README.md

Usage

To "install" this game, you will need a simple webserver that can serve static files (Apache will do). You simply upload this git repository into a folder on the web server, and access index.html in your browser.

The game loads a question bank (default questions.json) in the same root directory as index.html. This file contains the game-seperated question sets described in the next section.

Scraping / Question bank

To make question harvesting easier, I included a python script in /util that scrapes indiabix.com for questions.

The root directory has questions.json which is the main question file, and another question set stored in questions2.json. The program only reads questions.json.

Question format

The question bank is simply an array of "games". You can have as many "games" as you like. You select them at the beginning of loading index.html.

{
	"games" : [
		{
			"questions" : [ ... ]
		},
		{
			"questions" : [ ... ]
		}, ...
	]
}

Each array of questions is in the following format.

1. "content" is the key for the possible answer texts. "content" must have a length of 4 (4 multiple choices).

2. The question prompt text is located in the key "question"

3. The zero-based index of the value in "content" that is the correct answer is located in the key "correct"

   {
       "question" : "What is Aurora Borealis commonly known as?",
       "content" : [
           "Fairy Dust",
           "Northern Lights",
           "Book of ages",
           "a Game of Thrones main character"
       ],
       "correct" : 1
   }
   

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire Materials

The sounds and images used from Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, and the questions used from India-Bix and other sources are not mine, nor do I claim any involvement in their creation. The materials are used under Fair Use for academic and educational purpose, and should not be redistributed otherwise without permission from their creators.