lovable mascot of what city’s NBA team?", "correct_answer": "CLEVELAND", "incorrect_answers": [ "London", "Paris", "Tokyo" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01108", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Named for two of the instruments they play, the U.S. Army’s “Old Guard” music corps is known as the what?", "correct_answer": "FIFE AND DRUM CORPS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Led Zeppelin", "Queen", "Nirvana" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01109", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Natives of what country traditionally have a last name that combines their father’s first name with either “son” or “dottir”?", "correct_answer": "ICELAND", "incorrect_answers": [ "China", "United Kingdom", "Russia" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01110", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Nicknamed “Hemingway cats” for the author who owned several,polydactyl cats have what distinctive trait?", "correct_answer": "EXTRA TOES", "incorrect_answers": [ "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "William Shakespeare", "Charles Dickens" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01111", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Nobel laureate Robert Richardson once claimed that party balloons should cost $100 apiece because of what gas’s scarcity?", "correct_answer": "HELIUM", "incorrect_answers": [ "Rome", "Tokyo", "Los Angeles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01112", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "North America is connected to South America by an isthmus located in what country?", "correct_answer": "PANAMA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Spain", "China", "India" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01113", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Not surprisingly, what classic novel figures prominently in the plot of the 2010 teen comedy “Easy A”?", "correct_answer": "THE SCARLET LETTER", "incorrect_answers": [ "Charles Dickens", "Mark Twain", "J.K. Rowling" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01114", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Now considered a classic teen comedy,the 1995 film “Clueless” is loosely based on what classic novel?", "correct_answer": "EMMA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Avatar", "Casablanca", "The Shawshank Redemption" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01115", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Now produced around the world,Riesling is a white variety of wine that originated in what country?", "correct_answer": "GERMANY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Japan", "Canada", "United States" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01116", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Octoberfest is a famous beer festival held each year in what German city?", "correct_answer": "MUNICH", "incorrect_answers": [ "Sydney", "Tokyo", "Berlin" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01117", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Of all the U.S. presidents, which of these statements applies only to Ronald Reagan?", "correct_answer": "HE WAS DIVORCED", "incorrect_answers": [ "Theodore Roosevelt", "Barack Obama", "Ronald Reagan" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01118", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Of the 193 member states of the United Nations,the greatest number–54–are from what continent?", "correct_answer": "AFRICA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Australia", "Mexico", "Japan" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01119", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Of the 2006 movie “Dreamgirls,” what singer once joked,”I’m going to see it with my lawyers”?", "correct_answer": "DIANA ROSS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Pulp Fiction", "The Shawshank Redemption", "The Godfather" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01120", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Often called the “Mozart of the Madras,” A.R. Rahman is a prolific composer from what country?", "correct_answer": "INDIA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Spain", "Germany", "Japan" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01121", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Often called the “richest city in the world,” Abu Dhabi is located in what Middle Eastern country?", "correct_answer": "UNITED ARAB EMIRATES", "incorrect_answers": [ "Spain", "Australia", "United States" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01122", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Often described as the nation’s largest block party,The Calle Ocho Festival takes place annually in what U.S. city?", "correct_answer": "MIAMI", "incorrect_answers": [ "Mexico", "United Kingdom", "Italy" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01123", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Often governing the use of music,books and films acquired online,”DRM” stands for what kind of “Management”?", "correct_answer": "DIGITAL RIGHTS", "incorrect_answers": [ "E.T.", "Jurassic Park", "Pulp Fiction" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01124", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Often heard at weddings, “May the road rise to meet you” is the start of what traditional blessing of what country?", "correct_answer": "IRELAND", "incorrect_answers": [ "Italy", "China", "Canada" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01125", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Often misportrayed in film and TV,Dissociative Identity Disorder is a condition formerly known as what?", "correct_answer": "MULTIPLE PERSONALITY DISORDER", "incorrect_answers": [ "Star Wars", "Casablanca", "The Shawshank Redemption" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01126", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Often wrapped in lettuce leaves, barbecued short ribs called kalbi are a key part of the cuisine of what nation?", "correct_answer": "SOUTH KOREA", "incorrect_answers": [ "France", "Mexico", "Australia" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01127", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Often “played” by car horns,the classic Mexican folk song “La Cucaracha” tells the story of a type of what?", "correct_answer": "INSECT", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Beatles", "U2", "Nirvana" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01128", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "On a 2012 “Glee” episode,Ricky Martin sings “Soy sexy y lo sabes” in a bilingual rendition of a hit song by what group?", "correct_answer": "LMFAO", "incorrect_answers": [ "Pink Floyd", "U2", "Led Zeppelin" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01129", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "On a memorable episode of “Seinfeld,” Jerry is reprimanded for making out with his girlfriend during what movie?", "correct_answer": "SCHINDLER’S LIST", "incorrect_answers": [ "E.T.", "Jurassic Park", "The Godfather" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01130", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "On a movie set, a boom is a long, movable pole often used to do which of the following?", "correct_answer": "HOLD MICROPHONES", "incorrect_answers": [ "Star Wars", "Jurassic Park", "Pulp Fiction" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01131", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "On a standard telephone keypad,what number is located directly between the asterick and the number sign?", "correct_answer": "0", "incorrect_answers": [ "1", "2", "9" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01132", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these foods goes unmentioned in Sesame Street’s song “I Eat the Colors of the Rainbow”?", "correct_answer": "CAULIFLOWER", "incorrect_answers": [ "Metallica", "U2", "Pink Floyd" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01133", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Which of these foreign automobile brands translates as “the people’s car” in its country of origin?", "correct_answer": "VOLKSWAGEN", "incorrect_answers": [ "India", "France", "Canada" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01134", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these former presidents did not serve as a governor before being elected to the White House?", "correct_answer": "GEORGE H.W. BUSH", "incorrect_answers": [ "George Washington", "Ronald Reagan", "Barack Obama" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01135", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Which of these genres of world music traces its roots to the Mexican Revolution?", "correct_answer": "RANCHERA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Nirvana", "Pink Floyd", "U2" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01136", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these heavy metal bands was named after the title of a Bob Dylan song?", "correct_answer": "JUDAS PRIEST", "incorrect_answers": [ "Pink Floyd", "Led Zeppelin", "The Rolling Stones" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01137", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these herb names comes first in the title of a classic 1966 album by Simon and Garfunkel?", "correct_answer": "PARSLEY", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Rolling Stones", "Fleetwood Mac", "Led Zeppelin" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01138", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these hit songs from the ’70s has the same title as a classic Christmas carol?", "correct_answer": "JOY TO THE WORLD", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Beatles", "The Rolling Stones", "Led Zeppelin" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01139", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these hit Tom Cruise films is famous for its somewhat gratuitous shirtless volleyball scene?", "correct_answer": "TOP GUN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jurassic Park", "Avatar", "E.T." ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01140", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Which of these hit ’80s songs features the recurring line “The shareef don’t like it”?", "correct_answer": "ROCK THE CASBAH", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Eagles", "The Rolling Stones", "Metallica" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01141", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these Hollywood disaster movies features an African-American president?", "correct_answer": "DEEP IMPACT", "incorrect_answers": [ "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "John F. Kennedy", "George Washington" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01142", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Which of these instruments is not part of a traditional mariachi band?", "correct_answer": "FLUTE", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Eagles", "The Beatles", "Fleetwood Mac" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01143", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these internationally famous luxury brands was founded not in Italy,but in Spain?", "correct_answer": "BALENCIAGA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Spain", "Italy", "Brazil" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01144", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these is not a popular Facebook game?", "correct_answer": "SUBURBVILLE", "incorrect_answers": [ "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "Jane Austen", "Charles Dickens" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01145", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these is not a real movie title?", "correct_answer": "28 WEEKS", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Godfather", "Pulp Fiction", "Jaws" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01146", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these is not an actual comic book superhero?", "correct_answer": "GREEN HAMMER", "incorrect_answers": [ "George Orwell", "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "Ernest Hemingway" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01147", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these is not an example of static electricity at work?", "correct_answer": "A CELL PHONE CHARGING", "incorrect_answers": [ "Chicago", "Madrid", "Rome" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01148", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Which of these is not one of the four superheroes featured in the 2005 movie “The Fantastic Four”?", "correct_answer": "THE FLASH", "incorrect_answers": [ "Star Wars", "Titanic", "Pulp Fiction" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01149", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Which of these is not one of the so-called BRIC countries, the four nations with the largest emerging markets?", "correct_answer": "ROMANIA", "incorrect_answers": [ "China", "Italy", "United States" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01150", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these is the CORRECTly capitalized abbreviation for a common graduate degree?", "correct_answer": "PH.D.", "incorrect_answers": [ "Tokyo", "Paris", "London" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01151", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Which of these is the not-so-modest title of a ubiquitous hit song in 2006?", "correct_answer": "FERGALICIOUS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Nirvana", "Pink Floyd", "The Rolling Stones" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01152", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these movie actors has never played Tom Clancy hero Jack Ryan on the big screen?", "correct_answer": "MATT DAMON", "incorrect_answers": [ "Robert De Niro", "Meryl Streep", "Leonardo DiCaprio" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01153", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Which of these movie funnymen started out as a “correspondent” on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show”?", "correct_answer": "STEVE CARELL", "incorrect_answers": [ "Titanic", "Jurassic Park", "The Godfather" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01154", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Which of these movie stars got her famous last name from her first husband?", "correct_answer": "DEMI MOORE", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Shawshank Redemption", "Avatar", "E.T." ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01155", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Which of these movie stars named “Sean” is a woman?", "correct_answer": "SEAN YOUNG", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Shawshank Redemption", "Jurassic Park", "Titanic" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01156", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these movie titles is based on the name of a real person?", "correct_answer": "MICHAEL COLLINS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Titanic", "Star Wars", "E.T." ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01157", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these movies does not feature Jack Nicholson’s character dying a gruesome death?", "correct_answer": "CHINATOWN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Casablanca", "The Godfather", "Jaws" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01158", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these movies features a prime number in its title?", "correct_answer": "101 DALMATIANS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jaws", "Avatar", "Jurassic Park" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01159", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Which of these movies features a scene in which Brad Pitt’s character wrestles a bear?", "correct_answer": "LEGENDS OF THE FALL", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jurassic Park", "The Godfather", "E.T." ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01160", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Which of these movies features a scene involving Halloween but not Christmas?", "correct_answer": "E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL", "incorrect_answers": [ "E.T.", "Pulp Fiction", "Titanic" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01161", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Which of these movies in the “Pirates of the Caribbean” film franchise was released first?", "correct_answer": "THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL", "incorrect_answers": [ "Star Wars", "Casablanca", "Pulp Fiction" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01162", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Which of these movies is based on the life of NYPD officer Eddie Egan and his partner Sonny Grosso?", "correct_answer": "THE FRENCH CONNECTION", "incorrect_answers": [ "Casablanca", "Titanic", "Jaws" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01163", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Which of these movies is not mentioned in the 1989 Billy Joel song “We Didn’t Start the Fire”?", "correct_answer": "DOCTOR ZHIVAGO", "incorrect_answers": [ "Casablanca", "Jaws", "Pulp Fiction" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01164", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these movies named for cities spawned an Oscar-winning song by Bruce Springsteen?", "correct_answer": "PHILADELPHIA", "incorrect_answers": [ "E.T.", "Pulp Fiction", "The Shawshank Redemption" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01165", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Which of these movies was released the earliest?", "correct_answer": "BEVERLY HILLS COP", "incorrect_answers": [ "Titanic", "Star Wars", "The Shawshank Redemption" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01166", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Which of these music acts is not co-ed?", "correct_answer": "COLDPLAY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Metallica", "The Eagles", "Pink Floyd" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01167", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Which of these music icons shares his name with an MLB relief pitcher who inspired the phrase “fear the beard”?", "correct_answer": "BRIAN WILSON", "incorrect_answers": [ "Metallica", "The Eagles", "Nirvana" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01168", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Which of these music legends has a daughter who’s an acclaimed fashion designer?", "correct_answer": "PAUL MCCARTNEY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Metallica", "Pink Floyd", "Queen" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01169", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these musical acts shares its name with a dish traditionally served on New Year’s Day in the South?", "correct_answer": "THE BLACK EYED PEAS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Nirvana", "The Eagles", "Metallica" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01170", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these musical groups could be loosely described as a “string quartet”?", "correct_answer": "FOUR VIOLINISTS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Led Zeppelin", "Nirvana", "The Beatles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01171", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Which of these musical stars is the only one not born and raised in Canada?", "correct_answer": "CHRISTINA AGUILERA", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Eagles", "Fleetwood Mac", "The Rolling Stones" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01172", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these musical terms means “very slowly”?", "correct_answer": "LENTISSIMO", "incorrect_answers": [ "Queen", "Fleetwood Mac", "Nirvana" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01173", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Which of these names for a Mexican dish is also the Spanish name for a musical instrument?", "correct_answer": "FLAUTA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Pink Floyd", "Led Zeppelin", "Metallica" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01174", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Which of these national landmarks features a large stone tablet inscribed with the text of the Gettysburg Address?", "correct_answer": "LINCOLN MEMORIAL", "incorrect_answers": [ "Italy", "Russia", "India" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01175", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these nations is not considered to be part of the European region known as Scandinavia?", "correct_answer": "THE NETHERLANDS", "incorrect_answers": [ "United States", "Germany", "Australia" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01176", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Which of these New York City landmarks is a prime example of Art Deco architecture?", "correct_answer": "CHRYSLER BUILDING", "incorrect_answers": [ "Los Angeles", "Paris", "Sydney" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01177", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Which of these numbers is used as a slang term meaning “to get rid of”?", "correct_answer": "86", "incorrect_answers": [ "84", "88", "76" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01178", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Which of these oft-quoted movie lines was originally spoken by Dustin Hoffman?", "correct_answer": "“I’M WALKING HERE!”", "incorrect_answers": [ "E.T.", "Jurassic Park", "Avatar" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01179", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these pairs of same-named presidents served their terms in office furthest apart?", "correct_answer": "JOHNSON & JOHNSON", "incorrect_answers": [ "Abraham Lincoln", "Barack Obama", "George Washington" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01180", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these patriotic songs was written by a person whose last name ends with the letters “U-S-A?”", "correct_answer": "THE STARS AND STRIPES FOREVER", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Eagles", "Pink Floyd", "Led Zeppelin" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01181", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these phrases does not appear in the title of one of the bestselling Harry Potter books?", "correct_answer": "FLIGHT OF THE DRAGON", "incorrect_answers": [ "George Orwell", "William Shakespeare", "F. Scott Fitzgerald" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01182", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these phrases is sung repeatedly in the popular kids’ song “Jimmy Crack Corn”?", "correct_answer": "I DON’T CARE", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Eagles", "Metallica", "The Beatles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01183", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Which of these platinum- selling hard rock bands is fronted by a woman?", "correct_answer": "EVANESCENCE", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Eagles", "Queen", "Nirvana" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01184", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these popular films does not share its name with a main character in the film?", "correct_answer": "TROY", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Shawshank Redemption", "Casablanca", "E.T." ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01185", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Which of these popular kids’ movie franchises features a 2009 film subtitled “The Squeakquel”?", "correct_answer": "ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Casablanca", "E.T.", "Jaws" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01186", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these popular TV sitcoms is not filmed in a mock documentary style?", "correct_answer": "THE BIG BANG THEORY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Pulp Fiction", "The Shawshank Redemption", "Titanic" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01187", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these sassy phrases is not also the title of a film featuring Diane Keaton?", "correct_answer": "YOU CAN SAY THAT AGAIN", "incorrect_answers": [ "E.T.", "Avatar", "Jaws" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01188", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Which of these sheet music notations directs a musician to play “lovingly”?", "correct_answer": "AMOROSO", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Beatles", "Led Zeppelin", "Nirvana" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01189", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Which of these sides of a standard six-sided die does not have a dot located directly in the middle?", "correct_answer": "4", "incorrect_answers": [ "6", "2", "5" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01190", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these singers had a hit Top 40 song with a title that begins with the letter X?", "correct_answer": "LINDA PONSTADT", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Rolling Stones", "Metallica", "The Eagles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01191", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these singers had a Top 40 song with a title that begins with the letter “X”?", "correct_answer": "OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Queen", "The Rolling Stones", "U2" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01192", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Which of these songs by the Beatles contains three different pronouns in its title?", "correct_answer": "I ME MINE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Queen", "U2", "Fleetwood Mac" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01193", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these soon-to-be stars did not appear in the 1983 movie “The Outsiders?”", "correct_answer": "KEIFER SUTHERLAND", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Godfather", "Pulp Fiction", "Jurassic Park" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01194", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these state capitals is closest to the Mexican border?", "correct_answer": "PHOENIX", "incorrect_answers": [ "Tokyo", "Madrid", "Toronto" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01195", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these Steven Seagal movie titles does not begin with a preposition?", "correct_answer": "HARD TO KILL", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Shawshank Redemption", "Jurassic Park", "Pulp Fiction" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01196", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Which of these suffixes appears in the names of two U.S. state capitals?", "correct_answer": "-POLIS", "incorrect_answers": [ "New York", "Sydney", "Madrid" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01197", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Which of these terms derives from early film shorts that often ended with its female characters in perilous situations?", "correct_answer": "CLIFFHANGER", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Godfather", "The Shawshank Redemption", "Jurassic Park" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01198", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Which of these Texan city names is Spanish for “yellow”?", "correct_answer": "AMARILLO", "incorrect_answers": [ "Rome", "Sydney", "Berlin" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01199", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these Texas city names can be spelled by writing three well-known musical syllables?", "correct_answer": "LAREDO", "incorrect_answers": [ "London", "Los Angeles", "Moscow" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01200", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these Tom Cruise movies is technically a sequel?", "correct_answer": "THE COLOR OF MONEY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Casablanca", "Avatar", "Jaws" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01201", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Which of these Toyota models shares its name with the 3rd largest city in the state of Washington?", "correct_answer": "TACOMA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Chicago", "Los Angeles", "Tokyo" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01202", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these tropical locales is not mentioned in the Beach Boys hit song “Kokomo”?", "correct_answer": "BARBADOS", "incorrect_answers": [ "U2", "Metallica", "Queen" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01203", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Which of these U.S. banknotes features a portrait of a man who is bearded?", "correct_answer": "50", "incorrect_answers": [ "51", "49", "60" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01204", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Which of these U.S. cities is named after an ancient Greek city, not a Native American tribe?", "correct_answer": "SYRACUSE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Sydney", "New York", "Paris" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01205", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these U.S. national parks lies across the Continental Divide?", "correct_answer": "ROCKY MOUNTAIN", "incorrect_answers": [ "China", "Australia", "Brazil" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01206", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Which of these U.S. presidents does not have a state capital named after him?", "correct_answer": "GROVER CLEVELAND", "incorrect_answers": [ "Ronald Reagan", "George Washington", "Barack Obama" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01207", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these U.S. presidents has a middle name that was the last name of another U.S. president?", "correct_answer": "RONALD REAGAN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Theodore Roosevelt", "Abraham Lincoln", "Franklin D. Roosevelt" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01208", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Which of these U.S. states has a capital city whose name features an adjective?", "correct_answer": "ARKANSAS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Rome", "Toronto", "Berlin" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01209", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these well-known nicknames is not commonly used to refer to a former U.S. President?", "correct_answer": "THE DONALD", "incorrect_answers": [ "Theodore Roosevelt", "Thomas Jefferson", "John F. Kennedy" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01210", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these well-known songs is an example of a sea chanty?", "correct_answer": "BLOW THE MAN DOWN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Led Zeppelin", "U2", "The Beatles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01211", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Which of these winged creatures is not featured in the U.S. postal stamp series “Pollination”?", "correct_answer": "EAGLE", "incorrect_answers": [ "China", "United States", "France" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01212", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Which of these women helped created the “Parental Advisory Labels” found on albums with explicit content?", "correct_answer": "TIPPER GORE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Metallica", "Nirvana", "The Beatles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01213", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these years will be a leap year?", "correct_answer": "2012", "incorrect_answers": [ "2017", "2007", "2010" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01214", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Which of these ’80s movies did not star both “Coreys,” Haim and Feldman?", "correct_answer": "LUCAS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jaws", "Avatar", "The Shawshank Redemption" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01215", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Which of these ’90s movies shares a main character with the best-selling novel “Hannibal Rising”?", "correct_answer": "THE SILENCE OF LAMBS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Star Wars", "Casablanca", "E.T." ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01216", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Which of these “colorful” characters does not appear in the 1992 movie “Reservoir Dogs”?", "correct_answer": "MR.GREEN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Pulp Fiction", "The Shawshank Redemption", "E.T." ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01217", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which planet is often called the earth’s twin because it is nearly the same size in diameter?", "correct_answer": "VENUS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Mercury", "Uranus", "Earth" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01218", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "While campaigning,what U.S. president appeared on “Laugh-In,” delivering a deadpan “Sock It To Me?”", "correct_answer": "RICHARD NIXON", "incorrect_answers": [ "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "Theodore Roosevelt", "Thomas Jefferson" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01219", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "While in office,which of these U.S. presidents donated his entire salary to charity?", "correct_answer": "JOHN F. KENNEDY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "Abraham Lincoln", "George Washington" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01220", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Who are the three “Heathers” in the cult 1989 movie of the same name?", "correct_answer": "HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Pulp Fiction", "The Shawshank Redemption", "The Godfather" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01221", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Who designed the iconic pink suit worn by Jackie Kennedy the day of her husband’s assassination?", "correct_answer": "COCO CHANEL", "incorrect_answers": [ "Canada", "China", "Australia" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01222", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Who is the only U.S. president in history to serve two nonconsecutive terms?", "correct_answer": "GROVER CLEVELAND", "incorrect_answers": [ "Thomas Jefferson", "Abraham Lincoln", "George Washington" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01223", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Who was both the last U.S. president of the 19th century and the first U.S. president of the 20th century?", "correct_answer": "WILLIAM MCKINLEY", "incorrect_answers": [ "George Washington", "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "Thomas Jefferson" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01224", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Who was president of the Soviet Union when it formally dissolved in 1991?", "correct_answer": "MIKHAIL GORBACHEV", "incorrect_answers": [ "Ronald Reagan", "John F. Kennedy", "George Washington" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01225", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Who was president when CNN debuted “Larry King Live,” which ended its 25-year run in 2010?", "correct_answer": "RONALD REAGAN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Theodore Roosevelt", "Barack Obama", "John F. Kennedy" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01226", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Who wrote the famous poem that begins, “A thing of beauty is a joy forever”?", "correct_answer": "JOHN KEATS", "incorrect_answers": [ "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "George Orwell", "William Shakespeare" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01227", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Whose work on sound recordings earned him a spot in the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2004?", "correct_answer": "RAY DOLBY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Brazil", "Spain", "Germany" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01228", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "With a wider wingspan than Air Force One, what country’s leader flies in an airbus dubbed “Air Sarko One”?", "correct_answer": "FRANCE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Germany", "Canada", "United States" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01229", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "With an alien hero sent to earth as an infant, the 2010 film “Megamind” shares a setup with what other movie?", "correct_answer": "SUPERMAN", "incorrect_answers": [ "E.T.", "Pulp Fiction", "Avatar" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01230", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "With Dana Andrews as Lt. Ted Stryker,the 1957 film “Zero Hour!” served as the basis for what movie spoof?", "correct_answer": "AIRPLANE!", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Shawshank Redemption", "Star Wars", "Jaws" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01231", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "With lyrical answers like “Shave his belly with a rusty razor,” an old song asks “What shall we do with” whom?", "correct_answer": "A DRUNKEN SAILOR", "incorrect_answers": [ "U2", "The Rolling Stones", "Pink Floyd" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01232", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "With music by Burt Bacharach,what Broadway musical is based on the 1960 film “The Apartment”?", "correct_answer": "PROMISES,PROMISES", "incorrect_answers": [ "Pulp Fiction", "Star Wars", "Jurassic Park" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01233", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "With Pluto being labeled a “dwarf planet” in 2006, what is now the smallest planet in our solar system?", "correct_answer": "MERCURY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Uranus", "Jupiter", "Venus" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01234", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "With Pluto reclassified as a “dwarf planet,” what planet in our solar system is now farthest from the Sun?", "correct_answer": "NEPTUNE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Venus", "Uranus", "Mercury" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01235", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "With roughly 8000 residents, what is the smallest state capital in the United States?", "correct_answer": "MONTPELIER VT", "incorrect_answers": [ "Moscow", "Los Angeles", "London" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01236", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Written by the British group Psapp, “Cosy in the Rocket” is the theme song to what long-running TV drama?", "correct_answer": "GREY’S ANATOMY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Led Zeppelin", "Pink Floyd", "Fleetwood Mac" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01237", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Years before his brief marriage to Renee Zellweger,what country crooner had a hit with the song “You Had Me from Hello”?", "correct_answer": "KENNY CHESNEY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Italy", "Spain", "Brazil" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01238", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Years before starring in the movie “Enchanted,” what actress worked briefly as a Hooters waitress?", "correct_answer": "AMY ADAMS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Al Pacino", "Tom Hanks", "Robert De Niro" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01239", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "“1 Radioactive Bite,8 Legs and 183 Previews” was the title of a 2011 review for what Broadway musical?", "correct_answer": "SPIDER MAN:TURN OFF THE DARK", "incorrect_answers": [ "Pink Floyd", "The Beatles", "Metallica" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01240", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "“A crate is hidden away in a large government warehouse” describes the end of what adventure film?", "correct_answer": "RAIDERS OF THE LAST ARK", "incorrect_answers": [ "E.T.", "Pulp Fiction", "Jaws" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01241", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "“A is for Amy,who fell down the stairs,” is a quote from a book by what macabre writer-illustrator?", "correct_answer": "EDWARD GOREY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Mark Twain", "Jane Austen", "George Orwell" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01242", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "“Across the Universe” is 2007 film that showcases the music of what legendary group?", "correct_answer": "THE BEATLES", "incorrect_answers": [ "E.T.", "Titanic", "Avatar" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01243", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "“Aggies,Immies,Shooters,and Swirls” is the title of a coffee table book devoted to what children’s game?", "correct_answer": "MARBLES", "incorrect_answers": [ "Charles Dickens", "Jane Austen", "Mark Twain" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01244", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "“American Idol” judge Randy Jackson got his big break playing what instrument for the rock band Journey?", "correct_answer": "BASS GUITAR", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Eagles", "Queen", "Nirvana" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01245", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "“Ariel’s Beginning” is the sub-title of a 2008 straight-to-DVD prequel of what animated Disney movie?", "correct_answer": "THE LITTLE MERMAID", "incorrect_answers": [ "Star Wars", "Avatar", "Jurassic Park" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01246", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "“As far back as I can remember,I always wanted to be a gangster,” is heard near the start of what Scorsese film?", "correct_answer": "GOODFELLAS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Titanic", "Avatar", "Jaws" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01247", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "“Believe the legend.Beware the Wolf” is an apt tagline for a 2011 film featuring what fairy tale protagonist?", "correct_answer": "LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jaws", "Titanic", "The Godfather" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01248", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "“Big Sky Country” is a popular nickname for what U.S. state?", "correct_answer": "MONTANA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Brazil", "Russia", "China" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01249", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "“Citizen Cake,” a popular bakery in San Francisco,derives its name from a classic film directed by whom?", "correct_answer": "ORSON WELLES", "incorrect_answers": [ "E.T.", "Avatar", "Titanic" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01250", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "“Control +C then Control+V” is a computer keyboard shortcut combination commonly known as what?", "correct_answer": "COPY & PASTE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Spain", "Russia", "Mexico" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01251", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "“Cowbell Sketch” and “A View To a Kill” are two listings in the index of a book titled what?", "correct_answer": "CHRISTOPHER WALKEN A TO Z", "incorrect_answers": [ "Mark Twain", "Ernest Hemingway", "Jane Austen" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01252", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "“Daniel” and “Sweep the Leg” are two songs inspired by what ’80s teen flick?", "correct_answer": "THE KARATE KID", "incorrect_answers": [ "U2", "Queen", "The Eagles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01253", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "“Drink, ye harpooners!” is a line from what classic novel?", "correct_answer": "MOBY-DICK", "incorrect_answers": [ "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "Charles Dickens", "Ernest Hemingway" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01254", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "“Eight plus danger-packed days” describes the 2010 DVD box set of the entire run of what TV series?", "correct_answer": "24", "incorrect_answers": [ "34", "26", "23" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01255", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "“For Audrey” is a shade of blue nail polish that pays tribute to what classic Audrey Hepburn film?", "correct_answer": "BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S", "incorrect_answers": [ "Casablanca", "Titanic", "Jurassic Park" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01256", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "“Forget You” is the title of the cleaned up radio version of a popular 2010 expletive-filled song by whom?", "correct_answer": "CEE LO GREEN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Nirvana", "Pink Floyd", "The Beatles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01257", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "“He’s got crazy flipper fingers” and “Never tilts at all” are lyrics from a 1969 song by The Who titled what?", "correct_answer": "PINBALL WIZARD", "incorrect_answers": [ "Led Zeppelin", "The Rolling Stones", "The Beatles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01258", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "“Hold Me Closer,Tony Danza,” a 2007 book about misheard song lyrics,references a song by whom?", "correct_answer": "ELTON JOHN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Queen", "Nirvana", "Pink Floyd" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01259", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "“Home Alone” director Christopher Columbus has a production company that is aptly named for what year?", "correct_answer": "1492", "incorrect_answers": [ "1490", "1493", "1497" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01260", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "“I Feel Pretty,” “America,” and “Tonight” are all songs featured in what classic musical?", "correct_answer": "WEST SIDE STORY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Fleetwood Mac", "Nirvana", "U2" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01261", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "“Imagine me and you,I do/I think about you day and night,it’s only right” are lyrics to a 1967 song by what group?", "correct_answer": "THE TURTLES", "incorrect_answers": [ "Led Zeppelin", "Queen", "Fleetwood Mac" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01262", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "“It is better to have 100 friends than 100 rubles” is a proverb in what country?", "correct_answer": "RUSSIA", "incorrect_answers": [ "France", "Canada", "Italy" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01263", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "“I’m Alright,” a 1980 hit by Kenny Loggins,is the opening theme song of what popular comedy?", "correct_answer": "CADDYSHACK", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Eagles", "Pink Floyd", "The Beatles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01264", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "“Jenny dies from an incurable disease” spoils the ending of not only “Forrest Gump” but what other film?", "correct_answer": "LOVE STORY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jaws", "Casablanca", "Pulp Fiction" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01265", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "“Lands End,” a mansion in Long Island built in 1902, is said to have inspired a fancy home in what classic novel?", "correct_answer": "THE GREAT GATSBY", "incorrect_answers": [ "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "George Orwell", "J.K. Rowling" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01266", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "“New Amerykah” is the title of a 2008 R&B album by an artist with what last name?", "correct_answer": "BADU", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Rolling Stones", "Led Zeppelin", "Metallica" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01267", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "“Nowhere Boy” is a 2009 biopic about what legendary musician?", "correct_answer": "JOHN LENNON", "incorrect_answers": [ "Led Zeppelin", "Metallica", "Pink Floyd" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01268", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "“One husband, two kids…and multiple personalities” is the apt tagline for what showtime series?", "correct_answer": "UNITED STATES OF TARA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Pink Floyd", "U2", "Metallica" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01269", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "“Pineapple shrimp, and lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp” is a line from what hit film?", "correct_answer": "FOREST GUMP", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Shawshank Redemption", "Jurassic Park", "E.T." ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01270", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "“Pinoy Idol” and “Pinoy Big Brother” are what country’s version of the popular reality shows?", "correct_answer": "THE PHILLIPPINES", "incorrect_answers": [ "Italy", "Japan", "Spain" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01271", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "“Practice” is the answer to an old joke that asks, “How do you get to” what New York City landmark?", "correct_answer": "CARNEGIE HALL", "incorrect_answers": [ "Moscow", "Los Angeles", "Sydney" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01272", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "“Quit your jibba jabba!” and “Shut up,fool!” are two phrases that can be played on a novelty toy called what?", "correct_answer": "MR.T IN YOUR POCKET", "incorrect_answers": [ "Ernest Hemingway", "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "Charles Dickens" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01273", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "“Rango,” the title character in a 2011 animated movie voiced by Johnny Depp,is what kind of desert creature?", "correct_answer": "CHAMELEON", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jaws", "E.T.", "Jurassic Park" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01274", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "“Rocky Top” is one of the official songs of what state?", "correct_answer": "TENNESSEE", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Beatles", "Fleetwood Mac", "U2" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01275", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "“Runaway,” a sprawling 35-minute musical film by Kanye West,prominently features what performers?", "correct_answer": "BALLERINAS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Star Wars", "Jaws", "Jurassic Park" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01276", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "“Samuel Spade’s jaw was long and bony” is the first line of what famous detective novel?", "correct_answer": "THE MALTESE FALCON", "incorrect_answers": [ "Ernest Hemingway", "Charles Dickens", "Mark Twain" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01277", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "“Scuse me while I kiss this guy” is an often misheard lyric in a song by what classic rock guitarist?", "correct_answer": "JIMI HENDRIX", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Beatles", "U2", "Led Zeppelin" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01278", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "“Senseless in Seattle” and “The Da Vinci Coma” are Mad Magazine spoofs of movies starring what actor?", "correct_answer": "TOM HANKS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Meryl Streep", "Leonardo DiCaprio", "Morgan Freeman" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01279", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "“Sixteen coaches long” is a lyric in an Elvis Presley song titled what?", "correct_answer": "MYSTERY TRAIN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Queen", "The Rolling Stones", "U2" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01280", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "“Someone left the cake out in the rain” is a lyric from what often-ridiculed pop song?", "correct_answer": "MACARTHUR PARK", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Beatles", "U2", "Nirvana" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01281", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "“Stay Puft” is a brand of marshmallows inspired by what ’80s film?", "correct_answer": "GHOSTBUSTERS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jaws", "Pulp Fiction", "Avatar" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01282", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "“Surfer dude feuds with teacher while teenage girl loses her innocence” summarizes what movie’s plot?", "correct_answer": "FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH", "incorrect_answers": [ "Pulp Fiction", "Jaws", "Titanic" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01283", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "“Synchronicity”, the last studio album by The Police, shares its name with a theory put forward by whom?", "correct_answer": "CARL JUNG", "incorrect_answers": [ "Paris", "Toronto", "Madrid" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01284", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "“Take me down to the Paradise City,where the grass is green and the girls are pretty” are lyrics in an ’80s hit by whom?", "correct_answer": "GUNS N’ ROSES", "incorrect_answers": [ "New York", "Moscow", "Chicago" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01285", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "“Team Edward or Team Jacob” is a passionate debate amongst readers of which of these authors?", "correct_answer": "STEPHENIE MEYER", "incorrect_answers": [ "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "William Shakespeare", "J.K. Rowling" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01286", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "“The Boot” is the name of a popular website featuring inside information for fans of what music genre?", "correct_answer": "COUNTRY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Fleetwood Mac", "U2", "Nirvana" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01287", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "“The Foie Gras Wars” is a 2009 book that features what type