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      "id": "economics",
      "name": "Economics",
      "descriptor": "Markets, money and policy",
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        {
          "id": "economics-001",
          "story": {
            "id": "story-economics-001",
            "headline": "A central bank raises its policy rate for the third time in a year",
            "summary": "In this sample scenario, a central bank lifts its benchmark rate again while consumer price growth stays above target. Officials say demand is still running ahead of what the economy can supply. Commercial lenders immediately reprice mortgages and business loans, and the finance ministry warns that growth will slow before price pressure fades.",
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          },
          "prompt": "Why does raising the policy rate tend to reduce inflation?",
          "options": [
            {
              "id": "a",
              "text": "It directly caps the prices firms are allowed to charge"
            },
            {
              "id": "b",
              "text": "It makes borrowing costlier, which cools spending and investment"
            },
            {
              "id": "c",
              "text": "It increases the amount of money households hold"
            },
            {
              "id": "d",
              "text": "It forces importers to buy more foreign goods"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "economics-002",
          "story": {
            "id": "story-economics-002",
            "headline": "A mid-sized economy's currency falls sharply against the dollar",
            "summary": "In this sample scenario, a country's currency loses roughly a fifth of its value against the dollar over several months. The government points to investors moving money toward higher-yielding assets abroad. Exporters report stronger order books, while importers of fuel, machinery and food say their costs in local currency have climbed steeply.",
            "sourceName": "WorldCue sample scenario",
            "sourceUrl": "",
            "publishedAt": "2026-09-15T06:00:00Z",
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            "imageLabel": "Illustrative image — not from this event",
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          },
          "prompt": "What is the most direct effect of this depreciation on the economy?",
          "options": [
            {
              "id": "a",
              "text": "Imported goods become more expensive in local currency"
            },
            {
              "id": "b",
              "text": "Domestic wages automatically rise to match the exchange rate"
            },
            {
              "id": "c",
              "text": "Debt owed in dollars becomes cheaper to repay"
            },
            {
              "id": "d",
              "text": "The country's exports become less competitive abroad"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "economics-003",
          "story": {
            "id": "story-economics-003",
            "headline": "Short-term government bond yields rise above long-term yields",
            "summary": "In this sample scenario, two-year government bonds begin yielding more than ten-year bonds, a pattern analysts call an inverted curve. Commentators disagree about what it signals. Some treat it as a recession warning; others argue it mainly reflects expectations that the central bank will cut rates later, once current price pressures have eased.",
            "sourceName": "WorldCue sample scenario",
            "sourceUrl": "",
            "publishedAt": "2026-09-15T06:00:00Z",
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            "imageLabel": "Illustrative image — not from this event",
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          },
          "prompt": "What does an inverted yield curve most directly tell you?",
          "options": [
            {
              "id": "a",
              "text": "Government borrowing has become unaffordable"
            },
            {
              "id": "b",
              "text": "Inflation has already returned to the central bank's target"
            },
            {
              "id": "c",
              "text": "Investors expect short-term interest rates to be lower in future"
            },
            {
              "id": "d",
              "text": "Long-term bondholders have stopped being repaid"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "economics-004",
          "story": {
            "id": "story-economics-004",
            "headline": "Average pay rises four percent while prices rise six percent",
            "summary": "In this sample scenario, a statistics agency reports that nominal average earnings grew four percent over the year while the consumer price index rose six percent. A union federation and an employers' group publish competing readings of the same release, one stressing the pay increase and the other stressing cost pressure on firms.",
            "sourceName": "WorldCue sample scenario",
            "sourceUrl": "",
            "publishedAt": "2026-09-15T06:00:00Z",
            "imageUrl": "https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1632507127573-f4098f6f027f?ixid=M3wxMDY4OTYzfDB8MXxzZWFyY2h8MTR8fGZpbmFuY2UlMjByaXNlcyUyMGZvdXIlMjBwcmljZXN8ZW58MHwwfHx8MTc4OTYzNjkwN3ww&ixlib=rb-4.1.0&w=1200&h=627&fit=crop&crop=entropy&q=80&fm=jpg",
            "imageLabel": "Illustrative image — not from this event",
