{"date":"2026-08-11","prompts":[{"id":"p1","text":"Name a sovereign country whose flag contains both red and white","answers":[{"answer":"Brunei","tier":"krillion","score":100,"quip":"White and black stripes on yellow, red crest in the middle. The sultan thanks you for noticing."},{"answer":"Kiribati","tier":"krillion","score":100,"quip":"A frigatebird over a gold sunrise, white waves below. The only flag that is a painting of where it flies."},{"answer":"Afghanistan","tier":"deepcut","score":85,"quip":"The tricolor with the white emblem still flies at the UN. That one counts."},{"answer":"Antigua and Barbuda","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Azerbaijan","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Belarus","tier":"deepcut","score":85,"quip":"The hoist ornament is red-on-white. 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Don't tell either."},{"answer":"Netherlands","tier":"schooler","score":30},{"answer":"Norway","tier":"schooler","score":30},{"answer":"Poland","tier":"schooler","score":30},{"answer":"Russia","tier":"schooler","score":30},{"answer":"Singapore","tier":"schooler","score":30,"quip":"Red over white, crescent and stars. All red and white."},{"answer":"South Korea","tier":"schooler","score":30},{"answer":"Spain","tier":"schooler","score":30,"quip":"The white hides in the coat of arms — the lion’s silver field and the pillars. We checked."},{"answer":"Thailand","tier":"schooler","score":30},{"answer":"Turkey","tier":"schooler","score":30},{"answer":"Denmark","tier":"tooclever","score":15,"quip":"The Dannebrog, oldest national flag still in use. The flag-nerd flex arrives on schedule."},{"answer":"Nepal","tier":"tooclever","score":15,"quip":"The only non-rectangular national flag. Every flag-fact knower files in at the same time."},{"answer":"Canada","tier":"plankton","score":10},{"answer":"France","tier":"plankton","score":10},{"answer":"Japan","tier":"plankton","score":10,"quip":"Red dot, white field. First flag everyone pictures."},{"answer":"Switzerland","tier":"plankton","score":10},{"answer":"United Kingdom","tier":"plankton","score":10},{"answer":"United States","tier":"plankton","score":10}]},{"id":"p2","text":"Name an animal threatened with extinction","answers":[{"answer":"Northern white rhino","tier":"krillion","score":100,"quip":"Two females remain, both infertile. Functionally extinct while still alive. The saddest gem here."},{"answer":"Addax","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Amur leopard","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Arabian oryx","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Aye-aye","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Beluga sturgeon","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Blue-throated macaw","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Chinese alligator","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Chinese pangolin","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Coelacanth","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Ethiopian wolf","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"European eel","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Galapagos penguin","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Ganges river dolphin","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Gharial","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Giant clam","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Giant otter","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Hawaiian monk seal","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Hirola","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Iberian lynx","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Indian rhinoceros","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Indri","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Irrawaddy dolphin","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Javan rhinoceros","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Kakapo","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Kea","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Kemp's ridley sea turtle","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Kouprey","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Markhor","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Mediterranean monk seal","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Mexican wolf","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Northern bald ibis","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Numbat","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Philippine eagle","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Przewalski's horse","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Red wolf","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Rusty patched bumble bee","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Saiga antelope","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Saola","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Sawfish","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Sei whale","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Spix's macaw","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Staghorn coral","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Vaquita","tier":"deepcut","score":85,"quip":"Roughly ten left. 