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title: "Quiz questions and answers in detail"
description: "Answer types, images and video, multiple answers, correct answers and points, after-answer texts, colors and active periods."
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# Quiz questions and answers in detail

Answer types, images and video, multiple answers, correct answers and points, after-answer texts, colors and active periods.

Click the quiz on the page and open its questions. Click a question to edit it, or double-click its name to rename it. Use **Reorder** to change the order.

## The question

On the question's **Content** tab:

- **Title**: the question.
- **Additional information**: a short text under the question.
- **Image**: turn it on to show an image with the question.
- **Answer type**:
    - **By text**: answers as buttons with text.
    - **By image**: answers as pictures. With **Show text below image** and **Show button below image**.
    - **Text input**: players type their answer. Turn on **Allow multiple lines** for longer answers.
    - **Rating**: players give a score from 1 to the **Max rating** (3 to 10), with your own rating images if you like.
    - **Number** and **Slider**: players pick a number between **Min value** and **Max value**, with a **Prefix** or **Suffix** such as € or kg. Sliders have an **Interval** and can **Show numeric input**.

On the **Settings** tab:

- **Allow multiple answers**: players can pick more than one.
- **Use question video**: show a YouTube, Vimeo or your own video with the question.
- For ratings: **Add rating score to points**.

## Question add-ons

- **Enable advanced editor**: format the title and content with HTML.
- **Custom colors**: give this question its own background, title and description colors.
- **Active period**: only show the question between a **Start date** and an **End date**. Useful for a quiz with a new question each day.

## Answers

Click **Add answer** under a question, then click the answer to edit it:

- **Answer title**: the text people see.
- **Internal name (not required)**: a name only you see, used in statistics.
- **Type**: **Correct** or **Wrong**, in a quiz by correct answers. You can also click the chip on the answer: **Set as correct**.
- **Points to award**: in personality tests, product recommendations, video quizzes, guides and ratings.
- **Result**: in a quiz by result, the result the answer counts towards.
- **Image**: for image answers.
- **Finish the quiz when selecting an answer** (on **Settings**): end the quiz right away, for example when someone answers "Not interested".

Answer add-ons: **Custom colors** for this answer, and **Prefix styling** for the letter shown before it (A, B, C).

## Texts after an answer

With the quiz add-on **Show text after answering**, each answer gets an **After answer text**, shown after people answer. Use it to explain why an answer is right.

## Time limit

The add-on **Question time limit** gives people a set number of seconds to answer.

## More question and answer settings

- **Video link**: the link to the YouTube or Vimeo video, with **Use question video**.
- **Enable custom rating images**: your own images for rating answers.
- **Enable formatting**: show number and slider values with thousands separators.
- For swipe games: "Use the same size image to get the best-looking result".
- The add-on **Custom colors** ("Allow changing the colors for this question") gives the question a **Background color**, **Title color** and **Description color**.
- **Active period** ("Only show this question between a start and end date").
- **Enable advanced editor** ("Format your question title and content using HTML").
- On answers, **Custom colors** ("Customize the colors for this specific answer") and **Prefix styling** ("Customize the style of the letter shown before this answer"). Under **Answer prefix** you set the letter's color, bold and gap, and with **Show correct/incorrect answers**, the **Correct colors** and **Incorrect colors**.
- **Answer actions** on an answer let you edit or delete it.

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