of animal on the cover?", "correct_answer": "DUCK", "incorrect_answers": [ "Mark Twain", "J.K. Rowling", "Ernest Hemingway" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01288", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "“The Lost Symbol” is the latest in a series of Dan Brown novels that center on what protagonist?", "correct_answer": "ROBERT LANGDON", "incorrect_answers": [ "Charles Dickens", "Jane Austen", "William Shakespeare" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01289", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "“The Meltdown” and “Dawn of the Dinosaurs” are both apt subtitles of sequels to what animated film?", "correct_answer": "ICE AGE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Casablanca", "Star Wars", "The Shawshank Redemption" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01290", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "“The Wicker Man, the Weather Man, and the Family man” are all films starring what lead man?", "correct_answer": "NICOLAS CAGE", "incorrect_answers": [ "E.T.", "Jurassic Park", "The Godfather" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01291", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "“The Widows Of Eastwick” is the follow-up novel to a 1984 work with which of these words in its title?", "correct_answer": "WITCHES", "incorrect_answers": [ "Mark Twain", "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "George Orwell" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01292", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "“There’s More Than Meets the Arch” is the former motto of what U.S. city?", "correct_answer": "ST LOUIS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Toronto", "Moscow", "Madrid" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01293", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "“Violet Precipitation” could be an “alternate title” of a 1984 movie starring whom?", "correct_answer": "PRINCE", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Shawshank Redemption", "The Godfather", "Jaws" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01294", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "“When the night has come / And the land is dark” are the first two lines in what classic 1961 song?", "correct_answer": "STAND BY ME", "incorrect_answers": [ "Queen", "The Beatles", "The Eagles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01295", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "“Who Do You Think You Are” is a question repeatedly posed to the “Mr” in what hit song?", "correct_answer": "MR. BIG STUFF", "incorrect_answers": [ "U2", "The Rolling Stones", "Pink Floyd" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01296", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "“World Without End” is the title of the 2007 follow-up to what author’s best-selling “Pillars of the Earth”?", "correct_answer": "KEN FOLLETT", "incorrect_answers": [ "Ernest Hemingway", "William Shakespeare", "J.K. Rowling" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01297", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "“You must have been something before electricity” is a playful jab at a person’s what?", "correct_answer": "AGE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Chicago", "Los Angeles", "Tokyo" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01298", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "“You probably think this song is about you” is a famously caustic lyric from what hit song?", "correct_answer": "YOU’RE SO VAIN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Led Zeppelin", "Pink Floyd", "U2" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01299", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "“You take the high road and I’ll take the low road” is a line from a traditional song of what people?", "correct_answer": "SCOTTISH", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Eagles", "The Rolling Stones", "Queen" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01300", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "“Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries” is a bizarre insult from what funny film?", "correct_answer": "MONTY PYTHON & THE HOLY GRAIL", "incorrect_answers": [ "Star Wars", "Avatar", "Titanic" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01301", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Which of these Brady Bunch episode titles is also the title of a 1974 Martin Scorsese film?", "correct_answer": "ALICE DOESN’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Pulp Fiction", "Casablanca", "The Godfather" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01302", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these brave actresses appeared in a 2006 movie in which her head was shaved on screen?", "correct_answer": "NATALIE PORTMAN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Leonardo DiCaprio", "Denzel Washington", "Tom Hanks" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01303", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Which of these Broadway musicals was inspired by a famous painting?", "correct_answer": "SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE", "incorrect_answers": [ "U2", "Fleetwood Mac", "Queen" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01304", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these cable networks focuses on music,not movies?", "correct_answer": "CMT", "incorrect_answers": [ "Pulp Fiction", "The Godfather", "The Shawshank Redemption" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01305", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Which of these California cities lays claim to the title “Capital of Silicon Valley”?", "correct_answer": "SAN JOSE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Moscow", "Madrid", "Sydney" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01306", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Which of these capital cities is not located in mainland Asia?", "correct_answer": "TOKYO", "incorrect_answers": [ "Sydney", "London", "Berlin" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01307", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Which of these characters appeared in the short-lived Broadway musical “Seussical”?", "correct_answer": "THE CAT IN THE HAT", "incorrect_answers": [ "Led Zeppelin", "Pink Floyd", "The Eagles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01308", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Which of these characters from AFI’s list of the fifty greatest movie villains was an actual movie star?", "correct_answer": "JOAN CRAWFORD", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Shawshank Redemption", "E.T.", "Jaws" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01309", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these characters is from the 1978 movie “Grease” and not the 1988 movie “Hairspray?”", "correct_answer": "MARTY MARASCHINO", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Godfather", "Titanic", "Jurassic Park" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01310", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these Charlie Chaplin movies was intended to make fun of Adolf Hitler?", "correct_answer": "THE GREAT DICTATOR", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jaws", "Star Wars", "The Godfather" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01311", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Which of these Charlie Chaplin movies was intended to make fun of Adolph Hitler?", "correct_answer": "THE GREAT DICTATOR", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jurassic Park", "The Shawshank Redemption", "Jaws" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01312", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Which of these chart-topping albums was recorded by an “American Idol” champion?", "correct_answer": "SOME HEARTS", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Rolling Stones", "Pink Floyd", "Metallica" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01313", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Which of these children’s movies was not based on a book by Roald Dahl?", "correct_answer": "THE JUNGLE BOOK", "incorrect_answers": [ "E.T.", "Star Wars", "The Shawshank Redemption" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01314", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Which of these cities has roughly the same latitude as New York City?", "correct_answer": "TOKYO", "incorrect_answers": [ "Rome", "Los Angeles", "Sydney" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01315", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these city-themed songs mentions Graceland and the ghost of Elvis in its lyrics?", "correct_answer": "WALKING IN MEMPHIS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Berlin", "Toronto", "Paris" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01316", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Which of these classic films was directed by Diane Sawyer’s husband?", "correct_answer": "THE GRADUATE", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Godfather", "E.T.", "Titanic" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01317", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these classic movies is set during the Korean War?", "correct_answer": "M.A.S.H.", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jaws", "The Shawshank Redemption", "Star Wars" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01318", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these classic novels features the wise advice “Never laugh at live dragons”?", "correct_answer": "THE HOBBIT", "incorrect_answers": [ "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "Mark Twain", "Jane Austen" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01319", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these classic novels was written by a man named after Ralph Waldo Emerson?", "correct_answer": "INVISIBLE MAN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jane Austen", "Charles Dickens", "J.K. Rowling" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01320", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these classic works of literature is typically categorized as a short story and not a novel?", "correct_answer": "THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM", "incorrect_answers": [ "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "Mark Twain", "Jane Austen" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01321", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these coins depicts the U.S. president who served in office the earliest?", "correct_answer": "QUARTER", "incorrect_answers": [ "Ronald Reagan", "George Washington", "John F. Kennedy" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01322", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these combinations of road races would require a participant to run the farthest?", "correct_answer": "TEN HALF-MARATHONS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Mexico", "China", "Spain" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01323", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Which of these combinations of standard coin rolls is worth the most money?", "correct_answer": "FIVE ROLLS OF DIMES", "incorrect_answers": [ "United Kingdom", "Russia", "Germany" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01324", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these companies was founded in the early 1980s in Melbourne,Australia ,by a woman and her husband?", "correct_answer": "JENNY CRAIG", "incorrect_answers": [ "Metallica", "Fleetwood Mac", "Pink Floyd" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01325", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these countries is an island nation in the Pacific and not a country in Africa?", "correct_answer": "PAPUA NEW GUINEA", "incorrect_answers": [ "China", "Brazil", "Russia" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01326", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these country names can be spelled by placing three U.S. state postal abbreviations in a row?", "correct_answer": "MALAWI", "incorrect_answers": [ "India", "Canada", "Australia" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01327", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these Crayola Crayon colors takes its name from a lyric in the song “America the Beautiful”?", "correct_answer": "Purple Mountain’s Majesty", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Rolling Stones", "Nirvana", "Fleetwood Mac" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01328", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Which of these European capitals is not located along the Danube river?", "correct_answer": "BERN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Chicago", "New York", "Sydney" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01329", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Which of these family movies about animals centers on a creature that weighs the most?", "correct_answer": "FREE WILLY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Avatar", "Star Wars", "Casablanca" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01330", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these family movies about animals centers on a creature that weights the most?", "correct_answer": "FREE WILLY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Avatar", "Star Wars", "Casablanca" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01331", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these famous authors was not born in Ireland?", "correct_answer": "EUGENE O’NEILL", "incorrect_answers": [ "Ernest Hemingway", "George Orwell", "Charles Dickens" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01332", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these famous lines is associated with a president who was a Democrat?", "correct_answer": "THE BUCK STOPS HERE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Abraham Lincoln", "Thomas Jefferson", "George Washington" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01333", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Which of these famous people never appeared as a guest star on the HBO series “Sex and The City”?", "correct_answer": "ROBERT DOWNEY, JR", "incorrect_answers": [ "Chicago", "New York", "Toronto" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01334", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Which of these features of planet Earth is considered part of its hydrosphere?", "correct_answer": "ATLANTIC OCEAN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Earth", "Neptune", "Uranus" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01335", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these female names has not appeared in a Rolling Stones hit song title?", "correct_answer": "DAISY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Queen", "Fleetwood Mac", "U2" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01336", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Which of these films depicts a real-live court case and not an epic battle between two fictional creatures?", "correct_answer": "Dracula v. Frankenstein", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Shawshank Redemption", "Star Wars", "Jurassic Park" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01337", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these films features an ordinal number in its title?", "correct_answer": "THE THIRD MAN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Star Wars", "Jaws", "Avatar" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01338", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Which of these films is a “real” Hollywood movie,and not a “mockbuster”– a low-budget ripoff of a hit film?", "correct_answer": "LAND OF THE LOST", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jurassic Park", "Avatar", "Titanic" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01339", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these films was loosely based on a 1927 Upton Sinclair novel?", "correct_answer": "THERE WILL BE BLOOD", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Shawshank Redemption", "Casablanca", "The Godfather" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01340", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In E.B. White’s classic children’s novel “Charlotte’s Web,” what is the name of the gluttonous rat?", "correct_answer": "TEMPLETON", "incorrect_answers": [ "William Shakespeare", "J.K. Rowling", "Ernest Hemingway" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01341", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "In England, the term “Oxbridge” is used to refer collectively to the country’s two best-known what?", "correct_answer": "UNIVERSITIES", "incorrect_answers": [ "United States", "Germany", "China" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01342", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In film credits,which of these actors is typically listed with his full middle name,and not just a middle initial?", "correct_answer": "PHILLIP HOFFMAN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Brad Pitt", "Robert De Niro", "Tom Hanks" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01343", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In his 1989 book “From Beirut to Jerusalem,” Thomas Friedman recounts a journey he once took from Lebanon to where?", "correct_answer": "ISRAEL", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jane Austen", "Mark Twain", "William Shakespeare" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01344", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In his 1999 film “The Sixth Sense,” director M. Night Shyamalan makes a cameo appearance playing a what?", "correct_answer": "DOCTOR", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jurassic Park", "Titanic", "Pulp Fiction" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01345", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In his hit 1983 song,Elton John ponders “I guess that’s why they call it” what?", "correct_answer": "THE BLUES", "incorrect_answers": [ "Led Zeppelin", "U2", "Pink Floyd" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01346", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "In honor of the famous race held in its capital,what state’s commemorative quarter features a racecar?", "correct_answer": "INDIANA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Paris", "Madrid", "Tokyo" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01347", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In