quiz

An odd, puzzling or absurd person or thing.

I've always heard he was a quiz, says another, or a quoz, or some such word ; but I did not know he was such a book-worm.

I tell you I am going to the music shop. I trust to your honour. Lord Rawson, I know, will call me a fool for trusting to the honour of a quiz.

One who questions or interrogates; a prying person.

A competition in the answering of questions.

We came second in the pub quiz.

Once all six friends are clear that the topic of Janet's story is a pub quiz, we launch into talk around this topic, combining factual information about quizzes we have participated in with fantasies about becoming a team ourselves.

A school examination of less importance, or of greater brevity, than others given in the same course.

For many it is hard to envision a scenario where a student completes an online quiz (or test) without using their smartphone, tablet, or other device to look up the answers, or ‘share’ those answers with other students.

To hoax; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions.

he quizzed unmercifully all the men in the room—

'Now, Puddock, back him up—encourage your man,' said Devereux, who took a perverse pleasure in joking; 'tell him to flay the lump, splat him, divide him, and cut him in two pieces—' It was a custom of the corps to quiz Puddock about his cookery […]

To peer at; to eye suspiciously or mockingly.

To question (someone) closely, to interrogate.

He quizzed the suspect for around half an hour.

This week members return to the chamber to quiz the government on the Zimbabwe election, teacher shortages, backlog of asylum applications and improving the system for dementia diagnosis.

To instruct (someone) by means of a quiz.

To play with a quiz.