Country Quiz

This node module lets you create questions and quizzes (with multiple questions) about countries, their flag and their capital (or vice versa). Data, Quizzes and Questions are accessed offline from a data file (data originally from https://restcountries.eu/) but the SVG-Files for the Flags need an internet connection.

Installation

npm i country-quiz
# or
yarn add country-quiz

Then import into your project

/* Common JS */
const countryQuiz = require('country-quiz')
const quiz = countryQuiz.newQuiz()

/* ES Module */
import { newQuiz, newQuestion, newRandomQuestion } from 'country-quiz'
const quiz = newQuiz()

Usage

newQuiz Returns an object with an array of questions of the specified quiz mode. If quiz mode is 'mixed' then the quiz mode for every question in the quiz is randomly selected.

newQuiz()
// returns (for example):
{
  quizMode: 'flag-to-country',
  questions: [
    {
      question: 'https://restcountries.eu/data/sau.svg',
      answer: 'Saudi Arabia',
      options: ['Austria', 'Saudi Arabia', 'Nepal', 'Svalbard and Jan Mayen']
    },
    {
      question: 'https://restcountries.eu/data/mus.svg',
      answer: 'Mauritius',
      options: ['Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)', 'Brunei Darussalam', 'Mauritius', 'Curaçao']
    },
    {
      question: 'https://restcountries.eu/data/gnb.svg',
      answer: 'Guinea-Bissau',
      options: ['Holy See', 'Rwanda', 'Falkland Islands (Malvinas)', 'Guinea-Bissau']
    },
    {
      question: 'https://restcountries.eu/data/hrv.svg',
      answer: 'Croatia',
      options: ['Croatia', 'Costa Rica', 'Heard Island and McDonald Islands', 'Comoros']
    },
    {
      question: 'https://restcountries.eu/data/khm.svg',
      answer: 'Cambodia',
      options: ['Tanzania, United Republic of', 'Mauritius', 'Cambodia', 'Antigua and Barbuda']
    }
  ]
}

// or with quizMode
const quiz = newQuiz('country-to-capital')

// or with quizMode and numberOfQuestions
const quiz = newQuiz('mixed', 5)

// or with quizMode, numberOfQuestions and numberOfOptions
const quiz = newQuiz('capital-to-flag', 3, 6)

argument	type	default	description
quizMode	string	flag-to-country	Types of questions and options. See below.
numberOfQuestions	number	5	Number of questions in this quiz.
numberOfOptions	number	4	Number of options (i.e. possible answers) per question.

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newQuestion Returns an object with one question of the specified quiz mode.

// create a new question
const question = newQuestion()

// or with quizMode and numberOfOptions
newQuestion('country-to-capital', 5)
// returns (for example):
{
  question: 'Burundi',
  answer: 'Bujumbura',
  options: ['Jamestown', 'Bujumbura', 'Berlin', 'Flying Fish Cove', 'Taipei']
}

argument	type	default	description
quizMode	string	flag-to-country	Types of the question and possible options. See below.
numberOfOptions	number	4	Number of options (i.e. possible answers) for this question.

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newRandomQuestion Returns an object with one question of a random quiz mode.

newRandomQuestion()
// returns (for example):
{
  quizMode: 'capital-to-country',
  question: 'Papeetē',
  answer: 'French Polynesia',
  options: [ 'Mali', 'French Polynesia', 'China', 'Germany' ]
}

// or with numberOfOptions
const randomQuestion = newRandomQuestion(5)

argument	type	default	description
numberOfOptions	number	4	Number of options (i.e. possible answers) for this question.

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Quiz Modes

Works in the Schema [question]-to-[answer]. mixed is only possible for newQuiz().

• mixed
• flag-to-country
• flag-to-capital
• country-to-flag
• country-to-capital
• capital-to-flag
• capital-to-country

Copyright

Data and Flag SVGs are from the REST Countries Project: https://restcountries.eu

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Development

To update the country data run node update-data.mjs. This fetches fresh data from https://restcountries.com/v3.1/all?fields=name,capital,flags and converts it to the librarie's format. The result is saved to a new-data.json file. The content of this file needs to be copied to src/data.js into the const data = [...] variable.