{
  "pack": "originals-v1",
  "category": "sports",
  "questions": [
    {
      "id": "sports-001",
      "difficulty": "STANDARD",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "In darts, what is the highest score possible with three darts?",
      "options": ["150", "170", "180", "200"],
      "answer": 2,
      "explanation": "Three darts in the treble 20 score 60 each, for a maximum of 180.",
      "wildcard": true
    },
    {
      "id": "sports-002",
      "difficulty": "DIFFICULT",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth's career home run record in 1974. What was Ruth's total?",
      "options": ["660", "714", "755", "762"],
      "answer": 1,
      "explanation": "Ruth hit 714 home runs; Aaron passed him on April 8, 1974, and finished his career with 755.",
      "wildcard": false
    },
    {
      "id": "sports-003",
      "difficulty": "STANDARD",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "Which golf tournament awards its winner a green jacket?",
      "options": ["The Open Championship", "PGA Championship", "US Open", "The Masters"],
      "answer": 3,
      "explanation": "The Masters, played at Augusta National in Georgia, has given its champion a green jacket since 1949.",
      "wildcard": true
    },
    {
      "id": "sports-004",
      "difficulty": "STANDARD",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "In tennis, what word is used for a score of zero?",
      "options": ["Love", "Nil", "Duck", "Blank"],
      "answer": 0,
      "explanation": "A zero score in tennis is called \"love,\" as in 15-love.",
      "wildcard": true
    },
    {
      "id": "sports-005",
      "difficulty": "STANDARD",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball's color barrier in 1947 with which team?",
      "options": ["New York Giants", "Brooklyn Dodgers", "Boston Braves", "New York Yankees"],
      "answer": 1,
      "explanation": "Robinson made his debut for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947.",
      "wildcard": false
    },
    {
      "id": "sports-006",
      "difficulty": "DIFFICULT",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "Bobby Thomson's 1951 homer, the \"Shot Heard 'Round the World,\" won the pennant for which team?",
      "options": ["New York Giants", "Brooklyn Dodgers", "New York Yankees", "Philadelphia Phillies"],
      "answer": 0,
      "explanation": "Thomson's walk-off home run beat the Brooklyn Dodgers at the Polo Grounds and sent the Giants to the World Series.",
      "wildcard": false
    },
    {
      "id": "sports-007",
      "difficulty": "STANDARD",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "Which ballpark's towering left-field wall is nicknamed the \"Green Monster\"?",
      "options": ["Wrigley Field", "Yankee Stadium", "Fenway Park", "Camden Yards"],
      "answer": 2,
      "explanation": "Fenway Park in Boston opened in 1912; its famous left-field wall stands about 37 feet tall.",
      "wildcard": false
    },
    {
      "id": "sports-008",
      "difficulty": "STANDARD",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "Which team won the first Super Bowl, played in January 1967?",
      "options": ["Kansas City Chiefs", "Dallas Cowboys", "New York Jets", "Green Bay Packers"],
      "answer": 3,
      "explanation": "Vince Lombardi's Packers beat the Kansas City Chiefs 35-10 in Super Bowl I.",
      "wildcard": false
    },
    {
      "id": "sports-009",
      "difficulty": "STANDARD",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "Which quarterback famously guaranteed a New York Jets win before Super Bowl III?",
      "options": ["Johnny Unitas", "Joe Namath", "Bart Starr", "Earl Morrall"],
      "answer": 1,
      "explanation": "Namath made the guarantee days before the game, then led the Jets past the Baltimore Colts 16-7 in January 1969.",
      "wildcard": false
    },
    {
      "id": "sports-010",
      "difficulty": "DIFFICULT",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "Who scored 100 points in a single NBA game in 1962?",
      "options": ["Bill Russell", "Elgin Baylor", "Oscar Robertson", "Wilt Chamberlain"],
      "answer": 3,
      "explanation": "Chamberlain scored 100 for the Philadelphia Warriors against the New York Knicks on March 2, 1962.",
      "wildcard": false
    },
    {
      "id": "sports-011",
      "difficulty": "STANDARD",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "James Naismith's first basketball goals, in 1891, were made from what?",
      "options": ["Peach baskets", "Fishing nets", "Barrel hoops", "Laundry baskets"],
      "answer": 0,
      "explanation": "Naismith hung peach baskets at each end of a gym in Springfield, Massachusetts.",
      "wildcard": true
    },
    {
      "id": "sports-012",
      "difficulty": "STANDARD",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "Which jersey number did the NHL retire league-wide to honor Wayne Gretzky?",
      "options": ["9", "19", "99", "66"],
      "answer": 2,
      "explanation": "The NHL retired No. 99 for every team in 2000, the year after Gretzky played his final game.",
      "wildcard": false
    },
    {
      "id": "sports-013",
