Project: Quiz Game

Let's build a quiz game! We'll store questions, possible answers, and the correct answer in a data structure, then loop through them and keep score

This project teaches us how to organize data, loop through it, and track state, skills that show up in every real program

How do we store a quiz question? A dictionary is perfect

question = {
    "text": "What is the capital of Vice City's state?",
    "options": ["A) New York", "B) Miami", "C) Los Angeles", "D) Chicago"],
    "answer": "B"
}

And a full quiz? A list of dictionaries

quiz = [
    {
        "text": "What does print() do?",
        "options": ["A) Reads input", "B) Displays output", "C) Creates a variable", "D) Loops"],
        "answer": "B"
    },
    {
        "text": "What symbol is used for comments in Python?",
        "options": ["A) //", "B) /*", "C) #", "D) --"],
        "answer": "C"
    },
    {
        "text": "What does len() return?",
        "options": ["A) The type", "B) The value", "C) The length", "D) Nothing"],
        "answer": "C"
    }
]

Now let's build the game logic

score = 0

for i, q in enumerate(quiz):
    print(f"\nQuestion {i + 1}: {q['text']}")
    for option in q["options"]:
        print(f"  {option}")

    answer = input("Your answer (A/B/C/D): ").upper()

    if answer == q["answer"]:
        print("Correct!")
        score += 1
    else:
        print(f"Wrong! The answer was {q['answer']}")

print(f"\nYou scored {score}/{len(quiz)}")

Notice what we used: list of dictionaries, enumerate, for loops, if/else, input, string methods (.upper()), f-strings, and the counter pattern. All the tools from this curriculum, working together

Let's make it even better with a function

def run_quiz(questions):
    score = 0

    for i, q in enumerate(questions):
        print(f"\nQuestion {i + 1}: {q['text']}")
        for option in q["options"]:
            print(f"  {option}")

        answer = input("Your answer: ").upper()

        if answer == q["answer"]:
            print("Correct!")
            score += 1
        else:
            print(f"Wrong! The answer was {q['answer']}")

    return score, len(questions)

score, total = run_quiz(quiz)
percentage = round(score / total * 100)
print(f"\nFinal score: {score}/{total} ({percentage}%)")

Mission: Crew Certification Quiz

New crew must pass a certification quiz. The questions (a list named quiz) and the candidate's answers (a list named player_answers) are already recorded, so no input() is needed: you just grade and report.

Write a function grade_quiz(questions, answers) that returns how many of the candidate's answers match the "answer" field of the matching question.
Print Score: followed by the number correct, a /, and the total number of questions.
Print Percentage: followed by the score as a whole-number percentage (use round(score / total * 100)), then a %.
Print PASS if the percentage is 50 or more, otherwise FAIL.

Output

Score: 3/4
Percentage: 75%
PASS