Database multiple choice and comments structure - php

Question

I've read a lot of pages but didn't find what I was looking for.
I am trying to figure out which is the most appropriate solution for my problem here. I currently got a multiple choice form with 23 questions and 23 comments section (650 characters each, basically a comment per question) and I am not sure if I should go with a single table or if that would be too much.
So basically something like:
id
user_id
date
multiplechoice1
..
multiplechoice23
comment1
..
comment23
status
That will be around 50 columns :/ Is there a better way to do this? Like split the comments on a different table or somehow combine all the multiple choices in a single column? Since each answer will be 1-5.
Example of the question:
How long do you usually surf the NET on a daily basis?
0-1 hour
2-3 hours
4-6 hours
more than 7 hours

Answer 1

Taking your comments into consideration, being that you don't want to normalize too much and prefer something slightly flattened, I think this may be a proper solution for you.
questions
+----+-------------------------------+
| id | question |
+----+-------------------------------+
| 1 | What is your favorite food? |
+----+-------------------------------+
| 2 | What is your favorite animal? |
+----+-------------------------------+
answers - question 1 has three answers, question 2 has two answers
+----+-------------+-----------+
| id | question_id | answer |
+----+-------------+-----------+
| 1 | 1 | Spaghetti |
+----+-------------+-----------+
| 2 | 1 | Chicken |
+----+-------------+-----------+
| 3 | 1 | Sushi |
+----+-------------+-----------+
| 4 | 2 | Dog |
+----+-------------+-----------+
| 5 | 2 | Cat |
+----+-------------+-----------+
answer_data - one person answered "spaghetti" for question 1, one person answered "cat" for question 2, and one person answered "dog" for question 2
+----+-------------+-----------+
| id | question_id | answer_id |
+----+-------------+-----------+
| 1 | 1 | 1 |
+----+-------------+-----------+
| 2 | 2 | 4 |
+----+-------------+-----------+
| 3 | 2 | 5 |
+----+-------------+-----------+
Truthfully I'm not great with MySQL, I'm a T-SQL guy, but the query would probably look something like this:
SELECT q.question, a.answer, COUNT(ad.answer_id) as `Count`
FROM questions q
JOIN answers a ON a.question_id = q.question_id
JOIN answer_data ad ON ad.question_id = q.question_id
GROUP BY q.question, a.answer
+-------------------------------+-----------+-------+
| question | answer | count |
+-------------------------------+-----------+-------+
| What is your favorite food? | Spaghetti | 1 |
+-------------------------------+-----------+-------+
| What is your favorite animal? | Dog | 1 |
+-------------------------------+-----------+-------+
| What is your favorite animal? | Cat | 1 |
+-------------------------------+-----------+-------+