quiz
an informal test or examination of a student or class.
a questioning.
a practical joke; a hoax.
Chiefly British. an eccentric, often odd-looking person.
to examine or test (a student or class) informally by questions.
to question closely: The police quizzed several suspects.
Chiefly British. to make fun of; ridicule; mock; chaff.
Origin of quiz
1Other words from quiz
- quiz·za·ble, adjective
- quizzer, noun
- un·quiz·za·ble, adjective
- un·quizzed, adjective
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How to use quiz in a sentence
Completing the entire course takes about 11 hours—yes, quizzes are included.
Want to know how to WFH better? There’s a class for that | Michal Lev-Ram, writer | September 22, 2020 | FortuneSky, for example, launched its “Fanzone” online viewing experience that lets people watch sports and play quizzes together with family and friends.
‘We are permanently in beta’: European sports broadcasting is still in a coronavirus-forced state of reinvention | Lara O'Reilly | September 15, 2020 | DigidayRummel says it provides free distance learning activities like multiplication quizzes and poetry tutorials for preschool through grade 12.
Need to entertain your kids? These educational apps may help | Michal Lev-Ram, writer | September 13, 2020 | FortuneThe company will now require all Revel users, including long-time users of the service, to take a 21-question safety training quiz and watch an instructional video before they can start their first ride.
Electric moped startup Revel returns to New York with helmet selfie, other in-app safety features | Kirsten Korosec | August 27, 2020 | TechCrunchIn March, the Polish government launched a Minecraft server which packages quizzes and other educational activities, with each student allotted a plot of virtual land to construct buildings.
The premise of the sketch was that sex was too spontaneous to be regulated, and the quiz show played that idea to the hilt.
How Antioch College Got Rape Right 20 Years Ago | Nicolaus Mills | December 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWhenever I take a clickbait quiz to determine which of The Avengers I would be, I always game the questions to aim for the Hulk.
Model Minority Rage: Why the Hulk Should Be an Asian Guy | Arthur Chu | July 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTPop quiz: How many of the top 15 highest-U.S.-grossing movies of all time—adjusted for inflation—star comic-book characters?
Take the quiz below and see if you can match the spouse to her post-scandal statement.
I scored a 50 percent on that little quiz, which I have since learned is proof that I live under a boulder.
So whilst we was eatin' breakfast I begins t' quiz, an', one way an' another, lets on I wanted t' see that Injun scout.
Raw Gold | Bertrand W. SinclairRobinson enrolled him in his police and it was the fashion openly to quiz, and secretly respect him.
It Is Never Too Late to Mend | Charles ReadeHardly had they taken their places when Napoleon began to quiz Betsy on the fondness of the English for "rosbif and plum pudding."
Napoleon's Young Neighbor | Helen Leah ReedThe Emperor continued to tease and quiz, pulling Betsy's ear or her dress, and always managing to escape being caught.
Napoleon's Young Neighbor | Helen Leah ReedOne day at the meet this young man said to Captain Bolton, "Let us quiz the old fellow."
Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents and Strange Events | S. Baring-Gould
British Dictionary definitions for quiz
/ (kwɪz) /
an entertainment in which the general or specific knowledge of the players is tested by a series of questions, esp as a radio or television programme
(as modifier): a quiz programme
any set of quick questions designed to test knowledge
an investigation by close questioning; interrogation
obsolete a practical joke; hoax
obsolete a puzzling or eccentric individual
obsolete a person who habitually looks quizzically at others, esp through a small monocle
to investigate by close questioning; interrogate
US and Canadian informal to test or examine the knowledge of (a student or class)
(tr) obsolete to look quizzically at, esp through a small monocle
Origin of quiz
1Derived forms of quiz
- quizzer, noun
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