Logic on doing actual randomized multiple choices for a quiz game

Unity Engine
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Here’s my problem. I am making a quiz application via Unity and I stumbled on a beginner’s problem I suppose. So basically, I prepared 8 questions. These 8 questions are listed in an array. I made another array that holds the answers to those questions. Like this:

    public static string [] bquizbeeQuestions = {
        "Q1",
        "Q2",
        "Q3",
        "Q4",
        "Q5",
        "Q6",
        "Q7",
        "Q8",
    };

    public static string [] bquizbeeAnswers = {
        "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8"
    };

Currently, I use a Input key for the answers because it’s easier to check the player’s answer. But I want to do a multiple choice instead. I tried it before and failed, of what I want to consult today. So anyway, my problem is this:

How can I randomize the multiple choice button texts and not each of them repeat the same word from the list I made?

This is what I mean.

First, I made an array that has a list of words that may appear as the text in the button:

     public static string [] titles = {
        "Workload", "Thread", "Mining", "Serendipity", "Charge", "Weight", "Altruistic"
     };

What I do to make these appear in the button as their text is this:

    void setButtonText() {
        switch(BQuizBeeReviewer.slug) {
            case "title":
                for (int x = 0; x < button.Length; x++) {
                    if(x == realButtonAnswer) {
                        button[x].text = BQuizBeeReviewer.bquizbeeAnswers[die];
                        buttonHit[x].onClick.AddListener(() => { setButtonClickAnswer(BQuizBeeReviewer.bquizbeeAnswers[die]); });
                    } else {
                        buttonHit[x].onClick.AddListener(() => { setButtonClickAnswer(BQuizBeeReviewer.titles[Random.Range(0, BQuizBeeReviewer.titles.Length)]); });
                        button[x].text = BQuizBeeReviewer.titles[Random.Range(0, BQuizBeeReviewer.titles.Length)];
                    }
                }
                break;                     
            default:
                break;
        }       
    }

I am having problems with this because I saw that automatically, the buttons are activated. I was wondering if you guys have a better solution of making a randomized multiple choice buttons where there is only one right answer button while the others are wrong.

Maybe someone can pinpoint me to a tutorial as well that tackles this.

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Easiest way to pick a random selection from a list with no repeats is to simply scramble the list and take the first n answers: c# - Randomize a List<T> - Stack Overflow

I’d probably have a list of incorrect answers, pick n of them, and then replace one of the results with the correct answer.

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