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            "imageAttributionUrl": "https://unsplash.com/@orenlbz?utm_source=WorldCue&utm_medium=referral",
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          },
          "prompt": "What happened to real wages over this period?",
          "options": [
            {
              "id": "a",
              "text": "They rose by about four percent"
            },
            {
              "id": "b",
              "text": "They stayed flat, because both figures are positive"
            },
            {
              "id": "c",
              "text": "They rose by about ten percent"
            },
            {
              "id": "d",
              "text": "They fell by roughly two percent"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "technology",
      "name": "Technology",
      "descriptor": "Compute, networks and platforms",
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        {
          "id": "technology-001",
          "story": {
            "id": "story-technology-001",
            "headline": "A government announces subsidies for a domestic chip plant",
            "summary": "In this sample scenario, a government commits multi-year subsidies toward a leading-edge semiconductor fabrication plant. Officials describe the move as reducing dependence on a small number of overseas suppliers. Industry analysts note that the hardest part is not the building itself but assembling the equipment, materials and trained staff that leading-edge production requires.",
            "sourceName": "WorldCue sample scenario",
            "sourceUrl": "",
            "publishedAt": "2026-09-15T06:00:00Z",
            "imageUrl": "https://images.pexels.com/photos/4386418/pexels-photo-4386418.jpeg?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&fit=crop&h=627&w=1200",
            "imageLabel": "Illustrative image — not from this event",
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          },
          "prompt": "Why is leading-edge chip manufacturing concentrated in so few places?",
          "options": [
            {
              "id": "a",
              "text": "Only a few countries hold the necessary silicon deposits"
            },
            {
              "id": "b",
              "text": "It depends on a narrow supply chain of specialised tools and expertise"
            },
            {
              "id": "c",
              "text": "International treaties restrict where chips may be made"
            },
            {
              "id": "d",
              "text": "Finished chips are too fragile to transport across borders"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "technology-002",
          "story": {
            "id": "story-technology-002",
            "headline": "A cloud provider opens a data centre closer to a growing user base",
            "summary": "In this sample scenario, a cloud provider opens a regional data centre and says local users will find applications more responsive. The company's existing links to the region already carried the traffic volume comfortably, but every request had to travel a long physical distance and back before any reply could arrive.",
            "sourceName": "WorldCue sample scenario",
            "sourceUrl": "",
            "publishedAt": "2026-09-15T06:00:00Z",
            "imageUrl": "https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1667372283496-893f0b1e7c16?ixid=M3wxMDY4OTYzfDB8MXxzZWFyY2h8N3x8dGVjaG5vbG9neSUyMGNsb3VkJTIwcHJvdmlkZXIlMjBvcGVuc3xlbnwwfDB8fHwxNzg5NjM2OTA4fDA&ixlib=rb-4.1.0&w=1200&h=627&fit=crop&crop=entropy&q=80&fm=jpg",
            "imageLabel": "Illustrative image — not from this event",
            "imageSourceUrl": "https://unsplash.com/photos/cloud-icon-with-data-and-padlock-8zB4P0eafrs?utm_source=WorldCue&utm_medium=referral",
            "imageAttribution": "Photo by Growtika on Unsplash",
            "imageAttributionUrl": "https://unsplash.com/@growtika?utm_source=WorldCue&utm_medium=referral",
            "imageLicense": "Unsplash License"
          },
          "prompt": "Which property does moving the data centre closer mainly improve?",
          "options": [
            {
              "id": "a",
              "text": "Bandwidth, the volume of data the link can carry"
            },
            {
              "id": "b",
              "text": "Storage capacity available to each user"
            },
            {
              "id": "c",
              "text": "Latency, the delay before a response arrives"
            },
            {
              "id": "d",
              "text": "The encryption strength of the connection"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "technology-003",
          "story": {
            "id": "story-technology-003",
            "headline": "A research lab releases a model it says was expensive to train",
            "summary": "In this sample scenario, a lab publishes a large machine-learning model and discloses that training consumed an enormous amount of computing time. The model is then made available through an interface used by millions of people every day. The lab notes that its ongoing running costs behave quite differently from that one-off training expense.",
            "sourceName": "WorldCue sample scenario",
            "sourceUrl": "",
            "publishedAt": "2026-09-15T06:00:00Z",
            "imageUrl": "https://images.pexels.com/photos/11679113/pexels-photo-11679113.jpeg?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&fit=crop&h=627&w=1200",
            "imageLabel": "Illustrative image — not from this event",
