questions.js

function loadQuestions() {
	return {
		"version": "1.0",
		"questions": [
			{
				"q": "In what year was construction of the Eiffel Tower completed?",
				"a": 1889,
				"src": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_Tower"
			},
			{
				"q": "How many total floors (including basement and maintenance floors) are there in the Burj Khalifia, the largest structure in the world as of 2014?",
				"a": 211,
				"src": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burj_Khalifa"
			},
			{
				"q": "As of 2014, how many of the world's 10 tallest manmade structures were in the United States?",
				"a": "6",
				"src": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_structures_in_the_world"
			},
			{
				"q": "What is the wingspan, in meters, of the Boeing 777-200?",
				"a": 60.9,
				"src": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_777"
			},
			{
				"q": "What was the net worth, in millions of US dollars, of Bill Gates by the end of 2014?",
				"a": 81000,
				"src": "http://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/rich-get-richer-bill-gates-tops-forbes-400-list-richest-n214196"
			},
			{
				"q": "What is the volume, in cubic kilometers, of Lake Superior?",
				"a": 12100,
				"src": "http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=lake+superior+volume+in+cubic+meters"
			},
			{
				"q": "In July of 2014, what percentage of US households did not have a landline telephone?",
				"a": 40,
				"src": "http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/chi-landlines-survey-20140708-story.html"
			},
			{
				"q": "How many US adults were unemployed as of November 2014?",
				"a": 18700000,
				"src": "http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28us+population+november+2014%29+*+%28us+unemployment+november+2014%29"
			},
			{
				"q": "How many deaths were there in the US in 2010?",
				"a": 2550000,
				"src": "http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=us+deaths+2010"
			},
			{
				"q": "What was the density, in persons per square mile, of Seattle in 2010?",
				"a": 7559,
				"src": "http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=seattle+population+density"
			},
			{
				"q": "What is the land area, in square miles, of Hawaii?",
				"a": 6423,
				"src": "http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=hawaii+land+area"
			},
			{
				"q": "In 2010, what percentage of US citizens lived in the state of California?",
				"a": 12.02,
				"src": [ "http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=california+population+2010", "http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=united+states+population+2010" ]
			},
			{
				"q": "As of 2014, how many people have been Prime Minister of the United Kingdom?",
				"a": 75,
				"src": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Prime_Ministers_of_the_United_Kingdom"
			},
			{
				"q": "How many popular votes did Barack Obama receive in the 2008 general election?",
				"a": 69498516,
				"src": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2008"
			},
			{
				"q": "In what year was Colorado admitted as a state?",
				"a": 1876,
				"src": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado"
			},
			{
				"q": "What was the cost, in millions of 2014 US dollars, of construction of the Hoover Dam?",
				"a": 761.46,
				"src": [ "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_Dam", "http://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm" ]
			},
			{
				"q": "How long, in centimeters, is the average adult small intestine?",
				"a": 600,
				"src": "http://carta.anthropogeny.org/moca/topics/smalllarge-intestine-length-ratio"
			},
			{
				"q": "How fast does human hair grow, in centimeters per year?",
				"a": 15,
				"src": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_hair_growth"
			},
			{
				"q": "A blue whale has the equivalent mass of how many average adults?",
				"a": 2327,
				"src": [ "http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=average+adult+weight", "https://www.google.com/webhp?q=blue+whale+weight" ]
			},
			{
				"q": "What is the longest diameter of the Milky Way galaxy in light years?",
				"a": 100000,
				"src": "http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=milky+way+diameter"
			},
			{
				"q": "How many million solar masses are there in our galaxy?",
				"a": 100000,
				"src": "http://www.space.com/25959-how-many-stars-are-in-the-milky-way.html"
			},
			{
				"q": "As of 2014, Denver international airport was the home of the longest airport runway in the United States. How long was it, in miles?",
				"a": 3.03,
				"src": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest_runways"
			},
			{
				"q": "On average, how many US commercial airline flights were there per day in 2010?",
				"a": 29000,
				"src": "http://www.natca.org/mediacenter/bythenumbers.msp"
			},
			{
				"q": "What is the length, in miles, of the river Nile?",
				"a": 4258,
				"src": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rivers_by_length"
			},
			{
