Quiz
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A quiz is a form of game or mind sport in which players attempt to answer questions correctly on one or several specific topics. Quizzes can be used as a brief assessment in education and similar fields to measure growth in knowledge, abilities, and skills, or simply as a hobby. They can also be televised for entertainment purposes, often in a game show format.
Etymology
The earliest known examples of the word date back to 1780; its etymology is unknown, but it may have originated in student slang. It initially meant an "odd, eccentric person"[a] or a "joke, hoax". Later (perhaps by association with words such as "inquisitive"), it came to mean "to observe, study intently", and thence (from about the mid-19th century) "test, exam."[2][3]
There is a
As competitions
Quizzes may be held on a variety of subjects (general knowledge or 'pot luck' (which could be anything)) or subject-specific. The format of the quiz can also vary. Popularly known competition quizzes include
- Pub quizzes
- Quiz bowl
- in Canada:
- in Lithuania:
- in the United Kingdom:
- British Quizzing Championships, annual national tournament in Great Britain
- Schools' Challenge
- University Challenge (televised)
- in the United States:
- Individual quiz tournaments
- in multiple countries:
- in the United Kingdom:
- Mastermind(televised)
- Bait Bazi poetic quiz in Pakistan
- Board games:
- TV quizzes, also called quiz shows (game shows TV/radio)
- Bait Bazipoetic quiz
- Bamboozle!, a teletextquiz on UK TV
- MasterMind
- Jeopardy!
- Quiz Call phone-in television show
- The Weakest Link
- Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
- Online quiz
- Blog Quiz
See also:
World record
The largest quiz, according to Guinness, was the "Quiz for Life", held at the Flanders Expo Halls in Ghent, Belgium, on 11 December 2010 with 2,280 participants. The winning team Café De Kastaar from Leuven consisted of Marnix Baes, Erik Derycke, Eric Hemelaers, Bart Permentier and Tom Trogh.
In education
In an educational context, a quiz is usually a form of a student assessment, but often has fewer questions of less difficulty and requires less time for completion than a
Other quizzes
Additionally, a
The results of online quizzes are generally to be taken lightly, as they do not often reflect the true personality or relationship. They are also rarely psychometrically valid. However, they may occasion reflection on the subject of the quiz and provide a springboard for a person to explore his or her emotions, beliefs, actions or to put some already acquired knowledge to the test.
See also
- Test (assessment)
- List of quiz arcade games
Notes
References
- ^ "quoz, n. (and int.)". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)
- ^ "quiz, n.". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)
- ^ "quiz, v.1". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)
- ^ "World Wide Words: Quiz". World Wide Words. Archived from the original on 6 April 2001.
- ^ "Quiz: How much do you know about China and Turkey?". cnn.com. Archived from the original on 4 October 2010.