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            "imageAttributionUrl": "https://www.pexels.com/@willquezada-904402",
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          },
          "prompt": "How do training and inference costs typically differ for such a model?",
          "options": [
            {
              "id": "a",
              "text": "Training is a large one-off cost; inference recurs with every use"
            },
            {
              "id": "b",
              "text": "Both scale identically with the number of users"
            },
            {
              "id": "c",
              "text": "Inference is a one-off cost paid at release"
            },
            {
              "id": "d",
              "text": "The training cost is incurred again on each user request"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "technology-004",
          "story": {
            "id": "story-technology-004",
            "headline": "A company publishes its model weights under a custom licence",
            "summary": "In this sample scenario, a company releases the trained parameters of a machine-learning model for anyone to download, alongside a licence restricting certain commercial uses. Coverage describes the release as open source. Developers point out that the training data and code were never published, and that the licence limits how the weights may be used.",
            "sourceName": "WorldCue sample scenario",
            "sourceUrl": "",
            "publishedAt": "2026-09-15T06:00:00Z",
            "imageUrl": "https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1675557009285-b55f562641b9?ixid=M3wxMDY4OTYzfDB8MXxzZWFyY2h8OXx8dGVjaG5vbG9neSUyMGNvbXBhbnklMjBwdWJsaXNoZXMlMjBtb2RlbHxlbnwwfDB8fHwxNzg5NjM2OTA5fDA&ixlib=rb-4.1.0&w=1200&h=627&fit=crop&crop=entropy&q=80&fm=jpg",
            "imageLabel": "Illustrative image — not from this event",
            "imageSourceUrl": "https://unsplash.com/photos/a-close-up-of-a-computer-screen-with-a-message-on-it-UF3vfhV04SA?utm_source=WorldCue&utm_medium=referral",
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            "imageAttributionUrl": "https://unsplash.com/@jupp?utm_source=WorldCue&utm_medium=referral",
            "imageLicense": "Unsplash License"
          },
          "prompt": "Why does publishing model weights not by itself make a release open source?",
          "options": [
            {
              "id": "a",
              "text": "Open weights always carry a download fee"
            },
            {
              "id": "b",
              "text": "Open source requires a release to carry no licence at all"
            },
            {
              "id": "c",
              "text": "Model weights are not software, so licences cannot apply to them"
            },
            {
              "id": "d",
              "text": "Downloadable parameters can still carry use restrictions and withheld code"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "geopolitics",
      "name": "Geopolitics",
      "descriptor": "States, borders and power",
      "displayOrder": 3,
      "questions": [
        {
          "id": "geopolitics-001",
          "story": {
            "id": "story-geopolitics-001",
            "headline": "Shipping traffic slows through a narrow international strait",
            "summary": "In this sample scenario, vessel traffic through a narrow strait slows for several weeks. A large share of the region's seaborne energy trade normally passes through it. Shipping firms begin routing some vessels the long way around a continent instead, adding days to each voyage, and marine insurers raise premiums for the affected corridor.",
            "sourceName": "WorldCue sample scenario",
            "sourceUrl": "",
            "publishedAt": "2026-09-15T06:00:00Z",
            "imageUrl": "https://images.pexels.com/photos/29320856/pexels-photo-29320856.jpeg?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&fit=crop&h=627&w=1200",
            "imageLabel": "Illustrative image — not from this event",
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            "imageAttributionUrl": "https://www.pexels.com/@lynx-everhart-2066114986",
            "imageLicense": "Pexels License"
          },
          "prompt": "Why do narrow straits matter disproportionately to global trade?",
          "options": [
            {
              "id": "a",
              "text": "A large volume of trade funnels through them with few alternative routes"
            },
            {
              "id": "b",
              "text": "They are the only waters where large ships may legally sail"
            },
            {
              "id": "c",
              "text": "Cargo must be unloaded and reloaded at every strait"
            },
            {
              "id": "d",
              "text": "Ships can only navigate them during daylight hours"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "geopolitics-002",
          "story": {
            "id": "story-geopolitics-002",
            "headline": "Trade data shows a sanctioned economy's imports shifting to new partners",
            "summary": "In this sample scenario, a sanctioned country's direct imports from a sanctioning bloc collapse. Over the following year, exports from that bloc to several neighbouring countries rise sharply, and those neighbours' exports onward to the sanctioned country rise by a strikingly similar amount. Analysts describe the pattern as consistent with goods being re-routed.",
            "sourceName": "WorldCue sample scenario",
