Quiz Master
Four categories, eight questions, a climbing score, and a title to earn. The quiz grows by adding DATA — change the content, not the code.
Quiz Master is a category quiz. Four subjects, two questions each. Get one right and your score climbs. Get all eight and you earn the title — Quiz Master.
This is the second game in Volume 2 — Patterns of State. Cipher used DATA as a list you read straight through; Quiz Master adds the idea that organises the rest of the volume: the array. DIM makes a row of numbered boxes you reach by position — here, an answer key the scorer checks against — and RESTORE <line> jumps the DATA pointer to a chosen section, so the questions can be grouped into categories.
Everything else you already have. INPUT, a score counter, PRINT AT layout, PAPER colour, BEEP, ratings, a title and replay all came from Volume 1 and Cipher. Quiz Master arranges them around its new backbone — indexed storage.
What you will build:
- A multiple-choice question, then a scored round driven by an answer-key array (the new idea)
- Categories —
RESTORE <line>jumps to each section ofDATA, read header then questions - A colour-coded question card, with
BEEPfor right and wrong - A per-category score breakdown, held in a second array, and a rating
- The title you earn at 8 out of 8 — and a replay
- The design concept: indexed storage — data you reach by position
6 units. About 5–7 hours. This builds on Meet BASIC and Volume 1 — earlier games assumed.
Unit roadmap
Questions
One question, then a scored round driven by an answer-key array
Structure
Categories from DATA sections, and a colour-coded question card
Results
A per-category breakdown, a title to earn, and replay