Making a trivia game.

I was looking at making a sports trivia java game. I want to make it so it starts with 20 seconds and goes down and the faster you answer it the seconds left equals how many points you get. Does anyone have any left over code or a similar style of game? I won't be putting it online or anything I am just making it for a friend and thats it so no real code stealing and making profit or anything. So can you please help me?
Thanks

SomethingCool wrote:
I have all the questions and everything done. I just need help getting started on the actual game.
Thanks"Help getting started" is very different from "a tutorial that has exactly what to do". So which do you want? The code so you can re-type it yourself? Or the basic concepts and techniques so you can actually create code yourself?

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