quiz

Etymology
Attested since the 1780s, of origin.
 * The Century Dictionary suggests it was originally applied to a popular toy, from a dialectal variant of.
 * The Random House Dictionary suggests the original sense was "odd person" (circa 1780).
 * Others suggest the meaning "hoax" was original (1796), shifting to the meaning "interrogate" (1847) under the influence of question and inquisitive.
 * Some say without evidence it was invented by a late-18th-century Dublin theatre proprietor who bet he could add a new nonsense word to the English language; he had the word painted on walls all over the city, and the morning after, everyone was talking about it (The Pre-Victorian Drama in Dublin).
 * Others suggest it was originally quies (1847), Latin qui es? (who are you?), traditionally the first question in oral Latin exams. They suggest that it was first used as a noun from 1867, and the spelling quiz first recorded in 1886, but this is demonstrably incorrect.
 * A further derivation, assuming that the original sense is "good, ingenuous, harmless man, overly conventional, pedantic, rule-bound man, square; nerd; oddball, eccentric", is based on a column from 1785 which claims that the origin is a jocular translation of the Horace quotation vir bonus est quis as "the good man is a quiz" at Cambridge.

Noun

 * 1)  An odd, puzzling or absurd person or thing.
 * 2)  One who questions or interrogates; a prying person.
 * 3) A competition in the answering of questions.
 * 4)  A school examination of less importance, or of greater brevity, than others given in the same course.
 * 1)  One who questions or interrogates; a prying person.
 * 2) A competition in the answering of questions.
 * 3)  A school examination of less importance, or of greater brevity, than others given in the same course.
 * 1)  A school examination of less importance, or of greater brevity, than others given in the same course.
 * 1)  A school examination of less importance, or of greater brevity, than others given in the same course.
 * 1)  A school examination of less importance, or of greater brevity, than others given in the same course.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: vasvrawedstryd
 * Arabic: اِخْتِبَار
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: viktorina
 * Belarusian:
 * Bulgarian: виктори́на
 * Burmese:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: kvíz
 * Danish: spørgekonkurrence,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: kvizo
 * Estonian: mälumäng, viktoriin
 * Faroese: spurnakapping
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: ვიქტორინა, ქვიზი, გამოკითხვა
 * German:, Fragespiel,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: क्विज़, प्रश्नोत्तरी
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: викторина
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz: викторина
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: viktorina
 * Macedonian: квиз
 * Malay: duga akal,
 * Maltese: kwiżż
 * Maori: kēmu patapatai
 * Norman: quiz
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: gjettekonkurranse, spørrelek, kviss
 * Nynorsk: spørjeleik, kviss
 * Persian: کوئیز
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: кви̑з
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: kvíz
 * Slovene: kviz
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish:, frågespel
 * Tajik: викторина
 * Turkish: bilgi yarışması
 * Turkmen: wiktorina
 * Ukrainian: віктори́на
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: đố vui


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 小測
 * Mandarin:
 * Faroese: roynd
 * Finnish:
 * Galician:
 * Hungarian:
 * Macedonian:
 * Polish:
 * Russian:, контро́льная рабо́та
 * Spanish:
 * Vietnamese: (bài) thi

Verb

 * 1)  To hoax; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions.
 * 2)  To peer at; to eye suspiciously or mockingly.
 * 3)  To question (someone) closely, to interrogate.
 * 4)  To instruct (someone) by means of a quiz.
 * 5)  To play with a quiz.
 * 1)  To instruct (someone) by means of a quiz.
 * 2)  To play with a quiz.
 * 1)  To play with a quiz.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: шегувам се
 * Macedonian: се ше́гува
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: шалити се
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Cebuano: tuki
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Georgian: გამოკითხვა, დაკითხვა
 * German:
 * Macedonian: пра́шува, и́спраша, и́спита
 * Maori: pākiki
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: испитивати
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Ukrainian: опитування

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  competition in the answering of questions

Related terms

 * ("to quiz")

Noun

 * 1) quiz

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  quiz

Etymology
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Etymology 1
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Noun

 * 1)  question-answering competition

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  quiz show