title: Basic MongoDb Retrieval
body: <p>I have two "documents" that I inserted into my MongoDB database.</p>
  
  <pre><code>questionsList.insert({question: "When was the War of 1812", answer: "1812", answers: ["1811", "1812", "1813", "1814"]})
  
  questionsList.insert({question: "What year did the US land on the moon?", answer: "1969", answers: ["1969", "1970", "1971", "1972"]})
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I simply want to access the answer value from the second document. I have been reading the documentation and it doesn't seem to work. I can retrieve the answer value from the first document without issue: <code>var str = questionsList.findOne({}, {question: 1}).answer;</code> I presume that since I am using <code>findOne</code> I can't find any other matches. The problem is that I can't seem to pull up the second document and its corresponding answer. I have tried many different ways:</p>
  
  <pre><code>questionList.find({}, {answer: 1})
  questionList.find({answer: 1})
  questionList.find({}).answer
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My ultimate goal is to compare this answer with one of the click one answers from <code>choices</code> What am I missing?</p>