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JavaScript JavaScript Arrays Multidimensional Arrays Build a Quiz Challenge – One Solution

Austin Schneider
Austin Schneider
4,919 Points
Posted by Austin Schneider
Austin Schneider
4,919 Points

My solution was working, then stopped working.

I thought I had mine working well, but when I went to upgrade it to produce lists for correct/incorrect questions it stopped working properly. I removed the new stuff and went back to my original, still not working anymore.

Then I mirrored Guil's solution in my workspace. Still not working- it says I get 0 questions correct even when I type all the right answers

I feel like I am missing something small here... or is there something bigger going on?

Help!

const questionsAnswers = [
  ['What color is the sky?', 'blue'],
  ['What color is snow?', 'white'],
  ['What color is ketchup?', 'red'],
  ['What color is the sun?', 'yellow'],
  ['What color is an orange?', 'orange']
];

let correctAnswers = 0;

for ( let i = 0; i < questionsAnswers.length; i++) {
  let question = questionsAnswers [i][0];
  let answer = [i][1];
  let response = prompt(question);

  if ( response === answer) {
    correctAnswers +=1;
  }
}

let html = `
  <h1>You got ${correctAnswers} question(s) correct!</h1>
`;

document.querySelector('main').innerHTML = html

3 Answers

Cameron Childres
Cameron Childres
11,820 Points
Cameron Childres
Cameron Childres
11,820 Points

Hi Austin,

You're almost there. I only see one issue, and that's in your declaration of the variable "answer". Just like the variable "question" you need to provide the array for it to access. Otherwise all answers are "undefined"

Take loop with i=0 as an example:

let question = questionsAnswers[0][0]; // Accesses questionsAnswers array at [0][0]
let answer = [0][1]; // No array for brackets to relate to, returns undefined
Zaid Khan
Zaid Khan
12,769 Points
Zaid Khan
Zaid Khan
12,769 Points

You forgot to set your array of questionsAnswers[i][1] to variable answer.

It should be like this.

for ( let i = 0; i < questionsAnswers.length; i++) {
  let question = questionsAnswers[i][0];
  let answer = questionsAnswers[i][1];
  let response = prompt(question);

  if ( response === answer) {
    correctAnswers +=1;
  }
}
Austin Schneider
Austin Schneider
4,919 Points
Austin Schneider
Austin Schneider
4,919 Points

Thanks! I knew I was staring right at it. Now I can't recall if I was making the same mistake before I switched to Guil's solution or not! Will just keep moving forward.