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Skinner","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Barbara McClintock","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Brian Cox","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"C.V. Raman","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Chien-Shiung Wu","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Dorothy Hodgkin","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Emmy Noether","tier":"deepcut","score":85,"quip":"Her theorem underpins modern physics. Einstein called her a genius."},{"answer":"Georges Lemaitre","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Hedy Lamarr","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Hypatia","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Ibn Sina","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Irene Joliot-Curie","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"J.J. Thomson","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Jennifer Doudna","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"John von Neumann","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Katalin Kariko","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Lise Meitner","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Michio Kaku","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Norman Borlaug","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Paul Dirac","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Percy Julian","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Pierre Curie","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Robert Koch","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Satyendra Nath Bose","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Sophie Germain","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Stephen Jay Gould","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Tu Youyou","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Tycho Brahe","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Wolfgang Pauli","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Alexander Fleming","tier":"rare","score":60},{"answer":"Amedeo Avogadro","tier":"rare","score":60},{"answer":"Antoine Lavoisier","tier":"rare","score":60},{"answer":"Blaise Pascal","tier":"rare","score":60},{"answer":"Carl Jung","tier":"rare","score":60},{"answer":"Carl Linnaeus","tier":"rare","score":60},{"answer":"Charles Babbage","tier":"rare","score":60},{"answer":"Dmitri Mendeleev","tier":"rare","score":60},{"answer":"Edward Jenner","tier":"rare","score":60},{"answer":"Edwin Hubble","tier":"rare","score":60},{"answer":"Enrico Fermi","tier":"rare","score":60},{"answer":"Ernest Rutherford","tier":"rare","score":60},{"answer":"Erwin Schrodinger","tier":"rare","score":60},{"answer":"Euclid","tier":"rare","score":60},{"answer":"Francis Crick","tier":"rare","score":60},{"answer":"Grace Hopper","tier":"rare","score":60},{"answer":"Hippocrates","tier":"rare","score":60},{"answer":"Ivan Pavlov","tier":"rare","score":60},{"answer":"James Clerk Maxwell","tier":"rare","score":60},{"answer":"James Watson","tier":"rare","score":60},{"answer":"Johannes Kepler","tier":"rare","score":60},{"answer":"John Dalton","tier":"rare","score":60},{"answer":"Jonas Salk","tier":"rare","score":60},{"answer":"Linus Pauling","tier":"rare","score":60},{"answer":"Mae Jemison","tier":"rare","score":60},{"answer":"Max Planck","tier":"rare","score":60},{"answer":"Ptolemy","tier":"rare","score":60},{"answer":"Richard Dawkins","tier":"rare","score":60},{"answer":"Richard Feynman","tier":"rare","score":60},{"answer":"Robert Boyle","tier":"rare","score":60},{"answer":"Robert Hooke","tier":"rare","score":60},{"answer":"Sigmund Freud","tier":"rare","score":60},{"answer":"Srinivasa Ramanujan","tier":"rare","score":60},{"answer":"Vera Rubin","tier":"rare","score":60},{"answer":"Werner Heisenberg","tier":"rare","score":60},{"answer":"Ada Lovelace","tier":"schooler","score":30},{"answer":"Alan Turing","tier":"schooler","score":30},{"answer":"Alexander Graham Bell","tier":"schooler","score":30},{"answer":"Alfred Nobel","tier":"schooler","score":30},{"answer":"Archimedes","tier":"schooler","score":30},{"answer":"Aristotle","tier":"schooler","score":30},{"answer":"Benjamin Franklin","tier":"schooler","score":30},{"answer":"Bill