Comparing an answer to a question stored in a list

hi, so im doing a spanish learning program and was stuck on this bit. i basically want to store the question and answer of the question in either 2 lists of 2 seperate arrays. and then i want to make a variable for the user input, lets say UserInput and i want to compare each word in the variable to each element in the list/array, and the score then incrememnts for each word that is correct in a sense. can someone help pls.