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Python Program for a Quiz Game

Beginner · Games and random numbers

A quiz game asks questions, checks each answer and keeps score. This program stores the questions and their answers as a list of pairs, marks a set of sample answers, and prints the final score with a message.

Program

quiz_game.py
questions = [
("What is the capital of India?", "new delhi"),
("How many days are there in a leap year?", "366"),
("Which planet is known as the Red Planet?", "mars"),
("What is 7 x 8?", "56"),
("Which keyword starts a function in Python?", "def"),
]
# The player's answers. To play for real, ask in the loop instead:
# answer = input(question + " ")
answers = ["New Delhi", "365", "Mars", "56", " def "]
score = 0
for i in range(len(questions)):
question, correct = questions[i]
answer = answers[i].strip().lower() # ignore extra spaces and capitals
print(f"Q{i + 1}. {question}")
print(" Your answer:", answers[i].strip())
if answer == correct:
print(" Correct!")
score += 1
else:
print(" Wrong, the answer is", correct)
print(f"You scored {score} out of {len(questions)}")
if score == len(questions):
print("Perfect score!")
elif score >= 3:
print("Well done!")
else:
print("Keep practising!")
Output
Q1. What is the capital of India?
    Your answer: New Delhi
    Correct!
Q2. How many days are there in a leap year?
    Your answer: 365
    Wrong, the answer is 366
Q3. Which planet is known as the Red Planet?
    Your answer: Mars
    Correct!
Q4. What is 7 x 8?
    Your answer: 56
    Correct!
Q5. Which keyword starts a function in Python?
    Your answer: def
    Correct!
You scored 4 out of 5
Well done!

How it works

  1. Each question is stored with its answer as a pair, so question, correct = questions[i] unpacks them in one line.
  2. strip() removes extra spaces and lower() ignores capital letters, so "New Delhi" and " def " still count as correct.
  3. A right answer adds 1 to score, and a wrong one shows the correct answer.
  4. The final message depends on the score, which is 4 out of 5 here, because a leap year has 366 days.

Another way to write it

A multiple-choice quiz

A multiple-choice quiz
quiz = [
("Which of these is a list?", ["(1, 2)", "[1, 2]", "{1: 2}"], "b"),
("What does len('hello') return?", ["4", "5", "6"], "b"),
("Which symbol starts a comment in Python?", ["#", "//", "--"], "a"),
]
picks = ["b", "c", "a"] # or: pick = input("Your choice (a, b or c): ")
score = 0
for (question, options, correct), pick in zip(quiz, picks):
print(question)
for letter, option in zip("abc", options):
print(f" {letter}) {option}")
if pick == correct:
print(" You chose", pick, "- correct!")
score += 1
else:
print(" You chose", pick, "- the answer is", correct)
print(f"Score: {score}/{len(quiz)}")
Output
Which of these is a list?
  a) (1, 2)
  b) [1, 2]
  c) {1: 2}
  You chose b - correct!
What does len('hello') return?
  a) 4
  b) 5
  c) 6
  You chose c - the answer is b
Which symbol starts a comment in Python?
  a) #
  b) //
  c) --
  You chose a - correct!
Score: 2/3

zip() walks through two lists side by side, pairing each question with the player's pick, and zip("abc", options) labels the options a, b and c.

Try it yourself

Add two questions of your own and print the score as a percentage too.

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