{
  "pack": "music-mayhem-v1",
  "category": "instruments",
  "questions": [
    {
      "id": "instruments-001",
      "difficulty": "STANDARD",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "How many keys does a standard modern piano have?",
      "options": [
        "76",
        "88",
        "92",
        "64"
      ],
      "answer": 1,
      "explanation": "A standard piano has 52 white keys and 36 black keys.",
      "wildcard": true
    },
    {
      "id": "instruments-002",
      "difficulty": "STANDARD",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "How many lines make up a standard musical staff?",
      "options": [
        "Four",
        "Six",
        "Five",
        "Seven"
      ],
      "answer": 2,
      "explanation": "Notes sit on the five lines or in the four spaces between them.",
      "wildcard": false
    },
    {
      "id": "instruments-003",
      "difficulty": "STANDARD",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "Singing 'a cappella' means performing without what?",
      "options": [
        "A conductor",
        "Sheet music",
        "Microphones",
        "Instrumental backing"
      ],
      "answer": 3,
      "explanation": "The Italian phrase means 'in the manner of the chapel.'",
      "wildcard": true
    },
    {
      "id": "instruments-004",
      "difficulty": "STANDARD",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "Which Italian musical term means gradually getting louder?",
      "options": [
        "Crescendo",
        "Diminuendo",
        "Staccato",
        "Legato"
      ],
      "answer": 0,
      "explanation": "Its opposite, diminuendo (or decrescendo), means gradually getting softer.",
      "wildcard": false
    },
    {
      "id": "instruments-005",
      "difficulty": "STANDARD",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "The piano's full name, 'pianoforte,' comes from Italian words meaning what?",
      "options": [
        "High and low",
        "Fast and slow",
        "Soft and loud",
        "Light and dark"
      ],
      "answer": 2,
      "explanation": "Unlike the harpsichord, the piano could play softly or loudly depending on how hard the keys were struck.",
      "wildcard": true
    },
    {
      "id": "instruments-006",
      "difficulty": "DIFFICULT",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "A chromatic scale moves in half steps. How many different notes does it have in one octave?",
      "options": [
        "7",
        "8",
        "10",
        "12"
      ],
      "answer": 3,
      "explanation": "Counting every white and black key from C up to B gives 12 distinct notes.",
      "wildcard": false
    },
    {
      "id": "instruments-007",
      "difficulty": "STANDARD",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "Which time signature is the classic choice for a waltz?",
      "options": [
        "3/4",
        "4/4",
        "2/4",
        "5/4"
      ],
      "answer": 0,
      "explanation": "A waltz has three beats per measure, with the accent on the first beat.",
      "wildcard": false
    },
    {
      "id": "instruments-008",
      "difficulty": "STANDARD",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "Which brass instrument changes pitch with a slide instead of valves?",
      "options": [
        "Trumpet",
        "Trombone",
        "French horn",
        "Tuba"
      ],
      "answer": 1,
      "explanation": "Moving the slide lengthens or shortens the tubing to change the note.",
      "wildcard": true
    },
    {
      "id": "instruments-009",
      "difficulty": "DIFFICULT",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "Before a concert, the oboe usually sounds which note for the orchestra to tune to?",
      "options": [
        "C",
        "E",
        "A",
        "G"
      ],
      "answer": 2,
      "explanation": "Orchestras typically tune to an A, often pitched at 440 hertz.",
      "wildcard": false
    },
    {
      "id": "instruments-010",
      "difficulty": "STANDARD",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "In music notation, what does a sharp symbol do to a note?",
      "options": [
        "Lowers it a half step",
        "Raises it a half step",
        "Makes it louder",
        "Holds it longer"
      ],
      "answer": 1,
      "explanation": "A flat does the opposite, lowering a note by a half step.",
      "wildcard": false
    },
    {
      "id": "instruments-011",
      "difficulty": "DIFFICULT",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "Saxophone inventor Adolphe Sax was born in which country?",
      "options": [
        "France",
        "Germany",
        "Austria",
        "Belgium"
      ],
      "answer": 3,
      "explanation": "Sax was born in Dinant, Belgium, and patented the saxophone in Paris in 1846.",
      "wildcard": false
    },
    {
      "id": "instruments-012",
      "difficulty": "DIFFICULT",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "In standard tuning, the lowest (thickest) string on a six-string guitar is tuned to what note?",
      "options": [
        "E",
        "A",
        "D",
        "G"
      ],
      "answer": 0,
      "explanation": "Standard tuning, from low to high, is E-A-D-G-B-E.",
      "wildcard": false
    }
  ]
}