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Quiz

For other uses, seeQuiz (disambiguation).

Aquizis a form of game ormind sportin which players attempt to answer questions correctly on one or several topics. Quizzes can be used as a briefassessment in educationand 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 agame showformat.

A printed quiz on health issues

Etymology

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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 awell-known mythabout the wordquizthat says that in 1791, a Dublin theatre owner namedRichard Dalymade a bet that he could introduce a word into the language within 24 hours. He then went out and hired a group ofstreet childrento write the word "quiz", which was anonsense word,on walls around the city ofDublin.Within a day, the word was common currency and had acquired a meaning (since no one knew what it meant, everyone thought it was some sort of test), and Daly had some extra cash in his pocket.[4]However, there is no evidence to support the story, and the term was already in use before the alleged bet in 1791.

As competitions

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Final from Norwegian Quiz Championship, 2009
A quiz show in Japan, 1954
People listening to a Hungarian radio quiz, 1962

Quizzes may be held on a variety of subjects (general knowledgeor 'pot luck' (which could be anything)) or subject-specific. The format of the quiz can also vary. Popularly known competition quizzes include

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World record

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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 teamCafé De Kastaarfrom Leuven consisted of Marnix Baes,Erik Derycke,Eric Hemelaers, Bart Permentier andTom Trogh.

In education

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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 atest.[5]This use is typically found in the United States, Canada, thePhilippines,Dominican Republicand some colleges in India. For instance, in a mathematics classroom, a quiz may check comprehension of a type ofmathematical exercise.Some instructors schedule a daily or weekly quiz ranging from five to thirty relatively easy questions for the purpose of having the students review their previous lessons before attending the next class. A "pop quiz" is a quiz that students are given no time to prepare for; they are simply surprised with it in class.[citation needed]

Other quizzes

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Additionally, apersonality quizmay be a series of multiple-choice questions about the respondent without right or wrong answers.[6]The responses to these questions are tallied according to a key, and the result purports to reveal some quality of the respondent. This kind of "quiz" was originally popularized by women's magazines such asCosmopolitan.They have since become common on theInternet,where the result page typically includes code which can be added to ablogentry to publicize the result. These postings are common on many sites likeLiveJournal.

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 rarelypsychometricallyvalid.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.

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Notes

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  1. ^The now-disused word "quiz", which also referred to an "odd person" and has a likewise obscure origin, dates back from about the same time.[1]

References

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  1. ^"quoz, n. (and int.)".Oxford English Dictionary(Online ed.).Oxford University Press.(Subscription orparticipating institution membershiprequired.)
  2. ^"quiz, n.".Oxford English Dictionary(Online ed.).Oxford University Press.(Subscription orparticipating institution membershiprequired.)
  3. ^"quiz, v.1".Oxford English Dictionary(Online ed.).Oxford University Press.(Subscription orparticipating institution membershiprequired.)
  4. ^"World Wide Words: Quiz".World Wide Words.Archivedfrom the original on 6 April 2001.
  5. ^"Quiz: How much do you know about China and Turkey?".cnn.Archivedfrom the original on 4 October 2010.
  6. ^"Types of Quizzes".Opinion Stage.Retrieved2024-11-24.
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