      "difficulty": "DIFFICULT",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "Hockey's Stanley Cup is named for Lord Stanley. What post did he hold when he donated it in 1892?",
      "options": ["Governor General of Canada", "British Prime Minister", "Mayor of Toronto", "Premier of Ontario"],
      "answer": 0,
      "explanation": "Lord Stanley of Preston was Canada's Governor General; the cup was first awarded in 1893.",
      "wildcard": false
    },
    {
      "id": "sports-014",
      "difficulty": "STANDARD",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "The 1980 \"Miracle on Ice\" hockey game was played in which New York village?",
      "options": ["Saratoga Springs", "Cooperstown", "Lake Placid", "Watkins Glen"],
      "answer": 2,
      "explanation": "Lake Placid hosted the 1980 Winter Olympics, where the US team upset the Soviet Union.",
      "wildcard": false
    },
    {
      "id": "sports-015",
      "difficulty": "STANDARD",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "Jesse Owens won four gold medals at the 1936 Summer Olympics in which city?",
      "options": ["Berlin", "London", "Amsterdam", "Paris"],
      "answer": 0,
      "explanation": "Owens won the 100m, 200m, long jump and 4x100m relay at the Berlin Games.",
      "wildcard": false
    },
    {
      "id": "sports-016",
      "difficulty": "STANDARD",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "How many gold medals did Michael Phelps win at the 2008 Beijing Olympics?",
      "options": ["7", "8", "9", "10"],
      "answer": 1,
      "explanation": "Phelps won 8 golds in Beijing, breaking Mark Spitz's 1972 record of 7 at a single Games.",
      "wildcard": true
    },
    {
      "id": "sports-017",
      "difficulty": "DIFFICULT",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "Usain Bolt set the 100-meter world record in 2009. What was his time?",
      "options": ["9.58 seconds", "9.63 seconds", "9.69 seconds", "9.72 seconds"],
      "answer": 0,
      "explanation": "Bolt ran 9.58 seconds at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin.",
      "wildcard": false
    },
    {
      "id": "sports-018",
      "difficulty": "DIFFICULT",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "Which country hosted, and won, the first FIFA World Cup in 1930?",
      "options": ["Brazil", "Italy", "Argentina", "Uruguay"],
      "answer": 3,
      "explanation": "Uruguay hosted the first World Cup and beat Argentina 4-2 in the final in Montevideo.",
      "wildcard": false
    },
    {
      "id": "sports-019",
      "difficulty": "STANDARD",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "What color jersey does the overall leader of the Tour de France wear?",
      "options": ["Green", "Yellow", "Pink", "Polka dot"],
      "answer": 1,
      "explanation": "The race leader wears the yellow jersey, or maillot jaune; pink marks the leader of Italy's Giro.",
      "wildcard": true
    },
    {
      "id": "sports-020",
      "difficulty": "DIFFICULT",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "Secretariat clinched the 1973 Triple Crown by winning the Belmont Stakes by how many lengths?",
      "options": ["11 lengths", "21 lengths", "31 lengths", "41 lengths"],
      "answer": 2,
      "explanation": "Secretariat won by 31 lengths, running the mile and a half in a record 2 minutes 24 seconds.",
      "wildcard": false
    },
    {
      "id": "sports-021",
      "difficulty": "STANDARD",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "What is the official distance of a marathon?",
      "options": ["22.4 miles", "24.8 miles", "25.5 miles", "26.2 miles"],
      "answer": 3,
      "explanation": "A marathon is 26 miles 385 yards (42.195 km), a distance standardized in 1921.",
      "wildcard": true
    },
    {
      "id": "sports-022",
      "difficulty": "DIFFICULT",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "In cricket, how many legal deliveries make up a standard over?",
      "options": ["4", "6", "8", "10"],
      "answer": 1,
      "explanation": "An over is six legal balls bowled in a row by the same bowler from one end.",
      "wildcard": false
    },
    {
      "id": "sports-023",
      "difficulty": "STANDARD",
      "type": "MULTIPLE_CHOICE",
      "prompt": "Muhammad Ali beat which boxer in 1974's \"Rumble in the Jungle\"?",
      "options": ["Joe Frazier", "Sonny Liston", "George Foreman", "Ken Norton"],
      "answer": 2,
      "explanation": "Ali knocked out Foreman in the eighth round in Kinshasa, Zaire, to regain the heavyweight title.",
      "wildcard": false
    },
    {
      "id": "sports-024",
      "difficulty": "STANDARD",
      "type": "TRUE_FALSE",
      "prompt": "An astronaut once hit golf balls on the surface of the Moon.",
      "options": ["True", "False"],
      "answer": 0,
      "explanation": "Apollo 14 astronaut Alan Shepard hit two golf balls on the lunar surface in February 1971.",
      "wildcard": true
    },
    {
      "id": "sports-025",
      "difficulty": "STANDARD",
      "type": "TRUE_FALSE",
      "prompt": "An NBA game is made up of four 15-minute quarters.",
      "options": ["True", "False"],
      "answer": 1,
      "explanation": "NBA quarters last 12 minutes each, so regulation play is 48 minutes.",
      "wildcard": false
    }
  ]
}