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> Question and Answer JSON-LD Schema Example

JSON-LD sample code for question and answers including live examples from places all throughout the web, updated for 2025.

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Last updated February 18, 2025 by Patrick Coombe

Question and Answers are a hot topic in SEO right now. We don’t have too much info here for now, but here is some JSON-LD to get you started:

question-and-answer.jsonld · 895B test
{
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@type": "QAPage",
    "mainEntity": {
      "@type": "Question",
      "name": "What does Google mean by E-A-T.",
      "text": "Within the past few years, Google has started talking a lot about E-A-T in regards to SEO.",
      "answerCount": 1,
      "dateCreated": "2019-08-10T21:11Z",
      "author": {
        "@type": "Person",
        "name": "Patrick Coombe"
      },
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "In SEO, E-A-T stands for expertise, authority, and trustworthiness. It is a term derived directly from Google's own quality raters guidelines.",
        "upvotecount": 1,
        "dateCreated": "2019-08-12T21:11Z",
        "url": "https://elite-strategies.com/learn-seo/on-page-seo/eat-ymyl/",
        "author": {
          "@type": "Person",
          "name": "Patrick Coombe"
        }
      }
    }
  }

Here is another JSON-LD question and answer snippet found out in the wild in the form of a Quiz (inches to cm converter)

