What does quiz mean?
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quiz
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Princeton's WordNet
quizverb
an examination consisting of a few short questions
quiz, testverb
examine someone's knowledge of something
"The teacher tests us every week"; "We got quizzed on French irregular verbs"
Wiktionary
quiznoun
Something designed to puzzle one or make one ridiculous; banter; raillery.
quiznoun
One who or that which quizzes.
quiznoun
One who or that which is obnoxious to ridicule or quizzing; a queer or ridiculous person or thing.
quiznoun
A competition in the answering of questions.
quiznoun
A school examination of less importance, or of greater brevity, than others given in the same course.
quizverb
To hoax.
quizverb
To question closely, to interrogate.
Etymology: The true etymology is unknown. The following have all been proposed:
Wikipedia
Quiz
A quiz is a form of game or mind sport in which players attempt to answer questions correctly. It is a game to test knowledge about a certain subject. In some countries, a quiz is also a brief assessment used in education and similar fields to measure growth in knowledge, abilities, and/or skills.
Webster Dictionary
Quiznoun
a riddle or obscure question; an enigma; a ridiculous hoax
Quiznoun
one who quizzes others; as, he is a great quiz
Quiznoun
an odd or absurd fellow
Quiznoun
an exercise, or a course of exercises, conducted as a coaching or as an examination
Quizverb
to puzzle; to banter; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions
Quizverb
to peer at; to eye suspiciously or mockingly
Quizverb
to instruct in or by a quiz. See Quiz, n., 4
Quizverb
to conduct a quiz. See Quiz, n., 4
Etymology: [It is said that Daly, the manager of a Dublin playhouse, laid a wager that a new word of no meaning should be the common talk and puzzle of the city in twenty-four hours. In consequence of this the letters q u i z were chalked by him on all the walls of Dublin, with an effect that won the wager. Perhaps, however, originally a variant of whiz, and formerly the name of a popular game.]
Wikidata
Quiz
A quiz is a form of game or mind sport in which the players attempt to answer questions correctly. In some countries, a quiz is also a brief assessment used in education and similar fields to measure growth in knowledge, abilities, and/or skills. Quizzes are usually scored in points and many quizzes are designed to determine a winner from a group of participants - usually the participant with the highest score.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Quiz
kwiz, n. a riddle or enigma: one who quizzes another: an odd fellow: a monocular eye-glass, often with a handle: (coll.) an oral examination of a pupil or class by a teacher.—v.t. to puzzle: to banter or make sport of: to examine narrowly and with an air of mockery.—v.i. to practise derisive joking:—pr.p. quiz′zing; pa.t. and pa.p. quizzed.—ns. Quiz′zer; Quiz′zery.—adj. Quiz′zical.—ns. Quizzical′ity; Quizzificā′tion.—v.t. Quiz′zify, to turn into a quiz.—ns. Quiz′ziness, oddness; Quiz′zing, raillery; Quiz′zing-glass, a single eye-glass. [Origin obscure; doubtless framed from question, or direct from L. quæso, I ask.]
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Rank popularity for the word 'quiz' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4478
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The numerical value of quiz in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
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The numerical value of quiz in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of quiz in a Sentence
You would see him get slightly, not annoyed but like, when someone didnt clear a board or theres still a few questions left or when no one really would up with much money because no one had done really well, he would just say, Okay well well come back for Double Jeopardy after the break and Im sure well all do better then. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP You could tell he loved seeing people who are really smart do well and that is the essential joy of a quiz show.
We actually did a quiz on it, and I had really high scores considering that was the first time I'd ever really taught that concept.
A student is not a professional athlete. ... He is not a little politician or junior senator looking for angles ... an amateur promoter, a glad-hander, embryo Rotarian, caf-society leader, quiz kid or man about town. A student is a person who is learning to fulfill his powers and to find ways of using them in the service of mankind.
You can really tell how much he loved the competition and the game of it, you would see him get slightly, not annoyed but like, when someone didnt clear a board or theres still a few questions left or when no one really would up with much money because no one had done really well, he would just say, Okay well well come back for Double Jeopardy after the break and Im sure well all do better then. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP You could tell he loved seeing people who are really smart do well and that is the essential joy of a quiz show.
It's a great icebreaker, often after they take the quiz, we get partners saying to each other: 'I never knew you felt this way.'.
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- vasvrawedstrydAfrikaans
- اختبارArabic
- kvízCzech
- quizDanish
- Ratespiel, ausfragen, QuizGerman
- kvizoEsperanto
- examinar, prueba, quiz, probarSpanish
- کوئیزPersian
- tietovisa, tietokilpailuFinnish
- quizFrench
- kvízHungarian
- ulanganIndonesian
- quizItalian
- חִידוֹןHebrew
- クイズJapanese
- 퀴즈Korean
- quizLatin
- duga akal, kuizMalay
- quizDutch
- quizNorwegian
- kartkówka, turniejPolish
- quizPortuguese
- chestionareRomanian
- контрольная работа, квиз, викторина, тестRussian
- испитивати, квиз, kviz, ispitivati, шалити се, šaliti seSerbo-Croatian
- frågespel, frågesportSwedish
- chemsha bongoSwahili
- வினாடி வினாTamil
- bilgi yarışmasıTurkish
- thiVietnamese
- 测验Chinese
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