test.json

{
    "category": "science",
    "questions": [
        {
            "question": "What was the average life expectancy of white males born in the U.S. just before the Civil War?",
            "answers": [
                "40 years",
                "50 years",
                "60 years",
                "70 years"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "40 years"
        },
        {
            "question": "What is a shaddock?",
            "answers": [
                "a fish, the offspring of a male shad and a female haddock",
                "a crystal, such as quartz, that sticks out from a mineral vein",
                "a plant that is a member of the nightshade family",
                "a grapefruit"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "a grapefruit"
        },
        {
            "question": "Which one of the following instruments is used to measure humidity?",
            "answers": [
                "anemometer",
                "ammeter",
                "hygrometer",
                "barometer"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "hygrometer"
        },
        {
            "question": "Which two planets are most similar in size diameter wise?",
            "answers": [
                "Mars and Mercury",
                "Venus and Earth",
                "Uranus and Neptune",
                "Jupiter and Saturn"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "Venus and Earth"
        },
        {
            "question": "If a hertz is equal to one cylce per second, how manyh cycles per second does a megahertz  equal?",
            "answers": [
                "1/1,000",
                "1,000",
                "1,000,000",
                "1,000,000,000"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "1,000,000"
        },
        {
            "question": "What principle explains why cold food warms up and hot food cools off when stored at room temperature?",
            "answers": [
                "entropy",
                "chemical equilibrium",
                "momentum",
                "relativity"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "entropy"
        },
        {
            "question": "Which color is not considered to be one of the primary colors of light?",
            "answers": [
                "Red",
                "yellow",
                "green",
                "blue"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "yellow"
        },
        {
            "question": "What causes the disease toxoplasmosis??",
            "answers": [
                "a bacterium",
                "a protozoan",
                "a virus",
                "a prion"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "a protozoan"
        },
        {
            "question": "What is the slowest wind speed a hurricane can have according to the Saffir-Simpson scale??",
            "answers": [
                "50 m.p.h.",
                "74 m.p.h.",
                "96 m.p.h.",
                "110 m.p.h."
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "74 m.p.h."
        },
        {
            "question": "Which of the following heavenly bodies have never had a spacecraft landed on it?",
            "answers": [
                "Venus",
                "Mars",
                "the moon",
                "Jupiter"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "Jupiter"
        },
        {
            "question": "Meat should be kept frozen at what temperature in degrees Fahrenheit?",
            "answers": [
                "0 degrees or below",
                "between 10 and 20 degrees",
                "between 20 and 30 degrees",
                "just below 32 degrees"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "0 degrees or below"
        },
        {
            "question": "Many scientists think that some of the dinosaurs did not go extinct, but rather evolved into what kind of creature?",
            "answers": [
                "amphibians",
                "reptiles",
                "birds",
                "mammals"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "birds"
        },
        {
            "answers": [
                "up to 250",
                "up to 25,000",
                "up to 2,500,000",
                "up to 250,000,000"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "up to 250,000,000",    
            "question": "In 1989, scientists from Norway discovered that there are far more viruses in oceans, lakes, and streams than previously believed.  How many viruses did they find that a milliliter of natural water might contain?"
        },
        {
            "correctAnswer": "Euclidean",
            "question": "In which kind of geometry is the sum of the angles inside a triangle exactly equal to 180 degrees?",
            "answers": [
                "elliptical",
                "Euclidean",
                "hyperbolic",
                "linear"
            ]
        },
        {
            "question": "What is the name of the disease that has been referred to as the disease of kings?",
            "answers": [
                "hemophilia",
                "jaundice",
                "rubella",
                "syphilis"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "hemophilia"
        },
        {
            "question": "What disease causes a buildup of fluid pressure in the eyeball and damages the optic nerve at the back of the eye?",
            "answers": [
                "astigmatism",
                "cataract",
                "glaucoma",
                "retinitis"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "glaucoma"
        },
        {
            "question": "What would be the most likely thing one would do with the compound MgSO4 7H2O?",
            "answers": [
                "power a car",
                "blow up a building",
                "soak ones feet",
                "fertilize a lawn"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "soak ones feet"
        },
        {
            "question": "Amps are a unit of measurement of what?",
            "answers": [
                "electric charge",
                "electric current",
                "electric field strength",
                "electric potential"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "electric current"
        },
        {
            "question": "In which century was the greatest number of chemical elements discovered?",
            "answers": [
                "17th",
                "18th",
                "19th",
                "20th"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "19th"
        },
        {
            "question": "Louis Pasteur developed which vaccine?",
            "answers": [
                "polio",
                "rabies",
                "smallpox",
                "anthrax"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "rabies"
        },
        {
            "question": "How long ago did dinosaurs become extinct?",
            "answers": [
                "10,000 years",
                "600,000 years",
                "6 million years",
                "60 million years"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "60 million years"
        },
        {
            "question": "Which of the following food items have the least calories?",
            "answers": [
                "5 ounces of whole milk",
                "5 ounces of beer",
                "5 teaspoons of sugar",
                "5 ounces of vegetable oil"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "5 ounces of beer"
        },
        {
            "answers": [
                "shoulder blade",
                "knee cap",
                "femur",
                "lower jaw bone"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "shoulder blade",
            "question": "The scapula is more commonly called the what?"