Nye","tier":"schooler","score":30},{"answer":"Carl Sagan","tier":"schooler","score":30},{"answer":"Copernicus","tier":"schooler","score":30},{"answer":"George Washington Carver","tier":"schooler","score":30},{"answer":"Gregor Mendel","tier":"schooler","score":30},{"answer":"Jane Goodall","tier":"schooler","score":30},{"answer":"Katherine Johnson","tier":"schooler","score":30},{"answer":"Leonardo da Vinci","tier":"schooler","score":30},{"answer":"Louis Pasteur","tier":"schooler","score":30},{"answer":"Michael Faraday","tier":"schooler","score":30},{"answer":"Niels Bohr","tier":"schooler","score":30},{"answer":"Nikola Tesla","tier":"schooler","score":30},{"answer":"Pythagoras","tier":"schooler","score":30},{"answer":"Rachel Carson","tier":"schooler","score":30},{"answer":"Sally Ride","tier":"schooler","score":30},{"answer":"Thomas Edison","tier":"schooler","score":30},{"answer":"Neil deGrasse Tyson","tier":"tooclever","score":15,"quip":"The 'I watch science YouTube' answer. Well actually."},{"answer":"Rosalind Franklin","tier":"tooclever","score":15,"quip":"The 'they robbed her of the Nobel' pick. Correct, and very predictable."},{"answer":"Albert Einstein","tier":"plankton","score":10},{"answer":"Charles Darwin","tier":"plankton","score":10},{"answer":"Galileo Galilei","tier":"plankton","score":10},{"answer":"Isaac Newton","tier":"plankton","score":10},{"answer":"Marie Curie","tier":"plankton","score":10},{"answer":"Robert Oppenheimer","tier":"plankton","score":10},{"answer":"Stephen Hawking","tier":"plankton","score":10}]},{"id":"p6","text":"Name an arcade game","answers":[{"answer":"Computer Space","tier":"krillion","score":100,"quip":"1971, the first coin-operated arcade video game ever made. Predates Pong itself."},{"answer":"1943","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"After Burner","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Altered Beast","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Arkanoid","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Beatmania","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Berzerk","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Crystal Castles","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Elevator Action","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Galaxy Game","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Hydro Thunder","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Initial D","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Jurassic Park","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Karate Champ","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Lethal Enforcers","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Mappy","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Marble Madness","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Mario Bros.","tier":"deepcut","score":85},{"answer":"Mario Kart Arcade 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Axe","tier":"rare","score":60},{"answer":"Gradius","tier":"rare","score":60},{"answer":"Joust","tier":"rare","score":60},{"answer":"Killer Instinct","tier":"rare","score":60},{"answer":"Marvel vs. Capcom","tier":"rare","score":60},{"answer":"Metal Slug","tier":"rare","score":60},{"answer":"Missile Command","tier":"rare","score":60},{"answer":"NFL Blitz","tier":"rare","score":60},{"answer":"Out Run","tier":"rare","score":60},{"answer":"Paperboy","tier":"rare","score":60},{"answer":"Pole Position","tier":"rare","score":60},{"answer":"Punch-Out!!","tier":"rare","score":60},{"answer":"Q*bert","tier":"rare","score":60},{"answer":"R-Type","tier":"rare","score":60},{"answer":"Shinobi","tier":"rare","score":60},{"answer":"Soulcalibur","tier":"rare","score":60},{"answer":"Spy Hunter","tier":"rare","score":60},{"answer":"Star Wars","tier":"rare","score":60},{"answer":"Tempest","tier":"rare","score":60},{"answer":"Time Crisis","tier":"rare","score":60},{"answer":"Track & Field","tier":"rare","score":60},{"answer":"Tron","tier":"rare","score":60},{"answer":"Virtua Fighter","tier":"rare","score":60},{"answer":"X-Men","tier":"rare","score":60},{"answer":"Air hockey","tier":"schooler","score":30},{"answer":"Asteroids","tier":"schooler","score":30},{"answer":"Big Buck Hunter","tier":"schooler","score":30},{"answer":"Centipede","tier":"schooler","score":30},{"answer":"Contra","tier":"schooler","score":30},{"answer":"Dance Dance Revolution","tier":"schooler","score":30},{"answer":"Double Dragon","tier":"schooler","score":30},{"answer":"Frogger","tier":"schooler","score":30},{"answer":"Galaga","tier":"schooler","score":30},{"answer":"Golden Tee","tier":"schooler","score":30},{"answer":"Mortal Kombat","tier":"schooler","score":30},{"answer":"Ms. Pac-Man","tier":"schooler","score":30},{"answer":"NBA Jam","tier":"schooler","score":30},{"answer":"Skee-Ball","tier":"schooler","score":30},{"answer":"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles","tier":"schooler","score":30},{"answer":"Tekken","tier":"schooler","score":30},{"answer":"Tetris","tier":"schooler","score":30},{"answer":"The House of the Dead","tier":"schooler","score":30},{"answer":"The Simpsons Arcade Game","tier":"schooler","score":30},{"answer":"Whac-A-Mole","tier":"schooler","score":30},{"answer":"Burgertime","tier":"tooclever","score":15,"quip":"The 'deep-cut retro gamer' flex. Everyone in the arcade forum knows it."