{
  "pack": "originals-v1",
  "category": "geography",
  "questions": [
    {
      "id": "geography-001",
      "difficulty": "STANDARD",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "What is the capital city of Australia?",
      "options": ["Sydney", "Canberra", "Melbourne", "Perth"],
      "answer": 1,
      "explanation": "Canberra was purpose-built as a compromise between rivals Sydney and Melbourne.",
      "wildcard": true
    },
    {
      "id": "geography-002",
      "difficulty": "STANDARD",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "What is the longest river in South America?",
      "options": ["Paraná", "Orinoco", "Amazon", "Magdalena"],
      "answer": 2,
      "explanation": "The Amazon runs about 4,000 miles from the Peruvian Andes to the Atlantic Ocean.",
      "wildcard": false
    },
    {
      "id": "geography-003",
      "difficulty": "STANDARD",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "Which US state is nicknamed the \"Lone Star State\"?",
      "options": ["Texas", "Montana", "Arizona", "Oklahoma"],
      "answer": 0,
      "explanation": "The single star on the Texas flag recalls its years as an independent republic.",
      "wildcard": true
    },
    {
      "id": "geography-004",
      "difficulty": "DIFFICULT",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa, is in which country?",
      "options": ["Kenya", "Uganda", "Ethiopia", "Tanzania"],
      "answer": 3,
      "explanation": "Kilimanjaro rises in northeastern Tanzania, close to the Kenyan border.",
      "wildcard": false
    },
    {
      "id": "geography-005",
      "difficulty": "DIFFICULT",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "Which country's flag is solid red with a white cross shifted toward the flagpole?",
      "options": ["Switzerland", "Norway", "Denmark", "Finland"],
      "answer": 2,
      "explanation": "Denmark's flag, the Dannebrog, inspired the other Nordic cross flags.",
      "wildcard": false
    },
    {
      "id": "geography-006",
      "difficulty": "STANDARD",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "Which country's flag has vertical green, white and orange stripes, with green nearest the pole?",
      "options": ["Italy", "Ireland", "India", "Ivory Coast"],
      "answer": 1,
      "explanation": "Ireland's tricolour runs green, white, orange; Ivory Coast's flag reverses that order.",
      "wildcard": false
    },
    {
      "id": "geography-007",
      "difficulty": "STANDARD",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "The Strait of Gibraltar separates Spain from which African country?",
      "options": ["Morocco", "Algeria", "Tunisia", "Egypt"],
      "answer": 0,
      "explanation": "At its narrowest, the strait is only about 8 miles (13 km) wide between Spain and Morocco.",
      "wildcard": false
    },
    {
      "id": "geography-008",
      "difficulty": "STANDARD",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "What is the smallest US state by area?",
      "options": ["Delaware", "Connecticut", "New Jersey", "Rhode Island"],
      "answer": 3,
      "explanation": "Rhode Island covers only about 1,500 square miles, water included.",
      "wildcard": true
    },
    {
      "id": "geography-009",
      "difficulty": "DIFFICULT",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "Which river flows through the city of Baghdad?",
      "options": ["Euphrates", "Tigris", "Jordan", "Nile"],
      "answer": 1,
      "explanation": "The Tigris runs through Baghdad; the Euphrates passes farther to the west.",
      "wildcard": false
    },
    {
      "id": "geography-010",
      "difficulty": "STANDARD",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "Mount Rushmore is located in which US state?",
      "options": ["North Dakota", "Wyoming", "South Dakota", "Montana"],
      "answer": 2,
      "explanation": "The four presidential faces are carved into the Black Hills of South Dakota.",
      "wildcard": true
    },
    {
      "id": "geography-011",
      "difficulty": "DIFFICULT",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "Which city served as Japan's imperial capital for over 1,000 years before Tokyo?",
      "options": ["Kyoto", "Osaka", "Nara", "Hiroshima"],
      "answer": 0,
      "explanation": "Kyoto was the imperial capital from 794 until the court moved to Tokyo in the Meiji era.",
      "wildcard": false
    },
    {
      "id": "geography-012",
      "difficulty": "STANDARD",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "Which major city straddles the Bosphorus, with parts in both Europe and Asia?",
      "options": ["Athens", "Ankara", "Sofia", "Istanbul"],
      "answer": 3,
      "explanation": "Istanbul spans the Bosphorus strait, linking the European and Asian sides of Turkey.",
      "wildcard": false
    },
    {
      "id": "geography-013",
      "difficulty": "STANDARD",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "Which is the only US state made up entirely of islands?",