            "sourceUrl": "",
            "publishedAt": "2026-09-15T06:00:00Z",
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            "imageLabel": "Illustrative image — not from this event",
            "imageSourceUrl": "https://unsplash.com/photos/a-close-up-of-a-cell-phone-screen-with-a-line-graph-on-it-YqhbpcWGQNg?utm_source=WorldCue&utm_medium=referral",
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            "imageLicense": "Unsplash License"
          },
          "prompt": "What does this trade pattern most likely illustrate?",
          "options": [
            {
              "id": "a",
              "text": "The sanctions stopped the goods reaching their destination"
            },
            {
              "id": "b",
              "text": "Trade was re-routed through third countries rather than eliminated"
            },
            {
              "id": "c",
              "text": "The neighbouring countries suddenly began producing the goods themselves"
            },
            {
              "id": "d",
              "text": "Global demand for the goods collapsed"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "geopolitics-003",
          "story": {
            "id": "story-geopolitics-003",
            "headline": "A Security Council resolution fails despite majority support",
            "summary": "In this sample scenario, a draft resolution at the UN Security Council attracts support from a clear majority of the council's fifteen members but is not adopted. One permanent member votes against it. Commentators note the outcome reflects the council's voting structure rather than the level of support the text actually attracted.",
            "sourceName": "WorldCue sample scenario",
            "sourceUrl": "",
            "publishedAt": "2026-09-15T06:00:00Z",
            "imageUrl": "https://images.pexels.com/photos/39049423/pexels-photo-39049423.jpeg?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&fit=crop&h=627&w=1200",
            "imageLabel": "Illustrative image — not from this event",
            "imageSourceUrl": "https://www.pexels.com/photo/european-flags-against-clear-blue-sky-39049423/",
            "imageAttribution": "Photo by Tim Diercks on Pexels",
            "imageAttributionUrl": "https://www.pexels.com/@tim-diercks-719708976",
            "imageLicense": "Pexels License"
          },
          "prompt": "Why can a majority-supported Security Council resolution still fail?",
          "options": [
            {
              "id": "a",
              "text": "Resolutions require unanimous support from all fifteen members"
            },
            {
              "id": "b",
              "text": "The General Assembly must ratify every resolution first"
            },
            {
              "id": "c",
              "text": "Any one of the five permanent members can block adoption by voting against"
            },
            {
              "id": "d",
              "text": "Abstentions are counted as votes against"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "geopolitics-004",
          "story": {
            "id": "story-geopolitics-004",
            "headline": "Two neighbouring states each expand defence spending, citing the other",
            "summary": "In this sample scenario, two neighbouring states raise defence budgets within months of each other. Each government describes its own increase as purely defensive and the other's as threatening. Neither states any intention to attack. Regional analysts note the two build-ups are reinforcing one another even though both sides describe their aims as protective.",
            "sourceName": "WorldCue sample scenario",
            "sourceUrl": "",
            "publishedAt": "2026-09-15T06:00:00Z",
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            "imageLabel": "Illustrative image — not from this event",
            "imageSourceUrl": "https://www.pexels.com/photo/men-presenting-traditional-fashion-8770999/",
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            "imageAttributionUrl": "https://www.pexels.com/@gustavo-fring",
            "imageLicense": "Pexels License"
          },
          "prompt": "Which concept best describes this dynamic?",
          "options": [
            {
              "id": "a",
              "text": "The security dilemma, where defensive moves read as threats to others"
            },
            {
              "id": "b",
              "text": "Deterrence failure, since neither side has attacked"
            },
            {
              "id": "c",
              "text": "Economic interdependence reducing the risk of conflict"
            },
            {
              "id": "d",
              "text": "Collective security, since both states are arming"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "science",
      "name": "Science",
      "descriptor": "Evidence, method and discovery",
      "displayOrder": 4,
      "questions": [
        {
          "id": "science-001",
          "story": {
            "id": "story-science-001",
            "headline": "A trial reports a vaccine is ninety percent efficacious",
            "summary": "In this sample scenario, a randomised controlled trial reports ninety percent efficacy for a new vaccine. Public health officials caution that the figure comes from a trial population under controlled conditions, and that the number observed once the vaccine is deployed across a wider and far more varied population may turn out to differ.",
            "sourceName": "WorldCue sample scenario",
