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# 14.10 (Guess the capitals) Rewrite Exercise 11.40 using a dictionary to store the pairs
# of states and capitals so that the questions are randomly displayed.
def main():
dictionary = {
"Alabama": "Montgomery",
"Alaska": "Juneau",
"Arizona": "Phoenix",
"Arkansas": "Little Rock",
"California": "Sacramento",
"Colorado": "Denver",
"Connecticut": "Hartford",
"Delaware": "Dover",
"Florida": "Tallahassee",
"Georgia": "Atlanta",
"Hawaii": "Honolulu",
"Idaho": "Boise",
"Illinois": "Springfield",
"Indiana": "Indianapolis",
"Iowa": "Des Moines",
"Kansas": "Topeka",
"Kentucky": "Frankfort",
"Louisiana": "Baton Rouge",
"Maine": "Augusta",
"Maryland": "Annapolis",
"Massachusettes": "Boston",
"Michigan": "Lansing",
"Minnesota": "Saint Paul",
"Mississippi": "Jackson",
"Missouri": "Jefferson City",
"Montana": "Helena",
"Nebraska": "Lincoln",
"Nevada": "Carson City",
"New Hampshire": "Concord",
"New Jersey": "Trenton",
"New York": "Albany",
"New Mexico": "Santa Fe",
"North Carolina": "Raleigh",
"North Dakota": "Bismark",
"Ohio": "Columbus",
"Oklahoma": "Oklahoma City",
"Oregon": "Salem",
"Pennslyvania": "Harrisburg",
"Rhode Island": "Providence",
"South Carolina": "Columbia",
"South Dakota": "Pierre",
"Tennessee": "Nashville",
"Texas": "Austin",
"Utah": "Salt Lake City",
"Vermont": "Montpelier",
"Virginia": "Richmond",
"Washington": "Olympia",
"West Virginia": "Charleston",
"Wisconsin": "Madison",
"Wyoming": "Cheyenne"}
correctCount = 0
states = dictionary.keys()
for state in states:
capital = input("What is the capital of " + state + "? ").strip()
if capital.lower() == dictionary[state].lower():
print("Your answer is correct")
correctCount += 1
else:
print("The correct answer should be " + dictionary[state])
print("The correct count is " + str(correctCount))
main()