      "options": ["Alaska", "Hawaii", "Florida", "Maine"],
      "answer": 1,
      "explanation": "Hawaii is a Pacific island chain with no mainland territory at all.",
      "wildcard": true
    },
    {
      "id": "geography-014",
      "difficulty": "DIFFICULT",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "The Great Barrier Reef lies off the coast of which Australian state?",
      "options": ["New South Wales", "Western Australia", "Queensland", "Victoria"],
      "answer": 2,
      "explanation": "The reef stretches roughly 1,400 miles along the Queensland coast.",
      "wildcard": false
    },
    {
      "id": "geography-015",
      "difficulty": "STANDARD",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "Which river flows through Vienna, Budapest and Belgrade?",
      "options": ["Danube", "Rhine", "Elbe", "Volga"],
      "answer": 0,
      "explanation": "The Danube also flows through Bratislava: four national capitals, more than any other river.",
      "wildcard": false
    },
    {
      "id": "geography-016",
      "difficulty": "STANDARD",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "What is the capital city of Brazil?",
      "options": ["Rio de Janeiro", "São Paulo", "Salvador", "Brasília"],
      "answer": 3,
      "explanation": "Brasília was built from scratch and replaced Rio de Janeiro as the capital in 1960.",
      "wildcard": false
    },
    {
      "id": "geography-017",
      "difficulty": "STANDARD",
      "type": "TRUE_FALSE",
      "prompt": "Africa has more countries than any other continent.",
      "options": ["True", "False"],
      "answer": 0,
      "explanation": "True: Africa has 54 UN member states, the most of any continent.",
      "wildcard": true
    },
    {
      "id": "geography-018",
      "difficulty": "STANDARD",
      "type": "TRUE_FALSE",
      "prompt": "The equator passes through Mexico.",
      "options": ["True", "False"],
      "answer": 1,
      "explanation": "False: in the Americas the equator crosses Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil, far south of Mexico.",
      "wildcard": false
    },
    {
      "id": "geography-019",
      "difficulty": "STANDARD",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "What is the capital of California?",
      "options": ["Los Angeles", "Sacramento", "San Francisco", "San Diego"],
      "answer": 1,
      "explanation": "Sacramento has been California's capital since 1854.",
      "wildcard": false
    },
    {
      "id": "geography-020",
      "difficulty": "STANDARD",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "Which two countries share the world's longest international border?",
      "options": ["Russia and Kazakhstan", "Chile and Argentina", "Canada and the United States", "China and Mongolia"],
      "answer": 2,
      "explanation": "The US–Canada border runs about 5,500 miles, counting the stretch along Alaska.",
      "wildcard": false
    },
    {
      "id": "geography-021",
      "difficulty": "DIFFICULT",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "Which African country was long known to Europeans as Abyssinia?",
      "options": ["Sudan", "Kenya", "Somalia", "Ethiopia"],
      "answer": 3,
      "explanation": "Abyssinia was the traditional European name for the Ethiopian Empire.",
      "wildcard": false
    },
    {
      "id": "geography-022",
      "difficulty": "STANDARD",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "What is the world's smallest country by area?",
      "options": ["Monaco", "San Marino", "Vatican City", "Liechtenstein"],
      "answer": 2,
      "explanation": "Vatican City covers only about 0.17 square miles, entirely surrounded by Rome.",
      "wildcard": true
    },
    {
      "id": "geography-023",
      "difficulty": "DIFFICULT",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "Which mountain range is traditionally seen as the dividing line between Europe and Asia in Russia?",
      "options": ["Ural Mountains", "Carpathians", "Altai Mountains", "Pyrenees"],
      "answer": 0,
      "explanation": "The Urals run north to south across Russia and form part of the Europe–Asia boundary.",
      "wildcard": false
    },
    {
      "id": "geography-024",
      "difficulty": "DIFFICULT",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "Which of the five Great Lakes lies entirely within the United States?",
      "options": ["Lake Superior", "Lake Erie", "Lake Ontario", "Lake Michigan"],
      "answer": 3,
      "explanation": "The other four Great Lakes are shared between the US and Canada.",
      "wildcard": false
    },
    {
      "id": "geography-025",
      "difficulty": "STANDARD",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "The Grand Canyon is located in which US state?",
      "options": ["Nevada", "Arizona", "Utah", "New Mexico"],
      "answer": 1,
      "explanation": "The Colorado River carved the Grand Canyon through northern Arizona.",
      "wildcard": true
    }
  ]
}