},{"answer":"Pong","tier":"tooclever","score":15,"quip":"The 'first video game' trivia pick. Predictable as a bouncing pixel."},{"answer":"Donkey Kong","tier":"plankton","score":10},{"answer":"Pac-Man","tier":"plankton","score":10},{"answer":"Pinball","tier":"plankton","score":10},{"answer":"Space Invaders","tier":"plankton","score":10},{"answer":"Street Fighter","tier":"plankton","score":10}]},{"id":"p7","text":"Name a team that played in the 2026 FIFA World Cup","answers":[{"answer":"Curaçao","tier":"krillion","score":100,"quip":"An island of about 150,000 people and 171 square miles — the smallest nation ever to reach a World Cup, taking a record that had belonged to Iceland. Dick Advocaat took the job at 76, went unbeaten through ten qualifiers, and sealed it with a goalless draw in Kingston on the last matchday while Jamaica and Costa Rica went home. Germany then beat them 7-1, but the 0-0 with Ecuador was a World Cup point."},{"answer":"Cape Verde","tier":"deepcut","score":85,"quip":"Half a million people, a first World Cup, and three draws in Spain's group was enough to finish second in it. Argentina then needed extra time to beat them 3-2."},{"answer":"DR Congo","tier":"deepcut","score":85,"quip":"Fifty-two years since they last went, as Zaire in 1974. They came through the inter-confederation play-off to get there and then took England to 2-1 in Atlanta."},{"answer":"Haiti","tier":"deepcut","score":85,"quip":"Their first World Cup since 1974, drawn against Brazil, Morocco and Scotland, and beaten in all three."},{"answer":"Iraq","tier":"deepcut","score":85,"quip":"Back for the first time since 1986, and only after beating Bolivia in the inter-confederation play-off staged in Mexico. Twelve conceded in the group."},{"answer":"Jordan","tier":"deepcut","score":85,"quip":"Their first World Cup, drawn with Argentina, and three defeats to show for it."},{"answer":"New Zealand","tier":"deepcut","score":85,"quip":"Oceania had a guaranteed World Cup place for the first time in history, and New Zealand used it: one point, ten goals conceded."},{"answer":"Panama","tier":"deepcut","score":85,"quip":"Three matches, no points, and not a single goal scored."},{"answer":"Uzbekistan","tier":"deepcut","score":85,"quip":"A debut, and a chastening one: three defeats, eleven goals conceded, two scored."},{"answer":"Algeria","tier":"rare","score":60,"quip":"Back at a World Cup for the first time since 2014, through as a third-placed team, and out 2-0 to Switzerland in Vancouver."},{"answer":"Austria","tier":"rare","score":60,"quip":"First World Cup since 1998, second in Argentina's group, and then 3-0 to Spain in Inglewood."},{"answer":"Czechia","tier":"rare","score":60,"quip":"One point and six goals conceded in the hosts' group."},{"answer":"Ecuador","tier":"rare","score":60,"quip":"Four points in Germany's group — including the goalless draw that gave Curaçao the only point of their World Cup — and then 2-0 to Mexico in Mexico City."},{"answer":"Ghana","tier":"rare","score":60,"quip":"Through as a third-placed team on four points, and out 1-0 to Colombia in Kansas City."},{"answer":"Iran","tier":"rare","score":60,"quip":"Three draws, three points, and out. Nobody beat them and they beat nobody."},{"answer":"Ivory Coast","tier":"rare","score":60,"quip":"Two wins from three in Germany's group, then 2-1 to Norway in Arlington."},{"answer":"Paraguay","tier":"rare","score":60,"quip":"Third in their group, and then they put Germany out on penalties in Foxborough. France stopped them 1-0 in Philadelphia."},{"answer":"Qatar","tier":"rare","score":60,"quip":"Their first World Cup reached by actually qualifying — the 2022 edition was handed to them as hosts — and it finished two goals scored, ten conceded."},{"answer":"Saudi Arabia","tier":"rare","score":60,"quip":"Two draws and two points in Spain's group, one goal scored."},{"answer":"Senegal","tier":"rare","score":60,"quip":"Eight goals in three group games and still only third. Belgium then needed extra time to beat them 3-2 in Seattle."},{"answer":"South Africa","tier":"rare","score":60,"quip":"Second in Mexico's group, and beaten 1-0 by Canada in Inglewood."},{"answer":"Tunisia","tier":"rare","score":60,"quip":"Three defeats, twelve goals conceded, no points — the heaviest group exit of the tournament."