{
  "pack": "music-mayhem-v1",
  "category": "soundtracks",
  "questions": [
    {
      "id": "soundtracks-001",
      "difficulty": "STANDARD",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "What is Lin-Manuel Miranda's hip-hop musical about a US Founding Father called?",
      "options": [
        "In the Heights",
        "Hamilton",
        "Rent",
        "Wicked"
      ],
      "answer": 1,
      "explanation": "Hamilton opened on Broadway in 2015 and won 11 Tony Awards in 2016.",
      "wildcard": true
    },
    {
      "id": "soundtracks-002",
      "difficulty": "STANDARD",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "Which composer wrote the film scores for Jaws, Star Wars and E.T.?",
      "options": [
        "Hans Zimmer",
        "Danny Elfman",
        "John Williams",
        "James Horner"
      ],
      "answer": 2,
      "explanation": "John Williams won the Oscar for Best Original Score for all three films.",
      "wildcard": true
    },
    {
      "id": "soundtracks-003",
      "difficulty": "STANDARD",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "Which 1977 film's soundtrack, packed with Bee Gees songs, became a disco-era blockbuster?",
      "options": [
        "Thank God It's Friday",
        "Car Wash",
        "Xanadu",
        "Saturday Night Fever"
      ],
      "answer": 3,
      "explanation": "The Saturday Night Fever soundtrack won the Grammy for Album of the Year.",
      "wildcard": false
    },
    {
      "id": "soundtracks-004",
      "difficulty": "STANDARD",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "Which musical closed in 2023 as the longest-running show in Broadway history?",
      "options": [
        "Cats",
        "The Phantom of the Opera",
        "Chicago",
        "Les Misérables"
      ],
      "answer": 1,
      "explanation": "Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical ran on Broadway for 35 years, from 1988 to 2023.",
      "wildcard": false
    },
    {
      "id": "soundtracks-005",
      "difficulty": "DIFFICULT",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "Elton John wrote the songs for Disney's 1994 film 'The Lion King' with which lyricist?",
      "options": [
        "Howard Ashman",
        "Stephen Schwartz",
        "Sammy Cahn",
        "Tim Rice"
      ],
      "answer": 3,
      "explanation": "Their song 'Can You Feel the Love Tonight' won the Oscar for Best Original Song.",
      "wildcard": false
    },
    {
      "id": "soundtracks-006",
      "difficulty": "STANDARD",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "Who sang 'Let It Go' as Elsa in Disney's 2013 film 'Frozen'?",
      "options": [
        "Idina Menzel",
        "Kristen Bell",
        "Kristin Chenoweth",
        "Lea Michele"
      ],
      "answer": 0,
      "explanation": "Menzel originated the role of Elphaba in Broadway's Wicked before voicing Elsa.",
      "wildcard": true
    },
    {
      "id": "soundtracks-007",
      "difficulty": "STANDARD",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "Eminem's Oscar-winning 'Lose Yourself' was written for which 2002 film?",
      "options": [
        "Hustle & Flow",
        "8 Mile",
        "Notorious",
        "Get Rich or Die Tryin'"
      ],
      "answer": 1,
      "explanation": "It was the first hip-hop song to win the Academy Award for Best Original Song.",
      "wildcard": false
    },
    {
      "id": "soundtracks-008",
      "difficulty": "STANDARD",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "'The Sound of Music' follows the von Trapp family in which country?",
      "options": [
        "Switzerland",
        "Germany",
        "Austria",
        "Hungary"
      ],
      "answer": 2,
      "explanation": "The story is set in and around Salzburg in the late 1930s.",
      "wildcard": true
    },
    {
      "id": "soundtracks-009",
      "difficulty": "DIFFICULT",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "Which Broadway musical, based on Puccini's opera 'La Bohème,' is set in New York's East Village?",
      "options": [
        "Rent",
        "Hair",
        "Company",
        "In the Heights"
      ],
      "answer": 0,
      "explanation": "Jonathan Larson's Rent won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony for Best Musical.",
      "wildcard": false
    },
    {
      "id": "soundtracks-010",
      "difficulty": "DIFFICULT",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "Leonard Bernstein composed the music for West Side Story. Who wrote its lyrics?",
      "options": [
        "Oscar Hammerstein II",
        "Lorenz Hart",
        "Stephen Sondheim",
        "Alan Jay Lerner"
      ],
      "answer": 2,
      "explanation": "Sondheim was still in his twenties when the show opened on Broadway in 1957.",
      "wildcard": false
    },
    {
      "id": "soundtracks-011",
      "difficulty": "STANDARD",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "Kenny Loggins' 'Danger Zone' was recorded for which 1986 film?",
      "options": [
        "Footloose",
        "Flashdance",
        "Days of Thunder",
        "Top Gun"
      ],
      "answer": 3,
      "explanation": "The Top Gun soundtrack also featured Berlin's Oscar-winning 'Take My Breath Away.'",
      "wildcard": false
    },
    {
      "id": "soundtracks-012",
      "difficulty": "DIFFICULT",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "Which show won the very first Tony Award for Best Musical, in 1949?",
      "options": [
        "Kiss Me, Kate",
        "South Pacific",
        "Guys and Dolls",
        "Oklahoma!"
      ],
      "answer": 0,
      "explanation": "Cole Porter's Kiss Me, Kate is a backstage comedy built around Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew.",
      "wildcard": false
    }
  ]
}