        },
        {
            "correctAnswer": "rance and Switzerland",
            "question": "At the time that the Large Electron-Positron Collider went into operation in 1989 it was the largest scientific instrument ever built with a circumference of over 16 miles. Where is it located?",
            "answers": [
                "California and Nevada",
                "France and Switzerland",
                "Austria and Germany",
                "France and Italy"
            ]
        },
        {
            "question": "If a circle and a square have the same area, then which of the following statements must be true?",
            "answers": [
                "The circle's circumference is greater than the square's perimeter",
                "the circle's circumference is greater than the square's perimeter",
                "the circle's circumference is less than the square's perimeter",
                "None of the above"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "the circle's circumference is less than the square's perimeter"
        },
        {
            "question": "Which of the following are true during a lunar eclipse?",
            "answers": [
                "The sun is between the earth and the moon",
                "the earth is between the sun and the moon",
                "the sun is between the earth and the moon",
                "none of the above"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "the earth is between the sun and the moon"
        },
        {
            "question": "What kinds of quarks form the protons and neutrons in the atoms of matter?",
            "answers": [
                "strange and charmed",
                "top and bottom",
                "up and down",
                "all of the above"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "up and down"
        },
        {
            "question": "What country became the third one to launch a spacecraft to the moon in January 1990?",
            "answers": [
                "China",
                "France",
                "Japan",
                "United Kingdom"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "Japan"
        },
        {
            "question": "Which of the following flowers did not get its name from adding \"ia\" to the surname of the botanist?",
            "answers": [
                "fuchsia",
                "magnolia",
                "zinnia",
                "petunia"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "petunia"
        },
        {
            "question": "What is an imaginary number?",
            "answers": [
                "any irrational number",
                "any complex number",
                "the result of dividing any number by zero",
                "the square root of any negative real number"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "the square root of any negative real number"
        },
        {
            "question": "Prior to 1977 rings were only known to exist around Saturn. Since then, at least one ring has been found around which other planet or planets?",
            "answers": [
                "Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune",
                "Uranus and Neptune",
                "Uranus",
                "Mercury and Neptune"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune"
        },
        {
            "question": "Which of these drugs was discovered first?",
            "answers": [
                "aspirin",
                "cocaine",
                "penicillin",
                "xanax"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "cocaine"
        },
        {
            "question": "The Magellan spacecraft launched in 1989, was sent to map the surface of what planet?",
            "answers": [
                "Mars",
                "Neptune",
                "Venus",
                "Mercury"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "Venus"
        },
        {
            "answers": [
                "100",
                "1,000",
                "8,000",
                "8192"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "8192",
            "question": "In computer software, how many bits are in a kilobyte?"
        },
        {
            "correctAnswer": "the ship would lose mass",
            "question": "In relativity theory, if a spaceship accelerated to near the speed of light, an observer not on the ship might notice all but which of the following?",
            "answers": [
                "clocks on the ship would slow down",
                "the ship would get smaller",
                "the ship would lose mass",
                "the ship would gain mass"
            ]
        },
        {
            "question": "Which of these animals lays eggs?",
            "answers": [
                "kangaroo",
                "koala",
                "platypus",
                "Tasmanian devil"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "platypus"
        },
        {
            "question": "During which decade was the television invented?",
            "answers": [
                "1920s",
                "1930s",
                "1940s",
                "1950s"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "1920s"
        },
        {
            "answers": [
                "0",
                "2",
                "4",
                "6"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "4",
            "question": "How many of the eight planets other than earth are smaller than Earth?"
        },
        {
            "question": "Which of the following animals have, on the average, the shortest lifespan?",
            "answers": [
                "gray squirrel",
                "grizzly bear",
                "kangaroo",
                "moose"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "kangaroo"
        },
        {
            "question": "Which of the following gasses account for about 78 percent of the earth's atmosphere?",
            "answers": [
                "argon",
                "carbon dioxide",
                "nitrogen",
                "oxygen"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "nitrogen"
        },
        {
            "correctAnswer": "3500 B.C.",
            "question": "Approximately when was the wheel invented?",
            "answers": [
                "5500 B.C.",
                "4500 B.C.",
                "3500 B.C.",
                "1500 B.C."