            "sourceUrl": "",
            "publishedAt": "2026-09-15T06:00:00Z",
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            "imageLabel": "Illustrative image — not from this event",
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          },
          "prompt": "What is the difference between efficacy and effectiveness?",
          "options": [
            {
              "id": "a",
              "text": "Efficacy is measured in trials; effectiveness is measured in real-world use"
            },
            {
              "id": "b",
              "text": "They are two names for the same measurement"
            },
            {
              "id": "c",
              "text": "Efficacy applies to drugs and effectiveness applies to vaccines"
            },
            {
              "id": "d",
              "text": "Effectiveness is always the larger of the two numbers"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "science-002",
          "story": {
            "id": "story-science-002",
            "headline": "A medical tracer is described as having a six-hour half-life",
            "summary": "In this sample scenario, a hospital receives a radioactive tracer with a half-life of about six hours. Staff plan the day's scans around the delivery, because the usable quantity falls steadily from the moment it arrives. The supplier cannot ship it long distances without a substantial share of it decaying while still in transit.",
            "sourceName": "WorldCue sample scenario",
            "sourceUrl": "",
            "publishedAt": "2026-09-15T06:00:00Z",
            "imageUrl": "https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1727091506038-5451111dc2fb?ixid=M3wxMDY4OTYzfDB8MXxzZWFyY2h8MTR8fGxhYm9yYXRvcnklMjByZXNlYXJjaCUyMG1lZGljYWwlMjB0cmFjZXIlMjBkZXNjcmliZWR8ZW58MHwwfHx8MTc4OTYzNjkxNHww&ixlib=rb-4.1.0&w=1200&h=627&fit=crop&crop=entropy&q=80&fm=jpg",
            "imageLabel": "Illustrative image — not from this event",
            "imageSourceUrl": "https://unsplash.com/photos/a-person-in-white-gloves-looking-through-a-microscope-L1ip8dEWuzE?utm_source=WorldCue&utm_medium=referral",
            "imageAttribution": "Photo by Indra Projects on Unsplash",
            "imageAttributionUrl": "https://unsplash.com/@indraprojects?utm_source=WorldCue&utm_medium=referral",
            "imageLicense": "Unsplash License"
          },
          "prompt": "Roughly how much of the tracer remains after twelve hours?",
          "options": [
            {
              "id": "a",
              "text": "None of it"
            },
            {
              "id": "b",
              "text": "About one quarter"
            },
            {
              "id": "c",
              "text": "About one half"
            },
            {
              "id": "d",
              "text": "About one third"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "science-003",
          "story": {
            "id": "story-science-003",
            "headline": "A study finds coffee drinkers have higher rates of a condition",
            "summary": "In this sample scenario, an observational study reports that people who drink more coffee have higher rates of a particular health condition. The authors note that heavier coffee drinkers in their sample were also considerably more likely to smoke, and that smoking is itself strongly associated with the very condition being studied.",
            "sourceName": "WorldCue sample scenario",
            "sourceUrl": "",
            "publishedAt": "2026-09-15T06:00:00Z",
            "imageUrl": "https://images.pexels.com/photos/6608509/pexels-photo-6608509.jpeg?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&fit=crop&h=627&w=1200",
            "imageLabel": "Illustrative image — not from this event",
            "imageSourceUrl": "https://www.pexels.com/photo/person-holding-and-fixing-glass-test-tubes-on-plastic-rack-6608509/",
            "imageAttribution": "Photo by Daria on Pexels",
            "imageAttributionUrl": "https://www.pexels.com/@dubart",
            "imageLicense": "Pexels License"
          },
          "prompt": "What role does smoking play in this study?",
          "options": [
            {
              "id": "a",
              "text": "It is the control group"
            },
            {
              "id": "b",
              "text": "It proves that coffee causes the condition"
            },
            {
              "id": "c",
              "text": "It is a confounder that could explain the apparent coffee association"
            },
            {
              "id": "d",
              "text": "It is a placebo effect"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "science-004",
          "story": {
            "id": "story-science-004",
            "headline": "A small study's striking finding fails to replicate",
            "summary": "In this sample scenario, a study of thirty participants reports a large, statistically significant effect. A later study using the same protocol with two thousand participants finds a much smaller effect that cannot be distinguished from zero. Methodologists say the pattern is common and follows from how small samples behave statistically.",
            "sourceName": "WorldCue sample scenario",
            "sourceUrl": "",
            "publishedAt": "2026-09-15T06:00:00Z",
            "imageUrl": "https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1669344319217-19810a5e3d3b?ixid=M3wxMDY4OTYzfDB8MXxzZWFyY2h8MTJ8fGxhYm9yYXRvcnklMjByZXNlYXJjaCUyMHNtYWxsJTIwc3R1ZHklMjdzJTIwc3RyaWtpbmd8ZW58MHwwfHx8MTc4OTYzNjkxNnww&ixlib=rb-4.1.0&w=1200&h=627&fit=crop&crop=entropy&q=80&fm=jpg",