math, which of these numbers is a common denominator of the fractions 1/3 and 2/5?", "correct_answer": "15", "incorrect_answers": [ "5", "17", "16" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01348", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In movies, what actor has twice portrayed Dr. Alex Cross, the hero of several James Patterson movies?", "correct_answer": "MORGAN FREEMAN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Brad Pitt", "Robert De Niro", "Will Smith" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01349", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In movies,Eric Bana and Edward Norton have both played a comic book character that was played on TV by whom?", "correct_answer": "BILL BIXBY", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Shawshank Redemption", "Titanic", "Pulp Fiction" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01350", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In music industry lingo, an artist’s record “drops” when it what?", "correct_answer": "GETS RELEASED", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Rolling Stones", "The Beatles", "The Eagles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01351", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In music industry lingo,an artist’s record “drops” when it does what?", "correct_answer": "GETS RELEASED", "incorrect_answers": [ "Queen", "The Eagles", "The Beatles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01352", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In musical notation,a flat is denoted by a symbol resembling what lowercase letter?", "correct_answer": "B", "incorrect_answers": [ "Queen", "Led Zeppelin", "Metallica" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01353", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "In musical notation,a set of five horizontal lines and four spaces on which music is written is known as a what?", "correct_answer": "STAFF", "incorrect_answers": [ "Fleetwood Mac", "Pink Floyd", "The Eagles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01354", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In musical theater,when a dancer shakes his open palms to the audience with fingers splayed,it is known as what?", "correct_answer": "JAZZ HANDS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Fleetwood Mac", "Pink Floyd", "Nirvana" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01355", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In NASCAR racing, how many cars traditionally start in each race?", "correct_answer": "43", "incorrect_answers": [ "42", "33", "45" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01356", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In office for 22 years,Richard M. Daley was the longest serving mayor of what U.S. city?", "correct_answer": "CHICAGO", "incorrect_answers": [ "Toronto", "London", "New York" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01357", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "In one of his fireside chats,what U.S. president described America as a great “Arsenal of Democracy”?", "correct_answer": "FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT", "incorrect_answers": [ "Thomas Jefferson", "Barack Obama", "Theodore Roosevelt" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01358", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In popular money slang,if you have five “Lincolns” and five “Hamiltons,” how much cash do you have?", "correct_answer": "75", "incorrect_answers": [ "85", "74", "73" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01359", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "In preparation for hosting the 2008 Olympics, what country launched a campaign to stop public spitting?", "correct_answer": "CHINA", "incorrect_answers": [ "France", "United Kingdom", "Brazil" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01360", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "In publishing,what nickname is commonly used for novels that are geared toward a female readership?", "correct_answer": "CHICK LIT", "incorrect_answers": [ "Ernest Hemingway", "Mark Twain", "J.K. Rowling" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01361", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In response to a new immigration law, what city’s NBA team donned “Los Suns” jerseys in May 2010?", "correct_answer": "PHOENIX", "incorrect_answers": [ "Tokyo", "Chicago", "Madrid" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01362", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel “Treasure Island,” Long John Silver has a pet parrot named what?", "correct_answer": "CAPTAIN FLINT", "incorrect_answers": [ "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "Mark Twain", "J.K. Rowling" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01363", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "In the 1800s,Ohio native Annie Oakley gained national fame for her remarkable skills as a what?", "correct_answer": "SHARPSHOOTER", "incorrect_answers": [ "Germany", "Italy", "Mexico" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01364", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In the 1895 novel “Red Badge of Courage,” Henry Fleming, the main character, is a what?", "correct_answer": "UNION SOLDIER", "incorrect_answers": [ "William Shakespeare", "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "George Orwell" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01365", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In the 1895 novel “The Red Badge Of Courage”, Henry Fleming,the main character,is a young what?", "correct_answer": "UNION SOLDIER", "incorrect_answers": [ "Ernest Hemingway", "Mark Twain", "J.K. Rowling" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01366", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In the 1945 novel “Animal Farm,” what animals control the “government” of the farm?", "correct_answer": "PIGS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Ernest Hemingway", "George Orwell", "Mark Twain" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01367", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In the 1958 film “Vertigo,” Jimmy Stewart’s character has an irrational fear of what?", "correct_answer": "HEIGHTS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Casablanca", "Pulp Fiction", "Jaws" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01368", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In the 1960s,the FBI conducted an investigation into the unintelligible lyrics of what popular song?", "correct_answer": "LOUIE LOUIE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Pink Floyd", "The Rolling Stones", "The Eagles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01369", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In the 1962 movie “The Manchurian Candidate,” what playing card triggers Raymond’s trances?", "correct_answer": "QUEEN OF DIAMONDS", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Godfather", "Avatar", "E.T." ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01370", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In the 1967 film “Bonnie and Clyde,” Clyde famously offers what terse description of the duo’s occupation?", "correct_answer": "WE ROB BANKS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jaws", "The Shawshank Redemption", "The Godfather" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01371", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In the 1968 movie “Funny Girl,” Barbara Streisand’s character looks into the mirror and says “Hello” what?", "correct_answer": "GORGEOUS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Casablanca", "The Shawshank Redemption", "Jaws" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01372", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In the 1972 film “The Godfather,” Vito Corleone dies while playing with his grandson where?", "correct_answer": "IN A TOMATO GARDEN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Casablanca", "Titanic", "E.T." ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01373", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In the 1979 hit song “Escape,” what does the singer claim to like in addition to pina coladas?", "correct_answer": "GETTING CAUGHT IN THE RAIN", "incorrect_answers": [ "U2", "Led Zeppelin", "The Eagles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01374", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In the 1987 movie “The Princess Bride,” what actress plays the Princess Bride?", "correct_answer": "ROBIN WRIGHT PENN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Morgan Freeman", "Will Smith", "Brad Pitt" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01375", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In the 1988 movie “Rain Man,” Raymond Babbitt is obsessed with watching what TV personality?", "correct_answer": "JUDGE WAPNER", "incorrect_answers": [ "Avatar", "E.T.", "Titanic" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01376", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In the 1989 movie “Field Of Dreams”,a mysterious voice inspires a farmer to build what in his cornfield?", "correct_answer": "BASEBALL DIAMOND", "incorrect_answers": [ "Titanic", "Avatar", "Jurassic Park" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01377", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In the 1989 movie, “When Harry met Sally…” Harry and Sally first meet at what university?", "correct_answer": "UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jurassic Park", "Jaws", "Titanic" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01378", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In the 1990 movie “Ghost,” what classic song is featured during the famous “pottery-making” love scene?", "correct_answer": "UNCHAINED MELODY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Casablanca", "The Shawshank Redemption", "Jaws" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01379", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In the 1992 film “My Cousin Vinny,” Joe Pesci and Marisa Tomei memorably sample what Southern dish?", "correct_answer": "GRITS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jaws", "Pulp Fiction", "Titanic" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01380", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In the 1994 film “The Shawshank Redemption” a newly freed Red reunites with Andy in what Mexican town?", "correct_answer": "ZIHUATANEJO", "incorrect_answers": [ "Titanic", "Jurassic Park", "The Godfather" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01381", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In the 1994 movie “Speed,” a bomb is set to go off as soon as a bus’s speed falls below what?", "correct_answer": "50 MPH", "incorrect_answers": [ "Casablanca", "Pulp Fiction", "Titanic" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01382", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In the 1997 film “Donnie Brasco,” Johnnie Depp memorably explains the varied nuances of what mob phrase?", "correct_answer": "“FORGET ABOUT IT!”", "incorrect_answers": [ "Titanic", "E.T.", "Avatar" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01383", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In the 1997 movie “Boogie Nights,” Heather Graham plays a young starlet known by what nickname?", "correct_answer": "ROLLERGIRL", "incorrect_answers": [ "Titanic", "Avatar", "The Godfather" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01384", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In the 1997 movie “My Best Friend’s Wedding,” who plays the titular “best friend”?", "correct_answer": "DERMOT MULRONEY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jurassic Park", "The Godfather", "Casablanca" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01385", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In the 1998 film “The Big Lebowski,” what actress plays Bunny,a trophy wife who wears green nail polish?", "correct_answer": "TARA REID", "incorrect_answers": [ "Will Smith", "Brad Pitt", "Johnny Depp" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01386", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In the 1999 film “Muppets from Space,” what muppet is revealed to actually be an alien?", "correct_answer": "GONZO", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jaws", "Star Wars", "The Godfather" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01387", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In the 1999 movie “American Pie” Alyson Hannigan’s character discusses playing what instrument at band?", "correct_answer": "FLUTE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Star Wars", "Pulp Fiction", "Jurassic Park" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01388", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In the 2003 animated movie “Finding Nemo,” the good-natured Dory suffers from what problem?", "correct_answer": "MEMORY LOSS", "incorrect_answers": [ "Titanic", "Casablanca", "Avatar" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01389", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In the 2003 film “The Last Samurai,” Tom Cruise plays a soldier who goes to what country to train its warriors?", "correct_answer": "JAPAN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Russia", "United States", "Mexico" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01390", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In the 2003 hit song “Hey ya!” the band OutKast urges listeners to “shake it like a” what?", "correct_answer": "POLAROID PICTURE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Fleetwood Mac", "Queen", "Pink Floyd" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01391", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In the 2004 movie “Sideways,” wine lover Miles adamantly states that he will not drink what varietal?", "correct_answer": "MERLOT", "incorrect_answers": [ "Casablanca", "Pulp Fiction", "Jaws" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01392", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In the 2009 film “Watchmen” which character fittingly wears a mask decorated with inkblots?", "correct_answer": "RORSCHACH", "incorrect_answers": [ "Casablanca", "Avatar", "Titanic" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01393", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In the 2009 movie “The Hangover,” the missing groom is eventually found at what Las Vegas locale?", "correct_answer": "ROOF OF CAESARS PALACE", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jurassic Park", "E.T.", "Avatar" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01394", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In the 2009 movie “The Hangover,” what eccentric celeb cameos as the owner of a stolen tiger?", "correct_answer": "MIKE TYSON", "incorrect_answers": [ "Titanic", "Casablanca", "Avatar" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01395", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In the 2010 film “Black Swan,” Natalie Portman plays a dancer who performs in a famous ballet composed by whom?", "correct_answer": "TCHAIKOVSKY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Titanic", "The Shawshank Redemption", "Casablanca" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01396", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In the 2010 film “Eat, pray, love,” Julia Roberts eats in Italy, prays in India, and loves where?", "correct_answer": "INDONESIA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Pulp Fiction", "Casablanca", "The Godfather" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01397", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In the 2010 movie “Shutter Island,” Shutter Island is primarily home to what?", "correct_answer": "MENTAL INSTITUTION", "incorrect_answers": [ "Avatar", "The Godfather", "E.T." ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01398", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Which of these actors is also a successful venture capitalist,who made a killing on an early investment in Skype?", "correct_answer": "ASHTON KUTCHER", "incorrect_answers": [ "Rome", "Berlin", "Los Angeles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01399", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these actresses bears a heart-shaped tattoo inscribed with her husband’s name “Antonio”?", "correct_answer": "MELANIE GRIFFITH", "incorrect_answers": [ "Fleetwood Mac", "Nirvana", "The Eagles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01400", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these actresses did not divorce her husband shortly after receiving her Academy Award?", "correct_answer": "CATHERINE ZETA-JONES", "incorrect_answers": [ "Led Zeppelin", "Metallica", "U2" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01401", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these actresses is the author of a 2010 self-help book,aptly titled “Getting the Pretty Back”?", "correct_answer": "MOLLY RINGWALD", "incorrect_answers": [ "George Orwell", "William Shakespeare", "F. Scott Fitzgerald" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01402", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these adjectives is not included in the lyrics of the 1958 novelty song “Purple People Eater”?", "correct_answer": "SIX-LEGGED", "incorrect_answers": [ "Pink Floyd", "The Beatles", "Metallica" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01403", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these ancient locations becomes the name of a present-day country when the first two letters of its name are removed?", "correct_answer": "ASSYRIA", "incorrect_answers": [ "Canada", "Brazil", "Germany" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01404", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these animal noise words is also the name of a popular online urban city guide?", "correct_answer": "YELP", "incorrect_answers": [ "Moscow", "London", "Madrid" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01405", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Which of these Animal Planet TV Shows “stars” animals that typically grow the largest?", "correct_answer": "GROWING UP CAMEL", "incorrect_answers": [ "Mercury", "Saturn", "Jupiter" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01406", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these are the initials of a high-end fashion label and not a code for a US city airport?", "correct_answer": "YSL", "incorrect_answers": [ "Paris", "Tokyo", "Toronto" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01407", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Which of these Asian “Stans” is an ethnic religion and not an independent country?", "correct_answer": "KURDISTAN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Spain", "Australia", "Canada" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01408", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these authors’ last names sounds the same as a capital city in Texas?", "correct_answer": "JANE AUSTEN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Chicago", "Berlin", "Sydney" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01409", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these authors’ monograms is the same as the name of a well-known delivery company?", "correct_answer": "D.H. LAWRENCE", "incorrect_answers": [ "George Orwell", "J.K. Rowling", "Ernest Hemingway" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01410", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Which of these band names does not feature the name of a chemical element?", "correct_answer": "STEELY DAN", "incorrect_answers": [ "Nirvana", "Metallica", "U2" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01411", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which of these bands gets its name from its bassist’s days making change as a cashier at Starbucks?", "correct_answer": "NICKELBACK", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Beatles", "Nirvana", "Fleetwood Mac" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01412", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Which of these Bill Murray movies takes place primarily at Christmas time?", "correct_answer": "SCROOGED", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jaws", "The Godfather", "Titanic" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01413", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "In astrology, what planetary symbol of communication can cause discord when it is in “retrograde?”", "correct_answer": "MERCURY", "incorrect_answers": [ "Neptune", "Jupiter", "Saturn" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01414", "category": "Sports", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In bowling, how many consecutive strikes comprise a perfectly bowled “300” game?", "correct_answer": "12", "incorrect_answers": [ "22", "10", "14" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01415", "category": "Nature", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What fish has a head pit that acts like a drum?", "correct_answer": "Rockhead poacher", "incorrect_answers": [ "Drumfish", "Toadfish", "Croaker" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01416", "category": "Nature", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What color is a polar bear's skin under its fur?", "correct_answer": "Black", "incorrect_answers": [ "White", "Pink", "Gray" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01417", "category": "Nature", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Butterflies taste with what body part?", "correct_answer": "Their feet", "incorrect_answers": [ "Their antennae", "Their proboscis", "Their wings" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01418", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What is the hardest natural substance on Earth?", "correct_answer": "Diamond", "incorrect_answers": [ "Gold", "Platinum", "Titanium" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01419", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What planet is closest to the Sun?", "correct_answer": "Mercury", "incorrect_answers": [ "Venus", "Earth", "Mars" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01420", "category": "Geography", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What is the largest country by area?", "correct_answer": "Russia", "incorrect_answers": [ "Canada", "China", "USA" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01421", "category": "Geography", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What is the smallest continent?", "correct_answer": "Australia", "incorrect_answers": [ "Europe", "Antarctica", "South America" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01422", "category": "History", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Who was the first President of the United States?", "correct_answer": "George Washington", "incorrect_answers": [ "Thomas Jefferson", "John Adams", "Benjamin Franklin" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01423", "category": "History", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In what year did World War I begin?", "correct_answer": "1914", "incorrect_answers": [ "1915", "1916", "1917" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01424", "category": "Sports", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Which sport is played at Wimbledon?", "correct_answer": "Tennis", "incorrect_answers": [ "Cricket", "Badminton", "Squash" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01425", "category": "Sports", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "How many players are on a basketball team?", "correct_answer": "5", "incorrect_answers": [ "4", "6", "7" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01426", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Which movie features a character named 'Simba'?", "correct_answer": "The Lion King", "incorrect_answers": [ "Finding Nemo", "Bambi", "The Jungle Book" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01427", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Who sang 'Thriller'?", "correct_answer": "Michael Jackson", "incorrect_answers": [ "Prince", "Madonna", "Whitney Houston" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01428", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What is the most spoken language in the world?", "correct_answer": "Mandarin Chinese", "incorrect_answers": [ "English", "Spanish", "Hindi" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01429", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "How many colors are in a rainbow?", "correct_answer": "7", "incorrect_answers": [ "5", "6", "8" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01430", "category": "Nature", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What is the largest mammal?", "correct_answer": "Blue whale", "incorrect_answers": [ "Elephant", "Giraffe", "Hippopotamus" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01431", "category": "Nature", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "How many hearts does an octopus have?", "correct_answer": "3", "incorrect_answers": [ "1", "2", "4" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01432", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What gas do humans exhale?", "correct_answer": "Carbon dioxide", "incorrect_answers": [ "Oxygen", "Nitrogen", "Hydrogen" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01433", "category": "Geography", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What is the capital of Japan?", "correct_answer": "Tokyo", "incorrect_answers": [ "Osaka", "Kyoto", "Seoul" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01434", "category": "History", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Who discovered America in 1492?", "correct_answer": "Christopher Columbus", "incorrect_answers": [ "Ferdinand Magellan", "Vasco da Gama", "John Cabot" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01435", "category": "History", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Where was the first Olympic Games held?", "correct_answer": "Olympia, Greece", "incorrect_answers": [ "Athens, Greece", "Rome, Italy", "Sparta, Greece" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01436", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What is the currency of Japan?", "correct_answer": "Yen", "incorrect_answers": [ "Won", "Yuan", "Ringgit" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01437", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What is the tallest animal on Earth?", "correct_answer": "Giraffe", "incorrect_answers": [ "Elephant", "Camel", "Horse" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01438", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "How many days are in a leap year?", "correct_answer": "366", "incorrect_answers": [ "365", "364", "360" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01439", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What instrument has 88 keys?", "correct_answer": "Piano", "incorrect_answers": [ "Organ", "Harpsichord", "Accordion" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01440", "category": "Geography", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Which country is both in Europe and Asia?", "correct_answer": "Turkey", "incorrect_answers": [ "Russia", "Egypt", "Greece" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01441", "category": "Geography", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What river flows through London?", "correct_answer": "Thames", "incorrect_answers": [ "Seine", "Danube", "Rhine" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01442", "category": "Geography", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What is the largest desert in the world?", "correct_answer": "Antarctic Desert", "incorrect_answers": [ "Sahara", "Gobi", "Arabian" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01443", "category": "Nature", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What is the fastest bird?", "correct_answer": "Peregrine falcon", "incorrect_answers": [ "Swift", "Eagle", "Hawk" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01444", "category": "Nature", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "How many bones does a shark have?", "correct_answer": "0", "incorrect_answers": [ "100", "200", "50" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01445", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What is the chemical symbol for water?", "correct_answer": "H2O", "incorrect_answers": [ "CO2", "NaCl", "O2" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01446", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What planet is known as the Morning Star?", "correct_answer": "Venus", "incorrect_answers": [ "Mars", "Jupiter", "Saturn" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01447", "category": "History", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?", "correct_answer": "Thomas Jefferson", "incorrect_answers": [ "George Washington", "Benjamin Franklin", "John Adams" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01448", "category": "History", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In what country were the Pyramids of Giza built?", "correct_answer": "Egypt", "incorrect_answers": [ "Mexico", "Peru", "Iraq" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01449", "category": "Sports", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In which sport is the term 'love' used?", "correct_answer": "Tennis", "incorrect_answers": [ "Badminton", "Table Tennis", "Squash" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01450", "category": "Sports", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What is the maximum score in a single frame of bowling?", "correct_answer": "30", "incorrect_answers": [ "10", "20", "50" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01451", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Which comic book hero is known as the 'Man of Steel'?", "correct_answer": "Superman", "incorrect_answers": [ "Batman", "Iron Man", "Captain America" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01452", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In the movie 'The Wizard of Oz', what does Dorothy want the Wizard to give her?", "correct_answer": "A way home", "incorrect_answers": [ "A brain", "A heart", "Courage" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01453", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What is the main ingredient in guacamole?", "correct_answer": "Avocado", "incorrect_answers": [ "Tomato", "Onion", "Lime" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01454", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "How many sides does a stop sign have?", "correct_answer": "8", "incorrect_answers": [ "4", "6", "10" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01455", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What is the largest organ in the human body?", "correct_answer": "Skin", "incorrect_answers": [ "Liver", "Brain", "Heart" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01456", "category": "Nature", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What do bees produce?", "correct_answer": "Honey", "incorrect_answers": [ "Wax", "Silk", "Milk" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01457", "category": "Nature", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What is the largest species of penguin?", "correct_answer": "Emperor penguin", "incorrect_answers": [ "King penguin", "Gentoo", "Adelie" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01458", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What is the freezing point of water in Celsius?", "correct_answer": "0", "incorrect_answers": [ "32", "100", "-10" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01459", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What type of blood cells fight infections?", "correct_answer": "White blood cells", "incorrect_answers": [ "Red blood cells", "Platelets", "Plasma" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01460", "category": "Geography", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What is the capital of Italy?", "correct_answer": "Rome", "incorrect_answers": [ "Milan", "Venice", "Naples" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01461", "category": "Geography", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Which country is known as the Land of the Rising Sun?", "correct_answer": "Japan", "incorrect_answers": [ "China", "South Korea", "Thailand" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01462", "category": "History", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What ancient civilization built Machu Picchu?", "correct_answer": "Inca", "incorrect_answers": [ "Maya", "Aztec", "Olmec" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01463", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "Who played Jack in the movie 'Titanic'?", "correct_answer": "Leonardo DiCaprio", "incorrect_answers": [ "Brad Pitt", "Tom Cruise", "Johnny Depp" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01464", "category": "Sports", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What sport uses a shuttlecock?", "correct_answer": "Badminton", "incorrect_answers": [ "Tennis", "Squash", "Racquetball" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01465", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What is the atomic number of Carbon?", "correct_answer": "6", "incorrect_answers": [ "4", "8", "12" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01466", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic?", "correct_answer": "Amelia Earhart", "incorrect_answers": [ "Harriet Quimby", "Bessie Coleman", "Jacqueline Cochran" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01467", "category": "Geography", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What is the capital of Australia?", "correct_answer": "Canberra", "incorrect_answers": [ "Sydney", "Melbourne", "Brisbane" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01468", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Who directed 'Pulp Fiction'?", "correct_answer": "Quentin Tarantino", "incorrect_answers": [ "Steven Spielberg", "Martin Scorsese", "David Fincher" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01469", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What does 'HTTP' stand for?", "correct_answer": "HyperText Transfer Protocol", "incorrect_answers": [ "High Tech Transfer Protocol", "HyperText Transmission Process", "High Transfer Text Protocol" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01470", "category": "Nature", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What is the largest species of shark?", "correct_answer": "Whale Shark", "incorrect_answers": [ "Great White Shark", "Hammerhead Shark", "Tiger Shark" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01471", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What element has the symbol 'Fe'?", "correct_answer": "Iron", "incorrect_answers": [ "Francium", "Fluorine", "Fermium" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01472", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What year did the Berlin Wall fall?", "correct_answer": "1989", "incorrect_answers": [ "1990", "1988", "1987" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01473", "category": "Geography", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which country has the most time zones?", "correct_answer": "France", "incorrect_answers": [ "Russia", "USA", "China" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01474", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which band performed 'Stairway to Heaven'?", "correct_answer": "Led Zeppelin", "incorrect_answers": [ "Deep Purple", "Black Sabbath", "Pink Floyd" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01475", "category": "Sports", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which country invented basketball?", "correct_answer": "United States", "incorrect_answers": [ "Canada", "England", "Australia" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01476", "category": "Sports", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In which year were the first modern Olympics held?", "correct_answer": "1896", "incorrect_answers": [ "1900", "1888", "1912" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01477", "category": "Technology", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Who is considered the father of the World Wide Web?", "correct_answer": "Tim Berners-Lee", "incorrect_answers": [ "Vint Cerf", "Bill Gates", "Steve Jobs" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01478", "category": "Technology", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What does 'USB' stand for?", "correct_answer": "Universal Serial Bus", "incorrect_answers": [ "Ultra System Board", "Unified Serial Buffer", "Universal System Bridge" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01479", "category": "Nature", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What is the fastest land animal?", "correct_answer": "Cheetah", "incorrect_answers": [ "Lion", "Pronghorn", "Greyhound" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01480", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What