            ]
        },
        {
            "question": "In chemistry, what element is represented by the symbol C?",
            "answers": [
                "calcium",
                "carbon",
                "chlorine",
                "copper"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "carbon"
        },
        {
            "answers": [
                "10",
                "12",
                "15",
                "20"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "12",
            "question": "How many sides does a dodecagon have?"
        },
        {
            "question": "Which of the following animals usually weighs the least?",
            "answers": [
                "lions",
                "polar bears",
                "tigers",
                "Wildebeest"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "lions"
        },
        {
            "correctAnswer": "sometime in the next 2,000 years",
            "question": "Ice Age patterns of the last half million years indicate that the next Ice Age is due to arrive when?",
            "answers": [
                "sometime between 10,000 to 30,000 years from now",
                "sometime between 50,000 to 100,000 years from now.",
                "sometime in the next 2,000 years",
                "over 100,000 years from now"
            ]
        },
        {
            "question": "Which two different species of animals were successfully bred by the University of California?",
            "answers": [
                "a goat and a sheep producing a new animal called a \"geep\"",
                "a rabbit and a hamster, producing a new animal called a \"ramster\"",
                "a horse and a camel, producing a new animal called a \"hormel\"",
                "a deer and an elk , producing a new animal called a \"Delk\""
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "a goat and a sheep producing a new animal called a \"geep\""
        },
        {
            "question": "What was the name of the space shuttle that place in April, 1981 and was the first manned U.S. space shuttle fight?",
            "answers": [
                "Atlantis",
                "Discovery",
                "Columbia",
                "Challenger"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "Columbia"
        },
        {
            "question": "Room temperature is about 68 degrees Fahrenheit. What is the temperature given in degrees Celsius?",
            "answers": [
                "20",
                "30",
                "40",
                "50"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "20"
        },
        {
            "question": "What was the name of the first U.S. Space Shuttle to take flight in April, 1981?",
            "answers": [
                "Atlantis",
                "Columbia",
                "Challenger",
                "Discovery"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "Columbia"
        },
        {
            "question": "According to a 1980s survey of 40,000 students, approximately what fraction of American school children now have no decay in their permanent teeth?",
            "answers": [
                "one tenth",
                "one quarter",
                "one third",
                "one half "
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "one half"
        },
        {
            "question": "In the manufacturing of pewter what is the main ingredient?",
            "answers": [
                "copper",
                "iron",
                "lead",
                "tin"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "tin"
        },
        {
            "answers": [
                "101",
                "12",
                "15",
                "20"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "12",
            "question": "How many sides does a dodecagon have?"
        },
        {
            "correctAnswer": "62 pounds",
            "question": "Roughly how much does a cubic foot of water weigh?",
            "answers": [
                "10 pounds",
                "37 pounds",
                "62 pounds",
                "75 pounds"
            ]
        },
        {
            "question": "What planet has a day that lasts only 10 hours?",
            "answers": [
                "Mars",
                "Mercury",
                "Jupiter",
                "Venus"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "Jupiter"
        },
        {
            "question": "How long did it take the voyager 2 spacecraft to reach Netpune?",
            "answers": [
                "6 months",
                "3 years",
                "12 years",
                "15 years"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "12 years"
        },
        {
            "question": "Which one of the following laws of heredity are not one of Gregor  Mendel's laws?",
            "answers": [
                "dominance",
                "independent  assortment",
                "integration",
                "segregation"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "integration"
        },
        {
            "question": "From the pit of what fruit does the controversial cancer-treating drug Laetrile come from?",
            "answers": [
                "apricot",
                "cherry",
                "peach",
                "watermelon"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "apricot"
        },
        {
            "answers": [
                "10,000 ",
                "100,000",
                "1,000,000",
                "10,000,000"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "10,000",
            "question": "How many years has the Amazon rain forest existed?"
        },
        {
            "question": "The spaceship Voyager2 found geysers on Triton, a moon of what planet?",
            "answers": [
                "Saturn",
                "Uranus",
                "Neptune",
                "Mars"
            ],
            "correctAnswer": "Neptune"
        },
        {
            "correctAnswer": "tests on animals",
            "question": "What are \"pre-clinical trials\" in the process of testing new drugs before they are approved for general use?",
            "answers": [
                "test by computer simulation of molecular interactions",
                "tests on animals",
                "tests on humans",
                "chemical testing"
            ]
        }
    ]
}