quizmaster
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of quizmaster
Example Sentences
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I’m Adam Tschorn, senior features writer, former game show question-and-answer man and your weekly quizmaster.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2024
"What you want for a quizmaster are actual cards, which you can deploy to good effect when exasperated. You can't slap down a screen. It also means there's less eye contact with the teams."
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2023
“You’ll never win. Once the quizmaster had to split a group of young ones up, saying, ‘There’s seven master’s degrees at that table.’
From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2021
After 10-year-old Joel answered difficult questions about history, atomic particles and mathematics, guest quizmaster Jack Benny ad-libbed, “I bet he’s 11 if he’s a day.”
From Washington Post ● May 15, 2020
“Okay,” said the quizmaster, “the first question is for Sunny Brook. And since this is the final round, the degree of difficulty has gone up.”
From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein
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