            "imageLabel": "Illustrative image — not from this event",
            "imageSourceUrl": "https://unsplash.com/photos/a-machine-in-a-room-rITneP1ivLk?utm_source=WorldCue&utm_medium=referral",
            "imageAttribution": "Photo by RephiLe water on Unsplash",
            "imageAttributionUrl": "https://unsplash.com/@revolution_in_filtration?utm_source=WorldCue&utm_medium=referral",
            "imageLicense": "Unsplash License"
          },
          "prompt": "Why do small studies often report effects that shrink on replication?",
          "options": [
            {
              "id": "a",
              "text": "Larger studies deliberately use weaker statistical tests"
            },
            {
              "id": "b",
              "text": "Small samples are noisy, so only unusually large estimates reach significance"
            },
            {
              "id": "c",
              "text": "Replication studies are designed to find smaller effects"
            },
            {
              "id": "d",
              "text": "Statistical significance is impossible to reach in large samples"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "business",
      "name": "Business",
      "descriptor": "Companies, models and capital",
      "displayOrder": 5,
      "questions": [
        {
          "id": "business-001",
          "story": {
            "id": "story-business-001",
            "headline": "A retailer reports rising revenue and a widening loss",
            "summary": "In this sample scenario, a retailer announces that revenue grew strongly over the year while its bottom-line loss also grew. The company reports that the cost of the goods it sells rose roughly in line with sales, while spending on marketing, salaries and new store openings rose considerably faster than revenue did.",
            "sourceName": "WorldCue sample scenario",
            "sourceUrl": "",
            "publishedAt": "2026-09-15T06:00:00Z",
            "imageUrl": "https://images.pexels.com/photos/8062289/pexels-photo-8062289.jpeg?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&fit=crop&h=627&w=1200",
            "imageLabel": "Illustrative image — not from this event",
            "imageSourceUrl": "https://www.pexels.com/photo/gray-laptop-beside-white-printer-paper-8062289/",
            "imageAttribution": "Photo by Nataliya Vaitkevich on Pexels",
            "imageAttributionUrl": "https://www.pexels.com/@n-voitkevich",
            "imageLicense": "Pexels License"
          },
          "prompt": "Which pairing is consistent with this report?",
          "options": [
            {
              "id": "a",
              "text": "Gross margin roughly stable while operating expenses grew faster than revenue"
            },
            {
              "id": "b",
              "text": "Gross margin collapsed while operating expenses fell"
            },
            {
              "id": "c",
              "text": "Revenue growth mathematically guarantees a profit"
            },
            {
              "id": "d",
              "text": "The company must have sold its goods below cost"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "business-002",
          "story": {
            "id": "story-business-002",
            "headline": "A subscription company spends six hundred to win each customer",
            "summary": "In this sample scenario, a subscription business reports an average acquisition cost of six hundred per customer. Each customer pays fifty per month, and the company keeps roughly sixty percent of that after the direct cost of serving them. Investors ask how long a new customer takes to pay back what was spent winning them.",
            "sourceName": "WorldCue sample scenario",
            "sourceUrl": "",
            "publishedAt": "2026-09-15T06:00:00Z",
            "imageUrl": "https://images.pexels.com/photos/8068810/pexels-photo-8068810.jpeg?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&fit=crop&h=627&w=1200",
            "imageLabel": "Illustrative image — not from this event",
            "imageSourceUrl": "https://www.pexels.com/photo/a-person-holding-a-pie-chart-report-8068810/",
            "imageAttribution": "Photo by RDNE Stock project on Pexels",
            "imageAttributionUrl": "https://www.pexels.com/@rdne",
            "imageLicense": "Pexels License"
          },
          "prompt": "Roughly how long is the acquisition-cost payback period here?",
          "options": [
            {
              "id": "a",
              "text": "About twelve months"
            },
            {
              "id": "b",
              "text": "About twenty months"
            },
            {
              "id": "c",
              "text": "About six months"
            },
            {
              "id": "d",
              "text": "It cannot be estimated from these figures"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "business-003",
          "story": {
            "id": "story-business-003",
            "headline": "A software firm collects a full year of fees upfront",
            "summary": "In this sample scenario, a software company sells annual contracts and collects all twelve months of fees on the day each contract starts. Its cash balance jumps immediately. Its reported revenue for the quarter rises far less, and a liability on its balance sheet grows by most of the amount that was collected.",
            "sourceName": "WorldCue sample scenario",
            "sourceUrl": "",
