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Noun (quizzes)
1. A test of knowledge, especially as a competition between individuals or teams as a form of entertainment.
a pub quiz
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2. An act of questioning someone.
the model is to face a police quiz over claims her dogs are intimidating ramblers
3. An informal written test or examination given to students.
To evaluate understanding of lecture content, students took weekly quizzes.
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Verb (quizzes, quizzing, quizzed)
1. Ask (someone) questions.
He is being quizzed by murder squad detectives.
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2. Give (a student or class) an informal written test or examination.
One part of the exams was an oral test where pupils were quizzed by two professors of the institution.
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Origin
1. Mid 19th century (as a verb; originally US): possibly from quiz, influenced by inquisitive.
Verb (quizzes, quizzing, quizzed)
1. Look curiously or intently at (someone) through or as if through an eyeglass.
deep-set eyes quizzed her in the candlelight
2. Make fun of.
is it possible he has heard of my foible and is quizzing me?
Noun (quizzes)
1. A practical joke or hoax.
I am impatient to know if the whole be not one grand quiz
2. A person who ridicules or hoaxes another.
two ill-natured quizzes, who were suspected of writing for a very sarcastic paper
3. An odd or eccentric person.
she means to marry that quiz for the sake of his thousands
Origin
1. Late 18th century sometimes said to have been invented by a Dublin theatre proprietor who, having made a bet that a nonsense word could be made known within 48 hours throughout the city, and that the public would give it a meaning, had the word written up on walls all over the city. There is no evidence to support this theory.
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