				"q": "How many new cases of bladder cancer were diagnosed in 2014?",
				"a": 74690,
				"src": "http://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/urinb.html"
			},
			{
				"q": "What percentage of patients with breast cancer survive more than five years after initial diagnosis?",
				"a": 89.2,
				"src": "http://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/breast.html"
			},
			{
				"q": "The joyo kanji is Japan's Ministry of Education's official list of Chinese characters in everyday use. How many kanji are in this list?",
				"a": 2136,
				"src": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C5%8Dy%C5%8D_kanji"
			},
			{
				"q": "In 1998, scientists managed to slow a beam of light to a record minimum. What was the recorded speed, in meters per second?",
				"a": 17,
				"src": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_light"
			},
			{
				"q": "As of 2014, same-sex marriage was fully legal in how many US states (including Washington, D.C.)?",
				"a": 35,
				"src": "http://www.freedomtomarry.org/states/"
			},
			{
				"q": "In 2012, what percentage of the United States military active duty force were women?",
				"a": 14.6,
				"src": "http://www.militaryonesource.mil/12038/MOS/Reports/2012_Demographics_Report.pdf"
			},
			{
				"q": "How many inches of precipitation did Seattle receive in 2014?",
				"a": 48.5,
				"src": "http://www.seattleweatherblog.com/rain-stats/rainfall-2014/"
			},
			{
				"q": "In what year was the World Wide Web Consortium (the W3) founded?",
				"a": 1994,
				"src": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web_Consortium"
			},
			{
				"q": "How many top-level domains were originally created for the internet, prior to the creation of ICANN in 1998?",
				"a": 7,
				"src": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_domains"
			},
			{
				"q": "In 2013, Google acquired GPS navigation software company Waze. How much did Google pay, in US dollars?",
				"a": 966000000,
				"src": "http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1288776/000128877613000055/goog10-qq22013.htm"
			},
			{
				"q": "How many distinct breeds of dog are recognized by the American Kennel Club?",
				"a": 184,
				"src": "http://www.akc.org/breeds/"
			},
			{
				"q": "What was the median US household income in 2013?",
				"a": 52250,
				"src": "http://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2014/acs/acsbr13-02.pdf"
			},
			{
				"q": "In what year did construction on Seattle's Columbia Tower commence?",
				"a": 1982,
				"src": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Center"
			},
			{
				"q": "New York City lists how many individual public tennis courts in the bourough of Manhattan?",
				"a": 110,
				"src": "http://www.nycgovparks.org/facilities/tennis"
			},
			{
				"q": "How many total strike-outs were recorded in the 2014 MLB season?",
				"a": 14270,
				"src": "http://espn.go.com/mlb/stats/pitching/_/order/false"
			},
			{
				"q": "What is the maximum weight, in ounces, of a regulation NFL football?",
				"a": 15,
				"src": "http://static.nfl.com/static/content/public/image/rulebook/pdfs/5_2013_Ball.pdf"
			},
			{
				"q": "What is the seating capacity of Seattle's Safeco Field?",
				"a": 47476,
				"src": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safeco_Field"
			},
			{
				"q": "How many known species of cat are living in the world today?",
				"a": 41,
				"src": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felidae"
			},
			{
				"q": "How many entries were in the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary?",
				"a": 252200,
				"src": "http://public.oed.com/history-of-the-oed/dictionary-facts/"
			},
			{
				"q": "What is the radius, in miles, of Earth's inner core?",
				"a": 760,
				"src": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_core"
			},
			{
				"q": "In what year is it believed Shakespeare wrote The Tragedy of Julius Caesar?",
				"a": 1599,
				"src": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar_(play)"
			},
			{
				"q": "What was the production budget, in millions of dollars, of the video game Grand Theft Auto V?",
				"a": 265,
				"src": "http://www.ibtimes.com/gta-5-costs-265-million-develop-market-making-it-most-expensive-video-game-ever-produced-report"
			},
			{
				"q": "How many bills were vetoed by president George W. Bush?",
				"a": 12,
				"src": "http://www.senate.gov/reference/Legislation/Vetoes/vetoCounts.htm"
			},
			{
				"q": "How many metric tons of grain molasses cargo were processed by the Port of Seattle in 2010?",
				"a": 40173,
				"src": "http://www.portseattle.org/About/Publications/Statistics/Seaport/Pages/10-Year-History.aspx"
			},
			{
				"q": "What percentage of United States high school students dropped out in 2014?",
				"a": 7,
				"src": "http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=16"
			},
			{
				"q": "By what percentage did reported Pertussis cases (whooping cough) increase in the US from 2010-2012?",
				"a": 75.2,
				"src": "http://www.cdc.gov/pertussis/surv-reporting/cases-by-year.html"
			}
		]
	};
}