Capital Cities Quiz Game

An interactive Python quiz game to test your geography knowledge

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Project Description

This is a command-line quiz game built in Python that tests your knowledge of countries and their capital cities. The game features multiple difficulty levels, a scoring system, life management, and streak bonuses to provide an engaging and challenging experience. You can play in either a normal (country to capital) or reverse (capital to country) mode, with hints and skips available to help you along the way.

Features

Multiple Difficulty Levels

Choose from Easy, Medium, and Hard modes, each with unique rules, point values, and lives.

Dynamic Question Modes

Questions are randomly presented in both "normal" (country to capital) and "reverse" (capital to country) formats.

Scoring & Streaks

Earn points for correct answers and receive a bonus for answering questions correctly in a row.

Life System

Start with a set number of lives and lose one for each incorrect answer. The game ends when you run out of lives.

Hints & Skips

Use a limited number of hints to reveal the first letter of the answer or skip a question you don't know.

High Score Tracking

Your highest score is saved to a file, so you can always try to beat your personal best.

How to Run the Game

Prerequisites

To run this game, you need to have Python 3 installed on your system.

Steps

  1. Save the files: Ensure both main.py and data.py (which contains the countries_and_capitals and common_countries_and_capitals dictionaries) are in the same directory.
  2. Open a terminal: Navigate to the directory where you saved the files.
  3. Run the script: Execute the following command:
python main.py

Project Structure

main.py
The main game logic, including the QuizGame class, game loop, and all core functions.
data.py
A separate file that stores the dictionaries of countries and capitals used for the quiz questions.
highscore.txt
A file created by the game to store the high score.

Code in Place Limitation

Important Note

This program's full functionality, including the saving of result data to .txt files, is designed for a standard Python environment. Due to the sandboxed nature of the Code in Place IDE, file-saving operations are not supported, and this part of the code will not function. The rest of the program's core features, such as the console output, will work as described.