sub GetQuestion {
        $PointValue = $ScoreValues[rand($#ScoreValues)];
        if (rand(15) == 0) { $PointValue *= 2; }
        $FileNum = int(rand($TotalFiles))+1;
        $QNum = int(rand($QuestionDBinfo{$FileNum}[1]))+1;
        open(QFILE, $QuestionDBinfo{$FileNum}[0]) or die "Error opening the trivia file\n";
        for($i = 0; $i < $QNum; $i += 1) {
                $QuestionLine = <QFILE>;
        }
        close(QFILE);

        $d = substr($QuestionLine,0,1);
        $Question = (split(/[$d][$d]/,$QuestionLine))[1];
        $Category = (split(/[$d]/,$QuestionLine))[1];
        $Answer = (split(/[$d]/,$QuestionLine))[2];
        $QID = "F".$FileNum.".Q".$QNum;
        chomp($Question);
        if ($Category eq "Scramble") {
                @letters = ();
                for($i=0;$i<length($Question);$i+=1) {
                        push(@letters,substr($Question,$i,1));
                }
                @letters = shuffle(@letters);
                $Question = "";
for($i=0;$i<scalar(@letters);$i+=1) {
                        $Question = $Question." ".$letters[$i];
                }
                $Question = "Unscramble this word: ".$Question;
                $l = length($Answer) - 5;
                while ($l >= 0) {
                        if (int(rand(2)) == 1) { $PointValue *= 2; }
                        $l -= 3;
                }
        }

        @retval = ($PointValue, $QID, $Category, $Question, $Answer);

        return @retval;
}