Motivational Quotes Trivia

Overview

This skill tests your knowledge of motivational quotes by matching five well-known motivational quotes to their origin. With 100 motivational quotes to test your knowledge, it is a great opportunity for one to find out more about those motivational quotes.

This skill is based on the "Step-by-Step Guide to Build a Trivia Skill" template. Follow the instructions on the page to setup this skill. The code of this skill is listed at the code section below. Since the instructions are very thorough and in excellent details, the steps to build this skill will not be documented here. Major part of the effort is devoted to building the questions for the trivia. The source of the quotes is from this site, 100 Best Motivational Quotes to Inspire Anyone.

Voice Flow

Upon opening the skill, there is a welcome message. The user will be informed of the number times one has played the trivia and the total number of score accumulated. This is something extra not built in the Trivia Skill template. DynamoDB is used to store these values. Then instructions about how the trivia works are given. User will be asked 5 questions of multiple choices. User will attempt to answer the 5 questions correctly. So the flow is very simple to understand.

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Intents

{"intents": [ 
   {"intent": "AnswerIntent", "slots": [{"name": "Answer", "type": "AMAZON.NUMBER"}]}, 
   {"intent": "DontKnowIntent"}, 
   {"intent": "AMAZON.StartOverIntent"}, 
   {"intent": "AMAZON.RepeatIntent"}, 
   {"intent": "AMAZON.HelpIntent"}, 
   {"intent": "AMAZON.YesIntent"}, 
   {"intent": "AMAZON.NoIntent"}, 
   {"intent": "AMAZON.StopIntent"}, 
   {"intent": "AMAZON.CancelIntent"} 
 ] 
} 

Utterances (en_US)

AnswerIntent the answer is {Answer} 
AnswerIntent my answer is {Answer} 
AnswerIntent is it {Answer} 
AnswerIntent {Answer} is my answer 
AnswerIntent {Answer} 
AMAZON.StartOverIntent start game 
AMAZON.StartOverIntent new game 
AMAZON.StartOverIntent start 
AMAZON.StartOverIntent start new game 
DontKnowIntent i don't know 
DontKnowIntent don't know 
DontKnowIntent skip 
DontKnowIntent i don't know that 
DontKnowIntent who knows 
DontKnowIntent i don't know this question 
DontKnowIntent i don't know that one 
DontKnowIntent dunno 

Skill Builder (Beta)

You can use the Skill Builder to model your voice interactivities.

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State Diagram

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Skill Links

Click here (UK) and here (US).

Useful Links

• Alexa Skills Kit SDK for Node.js

• HighLow Game

• Build An Alexa Fact Skill