planet has the most moons?", "correct_answer": "Saturn", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jupiter", "Uranus", "Neptune" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01481", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Who was the first Emperor of Rome?", "correct_answer": "Augustus", "incorrect_answers": [ "Julius Caesar", "Nero", "Caligula" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01482", "category": "Geography", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which African country has the largest population?", "correct_answer": "Nigeria", "incorrect_answers": [ "Ethiopia", "Egypt", "South Africa" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01483", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which film won the Oscar for Best Picture in 2020?", "correct_answer": "Parasite", "incorrect_answers": [ "1917", "Joker", "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01484", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What is the rarest blood type?", "correct_answer": "AB Negative", "incorrect_answers": [ "O Negative", "B Negative", "A Negative" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01485", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "How many bones are in the adult human body?", "correct_answer": "206", "incorrect_answers": [ "186", "226", "256" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01486", "category": "Nature", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What is the only mammal that can truly fly?", "correct_answer": "Bat", "incorrect_answers": [ "Flying squirrel", "Sugar glider", "Colugo" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01487", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What is the chemical formula for ozone?", "correct_answer": "O3", "incorrect_answers": [ "O2", "CO2", "H2O" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01488", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which ancient wonder was located in Alexandria?", "correct_answer": "The Lighthouse", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Colossus", "The Hanging Gardens", "The Great Pyramid" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01489", "category": "Geography", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which country has the most natural lakes?", "correct_answer": "Canada", "incorrect_answers": [ "USA", "Russia", "Brazil" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01490", "category": "Technology", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What programming language was created by James Gosling?", "correct_answer": "Java", "incorrect_answers": [ "C++", "Python", "Ruby" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01491", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Who played the Joker in 'The Dark Knight'?", "correct_answer": "Heath Ledger", "incorrect_answers": [ "Joaquin Phoenix", "Jack Nicholson", "Jared Leto" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01492", "category": "Sports", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which country has won the most FIFA World Cups?", "correct_answer": "Brazil", "incorrect_answers": [ "Germany", "Italy", "Argentina" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01493", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What does 'ATM' stand for?", "correct_answer": "Automated Teller Machine", "incorrect_answers": [ "Automatic Transaction Module", "Automated Transfer Mechanism", "Advanced Teller Machine" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01494", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What particle is responsible for mediating the electromagnetic force?", "correct_answer": "Photon", "incorrect_answers": [ "Gluon", "W Boson", "Graviton" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01495", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Who was the last Pharaoh of Egypt?", "correct_answer": "Cleopatra VII", "incorrect_answers": [ "Hatshepsut", "Nefertiti", "Ramesses II" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01496", "category": "Geography", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What is the highest capital city in the world?", "correct_answer": "La Paz", "incorrect_answers": [ "Quito", "Bogota", "Lhasa" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01497", "category": "Nature", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What is the longest-living land animal?", "correct_answer": "Tortoise", "incorrect_answers": [ "Elephant", "Parrot", "Crocodile" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01498", "category": "Nature", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "How many legs does a lobster have?", "correct_answer": "10", "incorrect_answers": [ "6", "8", "12" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01499", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Who wrote the novel '1984'?", "correct_answer": "George Orwell", "incorrect_answers": [ "Aldous Huxley", "Ray Bradbury", "H.G. Wells" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01500", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which TV show features a character named Walter White?", "correct_answer": "Breaking Bad", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Wire", "Mad Men", "Dexter" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01501", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What is the most consumed manufactured drink in the world?", "correct_answer": "Tea", "incorrect_answers": [ "Coffee", "Beer", "Coca-Cola" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01502", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "How many time zones does Russia have?", "correct_answer": "11", "incorrect_answers": [ "9", "7", "5" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01503", "category": "History", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What was the longest war in history?", "correct_answer": "The 335 Years' War", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Hundred Years' War", "The Vietnam War", "The Cold War" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01504", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What is the SI unit of electric current?", "correct_answer": "Ampere", "incorrect_answers": [ "Volt", "Ohm", "Watt" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01505", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What element has the lowest melting point?", "correct_answer": "Helium", "incorrect_answers": [ "Hydrogen", "Mercury", "Gallium" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01506", "category": "Sports", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In which sport would you perform a slam dunk?", "correct_answer": "Basketball", "incorrect_answers": [ "Volleyball", "Handball", "Netball" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01507", "category": "Sports", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "How long is a marathon in miles?", "correct_answer": "26.2", "incorrect_answers": [ "24.2", "25.2", "27.2" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01508", "category": "Technology", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What year was the first iPhone released?", "correct_answer": "2007", "incorrect_answers": [ "2005", "2006", "2008" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01509", "category": "Technology", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Who founded Microsoft?", "correct_answer": "Bill Gates", "incorrect_answers": [ "Steve Jobs", "Paul Allen", "Mark Zuckerberg" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01510", "category": "Geography", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which is the only US state with a one-syllable name?", "correct_answer": "Maine", "incorrect_answers": [ "Utah", "Ohio", "Iowa" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01511", "category": "Geography", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What is the longest river in Europe?", "correct_answer": "Volga", "incorrect_answers": [ "Danube", "Rhine", "Seine" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01512", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?", "correct_answer": "Michelangelo", "incorrect_answers": [ "Leonardo da Vinci", "Raphael", "Donatello" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01513", "category": "Nature", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What is the largest type of tree?", "correct_answer": "Sequoia", "incorrect_answers": [ "Oak", "Pine", "Maple" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01514", "category": "Nature", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What animal has the longest lifespan?", "correct_answer": "Greenland shark", "incorrect_answers": [ "Elephant", "Bowhead whale", "Galapagos tortoise" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01515", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What is the half-life of Carbon-14?", "correct_answer": "5,730 years", "incorrect_answers": [ "4,500 years", "6,200 years", "3,800 years" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01516", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What year did the French Revolution begin?", "correct_answer": "1789", "incorrect_answers": [ "1776", "1799", "1815" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01517", "category": "Geography", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What is the only country with a coastline on both the Caspian Sea and the Indian Ocean?", "correct_answer": "Iran", "incorrect_answers": [ "Russia", "Turkmenistan", "Pakistan" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01518", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Which film was the first to win the Palme d'Or at Cannes?", "correct_answer": "Union Pacific", "incorrect_answers": [ "The Third Man", "La Dolce Vita", "Taxi Driver" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01519", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What is the only letter that does not appear in any US state name?", "correct_answer": "Q", "incorrect_answers": [ "X", "Z", "J" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01520", "category": "Nature", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What is the most venomous fish in the world?", "correct_answer": "Stonefish", "incorrect_answers": [ "Lionfish", "Pufferfish", "Box jellyfish" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01521", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What is the Boiling point of water in Kelvin?", "correct_answer": "373.15", "incorrect_answers": [ "273.15", "100", "212" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01522", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Who was the only US President to serve more than two terms?", "correct_answer": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "incorrect_answers": [ "George Washington", "Thomas Jefferson", "Theodore Roosevelt" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01523", "category": "Geography", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What is the deepest point in the ocean?", "correct_answer": "Mariana Trench", "incorrect_answers": [ "Tonga Trench", "Philippine Trench", "Java Trench" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01524", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Who composed the Moonlight Sonata?", "correct_answer": "Ludwig van Beethoven", "incorrect_answers": [ "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart", "Johann Sebastian Bach", "Frédéric Chopin" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01525", "category": "Nature", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What is the smallest bone in the human body?", "correct_answer": "Stapes", "incorrect_answers": [ "Incus", "Malleus", "Cochlea" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01526", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What is the chemical formula for sulfuric acid?", "correct_answer": "H2SO4", "incorrect_answers": [ "HCl", "HNO3", "H3PO4" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01527", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What treaty ended the Thirty Years' War?", "correct_answer": "Peace of Westphalia", "incorrect_answers": [ "Treaty of Versailles", "Congress of Vienna", "Treaty of Paris" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01528", "category": "Geography", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What is the only country to begin with 'O'?", "correct_answer": "Oman", "incorrect_answers": [ "Oatland", "Oceania", "Osaka" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01529", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What year was the first Academy Awards ceremony held?", "correct_answer": "1929", "incorrect_answers": [ "1927", "1930", "1931" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01530", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What is the maximum length of a standard paperclip in inches?", "correct_answer": "1.75", "incorrect_answers": [ "1.25", "2.0", "1.5" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01531", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?", "correct_answer": "Marie Curie", "incorrect_answers": [ "Rosalind Franklin", "Lise Meitner", "Dorothy Hodgkin" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01532", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What is the Chandrasekhar limit?", "correct_answer": "1.4 solar masses", "incorrect_answers": [ "2.0 solar masses", "3.0 solar masses", "0.8 solar masses" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01533", "category": "Geography", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Which country has the longest coastline?", "correct_answer": "Canada", "incorrect_answers": [ "Australia", "Russia", "Indonesia" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01534", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "In which year were the Beatles formed?", "correct_answer": "1960", "incorrect_answers": [ "1958", "1962", "1964" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01535", "category": "Nature", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What is the only continent without reptiles or snakes?", "correct_answer": "Antarctica", "incorrect_answers": [ "Europe", "Australia", "South America" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01536", "category": "Nature", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What is the largest carnivorous marsupial?", "correct_answer": "Tasmanian devil", "incorrect_answers": [ "Quoll", "Numbat", "Thylacine" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01537", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What is the smallest country in the world by area?", "correct_answer": "Vatican City", "incorrect_answers": [ "Monaco", "San Marino", "Liechtenstein" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01538", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What is the Schwester of the English Channel in French?", "correct_answer": "La Manche", "incorrect_answers": [ "Le Channel", "La Mer", "Le Pas de Calais" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01539", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What is the speed of light in a vacuum in miles per second?", "correct_answer": "186,282", "incorrect_answers": [ "150,000", "200,000", "300,000" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01540", "category": "Technology", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What year was the first message sent over ARPANET?", "correct_answer": "1969", "incorrect_answers": [ "1971", "1965", "1973" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01541", "category": "Technology", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What was the first video game ever created?", "correct_answer": "Tennis for Two", "incorrect_answers": [ "Pong", "Spacewar!", "Tetris" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01542", "category": "Sports", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What is the only country to have played in every FIFA World Cup?", "correct_answer": "Brazil", "incorrect_answers": [ "Germany", "Italy", "Argentina" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01543", "category": "Sports", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "In which sport would you find the 'Ashes'?", "correct_answer": "Cricket", "incorrect_answers": [ "Rugby", "Tennis", "Golf" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01544", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Which empire was ruled by Genghis Khan?", "correct_answer": "Mongol Empire", "incorrect_answers": [ "Ottoman Empire", "Roman Empire", "Persian Empire" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01545", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What year did the Spanish Armada set sail?", "correct_answer": "1588", "incorrect_answers": [ "1568", "1598", "1578" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01546", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What particle consists of three quarks?", "correct_answer": "Baryon", "incorrect_answers": [ "Meson", "Lepton", "Boson" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01547", "category": "Geography", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What is the only capital city that lies on two continents?", "correct_answer": "Istanbul", "incorrect_answers": [ "Moscow", "Cairo", "Ankara" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01548", "category": "Geography", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What island is shared by three countries?", "correct_answer": "Borneo", "incorrect_answers": [ "New Guinea", "Hispaniola", "Madagascar" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01549", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Who wrote the opera 'The Marriage of Figaro'?", "correct_answer": "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart", "incorrect_answers": [ "Giuseppe Verdi", "Richard Wagner", "Gioachino Rossini" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01550", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What was the first feature-length animated film?", "correct_answer": "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", "incorrect_answers": [ "Fantasia", "Pinocchio", "Bambi" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01551", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What is the only number that has the same number of letters as its value?", "correct_answer": "4", "incorrect_answers": [ "3", "5", "6" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01552", "category": "Nature", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What is the deadliest animal to