Question

Write a program that creates a dictionary containing the U.S. states as keys and their capitals as values. (Use the Internet to get a list of the states and their capitals.) The program should then randomly quiz the user by displaying the name of a state and asking the user to enter that state’s capital. The program should keep a count of the number of correct and incorrect responses. (As an alternative to the U.S. states, the program can use the names of countries and their capitals.)

Answer 1

Answer:

1. import random  
3. states = {
4.    "Alabama": "Montgomery",
5.    "California": "Sacramento",
6.    "Florida": "Tallahassee",
7.    "Hawaii": "Honolulu",
8.    "Indiana": "Indianapolis",
9.    "Michigan": "Lansing",
10.    "New York": "Albany",
11.    "Texas" : "Austin",
12.    "Utah" : "Salt Lake City",
13.    "Wisconsin": "Madison"
14. }
16. correct = 0
17. wrong = 0
18. round = 1
19. while(round <= 5):
20.    current_state = random.choice(list(states))
21.    answer = input("What is the capital of " + current_state + ": ")
22.    
23.    if(answer == states[current_state]):
24.        correct += 1
25.    else:
26.        wrong += 1
27.    
28.    round += 1
30. print("Correct answer: " + str(correct))
31. print("Wrong answer: " + str(wrong))

Explanation:

The solution code is written in Python 3.

Line 3 -14

Create a dictionary of US States with capital as each of their corresponding value. Please note only ten sample states are chosen here.

Line 16 - 18

Create variables to track the number of correct and inaccurate response and also round counter.

Line 19 - 28

Set the while condition to enable user to play the quiz for five questions and use random.choice to randomly pick a state from the dictionary and prompt user to input the capital of selected stated.

If the answer matched with the capital value of the selected state, increment the correct counter by one. Otherwise the wrong counter will be incremented by one. Increment the round counter by one before proceed to next round.

Line 30 - 31

Print the number of correct responses and wrong responses.