            "publishedAt": "2026-09-15T06:00:00Z",
            "imageUrl": "https://images.pexels.com/photos/8284734/pexels-photo-8284734.jpeg?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&fit=crop&h=627&w=1200",
            "imageLabel": "Illustrative image — not from this event",
            "imageSourceUrl": "https://www.pexels.com/photo/people-having-a-meeting-8284734/",
            "imageAttribution": "Photo by Mikhail Nilov on Pexels",
            "imageAttributionUrl": "https://www.pexels.com/@mikhail-nilov",
            "imageLicense": "Pexels License"
          },
          "prompt": "Why does reported revenue rise so much less than cash?",
          "options": [
            {
              "id": "a",
              "text": "The company is concealing revenue from investors"
            },
            {
              "id": "b",
              "text": "Cash collected upfront can never be recognised as revenue"
            },
            {
              "id": "c",
              "text": "Revenue is recognised as the service is delivered across the contract term"
            },
            {
              "id": "d",
              "text": "Annual contracts are not counted as sales at all"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "business-004",
          "story": {
            "id": "story-business-004",
            "headline": "A grocery chain operates with negative working capital",
            "summary": "In this sample scenario, a grocery chain sells its inventory in about two weeks but does not pay its suppliers for roughly two months. Customers pay at the till immediately. The company describes this gap as a source of funding that grows as the business expands, and shrinks again if growth ever stops.",
            "sourceName": "WorldCue sample scenario",
            "sourceUrl": "",
            "publishedAt": "2026-09-15T06:00:00Z",
            "imageUrl": "https://images.pexels.com/photos/25242198/pexels-photo-25242198.jpeg?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&fit=crop&h=627&w=1200",
            "imageLabel": "Illustrative image — not from this event",
            "imageSourceUrl": "https://www.pexels.com/photo/walgreens-pharmacy-store-under-dark-clouds-25242198/",
            "imageAttribution": "Photo by Yuugen Rai on Pexels",
            "imageAttributionUrl": "https://www.pexels.com/@yuugen-rai-924575946",
            "imageLicense": "Pexels License"
          },
          "prompt": "Why does this arrangement effectively help fund the company's growth?",
          "options": [
            {
              "id": "a",
              "text": "Suppliers are in effect lending it money by waiting to be paid"
            },
            {
              "id": "b",
              "text": "It earns interest on unsold inventory"
            },
            {
              "id": "c",
              "text": "It reduces the company's tax liability"
            },
            {
              "id": "d",
              "text": "It raises the price customers pay at the till"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "climate",
      "name": "Climate",
      "descriptor": "Energy, emissions and impact",
      "displayOrder": 6,
      "questions": [
        {
          "id": "climate-001",
          "story": {
            "id": "story-climate-001",
            "headline": "A region records its coldest week in a decade",
            "summary": "In this sample scenario, a region experiences an unusually cold week, its coldest in ten years. In the same month, the national meteorological agency publishes data showing that the region's average temperature has risen steadily across the past several decades. Both statements come from the same agency and are not in conflict.",
            "sourceName": "WorldCue sample scenario",
            "sourceUrl": "",
            "publishedAt": "2026-09-15T06:00:00Z",
            "imageUrl": "https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1621290102989-e9865bef2dcf?ixid=M3wxMDY4OTYzfDB8MXxzZWFyY2h8MTF8fGNsaW1hdGUlMjBlbnZpcm9ubWVudCUyMHJlZ2lvbiUyMHJlY29yZHMlMjBjb2xkZXN0fGVufDB8MHx8fDE3ODk2MzY5MjB8MA&ixlib=rb-4.1.0&w=1200&h=627&fit=crop&crop=entropy&q=80&fm=jpg",
            "imageLabel": "Illustrative image — not from this event",
            "imageSourceUrl": "https://unsplash.com/photos/snow-covered-pine-trees-and-mountains-nqSeto6vWfU?utm_source=WorldCue&utm_medium=referral",
            "imageAttribution": "Photo by Vlad D on Unsplash",
            "imageAttributionUrl": "https://unsplash.com/@hiking_corgi?utm_source=WorldCue&utm_medium=referral",
            "imageLicense": "Unsplash License"
          },
          "prompt": "Why can both statements be true at the same time?",
          "options": [
            {
              "id": "a",
              "text": "One describes a short-term weather event, the other a long-term climate trend"
            },
            {
              "id": "b",
              "text": "The agency must have made an error in one of the datasets"
            },
            {
              "id": "c",
              "text": "Cold weeks demonstrate that average temperatures are falling"
            },
            {
              "id": "d",
              "text": "Climate refers only to summer temperatures"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "climate-002",
          "story": {
            "id": "story-climate-002",
            "headline": "Researchers report a forest absorbing less carbon than before",