},{"answer":"Turkey","tier":"rare","score":60,"quip":"Won one, lost two, and finished last in the group the United States topped."},{"answer":"Australia","tier":"schooler","score":30,"quip":"1-1 with Egypt in Arlington, and out of the shoot-out 4-2."},{"answer":"Belgium","tier":"schooler","score":30,"quip":"A win and two draws in the group, extra time to beat Senegal, four past the United States, and then a 2-1 defeat to the eventual champions."},{"answer":"Canada","tier":"schooler","score":30,"quip":"The third co-host, through as one of the eight best third-placed teams, 1-0 up on South Africa in Inglewood and then 3-0 down to Morocco."},{"answer":"Colombia","tier":"schooler","score":30,"quip":"Topped Portugal's group, beat Ghana 1-0, and then lost to Switzerland on penalties after 120 goalless minutes."},{"answer":"Croatia","tier":"schooler","score":30,"quip":"Second behind England, and beaten 2-1 by Portugal in Toronto."},{"answer":"Egypt","tier":"schooler","score":30,"quip":"Unbeaten in the group, past Australia on penalties, and then 3-2 to Argentina in Atlanta — closer than anyone expected."},{"answer":"Japan","tier":"schooler","score":30,"quip":"Unbeaten in the group — one win, two draws — and out 2-1 to Brazil in Houston."},{"answer":"Morocco","tier":"schooler","score":30,"quip":"Put the Netherlands out on penalties, beat Canada 3-0, and lost 2-0 in the quarter-final to France — the same country that ended their run in 2022."},{"answer":"Netherlands","tier":"schooler","score":30,"quip":"Ten goals in the group and top of it, then out on penalties to Morocco in the round of 32."},{"answer":"Norway","tier":"schooler","score":30,"quip":"A first World Cup since 1998, and straight to the quarter-finals: past Ivory Coast, then Brazil 2-1, and beaten by England only in extra time."},{"answer":"Portugal","tier":"schooler","score":30,"quip":"Second in Colombia's group, 2-1 past Croatia in Toronto, and out to Spain by a single goal in Arlington."},{"answer":"Scotland","tier":"schooler","score":30,"quip":"Back at a World Cup after 28 years. One win, one goal scored in three matches, and still not a single knockout round in their history."},{"answer":"South Korea","tier":"schooler","score":30,"quip":"Three points, third in the hosts' group, and home after eight days."},{"answer":"Sweden","tier":"schooler","score":30,"quip":"Through the play-offs and then through the group as a third-placed team, before France put three past them in East Rutherford."},{"answer":"Switzerland","tier":"schooler","score":30,"quip":"Won a group containing Canada and Bosnia, beat Algeria, edged Colombia on penalties, and took Argentina to extra time in the quarter-final."},{"answer":"Uruguay","tier":"schooler","score":30,"quip":"Two draws, one defeat, two points, and out of Spain's group. The first World Cup winners, going home first."},{"answer":"Bosnia and Herzegovina","tier":"tooclever","score":15,"quip":"The 'don't forget who put Italy out' pick. Bosnia won the European play-off final on penalties on 31 March 2026, sending the four-time champions to a third World Cup in a row without them — and at world number 12, Italy were the highest-ranked team not to make it. Anyone who watched the play-offs types Bosnia."},{"answer":"Argentina","tier":"plankton","score":10,"quip":"Three group wins, extra time to see off Cape Verde and Switzerland, past England in the semi-final, and then 106 goalless minutes against Spain before it broke."},{"answer":"Brazil","tier":"plankton","score":10,"quip":"Out in the round of 16 to Norway, 2-1 — the same scoreline Norway beat them by in 1998, which was the last World Cup Norway had been to at all."},{"answer":"England","tier":"plankton","score":10,"quip":"Third place, secured by beating France 6-4 in a ten-goal consolation match. The semi-final against Argentina had finished 2-1 the wrong way."},{"answer":"France","tier":"plankton","score":10,"quip":"Won all three group games, reached the semi-final, lost 2-0 to Spain — and then lost the third-place match 6-4, which is not a football score."},{"answer":"Germany","tier":"plankton","score":10,"quip":"Ten goals in the group, including seven past Curaçao, and then out on penalties to Paraguay in the round of 32 — a round that had never existed before this tournament."},{"answer":"Mexico","tier":"plankton","score":10,"quip":"Co-hosts, and the only team to win all three group games without conceding — 6-0 across the group. England then beat them 3-2 in Mexico City."},{"answer":"Spain","tier":"plankton","score":10,"quip":"Champions. Seven wins, one draw, and a single goal conceded in the entire tournament — no winner had ever done that. Ferran Torres settled the final against Argentina in the 106th minute at MetLife."},{"answer":"United States","tier":"plankton","score":10,"quip":"Co-hosts. Through the group, 2-0 past Bosnia and Herzegovina, and then taken apart 4-1 by Belgium in Seattle."}]}]}