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Grade 8 · Computing

Computing quiz for grade 8: Algorithms in Python

This quiz helps revise “Algorithms in Python” in Computing for grade 8. It has 25 questions in five categories: Steps and structures, Data and arithmetic, Conditions and logic, Python loops, Data collections. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.

  • For ages 13–14
  • 25 questions · 5 categories

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Buzzo quiz: Algorithms in Python

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The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.

Steps and structures

  1. 100Picture for the question

    Steps run one after another in a fixed order, with no choice or repetition. What structure is this?

  2. 200

    A program chooses one of several actions depending on a condition. What structure is this?

  3. 300

    What is a human-readable…

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  4. 400

    Which geometric shape marks…

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  5. 500

    What graphical representation uses…

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Data and arithmetic

  1. 100

    Which built-in tool reads a line entered by the user, returning it as text?

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    Which built-in tool displays given values on the screen?

  3. 300

    What is the result…

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  4. 400

    What is the result…

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  5. 500

    What is the result…

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Conditions and logic

  1. 100Picture for the question

    Which symbol in Python checks whether a pair of values are equal?

  2. 200

    Which Python term combines conditions so both must hold?

  3. 300

    Which Python term begins…

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  4. 400

    Which Python term tests…

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  5. 500

    What value does the…

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Python loops

  1. 100

    Which Python term conveniently visits the items of a collection one by one?

  2. 200

    Which Python term repeats a block as long as its condition remains satisfied?

  3. 300

    Which values does range(2…

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  4. 400

    Which Python term immediately…

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  5. 500

    A variable s starts…

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Data collections

  1. 100Picture for the question

    Which Python data type uses square brackets to hold an ordered, changeable collection of items?

  2. 200

    At which index does numbering begin in such a Python collection?

  3. 300

    Which built-in tool returns…

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  4. 400

    a = [1, 2]…

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  5. 500

    With a[1:3], which ordinal…

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