            "summary": "In this sample scenario, researchers monitoring a large forest report that it absorbs less carbon dioxide each year than it did two decades ago, despite covering a similar area. They point to drought stress, higher temperatures and fire as factors reducing how much carbon the standing forest takes up and manages to retain.",
            "sourceName": "WorldCue sample scenario",
            "sourceUrl": "",
            "publishedAt": "2026-09-15T06:00:00Z",
            "imageUrl": "https://images.pexels.com/photos/34666498/pexels-photo-34666498.jpeg?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&fit=crop&h=627&w=1200",
            "imageLabel": "Illustrative image — not from this event",
            "imageSourceUrl": "https://www.pexels.com/photo/aerial-view-of-cloud-covered-turkish-landscape-34666498/",
            "imageAttribution": "Photo by Abdülkadir KESKİN on Pexels",
            "imageAttributionUrl": "https://www.pexels.com/@abdulkadir-keski-n-1643204428",
            "imageLicense": "Pexels License"
          },
          "prompt": "What does a weakening carbon sink imply for atmospheric CO2?",
          "options": [
            {
              "id": "a",
              "text": "Atmospheric CO2 must fall as forests adjust"
            },
            {
              "id": "b",
              "text": "More of each year's emissions stay in the atmosphere"
            },
            {
              "id": "c",
              "text": "Emissions are automatically offset somewhere else"
            },
            {
              "id": "d",
              "text": "The forest now emits more than any human source"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "climate-003",
          "story": {
            "id": "story-climate-003",
            "headline": "A wind farm is commissioned with two hundred megawatts of capacity",
            "summary": "In this sample scenario, a newly commissioned wind farm is described as having two hundred megawatts of capacity. Over its first full year it generates roughly the same total electricity as a much smaller plant that runs almost continuously. Grid planners refer to the ratio between actual output and theoretical maximum output.",
            "sourceName": "WorldCue sample scenario",
            "sourceUrl": "",
            "publishedAt": "2026-09-15T06:00:00Z",
            "imageUrl": "https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1594389615321-4f50c5d7878c?ixid=M3wxMDY4OTYzfDB8MXxzZWFyY2h8MTN8fGNsaW1hdGUlMjBlbnZpcm9ubWVudCUyMHdpbmQlMjBmYXJtJTIwY29tbWlzc2lvbmVkfGVufDB8MHx8fDE3ODk2MzY5MjF8MA&ixlib=rb-4.1.0&w=1200&h=627&fit=crop&crop=entropy&q=80&fm=jpg",
            "imageLabel": "Illustrative image — not from this event",
            "imageSourceUrl": "https://unsplash.com/photos/white-wind-turbines-on-green-grass-field-under-white-cloudy-sky-during-daytime-Xa4pTwafe5U?utm_source=WorldCue&utm_medium=referral",
            "imageAttribution": "Photo by Luo Lei on Unsplash",
            "imageAttributionUrl": "https://unsplash.com/@luolei?utm_source=WorldCue&utm_medium=referral",
            "imageLicense": "Unsplash License"
          },
          "prompt": "What does capacity factor measure?",
          "options": [
            {
              "id": "a",
              "text": "The peak power the plant can produce at any instant"
            },
            {
              "id": "b",
              "text": "The total cost of building the plant per megawatt"
            },
            {
              "id": "c",
              "text": "Actual output as a share of maximum possible output over a period"
            },
            {
              "id": "d",
              "text": "How many years the plant will remain in service"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "climate-004",
          "story": {
            "id": "story-climate-004",
            "headline": "A policy targets methane leaks separately from carbon dioxide",
            "summary": "In this sample scenario, a government sets a separate near-term target for methane leaks alongside its carbon dioxide goals. Officials explain that methane traps far more heat per tonne over a short period but breaks down in the atmosphere within roughly a decade, whereas carbon dioxide persists there for centuries.",
            "sourceName": "WorldCue sample scenario",
            "sourceUrl": "",
            "publishedAt": "2026-09-15T06:00:00Z",
            "imageUrl": "https://images.pexels.com/photos/14804593/pexels-photo-14804593.jpeg?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&fit=crop&h=627&w=1200",
            "imageLabel": "Illustrative image — not from this event",
            "imageSourceUrl": "https://www.pexels.com/photo/silhouetted-buildings-and-a-dramatic-sunset-sky-14804593/",
            "imageAttribution": "Photo by Stanislav Kondratiev on Pexels",
            "imageAttributionUrl": "https://www.pexels.com/@technobulka",
            "imageLicense": "Pexels License"
          },
          "prompt": "Why can cutting methane deliver faster temperature benefits than cutting CO2?",
          "options": [
            {
              "id": "a",
              "text": "Methane's short atmospheric lifetime means cuts show up quickly"
            },
            {
              "id": "b",
              "text": "Methane is not a greenhouse gas over longer periods"
            },
            {
              "id": "c",
              "text": "CO2 traps more heat per tonne than methane does"
            },
            {
              "id": "d",
              "text": "Methane emissions are simply easier to measure"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}