Markdown quiz

Test your Markdown knowledge with a free interactive quiz — 20 questions with answers and explanations. No signup needed to play.

What is Markdown?

1. What is Markdown?
2. What are "GitHub Flavored Markdown" (GFM) tables?
3. How do you create a heading?
4. What does a line break require in standard Markdown, versus just pressing Enter once?
5. How do you make text bold?
6. How do you insert a horizontal rule?
7. How do you escape a Markdown special character so it displays literally (e.g. a literal asterisk)?
8. What is a common reason Markdown became the standard format for README files and technical documentation?
9. How do you embed raw HTML inside a Markdown document?
10. How do you write inline code?
11. How do you create a multi-line code block?
12. How do you create an ordered (numbered) list?

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