{
  "pack": "music-mayhem-v1",
  "category": "country",
  "questions": [
    {
      "id": "country-001",
      "difficulty": "STANDARD",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "Which famous Nashville country music show first aired on the radio in 1925?",
      "options": [
        "Louisiana Hayride",
        "Grand Ole Opry",
        "Hee Haw",
        "Austin City Limits"
      ],
      "answer": 1,
      "explanation": "It began on WSM radio as the WSM Barn Dance before taking the Grand Ole Opry name in 1927.",
      "wildcard": true
    },
    {
      "id": "country-002",
      "difficulty": "STANDARD",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "Country-pop superstar Shania Twain was born in which country?",
      "options": [
        "Canada",
        "Australia",
        "Ireland",
        "New Zealand"
      ],
      "answer": 0,
      "explanation": "Born in Windsor, Ontario, she grew up in Timmins and hit it big with 1997's Come On Over.",
      "wildcard": false
    },
    {
      "id": "country-003",
      "difficulty": "DIFFICULT",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "Patsy Cline's 1961 hit 'Crazy' was written by which future country legend?",
      "options": [
        "Merle Haggard",
        "Roger Miller",
        "Willie Nelson",
        "Buck Owens"
      ],
      "answer": 2,
      "explanation": "Nelson was known mainly as a Nashville songwriter when Cline recorded it.",
      "wildcard": false
    },
    {
      "id": "country-004",
      "difficulty": "STANDARD",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "Dolly Parton's theme park, Dollywood, is in which state?",
      "options": [
        "Kentucky",
        "Georgia",
        "Tennessee",
        "North Carolina"
      ],
      "answer": 2,
      "explanation": "Dollywood sits in Pigeon Forge, in the Great Smoky Mountains near where Dolly grew up.",
      "wildcard": true
    },
    {
      "id": "country-005",
      "difficulty": "DIFFICULT",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings formed the Highwaymen with which singer?",
      "options": [
        "Merle Haggard",
        "George Jones",
        "Glen Campbell",
        "Kris Kristofferson"
      ],
      "answer": 3,
      "explanation": "The country supergroup released its first album, Highwayman, in 1985.",
      "wildcard": false
    },
    {
      "id": "country-006",
      "difficulty": "STANDARD",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "Which US city is nicknamed 'Music City'?",
      "options": [
        "Memphis",
        "Austin",
        "New Orleans",
        "Nashville"
      ],
      "answer": 3,
      "explanation": "Nashville is home to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum and the Ryman Auditorium.",
      "wildcard": true
    },
    {
      "id": "country-007",
      "difficulty": "STANDARD",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "Bill Monroe is known as the 'Father of' which music genre?",
      "options": [
        "Bluegrass",
        "Honky-tonk",
        "Western swing",
        "Rockabilly"
      ],
      "answer": 0,
      "explanation": "The style took its name from his band, the Blue Grass Boys, named for his home state of Kentucky.",
      "wildcard": false
    },
    {
      "id": "country-008",
      "difficulty": "STANDARD",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "Which singer had a 1990 hit with 'Friends in Low Places'?",
      "options": [
        "George Strait",
        "Garth Brooks",
        "Alan Jackson",
        "Clint Black"
      ],
      "answer": 1,
      "explanation": "The song appeared on Garth Brooks' second album, No Fences.",
      "wildcard": false
    },
    {
      "id": "country-009",
      "difficulty": "DIFFICULT",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "Sissy Spacek won an Oscar playing which country singer in 1980's 'Coal Miner's Daughter'?",
      "options": [
        "Patsy Cline",
        "Loretta Lynn",
        "Tammy Wynette",
        "June Carter"
      ],
      "answer": 1,
      "explanation": "Spacek won Best Actress and did her own singing in the Loretta Lynn biopic.",
      "wildcard": false
    },
    {
      "id": "country-010",
      "difficulty": "STANDARD",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "Which singer had a 1978 hit with 'The Gambler'?",
      "options": [
        "Glen Campbell",
        "John Denver",
        "Willie Nelson",
        "Kenny Rogers"
      ],
      "answer": 3,
      "explanation": "The song later inspired a series of TV movies starring Kenny Rogers.",
      "wildcard": true
    },
    {
      "id": "country-011",
      "difficulty": "DIFFICULT",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "Country star Reba McEntire hails from which state?",
      "options": [
        "Texas",
        "Kansas",
        "Oklahoma",
        "Arkansas"
      ],
      "answer": 2,
      "explanation": "Reba was born in McAlester, Oklahoma, and grew up on her family's cattle ranch.",
      "wildcard": false
    },
    {
      "id": "country-012",
      "difficulty": "STANDARD",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "Which Lil Nas X song spent a record-breaking 19 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2019?",
      "options": [
        "Old Town Road",
        "Panini",
        "Montero",
        "Industry Baby"
      ],
      "answer": 0,
      "explanation": "Its remix with Billy Ray Cyrus helped the country-rap track break the Hot 100's old 16-week record.",
      "wildcard": false
    }
  ]
}