question-and-answer.jsonld · 10.9K test
{
    "@context": "https://schema.org/",
    "@type": "Quiz",
    "url": "https://byjus.com/maths/inches-to-cm-converter/",
    "typicalAgeRange": "10-17",
    "educationalLevel": "intermediate",
    "assesses": "Attend this Quiz & Test your knowledge.",
    "educationalAlignment": [
        {
            "@type": "AlignmentObject",
            "alignmentType": "educationalSubject",
            "targetName": "Maths"
        },
        {
            "@type": "AlignmentObject",
            "alignmentType": "educationalSubject",
            "targetName": " Inches To Cm Converter"
        }
    ],
    "name": "Quiz about Inches To Cm Converter",
    "about": {
        "@type": "Thing",
        "name": "Inches To Cm Converter"
    },
    "hasPart": [
        {
            "@type": "Question",
            "eduQuestionType": "Multiple choice",
            "learningResourceType": "Practice problem",
            "name": "Recollect the concept of Inches To Cm Converter to solve the questions.",
            "text": "1 inch is equal to how many centimeters?",
            "encodingFormat": "text/html",
            "suggestedAnswer": [
                {
                    "@type": "Answer",
                    "position": 0,
                    "encodingFormat": "text/html",
                    "text": "2",
                    "comment": {
                        "@type": "Comment",
                        "text": "It is wrong option."
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "Answer",
                    "position": 2,
                    "encodingFormat": "text/html",
                    "text": "2.7",
                    "comment": {
                        "@type": "Comment",
                        "text": "It is wrong option."
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "Answer",
                    "position": 3,
                    "encodingFormat": "text/html",
                    "text": "2.9",
                    "comment": {
                        "@type": "Comment",
                        "text": "It is wrong option."
                    }
                }
            ],
            "acceptedAnswer": {
                "@type": "Answer",
                "position": 1,
                "encodingFormat": "text/html",
                "text": "2.54",
                "answerExplanation": {
                    "@type": "Comment",
                    "text": "Correct answer is 2.54"
                },
                "comment": {
                    "@type": "Comment",
                    "text": "Option B is correct"
                }
            },
            "comment": {
                "@type": "Comment",
                "text": "1 inch is equal to how many centimeters?"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "Question",
            "eduQuestionType": "Multiple choice",
            "learningResourceType": "Practice problem",
            "name": "Recollect the concept of Inches To Cm Converter to solve the questions.",
            "text": "1 cm = ___ inches",
            "encodingFormat": "text/html",
            "suggestedAnswer": [
                {
                    "@type": "Answer",
                    "position": 1,
                    "encodingFormat": "text/html",
                    "text": "0.4",
                    "comment": {
                        "@type": "Comment",
                        "text": "It is wrong option."
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "Answer",
                    "position": 2,
                    "encodingFormat": "text/html",
                    "text": "0.51",
                    "comment": {
                        "@type": "Comment",
                        "text": "It is wrong option."
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "Answer",
                    "position": 3,
                    "encodingFormat": "text/html",
                    "text": "0.69",
                    "comment": {
                        "@type": "Comment",
                        "text": "It is wrong option."
                    }
                }
            ],
            "acceptedAnswer": {
                "@type": "Answer",
                "position": 0,
                "encodingFormat": "text/html",
                "text": "0.39",
                "answerExplanation": {
                    "@type": "Comment",
                    "text": "Correct answer is 0.39"
                },
                "comment": {
                    "@type": "Comment",
                    "text": "Option A is correct"
                }
            },
            "comment": {
                "@type": "Comment",
                "text": "1 cm = ___ inches"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "Question",
            "eduQuestionType": "Multiple choice",
            "learningResourceType": "Practice problem",
            "name": "Recollect the concept of Inches To Cm Converter to solve the questions.",
            "text": "5 inches is equal to?",
            "encodingFormat": "text/html",
            "suggestedAnswer": [
                {
                    "@type": "Answer",
                    "position": 0,
                    "encodingFormat": "text/html",
                    "text": "10.7 cm",
                    "comment": {
                        "@type": "Comment",
                        "text": "It is wrong option."
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "Answer",
                    "position": 1,
                    "encodingFormat": "text/html",
                    "text": "11.7 cm",
                    "comment": {
                        "@type": "Comment",
                        "text": "It is wrong option."
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "Answer",
                    "position": 3,
                    "encodingFormat": "text/html",
                    "text": "13.7 cm",
                    "comment": {
                        "@type": "Comment",
                        "text": "It is wrong option."
                    }
                }
            ],
            "acceptedAnswer": {
                "@type": "Answer",
                "position": 2,
                "encodingFormat": "text/html",
                "text": "12.7 cm",
                "answerExplanation": {
                    "@type": "Comment",
                    "text": "Correct answer is 12.7 cm"
                },
                "comment": {
                    "@type": "Comment",
                    "text": "Option C is correct"
                }
            },
            "comment": {
                "@type": "Comment",
                "text": "5 inches is equal to?"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "Question",
            "eduQuestionType": "Multiple choice",
            "learningResourceType": "Practice problem",
            "name": "Recollect the concept of Inches To Cm Converter to solve the questions.",
            "text": "Half inch is equal to how many centimeter?",
            "encodingFormat": "text/html",
            "suggestedAnswer": [
                {
                    "@type": "Answer",
                    "position": 1,
                    "encodingFormat": "text/html",
                    "text": "1.07 cm",
                    "comment": {
                        "@type": "Comment",
                        "text": "It is wrong option."
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "Answer",
                    "position": 2,
                    "encodingFormat": "text/html",
                    "text": "1.17 cm",
                    "comment": {
                        "@type": "Comment",
                        "text": "It is wrong option."
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "Answer",
                    "position": 3,
                    "encodingFormat": "text/html",
                    "text": "2.54 cm",
                    "comment": {
                        "@type": "Comment",
                        "text": "It is wrong option."
                    }
                }
            ],
            "acceptedAnswer": {
                "@type": "Answer",
                "position": 0,
                "encodingFormat": "text/html",
                "text": "1.27 cm",
                "answerExplanation": {
                    "@type": "Comment",
                    "text": "Correct answer is 1.27 cm"
                },
                "comment": {
                    "@type": "Comment",
                    "text": "Option A is correct"
                }
            },
            "comment": {
                "@type": "Comment",
                "text": "Half inch is equal to how many centimeter?"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "Question",
            "eduQuestionType": "Multiple choice",
            "learningResourceType": "Practice problem",
            "name": "Recollect the concept of Inches To Cm Converter to solve the questions.",
            "text": "How to convert inch to centimeters?",
            "encodingFormat": "text/html",
            "suggestedAnswer": [
                {
                    "@type": "Answer",
                    "position": 0,
                    "encodingFormat": "text/html",
                    "text": "Divide by 2.54",
                    "comment": {
                        "@type": "Comment",
                        "text": "It is wrong option."
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "Answer",
                    "position": 2,
                    "encodingFormat": "text/html",
                    "text": "Divide by 0.39",
                    "comment": {
                        "@type": "Comment",
                        "text": "It is wrong option."
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "Answer",
                    "position": 3,
                    "encodingFormat": "text/html",
                    "text": "Multiply by 0.39",
                    "comment": {
                        "@type": "Comment",
                        "text": "It is wrong option."
                    }
                }
            ],
            "acceptedAnswer": {
                "@type": "Answer",
                "position": 1,
                "encodingFormat": "text/html",
                "text": "Multiply by 2.54",
                "answerExplanation": {
                    "@type": "Comment",
                    "text": "Correct answer is Multiply by 2.54"
                },
                "comment": {
                    "@type": "Comment",
                    "text": "Option B is correct"
                }
            },
            "comment": {
                "@type": "Comment",
                "text": "How to convert inch to centimeters?"
            }
        }
    ]
}