humans?", "correct_answer": "Mosquito", "incorrect_answers": [ "Snake", "Shark", "Hippopotamus" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01553", "category": "Nature", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What is the largest volcano on Earth?", "correct_answer": "Mauna Loa", "incorrect_answers": [ "Mount Fuji", "Mount Vesuvius", "Krakatoa" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01554", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What element has the atomic number 79?", "correct_answer": "Gold", "incorrect_answers": [ "Silver", "Platinum", "Mercury" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01555", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What is the Richter scale used to measure?", "correct_answer": "Earthquake magnitude", "incorrect_answers": [ "Tornado intensity", "Hurricane category", "Volcanic explosivity" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01556", "category": "History", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Who was the first European to circumnavigate the globe?", "correct_answer": "Ferdinand Magellan", "incorrect_answers": [ "Christopher Columbus", "Vasco da Gama", "James Cook" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01557", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What is the Mohs scale used for?", "correct_answer": "Mineral hardness", "incorrect_answers": [ "Earthquake intensity", "Sound volume", "Wind speed" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01558", "category": "General Knowledge", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What was the first soft drink in space?", "correct_answer": "Coca-Cola", "incorrect_answers": [ "Pepsi", "Sprite", "Fanta" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01559", "category": "Technology", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What does 'SQL' stand for?", "correct_answer": "Structured Query Language", "incorrect_answers": [ "Simple Query Language", "Sequential Query Language", "Standard Query Logic" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01560", "category": "Technology", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What was the first commercially successful smartphone?", "correct_answer": "IBM Simon", "incorrect_answers": [ "iPhone", "BlackBerry", "Nokia 9000" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01561", "category": "Sports", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What is the only Grand Slam tennis tournament played on grass?", "correct_answer": "Wimbledon", "incorrect_answers": [ "US Open", "Australian Open", "Roland Garros" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01562", "category": "Entertainment", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What is the longest-running Broadway show?", "correct_answer": "The Phantom of the Opera", "incorrect_answers": [ "Chicago", "Cats", "Les Miserables" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01563", "category": "Geography", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What is the most southern capital city in the world?", "correct_answer": "Wellington", "incorrect_answers": [ "Santiago", "Canberra", "Buenos Aires" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01564", "category": "Nature", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What is the only bird that can fly backwards?", "correct_answer": "Hummingbird", "incorrect_answers": [ "Swift", "Kingfisher", "Sparrow" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01565", "category": "Technology", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What company created the Android operating system?", "correct_answer": "Google", "incorrect_answers": [ "Apple", "Microsoft", "Samsung" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01566", "category": "Technology", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What does CPU stand for?", "correct_answer": "Central Processing Unit", "incorrect_answers": [ "Central Program Unit", "Computer Processing Unit", "Core Processing Unit" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01567", "category": "Technology", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What does RAM stand for?", "correct_answer": "Random Access Memory", "incorrect_answers": [ "Read Access Memory", "Random Application Memory", "Run Access Module" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01568", "category": "Technology", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What does SSD stand for?", "correct_answer": "Solid State Drive", "incorrect_answers": [ "Super Speed Drive", "Solid System Drive", "Static Storage Device" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01569", "category": "Technology", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What does HTML stand for?", "correct_answer": "HyperText Markup Language", "incorrect_answers": [ "HyperText Machine Language", "High Tech Markup Language", "HyperTransfer Markup Language" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01570", "category": "Technology", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What programming language is primarily used for iOS app development?", "correct_answer": "Swift", "incorrect_answers": [ "Kotlin", "Java", "C#" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01571", "category": "Technology", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What does DNS stand for?", "correct_answer": "Domain Name System", "incorrect_answers": [ "Digital Network Service", "Data Name Server", "Domain Network Standard" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01572", "category": "Technology", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What does API stand for?", "correct_answer": "Application Programming Interface", "incorrect_answers": [ "Application Processing Interface", "Automated Program Integration", "Advanced Programming Interface" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01573", "category": "Technology", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What open-source operating system is used by Linux?", "correct_answer": "Linux kernel", "incorrect_answers": [ "Unix kernel", "BSD kernel", "GNU kernel" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01574", "category": "Technology", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What does JSON stand for?", "correct_answer": "JavaScript Object Notation", "incorrect_answers": [ "Java Standard Object Notation", "JavaScript Online Notation", "Java Serialized Object Network" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01575", "category": "Technology", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What was the name of the first computer virus?", "correct_answer": "Creeper", "incorrect_answers": [ "Elk Cloner", "Melissa", "Morris Worm" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01576", "category": "Technology", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "In what year was Python first released?", "correct_answer": "1991", "incorrect_answers": [ "1989", "1993", "1995" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01577", "category": "Technology", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What does TCP stand for in networking?", "correct_answer": "Transmission Control Protocol", "incorrect_answers": [ "Transfer Control Protocol", "Transport Communication Protocol", "Terminal Connection Protocol" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01578", "category": "Technology", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What does IDE stand for in software development?", "correct_answer": "Integrated Development Environment", "incorrect_answers": [ "Interactive Development Editor", "Integrated Design Environment", "Intelligent Development Engine" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01579", "category": "Technology", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What does CAPTCHA stand for?", "correct_answer": "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart", "incorrect_answers": [ "Computer Authentication Protocol", "Code Access Protection Technology", "Common Automated Public Test" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01580", "category": "Geography", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What is the capital of Spain?", "correct_answer": "Madrid", "incorrect_answers": [ "Barcelona", "Valencia", "Seville" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01581", "category": "Geography", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What is the largest lake in Africa?", "correct_answer": "Lake Victoria", "incorrect_answers": [ "Lake Tanganyika", "Lake Malawi", "Lake Chad" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01582", "category": "Geography", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What is the longest river in South America?", "correct_answer": "Amazon", "incorrect_answers": [ "Parana", "Orinoco", "Magdalena" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01583", "category": "Geography", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What is the capital of South Korea?", "correct_answer": "Seoul", "incorrect_answers": [ "Busan", "Incheon", "Pyongyang" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01584", "category": "Geography", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea?", "correct_answer": "Sicily", "incorrect_answers": [ "Sardinia", "Crete", "Cyprus" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01585", "category": "Geography", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "How many countries are in Africa?", "correct_answer": "54", "incorrect_answers": [ "48", "52", "56" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01586", "category": "Geography", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What is the driest inhabited continent?", "correct_answer": "Australia", "incorrect_answers": [ "Africa", "Antarctica", "Asia" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01587", "category": "Geography", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What is the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world?", "correct_answer": "Damascus", "incorrect_answers": [ "Jericho", "Athens", "Rome" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01588", "category": "Geography", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "Which strait separates Europe from Africa?", "correct_answer": "Strait of Gibraltar", "incorrect_answers": [ "Strait of Hormuz", "Bosphorus Strait", "Dardanelles" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01589", "category": "Geography", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What is the highest waterfall in the world?", "correct_answer": "Angel Falls", "incorrect_answers": [ "Niagara Falls", "Victoria Falls", "Iguazu Falls" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01590", "category": "Geography", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What is the largest bay in the world?", "correct_answer": "Bay of Bengal", "incorrect_answers": [ "Hudson Bay", "Gulf of Mexico", "Bay of Biscay" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01591", "category": "Sports", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What sport is played at the Super Bowl?", "correct_answer": "American Football", "incorrect_answers": [ "Soccer", "Rugby", "Baseball" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01592", "category": "Sports", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "In which sport do players use a cue?", "correct_answer": "Pool/Billiards", "incorrect_answers": [ "Darts", "Bowling", "Golf" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01593", "category": "Sports", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "Which country invented the sport of cricket?", "correct_answer": "England", "incorrect_answers": [ "India", "Australia", "South Africa" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01594", "category": "Sports", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "In boxing, what does TKO stand for?", "correct_answer": "Technical Knockout", "incorrect_answers": [ "Total Knockout", "Technical Knockdown", "Terminal Knockout" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01595", "category": "Sports", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What is the maximum score in Olympic diving?", "correct_answer": "10", "incorrect_answers": [ "6", "8", "12" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01596", "category": "Sports", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What is the oldest tennis tournament in the world?", "correct_answer": "Wimbledon", "incorrect_answers": [ "US Open", "French Open", "Australian Open" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01597", "category": "Sports", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "In which year were the modern Olympic Games revived?", "correct_answer": "1896", "incorrect_answers": [ "1900", "1888", "1912" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01598", "category": "Sports", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What does MLB stand for?", "correct_answer": "Major League Baseball", "incorrect_answers": [ "Major League Bowling", "Major League Basketball", "Major Lacrosse Bureau" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01599", "category": "Sports", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What is the only Grand Slam tennis tournament played on clay?", "correct_answer": "French Open", "incorrect_answers": [ "Wimbledon", "US Open", "Australian Open" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01600", "category": "Nature", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What is the largest living bird?", "correct_answer": "Ostrich", "incorrect_answers": [ "Emu", "Albatross", "Eagle" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01601", "category": "Nature", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What type of tree produces acorns?", "correct_answer": "Oak", "incorrect_answers": [ "Maple", "Pine", "Birch" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01602", "category": "Nature", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What is the strongest muscle in the human body by weight?", "correct_answer": "Masseter", "incorrect_answers": [ "Heart", "Gluteus Maximus", "Tongue" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01603", "category": "Nature", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What mammal has the longest pregnancy?", "correct_answer": "Elephant", "incorrect_answers": [ "Whale", "Giraffe", "Rhinoceros" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01604", "category": "Nature", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What is the largest species of big cat?", "correct_answer": "Tiger", "incorrect_answers": [ "Lion", "Jaguar", "Leopard" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01605", "category": "Nature", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What type of animal is a Komodo dragon?", "correct_answer": "Lizard", "incorrect_answers": [ "Dinosaur", "Crocodile", "Snake" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01606", "category": "Nature", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What is the rarest blood type in humans?", "correct_answer": "AB Negative", "incorrect_answers": [ "O Negative", "B Negative", "A Negative" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01607", "category": "Nature", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What is the largest organ inside the human body?", "correct_answer": "Liver", "incorrect_answers": [ "Brain", "Heart", "Lungs" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01608", "category": "Nature", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "How many teeth does an adult human typically have?", "correct_answer": "32", "incorrect_answers": [ "28", "30", "36" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01609", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What planet is closest to Earth?", "correct_answer": "Venus", "incorrect_answers": [ "Mars", "Mercury", "Jupiter" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01610", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What is the largest planet in our solar system?", "correct_answer": "Jupiter", "incorrect_answers": [ "Saturn", "Neptune", "Uranus" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01611", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What gas makes up about 21% of Earth atmosphere?", "correct_answer": "Oxygen", "incorrect_answers": [ "Nitrogen", "Carbon Dioxide", "Argon" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01612", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "easy", "question_text": "What is the smallest planet in our solar system?", "correct_answer": "Mercury", "incorrect_answers": [ "Mars", "Venus", "Pluto" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01613", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What is the chemical symbol for sodium?", "correct_answer": "Na", "incorrect_answers": [ "So", "Sd", "Sm" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01614", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "How many chromosomes do humans have?", "correct_answer": "46", "incorrect_answers": [ "44", "48", "52" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01615", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What type of eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth?", "correct_answer": "Solar eclipse", "incorrect_answers": [ "Lunar eclipse", "Total eclipse", "Annular eclipse" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01616", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "medium", "question_text": "What force opposes gravity on airplanes?", "correct_answer": "Lift", "incorrect_answers": [ "Thrust", "Drag", "Buoyancy" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01617", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What is the SI unit of frequency?", "correct_answer": "Hertz", "incorrect_answers": [ "Watt", "Joule", "Newton" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01618", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What is the chemical symbol for potassium?", "correct_answer": "K", "incorrect_answers": [ "Po", "Pt", "Ka" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01619", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What is the innermost layer of the Earth called?", "correct_answer": "Inner core", "incorrect_answers": [ "Outer core", "Mantle", "Crust" ], "question_type": "multiple" }, { "id": "q-01620", "category": "Science", "difficulty": "hard", "question_text": "What particle has no electrical charge?", "correct_answer": "Neutron", "incorrect_answers": [ "Proton", "Electron", "Photon" ], "question_type": "multiple" } ]